7/22/14 e-mail to me from Ada County (ID) Coroner Erwin Sonnenberg denying that a Boise firefighter performed the Heimlich maneuver on a near-drowning victim (who died a few days later), contradicting a TV interview with the fireman. Video here: http://tinyurl.com/ly7csar
7/22/14 e-mail to me from Ada County (ID) Coroner Erwin Sonnenberg denying that a Boise firefighter performed the Heimlich maneuver on a near-drowning victim (who died a few days later), contradicting a TV interview with the fireman. Video here: http://tinyurl.com/ly7csar
Date: 7/22/2014 12:48 PM To: "peter.heimlich@gmail.com" <peter.heimlich@gmail.com> CC: "dbieter@cityofboise.org" <dbieter@cityofboise.org>, "abrown@cityofboise.org" <abrown@cityofboise.org> Dear Mr Heimlich I want to let you know that no one performed the Heimlich maneuver on the deceased. That was miss informa on you obtained. This oce has reviewed the report and literature on the topic. I do not feel an inquest is needed in this case. If you would like to discuss it more feel free to contact me.
8/15/22 FOIA response from IL Attorney General re: their Save-A-Life Foundation investigation: “(This office has reviewed) its records, and we determined that approximately 10,000 pages 'of records are maintained only in physical, hard copy form.”
Deposition by Jason Alan Haap (aka The Dean of Cincinnati) in Save-A-Life Foundation lawsuit v. Haap et al, 10/3/07, Cook County Circuit Court, Chancery Division
Contrary to my father's claim, longtime JAMA archivist Jann Ingmire denies that editors at the journal coined the term "Heimlich maneuver" (in a 9/8/02 email response to my inquiry in which I used the pseudonym "Bart Keyes")