Video Fakery "Ringer" Among the Passengers

**do2read** · 1 Aug 2010 , 22:00 PM

Here's one for the many Video Fakery investigators to enjoy!

I came across Douglas A. Gowell while working on the Millionaires thread.

It turns out Mr Gowell was at the cutting edge of digital editing for a variety of applications.

His legacy tribute of course falls short of telling us this.

Link: http://www.legacy.com/Sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=92679

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Douglas A. Gowell

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United Flight 175

Douglas A. Gowell, 52, of Methuen, MA, beloved husband and father, died unexpectedly Tuesday (September 11, 2001) as a result of the New York World Trade Center plane crash and disaster. Born in Fitchburg, MA, Mr. Gowell graduated from Lowell Institute of Technology. He worked at developing cutting edge technology for the past 2 1/2 years at Avid Technologies in Tewksbury, MA as Director of New Market Development. Douglas also worked for other technology companies including Augment Systems, Inc. of Westford, MA, Polaroid Corporation, Waltham, MA and IMAGITEX, Inc., Nashua, NH. He is survived by his wife, Barbara J. (Smith); his son, Michael and daughter, Jessica of Methuen, MA; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Ronald and Denise Gowell of Santa Ana, CA, David and Dorothy Gowell of Newington; and a sister and brother-in-law, Nancy and David Stone of Milwaukee, WI; his half-brother, Wayne Gowell of Gardner, MA; and many nieces, nephews, and in-laws also survive him. Mr. Gowell possessed a genuine curiosity and interest in a wide variety of leisure time activities and hobbies. Foremost was his love for all types of music, followed by his desire to investigate, use and understand many forms of technology. Arrangements, Calling hours are Tuesday, Sept. 18, from 10 a.m.-1:45 p.m. at Kenneth R. Pollard Funeral Home, 233 Lawrence Street, Methuen, MA followed by a Memorial Mass at 2 p.m. at St. Lucy Church, 245 Merrimac Street, Methuen, MA. Friends may also call at the home of David and Dorothy Gowell, 60 Pfister Drive, Newington, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 4-6 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 30 Speen Street, Framingham, MA 01710 or the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, P.O. Box 841003, Boston, MA 02125.

Paid Notice published in THE HARTFORD COURANT on 9/15/2001.

I looked up Avid Technologies, and found this Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avid_Technology

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Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) is an American company specializing in video and audio production technology; specifically, digital non-linear editing (NLE) systems, management and distribution services. It was created in 1987[2] and became a publicly traded company in 1993. Avid is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.[3]
Avid products are now used in the television and video industry to create television shows, feature films, and commercials. Media Composer, a professional software-based non-linear editing system is Avid's flagship product.

Non-Linear Editing

Main article: Non-linear editing system
Non-Linear Editing is a technique used in digital systems where a digital source (such as digitized film, video or audio) is used to create an edited version, not by rearranging the source file, but by creating a detailed list of edit points (ins, outs, fades, etc.). The editing software reads the edit list and creates a new version (the edit) by applying the list parameters to the playback of the source. This type of non-destructive editing is one of the advantages digital editing has over cutting film or magnetic tape. Films are generally edited by making a digital transfer from and using this process during editing. An EDL (edit decision list) is then output from the editing software, which is used to produce cuts and dissolves in the actual film using automated equipment.

Mike Rivero is a special effects guy, Douglas Gowell was on the very forefront of Digital Video Editing.

If, as many claim there was high tech (for 2001) video trickery in place on 911, this gentleman would have been a perfect ringer.

9/11 LINKS INDEX - Victim Fraud, Media Fraud

Death Certificate #0001:

The Strange Story of Father Mychal Judge: Death Certificate # 0001 on 9/11

The Hollow Towers & Pre-Demolition of WTC:

Flight 11 Frauds:

Flight 175 Frauds:

Flight 77 Frauds:

BARBARA OLSON - 9/11 FRAUD? Is Lady Booth Really Barbara Olson with Plastic Surgery?

Flight 93 Frauds:

Mark Bingham - Exif/IPTC Data 8/30/2001 - 13 Days before 9/11!

The 911 Jumper Frauds:

North Tower Frauds:

Media Complicity and Fraud:

Media 9/11 Memorial Frauds:

The 9/11 Memorial Wall:

The 9/11 Victims Memorial Wall in New York City - Was it a Ruse?

