Opening Statements

Opening Statement for Prosecution by Deputy District Attorney Lael Rubin

“Your honor, ladies and gentlemen, this is a case about trust and betrayal of trust . . . trust placed in the hands of Ray Buckey and Peggy Buckey. Parents who will testify will tell you. . . they didn’t ask about activities that were going on at the preschool. Read More

William Cooper has been killed and an Apache County sheriff’s deputy wounded in a shootout, authorities said. William Milton Cooper, 58, of Eager, had hosted a talk show broadcast on the Worldwide Christian Radio out of Nashville, which receives it via phone from his home in St. Johns. Read More

On Friday, September 27, 2002, during National Public Radio’s (NPR) Talk of the Nation: Science Friday with Ira Flatow, Dr. Jane Goodall made a striking comment on her strong beliefs that large “undiscovered” primates, such as the Yeti or Sasquatch, do indeed exist. Read More

Dr. Roland C. Summit
Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) Spring 1994

Roland Summit is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Building D-6, 1000 W. Carson St., Torrance, CA 90509). He has been the community psychiatrist to the South Bay area of Los Angeles County since 1966, specializing exclusively in child sexual abuse since 1975. He was assigned the role of county Department of Mental Health Liaison to the community of Manhattan Beach in the wake of the 1983-84 epidemic of preschool abuse allegations. Read More