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By Aislinn Simpson Independent.ie Monday July 20, 2009 The doctor who attempted to revive legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix on the night he died has said it is "plausible" that he was murdered.  John Bannister, the on-call registrar at the now closed St Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington, said in an interview that the patient seemed to have "drowned" in a large amount of red wine.The account fits with one given by James "Tappy" Wright, a 65-year-old former road manager who worked for Hendrix's manager Mike Jeffrey. Jimi Hendrix Wright has claimed in a new book that indebted Jeffrey had taken out a $2m (€1.4m) life-insurance policy on the star amid concerns about his increased drug-taking, and that he told him Hendrix was "worth more to him dead than alive". He alleges that Jeffrey confessed to him that he had ordered the killing a month before his death in a plane crash. The official version of Hendrix's death at the age of 27 is that he died from choking on vomit after a drugs overdose. Wright's version is that Hendrix was killed on the orders of Jeffrey by a gang who broke into his hotel room and forced wine and painkillers down his throat until he drowned. Mr Bannister, 67, said he had no idea who Hendrix was when he arrived early on the morning of September 18, 1970, but remembers being perplexed by his height. “He was hanging over the table we had him on by about ten inches,” he told The Times newspaper. He said he fought to resuciate him but there was no hope of survival. "We worked very hard for about half an hour but there was no response at all. It really was an exercise in futility,” he said. “Somebody said to me ‘You know who that was? That was Jimi Hendrix,’ and, of course, I said, ‘Who’s Jimi Hendrix?’” He said that Wright's description, in his memoir Rock Roadster, of Hendrix's demise "sounded plausible because of the volume of wine”. “The amount of wine that was over him was just extraordinary. Not only was it saturated right through his hair and shirt but his lungs and stomach were absolutely full of wine," he said. "I have never seen so much wine. We had a sucker that you put down into his trachea, the entrance to his lungs and to the whole of the back of his throat. “We kept sucking him out and it kept surging and surging. He had already vomited up masses of red wine and I would have thought there was half a bottle of wine in his hair. He had really drowned in a massive amount of red wine.” Bannister now lives in Sydney and worked as a doctor until 1992 when he was deregistered for fraudulent conduct. | ||||||||||
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BBC 20 July 09 The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers - including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt - have gone online.  The database of those who fought in the Hundred Years War reveals salaries, sickness records and who was knighted.The full profiles of soldiers from 1369 to 1453 will allow researchers to piece together details of their lives. The new website reveals which medieval soldiers rode the farthest Thomas, Lord Despenser is the youngest soldier on the database, whose career began when he was aged just 12 in 1385. Elsewhere, the career of Thomas Gloucestre, who fought at Agincourt, can be traced over 43 years and includes campaigns in Prussia and Jerusalem. 'Remarkable survival' The website is the product of a research project by Professor Anne Curry of the University of Southampton and Dr Adrian Bell of the University of Reading. Dr Bell said: "The service records survive because the English exchequer had a very modern obsession with wanting to be sure that the government's money was being spent as intended. "Therefore we have the remarkable survival of indentures for service detailing the forces to be raised, muster rolls showing this service and naming every soldier from duke to archer." He said accounts from captains showing how funds were spent and entries detailing when the exchequer requested the payments can be found. The free-to-use website, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, also shows which soldiers rode the furthest. Go here to view: http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/data **2-FINGER GESTURE Legend has it that the V-sign originates from Agincourt when English archers taunted the French, who had vowed to cut off their bow fingers. | ||||||||||
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