H.P. Albarelli has passed away.

[Richard Booth]

Speaking of Trine Day......... how many years have they been running the Judyth Vary Baker con? Or Halsam's? Beyond the pale.

I haven't read Haslam's books, so can't comment on them. I am only vaguely familiar with the things he writes about (Mary Sherman, Alton Ochsner), recognizing the names but not knowing enough of the key facts I'd need to know to render an informed opinion.

However, when it comes to Judyth Vary Baker I do have enough knowledge about the central figure in her fable--Lee Harvey Oswald--to render an informed judgement about her book and what she's about: nutter trash of the worst sort.

I put Baker's story in the same category that I put James Files, or the theory that 'Greer Shot JFK,' or 'JFK was killed because he was going to tell the Russians the truth about UFOs.' All of it unfounded rubbish based on questionable sources that are uncorroborated and not supported by the facts.

I'm shocked that so many people seem to buy into the 'Me and Lee' story, and that Baker has somehow managed to secure a place within the research community where we find her running conventions and getting endorsements from people who really should know better. And I guess one of these recent conventions featured a stage play of 'Me and Lee'. It boggles my mind to see what I really believe is a delusion (in every clinical sense of the word) and a work of fiction uncritically accepted. If someone had appeared in the 1970s and claimed 'I was Lee Harvey Oswald's girlfriend' they would have been relegated to the tabloids, and many a psychiatrist would undoubtedly have come to similar conclusions about the mental state of a person claiming that.

In my opinion it only takes but listening to Judyth Baker speak, and reading some of what she writes (especially the bizarre all-caps rants found in her online posts) to conclude that she is either (1) mentally ill or (2) a con... and in my opinion she is both.

It's sad that so few people seem to realize this--even when there are plenty of examples to prove various things she's said are patently false, and in some cases just bizarre. I guess this is why we find that Walt Brown wrote a book debunking Baker's assertions--which is a sad state of affairs. It's like having to write a book debunking the notion that the Driver Shot JFK. You shouldn't have to do that.

I tend to avoid things I know are total crap so I rarely talk about this but wanted to add my .02 since you mentioned it.