“Cum Grana Sails.”
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my daughter Melanie who has remained steadfast and diligent in her love, support and faithful understanding of my delicate prison term. During this period she pushed me to do the research and write the book that I have wanted to write for over forty years. It took going to prison for something I did not do and have my daughter force me to use the bitterness to write this book.
God bless you Melanie and my other five children who have been supportive and faithful as well as my beloved friend for life, Eileen Devins who has not only stood by me through all of my time in prison, but as my soul-mate, she has been responsible for editing and formatting this book which was a significant amount of work
I love each of you more than I love life itself and count myself blessed for your place in my life.
Cast of Characters
HISTORICAL
Aristotle Onassis
Nicholas Branch
J. Edgar Hoover
Joseph Kennedy
William Holden (Father of Jackie’s
Still-born daughter)
Charlie Feldman
Janet L. Bouvier (Mother of Jackie)
Antonio Veciana
Earl Warren
Marguerite Oswald
Marilyn Monroe
George Schlee
Gardner Cowles
Rev. Francis Tucker
Truman Capote
Muhammad Hamshari (Hired Sirhan Sirhan to murder RFK
funded by Aristotle Onassis, husband of the Former Mrs. Kennedy)
Christina Onassis
Prince Rainier
Mohamed al, Fayed.
Michael Hassner (aka Muhammad Hamshari)
Lee Radziwell (Sister of Jackie)
Suzanne Roosevelt
Robert F. Kennedy
Cord Meyer,(Director of CIA)
Mary Meyer,(Mistress of JFK
Gratsos Georgakis
David Karr
Lyndon B. Johnson
Christina Onassis
Tina Onassis
Helene Gaillet
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jacquelyn B. Kennedy
John Connelly
Mrs. Connelly (Nellie)
Lee Harvey Oswald
Marina Oswald
Jack Ruby
Guy Banister
David Ferret
Roy Truly
Linnie Mae Randle
Ruth Paine
Nicholas Branch
Officer Tipton
T. J. Mackey
Louis Wagner
Winn Everett
Wayne Elko
William Sommerset
Joseph A. Milteer
Salvatore Giancana
Jack Karlinsky
Edwin A. Walker
Clay Shaw
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson
Bobby W. Hargis
Agent Hill
Agent Grant
Russell Shively
George de Mohrenschidt
Lawrence Parmenter
Bobby Dupard
Ramon (Chopo) Benitez
Frank Vasquez
James Lesousky
John G. Heyburn II
Fulgencia Batista
Jacaba Arbenz’ Guzman
Che Guevara
Fidel and Raul Castro
William Reily Coffee Company
FICTIONAL
Merwin Hamilton
Darian Welch
Paul Fignosky
Ray Ray Beltray
Louis de Bouvier
Tony Astorina
Chapter I
IN THE ATLANTA FEDERAL PRISON
The day I was convicted I went to prison. I did not have to do so, I could have gone home to await the sentencing, and in retrospect, I should have. But I was so angry and embarrassed that I just felt like I should be punished for the damage I had done to my children, most especially my son who was an honored soldier who had served in the Gulf War and came home to become a police officer and while serving his community he was paralyzed in a fall while saving the lid, of a young girl threatening suicide. For his own private reasons, enhanced by my own condition, my son would take his own precious life.
To say that I was sick with depression and hatred and a lack of understanding as to why my life had come to this state, would be a gross understatement. But that pain was only beginning, as I would soon discover while at Manchester Federal Camp in 2008. To begin with my wife divorced me (after 38 years) without a "how-do-you-do" as they say...and has not written or spoken to me since 2007. Of course it did not stop her from stealing my identity, running up bills which she failed to pay. But this was typical of her “Holly-Go-Litely” attitude, the irony was that I knew who she was when I first met her, and I loved her for it…”so you gets what you are due!”
I was poisoned by a Cambodian PA at “Sick-Call”while at Manchester Federal Prison (because she said that I had killed innocent children). The medication she prescribed caused me to bleed for a period of five (5) weeks until I sued the Bureau of Prisons in a habeas corpus motion seeking medical attention for the condition which caused the loss of fifty-five (55) pounds in less than sixty(60) days.
I was taken to the hospital at Hazard, Kentucky where several kidney stones were removed by a wonderful Indian doctor who saved my life. As a result of my aggressive action to take care of myself, the warden placed me on diesel therapy which is a punitive action the BOP uses against inmates whom they considered to be troublesome.
Shackled hand and feet, placed in a bus and driven ten (10) hours to Atlanta where I was placed in the most draconian, antiquated, notorious prison in the United States with the possible exclusion of Sing Sing, Alcatraz, and Leavenworth (where I would go later).
Worse than the condition of the prison was the brutal manner in which the prison guards treated the inmates. Forcing them to be herded into small rooms with no chairs to wait for hours to be processed which included "cavity" inspections, verbal and physical abuse with the slightest provocation.
I was so weary, I curled-up by a post and went to sleep on the concrete floor as the other inmates yelled at each other and walked over me. Finally near midnight was rousted by the inmates as we were lined up in single file and marched through the pipe dripping rust and rat infested dungeon somewhere beneath the floor of this archaic federal prison.