who killed Eladio Del Valle?
Atlasrecrd
just wondering if anyone knew.
hmmm.
yup, just wonderin'.....
I believe records classify the murder as "unsolved".
oh well.
yup, unsolved....yes sir.
Blackburst
>who killed Eladio Del Valle?
>just wondering if anyone knew.
>
Currently available records do not specify any particular perpetrators to
delValle's murder. However contemporaneous police, FBI and news reports make
note of his connection to black market activities, implying that Trafficante's
crime syndicate may have somehow been connected.
The question of a connection to the JFK assassination rests upon delValle's
alleged connection with David Ferrie. But nearly all published accounts of this
track back to a newspaper article by delValle's friend, Diego Gonzales
Tendedera. There is no corroboration for Tendedera's information, and at least
parts of his story are questionable. The relationship as reported probably took
place in late 1960-early 1961, but the claim that Ferrie and delValle were
together every day for a sixth month period seems to conflict with Ferrie's
work record with Eastern Air Lines. None of the thousands of documents I have
found relating to Ferrie mention delValle, and none of his friends seem to
remember him. I would be much more comfortable with Tendedera's story of a
Ferrie/delValle relationship if it were confirmed by some other credible
first-hand source.
oo
David
Dave Reitzes
>
>
> just wondering if anyone knew.
>
>
> yup, just wonderin'.....
>
> I believe records classify the murder as "unsolved".
>
> oh well.
>
> yup, unsolved....yes sir.
The murder of Eladio Ceferino del Valle is indeed unsolved. Teodosio Bahadue,
an acquaintance and occasional business associate of del Valle's who was one of
the last people to see del Valle alive, was indicted, but charges were dropped
in 1969.
The FBI reported, "Motive for Del Valle's murder is not known, but rumor in
Cuban colony is that it was due to underworld activities of Del Valle [sic]."
Gaeton Fonzi told A. J. Weberman, "The guy who killed Del Valle [sic] is
heavily connected to organized crime and one of the major heroin bankers in the
country today" (Letter of February 13, 1976).
Through the 1950s, del Valle had been active in the Cuban Communist Party. He
fled Cuba in 1959, and formed an anti-Castro activist group. The CIA suspected
del Valle to be a double agent in the employ of Fidel Castro, but this has
never been substantiated.
Del Valle seems to have been first linked to the John F. Kennedy assassination
in a *National Enquirer* article of April 30, 1967. One Diego Gonzales
Tendedera claimed that he was told by Manuel Artime that Fidel Castro had
ordered del Valle's death because del Valle "knew too much about the Kennedy
assassination."
Tendedera also claimed that del Valle had been acquainted with the late David
Ferrie, though Tendedera's account conflicts with Ferrie's known whereabouts
during the relevant time period. None of Tendedera's story has ever been
substantiated.
Jim Garrison was intrigued to learn that del Valle was killed on the same day
David Ferrie died. (Ferrie died around 4 AM on the morning of February 22,
1967, and del Valle's murder seems to have occurred between 10:30 PM and 1:30
AM that night.) "But," Garrison told *Playboy* magazine a few months later, "I
haven't been able to check out del Valle's involvement with Ferrie" because of
del Valle's death, which Garrison incorrectly states as having been inflicted
with a hatchet to the head and a gunshot to the heart. (The hatchet was a
fabrication he apparently picked up from the *National Enquirer* article.)
Rosemary James and Jack Wardlaw's *Plot or Politics?* states that "Garrison's
men had located del Valle three days before his death and talked to him about
helping them. No source is cited. Robert Morrow's *First Hand Knowledge* says
the same thing, and Morrow also cites no source. Del Valle's death is not
mentioned in Morrow's earlier work, *Betrayal,* in which del Valle reputedly
was part of the basis for a composite character called "Pepe Arnez."
Garrison insiders William Turner and Warren Hinckle claim that Garrison
investigators were searching for del Valle three days before he was found dead,
and that del Valle died "even as Garrison's men were looking for him" (Deadly
Secrets, 321). There is no evidence that Garrison's office ever sought del
Valle as a witness or a suspect. Garrison himself never seems to have discussed
del Valle with anyone until the *National Enquirer* story appeared.
