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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 5, 2007 18:25:57 GMT -4
... we knew that Hunt was not in Dallas at the time of the assassination..... No, we don't know that. There were witnesses who said he was in Dallas, and others who said he wasn't. No there are people that claim that Hunt was one of the three Tramps that were arrested near the scene (they were actually some distance away.) These same people totally ignore that a) those they claim were the tramps were not in Dallas and that it is provavble that they weren't there, and b) the three tramps were identified and the one they claim is Hunt is a guy named Gus W. Abrams. The other two were Harold Doyle and John Forester Gedney.
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Post by turbonium on Jul 6, 2007 4:28:04 GMT -4
According to the Posion Planet article it was an audio tape, if you have evidence to the contary let us know. That makes it a bit suspect if he wanted to 'come clean' why not do it on video? An LA Times article refers to a video with Hunt.... Was JFK plot buried with Hunt?[/b] Hunt answers questions on a videotape...www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703210323AFAIK, the LA Times has not yet released the video. I think this is different material than the confession tape, which is said to be from an audio cassette.
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Post by turbonium on Jul 6, 2007 4:51:09 GMT -4
No there are people that claim that Hunt was one of the three Tramps that were arrested near the scene (they were actually some distance away.) These same people totally ignore that a) those they claim were the tramps were not in Dallas and that it is provavble that they weren't there, and b) the three tramps were identified and the one they claim is Hunt is a guy named Gus W. Abrams. The other two were Harold Doyle and John Forester Gedney. I don't know if E. Howard himself mentioned his whereabouts that day in either the LATimes video, or the recently released audio. But at least one witness (Marita Lorenz) said she saw Hunt in Dallas on an occasion unrelated to the tramps. And Hunt's son says his mother Dorothy told him that his father was in Dallas at that time. As I said, we simply don't know. There is no way to actually prove it either way.
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Post by lenbrazil on Jul 6, 2007 12:02:48 GMT -4
According to the Posion Planet article it was an audio tape, if you have evidence to the contary let us know. That makes it a bit suspect if he wanted to 'come clean' why not do it on video? An LA Times article refers to a video with Hunt.... Was JFK plot buried with Hunt?[/b] Hunt answers questions on a videotape...www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703210323AFAIK, the LA Times has not yet released the video. I think this is different material than the confession tape, which is said to be from an audio cassette. [/quote] From the cited LA Times article: St. John said he respected his father's wishes while he was alive but felt no obligation now. He is writing a script about his father, and David is shopping for a publisher for their father's account of CIA involvement in the Kennedy shooting.
Despite the brothers' efforts, their father's role will probably never be known.
The materials they offer to substantiate their story, examined by the Los Angeles Times, are inconclusive.
Hunt answers questions on a videotape using speculative phrases, observing that various named figures were "possibly" involved. A chart Hunt sketched during one conversation with St. John shows the same rogue CIA operation he describes in the memoir. None of the accounts provides evidence to convincingly validate that their father disclosed anything revelatory.
Hunt's widow and her two children, 27-year-old Austin and 23-year-old Hollis, dismiss the brothers' story, saying it is the result of coaching an old man whose lucidity waxed and waned in his final months.
Kevan bitterly accuses her brothers of "elder abuse," saying they pressured their father for dramatic scenarios for their own financial gain.
St. John has a more personal reason to believe in his father's disclosures. He said he was instructed by Hunt in 1974 to back up an alibi for his whereabouts on the day Kennedy died, 11 years earlier.
"I did a lot of lying for my father in those days," St. John said.
The brothers concede they would like to profit from their father's story but insist he meant them to. Oh yeah, now I'm convinced! "AFAIK, the LA Times has not yet released the video"It doesn't sound like they have a copy. Even if they did they would need the Hunt's permission to release it. I guess they're still trying to see how much money they can milk out of it.
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Post by turbonium on Jul 13, 2007 3:42:11 GMT -4
Do you have some kind of problem with a guy cashing in on the recordings of his dead dad?
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Post by gillianren on Jul 13, 2007 5:00:09 GMT -4
Other than that it's tacky?
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Post by lenbrazil on Jul 13, 2007 10:41:47 GMT -4
Another problem with the Hunt tapes is that the story he tells in them is that he was NOT involved. So if you take them as credible accounts he wasn't one of the "3 tramps", you can't have it both ways.
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