Jack Ruby, Gordon McLendon, and "Lee Harvey Oswald"

[Jim Hargrove]

Thanks, Scott. This is fascinating. I imagine any rookie cop investigating your father's death would want to have a serious talk with both Poyle and Sturgis. And I imagine then he'd be dead.


This is all difficult for me to digest, especially this late, because I don't know nearly as much about Watergate as the Kennedy assassination, but several things really stand out.


First, since you say David Morales had nothing to do with Watergate, does that lead you to suspect the photos your dad took were related specifically to the assassination of Kennedy, or wet work in general, or ... ?


As you may know, one of E. Howard Hunt's sons implicated both Morales and Sturgis (and others, including LBJ) in the assassination of JFK. My understanding of both Morales and Sturgis is that they were professional killers working with CIA. Morales, particularly, is linked by some closely to David Atlee Phillips. Do you know if your "Uncle Frank," (sheesh, those words are chilling in this context) also worked for Phillips? I've read they all worked for a time out of JM WAVE in Miami. Do you know if they traveled to Mexico City?


One other detail. Do you know if the Mike McLaney you mention had anything to do with the McLaney Camps on the north end of Lake Pontchertrain (sp)? I Goggled the camps and they seem to be named after a guy with a different first name, but were they family?


Thanks again for writing all that up, and best of luck nailing your "Uncle Frank," for history's sake, at least. I'll give your posts another read tomorrow morning, when hopefully I'll be a little brighter.