Clean Towel and Linen Service Company

[Walt Cakebread]

Not sure... that might not be the laundry truck at that corner...

I agree, Jake....   I can see the words "PURSE  Co " on the building in the background so the location for the truck is approximately correct, but the Laundry truck had bundles of laundry on top of it and I don't see any bundles of laundry on the truck in the photo.

[Jake Maxwell]

I agree, Jake....   I can see the words "PURSE  Co " on the building in the background so the location for the truck is approximately correct, but the Laundry truck had bundles of laundry on top of it and I don't see any bundles of laundry on the truck in the photo.

That puzzles me also... no laundry on top...
So what is this in Zapruder...? A laundry truck that has been altered... or...?

[Walt Cakebread]

That puzzles me also... no laundry on top...
So what is this in Zapruder...? A laundry truck that has been altered... or...?

On page 14 of TKOAP there is a good picture of the laundry truck parked at the NE corner of the intersection of Houston & Elm, as JFK's Lincoln approaches the intersection.     The laundry truck had a rack on the roof and bundles of laundry in that rack.

[Paul J Cummings]

https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/43379/-

[Jake Maxwell]

https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/43379/-

So, if I’m oreinted correctly, the Zapruder image would be on top of this truck...?

[Lance Payette]

Come on, people, we need to discuss this! The OP, Paul Cummings, fizzled out here in 2022, but he is back and going full blast at the Ed Forum - where, alas, the interest in the mysterious Clean Towel and Linen Service Company likewise appears to be minimal. Mr. Cummings and his co-author, James Day, are now up to the first five of six intensive and rather impressively researched articles on the mysterious linen company. It all sounds to me like "seven degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon" and to have no connection to the JFKA, but it is an absolutely wonderful example of the Conspiratorial Mind at work. The linen company truck was indeed sitting at the corner of Elm & Houston, as you can see in the image below, so it certainly could have contained a sniper with a high-powered rifle, a spotter with a walkie-talkie, Carlos Marcello, a getaway driver for bank robbers or even a couple of guys delivering clean towels and linen. Pretty suspicious, no? Suffice it to say, Cummings and Day manage to get a lot of conspiratorial mileage out of a laundry truck.

James Day, of whom I'd never heard, appears to be Exhibit A for the Conspiratorial Mind. He has a BA in Latin (what?) and has spent more than 30 years reading Roman literature and history in Latin (what? - this guy needs to meet Greg Doudna). He is the author of Mad Bishops, about "a peddler of phony degrees who claimed to be a world famous bishop [and built] a network of contacts that led to the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK." It is published by TrineDay (say no more, wink wink, nudge nudge). You can find it here, and I might because I'm pretty bored these days: https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Bishops-Anglin-Assassin-Brethren/dp/1634244486. He has also written The Fraud of Turin, exposing the Holy Shroud as a fake - the Amazon blurb for it describes him as a "Catholic author," which the blurb for the other book omits.

Two items leaped out at me in my study of this issue:

1. Mr. Day favorably reviews a film of which I had not heard: JFK X: SOLVING THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY, https://www.amazon.com/JFK-X-Solving-Crime-Century/dp/B0B8TD8WVT. The premise is that the entire JFKA was fake from top of bottom. Jackie was the squib, whatever that means. JFK lived out his days, or is perhaps still alive, on Aristotle Onassis's island of Skorpios. What is interesting, or maybe not, is that I FIRST HEARD THIS THEORY IN 1971. I was a student member of Campus Crusade for Christ. The biblical Book of Revelation, as you surely know, says in verse 13:3 that The Beast will receive a head wound that appears to be fatal but is miraculously healed (a rumor that was actually circulating about Emperor Nero). We were assured by one whacked-out CC staff member that JFK had in fact survived and was being kept alive at a state-of-the-art medical facility aboard Ari's yacht. That's why Jackie pretended to marry Ari - get it? JFK would heal up and eventually return as The Beast. (Since Hal Lindsey had assured us The Late Great Planet Earth was going poof in roughly three weeks, it all sounded more plausible in 1971 than it does today since JFK would now be 108 and kind of a doddering Beast.)

2. Mr. Day notes that Leon Brachman, an affluent Fort Worth shoe merchant, philanthropist and ardent Zionist, employed Marguerite Oswald as a nurse in his home and that Marguerite "believed Jack Ruby was among the 250 males in attendance at a circumcision party for the Brachman grandson in August 1963." A CIRCUMCISION PARTY (what is that anyway?) WITH 250 MALE GUESTS? That is one honking big circumcision party, no? Pretty suspicious, it seems to me. (Wacky Marguerite actually did tell the FBI this in 1965 in furtherance of her theory that "the Jewish people [now THAT's a big conspiracy!] hired Jack Ruby to kill President Kennedy" and "the Jewish people are now going to free Jack Ruby, their executioner." https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=97097#relPageId=4.)

Anyway, the five articles on the linen truck are well-written and pretty interesting, albeit perhaps not for the reasons the authors think.