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ROCHESTER, N.H. - The stepdaughter of a distraught New Hampshire man, who touched off a hostage drama at Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters in Rochester, N.H., said she feared her stepfather was going to be gunned down. “I was fearful. I just hoped everything would turn out OK,” Leeland Eisenberg’s stepdaughter Erin Warren told the Herald today outside Rochester District Court. “I thought it would end pretty extreme, I thought it was going to be a shooting thing,” she added. Eisenberg was arraigned today on a host of charges, including kidnapping, in connection to Friday’s hostage taking in downtown Rochester. He...

(Enjoy the mocking) HILLARY AND THE HOSTAGE CRISIS ON GOOGLE VIDEOS NOTE: Hillary had the headlines during the so-called hostage crisis. JILL ZUCKMAN: Clinton rushes to comfort beseiged campaign crew SUSAN CORNWELL: Clinton impresses with handling of hostage drama TONY ALLEN-MILLS: Cool Hillary shines in hostage crisis

ROCHESTER, N.H. - In the hours before he allegedly took five people hostage at Hillary Clinton's campaign office Friday, Leeland Eisenberg sat drinking rum and cokes with his stepson in his trailer. He drank heavily, and in a fog of frustration and delusion, said he could no longer afford his medication for bipolar disorder, his stepson, Benjamin Warren, said by phone last night. Unemployed, Eisenberg had no money to see a doctor; a local hospital turned him away when he went for help, Warren said.

BY modern American standards it was a very minor crisis, but a bizarre hostage-taking episode at one of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign offices in New Hampshire on Friday offered the former first lady an unexpected opportunity to display her leadership qualities. Clinton was far from the scene and never at risk from a mentally unstable man who eventually surrendered to police after holding three campaign workers hostage. Yet her calm demeanour and authoritative response to a potentially ugly drama was yesterday earning her widespread praise. Clinton followed the incident from her home in Washington, then flew to New Hampshire to...

Hillary bomb stunt latest in suspect's long, twisted path By STEPHANIE GASKELL in SOMERSWORTH, N.H., and LARRY McSHANE in NEW YORK DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Saturday, December 1st 2007, 3:19 PM 'He's capable of anything,' said Leeland Eisenberg's former neighbor, Kathleen Carlsen. 'I don't want anything to do with that man.' The trailer where Eisenberg lived for a time with his now estranged wife. She filed for divorce three days before the hostage incident. The note that Eisenberg's family taped to the door. The neatly dressed man who took hostages in Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire campaign office was known as...

ABC News' Kate Snow reports: ABC News has learned that Leeland Eisenberg -- the man accused of holding hostages at Hillary Clinton's Rochester, N.H., campaign office for six hours on Friday -- allegedly cited one of Clinton's campaign commercials when police say he entered the office and claimed to have a pipe bomb strapped to his chest. According to sources, the campaign office intruder was complaining about insurance issues and mentioned a recent campaign ad widely seen by New Hampshire voters. "She helped that guy, she can help me," Eisenberg allegedly told Clinton campaign staffers, referring to Joe Ward, a...

When the hostages had been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis. The image, broadcast just as the network news began, conveyed the message a thousand town hall meetings and campaign commercials strive for — namely, that the Democratic presidential contender can face disorder in a most orderly manner. "I am very grateful that this difficult day has ended so well," she declared as she stood alone at the microphone. Little more than three hours later, just in time for the...

ROCHESTER, N.H. - A man wearing what looked like a bomb beneath his sweater and tie walked into Hillary Clinton's campaign office yesterday, taking three staff members, a volunteer, and an infant hostage, forcing the closure of the senator's campaign offices throughout Iowa and New Hampshire, and paralyzing this small city on the Maine border, authorities said. ...Eisenberg, formerly known as Ralph E. Woodward Jr., served time at Bridgewater State Hospital and MCI-Concord, according to court records. In 2002, he filed a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court against Bernard Cardinal Law, in Law's capacity as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston,...

"A man is holding hostages in the Hillary Clinton for President Headquarters in Rochester NH"--just reported by Susan Wornick on WCVB TV in Boston

Conservatives Wary Over GOP Nominee For Finance Chairman By Jim Burns CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer January 18, 2002 (2nd Add: Includes additional background on Lewis Eisenberg, finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.) (CNSNews.com) - Lewis Eisenberg's nomination as Republican Party Finance Chairman has upset many conservatives. He was to be nominated on Friday at the party's annual winter meeting in Austin, Tex. Ralph Reed, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, accepted the original request to nominate Eisenberg, but on Thursday he reversed the decision. He said he changed his mind after talking with Republican National Committee members and conservative...