For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, which takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules Ricco Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being a CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble claimed were also CIA agents.
dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote: > For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, which > takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules Ricco > Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator > "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in > Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being a > CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble > claimed were also CIA agents.
New Orleans Times-Picayune June 5, 1968 S2-P8 Kimble is Held in Check Case Claimed Last Year to be Klan Informer - A young man who last year claimed to have inside information on Ku Klux Klan operations was arrested Tuesday [4th] on a charge of conducting illicit checking operations. Accused of making himself $1,405 richer at the expense of the Bank of New Orleans was Jules R. Kimble [...] Police claim Kimble effected the theft by manipulating checks stolen from an industrial firm where he was employed as a clerk from April 24 to May 10. In June of last year Kimble left Louisiana claiming he had witnessed plans to bomb the homes of labor leader Victor Bussie and a Negro woman teacher in Port Allen, and that his life was in danger. He was arrested, however, in Miami last October on charges of parole violation in Avoyelles Parish, and agreed to return to Louisiana on charges of nonsupport of his family. He then appeared before the Baton Rouge grand jury in connection with the Bussie bombing the same month. Kimble was also arrested in New Orleans May 21 on charges of impersonating police, carrying a concealed weapon, assault and forgery. He had been arrested in Baton Rouge in February and charged with attempted theft and impersonating a doctor. Discussing Kimble's latest run-in with the law, Sgt. Ronald Kennedy and Det. Nick Chetta alleged that he stole a number of checks from the industrial firm and deposited them in a special bank account under a phony firm name. He then began making withdrawals using names of legitimate companies, police claimed. When arrested, Kimble was on $4,750 bond. Police said a $475 check he wrote to the bonding company bounced. - Jerru Shinley
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Maybe I'm imagining things, as "right-wing anti-semitic, neo-nazi, etc etc conspiracy theorists" tend to do, but I have some 'VAGUE MEMORY' of James Earl Ray having alleged that he had evidence that some "individual" connected with an organization with "Middle East interests" having perhaps been one of the guiding hands behind the frame-up of Mr. Ray himself and that the individual in question seemed to be upset about Dr. king's plan to change his position regarding the form of racism known as Zionism (as so declared by the United Nations--a very fine organization, as I am sure all fine liberals will agree.)
jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: > In article <19990619015142.26156.00001...@ng-ba1.aol.com>, > dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote: > > For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, which > > takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules Ricco > > Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator > > "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in > > Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being a > > CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble > > claimed were also CIA agents.
> New Orleans Times-Picayune June 5, 1968 S2-P8 > Kimble is Held in Check Case > Claimed Last Year to be Klan Informer > - > A young man who last year claimed to have inside information > on Ku Klux Klan operations was arrested Tuesday [4th] on a charge > of conducting illicit checking operations. > Accused of making himself $1,405 richer at the expense of the > Bank of New Orleans was Jules R. Kimble [...] > Police claim Kimble effected the theft by manipulating checks > stolen from an industrial firm where he was employed as a clerk from > April 24 to May 10. > In June of last year Kimble left Louisiana claiming he had witnessed > plans to bomb the homes of labor leader Victor Bussie and a Negro > woman teacher in Port Allen, and that his life was in danger. > He was arrested, however, in Miami last October on charges of > parole violation in Avoyelles Parish, and agreed to return to > Louisiana on charges of nonsupport of his family. > He then appeared before the Baton Rouge grand jury in connection > with the Bussie bombing the same month. > Kimble was also arrested in New Orleans May 21 on charges of > impersonating police, carrying a concealed weapon, assault and forgery. > He had been arrested in Baton Rouge in February and charged with > attempted theft and impersonating a doctor. > Discussing Kimble's latest run-in with the law, Sgt. Ronald > Kennedy and Det. Nick Chetta alleged that he stole a number of checks > from the industrial firm and deposited them in a special bank account > under a phony firm name. > He then began making withdrawals using names of legitimate > companies, police claimed. > When arrested, Kimble was on $4,750 bond. Police said a $475 check > he wrote to the bonding company bounced. > - > Jerru Shinley
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jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: > In article <19990619015142.26156.00001...@ng-ba1.aol.com>, > dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote: > > For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, which > > takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules Ricco > > Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator > > "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in > > Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being a > > CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble > > claimed were also CIA agents.
> New Orleans Times-Picayune June 5, 1968 S2-P8 > Kimble is Held in Check Case > Claimed Last Year to be Klan Informer > - > A young man who last year claimed to have inside information > on Ku Klux Klan operations was arrested Tuesday [4th] on a charge > of conducting illicit checking operations. > Accused of making himself $1,405 richer at the expense of the > Bank of New Orleans was Jules R. Kimble [...] > Police claim Kimble effected the theft by manipulating checks > stolen from an industrial firm where he was employed as a clerk from > April 24 to May 10. > In June of last year Kimble left Louisiana claiming he had witnessed > plans to bomb the homes of labor leader Victor Bussie and a Negro > woman teacher in Port Allen, and that his life was in danger. > He was arrested, however, in Miami last October on charges of > parole violation in Avoyelles Parish, and agreed to return to > Louisiana on charges of nonsupport of his family. > He then appeared before the Baton Rouge grand jury in connection > with the Bussie bombing the same month. > Kimble was also arrested in New Orleans May 21 on charges of > impersonating police, carrying a concealed weapon, assault and forgery. > He had been arrested in Baton Rouge in February and charged with > attempted theft and impersonating a doctor. > Discussing Kimble's latest run-in with the law, Sgt. Ronald > Kennedy and Det. Nick Chetta alleged that he stole a number of checks > from the industrial firm and deposited them in a special bank account > under a phony firm name. > He then began making withdrawals using names of legitimate > companies, police claimed. > When arrested, Kimble was on $4,750 bond. Police said a $475 check > he wrote to the bonding company bounced. > - > Jerru Shinley
Ramparts January, 1968 P68 The Garrison Commission by William Turner - The affair of Jules Rocco Kimble illustrates how government pressure has induced potential witnesses to slip from Garrison's grasp. A self-avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan who got in trouble over bombings in Baton Rouge, Kimble approached the DA's men in the apparent hope of gaining mitigation. He said that on the day after David Ferrie died, he drove a top KKK official, Jack Helm, to Ferrie's apartment. Helm came out with a satchel crammed with papers, which he placed in a bank safe deposit box. Kimble also divulged that in 1962, he had flown to Montreal with Ferrie on what was purported to be Minutemen business. He promised the DA's investigators that he would gather further information and report back. He didn't come through. Shortly afterward, he phoned his wife from Atlanta, saying he had met a CIA contact. "They'll never get me back to New Orleans," he vowed. A few days after that, he called from Montreal. For reasons unknown, Kimble backtracked to Tampa, Florida, where he was arrested by local police. Interviewed by Garrison's men, he said that he had once worked special assigments for the CIA, and in verification named his Agency contacts and the box number of the Lafayette Street station they assigned him. He averred that he had contacted the CIA after Walter Sheridan had counseled him to say nothing to the DA and go to Canada... - <end of excerpt> - Would the CIA have used a man who had been publicly identified as a CIA contact before the MLK assassination as an operative in that assassination? Would they allow him to return to Jim Garrison's jurisdiction after the shooting? - Jerry Shinley
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>jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: >> dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote: >> > For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, which >> > takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules Ricco >> > Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator >> > "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in >> > Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being a >> > CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble >> > claimed were also CIA agents.
>> New Orleans Times-Picayune June 5, 1968 S2-P8 >> Kimble is Held in Check Case >> Claimed Last Year to be Klan Informer >> - >> A young man who last year claimed to have inside information >> on Ku Klux Klan operations was arrested Tuesday [4th] on a charge >> of conducting illicit checking operations. >> Accused of making himself $1,405 richer at the expense of the >> Bank of New Orleans was Jules R. Kimble [...] >> Police claim Kimble effected the theft by manipulating checks >> stolen from an industrial firm where he was employed as a clerk from >> April 24 to May 10. >> In June of last year Kimble left Louisiana claiming he had witnessed >> plans to bomb the homes of labor leader Victor Bussie and a Negro >> woman teacher in Port Allen, and that his life was in danger. >> He was arrested, however, in Miami last October on charges of >> parole violation in Avoyelles Parish, and agreed to return to >> Louisiana on charges of nonsupport of his family. >> He then appeared before the Baton Rouge grand jury in connection >> with the Bussie bombing the same month. >> Kimble was also arrested in New Orleans May 21 on charges of >> impersonating police, carrying a concealed weapon, assault and forgery. >> He had been arrested in Baton Rouge in February and charged with >> attempted theft and impersonating a doctor. >> Discussing Kimble's latest run-in with the law, Sgt. Ronald >> Kennedy and Det. Nick Chetta alleged that he stole a number of checks >> from the industrial firm and deposited them in a special bank account >> under a phony firm name. >> He then began making withdrawals using names of legitimate >> companies, police claimed. >> When arrested, Kimble was on $4,750 bond. Police said a $475 check >> he wrote to the bonding company bounced. >> - >> Jerru Shinley
>Ramparts January, 1968 P68 >The Garrison Commission by William Turner >- > The affair of Jules Rocco Kimble illustrates how government >pressure has induced potential witnesses to slip from Garrison's >grasp. A self-avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan who got in trouble >over bombings in Baton Rouge, Kimble approached the DA's men in the >apparent hope of gaining mitigation. He said that on the day after >David Ferrie died, he drove a top KKK official, Jack Helm, to >Ferrie's apartment. Helm came out with a satchel crammed with papers, >which he placed in a bank safe deposit box. Kimble also divulged >that in 1962, he had flown to Montreal with Ferrie on what was >purported to be Minutemen business. He promised the DA's investigators >that he would gather further information and report back. > He didn't come through. Shortly afterward, he phoned his wife >from Atlanta, saying he had met a CIA contact. "They'll never get >me back to New Orleans," he vowed. A few days after that, he called >from Montreal. For reasons unknown, Kimble backtracked to Tampa, >Florida, where he was arrested by local police. Interviewed by >Garrison's men, he said that he had once worked special assigments >for the CIA, and in verification named his Agency contacts and the >box number of the Lafayette Street station they assigned him. He >averred that he had contacted the CIA after Walter Sheridan had >counseled him to say nothing to the DA and go to Canada... >- ><end of excerpt> >- > Would the CIA have used a man who had been publicly identified >as a CIA contact before the MLK assassination as an operative in >that assassination? Would they allow him to return to Jim Garrison's >jurisdiction after the shooting? >- >Jerry Shinley
Also, you notice anything -- or anybody -- missing from the flight-to-Canada story? \:^)
> >> > takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules Ricco > >> > Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator > >> > "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in > >> > Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being a > >> > CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble > >> > claimed were also CIA agents.
