"PETA, Ringling Bros. at Odds Over Circus Elephants"

"Sammy Haddock started working with elephants when he joined the circus at 20, in 1976, a young man's dream. He walked them, groomed them, cleaned up after them. More than once, he later confessed, he beat them. "

David Montgomery reportsw for the Washington Post December 16, 2009.