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THE BIZARRE DEATHS FOLLOWING JFK's MURDER! by David Martindale rnnac--I-. 1977 The appalling death rare stemming from the tragedy in Dallas is much more than a coincidence. THE BIZARRE DEATHS FOLLOWING JFK'S MURDER! By David Martindale ose Cherami was not the kind of woman you'd invite to Louisiana State Police. She said she had been a stripper in a state dinner at the White House. A junkie and a Ruby's Carousel Club and was forced to smuggle dope for Rprostitute, she had been arrested at least 28 times on a him or else he'd harm her children. Asked if Ruby and Os- variety of charges, using as many as 19 different aliases to try wald knew each other, she said she had seen them together to camouflage her identity. in Ruby's club on several occasions, and that, in fact, they were even "bed partners." On November 20, 1963—two days before John F. Kennedy After she was released, Rose Cherami returned to Texas, was assassinated—Rose Cherami and a companion were only to die mysteriously within two years. On September 4, driving back from Florida with a shipment of dope that was 1965, her head and the upper part of her body were lying on bound for a Dallas nightclub owner named Jack Ruby. Rose Highway 155 near Big Sandy, Tex. at 3 A.M. when a car Cherami never made it to Dallas. Near Eunice. La.. she got struck her, crushing her skull. After a brief investigation, the into a fight with the driver of the car, and after being beaten police labeled her death an accident. severely, she was thrown out of the moving auto onto High- No one knows why Rose Cherami was lying on the road way 190, where she was left for dead. that night. Few people would have taken note of her death, Badly bruised but still alive. Rose Cherami was taken to except that Rose Cherami is only one of dozens of individu- Louisiana State Hospital in Jackson, where besides recover- als who have died mysteriously since the assassination of ing from her injuries, she also was suffering narcotic with- President Kennedy. Penn Jones, Jr., the feisty former editor drawals. While at the hospital, she told psychiatrist Dr. Vic- of the Midlothian (Texas) Mirror, was the first person to call tor Weiss, Jr., that President Kennedy was going to be killed attention to these strange deaths, and today his list includes during his forthcoming motorcade in Dallas. Weiss ignored well over 50 names. And although some of the victims had her remarks. Heroin addicts say a lot of things when they only a peripheral connection to the events in Dallas on haven't had a fix. Only later, after he learned of Kennedy's November 22. 1963, others were either important witnesses death, did Weiss recall his conversation with the seemingly or people who knew a great deal about Lee Harvey Oswald clairvoyant junkie. or Jack Ruby. Most died within a three year period following A few days later, Rose Cherami was questioned by Kennedy's death. 52 ,VWF,417.,T. AA41,,Z..!,Mt.T.taWM4‘51tcr%TFRN clSr‘"':W. blood oozing from his neck. Before the ' Yet according to the Warren Report, Ic to tamper with the light fixture on ambulance reached the hospital, Hank Lee Harvey Oswald and only Oswald Reynolds' front porch. These events, Killam bled to death. was responsible for the death of Presi- coupled with his narrow brush with Although the coroner ruled that Kil- dent Kennedy. The Commission emphat- death, had their effect. When he finally lam's death was a suicide, his wife was ically denied there was any evidence of testified before the Warren Commission openly skeptical. And little wonder. Few conspiracy. But even as the Warren in July 1964, Reynolds now was prepared people ever kill themselves jumping Commission was conducting its investi- to say what he refused to say in gation, the mortality rate of witnesses January—namely that it was Lee Harvey through a plate glass window of an empty began to soar, causing even the most Oswald he saw running past his car lot department store at 4:30 in the morning. Besides, there was only one cut on Kil- sober observer to wonder whether the that day. lam's body: a three inch deep laceration ensuing bloodshed was more than just a Unlike Reynolds, Hank Killam was mere coincidence. of the lower left side of his throat. Hank not an eyewitness to the events in Dallas Killam's jugular vein had been cut. For example, consider what happened the day of the assassination. However, to Warren Reynolds. The day of the as- his wife, Wanda, did work as a stripper On November 24, 1963, two days after sassination, Reynolds was at work in his in Jack Ruby's club, and