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[Steven Gaal]

see http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6017&p=286080

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http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKcheramie.htm

Rose Cheramie

Rose Cheramie (Cherami) was found unconsciousness by the side of the road at Eunice, Louisiana, on 20th November, 1963. Lieutenant Francis Frugé of the Louisiana State Police took her to the state hospital. On the journey Cheramie said that she had been thrown out of a car by two gangsters who worked for Jack Ruby. She claimed that the men were involved in a plot to kill John F. Kennedy. Cheramie added that Kennedy would be killed in Dallas within a few days. Later she told the same story to doctors and nurses who treated her. As she appeared to be under the influence of drugs her story was ignored.

Following the assassination, Cheramie was interviewed by the police. She claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald had visited Ruby's night club. In fact, she believed the two men were having a homosexual relationship.

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http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=5074&p=41488 ( part of HOMOSEXUAL THREAD)

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Mr. Garrison:

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I was told this story by a man who allegedly was a part of the Cuban revolutionary movement in this country. He claims to have been one of those arrested in Miami. Also, he claims to have been under FBI investigation at various times. I was in Omaha Nebraska at the time this was told to me, and at about the same time, so I'm sure you remember, your office was trying to get Perry Ruso's girl friend; Mrs McBlaine or something to that effect, down to New Orleans for questioning. It seems rather strange to me that she would wind up in Omaha since she really had no people there. Also, WHY did the gentleman whom I quote decide to come to Omaha? He had no job there, no relatives, and no real desire to find either. He moved to Omaha in March from Lincoln, Nebraska, where he had spent about two months or less with no visable means of support. He had just previously been in the State of Washington with an associate of his. The following are a few facts that the Omaha man told me, either directly or indirectly.

He told me about the pilot named Ferrie long before your office announced your interest in him. He described the man in great detail and claimed to know him personally. He also predicted his demise.

I overheard numerous telephone conversations (mostly with the man in Washington) in which he asked with great concern whether it was the FBI, the CIA, or who, that had been asking questions about them, and whether it was that they had something on him or on "one of the others."

He claimed to have either known or had met the Mr. Shaw you questioned.

He was originally from New Orleans, and claims to have worked on your staff at one time as an investigator.

He says he saw Oswald in New Orleans. Also a man who "looked like Ruby". Is that Saul?

At one time, the Omaha man and the Washington man met in a hotel there and discussed plans to go to New Orleans to see a man called Sergio Arcacha. They went, but could not find him or another man they said was there. Three days later, the local Newspapers Announced that you, too had been looking for Mr. Arcacha for questioning and that he had told you he would talk to you, but not alone.

He described the assassination scene in great detail and told me some facts about it that I had definitely not heard before.

He claims that Oswald was a patsy, a setup, to take the blame for the whole thing. Also that OSWALD WAS A HOMOSEXUAL like Shaw, Ferrie, Tippett (Dallas police officer) and a score of others.

He told me about the motorcycle police officer who claimed to have seen a man with a rifle run from the grassy knowl in front of Kennedy. (incidentally, the Omaha man claims that this is where the fatal shot came from) The police officer mysteriously had a very serious accident right after the incident, and now is a near idiot [is that Seymour Weitzman?].
He claimed to have met the late President on a number of occasions, and he talked about him with very little respect.

He claims that he left Louisiana upon the advice of the Governor.

The Omaha man and the Washington man were always in telephone contact with each other, no matter where they were. Once, the Washington man was in Washington DC for some reason or another and they conferred by telephone twice in that one day.

The following is a list of the names for the story above.

1. Sergio Arcacha

2. Lucian Rebel

3. Fred L. Crisman

4. Thomas E. Beckham

5. Martin Grassi

You can assume that Beckham knew something about Guy Bannister's [G.B.] death which caused him considerable trepidation.

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In 1961, I was 19 years old and living in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was a peaceful time, the best I can remember. I was full of ideas which I like to call undeveloped dreams. My father Arvel Monroe Beckham was away on the high seas trying to make us a living. I was the second oldest of all five boys. It was at this time of my life that I was looking for excitement and fulfillment. ...

Jack [Martin], to me, seemed like "Mister Cool." He knew everything and everyone. He had all types of I.D. and badges. For for this reason, when I met a few of his Cuban friends, I was very impressed. Within just a short while , I found it easy to be a part of the Cuban crowd. They were all very friendly. That's when I met Mr X [Lucian Rabel] and Dr X [sergio Archacha]. Dr X was formally a teacher and physician in Cuba, and Mr X was in the dry cleaning business in Cuba. They seemed to welcome my presence without question. I guess because they knew I did not speak Spanish, and I was a friend of Jack's. In any case, they welcomed me as a friend.

