Residents in the quiet town of Circleville, Ohio began receiving mysteriously threatening letters that would go on to change...even ruin some of their lives forever.  Did they catch the right culprit? The Unsolved Mystery of The Circleville Writer SEPTEMBER 19, 2017 BY JAN SIERYIN TRUE CRIME, UNSOLVED MYSTERIES https://survivalofthedadblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/19/the-circleville-writer/ Unexplained mysteries: Circleville Letters Mystery Still Unsolved by Les Hewitt https://www.historicmysteries.com/circleville-letters-mystery/ The Poison Pen: Who Wrote the Circleville Letters? The True Crime Times Feb 26, 2020 https://truecrimetimesblog.medium.com/the-poison-pen-who-wrote-the-circleville-letters-440a302d09ad The Circleville Letter Writer Terrified Ohioans In The '70s Jacob Shelton Updated February 27, 2020 https://www.ranker.com/list/circleville-letter-writer-facts/jacob-shelton https://circlevilleletters.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/the-full-story.pdf https://www.darkhistories.com/the-circleville-letters-mystery/ Top 10 Strange Facts About The Circleville AUGUST 16, 2020 BENJAMIN WELTON https://listverse.com/2020/08/16/top-10-strange-facts-about-the-circleville-writer/ TOP 10 STRANGE FACTS ABOUT THE CIRCLEVILLE WRITER POSTED ON AUGUST 16, 2020 BY ADMIN https://toptenlists.org/top-10-strange-facts-about-the-circleville-writer/

Bigfoot for Breakfast

The Circleville Letters

Hearts broke all over the world, flags were lowered to half mast and the news was printed on every newspaper in America.  John F. Kennedy had been shot.  Even today, the idea of conspiracy seems prevalent when the even is brought up.  But it isn't without good reason... Readers Digest.  Cuba, Castro and John F. Kennedy.  Richard Nixon.  November 1964.  https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75-00149R000500440001-1.pdf The United States Information Agency.  Research and Reference Service.  The Assassination of John F. Kennedy in East European Propoganda.  December 12th, 1963.  https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R002900180002-2.pdf Behold of Hell Horrors Letter from The Attorney General to the Department of Justice regarding Clay Shaw.  September 22, 1967.  Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75B00380R000800140020-0.pdf Live Science.  Did Weather Play a Role in JFK’s Assassination?  Samantha-Rae Tuthill.  2013.  https://www.livescience.com/amp/41447-jfk-assassination-50th-anniversary.html John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.  JFK in History.  https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/november-22-1963-death-of-the-president Witness Tells how Oswald Got Book Depository Job.  Sunday Star.  February 23rd, 1969.  http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/S%20Disk/Shaw%20Clay%20Trial%20Defense/Item%2019.pdf JFK’s Murder was not a Conspiracy.  Paul Brandus.  The Week.  10/14/2013.  https://theweek.com/articles/458953/jfks-murder-not-conspiracy US National Library of Medicine.  National Institutes of Health.  Psychiatric Aspects of Psychomotor Epilepsy.  A. E. Bennett.  December, 1962.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1575714/ AARP.  Politics and Society.  50 Facts About the JFK Assassination.  Betsy Towner.  AARP Bulleton.  https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-10-2013/50-facts-about-jfk-assassination.html National Archives.  JFK Assassination Records.  Chapter 4:  The Assassin.  https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-4.html Britannica.  Assassination of John F. Kennedy.  United States History.  Jeff Wallenfeldt.  https://www.britannica.com/event/assassination-of-John-F-Kennedy LIFE.  JFK’s Funeral:  Photos From a Day of Shock and Grief.  Ben Cosgrove.  https://www.life.com/history/jfks-funeral-photos-from-a-day-of-shock-and-grief/ Iowa State University.  The Media and the Kennedy Assassination:  the social construct of reality.  Ross Frank Ralston.  A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.  1999.  https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=13477&context=rtd History.  Jack Ruby Kills Lee Harvey Oswald.  November 20, 2020.  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jack-ruby-kills-lee-harvey-oswald The South Florida Sun Sentinel.  The Oswald Connection.  Murray Weiss and William Hoffman.  November 21st, 1993.  https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1993-11-21-9311020601-story.html HubPages.  The Mystery of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Double.  Nathan M.  July 2nd 1018.  