Self-proclaimed CIA contract agent Robert Morrow claimed that del Valle and
Ferrie were both CIA agents and were both intimately involved in the Kennedy
assassination. Morrow claimed to have known del Valle personally, but in *First
Hand Knowledge,* Morrow, among other problems, ascribes to del Valle another
man's nickname. (Morrow's claims to a personal relationship with David Ferrie
have also been cast into doubt, as several key details in Morrow's story have
failed to check out.)
New allegations have arisen, via Fabian Escalante, a Cuban Interior Ministry
official, who claims that the late Tony Cuesta informed him that Eladio del
Valle was involved in the JFK assassination. Cuesta refused to name the source
of his information. "We asked, but he did not want to be questioned further
about this," Escalante has stated.
More information on Eladio del Valle:
http://www.weberman.com
Information on del Valle's murder and Bahadue indictment:
http://home.earthlink.net/~gwinslow/1delval.html
FBI report on del Valle's murder:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/delvalle.txt
Ulric Shannon's review of Morrow's *First Hand Knowledge*:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/morrow.htm
Information on Escalante allegations:
http://www.hightimes.com/ht/mag/9608/jfkcuba.html
Dave Reitzes
Barb Junkkarinen
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> just wondering if anyone knew.
>
> hmmm.
>
> yup, just wonderin'.....
>
> I believe records classify the murder as "unsolved".
>
> oh well.
>
> yup, unsolved....yes sir.
>
>
You might check out Gordon Winslow's Cuban Information Archives. He
has a lot on Eladio de Valle. Here's the url that will take you
directly to de Valle info. I think Gordon has a copy og de Valle's
death certificate up among other things.
http://home.earthlink.net/~gwinslow/1delval.html
Barb :-)
Vern Pascal
which had a peripheral connection to JFK. I don't know what the rate of
conviction for murders with no connection to the JFK assassiation is,
but it's got to be better than zero percent.--------Vern
Atlasrecrd
<< The question of a connection to the JFK assassination rests upon delValle's
alleged connection with David Ferrie. >>
No, it doesn't.
Dave Reitzes
>
>There have been no, zip, nada convictions for any of the many murders
>which had a peripheral connection to JFK.
T'ain't so, Vern. Marilyn "Delilah" Walle, the ex-Ruby stripper who's named on
the "mysterious deaths" lists, was shot by her husband, and he was convicted
for second degree murder.
Bill Hunter's killer was convicted for involuntary manslaughter (which is
indeed what it appears to have been).
Relatively few of the "mysterious deaths" are murders, though -- at least as
far as the evidence shows -- especially in the first three years, when Penn
Jones and Sylvia Meagher published their lists. Often the murder victims simply
are not witnesses by any stretch of the imagination. (Hank Killam? The husband
of one of Ruby's strippers? What did he witness? How come the stripper didn't
get hit instead?)
The murders pick up in the '70s, mostly Mob-related guys like Roselli. I don't
think it's much of a surprise that murders should occur amongst a community of
professional criminals.
Dave Reitzes
Reposting . . .
One a.c.jfk poster was moaning recently about all the "Dealey Plaza witnesses"
who died mysteriously in the years following the assassination. Let's see how
many there are. I'm going to work from Sylvia Meagher's list of the "mysterious
deaths" in the three years following the assassination (*Accessories After the
Fact,* 298-300).
"Mysterious death" #1: Warren Reynolds
"Witnessed escape of Tippit killer . . . Shot in head (recovered) . . . January
1964."
So the first person on the list didn't even DIE. He's included on Meagher's
list for "statistical purposes."
I'm afraid I have to go with what Wesley Liebeler once said about the matter,
though the person he was discussing it with scored a point or two as well:
Mr. LIEBELER. Did Reynolds tell you that he thought there was some connection
between the attack on him and Oswald killing Tippit?
General WALKER. We discussed that.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he tell you that he thought there was a connection between
the two?
