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JFK Book Reviews - Remnants Of Truth & Murder Of A City : Tacoma · The Lone Gunman Podcast : JFK Assassination

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  Speaker 1: Well, hello there, welcome back to JFK Book Reviews. I
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  Speaker 1: am Big Bad Bob aka Rob Clark along with you today,
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  Speaker 1: No Joe today, But what is gloss? Right over that
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  Speaker 1: and proceed. So instead of two hosts today, we have
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  Speaker 1: two books we're going to be reviewing today. And why
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  Speaker 1: two books, you might ask, Well, I view them as
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  Speaker 1: sister books if you will, even though they were published
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight years apart. But we'll get there, I promise. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's been a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of people out there.
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  Speaker 1: Who have quote unquote, had alleged involved either tangentially or
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  Speaker 1: directly in the assassination of John F. Kennedy in the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixties. During the Garson investigation, he decided to focus
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  Speaker 1: on two men for some reason, two of those men
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  Speaker 1: being Thomas Beckham and the other one being Fred Lee Chrisman.
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  Speaker 1: So let's start with Murder of a City, Tacoma by
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  Speaker 1: John Gold. Now you might be saying, who the hell's
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  Speaker 1: John gold?
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: John Gold is actually Fred Lee Christman, known to his
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  Speaker 1: radio and television audiences as John Gold, a former teacher,
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  Speaker 1: school administrator, and presently a freelance political writer. He was
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  Speaker 1: a fight fighter pilot in World War Two, and was
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  Speaker 1: recalled to serve another thirty months. That's two and a
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  Speaker 1: half years for you focus out there, accounting during the
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  Speaker 1: Korean War. Now this book, if you go down here
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  Speaker 1: to the last paragraph, he names himself as a liberal Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: He's been classified as a far right extremist, member of
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  Speaker 1: the mafia, and secret agent of the CIA. He denies
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  Speaker 1: being anything but what he is, a sincere man dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to seeing the return of decent, honest, representative government to
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  Speaker 1: his hometown. That is Murder of a City, Tacoma.
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  Speaker 2: By John Gold.
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  Speaker 1: Now the other book that we have here will be
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  Speaker 1: talking about today is Remnants of Truth, an anachronism for
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  Speaker 1: rot or Rot. Is this what Thomas Beckham is telling
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  Speaker 1: us to do to rot in Hell? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This book here was published in two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 1: Murder of a City Tacoma published in nineteen seventy.
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  Speaker 2: We'll flip it over.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a picture of the good Rabbi Thomas Bacham
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  Speaker 1: because he now spells it with a apostrophe after the h.
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  Speaker 1: Now a rabbi of the Hebrew Faith, Rabbi Doctor Beckham,
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  Speaker 1: has put together a book that brings together the people
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  Speaker 1: whom Jim Garrison tried to prove were involved in the assassination.
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  Speaker 1: These books, despite being published thirty eight years apart, are
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  Speaker 1: remarkably similar in stature.
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  Speaker 2: And size. They were both.
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  Speaker 1: Into penantly self published, if you will, you said, very
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  Speaker 1: very similar in size and stature. That's why I decided
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  Speaker 1: to pair them up. And not only that, these are
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  Speaker 1: two of the rarest books concerning figures that have been
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  Speaker 1: alleged to be involved in the JFK assassination. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: find him anywhere on the Internet where you could actually
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  Speaker 1: buy a copy. The links to the Amazon page will
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  Speaker 1: be in the description, so you can keep checking back.
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  Speaker 1: If you're watching this two years from now, six months
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  Speaker 1: from now, somebody may have copies up there by then.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But right now, as of the taping of this book review,
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  Speaker 1: there are none. There's none on eBay, there's none in
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  Speaker 1: any specialty bookstore that I found.
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  Speaker 2: There's just none. None.
