From: dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) Subject: Re: Jules Ricco Kimble and the MLK case Date: 1999/06/29 Message-ID: <19990629190300.22421.00001872@ng-bk1.aol.com> X-Deja-AN: 495393506 Approved: jmcad...@execpc.com X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 930699936 168.143.0.8 (Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:45:36 EDT) Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:45:36 EDT Newsgroups: alt.assassination.jfk X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net >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. >> > > >> > > http://www.ocean.ic.net/doc/pol/MLK.txt >> > > >> > > 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... >> - >> >> - >> 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. >- > >- >Jerry Shinley Man, this guy's quite a handful, isn't he? I'm surprised that prison walls can hold him. Dave