Instead, commander Alan Poindexter and his crew had to store the data on 40-minute
tapes that were fed, in turn, into a computer for digital conversion.
Conspiracy theorists at the time felt that Lawrence's assassination attempt was actually not Lawrence's idea, but was instigated by certain of Jackson's political opponents,
including Senator George Poindexter, who had hired Lawrence to paint his home
just a few months before the attempt on Jackson's life.