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  Speaker 1: So very interesting. Now, let's start off with Murder of
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  Speaker 1: a City Tacoma by John Gold aka Fredley Crismin. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Fridley Crispmin was implicated in the assassination by Jim Garrison,
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  Speaker 1: alleging him to be one of the three tramps, one
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  Speaker 1: of the assassins on the Grassy know And in this
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  Speaker 1: book Murder of a City, he does acknowledge these allegations.
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  Speaker 1: This book was written a mere two years, you know,
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  Speaker 1: after two or three years after he traveled to New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans to defend himself against Garrison's allegations. Now, of course
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  Speaker 1: he denies everything, okay, but he does have.
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  Speaker 2: A very interesting background.
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  Speaker 1: Starting back in nineteen forty seven in a little something
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  Speaker 1: called the Maury Island Incident, which predates Roswell the Crash
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  Speaker 1: UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico by a month or two,
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  Speaker 1: I believe. Now, Crispin was involved with a man named
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  Speaker 1: Harold Dahl who alleged to see several saucer shaped UFOs
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  Speaker 1: flying over the sound. They were out collecting logs that
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  Speaker 1: had fallen off of logging barges. They were basically scrappers.
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  Speaker 1: They were picking up scraps, and allegedly, during this UFO incident,
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  Speaker 1: one of these flying saucers appeared to be having some
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  Speaker 1: difficulty as far as wobbling and not being able to
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  Speaker 1: fly as good as the other craft. And at some
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  Speaker 1: point this craft allegedly leaked some sludge or some kind
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  Speaker 1: of weird material onto the boat that these guys were
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  Speaker 1: on and ended up.
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  Speaker 2: Injuring.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember if it was Christmas son or Harold
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  Speaker 1: Dahl's son, but it also killed a dog on board
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  Speaker 1: the boat allegedly. Now, the FBI was sent out there
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  Speaker 1: to investigate this claim. Unfortunately, two of the pilots that
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  Speaker 1: accompanied the FBI agents out there ended up dying in
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  Speaker 1: a plane crash on the way back. They had collected
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  Speaker 1: this sludge material to be analyzed by the FBI in
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  Speaker 1: some cereal boxes. Now, in the nineteen the issue of
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  Speaker 1: Fate magazine, Chrismin insisted that the incident was not a hoax.
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  Speaker 1: Chrisman wrote, why if we were such blackguards and deliberately
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  Speaker 1: caused the deaths of two air Force pilots and the
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  Speaker 1: loss of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars airplane, did
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  Speaker 1: not the government or some agency then attempt to see
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  Speaker 1: justice to the courts of the state or federal government.
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  Speaker 2: Good point.
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  Speaker 1: He was also heavily involved in writing for Amazing Stories magazine, and.
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  Speaker 2: The Shaver Mysteries were.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of incorporating all this. Now, his buddy Harold thought
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  Speaker 1: that the nineteen sixties TV series The Invaders was based
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  Speaker 1: on Christman's life. Apparently had a very mysterious life, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, prior to all this, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the military. He actually left the military in February of
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty six, and of course this Maury Island and
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  Speaker 1: incident happened in nineteen forty seven. But he joined the
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  Speaker 1: Army in nineteen forty two in the of World War Two,
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  Speaker 1: enlisted in the Army, entering the service with the rank
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  Speaker 1: of second lieutenant based on his.
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  Speaker 2: College degree, and.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen forty three he was listed as an aviation
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  Speaker 1: cadet undergoing training at Lancaster, California. He was awarded the
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  Speaker 1: Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He left the
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  Speaker 1: Army as a first lieutenant four years later, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: in February of nineteen forty six. And he was a
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  Speaker 1: real veterans advocate. He was a member of the State Bureau,
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  Speaker 1: Washington State Bureau of Veterans Affairs, the Seattle American Veterans Chapter.
