Nick Bryant, the man who confronted Gannon at his home and asked him about Johnny Gosch, has apparently been working on this story for several years and has been shopping the finished product around for a publisher.
Rothstein says he's been working with Bryant for at least three years, and that Bryant was originally commissioned to do the story for Rolling Stone, which has since turned the finished piece down. The New York Times and several other outlets have reportedly shown interest in the story recently, as well.
Bryant declined to comment either on the Gannon situation or his involvement in writing a story. But, Rothstein says since Bryant began showing the piece around, the players involved have once again become active.
"Something is cooking here now," he says. "They'll have to throw someone to the wolves, but there's no telling how high it will go."
Everyone involved in the story acknowledges that it sounds like a wacky conspiracy theory, but the evidence of the conspiracy is too vast, they say, to simply dismiss it.
Anonymous - Why did you assume I read Bryant's book? Read my statement again. In fact, I was told by Paul Bonacci himself that Nick told him Rusty's information "did not check out." Rusty has told me that, because Nick treated him so poorly, he refuses to give Nick full cooperation and disclosure. Rather than admit that, Nick trivilizes Rusty, and some extremely important material is missing from Bryant's book, as a result. I repeat, NICK BRYANT COMES UP SHORT IN HIS CONCLUSIONS. Never said they were wrong. They are INCOMPLETE.Nick should stop "handling" Bonacci by ordering him to refuse all public contact, other than through himself. If Nick had treated Rusty as a human being, rather than a commodity for personal profit, then he would have been granted more complete information.
Anonymous [why don't you identify yourself - and where you come from upon entering this debate? Your IP is Cox Communications in Omaha Nebraska - the very network, majority owned by the Bush family, which paid over $200,000 to buy and destroy the original "Conspiracy of Silence" and had it pulled from airing on the Discovery channel.Again, you make more assumptions - that I am trashing Nick's book. To the contrary, I am grateful to him for bringing this subject to greater public awareness. If you are on the side of TRUTH, then surely you understand how many layers of deception there are in this case. I am only presenting the TRUTH about what I know.You are correct that one book could most likely not include everything - but Rusty Nelson's photographs are at the VERY CORE of tangible proof regarding the Franklin scandal, therefore, absolutely essential to this particular book.I have no beef with Nick Bryant. Yes, I have met him and talked with him on multiple occasions. He is what I call "personality challenged." Not the best with people skills. That does not necessarily prevent him from being an excellent investigator / author. But it did,in this case, prevent him from obtaining a more complete set of documentation.What proof can you present that the "Paul Bonacci" who is a regular in the Franklinfiles chat room is not some disinfo agent? I believe that he and his lovely wife who also chats there, are authentic. But, as you know, Noreen Gosch has been impersonated in the past. Why not an "invisible blogger"? I have no verifiable proof. Do you?If you can arrange a video interview with Paul Bonacci, I would be thrilled to present his own words to the public - without being filtered through Bryant.