THE 1960s
By December of 1964, Reverend Rhinehart was on a second world tour this time accompanied by a motion picture cameraman. This time, the purpose of Reverend Rhinehart's world tour was to interview people from all over the world. These interviews were intended to bring out the personal opinions of the individuals reading Psychic Phenomena, Reincarnation, Spirit Communication, and other related subjects. The tour started in London and by April of 1965, Reverend Rhinehart had returned to Seattle ready to share his amazing interviews in a television series he contracted to have with a local television station. Some of the interviews Reverend Rhinehart had planned on presenting through the television series, called WAY OUT, were with regular people such as a coal miner to famous people such as Bertrand Russell - Nobel Prize winner; Lord Dowding, who was instrumental in winning the Battle of Britain; Margaret Mead - famous anthropologist; Agnes Moorhead - actress; Madalyn Murray - Founder of the American Atheists and many others.
When Reverend Rhinehart came back from his second world tour, he and the Aquarian Foundation Board of Directors contracted with a local television station to broadcast a 13 part series called WAY OUT. In the first and only episode that was broadcast live, Reverend Rhinehart interviewed an openly homosexual male, a mixed-race couple and an unwed mother. Unfortunately, the television station managers succumbed to the political pressures of the time and they canceled the contract the television station had with Reverend Rhinehart and Aquarian Foundation and refused to broadcast the remainder of the 12 episodes, which led to a lengthy court battle. Incidentally, one week after the 1st episode of the WAY OUT series was broadcast, the Seattle police arrested Reverend Rhinehart on a false and trumped-up charge, of allegedly violating The Morals Act statute.
Unfortunately, an accurate account of what transpired leading up to and subsequent to Reverend Rhinehart's false arrest has not been the focus of the media or other individuals rehashing the alleged details of Reverend Rhinehart's life. It appears to this researcher, that the facts surrounding Reverend Rhinehart's false arrest, false conviction and false imprisonment and subsequent court order vacating Reverend Rhinehart's conviction and sentence and dismissal of the charges against Reverend Rhinehart with prejudice against the State of Washington, have been intentionally skewed for purposes only known to those who take delight in hurting innocent people or causes.
In 1966, Reverend Rhinehart was invited to attend and participate at the International Schweitzer Convocation at Aspen Humanities Institute of Aspen, Colorado. Dr. Schweitzer, before his transition into the spirit world, had corresponded through his secretary, Miss Erica Anderson, with Rev. Rhinehart and had expressed appreciation of Reverend Rhinehart principles.
In 1967, Dr. Helmut Schmidt, a senior research physicist, invented a device for testing Quantum Theory in relation to humans having the psychic ability to predict the future. Dr. Schmidt asked Rev. Rhinehart to participate in these tests, which were held in a Scientific Research Laboratory where Dr. Schmidt worked in Seattle, Washington. Reverend Rhinehart scored way above the statistical expectation. The probability of obtaining, by chance, so high a score is less than one in 500 million!
The following information can easily be corroborated with court records and other records, and so the information is presented without the names of various individuals involved.
Reverend Rhinehart had become well known for his dedicated work in social reform, especially with minority groups and the oppressed. He worked for many years for marriage rights for monogamy oriented homosexuals, in order to help increase the number of lasting, meaningful relationships in the homosexual community. Reverend Rhinehart was first in the State of Washington courageous enough to bring these kinds of views on live television. His work for the homosexual community and other minority groups and the related problems was not popular with certain public officials. The ingrained bigotry and hypocrisy of the time were openly being challenged by Reverend Rhinehart. In addition, Reverend Rhinehart brought unwanted public attention to particular problems he saw with regard to corrupt police activity in the homosexual clubs and bars in Seattle. At the time, Reverend Rhinehart was particularly critical of the King County Sheriff *. After Reverend Rhinehart witnessed the corruption, hypocrisy, and bigotry taking place, he and others documented their evidence and made the citizens of King County aware of the corruption.
