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Book claims Ted Williams’ head mistreated
Cryonics facility employee allegedly abused frozen head of Hall of Famer
NBCSports.com news services

NEW YORK - A new book by a former employee of Alcor, the company that froze Ted Williams’ remains, alleges the baseball Hall of Famer’s body was mistreated by the company.

Larry Johnson says in the book “Frozen: My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception and Death” that he watched an Alcor official swing a monkey wrench at Williams’ frozen severed head to try to remove a tuna can stuck to it. The first swing accidentally struck the head, Johnson contends, and the second knocked the tuna can loose.

Alcor Life Extension Foundation of Scottsdale, Ariz., issued a statement on its Web site denying the allegations and promising legal action.

“Alcor denies allegations reported in the press that there was mistreatment of the remains of Ted Williams at Alcor,” the company said. “Alcor will be litigating this and any other false allegations to the maximum extent of the law.”

Johnson says he worked for Alcor for eight months in 2003, first as clinical director then as chief operating officer. He included several photographs in the book, including one of an upside down severed head, not Williams’, that had what appeared to be a tuna can attached to it.

Johnson says Alcor used the cans, from a cat that lived on the premises, as pedestals for the heads.

Johnson also contends that there was a significant crack in Williams’ head. He also repeated an allegation he had made earlier that samples of Williams’ DNA are missing from the facility.

If you ask me Alcor has to be lying through their teeth about this. If Larry Johnson has pictures of this then he has to be telling the truth. And the story makes sense. The head is frozen so it makes sense that something may get stuck to it and you'd have to whack it with a monkey wrench to get it off. What else are you going to do? Pour hot water on it? That would thaw the head and screw up the whole deal. I'm curious when Congress is going to get with the program and approve cloning so we can get some use out of Teddy's head. If its not soon then he might not have a head left.

Also, if beloved Teddy's head is getting this treatment then what do you think is going on with Walt Dinsey's body. I hope there's no Jewish scientists at that facility. They probably dress him up like Hitler every day.