FAT ALBERT AND THE LEGACY OF AMERICAN REVERSIONISM

Ferlinghetti In the Shadow of Edwin Kirby Smith

An Interview With Burroughs Kerouac Ginsberg
By Rolland Spinout, CPW News Service

    Born Lawrence Monsanto Ferling in Yonkers, New York, Lawrence Ferlinghetti loathed imitation.  He left Paris and the shadows of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and sought his own voice.  Kenneth Rexroth’s anarchy provided the young writer a new way.  Paris became for Ferlinghetti San Francisco in 1951 after he arrived in the United States and traveled by train across the continent.

    Ferlinghetti received his undergraduate degree from UNC Chapel Hill, a Masters from Columbia University in 1947 and a Doctorate from de l'Université de Paris (Sorbonne) in 1950.   He met Selden Kirby-Smith the granddaughter of General Edmund Kirby Smith (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Giada Diano, Writing Across the Landscape, p. 115), the last Confederate General to surrender in the Civil War and the officer in charge of the Confederacy’s Trans-Mississippi West.   They married in Duval County, Florida in 1951 in that apparent bastion of Southern sentiments named for William Pope Duval the first civilian governor of Florida and father of Burr Duval who died alongside James Walker Fannin the cousin of Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph. The Ferlinghettis divorced in 1976.  That was over a century after Morse's telegraph line that was going to run alongside the first transcontinental rail line across the Great Southwest which with William Walker's failed annexation of Southern California and Baja and the approaching advent of Alfred Nobel's invention, Dynamite in 1867, two years after the Civil War, provided the China Traders the impetus to dream higher....through the Rockies and avoiding the Southern lowlands.   Morse's invention followed the Russell's old Pony Express route through the Rockies to San Francisco where William Tecumseh Sherman and George Bragg had worked together in pre-Civil War California to secure the rail head for Leland Stanford and the "Big Four". The Union Pacific contracted with Western Union for Morse's telegraph technology.  Morse's early chief financial officer prior to the Civil War was Benjamin Brown French, the Scottish Rite Mason at the White House who initiated Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor as the first SR President. 

    With his publication of Allen Ginsburg’s Howl and other poems Lawrence’s influence as the promoter of the “Beat Generation” and of San Francisco as an oasis for free-thinking paved the way for the hippie era of Haight-Asbury freedom romps and trippin’ trips.

     Burroughs Kerouac Ginsberg, a self-professed student of the “Beat Generation” and of Civil War history, provides a fascinating glimpse of this poet laureate-promoter of a modern Gilgamesh writers' group.  "San Francisco holds a very special place in our national mythology what with the Anglophile Hell's Angels' phalanx along the Bay to the east in Oakland, the Bohemians cremating care in the Red Wood forests up near Fort Bragg, Bechtel domiciled there with its eye on stripping Bolivia of its lithium through its imposed 'water wars' and people wondering just why the AT&T offices downtown hold the data splitters for the world-wide-web cable feeding from San Luis Obispo so that 'Big Brother' can watch you and Edward Snowden," said BKG.

RS:  You say that you were born as the result of an acid drop.  Could you explain?

BKG:  Sure.  I had heard that Dr. Lauretta Bender had conducted secret LSD experiments for the CIA at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Children were included in her research and they were basically unwitting guinea pigs.  I read an early unpublished account of Boston’s Whitey Bolger.  Bolger participated in a CIA study of LSD at his Atlanta prison before he was transferred to Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.  When Whitey surfaced in Boston after prison and became the key Irish Mafioso protecting a renegade element of the FBI I was dumbfounded.  So dumbfounded that I decided to drop some acid.   I entered the experience as Homer Ragsdale Freeman and came out of it Burroughs Kerouac Ginsberg.

RS:  I see.  Well was this also a mind-expanding experience?

BKG:  You could say that.   More importantly it was as if I could see clear across continents, familial connections, political intrigues and hidden motives.  My vision was 20/.000000020.  My understanding was on steroids and the truth has set me free-er than free.

RS:  Free-er than free.  Could you elaborate?

BKG:  Sure.  Did Lawrence Monsanto Freeling change his name to distance himself from the chemical company that made not LSD but “Agent Orange”?   Did he have the same negative reaction to the whole Vietnam War era because his use of LSD had shown him, too, that the Viet Nam War was, like the war on terror that is focused in the historic drug route from Baghdad to Bombay, now Mumbai, to the lucrative money markets of China and the West?  Was he, like the son of Admiral Morrison who conducted the Gulf of Tonkin Affair, Jim Morrison of the Doors, rejecting the national proper line, or was he paving the way for a new period of mind molding like that which Whitey had experienced as a government shill?  My trip triggered an open window into these and other questions.

RS:  The "Beat Poets" are not unfamiliar with military service.  Ferlinghetti, ah… Monsanto Freeling, was in the U.S. Navy.

BKG:  Yes, and don’t forget that he married the granddaughter of the last Confederate General to surrender.   Edmund Kirby Smith had, with his command of the Confederate troops west of the Mississippi, tried to recapture the city of Vickburg, Mississippi where William Tecumseh Sherman had destroyed the future railroad crossing site for a Southern transcontinental railroad.  Selden Ferlinghetti’s grandfather had also appointed Albert Pike, the father of Scottish Rite Masonry in the U.S. into fuller service and Pike’s followers included Alphonso Taft and his son William Howard who joined his father’s Scottish Rite Masonic lodge in Cincinatti in 1909.   Pike's close associate Ben McCulloch and fellow Texas Ranger, John Coffee "Jack" Hays became sheriffs of Sacramento and San Francisco on the same day in 1850 while Hay's cousin, John Hays Hammond was the right hand associate of Cecil Rhodes....hello Rhodes scholars and diamond dealers!  The good Masonic women of Cincinnati had sent McCulloch his two girl friends who stood beside him in the Texas Revolution at the Battle of San Jacinto.

RS:  The "Yellow Rose of Texas"?  What was her name?  And her sister?

BKG:  Nope.  I'm talking about the "Twin Sisters".

RS: They were twins?

BKG:  "Nope.  The two brass cannons that turned the tide of battle.  Deadly little bitches!"
Also in Cincinatti where Alphonso, a founder of Yale’s Skull & Bones along with William Huntington Russell, China Traders extraordinaire along with Caleb Cushing who negotiated, as any San Francisco China Town resident can tell you, the Wanghia Treaty, is the Spring Grove Cemetery.  HOWL!

RS:  Wanghia?  That was the treaty that replaced the British trade agreement with China that digressed into the Opium Wars?

