The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 51, December 19, 2004, Article 3

NUMISMATIC FILM MAKER'S KILLER APPREHENDED

  Dick Johnson writes: "The driver of the truck which ran 
  over and killed Michael Craven in a "road rage" incident 
  April 30, 2000 on LA's Ventura Freeway has been tracked 
  to Armenia. He was extradited to California late November 
  2004 and is now charged with three felony counts, 
  including the murder of the numismatic film maker. Craven
  died of injuries from that incident. (Reported here in 
  The E-Sylum vol 3, no 19, May 7, 2000.) 

  Craven had produced three numismatic videos and had been 
  working on a major film on the history of America's coins. 
  He had over seven hours of film - including interviews 
  with U.S. Treasury officials and prominent numismatists 
  -- he had nearly completed the filming before editing the
  material for a multi-part series. 

  Among the videos Craven had produced included "The Granite
  Lady" on the San Francisco Mint and "The Medal Maker," 
  narrated by former Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint Elizabeth
  Jones, on sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser. [In addition to 
  writing the filmscript for that later video, I was working
  with Mike on a history of the Philadelphia Mint's Third 
  Building at 16th and Spring Garden Streets -- America's 
  first truly modern mint -- for its 2001 centennial. His 
  death halted that project.]"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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