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In " A Question Of Priorities ," John was later seriously injured when he was hit by a car and Straker, against his own rules, used a SHADO aircraft in order to fly in antibiotic drugs from America.

But when his second-in-command, Col. Alec E. Freeman, was forced to divert the plane in order to investigate some curious UFO-related events in Ireland, Straker's sense of duty prevented him from informing and overruling him as to the plane's original mission.

The drugs arrived too late at the hospital, and John died.

His ex-wife blamed him for their son's death, and spat angrily at him when he saw her after the tragedy, " I never want to SEE you again !!!

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