Did Laura Bush Purposely Kill Her High School Boyfriend?

Here is a story that never gets any air in the mainstream press. The question above is related to a traffic fatality that occurred in Midland Texas in 1963. Although the subject is now the former First Lady, the accident in Midland that involved 17-year-old Laura Welch was not political in any sense. It was however all of the following: Tragic, unlikely, and suspicious.
The two-page 1963 police report by Midland Officer K E Haylett says that 17-year-old Laura Welch was driving her Chevrolet Impala on a clear night just after 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 1963 when she entered an intersection without heeding the stop sign and collided with a Corvair driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas. In the car with Laura was a passenger, 17-year-old Judy Dykes.
According to the police report, neither driver had been drinking. No charges were ever filed as a result of the accident. News accounts from 1963 reported the young man as having been thrown from his car and dying of a broken neck. He was dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. The two girls were treated for minor bruises. According to two biographies of Mrs. Bush, the boy’s father had been travelling in a car behind his son and had witnessed the whole thing.
Michael Douglas had been a star athlete, excelling in track and football, and was looked up to for his personality and intelligence. He was likeable, outgoing, and funny. He was nominated as the school’s most popular boy while a junior, an honor that almost always went to a senior.
Laura Welch and Michael Douglas had dated throughout early and mid-1963, but by the fall of that year Michael had dropped Laura and was going out with Regan Gammon, one of Laura’s closest friends. Laura and Regan had been Brownies together in third grade and were very close.
Laura Welch, driving east on FM 868, approached the only highway in Midland on a clear night with a bright moon. She lived only a couple of miles away and had been through this particular intersection hundreds of times over the years. On her left Laura should have seen her boyfriend’s car approaching the intersection as he turned off of Solomon Lane, where he lived, and onto the highway. She would have known his bright yellow 1962 Corvair, a very distinctive car, even at 8 in the evening. But she contended she never saw it, and that she never noticed the stop sign.
Laura has made some conflicting statements about the accident. She told a biographer that she did not find out that the driver of the other vehicle had died at the scene until later when she and her girlfriend were at the hospital, and that she did not learn his identity until later, when her parents arrived and broke the news to her. It shattered her.
But she has also said that the boy’s father was following behind him, and showed up moments after the crash. One of these statements must be false. Laura has also reportedly said in the past that she was not driving; that it was raining and slick; and that Michael Douglas was not her boyfriend. But the Midland DA identified Michael Douglas as Laura’s boyfriend when he released the police report. Either Laura or the DA is wrong.
The report itself says the weather was dry and Laura was behind the wheel. Either Laura or the officer is wrong.
The tale told in the Icehouses around Midland is that Laura thought that she was pregnant by her boyfriend Michael Douglas. When she told him, instead of agreeing to marry her, Douglas broke up with her, and was seen out and about with Regan Gammon.
So maybe Laura got mad, and got even.
If the official version is to be accepted, one must swallow a major coincidence. Out of the estimated 25-30,000 cars in Midland, Laura hit the one being driven by the man who had spurned her and made her look ridiculous. The odds – the mathematical chances – are overwhelmingly in favor of intent on Laura’s part. Most likely, she hit him on purpose.
I don’t maintain that Laura wanted this boy dead – I doubt that highly – but I do think she purposely ran that stop sign in anger and unintentionally killed him, then she filed a false police report full of lies, that wasn’t even followed up on.
It also looks like Laura spent a lot of her time trying to ‘pay back’ Regan Gammon for killing the boyfriend they shared. Regan Gammon has been a huge part of the Bush Empire, she’s even Jenna’s Godmother. Laura describes her as her best friend. But they were always friends, before Michael Douglas ever came along, and it’s not likely Regan knew what really happened – she probably still thinks it was an accidental death that Laura still feels guilty about. Regan is today a very nice lady who founded the Texas Book Festival or some such shit.
Not long after, Laura left Midland for Southern Methodist University, where she was part of the post beatnik but pre-hippie generation whose rebellion went no further than smoking Winstons and wearing peasant blouses. Word is she made a few extra bucks selling dime bags of weed for awhile too. Whether her daddy’s money got her out of trouble in the accident case doesn’t matter – it’s not about him. It’s about whether she intentionally did something that killed a guy.
Was it just a strange coincidence? Or a really bad immature decision of revenge?
Sorry, but Gator’s internal infernal oracle of deep truth would lean towards the evil in man (and woman) rather than coincidence. Evil is something you can rely on, true coincidence is unusual.
She didn’t know he’d die, but she aimed her car at his and hit him, and he died.