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Who Is Ervil Lebaron? NATIONAL 35C ENJanuary 23, 1979 30586-2 UIRERLARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN AMERICA JFK ASSASSINATION CULT LEADER IS NO. 1 SUSPECT EXCLUSIVE STORIES AND PHOTOS Convicted killer Ervil LeBaron is the top suspect in the JFK tied to the Kennedy case by once-secret FBI and Secret . assassination. LeBaron — shown in Mexican police mug Service documents. Former Dallas Police Chief Jesse shots taken after his arrest for cult murders — has been Curry says flatly: "LeBaron is the major suspect." (P. 36.) Cult Leader Is No. 1 Suspect in JFK The Number One suspect in the JFK assassination is a murderous cult leader known as the "Avenging Angel." His name is Ervil LeBaron — and he heads a cruel killing cult that has painted the Southwest red with blood. LeBaron's major involvement in the JFK murder has emerged fast on the heels of the House Select-Committee on Assassination Assassinations' stunning con- ENQUIRER clusion that John Kennedy EXCLUSIVE "was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy" — a finding which came after many years of offi- cial denial. In a once-secret FBI document obtained by The ENQUIRER through the Freedom of Information Act and kill people as long as ne can xeep — FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover admitted that doing it. LeBaron's sect "is believed to have been responsible "Ervil has his followers convinced for President Kennedy's death." he's going to rule the earth, that he's a That shocking document, and other papers once great prophet, and that hi's doing the kept under lock and key by the FBI and Secret Service, will of God. But he has become a servant link the brutal cult leader straight to the assassination. of Satan." • LeBaron, 53, is now on the run from both the.FBI, Added an investigator: which wants him on another murder charge, and the "The Presidency is a natural target Secret Service, which wants to question him about for Ervil since he feels he should right- death threats to President Carter. fully occupy that office." "LeBaron is the major suspect (in JFK's as- The bizarre link between LeBaron sassination).. He should be tracked down and ques- and the JFK assassination surfaced si- .tioned," declared former Dallas Police Chief Jesse . multaneously on two fronts: during a Curry, who was present when Kennedy was shot. • probe into the attempted assassination "I was never convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald of Hustler magazine publisher Larry acted alone, The committee's findings confirm what I Flynt, and in a close scrutiny by The have always felt — that a second gunman was in- ENQUIRER of once-secret federal volved." documents. U.S. Rep. H. Joel Deckard (R.-Ind.), who has re- Flynt, who had become deeply em- searched the assassination for more thaii 10 years, broiled in the search for JFK's real agreed: "LeBaron must be considered the prime sus- killers, told The ENQUIRER he was pect. He should be arrested and questioned." just about to release newevidence when The fanatic also is suspected of masterminding he was gunned down on a Georgia street the attempted assassination of publisher Larry Flynt NATIONAL last year — allegedly to keep him from revealing new Page ENQUIRER information on the JFK murder, an ENQUIRER in- 36 vestigation reveals. Flynt is now so scared that he won't talk about the case. - - The power-crazed LeBaron- and his followers are not only believed respon- sible for JFK's assassination — they also have threatened the lives of other Presidents since. Kennedy, and are be- lieved to have committed a string of murders since JFK's death. "Ervil wants to take over the world - and anyone who gets in his way will be eliminated," the fugitive cult leader's brother, Alma LeBaron, told The EN- QUIRER in an exclusive interview. "He's been killing people for years. He'll keep telling his followers to go out FUGITIVE Ervil LeBaron (second from right), with three of his brothers — Verlan, Ftoren and, at right, Joel, whom Ervil was convicted of murdering. Squad for the Georgia Bureau of In- death. It reported that stock clerk Bob vestigation, told The ENQUIRER: Cone of Salt Lake City had tipped of "The theory that he (Flynt) was shot agents about a murder plot being because of what he had discovered on hatched by the . Church of the Firstborn the Kennedy assassination is a valid of the Fullness of Times — whose mem- one. I certainly wouldn't rule it out." bers called one of their leaders, Ervil Contacted by The ENQUIRER, Flynt LeBaron, the "Avenging Angel." refused to discuss LeBaron. "I still fear Cone told agents that his close friend, for my life because of the facts I un- cult follower