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  Speaker 1: He used to give speeches endorsing certain folks up there,
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  Speaker 1: big an Alliance Club, the Kawana's Club, the am Vettes,
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  Speaker 1: things like that, and then he gets sucked into this
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  Speaker 1: UFO deal, and then he gets sucked into the clay
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  Speaker 1: Shaw trial. Okay, now why did he get sucked into
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  Speaker 1: this clay Shaw trial. Well, Garrison was investigating some of
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  Speaker 1: these fake bishops, if you will, and their diploma mills,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently Chrisman and Beckham and Ferry and Jack Martin
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of these other guys around New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: at the time were heavily involved in this type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it was a con, nothing more, nothing less.
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  Speaker 1: He did go on to work at Boeing Aircraft Lockheed
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  Speaker 1: Aircraft in Los Angeles. Now, Beckham alleges that he was
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  Speaker 1: either high military intelligence or CIA. He alleged that he
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  Speaker 1: had a phone in his very brand new Cadillac, which
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixties was unheard of. Okay, people didn't have
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  Speaker 1: carphones back then, but allegedly Fred Chrismin did, which is interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Again. Chrismin died in nineteen seventy.
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  Speaker 1: Five, and basically in his book, like I said, he
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  Speaker 1: devotes one chapter to the JFK assassination subject, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: three to four paragraphs in that chapter specifically, he does
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  Speaker 1: tend to wander a bit in his ramblings, but it's
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  Speaker 1: basically a full blown denial of any of Garrison's allegations,
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  Speaker 1: which I understand now. The more interesting allegations against Fridley
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  Speaker 1: Crispin come from Thomas Beckham. Now, Thomas Beckham was a
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  Speaker 1: young con man living in New Orleans in the early
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  Speaker 1: nineteen late fifties and early sixties. He was involved in
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  Speaker 1: many quick money making schemes, including running a diploma mill,
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  Speaker 1: ordaining people in a weird church, and hell, even crooning
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  Speaker 1: some country tunes under a different moniker, another assumed name.
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  Speaker 1: So he's a guy who had many fingers in many pies,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. Now, what's interesting about this book, published
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, Remnants of Truth, is by
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  Speaker 1: this time, by the time he publishes his own book,
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  Speaker 1: he has already really come clean to the House Select
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  Speaker 1: Committee on Assassinations, and he had admitted a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things to them that he did not admit during the
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  Speaker 1: Garrison investigation in the Garrison Grand Jury. Now, of course,
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  Speaker 1: by this time, David Ferry is dead, Clay Shaw is dead, Fred.
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  Speaker 2: Christman is dead.
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  Speaker 1: So by nineteen seventy seven seventy eight, when he decides
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  Speaker 1: to talk to the HSCA and actually come clean or
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  Speaker 1: tell her really fantastical story one of the two. You know,
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  Speaker 1: these investigators, Delsa and Burris can't believe what they're hearing.
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  Speaker 1: But they're running up against their own problems with the
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  Speaker 1: HSCA as far as being able to fund an actual
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  Speaker 1: investigation because at the time that they need to talk, well,
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  Speaker 1: they do go and talk to Beckham a couple of times,
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  Speaker 1: but they really want to bring him to Washington. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: he's he was currently incarcerated in the South at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and the HSCA was getting pissed at Burris in Delsa
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  Speaker 1: because they were racking up the air miles and the
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  Speaker 1: bills to do their investigation there in New Orleans. Now
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  Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. You know, this is
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  Speaker 1: about the time that things were changing from Sprague to Blakey,
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  Speaker 1: the focus shifting from these odd characters and what Garrison
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  Speaker 1: was doing down there to a more mafia based slant
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  Speaker 1: on things.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: But we do have transcripts of the Beckham interview, We
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  Speaker 1: do have audio of the Beckham interview, and in later years,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he was pretty much Thomas Beckham that is
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  Speaker 1: pretty much ignored by most mainstream authors having to write
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  Speaker 1: about the Kennedy assassination until along comes Joan Mellon. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Joan did speak an interview Thomas Beckham for her book,
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  Speaker 1: and some very interesting things kind of resurfaced, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: because his Ahasca testimony had been buried in the archives
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  Speaker 1: for many, many years at this point and hadn't really
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  Speaker 1: been dug out and pursued and perused by the JFK
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  Speaker 1: research community very well. And when she published her book
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  Speaker 1: once his new relevatory interviews with Thomas Beckham, everybody was
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  Speaker 1: raising eyebrows about this time, like hmm. And it was
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  Speaker 1: around the same time that Thomas Beckham figured it'd probably
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  Speaker 1: be a good idea to write his own book. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is an interesting book. It's not written well, folks,
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  Speaker 1: all right, this dude probably had a seventh grade education,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not exaggerating.
