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The Port Arthur Massacre: Was Martin Bryant Framed? Continued from page 18 go past Seascape as far as the Fortescue About the Author: Rav turnoff This meane that Rrvant Carl Wernerhoff is the pseudonym for a About the Author: Carl Wernerhoff is the pseudonym for a Sydney-based conspiracy researcher with a particular interest in the history of political assassinations and orchestrated tragedies such as the Port Arthur and Columbine massacres. He has a PhD in History and currently works as a teacher. He recently released an e-book, What's Going On? A Critical Study of the Port Arthur Massacre. \t can be downloaded (free of charge) from http://www.ourmedia.org/user/95839. Carl Wernerhoff can be contacted by writing to him care of NEXUS, or by email at cwernerhoff@yahoo.com. go past Seascape as far as the Fortescue Bay turnoff. This means that Bryant must have driven from Nubeena to the Fortescue Bay turnoff via Taranna. But this contradicts Bryant's recollections elsewhere in the same interview of having driven past Port Arthur without stopping. This contradiction is the first clue to the fact that the whole story is imaginary. 5. John Frow, "Recovering Memory", Australian Humanities Review, December 1996; article available online at http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/ archive/Issue-Dec-1996/frow.html. 6. See http://www.religioustolerance.org/ false_co.htm. 7. The idea that videotapes were used to ersuade Bryant to accept responsibility for the Port Arthur massacre and the murders at Seascape is not a far-fetched one. Later in this series, I examine a videotape which seems to have been fabricated months after the massacre for the purpose of convincing Bryant that he had been present at Port Arthur that day. 8. McDonald (pp. 119-27) discusses several other problems with Bryant's int Endnotes 1. The transcript can be read online at http://home.overflow.net.au/ ~nedwood/transcript.html or http://members.fortunecity.com/able_j/ transcript.html. Note that the extracts used in this article have been slightly modified in the interests of readability. 2. Noel McDonald, A Presentation of the Port Arthur Incident, 2001, p. 173. Admittedly, "an edited version of this interview"—two hours long—was played in court on 19 November 1996. However, this was in the context of a sentencing hearing, not a trial (McDonald, pp. 174, 176). That day, Bryant's second lawyer, John Avery, told the judge that he was "not troubled" by the decision to play the tape—a statement which raises questions about Avery's view of his obligations to his client. 3. McDonald, pp. 175-76. 4. Since Bryant's intention after he left Nubeena was to visit the Martins at Seascape, there was no reason for him to Correction: In the previous article in this series (NEXUS vol. 13, no. 4), | stated that Martin Bryant is left-handed. | have since been informed that in fact he is right-handed, and that confusion has arisen over this issue because of a statement he made to police in which he said that he had taught himself to shoot left-handed. account. 76 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2006