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complained that the talk show host asked him questions of the “’When did you stop<br />

beating your wife?’ type.” 592<br />

According to Garrison, Carson tried to prevent him from showing photographs of<br />

three tramps picked up after the assassination. The tramps became fodder for conspiracy<br />

theories because there was no apparent record of their arrest and appeared to be well<br />

kempt for hobos. Researchers Alan J. Weberman and Michael Canfield praised Dick<br />

Gregory for also publicizing the issue of the mysterious tramps in the 1970’s during the<br />

Watergate scandal. Weberman and Canfield wrote a book largely based on their theory<br />

that the tramps were CIA operatives, including E. Howard Hunt and fellow Watergate<br />

burglar Frank Sturgis. Weberman and Canfield concluded that “There is substantial<br />

evidence [linking] Howard Hunt and Frank A. Sturgis to the ‘tramps’ who were picked<br />

up in the vicinity of the Texas School Book Depository after the assassination.” The<br />

authors described Lee Harvey Oswald as “a deep cover CIA operative” and that<br />

“overwhelming evidence” suggested a link between Hunt and Oswald. 593 The tramps<br />

live on in popular memory even though two Texas journalists Ray and Mary La Fontaine<br />

uncovered records of the tramps in the Dallas police archives that indicated they were in<br />

fact tramps. Despite debunking the tramps, the La Fontaine’s offered a version of secret<br />

592<br />

Garrison, 245.<br />

593<br />

Michael Canfiled and Alan J. Weberman, Coup d’Etat in America: The CIA and the<br />

Assassination of John F. Kennedy, (San Francisco: Quick Trading Company, 1992<br />

(1975)), xx-xxi.<br />

260

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