The Gray Standoff on ABC 20/20 Part 1 of 2

Описание: UPDATE 12/7/2000: New video not seen in Ten Years! Alex Jones Defends John Joe Gray! Click here to see the video! http://blip.tv/file/4475588


I Mike Hanson, answered the comment line and worked in Alex Jones office for many years.

Mrs. Gray sent letters and called for several years trying get me to talk Alex into going to East Texas to do a story for his TV and radio show for the Grays personal problems relating to a custody battle over their grandkids.
Alex didn't want to do a story on a personal problem but the Grays persisted in calling.

Later the custody battle turned into a standoff situation as a result of John Gray being stopped in his vehicle and refusing to go to court. Mrs. Gray called my cell phone with this new information about the standoff.

Alex and I went to the Gray Ranch to talk to the Grays and ended up staying off and on for the next several weeks. Mrs. Gray personally asked me to tape and air their story.

I stayed up 24 hours in a row editing the video which played on Public Access TV the next night after getting the footage. The same footage that was released to 20/20 was shown on Access TV at Mrs. Grays request before it was shown on 20/20. So the video was already in the public domain.

If I had known the way the Grays would turn on Alex and I, even as far as pulling a gun on us, I would not have spent so much time trying to help them, and would instead have spent the time with my wife and young children.

When 20/20 showed up at the Gray ranch I witnessed John Gray agree to do a televised interview with 20/20 and allowing them to use his family's images on national television. What John Gray didn't like was the way 20/20 used his son-in-law to get the other side of the story. I think 20/20 and his son-in-law are what John Gray was upset about. The piece that 20/20 did was a fair piece in my opinion and John Gray didn't like it.

With the interest that Alex generated with his Access TV and radio show I personally saw a 16 foot long shed filled to the roof with canned foods, dry foods, ammunition and guns, that were donated by listeners as a direct result of Alex telling their story on the air. Also Alex offered to pay the Grays past due electric bill which had been cutoff due to non-payment of the bill. They declined Alex's offer.

As to the money, I received 300 dollars from Alex several months later, to help recoup expenses I incurred for hotel rooms, gas, tapes, food etc... Which was far less what I spent.

In the next week or so Nate will be uploading the full version of "The Gray Standoff" video, produced by me and narrated by Alex Jones. Also the 20/20 video. It's easy to compare the two videos and why John Gray didn't like the 20/20 version. You can see that John Gray blamed his problems on everyone else without excepting his own responsibility. I find in my personal life that I have to accept responsibility for the mistakes I make. I see John Gray as making mistakes and blaming them them on others. Blaming his own misjudgments on Masons, Son-in-Law, courts, police, etc...

It was almost like John Gray wanted a confrontation with the police. Our goal was to remove a Waco scenario with more dead children. The Grays loved the attention they were getting from Alex's show but when the 20/20 piece aired with a different slant on the story then what Alex was talking about, they took it out on Alex.

I feel extremely hesitant to try and help anyone else in a standoff situation after the lessons learned from the Gray standoff. I felt like truth of what we tried to do has been twisted, mainly by John Gray himself and other So called Christian websites. Especially Alex has had his reputation tarnished by John Grays lies.

I know Alex and Alex has a good heart and tried to do the right thing in this situation.

God Bless
Mike Hanson