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.This chronology began as an investigation by a trio composed of a woman and two men. Two are Americans, one from the State of John F. Kennedy's birth, and one from the State of his death. Translated, that is Massachusetts and Texas. The third member was born in England where Lee Harvey Oswald arrived on his obfuscated travels to meet notoriety.
As a trio we have shared a task of unravelling a very complicated, confusing, and hitherto untold transatlantic story that culminates in its beginnings upon events that took place in 1963, but its origins go back to the dying days of Queen Victoria.
Each time we have released a part of our findings, somebody siezes upon our discoveries and tries to stitch together what they think is a get-rich-quick scheme, by publishing a half-baked account of the past that explains nothing and confuses everyone. But the text being published on this date at this location is only part of the story, because our investigation continues into exposing the reasons why so many people do not want any part of this story to be told.
It is not about the assassinated President John F. Kennedy or his 5 years old daughter Caroline, although it seems, Wikipedia and a bevy of quasi-scholars would like you to believe that the Kennedys are inextricably entwined with the story of British radio broadcasting. But that is only true if you want to believe a lie, a hoax, a fraud, designed to both conceal the true story and fleece the unwarey of money. If that is the case, then the make-believe drama that you need to know about is how Jack's brother Robert who was also assassinated, is tied into the lies told by the distibutors of literature and videos concerning a yesterday that never happened.
That does not include us, which is why we chose an appropriate name to describe our own activities.
We first met in a place called 'Cowtown' which gazetters identify as the City of Fort Worth. It is about 30 miles from Dallas in northern Texas. Above the main street leading into its former stockyards is a slogan proclaiming 'Where the West Begins'. Geographically that is not true, but back in 1921 the Mayor at that time thought that it was close enough for the Chamber of Commerce to use as a promotion gimmick, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has not disavowed it.
Long before Tim Berners-Lee from England came up with his proposal for a World Wide Web, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram had given birth to StarText on its own crude Intranet. On May 3, 1982, that publication, working in cooperation with Fort Worth's Tandy Corporation, began offering a ASCII-based version of its newspaper to paid subscribers. Anyone with a 300-baud modem could buy a membership to join and access this Intranet by using their own dial-up telephone line.
By 1990 we were subscribers to this service which also gave members the opportunity of creating their own StarText content pages. In that sense it was also an early version of a blog. That is where, when and how this project began. It was not until August 1991, that Internet software became generally available, first to academia, and then to the public. Eventually the superiority of Berners-Lee's idea of hypertext documents straddling the infant Internet absorbed users of the StarText Intranet, and it rapidly became relegated to the memories of its former subscribers.
Due to the march of time, the advancement of technology and the shift in cultural orientation, that same kind of transition occurred during the development of radio broadcasting. While Guglielmo Marconi had pioneered in the realm of wireless telegraphy, it was Reginald Fessenden who is credited with becoming the champion of wireless telephony to become known as radio broadcasting. But there are many more obfuscated links to this story which those who claim to be historians seem to ignore. Consequently, that is one of the many reasons why we avoid use of that word.
For instance, the widespread accounting for the creators of the British Broadcasting Company Limited place their number at six, and all of them are major international companies. Some are British and some are American. But that cartel had well over a hundred paid shareholders, and one of them was the embyonic Pye company which will be revealed in this chronology as a major player in the story of British broadcasting. Right now we just want to explain who we are, and why we have been working for decades to unravel the previously hidden or non-assimilated facts behind this story. However, within these pages we will delve into every facet of its nuanced details and document the source of this information.
But back to this narrative which in turn takes us back to Fort Worth, Texas. That city holds the key to understanding a major factor in why the British General Post Office was pressured into opening up British access to the airwaves to a licenced monopoly, and how serious commercial competition began before the advent of World War II.
