Adkisson was an alcoholic, and maybe was depressed or

[raccoon]

bipolar as well. That's my guess after what I've heard about him. In the mental health profession, they call it "dual diagnosis."

Wonder what the story is about his discharge from the military?

Here's yet another article about him.



Friends: Suspect had two sides

Court records detail troubled marriage, DUI

By Bob Fowler
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

He's a hard-drinking, hate-filled loner with a string of five busted marriages. He's moody and prone to slip into weeks of dark despair.

He was a very normal child; a Boy Scout, intelligent and an accomplished guitarist with a heart of gold.

Court records and interviews with a family member and friends give widely differing glimpses into the life of Jim David Adkisson.

Adkisson "disliked blacks, gays, anyone who was a different color or just different from him," said Carol Smallwood, who said she has known Adkisson for 25 years.

"He needed help a long time ago, but he never got it," said Smallwood, who now lives in Alice, Texas.
She said she helped move Adkisson's possessions out of the home he shared with Alexander after Adkisson held a gun to Alexander's head.

On Feb. 22, 2000, Alexander stated that Adkisson outlined options as their marriage unraveled midway through its ninth year.

"One of his options is to blow my brains out and then blow his own brains out," Alexander stated in an order of protection obtained March 1 of that year. ..Smallwood said that incident occurred after Adkisson had been on an all-night drinking binge.

After his last marriage fell apart, Adkisson "got on a motorcycle and went west," Smallwood said. She said she got to know Adkisson through her now ex-husband because the two men rode motorcycles together.
She described Adkisson as a "very accomplished guitarist who was just the life of the party."

"But then those dark periods would hit, and you didn't want to be around him. They would go on for weeks. Everything was negative. You couldn't talk him out of it."

Harriman resident Orman "Chip" Dunn said he grew up with Adkisson. He called him "a very normal child." Dunn said Adkisson was in Boy Scouts and graduated from Harriman High School in 1968.

Military records show Adkisson was a private in the U.S. Army from 1974 to 1980 and served as a helicopter repairman for the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell.

He was on active duty from 1974 to 1977…Citing privacy issues, the military wouldn't release Adkisson's discharge status.…

http://m.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/29/friends-suspect-had-two-sides/

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1. He was downgraded back to private before his discharge.

Five marriages. He sounds like he was bipolar.

There are hundreds of thousands of bipolar people who never burst into a church shooting liberals, though.

Based on the statement of a neighbor who said that Adkisson considered himself part of the "the old Confederate South" I'd say he got involved in a white supremacist group.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I've never shot anyone, but I can _almost_ understand the rage. It can get very intense.

[rfranklin]

2. Sound like a typical Rush Limbaugh adherent...

His own failures are all the fault of the gays and other minorities.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Maintained the sanctity of marriage while hating liberals

Six years as a private?? That don't sound right. I know that TODAY no one would be an E-1 for six years. Either ya get promoted of ya get discharged. He obviously was a reservist the last three years, if the story is correct. Drunk, five times married, wow poster child.

I just want to know which one of you freaking liberals planted that letter and those books in his house.

[Catshrink]

8. Does sanctity of marriage = 5 marriages?

If these guys really want to "protect" marriage, how about dealing with divorce laws? Or better yet, MYOB.

[BOSSHOG]

9. As long as the marriages were hetero

divorce is okee-dokee ...

[Bluebear]

4. Hate-filled loner who hated gays & blacks...IOW the target listener for Hannity, Coulter et al

[ben_meyers]

5. Why is the media trying to cover for this guy?

It's obvious that he read Hannity's book and went berserk overnight. Why won't RW radio take responsibility for this travesty?

[Warpy]

6. Hate radio and hate literature were all too willing

to supply a hard drinking, violent man with targets for his free floating rage.

Maybe without official approval to hate people, he might have realized he needed some help. Maybe not.

What we do know is that hate media focused his rage on people who least deserved it.