February 20, 2011
One Animal Researcher Refuses to Hide
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J. David Jentsch is the latest of about a half-dozen researchers at UCLA who have been subject to violence by animal-rights extremists. "They chant, 'We will never give up,'" he says. "But neither will I."
Los Angeles
In the middle of the night, when a noise at his home in Sherman Oaks jerks J. David Jentsch awake, he scans a security monitor hanging from his bedroom wall. It displays six views of the house, which sits like a bunker down a steep driveway behind two wrought-iron gates. At the top of the drive, an armed guard is stationed 24 hours a day.
Back in 2009, someone set his car on fire. In November he opened his mail to find razor blades; an accompanying note claimed they were tainted with
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