“Contrary to some reports, Jimi was still alive when he reached the hospital.”

– Noel Redding (in his book “Are You Experienced”)

Correct Noel!

 

So to begin, let’s have some first-hand information from those who were on the scene
at St. Mary Abbot’s Hospital on September 18th 1970:

The medical staff:

“We wouldn’t have worked so hard trying to resuscitate him if he was already dead.”

– Dr. Seifert (Medical Registrar, St. Mary Abbot’s Hospital – September 18th 1970) in a filmed interview in February 2000.

 

“We must have thought that at the time, there was a possibility that we could try and resuscitate him”

– Dr. Seifert in an interview with the BBC in 1995

 

“The patient was still alive…”

– John Suau (ambulanceman who accompanied Jimi to hospital)
from an investigation by Ex Police Superintendent Dennis Care (early 90s)

 

“I heard them [the two doctors] say later that he had died in the ambulance.”

– Walter Pryce (Accident & Emergencies Admissions Officer, St. Mary Abbotts Hospital 1970)

 

The journalists:

On that fateful day of September 18th 1970, the police and the staff at St. Mary Abbot’s Hospital informed the press
that Hendrix had passed away in the ambulance on the way to the hospital (or in Casualty) and that resuscitation failed to revive him:

“Pop star Jimi Hendrix died in an ambulance yesterday on the way to the hospital”

– David Tune (The Daily Mail)

“A spokesman for the hospital said the 27 year old guitarist was alive
when admitted but died shortly [after] noon”. 

– Peter Goddard (journalist)

 

“The police sources said [Hendrix] was admitted to St. Mary Abbot’s Hospital
at 11:45 and died about one hour afterward….
…A hospital spokesman said first Hendrix was dead on arrival but doctors
who examined him later said he lived for about one hour after admission.” 

– UPI press telex September 18th 1970

 

“The acid rock musician died today in a London hospital.”

– ABC News (18th September 1970)

 

“Doctors…fought to save his life but all attempts to resuscitate him failed”

– Evening Standard (18th September 1970)

 

10 days later, the official inquest confirmed that Jimi wasn’t dead at the Samarkand:

“The inquest into Hendrix’s death was told that he died on the way to hospital,
after being picked up by an ambulance at this building.”

A British TV reporter standing outside The Samarkand Hotel.

 

It’s clear therefore that Hendrix had not been dead for hours at The Samarkand Hotel.
Over the years, the early 90s accounts of the ambulancemen and one of the doctors who worked at the hospital
have been completely at odds with the official statements and the forensics. 
The truth was hiding in plain sight all along.

The quotes above prove that Jimi passed away either in the ambulance or moments afterwards in Casualty,
yet conspiracy theorists claim that the police and the hospital personnel had been brought into a gigantic cover-up
(by Scotland Yard/MI6/CIA,,..) during the first moments after Jimi died and pressured to subsequently lie to the press and interviewers.
Clearly infantile logic.

As someone put it on the JFK Assassination Forum:

“People believe what they want to believe. The widespread distrust of the authorities (Vietnam war, Watergate, etc. only made it worse) and a preference towards intrigue and mystery versus the plain boring facts are powerful influences as to what people believe.”

 

Stay tuned for an updated investigation into the events
surrounding Hendrix’s death.