BKG:  Bingo.  Yes, and working in the Baltimore clipper shipyards of the New England China Traders was, as San Franciscans now know thanks to the excavation of the 1850’s opium clipper found north of San Francisco near Fort Bragg named for William Tecumseh Sherman's pre-war financial advice client, Braxton Bragg, may have been laid by Fred Bailey, also known as abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.  Douglass would give his speech supporting  abolitionism after Caleb Cushing had invited Jefferson Davis to speak at Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall arguing for slavery.  Caleb was an early version of Dana White and the Ultimate Fighting Championships controlling both corners of the octagon and the popcorn and beer concessions.

RS:  So you are saying that more recent events in San Francisco are based an older order of things?

BKG:  Sure.  Albert Pike’s gnostic mumbo-jumbo played right into a kind of global Gestalt.  It was mind-control on an upward, pyramidal progression toward greater and greater degrees of enlightenment.  Enlightenment?  Surprise!  HOWL!  All you need know is that buried next to Alphonso Taft in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati is the largest contingent of Union Generals from the Civil War which was neither civil nor a real war.  Well, a drug war maybe.  It was the power elites of the North fighting the power elites of the South for the rail route to the Pacific and to David Sassoon’s opium imports out of Baghdad and Bombay to be used as trading chips and ultimately....personal wealth wagons.  Of course, wars cannot be fought for outright greed so the motive needed doctoring with a more acceptable rationale...ending slavery....which as we know from Iran-Contra, Gary Webb's Dark Alliance and others who spilled the beans on Air America is a sissified myth.

RS:  Refresh my memory.  Who was Pike?

BKG:   The founder of Scottish Rite Masonry in the U.S..  A Confederate General and chief Indian agent for the Confederacy who was an expert in getting the civilized Indian tribes of the West to fight in the Civil War for the South.   Scottish Rite?  It was not Scottish.   It originated in the Prussian Royal Court and its leadership merged with the Italian wing of the movement under Guisieppi Mazzini.  Of course, you cannot forget that the leading Italian family in California was that of Juan Bandini, founder of the oldest vineyard in California Buena Vista, likely a member of the Italian family that killed the brother of Lorenzo de Medici and whose daughter Arcadia was married to the Alcade of San Diego, Abel Stearns from Boston and who was the leading Stearns in Boston?   “Secret Six” backer of abolitionist John Brown, George Luther Stearns who saw the “Civil War” as a means of cornering the lead market….as in bullets.  No lead?  No bullets!  Pike would become the chief legal counsel of the KKK. 

RS:  Don’t the Scottish Riters do lots of good things?  Children’s hospitals?  Circuses?  Elephant acts?

BKG:  Elephant acts?  That’s like arguing the point in the recent film Whiplash that it’s better have your head whacked with a flying cymbal and end up being Charlie Parker than to live a sane life.  It’s appealing I know.  However, to argue that young Charlie Parker was great because of his mistreatment and that his self-medicating wasn’t a death wish is, frankly, bullshit.  Have you ever seen the amazing drum solo of Buddy Rich when he’s in his 70’s?  J.K. Simmons' should stick to selling us Farmer's Insurance.  Have you ever compared the leadership of James Levine to Terrence Fletcher?   Fletcher the Anglo had become Captain Ahab, Pharaoh, Arturo Toscanini.

     But I’m moving far afield of this mind expanded trip….suffice it to say that Selden’s grandfather was holding on to the dream that the South would control the rail route from Savannah to San Diego which William Tecumseh Sherman’s work in San Francisco in the 1850’s and then his demolition of the South’s rail head from Atlanta to Savannah which insured that Caleb Cushing, the Huntingtons, Russells and Tafts….the Brahmins….would control the flow of imports from Baghdad to Boston.

RS:  What if Selden Kirby-Smith Ferlinghetti didn’t know all this about her grandfather?   You are saying that Ferlinghetti knowingly used the “Beat Generation” to influence public sentiments, modern pop culture?  A type of mind-control of the masses.

BKG:  Well, yes, but my mind has been expanded.  Has yours?  Consider that Frederick Douglass was the “Freeway” Ricky Ross of his day and time and that someone like GHWB…..hell, not like GHWB….GHWB…..is the Caleb Cushing of our day and time only now he’s not unloading ships like The Frolic near San Francisco but shipping through the Panama Canal and suddenly the capture of Manuel Noriega who said “I have Bush by the balls” takes on new relevance along with the filibusterer William Walker’s attempts to conquer lower California in the 1840’s and Honduras in the 1850’s and a repeat in Honduras and Nicaragua in the 1980's. Not much changes.   HOWL!  HOWL!  HOWL!

Oh, and don’t forget that William S. Burroughs another “Beat” buddy was right in there among the American Fascists……Ford, Firestone, Burroughs, Lindbergh….the same guys to whom Boston’s Joseph P. Kennedy was beholding as Ambassador to the Court of St. James….Britain...when he supported Adolf Hitler and had to be recalled when Churchill complained to FDR.

RS:  So when Crosby, Stills and Nash were singing Four Dead In Ohio not far from Cincinnati….

BKG:  Yea, they were in what was called "New Connecticut," .... Ohio…..and Connecticut was home to Yale and the 1833 “Order” and saw itself as the arsenal of freedom, but by the time Edmund Kirby Smith comes along the freedom loving York Rite tradition of Washington’s and Franklin’s Masonry had been commandeered by Pike’s draconian model of Gnostic gibberish and the big bamboozle was off and running.  The four students shot dead in Ohio were very close to the disorder of the Order and simply didn’t know it.  Nixon hated the Order....called them "the most faggity goddamn thing I've ever seen....so did he really order the killing considering that Woodward and Bernstein's Washington Post crucified Nixon for child's play compared to Iran-Contra while more recent WP reporters like Steve Coll who bludgeoned Gary Webb and killed the messenger's message were promoted....Coll to the Henry Luce Professorship and Dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism?  Hey, and don't forget that Charles Wright Mills whose mother claimed he was the great nephew of Braxton Bragg the biggest shill in the Confederacy for the Brahmins wrote The Power Elite after being brought to Columbia by Paul Lazersfeld and Robert Merton, mind-benders par excellence.   Merton's son gave us the formula for the Wall Street's "credit default swaps" that tanked the entire U.S. and world economies.  HOWL!