> >> > Kimble is discussed in Bill Davy's new book, *Let Justice Be Done.* He's > >> > also discussed briefly in part four of my article, "Who Speaks for Clay > >> > Shaw?" (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/shaw4.htm) and my review of Davy's > >book > >> > (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/davy.htm).
> >> > Dave Reitzes
> >> New Orleans Times-Picayune June 5, 1968 S2-P8 > >> Kimble is Held in Check Case > >> Claimed Last Year to be Klan Informer > >> - > >> A young man who last year claimed to have inside information > >> on Ku Klux Klan operations was arrested Tuesday [4th] on a charge > >> of conducting illicit checking operations. > >> Accused of making himself $1,405 richer at the expense of the > >> Bank of New Orleans was Jules R. Kimble [...] > >> Police claim Kimble effected the theft by manipulating checks > >> stolen from an industrial firm where he was employed as a clerk from > >> April 24 to May 10. > >> In June of last year Kimble left Louisiana claiming he had witnessed > >> plans to bomb the homes of labor leader Victor Bussie and a Negro > >> woman teacher in Port Allen, and that his life was in danger. > >> He was arrested, however, in Miami last October on charges of > >> parole violation in Avoyelles Parish, and agreed to return to > >> Louisiana on charges of nonsupport of his family. > >> He then appeared before the Baton Rouge grand jury in connection > >> with the Bussie bombing the same month. > >> Kimble was also arrested in New Orleans May 21 on charges of > >> impersonating police, carrying a concealed weapon, assault and forgery. > >> He had been arrested in Baton Rouge in February and charged with > >> attempted theft and impersonating a doctor. > >> Discussing Kimble's latest run-in with the law, Sgt. Ronald > >> Kennedy and Det. Nick Chetta alleged that he stole a number of checks > >> from the industrial firm and deposited them in a special bank account > >> under a phony firm name. > >> He then began making withdrawals using names of legitimate > >> companies, police claimed. > >> When arrested, Kimble was on $4,750 bond. Police said a $475 check > >> he wrote to the bonding company bounced. > >> - > >> Jerru Shinley
> >Ramparts January, 1968 P68 > >The Garrison Commission by William Turner > >- > > The affair of Jules Rocco Kimble illustrates how government > >pressure has induced potential witnesses to slip from Garrison's > >grasp. A self-avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan who got in trouble > >over bombings in Baton Rouge, Kimble approached the DA's men in the > >apparent hope of gaining mitigation. He said that on the day after > >David Ferrie died, he drove a top KKK official, Jack Helm, to > >Ferrie's apartment. Helm came out with a satchel crammed with papers, > >which he placed in a bank safe deposit box. Kimble also divulged > >that in 1962, he had flown to Montreal with Ferrie on what was > >purported to be Minutemen business. He promised the DA's investigators > >that he would gather further information and report back. > > He didn't come through. Shortly afterward, he phoned his wife > >from Atlanta, saying he had met a CIA contact. "They'll never get > >me back to New Orleans," he vowed. A few days after that, he called > >from Montreal. For reasons unknown, Kimble backtracked to Tampa, > >Florida, where he was arrested by local police. Interviewed by > >Garrison's men, he said that he had once worked special assigments > >for the CIA, and in verification named his Agency contacts and the > >box number of the Lafayette Street station they assigned him. He > >averred that he had contacted the CIA after Walter Sheridan had > >counseled him to say nothing to the DA and go to Canada... > >- > ><end of excerpt> > >- > > Would the CIA have used a man who had been publicly identified > >as a CIA contact before the MLK assassination as an operative in > >that assassination? Would they allow him to return to Jim Garrison's > >jurisdiction after the shooting? > >- > >Jerry Shinley
> Also, you notice anything -- or anybody -- missing from the > flight-to-Canada story? \:^)
> Dave
>> In a postscript to my article "The Winnipeg Airport
Incident Revisited", I discuss the content of a Dec. 1968 CBC-TV interview with Richard Giesbrecht broadcast in Winnipeg only. Part of the interview dealt with the "third man" who followed Giesbrecht from the airport lounge, who apparently looked just like a man seen with James Earl Ray in Montreal. Giesbrecht showed a police sketch of the man. No reference was made to Kimble, but Giesbrecht had been contacted by Ray's first lawyer Haynes, Sr. and writer Huie, and Foreman seemed to be aware of the information too. It is very likely that Giesbrecht was referring to Kimble (the name "Raoul" was not mentioned), who possibly was in Winnipeg on Feb. 13, 1964 with David Ferrie, talking to another man with a pocked-marked neck, reddish hair, in his mid- 40s, who possibly had a hearing aid, and whose name might have been "Romanuk" or "Romaniuk". - Peter
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> >jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: > >> dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote: > >> > For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, which > >> > takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules Ricco > >> > Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator > >> > "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in > >> > Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being a > >> > CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble > >> > claimed were also CIA agents.
> >> > Kimble is discussed in Bill Davy's new book, *Let Justice Be Done.* He's > >> > also discussed briefly in part four of my article, "Who Speaks for Clay > >> > Shaw?" (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/shaw4.htm) and my review of Davy's > >book > >> > (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/davy.htm).
> >> > Dave Reitzes
> >> New Orleans Times-Picayune June 5, 1968 S2-P8 > >> Kimble is Held in Check Case > >> Claimed Last Year to be Klan Informer > >> - > >> A young man who last year claimed to have inside information > >> on Ku Klux Klan operations was arrested Tuesday [4th] on a charge > >> of conducting illicit checking operations. > >> Accused of making himself $1,405 richer at the expense of the > >> Bank of New Orleans was Jules R. Kimble [...] > >> Police claim Kimble effected the theft by manipulating checks > >> stolen from an industrial firm where he was employed as a clerk from > >> April 24 to May 10. > >> In June of last year Kimble left Louisiana claiming he had witnessed > >> plans to bomb the homes of labor leader Victor Bussie and a Negro > >> woman teacher in Port Allen, and that his life was in danger. > >> He was arrested, however, in Miami last October on charges of > >> parole violation in Avoyelles Parish, and agreed to return to > >> Louisiana on charges of nonsupport of his family. > >> He then appeared before the Baton Rouge grand jury in connection > >> with the Bussie bombing the same month. > >> Kimble was also arrested in New Orleans May 21 on charges of > >> impersonating police, carrying a concealed weapon, assault and forgery. > >> He had been arrested in Baton Rouge in February and charged with > >> attempted theft and impersonating a doctor. > >> Discussing Kimble's latest run-in with the law, Sgt. Ronald > >> Kennedy and Det. Nick Chetta alleged that he stole a number of checks > >> from the industrial firm and deposited them in a special bank account > >> under a phony firm name. > >> He then began making withdrawals using names of legitimate > >> companies, police claimed. > >> When arrested, Kimble was on $4,750 bond. Police said a $475 check > >> he wrote to the bonding company bounced. > >> - > >> Jerru Shinley
> >Ramparts January, 1968 P68 > >The Garrison Commission by William Turner > >- > > The affair of Jules Rocco Kimble illustrates how government > >pressure has induced potential witnesses to slip from Garrison's > >grasp. A self-avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan who got in trouble > >over bombings in Baton Rouge, Kimble approached the DA's men in the > >apparent hope of gaining mitigation. He said that on the day after > >David Ferrie died, he drove a top KKK official, Jack Helm, to > >Ferrie's apartment. Helm came out with a satchel crammed with papers, > >which he placed in a bank safe deposit box. Kimble also divulged > >that in 1962, he had flown to Montreal with Ferrie on what was > >purported to be Minutemen business. He promised the DA's investigators > >that he would gather further information and report back. > > He didn't come through. Shortly afterward, he phoned his wife > >from Atlanta, saying he had met a CIA contact. "They'll never get > >me back to New Orleans," he vowed. A few days after that, he called > >from Montreal. For reasons unknown, Kimble backtracked to Tampa, > >Florida, where he was arrested by local police. Interviewed by > >Garrison's men, he said that he had once worked special assigments > >for the CIA, and in verification named his Agency contacts and the > >box number of the Lafayette Street station they assigned him. He > >averred that he had contacted the CIA after Walter Sheridan had > >counseled him to say nothing to the DA and go to Canada... > >- > ><end of excerpt> > >- > > Would the CIA have used a man who had been publicly identified > >as a CIA contact before the MLK assassination as an operative in > >that assassination? Would they allow him to return to Jim Garrison's > >jurisdiction after the shooting? > >- > >Jerry Shinley
> Also, you notice anything -- or anybody -- missing from the > flight-to-Canada story? \:^)
> Dave
>> In a postscript to my article "The Winnipeg Airport
Incident Revisited", I discuss the content of a Dec. 1968 CBC-TV interview with Richard Giesbrecht broadcast in Winnipeg only. Part of the interview dealt with the "third man" who followed Giesbrecht from the airport lounge, who apparently looked just like a man seen with James Earl Ray in Montreal. Giesbrecht showed a police sketch of the man. No reference was made to Kimble, but Giesbrecht had been contacted by Ray's first lawyer Haynes, Sr. and writer Huie, and Foreman seemed to be aware of the information too. It is very likely that Giesbrecht was referring to Kimble (the name "Raoul" was not mentioned), who possibly was in Winnipeg on Feb. 13, 1964 with David Ferrie, talking to another man with a pocked-marked neck, reddish hair, in his mid- 40s, who possibly had a hearing aid, and whose name might have been "Romanuk" or "Romaniuk". - Peter
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jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: > In article <7kjlsl$p4...@nnrp1.deja.com>, > jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: > > In article <19990619015142.26156.00001...@ng-ba1.aol.com>, > > dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote: > > > For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, which > > > takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules Ricco > > > Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator > > > "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in > > > Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being a > > > CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble > > > claimed were also CIA agents.
