Conspiraphobia

The fear of even considering conspiracies.

I always laugh inside when I bring up the word conspiracy to a person who secretly has “Conspiraphobia”. Their continual grumblings of no and never sound like John Stewart when he imitates the Penguin” doing Channy… “Conspiracy naaaw..naw conspiracy never happens, naaaaw naaaww, impossible naaaaw.”

What world do these people live in? There is nothing to be afraid of it, it’s as American as apple pie. America is full of conspiracies.

Every time an ambassador is sent on a “special visit” to another country you can bet your soul that in the back rooms something is going down that resembles a plot.

Every time a senator or congressmen goes on one of these vacation jaunts paid for by some super corporation you can bet in the backroom of that corporation the mover and shaker of that are thinking about how to influence that official i.e.: conspiracy

Of the millions of “Top Secret” documents still classified, how many of them would reveal conspiracies against other countries or our own citizens? The amount of documents still classified top secret, restricted or confidential disproves beyond question the ability of the government to hide conspiracies and secrets. That is why many of them are still secret.

The CIA was born to conspire.

The Tobacco companies conspired for years not only to hide the truth but to influence or silence those who found out and or would publish the truth that tobacco is additive and deadly.

Is conspiring new to our government? I would ask the Native American Indian on that one.

Now we come to UFOs.

Talk about “Conspiraphobia”, mention the word conspiracy to a debunker, scientist or the media and they just shake their heads and laugh at you. Laughter sometimes hides fear and believe me they are afraid to death.

There is a great line in the Bela Lugosi film, “Dracula”; Van Helsing says

“The power of the vampire is that no one believes he is real”.

This goes for conspiracies, also.

In the 1940’s, the early days of UFO, even though the Air Force seem to not have a clue what UFO were, they still tried to force the public to withhold reports. They did this through a designed effort of intimidation and ridicule. In 1947 “when a reporter went out to interview someone who had seen a UFO, military intelligence agents had been there first …Many people had been apparently warned not to talk too much.”
This government policy doesn’t happen without direction, thy conspire…Oh all right, all right, I’ll hold my pen.

One of the first heads of the CIA, Rear Admiral- Rosco Hillenkoetter, made public statements regarding ending the UFO secrecy.
So just who was hiding these secrets and why? What Hillenkoetter described sounds like a dirty word to me. One investigator found over 125 reports between June and July in 1947. The idea that our military was not sitting somewhere planning some contingency on what these UFOs were and how to deal with them is absurd, especially since their own “theodolites” had tracked a “disc” at 18,000 miles an hour. Even the military agents had stated that some of the witnesses were beyond reproach and made conventional explanations “impossible”.
–“ UfOs and The National Security State,” by Richard Dolan

Good intelligence has to be based on common sense. Considering the war and the Atomic Bombs, and the timing of these sightings, not considering interplanetary visits would have been the height of arrogance.
But let’s go one step further. Much is said about the quality of the government work done back then:
- establishing the CIA,
- segregating the branches of the military,
- defying the job of Secretary Of Defense.

If they were that good then how would they proceed with this secret? Could you let it be known, even by a leak from your own military, that not only does the public have to worry about an atomic bomb – but also aliens? Would you ever allow this to get out, without knowing exactly what was up?
How could you possibly control the circus atmosphere or the rumors and dangers inherent in disclosure? So they conspire to keep this secret and they did it by restricting all middle level intelligence from any knowledge and most top level intelligence from the truth about UFOs. The highly fantastic idea of the even the possibility of being visited by aliens is perfect for this approach. It reinforced the secrecy a thousand time over because the ridicule around this topic stop even casual curiously by a very large majority in power.
But wouldn’t the scientist figure it out they are bright enough to see the data. Unfortunate their egos could have been easily played. After all without aliens they are the smartest people on earth. One scientist scientists suggest this could have happened.

Quoting Bernard Haisch, Ph. D. once Science Editor of “The Astrophysical Journal”. In writing about his intelligence connections over the years and their leaks to him, he states:

“It is interesting that from the clandestine intelligence world-perspective the scientific community, for all of its technical and theoretical sophistication, is viewed as remarkably naive in certain respects. We scientists tend to think that we know better than anyone else what is possible and what is impossible, and that we of all people could surely not be kept in the dark for very long.”

What does he say about the leaks?:

“I now have three completely independent examples of individuals whom I trust reporting to me that individuals they trust have admitted to handling alien materials in "our" possession in the course of secret official duties.”

It is so secret that even top people here it second hand!