As the weeks passed, one day Jack ask while I was at his apartment if I wanted to be a priest. He (Jack) showed me all types of certificates and even a black suit with all the vestments of his holy office. He said he would get me ordained in the Old Catholic Church. In a few days, I became a legal ordained priest. Then a couple of days later, two young Cubans met me at Walgreen's Drug Store on Canal Street and told me that I could be of service to my country. They had some kind of police I.D. they showed me. I was informed they worked for the government. A few days later, I opened up a mission on Rampart Street using funds they had given me. The mission carried the lettering on its glass front of UCMF, which I was told stood for United Catholic Mission Fathers. Which I later learned stood for United Cuban Mission Forces. Strange as it may seem, I ask no questions. At last I myself had become someone important and was really needed. I felt like I was a little general and saint all rolled into one.

I was told that Castro was a criminal and that the CIA was going to kill him and free Cuba. My little two-story mission was only a front, an assembly place for Cubans. And Dr X and Mr X were very high in rank.

It was not long that I, "Rev Thomas Edward Beckham," a priest in the Old Catholic Church, learned that I was just a front for a small group of powerful Cuban exiles which made New Orleans, Louisiana, and Miami, Florida, their home base for the 1,200 man Cuban Brigade, armed and trained in the United States by the CIA.

The things I began to hear shocked me. I guess I was not developed enough to stand the mental pressure. A great deal of money was raised for the movement by the use of bank type tin cans which had two flags crossed, an American and a Cuban. Under them were the wording: KEEP AMERICA FREE, Communists are only 90 miles from American shores." Plus a special coin was used for a badge by officials of the movement for their I.D.

Then one day, I overheard talk about President John F. Kennedy. They said that the CIA was training men for them at Algiers Naval Station and that the President was to give them US Air Support for the Brigade. Then one said he did not trust Kennedy. Then a person said two assassinations are as easy as one. That's when I wanted to take a walk and fast. I felt like a Jew in a Nazi camp. The next day, I went to see another friend of mine, Mr G.B. [Guy Bannister], a former Special Agent of the FBI. I told him what was going on. I remember just what he said: "Kid, how and the hell did you get your ass in this mess?" ....

It was later I learned that Kennedy was killed with the knowledge of the CIA by the Cubans and this double-agent, Lee Harvey Oswald. It was to look like Castro had it done. Therefore serving the benefit of all.

I also learned that the Cubans did not trust Kennedy, believed him to be a supporter of Castro, because he withdrew air support for the Cuban Brigade. They said Kennedy would pay well in more ways than one. That's when I learned that some of the Cubans met with Kennedy, stating that they could prove him to be a Communist. I don't know how true it was. But they did get him to meet their demands in 1962 to the tune of millions of dollars with the aid of Kennedy's personal friend and attorney to handle the Bay of Pigs survivors. He (Kennedy) assured them (Cubans) that the Brigade flag would fly again. But the machine works were in motion, months ahead of time.

I remember how sick I was when I learned of his death. I felt that in some way, I was a part of it. I also wanted no part of the so-called "justice" of this great country. But time seemed to heal my cuts.

Then one day, almost 7 1/2 later, I found myself as a witness before a New Orleans Grand Jury into the investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I knew someone had set me up again. Why I did not know. At this time, I was living in Omaha, Nebraska. But long before I appeared as a Grand Jury witness, I was advised on what not to say, if I knew what was best for me. And I did -- I wanted to live. As to date, Mr G. B.. was found dead plus all the others I knew personally.

http://educationforu...h...ost&p=78399

Edited May 27, 2014 by Steven Gaal

[Thomas Graves]

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Rose Cheramie (Cherami) was found unconsciousness by the side of the road at Eunice, Louisiana, on 20th November, 1963. Lieutenant Francis Frugé of the Louisiana State Police took her to the state hospital. On the journey Cheramie said that she had been thrown out of a car by two gangsters who worked for Jack Ruby.

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Other than on Cheramie's (unsourced) Spartacus webpage, where have you read that the two guys worked for Jack Ruby?

--Tommy

[Steven Gaal]

Other than on Cheramie's (unsourced) Spartacus webpage, where have you read that the two guys worked for Jack Ruby?

--Tommy

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10/6/13 WND

Dumped by the side of the road

On Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1963, a woman named Rose Cheramie was brought to a local hospital by one Frank Odum after he hit her on Highway 190 near Eunice, La. She claimed she had been abandoned by the side of the road by two men she had been traveling with and then was hit by another car. While sedated in the hospital, Cheramie predicted that JFK would be assassinated in Dallas that coming Friday.

Rose Cheramie, or Cherami, was one of some 30 aliases used by Melba Christine Marcades, born Melba Christine Youngblood.

She was a 34-year-old drug and substance abuser with a long list of prostitution and other arrests since she turned 18. She had worked as a B-girl for Jack Ruby in his Carousel Club in Dallas and had been mainlining heroin for nine years.

According to a Louisiana State Police report in mid-November 1963, she worked “as a dope runner for Jack Ruby.” The report said she had “worked in the night club for Ruby and that she was forced to go to Florida with another man whom she did not name to pick up a shipment of dope to take back to Dallas and that she didn’t want to do this thing but she had a young child and that they would hurt her child if she didn’t.”