On May 2, 1922, a young Texan named William Ellison Branch put radio station WBAP on the air for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and as of 2025, it is still broadcasting using those same call letters. The beginning of WBAP predates the start of the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. But it is what William Ellison Branch did, after he left north Texas, that is of direct relevance to anyone who has become fascinated with the story of broadcasts received in Britain before WWII. We are now about to enter the world of Captain Leonard Plugge whose tutor was William Ellison Branch.
On January 20, 1935, Leonard Plugge was on his honeymoon. He left England for New York where he got married to a former silent movie star. The two of them motored down to stay with William Randolph Hearst at his castle situated half-way between Los Angeles and San Francisco in California. Then, after leaving the real 'Citizen Kane', the couple drove on to a spot in Texas where the United States' border is separated from Mexico by the Rio Grande river.
IAfter he left Fort Worth, William Ellison Branch eventually established a new home at Eagle Pass in southern Texas adjacent to the Rio Grande, and he opened his doors for a couple of days to the visiting Plugge newlyweds. Branch then showed Plugge his latest project. It was situated almost directly across the U.S.-Mexico border at a place called Piedras Negras. At that time, the USA restricted the power output of its own licenced radio stations, but Mexico did not. Branch saw a loophole in the law and built his latest super-power station at Piedras Negras. This border-blaster which identified itself with the Mexican call letters XEPD, boomed forth into perhaps millions of American radio receivers.
Branch allowed other people to take credit for his work, and that is one reason why few people today seem to know the lifestory of this broadcasting pioneer. The reason why Plugge sought the advice of William Branch was because his own International Broadcasting Company (IBC) was facing strong competition from Radio Luxembourg. IBC bought airtime on foreign stations to broadcast commercially sponsored English language radio programs into Great Britain, and Branch was doing the same thing with Mexican stations by directing their signals into the United States. But in the case of William Ellison Branch, he was building his own stations to order for his clients, while Plugge was his own primary client. The reason being that the United Kingdom had one radio broadcasting operation and it did not carry commercial advertising, so Plugge brokered airtime to his own paying customers.
France was Plugge's primary base of operations. His IBC registered in London had been buying time on an existing French station called Radio Normandie which was located on the coastline of France that faced southern England. Until he fell out with Radio Luxembourg, Plugge had been doing very well by grabbing most of the Sunday audience away from the BBC. On Sundays his all day light-hearted shows and dance music faced the alternative dour programming that hailed from the British Broadcasting Corporation. The British General Post Office (GPO), which was a creation of the British Crown corporation sole, had by then refused to renew the licences of the British Broadcasting Company Limited, and instead, it awarded its Crown parent with the licenced monopoly to broadcast within the United Kingdom.
Branch advised Plugge on how to replace the transmissions of Radio Normandie with his own, custom-built British border-blaster, using the modified name of Radio Normandy. This new station transmitted its signal via an American-designed Blaw-Knox radio tower that extended the reach of IBC programming further into the island of Great Britain. After returning to the UK, Plugge set about obtaining a French licence for his new station at Louvetot, Seine-Maritime, which his French agent received on July 7, 1935.
On November 14 of that year, Plugge sought and won an election as a Conservative Party member of the House of Commons representing Chatham. Known for its large dockland, in decades to follow, it would become the initial stomping ground for Charles Orr Stanley and his Pye Group of companies. While World War II was harmful to Plugge's IBC because it lost control of its stations due to the ravages of Adolph Hitler's troops marching across Europe, it had been good for the Pye company which gained business as a result of UK government military contracts.
After WWII, the broadcasting days of the IBC were over, and its studios in London were turned over to recording popular music for record companies such as Pye. In the 1950s, Pye began rapid expansion into a whole array of business activities, and so Charles Orr Stanley picked up from where Leonard Plugge left off. There was just one big problem. After WWII the UK government had forced countries such as France to cease the practice of allowing independent French stations from leasing their airtime to British companies such as IBC. The only remaining fly in that ointment was Radio Luxembourg which appeared to be untouchable. But that station was not for sale and Pye became only one of its many buyers of commercial airtime.