> > New Orleans Times-Picayune June 5, 1968 S2-P8 > > Kimble is Held in Check Case > > Claimed Last Year to be Klan Informer > > - > > A young man who last year claimed to have inside information > > on Ku Klux Klan operations was arrested Tuesday [4th] on a charge > > of conducting illicit checking operations. > > Accused of making himself $1,405 richer at the expense of the > > Bank of New Orleans was Jules R. Kimble [...] > > Police claim Kimble effected the theft by manipulating checks > > stolen from an industrial firm where he was employed as a clerk from > > April 24 to May 10. > > In June of last year Kimble left Louisiana claiming he had witnessed > > plans to bomb the homes of labor leader Victor Bussie and a Negro > > woman teacher in Port Allen, and that his life was in danger. > > He was arrested, however, in Miami last October on charges of > > parole violation in Avoyelles Parish, and agreed to return to > > Louisiana on charges of nonsupport of his family. > > He then appeared before the Baton Rouge grand jury in connection > > with the Bussie bombing the same month. > > Kimble was also arrested in New Orleans May 21 on charges of > > impersonating police, carrying a concealed weapon, assault and forgery. > > He had been arrested in Baton Rouge in February and charged with > > attempted theft and impersonating a doctor. > > Discussing Kimble's latest run-in with the law, Sgt. Ronald > > Kennedy and Det. Nick Chetta alleged that he stole a number of checks > > from the industrial firm and deposited them in a special bank account > > under a phony firm name. > > He then began making withdrawals using names of legitimate > > companies, police claimed. > > When arrested, Kimble was on $4,750 bond. Police said a $475 check > > he wrote to the bonding company bounced. > > - > > Jerru Shinley
> Ramparts January, 1968 P68 > The Garrison Commission by William Turner > - > The affair of Jules Rocco Kimble illustrates how government > pressure has induced potential witnesses to slip from Garrison's > grasp. A self-avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan who got in trouble > over bombings in Baton Rouge, Kimble approached the DA's men in the > apparent hope of gaining mitigation. He said that on the day after > David Ferrie died, he drove a top KKK official, Jack Helm, to > Ferrie's apartment. Helm came out with a satchel crammed with papers, > which he placed in a bank safe deposit box. Kimble also divulged > that in 1962, he had flown to Montreal with Ferrie on what was > purported to be Minutemen business. He promised the DA's investigators > that he would gather further information and report back. > He didn't come through. Shortly afterward, he phoned his wife > from Atlanta, saying he had met a CIA contact. "They'll never get > me back to New Orleans," he vowed. A few days after that, he called > from Montreal. For reasons unknown, Kimble backtracked to Tampa, > Florida, where he was arrested by local police. Interviewed by > Garrison's men, he said that he had once worked special assigments > for the CIA, and in verification named his Agency contacts and the > box number of the Lafayette Street station they assigned him. He > averred that he had contacted the CIA after Walter Sheridan had > counseled him to say nothing to the DA and go to Canada... > - > <end of excerpt> > - > Would the CIA have used a man who had been publicly identified > as a CIA contact before the MLK assassination as an operative in > that assassination? Would they allow him to return to Jim Garrison's > jurisdiction after the shooting? > - > Jerry Shinley
New Orleans Times-Picayune Aug 31, 1968 S2-P2 Impersonation Charge Placed Official Says N.O. Man Posed as Male Nurse - Hahnville, La. - Jules Ron [sic] Kimble, 25, New Orleans, Friday [30th] faced charges here of using falsely obtained papers to impersonate a registered male nurse. St. Charles Parish Sheriff John O. St. Amant said Kimble was arrested after he had worked one and one half days at an industrial plant in Taft, where he had obtained employment with papers allegedly stolen from a registered male nurse. He was booked at the court house with possession of stolen goods and forgery and he is being held for Baton Rouge police and for probation authorities. St. Amant said Kimble is wanted in Baton Rouge on two bench warrants charging him with impersonating a doctor and with attempting to steal $1,260. He is being held for probation authorities, the sheriff said, because he is presently serving a two-year probation period imposed by Criminal District Court Judge Malcolm J. O'Hara in New Orleans Aug. 8. St. Amant said Kimble, who gave six different New Orleans adddresses as his residence, used papers he stole from Thomas Landas, a registered male nurse, to obtain employment at the St. Charles Parish plant. He said that the theft occurred in parish prison in New Orleans on July 20 while Kimble was awaiting trial before Judge O'Hara. Landas also was confined in the prison at the time. Kimble who was a hallboy in the prison at the time of the theft, used Landas' name and his nurse's registration papers after his release on probation to obtain the nursing position in St. Charles Parish, the sheriff said. St. Amant said Kimble also worked for four days at a New Orleans hospital under the assumed name and sought employment at three other hospitals. Kimble was exposed when a St. Charles Parish hospital nurse who knew Landas told authorities Kimble did not resemble the man she knew as Landas. St. Amant said his office received a bulletin about the same time from the Nurses Association warning about the theft of Landas' registration papers. - <end of article> - Jerry Shinley
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>From: jpshin...@my-deja.com >jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: >> jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: >> > dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote: >> > > For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, >which >> > > takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules >Ricco >> > > Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator >> > > "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in >> > > Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being >a >> > > CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble >> > > claimed were also CIA agents.
>> > > Kimble is discussed in Bill Davy's new book, *Let Justice Be Done.* >He's >> > > also discussed briefly in part four of my article, "Who Speaks for Clay >> > > Shaw?" (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/shaw4.htm) and my review of Davy's >book >> > > (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/davy.htm).
>> > > Dave Reitzes
>> > New Orleans Times-Picayune June 5, 1968 S2-P8 >> > Kimble is Held in Check Case >> > Claimed Last Year to be Klan Informer >> > - >> > A young man who last year claimed to have inside information >> > on Ku Klux Klan operations was arrested Tuesday [4th] on a charge >> > of conducting illicit checking operations. >> > Accused of making himself $1,405 richer at the expense of the >> > Bank of New Orleans was Jules R. Kimble [...] >> > Police claim Kimble effected the theft by manipulating checks >> > stolen from an industrial firm where he was employed as a clerk from >> > April 24 to May 10. >> > In June of last year Kimble left Louisiana claiming he had witnessed >> > plans to bomb the homes of labor leader Victor Bussie and a Negro >> > woman teacher in Port Allen, and that his life was in danger. >> > He was arrested, however, in Miami last October on charges of >> > parole violation in Avoyelles Parish, and agreed to return to >> > Louisiana on charges of nonsupport of his family. >> > He then appeared before the Baton Rouge grand jury in connection >> > with the Bussie bombing the same month. >> > Kimble was also arrested in New Orleans May 21 on charges of >> > impersonating police, carrying a concealed weapon, assault and forgery. >> > He had been arrested in Baton Rouge in February and charged with >> > attempted theft and impersonating a doctor. >> > Discussing Kimble's latest run-in with the law, Sgt. Ronald >> > Kennedy and Det. Nick Chetta alleged that he stole a number of checks >> > from the industrial firm and deposited them in a special bank account >> > under a phony firm name. >> > He then began making withdrawals using names of legitimate >> > companies, police claimed. >> > When arrested, Kimble was on $4,750 bond. Police said a $475 check >> > he wrote to the bonding company bounced. >> > - >> > Jerru Shinley
>> Ramparts January, 1968 P68 >> The Garrison Commission by William Turner >> - >> The affair of Jules Rocco Kimble illustrates how government >> pressure has induced potential witnesses to slip from Garrison's >> grasp. A self-avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan who got in trouble >> over bombings in Baton Rouge, Kimble approached the DA's men in the >> apparent hope of gaining mitigation. He said that on the day after >> David Ferrie died, he drove a top KKK official, Jack Helm, to >> Ferrie's apartment. Helm came out with a satchel crammed with papers, >> which he placed in a bank safe deposit box. Kimble also divulged >> that in 1962, he had flown to Montreal with Ferrie on what was >> purported to be Minutemen business. He promised the DA's investigators >> that he would gather further information and report back. >> He didn't come through. Shortly afterward, he phoned his wife >> from Atlanta, saying he had met a CIA contact. "They'll never get >> me back to New Orleans," he vowed. A few days after that, he called >> from Montreal. For reasons unknown, Kimble backtracked to Tampa, >> Florida, where he was arrested by local police. Interviewed by >> Garrison's men, he said that he had once worked special assigments >> for the CIA, and in verification named his Agency contacts and the >> box number of the Lafayette Street station they assigned him. He >> averred that he had contacted the CIA after Walter Sheridan had >> counseled him to say nothing to the DA and go to Canada... >> - >> <end of excerpt> >> - >> Would the CIA have used a man who had been publicly identified >> as a CIA contact before the MLK assassination as an operative in >> that assassination? Would they allow him to return to Jim Garrison's >> jurisdiction after the shooting? >> - >> Jerry Shinley
>New Orleans Times-Picayune Aug 31, 1968 S2-P2 >Impersonation Charge Placed >Official Says N.O. Man Posed as Male Nurse >- > Hahnville, La. - Jules Ron [sic] Kimble, 25, New Orleans, Friday >[30th] faced charges here of using falsely obtained papers to >impersonate a registered male nurse. > St. Charles Parish Sheriff John O. St. Amant said Kimble was >arrested after he had worked one and one half days at an industrial >plant in Taft, where he had obtained employment with papers allegedly >stolen from a registered male nurse. > He was booked at the court house with possession of stolen goods >and forgery and he is being held for Baton Rouge police and for >probation authorities. > St. Amant said Kimble is wanted in Baton Rouge on two bench >warrants charging him with impersonating a doctor and with attempting >to steal $1,260. > He is being held for probation authorities, the sheriff said, >because he is presently serving a two-year probation period imposed >by Criminal District Court Judge Malcolm J. O'Hara in New Orleans >Aug. 8. > St. Amant said Kimble, who gave six different New Orleans adddresses >as his residence, used papers he stole from Thomas Landas, a registered >male nurse, to obtain employment at the St. Charles Parish plant. > He said that the theft occurred in parish prison in New Orleans >on July 20 while Kimble was awaiting trial before Judge O'Hara. Landas >also was confined in the prison at the time. > Kimble who was a hallboy in the prison at the time of the theft, >used Landas' name and his nurse's registration papers after his release >on probation to obtain the nursing position in St. Charles Parish, the >sheriff said. > St. Amant said Kimble also worked for four days at a New Orleans >hospital under the assumed name and sought employment at three other >hospitals. > Kimble was exposed when a St. Charles Parish hospital nurse who >knew Landas told authorities Kimble did not resemble the man she knew >as Landas. > St. Amant said his office received a bulletin about the same time >from the Nurses Association warning about the theft of Landas' >registration papers. >- ><end of article> >- >Jerry Shinley
Man, this guy's quite a handful, isn't he? I'm surprised that prison walls can hold him.