 The Order makes a fine living as fight promoters and from a left/right dialectic that will, in time, push its confused victims to self-medicate in various forms and ways before brain death.   Same for those who drink coffee at City Lights.  Light, dark and shades of gray…..meaningless for someone whose mind has been freed from all of that.  But I’m no Mormon and I refuse to give up coffee!   But I do ask that Mr. Guzman in Peru who gets $6500 a year for his 60 tons of coffee that makes Starbucks over $10 million will soon get paid fairly and I'm not talking that "fair price" b.s. of 20 cents a pound.  You want to stop the border problem then change some of that crap! 

You can argue that Guzman's family of six doesn't need $60,000 a year.  They'll be like the Doughboys after WWII and not stay down on the farm pickin' cotton, plantin' corn or coffee, but hey, so they take their excess to the local city or Lima and go into mechanical and electrical engineering and invent a new product using Bolivia's lithium in its batteries and the world is a better place.  Maybe one will be like Henry Ford with an eighth grade education but makes a car that runs on solar power or hydrogen fuel because of their deep appreciation of ubiquitous, clean water.  San Francisco's Bechtel may not be happy it lost Bolivia's "water wars" but screw them!  HOWL! HOWL!  HOWL!  HOWWWWLLLLLLL!

HOWL!

David Carr, The Washington Post and Gary Webb: Killing Messengers?

New Book Offers Insights Into David Carr

by Winsip Custer, CPW News Service

    A new book titled One Nation Under Oz, provides important insights into the death of Salem Bin Laden, the brother of Osama Bin Laden, in Cibolo, Texas on May 29, 1988.  Salem died when the borrowed ultra-light aircraft he was piloting inexplicably flew into a high power line like a Predator drone delivering a payload.   The story was reported by celebrated CBS 60 Minutes newsman, Lowell Bergman, whose subject of another story on big tobacco became the movie The Insider.   Bergman, a stickler for details, claimed that Salem died while flying his BAC-111 jet which he often piloted, but the new book One Nation Under Oz raises an issue with Bergman's coverage. "The two aircraft are about as different as an elephant and a field mouse.  I could find no retraction of the error."   One Nation Under Oz asks if the reporting on Salem's death was a disinformation campaign. 
     Additionally, the reporting of Steve Coll, the former Washington Post  editor and now Dean or Columbia University's School of Journalism is also significant.  Coll's Washington Post was home to reporter Jeff Leen who had taken aim at the credibility of Gary Webb's Dark Alliance.  This raised concerns for W.H. Carr the author of One Nation Under Oz in as much as the Bin Laden owned Houston Gulf Manor Airport was razed after 911, but had been squarely within the historic Houston/Galveston smuggling corridor near Ellington Field,  a CIA linked airport where James R. Bath had been a focus of the FINCEN investigation up until that investigation was dropped as the nation moved toward the 1992 Presidential election.  Webb's research was tied to Peter Brewton's in Houston.

Rather Troubling

     "If FINCEN had been left to continue it would likely have netted the Saudi 911 hijackers," said Carr, "but it would have netted James R. Bath as well....GWB's Air National Guard roommate who had been awarded the fuel concession at the CIA-linked Ellington Field, Houston."
      Carr's son was found in his burned out Ford Bronco near Ellington Field on December 10, 2000, the same day as Gary Webb's resignation from the San Jose Mercury News in 1997 and Webb's death in 2004 just days after the Bush victory over Kerry and successful deflection of Dan Rather's 60 Minute story with Mrs. Marion Carr Knox.  Mrs. Knox, the mother of Patrick Carr....a different Patrick Carr... had typed GWB's Air National Guard memos, validated them and then would not reappear following Rather's 2004 story on the Bush memos.  Knox's son, Patrick Carr, would verify what his mother would not in 2004 following her appearance with Dan Rather, but Mrs. Knox's hesitation to reconfirm the essence of the story cost Rather and his producer their jobs at CBS after Knox was visited by Bush consigliore from Pennsylvania, Richard "Dick" Thornburg.   W.H. Carr's son, Patrick Carr had died near Ellington Field, Houston just as the U.S. Supreme Court was pondering the Bush/Gore election in Florida four years earlier in 2000 when the same story made available to Rather in 2004 was available through Texas Lieutenant Governor, Ben Barnes.  Rev. William Carr's son, Patrick, not Knox's son, had recently moved to Houston from Austin where he worked for the company of Rebecca Rather.   He had also recently been befriended by the wife of NY Times reporter, Paul P. Kennedy, whose stories in the NY Times and The Nation in 1960 had blown the cover on the secret training base for the Bay of Pigs in Guatamela and covered in Paul Kennedy's book Middle Beat.   Discovering this relationship Patrick's father was concerned because of his relationship to a church leader in Cuba, Carlos Emilio Ham.

Misery Loves Company

      Strangely, Dan Rather's ranching partner at New Mexico's Tecolote or  "Owl Ranch" about forty miles from Santa Fe, was also the owner of Maryland's Misery Plantation where Fred Bailey....also known as Frederick Douglass.....the abolitionists orator who according to the 1999 book by Thomas Layton, Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade (Stanford University Press) was employed in the Baltimore opium clipper building business and where he was "renditioned" before being returned to slavery in the South.  The owner of both the Tecolote Ranch and Misery Plantation is former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.  The Rather family's Nassau/Waldec Plantation in Texas is a German settlement where the Buffalo Soldiers initially worked after the Civil War with Reconstruction in Texas being handled mostly by this new group of freed slaves.   The Buffalo Soldier's handlers in Texas, the Smith brothers, and their relationship to William Tecumseh Sherman are covered in the 2014 book, Sulfur Lead and Poppies, which clearly delineates the connections between Giles Alexander Smith's Buffalo Soldiers and his brother, Morgan Lewis Smith, who directed the Texas work of the Buffalo Soldiers through the Truehart-Adriance Building in Galveston, Texas. 

Roots In An Uncivil War

      Sulfur, Lead and Poppies, a book that one West Point graduate said "oh, about the war in Afghanistan" to which the author said "no, about our own Civil War.  Not much changes," says "Arriving in Texas for different reasons was Giles Alexander Smith with the Buffalo Soldiers.  Giles' name appeared on the record pardoning Richard King, founder of the King Ranch."   It goes on to say of Giles' and Morgan were both fighting for the Union at the critical opening battle of Fort Donelson in the Civil War in a type of family dialectic......"Morgan Lewis Smith found himself appointed Counsel to Hawaii in a direct line between San Francisco and the lucrative China Trade route to the silk, spices and opium of the Middle East and emerging 'Golden Triangle.'"  The book also goes on to note the Tourtelotte letter of General William Tecumseh Sherman now domiciled at the University of Iowa that seems to indicated "a type of blackmail (of Sherman) by the daughters of Lewis Morgan Smith" (pp. 76-80).