Besides which, there was one major difference between Plugge and Stanley. Whereas Plugge wanted to operate his own broadcasting network, Stanley did not. Stanley wanted to manufacture transmitters and receivers in an expanded marketplace which the BBC monopoly restricted. Shortly after WWII, Stanley joined a political Pressure Group backed by a variety of commercial companies with interests in both entertainment programming and electrical manufacturing.
On August 4, 1954, a new British Television Act opened the door to an entity called the Independent Television Authority (ITA). It sold the majority of its airtime to franchised programming contractors who were allowed to operate in non-competitive zones. These franchiees were authorized to sell commercial advertising to GPO approved companies. This was not at all what Stanley wanted, because it meant that the Crown corporation sole via its GPO, had merely created another BBC conglomerate to offer television programming. Stanley wanted competing radio and television stations to be licenced in order to manufacture and sell more transmitters and receivers.
Beginning in 1959, Stanley and his Pye cartel began to revive the political Pressure Group which resulted in the creation of ITA, only this time he changed his approach. This time he played a two-prong game. One was overt and one was covert. The goal of both approaches was the same: to try to force a change in the political landscape that would result in a change in political policy regarding competitive broadcasting.
Rather than approach this problem soley in a transparant manner, he set about creating a secret operation that could bring about a de facto change in the law. To do this he had to create a demand, but that presented a problem. How could he put a commercial radio station on the air to gain listener support, if the government would not give him a licence? On the other hand, if he had a licence, he would not have to resolt to a clandestine and highly secret method of putting a commecial radio station on the air.
The years both preceding and immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, were also years of huge political scandals in London, England. The UK governing Conservative Party had been in office since 1951, and hoping that a UK General Election was in the offing and cause a change in government broadcasting policy, he put his own two-part agenda into operation.
Stanley was dismayed by the results of the UK General Election which did occur on October 15, 1964, because the Tories lost to Labour by a very slim majority. However, where the Tories were divided on their approach to the subject of commercial radio broadcasting, the Labour Party were not. They had been totally opposed to the introduction of ITA and they were not about to let the non-commercial BBC lose its radio broadcasting monopoly. For Stanley and Pye it was the end of his covert plan which had involved the placement of a radio station on board a ship anchored just outside British territorial waters.
But that is when events took a strange turn across the Atlantic in Texas.
The end of Stanley's secret campaign begat a hoax that was created in response to misreporting of his operation by the media. Because the second part of Stanley's plan was covert, it had been reported in the press with the context of a ridiculous explanation which both the press and readers swallowed hook, line and sinker and reported as fact. From this garbled reporting emerged another tangled web of lies, and it blinded the public to the point where the light of truth was extinguished and replaced by another fable about the young daughter, now 6 years old, of the murdered President John F. Kennedy. As if that bizarre story was not enough, it was first told to JFK's brother and now U.S. Senator from New York, Robert F. Kennedy.
All of this will be disassembled and documented in texts that follow.
The creators of this chronology first met somewhere close to 1980. Our first meeting took place in the Dallas and Forth Worth conurbanation known as the 'Metroplex'. To its west, about 100 miles away, is a tiny town called Eastland. At one time its mayor was Donald Grey Pierson, but everyone called him Don. He was a sometime banker, speculator in property and fascinated by new ideas which included broadcasting. Don was known to stray off course, and that is how he twice fell victim of murky schemes to run freeports under chartered governments on islands in the Caribbean.