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:13:21 GMT, jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: >In article <7knoag$5c...@nnrp1.deja.com>, >jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: >> In article <7kjlsl$p4...@nnrp1.deja.com>, >> jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: >> > In article <19990619015142.26156.00001...@ng-ba1.aol.com>, >> > dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote: >> > > For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, which >> > > takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules Ricco >> > > Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator >> > > "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in >> > > Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being a >> > > CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble >> > > claimed were also CIA agents.
>> > > Kimble is discussed in Bill Davy's new book, *Let Justice Be Done.* He's >> > > also discussed briefly in part four of my article, "Who Speaks for Clay >> > > Shaw?" (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/shaw4.htm) and my review of Davy's book >> > > (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/davy.htm).
>> > > Dave Reitzes
>> > New Orleans Times-Picayune June 5, 1968 S2-P8 >> > Kimble is Held in Check Case >> > Claimed Last Year to be Klan Informer >> > - >> > A young man who last year claimed to have inside information >> > on Ku Klux Klan operations was arrested Tuesday [4th] on a charge >> > of conducting illicit checking operations. >> > Accused of making himself $1,405 richer at the expense of the >> > Bank of New Orleans was Jules R. Kimble [...] >> > Police claim Kimble effected the theft by manipulating checks >> > stolen from an industrial firm where he was employed as a clerk from >> > April 24 to May 10. >> > In June of last year Kimble left Louisiana claiming he had witnessed >> > plans to bomb the homes of labor leader Victor Bussie and a Negro >> > woman teacher in Port Allen, and that his life was in danger. >> > He was arrested, however, in Miami last October on charges of >> > parole violation in Avoyelles Parish, and agreed to return to >> > Louisiana on charges of nonsupport of his family. >> > He then appeared before the Baton Rouge grand jury in connection >> > with the Bussie bombing the same month. >> > Kimble was also arrested in New Orleans May 21 on charges of >> > impersonating police, carrying a concealed weapon, assault and forgery. >> > He had been arrested in Baton Rouge in February and charged with >> > attempted theft and impersonating a doctor. >> > Discussing Kimble's latest run-in with the law, Sgt. Ronald >> > Kennedy and Det. Nick Chetta alleged that he stole a number of checks >> > from the industrial firm and deposited them in a special bank account >> > under a phony firm name. >> > He then began making withdrawals using names of legitimate >> > companies, police claimed. >> > When arrested, Kimble was on $4,750 bond. Police said a $475 check >> > he wrote to the bonding company bounced. >> > - >> > Jerru Shinley
>> Ramparts January, 1968 P68 >> The Garrison Commission by William Turner >> - >> The affair of Jules Rocco Kimble illustrates how government >> pressure has induced potential witnesses to slip from Garrison's >> grasp. A self-avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan who got in trouble >> over bombings in Baton Rouge, Kimble approached the DA's men in the >> apparent hope of gaining mitigation. He said that on the day after >> David Ferrie died, he drove a top KKK official, Jack Helm, to >> Ferrie's apartment. Helm came out with a satchel crammed with papers, >> which he placed in a bank safe deposit box. Kimble also divulged >> that in 1962, he had flown to Montreal with Ferrie on what was >> purported to be Minutemen business. He promised the DA's investigators >> that he would gather further information and report back. >> He didn't come through. Shortly afterward, he phoned his wife >> from Atlanta, saying he had met a CIA contact. "They'll never get >> me back to New Orleans," he vowed. A few days after that, he called >> from Montreal. For reasons unknown, Kimble backtracked to Tampa, >> Florida, where he was arrested by local police. Interviewed by >> Garrison's men, he said that he had once worked special assigments >> for the CIA, and in verification named his Agency contacts and the >> box number of the Lafayette Street station they assigned him. He >> averred that he had contacted the CIA after Walter Sheridan had >> counseled him to say nothing to the DA and go to Canada... >> - >> <end of excerpt> >> - >> Would the CIA have used a man who had been publicly identified >> as a CIA contact before the MLK assassination as an operative in >> that assassination? Would they allow him to return to Jim Garrison's >> jurisdiction after the shooting? >> - >> Jerry Shinley
>New Orleans Times-Picayune Aug 31, 1968 S2-P2 >Impersonation Charge Placed >Official Says N.O. Man Posed as Male Nurse >- > Hahnville, La. - Jules Ron [sic] Kimble, 25, New Orleans, Friday >[30th] faced charges here of using falsely obtained papers to >impersonate a registered male nurse. > St. Charles Parish Sheriff John O. St. Amant said Kimble was >arrested after he had worked one and one half days at an industrial >plant in Taft, where he had obtained employment with papers allegedly >stolen from a registered male nurse. > He was booked at the court house with possession of stolen goods >and forgery and he is being held for Baton Rouge police and for >probation authorities. > St. Amant said Kimble is wanted in Baton Rouge on two bench >warrants charging him with impersonating a doctor and with attempting >to steal $1,260. > He is being held for probation authorities, the sheriff said, >because he is presently serving a two-year probation period imposed >by Criminal District Court Judge Malcolm J. O'Hara in New Orleans >Aug. 8. > St. Amant said Kimble, who gave six different New Orleans adddresses >as his residence, used papers he stole from Thomas Landas, a registered >male nurse, to obtain employment at the St. Charles Parish plant. > He said that the theft occurred in parish prison in New Orleans >on July 20 while Kimble was awaiting trial before Judge O'Hara. Landas >also was confined in the prison at the time. > Kimble who was a hallboy in the prison at the time of the theft, >used Landas' name and his nurse's registration papers after his release >on probation to obtain the nursing position in St. Charles Parish, the >sheriff said. > St. Amant said Kimble also worked for four days at a New Orleans >hospital under the assumed name and sought employment at three other >hospitals. > Kimble was exposed when a St. Charles Parish hospital nurse who >knew Landas told authorities Kimble did not resemble the man she knew >as Landas. > St. Amant said his office received a bulletin about the same time >from the Nurses Association warning about the theft of Landas' >registration papers. >- ><end of article> >- >Jerry Shinley
Jerry,
It seems that the CIA did not mind having two former publically identifiable OFFICERS working in Nixons plumbers unit. Without getting into an arguement about whether this was a CIA operation or not, the crimes these guys were committing, along with former FBI man Liddy, were serious enough and no one can tell me that the agency, and the FBI, were not aware of what was going on. Yet they let it go on and got away with it later.
jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: > In article <7knoag$5c...@nnrp1.deja.com>, > jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: > > In article <7kjlsl$p4...@nnrp1.deja.com>, > > jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: > > > In article <19990619015142.26156.00001...@ng-ba1.aol.com>, > > > dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote: > > > > For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, which > > > > takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules Ricco > > > > Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator > > > > "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in > > > > Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being a > > > > CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble > > > > claimed were also CIA agents.
> > > > Kimble is discussed in Bill Davy's new book, *Let Justice Be Done.* He's > > > > also discussed briefly in part four of my article, "Who Speaks for Clay > > > > Shaw?" (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/shaw4.htm) and my review of Davy's book > > > > (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/davy.htm).
> > > > Dave Reitzes
> > > New Orleans Times-Picayune June 5, 1968 S2-P8 > > > Kimble is Held in Check Case > > > Claimed Last Year to be Klan Informer > > > - > > > A young man who last year claimed to have inside information > > > on Ku Klux Klan operations was arrested Tuesday [4th] on a charge > > > of conducting illicit checking operations. > > > Accused of making himself $1,405 richer at the expense of the > > > Bank of New Orleans was Jules R. Kimble [...] > > > Police claim Kimble effected the theft by manipulating checks > > > stolen from an industrial firm where he was employed as a clerk from > > > April 24 to May 10. > > > In June of last year Kimble left Louisiana claiming he had witnessed > > > plans to bomb the homes of labor leader Victor Bussie and a Negro > > > woman teacher in Port Allen, and that his life was in danger. > > > He was arrested, however, in Miami last October on charges of > > > parole violation in Avoyelles Parish, and agreed to return to > > > Louisiana on charges of nonsupport of his family. > > > He then appeared before the Baton Rouge grand jury in connection > > > with the Bussie bombing the same month. > > > Kimble was also arrested in New Orleans May 21 on charges of > > > impersonating police, carrying a concealed weapon, assault and forgery. > > > He had been arrested in Baton Rouge in February and charged with > > > attempted theft and impersonating a doctor. > > > Discussing Kimble's latest run-in with the law, Sgt. Ronald > > > Kennedy and Det. Nick Chetta alleged that he stole a number of checks > > > from the industrial firm and deposited them in a special bank account > > > under a phony firm name. > > > He then began making withdrawals using names of legitimate > > > companies, police claimed. > > > When arrested, Kimble was on $4,750 bond. Police said a $475 check > > > he wrote to the bonding company bounced. > > > - > > > Jerru Shinley
> > Ramparts January, 1968 P68 > > The Garrison Commission by William Turner > > - > > The affair of Jules Rocco Kimble illustrates how government > > pressure has induced potential witnesses to slip from Garrison's > > grasp. A self-avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan who got in trouble > > over bombings in Baton Rouge, Kimble approached the DA's men in the > > apparent hope of gaining mitigation. He said that on the day after > > David Ferrie died, he drove a top KKK official, Jack Helm, to > > Ferrie's apartment. Helm came out with a satchel crammed with papers, > > which he placed in a bank safe deposit box. Kimble also divulged > > that in 1962, he had flown to Montreal with Ferrie on what was > > purported to be Minutemen business. He promised the DA's investigators > > that he would gather further information and report back. > > He didn't come through. Shortly afterward, he phoned his wife > > from Atlanta, saying he had met a CIA contact. "They'll never get > > me back to New Orleans," he vowed. A few days after that, he called > > from Montreal. For reasons unknown, Kimble backtracked to Tampa, > > Florida, where he was arrested by local police. Interviewed by > > Garrison's men, he said that he had once worked special assigments > > for the CIA, and in verification named his Agency contacts and the > > box number of the Lafayette Street station they assigned him. He > > averred that he had contacted the CIA after Walter Sheridan had > > counseled him to say nothing to the DA and go to Canada... > > - > > <end of excerpt> > > - > > Would the CIA have used a man who had been publicly identified > > as a CIA contact before the MLK assassination as an operative in > > that assassination? Would they allow him to return to Jim Garrison's > > jurisdiction after the shooting? > > - > > Jerry Shinley
