Thomas H. Johnson, III

 

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Age 60 years

1972 Graduate of Augsburg Lutheran College of Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mr. Johnson is a semi- retired businessman from the city of Minneapolis who also maintains a residence near Dallas, Texas.  He resided in West Africa’s Monrovia, Liberia, during the 1970s.  From his base in Liberia he conducted business in several countries along the coast of West Africa, including Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroun, Ghana and Zaire.  He’s consulted with African businessmen and government official over the years in utilizing U.S. loan guarantee programs for the importation of agricultural products of the United States, including rice, sugar, corn and poultry, along with industrial water pumps and generators for the diamond miners of Liberia.  He has also represented West African agricultural producers of African produce including palm oil, cocoa, cassava meal, hard woods, orange citrus pulp, diamonds and petroleum.  These products have been represented over thirty years under the umbrella of his United Network International, Inc. and West African Gold Trading Company. 

Mr. Johnson enjoys studying legal history and law, he’s spent the last fourteen years as a research investigator with the Ocean Medical Investigative Group of Los Angeles, California.  He has led a team of field investigators in conducting forensic research on behalf of clients impacted unjustly by the criminal justice system of the U.S. including the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, California in 1995.  He is an author and screen writer, and has produced a noted documentary on the Simpson investigation entitled “Serpents Rising” that has screened in several international film festivals since 2005 and contributed to a book authored by his brother, Dr. Henry S. Johnson, entitled Double Crossed For Blood as well as recently finished a manuscript for another book on the subject.

Johnson has operated a public relations and broadcast advertising company since 1975, Ivory Tower Media Company, a subsidiary of United Network International, and has been often consulted to assist with media campaigns and advertising strategy for politicians and businesses in Minnesota and around the nation.  Through Ivory Tower Media Company over the years he has produced radio commercials for national album releases for Sony Music, CBS, Capitol/EMI, Atlantic, MCA and Motown recording artists.  He has enjoyed the camaraderie and friendship of many noted individuals in the United States and Africa over his sixty years and looks forward to creating many more.