077 Grey ("Mike") Spanagel. 200r. 31 days.

Blood counts extremely well documented in History; a

clear radiation death. His wife Madge was only 47 when

Spanagel died, took care of him daily at home until his death,

has his full medical records, understands now what happened

quite well. "They killed him," she says -- and this is what

the evidence shows.

Dr. Hortwitz visited the house just once right before

Spanagel's death, just came in and pulled back the sheet to

look at him and left, says his wife, offered no information or

reassurance. Spanagel had throat cancer that was not

responding to treatments, apparently, but was still sometimes

going to work as a salesman to WCKY before his radiation, and

also regularly in touch with clients by phone; he was taking

a long walk ever day; he drove himself to the hospital the day

he was irradiated.

His wife was asked nothing and never knew what kind of

radiation he had. Se says he thought it posed a chance for

him to get well.

His -- she feels rather sudden -- death meant that he did

not have his affairs in good order and she was left with

little from his will; most of what he had went to two older

daughters by another marriage. There was fourteen-year-old

daughter who suffered greatly from this sudden bad turn in his

illness, Madge Spanagel says. She feels they never recovered

economically; she went to work but has had to move recently

into subsidized housing. She fees strongly that she ought to

be compensated (and possibly she has a particularly good case

for compensation, is one of the few remaining spouses, now in

her sixties).

We read in this History that Spanagel's hemogram remained

stable until November 27.

But on December 1 his WBC went down to 400 and his

platelets to 18,000; on December 9 he died.

He had had a bone marrow transplant, but obviously it did

not work.