> New Orleans Times-Picayune Aug 31, 1968 S2-P2 > Impersonation Charge Placed > Official Says N.O. Man Posed as Male Nurse > - > Hahnville, La. - Jules Ron [sic] Kimble, 25, New Orleans, Friday > [30th] faced charges here of using falsely obtained papers to > impersonate a registered male nurse. > St. Charles Parish Sheriff John O. St. Amant said Kimble was > arrested after he had worked one and one half days at an industrial > plant in Taft, where he had obtained employment with papers allegedly > stolen from a registered male nurse. > He was booked at the court house with possession of stolen goods > and forgery and he is being held for Baton Rouge police and for > probation authorities. > St. Amant said Kimble is wanted in Baton Rouge on two bench > warrants charging him with impersonating a doctor and with attempting > to steal $1,260. > He is being held for probation authorities, the sheriff said, > because he is presently serving a two-year probation period imposed > by Criminal District Court Judge Malcolm J. O'Hara in New Orleans > Aug. 8. > St. Amant said Kimble, who gave six different New Orleans adddresses > as his residence, used papers he stole from Thomas Landas, a registered > male nurse, to obtain employment at the St. Charles Parish plant. > He said that the theft occurred in parish prison in New Orleans > on July 20 while Kimble was awaiting trial before Judge O'Hara. Landas > also was confined in the prison at the time. > Kimble who was a hallboy in the prison at the time of the theft, > used Landas' name and his nurse's registration papers after his release > on probation to obtain the nursing position in St. Charles Parish, the > sheriff said. > St. Amant said Kimble also worked for four days at a New Orleans > hospital under the assumed name and sought employment at three other > hospitals. > Kimble was exposed when a St. Charles Parish hospital nurse who > knew Landas told authorities Kimble did not resemble the man she knew > as Landas. > St. Amant said his office received a bulletin about the same time > from the Nurses Association warning about the theft of Landas' > registration papers. > - > <end of article> > - > Jerry Shinley
New Orleans Times-Picayune Jan 8, 1967 S1-P1 City May Get St. Louis Team Tentative Pact Made on Basketball Club - St. Louis, Mo. - A tentative agreement for the sale of the St. Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Association was announced here Saturday [7th]. Michael J. Aubuchon, general counsel for the New Orleans group, said the team will be sold for $3,800,000 subject to the acceptance of the offer by the team owner, Ben Kerner. A deadline of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, has been set for the acceptance of the offer by Mr. Kerner. Aubuchon indicated that the interim period was requested by Kerner to allow local or other interests to match the New Orleans group's offer with the object of keeping the club in St. Louis. "Of no local or other group comes up with a matching offer with the expressed idea of keeping the Hawks in St. Louis by the deadline, the New Orleans offer will be accepted," Aubuchon said. Representing the New Orleans group, which is known as the New Orleans Professional Basketball Associates, were Sean Morton Downey, executive director of the association; J. R. Kimble, association vice-president, and their legal counsel Steve R. Plotkin [later Gordon Novel's attorney]. The group was scheduled to arrive back in New Orleans at 9:50 p.m. Saturday. Other original members of the NOPBA were Terry Gomilla, Roonie Kole and Buddy Diliberto. Added to the group last week were [Civil Court] Judge David Gertler [Plotkin's father-in-law], Pete Fountain, Henry Braden, Kimble, Plotkin and Buck Krehs. [...] - <end of excerpts> - Later in the year, when Jules Ricco Kimble received publicity for his claimed knowledge of the bombing of the home of labor leader Victor Bussie, the Times-Picayune referred back to this basketball deal. - Jerry Shinley
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>In article <7laur6$lj...@nnrp1.deja.com>, >jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: >> In article <7knoag$5c...@nnrp1.deja.com>, >> jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: >> > In article <7kjlsl$p4...@nnrp1.deja.com>, >> > jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: >> > > In article <19990619015142.26156.00001...@ng-ba1.aol.com>, >> > > dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote: >> > > > For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, >which >> > > > takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules >Ricco >> > > > Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator >> > > > "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence >in >> > > > Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of >being a >> > > > CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom >Kimble >> > > > claimed were also CIA agents.
>> > > > Kimble is discussed in Bill Davy's new book, *Let Justice Be Done.* >He's >> > > > also discussed briefly in part four of my article, "Who Speaks for >Clay >> > > > Shaw?" (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/shaw4.htm) and my review of Davy's >book >> > > > (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/davy.htm).
>> > > > Dave Reitzes
>> > > New Orleans Times-Picayune June 5, 1968 S2-P8 >> > > Kimble is Held in Check Case >> > > Claimed Last Year to be Klan Informer >> > > - >> > > A young man who last year claimed to have inside information >> > > on Ku Klux Klan operations was arrested Tuesday [4th] on a charge >> > > of conducting illicit checking operations. >> > > Accused of making himself $1,405 richer at the expense of the >> > > Bank of New Orleans was Jules R. Kimble [...] >> > > Police claim Kimble effected the theft by manipulating checks >> > > stolen from an industrial firm where he was employed as a clerk from >> > > April 24 to May 10. >> > > In June of last year Kimble left Louisiana claiming he had witnessed >> > > plans to bomb the homes of labor leader Victor Bussie and a Negro >> > > woman teacher in Port Allen, and that his life was in danger. >> > > He was arrested, however, in Miami last October on charges of >> > > parole violation in Avoyelles Parish, and agreed to return to >> > > Louisiana on charges of nonsupport of his family. >> > > He then appeared before the Baton Rouge grand jury in connection >> > > with the Bussie bombing the same month. >> > > Kimble was also arrested in New Orleans May 21 on charges of >> > > impersonating police, carrying a concealed weapon, assault and forgery. >> > > He had been arrested in Baton Rouge in February and charged with >> > > attempted theft and impersonating a doctor. >> > > Discussing Kimble's latest run-in with the law, Sgt. Ronald >> > > Kennedy and Det. Nick Chetta alleged that he stole a number of checks >> > > from the industrial firm and deposited them in a special bank account >> > > under a phony firm name. >> > > He then began making withdrawals using names of legitimate >> > > companies, police claimed. >> > > When arrested, Kimble was on $4,750 bond. Police said a $475 check >> > > he wrote to the bonding company bounced. >> > > - >> > > Jerru Shinley
>> > Ramparts January, 1968 P68 >> > The Garrison Commission by William Turner >> > - >> > The affair of Jules Rocco Kimble illustrates how government >> > pressure has induced potential witnesses to slip from Garrison's >> > grasp. A self-avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan who got in trouble >> > over bombings in Baton Rouge, Kimble approached the DA's men in the >> > apparent hope of gaining mitigation. He said that on the day after >> > David Ferrie died, he drove a top KKK official, Jack Helm, to >> > Ferrie's apartment. Helm came out with a satchel crammed with papers, >> > which he placed in a bank safe deposit box. Kimble also divulged >> > that in 1962, he had flown to Montreal with Ferrie on what was >> > purported to be Minutemen business. He promised the DA's investigators >> > that he would gather further information and report back. >> > He didn't come through. Shortly afterward, he phoned his wife >> > from Atlanta, saying he had met a CIA contact. "They'll never get >> > me back to New Orleans," he vowed. A few days after that, he called >> > from Montreal. For reasons unknown, Kimble backtracked to Tampa, >> > Florida, where he was arrested by local police. Interviewed by >> > Garrison's men, he said that he had once worked special assigments >> > for the CIA, and in verification named his Agency contacts and the >> > box number of the Lafayette Street station they assigned him. He >> > averred that he had contacted the CIA after Walter Sheridan had >> > counseled him to say nothing to the DA and go to Canada... >> > - >> > <end of excerpt> >> > - >> > Would the CIA have used a man who had been publicly identified >> > as a CIA contact before the MLK assassination as an operative in >> > that assassination? Would they allow him to return to Jim Garrison's >> > jurisdiction after the shooting? >> > - >> > Jerry Shinley
>> New Orleans Times-Picayune Aug 31, 1968 S2-P2 >> Impersonation Charge Placed >> Official Says N.O. Man Posed as Male Nurse >> - >> Hahnville, La. - Jules Ron [sic] Kimble, 25, New Orleans, Friday >> [30th] faced charges here of using falsely obtained papers to >> impersonate a registered male nurse. >> St. Charles Parish Sheriff John O. St. Amant said Kimble was >> arrested after he had worked one and one half days at an industrial >> plant in Taft, where he had obtained employment with papers allegedly >> stolen from a registered male nurse. >> He was booked at the court house with possession of stolen goods >> and forgery and he is being held for Baton Rouge police and for >> probation authorities. >> St. Amant said Kimble is wanted in Baton Rouge on two bench >> warrants charging him with impersonating a doctor and with attempting >> to steal $1,260. >> He is being held for probation authorities, the sheriff said, >> because he is presently serving a two-year probation period imposed >> by Criminal District Court Judge Malcolm J. O'Hara in New Orleans >> Aug. 8. >> St. Amant said Kimble, who gave six different New Orleans adddresses >> as his residence, used papers he stole from Thomas Landas, a registered >> male nurse, to obtain employment at the St. Charles Parish plant. >> He said that the theft occurred in parish prison in New Orleans >> on July 20 while Kimble was awaiting trial before Judge O'Hara. Landas >> also was confined in the prison at the time. >> Kimble who was a hallboy in the prison at the time of the theft, >> used Landas' name and his nurse's registration papers after his release >> on probation to obtain the nursing position in St. Charles Parish, the >> sheriff said. >> St. Amant said Kimble also worked for four days at a New Orleans >> hospital under the assumed name and sought employment at three other >> hospitals. >> Kimble was exposed when a St. Charles Parish hospital nurse who >> knew Landas told authorities Kimble did not resemble the man she knew >> as Landas. >> St. Amant said his office received a bulletin about the same time >> from the Nurses Association warning about the theft of Landas' >> registration papers. >> - >> <end of article> >> - >> Jerry Shinley
>New Orleans Times-Picayune Jan 8, 1967 S1-P1 >City May Get St. Louis Team >Tentative Pact Made on Basketball Club >- > St. Louis, Mo. - A tentative agreement for the sale of the St. >Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Association was announced >here Saturday [7th]. > Michael J. Aubuchon, general counsel for the New Orleans group, >said the team will be sold for $3,800,000 subject to the acceptance >of the offer by the team owner, Ben Kerner. > A deadline of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, has been set for the >acceptance of the offer by Mr. Kerner. > Aubuchon indicated that the interim period was requested by Kerner >to allow local or other interests to match the New Orleans group's >offer with the object of keeping the club in St. Louis. > "Of no local or other group comes up with a matching offer with the >expressed idea of keeping the Hawks in St. Louis by the deadline, the >New Orleans offer will be accepted," Aubuchon said. > Representing the New Orleans group, which is known as the New >Orleans Professional Basketball Associates, were Sean Morton Downey, >executive director of the association; J. R. Kimble, association >vice-president, and their legal counsel Steve R. Plotkin [later >Gordon Novel's attorney]. The group was scheduled to arrive back in >New Orleans at 9:50 p.m. Saturday. > Other original members of the NOPBA were Terry Gomilla, Roonie Kole >and Buddy Diliberto. Added to the group last week were [Civil Court] >Judge David Gertler [Plotkin's father-in-law], Pete Fountain, Henry >Braden, Kimble, Plotkin and Buck Krehs. > [...] >- ><end of excerpts> >- > Later in the year, when Jules Ricco Kimble received publicity for >his claimed knowledge of the bombing of the home of labor leader >Victor Bussie, the Times-Picayune referred back to this basketball >deal. >- >Jerry Shinley
Just when you think you've heard 'em all . . .
