01-03-2010, 10:43 AM
James Douglass in JFK and the Unspeakable pages 351-5 relates the story of witness Ralph Leon Yates.
Yates picked up a hitchhiking Oswald look-alike November 20, 1963 who was carrying a 4-1/2-foot-long package of curtain rods and delivered him to the stoplight by the Depository.
Yates notified the FBI and after reinterviewing failed to discredit his story, he was given a polygraph exam, then sent to Woodlawn Hospital, the Dallas hospital for the mentally ill.
Through an exchange of memos between Shanklin and Hoover it was determined the course to take.
Yates spent the remaining eleven years of his life subjected to Thorazine and Stelazine to the extent "they made him walk around like a zombie."
He was subjected to forty to forty-two electroshock treatments.
Lisa Pease in "MLK: Section I: The Struggle for a New Trial" in The Assassinations page 462 notes the prosecution placed the wife of the only witness placing Ray in the rooming house in a mental institution so she could not testify.
Yates picked up a hitchhiking Oswald look-alike November 20, 1963 who was carrying a 4-1/2-foot-long package of curtain rods and delivered him to the stoplight by the Depository.
Yates notified the FBI and after reinterviewing failed to discredit his story, he was given a polygraph exam, then sent to Woodlawn Hospital, the Dallas hospital for the mentally ill.
Through an exchange of memos between Shanklin and Hoover it was determined the course to take.
Yates spent the remaining eleven years of his life subjected to Thorazine and Stelazine to the extent "they made him walk around like a zombie."
He was subjected to forty to forty-two electroshock treatments.
Lisa Pease in "MLK: Section I: The Struggle for a New Trial" in The Assassinations page 462 notes the prosecution placed the wife of the only witness placing Ray in the rooming house in a mental institution so she could not testify.