Don had a strange sense of humor. During the Cold War years when American school kids were still practicing 'duck and cover' to avoid fallout from a Russian nuclear attack, he invited a representative of the USSR to address the Eastland Chamber of Commerce. As the mayor of Eastland, he also started a rumor that because the U.S. Surgeon General had linked cigarette smoking to lung cancer, he would make it a crime to be caught smoking within the city limits of Eastland. In London, this story turned into a featured political cartoon published by the tabloid Daily Mirror. It depicted ten galleon justice being enforced with a six-shooter on the city streets of Eastland. But Don Pierson was not into ideology. His mindset was more akin to that of Donald Trump's Art of the Deal where the end justifies the means. This approach to life can create pitfalls, because it means that false information is sometimes accepted as the factual basis for future endeavor and the perpetrator can end up as a victim.
In his daily life Don Pierson was also viewed by many as a mild mannered man with a kind personality. On one occasion he had been on a plane where adjoining seats were occupied by a young boy with his mother. The boy's father had just been killed in the Vietnam War. Don offered the boy a holiday in Eastland where the child would be able to ride a pony. The mother and son both accepted the offer and Don made good on his promise.
It was about ten years after Don Pierson had been in England as a car dealer that he returned to the island of Great Britain with his family. This time he became the unseen motivating force who brought the sound of Dallas-styled top 40 radio broadcasting to the ears of British teens. He achieved this by placing transmitters aboard two ships which anchored off the coastline of southeast England. But Don's quest for anonymity merely opened the doors to more bogus information. As in the instance of Charles Orr Stanley, rogues took credit for Don's own achievements. Lie upon lie has resulted in foundational hoax stories being accepted as true, and genuine counter-response has been written off as misinformation.
Why the names of Branch, Stanley, and Pierson are not readily identified as being of equal, and perhaps of more significance than Guglielmo Marconi and John Reith when it comes to the story of British broadcasting, can perhaps only be explained as a form of redactive Orwellian censorship. It was George Orwell who explained the idea that a political machine could make the real past disappear and a false account of the past become dominant in the minds of subjective pawns who inhabited the world of 'Big Brother'. The true story of British broadcasting has been obfuscated by the spinning of lies which were originally intended to direct attention away from the real story.
It has taken until 2025 for our trio to uncover this much of the true story, while being aware that there are perhaps many more details waiting to be uncovered. We will do our best to authentic all controversial statements that support this presentation.
See: https://www.northpalmbeachlife.com/the-story-of-startext-1982.html
As a trio we have shared a task of unravelling a very complicated, confusing, and hitherto untold transatlantic story that culminates in its beginnings upon events that took place in 1963, but its origins go back to the dying days of Queen Victoria.
Each time we have released a part of our findings, somebody siezes upon our discoveries and tries to stitch together what they think is a get-rich-quick scheme, by publishing a half-baked account of the past that explains nothing and confuses everyone. But the text being published on this date at this location is only part of the story, because our investigation continues into exposing the reasons why so many people do not want any part of this story to be told.
It is not about the assassinated President John F. Kennedy or his 5 years old daughter Caroline, although it seems, Wikipedia and a bevy of quasi-scholars would like you to believe that the Kennedys are inextricably entwined with the story of British radio broadcasting. But that is only true if you want to believe a lie, a hoax, a fraud, designed to both conceal the true story and fleece the unwarey of money. If that is the case, then the make-believe drama that you need to know about is how Jack's brother Robert who was also assassinated, is tied into the lies told by the distibutors of literature and videos concerning a yesterday that never happened.
That does not include us, which is why we chose an appropriate name to describe our own activities.
We first met in a place called 'Cowtown' which gazetters identify as the City of Fort Worth. It is about 30 miles from Dallas in northern Texas. Above the main street leading into its former stockyards is a slogan proclaiming 'Where the West Begins'. Geographically that is not true, but back in 1921 the Mayor at that time thought that it was close enough for the Chamber of Commerce to use as a promotion gimmick, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has not disavowed it.
Long before Tim Berners-Lee from England came up with his proposal for a World Wide Web, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram had given birth to StarText on its own crude Intranet. On May 3, 1982, that publication, working in cooperation with Fort Worth's Tandy Corporation, began offering a ASCII-based version of its newspaper to paid subscribers. Anyone with a 300-baud modem could buy a membership to join and access this Intranet by using their own dial-up telephone line.
