Posted by Richard Robert Lopez: The forgotten soul! (209.240.216.114) on May 11, 2000 at 15:38:04:
In Reply to: www.oprah.com Oprah's website posted by Don M. on September 15, 1998 at 15:37:47:
Richard Robert Lopez
350 N. Sixth Street
Coalinga, California 93210
Dear Ms.Oprah Winfrey:
I write to you today with a "Heavy Heart." I in the past have written your company several times with U.S. mail and E-mail. But I have never received a reply. Yes I'm aware that your a very busy individual.
I only write to you because I have seen you time to time help those who indeed need help. Well here I go with my plea. During September 1, 1979 I received a head injury from an car accident where I endured a coma state for 37 days. After the fact of my head injury I went through the ordeal of physical and occupational therapy. After being with the California Department of Rehabilitation Department I became very restless. I then back in the mid-eighties saw that I was going no-where with my life.
I on my own re-enrolled in college. With hard work I accomplished on receiving my A.A. Degree in Liberal Arts. I also completed my manuscript on President John F. Kennedy's assassination. I entitled my manuscript "The Rifles of November."
I had been researching his murder since 1977.
I have had some writing editors and publishers review my work and they have recommend me to have my work edited by a professional editor. I have and it has been estimated around several thousand dollars from the range of 4000.00. Ms. Winfrey I just don't have that kind of money. Being disabled in able to find any work it is very hard.
In Coalinga, California where I'm from people here are too quick to judge. Just because I have a speech impediment many people presumed I'm retarded. Which is far from the truth. But too this town I'm from doesn't have the resources that a person such as myself who can get a chance to succeed.
Ms. Oprah Winfrey My family during the 1990's have been devistated with deaths that came to fast. From 1991 to 1996 we have had four deaths in our family. Two brothers and my father and mother. All deaths were from natural causes. But it has been ve