Robert Howard

Wow, this is great Robin. I can't speak for anyone else, but you guys from Down Under rock! Viewing these photos makes me think of all the people of Dallas, I've spoken to over the years. I believe it is one of those things right out of Ripley's Believe It or Not, that while Dallas has its negative association with the assassination, I would be hard pressed, to recall a single person in Dallas that bought into the official version of how JFK was killed. There are many many people in Dallas, who, myself included, look at that day as one of, if not the greatest tragedy of our time. Whether, we realize it or not, this website and all who make a contribution to discovering the truth about that day, are just as much patriots as anyone else in American history.

If I remember correctly, no one put a gun to Walker's head to distribute John Birch Society material to his troops. If anyone remembers when General Edwin Walker testified before the Warren Commission, he was one of a handful of persons, who came to testify who actually seemed to enjoy delving into the concept of a conspiracy regarding the assassination, albeit with the imprimatur that said conspiracy was left wing in its roots, he even delved into the death of George Deen, who had died before the assassination of JFK in Dallas in a fire. While I have arguably made enough contributions here on the Forum to participate, I still have a few things to contribute. The following document, from the HSCA era, actually specifically mentions, if I am not mistaken, the same George Deen....Imagine that! https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=77957 For details regarding George Deen's October '63 death before the JFK Assassination see http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=14340&page=2 If one is open to suggestion, my premise about the document is that it reveals there was a mini-Cold-War going on in Dallas, not unlike the global Cold War taking place throughout the world of that time on a global scale. The "Communist informant" who appears somewhere in the Warren Commission documents is also in this document, as are very many familiar names to even those who are even amateur historians, all on the left. If someone was more erudite than myself at genealogy research, they might look into Bessie Byrd, even I would like to know if she was related to D.H. Harold Byrd, the CAP guy. Remember Frontline's infamous photo of Oswald and Ferrie in the same photograph, isn't it amazing that something that was once a really big deal, is now pretty much a yawner? Another name on the document list is Raible. Those who remember GME's book "A Certain Arrogance" would do well to be familiar with its contents, and conclusions. While Raible is not mentioned in Evica's book, the Unitarian Church to which Raible spent his life dedicated to is. In the book Unitarianism in Dallas: 1899-1968, considerable space is devoted to Rev. Robert Jules Raible, who, according to the book, "moved to Dallas with his family in late August, 1942, preached his first sermon as Dallas minister on September 13." His wife, Miss Mildred Galt...."had been born in Japan and reared in China, and was the daughter of Congregational missionaries," also according to the book. After years of studying Lee Harvey Oswald and Cold War history, you discover that Oswald wasn't the first person that an intelligence agency, and/or its leaders threw someone "under the bus." See Varian Fry for one, Evica knew about Fry....and solving JFK riddles As far as Edwin Walker, he had his little traveling band touring the country with Billy James Hargis, when JFK was assassinated, Walker and Hargis and their ilk are still very much represented in the America of 2014. The imaginary demons are still on the American political left, and the guys that wear white still push the fear button on a daily basis, whether the imaginary scandals are a total deception or a symptom of a country that has lost its way, is, in the eyes of the beholder. Something tells me none of you are familiar with this document either, and if you think the Catherwood Foundation is irrelevant to the JFK assassination, you would be very much mistaken. https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=10702&relPageId=60

Thanks Tom. I wanted to wait until I found more corroborating information, before I responded. There is a book by Mitch Helpern?, not sure that states the "magic bullet" was found on a schoolboy's stretcher, or something to that effect. At any rate, the downside to "how all this happened" at Parkland sadly, does not seem to include Jack Ruby dropping off the bullet on a stretcher, as chronicled in Oliver Stone's JFK, but it might be worth reminding that a Bay of Pigs veteran Rodolfo Godinez, was a anesthesiologist at Parkland, Dr. Crenshaw, of course has his input, although his book only mentions O.P. Wright once, if you go to youtube. there is a clip where Wright discusses the bullet from the time of the assassination, not in some 50 year retrospective, thank goodness. Here's the other obit.... Former Deputy Chief, 'Pokey' Wright Dies; Dallas Morning News; 03-23-1974; Page: 5; Otis Pope "Pokey" Wright, 67, of 10575 Cromwell Drive, retired deputy chief of police, with the Dallas Police Department died at 8:06 pm Friday in Parkland Memorial Hospital. Wright had been chief of Security at Parkland since its opening in 1962. His wife, Elizabeth is director of nursing there. A native of Pine Bluff, Ark., he moved with his parents to Dallas in his early childhood. Wright served with the Dallas Police Department 28 years before retiring in 1958 as deputy chief of police in command of the patrol bureau. He served as chief deputy constable in Precinct 7 for four years after retiring from the Dallas police force. Wright also served as chief of the police security force at the State Fair during the late 1940's. He was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church and the Hilltoppers Club of the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce and was a former director of the Oak Cliff Lions Club. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm in the Calvary Baptist Church. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth, two daughters, one stepson, one step daughter, three brothers, two sisters and six grandchildren.

I tried to assimilate the most pertinent information, and I hope that everybody familiar with the whole Dallas element of the assassination weighs in, and as egotistical as I do not want to seem, I think there may be some new facts in here, as well as a feeling Patrick Dean may have been an insider regarding the whole "estate" business, the one that was "being guarded" on 11/22/63, although that is speculative on my part... OFFICER WHO HEARD JACK RUBY'S CONFESSION DIES The Dallas Morning News - Sunday, August 14, 1988 Patrick T. Dean, 56, the Dallas police officer who said he heard Jack Ruby confess to killing Lee Harvey Oswald, died Saturday afternoon in a Tyler hospital after a lengthy illness. A Tyler native, Dean moved to Dallas as a child and lived there most of his life. He joined the Dallas Police Department as a 19-year-old clerk in 1951 because he was two years too young to apply for an officer's position. Dean rose to the rank of sergeant. A severe off-duty car accident forced him into early retirement in 1973. Dean was supervisor of security in the basement of Dallas police headquarters on Nov. 24, 1963 -- the day that Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of killing President John F. Kennedy two days prior, was to be transferred from the city jail to the Dallas County jail. It was in that basement that Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby stepped through a throng of reporters and shot and killed Oswald with a .38-caliber pistol. Dean said in testimony during Ruby's trial that less than an hour after the shooting, he was escorting Ruby upstairs for questioning when Ruby said, "I killed the son-of-a-bitch because I didn't want Jackie Kennedy to be hurt anymore.' Dean's testimony was a pivotal part of the prosecution's case, but later was declared inadmissible by a state Appeals Court. Survivors include his wife, Shirley, of Tyler; one daughter, Tivilla Hoff of Dallas; two sons, Darrell Dean and Tony Dean, both of Tyler; and one grandson. Two memorial services will be held Tuesday -- at 10 a.m. at Burks-Walker-Tippit Funeral Home in Tyler and at 2:30 p.m. at the Brook Hollow Baptist Church, 135 West Wintergreen Road, DeSoto. USA TODAY (Arlington, VA) - August 19, 1988 Deceased Name: Patrick "Trevore" Dean TEXAS: Patrick "Trevore" Dean , 56, police sergeant on duty in the Dallas City Hall basement Nov. 24, 1963; first to interrogate Jack Ruby after Lee Harvey Oswald was shot. Cancer, Friday in Tyler. USA TODAY (Arlington, VA) Date: August 19, 1988 Page: 10a Record Number: 126715 Copyright © 1988 Gannett Co., Inc. All rights reserved. PATRICK TREVORE DEAN Birth: Mar. 17, 1932 Death: Aug. 13, 1988 Policeman Family links: Spouse: Shirley Wright Dean (1934 - 2010) Burial: Laurel Land Memorial Park Dallas Dallas County Texas, USA Created by: NWO Record added: Nov 18, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 120506280 A Record from Mary Ferrell's Database Record: DEAN, PATRICK TREVORE (SGT.) Sources: WC 5 (244-48, 254-58); WC 12 (415-449); WC 13 (50-4, 79-81); CE 2159; CD 897 (54-55); CD 1043 (1-2); CD 1116; HSCA Report (158); HSCA IV (554, 580-2, 584, 591); HSCA IX (137-41, 144, 1124-27); Accessories After the Fact, Meagher (23-4, 407-8, 410-5); Best Evidence, Lifton (99); Coincidence or Conspiracy?, Fensterwald (108-10); Conspiracy, Summers (486-87, 490-92); Cover-Up, Shaw & Harris (23-4); Forgive My Grief I, Jones (37, 67, 69; 73-4; 77-8); Inquest, Epstein (100); Moment of Madness, Gertz (553); Photographic Whitewash, Weisberg (40, 56); Plot to Kill the President, Blakey & Billings (320-4, 330, 333); Rush to Judgment, Lane (18, 227, 392-5); Who Was Jack Ruby?, Kantor (2-5, 61-2, 73, 75, 114, 125, 149-50. 153, 160-3); Continuing Inquiry, 4/22/79 (1-3); Continuing Inquiry, 1/22/80 (6-7); Dallas Morning News Sun. 8/14/88, p. 41-A; 89A-DL-60165-45 (MMF 2444) Mary's Comments: Dallas Police Sgt. Friend of Jack Ruby. Dean gave contradictory accounts. Died 8/13/88 in Tyler, Texas. Survived by wife Shirley Dean of Tyler*, daughter Tivilla Hoff of Dallas, sons Darrell and Tony of Tyler. Wife supposed to have been daughter of O. P. Wright of Parkland Hospital. O. P. Wright's second wife was Elizabeth Good, nurse who came to Parkland from Florida shortly before Assassination * see No More Silence Shirley Weir also see CD 4 Commission Document 4 - FBI Clements Report of 30 Nov 1963 re: Ruby pg 642 Found in: Warren Commission Documents Date 11/28/63 MISS SHIRLEY Y. WEIR Apartment 211 223 Ewing Street Dallas Texas advised that she had never seen JACK RUBY and does not know him. MISS WEIR stated that after JACK RUBY was arrested one of her boyfriends, a Dallas police officer named BOBBY DALE told her that RUBY had always been friendly with the Dallas police officers and always talked to any police officers he had met. excerpt of Interview of Bobby Joe Dale p 138-39 from No More Silence "When Oswald would come out of the office and down the hall, what I observed was that he seemed to be toying with everybody else. He knew what he was doing and seemed very confident. He acted like he was in charge and, as it turned out, he probably was. I was off the following day, as I had already made arrangements to attend the wedding of a friend of mine in Oklahoma. In fact, many of the motorcycle officers were off duty. About the only time this subject came up with the motorcycle officers after this was over was when an officer was asked to come to the Warren Commission or be questioned elsewhere. It wasn't something that we sat around and talked about. I guess we thought about it, but we didn't talk about it, unless somebody was called to Washington. Coincidentally, on one of those flights, my wife who was a stewardess for American, ran into P. T. Dean, who also was going to Washington to testify. Since American had a policy about stewardesses not being married, she passed him a note saying, "I'm Shirley Weir, but I'm not supposed to be married." She figured that he would say something since we all knew each other. Before we were married, she also lived in an apartment at Thornton and Ewing above Jack Ruby, though she really didn't know him. END A Record from Mary Ferrell's Database Record: WRIGHT, O. P. (WIFE: ELIZABETH L. WRIGHT) Sources: WC Vol 6, pp. 110, 139, 152; WC Vol 21, pp. 229-232; HSCA Vol 1, p. 442; Inquest, Epstein, p. 64; The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Duffy and Ricci, pp. 516-517; High Treason, Groden and Livingstone, p. 66 Mary's Comments: Security Officer at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Sgt. Patrick Dean's wife, Shirley Dean, was allegedly the daughter of O. P. Wright. Dallas Morning News, The (TX) - December 30, 2010 Deceased Name: Shirley Wright Dean Coppell, TX Dean , Shirley Wright 76 went to be with her family in Heaven on December 27, 2010. Preceded in death by husband Patrick Trevore Dean , parents O.P. "Pokey" Wright and Joe Madeline Kerr Wright and grandson Brandon Lamar. Survived by daughter Tivilla Lamar and partner Kim Luedy; sons Darrell Dean and Tony Dean & wife Marsha; grandchild Leah; sister, Raylene Gadberry; two nephews, and six great-nieces and nephews all of the Dallas area. Shirley was devoted to her family and was proud of belonging to the DPD Family there. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, was one of the first officers in the Dallas Police Officers Wives Auxiliary and was a past president of the Chapel Hill Educational Secretary's Assn. She was the first woman ever elected to the Board of Trustees of the Chapel Hill Independent School District in East Texas. Shirley 's children believe that the Coppell Senior Citizens Center, and the many friends that she made there, added years to her life and life to her years...and they will always be grateful. Shirley will be missed by all those who knew and loved her. Funeral services will be held on Friday, December 31, 2010 at 12:00pm in the chapel of Laurel Land Funeral Home with visitation 1 hr. prior. Burial will follow at Laurel Land Memorial Park. 3/24/74 DMN page 43 Otis Pope (Pokey) Wright, 10575 Cromwell Survived by wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Wright; daughters, Shirley Dean, Carrollton, Mrs. Raylene Stillwell, Irving. stepson, Irving O. Good; stepdaughter, Miss Allen C. Johnson, Alexandria, Louisiana; six grandchildren; sisters Miss Charlcie Wright, Miss March Wright, Mrs. J.E. Wilson, all of Dallas. brothers, Paul Wright, Delbert Wright, Dallas; Samuel Wright, Clarksville, Georgia Services 2:00 pm Monday, Calvary Baptist Church, Rev. F. K. Mullendore, Chaplain Herman Cook, Rev. Clyde Box and Dr. Dan Kent officiating; Internment Laurel Land. Pallbearers T. A. Vines, Norman Gillett, C. Jack Price, Robert Scott, Bennie Scott, Jesse Curry. Honorary pallbearers: Security Department at Parkland Hospital, Dallas Police Department and Dallas Sheriff's Department. Remains will lie in state at Lamar Smith until 1:00 pm Monday LAMAR & SMITH FUNERAL HOME 800 W. JEFFERSON 946-2146 OTIS P. WRIGHT Birth: Apr. 6, 1906 Arkansas, USA Death: Mar. 22, 1974 Dallas Dallas County Texas, USA Buried on March 25, 1974. He died in Parkland Hospital. Chief of Security - Parkland Hospital Social Security Number 457-40-9714 Home at death: 10575 Cromwell, Dallas His parents were Robert D. Wright & Effie Carter. Source of above information: Death Certificate He has become famous by being associated with the President John F. Kennedy assassination. He is the person who turned the "Magic Bullet" (Warren Commission Exhibit 399) over to Secret Service Agent Richard E. Johnsen. The bullet was found on a stretcher by Darrell Carlisle Tomlinson, who called Wright over. Burial: Laurel Land Memorial Park Dallas Dallas County Texas, USA Created by: NWO Record added: Sep 10, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 29717026