She was thrown out of a brothel after a quarrel ensued with the two men participating in the dope run. A staff report compiled by the House Special Committee on Assassinations said Cheramie had taken her last injection of heroin around 2 p.m. on Nov. 20, 1963.

‘They’re going to kill the president!’

Lt. Francis Fruge of the Louisiana State Police was the first to interview Cheramie at Moosa Memorial Hospital in Eunice, La.

Because the hospital was private and Cheramie had no funds or insurance, Fruge placed her in the Eunice City Jail. Fruge then called Dr. Derouin, a local doctor from the coroner’s office, who administered a sedative to calm her from the effects of drug withdrawal.

Dr. Derouin made the decision to commit her to the state hospital in Jackson, La. On route to the hospital in Jackson, Cheramie talked to Fruge, according to a deposition the officer gave the House Select Committee on Assassinations,

Cheramie told him “she was coming from Florida to Dallas with two men who were Italians or resembled Italians.”

“They stopped at this lounge … and they’d had a few drinks and got into an argument or something. The manager of the lounge threw her out and she got on the road and hitchhiked to catch a ride, and this is when she got hit by a vehicle.”

Fruge said the lounge was a house of prostitution called the “Silver Slipper.”

He told the committee that he asked Cheramie what she was going to do in Dallas: “She said she was going to, number one, pick up some money, pick up her baby, and kill Kennedy.” Fruge claimed Cheramie was lucid making these statements. He had her admitted to the hospital late on Nov. 20, 1963.

‘These are serious guys’

With further investigation, Fruge found Cheramie’s farfetched story had a basis in fact.

Fruge tracked down the owner of the Silver Slipper Lounge, Mac Manual, who told him Cheramie had come into the bar with two men who were pimps engaged in the business of hauling prostitutes in from Florida.

When Cheramie became intoxicated and rowdy, one of the men supposedly “slapped her around” and threw her outside.

Fruge further claimed he showed the owner of the Silver Slipper bar a stack of mug shots from which the bar owner identified a Cuban exile named Sergio Aracha Smith as one of Cheramie’s traveling companions.

Assassination researchers have identified Aracha Smith as an anti-Castro refugee who was active in 1961 as head of the New Orleans Cuban Revolutionary Front.

At that time, Aracha Smith befriended anti-Castro activist and commercial pilot David Ferrie, a shadowy New Orleans figure who became prominent in the investigation of New Orleans prosecutor Jim Garrison.

In the investigation of the Cheramie case, Corsi notes, there is a suggestion Louisiana state police found diagrams of the sewer system in Dealey Plaza among the contents of Aracha Smith’s apartment in Dallas.

Increasingly, assassination researchers have concluded Aracha Smith must be listed among the Cuban exiles that are strongly suspected of having played an operational role in the JFK assassination.

After the assassination, Corsi points out, Fruge immediately called the hospital and told them not to release Cheramie until he had a chance to speak with her.

The following morning, Cheramie told Fruge the two men traveling with her from Miami were going to Dallas to assassinate the president.

Cheramie claimed her role was to obtain $8,000 from an unidentified source in Dallas, who was evidently holding her child, and proceed to Houston with the two men to complete a drug deal.

Reservations had been made at the Rice Hotel in Houston.

She said the trio was to meet a seaman who was bringing in eight kilos of heroin to Galveston by boat. From Galveston, once the drug transaction was completed, the trio expected to head to Mexico.

Taken into custody

Fruge took Cheramie into custody after the customs chief in Galveston verified the scheduled docking of the boat and the name of the seaman.

During a flight from Houston, according to Fruge, Cheramie noticed a newspaper with headlines suggesting investigators were trying to establish a link between Ruby and Oswald.

According to the deposition Fruge gave the House Select Committee, Cheramie laughed at the newspaper article.

She explained to Fruge that she had worked for Ruby, or “Pinky” as she knew him, at his nightclub in Dallas, and she claimed Ruby and Oswald “had been shacking up for years” and were “bed-mates.”

Fruge had his superior call Capt. Will Fritz of the Dallas Police Department with the information, only to find Fritz responded that he was not interested.

Other reports indicated that at the state hospital on Nov. 22, 1963, several nurses were watching television with Cheramie when she again predicted the JFK assassination. According to the hospital witnesses, “during the telecast moments before Kennedy was shot Rose Cheramie stated to them, ‘This is when it is going to happen’ and at that moment Kennedy was assassinated.”

The nurses, in turn, told others of Cheramie’s prognostication.

Dr. Victor Weis, a psychiatrist at the hospital, also confirmed that Cheramie told him she knew both Ruby and Oswald and had seen them sitting together on several different occasions in Ruby’s club.

The word spread throughout the state hospital that Cheramie had predicted the JFK assassination, and, amazingly, Cheramie even predicted the involvement of her former boss, Ruby.

Dr. Wayne Owen, who had been interning from LSU, later told the Madison Capital Times that Cheramie had warned him and other interns that the plot involved a man named Jack Rubenstein.

