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Larry Johnson is an American author

Author

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and former employee of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation

Alcor Life Extension Foundation

The Alcor Life Extension Foundation, most often referred to as Alcor, is a Scottsdale, Arizona, USA-based nonprofit company that researches, advocates for and performs cryonics, the preservation of humans in liquid nitrogen after legal death, with hopes of restoring them to full health when new...

(Alcor), a cryonics

Cryonics

Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future. Cryopreservation of people or large animals is not reversible with current technology...

company for whom he once served as chief operating officer

Chief operating officer

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. He received notoriety with the release of the August 13, 2003 issue of Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
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. Sports Illustrated sportswriter Tom Verducci

Tom Verducci

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, along with Johnson's input, published an article about “What Really Happened to Ted Williams

Ted Williams

Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 21-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox...

?"http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2003/08/12/williams_si/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/tom_verducci/news/2003/08/12/insider/ Immediately following the Sports Illustrated article, Johnson agreed to an interview with Diane Sawyer

Diane Sawyer

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of Good Morning America

Good Morning America

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Alcor has accused Johnson of engaging in profiteering and attempting to sensationalize his experiences at Alcor as a means of making money. In 2003, CNN correspondent Gary Tuchman noted: "Johnson certainly doesn't mind using his connections as an ex- employee to make a buck. Johnson has started a Web site, where for a so-called donation of at least $20, graphic photographs were displayed, photographs, he said, documenting the fate of Ted Williams. Johnson won't talk on camera about Ted Williams, but his attorney acknowledges Sports Illustrated was not told about his client's money making plans."http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/13/se.01.html|accessdate=2009-10-15
During the fall of 2003, while Director of Clinical Services for Alcor, Johnson did an interview in Cryonics Magazine.http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics2003-1.pdf

On September 28, 2003, an article was published in the Phoenix

Phoenix, Arizona

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, Arizona

Arizona

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newspaper East Valley Tribune

East Valley Tribune

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with the headline "Scottsdale

Scottsdale, Arizona

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company’s role in death probe.”http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/?sty=10636 This article reports that Larry Johnson speaks of a 1992 death of a North Hollywood, California

California

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man whose remains are frozen at Alcor. According to Johnson he has audio taped evidence that personally recorded, of an Alcor employee who may have hastened the death of one of their members. Johnson later stated that the police were not interested in pursuing an investigation. The nurse who pronounced the 1992 death has denied Johnson's claim that there was any hastening of death.

During the Fall of 2009, Johnson released a book called, FROZEN: My Journey into the World of Cryonics, Deception, and Death.http://www.amazon.com/dp/1593155603 This book has received heavy criticism from those working in the field of cryonics.

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