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Jacob Chestnut was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 23 April 2021 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into 1998 United States Capitol shooting. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here. |
John Gibson (police officer) was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 23 April 2021 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into 1998 United States Capitol shooting. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here. |
This article is the creation following the AfD for the article for Special Agent John Gibson titled John Gibson (police officer). The concensus was heading in the direction of merging the articles for John Gibson, Jacob Chestnut into the Russell Eugene Weston article. I created this one which follows the titling precedent of the U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954) article.
Please feel free to make additions to this article but please cite your sources. This article has the potential to be a Featured Article some day because of the amount of information out there relating its events.
If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line on my talk page. Cheers, Daysleeper47 14:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
A major cause of this crime is Montana State Mental Hospital's decision to release Mr. Weston and use Greyhound Therapy on him in which hospital personnel put him on a long distance bus and the problem disappears." See The Washington Post July 28, 1998, p. A6 article on the Weston Case. See also CNN Dec. 4, 1998 http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/04/weston.therapy/index.html referring to Greyhound Therapy.
Greyhound Therapy--putting mentally ill people on a long distance bus--to transfer them either to their family or to another State's mental hospital--seems to be a major form of therapy in America which failed in the Weston case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 22 March 2007 ( talk • contribs) 02:39
I am an amateur Wikipedia editor. However, on this 21st anniversary, I made some important corrections to this entry. I have first-hand knowledge of this tragic event. I was working that day, as the Acting Lieutenant assigned inside the Capitol building, and Officer Chestnut was my officer and friend. I was also friends with Detective Gibson. I was the first person to respond to Officer Chestnut's location. He was obviously in bad shape. I arrived so quickly, that Ofc McMillan was still standing behind a marble column, that he was using for cover,with his gun still out, and pointing toward where Weston had fled. If you are interested in contacting me, please do so at [email protected]. Loyal Caps ( talk) 11:26, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
Congrats, this is now considered a Good Article! It could use some minor work, such as adding Wiki links to words in sentences. For example, 2007 in the lead, Rep. Tom Delay has is articled on Wikipedia, X-Ray machine, etc. These were not fatal flaws however. Keep up the good work. If these are improved, you may wish to consider it for review as a featured article. Nja247 ( talk • contribs) 10:18, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
a) Is Weston "the shooter" or "the suspect"? The article as a whole states as fact that he was the shooter, but calls him "the suspect" twice. Probably need to standardise that.
b) Is there any actual biography on Chestnut? There's an uncited comment about a military past, but no actual biographical details as with Gibson. Shimgray | talk | 23:45, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Weston claimed the reason he went to Washington was to try to see his congressmen to see if he could stop the "radio waves" from attacking him. This is an unusual claim. Mentally ill or not, the crowd control weapons were currently and still are in field testing in the USA. Motive to use thes microwave and ultrasound devices against Weston would be to increase support for expanded mental health programs. Anyone repeatedly attacked with these devices would suffer the mental effects of sleep depravation. Unfortuately, the reason he was not allowed to be put before a judge was his claim of being attacked by radio waves. This allows the possibility that continued attacks would occur in the mental hospital, literally causing a decrease in mental capacity. 71.114.163.55 07:08, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Since this incident there have been claims by Aaron Alexis who did the Navy Shipyard Shootings of September 2013, and Hong Minh Trong who sent many letters with white powder and was finally arrested by the FBI in July 2014, each person claimed to be victim of directed energy attacks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.104.217.8 ( talk) 17:03, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, Ruslik 07:59, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Should this be moved to United States Capitol shooting incident (1998)? -- Daysleeper47 ( talk) 13:19, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
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Given the recent strong support in restoring the Howard Charles Liebengood article despite it being deleted after an earlier AfD discussion, should the recently-merged Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson (police officer) articles be restored as well? Love of Corey ( talk) 04:45, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
I was an officer on Doug McMillan’s shift (First Responder Unit III) the day of the shooting. Doug was not injured that day. Also, it was Doug, not John, that hit Weston 4 times. John did return fire after being shot by Weston, hitting him a fifth time, apparently. 2600:1700:2380:3AD0:541:5E88:E1C9:E533 ( talk) 07:57, 24 July 2023 (UTC)