The Reuben Efron Story, Once Again!

[Fred Litwin]

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/the-reuben-efron-story-once-again

The Reuben Efron Story, Once Again

An article on Jefferson Morley's Substack once again repeats the claim that Reuben Efron was the man who read Lee Harvey Oswald's mail. The only problem is that is just not true.

[Tom Graves]

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/the-reuben-efron-story-once-again

The Reuben Efron Story, Once Again

An article on Jefferson Morley's Substack once again repeats the claim that Reuben Efron was the man who read Lee Harvey Oswald's mail. The only problem is that is just not true.

Dear Fred,

Efron's forward (sic; forwarding) of Marguerite's letter to Oswald to whom?

-- Tom

[Benjamin Cole]

Unfortunately, Morley has been doing this---inflating the importance of various circumstances surrounding LHO. He was lightly surveilled and captured in various programs monitoring those with ties to the Soviet Union...sensible enough in the Cold War.

JFK Facts has been very, very interested in Efron's ethnicity, which tied him to Jews in Eastern Europe and thus Angleton, and thus to Israel and the JFKA. That is, that is what JFK Facts is driving at.

In Morley's words, it is "juxtaposed."

[Lance Payette]

Unfortunately, Morley has been doing this---inflating the importance of various circumstances surrounding LHO. He was lightly surveilled and captured in various programs monitoring those with ties to the Soviet Union...sensible enough in the Cold War.

JFK Facts has been very, very interested in Efron's ethnicity, which tied him to Jews in Eastern Europe and thus Angleton, and thus to Israel and the JFKA. That is, that is what JFK Facts is driving at.

In Morley's words, it is "juxtaposed."

"Juxtaposed" is so, like, 1992. We need to make a serious effort to bring back Garrison's favorite: propinquity.

Anyone who hasn't read this essay by former Garrison investigator Tom Bethell really needs to do so.

In assassination circles, one of the main linkage factors is what Garrison loved to call "propinquity." If two people live near one another, say within four or five blocks, it's suspicious. If they live closer, they are "linked." If they live at opposite ends of the city, get a list of friends of each. Two such friends are almost bound to live in the same block or even know each other. Presto! The link.

City directories are indispensable tools for conspiratorialists; Garrison would spend hours poring over the New Orleans phone book, totally absorbed by it. One day he looked up at me from his city directory and said: "Sooner or later, because people are lazy, you catch them out on propinquity." He also wrote two memos entitled "Time and Propinquity, Factors in Phase Two," which are, I should think, classics of their kind.

I knew all about propinquity because I had done some so-called investigation in that field during an earlier trip to Dallas. There was another fellow in the Dallas White Russian community called George Bouhe, who knew de Mohrenschildt, who knew Oswald.... A little work with the city directory turned up the fact that Bouhe once lived opposite ... Jack Ruby. There you have an Oswald-Ruby link based on propinquity.

Would I "check out" this link? The boss was interested, his chief investigator, Louis Ivon, told me. Sure, I said. So I went to the Bouhe address, and there was the house -- opposite the Ruby house. (Ruby was dead by this time, and Bouhe might have been too, for all I knew.) I wasn't quite sure if I should hide in the laurel bushes and try to peer into the Bouhe dining room, or what. Eventually I gave up on the whole thing and phoned New Orleans collect.

"Sam Spade here," I said. In the office I was known by the inappropriate code name of Sam Spade -- one of Garrison's jokes, I think. Ivon, one of the most laconic and non-committal men I have ever met, answered. "Uh-huh," he said. "Tell the boss I checked out that lead -- nothing to it." "Uh-huh." Almost invariably in these cases Garrison would have forgotten all about it anyway and moved on to some other "area," such as the "involvement" of H.L. Hunt (whose code name was "Harry Blue"-for "true blue") in the assassination.

https://www.jfk-assassination.net/bethell.htm

[Fred Litwin]

Here are the actual propinquity memos:

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/garrison-s-weird-investigative-technique-the-theory-of-propinquity

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/garrison-s-weird-investigative-technique-propinquity-part-two

[Tommy Shanks]

Fred,
I found it enlightening to hear Larru Haapanen talk about his own "propinquity" experiences with Jim Garrison regarding the latter's absurd attempts to ascribe conspiratorial actions to Fred Crisman. It's even worse that there are people who continue to actually believe Crisman was one of the three Dealey Plaza tramps...

[Benjamin Cole]

"Juxtaposed" is so, like, 1992. We need to make a serious effort to bring back Garrison's favorite: propinquity.

Anyone who hasn't read this essay by former Garrison investigator Tom Bethell really needs to do so.

In assassination circles, one of the main linkage factors is what Garrison loved to call "propinquity." If two people live near one another, say within four or five blocks, it's suspicious. If they live closer, they are "linked." If they live at opposite ends of the city, get a list of friends of each. Two such friends are almost bound to live in the same block or even know each other. Presto! The link.

---30---

Yes, the favorite words of CT'ers of all stripes are "linked," "tied to," and "connected," through such vapors as sitting on the same board, or living in the same neighborhood, or being of a certain religion, being in the same photograph, and so on. 

Now, we have Morley's "juxtaposed."

Morley enshrined himself in the Hall of Shame in his Tucker Carlson interview, and I don't see how he will get out.

The whole Charles Niles episode adds to the black comedy.

Morley is yet another example of how the ideology or bias drives the agenda, and the agenda writes the narrative.