Ralph Higbee, "since July covered on Kennedy's assassination," 1963, has made statements to Cone in- he said. dicating members (of) this church have Whila the FBI won't publicly admit been plotting assassination of top gov- it's seeking LeBaron in connection with ernment officials in order that (the) Flynt's shooting, it says he's wanted for church can take over government .. BROTHER Alma Le- "unlawful flight to avoid prosecution" in Headquarters (of the cult) are in El Baron warns Ervil is connection with the murder of a rival Paso, Tex., and leaders are brothers on a killing spree. cult leader. named Joel and Eryil LeBaron ... " Next day a second FBI memo re- on March 6, 1978. He was left paralyzed A team of ENQUIRER reporters un- earthed further evidence of the link be- ported: "Cone believes this group was from the waist down. responsible for President Kennedy's Freelance writer Seri Mitchell, who's tween LeBaron and JFK's slaying while sifting through thousands of once-classi- death preparing a book about LeBaron, told Veteran FBI agent Williann Geier- The ENQUIRER: "FBI agents were fied FBI and Secret Service documents in Washington. mann, who headed the Salt Lake City in- here asking me what I knew about Ervil. vestigation in 1963, recalled in an EN- They told me he's a prime suspect in the One FBI message from the Salt Lake QUIRER interview that Cone."seemed shooting of Larry Flynt." City office, marked "Urgent;" was sent rather agitated" when recounting what And Robert Ingram, commander of to FBI headquarters in Dallas on Nov. he'd learned of the feared cult's plans. the Organized Crime and Fugitive 26, 1963 — four days after Kennedy's "Cone told me that from July 1963, Higbee had been telling him that the LeBaron church had been plotting the assassination of top government offi- fice, directing him to obtain me reau.La cials," said Geiermann. of the Secret Service's investigation. "Cone was concerned because this Hoover said that LeBaron's cult "is be- church, even then, was wild and radi- lieved to have been responsible for Pres- cal." ident Kennedy's death." Another FBI document said Secret Incredibly, at the very time that top Service agent Robert Grube, then in secret document was sent, the FBI and charge of the Salt Lake City office, has Hoover were publicly insisting there been instructed to make a "full in- was no conspiracy and that only Oswald vestigation" into the cult. But when The was involved in JFK's assassination. ENQUIRER contacted Grube; he said According to people who were close to he couldn't recall making such an in- (Continued on next page) Jan. vestigation. On Jan. 27, 1964, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover fired off a memo to the agent in charge of the Salt Lake City of- 'FBI Documents Show Emil LeBaron Considered Prime Suspect in JFK Slaying (Continued from preceding page) the FBI believes LeBaron was involved in the JFK shooting," said Lane. "They LeBaron in 1963, he hated Kennedy. He clearly show that, despite the official considered the Catholic President "a -and feared line that there was no conspiracy, the beast coming out of the sea" FBI was investigating a conspiracy — "there would be a Roman Catholic gov- and that Etvil LeBaron was a prime ernment" if JFK stayed in power. Suspect." The newly released federal docu- Where is LeBaron now? Authorities ments cast a shocking new light on the believe he's in Mexico, but makes fre- 1 JFK case, declared attorney and as- quent forays into the United States. sassination investigator Mark Lane, Some day soon, when he crosses the author of the best-selling "Rush to border, they hope to nab the "Avenging Judgement." Angel" — and find out, once and for all, "These documezits clearly show that who really killed JFK. Who Is Ervil LeBaron? Ervil LeBaron is a cult leader so vicious and cruel that,he was con- victed of murdering his own brother — and had his own daughter strangled, according to cult insiders. • He was once co-leader of the Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Times, an offshoot of the Mormon Church. But in 1970 the Church of the Firstborn kicked him out, and he formed his own sect, the Church of the Lamb of God. Beginning in 1972 this gun-toting messiah — a giant at nearly six feet six and 225 pounds — routinely ordered his followers to commit murder, according to his ex-lieutenant, Lloyd Sullivan. "We were to do it (whatever LeBaron been charged in the murder . but ordered) or we would receive . hot LeBaron is still on the run. lead and cold steel or a one-way ticket to LeBaron also had his own daughter hell," Sullivan-testified in a cult-related Rebecca murdered because -she was murder case last April.
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