9/11 & WTC Corporate Fraud:

Pending Research Requests from Lets Roll Members:

MISC: Great Research Links on this Material above:

Former Stickies for the Hussled Masses:

Pictures of Extra Equipment on Look-A-Like Flight 175 (109,720 Views)
911 For Dummies Thread. Video, Picture Archive of 911 (7,513,922 Views)
Targeting Laser Light Spot at the World Trade Center! (121,515 Views)
"Flight 175" WAS a Cargo/FUEL TANKER (159,126 Views)
New Photo of 767 Showing 2nd Piece of Equip / Port Engine (233,137 Views)
9/11 LINKS INDEX - Victim Fraud, Media Fraud, WTC Fraud

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**do2read** · 1 Aug 2010 , 22:13 PM

According to this Boston.com article, Avid Technologies availed it's "editing" expertise to the FBI, in order to examine the 9/11 footage for clues. I wonder if they analyzed the Pentagon's neighbors' CCTV tapes.

link: http://www.boston.com/news/packages/...0906_video.htm

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Company helps 9/11 probe after losing one of its own

By Denise Lavoie, Associated Press
TEWKSBURY, Mass. — Like many businesses, Avid Technology Inc. lost one of its own in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Douglas Gowell, the company's director of new business development, was traveling to Los Angeles to promote a new product when Flight 175 slammed into the World Trade Center.
Avid employees struggled to cope with the loss of their co-worker and the frustration they felt over the attacks. But unlike most other companies, Avid was in a position to help.
The company loaned the FBI digital editing equipment that allowed investigators to enhance and sharpen video images of two of the hijackers taken hours before the attacks.
One of the images showed lead hijacker Mohamed Atta and another one of the hijackers, Abdulaziz Alomari, passing through a security checkpoint at the Portland, Maine, airport at 5:45 a.m. on Sept. 11. Hours later, they were at Logan International Airport in Boston.
In the weeks after the attacks, the airport image of Atta was shown repeatedly on televisions around the world.
Investigators used the enhanced images to retrace the hijackers' steps in Portland. Surveillance cameras filmed the pair at an automated teller machine, a gas station and a Wal-Mart store. The FBI released the images to the public, generating many tips from Portland residents who saw the pair the day before the attacks.
"They did a terrific job of enhancing some of the poor quality images we had of (the hijackers)," said Charles Prouty, special agent in charge of the Boston FBI office.
"It was a very critical part of the investigation," Prouty said. "We still, even to this day, can't say for sure why they were in Portland, but their training manual said, 'Don't come together, come from different directions to minimize the chance of detection."'
Earlier this year, Prouty presented the FBI's Exceptional Public Service Award to Avid for its assistance in the investigation.
"We, like everybody else, wanted to be able to do something," said Chief Executive David Krall. "We were fortunate enough to be in a position where we could use our technology."
Avid's computer-based editing products are used to make films, television news videos and music recordings. The company has won an Oscar, Emmy and a Grammy.
Its forensic video products are used by more than 50 state, local and federal law enforcement agencies across the country. "dTective," the video-editing system developed by Avid and Ocean Systems of Burtonsville, Md., is used to stabilize shaky images, isolate images from multi-camera surveillance systems and adjust lighting to make sharper images.
The system was used last year in the case of Nathaniel Brazill, a 13-year-old Florida boy charged with killing his teacher.
The system was able to take time-lapsed video and turn it into real-time video, allowing the jury to see the boy's true gait and how long he pointed the gun at his teacher, said Grant Fredericks, Avid's manager of video forensic solutions.
During his trial, Brazill insisted that he only meant to scare the teacher and that the gun went off accidentally.
But the enhanced surveillance video showed the boy holding the gun for more than 10 seconds and pointing it at the teacher for four seconds more. He was convicted of second-degree murder.
"It was a multiplexed camera at the school, with a number of cameras recording to a single videotape," Fredericks said. "The difficulty was that the local police did not have the tools to view that videotape."
Avid employees will mark the anniversary of Sept. 11 by observing a moment of silence in memory of their colleague, Doug Gowell, 52. Last week, the company installed a plaque for Gowell. Outside the company's headquarters, employees planted a tree for Gowell. At the foot of the tree is an American flag, with a wreath of yellow roses around a picture of a cross.

The article claims their role was to help the FBI identify the hijackers we know never existed.

What was Avid's real connection to 911, and what really happened to Douglas Gowell?