General WALKER. He seemed to think there might be.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you think there is?
General WALKER. Yes; I do.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have any evidence to indicate that there is? General
WALKER. I think there is a definite--I don't know that you could call it
evidence but you can anticipate that people would like to shut up anybody that
knows anything about this case. People right here in Dallas. And I don't think
anybody knows or would have known at the time after November 22 how much or how
little Warren Reynolds knew.
Mr. LIEBELER. In fact, he doesn't know very much, does he?
General WALKER. He would become a very good example, regardless of what he
knew, to let everybody know that they better keep their mouths shut.
Mr. LIEBELER. Well, now, wouldn't it be fair to say that that is pure
speculation on your part?
General WALKER. Yes, but everything is speculation until you prove it or
disprove it (11 H 419).
So at any rate, that would seem to be the best theory as to why the
conspirators would take a shot at Warren Reynolds. Are we all agreed on that?
Moving right along . . .
"Mysterious death" #2: Betty Mooney MacDonald
"Ex-Ruby entertainer; alibied suspect in the Reynolds shooting . . . February
1964."
So this now is the woman who was dating the guy who was arrested as a suspect
in the shooting of Warren Reynolds. General Walker discussed this with Mr.
Liebeler as well. I don't see any need to go into it in any detail. If this
sordid little melodrama had anything to do with the assassination, no one's
ever advanced any evidence whatsoever.
See also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death15
Any Dealey Plaza witnesses yet?
"Mysterious death" #3: Eddy Benavides
"Brother of eyewitness to Tippit shooting . . . Shot in back of head . . .
February 1964."
Oh, this bodes not well, folks. The BROTHER of an eyewitness to the TIPPIT
shooting? Hell, even if you believe Oswald was framed for the Tippit shooting
-- which means you probably haven't read Dale Myers' book on the subject -- you
have to admit this list is pretty weak so far.
See also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death1
"Mysterious death" #4: Hank Killam
"Husband of Ruby employee; friend of fellow-roomer of Oswald's . . . Throat
cut. . . March 1964."
The HUSBAND of a Ruby employee AND a FRIEND OF A FELLOW-ROOMER of Oswald's! How
on Earth did the conspiracy let this guy live a whole FIVE MONTHS after the
assassination? This guy was truly living on borrowed time!
See also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death12
General Walker's "very good example" theory would seem to be the only one even
remotely plausible thus far. Anyone disagree? If so, please be sure to tell us
all what "dangerous knowledge" Hank Killam possessed, and how exactly he got
whacked while his wife (the Ruby employee) and friend (the ex-fellow-roomer of
Oswald) somehow survived.
"Mysterious death" #5: Bill Chesher
"Believed to have information about a Ruby/Oswald link . . . Heart attack . . .
March 1964."
Okay, well, we're getting somewhere, I suppose. I wrote about Chesher once. I
said, "A December 11, 1963, DPD report signed by Detective S. W. Biggio states
that Oswald reportedly had been seen driving Jack Ruby's car on several
occasions. The source is an acquaintance of . . . [a] mechanic who'd worked on
Ruby's car, William J. Chesher, who Detectives Biggio and Stringfellow
attempted to contact -- apparently for the first time -- on April 2, 1964.
Their April 3 report states that Chesher had indicated (presumably to the
police's informant) that Oswald 'had been driving Jack Ruby's automobile for
approximately two months and that he (the mechanic) knew this because Oswald
had brought Ruby's car to his garage for repairs." Unfortunately, 'the officers
were informed that subject [Chesher] had died on March 31, 1964, of a heart
attack.'"
So here's someone who, hearsay had it, had believed that Oswald had been
driving Ruby's car. I have to wonder if this fellow couldn't be thinking of
Larry Crafard, but at any rate, he died before anyone questioned him. So the
question is going to be the one I'm going to ask about a lot of these people:
If Chesher had any dangerous knowledge, how come he was allowed to live with
that knowledge as long as he did?
The Congressional Research Service was unable to turn up any more evidence on
Chesher's "mysterious death":
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death5
Any Dealey Plaza witnesses yet?