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  Speaker 2: It may sound like it, but I am not. Now
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  Speaker 2: in this.
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  Speaker 1: Book, it is a very basic book, and I mean basic.
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  Speaker 1: And the writing is very large and takes up sometimes
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  Speaker 1: not even the whole page, like there's room.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Very basic book.
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  Speaker 1: Again, not written by you know, a guy who's going
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  Speaker 1: to be winning any mental awards, but The interesting thing
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  Speaker 1: here he kind of clarifies in his book, and he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really go off script of what he told the HSCA.
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  Speaker 2: Some things in this book I want.
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  Speaker 1: To read to you, folks, since it's so scarce out there,
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  Speaker 1: you might never ever hear. But he says, I knew
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  Speaker 1: the following people, and they all knew me, Jack Martin,
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  Speaker 1: Jack Ruby, Fred Lee Crispin, Guy Banister, Roswell Thompson, Lawrence Howard, Lee,
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  Speaker 1: Harvey Oswald, g Ray Gill, Hail Boggs, Carlos, Marcelo, Clay
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  Speaker 1: Bertrand David Ferry, Lauren Hall, Aaron Cohne, Thomas Burdbank, Jack
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  Speaker 1: Grimmelion W. T. Grant, Louis Rebel, Joe Newborough, just to
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  Speaker 1: name a few that I can still remember. That's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And those are all names we've heard associated with the
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  Speaker 1: Garrison investigation and the whole New Orleans slant on all
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  Speaker 1: of this. Now, he alleges Jack Ruby or Jack Martin
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  Speaker 1: was always an agency asset. He even writes, and here
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  Speaker 1: a story about him, Jack Martin and Guy Banister going
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  Speaker 1: to meet Falgencio Batista on a tarmac somewhere in Miami
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  Speaker 1: with Batista handing over a sack containing probably one hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars at least, they said, and this was to
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  Speaker 1: fund these anti Castro Cuban exile raids against Castro. Very interesting,
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  Speaker 1: very interesting. So I'm gonna cruise up here a little
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  Speaker 1: bit to another part of the book and read you something.
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  Speaker 1: We were all at the attorney Gray Gill's office, who
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  Speaker 1: was David Ferry's attorney, when I was given a large
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  Speaker 1: brown envelope to deliver to Dallas, Texas. I was driven
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  Speaker 1: to the airport and given a couple of magazines, where
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  Speaker 1: I put the envelopes that the attorney had given me.
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  Speaker 1: He told me he knew that I like to talk
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  Speaker 1: a lot. He said he didn't want, not want to
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  Speaker 1: hurt my feelings, but what he had to say was
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  Speaker 1: very important.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: I was not to speak to anyone on the plane.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't to wear any jewelry, flashy jewelry, or draw
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  Speaker 1: any attention to myself. I was to take the envelope
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  Speaker 1: to a room at the Executive n After leaving there,
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  Speaker 1: I was to walk a good ways away before taking
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  Speaker 1: a taxi back to the airport. As soon as I
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  Speaker 1: got to Dallas, I hopped a taxi to the hotel,
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  Speaker 1: and before I even got out of the taxi, I
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  Speaker 1: was met by Lawrence Howard, who had been waiting for
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  Speaker 1: me in an old Chevy. He was a really mean
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  Speaker 1: looking dude. I gave him the envelope. After he opened it,
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  Speaker 1: he asked me if there was anything else, and I
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  Speaker 1: told him that was all I was supposed to deliver.
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  Speaker 1: He asked me if I had ever opened it, and
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  Speaker 1: I said, what are you talking about? I never opened it.
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  Speaker 1: I walked away, walking for about twenty minutes or more
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  Speaker 1: before gets another taxi back to the airport. I was
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  Speaker 1: still mad about not being trusted by Howard. I kept
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  Speaker 1: thinking of some things I should have or wanted to
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  Speaker 1: have told him, and none of it was good enough.
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  Speaker 1: I always had so much on my mind, working so
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  Speaker 1: many things right next to each other. All I could
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  Speaker 1: do was my job, well without even thinking about what
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  Speaker 1: I did or what I had to do. So as
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  Speaker 1: you can see, his writing style sucks. His storytelling is
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  Speaker 1: not the best. I mean, you know, if this incident
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  Speaker 1: really happened, I mean, just think about the detail that
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  Speaker 1: you could go into about this, you know, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: like he's going to do something against Lawrence Howard. Come
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  Speaker 1: on now, and he finishes this little sub chapter with
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  Speaker 1: the words you know everything or you know nothing.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: He's pontificating, he's waxing poetic here.
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  Speaker 2: And the book itself.
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  Speaker 1: Is roughly about ninety pages long, which is not much,
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  Speaker 1: especially with the big print. Now that's the actual book itself,
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  Speaker 1: But on page ninety one of the book, for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: he thinks it's a good idea to publish some letters
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  Speaker 1: from some of his friends who believe in him. He says,
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  Speaker 1: who is still my friend? I thought it would be
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  Speaker 1: funny to see what some of the people I used
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  Speaker 1: to know would say about me and JFK. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to share some of these silly and funny comments that
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  Speaker 1: I received. There were a lot more, but they asked
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't publish their letters. They all said that
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  Speaker 1: they were looking forward to reading my book and hoped
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  Speaker 1: that I would one day visit, but not own business.
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  Speaker 1: So then we proceed to have about forty pages of
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  Speaker 1: letters from random people that are signed such lovingly ways
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  Speaker 1: as your friend, buddy, doctor Maddox. I mean, you can't
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  Speaker 1: make this stuff up. Then he talks about his transition
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  Speaker 1: to being a Jewish rabbi, despite being a lifelong con
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  Speaker 1: man and spending a lot of time in jail, prison,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. And in the last
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  Speaker 1: thirty pages or so of the book, he thought it
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  Speaker 1: would be a good idea to list all of his degrees, honors,
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  Speaker 1: and titles that he has proudly received to date, most
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  Speaker 1: of which he probably he fabricated himself, which is interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So he seriously he puts in copies of Certificate of Completion.
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  Speaker 1: This certifies that Thomas Beckham has completed all required levels
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  Speaker 1: of alcohol and drug and anger management studies as set
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  Speaker 1: forth by the Louisiana Education and Training Center, and recognition
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  Speaker 1: thereof is hereby awarded this certificate on the twenty third
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  Speaker 1: day of October two thousand and three by h Wayne Crichton,
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  Speaker 1: President and CEO of what, I don't know, something Counseling Services. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's one from the United States Coastguard as an honorary
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  Speaker 1: US Marine Officer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that's real. Yeah. And then we have below it.
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  Speaker 1: From the International Theological Seminary of California, which sounds so legit.
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  Speaker 1: This awards Thomas Beckham the degree Doctor of Theology with
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  Speaker 1: a major in Christian Something Psychology two thousand and six.
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  Speaker 1: It's got the seal and signatures and everything, folks, so
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  Speaker 1: it must be legit.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean it goes on and on.
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  Speaker 1: Certificate of Field Supervision. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary certifies
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  Speaker 1: Rabbi Thomas Beckham as an approved field supervisor in the
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  Speaker 1: Seminary Supervised Industry Experience Program. I don't even know what
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  Speaker 1: any of that means, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: And then we have.