Barnes Storming In 2004 But Not In 2000?

     "Ben Barnes admitted that he had the story which he said Gore didn't need in Florida in 2000, but this put our Patrick Carr in unspeakable danger in Texas.  Any derogatory information on GWB could have had devastating consequences for Bush's appointment," said Patrick's father a Presbyterian minister like the father of Houston Post reporter, now journalism professor at Texas Tech University, Peter Brewton, whose 1992 book The Mafia, CIA and George Bush had meticulously connected dots between the S&L scandal of the 1980's and the Iran-Contra network that was using the same Houston/I-45 smuggling route used in the Bay of Pigs. The Bay of Pigs paymaster, Paul Helliwell, had owned a shipping cargo company and insurance company in Galveston, Texas and with the number one and number two officers from Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, Harold "Hal" Feeney and John Harvey "Jack" Modesett, both being from Corpus Christi, Patrick's home town.  Modesett was teaching a Sunday school class at Houston's First Presbyterian Church, but had also funded the Boy Scout lodge at St. John's United Methodist Church around the corner from Patrick's parent's home purchased in August 2000 only four months before his murder. 
     In 2004, even back in 1999 when Mapes first learned of it, "Marion Carr Knox's story was being managed by former Democratic Texas Lieutenant Governor, Ben Barnes, who said he didn't think that Al Gore needed that information to defeat GWB in 2000.  My Patrick Carr was killed two days before Gore conceded the election in Florida and Patrick had been on a boat the night of his death with his uncle, the fishing buddy of James R. Bath's partner at Ellington Field's Southwest Airport Services, William E. King, the mayor of Kemah, Texas that has been a covert military and civilian smuggling area since long before the Bay of Pigs and the subject of Melanie Wiggin's book They Make Their Own Law.  The Wiggins family owns the Kemah boardwalk where William E. King, Bath's partner, was mayor.  A photo of King and Patrick Carr's uncle was taken  on July 14, 2001 while they were on a fishing trip to Alaska six months after Patrick's murder.

Saudi Connections, Influence Peddling and the Middle East

     "Bath had served as Salem Bin Laden's agent in the purchase of the Gulf Manor Airport near the massive Houston petrol refinery district along the Houston ship channel," said Carr.  Carr has also written a new book titled Sulfur, Lead and Poppies which gives the historical justification for Gary Webb's 1998 further conclusions about drugs, poverty and CIA participation in U.S. drug flow.   "Yea, Webb was right on.  The truth is that through the U.S. Civil War the power elites replaced one set of chains on the poor for another," said Carr who documents just how the Civil War was a race to the Pacific and the opium of the Middle East....Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and India....that was dumped following Caleb Cushing's negotiation of the Wanghia Treaty.  "The opium was dumped in China in exchange for silk, spices, China ware, a trade arrangement with the Chinese which was later protected by General Claire Chennault who was stationed at Ellington Field and funded the AVG or American Volunteer Group through Chinese opium-trading Green Gang," said Carr.  "William Tecumseh Sherman was consolidating the rail head at San Francisco for the Northern rail route in the 1850's working with George Bragg while Sherman was as close to General Braxton Bragg as a stock broker is to his Wall Street banker.  Braxton who died on September 27, 1876 died outside William Patrick Carr's boyhood church in Galveston at 19th and Post Office streets was the most notoriously unlucky and hated officer in the Confederacy, having been told by Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest that he would kill the unpopular General and brother of Jefferson Davis' Attorney General, Thomas Bragg,  if Braxton, who sat out Sherman's "March to the Sea" in Walker County, Georgia and then pretended not to surrender at Appomattox, got in Forrest's way!" said Carr.  "Bragg was the great uncle of Columbia University Professor of Sociology, C. Wright Mills.   Mills, frequented the family ranch at LaGarta, Texas  north of Corpus Christi and was author of The Power Elite, about the military industrialist complex.  He had an insider's seat," said Carr.
     The Braxton Bragg Wright ranch at LaGarta, the King Ranch, the Waldec Plantation, perhaps even the Tecolote Ranch near Santa Fe all lay in line across the projected Jefferson Davis highway that had envisioned the rail route from Savannah to San Diego providing a real source of angst for the New England China traders and their business ventures in the North East.  Sulfur, Lead and Poppies pulls from the letters of Jefferson Davis to Franklin Pierce at Rice University that speaks of the Civil War and Caleb Cushing's place in the evolution of a "soi dissant" conflict hung on Lincoln's administration.


Nothing to Bragg About

      "That Cornelius Vander Starr was born at Fort Bragg (California) is no great surprise, nor that Starr's AIG Insurance insured the Pacific mail and other products on their eastward voyages.  It's no surprise either that Austin's Lance Armstrong was doping while on the US Post Office Team when you consider that his recruiter was promoting Bell helmets and that Lance's hometown of Austin was mandating bike helmets.  After the Civil War "Star Routes" were handed out as payola to the victors and was apparently the concern of the daughter of Morgan Lewis Smith who didn't get one.  During Vietnam it was Bell choppers so when peace breaks out it's bike equipment.  It's the military industrial complex and it's everywhere.  The retired U.S. Postal Service Inspector we hired as an investigator in Patrick's case took six months to get us the last name of the person he talked to that night....it was not the right one....cost us thousands and then he became head of security at Bush International, Hobby and Ellington Fields.  After the Civil War Union spies were given "Star Routes" in the new postal system.  You want the real proof look to where the bodies are buried.  Which bodies?  The greatest repository of Union's Generals at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati next to Alphonso Taft who was a Scottish Rite Mason which was started in the U.S. by unrepentant Southern slaver, Albert Pike, whose Masonry usurped the York Rite tradition of Washington and Franklin and was imported from Prussia and the region that supplied German mercenaries to fight against the American colonists.  Taft, of course, was hooked at the hip with China Trader William Huntington Russell who co-founded Yale Skull & Bones. The destruction of the Georgia railroad by twisting the rails into corkscrews and the abandonment of the slaves at Ebenezer Creek by Sherman, betrays the historical proper line of Shelby Foote who never raises this issue, but said 'I consulted no original manuscripts.'   Well I have in both Sulfur, Lead and Poppies and I bring it forward in One Nation Under Oz," said Carr who said that "abolition of slavery was like the lace curtains on a slaughter house."
   "I had sent emails to about 100 Presbyterian ministers and outlined the impossibility of the Harris County Medical examiner's conclusions.  I phoned my former parishioner, Oliver 'Buck' Revell, former General Deputy of the FBI when the FINCEN investigation was in motion, then derailed.  In 1992 he had been ordered to Los Angeles to cover the Rodney King riots.  On November 15, 1996, CIA Director, John Deutsch, appeared at a town hall meeting in South Central L.A. to quell African-American anger.  It was at that meeting that former LAPD detective, Michael Ruppert stood to affirm what Gary Webb had said in Dark Alliance, but I only learned that history after Patrick's death," said Carr.  "Between Perot's assault on the corruption in 1992, to Brewton's 1992 book, to Revell's oversight of the LA Riots and the Presbyterian insiders were really that....with front row seats!" said Carr, "but I didn't now how dangerous those seats were."