"Mysterious death" #6: Bill Hunter
"Reporter who was in Ruby's apartment 11/24/63 . . . Gunshot wound . . . April
23, 1964."
Let me repeat a fairly lengthy account I posted a little while back about Bill
Hunter and others.
In *Breaking the Silence,* Bill Sloan describes how 30-year old *Dallas
Times-Herald* reporter Jim Koethe (pronounced "Koty") and his friend Bill
Hunter, who was in town covering the assassination weekend's events for the
*Long Beach Press-Telegram,* went for a couple beers on the evening of Sunday,
November 24, 1963, to wind down after the craziest weekend they'd ever
experienced. They went into Bill Martin's TV Bar, where they spotted three
lawyers with whom Koethe was friendly: C. A. Droby, Jim Martin and Tom Howard,
all of whom had done legal work for Jack Ruby at one time or another. The three
lawyers were waiting for Ruby's roommate, George Senator, who was being
questioned by the DPD.
Droby, still employed as a lawyer in Dallas, reconstructs the scene: "Senator
had been held at the police station for four or five hours, and when they
finally turned him loose about 6 PM, he came over and met us at the TV Bar. One
of the reporters who was there wanted a picture of Jack, so we decided to go
over to the apartment on Ewing and see if we could locate one."
They all arrived at the apartment around 8 PM, and were there for possibly an
hour. "According to Droby," Bill Sloan writes, "there was no evidence to
indicate that anyone besides Senator had been in the apartment since Ruby
himself had left at a little after 10 o'clock that morning, taking his dog,
Sheba, with him en route to the Carousel Club."
"The place definitely hadn't been ransacked or anything," Droby told Sloan,
"and we just assumed the police hadn't gotten around to searching it yet. We
looked around, but we never were able to find any pictures of Jack. In fact, we
didn't find much of anything."
Jim Koethe took some notes at the apartment, but didn't think the visit worth
writing about for the *Times Herald.* He told some colleagues there, "It was
just a dumpy apartment."
Sloan writes:
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In light of the strange, unsettling sequence of events that unfolded over the
next ten months, some independent assassination researchers have put heavy
emphasis on the assumption that Koethe and Hunter were in the apartment before
police had a chance to search it. Clearly, this would have heightened the
chance of the two reporters finding something while there and could only make
an intriguing tale even more so.
Unfortunately, however, it simply isn't true.
In reality, homicide detective Gus Rose arrived at Ruby's apartment at about 2
PM that Sunday . . . accompanied by two other Dallas officers and armed with a
search warrant issued by Justice of the Peace Joe Brown, Jr.
"I showed the manager the warrant and she let us right in," Rose recalled in an
October 1992 interview. "We were there for about an hour and a half, and we
searched the place thoroughly." . . . According to Rose, the search failed to
turn up anything of significance . . .
"We collected a few notes and telephone numbers that had been written on pads,
but that was about all we took. Once we were finished, we just locked the place
back up and left again."
. . . "If Rose was there in the afternoon, he was there long before we were,"
Droby concludes. "I just never realized it because nothing was messed up."
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Bill Hunter was back in Dallas to cover the Ruby trial the following year for
the *Long Beach Press-Telegram.* Six weeks later he died in Long Beach. Bill
Sloan writes:
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At approximately 2 AM on the morning of April 23, 1964, Hunter was sitting at
his desk in the press room of the Long Beach police station and reading a
mystery novel entitled *Stop This Man,* when two detectives -- both of whom
were later described as "friends" of Hunter -- came into the room.
Initially, there was considerable confusion over exactly what happened next.
One officer was first quoted as saying he dropped his gun, causing it to
discharge as it struck the floor. Later, he changed his story to say that he
and the other detective were engaged in "horseplay" with their loaded weapons
when the tragedy occurred.
Whatever the case, a single shot suddenly rang out, striking Hunter where he
sat. An autopsy later showed that the .38-caliber bullet plowed straight
through Hunter's heart.
He died instantly, without ever moving or saying a word.
