  This Letter is written to clear up a situation, and hopefully we will learn
something from it: scientifically and morally. Herein is presented a true
``historical'' scenario of events, that led to my being the first person
(Williams 1991) to successfully work out the Penrose mechanism in
four-dimensions (three-space momenta and energy). Before working out a solution
to the Penrose mechanism: to extract energy from a rotating black hole, the
Penrose mechanism (since first proposed by Roger Penrose in 1969) had been
attempted by scientists over the world for nearly two decades, with little
success, although making some progress. In the Penrose analysis of Williams
(1991, 1995) details of the behavior of efficient Penrose relativistic
scattering processes in the ergosphere are described. The reason a solution
eluded other scientists before me is that there was very little known about
orbits inside the ergosphere, where space and time are no longer separable, as
measured by an observer at infinity (i.e., far away from the Kerr black hole).
In this Letter, I describe how analytic derivations of the conserved energy and
azimuthal angular momentum of particle orbits not confined to the equatorial
plane allowed me to succeed where others, whose ``shoulders'' I stood on, had
failed. Also, I will mention some well known scientists in the astrophysics
community by name, as I discuss their involvement, and outline the facts behind
an author feeling the need to set the record straight.