Owen said he and the other interns shrugged it off at the time but were shocked when they saw Ruby kill Oswald and found out that Jack Ruby was born Jack Rubenstein.

While there remain many unanswered questions about Rose Cheramie’s strange story, the public record fully attests to her knowledge of the JFK assassination plot in Dallas, as well as her testimony that Ruby and Oswald knew each other before the event.

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PROBE From the July-August 1999 issue (Vol. 6 No. 5)

Rose Cheramie: How She Predicted the JFK Assassination
By Jim DiEugenio

On November 20, 1963, Lt. Francis Fruge of the Louisiana State Police received a phone call from Moosa Memorial Hospital in Eunice. A Mrs. Louise Guillory, the hospital administrator told him that there was an accident victim in the emergency ward. Guillory knew that Fruge worked the narcotics detail and she felt that the woman was under the influence of drugs.

Fruge immediately left for the hospital. When he got there he encountered a middle-aged white female sitting down in the waiting room outside emergency. There were no serious injuries; only bruises and abrasions. She was only partly coherent. But Moosa was a private hospital and since the woman seemed bereft of funds, Guillory had called Fruge to see what he could do to help. The woman identified herself to Fruge as Rose Cheramie.

Fruge had no choice at the time except to place Cheramie in the Eunice City Jail. He then went out to attend the Eunice Police Department’s Annual Ball. About an hour later a police officer came over to the function and told Fruge that Cheramie was undergoing withdrawal symptoms. Fruge came back and, after recognizing the condition, called a local doctor, Dr. Derouin, from the coroner’s office. Derouin administered a sedative via syringe to calm her down. The doctor then suggested that she be removed from the jail and taken to the state facility in Jackson. After Fruge agreed, Derouin called the facility at about midnight on the 20th and made arrangements for her delivery there. Afterwards, Fruge called Charity Hospital in Lafayette and ordered an ambulance for the transport to the hospital.

Fruge accompanied Cheramie to the hospital. And, according to his House Select Committee deposition, it was at this point that Rose began to relate her fascinating and astonishing tale. Calmed by the sedative, and according to Fruge, quite lucid, she began to respond to some routine questions with some quite unusual answers. She told him that she was en route from Florida to Dallas with two men who looked Cuban or Italian. The men told her that they were going to kill the president in Dallas in just a few days. Cheramie herself was not part of the plot but apparently the men were also part of a large dope ring with Rose since Cheramie’s function was as a courier of funds for heroin which was to be dropped off to her by a seaman coming into the port of Galveston. She was to pick up the money for the drugs from a man who was holding her child. It seemed a quite intricate dope ring since she was then to transport the heroin to Mexico. The two men were supposed to accompany her to Mexico but the whole transaction got short-circuited on Highway 190 near Eunice. In the confines of a seedy bar called the Silver Slipper Lounge, Cheramie’s two friends were met by a third party. Rose left with the two men she came with. But a short distance away from the bar, an argument apparently ensued. And although some have written that she was thrown out of the vehicle and hit by an oncoming car, according to Fruge, Rose said that the argument took place inside the Silver Slipper, and that the two men and the manager, Mac Manual, threw her out. While hitchhiking on the 190, she was hit by a car driven by one Frank Odom. It was Odom who then delivered her to Moosa. As Fruge so memorably recalled to Jonathan Blackmer of the HSCA, Cheramie summed up her itinerary in Dallas in the following manner: "She said she was going to, number one, pick up some money, pick up her baby, and to kill Kennedy." (p. 9 of Fruge’s 4/18/78 deposition)

At the hospital, Cheramie again predicted the assassination. On November 22nd, several nurses were watching television with Cheramie. According to these witnesses, "…during the telecast moments before Kennedy was shot Rose Cheramie stated to them, ‘This is when it is going to happen’ and at that moment Kennedy was assassinated. The nurses, in turn, told others of Cheramie’s prognostication." (Memo of Frank Meloche to Louis Ivon, 5/22/67. Although the Dallas motorcade was not broadcast live on the major networks, the nurses were likely referring to the spot reports that circulated through local channels in the vicinity of the trip. Of course, the assassination itself was reported on by network television almost immediately after it happened.) Further, according to a psychiatrist there, Dr. Victor Weiss, Rose "…told him that she knew both Ruby and Oswald and had seen them sitting together on occasions at Ruby’s club." (Ibid., 3/13/67) In fact, Fruge later confirmed the fact that she had worked as a stripper for Ruby. (Louisiana State Police report of 4/4/67.)

Fruge had discounted Cheramie’s earlier comments to him as drug-induced delusions. Or, as he said to Blackmer, "When she came out with the Kennedy business, I just said, wait a minute, wait a minute, something wrong here somewhere." (Fruge, HSCA deposition, p. 9) He further described her in this manner:

Now, bear in mind that she talked: she’d talk for awhile, looks like the shots would have effect on her again and she’d go in, you know, she’d just get numb, and after awhile she’d just start talking again. (Ibid.)