No Reveling in the Details

      In 2001, about six months after Pat's death his father called  Revell.  Revell choked on the phone. "'I can't believe you are calling me.  My grandson died on December 11, 2000 the next day in Dallas,'" Revell told Carr.   Gore's concession speech in Florida was on December 14th.  "The Harris County Medical examiner's office was in shambles at the time and corruption seemed the culprit in Pat's case.  The autopsy posed an enigma.  The death could not have happened as described.  Who did Houston bring in to clean it up?  The firewaller in the Iran-Contra investigation, Michael Bromwich.  Bromwich insured that Gary Webb's concerns about CIA drug involvement which Michael Ruppert had confirmed in 1996, did not reach Reagan or, more importantly former CIA Director, Vice President, GHWB.  Bromwich was paid millions from confiscated drug money then moved on to head the BP Deep Water Horizon spill," said Carr which had all of the characteristics of an intentional wrecking and salvage operation.  "A faulty medical examiner is a license to kill and Houston has plenty of reason to want to keep people silent.  No Houston?  No light and power.  It can flip the switch on Washington and the world, but it is also like the Vatican keeping Copernicus and Galileo under house arrest while alternative fuels wain and global warming is dismissed until when?  Two weeks ago?  Is there any information on global warming in Texas' science museums? Tiny. These guys are the Jesuits of the new Spanish Inquisition," said Carr who pastored churches in Galveston, Houston, Dallas and Corpus Christi.


Some Simple Reconnaissance

   When the New York Times' David Carr died on February 13, 2015 after defending Gary Webb's Dark Alliance, well, somewhat.  Carr embraced Webb's passion for writing and tenacity, but said "he wrote beyond what he knew."  Precisely.   Every citizen of a serious Fourth Estate writes "beyond what they know."  How could they not?  Good grief, this wasn't Webb pronouncing Dewey the Presidential election winner.  That was writing beyond what they knew.   Today, the Webb writings are being substantiated and quite solidly.   W.H. Carr pointed to the material on the Salem Bin Laden death in Texas and David Carr's grievances with the Washington Post, specifically Steve Coll's coverage of the Bin Laden family connections in Texas.  W.H. Carr was also concerned because of who owned the ultra light airport in Cibolo, Texas and their connections to the National Reconnaissance Office.  "Patrick Carr's cousin worked in the Iraq Reconstruction effort for the State Department which was overseen by San Antonio's Stuart Bowen who lost $50 billion but was awarded an outstanding leadership award by David M. Walker the U.S. Comptroller General, while that cousin's aunt, Sue Seward, had worked four decades in the CIA's satellite photo library.   The site of Salem's inexplicable death was bought by the Carlsons and Bruce Carlson had been the General of Offutt Air Force Base.   "There is a great overlap between spy satellites and Linden and Neal Blue's Predator and Reaper drones and the telemetry they use with Linden and Neal's work on them dating back to their partnership with Anastosia Samoza in Nicaragua who liked CBS's news man Bill Stewart as much as Jeff Leen likes Gary Webb," said Carr.  From One Nation Under Oz:

"James Risen had reported that Carlson’s spy satellite program had been in the news when he quit his NRO job in 2012.  In his April 19, 2012 article (James Risen, "A Military and Intelligence Clash Over Spy Satellites," The New York Times,” April 19, 2012). Risen stated “the director of the National Reconnaissance Office, the secret agency that manages the nation’s spy satellites, resigned Wednesday. Bruce Carlson, the director, issued a statement saying that he is leaving the reconnaissance office, which is part of the Department of Defense and the intelligence community, a spokeswoman for the office said."

Attacking the WP/Columbia's Dumbledore

     The story of Salem Bin Laden’s death was covered, along with the Bin Laden’s ownership of the Houston Gulf Manor Airport, by Washington Post reporter Steven Coll.   His book The Bin Laden’s: An Arabian Family In the American Century, even covers the suspicion that Salem had been murdered and the trip by a brother to San Antonio to retrieved the Medical Examiner’s report (Steven Coll, The Bin Laden’s: An Arabian Family In the American Century, Penguin Books: New York, 2008) because of fears of an assassination.   Coll noted that there were no drugs of any kind found on Salem’s body, but the book does not mention Salem’s extensive history as a pilot.  Coll’s book was published in 2008.  By 2013 to the surprise of many including David Carr of the New York Times (David Carr, “Columbia Looks Ahead In An Age of Disruption, The New York Times, March 31, 2013, retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/business/media/columbias-new-journalism-dean-looks-ahead-in-a-digital-era.html?_r=0, on 9/22/14), Coll was pronounced Dean of Columbian University’s Journalism School.  David Carr stated:

    The announcement that a journalism school has a new dean usually elicits yawns in most quarters — Hey, there’s a new headmaster at the buggy whip academy — but the news that Steve Coll had been named to replace Nicholas Lemann, effective this summer, was greeted as if a new Dumbledore had been named.
    Sure, Mr. Coll has some qualifications. A former managing editor of The Washington Post, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes, including one for the remarkable achievement of “Ghost Wars,” which explains how the seeds of the attacks on the World Trade Center were planted over many years.

A Nail With Two Heads

    David Carr, the notable NY Times reporter, who died last week,   hit the nail on the head, but the nail had two heads….”the seeds of the attacks on the World Trade Center were planted over many years,” but which way?  Who were we to believe and why?     Gary Webb had won a Pulitzer, but he would leave no stones unturned in his pursuit of truth and so he would never be on a short list for an administrative jobs at the Mecca and Medina, Vatican and National Cathedral of journalism’s shifty….as in William S. Paley, husband of Barbara “Babe” Cushing, or Henry Luce’s, husband of Clare Boothe Luce’s shifty craft.  At Columbia, home of the father of applied sociologist and father of the creator of Wall Street’s ‘credit default swaps,” Robert Merton, Mr. Coll would be free….well, free within the confines of the Order’s orders….to practice and teach “applied journalism” which, as Joseph Goebbels and the Hoover Institute at Stanford that owns the Goebbel’s papers can attest, is an essential ingredient for empire-maintenance.

