Reply #53: Rex Armistead spied on CNN's correspondent John Camp, Assaulted suspect.

[L. Coyote]

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/conf/conference1998/newmediaopening.html

Rex Armistead, a private eye who worked for Mr. Scaife, spied on CNN's correspondent John Camp, spied on his private life, assembled a dossier on Mr. Camp that ended up somehow in the hands of the House Banking Committee.

Hickman Ewing, who is Mr. Starr's right hand man in Little Rock, the man who runs the Little Rock investigating army of Starr's operation, has met privately and quietly with this same investigator, Rex Armistead ...

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Officers reflect on Klan probe - Threats, violence were commonplace as troopers investigated
By Jerry Mitchell - May 27, 2007
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070527/NEWS/705270362/1001

The highway patrolmen recognized the man from the photograph he carried. "God almighty, damn, I got mad," Armistead recalled. "I lost it."
Seale filed charges of assault, battery and unlawful arrest against Armistead ... Armistead was ordered to report to the governor's office ...
His wife worked there ... Gov. Paul Johnson ... "Tell me you didn't do what they said you did," ..."They tell me you whipped a man's a--,"

The highway patrolman explained that his daughter had been threatened. With that, the tone of the meeting changed, Armistead said. "He said, 'You're doing a good job. Get your a-- back down there, and quit worrying. ..." ... authorities never pursued the case against Armistead.

In 1968, Armistead was promoted to chief investigator for the Highway Patrol.