BTW, I don't remember whether I've mentioned that Kimble is discussed a bit in Pepper's *Orders to Kill.* (If I'm thinking of the right book, Pepper misspells the name "Kimbel" throughout.)
> New Orleans Times-Picayune Jan 8, 1967 S1-P1 > City May Get St. Louis Team > Tentative Pact Made on Basketball Club > - > St. Louis, Mo. - A tentative agreement for the sale of the St. > Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Association was announced > here Saturday [7th]. > Michael J. Aubuchon, general counsel for the New Orleans group, > said the team will be sold for $3,800,000 subject to the acceptance > of the offer by the team owner, Ben Kerner. > A deadline of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, has been set for the > acceptance of the offer by Mr. Kerner. > Aubuchon indicated that the interim period was requested by Kerner > to allow local or other interests to match the New Orleans group's > offer with the object of keeping the club in St. Louis. > "Of no local or other group comes up with a matching offer with the > expressed idea of keeping the Hawks in St. Louis by the deadline, the > New Orleans offer will be accepted," Aubuchon said. > Representing the New Orleans group, which is known as the New > Orleans Professional Basketball Associates, were Sean Morton Downey, > executive director of the association; J. R. Kimble, association > vice-president, and their legal counsel Steve R. Plotkin [later > Gordon Novel's attorney]. The group was scheduled to arrive back in > New Orleans at 9:50 p.m. Saturday. > Other original members of the NOPBA were Terry Gomilla, Roonie Kole > and Buddy Diliberto. Added to the group last week were [Civil Court] > Judge David Gertler [Plotkin's father-in-law], Pete Fountain, Henry > Braden, Kimble, Plotkin and Buck Krehs. > [...] > - > <end of excerpts> > - > Later in the year, when Jules Ricco Kimble received publicity for > his claimed knowledge of the bombing of the home of labor leader > Victor Bussie, the Times-Picayune referred back to this basketball > deal. > -
St. Louis Post-Dispatch January 8, 1967 p 1A Hawks are Sold Conditionally; Option Given to Keep Team Here $3,800,000 Basketball Bid by New Orleans Group - Time Granted to Match Offer - [...] The tentative purchaser is the New Orleans Professional Basketball Association, headed by Sean M. Downey, Jr., son of singer Morton Downey. [Isn't Downey, Jr., the talk show host who was the nemesis of "pablum-puking liberals?"] [...] Downey, 34 years old, is general manager of the Canteen Corp. of Louisiana, a vending machine company. [...] Downey's father was one of the country's best known popular singers in the 1930s and 1940s. His theme song was "Carolina Moon." The elder Downey, now 65, lives in Palm Beach, Fla., and is no longer in show business. [I believe he was also a friend of the Kennedy family.] - St. Louis Post-Dispatch January , 1967 p 4C One New Orleans Backer of Hawks Deal Pulls Out Kimble Withdrawal Won't Affect Deal, Downey Says - J. R. Kimble, vice president of the New Orleans syndicate that agreed Saturday [7th] to buy the Hawks, said today he was pulling out of the group and that his action would collapse the $3,800,000 conditional purchase. However, Sean M. Downey, president of the New Orleans group, said Kimble's withdrawal would have no effect on the conditional sale because Kimble was the smallest investor of the 13-man association. [...] Kimble and Downey disagreed on how much Kimble had agreed to invest, and also over the reason for Kimble's withdrawal. Kimble in a telephone conversation with the Post-Dispatch, said he was committed to invest at least half of the $3,800,000. But Downey said Kimble's share was $150,000. Kimble gave two reasons for his withdrawal in two seperate telephone calls. First he said he was pulling out because the team was going to stay in St. Louis - that there were never any plans to move it - and that he did not want to be made a fool by serving as an instrument in such developments. In the second call, he said he was withdrawing because there were several persons in the 13-man group with whom he did not want to be associated. He said that he had not been aware of their identities when he first committed his money to the syndicate. Downey said Kimble had given him another reason. Kimble had insisted his own attorney handle the sales transaction. "I couldn't make any such commitment to him," said Downey. "I'm not the big money man in the syndicate. I can't dictate terms as to who would be the attorney." Downey said, "I just put the syndicate together, but I'm not the money man." He said he had no money invested among the $3,800,000. He said the deposit by his group was for exceedingly less than the $150,000 Kimble had pledged. However, he said he had agreed not to disclose the amount that had been deposited Saturday when the terms of the contract were agreed on. The deposit would be returned if a St. Louis group matches the purchase price, Downey said, but it would be forfeited if the New Orleans group would withdraw its offer. Downey termed Kimble's withdrawal "not an important development," and said that Kimble's share would be taken up by one of the other members of the syndicate who had wanted to invest more. He said a major New Orleans investor who was not part of the syndicate could be called into the picture if necessary. "He could cover it all, but I didn't include him because I wanted it to be a community project," Downey said. Hawks attorney Michael J. Aubuchon said that the 24-year-old Kimble was one of the New Orleans men who signed the conditional agreement. Downey was the other. They attended the meeting with Aubuchon and attorney Steve R. Plotkin of the New Orleans group. [...] - St. Louis Post-Dispatch January 10, 1967 p 1A New Orleans Syndicate Group Bidding for Hawks Must Get More Funds Member of Syndicate Said to Have Misrepresented His Financial Worth - The New Orleans syndicate that apparently had made a winning bid of $3,800,000 for the Hawks regrouped after Sean M. Downey, Jr., president of the syndicate disclosed that one of its members had misrepresented his financial worth. Downey told the Post-Dispatch today that J. R. Kimble, who had been described as having inherited $1,500,000, "misrepresented his worth by $1,499,999.99." Michael J. Aubuchon, attorney for the Hawks, said that Kimble signed a check for the undisclosed amount of the deposit agreed on in the conditional sale of the National Basketball Association franchise to the New Orleans group here last weekend. The check represents the only "good faith" money held by the Hawks, Aubuchon told the Post-Dispatch. But Kerner and Aubuchon said in San Francisco that the check Kimble had given them as the New Orleans group's earnest money was a personal draft. Aubuchon [...] declined to disclose the amount of the check. [...] Downey, reached by the Post-Dispatch ar his home in New Orleans, said that Kimble was no longer a member of the Southern syndicate. He said that the group did not plan legal action against the 26-year-old Kimble. [...] Hap Glaudi, sports director of television station WWL in New Orleans said he had made an inquiry into the Kimble situation and found Kimble to be an oil rig worker. Glaudi, who attributed his information to a law enforcement officer, said Kimble had "accumulated some money through investments" but that he found no indication that Kimble was an heir to a fortune. [...] - [The Hawks deal fell through, but Downey went on the become part of a group which received an ABA franchise. See: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/5290/MemphisMaterial/BuccaneersMem... ly.html ] - New Orleans Times-Picayune September 8, 1967 S1-P1 Bussie Case Witness Assured - A missing witness in the bombing of a Baton Rouge labor leader's home has been promised "all the protection he needs day and night" by Gov. John J. McKeithen, East Baton Rouge District Attorney Sargent Pitcher and State Police Supt. Col. Thomas Burbank. The witness was identified by Burbank and Pitcher as Jules R. Kimble, 24, 7003 Vicksburg st., New Orleans. A Jules R. Kimble in early January attempted to join a syndicate that was seeking to bring the St. Louis Hawks National Basketball Association franchise to New Orleans. At the time, Kimble told a St. Louis newspaper he was committed to pay at least one half of the $3.8 million purchase price. Kimble called the New Orleans States-Item's Baton Rouge bureau Thursday [7th] and said the plot to bomb the home of Victor Bussie, president of the state AFL-CIO, and the home of a Negro woman teacher in Port Allen, across the river from Baton Rouge, was concocted in his home by the Ku Klux Klan. According to Kimble, he was calling from a pay telephone in Cincinnati, Ohio, and had fled Louisiana because he feared for his life. He said he was not satisfied with protection offered by state police. Pitcher said he doubted Kimble was in Ohio. But Pitcher added he would provide protection for Kimble if he comes into Pitcher's jurisdiction. Burbank challenged Kimble's charge that he was not offered adequate protection. "We assurded Kimble complete protection for himself and his family," asserted Burbank. Gov. McKeithen added, "We're trying to root these fellows (meaning the bombers) out, and we'll give him or any other witness as much protection as he wants." Pitcher says he has a grand jury subpena out for Kimble and that it can be served anywhere in Louisiana. He said that Kimble's home here [N.O.] has been under surveillance for the last six or seven days. A Jules R. Kimble was arrested on three charges by the New Orleans Police Department as recently as July 26. He was arrested for aggravated assault, false personation and illegally carrying a concealed weapon. The missing witness told the States-Item that three men met at his home in July and worked out the details to bomb the two homes. "They wanted to kill Bussie and Mrs. Viola Logan," said Kimble. According to Kimble, there was a definite plan to kill Bussie, not just
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> > New Orleans Times-Picayune Jan 8, 1967 S1-P1 > > City May Get St. Louis Team > > Tentative Pact Made on Basketball Club > > - > > St. Louis, Mo. - A tentative agreement for the sale of the St. > > Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Association was announced > > here Saturday [7th]. > > Michael J. Aubuchon, general counsel for the New Orleans group, > > said the team will be sold for $3,800,000 subject to the acceptance > > of the offer by the team owner, Ben Kerner. > > A deadline of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, has been set for the > > acceptance of the offer by Mr. Kerner. > > Aubuchon indicated that the interim period was requested by Kerner > > to allow local or other interests to match the New Orleans group's > > offer with the object of keeping the club in St. Louis. > > "Of no local or other group comes up with a matching offer with the > > expressed idea of keeping the Hawks in St. Louis by the deadline, the > > New Orleans offer will be accepted," Aubuchon said. > > Representing the New Orleans group, which is known as the New > > Orleans Professional Basketball Associates, were Sean Morton Downey, > > executive director of the association; J. R. Kimble, association > > vice-president, and their legal counsel Steve R. Plotkin [later > > Gordon Novel's attorney]. The group was scheduled to arrive back in > > New Orleans at 9:50 p.m. Saturday. > > Other original members of the NOPBA were Terry Gomilla, Roonie Kole > > and Buddy Diliberto. Added to the group last week were [Civil Court] > > Judge David Gertler [Plotkin's father-in-law], Pete Fountain, Henry > > Braden, Kimble, Plotkin and Buck Krehs. > > [...] > > - > > <end of excerpts> > > -