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**2getherwestand** · 1 Aug 2010 , 22:42 PM

WTF?Digital editing equipment?Stupid is as stupid does.Wouldn't digital enhancing equipment work a little better and serve the right condition for the purpose of imagery enhancement.Editing would mean altering an image,correct?

**do2read** · 1 Aug 2010 , 23:04 PM

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Editing would mean altering an image,correct?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Besides, who's going to believe the FBI doesn't already have the best Video Enhancement Software anyway, as they have no problem spending OUR money.

The whole thing stinks.

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Iscribe2 · 1 Aug 2010 , 23:15 PM

Mr. Gowell possessed a genuine curiosity and interest in a wide variety of leisure time activities and hobbies. Foremost was his love for all types of music, followed by his desire to investigate, use and understand many forms of technology. Arrangements, Calling hours are Tuesday, Sept. 18, from 10 a.m.-1:45

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If he still lives, he would, like the rest, still likely be busy with his hobbies.

Desire to investigate.

then he would approve of us.

"Calling hours" ? That just sounds weird, as if he would be

not dead

**do2read** · 21 Aug 2010 , 21:37 PM

When I first saw this Fraternity Alumni Newsletter, I was inclined to believe that Mr. Gowell was real. with a real history, as a founder of the Chapter of his Frat at his Alma Mater.

link: http://www.southernct.edu/clubs/tke/...ers/200609.pdf

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Remebering 9/11 5

th Anniversary:

TKE Remembers the 9-11-01 Tragedy

The nation solemnly observed the fifth anniversary of the

Sept. 11 attacks with moments of silence timed to mark the demise of the World Trade

Center towers and quiet remembrances held around the country.

The 16-acre trade center site in lower Manhattan fell quiet at 8:46 a.m., five years after
American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower, and 9:03 a.m., when United
Flight 175 slammed into the south tower. A third moment of silence at 9:59 a.m. marked
the collapse of the south tower.
At the Pentagon, where 184 people died when American Flight 77 plowed into the
building, government workers and others observed a moment of silence at 9:37 a.m., the
time the plane struck.
In Shanksville, where United Flight 93 crashed to the ground, killing 40, hundreds of
people gathered at a temporary memorial — a 10-foot chain-link fence covered with
American flags, firefighter helmets and children's drawings.
Fraters from throughout North America have answered the call, following the attacks, to
serve in the military, in relief efforts and gave of their treasure to help those in need. In
all, countless fraters gave thousands of pints blood, raised thousands of dollars through
fundraisers and donated several hours of time to help all of those affected by this
tragedy.
According to our records three Fraters lost their lives as a result of this tragedy. Frater
John C. Willett of Kappa-Nu Chapter (Rockhurst University), 29, was on the phone in his
101st floor World Trade Center office when the first American Airlines jet crashed into the
North Tower on that Tuesday morning. Frater Sgt. Major Larry Strickland of Chi Chapter
(University of Washington) was one of nearly 200 killed in the attack on D.C. Just 19
days shy of retirement, he died at the age of 52, after giving up a day off to attend an
important meeting at the Pentagon. The jet tore through the West Wing of the Pentagon
and Sgt. Major. Strickland’s office. Frater Douglas Gowell, a founding father of Mu-Epsilon
Chapter (University of Lowell), 52, died when the hi-jacked United Airlines flight, which
he was a passenger, crashed into the World Trade Center South Tower.
The Offices of the Grand Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity expresses our sincere
condolences and offer our prayers to the family and friends of this terrible tragedy that

befell New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

Seemed on the up and up.

Upon further investigation, the Chapter he founded turns out to be INACTIVE. This would make it very easy to pass this bit of "history" off if it were fake.

By putting him in a Fraternity that no longer exists, they created history that couldn't be easily checked.

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1 Aug 2010 , 22:42 PM	#3
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1 Aug 2010 , 23:15 PM	#5
Iscribe2 Privileged Join Date: 7 Oct 2007 Posts: 738 Threads: 60 Thanked 799 Times in 372 Posts	Mr. Gowell possessed a genuine curiosity and interest in a wide variety of leisure time activities and hobbies. Foremost was his love for all types of music, followed by his desire to investigate, use and understand many forms of technology. Arrangements, Calling hours are Tuesday, Sept. 18, from 10 a.m.-1:45 ******************** If he still lives, he would, like the rest, still likely be busy with his hobbies. Desire to investigate. then he would approve of us. "Calling hours" ? That just sounds weird, as if he would be not dead __________________ --Isaiah 49:24 & 25