But apparently, at the time of the assassination Cheramie appeared fine. The word spread throughout the hospital that she had predicted Kennedy’s murder in advance. Dr. Wayne Owen, who had been interning from LSU at the time, later told the Madison Capital Times that he and other interns were told of the plot in advance of the assassination. Amazingly, Cheramie even predicted the role of her former boss Jack Ruby because Owen was quoted as saying that one of the interns was told "…that one of the men involved in the plot was a man named Jack Rubinstein." (2/11/68) Owen said that they shrugged it off at the time. But when they learned that Rubinstein was Ruby they grew quite concerned. "We were all assured that something would be done about it by the FBI or someone. Yet we never heard anything." (Ibid.) In fact, Cheramie’s association with Ruby was also revealed to Dr. Weiss. For in an interview with him after the assassination, Rose revealed that she had worked as a drug courier for Jack Ruby. (Memo of Frank Meloche to Jim Garrison, 2/23/67) In the same memo, there is further elaboration on this important point:

I believe she also mentioned that she worked in the night club for Ruby and that she was forced to go to Florida with another man whom she did not name to pick up a shipment of dope to take back to Dallas, that she didn’t want to do this thing but she had a young child and that they would hurt her child if she didn’t.

These comments are, of course, very revealing about Ruby’s role in both an intricate drug smuggling scheme and, at the least, his probable acquaintance with men who either had knowledge of, or were actually involved in, the assassination. This is a major point in this story which we will return to later.

Although Fruge had discounted the Cheramie story on November 20th, the events of the 22nd made him a believer. Right after JFK’s murder, Fruge "…called that hospital up in Jackson and told them by no way in the world to turn her loose until I could get my hands on her." (Fruge’s HSCA deposition, p. 12.) So on November 25th, Fruge journeyed up to Jackson again to talk to Cheramie. This time he conducted a much more in-depth interview. Fruge found out that Cheramie had been traveling with the two men from Miami. He also found that the men seemed to be a part of the conspiracy rather than to be just aware of it. After the assassination, they were supposed to stop by a home in Dallas to pick up both around eight thousand dollars plus Rose’s baby. From there Cheramie was supposed to check into the Rice Hotel in Houston under an assumed name. Houston is in close proximity to Galveston, the town from which the drugs were coming in from. From Houston, once the transaction was completed, the trio were headed for Mexico.

How reliable a witness was Cheramie? Extermely. Fruge decided to have the drug deal aspect of her story checked out by the state troopers and U. S. Customs. The officers confirmed the name of the seaman on board the correct ship coming into Galveston. The Customs people checked the Rice Hotel and the reservations had been made for her under an assumed name. The contact who had the money and her baby was checked and his name showed that he was an underworld, suspected narcotics dealer. Fruge checked Cheramie’s baggage and found that one box had baby clothes and shoes inside.

Fruge flew Cheramie from Louisiana to Houston on Tuesday, the 26th. In the back seat of the small Sesna 180, a newspaper was lying between them. One of the headlines read to the effect that "investigators or something had not been able to establish a relationship between Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald." (Fruge’s HSCA deposition p. 19) When Cheramie read this headline, she started to giggle. She then added, "Them two queer sons-of-a-bitches. They’ve been shacking up for years." (Ibid.) She added that she knew this to be true from her experience of working for Ruby. Fruge then had his superior call up Captain Will Fritz of the Dallas Police to relay what an important witness Cheramie could be in his investigation. Fruge related what followed next:

Colonel Morgan called Captain Fritz up from Dallas and told him what we had, the information that we had, that we had a person that had given us this information. And of course there again it was an old friend, and there was a little conversation. But anyway, when Colonel Morgan hung up, he turned around and told us they don’t want her. They’re not interested.

Fruge then asked Cheramie if she wished to try telling her tale to the FBI. She declined. She did not wish to involve herself further. With this, the Cheramie investigation was now halted. Rose was released and Fruge went back to Louisiana. So, just four days after the assassination, with an extremely and provably credible witness alive, with her potentially explosive testimony able to be checked out, the Cheramie testimony was now escorted out to pasture. Eyewitness testimony that Ruby knew Oswald, that Ruby was somehow involved in an international drug circle, that two Latins were aware of and perhaps involved in a plot to kill Kennedy, and that Ruby probably knew the men; this incredible lead—the type investigators pine for—was being shunted aside by Fritz. It would stay offstage until Jim Garrison began to poke into the Kennedy case years later.

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The rest of this article can be found in The Assassinations, edited by Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease.

[Thomas Graves]

Other than on Cheramie's (unsourced) Spartacus webpage, where have you read that the two guys worked for Jack Ruby?

--Tommy

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10/6/13 WND [ formerly known as WorldNetDaily ]

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According to a Louisiana State Police report in mid-November 1963, she worked “as a dope runner for Jack Ruby.”

