YOU WANNA 'NOTHER ONE? ""Who knows what the future will bring?" He smiled, and seemed lighter. John-Henry bought a dialysis machine so Ted could get the treatment at night. Whats the point of nurseries? Is there such a thing as a normal family? "It's time to let them go. "The guilt Ted carried slipped away when he did something to help his kids. That was 1961, and he never wanted family to hurt him again. Two words showed something was wrong with the system, After centuries of Murdaugh rule in the Deep South, the family's power ends with a life sentence for murder, Flooding in southern Malaysia forces 40,000 people to flee homes. "The legacy deserves to go on," she says finally, crying harder than before.John-Henry had asked her to keep the family alive. John-Henry kept saying cryonics provided a chance for them all to be together again one day. Finally an email from Duke arrived asking her to log on to its website for the school's decision.She opened the link and started to read the letter. He wasn't angry, and they weren't scared.They visited Alcatraz, and Ted used a Walkman for the first time, befuddled by the technology, and they all laughed. A man at a card table was reading palms. They paid $30 a pill for vitamins and pumped oxygen-rich air into his room. This is the vision greeting Eric when he walks in from work: his wife, her face red and puffy, sobbing so hard she's struggling to breathe. Narendra Modis dominance of Indian politics is built on a knowing appeal to traditional Indian values: Hindu values. He opens it on the kitchen counter, the pages full of his notes, some passages marked with a check if he feels they're accurate, other quotes highlighted and some with sharp, angry pen strokes when he's aggrieved, the margins littered with "not true" and "bulls---" and "lie." she asks, hopeful. "I don't think [Ted] at the end of his life felt like he accomplished anything.- Eric AbelThe house is empty inside, dangling wires and pencil marks on the walls indicating where a range will go. So many firsts happened on that trip. If you have inside knowledge of a topic in the news, contact the ABC. Nearby, pocketknives rust at their hinges. After deciding to make jewelry, she took classes to become a master craftsman. "Those late nights when it was clear he didn't have much time left ," she says, trailing off, the light gone. Were going to kick off the new year by predicting what we think might happen in 2023. For more information on Major League Baseball, visit www.MLB.com. she says, sounding vulnerable and shaky, like she's grasping for something beyond not only her reach but even her ability to name it. The renovations on Ted's house are complete. Days passed without her manic exercise routine, which she used to exhaust herself into a kind of peace. Driving back from visiting Ted's compound in Canada, Dolores and John-Henry stopped in Maine to spend the night in sleeping bags at a rest stop. With time, she's come to regret not having a funeral. Tears roll down her cheeks. Claudia asks. See Photos. But I love him.' About American Masters Oct 12. Lives in East Palo Alto, California. "That's still something, right, on the table that you and I might do?" "I was told it was a cold and overcast day," she said, then did something she never does. What will it take to fix a broken system? You constantly ask about that. Where does that leave first-time buyers? . I'm hurting. Ha. She entered a psych ward, which he paid for, and got an abortion, which he paid for, and when her scars taunted him -- physical proof that he'd become his mother -- he paid for plastic surgery too. John-Henry Williams, a 6-foot-5 ringer for his handsome father, had long lived in the zeitgeist as a bumbling son who took and took without ever standing on his own. Her workout routines -- miles in a pool and on a treadmill, hours daily in a gym -- break the alpha dogs who try to hang with Ted's daughter. "You could see an internal struggle," Abel says. Becoming a man in his father's eyes? "I don't know who has to say, 'You did well,'" says Abel, who was the Williams family attorney when he met Claudia. SHE AND ERIC fell in love during the horrible siege after they froze her father, who died of cardiac arrest almost two years after signing the note. May Williams never saw her son play a major league game, even though she lived through his entire career. But what about their impact on the environment? And we actually showed him that not only was he good at it, we wanted him and we said, 'You can do this, Dad.' "I can't do a f---ing thing! Through never-before-seen archival footage and in-depth interviews with those who knew and studied Williams, including his daughter Claudia Williams, author/journalist Ben Bradlee, Jr., veteran . "You should look at the lyrics," she says as the stereo plays. It was the most surprising and eye-opening experience a 10-year-old . Claudia Williams is a Journalist at The South Burnett Times based in Kingaroy, Queensland. Major Support for American Masters provided by. A man at a card table was reading palms. Terrified of Ted raging at them, John-Henry quietly fed her ice chips and got her ginger ale when she vomited from sun poisoning. The wires and the hoses and the sawdust on the floor amplify how much those memories have faded. The argument remains frustrating for everyone: Claudia can't prove they followed her father's wishes, and Bradlee can't prove they didn't. "No," Dolores Williams says. She's searching, searching for a father, for a purpose, for a child, searching for the chance to complete what her dad started in the last decade of his life. A toxic train derailment in Ohio has become a political football. As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Nothing worked. "Abel would write up a