Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)
Here is the quote (which is already second-hand):
She attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate (history). Her short bio on Wikipedia makes no mention of her being "president of student government," which would be a very trail-blazing accomplishment for a female student in the mid-60s, and I can't find any mention of her in the documents collected at "150 Years of Women at Berkeley." So this story is already suspect.
So according to this description, the Hendrix thing is just some rumour, put out by someone who hated Williams, has said many derogatory things about her, and was a close ally of Gary Gygax.
Which is why I have never once mentioned the Hendrix thing and keep re-stating the exact quote from before about her keeping trophies of fired employees. Which is the only thing the documentary verified and the only point I've ever made about it. I don't care about the Jimi Hendrix thing other than it's a funny item.
The named three people who worked on this are all reputable, and you know or should know two of them.The only support offered is that other TSR alums (are they identified?) claim that Williams kept trophies of the people she fired. Again, is there direct evidence offered of even this? Is there documentation?
I haven't seen the video. Maybe there is. But from this description, we've just got rumours.
Documentaries are a fusion of fact and entertainment, and most are as much opinion as journalism. Some are very careful with their facts. Some are not. The fact that this is a documentary is not in itself evidence of anything.
So we are left with an implausible rumour, spread by someone who has said many malicious things about the person in question. I'll continue to take it with a grain of salt.