Subject: Re: request for review; please forward to Liz Spayd

From: "Peter M. Heimlich" <peter.heimlich@gmail.com>

Date: 1/27/2017 5:11 PM
To: Liz Spayd <public@nytimes.com>
CC: Seth Abramovitch <seth.abramovitch@thr.com>, Ben Kaufman <benlkaufman@fuse.net>, "Semel,
Mike" <Mike.semel@washpost.com>, Erik.Wemple@washpost.com, "McFadden, Robert"
<mcfadden@nytimes.com>

Liz,

Thanks for your e-mail this afternoon (copied below my signature), but you appear to have
misunderstood my inquiry.

To reiterate, on January 25 I e-mailed you a request for published corrections to two factual errors
in Robert McFadden's obituary about my father: http://tinyurl.com/jz7wjh7

You'll recall that I wrote:

1) Mr. McFadden reported that actor Halle Berry had been saved from choking by the use of my
father's namesake maneuver. That claim was denied by Ms. Berry in an August 14, 2014 Hollywood
Reporter expose by Seth Abramovitch (based on research by my wife and me) http://tinyurl.com
/kuk8c4c

2) Mr. McFadden stated that the American Medical Association came up with the name "Heimlich
maneuver." In a September 18, 2002 e-mail to me, longtime JAMA archivist Jann Ingmire
unequivocally denied my father's claim http://tinyurl.com/glb26vg and in a 2014 CNN story
http://tinyurl.com/q3x3lb2 an unidentified JAMA representative could not confirm the claim.

Needless to say, for the paper of record not to correct factual errors is a slippery and troubling
slope. I also think failing to correct the errors is a disservice to a good reporter like Mr. McFadden
who's left owning the goofs under his byline.

In any event, if you disagree that the errors merit corrections, I'd appreciate an explanation why
not. Per your e-mail, if you don't wish to discuss this further, would you please direct me to your
superior?

FYI, Ben Kaufman is a retired veteran print reporter turned journalism prof and media columnist.
Over the years Ben has reported a number of stories based on my work and he's been following my
corrections requests to other publications that published obits about my father, so I'm copying him.

I'm also copying editor Mike Semel at the Washington Post which, based on my outreach, corrected
a number of factual errors in their obituary for my father: http://tinyurl.com/hygrmnd As I wrote
to Mr. Semel last week, I much appreciated his paper's professionalism and courtesy in allowing me
to help improve that article.

I'm also copying the Post's media reporter Erik Wemple who might be interested in reporting how
his paper handled my request compared to yours.

Thanks for your continued attention and I hope to hear back from you.
Cheers, Peter

Peter M. Heimlich
Atlanta
ph: (208)474-7283
website: http://medfraud.info
blog: http://the-sidebar.com
e-mail: peter.heimlich@gmail.com

On 1/27/2017 4:25 PM, public@nytimes.com wrote to peter.heimlich@gmail.com

Mr. Heimlich

I have reviewed your letter and the correspondence you have already had with Greg Brock,
and I am not going to pursue this further. I realize this is important to you, and has been for
some time, but this would essentially require me to investigate several portions of your father's
life. As Mr. Brock said, "That is not something we are going to get involved in by rewriting his
life story to suit you -- or perhaps even the way he would have liked it. It seems those issues
should have been settled in his lifetime, not after his death."

I appreciate you taking the time to write.

Liz