Commission Document 296 - Post Office Dept. Summary of 17 Jan 1964 re: Postal Inspection Assistance page 2 also CE 1797 In accordance with the request of the Honorable Earl Warren, Chairman, President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, there are attached two copies of an summary setting forth the assistance rendered by the Postal Inspection Service in the investigation of the assassination. There are also attached for the confidential information of the Commission two copies of the front and back of POD form 2153x dated September 18, 1963, covering a publication called “OGONEK” addressed to Mr. Lee H. Oswald, Box 2915, Dallas, Texas. The pen and ink notations on the card were evidently made by Oswald, as they constitute his reply, and his name has been signed to the reply. Form 2153x is used in connection with incoming mail matter suspected of containing Communist propaganda. It will be appreciated, therefore, if this feature is treated as confidential. The original card was turned over to the FBI. We shall be happy, of course to furnish any additional information desired by the Commission. Sincerely Yours, [signature ]Henry Montague H. B. Montague Chief Inspector end page 3 ASSISTANCE RENDERED BY THE POSTAL INSPECTION SERVICE IN INVESTIGATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S ASSASSINATION Immediately upon learning of the assassination of President Kennedy, the cooperation of the Postal Inspection Service dated 17 Jan 1964 ...A postal employee of the........ Mr and Mrs Tobias LHO landlords at 602 Elsbeth Mrs Tobias also stated that an information form re the Oswalds was in the possession of Mrs. Martin Jurek page 4 On the morning of November 24, in accordance with a request of the FBI, postal inspectors obtained and furnished the address of Mrs. Ruth Willis, a Terminal Annex box patron, who worked on the fourth floor of the Texas School Book Depository on November 22, and heard footsteps overhead just after shots were fired page 5 A postal inspector took part in the interrogation session of Oswald for about two hours just prior to the shooting of Oswald on November 24. A memorandum covering the interview was furnished by him to the FBI at their request. On December 2, the Secret Service advised that they had a letter from Oswald to his wife, written in Russian prior to the assassination, indicating there might be a sudden, permanent separation between him and his wife. Because the Secret Service surmised that Mrs. Oswald would receive further word through a post office on Ervay Street, postal inspector gave the matter attention but could not locate the letter. At New Orleans, Louisiana. On the evening of November 22, postal inspectors determined from records page 6 At Irving, Texas Mrs. Ed Roberts At Fort Worth, Texas At the request of the Secret Service. On November 25, 1963, it was determined that a postage due parcel had been on hand in the Irving post office earlier in the week of the assassination for Mrs. or Mr. Oswald and was delivered on about November 20 or 21. page 7 10009 Sienna Drive, Denton, Texas. They also determined there was no criminal record for him in the Tarrant County Sherrif’s office or the Fort Worth Police Department in the motel an unidentified man remarked that "Benedict Arnold is coming to town.” The identity of the person making this remark was not established. At midnight on November 22 postal inspectors...... Peter Gregory and that his son was friendly with Oswald page 8 MEMORANDUM OF INTERVIEW I got the impression that he had disciplined his mind and reflexes to a state where page 11 “Just give me one of those sweaters slipover-sweaters with some jagged holes in it Signed H. D. Holmes Postal Inspector Dallas 22, Texas http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=10697 John, I thought you might be interested in this document, if you were not already aware, or had read it. I found it pretty interesting.

A Record from Mary Ferrell's Database Record: KANTOR, MARVIN ----- Sources: HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 364; CIA 1004-400; CIA 1188-1000; HSCA Reel 9, Box 7, Folder J, K (AMKW 7) Mary's Comments: DOB: 5/9/34. POB: New York, NY. Parents Irving and Sarah Brodsky Kantor. Married Lis Petersen (Danish girl) in Copenhagen 8/13/61. Educ. Copenhagen Univ, 1961. Fordham Univ., M.A. 1962. Univ of Michigan, Ph.D. 1966. Lecturer in Slavic Languages Univ of Michigan, 1964-66. Brooklyn College of City Univ of New York, Brooklyn, NY, asst Professor of Russian, 1966-67. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, asst. prof. of Slavic languages, 1967--. He was a student in Minsk in 1961. Lived with aunt and uncle (mother's sister). Russians tried to recruit him then threw him out of Russia. He was interviewed in Copenhagen by CIA May 3 and 4, 1961. He went back to Russia 6 or 7 years later and received a phone call from the same Russian diplomat who had tried to recruit him in 1961 (just a "social call"). 1952-55, Kantor was an enlisted Marine. Had been to Cuba in the Carribean and to Yugoslavia. Marina was taking English at Univ of Mich in March 1965 at same time Kantor was lecturing there. CIA apparently wanted to keep Marina and Kantor apart and asked help from FBI. The document below, which is from LHO's 201 File, and is dated 3/2/65, shows at least one similarity between Kantor and Oswald...... https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=97058 There ya go. Welcome to the Forum Wonder if he could be related to Seth Kantor, the author mentioned in the Warren Commission and the author of a couple of books on Jack Ruby

It is strange for me that Mr. Hilsman passed away, as only a week or so ago, I came across a book he wrote entitled American Guerrilla: My War Behind Japanese Lines - 1990, in 2005 the book became part of Potomac Books, Inc, Series of War series, I do not know if the Series of War edition is different from the original 1990 release. A few years ago, I started reading various memoirs of JFK Administration officials; Hilsman, from my viewpoint, was very forthright in his reminisces and, as one who is no stranger to the various persons in the JFK Administration, I believe he supported JFK in a very literal sense. In the same vein, George Ball exuded the same air about him, he was the person whom JFK called "crazier than hell," when Ball straightforwardly told President Kennedy that in five years there would be 300,000+ American troops in Vietnam. He said this in early November 1961, right after Walt Rostow returned from Vietnam and passed along his Report to the President. Along with Robert Kennedy, Ted Sorensen, Kenneth Galbraith, Bob McNamara, & Ambassador Edwin Rieschauer these figures would probably be the only senior JFK administration officials I believe, never betrayed their loyalty to JFK, after that, I wouldn't attempt to defend anyone else.