"My boss called me at 2 AM and told me Bill Hunter had been shot," Bill Shelton
recalls. "He wasn't satisfied with the story that the cop had dropped his gun,
and as it turned out, that wasn't what happened at all."
The newspaper charged police with covering up the facts in the case, which Long
Beach Police Chief William Mooney vigorously denied. Detectives Creighton
Wiggins, Jr., and Errol F. Greenleaf were relieved of their duties and
subsequently charged with involuntary manslaughter. In January 1965, both were
convicted and given identical three-year probated sentences.
Two weeks after the shooting, in a letter of resignation to his chief,
Detective Wiggins wrote: "It is a tragic thing that this must come about in
this manner, for I have lost a wonderful friend in Bill Hunter and so have all
the police officers of the department . . . he was truly the policeman's
friend."
. . . While Hunter's death made sensational headlines in California, it was
scarcely noted 2,000 miles away in Dallas. Jim Koethe surely mourned his
friend, but if he connected Hunter's death in any way with their visit to
Ruby's apartment five months earlier, he didn't mention it to any of his
acquaintances at the *Times Herald.*
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Five months later, on September 21, 1964, Jim Koethe didn't show up for work at
the *Dallas Time Herald.* Later, police would find him in his apartment, lying
dead on his bedroom floor, wrapped in a blanket. The Dallas County coroner
ruled that Koethe had died the previous Saturday, his neck broken by a blow to
the throat. Sloan: "Homicide Detectives Charles Dhority and E. R. Beck
described the apartment as being in disarray. There were signs of a scuffle,
they said, and several items, including two rifles, a pistol, and Koethe's
wristwatch, were unaccounted for." Koethe's car was also missing; it was found
parked several blocks away; no fingerprints could be found. Neither the police
nor Koethe's friends on the *Times Herald* staff had any luck tracking down a
suspect.
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Several months later, an ex-convict named Larry Earl Reno was linked to the
Koethe killing after being arrested in an unrelated incident. One of Koethe's
guns had reportedly been found in the man's possession, and he had no alibi for
the time period in which Koethe had been killed.
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Reportedly, however, Koethe's relatives were urging state officials to drop the
case; a friend of Koethe's learned from a contact in the DA's office that there
were homosexual undertones to the murder that the family did not want brought
out. The evidence against Reno was never more than circumstantial anyway, and
the grand jury did not return an indictment. He was arrested again in 1965 and
convicted with the robbery and attempted murder of an Oak Cliff hotel clerk.
Koethe's death is still listed as an unsolved crime.
Some also see a sinister hand behind Tom Howard's death in 1965. Howard died of
a heart attack well over a year after being dropped from Jack Ruby's defense
team. (Source: Bill Sloan, *Breaking the Silence,* pp. 69-83)
See also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death9
So the "mysterious deaths" list is looking pretty lame so far, don't you think?
Any Dealey Plaza witnesses yet?
Who's next? Uh oh.
"Mysterious death" #7: Teresa Norton, aka Karen Lynn Bennett Carlin
"Dancer employed by Ruby . . . Shot to death in motel . . . August 1964."
We're skipping this one, folks. No one has yet proven that Mrs. Carlin is even
dead. No death certificate has ever been found, and if she died in August 1964,
it must have been awfully soon after testifying for the Warren Commission on
August 24, 1964. No one even seems to know where Meagher got the information
that Carlin ever used the name "Teresa Norton."
See also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death16
And there's a short section in Harrison Livingstone's *High Treason 2* about
Carlin's alleged death. Also see below for some more relevant links.
"Mysterious death" #8: Jim Koethe
"Reporter who was in Ruby's apartment 11/24/63 with Hunter . . . Karate chop to
neck . . . September 21, '64."
See the lengthy treatment above, and also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death13
Any "mysterious deaths" yet?
Any Dealey Plaza witnesses yet?
"Mysterious death" #9: Tom Howard
"One of Ruby's lawyers, was in police basement just before Oswald was shot . .
. Heart attack . . . March 27, 1965."