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  Speaker 1: One from the Maryland State Homeopathic Medical Society Certification in
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  Speaker 1: the Science of Homeopathic Medicine otherwise known as Hodoo voodoo
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  Speaker 1: or mumbo jumbo.
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  Speaker 2: So as you can see, he is parlayed.
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  Speaker 1: What he started working on in the nineteen fifties and sixties.
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  Speaker 2: Into a career.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you know, hey, whatever works for you. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's better than sitting in jail or prison.
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  Speaker 2: I would assume.
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  Speaker 1: Again the con it's a long con with Beckham, a
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: long con. But is what he says a con? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's so mind blowing to try to figure
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  Speaker 1: out if some of these people, even though you know
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  Speaker 1: that ninety percent of their life is bullshit, is the
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  Speaker 1: ten percent that he talks about for the JFK assassination.
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  Speaker 2: Is that legit.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know. We just don't know. We just don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So it is interesting. And in the book he talks
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: about Oswald passing out leafless in front of the trademark.
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  Speaker 2: He said he was there.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Now, there's pictures of this, and there are pictures that
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: look a hell of a lot like Thomas Beckham in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three hiding his face standing in a suit
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  Speaker 1: behind Lee Harvey Oswald. There's sometimes attributed to being Bill Shelley,
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  Speaker 1: which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever why one of Oswald's
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: future employers at the school book depository would be in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans, to me, makes more sense that this person
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  Speaker 1: in the photo is Thomas Beckham. He places himself there,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and he says, after they got done handing these leafless out,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: they went down to the Walgreens and had a coke
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: and they talked about some things. Again, the story is
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: in the book. The story is in the HSCA files
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  Speaker 1: if you would like to check it out.
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  Speaker 2: But these are of.
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  Speaker 1: The most interesting rare books that I own, folks, so
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I figured that would be suitable to have them here together.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: In this book review. I've done entire shows about just
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  Speaker 1: this book alone in the past, long long ago, in
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  Speaker 1: a galaxy.
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  Speaker 2: Far far away.
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  Speaker 1: Oh but yeah, and if you really really really start
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: digging into Fred Lee Christmin, you'll come to find very
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: interesting tentacles extending from the octopus involving There were cont
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to say their name. They were concutos,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: were concutos, Michael were concutos, and his father, I believe
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Fredley Christmin even talks about him in this book, Michael's father.
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  Speaker 1: So it's wild if you're really really want to go
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: down the rabbit hole. And you know, there's books that
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: have been written about Fred Christman. There's even a comedy
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: film based on the tales of Fred Christman called The
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Cave of the Space Nazis. It's animated, uh and it
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: and it goes through all the claim many claims of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Fred Christmin.
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  Speaker 2: So if you want to check.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: That out, feel free. It's it's pretty wild, pretty pretty wild.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, folks, that's it for this JFK book review.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, wow, these might be the most expensive and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: rarest books that I own. It doesn't mean they're great,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't I would. I would give this one based
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: on the fact that ninety percent of it is probably bullshit. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: like a two out of ten guns up right, and
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  Speaker 1: this one here. You know, I just don't know what
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: to make of Thomas Beckham when it comes to the
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: JFK assassination. I know a lot of the other stuff
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  Speaker 1: in his life is bullshit, but is this part bullshit?
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I just don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So for that reason, I'm gonna hop on the fence
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  Speaker 1: and let it ride up my crack and give it
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  Speaker 1: a solid five out of ten guns up. And that's
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: being very generous Thomas Beckham, who's possibly still alive and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: out there in Louisville, Kentucky, practicing his quackery medicine, saving
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: people's lives and all. And that's gonna do it for
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: JFK book reviews for this week. I am the biggest,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the baddest of the bobs. Thank you for joining us.
• 32:23
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• 32:26
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• 32:30
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• 32:33
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