{"id":169,"date":"2007-11-12T05:12:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T09:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2021-12-16T05:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T10:25:05","slug":"chris-gugas-sr-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/chris-gugas-sr-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Gugas, Sr., R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/chris-gugas-senior.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/chris-gugas-senior-289x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/chris-gugas-senior-289x300.jpeg 289w, https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/chris-gugas-senior.jpeg 549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Chris Gugas, Sr.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a title=\"Chris Gugas Sr.; Administered Over 40,000 Lie-Detector Tests\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/11\/AR2007111101651.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> the passing of Chris Gugas, Sr., a founding member and past president of the American Polygraph Association who worked for the CIA in the early 1950s. Mr. Gugas died of congestive heart failure on 20 October 2007. The most prominent of his more than 40,000 polygraph examinations was that of James Earl Ray, the man convicted for the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Gugas judged Ray deceptive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Update:<\/span> The <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> has also <a title=\"Chris Gugas, 86; polygraph expert\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-gugas15nov15,0,929145.story?coll=la-home-obituaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published an obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports the passing of Chris Gugas, Sr., a founding member and past president of the American Polygraph Association who worked for the CIA in the early 1950s. Mr. Gugas died of congestive heart failure on 20 October 2007. The most prominent of his more than 40,000 polygraph examinations was that of James &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[577],"class_list":{"0":"post-169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-chris-gugas","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4637,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}