contract on a napkin or a piece of scratch paper, which is what Ted liked, and negotiate a settlement: Ted agreed to take the pills every day, and John-Henry agreed to let him shower only four times a week. His will, which he wrote near the end of the fishing act of his life, made his wishes very clear. After Ted died, friends told reporters that Williams disagreed with his son's obsession. ", Love had control over him. Soon she'll be studying online for a master's degree from one of the greatest universities in the world. He opens it on the kitchen counter, the pages full of his notes, some passages marked with a check if he feels they're accurate, other quotes highlighted and some with sharp, angry pen strokes when he's aggrieved, the margins littered with "not true" and "bulls---" and "lie." At the funeral for Williams' longtime girlfriend, Louise Kaufman, Claudia recognized her half-sister, Bobby-Jo, whom she'd never met, simply by seeing a familiar wave of fear register on Bobby-Jo's face at the sound of Ted's voice: He boomed in the next room, sucking up all the oxygen, and two women, born 23 years apart, flinched. The house felt different than before, desolation replaced by hope. His old leather suitcase is there too, in its final resting place after years of trains, ballparks and hotel rooms.GalleryWhat Ted Left BehindTed Williams' daughter Claudia Williams shares some of her father's favorite treasures -- from baseball memorabilia to fishing gear. He'd been retired for eight years. He hid in the hyperfocus required by baseball and fishing; most nights after ballgames, he returned to the hotel where he lived -- he never purchased a home in Boston -- and tied fishing flies alone. Henry Leutwyler for ESPN Magazine, CLAUDIA LOVES DRAGONS. When I walked into the house, there'd be a hot dog on the table. It's a contract she wrote -- the Williams family loves handwritten contracts -- with her mother at a . Both would sign it, and the crisis would be averted. In the rain, in the glow of their house, she shakes her foot along the pavement, clearing a path, making sure no frogs get caught beneath the tires of the approaching car. Claudia is beautiful and familiar, her face a combination of her mother's Vogue model cheekbones and her father's all-American jaw. It's a contract she wrote -- the Williams family loves handwritten contracts -- with her mother at a Howard Johnson's somewhere: "When I grow up I will never have a child. "Those late nights when it was clear he didn't have much time left ," she says, trailing off, the light gone.textIn public, Williams seemed to revel in the solitary pursuit of baseball greatness, then fishing greatness, but really, his lonely existence was self-imposed. "Their mom, Dolores, and Ted didn't last long. "SHE AND ERIC fell in love during the horrible siege after they froze her father, who died of cardiac arrest almost two years after signing the note. John-Henry rubbed Vaseline on her shoulders and told her not to cry.A young John-Henry poses with his father during Red Sox spring training. Claudia has spent considerable time looking for documents that would prove she was in the hospital for the signing of the informal contract. He looked anonymous and happy. Eric rushes toward her. Michael Kantor and Albert M. Tapper are executive producers. "Mom's having a bad day," she tells him. When the premier of the British Virgin Islands was arrested in a drugs sting in Miami, what did British government officials know about the operation? It was two years before her best friend knew. Are todays children part of a giant, unplanned experiment? Join us. He was still learning, he was still -- he was still -- what is it? Something happened to Ted Williams in the years after his son came into the world. Finally he got his first fish. "I know Claudia will be fine. Tears roll down her cheeks. Claudia held a training on "Communication Success" for our corporate team at Duck Donuts. She was trapped in his house by television trucks and reporters shouting questions. BEFORE CLAUDIA DROVE me back to the airport, Abel quietly asked me to keep in touch because she didn't meet many new people and really struggled with goodbyes. He felt vulnerable. The three of them laughed, and they asked Ted questions, and he told stories and asked them questions too. Claudia began to cry, and Ted's voice cracked when he tried to comfort her, as she'd taught him to do. Everything about me says no. Claudia Williams Reporter "Tortoise gives me time to dig deeper into stories and prioritise voices that are often ignored." I first joined Tortoise as part of the Sensemaker team, and before that worked at the New York Times and The Week magazine. by Wright Thompson, Amid the absurdity and violence orbiting around him, Manny Pacquiao is the consummate showman whose desire is to entertain, often at any cost. Instead, she sat in her car in the parking lot, stewing, wondering whether he just wanted to show off "Ted's daughter," and finally she drove away, enraged, leaving the fins behind. Claudia still remembers Bangor the Cat. Before John-Henry died, he froze some of his sperm, and as executor, she controls it. A Louisville Slugger leaned in the same cabinet as Toothless the Dragon, the first bit of baseball memorabilia in the living room. In honor of the centennial of Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams, American Masters presents a new biography of the Boston Red Sox player who may have been the greatest hitter who ever lived. Bobby-Jo came into the world first, in the middle of his career. When she is up, laughing with a goofy smile and light in her eyes, you cannot get close enough to her, and when she is down, spiraling into a darkness only she can see, you cannot get far enough away. First they