St. Louis Post-Dispatch January 8, 1967 p 1A Hawks are Sold Conditionally; Option Given to Keep Team Here $3,800,000 Basketball Bid by New Orleans Group - Time Granted to Match Offer - [...] The tentative purchaser is the New Orleans Professional Basketball Association, headed by Sean M. Downey, Jr., son of singer Morton Downey. [Isn't Downey, Jr., the talk show host who was the nemesis of "pablum-puking liberals?"] [...] Downey, 34 years old, is general manager of the Canteen Corp. of Louisiana, a vending machine company. [...] Downey's father was one of the country's best known popular singers in the 1930s and 1940s. His theme song was "Carolina Moon." The elder Downey, now 65, lives in Palm Beach, Fla., and is no longer in show business. [I believe he was also a friend of the Kennedy family.] - St. Louis Post-Dispatch January , 1967 p 4C One New Orleans Backer of Hawks Deal Pulls Out Kimble Withdrawal Won't Affect Deal, Downey Says - J. R. Kimble, vice president of the New Orleans syndicate that agreed Saturday [7th] to buy the Hawks, said today he was pulling out of the group and that his action would collapse the $3,800,000 conditional purchase. However, Sean M. Downey, president of the New Orleans group, said Kimble's withdrawal would have no effect on the conditional sale because Kimble was the smallest investor of the 13-man association. [...] Kimble and Downey disagreed on how much Kimble had agreed to invest, and also over the reason for Kimble's withdrawal. Kimble in a telephone conversation with the Post-Dispatch, said he was committed to invest at least half of the $3,800,000. But Downey said Kimble's share was $150,000. Kimble gave two reasons for his withdrawal in two seperate telephone calls. First he said he was pulling out because the team was going to stay in St. Louis - that there were never any plans to move it - and that he did not want to be made a fool by serving as an instrument in such developments. In the second call, he said he was withdrawing because there were several persons in the 13-man group with whom he did not want to be associated. He said that he had not been aware of their identities when he first committed his money to the syndicate. Downey said Kimble had given him another reason. Kimble had insisted his own attorney handle the sales transaction. "I couldn't make any such commitment to him," said Downey. "I'm not the big money man in the syndicate. I can't dictate terms as to who would be the attorney." Downey said, "I just put the syndicate together, but I'm not the money man." He said he had no money invested among the $3,800,000. He said the deposit by his group was for exceedingly less than the $150,000 Kimble had pledged. However, he said he had agreed not to disclose the amount that had been deposited Saturday when the terms of the contract were agreed on. The deposit would be returned if a St. Louis group matches the purchase price, Downey said, but it would be forfeited if the New Orleans group would withdraw its offer. Downey termed Kimble's withdrawal "not an important development," and said that Kimble's share would be taken up by one of the other members of the syndicate who had wanted to invest more. He said a major New Orleans investor who was not part of the syndicate could be called into the picture if necessary. "He could cover it all, but I didn't include him because I wanted it to be a community project," Downey said. Hawks attorney Michael J. Aubuchon said that the 24-year-old Kimble was one of the New Orleans men who signed the conditional agreement. Downey was the other. They attended the meeting with Aubuchon and attorney Steve R. Plotkin of the New Orleans group. [...] - St. Louis Post-Dispatch January 10, 1967 p 1A New Orleans Syndicate Group Bidding for Hawks Must Get More Funds Member of Syndicate Said to Have Misrepresented His Financial Worth - The New Orleans syndicate that apparently had made a winning bid of $3,800,000 for the Hawks regrouped after Sean M. Downey, Jr., president of the syndicate disclosed that one of its members had misrepresented his financial worth. Downey told the Post-Dispatch today that J. R. Kimble, who had been described as having inherited $1,500,000, "misrepresented his worth by $1,499,999.99." Michael J. Aubuchon, attorney for the Hawks, said that Kimble signed a check for the undisclosed amount of the deposit agreed on in the conditional sale of the National Basketball Association franchise to the New Orleans group here last weekend. The check represents the only "good faith" money held by the Hawks, Aubuchon told the Post-Dispatch. But Kerner and Aubuchon said in San Francisco that the check Kimble had given them as the New Orleans group's earnest money was a personal draft. Aubuchon [...] declined to disclose the amount of the check. [...] Downey, reached by the Post-Dispatch ar his home in New Orleans, said that Kimble was no longer a member of the Southern syndicate. He said that the group did not plan legal action against the 26-year-old Kimble. [...] Hap Glaudi, sports director of television station WWL in New Orleans said he had made an inquiry into the Kimble situation and found Kimble to be an oil rig worker. Glaudi, who attributed his information to a law enforcement officer, said Kimble had "accumulated some money through investments" but that he found no indication that Kimble was an heir to a fortune. [...] - New Orleans Times-Picayune September 8, 1967 S1-P1 Bussie Case Witness Assured - A missing witness in the bombing of a Baton Rouge labor leader's home has been promised "all the protection he needs day and night" by Gov. John J. McKeithen, East Baton Rouge District Attorney Sargent Pitcher and State Police Supt. Col. Thomas Burbank. The witness was identified by Burbank and Pitcher as Jules R. Kimble, 24, 7003 Vicksburg st., New Orleans. A Jules R. Kimble in early January attempted to join a syndicate that was seeking to bring the St. Louis Hawks National Basketball Association franchise to New Orleans. At the time, Kimble told a St. Louis newspaper he was committed to pay at least one half of the $3.8 million purchase price. Kimble called the New Orleans States-Item's Baton Rouge bureau Thursday [7th] and said the plot to bomb the home of Victor Bussie, president of the state AFL-CIO, and the home of a Negro woman teacher in Port Allen, across the river from Baton Rouge, was concocted in his home by the Ku Klux Klan. According to Kimble, he was calling from a pay telephone in Cincinnati, Ohio, and had fled Louisiana because he feared for his life. He said he was not satisfied with protection offered by state police. Pitcher said he doubted Kimble was in Ohio. But Pitcher added he would provide protection for Kimble if he comes into Pitcher's jurisdiction. Burbank challenged Kimble's charge that he was not offered adequate protection. "We assurded Kimble complete protection for himself and his family," asserted Burbank. Gov. McKeithen added, "We're trying to root these fellows (meaning the bombers) out, and we'll give him or any other witness as much protection as he wants." Pitcher says he has a grand jury subpena out for Kimble and that it can be served anywhere in Louisiana. He said that Kimble's home here [N.O.] has been under surveillance for the last six or seven days. A Jules R. Kimble was arrested on three charges by the New Orleans Police Department as recently as July 26. He was arrested for aggravated assault, false personation and illegally carrying a concealed weapon. The missing witness told the States-Item that three men met at his home in July and worked out the details to bomb the two homes. "They wanted to kill Bussie and Mrs. Viola Logan," said Kimble. According to Kimble, there was a definite plan to kill Bussie, not just scare him. Bussie had commented strongly about the KKK while testifying before a committee of the Legislature considering legislation to probe labor-management racketeering in the
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HSCA Interview with Joseph Oster 1/27/78 Nara Record Number 180-10080-10203 - [...] Jules Ricco Kimble and his brother, Clayton Kimble, might have been known to Brownlee and Waytt [sic]. These two men are suspects in the murder of a Louisiana man, Mr. James Leslie, who was murdered after opposing teamster business. [...] - New Orleans Times-Picayune April 20, 1977 S1-P1 D'Artois Arrested after 8-Hour Seige - Shreveport, La. (AP) - Police sized former city public safety commissioner George D'Artois in his home Tuesday [19th] and snatched away his pistol, ending a long and patient siege. He had holed up for eight hours armed with a .357 magnum revolver, refusing to face a charge that he hired gunmen to kill Jim Leslie, an old friend turned foe. [...] Within an hour, the prisoner was en route to Baton Rouge. He arrived in a police car with lights flashing and sirens screaming. He was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Jail, where officers said he would be held overnight. [...] In addition to D'Artois, Donald Gardner, 39, also of Shreveport, was arrested on a first degree murder charge in the Leslie case. He was arrested at his home Tuesday and led off in handcuffs. "I am definitely innocent," he told reporters. [...] Police arrived with a warrant from East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Al Amiss charging D'Artois with first degree murder in the shotgun killing of Leslie, who was cut down in the parking lot behind a Baton Rouge hotel last July 9. A spokesman for Sheriff Amiss described Gardner as the "key man between D'Artois and the people who ultimately killed Leslie." Leslie was an advertising and public relations executive. D'Artois' troubles began when Leslie refused to accept a city check as payment for private public relations work, and the dispute blew up into a grand jury investigation. The probe wound up with the commissioner charged with pocketing $30,000 which he had listed as paid to stool-pigeons for police information, threatening witnesses against him, and malfeaseance in office. [...] Sheriff Amiss said Leslie was killed because of his grand jury testimony. A spokesman for Amiss said D'Artois paid Gardner and [Russell] Griffith $30,000 to do the killing. Leslie was killed a few hours after the legislature passed a "right-to-work" law he had handled advertising for, but Amiss said there apparently was no connnection. In the court-filed applications for the warrant, East Baton Rouge deputies quoted two Baton Rouge men, Clayton Kimble and Steve Simoneaux, who said the Leslie killing happened like this: - Gardner and Russell C. Griffith, 34, a Shreveport man who later took a doublebarrel shotgun blast in the face, tried to get them to kill Leslie or find somebody who would. - Kimble said Gardner gave him $5,000 to find a killer, that he failed, gave back the money, and Griffith and Gardner then said they would do the job themselves. - After that, Griffith and Gardner, using a CB radio for communications, set a trap at the hotel. Gardner parked in the parking lot until Leslie's car turned in. Gardner then pulled out, opening a parking space for Leslie, right beside a fence where Griffith waited with a shotgun. Griffith was killed on a rural road in Concordia Parish in a remote area near the Old River Control Structure, about 30 miles south of Vidalia, last Oct. 16. After his arrest here, Gardner was taken to Vidalia, where Sheriff Fred Schiele booked him on the additional charge of murder in the death of Griffith. Schiele also booked Kenneth Brouillette of Simmesport, La., on a charge of murdering Griffith. Sheriff's Maj. J.M. Bannister of Baton Rouge said Gardner was accused of paying Brouillette $3,000 to kill Griffith because Griffith had tried to shake him down. - New Orleans Times-Picayune May 10, 1977 S1-P2 Asked Me to Kill Leslie - Templin - Baton Rouge, La. - [...] The hearing is being held to determine if the two men [D'Artois and Gardner] should be bound over to a grand jury. First to take the stand Monday [9th] was Clay Kimble, originally from the Simmesport area. Kimble, on whose statements the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's office built much of its case against D'Artois and Gardner, took the Fifth Amendment when questioned by Dist. Atty. Ossie Brown. Following suit were Steve Simoneaux, a native of Galliano, and Jules Ron Kimble, the first witness' brother. Clay Kimble and Simoneaux have lived more recently in Baton Rouge. [...] Gardner and Kenneth Brouillette, Simmesport, have been charged with the Oct. 16 murder of Russell "Rusty" Griffith, a Shreveport man arrested in connection with interstate transportation of heavy equipment. [...] - New Orleans Times-Picayune May 11, 1977 S1-P1 D'Artois is Cleared. - Baton Rouge, La. - [...] Dist. Judge Frank Foil dismissed the charge against the former Shreveport commissioner of public safety and Donald Gardner at the conclusion of a two-day hearing [...]. [...] Gardner still faces murder charges in Concordia Parish in connection with the death of Russell "Rusty" Griffith." [...] - Jerry Shinley
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jpshin...@my-deja.com wrote: > HSCA Interview with Joseph Oster 1/27/78 > Nara Record Number 180-10080-10203 > - > [...] > Jules Ricco Kimble and his brother, Clayton Kimble, might have > been known to Brownlee and Waytt [sic]. These two men are suspects > in the murder of a Louisiana man, Mr. James Leslie, who was murdered > after opposing teamster business. [...]