By 1990 we were subscribers to this service which also gave members the opportunity of creating their own StarText content pages. In that sense it was also an early version of a blog. That is where, when and how this project began. It was not until August 1991, that Internet software became generally available, first to academia, and then to the public. Eventually the superiority of Berners-Lee's idea of hypertext documents straddling the infant Internet absorbed users of the StarText Intranet, and it rapidly became relegated to the memories of its former subscribers.
Due to the march of time, the advancement of technology and the shift in cultural orientation, that same kind of transition occurred during the development of radio broadcasting. While Guglielmo Marconi had pioneered in the realm of wireless telegraphy, it was Reginald Fessenden who is credited with becoming the champion of wireless telephony to become known as radio broadcasting. But there are many more obfuscated links to this story which those who claim to be historians seem to ignore. Consequently, that is one of the many reasons why we avoid use of that word.
For instance, the widespread accounting for the creators of the British Broadcasting Company Limited place their number at six, and all of them are major international companies. Some are British and some are American. But that cartel had well over a hundred paid shareholders, and one of them was the embyonic Pye company which will be revealed in this chronology as a major player in the story of British broadcasting. Right now we just want to explain who we are, and why we have been working for decades to unravel the previously hidden or non-assimilated facts behind this story. However, within these pages we will delve into every facet of its nuanced details and document the source of this information.
But back to this narrative which in turn takes us back to Fort Worth, Texas. That city holds the key to understanding a major factor in why the British General Post Office was pressured into opening up British access to the airwaves to a licenced monopoly, and how serious commercial competition began before the advent of World War II.
On May 2, 1922, a young Texan named William Ellison Branch put radio station WBAP on the air for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and as of 2025, it is still broadcasting using those same call letters. The beginning of WBAP predates the start of the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. But it is what William Ellison Branch did, after he left north Texas, that is of direct relevance to anyone who has become fascinated with the story of broadcasts received in Britain before WWII. We are now about to enter the world of Captain Leonard Plugge whose tutor was William Ellison Branch.
On January 20, 1935, Leonard Plugge was on his honeymoon. He left England for New York where he got married to a former silent movie star. The two of them motored down to stay with William Randolph Hearst at his castle situated half-way between Los Angeles and San Francisco in California. Then, after leaving the real 'Citizen Kane', the couple drove on to a spot in Texas where the United States' border is separated from Mexico by the Rio Grande river.
IAfter he left Fort Worth, William Ellison Branch eventually established a new home at Eagle Pass in southern Texas adjacent to the Rio Grande, and he opened his doors for a couple of days to the visiting Plugge newlyweds. Branch then showed Plugge his latest project. It was situated almost directly across the U.S.-Mexico border at a place called Piedras Negras. At that time, the USA restricted the power output of its own licenced radio stations, but Mexico did not. Branch saw a loophole in the law and built his latest super-power station at Piedras Negras. This border-blaster which identified itself with the Mexican call letters XEPD, boomed forth into perhaps millions of American radio receivers.
Branch allowed other people to take credit for his work, and that is one reason why few people today seem to know the lifestory of this broadcasting pioneer. The reason why Plugge sought the advice of William Branch was because his own International Broadcasting Company (IBC) was facing strong competition from Radio Luxembourg. IBC bought airtime on foreign stations to broadcast commercially sponsored English language radio programs into Great Britain, and Branch was doing the same thing with Mexican stations by directing their signals into the United States. But in the case of William Ellison Branch, he was building his own stations to order for his clients, while Plugge was his own primary client. The reason being that the United Kingdom had one radio broadcasting operation and it did not carry commercial advertising, so Plugge brokered airtime to his own paying customers.