Killam had met Kennedy was shot and just hours after used car lot in Dallas when someone shot Ruby on several occasions. He also Ruby had gunned down Lee Harvey Os- and killed police officer J.D. Tippett. worked as a housepainter with a man wald, five men gathered in Ruby's Reynolds heard the shooting and shortly named Jack Carter. And in one of those apartment. They included George afterward, saw a man running down the curious coincidences which surround the Senator, Ruby's roommate, Winfred street carrying a revolver. He pursued Martin and Tom Howard, attorneys for the assailant for a block until the man Ruby, and Jim Koethe and Bill Hunter. fled out of sight. Within an hour, the Dal- both reporters covering the assassina- 4 las police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald 0 tion. To this day, no one has discovered and later charged him with the slayings the reason for that meeting, let alone what was said. Yet within 18 months, of both Tippett and Kennedy. Yet two months passed by before Reynolds was three of the five persons who attended finally questioned by the FBI. And al- that meeting were dead. though he still recalled the incident, he Bill Hunter was the first to die. A re- said he was unable to positively identify porter for the Long Beach Independent Press Telegram, Hunter had flown to Oswald as the man he chased in November. Dallas upon hearing of the assassination. On January 23, 1964, two days after Later, he returned to Long Beach where he was a veteran police reporter. his FBI interview, Reynolds was shot in On April 22. 1964, Hunter was sitting the temple with a rifle in a basement on his used car lot. Miraculously, he lived. in the press room of the Long Beach police station reading a mystery novel Since nothing was taken, police ruled out robbery as a motive. Shortly after the when two police officers walked into the room. Without warning, one of the cops shooting, authorities picked up Darrell Wayne Garner, who admitted he was at shot Hunter in the heart at a range of no the scene at the time of the shooting. He more than three feet, killing him almost was held on a charge of assault to mur- instantly. der. Yet on February 5, Nancy Jane Under questioning, the officer first -ed Mooney, 23. signed an affadavit saying said he had dropped his gun and it fu accidentally when he picked it up. Yet, that Garner couldn't have shot Dallas patrolman, J.D. Tippett. Reynolds, since she was in lied with the since the trajectory of the bullet dis- suspect at the time of the shooting. On proved this account, he later switched the strength of her alibi and subsequent Kennedy case, Carter lived at the same stories and said he had merely been prac- polygraph test, the charges against rooming house as an employee of the ticing his "quick draw" when the gun Garner were dropped. Interestingly Texas School Book Depository—an went off. Both police officers were later enough, Mooney told Detective Ramsey employee named Lee Harvey Oswald. convicted of involuntary manslaughter. of the Dallas police she had once worked Following Kennedy's death, Killam The sentence was suspended. as a stripper for Jack Ruby. became increasingly despondent and Jim Koethe had worked for the Dallas On February 13. 1964, just eight days downright paranoid. His wife told federal Times Herald for two years. He, too, later, Nancy Jane Mooney was arrested authorities that Hank feared someone was present at the meeting in Ruby's for quarreling with her roommate in a was trying to kill him. Running for his apartment on November 24, and in col- parked car and was taken to the Dallas life, Hank Killam moved to Pensacola, laboration with two other reporters, was City Jail at 2:45 A.M. Within two hours, then to Tampa, and finally back to Pen- writing a book on the assassination. she was found dead, her toreador pants sacola, trying to escape what he called On September 18, 1964. a witness saw wrapped around her neck, her body "agents and plotters." Every time he Koethe drinking beer in the patio of his dangling limply off the floor of her cell. took a job, he was fired after authorities apartment building with an unidentified The coroner ruled her death a suicide. hounded his employers. By March, he man. Later that same evening, neighbors For reasons which remain unclear, the was quoted as saying. "I'm a dead man. heard a disturbance in Koethe's apart- Dallas police never informed either the I've run as far as I'm going to run." ment. Three days later, Koethe's body FBI or the Warren Commission of this At 4 A.M.
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