Laetrile, Cancer, Nutrition

Well, thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Lorraine. And thank you, Frank. I have to say that.

When I arrived here yesterday and I saw that I was going to be a recipient of an award, a humanitarian award of all things, it made me very nervous because I've observed over the years whenever I have attended functions where they have given awards like this or had honorary dinners and so forth, in almost every case that I can remember, the person who was the recipient of the ward was very, very old.

And I think that I had the feeling that he had a good thing there giving them this award this year because this is the last chance to, you know. And I just wanted to tell you that I intend to be here for quite a few more events. And. So, Lorraine and Frank, you're not going to get rid of me quite so easily, but I do thank you very much for that.

Well, I don't know why I have notes if I can't talk about this topic by now without notes. It it's pretty sad because this is a topic that has consumed a great deal of my attention for a great deal of my life. And I I feel like it's something I've always been with, but it's not true. It started about midlife for me. And I'd like to tell you just a little bit about that. By the way, I only have now a few minutes left, so it's impossible to cover this story adequately. But it was way back in the summer of 1971 that I first heard the word Latrelle, and it came from my good friend, Dr. John Richardson. And I might add, by the way, we've got Dr. Richardson's two of his sons here and a grandson riding on the first row. Would you please stand up, gentlemen? This is. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. John and Charlie is is it cabin that the grandson of a Ryan well, close ended with an end? Yeah, ended with an end. And they are carrying on the tradition of their father now. Many of you, of course, don't know about Dr. John Richardson, but you'll learn a little bit about him shortly. Back in 1971, I didn't know anything about Latrelle, but John did. He was a practicing physician at Albany, California, up in the San Francisco area. And we had been friends. We had other interests that bound us together. And it was not in the health field.

It was more an ideological issues and political issues and social issues and so forth. We had a lot in