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Clayton KIMBLE, a/k/a "Sap", and Jules Ron Kimbel, Defendants-Appellants
No. 82-3528
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
719 F.2d 1253; 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 16112; 14 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. (Callaghan) 525
October 12, 1983
SUBSEQUENT HISTORY: [**1]
Cert. Denied, 464 U.S. 1073, 79 L. Ed. 2d 220, 104 S. Ct. 984.
PRIOR HISTORY:
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.
DISPOSITION: Affirmed.
COUNSEL: For: Clayton Kimble, Jack M. Dampf, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, For: Jules Kimbel, Lawrence B. Shallcross, Jr., Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Appellant.
Stanford O. Bardwell, Jr., U.S. Atty., Baton Route, Louisiona, Ian F. Hipwell, AUSA, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, AUSA, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Appellee.
JUDGES: Clark, Chief Judge, Gee and Politz, Circuit Judges.
OPINIONBY: POLITZ
OPINION: [*1254] POLITZ, Circuit Judge:
Clayton Kimble and Jules Ron Kimbel, brothers who spell their name differently, were indicted along with three others in a four-count indictment arising out of illegal activities in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi prior to and during 1976. Following a 24-day trial, the jury found appellants guilty of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), and conspiracy to violate the civil rights of Russell Griffith by murdering him, 18 U.S.C. § 241. n1 Sentenced to life imprisonment, the brothers appeal, assigning error in pretrial proceedings [**2] and at trial. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.
n1 Appellants were found not guilty of the substantive charges of conducting and participating in the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c), and of obstruction of justice by threatening and killing Griffith, 18 U.S.C. § 1503. Two of the co-defendants were found not guilty on all counts and the jury was unable to reach a verdict as to the other.
James Shelton Leslie, a Shreveport advertising executive, was shotgunned to death on the parking lot of the Prince Murat Hotel, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the early morning hours of July 8, 1976, following a party celebrating passage of a Right-to-Work bill by the Louisiana Legislature. [*1255] Three months later, during the evening hours of October 15, 1976, Russell Griffith was shotgunned to death in the Three Rivers Wildlife Management Area in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Three weeks prior to his death, Griffith and Jules Ron Kimbel were indicted [**3] in the Southern District of Mississippi for the interstate transportation of a stolen bulldozer. The Leslie and Griffith murders went unsolved for five years although a massive investigation was undertaken by various state authorities.
On June 8, 1981, a major development occurred. On that day, Steve Thomas Simoneaux pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the civil rights of Griffith by murdering him, 18 U.S.C. § 241. Under a Fed. R.Crim.P. 11(e)(1)(c) plea, Simoneaux agreed to cooperate with the federal authorities and to testify before grand and petit juries. Conditioned on the acceptance of the adequacy of his cooperation, Simoneaux was to be sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, to run concurrently with sentences in Texas for armed robbery, and federal authorities agreed not to furnish information on state crimes to state authorities. Simoneaux was given immunity from testimony-related federal offenses but no immunity from state law infractions.
Simoneaux testified before the grand jury which handed up the four-count indictment presently before the court. The government's theory of the case was that a racketeering enterprise for the theft and interstate transportation [**4] of heavy equipment existed among and between the co-indictees, Simoneaux, and others. Under the prosecutor's scenario, several of the conspirators sought to curry the favor of the late George W. D'Artois, Commissioner of Public Safety of Shreveport, Louisiana, by murdering Leslie. Leslie had appeared before a state grand jury which indicted D'Artois for misuse of public funds and was to testify for the prosecution at D'Artois's trial. In addition, the prosecution maintained that when Griffith and Jules Ron Kimbel were arrested for the interstate transportation of the bulldozer, a decision was made to eliminate Griffith before he could "cut a deal" with federal authorities and tell them about the heavy equipment ring and Leslie's murder. The jury was not convinced of the case involving the murder of Leslie, but returned a special verdict implicating appellants in the interstate heavy equipment ring and in Griffith's murder.
The government's case was based largely on the testimony of Simoneaux who testified, inter alia, concerning the illegal heavy equipment operation, the involvement with D'Artois and the death of Griffith. Simoneaux was subjected to rigorous cross-examination, [**5] including extensive questioning about the precise nature of his plea arrangement, his personal background, and his crime-studded record. Simoneaux acknowledged that he was dishonorable and that he had repeatedly lied, including lies under oath, to save his own skin. He admitted to intimate participation in the criminal activity set forth in the indictment and candidly stated that he was testifying only because of the lenient sentence he was to receive in return for his cooperation. In particular he spoke of the contingent nature of his sentence, which had not yet been imposed, and that he fully understood his cooperation would have to be deemed acceptable before the plea agreement would be operative.
At several points during the course of the trial, the district judge instructed the jury that the testimony of an alleged co-conspirator was to be considered with great caution and that the jury was to weigh the testimony of Simoneaux in light of all circumstances, including the plea arrangement. The court underscored that it was for the jury to determine Simoneaux's credibility.
The trial judge imposed one limitation on the scope of cross-examination. Defense counsel were restrained [**6] from questioning Simoneaux about the specifics of prior, unrelated state crimes for which Simoneaux had no immunity, and as to which he was entitled to assert the fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
During the course of cross-examination of Simoneaux, counsel for one of the other [*1256] co-defendants attempted to impeach him by reading a portion of a transcript of a prior inconsistent statement. The prosecutor asked the judge to direct counsel to read the entirety of the statement to put it in context. Upon the judge's order, counsel began to read three sentences which contained references to prior criminal behavior of Clayton Kimble. n2 Counsel objected during the reading and after an immediate bench conference, at which the court and counsel agreed that the final part of the statement should not have been admitted in evidence, the court instructed the jury to disregard the statement.
The bulldozing thing out of Jackson, Mississippi. Clay was already in federal trouble, so this would have knocked his probation. He was on probation, so he would have to get three years automatically, because if he was revoked, plus whatever time he would --.
Appellants assign various errors: the evidence was insufficient to sustain their convictions, hearsay statements by co-conspirators were erroneously admitted in evidence, the court erroneously limited cross-examination of Simoneaux, and the reading of the sentences referring to prior crimes of Clayton Kimble was prejudicial. Appellants further maintain that the trial court erred in denying motions for severance and in relieving the government from responding to Clayton Kimble's unsolicited offer of an alibi list. Appellants further complain that the government interfered with their trial preparation by furnishing voluminous Jencks Act materials two weeks before trial. We find no reversible error in any assignment of error.
Sufficiency of the Evidence
To properly convict, the government must prove every element of each offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt. To convict defendants of conspiracy to violate RICO, "the government must prove that [defendants] objectively manifested, through words or actions, an agreement to participate in the conduct of the affairs of the enterprise through the commission of two or more predicate crimes." United States v. Martino, 648 [**8] F.2d 367, 394 (5th Cir.1981) (citing United States v.Bright, 630 F.2d 804 (5th Cir.1980), and United States v. Elliott, 571 F.2d 880 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 439 U.S. 953, 99 S. Ct. 349, 58 L. Ed. 2d 344 (1978)). There must be proof of an illegal conspiracy, defendants' knowing participation and an overt act in furtherance. United States v. Phillips, 664 F.2d 971 (5th Cir.1981). To convict defendants of conspiracy to violate Russell Griffith's civil rights, contrary to 18 U.S.C. § 241, the government must prove that defendants knowingly joined a conspiracy to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate Griffith, with the intent to deprive him of
> For anyone interested, here's an article on the MLK assassination, which
> takes very seriously the assertions of Jules Ron Kimble, aka Jules Ricco
> Kimble, who claims to have been James Earl Ray's alleged conspirator
> "Raoul." Kimble is the Klansman currently serving a murder sentence in
> Oklahoma who told Jim Garrison some varying stories in 1967-68 of being a
> CIA agent and of knowing Clay Shaw and Dave Ferrie, both of whom Kimble
> claimed were also CIA agents.