https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/The-Mystery-of-Lee-Harvey-Oswalds-Double An Introduction to the JFK Assassination.  Is Robert Vinson’s ‘Oswald Double’ Story Credible?  Jeremy Bojczuk.  Boxgrove Publishing.  October 2014.  http://22november1963.org.uk/a-brief-guide-to-the-jfk-assassination The New Republic.  A Month Before JFK’s Assassination, Dallas Right Wingers Attack Adlai Stevenson  Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis.  November 18th, 2013.  https://newrepublic.com/article/115601/jfk-dallas-right-wingers-attack-adlai-stevenson Wanted for Treason.  Dallas Flyer.  https://www.google.com/search?q=black+bill+president+kennedy+dallas+flyer&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiVtJTzv9TuAhUPU80KHfpDD_sQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=black+bill+president+kennedy+dallas+flyer&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1DG_AFY550CYOCfAmgAcAB4AIABc4gBgwSSAQM1LjGYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=aiUeYJXXAY-mtQb6h73YDw&bih=791&biw=630#imgrc=mg2z6PkrsQhgxM Testimony of Amos Lee Euins.  McAdams.  http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/euins.htm National Archives. JFK Assassination Records.  Chapter 5:  Detention and Death of Oswald.  https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-5.html JFK Assassination System.  J. Edgar Hoover Statement regarding threats against the life of Lee Harvey Oswald.  https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32263509.pdf Leonardo Newtonic.  10 Major Accoplishments of John F. Kennedy.  Anirudh.  April 11, 2016.  https://learnodo-newtonic.com/jfk-accomplishments Bulgarian Umbrella.  1978, USSR (KGB). The International Spy Museum.  Washington D.C. https://www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-experiences/about-the-collection/collection-highlights/bulgarian-umbrella-replica/ Town and Country Magazine.  Who Was the Real Life Umbrella Man at the Kennedy Assassination?  Caroline Hallemann.  August 2nd, 2020.  https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a33485165/umbrella-man-jfk-assassination-academy-true-story/ Some Researchers Insist Oswald Could Not Have Done it Alone.  Lee Winfrey.  Knight Newspapers.  Nevember 18th, 1973.  https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-01208R000100250087-1.pdf JFK Assassination:  Why suspicions still linger about ‘Umbrella Man’.  Patrik Jonsson.  November 22, 2013.  https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/1122/JFK-assassination-Why-suspicions-still-linger-about-Umbrella-Man Human Events.  Kennedy Assassination and Soviet KGB Connection Explored in Book.  Mledeen.  December 28th, 2007.  https://humanevents.com/2007/12/28/kennedy-assassination-and-soviet-kgb-connection-explored-in-book/ Newsweek.  World.  Did Russia Kill a US President?  New CIA Documents Reveal Spy’s Theory About JFK’s Death.  Tom O’Connor.  7/27/2017.  https://www.newsweek.com/cia-releases-secret-interviews-russian-spy-imprisoned-jfk-assassination-642486 National Archive.  New York Times.  National Politics.  Johnson is Nominated for Vice President; Kennedy Picks Him to Placate the South.  W.H. Lawrence.  https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/600715convention-dem-ra.html JFK Facts.  Why Was Oswald’s Name Taken off the FBI’s Watch List?  Jeff Morely.  Assassination.  March 28th, 2018.  https://jfkfacts.org/why-was-oswalds-name-taken-off-the-fbis-watch-list/ JFK Assassination System.  1/5/99.  CIA Archives.  Cable Message regarding Sylvia Duran.  https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=8599 JFK Files:  CIA Started to Disavow Knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald Within Hours of Killing.  Ray Locker.  USA Today.  November 6th, 2017.  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/06/jfk-files-cia-started-disavow-knowledge-lee-harvey-oswald-within-hours-killihttps-presto-gannettdigi/835030001/ ABC News.  Politics.  Jaqueline Kennedy Reveals that JFK Feared an LBJ Presidency.  Rick Klein.  September 8th, 2011.  https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Jacqueline_Kennedy/jacqueline-kennedy-reveals-jfk-feared-lbj-presidency/story?id=14477930 The Legacy of the Sixties:  Military Industrial Complex Killed Kennedy to Prevent Him from Ending the Cold War.  Oil Empire US.  https://www.duq.edu/assets/Documents/forensics/Annual%20Symposium/2018/jfk.pdf JFK in History.  Cuban Missile Crisis.  JFK Library.  https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/cuban-missile-crisis?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwq6V0M_w7gIVh7zACh0iZgosEAAYASAAEgK8ZfD_BwE Sun Signs.  Allen Dulles.  Diplomat.  https://www.sunsigns.org/famousbirthdays/d/profile/allen-dulles/ Spartacus Educational. Barr McClellan.  American History.  https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmcclellan.htm Spartacus Educational.  American History.  The Assassination of JFK.  Nancy Carole Tyler.  https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKtylerN.htm The Washington Post.  George Lardner Jr. Gaps in Kennedy Autopsy Files Detailed.  August 2nd, 1998.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/08/02/gaps-in-kennedy-autopsy-files-detailed/f374ef5c-7be3-48ad-a661-394a170a6e67/