Ron, I have asked myself the same question. A pat answer, would be that anything is possible. But, obviously something more rooted in specifics is desired. Ultimately, I came to the conclusion that the flaw in Armstrong's belief, hinges on the account of the "Tippit" family that told the story of Harvey Oswald stated specifically that Harvey & his family were Communists, so if you take that assertion to it's ultimate conclusion, then Harvey would be part of a Communist conspiracy, which, supports the conclusion of known disinformation stories by everyone from Michael Eddowes to the U.S. CIA/FBI's own conspiracy theories that Khrushchev was the mastermind of the Kennedy assassination. That does not float in my universe.....Especially as new research tends to bolster the fact that Oswald was not on the sixth floor at the moment JFK was assassinated, to begin with. Even with the most deferential treatment towards John Armstrong, the best ambiguity is rooted in the fact that there are obscurities regarding Oswald's passport, which unless there are some very specific "additional facts" which remain classified, at least until today, only forthcoming new information in the classified documents, could alter the current factionalism within the research community. What frustrates me the most is the completely un-needed virulent dialogue between the believers in Armstrong's thesis, and those who do not.FWIW

Sorry about the incorrect document reference. Here is the correct page https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=10428&relPageId=10 As best as I can tell, [you know how all these persons are scattered throughout various Warren Commission documents] in CD 27 the only name reference is the soldier named "QUIROGA." But in other documents there is, apparently "in investigating" the possible identity of "QUIROGA" at the border the day of the assassination, attention is directed to a soldier at Fort Bragg, named ANTHONY MICHAEL QUIROGA. At Fort Bragg, investigation is made that Anthony Michael Quiroga was accounted for his whereabouts on the day of the assassination. Hence, end of story. I don't believe this area is any kind of rosetta stone or anything like that, but as I said earlier. Even disinformation stories, can be illuminating when they can be traced back to whose laying the false trail.

To: Bill Simpich, one last thing.....I am a little skewed in posting this because I don't have access to my files. But I saw a Warren Commission Document.....pretty sure it was CD 1084, page 48; thought it dovetailed nicely with the whole post-assassination confusion, but in the sense of being like a scene from Stone's JFK that should have been in the movie. It is a story about a Mexican Border Patrol agent talking to a U.S. Army soldier named "QUIROGA." The border between Texas and Mexico has been sealed for at least awhile, [this is November 22, 1963, of course] and QUIROGA tells the border patrol agent, that he had been in Dallas the night before the assassination of JFK where "a spy had been arrested." The wording of the document is phrased in such a way, that the border patrol agent says that "QUIROGA" knew in advance that JFK was going to be assassinated. I did some searching around all the JFK documents......and found several other QUIROGA's in the documents, besides the quite obvious Carlos Quiroga.......To paraphrase, the document seemed to be one [CD 1084 around page 48]....that all the 60's researchers missed.....Even if the story is one of those disinformation tales Sturgis and others are so fond of telling; something significant might be gleaned. IMO Anyway.....regarding your book.....thought at first glance it might be the most thorough account of the whole Mexico City conundrum, Ever...... That is about the highest compliment I can pay. Sincerely.....

Bill, As you have been doing your research have you ever read the interview of LHO's fellow Marine Allen R. Felde, where he describes the "books" Oswald had in his possession? See below 1224. Commission Document 1229 - FBI Schoenecker Report of 26 Jun 1964 MILWAUKEE 5 pages re: Oswald - Russia/Cuba page 1 LEE HARVEY OSWALD ALLAN R FELDE Milwaukee Wisconsin advised that he served in the U.S..Marine Corps from October 1956 to September 1957 with LEE HARVEY OSWALD. FELDE described OSWALD as continually discussing politics and writing to U.S. Senators.....OSWALD condemned U.S. participation in the Korean War. OSWALD continually wrote to United States Senators about certain issues in which OSWALD believed strongly but which were not known to FELDE. One Senator in particular who was in receipt of a number of letters was Senator THURMAN. SALSINI stated he had no further information outside of that already reported in the newspaper article page 2 of November 24, 1963. Date June 26, 1964 ALLEN R FELDE 3307 North 22nd Street, advised that he had enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at Milwaukee, Wisconsin in October 1956 and had met LEE HARVEY OSWALD as a United States Marine Corps recruit about October 23, 1956 while both of them were assigned to Platoon 2060, 2nd Battalion, M.C.R.D., San Diego, California. Both men were stationed at San Diego until January, 1957, at which time FELDE stated they were transferred to Camp Pendleton page 3 association with OSWALD that OSWALD was "left-winged." According to FELDE, at the time the eight-man-squad was assigned to Camp Pendleton and was permitted to take their first weekend leave, the entire group took a taxi cab to Tijuana, Mexico at which point OSWALD left the squad and was seen again only when the squad returned to Camp Pendleton. FELDE said this was also true of at least four other weekend leaves that the men took in Los Angeles. Oswald would ride with the group to Los Angeles in a bus but would leave the rest of the men at the bus depot and would not be observed again until the squad returned to Camp Pendleton. FELDE recalled that OSWALD spent much of his time reading in Marine base libraries as well as in his quarters. During the time he was at Camp Pendleton and also Jacksonville, Florida as well as Memphis, Tennessee, OSWALD was observed with a brown leatherette covered book with gold Old English type letters about 250 pages thick and a small blue book about 100 pages. FELDE did not know the nature of these books. I suppose some people find the question as to what were these books and how they relate insofar as Oswald's activities as being unimportant, or irrelevant. I do not share that view; the "gold Old English type letters" strikes me as being possibly of a religous or an esoteric slant, Tolstoy Foundation or Mexico related? Just curious as to if you'd seen this. Congrats on your book.

Otto Skorzeny had a relationship with Josef Spacil see http://books.google.com/books?id=kHpGSYf27HgC&pg=PA112&dq=Spacil&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1toAU5PyFMfuyQGgkIG4Aw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Spacil&f=false which is one reason why the Bonn Memorandum regarding someone named Oswald in Vienna is of interest to me, and Franz Spacil. Of course, the time frame for this particular era is years before the Kennedy assassination. Nothing ever surpasses research more than hard work, and although I don't enjoy banging my own drum, I am intimately familiar with Oswald's 201 File. I notice that these days there seems to be little interest in exploring hidden avenues, unless it involves pinning the assassination of JFK on LBJ. As if there is no payoff for discovering new facts that could significantly alter the "what is not known" area for everyone's benefit. Germanic connections underlie significant areas of the Kennedy assassination, everywhere from William Harvey's days at the Berlin Operating Base before working on Cuban operations in the Kennedy administration, to Allen Dulles links to European operations and the assassination attempts against Hitler. I can only produce what I believe are pertinent areas of the assassination heretofore unknown, lack of interest for my contributions only reinforce the belief I am wasting my time here.

