Civil Rights activist Dick Gregory spent Christmas day in a Washington, D.C. jail and is currently on a hunger strike to protest the military's cover-up of Ron 
Brown's death. 

Gregory was arrested by D.C. police on Wednesday, Christmas Eve, when he and a group of 100 community leaders had a protest and prayer vigil outside the Washington offices of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. 

At the gathering, Gregory was joined by one-time Martin Luther King aide and former D.C. Congressional delegate Rev. Walter Fauntroy and WRC radio talk host Joe Madison. Madison also serves on the national board of the NAACP. 
 
"We are not dreaming this up," Gregory told the crowd, "This is not about a conspiracy," he said, asking why evidence of a possible gunshot found on Brown head after the plane crashed was not properly investigated. 

Two lieutenant colonels, both armed forces medical examiners, said that a perfectly circular hole found at the top of Brown's head looked like it was created by a gunshot and both believed an autopsy should have been conducted on Brown. None was. 

The AFIP has admitted the first X-ray of Brown's head showed possible fragments from a bullet in Brown's head and that first X-ray was destroyed. The AFIP claims new X-rays showed no fragments, but all of these head X-rays have vanished from Brown's case file. 

Stating he wanted the AFIP and its head Col. Michael Dickerson to "tell the truth," Gregory declared the area a "crime scene",  placed yellow police tape on the 
building and sat down in the middle of the street. He was summarily arrested and booked for blocking traffic at D.C.'s 4th precinct. 

A government prosecutor offered to allow Gregory to skip jail by placing a $25 bail. Gregory refused by remaining silent during the proceedings. The judge 
asked the baffled prosecutor "Don't you know about the controversy about Ron Brown?" The judge offered to release Gregory if he would simply nod his head or smile to indicate that he would return for a hearing. 

Gregory stood silent. He was ordered to the D.C. jail on D Street and continues on a hunger strike. He is not expected to be released until Monday. 

"Dick Gregory speaks for millions of Americans who want to know the truth of Ron Brown, and why evidence of a possible homicide of Secretary Brown was first ignored and later destroyed," radio host Joe Madison said.  Madison spoke to Gregory in jail. 

"On Friday afternoon I will discuss on my radio show the details of this cover-up, and the indignation I feel and many others at the military's response to our 
concerns, and the odd response  from the White House and Bill Clinton," Madison said. 

"Why would the White House Press Secretary take such a defensive posture as he did at a recent White House press briefing? No one has accused the President of anything related to the information reported in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review articles. 

"If Ron Brown was truly President Clinton's dearest friend as he so eloquently eulogized at Ron Brown's funeral, one would hope your dearest friend, especially if he is president of the United States, would do everything in his power to open up a new investigation. 

President Clinton simply cannot dismiss the evidence of two high ranking officers of the United States military as being conspiracy or politically motivated. Even his political friends have questions and are calling for the President to do the right thing," Madison continued. 

"If the President is truly concerned about the Brown family and the families of 34 other victims of that tragic plane crash, then he owes it to the families, the nation and his dear friend Ron Brown to review this new evidence and investigate why the x-rays are missing."