John F. Kennedy - Part II

Hearts broke all over the world, flags were lowered to half mast and the news was printed on every newspaper in America.  John F. Kennedy had been shot.  Even today, the idea of conspiracy seems prevalent when the even is brought up.  But it isn't without good reason... Readers Digest.  Cuba, Castro and John F. Kennedy.  Richard Nixon.  November 1964.  https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75-00149R000500440001-1.pdf The United States Information Agency.  Research and Reference Service.  The Assassination of John F. Kennedy in East European Propoganda.  December 12th, 1963.  https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R002900180002-2.pdf Letter from The Attorney General to the Department of Justice regarding Clay Shaw.  September 22, 1967.  Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75B00380R000800140020-0.pdf Live Science.  Did Weather Play a Role in JFK’s Assassination?  Samantha-Rae Tuthill.  2013.  https://www.livescience.com/amp/41447-jfk-assassination-50th-anniversary.html John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.  JFK in History.  https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/november-22-1963-death-of-the-president Witness Tells how Oswald Got Book Depository Job.  Sunday Star.  February 23rd, 1969.  http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/S%20Disk/Shaw%20Clay%20Trial%20Defense/Item%2019.pdf JFK’s Murder was not a Conspiracy.  Paul Brandus.  The Week.  10/14/2013.  https://theweek.com/articles/458953/jfks-murder-not-conspiracy US National Library of Medicine.  National Institutes of Health.  Psychiatric Aspects of Psychomotor Epilepsy.  A. E. Bennett.  December, 1962.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1575714/ AARP.  Politics and Society.  50 Facts About the JFK Assassination.  Betsy Towner.  AARP Bulleton.  https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-10-2013/50-facts-about-jfk-assassination.html National Archives.  JFK Assassination Records.  Chapter 4:  The Assassin.  https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-4.html Britannica.  Assassination of John F. Kennedy.  United States History.  Jeff Wallenfeldt.  https://www.britannica.com/event/assassination-of-John-F-Kennedy LIFE.  JFK’s Funeral:  Photos From a Day of Shock and Grief.  Ben Cosgrove.  https://www.life.com/history/jfks-funeral-photos-from-a-day-of-shock-and-grief/ Iowa State University.  The Media and the Kennedy Assassination:  the social construct of reality.  Ross Frank Ralston.  A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.  1999.  https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=13477&context=rtd History.  Jack Ruby Kills Lee Harvey Oswald.  November 20, 2020.  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jack-ruby-kills-lee-harvey-oswald The South Florida Sun Sentinel.  The Oswald Connection.  Murray Weiss and William Hoffman.  November 21st, 1993.  https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1993-11-21-9311020601-story.html HubPages.  The Mystery of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Double.  Nathan M.  July 2nd 1018.  https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/The-Mystery-of-Lee-Harvey-Oswalds-Double An Introduction to the JFK Assassination.  Is Robert Vinson’s ‘Oswald Double’ Story Credible?  Jeremy Bojczuk.  Boxgrove Publishing.  October 2014.  http://22november1963.org.uk/a-brief-guide-to-the-jfk-assassination The New Republic.  A Month Before JFK’s Assassination, Dallas Right Wingers Attack Adlai Stevenson  Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis.  November 18th, 2013.  https://newrepublic.com/article/115601/jfk-dallas-right-wingers-attack-adlai-stevenson Wanted for Treason.  Dallas Flyer.  https://www.google.com/search?q=black+bill+president+kennedy+dallas+flyer&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiVtJTzv9TuAhUPU80KHfpDD_sQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=black+bill+president+kennedy+dallas+flyer&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1DG_AFY550CYOCfAmgAcAB4AIABc4gBgwSSAQM1LjGYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=aiUeYJXXAY-mtQb6h73YDw&bih=791&biw=630#imgrc=mg2z6PkrsQhgxM Testimony of Amos Lee Euins.  