Elliott Roosevelt and the JFK asssassination

[Michael Clark]

From a recent thread by David Boylan ( linked below)

Veciana and "Mr. Bishop." Interesting doc from Feb 1964.

"On February 28, 1964 seven Cubans representing the SNFE, and two Americans who were described as lawyers from Orlando, Florida, met in the office of ELLIOT ROOSEVELT, Miami. Five of the Cubans known to the source were ANTONlO VECIANA,. RICHARD VERANES, one GARCIA (first name unknown), one MEDINA; .possibly CARLOS MEDINA, and ARMANDO FLEITES. The two Americans were a Mr. BISHOP and BOB PETRIE, both lawyers, allegedly from Orlando."

http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-Oct2017/docid-32302103.pdf

 

David Boylan's thread

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/24642-veciana-and-mr-bishop/?tab=comments#comment-370159

 

[Michael Clark]

Wiki entry

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Roosevelt

Edited March 11, 2018 by Michael Clark

[Michael Clark]

Quixotic Joust entry. I read this a couple times and I am not sure, but it looks like a young LHO lived, for a time, on property rented from, or recently purchased from, Elliott Roosevelt. This was when Marguerite was married to Ekdahl.

http://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/2012/05/colossal-failure-to-research-ekdahl.html

 

Edited March 11, 2018 by Michael Clark

[Michael Clark]

Excerpts wiki

He faced charges of corruption, including accusations that he had recommended the purchase of the experimental Hughes XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft against a Lockheed model that was believed to be superior.

he was hired as vice president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce (see Aerospace Industries Association), a post he held until 1935. That year he moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and became involved in broadcasting and farming.

Roosevelt pursued many different careers during his life, including owning a pre-war radio station network (Texas State Network) in Texas and living as a rancher. He again moved to Florida and was elected mayor of Miami Beach (1965), being unseated two years later.^[2] After a business career marked by ties to organized crime, he was investigated by the Senate ("Jackson Committee") in 1973

In 1973, Roosevelt was accused of involvement in an assassination plot on the Bahamanian Prime Minister during the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings on corruption. In 1968, he and an "alleged mobster front man," Michael J. McLaney, offered Louis Mastriana $100,000 to assassinate Prime Minister Lynden Pindling. Mastriana was paid $10,000 up front, most of which came from Elliott Roosevelt (as proved by a signature on a check for the money). The assassination plot was conceived after Prime Minister Pindling's failure to issue a gambling license to an associate of Meyer Lansky, (whom Michael J. McLaney worked for until his conviction in 1971). It was uncovered by Mastriana; he taped all of his conversation with Elliott Roosevelt, allegedly using equipment from the US Postal Service. Elliott maintained that this was a lie until his death.

Edited March 11, 2018 by Michael Clark

[Michael Clark]

Excerpts. Quixotic

 

 

The Roosevelts, we are told, had already sold their ranch a year before the Ekdahls arrived, though it was in exactly the same area, "about 15 miles outside Fort Worth,"according to a 1985 article in which the Roosevelt children remembered living there. With WWII heating up, however, Elliott had felt called to quit the job of managing his wife's radio station and the ranch she had purchased with an inheritance from her long-deceased father, Joseph B. Googins, to return to the Army Air Corps. The title to the ranch was transferred from Ruth Googins Roosevelt in 1944, and then acquired in 1946 by Sid Richardson, the owner at the time the federal government condemned it for Benbrook Lake. History demands that someone in Tarrant County with access to deed records find out who that intervening owner was.

Edited March 11, 2018 by Michael Clark