After reading what I am posting here, there is a serious, very serious question that needs to be addressed, at least in the 'eliminating wheat from the chaff" department. See end of post. JAMES CRITCHFIELD, CIA OFFICIAL WHO RECRUITED NAZIS, BAATHISTS By MARK FRITZ, Associated Press writer NEW YORK -- James H. Critchfield, a powerful CIA insider during the Cold War whose anti-Soviet missions included recruiting former Third Reich operatives and supporting the Iraqi political party that put Saddam Hussein in power, died Tuesday from pancreatic cancer in Williamsburg, Va., his family said. He was 86. During a 26-year-old CIA career, Critchfield worked with the Dalai Lama of Tibet in a guerrilla war against Communist China and headed a CIA task force during the Cuban missile crisis. He also ran regional agency operations when the two superpowers raced to secure satellites first in Eastern Europe, then in the Middle East. Timothy Naftali, an intelligence historian, described Critchfield's role in the CIA as analogous to that of a general commanding the most crucial missions. "What happened in Jim's lifetime was staggering," Naftali said. "Fighting the Nazis, then seeing a new global conflict emerge and fighting in that, then seeing that conflict move to the Third World and becoming a general in that." Critchfield was best known in intelligence circles as the CIA's liaison to the Gehlen Organization, a group of former Third Reich intelligence and military officials recruited by the Army because of their purported knowledge of the Soviet Union. Critchfield himself drew parallels between the moral compromises made at the end of World War II with his recommendation in the early 1960s that the United States support the Baath Party, which staged a 1963 coup against the Iraqi government that the CIA believed was falling under Soviet influence. Critchfield described Saddam Hussein as a minor and peripheral figure in the Baath Party at the time. Saddam did not become a force in the party until the late 1960s and seized full power in 1979. "You have to understand the context of the time and the scope of the threat we were facing," Critchfield said. "That's what I say to people who say, 'You guys in the CIA created Saddam Hussein.'" Born in North Dakota, Critchfield joined the Army and became one of the youngest colonels of World War II. He led the 2nd Battalion of the 141st Infantry of the 36th Division into France, Germany and finally Austria, and won the Silver Star, Purple Heart and Bronze Star, among other decorations. He joined the CIA in 1948 and had long stints as chief of the Eastern European Division, and the Near East and South Asia Division. "I covered everything from Greece to Burma," he said of the latter post. With the growing political importance of Middle East oil, he became the CIA's national intelligence officer for energy in the late 1960s and early 1970s, then an energy policy planner at the White House. He also fronted a dummy CIA corporation in the Middle East known as Basic Resources, which was used to gather OPEC-related intelligence for the Nixon administration. The work of the Gehlen Organization resonates to this day. It has been the focus of a task force created to oversee the 1999 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, which has resulted in the biggest declassification of U.S. intelligence records in history. The task force is delving into the degree to which U.S. intelligence gave war crime suspects jobs. For his part, Critchfield argued that the benefits outweighed the moral compromises. Critchfield said the Gehlen group, along with former German military officers he handled, helped create a defense and intelligence network for West Germany that was folded into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1955. Reinhard Gehlen, Nazi Germany's chief of anti-Soviet espionage, subsequently became West Germany's intelligence chief. A general Critchfield recruited became head of West Germany's military. After retiring from the CIA in 1974, Critchfield became a consultant, corporate president and adviser to the Sultan of Oman. Just before his death, he completed a memoir called "Partners at the Creation: The Men Behind Postwar Germany's Defense and Intelligence Establishments," to be published later this year. He is survived by his wife and four children. Burial is to be in Arlington National Cemetery. END For the umpteenth time, after 50 years of researching, there are serious flaws in the research process, in at least one sense. The Paines, Michael & Ruth are enigmatic in the sense of whats behind the "classified documents, what Lee's real relationship with them prior to 11/22/63 was....And yet there are at least 75-100 probably more Warren Commission documents completely declassified, and which have been so for decades, which no-one, no-one has ever bothered to read. It is as if researchers, myself included, until recently, cannot separate the Warren Commission Report, which is indeed a joke, from the 1,555 documents which are the "guts of everything ever written," all the names are in there, it is tedious work, but unless one is comfortable with the notion of "not going to the trouble to read these documents" you cannot separate the spin of the "official version" from what the truth really is. I have pretty much dedicated a serious effort to reading all these documents, literally, and the payoff is that when you do this, you realize that the "truth" as the veteran researchers perceive it is accurate, but unless one is intimately familiar with the supporting 1,555 documents, you are left in the lurch so to speak. Let the reader beware. Regarding the whole Paperclip/Gehlen/Nazi apparatus and its intertwining with the assassination of JFK, one very critical document,at least in my mind concerns the one dated approximately December 3, 1963. It is in regards to a Security Officer apparently at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, Germany, where his account of his dealings with a man named Oswald in Vienna are detailed. The Warren Commission document is practically illegible, but it is the Warren Commission officials response that begs the question. It concerns someone named Franz Spacil, at NARA there are five documents that reference him, all appear to be de-classified, but a legible document appears to be another story. A Warren Commission official CD 294 writes Enclosed are two copies of the Report of the Department of State on Lee Oswald. Abram Chayes and Thomas Ehrlich were the main officials who sifted thru the State Department Files; Memo from Security Office BONN December 12, 1963 Attached herein in triplicate are copies from Franz SPACIL pertaining to a man named OSWALD. It is doubtful that this OSWALD is identical to the President’s assassin because the letter refers to SPACIL’s dealings with the man after World War II The assassins age is not known but at the end of the war he was probably only a child. more AGENCY : DOS RECORD NUMBER : 179-40007-10112 RECORDS SERIES : LOT 85D275: RECORDS RELATING TO LEE HARVEY OSWALD DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : CITIZEN FROM : SPACIL, FRANZ TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 00/00/0000 PAGES : 5 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : MEETING WITH MAN NAMED OSWALD IN VIENNA CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : OPEN IN FULL CURRENT STATUS : OPEN DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : FOLDER - OSWALD, LEE HARVEY - MISC. SINCE NOVEMBER 22, 1963 - OSWALD FILE VI; BOX 002 Also See CD 1114 PAGE 430 Robert: What a lot of persons who read my posts apparently don't understand, is that I do not put together posts to advance what I believe is the backdrop of the assassination. I post what I believe are excerpts of books and documents that present accounts of events which pertain to the true circumstances of the events leading up to, the day of, and the aftermath of the assassination, what I consider compelling about the document pertaining to FRANZ SPACIL, is that it has a ring to it that is reminiscent of William Harvey's QJWIN material. The French angle to the assassination is very close if not at the center of the assassination, in fact when the 50th anniversary specials aired and Howard Willens said words to the effect that he had never read or heard anything indicating that there was a conspiracy in the assassination, my response was if he was telling the truth, he basically is incompetent, and if he wasn't, then he is just another hack who believes the world will come to an end if the truth becomes common knowledge. There are a myriad of Nazi/Fascist elements to the assassination, Mae Brussell may not have been the most accurate researcher in the realm of research, and there was a lot of smoke in her analysis, but there was also some fire. Closing words If you ever read the bio of ANP leader Rockwell, he too was in Iceland in the mid-late 1950's just as Albert Alexander Osborne, and either Lee Harvey Oswald or Michael Paine, [see Lee Farley's thread "A Photographic Mystery] and he, of course is a player in the Warren Commission documents. And in case you have ever wondered what the mindset of some of the Office of Security personnel were at the time of the Warren Commission remember Otto Otepka's old SY Dept. read this from CD 114 page 441 December 6, 1963 the following message was discovered on the bulletin board at SY FLASH! LEE OSWALD TO BE GIVEN HONORARY AIR FORCE COMMISSION. “HE’s OUR KIND OF MAN!” SAYS LOCAL AIR FORCE MAN Those folks at the Office of Security sure had a real sense for the whole right wing McCarthyite thing, they would have fit in south of the Mason-Dixon line real well.

John, I have been intending to respond to your Postal Service JFK Debate thread, but there never seems to be enough time for anything for me lately. Hopefully, I can get in there before the JFK Forum goes kerplunk. At any rate, you may remember my post about Lady Jean Campbell, Norman Mailer and their "work researchin" JFK's assassination, lol; at any rate when I was looking at an obit on the Guardian Co., UK..... I came across the following comments, circa 2007, which looked at the very least politically incorrect, in this era when Eric Snowden is in the Nobel laureate circle and the mostly Republican politicians in Washington, want to hang him from the rafters for basically doing the same thing Ellsberg did with the Pentagon Papers back in the day, I thought it segue'd rather well with what you posted here, or maybe not. Back when Saunders wrote the book on the Congress for Cultural Freedom...there was a passage someone was quoted as saying "It is fear that brings us all here." Somewhere Santayana is turning over in his grave, but then so are all the other corpses... here ya go The truth Migration Watch doesn't want you to know Jasper Gerard * The Observer, Saturday 22 September 2007 * Jump to comments (10) Should my children be sent 'home'? I only ask because Migration Watch and commentator Stephen Glover declare 25 per cent of babies born in Britain have at least one foreign-born parent. And, I fear, they are not raising this to salute the colourful pageantry of modern life. My wife, Diana, was born in Istanbul. Presumably these august institutions do not consider my children - Emilia, six, Freddie, three - entirely welcome. 'OK, they might look white, but what if they are darkies underneath?' seems to be the message. 'Good God, Binky, dagos are polluting British bloodlines.' Or perhaps as my children march across the garden singing 'The Grand Old Duke of York', they would receive middle-class waivers? Either way, I feel like punching someone. I loathe the hypocrisy in the call for an 'honest debate' - because one as cultivated as Glover knows where that leads: to an honest brick through an Asian window. Yes, the Home Office has been dishonest in turning a blind eye to illegal immigration, believing cheap labour boosts GDP. And yes, its Liam Byrne was either cretinous or disingenuous to attack Lib Dem Nick Clegg's idea of an earned amnesty for illegals when he knows his department presides over a system of unearned amnesty simply by its incompetence. But if the rheumy-eyed right is to launch an 'honest debate', shouldn't it at least consider the possibility that immigration makes Britain a more civilised, interesting and prosperous place? Thankfully, the public is more open-minded. Huge numbers, inspired by the show Who Do You Think You Are?, are tracing family trees and discovering they are not quite as Anglo-Saxon as they assumed. Or take the Rotary Club, which has now gone into partnership with Naomi Campbell. It was associated, not with stick-thin black supermodels, but with cigar-chomping corpulent bores who felt the country went to the dogs with the Windrush. Yet Campbell has achieved the impossible and made it sound almost interesting; if even the Rotary Club gets it, why don't Glover and Migration Watch? Here's a snapshot of how immigration has changed our village. A school dad from Zambia who is captain of the village football team spoke to primary kids about Africa and had children spellbound. The dignity of a woman whose Iraqi father was killed in a bombing raid on Baghdad had villagers in tears at a service in our church. A woman from Pakistan organises charity projects. And Diana, too, throws herself into village life. Oh, and many families employ Eastern European au pairs, gardeners and builders. Clearly in the Isle of Dogs, there are stronger grounds to howl. Immigration worries poor whites (and blacks). In Cambridgeshire, immigrants are blamed for a crime explosion. But in this 'honest debate', shouldn't we ask why we need imported labour? Surely it's because we have several million derelict natives who can't or won't work. Immigrants are a symptom of a problem - the problem of our underclass. Oh, and global forces producing massive population shifts beyond the powers of government. Unless Glover and Migration Watch really are neo-Nazis obsessed with blood lines - and I don't wish to believe that of them - then their concern must be with the behaviour of immigrants rather than the banal point that they hail from elsewhere. But that is an argument for integration. In highlighting difference and seeking separation, the old right simply rehearses the discredited multiculturalist shibboleths of the 1970s left. By all means, try to kick out incomers who abuse our hospitality, but grant citizenship to those who learn our language and culture, pay taxes and obey the law. Thus assimilated, there would be nothing to fear; immigrants seem shadowy partly because we keep them in the shadows. Britain is changing. And I'm proud that it's a country in which my children will grow up feeling very much at home. Mr Pelling, try and do the right thing ... just for once Corporal punishment has long had its aficionados in Conservative circles, both as a judicial punishment and as a leisure pursuit, but this is new territory even for Tories: an MP arrested after his pregnant wife accused him of assault. Andrew Pelling MP can represent the good people of Central Croydon in Parliament only after being released on bail. Clearly he could be found innocent and we must hope this is merely some hideous misunderstanding. After all, he only married his wife, Lucy, in November after deselecting his previous wife. But while he battles to clear his name, shouldn't he stand down? For some constituents, however unfairly, may feel a little queasy being represented by a lawmaker accused of such serious law breaking. Assuming he is cleared, he could fight the seat at the general election and - who knows? - head some Cameroonian General Wellbeing taskforce, sipping smoothies and promising yoga vouchers for pregnant women. Normally, hacks don't like to make hay out of personal misery. OK, they do, but feel they ought not. That is why few newspapers have gone for James Gray, fellow Tory MP, who voted out his wife as she battled cancer so he could carpetbag another woman. If MPs were expected to resign every time one was revealed to be a prize turd, we would have a lot of byelections. But David Cameron must despair. To reassure women voters the Conservatives are no longer the nasty party, he should order Pelling to step down. Thanks heavens for Danielle, our latterday courtesan Can there ever have been a courtesan to rival Lady Jeanne Campbell, who has just died? She conquered Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro - in one year. Oh, and as if to dispel accusations of left-wing bias, she also availed herself of Oswald Mosley. Even Claus von Bulow, no prude, found her a tad 'fresh'. A duke's daughter and third wife of Norman Mailer, she died in Napoleon's campaign bed, a Josephine to the end. If men were her career, she sure climbed the greasy pole. She even shaded Pamela Harriman, 'widow of opportunity', who made do with mere Churchills, Agnellis, Khans, Niarchoses, Rothschilds, Sinatras ... The exploits of Campbell, who stole the diaries of her mother-in-law, the similarly notorious Duchess of Argyll, suggest not all women before Germaine Greer were eunuchs. It's just that then a woman with a full social life was called a maitresse en titre, not a slapper. Indeed, having read a biography of Duff Cooper, I suspect that far from sex beginning in 1963, that's actually around the time it fizzled out. Imagine what stories Campbell's pillow could tell. But alas she splurged an advance for her memoirs on a Greek villa and never wrote them. So we should be grateful to a latterday courtesan who is less casual with history. Danielle Lloyd, celebrated society beauty, is to write an autobiography in 10 volumes. A sort of Dance to the Music of Time, with fewer cocktails and more, well, quite. Compelling though her career has been so far - she is 23 - it is her life away from her photo-art that excites Bloomsbury. Her gentleman callers have included Lewis Hamilton, Jerome Thomas, Marcus Bent and Teddy Sheringham. A thinner volume might take in her reflections on multiculturalism after that Big Brother rumpus. A treat will be Jade Goody flitting in and out, the poor misunderstood Widmerpool. Who would swap the account from all three presidential beds about the Cuban missile crisis for the inside story of the night Peter Crouch brought mates down to China White for a few bevvies, ending in a hair-extensions-at-dawn ruck? Thank heavens the bon mots and insights of Teddy and his golden circle will be preserved for posterity. All the best Lib Dem stories in the bag Just lugged my liver back from Brighton and the Lib Dem conference. Most dramatic moment: my friend Nick Clegg being handbagged after his actually rather innocuous remark at The Observer fringe meeting. It was hard not to marvel at the magnificence of Lady Campbell: proof, surely, that the political wife is the deadliest of the species. Indeed, only the rarest politician can defy what we might term the Cherie Law of British politics. I witnessed that at a convivial dinner in a Chinese restaurant with Paddy Ashdown when he began an anecdote which had his wife Jane spluttering: 'You can't possibly tell that.' But Paddy ploughed on, all about British intelligence stealing the faeces of a king to test it to see if it carried a disease. 'They even,' he boomed, 'brought it back to Britain in the diplomatic bag.' He did have some words of comfort. 'When I took over as party leader, opinion polls marked Lib Dem support with an asterix - too low to register.' Which makes Ming's 20 per cent look like it's time to prepare for government ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/sep/23/comment.comment1?INTCMP=SRCH Robert: Whether I agree or disagree, wasn't the point, it was basically that I admire the guy's chutzpah...

