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Loran Hall's Troubles--Being In All The
Wrong Places at Precisely the Right Time
(Continued from Page 17)
situation only a few days later when he
Among the people he said expressed
In that interview, Hall saidhe had never
submitted to further interviews with
such feelings were Edgar Eugene Bradley,
laid eyes on Sylvia Odio, even though he
Garrison investigators.
who Garrison had indicted but was unable
For a man who has been described as a
admitted to the FBI on Sept. 23, 1964, that
such a meeting had been "possible.
Hall suddenly remembered that there
to extradite and who eventually had those
"psychological liar, Loran Eugene Hall
was a Leslie Bradley he knew during the
charges dropped against him.
has been in all the wrong places at almost
While he had told the FBI agent that it
Cuban revolution. (Hall could recall that
precisely the right time.
might have been "possible" that he had
Leslie Bradley, whom he had met in the
Other interesting names Hall recalled
That he may be in Rhodesia at the
gone to Mrs. Odio's apartment, Hall
late 1950s, but he previously had not been
from that period included Lester Logue,
moment seems to confirm that.
recanted that to the Garrison investigator.
able to remember anything about an
Hunt (probably H.L.), Dan Smoot and
What role hemay have had in the death
In short, Hall said that the FBI report
General Edwin A. Walker. Hall said that
of President John F. Kennedy -
or
Edgar Eugene Bradley until his memory
was inaccurate in many ways - and, of
John Rousselieu had gotten him approved
knowledge about it is still an unanswered
had been "jogged.")
course, he hadn't said what the FBI agent
by the John Birch Society to speak at right-
question.
wrote down.
Hall's new recall allowed him to
wing meetings where assassination talk
But one thing is certain:
(In an interview with Robert K. Brown,
remember many precise events but didn't
was running wild.
Loran Eugene Hall better continue to
mentioned in the beginning of this article,
go so far as to provide him with the ability
have wallets-full of $100 bills if he is going
Brown stated that Loran Hall is a
to implicate himself - or anyone else.
SHORTLY THEREAFTER Hall
to stay on the run.
"psychological liar.")
bylined an article in a national newspaper
According to receipts this publication
Oddly enough, Hall recalled, many
By May of 1968, Hall did another about
people he met during 1963 felt that Ken-
in which he confessed that he had been
has obtained, Hall's BankAmericard -
turn. He visited Edwin Messe, Gov.
nedy ought to be assassinated - and so
offered $50,000 to kill JFK - but, naturally,
number 4024-673-718-827 - expired as of the
Ronald Reagan's legal affairs secretary,
stated that.
he turned it down.
end of July, 1975.
and announced that he had information
about a conspiracy involved in the Ken-
nedy assassination.
HE SAID THAT his memory had been
'jogged" by "certain individuals
reminding me of persons I was in contact
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Hall supplied Messe with names of
"these certain persons I met while making
speeches in the Los Angeles area when I
was raising funds for anti-Castro ac-
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