07-04-2017, 09:59 PM
Tom Scully Wrote:Jim DiEugenio Wrote:First of all, the guy's name is Willard Robertson and he was a car dealer in New Orleans.
He did not organize and fund INCA. And you can find that out by reading, among other things, the work of New Orleans historian and archivist Arthur Carpenter. Or going to the Royal New Orleans Collection and looking at the papers of Dr. Alton Ochsner.
The guy who originated INCA was former advertising executive Ed Butler. Butler was transitioning from that field to being an anti communist propaganda expert. Ochsner was a reactionary wealthy physician who was eager to enlist for such causes. He was the original funder. And if you look at those documents at the Royal New Orleans Collection, you will see that is how it got started with Butler pitching Ochsner. I was there, sitting down with boxes of that stuff. Carpenter had also done it.
Willard Robertson was not anywhere near as wealthy or influential or powerful or connected as Ochsner was. He ended up being a contributor to INCA, as did other wealthy New Orleanians--and it was at the behest of Ochsner. I have seen the letters. When Garrison began to discover the connections between Butler and Banister and Clay Shaw, Butler left New Orleans for Los Angeles. He then did propaganda work to cover up the RFK case. Meanwhile, Ochsner formed a secret group made up of media people, plus former FBI agent Aaron Kohn, that now began to target Garrison in the local press, because Ochsner feared he would be called before the grand jury.
As for Truth and Consequences, this group lasted about a month or two. Garrison was operating for months before them, and he operated for years after them. They are absolutely inconsequential to Garrison's inquiry. Tom fell for some heavy disinformation from Carpenter. About who, Wallace Milam said to me, "I knew where he was headed from the beginning." As anyone can from reading his completely obsolete and worthless article.
All of the other Volkswagen regional distributors were, to say the least, a cut above Robertson, both in wealth and in imported automobile marketing and servicing.
Charles Urschel, Jr. was step-brother of Tom and Earl F Slick. Willard E Robertson, Jr. was the employee of failing Steelcraft Boats of West Haven, CT in 1952.
He is buried in New Hampshire.
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Oct 22, 1986 - Willard E. Robertson, Jr., and Marlin Head, 803 F.2d 136. ... Willard Robertson, Sr. marriedSally Moss Robertson in 1935 and lived with her in Connecticut. ... In 1947, the family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where ...
I guess you dismissed Robertson and you are not curious as to how he came to be selling used boats in NOLA in 1953 after Steelcraft, the employer who sent him
south had failed financially, yet was ferrying the new Louisiana governor on a couples vacation in his private plane in 1964?
Where did Willard Robertson come by his Louisiana contacts and influence....building the trust resulting in his wealth and stature in such a short time?
Ordinary mortals, especially Yankees in 1950's New Orleans, should have to earn or build trust. Was no one actually successful in the imported auto sales
business, individuals of local influence and wealth, as was the case and the selection in all other U.S. regional markets, uninterested in competing with
outsider, inexperienced and unwealthy Willard Robertson for the opportunity of exclusive south central states Volkswagen distribuion, circa 1955?
Consider that the principle CIA NOLA agents and almost everyone of any influence in NOLA, aside from Garrison, was born in Louisiana or at least was a southern
native. CIA agent Dorothy Brandao had married a V.P. of Standard Fruit and moved to his Honduras residence.
Butler's first cousin Rance was Gordon Novel's partner and Novel was ushered into this saga by Robertson.
Quote:. ADMIN FOLDER-Z9: HSCA ADMINISTRATIVE FOLDER, LHO NEW ORLEANS AIRTEL TO DIR 5/30/67, pg 15
Found in: FBI - HSCA Administrative Folders
Zany knowledge NOVEL and his partner had concerning ant i-CAST RO assassination camps in the Slidell and Covington, Louisiana, area. NOVEL quoted GARRISON
GARRISON also questioned NOVEL concerning quick ways of making I ERRIE confess and mentioned the use of sodium penathal. According to NOVEL, GARRISON is obsessed
in the assassination. NOVEL advised that he had been contacted during the late afternoon on February 21, 1967, by WILLARD ROBERTSON, a New Orleans businessman....
Quote:ADMIN FOLDER-S5: HSCA ADMINISTRATIVE FOLDER, GORDON D. NOVEL, pg 347
Found in: FBI - HSCA Administrative Folders
William Gurvich was there. Louis Ivon was in and out of the office. Q Was Rance Ehlinger in the office during the entire period of this meeting? A Yes. Q
statement you iden- tified the other day? A Yes. Q It had interjections by Novel and you said you may have said some of those things and so on. A Yes. Was
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Quote:http://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/11/01/O...436510800/The 1940 US Census indicates Willard was a $35 per week restaurant manager who had married Sally Moss of New York. In 1964 he was appointed by Gov. McKeithen as DMV commissioner of Louisiana.
Nov. 1, 1983
ROGERS, Ark. Willard E. Robertson, 75, a four-state automobile distributor who died this past weekend in a New Orleans hospital, was buried Monday on his Beaver Lake estate.
Robertson served on the Republican Presidential Advisory Board in 1981 and on a Republican presidential task force in 1982.
Survivors include his wife, Marlin Head Robertson; three sons, Sen. Phillip S. Robertson of New Haven, Conn., Willard E. Robertson Jr. and James C. Robertson, and a daughter, Patricia Miller of New Haven, Conn.
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When Willard E. Robertson, Sr. died at Ochsner Foundation Hospital in October, 1983, he left an estate worth approximately $30 million, a will leaving the bulk of his assets to his wife and the children of his third marriage, and modest bequests to two children of his first marriage. The children of the first marriage contend that they are entitled to a larger portion of their father's estate than is granted them under his will because he died a domiciliary of Louisiana subject to that state's forced heirship laws…..
Death: 1983 New Orleans Orleans Parish Louisiana, USA
Burial: Conway Village Cemetery Conway Carroll County New Hampshire, USA
It took me a while to accept that it is accurate to conclude that Garrison never suffered any permanent career set back from either his investigation of and prosecution of Clay Shaw, or as a result of the two failed prosecutions of Garrison by the U.S. Attorney's office.
Now that Tom has so graciously introduced us to the Robertson's family tree, what the hell does any of this have to do with Lee Oswald or Jack Kennedy? It's like me speaking about an associate of Edwin Kaiser whose name was Holmes Tuttle, and Tuttle was president of Tuttle auto, he sold a car to Ronald Reagan, so what?