Ballistics and the humanitarian rifle, were never something that I explored in depth. Which was because back in the day, George Michael Evica see his book And We Are All Mortal pretty much cinched that the Warren Report version of "Oswald and the Fateful Rifle was your basic fairy tale. Mind you, I am not trying to answer any of the detailed thoughts being explored here, but there is some excellent work that has been done in this area. The URL below contains the article The Great Carcano Swindle By Bill MacDowall © 2000 http://www.oocities.org/whiskey99a/carcano.html As far as the 7.65 Carcano, IMO the fact that Oswald "killed Kennedy with this weapon" a viewpoint that is beyond absurd, was one of the biggest weak-links in the whole fiction. I do know even with the 50th anniversary garbage, the re-creations that aired have their own misleading factoids. When the WC re-created the assassination scenario in 1964 the experts had to put "shin-splints" on the alleged murder weapon, just to get the damn thing to not injure the expert shooter firing it. Take Lee's misfiring revolver at the Texas Theater, and we have an "assassin" who had one of the worst gun collections, albeit only two, in the city of Dallas.

It was entirely by chance, but I discovered that in Peter Dale Scott's - Deep Politics & The Death of JFK, pps. 367-68 footnote to section from page 230 HOOVER, BOBBY BAKERAND THE ELLEN ROMETSCH STORY, he elaborated on the similarity between the former and the Profumo Scandal. Below is the footnote in its entirety. Some miscellaneous speculations: Owen, it will be recalled, was with Ruby's stripper friend Candy Barr in 1957, just before she was arrested. Both Lester May, her attorney in that case and his brother-in-law Gordon McLendon (whom Ruby listed as one of his six closest friends 20 WH 39) were busy in 1971 in the mob effort to secure the release of Jimmy Hoffa (Sheridan, Hoffa 503-04; Moldea, Hoffa Wars, 280). So was Carlos Marcello associate D'Alton Smith, brother-in-law of Nofio Pecora, the head of Marcello's call-girl operations whom Ruby phoned in October 1963. In 1970 Smith would be indicted as part of a securities-fraud network, along with Charles Tourine, Ruby's friend Maurice "Frenchy" Medelvine, Mike McLaney and Sam Benton of the McLaney arms cache on Lake Ponchartrain (Scott, Crime & Cover-up, 46). Bobby Baker was approached about the million-dollar bail-out of Hoffa as well (Baker Wheeling and Dealing, 17). Bedford Wynne entertained his girls, and his friend George Owen, at his home in the Maple Terrace Apartments. This was also the womanizing friend George DeMohrenschildt (WCD 7:135), and at one time of Ruby's friend Lewis McWillie (WCD 84.86). Could Ruby and McWillie have moved in such "higher" circles by their ability to supply women, drugs and gambling? McWillie told the House Committee that he ran "stag parties" at the Cipango Club for Dallas gamblers Ivy Miller, and Earl Dalton, although he explained that the stag parties featured dice games at which "they let their wives come too" (5 AH 66). Jim Marrs writes that the Four Deuces in Fort Worth, which McWillie managed for the "gentleman gambler" W. C. Kirkwood was "in an area noted for its taverns and its prostitution. It was here, under the protective eye of off-duty policemen, that men like H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison (sic) and others joined [speaker] Sam Rayburn and his protege [Lyndon] Johnson for hours of Kirkwood-provided hospitality." (Marrs, 292) One last detail to support the Washington policeman's theory that the mob, and more specifically, Nesline, has been behind sexual corruption in high places for a long time. Mandy Rice-Davies, the number-two woman in the Ward-Keeler sex ring that compromised both Profumo and Kennedy, established mob contacts when she moved to Israel. There she met Herbert Itkin, the mob-FBI-CIA double agent who had testified in the Teamster kickback trial, where his CIA control Mario Brod had testified successfully for the defense. Had she known the mob before the Profumo story broke? At least one of Ward's women, Mariella Novotny, (who had slept with Kennedy), had worked in London strip joints like the Club Pigalle and the Black Sheep (Summers and Dorrill, Honeytrap, 96). Meyer Lansky and Dino Cellini also had interests in London clubs, which may explain why Lansky and Nesline were spotted there in 1962. It is safe to say that the mob was involved in the post-assassination cover-up, beginning with Ruby's murder of Oswald in the Dallas police basement. But it is clear that many of those involved in the pre-assassination sexual intrigues, including Rosselli, Guy Richards, Michael Eddowes and, above all, Bedford Wynne, were involved in the post-assassination story as well.

I probably wont win any popularity contest for posting this, but hopefully we all agree that when there is a discrepancy in this case, John R & Minnie Smith as John Armstrong's ersatz other Oswald ID, will not shoot the messenger but deal with the information presented. Some of what John Armstrong wrote about John R. & Minnie Smith is not exactly accurate. For instance he wrote, in Harvey and Lee that the Warren Commission did not have a single document about the two, which is not correct. http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/03/JA/DR/.dr04.html The connection that I discovered is in two WC documents, and it is very easy not to notice. The clue that the topic is a little more complicated than just a oblique name to file Lee Harvey Oswald's real tax returns in is in CD 7 page 700 and the entire CD 425, 8 pages Commission Document 425 - IRS Summary of Tax Returns dated 17 Feb 1964 8 pages WASHINGTON, D.C. 179-40001-10399 1957-1962 JOHN R & MINNIE SMITH 6731 Norway, Dallas, Texas 1961-1962 OSCAR A. & RAE RUBENSTEIN* 5638 N. Bernard, Chicago, Ill FY 8-62 Time-In Lounge However, in the 1964 Dallas Residential White Pages on page 725 in black and white there is a listing for Smith John R 6731 Norway exactly as is mentioned in CD 425 Then there are the MINNIE SMITH listings on page 727 of the Dallas Residential White Pages Smith Minnie 3603 Kenilworth HA1-3376 Smith Minnie 2200 Stovall Dr. FR6-6272 Smith Minnie Mrs 5019 Victor TA6-2620* Smith Minnie A. 2626 Munger RI8-3965 Smith Minnie E. Mrs 3023 Fordham FR4-2645 Smith Minnie Fay 419 Av A WH3-7213 Smith Minnie Kate 3704 Colonial HA1-9554 Smith Minnie Lee 4428 University Blvd LA6-3506 * In 1945-46 Marguerite and Lee Oswald lived at 4801 Victor, Dallas, Texas see CD 107 https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=10507&relPageId=15 only other connection SMITH, JOHN R. Sources: CD 7, pp. 699-700 Mary's Comments: A Mrs. Smith called Mrs. Roberts, Bernard Weissman's landlady, and left the above number for Weissman to call. Later, Mrs. Roberts called the number and was told it did belong to the Smith family but they did not know Weissman. A "Bernie Smith" had picked up Weissman's belongings. Note the JOHN R Smith referenced in CD 7 page 699 was the same JOHN R SMITH who lived at 6731 Norway see https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=10408&relPageId=722 Where it gets a little odd, is the complete lack of documentation, I was able to find about John R and Minnie Smith The blurb below was about all I found which was just an oil and gas listing, which could even be a coincidence Fort Worth Star-Telegram, page 14 February 24, 1953 Stanolind Oil & Gas Company No 1 Minnie Smith, et al Section 45 CD 425, in my opinion raises many more questions than it answers, for instance who are Oscar and Rae Rubenstein, among others; and I would even concede that John Armstrong might even be onto something, because my experience is that these types of situations, are generally a lot more complicated than some plain vanilla explanation. Where I suppose I differ from Armstrong's view is John R. and Minnie Smith could have been anything from 1) used by the persons who prepared the documents as part of an attempt to confuse the reader, to 2) fellow elusive sources of "information" such as Earlene Roberts, whose connection to Bertha Cheek was very suspect even to Warren Commission attorneys, to 3) some type of false suspects, I sure do not pretend to know.

