Ladies and gentlemen,

would you be seated please ladies and gentlemen,

the President of the United States.

It is essential for the American people to be alerted of this danger

in 1971.

To recognize that it is a danger that will not pass with the passing of the war in Vietnam.

It was June 17, 1971, nearly four years before the end of the war in Vietnam,

more than three years before President Richard Nixon resigned,

and only a few months before Greenville South Carolina's

Table Rock Laboratories became one of the biggest targets in the South for organized crime.

This statement, which I think needs to be made to the nation.

America's public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse.

In order to fight and defeat this enemy,

it is necessary to wage a new all-out offensive.

Nixon's declaration was a declaration of war, the war on drugs.

That day he promised 350 million dollars in new funding

to fight drugs in America.

Hey kitties, gather around, the man with the goodies is here.

Four months later, in October of 1971,

a man named Frank Looper quit his job as an investigator for a local defense attorney to become a cop.

Luper went to work for Sheriff Bob Martin as a nark. He grew out his hair and his beard and

became known as the fuzzy beast. That same month a gang of burglars hit

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