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[ added by T. Graves for clarification ]

Just to set the record straight--

Due to the (clever?) lack of commas after the words "report" and "November," and the concomitant lack of the helping verb "had" before the verb "worked," the uncritical reader could be led to believe from the above WorldNetDaily article that the 1967 Louisiana State Police report referred to was written in November of 1963 and / or that the report, whenever it was written, must have been based on information Cheramie herself had given to the Louisiana police when it fact it was based on "hearsay" statements made in February 1967 by an A. H. Magruder, hunting partner of a psychiatrist who had allegedly spoken with Cheramie in the hospital more than three years earlier.

http://www.jfk-online.com/cherdoc0.html

--Tommy

Edited May 30, 2014 by Thomas Graves

[Steven Gaal]

Fruge decided to have the drug deal aspect of her story checked out by the state troopers and U. S. Customs. The officers confirmed the name of the seaman on board the correct ship coming into Galveston. The Customs people checked the Rice Hotel and the reservations had been made for her under an assumed name. The contact who had the money and her baby was checked and his name showed that he was an underworld, suspected narcotics dealer. Fruge checked Cheramie’s baggage and found that one box had baby clothes and shoes inside.

Fruge flew Cheramie from Louisiana to Houston on Tuesday, the 26th. In the back seat of the small Sesna 180, a newspaper was lying between them. One of the headlines read to the effect that "investigators or something had not been able to establish a relationship between Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald." (Fruge’s HSCA deposition p. 19) When Cheramie read this headline, she started to giggle. She then added, "Them two queer sons-of-a-bitches. They’ve been shacking up for years." (Ibid.) She added that she knew this to be true from her experience of working for Ruby. Fruge then had his superior call up Captain Will Fritz of the Dallas Police to relay what an important witness Cheramie could be in his investigation. Fruge related what followed next:

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Colonel Morgan called Captain Fritz up from Dallas and told him what we had, the information that we had, that we had a person that had given us this information. And of course there again it was an old friend, and there was a little conversation. But anyway, when Colonel Morgan hung up, he turned around and told us they don’t want her. They’re not interested.

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see

G-1 HSCA testimony of Lt. Fruge; Louisiana State Police, excerpts G-2 Memorandum Detective Meloche to Jim Garrison, Statement of A.H. Magruder G-3 Department of the Treasury; Customs Service, memo, Houston, Texas, December 10 1963 G-4 Louisiana Patrol Memo from Officer Andrews on death of Rose Cheramie

see http://www.larry-hancock.com/documents/appendices/app-g/catalog.html

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Here is a summary on the Google Book page:

<quote on>

The Strength of the Wolf presents for the first time a definitive
history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) from its birth in
1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. Carefully and
extensively documented, the book is based largely on interviews with
former FBN agents, and in this respect The Strength of the Wolf
represents a new chapter in American history, one that introduces a
cast of fabulous characters. Douglas Valentine tells how the FBN's
premier case-making agents penetrated the arcane world of
international drug trafficking and, by uncovering the Establishment's
ties to organized crime, brought about their own demise. As the book
reveals in startling detail, the CIA and FBI were often protecting the
FBN's major targets in the Mafia and the French Corsican underworld.
The CIA and its Nationalist Chinese allies were found to be the
largest drug-trafficking syndicate in the world, but for political and
national security reasons, the FBN was prevented from investigating
this overarching conspiracy.

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This is transnationally protected narcotics traffif that Peter Dale Scott has written about.

Since the Rose Cheramie issue touches on it the coverup is deep and wide.
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22 Documents related to Rose Cheramie

01 180-10105-10328
02 180-10105-10330
03 180-10112-10058 ARRESTS ROSE CHERAMIE
04 180-10112-10057 MELBA MARCADES
05 180-10089-10046
06 124-10185-10123
07 124-10276-10427
08 180-10111-10073 POSTPONED IN FULL
09 180-10111-10074
10 180-10107-10062
11 180-10100-10004 1 page Customs Dept Staff
12 180-10147-10339
13 180-10104-10459 POSTPONED IN FULL
14 180-10105-10003 POSTPONED IN FULL
15 180-10106-10014
16 180-10112-10310
17 124-10373-10139
18 180-10067-10459
19 180-10074-10060 1 page
20 180-10065-10259
21 180-10089-10047 POSTPONED IN FULL
22 180-10095-10160 Rose Cheramie aliases POSTPONED IN FULL
23* 196-10001-10059
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Edited May 29, 2014 by Steven Gaal

[David Andrews]

He told me about the motorcycle police officer who claimed to have seen a man with a rifle run from the grassy knowl in front of Kennedy. (incidentally, the Omaha man claims that this is where the fatal shot came from) The police officer mysteriously had a very serious accident right after the incident, and now is a near idiot [is that Seymour Weitzman?].

Did Seymour Weitzman have an accident of this kind, with this effect? I have never heard this before, if so.

