From: WillNich@aol.com
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:00:52 EDT
Subject: Fwd: FT. CAMPBELL, KY MURDER

From: SLDNACTION@aol.com
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:49:31 EDT
Subject: FT. CAMPBELL, KY MURDER

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network needs your help!  SLDN has launched an
independent investigation into reports that the murder of a Fort Campbell,
Kentucky soldier last week may have been an anti-gay hate crime.  In the
early morning hours of July 5, 1999, 21-year-old Private First Class Barry
Winchell was attacked in his barracks on base, allegedly by another soldier
in his unit.  Winchell died of his wounds on July 6 at Nashville's Vanderb
ilt University Medical Center. 

SLDN has received numerous calls concerning this crime, and sent staff
members to the Fort Campbell, Kentucky area to speak with people who may
have relevant information. Anyone with relevant information should contact
SLDN by email at sldn@sldn.org or by phone at 202.328.3244, extension #113. 
SLDN would like you to pass this message along to anyone you know who is
stationed at Fort Campbell or has friends stationed at Fort Campbell.  If
necessary, those contacting SLDN do not have to give their names 

SLDN also asks that you contact the Public Affairs Office at Fort Campbell 
and tell them that this incident needs to be properly investigated, with all 
leads concerning the possibility that this may be a hate crime taken 
seriously.  

You can contact Fort Campbell by:

Calling: 270-798-3025

Emailing : chamblissc@emh2.campbell.army.mil

Writing: Maj. Pamela Hart
       101st Airborne Division Air Assault
       Public Affairs Office
       2334 19th Street
       Fort Campbell, KY 42223-5375

Thank you for your help and continued support of SLDN, and service members 
who are affected by "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue."