MASCOTS IN THE NEWS: Elmo Attacker Beaten

A Florida man picked the wrong day to tickle Elmo. The man who police say assaulted another man dressed in an Elmo suit left the altercation with two broken fingers and was detained for a mental health evaluation, police said. The dust-up between the suspect and the man dressed as the beloved Sesame Street character occurred Saturday afternoon in a guitar store in the city of Winter park. The suspect came into the store and began assaulting customers, including the man in the red furry suit, police said.

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LONE GUNMEN: Patton Assassinated?

AS I WAS TOLD:  After watching the movie,  Brass Target*, I asked a retired intelligence officer, what he thought about the movie's premise, that Patton was assassinated. Much to my surprise, with a straight face, he firmly stated, "no comment". That was the end of that conversation. 

*Brass Target is a 1978 American war film. It stars John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan, Sophia Loren and Max von Sydow.The film revolves around the actual historical event of Gen. George S. Patton's fatal automobile crash. It suggests it was not an accident but a conspiracy.

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LONE GUNMEN: Who Killed President Kennedy?

AS I WAS TOLD: In a conversation with an individual in the mid-1990's, somehow the Kennedy assassination came up. This individual stated that as a teenager, he worked for Jack Ruby's wife in some sort of telephone "boiler room" scam operation. She told him that Kennedy was killed by "the Cubans [failed Bay of Pigs] and the mob [Robert Kennedy putting too much pressure on them]."

Update:  11/21/10 "Temple F. Bowley's life changed forever when he came upon a Dallas plice office lying dead in the city's Oak Cliff section on Nov. 22, 1963...J.D. Tippit was the dead office. His killer was Lee Harvey Oswald...[Bowley] used the police radio to report the shooting. Officers poured into Oak Cliff and quickly arrested Oswald at the Texas Theatre." ---Scott K. Parks, Dallas Morning News, 11/21/10

END OF STORY?

Bowley worked as a doorman at Jack Ruby's night club in the 1950s.

"But ever since Nov. 22, 1963, he has worrried that the connection somehow might cast suspicion on him."---Scott K. Parks, Dallas Morning News, 11/21/10

WHY WORRY FOR 47 YEARS?

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