Well, after reading Bill Sloan's account of Hunter and Koethe's deaths, I don't
think I'm going to worry too much about the death of a third man in Ruby's
apartment on November 24, 1963. Again, if Howard had any dangerous knowledge,
it's a miracle he lived as long as he did, isn't it?
See also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death8
"Mysterious death" #10: William Whaley
"Taxi-driver who took Oswald to Oak Cliff . . . Motor vehicle accident . . .
December 1965."
Here we go again. A guy of no significance whatsoever, who lived over two full
years after the assassination.
For more on Whaley's "mysterious" death, please see:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/death7.htm
Unless you believe General Walker's "very good example" theory, you're going to
have your work cut out for you explaining what good these deaths could have
done any conspirators.
Any Dealey Plaza witnesses yet?
"Mysterious death" #11: David Goldstein
WHO?
"Helped FBI trace revolver used to shoot Tippit . . . Natural causes . . .
1965."
Oh, that's a gem, ain't it? John McAdams' Web site notes, "Every gunshop owner
in Dallas, including Goldstein, provided [an] affidavit saying he did not sell
Oswald pistol." Goldstein was simply one of many.
Hell, even General Walker would have a hard time explaining this one -- it was
so trivial, Meagher couldn't even get an approximate date for it. How are these
people supposed to be "very good examples" if no one ever hears about them?
See also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death7
Next . . .
"Mysterious death" #12: Earlene Roberts
"Housekeeper, rooming house where Oswald lived . . . Heart attack . . . January
9, 1966."
Well, considering that the only "mysterious" thing Roberts ever said (the
honking police car) has been debunked by Dale Myers, Roberts' age at the time
of her death, and the fact that she didn't die until 1966, I think we can skip
to the next one.
See also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death17
"Mysterious death" #13: Lee Bowers, Jr.
"Eyewitness to the assassination [sic] . . . Motor vehicle accident . . .
August 9, 1966."
Well, Bowers at least qualifies -- just barely -- as a Dealey Plaza eyewitness,
but he was not an eyewitness to the assassination. In fact, Jim Moore's
*Conspiracy of One* casts doubt on whether we can believe what little Bowers
said he saw that day. Was his death mysterious? Dave Perry examined it in
detail, and one can read Perry's article on the subject at:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/bowers.txt
"Mysterious death" #14: Marilyn Moone Walle ("Delilah")
"Dancer employed by Ruby 11/22/63 . . . Shot by husband after one month of
marriage . . . September 1, '66."
Gosh -- a stripper getting shot. And only three years after the assassination.
Next . . .
Please see:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/death6.htm
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death19
"Mysterious death" #15: Levens (first name unknown) [!]
"Operator of Fort Worth strip joint, employed some Ruby entertainers . . .
Natural causes . . . November 5, '66."
There's another classic. Boy, I'll bet Ruby's competitors took all kinds of
dirty secrets to the grave. Incidentally, the Congressional Research Service
was unable to find any information on Mr. Levens. See:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death14
"Mysterious death" #16: James Worrell, Jr.
"Eyewitness to assassination; saw man escape from Book Depository . . . Motor
vehicle accident . . . November 5, '66."
WHOA! An actual EYEWITNESS TO THE ASSASSINATION! AND . . . he died on the SAME
DAY as "Levens (first name unknown)"! Aw, man, that is just TOO mysterious!
Shades of Ferrie and del Valle! (Who did not know each other, who were not
involved in the assassination, and in del Valle's case, only came to Jim
Garrison's attention through a *National Enquirer* article!)
How mysterious was Worrell's death?
Reposted from http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/death8.htm:
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
NOVEMBER 6, 1966, P. A-11.
TWO KILLED IN A CRASH
---------------------
A man and woman in their 20's became Dallas' 115th and 116th
traffic fatalities of the year Saturday when they were killed in a
motorcycle accident shortly before 2:30 p.m. in the 2100 block of Gus
Thomasson.
Dead in arrival at Parkland Hospital was James R. Worrell Jr.,
23, of 13510 Winterhaven, Farmers Branch, operator of the motorcycle.
His passenger, Lee Hudgins, 22, of 9756 Skyview, died shortly
after arrival at Parkland.
