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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 11 Num. 35
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 11 Num. 35
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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JESSE JAMES WAS ONE OF HIS NAMES -- I
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"In assuming 72 identities, did Jesse go romping about the
country in invisible, astral form keeping his eye on the
post-Civil War Confederate Underground and his own vast
financial empire?"
The above rhetorical question is asked in the introduction to a
most unusual book, sent to me by a reader of Conspiracy Nation.
(*Jesse James Was One Of His Names* by Del Schrader, with Jesse
James III. Arcadia, California: Santa Anita Press, 1975.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-33962.)
Yes, I know that the grave of Jesse James was recently dug open
and that the body therein had DNA tests run on it. And yes, I
know that the DNA tests prove that it was *really* Jesse James
buried in Jesse James' grave. But maybe they are lying to us, or
a further hoax was put in operation against the scientists doing
the DNA tests. (The original alleged hoax is that Jesse James
faked his death in St. Joseph, Missouri on April 3rd, 1882.)
Here is the story, as alleged in the book. It is left to the
reader to determine -- Who is hoaxing who?
Right after the Civil War, Jesse James supposedly got in a knife
fight with a Mexican. Before James stabbed him dead, the Mexican
bit off part of his finger. This becomes important later on, as
an identifier.
Jesse James was reportedly part of a secret society, "The Knights
of the Golden Circle." According to Norma Cox, in her book, *The
New Spoilers*, Jesse James is also linked with the notorious
Albert Pike. Cox has the 12 charter members of the Golden Circle
as including Jefferson Davis, Bedford Forrest, Jesse James, and
William Quantrill. Some say Albert Pike was the creator of the
Knights of the Golden Circle, but Cox doubts it. "Important to
remember about such secret organizations is the fact that only
the men at the top know the truth..." (Cox, 5)
Because James and his gang were being hotly pursued by lawmen
(and the heat was increasing due to copycat crimes being
routinely attributed to the James gang), Jesse James allegedly
arranged to fake his death. But one of his gang, an illiterate
black named John Trammell, decided he'd leave a coded message
hinting at the truth. Trammell, according to Schrader's book,
got some wet bricks, and a friend helped him scratch some
messages into them before they dried. One brick "contained an
image of a Spanish dagger, the numerals 777, KGC [Knights of the
Golden Circle] and JJ [Jesse James]..." Trammell reportedly
buried the bricks in St. Joseph, Missouri, and later exclaimed,
"Just wait 'til they find them St. Joe bricks!" (The alleged
bricks were discovered in 1966.)
It is known (*Come Retribution* by William A. Tidwell; ISBN:
0-7607-0381-7) that the Confederacy had a sophisticated covert
intelligence apparatus, a sort of "secret service." The
uninformed bias might be that the Confederate spy agency could
not possibly be as sophisticated as, for example, the "modern"
CIA. In some ways that's true, for example in the area of
electronics. But in other ways -- like cunning, common sense,
and a limited but superior level of classical education (of
deep-down learning) -- don't be so sure that we "moderns" are
smarter than our forebears. Yes, our ancestors did not have the
"advantages" we have, like television and a state-controlled
"education" apparatus. But it is our own conceit that
unreflectingly assumes we "moderns" *must* be "so much smarter"
than those who came before.
So maybe some things have been slipped by us.
Almost immediately after James' "death" in 1882, rumors began
surfacing that he was still alive. Eleven days after the
supposed event, the Liberty Tribune reported:
Certain parties still aver that Jesse James is not dead,
and intimate that the man killed and buried was not Jesse,
but someone inveigled into Jesse's house and killed, to get
the reward [of $10,000]. Such a conclusion would implicate
Mrs. James, Mrs. Samuels, Governor Crittenden, Sheriff
Timberlake, Police Commissioner Craig and others in a
scheme of fraud and perjury. We believe nothing of the
kind and have no doubt of Jesse's death. (qtd. in Schrader)
But Governor Crittenden, according to Schrader, was a good friend
of Jesse James, and "Mrs. James" was *not* really Mrs. James, but
a Mrs. Bigelow. She was of questionable repute, and was bribed
to give out a fake story. The whole "identification" of the
corpse and subsequent hasty burial was rigged, says Schrader.
The real Jesse James is supposed to have finally emerged in
Lawton, Oklahoma on May 19, 1948. An array of witness testimony
is marshalled purporting to prove that "Colonel J. Frank Dalton"
was in fact a quite aged Jesse James. Knowledgeable readers will
recognize the name Ray Palmer; Palmer looked into the story and
felt there was something to it. In the September 1968 issue of
Search Magazine, Palmer writes:
I signed a contract with Jesse to write his life story, and
he handed me a shoe box containing ten-thousand dollars in
fives, tens and twenties to cover the cost of publication.
I never published the book, for a reason I will explain. I
still have the cancelled check I sent back to Meremac,
Missouri, when the contract was broken. (qtd. in Schrader)
(Palmer says he discovered that "Jesse" had signed contracts with
three other parties to publish the same book. Palmer writes,
however, that he is convinced that "Jesse was really Jesse, that
he had repented for his life of crime...")
But hold on, the story gets stranger . . . .
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For related stories, visit:
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
http://feustel.mixi.net
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