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Originally Posted by djohnson
Here is a quote from Brent Barber about it:
"I only know the scandal in terms of how it affected my dad and it pretty much ruined his life as he was never the same after getting booted from hall 2 and sent out to pasture. He made the best of it and cultivated something good in OK, but his spirit and heart were broken after he lost all the young people in LA. I am not laying any of that at anyone's feet but the politics that Lee used to decimate his rivals and smear anyone who threatened his primacy. You only have to look at what happened ten years later with John Ingalls and Al Knoch to know that he never changed his MO of scorched earth."
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I can confirm this having heard about Lee's bad treatment of James directly from Virginia (about 10 years after he died). I can't remember the details now of the story about how James ended up in OKC, but I remember that it was not a result of his burden, but Lee's directive.
She said Lee was very abusive and that his treatment of James tore him up because James looked to him like a father figure. She and the boys hated to see him go to a training in Anaheim because of the state he would be in when he returned, after having been mishandled (she said "abused") by Lee while there. She said the family usually took the brunt of his upset. This information was shocking to me.
Thankful Jane