David Carr, Gary Webb and Bill Stewart Legacy

     Gary Webb had pulled back the earlier ghost war’s draped coverings and shown the real motivations for Iran-Contra, the same ones that CBS’s Bill Stewart was exposing in Nicaragua when he was murdered and which the FINCEN investigation had, on the heels of Iran-Contra convictions, targeted Saudi oil money’s influence on U.S. political corruption.  Salem Bin Laden's name and BAC-111 had been repeatedly mention in relationship to the 1980 of the Reagan/Bush ascension to power as had been the SR-71 Blackbird.  Salem Bin Laden had been, in 1980, if not the elephant in the Paris room where the Iran-Contra details were being offloaded, then at least its trunk. October surprise!

History of Arming Fanatics

     Amazon.com’s review of Coll’s Ghost Wars (Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. New York: Penguin Books: New York, 2005) by someone named Jiang Xuegin from Toronto, Canada asked a powerful question of Coll’s work…. “Did America really have to arm Afghan fanatics like the mentally unstable and psychotic Gulbuddin Hekmatyar? Why would it be in America's best interest to push the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan? And even if it were, did it really justify working with a sinister and ruthless organization like the Pakistani intelligence service and propelling a tin pot third world dictatorship like Pakistan into a global player?”  It was the same question following the downing of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, New York with so many witnesses seeing a streaming missile which the FBI denied, but who were asking of Lufkin's Charlie Wilson and Houston's Joanne Herring about the shelf-life of Stingers (Jiang Xuegin, “Deep In Research, Shallow in Thinking,” Amazon.com, April 21, 2012, retrieved on 9/27/14).  It was Smedley Butler’s question, raised and answered in War Is A Racket.  In light of the USA’s and Soviet Union’s inability to forge a working alliance after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the years of progress under Mikhail Gorbachev and  Boris Yeltsin, it’s a fair assessment, when considering what their mutual inaction produced….the global war on terror.

Unraveling a Looming Tower

    Like Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 911,  that offered no deeper thinking either, but received a Pulitzer Prize in 2006, Coll’s book received the same canonization of the properline the  previous year in 2005.  As with Emma Sky's book The Unraveling, Wright's book did not mention the place of Bernie Kerik or Theodore "Ted" Westhusing in the post-911 rollout of responses in the Middle East.

   The whole story of first-born Salem Bin Laden and his death near San Antonio triggered many memories of the region.  It was in San Antonio that Teddy Roosevelt had recruited his Rough Riders from the bar at the Menger Hotel before the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Cuba.  It was there that Dwight Eisenhower had been stationed, where Osama’s USN hunter, SEAL Team 6 leader Admiral William McRaven had gone to high school and later became Chancellor of the University of Texas just ninety miles up the road with its endowment’s connections to Carlyle Group and other military contractors through the GWB privatized UTIMCO, the UT endowment investor.  It was there in San Antonio that GHWB sat on the board of Trinity University and it was there that Stuart Bowen’s young friend and protege, Paul Adams Rush,  was a Deacon in the First Presbyterian Church.  Eighty miles north in Austin was Lawrence Wright who would write The Looming Tower."

   "If 911 was an inside job it was that the 19 terrorists, 15 from Saudi Arabia, had flown up the historic smuggling routes into the U.S. because the programs set to catch their influence peddling like FINCEN had been set aside for devious internal political reasons.  Then the bamboozle continues with yellow cake and we know why Smedley Butler wrote War Is A Racket.  He was, like West Point professor and challenger of General David Petraeus, Col. Theodore Westhusing, sick and tired of the fraud and war profiteering!  This nation cannot suffer another bloodletting era of the big Bush bamboozle like Pete Brewton reported with the S&L crisis and I'm apolitical," said Carr.  "We cannot have a crime family running the nation and using the primogeniture values that our ancestors fought and died to repeal and which Thomas Jefferson wrote out of U.S. law now reinstated through secretive interlocking associations and alliances with utter darkness," Carr concluded.

     All proceeds from the book One Nation Under Oz will support investigative journalism students at Texas Tech University and Northern Kentucky University, two schools associated with Peter Brewton, author of The Mafia, CIA and George Bush and Gary Webb, author of Dark Alliance through the William Patrick Carr Foundation.

