Talk:Dora Kent

Sourcing?
Are there more sources that aren't from advocates? - David Gerard (talk) 12:31, 23 August 2010 (UTC)


 * There must be. I remember seeing her talked about on the Los Angeles local news and in the L.A. Times just after she died. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 14:05, 8 June 2015 (UTC)


 * That'll be stuff that may not be on the web, darnit ... are you in LA with access to libraries etc? - David Gerard (talk) 14:48, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, - David Gerard (talk) 15:05, 8 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Alas I'm not in L.A. anymore. This search brings up lots of stories from the L.A. Times, though only the abstracts are freely available. Still, the abstracts contain lots of key tidbits, like this:
 * The source said the death certificate listed pneumonia and arteriosclerotic heart disease as the cause of death, but also said Mrs. Kent died at a "residence." The death certificate was rejected because there was no physician present at the woman's death and because officials questioned whether the Alcor lab is a "residence." —L.A. Times, Jan. 15, 1988
 * This article from Dec. 26, 1987, "Removal of Woman's Head for Freezing Probed" might be the earliest. Including the actual reasons for the investigation might make the article more neutral and factual. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 08:01, 9 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I found a few good full articles via the search URL you found. This appears to be the AP story when the news first broke (Christmas!). "Woman's death now called homicide" also appears informative. "Cryonicists Are Certain of a Future Life" provides a thorough overview (except the title is technically wrong). Further digging on that search will probably turn up some more good stuff. I would think that the Riverside Press-Enterprise would have covered the story, but their on-line archive doesn't seem to go back that far. —Ben Kovitz (talk) 08:36, 9 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes. I can see myself hitting Google's newspaper searches a lot - David Gerard (talk) 13:37, 9 June 2015 (UTC)


 * BTW, some of the press coverage might itself be salient enough to mention in the article. At the time, I remember coming across something in the press that sounded an awful lot like "she lived for (some number of days) after her head was cut off"—or some similarly wild claim. I haven't found anything like that in any of the articles that I've found so far, though. I did just come across this: Mothermelters: The Inside Story of Cryonics and the Dora Kent Homicide. I haven't read it, but it certainly promises to be negative, although the Amazon reviews suggest that it's not credible. The sales copy, however, mentions "the decapitation and subsequent homicide of Dora Kent." —Ben Kovitz (talk) 17:50, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

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