France was Plugge's primary base of operations. His IBC registered in London had been buying time on an existing French station called Radio Normandie which was located on the coastline of France that faced southern England. Until he fell out with Radio Luxembourg, Plugge had been doing very well by grabbing most of the Sunday audience away from the BBC. On Sundays his all day light-hearted shows and dance music faced the alternative dour programming that hailed from the British Broadcasting Corporation. The British General Post Office (GPO), which was a creation of the British Crown corporation sole, had by then refused to renew the licences of the British Broadcasting Company Limited, and instead, it awarded its Crown parent with the licenced monopoly to broadcast within the United Kingdom.
Branch advised Plugge on how to replace the transmissions of Radio Normandie with his own, custom-built British border-blaster, using the modified name of Radio Normandy. This new station transmitted its signal via an American-designed Blaw-Knox radio tower that extended the reach of IBC programming further into the island of Great Britain. After returning to the UK, Plugge set about obtaining a French licence for his new station at Louvetot, Seine-Maritime, which his French agent received on July 7, 1935.
On November 14 of that year, Plugge sought and won an election as a Conservative Party member of the House of Commons representing Chatham. Known for its large dockland, in decades to follow, it would become the initial stomping ground for Charles Orr Stanley and his Pye Group of companies. While World War II was harmful to Plugge's IBC because it lost control of its stations due to the ravages of Adolph Hitler's troops marching across Europe, it had been good for the Pye company which gained business as a result of UK government military contracts.
After WWII, the broadcasting days of the IBC were over, and its studios in London were turned over to recording popular music for record companies such as Pye. In the 1950s, Pye began rapid expansion into a whole array of business activities, and so Charles Orr Stanley picked up from where Leonard Plugge left off. There was just one big problem. After WWII the UK government had forced countries such as France to cease the practice of allowing independent French stations from leasing their airtime to British companies such as IBC. The only remaining fly in that ointment was Radio Luxembourg which appeared to be untouchable. But that station was not for sale and Pye became only one of its many buyers of commercial airtime.
Besides which, there was one major difference between Plugge and Stanley. Whereas Plugge wanted to operate his own broadcasting network, Stanley did not. Stanley wanted to manufacture transmitters and receivers in an expanded marketplace which the BBC monopoly restricted. Shortly after WWII, Stanley joined a political Pressure Group backed by a variety of commercial companies with interests in both entertainment programming and electrical manufacturing.
On August 4, 1954, a new British Television Act opened the door to an entity called the Independent Television Authority (ITA). It sold the majority of its airtime to franchised programming contractors who were allowed to operate in non-competitive zones. These franchiees were authorized to sell commercial advertising to GPO approved companies. This was not at all what Stanley wanted, because it meant that the Crown corporation sole via its GPO, had merely created another BBC conglomerate to offer television programming. Stanley wanted competing radio and television stations to be licenced in order to manufacture and sell more transmitters and receivers.
Beginning in 1959, Stanley and his Pye cartel began to revive the political Pressure Group which resulted in the creation of ITA, only this time he changed his approach. This time he played a two-prong game. One was overt and one was covert. The goal of both approaches was the same: to try to force a change in the political landscape that would result in a change in political policy regarding competitive broadcasting.
Rather than approach this problem soley in a transparant manner, he set about creating a secret operation that could bring about a de facto change in the law. To do this he had to create a demand, but that presented a problem. How could he put a commercial radio station on the air to gain listener support, if the government would not give him a licence? On the other hand, if he had a licence, he would not have to resolt to a clandestine and highly secret method of putting a commecial radio station on the air.
The years both preceding and immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, were also years of huge political scandals in London, England. The UK governing Conservative Party had been in office since 1951, and hoping that a UK General Election was in the offing and cause a change in government broadcasting policy, he put his own two-part agenda into operation.
Stanley was dismayed by the results of the UK General Election which did occur on October 15, 1964, because the Tories lost to Labour by a very slim majority. However, where the Tories were divided on their approach to the subject of commercial radio broadcasting, the Labour Party were not. They had been totally opposed to the introduction of ITA and they were not about to let the non-commercial BBC lose its radio broadcasting monopoly. For Stanley and Pye it was the end of his covert plan which had involved the placement of a radio station on board a ship anchored just outside British territorial waters.