were known as the little green men, an anonymous private Russian force appearing first in Crimea, then Syria, then in central Africa. Claudia remembers growing up with a mother increasingly bitter over her failed love affair, on a Vermont farm without a television, isolated by their environment and the fame of their absent father. "Just please listen to me. Contact ABC News and investigations. His show, An Evening at the Carlyle, which played at the Algonquin Theater in New York City, was chosen by United Press International as the hit of the season. Tapper has authored five books including A Guy Goes Into a Bar, and the novella Conversations with Max. Outside of the entertainment field, Al has made venture capital investments in financial institutions, medical and sports products. HENRY LEUTWYLERBEFORE CLAUDIA DROVE me back to the airport, Abel quietly asked me to keep in touch because she didn't meet many new people and really struggled with goodbyes. Claudia is beautiful and familiar, her face a combination of her mother's Vogue model cheekbones and her father's all-American jaw. She didn't want to waste another moment. It might have changed their lives. How could he be expected, then, to create a family when he despised his own so much? She says she visited the hospital so many times that all those trips ran together, but she remains steadfast: Ted signed a piece of paper. Australia's biggest drug bust: $1 billion worth of cocaine linked to Mexican cartel intercepted, 'Pincers are closing': Ukrainian forces under pressure as Russians shell roads out of Bakhmut, Four in hospital after terrifying home invasion by gang armed with machetes, knives, hammer, 'We have got the balance right': PM gives Greens' super demands short shrift, Crowd laughs as Russia's foreign minister claims Ukraine war 'was launched against us', The tense, 10-minute meeting that left Russia's chief diplomat smoking outside in the blazing sun, 'Celebrity leaders': Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley take veiled jabs at Donald Trump in CPAC remarks. "Are you still smoking?" he asked. Ted Williams' mother gave him nothing but a name, and as soon as he grew old enough, he gave it back, changing Teddy on his birth certificate to the more respectable Theodore. The US snow crab harvest has been cancelled after billions of them went missing from the waters around Alaska. John-Henry snapped photos, forever documenting every moment he spent around his dad. Every patient who walked through the door would get treated like Ted Williams. On a page, he drew a horizontal graph, with a line drawn down the middle, dividing the plan into actions he'd take before convincing his father and what he'd need to do after. TONY TOMSIC/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGETHIS STORY BEGAN two years ago, when I reached out to Claudia about meeting at her home in Hernando. "You were sobbing," says Eric's daughter Emma, now 22, grinning as she tells the story. "Grief is weird," Claudia says, riding at night through the dark neighborhoods around their house. Johnathan Thurston received a heroes farewell at the Origin decider at Suncorp Studium on Wednesday night. Every culture has deeply symbolic rituals for burying and mourning the dead. About once a year, Abel would get called to the house to mediate a bizarre dispute, usually about Ted showering to ward off infection, or taking his medicine regularly. Williams constantly looked to the wilderness for peace. It makes me angry, of course. He's everywhere. Watching her watch a dragon movie makes it all make sense. The songs bleed together into a singular anthem of loneliness and loss. Claudia Williams Journalist Claudia Williams is a journalist for The Advocate covering general news and events. The house is empty inside, dangling wires and pencil marks on the walls indicating where a range will go. Claudia smiles. That summer, Alberta and Claudia made the . John-Henry snapped photos, forever documenting every moment he spent around his dad. "Ted had that constant insecurity. Ted, exhausted and struggling to keep his eyes open, sort of laughed, then his son helped him to the recliner where he slept. Abel goes into the study and comes back with the book. "'Goddamn, that's my son. Near the safe in his old house is a note Ted saved, dated Dec. 10, 1983, when Claudia was 12. Most people his age wouldn't risk a series of operations. The three of them flew together to San Diego and drove up the Pacific Coast. She says Ted sighed, agreed to go along with their wishes and signed a piece of paper agreeing to be frozen. "I didn't want John-Henry to lose his father," she says. It's the same look her father got when she'd care for him in the last years of his life. When you're that focused you're not really a great father. At the end, jealous and estranged, Bobby-Jo raged, leaving bizarre voice mails on Abel's answering machine: "This is Barbara Joyce Ferrell. Whenever she lets herself go back, she ends up at the same place: the beginning. I wanna say no so goddamn bad. For years, she'd thought her father had stopped maturing when he became famous at 20, and now they'd both reached his emotional age, equals and running buddies for the first time. It hurts too much. If you are a whistleblower, believe you have sensitive information that should be made public, or wish to protect your identity, find our more secure options. Mr. He died in 2002 and is frozen at 7895 East Acoma Drive in Scottsdale, Arizona. Claudia, then 30 and an elite athlete, paced the halls like a wild animal. Three dads came together this year in the saddest of circumstances; they all had daughters whod taken their own lives. How did we get here and what happens next?
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