McAdams.  http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/euins.htm National Archives. JFK Assassination Records.  Chapter 5:  Detention and Death of Oswald.  https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-5.html JFK Assassination System.  J. Edgar Hoover Statement regarding threats against the life of Lee Harvey Oswald.  https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32263509.pdf Leonardo Newtonic.  10 Major Accoplishments of John F. Kennedy.  Anirudh.  April 11, 2016.  https://learnodo-newtonic.com/jfk-accomplishments

John F. Kennedy - Part I

Marilyn Monroe was America's Sweetheart for quite some time and her tragic death broke hearts for many, many years.  Unfortunately, it was as suspicious as it was sad.  Many still don't believe that it panned out the way that the official story tells it... Marilyn Monroe’s Famous Final Phone Call Involved Serious Threat to President Kennedy OCT 7, 2019 https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/marilyn-monroes-final-phone-call-threatened-president-kennedy/ Marilyn Monroe Biography (1926–1962) UPDATED:AUG 13, 2020, ORIGINAL:DEC 8, 2017 https://www.biography.com/actor/marilyn-monroe Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Marilyn Monroe". Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Dec. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marilyn-Monroe. Accessed 22 January 2021. How Marilyn Monroe's Childhood Was Disrupted by Her Mother's Paranoid Schizophrenia In and out of foster care, the Hollywood icon struggled to connect with her mom. TIM OTT UPDATED:SEP 9, 2020ORIGINAL:JUN 13, 2019 https://www.biography.com/news/marilyn-monroe-mother-relationship Before Marilyn Monroe And Joe DiMaggio, There Was Norma Jeane And James Dougherty By Aimee Lamoureux Published May 4, 2018 Updated October 9, 2018 https://allthatsinteresting.com/james-dougherty http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351945 Marilyn Monroe's Most Famous Lovers: Truth vs. Rumor From John F. Kennedy to Jerry Lewis, a look at Marilyn Monroe's great loves and rumored flings By Mike Miller August 23, 2017 https://people.com/movies/marilyn-monroes-most-famous-lovers-truth-vs-rumor/ Marilyn Monroe's Later Career By: Susan Doll https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/marilyn-monroe-later-career8.htm JFK, RFK AND MARILYN MONROE: POWER, POLITICS AND PARAMOURS? Anthony Summers, Special to the News/Sun-Sentinel October 27, 1985 https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1985-10-27-8502170081-story.html Arthur Miller testifies before HUAC, June 21, 1956 By ANDREW GLASS 06/21/2013 https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/this-day-in-politics-093127 Biographies & Memoirs Marilyn Monroe: The Biography Chapter Seventeen 1957–1959 https://erenow.net/biographies/marilyn-monroe-the-biography/17.php Peter Lawford – Mysterious Secret Keeper of the Rat Pack (June 1, 2014) by Barry Bradford http://barrybradford.com/peter-lawford-mysterious-secret-keeper-rat-pack/ MAY 14, 2018Frank Sinatra’s Mob Ties and Other Secrets from His FBI File: The FBI documented Old Blue Eyes’ every move for 40 years. By ERIN BLAKEMORE https://www.history.com/news/frank-sinatra-mob-ties-fbi-file https://youtu.be/kW1gLnkfUxc PEOPLE.COM POLITICS PEOPLE Explains: All About Marilyn Monroe's Alleged Affairs with JFK and Brother Bobby By Tierney McAfee August 04, 2017 https://people.com/politics/marilyn-monroe-affair-john-f-kennedy-robert-f-kennedy/ Marilyn Monroe's Later Career By: Susan Doll https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/marilyn-monroe-later-career12.htm Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Wealthy Leftist, Dies at 94 By Enid Nemy Feb. 7, 2000 https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/07/us/frederick-vanderbilt-field-wealthy-leftist-dies-at-94.html MARILYN MONROE FBI FILES REVEALEd December 28, 2012 By ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Associated Press https://themarilynmonroecollection.com/marilyn-monroe-fbi-files-revealed/ aborted JFK’s love child and fell into depression over RFK days before suicide, book says, News Reporter THE US SUN Apr 29 2020 https://www.the-sun.com/news/754916/marilyn-monroe-john-f-kennedy-love-child/ FBI records : The Vault https://vault.fbi.gov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQf0xd2fmBQ HISTORY: MARILYN MONROE'S FORGOTTEN RADICAL POLITICS BY LILY ROTHMAN (JUNE 1, 2016) https://time.com/4346542/radical-politics-marilyn-monroe/ Private Investigator: 'I listened to Marilyn Monroe die' By Eric Morales (Jun 10, 2013) http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351945 Marilyn Monroe Mystery Persists : 23 Years After Her Death, Questions Continue to Generate Controversy By ROBERT WELKOS AND TED ROHRLICH SEP. 29, 1985 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-29-me-18753-story.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/marilyn-monroe-died-clutching-chilling-22478091 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBOtmY7bHak

