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PageA12 Winston-Salem Chronicle Thursday, January 14,1988 Washington's family witholds autopsy report CHICAGO — Harold Washing ton’s family is satisfied with an autopsy that showed the late mayor died of a massive heart attack, not poiscHiing, but they will not release a toxicology report, authorities secy. Whshingion's relatives believe releasing the report would be an invasion of privacy and called Wednesday for an end to "unfounded speculation and insinuation" about the mayor’s death in November. Members of the family issued the statement through Dr. Antonio Senat, Washington’s personal physician, after broadcast reports said he had been poisoned with cocaine. "The family is satisfied the cause of death was correctly stated and calls upon those who have questioned these findings to let the matter rest," Senat said. Dr. Robert Stein, the Cook Coun ty medical examiner, said Tuesday the family would release the toxi cology report to dispel "ridicu lous" rumors that Washington was Washington poisoned. But Senat said the family con cluded that was unnecessary after reviewing the autopsy and toxicol ogy reports with himself and Dr. Lonnie Edwards, a close friend of Washington who serves as com missioner of the city’s health department "They ask that people continue to honor that great man by respecting the right of the family to be free from unfounded specula tion and insinuations," Senat said. "The family believes these docu ments are personal and should remain personal... as the last ves tige of privacy between them and the mayor," said spokesman Bill Juneau in Stein’s office. >\hshington was felled by a mas sive heart attack in his City Hall office Nov. 25 and died within hours at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Washington, 65, weighed 284 pounds and his heart was nearly three times normal size, Stein said after examining the body. He said Washington’s fatal heart attack was inevitable given the mayor’s stressful job, hypertension and 100 pounds of excess weight. "All of the (toxicology tests) were negative,” Juneau said Wednesday. "We tested for poi sons, abusive drugs, tranquilizers, alcohol, etcetera." The source of the poisoning report was self-styled legal gadfly Sherman Skolnik of the Citizens Committee to Clear Up the Courts. Skolnick alleged during his weekly radio show that Washing ton "was apparently assassinated" and poisoned with cocaine. He claimed the death was the "largest coverup in the history of political murders." 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"I will be there with my body guards,” Farrands said from his Shelton, Conn., home. Metzger, meanwhile, said he planned to attend a similar protest in Raleigh, N.C. King's spokeswoman, Sheila Pierce, said, "The decision for him not to participate in the parade came prior to our awareness of the tape." from Fontana to San Bernardino two years ago, placed the message on the tape. Fontana is 50 miles east of Los Angeles. reporters security concerns caused Martin LuthCT King III to drop out. However, a spokewoman for King’s son said scheduling prob lems caused him to cancel the parade appearance but he still plans to address an inierfaith ser vice at Fontana's Performing Arts Center following the parade. Rodriguez said he and others were alarmed by a recent recorded telephone message from a white supremacist group in San Diego County urging a counterdemon stration in Fontana the day of the parade. She added, "Since we became aware of it, of course, we are con cerned ... but not enough to cancel his appearance." She said King, a Fulton County, Ga., commissioner, couldn’t get a flight from Atlanta to Southern California in time to make the parade. The December message on the Aryan Update" information line service run by former California Knights of the Ku Klux Klan lead er Tom Metzger said that "white workers of Fontana" will demon- strateXif Martin Luther King III marched in the parade honoring his father. James Farrands, the so-called Local authorities indicated they would keep a close watch on the event. "We will certainly do everything we can to provide the best protec tion we can on this," said police Lt. Alan Fowlkes. As recently as 1981, members of the white supremacist group burned crosses, held rallys and conducted public membership drives, but police reported no evi dence of recent Klan activity in Fontana. Metzger said the Invisible Empire Knights of the KKK, which claimed that the California Klan had moved its headquarters Nation's News From Page A1 Wcmam War, says Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich At a King birthday cel- rtration Sunday at Mount Zion Bapust Church, Conyers also praised Democrauc presidential contender Jesse Jackson as "a disciple of Martin Luther King." Jackson denies plagiarism reports Jesse Jackson denies knowing a former college secretary who said she typed an English paper for him copied mosUy from a Time magazine arti cle when he was a student in 1960 . Singer Michael Jackson begins his first solo concert in New York City Singer Michael Jackson’s first solo concert in New York City will be a benefit to raise money for scholarships for minorities, a spokesman for the show’s sponsor said Monday . 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