Certain public officials in King County at the time did not appreciate Reverend Rhinehart exposing the bigotry and hypocrisy and corruption rampant in the legal system at the time. It is apparent to this researcher, regarding the recorded events that follow, that various persons in power made decisions to silence Reverend Rhinehart. Reverend Rhinehart was an outspoken critic of the shenanigans taking place in King County and he was clearly gaining strength as a civil rights activist and renowned and respected minister. A trumped-up charge was devised, and soon Reverend Rhinehart was falsely accused by the State of Washington for an alleged act of private consensual oral sodomy; the false accusation was made by JM, a known miscreant who was forced by the police to give perjured testimony by affidavit. It is interesting to note that at the time of JM signing his initial police coerced affidavit, JM was already in police custody on another charge, which was completely unrelated to Reverend Rhinehart. JM later signed a sworn affidavit which stated that he had been under threat of a long prison sentence if he did not co-operate with the police to sign his initial affidavit to falsely implicate Rev. Rhinehart in alleged volition of the Morals Act. The level of corruption in King County in the late 60s appears to have been widespread within the police department, the King County Sheriff's Office and in the Washington State Correctional System. It is also important to note, that the history of the disposition and handling of all sodomy cases in the 4 years prior to Reverend Rhinehart's arrest, proves irrefutably that the prosecutor's office was not enforcing the Morals Act statute * (Interestingly, the former Sheriff was somehow commissioned to serve as a member of the parole board which had jurisdiction over Reverend Rhinehart. (I leave it to the reader to determine what to make of this fact. ) On further research, the records reflected that the same former King County Sheriff was eventually indicted by Federal Court for committing perjury before a grand jury. The grand jury was investigating corruption in the Seattle Police Department and King County's Sheriff's office. The corruption involved soliciting and obtaining payoffs from various establishments including homosexual or gay bars.)
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During his false imprisonment, Reverend Rhinehart was subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment, namely:
- Amongst other things, Reverend Rhinehart was forced against his will to take shots of Stelazine, (a drug which was known to cause severe side effects, such as the agonizing constriction of muscles — and even death — especially to asthmatics). It was well established in Reverend Rhinehart's medical records, that Reverend Rhinehart suffered from chronic and at times acute asthma. Prison officials ordered a convicted murderer to tackle Reverend Rhinehart and forcibly hold Reverend Rhinehart down to administer shots of Stelazine to Reverend Rhinehart. Each time shots of Stelazine were administered to Reverend Rhinehart he would suffer extreme pain for hours at a time because his muscles would become rigid causing his head to be drawn back and locked into position against his spine.
- Reverend Rhinehart was given solitary confinement for refusing to call a Catholic Chaplin "Father".
- Reverend Rhinehart was forced to stay in solitary confinement under blackout conditions for 38 days straight, simply because he asked to be assigned to a different work detail due to an extremely painful physical condition that prevented him from standing for hours at a time on his feet. (Reverend Rhinehart had developed a hen egg size growth in his groin and when Reverend Rhinehart attempted to get surgery for this growth, he was blocked by the prison doctor from receiving appropriate medical treatment! Instead of allowing Reverend Rhinehart to get treatment for the growth, which was later discovered on Reverend Rhinehart's release from prison to be a malignant cancerous growth, the prison doctor stated that Reverend Rhinehart was just malingering (faking his physical condition).
These appalling violations against Reverend Rhinehart's constitutional, civil and contractual rights, led to lengthy court battles, and even more persecution and harassment from the establishment press and media.
JUSTICE
Reverend Rhinehart appealed his conviction to the US District Court, and only after all the judges from the Seattle area had disqualified themselves due to the bias and controversy created in Reverend Rhinehart's case at the time, an outside Federal Judge, The Honorable Willian P. Gray, was called in to hear the appeal. After a very lengthy evidentiary hearing, the US Federal District Court reversed Reverend Rhinehart's conviction on the grounds that the state of Washington had knowingly used perjured testimony and had knowingly withheld and suppressed evidence that would prove Reverend Rhinehart's innocence!
1970s