Marilyn Monroe

The death of Robert (Bobby) Kennedy came just a few short months after America lost Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and America was devastated.  But, was the death of RFK as cut and dry as it seemed?  There are a whole lot of people who didn't think so... Marry Ferrell Foundation.  The Robert Kennedy Assassination.  Robert Kennedy Assassination (maryferrell.org) FBI Vault.  FOIA.  Robert F Kennedy (Assassination) Part 1 of 3.  FBI Records: The Vault — Robert F Kennedy (Assassination) Part 1 of 3 Robert F. Kennedy.  A Brief Biography.  Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.  2021.  Robert F Kennedy Biography| RFK Human Rights - Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Iowa PBS.  American Experience.  RFK’s Enemies.  RFK's Enemies | American Experience | Official Site | PBS John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.  The Bay of Pigs.  JFK in History. The Bay of Pigs | JFK Library Click on Detroit.  Remembering Robert Kennedy’s Feud with Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa.  Ken Haddad.  June 6, 2018.  Remembering Robert Kennedy's feud with Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa (clickondetroit.com) The New Yorker.  Robert Kennedy Without Tears.  Adam Gopnik.  June 6th, 2018.  Robert Kennedy Without Tears | The New Yorker BBC News.  US and Canada.  Sirhan Sirhan:  Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassin Stabbed in Prison.  August 31, 2019.  Sirhan Sirhan: Robert F Kennedy's assassin stabbed in prison - BBC News Sound from Leo McElroy Eyewitness News Channel 7 obtained via Digital Archives from the University of Massachusetts. Description: Audio excerpts of Los Angeles Channel 7 and Channel 4 evening news featuring lawyer Vincent Bugliosi speaking at a press conference where he and Paul Schrade introduce evidence of a ninth and tenth bullet found at the scene of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, who was killed June 6, 1968. There is also an interview of Police Chief Ed Davis, by reporter Leo McGilroy. Collected for the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives at UMass Dartmouth. RFKRFK AssassinationRobert F. KennedyUMass DartmouthSMU   Vincent Bugliosi on the RFK assassination investigation, 1975, December 4, MC1.s5.56 by UMassD Digital Archives | Free Listening on SoundCloud Fernando Faura Press Conference on the RFK Assassination, 1971.  MC1.s5.53.  UMassD Digital Archives.  Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (exlibrisgroup.com) Partial Interview with Thomas F. Kranz by Larry Attebery.  KTTV Television Station.  Los Angeles, Calif.  Partial interview with Thomas F. Kranz by Larry Attebery - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (exlibrisgroup.com) Covert Geopolitics.  The Blatant Conspiracy Behind Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassination.  June 13th, 2020.  Edward Curtin.  The Blatant Conspiracy behind Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassination | Covert Geopolitics Oral History Interview with Frank J. Burns by Philip Melanson, 1987 October 24 and 29, MC1.s5.112. UMassD Digital Archives.  Oral history interview with Frank J. Burns as a witness to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 1987 October 24 and 29 - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (exlibrisgroup.com) History.  This Day in History.  Robert F. Kennedy is Fatally Shot.  June 5 1968.  Bill Eppridge.  Writings and Art.  The Poster Boy for Loitering and Intrigue: Part Two.  May 10, 2014.  Michael Wayne: Part 2 (writingsandart.com) Boston.com.  Bobby Kennedy’s Son Thinks he was Killed by a Second Shooter.  Is there Anything to it?  Nik DeCosta-Klipa.  May 31, 2018.  Was Bobby Kennedy assassinated by a second shooter? Here's what we know | Boston.com The Mob Museaum.  CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys- October.  Blog.  June 23rd, 2015.  Patrick Nolan.  CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys-October 14 | The Mob Museum Handwritten Notes By Robert F. Kennedy Assassin Sirhan Sirhan Shed new Light on Killer.  April 7, 2011.  L.A. Times.  Bob Pool.  Handwritten notes by Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan shed new light on killer | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) The Washington Post.  Retropolis.  Who Killed Bobby Kennedy?  His Son RFK Jr. Doesn’t Believe it was Sirhan Sirhan.  Tom Jackman.  June 5, 2018.  Who killed Bobby Kennedy? His son RFK Jr. doesn't believe it was Sirhan Sirhan. - The Washington Post Irish Central.  RFK Jr. is not Convinced Sirhan Sirhan Killed his Father.  Irish Central Staff.  September 13, 2019.  RFK Jr thinks Thane Eugene Cesar may have killed his father (irishcentral.com)