Both suffered severe head and internal injuries.
Accident investigator J.N. Feinglass said Worrell was heading
north on Gus Thomasson in East Dallas when he apparently lost control
of the motorcycle, a 1965 Honda. It struck the median curb, jumped
the median, and overturned in the southbound traffic lane. Worrell
was thrown against the curbing.
Miss Hudgins was thrown into the front of a stopped car in the
southbound lane driven by H.E. Cooper, of 14229 Marsha Lane, Mesquite.
He was uninjured.
See also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death21
"Mysterious death" #17: Harold Russell
"Witnesses escape of Tippit killer . . . Killed by a policeman in brawl in bar
. . . February 1967."
Okay, so the guy who saw Tippit's murderer flee from a distance lives some
three and a half years on borrowed time before getting snuffed by a cop.
See also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death18
These "mysterious deaths" just ain't all they're cracked up to be, are they?
And finally (on Meagher's 1967 list) . . .
"Mysterious death" #18: David Ferrie
"Alleged acquaintance of Oswald's and alleged assassination suspect . . .
Apparent suicide . . . February 22, '67."
Notice Meagher can't even bring herself to call Ferrie an ACTUAL assassination
suspect. And Meagher was suckered by Big Jim, because Garrison was the person
who said Ferrie killed himself. (He later would change his mind and call it a
murder.) But what does the actual coroner's report (as posted by David
Blackburst) say?
Autopsy Protocol W67-2-255:
"Classification of Death: Natural"
Certificate of Death 670001526:
"Classified by Coroner as a natural death"
1976 Certified copy of Coroner's record, Frank Minyard M.D., Coroner, Louis
Ivon, Administrator:
"Describe how injury occurred...Natural"
See also:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/death1.txt
Ferrie died of a ruptured berry aneurysm that had been developing for quite
some time. He'd even told several friends of his that he was dying, which helps
explain the two separate notes that Garrison called "suicide notes," but which
do not read like suicide notes:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/death10.htm
Eladio del Valle died on the same day, something Jim Garrison's followers
trumpet as an impossible "coincidence," since they allege that Ferrie worked
for del Valle. But there is no evidence that Ferrie, who assisted Sergio
Arcacha Smith's New Orleans branch of the Cuban Revolutionary Council in
anti-Castro activities, ever met del Valle, an anti-Castro activist based in
Miami. (The story was started by Diego Gonzales Tendedera in 1967, who told Jim
Garrison's office that Ferrie worked for del Valle, and the tale has recently
been given new life thanks to Tony Cuesta.) Garrison claimed briefly in 1967-68
that del Valle was a suspect in his investigation and that his office had been
searching for del Valle three days prior to del Valle's death. There is no
evidence whatsoever for these claims, and Garrison himself does not mention del
Valle a single time in either of his two books on the assassination.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/delvalle.txt [FBI report]
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/delvaD02.jpg [indictment]
And if anyone can show us some evidence that Ferrie was involved in the
assassination or had any "dangerous knowledge," I suggest they do so already.
So . . . how many Dealey Plaza eyewitnesses are on this list? Two, if you count
Lee Bowers.
How many of these deaths are really "mysterious"?
Well, if you ask me, just one: that of Karen Carlin, whose death has been
reported on two different dates, in two different cities (Penn Jones listed it
in a different city on a different date), under two different names, but
without even proof of ONE death ever surfacing. That's certainly mysterious --
mysterious enough for some to accuse Penn Jones of fabricating the story for
Carlin's protection. See David Perry's articles on the subject at:
http://www.flash.net/~dperry2/foolme.htm
http://www.flash.net/~dperry2/followup.htm
Otherwise, however, it looks like a big joke to me.
Reposted from the Kennedy Assassination Home Page:
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Excerpted from "The Case of the Grassy Knoll: The Romance of Conspiracy" by
John Kaplan; printed in The Historian As Detective, Winks, editor; originally
published as "The Assassins" in Stanford Law Review (May 1967).
