"What Happened to JFK--and Why it Matters Today"

[Jack White]

Jack,

This is most interesting. Chauncey told me he had been instructed to meet with Charles Harrleson, whom he already knew, and Richard Montoya, whom he did not. I have always presumed that "Frenchie", whom I take to be Charles Rogers, and "Richard Montoya" were one and the same person. I have certainly always been talking about "Frenchie" in referring to Montoya, so I am learning something if there was another person than Charles Rogers who not only went by the name of "Richard Montoya" but was separate from Charles Rogers. Some of Bernice's photos of "Richard Montoya" do not look like "Frenchie" to me. So I think some ambiguity has entered my discussion simply because I was unaware of the existence of a separate Richard Montoya. I would be glad to see more comparsions. I have always assumed -- correctly, I take it -- that Chauncey was talking about the first of the three "tramps" photographed in Dealey Plaza.

Thanks.

Jim

Jim...long before I ever met you Chauncey phoned me several times
and sent me a packet of about 6 pages of materials to convince me
of his bona fides. This was right after he first came forward and claimed
to be the old tramp. He was very charming to talk to, and told good
stories about counterfeiting operations and murders in the desert and
living in a CIA safehouse in Mexico, etc. etc. As I recall, he said nothing
about being the old tramp who was photographed in the plaza. He told
me about his shenanigans in New Orleans regarding LHO. He told
me about counterfeiting SS badges in Dealey Plaza, and then going
to a boxcar, and being arrested by police. I questioned him about the
boxcar, and he went into much detail. I do not remember whether I
confronted him with the information that the arrested tramps were
reported to police by Lee Bowers, who saw them in a GONDOLA car,
not a boxcar.

I never did ask how he got my office address and office phone number.

Chauncey was a charming conman who was an excellent story teller.
He was not the old tramp. I am 99 percent convinced that the old tramp
was E. Howard Hunt.

I guess we will continue to disagree on this, just like on O.J.

Jack