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Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Who is the real Quantrell?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:05:53 +0000 (UTC)
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

Bill wrote:
> I just noticed something very peculiar. In B5, "Quantrell" is an
> all-too-typical senator who will say anything as long as he looks good
> in front of a camera. In Jeremiah, "Quantrell" debuts as an
> unsympathetic soldier who threatens everyone around him, even while
> he's in custody.
>
> Who is the real person named Quantrell and what did he do that upset
> you so much that you have attached his name to two such unpleasant
> characters?
>
> TIA
>

Quantrill's Raiders.  I changed one letter so as not to be too terribly
obvious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantrill's_Raiders

jms