The Curse of Camelot - Robert

What was sure to be a fantastic and beautiful weekend for a group of affluent people on Chappaquiddick Island ended up in total tragedy on July 19th, 1969.  It was the talk of the nation as it directly involved Ted Kennedy.  A member of one of America's most admired families.  Referring to JFK's presidency as 'Camelot' doesn't do him justice by Sarah-Jane Stratford  (Nov 21,2013) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/jfk-jackie-kennedy-camelot-myth Exploring the Kennedy-Camelot connection by Robert Francis November 18, 2013 https://fortworthbusiness.com/opinion/exploring-the-kennedy-camelot-connection/   Camelot, King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table By Owen Jarus - Live Science Contributor (April 11, 2018) https://www.livescience.com/28992-camelot.html#:~:text=Camelot%20was%20a%20mythical%20castled,table%20that%20held%20150%20knights. Exploring the Kennedy-Camelot connection by Robert Francis (November 18, 2013) https://fortworthbusiness.com/opinion/exploring-the-kennedy-camelot-connection/ Ted Kennedy, Donald Trump, and the death of moral politics: The late Massachusetts senator, despite his personal failings, upheld standards that have since faded from American public life. By Neal Gabler (January 3, 2021) https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/30/opinion/ted-kennedy-donald-trump-death-moral-politics/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MTsVFQzNwk Ted Kennedy, United States senator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Kennedy-American-senator THIS DAY IN HISTORY JULY 18: (1969) Senator Ted Kennedy drives car off bridge at Chappaquiddick Island https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/incident-on-chappaquiddick-island Why the True Story of ‘Chappaquiddick’ Is Impossible to Tell By Lorraine Boissoneault SMITHSONIANMAG.COM (APRIL 2, 2018) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-true-story-chappaquiddick-impossible-tell-180968638/ CHAPPAQUIDDICK; The party (March 21, 1980) By Clayton Jones https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0321/032161.html Throwback Thursday: When Ted Kennedy’s Plane Crashed: Fifty years ago, the young Senator was seriously injured returning to Massachusetts just months after President Kennedy's death. by ERIC RANDALL (6/19/2014) https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/06/19/throwback-thursday-ted-kennedys-plane-crashed/ Apollo 11 Mission Overview https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html Edward M. Kennedy Escaped Death in 1964 By NED POTTER (August 6, 2009) https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=8271369 You weren't able to grill him': Investigator says it was 'implied' not to push Ted Kennedy 'too hard' on Chappaquiddick. By Anthony Rivas (May 7, 2019) https://abcnews.go.com/US/grill-investigator-implied-push-ted-kennedy-hard-chappaquiddick/story?id=62788818 Cadden, Vivian (August 1974). "What Happened at Chappaquiddick". McCall's. Vol. 102. p. 80. ISSN 1060-1201. "Who's Who at the Kennedy Inquest". Time. Vol. 94 no. 10. September 5, 1969. p. 28. ISSN 0040-781X. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007. The five girls who attended the cookout are uniformly bright, efficient, fascinated by politics and cultishly pro-Kennedy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_Room_Girls Chappaquiddick: No Profile in Kennedy Courage: Sen. Ted Kennedy's silver record tarnished by ghosts of 1969 fatal crash. By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES (August 26, 2009) https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8212665 EXCLUSIVE: The real story of how Mary Jo Kopechne was a victim of the Kennedys TWICE: Secretary killed at Chappaquiddick had been yet another target of RFK's insatiable sexual appetite before his assassination By JERRY OPPENHEIMER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM (April 6, 