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antiimperialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 12:56 AM
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Even E. Howard Hunt's son thinks he was one of the Dealy Plaza tramps
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Edited on Thu Nov-08-07 12:59 AM by antiimperialist
Hunt's son is referring to these pictures of the tramps found in Dallas the day of JFK's shooting in 1963 comparing E. Howard Hunt with one of the tramps:





While reading a biography of David Atlee Phillips, I bumped into a link to Howard Hunt's confession of his involvement in the JFK assassination, which appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine in May 2007, Howard Hunt's son says,

"Around 1975, I was in a phone booth in Maryland somewhere, when I saw a poster on a telephone pole about who killed JFK, and it had a picture of the three tramps. I saw that picture and I fucking -- like a cartoon character, my jaw dropped, my eyes popped out of my head, and smoke came out of my ears. It looks like my dad. There's nobody that has all those same facial features. People say it's not him. He's said it's not him. But I'm his son, and I've got a gut feeling."

He chews his sandwich. "And then, like an epiphany, I remember '63, and my dad being gone, and my mom telling me that he was on a business trip to Dallas. I've tried to convince myself that's some kind of false memory, that I'm just nuts, that it's something I heard years later. But, I mean, his alibi for that day is that he was at home with his family. I remember I was in the fifth grade. We were at recess. I was playing on the merry-go-round. We were called in and told to go home, because the president had been killed. And I remember going home. But I don't remember my dad being there. I have no recollection of him being there. And then he has this whole thing about shopping for Chinese food with my mother that day, so that they could cook a meal together." His father testified to this, in court, on more than one occasion, saying that he and his wife often cooked meals together.

St. John pauses and leans forward. "Well," he says, "I can tell you that's just the biggest load of crap in the fucking world. He was always looking at things like he was writing a novel; everything had to be just so glamorous and so exciting. He couldn't even be bothered with his children. That's not glamorous. James Bond doesn't have children. So my dad in the kitchen? Chopping vegetables with his wife? I'm so sorry, but that would never happen. Ever. That fucker never did jack-squat like that. Ever."


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13893143/the_last_confessions_of_e_howard_hunt/5
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