CD 1396 Marie Francis Gassway Tippit recieved an extortion note from Germany implying that J D Tippit was part of the conspiracy two pages later the document states that Pansy [Patsy?] Anglin of 320 Glencairn is helping “handle the extortion” attempt See http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=11791&relPageId=121 The person behind the extortion attempt allegedly was Alvin Edgar Philip Wolfgang aka D. Evershire of Amsterdam letter of confirmation to be sent to Charles Rozenblad, Admiralengracht 142. 1 The Netherlands, Amsterdam Wim M Rehorst Directie Politie advised orally on Feb 7, 1964, that Evershire is known to this agency and is reputed to be insane. He said Evershire had recently sent a similar extortion letter to the industrialist Krupp, when confronted by authorities he admitted writing the letter Rozenblad was his half-brother, he had also sent extortion letters to Mrs Profumo re Christine Keeler and another to an “old lady singer in Italy.” He was being treated as mentally ill rather than as a criminal. There is, in the book [True Crime GANGSTERS - Outside the Law - Igloo Books Ltd.2010] a photo of RONNIE Kray with Christine Keeler, page 123 as well as in the link below see http://bernardomahoney.com/e10/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.4148 “...the brothers fraternized with celebrities including Judy Garland and Mafia-connected singer Frank Sinatra. The Sunday Mirror settled out-of-court on libel charges, after hinting that Ron had enjoyed a homosexual affiar with Lord Boothby, a conservative MP, and Scotland Yard received orders to bury that case.” from p. 122 GANGSTERS Also see article at Mary Ferrell, regarding Clay Shaw an "un-named member of Parliament." https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=62498&relPageId=35

TIME Magazine Southeast Asia: Family Tradition Friday, June 29, 1962 Even civilian families no longer find it strange in "peacetime" to have their sons dispatched to the world's remote corners; for service families, the deep U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia is merely the renewal of a tradition. The sixth U.S. fighting man to die in the jungle war since last December, when U.S. "advisers" began to accompany Vietnamese forces into battle, was 1st Lieut. William F. Train III, 24, West Pointer ('58) and son of Major General William Train, commandant of the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Lieut. Train was........ One cannot adequately assess the connection between the Kennedy Era and Operation Valkyrie without a serious examination of Harry P. Ball comprehensive book regarding the Army War College - Of Responsible Command especially Chapter 17 entitled In Defense of the Generalist 1961-1966; pps. 303-361; the main figure in that chapter is the aforementioned Gen. William F. Train the segment above is from a TIME magazine article from 1962. Some Dramatis Personae from Of Responsible Command Sec. of the Army - Stephen Ailes Colonel Donald S. Bussey Lt. Col. Nels A. Parson [AWC - 1963] Lt. Col./Col. ? Charles M. Ferguson, Jr.[AWC - 1963] the latter three were members of the "Committee for Strategic Analysis." In the words of Train, "Counterinsurgency was also included in the War College program in 1962-63. As a distinct second phase of the course "United States Global Strategic Concepts," two weeks were devoted to the study of counterinsurgency. In the following course, "Strategic Military Capabilities in Selected World Areas" two committees were required to assume the role of country teams and to prepare detailed counterinsurgency plans for selected countries." Perhaps, of equal interest is the position Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Education) Dr. Edward L. Katzenbach, Jr., who is mentioned in Mr. Ball's book. Chicago Tribune (IL) - April 24, 1974: Katzenbach's brother kills self CRANBURY, N. J., April 23 [uPI] -- Edward Katzenbach, a deputy assistant secretary of state in the Kennedy administration and brother of former Atty. Gen. Nicholas D. B. Katzenbach, shot himself to death today, his brother said. He "had been depressed with one thing or another and had not been well physically," said Nicholas Katzenbach, attorney general in the Johnson Administration from 1964 to 1966. Edward Katzenbach, 55, was found dead in his bathroom, with a gunshot wound in the head, police said. Katzenbach, a former vice president of the University of Oklahoma, was an executive vice president of American Chronicles Inc. in New York.......And so it goes Some would end it at that, the above section whether you accept Fletcher Prouty role as a "guide" in understanding the complexities of the CIA/Pentagon intertwining in 1963, I would state to ignore his input in this matter is synonymous with being clueless.

There is only one other person I can think of who would be a part of the "dramatis personae," his connection is mentioned in some obscure WC document; HIs name was Roel Everhard Wolfgang, he was in Germany and he had sent letters to, get this, Profumo and Marie Tippit, the letters were extortion attempts, pure and simple, the investigation ostensibly revealed he was a well known nut case. I always wanted to dig deeper, but was never able to learn more about him. My main suspicion, was simply that there was no shortage of nut cases in the Warren Commission documents and some of them were anything but, such as Eugene Dinkin & others.

I am in an unusual position, in that I am halfway across the country from my computer, hence I am not able to access my files. At any rate there are two things about Lyndon Johnson most people do not know. One, he was also in attendance, on Tuesday, November 19, 1963 at the same bottler's convention that RIchard Nixon, Joan Crawford & her Pepsi Cola CEO, then-husband were. And two, I came across an LBJ obituary that stated he had patronized the same gun store, Brantley's where the DPD Detective bought Jack Ruby's Colt Cobra. I remember being shocked at how the Brantley/LBJ factoid was mentioned in such a nonchalant manner. For those who are sceptical, you will have to wait until 1/1/14, when I am back to being able to access my files.

As everyone who knows me is aware, I have an adage that I am fond of saying "the devil is in the details.." So Tom, my response would begin with pointing out, why did the UPI article state that one of the persons arrested was Barclay Frandsen of Iowa, when there is a very good chance his real name was James Barclay Frandsen of Louisiana see find a grave entry, and why are GIllis & Frandsen mentioned in Steve Wilson of Interpen's file at Maryferrell.org? Then I would ask is James Barclay Frandsen connected to the Barclay associated with Jack Ruby mentioned in CD 1193 h 199? - Malcolm James Barclay.

