LOST Survivors: Jack Shephard

Season One:
At the end of season one (don't read this if you don't want to know any spoilerific information), this is what we know about Dr. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox).

Jack has always had a rough relationship with his father Christian Shephard. He felt like he would never be good enough for his father. Jack is a spinal surgeon. Jack married a patient that he fixed, named Sarah.

Jack reported his father for being under the influence during a surgery that led to a pregnant woman's death. Christian was subsequent fired and spiraled out of control leaving the country. Jack's mother sent him to Australia to find his father. When Jack arrived he learned that his alcoholic father had died. Jack identified him in the Sydney morgue and was taking his body back to LA for the funeral.

Since crashing on the island, Jack, the only doctor among the survivors, quickly became a leader in the camp. Thanks to visions of his dead father, Jack discover the caves and the fresh water there, and was able to get the survivors to move inland. Interestingly enough, the people with life threatening injuries Dr. Jack was unable to help them.

He helped the get the dynamite to blow open the hatch planning on hiding everyone in there to escape the Others.

SPOILER: LOST Season Finale One Week Later

Lost (Season 3) "Flash-Forward Thinking" by Doc Jensen EW
More theories and analysis of the rattlesnake in the mailbox.

SPOILER: OCEANIC AIRLINES : ALL FLIGHTS CANCELLED : OCEANIC AIRLINES

OCEANIC AIRLINES : ALL FLIGHTS CANCELLED : OCEANIC AIRLINES

The producers of LOST set this site some time ago, showing that in the wake of Flight 815, Oceanic Airlines closed. How then could Jack be in a flash forward, flying on an Oceanic Flight? Again, just putting the information out there for you to make the decision.

Also on this very website, is an odd little message:

"I survived a horrific plane crash and am stranded on an island somewhere Northeast of Australia and Southwest of Hawaii. In the event that I am never found, please forward word of my fate to my parents.

If anyone should find this message, please get word I'm alive and stranded on an island somewhere in the South Pacific. Please send help soon. Things are bad. And they're getting worse...

Sally"

The questions arise: who is Sally? how did she access the website? why not just email someone? Why not more contact information? Why no last name listed? hometown?

SPOILER: One 'Lost' mystery solved - Los Angeles Times

One 'Lost' mystery solved - Los Angeles Times

They say this is the paper that Jack was reading, but obvious from the pdf file, the one they used in the show was different. The story about "Residents speak out about proposed coastal gas plant" is the same. So yes, they used part of this paper in their fake one, but they obviously changed some things and I don't think we should try to say definitively that it is from April 5, 2007.