Cold Fusion Press Conference at University of Utah – March 23 1989

This is where it all began: the hope, hostility, shame, controversy and chaos. After an unsuccessful negotiation with Steven E, Jones at Brigham Young University on March 6, feeling their backs against the wall, and suspicious that Jones was trying to claim patent and intellectual priority on the fruits of their labor, Fleischmann, Pons, the University of Utah administrators and their attorneys secretly made plans to go public with their claim as soon as possible. When they learned that their paper had been accepted for publication in the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, they hastily scheduled this press conference for the next day. Unknown / New Energy Institute