2018) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5582233/How-Mary-Jo-Kopechne-victim-Kennedys-TWICE.html Ted Kennedy Deliberately Killed Mary Jo Kopechne — Because She Was Pregnant! Investigator finally reveals the tragic truth about Chappaquiddick. April 12, 2018 https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2018/04/ted-kennedy-killed-pregnant-mary-jo-kopechne-car-crash/ Remembering Mary Jo Kopechne By HOWIE CARR (July 26, 2020) https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/07/26/howie-carr-happy-birthday-mary-jo-kopechne/ THE CAMELOT DYNASTY By Tom Shales (September 19, 1992) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/09/19/the-camelot-dynasty/58a05143-437e-4ca7-92c4-2ab05d914136/  

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If you have never heard the stories that come from the Native American lore of the Skinwalkers, you’re in for a treat. A truly scary type of intelligent and intentional evil. We explore some encounters, contradictions and history of the legend. George Knapp:  Hunt for the Skinwalker Traveling Within the World.  Native Indian Skin Walkers. Colm Kelleher and George Knapp. Authors:  Hunt for the Skinwalker. August 22, 2012.  NATIVE INDIAN SKIN-WALKERS – Traveling within the World (ning.com) Native Knowledge 360.  The Long Walk.  The Long Walk | The Navajo Treaties (si.edu) YouTube.  The Navajo Witch:  Scenes of Family Life and Social Customs.  Wood Ridge. The Vintage News.  Why the Navajo Skinwalker Is the Most Terrifying Native American Legend.  Native American Shaman.  Steve Palace.  March 15th, 2020.  Why the Navajo Skinwalker is the Most Terrifying Native American Legend (thevintagenews.com) Navajo Legends.  Navajo Skinwalker Legend.  Navajo Skinwalker Legend – Navajo Legends Legends of America.  Navajo Skinwalkers -  Witches of the Southwest.  Kathy Weiser-Alexander.  February 2020.  Navajo Skinwalkers – Witches of the Southwest – Legends of America Adam James Jones.  Skinwalkers.  July 28th 2011.  Skinwalkers | Adam James Jones The Phoenix Enigma.  Skinwalkers.  Cory Daniel.  12/17/2015. An examination of the Skinwalker phenomenon of Navajo Peoples of Northern Arizona. (thephoenixenigma.com) New World Encyclodpedia.  Navajo.  Navajo - New World Encyclopedia Better Horrors:  From Terror to Communion in Whitley Streiber’s Communion (1987).  Kripal, Jeffrey J.  Social Research 81, no. 4 (2014).  Doi:  10.2307/26549658. Journey of Navajo Oshley:  An Autobiography and Life History.  Edit:  Robert S. McPherson.  Foreword:  Barre Toelken.  University Press of Colorado.  Utah State University Press.  2000. Toelken, Barre.  “The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Improbabilities:  A Personal Essay.”  In Out of the Ordinary:  Folklore and the Supernatural, edited by Walker Barbara, 46-58.  University Press Colorado, 1995. The Mind of James Donahue.  Navajo Skinwalkers and Shapeshifters.  James Donahue. Navajo Skin Walker - The Mind of James Donahue (perdurabo10.net)  A Witch Among the Navajos.  Malcolm Brenner.  September 6th, 2000.  A Witch Among the Navajos (proteuscoven.com) Native American Skinwalkers.  Native American Skinwalkers - Exploring New Mexico (newmexicoexplorer.com) Inquisitive Wonders.  What are Skinwalkers, The Native American Shapeshifters.  April 6, 2020.  Chris. What Are Skinwalkers, The Native American Shapeshifters - Inquisitive Wonder Exonews.  Skinwalker Ranch and Native American Legends.  October 5, 2020.  Ryan Dube. Skinwalker Ranch and Native American Legends (exonews.org) Skinwalkers.  Deep Desert.  December 17th, 2015.  Cory Daniel.  An examination of the Skinwalker phenomenon of Navajo Peoples of Northern Arizona. (thephoenixenigma.com) Navajo Code.  Navajo Skinwalker.  April 20, 2014.  Folklore.  Navajo Skinwalker | Navajo Code Talkers

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A military exercise that happened in the 1950's had some surprising results and what seemed to be very interesting...and fast...visitors checking in on them.  Multiple witness reports and radar indications later, we still don't know what it was.  