JE 9-1-1 Anecdote in Book

[SteveGrenard]

A freind in the UK sent in the following questions regarding this. Since I am not a reader of JE's books nor am I sure I know the answers to these questions, I am asking here. Thank you.



Thumbing through one of John Edward's books in a UK bookshop I noticed a section added at the end about 911.
He wrote that on Sept 11 he was woken in a hotel room in LA several hours before the event by the hotel reception man asking if he was OK.
He said he was and queried why he had been woken up at after 2-45am in the morning to be asked the question.
The guy said that there had been an emergency 911 call from his room. John denied making any call.
It was only later that day when the twin towers happened and a friend rang to tell him to switch on the TV, that John realised the significance of the middle of the night call.
He queried it later with the hotel people who checked and confirmed there had been the call from his room which, I think they said, goes straight to the emergency services.
The hotel person said they now presumed it had been a mistake on Edward's part by dialling 9, I think he said to get an outside line?, and then he hitting double 1.
I'm asking list members - does anyone have the book and know of this story in detail?
Maybe I haven't remembered it correctly but I'm thinking, how could an emergency call from a hotel room be 911 if you have to dial 9 anyway to get an outside line.
Or is that overridden in an emergency?
I'm in the UK so don't understand how it works there - we have 999 as emergency number.
Could anyone clarify this for me? Anyone called 911 from a US hotel room? Maybe your hot water bottle burst or you needed a midnight sandwich?

I also remember there seemed to be a puzzling 45 minute gap between the alleged 911 call and the phone call from the reception to John.

[oakster]

mmm!!

[four elevener]

I wonder what would happen to his head of you squeezed it really really hard.

[timhau]

Poor John Edwards. He's got this amazing psychic ability which is of no use whatsoever since he can only make sense of his premonitions afterwards.

[sophia8]

The only thing I can contribute is that if JE actually had made a successful 911 call, the cops would have gone to his room and there would have been a recording of the call.
The fact that it was hotel reception who apparently got the call suggests that JE simply dialled wrong, or maybe just hit the phone in his sleep or fell over it in the dark....

Would this be the basis of his claim that he "predicted 9/11"?

[JoeTheJuggler]

The only thing I can contribute is that if JE actually had made a successful 911 call, the cops would have gone to his room and there would have been a recording of the call.
The fact that it was hotel reception who apparently got the call suggests that JE simply dialled wrong, or maybe just hit the phone in his sleep or fell over it in the dark....


Or that he made up this story from whole cloth.

[RichardR]

It's also worth remembering that on the evening of Monday Sept 10 2001, John Edward was on Larry King Live for a full hour where he pretended to speak to the dead etc, but made no mention of the terrorist act that was to be carried out the next morning.

CNN transcript (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/10/lkl.00.html).

[timhau]

It's also worth remembering that on the evening of Monday Sept 10 2001, John Edward was on Larry King Live for a full hour where he pretended to speak to the dead etc, but made no mention of the terrorist act that was to be carried out the next morning.


I wonder if twoofers know about this...