VANITY - Interesting article for Kennedy conspiracy buffs

Ray and Mary LaFontaine, working for the tabloid TV program "A Current Affair," set out to find Harold Doyle, whose address was listed on the arrest record as Red Jacket, West Virginia. The trail led from West Virginia to Amarillo, Texas, where the LaFontaines found one of Doyle's former neighbors who remembered him talking about his arrest in Dallas. Doyle was finally located in Klamath Falls, Oregon. He told his story on camera (see photo, below right), and was also questioned by the FBI.

The FBI and private researchers sought the other two tramps. Gedney was located in Melbourne, Florida, serving as a municipal officer, a respected member of the community who had not spoken about former life as a vagabond until interviewed by researcher Billy Cox, and by the FBI. Both Doyle and Gedney told the same story of spending the night before the assassination at a rescue mission. According to Oliver Revell of the Dallas FBI office:

Both commented that they had gotten fresh clothes, showered, shaved and had a meal. They headed back to the railroad yard when they heard all the commotion and sirens and everything, and they asked what happened. They were told the president had been shot.
See The Washington Post, March 4, 1992, and Dateline Dallas, Winter, 1993.
Abrams, the oldest of the tramps, was deceased. But researcher Kenneth Formet interviewed his sister, with whom he had lived the last 15 years of his life. She remembered his vagabond days, saying "he was always on the go hopping trains and drinking wine." When shown a picture of the Dealey Plaza tramps she responded "Yep, that's my Bill!" (Dateline Dallas, Winter, 1993)

Thus one of the greatest of assassination mysteries sprang from one of the most mundane Dealey Plaza realities. Three hobos swept up in the dragnet produced by the assassination were arrested and released. Suspicious of authority and fearful of being blamed, they remained quiet about their identities until the surviving two were tracked down almost 30 years later. Never objectively "mysterious" they only seemed that way because the absence of information left room for wild speculation. Thus the tramps are a metaphor for all the broader "mysteries" of the JFK murder case.

In case you missed it the second time. "Both commented that they had gotten fresh clothes, showered, shaved and had a meal." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You know one of the sadists things about that whole civil trial to me was that it was David Lifton who gave up all the damaging information about Robert Groden to Daniel Petrocelli. They are both conspiracy theorists and Lifton stabbed Groden in the back. Petrocelli would have found out all he needed to know about Groden, regardless. The point being the brutality that exists among the researchers----even on the same side. So sad, imo, and needless....

But, I digress. Yes, I do believe those "ugly-ass shoes" were Bruno Maglis. Admittedly, though, I have put money in Groden's pocket buying his video tapes and books. :-)

Mlo, My son was interested in Tesla and he found himself on a list that sent every nutcase catalog to our house. The latest catalog is called Adventures Unlimited. It has a list of books featuring every crackpot theory you can imagine:
The Giza Death Star
Crop Circles, Gods and Their Secrets
The Complete Book of Alien Abductions
What Happened on the Moon
Chemtrail:The Video
Lost Continents & The Hollow Earth
Atlantis in Wisconsin

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Barry And The Boys

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