But we have an idea... https://www.history.com/news/ufo-sightings-cia-robertson-condon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Mainbrace The strangest and most unusual UFO sightings in Yorkshire; the Yorkshire post, Thursday, 5th April 2018 https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/strangest-and-most-unusual-ufo-sightings-yorkshire-48448 The UFO Sightings that Pushed the UK to Take 'Flying Saucers' More Seriously :The incidents interrupted Exercise Mainbrace, a massive set of NATO war-game maneuvers. JAN 15, 2020 DAVE ROOS https://www.history.com/news/uk-ufos-mainbrace-nato When UFOs Buzzed the White House and the Air Force Blamed the Weather: When a slew of saucer-like sightings was reported over Washington, D.C. in 1952, the Air Force blocked its own investigator from checking them out. Sept 6, 2018; Jan 15, 2020. DAVE ROOS https://www.history.com/news/ufos-washington-white-house-air-force-coverup LIFE Magazine - April 7, 1952http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/lifemag52.html The Unexplained North: UFO sightings rife in the North East, Is there anybody out there? It would appear there is if our tales of unidentified flying objects are to be believed 23 FEB 2014 By Mike Kelly https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/local-news/unexplained-north-ufo-sightings-rife-6736729 Operation Mainbrace UFOs https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/secret-files/operation-mainbrace-ufos/ THE UFO FILES: THE INSIDE STORY OF REAL-LIFE SIGHTINGS: DAVID CLARKE An edited extract from The UFO Files First published in 2009 by The National Archives Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU United Kingdomhttps://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/the-ufo-files-extract.pdf The CIA UFO Papers: 50 Years of Government Secrets and Cover-Ups By Dan Wright http://www.project1947.com/shg/ukufo/1952topcliffe.htm Churchill ordered UFO cover-up, BBC news, National Archives show Published August 5, 2010 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-10853905 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/the-ufo-files-extract.pdf OPERATION MAINBRACE  SIGHTINGS In the vicinity of Denmark & Norway September, 1952 http://www.nuforc.org/Mainbrace.html https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/in-the-media/churchill-in-the-news/the-churchill-centre-responds-to-qwsc-and-ufosq/ https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000015464.pdf https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/04/ufos-nato-the-mainbrace-affair/ Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond: the library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/collections/finding-our-place-in-the-cosmos-with-carl-sagan/articles-and-essays/life-on-other-worlds/ufos-and-aliens-among-us That Time Winston Churchill Wrote About Aliens: How did Winston Churchill distract himself from the impending threat of Nazi Germany in 1939? According to a recently discovered essay, he wrote about extraterrestrials. SARAH PRUITT UPDATED: JAN 16, 2020, ORIGINAL: FEB 16, 2017 https://www.history.com/news/that-time-winston-churchill-wrote-about-aliens UFOs & NATO: The Mainbrace Affair Nick Redfern April 22, 2014 https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/04/ufos-nato-the-mainbrace-affair/   ‘Project Blue Book’ Is Based on a True U.F.O. Story. Here It Is. By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean Jan. 15, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/arts/television/project-blue-book-history-true-story.html Declassified Drawings from the British Government’s UFO Desk "UFO Drawings From The National Archives" by David Clarke publishes eyewitness illustrations of unidentified flying objects. by Allison Meier November 13, 2017 https://hyperallergic.com/409997/ufo-drawings-national-archives-book/ http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/UK/defe-24-2028-1-1.pdf Good (2007), 106-107, 111; USAFE Item 14, TT 1524, (Top Secret), 4 November 1948, declassified in 1997, National Archives, Washington D.C. https://www.history.com/topics/paranormal/history-of-ufos http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/UK/defe-24-2028-1-1.pdf UFO: Britain releases documents explaining closure of military UFO desk: The National Archives has been releasing declassified Ministry of Defense files on UFOs in the UK for the past five years. June 21, 2013 By Cassandra Vinograd Associated Press https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0621/UFO-Britain-releases-documents-explaining-closure-of-military-UFO-desk https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/7926037/UFO-files-Winston-Churchill-feared-panic-over-Second-World-War-RAF-incident.html CIA tweets 'It was us' on Norway's 1950s UFO sightings By Anne Sewell (July 6, 2014) http://www.project1947.com/47cats/usnavydraft1.htm#1850 Why Would the Government Lie About Aliens? Because there are so many potential answers, believers can choose the one that makes most sense to them. By SARAH SCOLES, FEBRUARY 29, 2020 https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/response-it-came-from-cruden-farm.html

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