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Edward T. Haslam is an advertising executive who has represented some of the largest corporations in America. Originally from New Orleans, he has lived in Florida since 2000.

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Data di nascita
1951
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male
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USA

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Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination and emerging global epidemics is one of the longest titles of a book not printed during the 19th Century.

To link together a murder in New Orleans, and polio vaccine laced with cancer-causing simian retro-viruses, (that early 20th Century science knew might be there, but couldn't filter out), Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination, and the world-wide epidemic of diseases never seen before, took some doing. But New Orleans native, author Edward T. Haslam has done a magnificent job in this inch and one-eighth thick, large-fonted, trade-size paperback peppered with black and white thumbnail-sized photos.

Don't let the self-published-look of Dr. Mary's Monkey put you off, for it is printed by Trine Day, a publisher of controversial subjects way too hot for the mainstream press.

Being an older sort, I found the larger font made it easy to read the precise sentences. There are numerous footnotes at the end of each chapter that greatly add to the reader's understanding.

I found author Haslam far from pedantic, or even always certain he, himself, was right, for when he could not verify a fact, or simply did not know, or discovered his source lying to him, he said so. All through the book he leaves any assumptions or suppositions entirely up to the reader, and not until the very last pages of the book does he actually reveal the conclusions he's come to over the past 20 years.

Having read a shelf-full of books on John F. Kennedy's life, his assassination, the C.I.A., and also knowing Texas and Louisiana governments to be both misogynistic and crookeder than a dog's hind leg, I found Dr. Mary's Monkey coming closest to explaining 3 questions I've never found the answers to:

1) Who killed John F. Kennedy. Why?
2) What caused cancer rates to explode in the second half of the 20th Century?
3) Why, all of a sudden, did uniquely simian-only viruses cross over into the general human population, when they had remained steadfastly outside the homo-sapien experience for the previous 5,000 years?

I've always found the answers just a little too simplistic:

1) "Oswald alone killed Kennedy"
2) "Everything but mom's apple pie causes cancer and it's going under the microscope next"
3) "Native Africans ate monkey meat and practice 'unsafe-sex' and that alone is what caused AIDS"

Broken into about 16 sections, Edward T. Haslam lays out his research of almost 20 years in an easy-to-read and logical fashion that, as the tired-of-being-lied-to reader gets madder and madder, answers the above trio of questions.

Do not be mistaken, or misled, Dr. Mary's Monkey is a serious book that answers serious questions by providing serious documentation, combined with author-interviews with many of those personally involved with Dr. Mary Sherman, Lee Harvey Oswald, Dr. Alton Ochsner, David William Ferrie, Judyth Vary Baker and other important players.

If you were alive during the November 1963 murder of JFK and have always had nagging doubts about the scenario that a single shooter, recently returned from self-exile in the communist (and Cold-War-Era) U.S.S.R., using the name of A.J.Hidell mail-ordered a 20-year-old, bolt-action, Italian made, World War II rifle and managed to (once again, alone) attain employment in a multi-storied building along the highly confidential (and only changed days before) parade route of the most powerful and greatly adored man on the face of the earth, you must read Dr. Mary's Monkey.


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AZBob1951 | 3 altre recensioni | Oct 27, 2021 |
OK, this is one of those books that you pick up and say to yourself "this is just too batshit crazy not to read!" and so you read it...and it's batshit crazy. And knowing our government, just crazy enough to be true...THe bulk ofthe story is based on a secret medical laboratory in New Orleans during the early 1960s. Covert government operations? Check. CIA and Mafia involvement? Check. Cure for cancer that turns into biological weapon against Castro that becomes AIDS? Check. And did I mention that Lee Harvey Oswald worked in this lab? Oh hell yeah, check. Batshit crazy. Your tax dollars at work...if its true, of course...… (altro)
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ScoutJ | 3 altre recensioni | Mar 31, 2013 |
This book gives a very different view of recent American history.

In the 1950s, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine against polio, then ravaging America. It involved inoculating children with dead polio viruses, so their bodies would build up immunity. Just before the mass inoculation was to begin, a technician injected the vaccine into some monkeys. The supposedly dead viruses were not exactly dead, so thousands of children contracted polio. The safer Sabin vaccine was quickly developed, and rushed into production.

The bigger problem for the Salk vaccine was that it was impregnated with cancer-causing monkey viruses (imagine the panic if that became known). Consider today’s epidemic of soft tissue cancers. A secret program was rushed into existence to look for some sort of vaccine. Such a program involved lots of mice (thousands), and someone to do the day-to-day observing of the mice, someone like David Ferrie (later to be well-known in JFK assassination circles). A defrocked priest and former airline pilot, he was a long-time CIA asset. Also needed in such a project was a cancer expert to do the actual mutating of the viruses.

Mary Sherman was a world-renowned cancer researcher with a list of qualifications as long as your arm. It is unknown why she would get involved with a right-wing fanatic like David Ferrie. In 1964, her burned and naked body was found in her apartment. The press tried very hard to make it look like a lesbian burglar sex killing, even though there was no sign of forced entry. The bizarre thing is that her entire right arm and the right-hand part of her torso were gone, like they had been disintegrated. The small fire that was set on her bed, to cover up the crime, was nowhere near hot enough to do it.

Mutating viruses required huge amounts of power, on the order of several million volts. A linear particle accelerator was powerful enough, but they require very heavy-duty wiring. The author found evidence of such wiring at the US Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans. The author theorizes that, one day, Sherman touched the wrong button, or there was sabotage, causing all that energy to ravage her body. It was quickly decided to bring her back to her apartment, stab her in the exact right place in her heart (she may have still been alive at that moment), and cover up her death. This whole arrangement also required a courier to travel from Sherman to Ferrie and back again. His name was Lee Harvey Oswald. He was killed after the JFK death to silence him; having him on a witness stand would have publicized things that powerful people did not want publicized.

This is a wonderful piece of writing. It is a huge eye-opener, and will make the reader look at cancer in a whole new way. It is extremely highly recommended.
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