[Thomas Graves]

Fruge decided to have the drug deal aspect of her story checked out by the state troopers and U. S. Customs. The officers confirmed the name of the seaman on board the correct ship coming into Galveston. The Customs people checked the Rice Hotel and the reservations had been made for her under an assumed name. The contact who had the money and her baby was checked and his name showed that he was an underworld, suspected narcotics dealer. Fruge checked Cheramie’s baggage and found that one box had baby clothes and shoes inside.

Fruge flew Cheramie from Louisiana to Houston on Tuesday, the 26th. In the back seat of the small Sesna 180, a newspaper was lying between them. One of the headlines read to the effect that "investigators or something had not been able to establish a relationship between Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald." (Fruge’s HSCA deposition p. 19) When Cheramie read this headline, she started to giggle. She then added, "Them two queer sons-of-a-bitches. They’ve been shacking up for years." (Ibid.) She added that she knew this to be true from her experience of working for Ruby. Fruge then had his superior call up Captain Will Fritz of the Dallas Police to relay what an important witness Cheramie could be in his investigation. Fruge related what followed next:

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Colonel Morgan called Captain Fritz up from Dallas and told him what we had, the information that we had, that we had a person that had given us this information. And of course there again it was an old friend, and there was a little conversation. But anyway, when Colonel Morgan hung up, he turned around and told us they don’t want her. They’re not interested.

++++++++++++++++

see

G-1 HSCA testimony of Lt. Fruge; Louisiana State Police, excerpts G-2 Memorandum Detective Meloche to Jim Garrison, Statement of A.H. Magruder G-3 Department of the Treasury; Customs Service, memo, Houston, Texas, December 10 1963 G-4 Louisiana Patrol Memo from Officer Andrews on death of Rose Cheramie

see http://www.larry-hancock.com/documents/appendices/app-g/catalog.html

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Here is a summary on the Google Book page:

<quote on>

The Strength of the Wolf presents for the first time a definitive

history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) from its birth in

1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. Carefully and

extensively documented, the book is based largely on interviews with

former FBN agents, and in this respect The Strength of the Wolf

represents a new chapter in American history, one that introduces a

cast of fabulous characters. Douglas Valentine tells how the FBN's

premier case-making agents penetrated the arcane world of

international drug trafficking and, by uncovering the Establishment's

ties to organized crime, brought about their own demise. As the book

reveals in startling detail, the CIA and FBI were often protecting the

FBN's major targets in the Mafia and the French Corsican underworld.

The CIA and its Nationalist Chinese allies were found to be the

largest drug-trafficking syndicate in the world, but for political and

national security reasons, the FBN was prevented from investigating

this overarching conspiracy.

+++++++++++++

This is transnationally protected narcotics traffif that Peter Dale Scott has written about.

Since the Rose Cheramie issue touches on it the coverup is deep and wide.

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22 Documents related to Rose Cheramie

01 180-10105-10328

02 180-10105-10330

03 180-10112-10058 ARRESTS ROSE CHERAMIE

04 180-10112-10057 MELBA MARCADES

05 180-10089-10046

06 124-10185-10123

07 124-10276-10427

08 180-10111-10073 POSTPONED IN FULL

09 180-10111-10074

10 180-10107-10062

11 180-10100-10004 1 page Customs Dept Staff

12 180-10147-10339

13 180-10104-10459 POSTPONED IN FULL

14 180-10105-10003 POSTPONED IN FULL

15 180-10106-10014

16 180-10112-10310

17 124-10373-10139

18 180-10067-10459

19 180-10074-10060 1 page

20 180-10065-10259

21 180-10089-10047 POSTPONED IN FULL

22 180-10095-10160 Rose Cheramie aliases POSTPONED IN FULL

23* 196-10001-10059

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23* This document was under NARA as Melba Marcades

Gaal,

Thank you so much for putting the really important stuff in big red letters.

If you hadn't, I'm sure everyone would have missed it.

--Tommy

Edited May 30, 2014 by Thomas Graves

[Steven Gaal]

He told me about the motorcycle police officer who claimed to have seen a man with a rifle run from the grassy knowl in front of Kennedy. (incidentally, the Omaha man claims that this is where the fatal shot came from) The police officer mysteriously had a very serious accident right after the incident, and now is a near idiot [is that Seymour Weitzman?].

Did Seymour Weitzman have an accident of this kind, with this effect? I have never heard this before, if so.

No cant be him (this is not the letter writters info ,but speculation.) I suspect its the "22nd DPD" officer.

see

21 JFK cops who heard a grassy knoll shot

http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/21-jfk-cops-who-heard-a-grassy-knoll-shot/#more-6381

=============

We

dont know who /where were all of the

DPD officers locations on 11/22 and the fate/history of all DPD officers post 11/22.

