Today we will be continuing our series on the dark and sordid history of the Clinton administration for the young and perpetually uninformed. The person in this picture is named Linda Ives. She is the mother to one of the children who famously became known as “The Boys on the Tracks.” This story will focus on the very short lives of Kevin Ives and Don Henry. On August 22nd, these two boys went out for a night of deer hunting in a secluded area of rural Arkansas. The next morning at 4:25 AM, a Union Pacific train ran over their bodies which were both sprawled all over the railroad tracks.
The Arkansas State Medical Examiner and Governor Clinton appointee Dr. Fahmy Malak quickly ruled both deaths as “accidental” stating that both boys were “unconscious and in a deep sleep” on the tracks after consuming a large quantity of marijuana. Documents would later show that neither boy was ever even tested for marijuana. The investigation was so sloppy that one of Kevin’s feet was actually left in plain sight at the scene. Linda Ives eventually challenged these findings resulting in their bodies being exhumed and reexamined. A second independent autopsy by Dr. Joseph Burton showed that Don Henry had been stabbed in the back and Kevin Ives had been beaten with the butt of a rifle. In September 1988, a grand jury concluded that both deaths were definite homicides. Police records eventually revealed a “confidential informant” who stated these two boys were hunting right in the middle of a drop zone for an elaborate cocaine smuggling operation which was being run out of the small town of Mena.
Public pressure began to build over the mishandling of the two original medical examinations. Governor Clinton promised to get to the bottom of this discrepancy and called in two pathologists from out of state to review the work of the state crime lab. However, when a Saline County grand jury later tried to subpoena those experts for testimony in the case, Governor Clinton refused to allow it. Bill Clinton continued to publicly defend and support Dr. Fahmy Malak for many years despite a huge public outcry for his removal due to numerous questionable examination reports. Dr. Malak had once famously ruled that a decapitated victim had died from a perforated ulcer and that another victim with multiple gunshot wounds to his back had somehow committed suicide. Just before Clinton announced that he was running for President, Fahmy Malak was assigned by Clinton to another high-paying job within the state government. All of Governor Clinton’s peculiar actions must be evaluated within the context of the growing chorus of accusations that Clinton himself was intimately involved with the cocaine smuggling operation out of Mena.
In 1996, the New York Times Magazine asked Phillip Weiss to write a story on “The Clinton Haters.” His assignment was to interview the Clinton conspiracy theorists and reveal them for the nut-cases that they were expected to be. The first call that Mr. Weiss made when he got to Arkansas was Linda Ives. Weiss later admitted that the four hours that he spent interviewing Linda Ives changed his life forever. He later recounted, “When I left Linda’s house, late at night… I promised her I wouldn’t sell her out… I didn’t realize it yet, but I was already becoming a Clinton-hater.”
Linda Ives continues to speak out publicly about this case. Because of Linda Ives persistence in trying to find justice for her son over the years, she was reportedly placed on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s official “enemies list.” The individuals who brutally murdered Kevin Ives and Don Henry in that pitch black Arkansas field were never found.
