March 22, 2007
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The Daily News
1 Question: Which two people walked into a bar yesterday?
2 Answer: Larry "Bud" Melman and Charles Harrelson.
3 So it goes.
4 Melman is most famous for being a chief sidekick of David Letterman.
5 Oh. THAT guy.
6 Well...yeah.
7 And Harrelson is arguably the guy who pulled the trigger on JFK. I just heard a rumor that he's dead, so I'm not so sure about it, but that's what happens when you deal with the JFK assassination. Truth seems spoken in a foreign tongue that nobody seems to be able to decipher accurately.
8 Amazing.
9 The morning that JFK was shot, three tramps were found hiding in a train boxcar shortly after the assassination and marched right through Dealy Plaza, the location of the assassination. They were pretty clean cut and the police uniforms didn't fit the police properly. They also were supposed to have their rifles positioned differently while marching dangerous criminals through crime scenes.
10 There were pictures taken of these "tramps", and all the people in the pictures closely resemble known CIA figures at that time. Most of the people they resembled were members of known CIA Operations agents, many of whom trained people in the overthrow of small governments dangerous to the United States.
11 Earlier this year, E. Howard Hunt, a very famous CIA spy, passed away. I put pictures of one of the "tramps" up on the DN, and showed how closely the third one resembled the incredibly mysterious agent Hunt, one of the key players in the infamous Bay of Pigs invasion, in which a bunch of agents failed in an invasion of Cuba, the primary purpose of which was the overthrow of the Castro government. Each tramp resembled a member of that particular assassination team.
12 Harrelson is arguably another of the three tramps (I'll leave out the quotes) caught by the police and marched through Dealy. Harrelson was already a known hired gun and was arrested for killing a judge. His resemblance to the second tramp was uncanny.
13 The pictures above are of the tramp, and then Charle's Harrelson when he was arrested for the murder of the judge. The resemblance is striking.
14 With all due respect, there is a lot of evidence pointing to Harrelson, who is the father of actor Woody Harrelson. It's way more than I can negotiate in one DN, but it can be found in most books on the assassination. It is a theory that very serious investigators have certainly kept out on the table. I personally never looked deep enough into it, but it is one of the most intriguing mysteries in the most mysterious crime of the twentieth century.
15 Here is a picture of the three tramps, just for old times's sake:
16 The third tramp, the one in the back, has been identified by many as being E. Howard Hunt. Here is a picture of the third tramp alongside one of Hunt:
17 Just cover match the hatline angle with your thumb and it will become eerie.
18 There is a ton of evidence that Hunt probably was there, although there's some guy named Chauncy Holt who claims HE was one of the tramps as well...
19 Harrelson has been pointed to as the middle tramp, but so has a fellow CIA/Mafia guy named Frank Sturgis, who could also be that tramp.
20 Is there a real story? Probably.
21 Do I know it?
22 Undoubtedly.
23 Do I think Charles Harrelson may have shot JFK?
24 There is intriguing evidence. Is Harrelson really dead?
25 You can't really go too deep into the "conspiracy theory" on one DN because you need to do years of cross-referencing sources and getting different perspectives on the story. Your best source is a grand book by a fellow by the name of Jim Garrison, the DA in New Orleans at the time. Garrison got dragged into the case when the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was found with the library card of a known CIA/Mafia operative in his wallet. Garrison was made to look like a conspiracy nut, and left out to dry. He wrote a great JFK book of his ordeal entitled On the Trail of the Assassins, on which the film JFK was based.
The late Jim Garrison
26 Hard book to locate.
27 Anyway, I've thrown in the towel. I know the story, and it clearly has ramifications right straight down to the modern elections, as well as the entire political direction of the U.S. since the Cold War.
28 I know so much about that tragic murder that I don't waste time debating it any longer.
29 Each time a character from that goofy story walks into a bar, I question even that.
30 You're just not going to get the real deal in one DN.
31 Anyway, evidently Charles Harrelson is dead, and his secret, whatever it may be, made it safely to the grave.
32 At least I THINK he's dead. I actually had someone tell me that happened, but I haven't really bothered to look too much further.
33 So much for my credibility.
34 Anyway, gottago. Enjoy comparing the pics.
35 I'll see ya tomorrow.
36 Peace.
~H~
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