MAN BET $100 THAT JFK WOULD BE DEAD WITHIN 3 WEEKS
Washington, D.C. (JFK ASSASSINATION) Yesterday, October 27, 2017, President Donald Trump authorized release of more than 2800 files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The President said...
"The American public expects -- and deserves -- its government to provide as much access as possible to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records so that the people may finally be fully informed about all aspects of this pivotal event."
President Trump, however, did approve requests from the CIA and FBI "to keep some parts of the documents secret." These, for the most part, are to be released at the end of a six month period.
The documents released are available at the National Archives website listed below in sources. The documents are listed by Record number, agency, who the document was sent to and who sent the document. In some cases the document is identified by title.
Today we will discuss Record #157-10005-10367 which includes a letter dated 27 Nov 1963 from E. L. McIntosh, Jr. to Lewis T. Huff of the U.S. Secret Service based in Columbia, S.C.
The letter states that the District Intelligence Office in Charleston, S.C. was informed "shortly after the shooting" of JFK that Robert C. Rawls, a patient at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Charleston, "had information relative to the assassination."
Mr. Rawls had been drinking at a bar in New Orleans a week or so before the assassination "when he heard a man try to bet $100.oo that President KENNEDY would be dead within three weeks."
Mr. Rawls went on to admit that not only was this man intoxicated so was he. After JFK's death, however, Rawls thought it best to report the incident to the Secret Service.
This document, although interesting, obviously does not shed very much light on JFK's death. Hopefully, other documents will be more enlightening. We will report on other documents in posts that follow.
SOURCES
"Feds have released 2,800 JFK assassination files," by Ray Locker and David Jackson, USA Today, Knoxville News-Sentinel, October 27, 2017.
"JFK Assassination Records-2017 Additional Documents Release", National Archives, www.archives.gov/
Washington, D.C. (JFK ASSASSINATION) Yesterday, October 27, 2017, President Donald Trump authorized release of more than 2800 files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The President said...
"The American public expects -- and deserves -- its government to provide as much access as possible to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records so that the people may finally be fully informed about all aspects of this pivotal event."
President Trump, however, did approve requests from the CIA and FBI "to keep some parts of the documents secret." These, for the most part, are to be released at the end of a six month period.
The documents released are available at the National Archives website listed below in sources. The documents are listed by Record number, agency, who the document was sent to and who sent the document. In some cases the document is identified by title.
Today we will discuss Record #157-10005-10367 which includes a letter dated 27 Nov 1963 from E. L. McIntosh, Jr. to Lewis T. Huff of the U.S. Secret Service based in Columbia, S.C.
The letter states that the District Intelligence Office in Charleston, S.C. was informed "shortly after the shooting" of JFK that Robert C. Rawls, a patient at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Charleston, "had information relative to the assassination."
Mr. Rawls had been drinking at a bar in New Orleans a week or so before the assassination "when he heard a man try to bet $100.oo that President KENNEDY would be dead within three weeks."
Mr. Rawls went on to admit that not only was this man intoxicated so was he. After JFK's death, however, Rawls thought it best to report the incident to the Secret Service.
This document, although interesting, obviously does not shed very much light on JFK's death. Hopefully, other documents will be more enlightening. We will report on other documents in posts that follow.
SOURCES
"Feds have released 2,800 JFK assassination files," by Ray Locker and David Jackson, USA Today, Knoxville News-Sentinel, October 27, 2017.
"JFK Assassination Records-2017 Additional Documents Release", National Archives, www.archives.gov/
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