I would only say that the following person would at least be a person of interest. Also since the person "who was the drug courier" irrespective of whether it was the person below was even alive today, he would not, I believe be charged for anything because of the statute of limitations..... NO TITLE pg 9 RIF#: 124-90093-10025 (11/06/69) FBI#: CR 92-2801-75 Found in: FBI - HSCA Subject File: Nofio Pecora NO 92-47 1969 red Ford registered to Hertz Rent-A-Car Company and rented by LUTHER D GILLIS Jordano Construction Company,.720 Hind Avenue Kenner Louisiana 1969 Cadillac bearing 1969 Louisiana license 247 B 451 registered to Perfecto Food Products, 3505 Gravier Street PAUL TITUS advised that New Orleans Police Department units followed PALMISANO who was driving a red 1969 Ford registered to Hertz Rent-A-Car from Town and Country Motel to the Morning Call Coffee Shop, French Market, New Orleans. There were three individuals in this car, two of which could not be identified by the New Orleans Police Department. TITUS observed that the two above individuals {LUTHER D GILLIS AND ANGELO PALMISANO}then sat in the Morning Call Coffee Shop with two unidentified individuals, one of which is believed to be FRANK NATASSA. TITUS advised that photographs of the five individuals were taken by New Orleans Police Department and he made available these pictures to the FBI TONY TOCCO son of WILLIAM “BLACK BILL” TACCO Detroit who is a first cousin to TONY ZERILLI, was also considered a possibly being identical with the TONY who visited New Orleans on February 18, 1969. is identical with ANTHONY CARRADO. page 11 NO-T-61 further advised that DOMINICK CORRADO, brother of ANTHONY CARRADO has close connection in New Orleans with CARLOS MARCELLO http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/luther-d-gillis/61736763 FBI Arrests Trio in Plot to Sell Arms to Castro; WASHINGTON (UPI) 12-24-1959 FBI Agents Wednesday broke up a plot to sell $189,000 worth of military submachine guns to the Castro government in Cuba by arresting two AWOL airmen and a woman in North Carolina, the Justice Department announced. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the arrests followed a three-day investigation after FBI agents in Miami, Fla., learned that two men in Air Force uniforms had offered to deliver 540 of the military-type weapons tp Cuba for $350 each. The FBI identified the arrested persons as Jack Barclay Frandsen 35, an AWOL Air-Force enlisted man and Luther Douglas Gillis, 34, also AWOL from the Air-Force and Mrs. Vivian Lake Fisher of New Orleans. Gillis and Frandsen were arrested near the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base in North Carolina. Mrs. Fisher was arrested by the FBI in Wilmington, N.C. The arrests were based on a complaint by the FBI in Miami charging the three with conspiring to steal U. S. owned guns from Camp Lejuene. Hoover said the FBI’s investigation on this matter began Dec. 20. The undercover agent flew with them to Wilmington. He and Mrs. Fisher remained there while the other two men left for Camp Lejeune in a rented truck. It was planned to fly the guns out of Wilmington in a rented plane. Frandsen and Gillis have been absent without leave from Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls since Dec. 8. Gillis 34, has a previous record for drunkeness and carrying of concealed weapons, the FBI said. Frandsen, 35, was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He was arrested for defrauding by worthless checks at Brownsville, Texas on Feb. 16, 1952 and received an 80-day sentence, the FBI said. Frandsen also has been convicted of breach of peace, vagrancy and intoxication. Last June 11, Frandsen was dropped from the rolls by the Air Force as a deserter, However on Sept. 2, he voluntarily returned to Sheppard Air Force Base. I also have to take exception, although I highly respect Larry Hancock to the idea that the drug transaction is peripherally related to the assassination, in the sense that one of the persons in Oswald's lineups Daniel Lujan Gutierrrez, was according to the maryferrell.org website arrested on 11/21/63; the charge I am not able to ascertain, but he did serve a life sentence for heroin possession, it was later appealed to higher court where the appeal was denied see google scholar. http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10948929431330026373&q=Daniel+Lujan+Gutierrez+&hl=en&as_sdt=6,44 The testimony of Daniel Gutierrez Lujan was taken at 10:10 a.m., on April 9, 1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney, 301 Post Office Building, Bryan and Ervay Streets, Dallas, Tex., by Mr. Joseph A. Ball, assistant counsel of the President's Commission. Mr. BALL. Mr. Lujan, will you stand up and be sworn, please. Hold up your right hand. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give to this Commission will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. You were asked to come in here and testify, were you not, in this matter? You were asked to come here? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. Were you not? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. And this Commission has been appointed to inquire into the facts and circumstances surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy. Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. And we're informed that you--that there is certain information that might be of some value to the Commission in coming to their conclusion, and we have asked you to come in here and testify. Are you willing to testify to whatever you know? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. This is Mr. Ely and my name is Ball. We are both staff officers with the Commission. Will you please state your name? Mr. LUJAN. Daniel Gutierrez Lujan. Mr. BALL. Where do you live? Mr. LUJAN. I live 184 Lear. Mr. BALL. Dallas? Mr. LUJAN. Dallas, Tex. Mr. BALL. What is your occupation? Mr. LUJAN. I work in a meat company, butcher and general help. Mr. BALL. I see. Where were you born? Mr. LUJAN. Tyler, Tex. Mr. BALL. Did you go to school there? Mr. LUJAN. No; I went to school in San Antonio and here in Dallas. Mr. BALL. In Dallas? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. How far did you go through school? Mr. LUJAN. Went to about seventh grade. Mr. BALL. Then did you go to work? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. Where did you go to work. Mr. LUJAN. Palmer & Ray. Mr. BALL. Red? Mr. LUJAN. Ray & Palmer. Mr. BALL. How long did you work there? Mr. LUJAN. I worked there about 2 1/2 years. Mr. BALL. Where did you go then? Mr. LUJAN. Direct Delivery Service. 243 Mr. BALL. Direct to where? Mr. LUJAN. Delivery Service. Mr. BALL. Delivery Service? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. How long did you work there? Mr. LUJAN. I worked about 3 years. Mr. BALL. Then where did you go? Mr. LUJAN. Then had to go to Huntsville. I went to Huntsville. Mr. BALL. I didn't hear that. Mr. LUJAN. I went to Huntsville Penitentiary. Mr. BALL. You sent to Huntsville Prison? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. For what charge? Mr. LUJAN. Possession of narcotics. Mr. BALL. How long were you there? Mr. LUJAN. Three years. Mr. BALL. Then where did you go? Mr. LUJAN. I gout out and started working at Schepps. Schepps Wholesale Groceries. Mr. BALL. Then where did you go. Mr. LUJAN. T. & W. Mr. BALL. From Schepps? You're still there? Mr. LUJAN. No; T. & W. Meat Co. Mr. BALL. What? Mr. LUJAN. T. & W. Mr. BALL. How long did you work for Schepps? Mr. LUJAN. Three and a half years? Mr. BALL. Then where did you go? Mr. LUJAN. T. & W. Mr. BALL. I see. November 22, 1963, you were in jail, weren't you? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. What was the charge? Mr. LUJAN. Investigation. Mr. BALL. Of what? Mr. LUJAN. Investigation of narcotics. Mr. BALL. Of narcotics? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. And when were you arrested? Mr. LUJAN. I was arrested the day before that. Mr. BALL. That is, November 22--21? Mr. LUJAN. Yes; day before the assassination. Mr. BALL. Before the assassination? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. How long did you stay in jail? Mr. LUJAN. Until Sunday. Mr. BALL. Then did they release you? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. You were not charged with anything? Mr. LUJAN. No. Mr. BALL. Now, are they--on Friday, November 22, 1963, did you take part in a showup? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. What time of day was it? Mr. LUJAN. It was--I don't recall, about 1 o'clock, probably in the afternoon. Mr. BALL. Was it in the afternoon? Mr. LUJAN. I don't remember. Mr. BALL. Or What? Mr. LUJAN. That was a Saturday. Mr. BALL. Saturday, yes. You didn't take part in any showups on Friday? Mr. LUJAN. No; just on showup and Saturday---- Mr. BALL. So, Saturday you took part in one showup? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. 244 Mr. BALL. Who asked you to do that? Mr. LUJAN. An officer went in there and told me to stand up and I stand up and he looked at me and said, "Come out." So, I came out, and he went and got three more. Mr. BALL. Got three more? Mr. LUJAN. Got three more fellows. Mr. BALL. Three more fellows from jail? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. Did you know them? Mr. LUJAN. No, sir. Mr. BALL. Had you ever seen them before? Mr. LUJAN. No, sir. Mr. BALL. Have you ever seen them since? Mr. LUJAN. No, sir. Mr. BALL. What did they look like? Mr. LUJAN. About my size, darker. Mr. BALL. What is your size? What is your weight? Mr. LUJAN. Weight about 170. Mr. BALL. What is your height? Mr. LUJAN. About 5'8". Mr. BALL. And your hair is dark? Mr. LUJAN. Black. Mr. BALL. It is black hair. And your eyes? Mr. LUJAN. Brown. Mr. BALL. And brown, and, your complexion? Mr. LUJAN. Olive? Mr. BALL. Are you of Mexican descent? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. You are very fair in color for a Mexican. Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. You have fair skin, haven't you? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. What did the other man look like in the showup with you? Mr. LUJAN. Oh, about my coloring, and about---- Mr. BALL. Same coloring? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. Or anywhere near the coloring of Oswald? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. You saw Oswald, didn't you? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. Where did you stand in the showup? Mr. LUJAN. I was standing next to him, right next to him. Mr. BALL. Right next to him? Mr. LUJAN Were you handcuffed to him? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. Did you hear him say anything? Mr. LUJAN. He said he wanted a T-shirt. He wanted a T-shirt. Mr. BALL. Off the record. (Discussion off the record.) Mr. BALL. On the record. Let me see, did I ask you where you were standing in the lineup? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. You were what would be---- Mr. LUJAN. Right next to him. Mr. BALL. Which was the right, to your right? Mr. LUJAN. No; he was standing right here, handcuffed---- Mr. BALL. To the right? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. You were handcuffed to Oswald? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. He was complaining, was he? 245 Mr. LUJAN. About having a T-shirt, and wanted a jacket or something. Mr. BALL. How were you dressed? Mr. LUJAN. I had a jacket and a shirt. Mr. BALL. What color shirt? Mr. LUJAN. I don't--kind of blue shirt and brown jacket. Mr. BALL. Brown jacket? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. Any tie on? Mr. LUJAN. No, sir. Mr. BALL. Did the detective ask you name? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. And did you tell him your name? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. Did he ask your occupation? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. What did you tell him? Mr. LUJAN. Working for S. & F. Meat Co. Mr. BALL. Ask you anything else? Mr. LUJAN. No, sir; that's all. Phone number. Mr. BALL. Phone number and your address? Mr. LUJAN. Address, phone number. Mr. BALL. Did he ask the other men any showup questions? Mr. LUJAN. No; just asked my name and address and phone number is all. Mr. BALL. That's all? Did he ask that of Oswald? Mr. LUJAN. No, he didn't ask Oswald nothing. Mr. BALL. Oswald was doing some talking? Mr. LUJAN. Yes. Mr. BALL. Was he shouting loud? Mr. LUJAN. He was shouting. He--he was shouting, said all of us had a shirt on and he had a T-shirt on. He wanted a shirt or something. Mr. BALL. Did the detective say anything to you--or him? Mr. LUJAN. No, sir; just took us out. They didn't have the showup. Left about a minute. Mr. BALL. Then you left? Mr. LUJAN. Yes; took us out back to the cell. Mr. BALL. What do you mean they didn't have a showup? They did have you in there and he did ask you questions? Mr. LUJAN. He didn't ask questions. He started--he wanted a shirt, and that's all. Mr. BALL. They asked you questions, didn't they? Mr. LUJAN. No; they didn't ask nobody questions. Mr. BALL. Oh, he asked you your name and address and asked the others their name and address? Mr. LUJAN. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. Did they ask Oswald his name and address? Mr. LUJAN. Yes--I mean no, sir. Mr. BALL. I think that is all, Mr. Lujan. You can leave. Mr. LUJAN. All right. Mr. BALL. Do you have a picture of yourself? Mr. LUJAN. No, sir; not with me. Mr. BALL. We have your address where you are working? Mr. LUJAN. 2405 South Ervay.

