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school building in Newton, Conn., and opened fire.
Lanza killed himself at the school; he had shot dead
his mother in their home prior to the school attack.
The Pozner lawsuit accuses Jones of “false, cruel
and dangerous assertions,” Reuters reported.
Jones allegedly called the Sandy Hook parents “crisis
actors,” which inspired conspiracy theorists to make
death threats against them.
During an April 2017 broadcast on Infowars, Jones
discussed an interview that De La Rosa gave to CNN’s
Anderson Cooper shortly after the shooting. Jones
claimed in the broadcast that the Sandy Hook shoot-
ing was faked, the Huffington Post reported.
“So here are these holier than thou people, when we
question CNN, who is supposedly at the site of Sandy
Hook, and they got in one shot leaves blowing and
the flowers that are around it; and you see the leaves
blowing, and they go [gestures]. They glitch,” Jones
said, according to a transcript quoted in the lawsuit.
“They’re recycling a green-screen behind them.”
A Florida Atlantic University professor, James Tracy,
was fired in 2013 after writing on his personal blog
that Sandy Hook was a hoax and sending the Pozners
a letter demanding proof that Noah once lived and
that they were his parents.
A Florida woman who pleaded guilty in 2017 to
threatening Leonard Pozner was sentenced to five
months in prison. Lucy Richards, 57, apologized for
calling the shooting a hoax. •

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An Israeli soldier sits next to a grave of a fallen soldier at the Mount
Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem April 18, 2018.

Israel Honors Its
Fallen Soldiers

Memorial sirens sounded at 11 a.m. April 18 in Israel
to honor the memories of 23,646 Israeli soldiers,
police and security officers, and 3,134 terror victims
who have fallen since the beginning of Israel’s history.
The number is tallied since 1860, when the first
Jewish neighborhood was erected outside the walls of
the Old City of Jerusalem.
Included in this year’s list of casualties are 71 new
names, including 30 disabled veterans who died of
complications from injuries sustained during service.
The tally also includes soldiers who died in car acci-
dents and non-battlefield causes.
An additional 12 names were added to the list of
Israeli terror victims. •

Director Of One Flew Over
The Cuckoo’s Nest Dies At 86

Filmmaker Milos Forman, famous for the Academy
Award-winning films One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
and Amadeus, died April 21, 2018, at a hospital near
his home in Connecticut at the age of 86.
Forman was born in Czechoslovakia and came to
the United States at the end of the
1960s. Forman’s parents, who were
Protestant and members of the anti-
Nazi underground, were killed by
the Nazis during the Holocaust; his
mother died in Auschwitz and his
father died while being interrogated
by the Gestapo in the Mittelbau-
Dora concentration camp.
Milos Forman
Forman later learned that his bio-
logical father was a Jewish man with
whom his mother had an affair, who
survived the Holocaust and that the filmmaker later
found living in Peru. Forman was raised by foster
parents in Czechoslovakia and attended film school
in Prague.
He moved to the United States after the invasion of
communist troops in Czechoslovakia known as the
Prague Spring, which squelched artistic freedom. He
became a U.S. citizen in 1977.
In his memoir, Forman said the producers of One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Michael Douglas and Saul
Zaentz, asked him to direct because “I seemed to be
in their price range,” the New York Times said in its
obituary. The film went on to receive five Academy
Awards for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress,
Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Amadeus
won eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best
Director.
Other Forman films include Hair, Ragtime and Man
on the Moon. •