From jmcadams@primenet.com Mon Jan 27 13:12:32 CST 1997 Article: 5561 of alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated Path: news.primenet.com!jmcadams From: jmcadams@primenet.com (John McAdams) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated Subject: Stockwell Critique of Files Story - 2 Date: 23 Jan 1997 21:14:01 -0700 Organization: PrimeNet Lines: 40 Approved: jmcadams@primenet.com Message-ID: <5c9cu9$6j@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> X-Posted-By: jmcadams@206.165.5.111 (jmcadams) Xref: news.primenet.com alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated:5561 I believe it was in 1991 Bob Vernon saw West giving interviews on TV. Vernon was an out-of-work music producer who had once managed Fats Domino. He contracted with Joe to promote and produce his "solution" of the Kennedy assassination into a big bucks TV, video, film, and book package. Vernon had known Jim Garrison in New Orleans (at least to videotape an interview with him). Otherwise he knew next-to-nothing about the JFK assassination Vernon is in fact a remarkable man. Perhaps 300 lbs. Looks like a large Phil Silvers. Chain smoker. Heavy bourbon drinker. Brilliant. Exceptional gift of gab, whether telling off-color jokes or wheeling a business deal. Large "Roladex" of phone numbers in the entertainment industry.... Literally many hundreds of times over the next several years he would say, "Hey, I'm in this for the money." He envisioned parlaying the "solution to the crime of the century" into millions of dollars. He came pretty close, too, but deal after deal collapsed....sometimes there was feedback, when there was the indications were that credibility was wanting or that his price was much too high. Meanwhile, the FBI also contacted Joe West after seeing him making broad claims on TV about Hugh having been involved in the assassination. They told Joe they wanted to interview Hugh, to see if there was any substance to his claims. Joe negotiated immunity. The agents talked to Hugh at length and concluded (correctly, Joe eventually agreed) that Hugh had NOT been involved in killing Kennedy. At lunch afterwards, one of the agents told Joe, off the record, that he had worked in Chicago, against organized crime, for 7 years. He said that IF there was more to the JFK assassination than the Warren Commission concluded, there was ONE PERSON who might know the truth. The man was in prison in Joliet, Illinois. Joe contacted Jimmy Files. Files eventually agree to meet with Joe and a warm relationship ensued.