Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Feb 11, 2005 13:53:14 GMT
"THIS IS THE END , BEAUTIFUL FRIEND"
At last, the truth behind Jim Morrison's death is revealed in these extracts from Bob Seymore's 'The End'.....or is it?
I read Seymores book avidly back in 1991 when it came out as part of the glut of books cashing in on the movie and to be honest think its an interesting book which makes an honest effort to solve a mystery that could probably have been solved quite easily 20 years before if anyone had bothered to go to Paris and look.
Overall I never felt it produced any great revalation and we are as much in the dark today as to the TRUTH as we were in 1971. Some cling to it as a crutch to back up thier insane/well thought out theories others look at it as a neat addition to the Morrison Mythos!
Any thoughts you lot?
Extract from the book....
This page proves beyond any doubt whatsoever that Jim Morrison did die on July 3, 1971, at the Paris apartment he shared with Pamela Courson. Here are records and statements which for reasons unknown (and by persons unknown) have been kept under wraps since 1971.The dossier opens with an account of the scene as reported by Lieutenant Alain Raisson of the Paris fire brigade to the Police Criminal Investigations Department on July 3,1971 at 2.3Opm."This morning at 9.20.am ,I went as commander of my unit to 17 rue Beautreillis, Paris 4th, the third floor, right hand side flat in answer to a report of 'asphyxiation' When we reached the flat, the door was opened by a young woman who could not speak French and who took us to the bathroom.In this room there was a man in the bath, completely naked and heavily built. His head was above the water, resting on the edge of the bath. The bath was full of water, slightly pink in colour and his right arm was resting on the side of the bath.The water was still lukewarm, as well as the body. Together with my men, I took the body out and laid it on the floor of the bedroom where I started giving heart massage but I immediately realized that the victim was dead and I had the body placed on the bed." (N.B: When I went into the bathroom, there was some water on the floor beside the bath and the dressing gown of the person who opened the door to us was wet) "(N.B: A little blood ran down from his right nostril when we laid the body on the floor) "(signed) Manchez, Jacques," "(signed) Raisson, Alain". I would have thought that if Jim had died at 5.00.am, as we have been led to believe, the bath water would have been cold. However, the water is reported as being lukewarm as well as the body. This would suggest that Jim took a bath later than 5.00.am and that his death occurred later than supposed.It must have been a harrowing three hours for Pamela Courson,... In (her statement) she identifies herself as Pamela Susan Courson, born 22nd December 1946 at Weed, California. An unemployed American, living at 17 rue Beautreillis, Paris 4th .Her statement read: "I am Mr Morrison's girlfriend and have been living with him for five years. Last March, 1 came to France with my friend. During a previous short stay I had found rented accommodation at the address l7 rue Beautreillis, third floor, right hand side.My boyfriend was a writer but mostly he lived on a personal fortune. Before living at rue Beautreillis, my boyfriend and I lived for three weeks at the Hotel de Nice, rue des Beaux Arts, I think, and while we were there my friend was sick, he was complaining of difficulty in breathing and he also had coughing fits at night I called a doctor to the hotel who prescribed pills for asthma,but my friend didn't like to see doctors and never looked after himself seriously. "(N.B: I cannot say precisely who the doctor was, and I didn't keep the prescription. During a stay in London, my friend had already experienced the same problems) 'Last night I had dinner with my friend... I am not explaining myself properly - I didn't have dinner last night,my friend went out to a restaurant on his own probably in the area. When my friend came back from the restaurant, we both went to the cinema to see the film Death Valley. The cinema is beside the Metro Station Le Pelletier, I think it is called Action Lafayette.We came back from the cinema around 1.00 am, I did the dishes and my friend watched an amateur film from a projector. My friend looked in good health, he seemed very happy. We then listened to records, I should say that the record player is in the bedroom and we were both listening to the music lying on the bed. I think we went to sleep at 2.30.a m approximately, but I can't say exactly... the record player stops automatically. "(N.B: No, we didn't have any sexual intercourse last night.)"Round about 3.30.am I think, because there was not a clock in the bedroom and I didn't notice the time, I was woken by the noise my friend was making with his breathing. His breathing was noisy and I thought he was choking. It was noisy I shook my friend, I slapped him a few times to wake him, I shook him and he woke up. I asked him what was wrong, I wanted to call a doctor. He got up, walked about in the bedroom and then told me he wanted to have a bath. He headed towards the bathroom and ran his bath. When he was in the bath he called me and said that he felt sick and