Editor's Note: In 2013 Steve Coll and Jeff Leen's colleague at the Washington Post, Vernon Loeb, was named Managing Editor of the Houston Chronicle.  Loeb had been responsible for the false reporting on the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch stories that served to manufacture consent for war in Iraq and Afghanistan and co-authored the Paula Broadwell book All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.   Upon Loeb's arrival in Houston he sidelined a Houston Chronicle reporter delving into the history of the I-45 corridor between Houston and Galveston. A former Galveston shipping cargo company owner like Paul Helliwell, Edward Harold Bell, had confessed to multiple killings along I-45 as part of a "program".  Bell's 1998 confession should have freed Michael Lloyd Self, held on a false confession extracted by Webster, Texas policemen, now in prison for bank robbery.  While Bell had escaped capture following the murder of former Pasadena, Texas U.S. Marine, Larry Dickens, by jumping his low bail and fleeing to Panama, Bell was eventually apprehended.  Self died in a Texas prison just before the November, 2000 Presidential election in Florida, essentially eliminating an embarrassing chapter in Texas jurisprudence.  While Harold Fenney was a member of St. Barthomew's Episcopal Church around the corner from John H. "Jack" Modesett's St. John's Methodist Church.   The Methodist Church Superintendent for the region preached at Patrick Carr's funeral in 2000 and his secretary, Sheila Yuras, was the mother of the boy who called Patrick an hour before his death in Houston.  The Yuras family from Cibolo, Texas owned the property adjacent to the ultra-light airport, the scene of Salem Bin Laden's death in 1988.  Patrick Carr's new family home  in Corpus Christi had been purchased from a successor of the Texas motorcycle club founded by Donald Eugene Chambers between Houston and Galveston.  Chambers, a U.S. Marine also known as "Mother" of San Leon, Texas just off I-45 between Galveston and Houston had founded the Bandidos in 1966, another indicator of the hidden dangers of the Houston/Galveston I-45 corridor. 
     "The house in Corpus Christi was listed well below value because of foundation issues, but anyone looking on might think that there was some connection.   There wasn't!  None that I knew.  Then after Patrick's death I discovered that Donald Eugene Chambers had been married in 1966 and 1978 by two Houston Presbyterian ministers, Rev. Phineas Washer at St. Stephens Church near Hobby Airport and Rev. Kent Sinclair at St. Luke's near the old Astrodome," said Patrick Carr's father. "Patrick's friends have insisted that he was in no way involved in any kind of nefarious activity.  I believe them," said Patrick's father.  "A subsequent conversation with the sources close to "Mother" said that the 1978 marriage conducted by Rev. Sinclair could not have been "Mother," perhaps his son, since Chambers was in prison for murder at the time.  "It was the 1966 marriage by this guy Washer if he was at St. Stephens Church hear Houston's Gulf Freeway," Patrick Carr's father was told. Patrick had been in Houston only a few months,  but the boat he was on the night of his death had been purchased by his uncle and friends. "The Sea Note", had been named "Miss Heather" and owned by the son-in-law of a Halliburton executive indicted in "Operation Lone Star", a money laundering sting that had the earmarks of an Iran-Contra era money pipeline. The uncle, who had put the "Sea Note" into a business named "Les Bon Temps Charter Fishing" is fishing buddy of James Bath's business partner at Ellington Field, William E. King, an attorney with Bracewell & Giuliania Law Firm.  In 1994, Patrick's father had led the Corpus Christi congregation in underwriting the doctoral education of Carlos Emilio Ham, head of the Reformed and Presbyterian Church in Cuba.  "What an absolutely mind blowing clustered copulation," said Rev. Carr, Patrick's father who trusts that he will see Patrick again, but who has not given up his quest for justice in his son's case.  "There is no statute of limitation on murder and the Harris County Medical Examiner's report presented an impossible scenario for his death.  With Bromwich's arrival to straighten things up I am as a confident as Serpico was that the Knapp Commission cleaned up the corruption in New York, home of Bernie Kerik who preceded Col. Theodore 'Ted' Westhusing in Baghdad and whose leading FBI liaison, Brian Bruh, was in charge of the FINCEN program during the Bush/Clinton/Perot 1992 election that found Peter Brewton's book waylaid by Simon & Schuster.  "Where is Serpico?" asked Carr  noting that Rudy Giuliani was Patrick Carr's age of 23 when appointed an attorney on the Knapp Commission.  Carr said he prayed that there was no connection between the death of his son on December 10, 2000 and the death of the grandson of his Dallas parishioner, former General Deputy of the FBI, Oliver "Buck" Revell on December 11, 2000 the day before the Gore concession speech in Florida or to the December 10, 2004 death of Gary Webb, author of Dark Alliance, but said "there appears much more going on here than coincidence."  When asked "aren't you afraid that people knowing this might harm you and your family to get at these parties, to affirm their corruption or to stop your story?"  "I'm more concerned that the America people not know just what they are dealing with," said Carr. "If this can happen to us it can happen to anyone."

 

Gary Webb, Peter Brewton and a Texas Presbyterian Minister's Son

This Dynamic New Book Provides Powerful Insights Into Ferguson, Missouri and Kill the Messenger -Winsip Custer

Sulfur, Lead

and

Poppies

 

Abolition

And the

Real Motive

for the

Civil War

 

 

“I used no original material. It’s all been gone over before.”

-Shelby Foote in interview with Brian Lamb for Book TV on CSPAN shortly before Foote’s death

 

 

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

without the express written permission of the publisher

except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Printed in the United States of America

First Printing, 2015

ISBN-13: 978-1507859339

ISBN-10: 1507859333

  

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1

Chapter 1: Descent Into A Military Industrialist’s Complex. 5

Chapter 2: Savannah To San Diego. 9

Chapter 3: Bullets Are Lead!. 35

Chapter 4: Looking West From Savannah and Boston. 49

Chapter 5: L.A. in the Crossfire. 115

Bibliography. 144

INDEX.. 165

 

Introduction

 

     This book began as a quest to understand the origins of my own family’s westward migration from their family farm in Walton County, Georgia.    My quest only began in earnest after the December 10, 2000 death of our 23-year-old son, William Patrick Carr.  I had spent four years studying the facts of his death.   I had sent about a hundred emails to Presbyterian ministers the week of December 3^rd, 2004 outlining the circumstances of Patrick’s death and to my horror Gary Webb, author of Dark Alliance supposedly committed suicide in California five days later on the anniversary of Patrick’s death and the anniversary of Webb’s resignation from the San Jose Mercury News that had first printed Dark Alliance and then essentially retracted it.  Webb had relied on the Houston Post investigative reporter, Peter Brewton, another son of a Presbyterian minister in Texas. The full findings of my fourteen year investigation into Patrick Carr’s death are in the 2015 book One Nation Under Oz.

      Patrick had died in the days immediately before the 2000 U.S. Presidential election when former Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes was sitting on the embarrassing Texas National Guard memos of George W. Bush that had been typed by Marion Carr Knox whose son was also named Patrick Carr.  Marion Carr Knox had been the Texas National Guard commander’s typist at Ellington Field, Houston.  Our Patrick Carr’s burned out Bronco and body were found near Ellington Field, an inexplicable location, and he had been on a private yacht that night with his uncle, the fishing buddy of William E. King, the partner with James R. Bath, George W. Bush’s Air National Guard roommate.

     Gary Webb’s book Dark Alliance had laid bare a cancer on the U.S. body politic that had direct implications to Patrick’s murder in Houston.   It wasn’t until after seeing the 2014 film Kill The Messenger that I realized that Webb had supposedly killed himself (two bullets to the head and as impossible a suicide scenario as our son’s death) on the anniversary of Webb’s 1997 resignation from the San Jose Mercury News.  Webb did not understand what Herman Melville knew instinctively…you can call America’s addiction the relentless and mindless pursuit of a great white whale, but not what it really is and who is really behind it.

     Ellington Field, Houston had been home to General Claire Chennault head of the American Volunteer Group or AVG that provided Chaing Kai-shek air support against the Japanese during World War II.  The Texas Air National Guard had been headed by David “Tex” Hill, Chennault’s ‘Flying Ace” the son of the First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio, Texas, pastor Rev. Pierre B. Hill and that church had been founded by Rev. John McCullough who founded Galveston Texas’ First Presbyterian Church after McCullough had fled the pistol of the murderous John Joel Glanton, protagonist in Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian. William Patrick Carr had grown up at First Presbyterian Church, Galveston, but Patrick’s church in Corpus Christi, Texas put him at the center of even greater danger which is fully covered in One Nation Under Oz.

       Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance was not a new discovery.  It began long before the Iran-Contra fiasco of the 1980’s, but Webb was like one more cancer doctor telling his patient that he has cancer for which he, the doctor-messenger, was killed.  If the journalists and pastors won’t tell the truth who will?  As a Presbyterian minister who had difficulty understanding  just why 600,000 Americans had to die in a Civil War that could have been solved with the stroke of a pen it appeared that far above the pronounced motive of the abolition of slavery, some other motivation was operative.  Webb’s discovery that CIA agents were supplying drugs to Los Angeles and the nation and reintroducing chains of slavery long after Appomattox was an important insight for Americans, but who would believe it?   People didn’t want to believe that the tobacco industry and big government profited from well-taxed carcinogens, but that’s the truth of the matter.

     Behind the relentless pursuit of profits was what would eventually be described by Smedley Butler, Dwight Eisenhower, Theodore “Ted” Westhusing and Pat Tillman, and can simply be put “the mercenary motive.”

   Adam Goodman, Director of the Cornelius Vander Starr Center for the American Experience in Chestertown, Maryland, described how one of his freshman students, a Marine on the G.I. bill, wanted to do a term paper on the wrangling in the mind of Civil War soldier Major William H. Emory whose mother was the great granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin.   The issue was which side to fight on in the U.S. Civil War.  The persistent Marine rummaging through the attic of the Emory homestead which had been in the family for over three hundred years, found a bundle of Emory’s letters and commenced his work.  Goodman, who had also written about the place of Benjamin Brown French in the curious lack of photographs from November 6, 1860, the day that Abraham Lincoln was elected President, sits over the Center named for the founder of AIG Insurance and principal in the Pacific Mail and Steamship Company, C.V. Starr, whose company insured the passage of U.S. ships in the “China Trade”.  How and why Goodman had access to the attic of the Emory home is a story in itself, but in both William H. Emory and C.V. Starr we are given dynamic clues to this “mercenary motive.”  Starr would become a founding member of the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA.

      Cornelius Vander Starr was born at Fort Bragg, named for Braxton Bragg whose brother was the Attorney General for the Confederacy and worked closely with Jefferson Davis’ Indian Agent and founder of Scottish Rite Masonry in the U.S., Albert Pike, the future chief legal advisor for the Ku Klux Klan.  So close was Confederate President Jefferson Davis to the Emory family that Goodman tells us that William’s brother lived with the Davis family for a time.  Fort Bragg is not Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but Fort Bragg, California just north of San Francisco.  C.V. Starr’s father had been an engineer for the railroad at Fort Bragg.

     Major William H. Emory had been the map maker who laid out the South’s rail route to San Diego before, thanks to a Civil War and the invention of Alfred Nobel’s Dynamite, the site shifted to San Francisco where right up to the beginning of the Civil War William Tecumseh Sherman was working with George Bragg to deliver the San Francisco Bay Area railroads into the hands of Leland Stanford, but not before Sherman rode East to destroy the Atlantic terminus of the South’s proposed railroad to the Pacific and the China Trade products beyond….especially those of the opium poppy. 

     As for the lack of photos from the momentous day of Lincoln’s election November 6, 1860?  It remains something of a mystery.  Two years earlier in 1858 America’s most celebrated photographer, Matthew Brady, had opened a studio in Washington D.C. and over the course of the Civil War made a living selling photos of soldiers who wanted to be remembered after they surely died on some bloody battlefield.   There were lines of soldiers at his gallery. Brady’s mentor was Yale graduate, Samuel Fenley Breese “F.B.” Morse, whose fortunes were tied to the telegraph that ran along the first Transcontinental Railroad.  Morse’s cousin died in Texas and his name was James Walker Fannin the hero of the Goliad Massacre.  Brady’s other mentor was William Page the Andover and Amherst theologian and photographer who spent time with America’s New England power elites in Florence, Italy studying art and the mercantile methods of the Medici.  Other close friends of Matthew Brady were poet James Russell Lowe and sculptor William Wetmore Story.   William Story’s father was the Supreme Court Justice rendering the decision on the Amistad case that like the first Fugitive Slave Law test case of James Hamlet from Baltimore, further enflamed consent for war. William’s father, Justice Joseph Story of Massachusetts, had succeeded Supreme Court Justice William Cushing, another New England name like Lowe, Russell, Lodge and Cabot whose fortunes were tied up with the speedier transport of goods, all kinds of goods, from the Middle East….from what is today Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, India… the Golden Crescent….with ready-made markets in China and the rest of the world.

     All proceeds from this book will support the William Patrick Carr Foundation.   The 2015 Foundation will provide college scholarships for investigative journalism students at Texas Tech University where Peter Brewton, author of The Mafia, CIA and George Bush and award winning journalist for the Houston Post teaches journalism and to Northern Kentucky University, Gary Webb’s alma mater.



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UPDATE:

On April 2, 2015 nearly fifteen years after Patrick Carr's death, while looking for Easter decorations, Patrick's father opened a box containing the waiter's apron Patrick had worn at his job in Austin before he moved to Houston.  In its only pocket was a brochure for Les Bon Temps Charter Service which used the 60' Hatteras, formerly "Miss Heather" and previously owned by the father-in-law of Thomas Hajecate, son-in-law of Halliburton executive, William Breland.   The boat had been renamed "The Sea Note" by the new owners.     Hajecate had been previously indicted in "Operation Lone Star".  In the same pocket was the business card of Darryl Sneary the partner of Rebecca Rather of Austin's Rather Sweet Bakery.  On the back of the card in Patrick's handwriting were the names and phone numbers of several of the parties listed on the incorporation records for 616 Ranch, Inc., including the daughter of the long-standing clerk of the Texas House of Representatives.  According to USA Today (December 8, 2006) Dan and Rebecca Rather are cousins.....

Rather Sweet Bakery & Café

Fredericksburg, Texas

This quaint café in an old German town surrounded by gorgeous Texas Hill Country attracts cyclists and climbers as well as tourists. They flock to the area, about 80 miles west of Austin, for antique shops and Rebecca Rather's Big Hair Lemon Tart. "Now that says Texas," Malgieri declares. (Rather, by the way, is a cousin of TV newsman Dan Rather.) 830-990-0498.

 

Elsewhere Dan Rather is referred to as Rebecca Rather's uncle.