Ronald R. Williams

Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived Part Two of a review by James DiEugenio Jim DiEugenio has reviewed the accompanying book to the film Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived and it is available on the CTKA web site: http://www.ctka.net/reviews/virtual_jfk_2.html Ron Williams

Jim DiEugenio has an article on this on the CTKA site: http://www.ctka.net/2009/specter.html Ron Williams

Jim DiEugenio has reviewed the book Legacy of Secrecy by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann. The review is available on the CTKA website at: http://www.ctka.net/2009/legacy_secrecy.html Ron Williams

Jim DiEugenio has reviewed the newly reissued Oswald and the CIA by John Newman. The review is available on the CTKA site. http://www.ctka.net/2008/newman.html Ron W

Jim DiEugenio has now written a review of Jefferson Morley’s book Our Man in Mexico and it is available on the CTKA site. http://www.ctka.net/2008/morley.html Ron W

Jim DiEugenio has reviewed A Certain Arrogance, by the late George Michael Evica, and it is available on the CTKA web site. http://www.ctka.net/2008/certain_arrogance.html Ron W

Appendix #7 in Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy (Kenn Thomas, IllumiNet Press, 1999) is an interview Kenn Thomas did with Michael Riconosciuto on February 10, 1996. (from page 282) Michael Riconosciuto: …Now Fred (Crisman) was very, very close to George Wackenhut. Kenn Thomas: I don’t know if that’s been established before. MR: Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I’ve known of it since 1963, maybe the first time I ever saw them together. Do you know who Chuck Emmert is? KT: I haven’t heard the name yet, no. MR: OK. His mother was a wealthy Florida socialite who financed George Wackenhut when he originally started Wackenhut. KT: Is that a name that I could do a Lexis/Nexus search on? MR: I doubt it, He managed to stay pretty buried, although his mother—I can’t remember her first name—but she was big in south Florida, with anybody in social circles down there would be able to steer you to her… Ron W

The CTKA site now has a review by Jim DiEugenio of JFK and the Unspeakable. http://www.ctka.net/2008/jfk_unspeakable.html Ron W

Jim DiEugenio has written a review of Someone Would Have Talked and it is available on the CTKA site. http://www.ctka.net/someone_would.html Ron W

Thanks a lot, Bill. When were you last in touch with him? A researcher talked to his wife a year or so ago (maybe longer) and she said Paul had died of a fall from a roof. Where ever his files are, they probably contain much that should be considered vital JFK assassination material. Ron W

[written for and originally posted on the JFK Research Forum: www.jfkresearch.com, 1/25/08] I’ve ...been using the Mary Ferrell Foundation site and found something interesting. I had thought it was odd that ...David Kroman was not listed in Mary Ferrell’s database. Well if I would have been half awake I would have checked some different spellings. He was there, but she had his name as “Krohman.” Here is what her entry says: DAVID R. (AKA DON MORGAN) KROHMAN, Gave information to Jim Garrison's office, mostly about Richard Nagell. So she knew about Kroman using the Don Morgan alias, but there was more. She also knew about the famous ...letter that Vaughn Marlowe had sent to Jim Garrison on March 23, 1967, that was signed “Don Morgan (alias).” She just (understandably) assumed the letter was from Kroman, and so later in entries in her “Chronologies” she thinks Vaughn Marlowe and “Krohman” are the same guy! For example, an entry for March 1963: Richard C. Nagell “befriends” Krohman (aka Don Morgan)… Krohman is proprietor of “left-wing book-store” in Los Angeles. (DA Garrison’s files: per Stephen Jaffe letter 3/23/67 to Garrison from “Don Morgan” of Berkely, Calif (?)) +++++ David Kroman seemed to be one of those researcher/investigators who were claiming that H.L. Hunt had some role in the JFK assassination and his investigative activities in Dallas, probably starting as early as December of 1963 (at which time he was using the "Don Morgan" alias), drew the attention of Paul Rothermel, the security director for the Hunt family interests. There most likely are references to David Kroman/Don Morgan in Rothermel's files, but I have not been able to determine if his files have been retained or if they are available to researchers. Ron W

reminder (as mentioned above) Oswald's Ghost on PBS (in the U.S.), Monday Jan 14th. also... link to Jim DiEugenio's review: http://www.ctka.net/lho_ghost.html Ron W

Bill, I think this is it. http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_...ue/vs_text.html Ron W

Nathaniel, There is a new biography (I haven’t read it), Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand : The Life of Colonel Edward M. House, by Godfrey Hodgson. (2006). The one review on Amazon says good starting reference but too short “to do justice to House’s legacy.” It’s been quite a while since I read it but I thought this valuable: Road to War: America 1914 – 1917, by Walter Millis, 1935. Forum member Anton Chaitkin’s Treason in America: From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman has this on House: (after the collapse of the Maximilian regime in Mexico-rw) Most of the high-ranking Confederates in Mexico drifted back into the United States, where many of them simply reentered the mainstream of American life. In fact there was no accounting done, no sorting out, no “Nuremberg Trials” for the insurrection of 1861, which killed more than a half-million Americans—more than died in both of the World Wars. A particularly chilling example of the failure of post-Lincoln Americans to appreciate the nature of the Rebellion is the case of Edward House. His father Thomas House was a British merchant who came to the Texas province of Mexico in the 1830s. The elder House did not stick by Sam Houston when Houston fought against Secession; Thomas House made a fortune as a British national, carrying guns from Britain through the Union blockade to Texas. After the Rebellion was defeated Thomas House returned to England and educated his son Edward at Bath. Years later, the young man returned to America to tend his father’s cotton plantations; he despised the United States as an enemy land, retained a fierce loyalty to Great Britain. This was “Colonel” House, who directed the foreign policy and much of the domestic affairs of the United States during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson…the years of the World War and the League of Nations... (pp 258-259) The following are items from Lloyd Miller’s old A-Albionic book catalog: British-American Relations, 1917-1918: The Role of Sir William Wiseman by W. B. Fowler, 1969… Intriguing Establishment account of the intimate relationship between Sir William Wiseman and the notorious Colonel House. Philip Dru: Administrator--A Story of Tomorrow 1920-1935; by Anonymous, 1912… "Colonel" Edward Mandell House was eventually revealed as the author of this novel by Yale Professor Seymour's Intimate Papers of Colonel House. Seymour revealed that House would hand the book to influential people with the words, "This might interest you." House (Woodrow Wilson's "Kissinger", founder of the CFR, Federal Reserve System advocate, Income Tax advocate, WWI enthusiast, and Kuhn-Loeb associate) presented in the form of a novel, the actual rationale and program by which the welfare-warfare statism (veiled as socialism as dreamed by Karl Marx) required by the "Imperial Crisis" presented Britain by Germany was to be substituted for traditional American individual liberties and isolationism. We are still living in this novel. The Intimate Papers of Colonel House: Volumes I, II, III and IV, by Charles Seymour Ron W

Jim DiEugenio’s review of David Talbot’s book Brothers has been posted on the CTKA web site. http://www.ctka.net/brothers.html Ron W