[Regarding the "mysterious" deaths of "witnesses" to the assassination], even
the most cursory examination of the stories shows how essentially foolish they
are. A good many of the deaths hardly seem mysterious in that they were caused
by auto accidents, heart attacks, and other phenomena that afflict our entire
population. Moreover, before we could tell whether the number of these deaths
is in any way unusual, we would have to know the number of equally "mysterious"
deaths that occurred to people completely unconnected with the WR. But even
apart from any statistical refutation, the theory that a set of conspirators is
now devoted to wiping out a host of unimportant witnesses is almost too silly
to be put forth. There is not the slightest indication that any of the
"victims" have had anything to tell that they had not already told, and indeed
the deaths seem concentrated among those who bore only the most peripheral
relation to the assassination. When one stops to consider that almost each one
of the "mysterious" deaths requires the recruitment of at least one and often
several new conspirators, it would seem that, like the pyramid club, the
conspiracy would be getting bigger and bigger rather than smaller. One would
think that in light of what had happened to those who knew too much it would
get very difficult to recruit new members into the conspiracy. Most important,
however, it is hard to say why the supposed killers are taking whatever chances
these murders entail when it is so obvious that, whoever the conspirators are,
they have already gotten off scot-free.
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For more information, see:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/deaths.htm
Addendum:
Some folks who didn't make Meagher's list include Albert Guy Bogard:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death2
Bogard was not a Dealey Plaza eyewitness; he was the automobile salesman who
claimed that Oswald had been a prospective customer of his and took a car for a
test-drive.
Dorothy Kilgallen:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/crs.htm#death11
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/kilgallen.txt
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/death4.htm
William Bruce Pitzer:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/marvin.htm
Pitzer worked at Bethesda Naval Hospital and apparently committed suicide. A
friend of his, Dennis David, claims Pitzer had in his possession a motion
picture of John F. Kennedy's autopsy, an item not known to exist outside of
David's story.
In my opinion, Pitzer's death may be the one and only genuinely mysterious
death of them all, but the more information that emerges about it -- thanks
largely to the efforts of Allan R.J. Eaglesham and Harrison Livingstone --
admittedly, the less mysterious it seems. See Eaglesham's excellent articles on
the Pitzer case in recent issues of Walt Brown's *JFK/Deep Politics Quarterly.*
For info on *JFK/DPQ,* please see:
http://roswell.fortunecity.com/angelic/96/jfkdpq.htm
Or e-mail: jfk...@aol.com
Last but not least, there is the matter of Rose Cheramie, who died in 1965. She
was not on Meagher's 1967 list, as it was only later in 1967 that Cheramie's
story was first publicized by the Orleans Parish DA's office. The story was the
subject of a recent post of mine called "Some preliminary thoughts on Rose
Cheramie." There are some very basic problems with the testimony of Lt. Francis
Fruge, the one and only known eyewitness to Cheramie's alleged foreknowledge of
the assassination. There are also problems with the testimony of Dr. Victor
Weiss, who in 1978 was certain that a "Dr. Bowers" had told him that Cheramie
had spoken about the assassination before it occurred. In 1967, when he was
first interviewed about Cheramie, Weiss could not remember whether Cheramie had
made her alleged statements BEFORE OR AFTER the assassination. Curiously, his
1967 statements don't seem to mention this "Dr. Bowers," a person the HSCA was
unable to locate or identify, and whose first name they were unable to find. I
have not yet been able to obtain all the relevant 1967 documents, however, so
it's possible that Bowers was indeed mentioned at the time. I am working on
resolving these questions.
Finally, of course, there are the deaths of Lee Harvey Oswald and J. D. Tippit,
which are the subjects of numerous other threads, and the death of Jack Ruby in
early 1967, which was a result of cancer. Jim Marrs advances a theory that Ruby
was injected with cancer cells, a procedure no one has demonstrated could be
effective.
Blackburst
>The question of a connection to the JFK assassination rests upon delValle's
>alleged connection with David Ferrie.
Atlasrecrd replied:
>No, it doesn't.
The only allegations I am aware of linking delValle to the assassination do so
through David Ferrie.