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Now there's new information released by the Dallas police in recent
years that shows that there were some tramps picked up in Dealey Plaza and
they've been firmly identified as tramps—not as assassins or conspirators.
However, there are still some JFK assassination researchers who are
quibbling about that and say that the full story has yet to be told. One of the
more recent stories that's came out is the story told by Chauncey Holt who
claims that it was he who was the "tramp" that everybody says is E. Howard
Hunt and it turns out that Holt is not one of the tramps whose names appear
in the Dallas police records. So there are a lot of JFK researchers who don't
believe Holt's story—and then, again, there are those who do.
If these men were somehow involved in the assassination, it's not likely
they were the actual triggermen. JFK assassination researcher Robert
Groden has published enhanced photographs of what is likely a gunman
firing from the grassy knoll and this assassin seems to be wearing a
policeman's uniform. He is most definitely not one of these tramps. I really
don't think the so-called tramps are of any real consequence in the end, but
it's a nice diversion. The men who were photographed in Dealey Plaza
probably were just what they appeared to be. It would be nice to resolve the
matter just to make everybody happy.
What role did E. Howard Hunt did play in the JFK conspiracy?
This is a very interesting question and the answer itself is complex. I
addressed this subject in Chapter 16 of Final Judgment but I'd like to
comment further here. We don't know precisely where Hunt was at the time
of the JFK assassination. This is something that was never firmly
established even during the Hunt libel trial and Hunt's answers, while under
sharp cross-examination by Mark Lane were inconclusive at best.
Hunt insisted that he was in the Washington, D.C. area (whether at
home in the suburbs or at the office or downtown shopping at one or more
points during the day) on November 22, the day of the assassination.
However, he never did address the allegation made under oath during the
second trial by his former CIA associate, contract operative Marita Lorenz,
that she and CIA operative Frank Sturgis and a group of Cuban exiles met
up with Hunt in Dallas on November 21—the day before the assassination.
(And this, of course, would have given Hunt time to return to Washington
to be in the capital city area on the actual day of the assassination).
What's more, as we noted earlier, Miss Lorenz said that Jack Ruby,
who killed Lee Harvey Oswald several days later, also visited them at that
motel. So there is no question but that there was some intrigue involving
Hunt in Dallas tying him to intrigue involving CIA-connected individuals
that were linked in some way to the assassination conspiracy.
I'm not suggesting—and neither has Mark Lane, for that matter—that
Hunt fired a gun at John F. Kennedy or even in his general direction on
November 22. I do believe that Hunt was in Dallas at least just prior to the
assassination. What he was doing there is the interesting story about which
we know so very little.