My Remarkable Journey...by Larry KIng
Ordinarily, I wouldn't post about reading a
Celebrity Autobiography type book, that I read just for fun. However, Larry KIng, (real name Larry Zigler) actually tells about what many of us have previously heard about, as it relates to his arrest for his theft of funds, intended for Jim Garrison and his JFK Assn investigation.
This time, the story is confirmed by Larry, himself. I attempted to type this all out (since i don't have a scanner). But, after I had typed two pages, I decided there was too much more to try and type out, even by skipping some of it, the post here,would be much too long. ....and also because of possible copyright infringements So, I am just going relate a much shorter version of his story, in my own words. I do wonder what he believes about the JFK Assn today, that is, about a conspiracy. I may meed to make two posts out of this!
Dixie
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My Remarkable Journey.....by Larry King....2009
From Chapter 9..."Trouble" Pages 98-112
Larry, acknowledges that sometimes his arrest photo is shown in Tabloids, along with other Famous Persons arrest photos.....and today, he is not at all proud of what he did, back in the mid 60's. He says that at the police station he was treated very well and was photographed and finger printed and let go in about ten minutes, under his own recognizance...and even led out a back door, to avoid the press. In addition, although he was making money at the time, with his radio and TV programs in Miami, he was still always broke and was caught up in playing musical chairs with his finances, for years. He just spent too much money plus was always willing to help someone out and even if it meant it would then also be broke. Mostly he had to borrow funds from friends, all the time.
This trouble all started when he met a man by the name of Lou Wolfsen,. at the Hialeah Race Track. Lou, was a Miami. prominent financier, called "The Great Raider" for his corporate takeovers. He also owned the Triple Crown-winning racehorse, Affirmed. He had built an empire said to be worth more then a quarter of a billion dollars....and he was a fan of Larry KIng. After meeting that day, they made a dinner date for the following week. This led to many get-togethers...even though Lou was a generation older then Larry. At that time, Lou was also under suspicion of stock market manipulations.. ...although Larry wasn't much aware of that....this was in 1966.
Larry could never seem to have enough money and Lou would loan him money, quite often. Plus Lou would give Larry checks occasionally for someone Larry felt was in need or to donate to some charitable cause.
When Lou heard an interview that Larry did with Jim Garrison, he became very interested. The JFK Assn was on everyone's mind, as an unsolved mystery, and they were also wanting to know what actuality happened. Larry says that Jim Garrison had amassed much more info then the public was aware of. But he says the whole investigation is rather complex to try and explain, but he recommends watching Oliver Stone's "JFK" movie and that it is an accurate depiction of Garrison's beliefs.
Because of their interest, Lou asked Larry to set up a dinner meeting with Garrison, which also included Dick Gerstein, the LA. State Attorney. They all discussed the case non-stop. They were all highly impressed, but then Gerstein said that he would need to see some proof. So they all went to Garrison's hotel room. Garrison played them some tapes of some interviews. Larry says that he wishes he could re-create the eerie mood in that room and the more they heard, the more they wanted to know.
Garrison's problem was that the State of LA wouldn't fiance his continuing investigation, since the crime had occurred in Texas. Garrison told them that "There are a lot of people who think I am too caught up in it and they don't want me to go any further. I have gone as far a I can go and would need more money to continue." Lou ask Garrison how much he would need to continue and Garrison told him about $25,000.
Larry said that if Lou had just wrote him out a check for that $25,000, there would not have been any further problems and his own mugshot would never have ended up up the tabloids. Although there was nothing illegal in this offer, Lou felt somewhat paranoid when Garrison informed them that people who knew of the conspiracy to kill JFK, were showing up dead. So, they decided there were many reasons to avoid any sort of a paper trail, it was decided that Lou would give Larry $5,000 in cash, in installments,, which he would then give to Gerstein, who would turn it over to Garrison.
At the time they were so caught up in the passion behind Garrison's investigation, tat they didn't think twice about this arrangement and they also felt they were on the inside of something big. Larry said that every word Garrison had to say made his conspiracy theory more ominous. One day when Larry drove Garrison to the airport, Garrison leaned back in the car and said' "Within a year, they're going to kill Robert Kennedy.' then he walked away.
Lou gave Larry, each brown envelope containing,$5,000 cash, in one hundred dollar bills, which he turned over to Gerstein. But it was then, about the fourth or fifth installment, Larry was in bad need of money to pay his taxes. He asked Lou if he could use the money to pay his taxes and he would repay and give it to Gerstein very soon, since he would have some other money coming in. Lou told him that it would be okay. But then, not long afterwards Lou was convicted of sellng unregistered stock.
