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]]> http://peasantswithpitchforks.com/point/2009/11/06/to-kill-at-mocking-beck/feed/ http://peasantswithpitchforks.com/point/2009/10/02/my-dad-never-abused-ted-williams-severed-head/ http://peasantswithpitchforks.com/point/2009/10/02/my-dad-never-abused-ted-williams-severed-head/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:53:15 +0000 Vermonter http://peasantswithpitchforks.com/point/?p=501 At some point in the future, I’ll get around to telling the story of how my father, Lawrence “The Ice Man” Jensen, was a key figure in the early cryonics movement.

But, I want to make one thing clear…

My dad never abused Ted Williams’ severed head…

NEW YORK — The New York Daily News is reporting that Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams’ severed head was mistreated at an Arizona cryonics facility, according to details from a new book.

In “Frozen,” Larry Johnson, a former executive at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., writes that Williams’ head, which had been severed and frozen for storage, was abused at the facility. Johnson claims a technician took baseball-like swings at Williams’ frozen head with a monkey wrench.

Williams, the last player to hit over .400 in a season, died in 2002 at age 83 and had his remains sent to Alcor for cryogenic storage in the hope that future generations would develop the technology to revive him.

Via HuffPo.