. Maybe below. (GAAL)

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Christian Frantz Toussay

Christian Frantz Toussay

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Posted 09 May 2010 - 08:24 PM

Frantz, on Mar 20 2010, 08:06 PM, said:

...I have been quite busy lately, and have not had the time to check if anything was posted that I should reply to. If that’s the case, I will, just bear with me for a few days more…

In the mean time, I have got hold of an exploitable copy of the uncropped Nix film, and I propose to test the methodology I have described here to verify that, as I claim:

*the process indicated does indeed enhance pictures tremendously

*processing of the JFK assassination pictures and films shows that JFK was assassinated by 3 teams of people wearing uniforms, in all probability Dallas Police uniforms

As you may know, the uncropped version of the Nix film is known as the Charlier Version, from the respected French journalist who obtained a copy of the original before it was sent to the FBI, and returned heavily cropped just at the level of the retaining wall, in effect hiding the Knoll area.

The Charlier Version does include the Knoll area, although totally blackened out so as to make it impenetrable to the human eye.

If what I am saying is correct, I should be able to verify in the uncropped Nix film the presence, in the vicinity of the Retaining wall Corner, of at least one “DPD officer” during the shooting.

I have already posted here 4 images of this man, extracted from Moorman, Willis, Beltzer, and Zapruder, so I will tend to be reasonably confident that the Nix film will show evidence of at least 1 man wearing a dark blue uniform and military cap, standing in the vicinity of the corner of the retaining wall, and watching the motorcade passing by (it is my interpretation that this man / men serve as a decoy to deflect attention from the fence as a possible assassin’s location).

If it does, I think it would constitute a valid and concrete testing of the methodology I propose, and of the results previously presented here, and I hope it will at least stir the interest of some researchers. As I explained, I can supply the complete file for each picture processed.

If I can’t find anything of interest (nobody, as far as I know, has worked on the uncropped film: Groden worked on the cropped version showing 1 inch above the wall, so I just don’t know what to expect in terms of quality) I will say so here.

I will work on several different frames, so as to eliminate the hypothesis of artefacts.

I should be able to post the first results within a week or so…

…OK, I am posting below, as promised, the first results obtained from the processing of the uncropped Nix film.

As indicated in my previous post, I worked on several different frames to eliminate the optical illusion argument. I worked on 5 frames, though I am only presenting 3 here. All 5 frames results are coherent.

Though the results presented can probably be improved, I think they are already sufficiently interesting to be shown here even at this stage.

Before you analyze the images, here is some information on how I worked:

*I screen-captured 29 frames of the shooting sequence showing the retaining wall and knoll area

*since I focused on frames of particular interest (yes, it is actually possible to detect movement, though of an unknown nature, at the extremity of the wall when viewing the film frame by frame, even with the naked eye) they are not evenly spaced in time, and of course do not correspond to the official frame-count (if there is one…) of the Nix film.

*I then processed the images as described here several times. As usual, I worked with ArcSoft PhotoStudio, which allows for the easy creation and use of transparencies. As usual, I have kept all the records showing the progression from the original image to the results presented., and they are available to anyone willing to check.

In my previous post, I stated that, in all probability, the extremity of the retaining wall corner would reveal the presence of at least one man in uniform.

It would appear that I was right in this prediction, as indicated by the composite picture posted below, showing three images of an unknown “DPD officer” just at the extremity of the wall corner during the shooting.

Astute observers will probably notice how the movements and postures of the man correspond to someone watching a motorcade (or any moving kind of event) coming at him from the right (frame 12), passing in front of him (frame 20) and speeding away to the left (frame 29)

Naturally, I am no psychic: this man can be seen in several pictures of the assassination after processing (some of them have been posted here), so the possibility that he would also be visible in the Nix film was quite high.

On the other hand, as some will notice, in science theory the predictive capability of an hypothesis is considered a key factor, so what I am posting below is in fact a strong argument in favour of what I am trying to say here for some time now:

*statement n°1: there is a simple, apparently not well known, computer–based process that can enhance pictures tremendously

*statement n°2: applied to the JFK photo and film record, it shows that men in DPD uniforms executed the assassination, shooting from the Daltex 2nd floor, the TSBD Snipper’s Nest, and the picket fence corner area parallel to the retaining wall

The man seen in the frames below is in all probability BlackDogMan, discovered decades ago in other pictures. My work is only validating the original discoverers, and giving additional (in my view, crucial…) information as to his identity.

As a conclusion, I would like to say this: there are lots of other assassination-related pictures to analyze. I am presently working on the autopsy pictures with …interesting results.

There is also a very good probability that the uncropped Nix film might show exploitable images of the fence, allowing for confirmation of a two-man assassins team behind the fence near the corner.

Anyone could very quickly master the technique described and start producing pertinent data. I assume that anyone working with closer-to-the-source material and/or better software could get markedly improved results than what I can get myself.

One last thing: the images below illustrates the random aspect of the process: you never know what an image will exactly look like when you are producing it (though some basic, general rules seem to emerge after some practice) and some results are quite different from what you would expect from classic photo enhancement, as several critics have noted.

My only explanation for this is that the process actually is about extracting information from the support, and does not address the least the question of how it will look like in the end.

So let me hear your comments to the images I am posting below…

Edited May 30, 2014 by Steven Gaal