Trouble in Hillbilly Paradise.

Backwoods Celebrity Faces Long Prison Term for Incest

Robert Hale, a Bible-toting father of 15 who calls himself Papa Pilgrim, became an anti-government celebrity in Alaska by driving a bulldozer across a national park that encircles his land.

The Lord told him that using the bulldozer to clear 14 miles of derelict road through the park was a loving thing to do, Hale said in an interview three years ago.

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He grew up affluent in Fort Worth, the son of I.B. Hale, an All-America tackle at Texas Christian University who in 1939 was the first-round draft pick of the Washington Redskins.

While in high school, Robert Hale eloped to Florida in 1958 with Kathleen Connally, the 16-year-old daughter of John B. Connally; Connally was to become governor of Texas and was wounded when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Shortly thereafter, she died of a shotgun blast to the face, an apparent suicide that Hale said occurred while he was with her in a hotel room.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/AR2006122600847.html

Damned strange tale, we got Jack Nicholson, 9th circuit court, a little something for everyone.

I think he got off light.

but let me say - that is a narcissist of the first order - david koresh level.

really, how many of us "Outsiders" have ever been to the Alaska forum? I may have, once, on a Ted Stevens-related matter, but that's it. Here ya go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=138&topic_id=1872&mesg_id=1872

"The bible is a book with some beautiful poetry, a bloodstained history, a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of 10,000 lies." - Mark Twain

Hillbillies hail from the mountains of East Tennessee and western North Carolina - the Appalachians, if you will.

This guy isn't from around there (here); therefore, he's no hillbilly.

Besides, hillbillies, who fought for the North in the Civil War, btw, are smarter than this asshole.

and i was thinking the same east tenn/western nc, maybe virginia, kentucky, and west virginia on a good day we'll let them in... but alaska?

no way that dude's a real hillbilly

call him what he is, a piece of perverted rapist shit

A guy living in Alaska who grew up in affluent Fort Worth is NOT a hillbilly. I ought to know -- I'm a progressive, lesbian, college-educated HILLBILLY who's had my fill of class warfare and stereotyping.

And yes, all of my relatives fought for the Union -- both those in SE Kentucky AND West Virginia.

from the article;

The ranch, which they named Hillbilly Heaven, is an in-holding, which means it is surrounded by federal land controlled by the National Park Service.



I also stole the headline from Daily Rotten, "News you can't possibly use."

Where can we read more about the death of the Connelly child? This is surreal.

Thnx

I never heard of this and you would think with all the notoriety surrounding Gov. Connelly this would've been common knowledge.

"It is like the Alamo" he said..... um no it isn't.......

I'm sure he justified what he did to his daughter as a loving thing God told him to do. Another Christian from Hell.

Another republicon deviant. There is no end of them.

there is no reason in god's green hell we should allow our national forests to be destroyed by fundies who won't stop breeding but since we as americans don't give a damn about our national parks thank jeebus they got him on the incest charge

i hope his victimized children and wife get the help they need to get free of his poisonous beliefs

i find it DAMN difficult to believe a man who raped one child didn't rape several