Part 2 below
Ordinarily, I wouldn't post about reading a
Celebrity Autobiography type book, that I read just for fun. However, Larry KIng, (real name Larry Zigler) actually tells about what many of us have previously heard about, as it relates to his arrest for his theft of funds, intended for Jim Garrison and his JFK Assn investigation.
This time, the story is confirmed by Larry, himself. I attempted to type this all out (since i don't have a scanner). But, after I had typed two pages, I decided there was too much more to try and type out, even by skipping some of it, the post here,would be much too long. ....and also because of possible copyright infringements So, I am just going relate a much shorter version of his story, in my own words. I do wonder what he believes about the JFK Assn today, that is, about a conspiracy. I may meed to make two posts out of this!
Dixie
__________________________________
My Remarkable Journey.....by Larry King....2009
From Chapter 9..."Trouble" Pages 98-112
Larry, acknowledges that sometimes his arrest photo is shown in Tabloids, along with other Famous Persons arrest photos.....and today, he is not at all proud of what he did, back in the mid 60's. He says that at the police station he was treated very well and was photographed and finger printed and let go in about ten minutes, under his own recognizance...and even led out a back door, to avoid the press. In addition, although he was making money at the time, with his radio and TV programs in Miami, he was still always broke and was caught up in playing musical chairs with his finances, for years. He just spent too much money plus was always willing to help someone out and even if it meant it would then also be broke. Mostly he had to borrow funds from friends, all the time.
This trouble all started when he met a man by the name of Lou Wolfsen,. at the Hialeah Race Track. Lou, was a Miami. prominent financier, called "The Great Raider" for his corporate takeovers. He also owned the Triple Crown-winning racehorse, Affirmed. He had built an empire said to be worth more then a quarter of a billion dollars....and he was a fan of Larry KIng. After meeting that day, they made a dinner date for the following week. This led to many get-togethers...even though Lou was a generation older then Larry. At that time, Lou was also under suspicion of stock market manipulations.. ...although Larry wasn't much aware of that....this was in 1966.
Larry could never seem to have enough money and Lou would loan him money, quite often. Plus Lou would give Larry checks occasionally for someone Larry felt was in need or to donate to some charitable cause.
When Lou heard an interview that Larry did with Jim Garrison, he became very interested. The JFK Assn was on everyone's mind, as an unsolved mystery, and they were also wanting to know what actuality happened. Larry says that Jim Garrison had amassed much more info then the public was aware of. But he says the whole investigation is rather complex to try and explain, but he recommends watching Oliver Stone's "JFK" movie and that it is an accurate depiction of Garrison's beliefs.
Because of their interest, Lou asked Larry to set up a dinner meeting with Garrison, which also included Dick Gerstein, the LA. State Attorney. They all discussed the case non-stop. They were all highly impressed, but then Gerstein said that he would need to see some proof. So they all went to Garrison's hotel room. Garrison played them some tapes of some interviews. Larry says that he wishes he could re-create the eerie mood in that room and the more they heard, the more they wanted to know.
Garrison's problem was that the State of LA wouldn't fiance his continuing investigation, since the crime had occurred in Texas. Garrison told them that "There are a lot of people who think I am too caught up in it and they don't want me to go any further. I have gone as far a I can go and would need more money to continue." Lou ask Garrison how much he would need to continue and Garrison told him about $25,000.
Larry said that if Lou had just wrote him out a check for that $25,000, there would not have been any further problems and his own mugshot would never have ended up up the tabloids. Although there was nothing illegal in this offer, Lou felt somewhat paranoid when Garrison informed them that people who knew of the conspiracy to kill JFK, were showing up dead. So, they decided there were many reasons to avoid any sort of a paper trail, it was decided that Lou would give Larry $5,000 in cash, in installments,, which he would then give to Gerstein, who would turn it over to Garrison.
At the time they were so caught up in the passion behind Garrison's investigation, tat they didn't think twice about this arrangement and they also felt they were on the inside of something big. Larry said that every word Garrison had to say made his conspiracy theory more ominous. One day when Larry drove Garrison to the airport, Garrison leaned back in the car and said' "Within a year, they're going to kill Robert Kennedy.' then he walked away.
Lou gave Larry, each brown envelope containing,$5,000 cash, in one hundred dollar bills, which he turned over to Gerstein. But it was then, about the fourth or fifth installment, Larry was in bad need of money to pay his taxes. He asked Lou if he could use the money to pay his taxes and he would repay and give it to Gerstein very soon, since he would have some other money coming in. Lou told him that it would be okay. But then, not long afterwards Lou was convicted of sellng unregistered stock.
Part 2 below