But that is when events took a strange turn across the Atlantic in Texas.
The end of Stanley's secret campaign begat a hoax that was created in response to misreporting of his operation by the media. Because the second part of Stanley's plan was covert, it had been reported in the press with the context of a ridiculous explanation which both the press and readers swallowed hook, line and sinker and reported as fact. From this garbled reporting emerged another tangled web of lies, and it blinded the public to the point where the light of truth was extinguished and replaced by another fable about the young daughter, now 6 years old, of the murdered President John F. Kennedy. As if that bizarre story was not enough, it was first told to JFK's brother and now U.S. Senator from New York, Robert F. Kennedy.
All of this will be disassembled and documented in texts that follow.
The creators of this chronology first met somewhere close to 1980. Our first meeting took place in the Dallas and Forth Worth conurbanation known as the 'Metroplex'. To its west, about 100 miles away, is a tiny town called Eastland. At one time its mayor was Donald Grey Pierson, but everyone called him Don. He was a sometime banker, speculator in property and fascinated by new ideas which included broadcasting. Don was known to stray off course, and that is how he twice fell victim of murky schemes to run freeports under chartered governments on islands in the Caribbean.
Don had a strange sense of humor. During the Cold War years when American school kids were still practicing 'duck and cover' to avoid fallout from a Russian nuclear attack, he invited a representative of the USSR to address the Eastland Chamber of Commerce. As the mayor of Eastland, he also started a rumor that because the U.S. Surgeon General had linked cigarette smoking to lung cancer, he would make it a crime to be caught smoking within the city limits of Eastland. In London, this story turned into a featured political cartoon published by the tabloid Daily Mirror. It depicted ten galleon justice being enforced with a six-shooter on the city streets of Eastland. But Don Pierson was not into ideology. His mindset was more akin to that of Donald Trump's Art of the Deal where the end justifies the means. This approach to life can create pitfalls, because it means that false information is sometimes accepted as the factual basis for future endeavor and the perpetrator can end up as a victim.
In his daily life Don Pierson was also viewed by many as a mild mannered man with a kind personality. On one occasion he had been on a plane where adjoining seats were occupied by a young boy with his mother. The boy's father had just been killed in the Vietnam War. Don offered the boy a holiday in Eastland where the child would be able to ride a pony. The mother and son both accepted the offer and Don made good on his promise.
It was about ten years after Don Pierson had been in England as a car dealer that he returned to the island of Great Britain with his family. This time he became the unseen motivating force who brought the sound of Dallas-styled top 40 radio broadcasting to the ears of British teens. He achieved this by placing transmitters aboard two ships which anchored off the coastline of southeast England. But Don's quest for anonymity merely opened the doors to more bogus information. As in the instance of Charles Orr Stanley, rogues took credit for Don's own achievements. Lie upon lie has resulted in foundational hoax stories being accepted as true, and genuine counter-response has been written off as misinformation.
Why the names of Branch, Stanley, and Pierson are not readily identified as being of equal, and perhaps of more significance than Guglielmo Marconi and John Reith when it comes to the story of British broadcasting, can perhaps only be explained as a form of redactive Orwellian censorship. It was George Orwell who explained the idea that a political machine could make the real past disappear and a false account of the past become dominant in the minds of subjective pawns who inhabited the world of 'Big Brother'. The true story of British broadcasting has been obfuscated by the spinning of lies which were originally intended to direct attention away from the real story.
It has taken until 2025 for our trio to uncover this much of the true story, while being aware that there are perhaps many more details waiting to be uncovered. We will do our best to authentic all controversial statements that support this presentation.
See: https://www.northpalmbeachlife.com/the-story-of-startext-1982.html
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