I looked for a swastika on a flag  from the end of '89 to the start of '91. I found one on a bird at the end of '92

Mark Fuhrman on swastikas, cartoons, German history and war (Murder in Brentwood, pages 124 and 125): "...I worked with Officer James Purdy, who eventually told the defense that when he married a Jewish woman, I supposedly painted a swastika on his locker...that incident never occurred.

"Another ridiculous allegation concerned a newspaper cartoon I had on my desk. Yes, I did have a cartoon by Paul Conrad that had a swastika in it. My friends knew that I appreciated political satire and even drew myself... I had about fifteen such cartoons in my desk. The cartoon in question is a single-frame drawing of a swastika rising out of the ashes of the newly fallen Berlin Wall. Conrad was asking  whether we were making a mistake by allowing a country with the power and the history of Germany to be reunited. He was asking if we had awakened a sleeping giant, and whether we might have been better off leaving the giant alone. The fact that a single image can provoke such subtle and disturbing thought shows Conrad's great artistry, and that is the only reason I saved the cartoon. 

"I was also attacked for collecting war memorabilia, some of which happened to be German. In fact, I am something of a history and military buff and collected all sorts of memorabilia. Decorations, daggers, and sabers are about the only artifacts from World Wars I and II which are neither too expensive, nor too rare for me to collect. British and German war decorations are recognized for their superb craftsmanship, many of these pieces are documented and engraved, and their makers took great pride in their work....The defense claimed that Because I had some German war memorabilia,  I was therefore supposedly a Nazi..."

Then Fuhrman goes on to talk about his collection of guns...

In Confessions of a Nazi Spy, a German-American named Helldorf shows an anti-aircraft gun model to a pro-Nazi organizer named Kassel and some Nazi secret policemen.   Helldorf: You realize gentlemen, there have been so many changes in American anti-aircraft guns since last year that I was forced to work from the ground up copying them.... I had to remember each little part as the work progressed and fit them all together at home every night.   Kassel: Excellent piece of workmanship!

Carl Rowan wrote the syndicated article below for the Chicago Sun Times on Dec 2, 1992. It appeared at different times in different papers

                                  click on article to enlarge                                         click drawing for Palace Station   

Paul Conrad followed up his December 2, 1992 swastika cartoon a day or two later * with a cartoon about the racist baseball team owner Marge Schott, who bought the Cincinnati Reds in 1984. Conrad's "blackball" cartoon was set within a Carl Rowan commentary about baseball team owners and Schott's free use of the word "nigger" in rants, small talk, and "jokes." He also wrote, "Schott's crude insensitivity — or blatant bigotry — includes her keeping a Nazi swastika in her home as "memorabilia..."  In case you missed the Reds link to O.J., here it is. You can't build a better bridge between the second and third sports figures on Fuhrman's short list of favorites than a member of the elite club of professional baseball team owners that Rowan named in the subtitle of his commentary. Jerry Reinsdorf owned the Chicago White Sox. He also owned the Chicago Bulls. After his superstar Michael Jordan retired from basketball in 1993, Reinsdorf signed him to a baseball contract as an outfielder with the White Sox.

Murder in Brentwood, page 232: "Chris and I got nowhere on my testimony preparations. He asked me questions like, who were my favorite sports stars? (My answer: George Foreman, Michael Jordan, and Larry Bird.)" 

I ran across the Marge Schott article and cartoon in the Free Press when I saw that the "Out of the ashes" cartoon wasn't in the Dec 2, 1992 edition. To be sure that the Free Press Editor didn't put it in the next day's paper or the one after that, I checked them out. But the baseball connection to what I found years ago with Michael McClinton and the Palace Station incident made me wonder about something else. It made me wonder if there was a Free Press and Times Jumble puzzle printed on Dec 2, 1992 that had a connection to the Palace Station incident similar to Pete Rose's autographed baseballs.

Yeah, I'm talking sports memorabilia in the 2007 Palace Station set-up room that had no good reason for being there. But I'm also talking word and picture games, Michael McClinton and the March 21, 1994 hammer murder of Robert C. Hurd.

I found the puzzle and worked out the solution because I figured that Fuhrman would have done it. If he did, it seemed to me that he might have left a clue to that effect in something or someone else he associated himself with in 1992, 1994 and 2007. The key was in the picture of a porcupine and a badger (I think) squaring off to fight. "Winning on points" is what happens in a boxing match. The animal contestants in this fight were wearing boxing gloves. Mark Fuhrman named basketball foreword Larry bird as his third favorite sports star. He named World Heavyweight Boxing Champion George Foreman as his first. On October 4, 1992 George Foreman won a big fight in Las Vegas. He won on points.

Foreman lost his championship to Muhammad Ali by way of a KO (knock out) on October 30, 1974.  He beat Alex Stewart in a 10-round majority decision on November 4, 1992. On  May 11, 1994 he regained his Heavyweight Boxing crown by knocking out Michael Moorer.

Consider this line from a character named Tom about a character named Clinton: "Everything with Clinton is points. Understand, points."  Do you think it is entirely coincidental that you get a Michael with an Alex, that you can pull Alexa out of Alex Stewart or Alexander out of  Alex and Moorer? By the way, everything with Clinton is points, he wards them in various forms and takes them away to manipulate this "friends.'

—Jasper

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