felt like vomiting. On my way I picked up an orange coloured bowl. He vomited food into the bowl I was holding, I think there was blood in it. I emptied the contents then my friend vomited into the container again, only blood this time and then a third time blood clots. Each time I emptied the bowl down the wash basin of the bathroom, then I washed the bowl. My friend then told me he felt strange but he said, "I don't feel sick, don't call a doctor, I feel better It's over!" He told me to 'go to bed" and said that he was going to finish his bath and would join me in bed. At this time it appeared to me that my friend felt better because he had vomited and his colour had returned a bit. I went back to bed and I immediately fell asleep. I was reassured. "I don't know how long I slept. I awoke with a start and I saw that my friend wasn't lying next to me. I ran to the bathroom and saw that my friend was still in the bath, a little blood was running from his nostril. I shook my friend, thinking he would wake up. I thought he had fainted and was unconscious. I tried to get him out of the bath but I couldn't. Then I phoned up Mr RONAY. He came with his girlfriend, Miss Agnes DEMY, and they called, I think, the Fire Brigade or the Police. "(N.B: I live in the U.S.A at the following address - 8216 Norton Avenue, Los Angeles, California. My sister lives at the same address and normally I live at my sister's. I am going to organize the funeral arrangements with Mr.RONAY's help. Miss COURSON does not speak French so Mr RONAY has been acting as an interpreter.)"(signed), Pamela Courson" Next we have the Medical Report compiled and written by Dr .Max Vassille. It states: "I note: That the body does not show, apart from the lividity of death, any signs of suspicious traumatism or lesions of any kind. A little blood round the nostrils. The history of Mr. MORRISON's condition, such as it was described to us by a friend present at the scene, can he summed up as follows:Mr. MORRISON had been complaining for a few weeks of chest pains with dyspnoea, it is evidently coronary problems, possibly aggravated by excessive drinking. One can imagine that on the occasion of a change of outside temperature, followed by a bath, these troubles were suddenly aggravated, leading to classical Myocardial Infarction, causing sudden death. I conclude from my examination that death was caused by heart failure (natural death). Paris, 3rd July 1971 "(Signed), Max Vassille". So here we have it, a simple case of natural death. The Doctor ignores the fact that Morrison had some internal haemorrhage and Pamela's evidence that Jim had vomited up blood clots. He ignores the fact there was blood around his nostrils.
At last, the truth behind Jim Morrison's death is revealed in these extracts from Bob Seymore's 'The End'.....or is it?
I read Seymores book avidly back in 1991 when it came out as part of the glut of books cashing in on the movie and to be honest think its an interesting book which makes an honest effort to solve a mystery that could probably have been solved quite easily 20 years before if anyone had bothered to go to Paris and look.
Overall I never felt it produced any great revalation and we are as much in the dark today as to the TRUTH as we were in 1971. Some cling to it as a crutch to back up thier insane/well thought out theories others look at it as a neat addition to the Morrison Mythos!
Any thoughts you lot?
Extract from the book....
This page proves beyond any doubt whatsoever that Jim Morrison did die on July 3, 1971, at the Paris apartment he shared with Pamela Courson. Here are records and statements which for reasons unknown (and by persons unknown) have been kept under wraps since 1971.The dossier opens with an account of the scene as reported by Lieutenant Alain Raisson of the Paris fire brigade to the Police Criminal Investigations Department on July 3,1971 at 2.3Opm."This morning at 9.20.am ,I went as commander of my unit to 17 rue Beautreillis, Paris 4th, the third floor, right hand side flat in answer to a report of 'asphyxiation' When we reached the flat, the door was opened by a young woman who could not speak French and who took us to the bathroom.In this room there was a man in the bath, completely naked and heavily built. His head was above the water, resting on the edge of the bath. The bath was full of water, slightly pink in colour and his right arm was resting on the side of the bath.The water was still lukewarm, as well as the body. Together with my men, I took the body out and laid it on the floor of the bedroom where I started giving heart massage but I immediately realized that the victim was dead and I had the body placed on the bed." (N.B: When I went into the bathroom, there was some water on the floor beside the bath and the dressing gown of the person who opened the door to us was wet) "(N.B: A little blood ran down from his right nostril when we laid the body on the floor) "(signed) Manchez, Jacques," "(signed) Raisson, Alain". I would have thought that if Jim had died at 5.00.am, as we have been led to believe, the bath water would have been cold. However, the water is reported as being lukewarm as well as the body. This would suggest that Jim took a bath later than 5.00.am and that his death occurred later than