I would say the following is required reading....Even though it isn't going to blow any doors off. Still, I'm sure the fact that Lady Jean Campbell is featured in Warren Commission documents and her marriage to the author of Oswald's Ghost "I did it for the money," Mailer, might be a jolt to some. Lady Jeanne Campbell — obituary The Telegraph 09/23/2007 Lady Jeanne Campbell , who has died aged 78, was a journalist who reported for the Evening Standard from New York for many years; she was also the former wife of Norman Mailer, the daughter of the reprobate 11th Duke of Argyll and the favourite granddaughter of Lord Beaverbrook. As a journalist she covered the funeral of John F Kennedy in 1963, observing memorably that Jackie Kennedy had “given the American people from this day on the one thing they always lacked — majesty”. Lady Jeanne was wild. So numerous were her love affairs that James C Humes (a speechwriter for many American presidents) claimed in his memoirs, Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter, that she was the only woman to have known “Biblically” Presidents Khrushchev, Kennedy and Castro — and all, he claimed, within the space of a year. Humes suggested that Kennedy went through his paces at her Georgetown house in October 1963; Khruschev at his dacha in April 1964; and Castro in Havana the following May. Jeanne Louise Campbell (sometimes known as Jean or Jeanie) was the daughter of Ian Campbell, the handsome playboy who was heir to Niall, the bachelor 10th Duke of Argyll, his eccentric first cousin once removed. Her mother was Janet Aitken, daughter of the proprietor of the Daily Express. Jeanne’s parents had met at a casino in Le Touquet, when Janet was 17 and Ian 24. Janet later recalled that her husband had been “long on charm but short on judgment at the gaming tables”. They married in December 1927, but the union got off to an unpropitious start when the groom — intending to instruct his bride in her marital duties — took her to watch a display of graphic lovemaking in a brothel. He was soon selling his bride’s jewels to pay his gambling debts. Jeanne was born on December 10 1928, and as her mother was recovering from serious haemorrhaging (from which she almost died) her husband again demanded her jewels; when she refused, he seized a shotgun and threatened to shoot himself. After hearing two shots outside the house Janet capitulated. The following summer the young couple went to live at Auribeau in the South of France; but the casino soon beckoned, as did an American girl called “Oui Oui” Clews (later Ian’s second wife — his third was the famous Margaret, Duchess of Argyll). Janet decided to leave, and with the help of her father she escaped and made Jeanne a ward of court. Janet was a difficult mother, a heavy drinker. When Jeanne was about four, Lord Beaverbrook asked her: “What shall I do about your mother?”; the child replied: “Cut off all her money, grandpa.” Between 1935 and 1940 Janet was married to Drogo Montagu, second son of the 9th Earl of Sandwich, but they had separated by the time he was killed on active service at the beginning of the war. Jeanne’s mother married for a third time in 1942, and after the war took her younger children to Canada, leaving behind Jeanne and her half-brother, William Montagu. Relations with her mother became increasingly stormy as she grew up; it was later suggested that she had been damaged by her mother’s casual attitude. After the war Jeanne trained as an actress, even joining the Old Vic, before going down with pneumonia. In 1949 she went to live with Beaverbrook, and travelled with him to the Far East, Europe, Barbados and the United States. While she remained close to her grandfather, particularly in his old age, he frequently berated her for her wilful and extravagant behaviour, once pointing to a maid on her hands and knees and saying that Jeanne should emulate her — “a real woman”. Jeanne was unconvinced: “[My grandfather’s] great flaw was his inability to treat his women with dignity. Slowly he would turn on them and devastate them. He made them feel they had no right to exist.” She attributed this characteristic to his Presbyterian background; whenever he had acquired a mistress, he felt guilty about her, and thus began treating her badly. When Beaverbrook died he left Jeanne the income from a $500,000 trust. Jeanne grew up rather “fresh”, in the words of one of her passing admirers, Claus von Bulow. In 1953 it appeared that she might be about to marry William Ropner, a scion of the British shipbuilding clan, but instead she outraged her grandfather by succumbing to the charms of Sir Oswald Mosley, the former Blackshirt leader and a well-practised seducer. By this time Jeanne was tall, vivacious, somewhat buxom and possessed of sparkling eyes. Mosley pursued her partly because he saw her as a conduit to Beaverbrook and hoped for favourable publicity for his Union Movement. The old man was not taken in, however, and the couple met clandestinely in a series of London flats. In the end Beaverbrook threatened to cut her off if she stayed with Mosley, and in 1956 he dispatched her to New York to write for the Evening Standard. In one of her early reports Jeanne wrote a critical review of the CIA, causing Beaverbrook to warn her to be careful what she said about the secret service of the country in which she was living. He further advised her: “Emphasise human interest. Put the best strawberry on top of the basket. Write short sentences. Cut, cut, cut. Always interview people face to face. Never rewrite from another newspaper. Keep widening your circle of acquaintances — even if it means accepting the invitations of bores. Use your feet.” Jeanne’s vocabulary was not extensive. When she was to visit the oil baron J Paul Getty, Beaverbrook warned he was “rather priapic”. She did not understand, and he explained “ever ready”. As a friend of Randolph Churchill, Jeanne annoyed him by dining in his rooms at the Hyde Park Hotel in a sumptuous red velvet dress on a night when Sir Winston was expected to die. She spent the night on a sofa and was smuggled out of the hotel the next morning wearing some of Randolph’s clothes. When Randolph wrote volume one of his biography of Sir Winston, she judged it “a solid body of work which no critic or historian can question as an eminent and scholarly contribution to the history of mankind”. Between 1959 and 1961 Jeanne had an intense affair with Henry Luce II, founder and owner of Time-Life Inc, and the husband of the redoubtable Clare Booth Luce. Jeanne had met him on holiday with Beaverbrook, at a time when she was working as a researcher at Time. He secured her a job at Life magazine, and came close to leaving his wife for her. In the spring of 1961 Jeanne met Norman Mailer, and soon became pregnant by him. The affair with Luce ended and she returned to the Evening Standard. When, some years later, Gore Vidal asked her what had attracted her to Mailer she replied: “I had never gone to bed with a Jew before.” Mailer, meanwhile, liked to go to bed with women who had slept with famous men. His second wife had been bedded by Jack Kerouac, his fourth by Miles Davis; his biographer, Mary Dearborn, suggested that this was “a homoerotic thing”. Beaverbrook, who never took to Mailer, advised her to have his child but abstain from marrying him. Instead she did both, marrying the writer in 1962 and giving birth to her daughter, Kate, now an actress, the same year. After a short, tempestuous marriage, which ended with Mailer’s infidelity, she left him, and they were divorced in Mexico in 1963. He rewarded her by depicting her as the bitch in his novel An American Dream. He later described her as “a dear pudding of a lady” and “a remarkable girl, almost as interesting, complex and Machiavellian” as himself. Following the assassination of Kennedy in 1963 Jeanne was one of a group that included Jones Harris and Tom Bethell that investigated various conspiracy theories. She was experienced at sleuthing, having stitched up her despised stepmother, Margaret Argyll, in 1959. At the height of her father’s divorce proceedings, he (by now the 11th Duke of Argyll) and Jeanne (dressed in trousers and headscarf) entered Margaret’s London house by stealth and proceeded to remove all her four-year diaries from the drawing room. When they entered her bedroom the Duchess attempted to call the police, but the Duke pinioned her arms while Jeanne snatched the current volume. Soon afterwards the Duchess sued Jeanne for trespass and theft and Jeanne settled out of court. In 1964 Jeanne met the Beatles at the British Embassy in Washington and put her arm round Paul McCartney. “Which one are you?” she asked. “Roger McClusky the Fifth,” he answered, extricating himself from her grip. Jeanne’s second husband, whom she married in 1964, was John Sergeant Cram, a gentleman farmer and a great-great-grandson of the railway baron Jay Gould. They lived in New York and at Foot Point Plantation, Bluffton, South Carolina. Jeanne had a second daughter (possibly by a man called Guy Nicholas Lancaster), Cusi Cram, who became an actress and playwright. It was said that Jeanne received a large advance on her memoirs but blew it on a villa in Greece without ever writing the book. Latterly she lived in a tiny walk-up flat in Greenwich Village, New York, and slept in her last surviving treasure — Napoleon’s campaign bed. END Methinks Norman and Lady Campbell deserved each other. Regarding the Cram surname and Cleveland Cram..... Bluffton Today (SC) - October 29, 2007 Deceased Name: JOHN SERGEANT CRAM III 1932 - 2007 John Sergeant Cram III died after a brief illness at his residence in Bluffton on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. He was 75 years old. He was born in New York on May 30, 1932, the son of Edith Kingdon Drexel Cram and Henry (Harry) Sergeant Cram. He was educated first as the only white child at the school run by his mother at Foot Point Plantation, his father's property in Bluffton. He later attended Browning School in New York and graduated summa cum laude from St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. He attended Princeton University for a couple of years before inheriting money from his late mother's estate and deciding to become a bon vivant, living and partying at various times in New York, Jamaica, London and Savannah before returning to Bluffton. His playboy lifestyle came to an end in August 1970, when he was hit in the head by a brickbat as he was driven through Fairfield Square on Hilton Head Island. From that time on, he was dependent on others and led a more tranquil life. He was married first to Sally Stokes, currently Mrs. Wynn Chamberlain of Marrakech, in 1960. They later divorced. In 1967, he married Lady Jeanne Louise Campbell. They later divorced and she died earlier this year in New York. They were later divorced. He is survived by his stepsister, Helen Stanislawski of Bluffton; a stepbrother, Billy Guest, of Atlanta; a half-sister Clare Cram Vidich, of Connecticut; half-brothers Peter Cram and Hank Cram, both of Bluffton; and their spouses, nieces and nephews. There will be a memorial service at 3 p.m. today at The Church of the Cross, 110 Calhoun St., Bluffton. Memorials may be sent to Alzheimer's Respite & Resource, 300 Meeting St., Hilton Head Island, SC 29926; The Bluffton Cemetery Fund, P.O. Box 84, Bluffton, SC 29910; or Hospice of the Low Country, P.O. Box 24158, Hilton Head Island, SC 29925-4158. Sauls Funeral Home of Bluffton is assisting with arrangements. END Also see A History of Clan Campbell From the Restoration to the Present Day Vol. 3 Robert

To be honest with you, I was X-Mas shopping and saw it in a used bookstore for a hefty sum, ie jacked-up. I just skimmed through it, and was fortunate to remember what little I shared here. I would also take everything he said with a tremendous grain of salt. It was a very egocentric account of his experiences, to say the least.