supposed.It must have been a harrowing three hours for Pamela Courson,... In (her statement) she identifies herself as Pamela Susan Courson, born 22nd December 1946 at Weed, California. An unemployed American, living at 17 rue Beautreillis, Paris 4th .Her statement read: "I am Mr Morrison's girlfriend and have been living with him for five years. Last March, 1 came to France with my friend. During a previous short stay I had found rented accommodation at the address l7 rue Beautreillis, third floor, right hand side.My boyfriend was a writer but mostly he lived on a personal fortune. Before living at rue Beautreillis, my boyfriend and I lived for three weeks at the Hotel de Nice, rue des Beaux Arts, I think, and while we were there my friend was sick, he was complaining of difficulty in breathing and he also had coughing fits at night I called a doctor to the hotel who prescribed pills for asthma,but my friend didn't like to see doctors and never looked after himself seriously. "(N.B: I cannot say precisely who the doctor was, and I didn't keep the prescription. During a stay in London, my friend had already experienced the same problems) 'Last night I had dinner with my friend... I am not explaining myself properly - I didn't have dinner last night,my friend went out to a restaurant on his own probably in the area. When my friend came back from the restaurant, we both went to the cinema to see the film Death Valley. The cinema is beside the Metro Station Le Pelletier, I think it is called Action Lafayette.We came back from the cinema around 1.00 am, I did the dishes and my friend watched an amateur film from a projector. My friend looked in good health, he seemed very happy. We then listened to records, I should say that the record player is in the bedroom and we were both listening to the music lying on the bed. I think we went to sleep at 2.30.a m approximately, but I can't say exactly... the record player stops automatically. "(N.B: No, we didn't have any sexual intercourse last night.)"Round about 3.30.am I think, because there was not a clock in the bedroom and I didn't notice the time, I was woken by the noise my friend was making with his breathing. His breathing was noisy and I thought he was choking. It was noisy I shook my friend, I slapped him a few times to wake him, I shook him and he woke up. I asked him what was wrong, I wanted to call a doctor. He got up, walked about in the bedroom and then told me he wanted to have a bath. He headed towards the bathroom and ran his bath. When he was in the bath he called me and said that he felt sick and felt like vomiting. On my way I picked up an orange coloured bowl. He vomited food into the bowl I was holding, I think there was blood in it. I emptied the contents then my friend vomited into the container again, only blood this time and then a third time blood clots. Each time I emptied the bowl down the wash basin of the bathroom, then I washed the bowl. My friend then told me he felt strange but he said, "I don't feel sick, don't call a doctor, I feel better It's over!" He told me to 'go to bed" and said that he was going to finish his bath and would join me in bed. At this time it appeared to me that my friend felt better because he had vomited and his colour had returned a bit. I went back to bed and I immediately fell asleep. I was reassured. "I don't know how long I slept. I awoke with a start and I saw that my friend wasn't lying next to me. I ran to the bathroom and saw that my friend was still in the bath, a little blood was running from his nostril. I shook my friend, thinking he would wake up. I thought he had fainted and was unconscious. I tried to get him out of the bath but I couldn't. Then I phoned up Mr RONAY. He came with his girlfriend, Miss Agnes DEMY, and they called, I think, the Fire Brigade or the Police. "(N.B: I live in the U.S.A at the following address - 8216 Norton Avenue, Los Angeles, California. My sister lives at the same address and normally I live at my sister's. I am going to organize the funeral arrangements with Mr.RONAY's help. Miss COURSON does not speak French so Mr RONAY has been acting as an interpreter.)"(signed), Pamela Courson" Next we have the Medical Report compiled and written by Dr .Max Vassille. It states: "I note: That the body does not show, apart from the lividity of death, any signs of suspicious traumatism or lesions of any kind. A little blood round the nostrils. The history of Mr. MORRISON's condition, such as it was described to us by a friend present at the scene, can he summed up as follows:Mr. MORRISON had been complaining for a few weeks of chest pains with dyspnoea, it is evidently coronary problems, possibly aggravated by excessive drinking. One can imagine that on the occasion of a change of outside temperature, followed by a bath, these troubles were suddenly aggravated, leading to classical Myocardial Infarction, causing sudden death. I conclude from my examination that death was caused by heart failure (natural death). Paris, 3rd July 1971 "(Signed), Max Vassille". So here we have it, a simple case of natural death. The Doctor ignores the fact that Morrison had some internal haemorrhage and Pamela's evidence that Jim had vomited up blood clots. He ignores the fact there was blood around his nostrils.