By the way, take a look at this guy’s credentials.
http://www.ufoskeptic.org/


If all this doesn’t want you to be cured of “Conspiraphobia” remember Kevin Tellman. This was a modern conspiracy that the military applied without conscience. All the elements were there, including guards outside the doors making sure the others soldiers wouldn’t talk etc, etc, etc.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2633793

If the military would go to these lengths to cover a case of friendly fire, what would they do in the case of unfriendly aliens?

So what is the cure for “Conspiraphobia” ?

Take three doses of truth and a glass of open mind and call me in the morning.


Joseph Capp
UFO media Matters.

It's A Craft Dam It! II

By Joseph Capp

"RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region"

Video Of The Week:
http://www.ufomediamatters.com/

If the reader takes a close look at this headine above, the reader may note that, although this story was mainly about Roswell, it was also about some people in New Mexico who were actually witnessing something very strange ON A weekly bases. Kenneth Arnold wasn't the only one seeing these disks in the skies, many were seeing them. Some citizens were worried these “discs” flying over at close range, were Russian. There was practically a UFO flap in New Mexico around Roswell.

Flying craft concerns were not created in a vacuum, or because of strange lights, and not because of Kenneth Arnold or Roswell.



Don't let anyone convince you these “flying disks” sightings were caused by sci-fi movies, either I was a sci-fi fan and we bought the periodicals. The sci-fi writers were pretty sophisticated and had their aliens coming in great ships in all types, sizes, and shapes. Believe me, I don’t remember seeing any specific type. The truth is, if anything, the flying disks reports inspired producers and writer to throw together some of the movies to cash in on the craze.

None of these sci-fi great memories were out yet:
“Earth Vs The Flying Saucer”, “The Day The Earth Stood Still” ”, “The Thing from another World” , “Invasion of the Saucer Men” “The Twilight Zone, “Outer Limits”, etc, etc, etc.

Just to reinforce the case for UCC Unidentified Controlled Craft. If you took all the cases *Roswell, Brentwood, MJ12, Aztec, Betty and Barney Hill, Travis Walton, and you proved conclusively they were all hoaxes you would still be facing the UFO craft and entity dilemma. You would be facing thousands of witnesses in South America, England, France, Australia, people, credible witness who see these craft, some complete with entities. We are not talking about quick glances here that could have been a mistake. We are talking about detail observation.

How do we even know these encounters even happened?

The British intelligence knew it. Remember the British Secret “Condign Report” (the one they kept secret and researched because they were scared of the Russians). They tried to explain the close encounter cases and the entities reported by witnesses, in fact it was necessary to find a reason for these cases as something other than lies or hoaxes.

” ..these plasmas can play tricks on the minds and create the long vivid impressions. It was medically proven that localized electromagnetic fields cause response in the temporal lobes of the brain.” Condign Report

So they explain close encounters of this type by claiming “Plasma” caused magnetic disturbance in the brain.

Science has more evidence that global warming is a myth than UFO are “Plasma Balls”.

If you read a little in between the lines in the Condign Report you will understand why they emphasized “long vivid impression”. Lets say, long enough for these witness to observe great detail and report it.
No wonder they mention these witnesses were insistent about what they experienced. Wouldn’t you?

Let’s get damn real here! No one could change these witnesses’ minds about what they claimed they reported, therefore the researchers had to assert they were hallucinating. They couldn’t call them liars because they realized there were quite a few of these “Close Encounters” out there in UFO land complete with some testy entities. They also knew the caliber of some of the witnesses calling them liars and hoaxing just wouldn’t ring true. What do you do when your theory on just “mistaken witnesses” starts to reach this criteria of detail? Well simple, take a clue from the Russians. In the old days of the Soviet Union if you didn’t believe the state had all the answers, you were crazy. Problem solved.

I remember during the O’Hare incident and the UFC (Unidentified Flying Craft), ascientist who came on the Keth Oberman show. Keth Oberman asked about the stupid explanation put forth by the Skeptics and the FAA. The scientist on the show said: “Why don’t we just say we don’t know, when we don’t know.” To see a scientist practice some humility, well it felt both refreshing and genuine, something rarely vocalized by the scientific community on this subject.

So we have credible witnesses who Videoed, photographed and interacted with these craft around the world. The idea that our military would fly secret flying machines to all parts of the world; is absurd. These witnesses, sometimes in groups, are hoaxers or having hallucinations, I don’t think so.

We can all sit on our nice computer thrones and throw out explanations for what these people have reported, but, have we not become as what Chapman describes in “The Great Dictator”?

“We think too much and feel too little. Our cleverness has made us hard and unkind.”


Maybe the fools are to clever to see the truth

* Report on a Roswell Witnesses: Info care of Stanton Freidman:
An honored service man, Colonel Blanchard, who according to the debunkers, wasn’t bright enough to identify a weather balloon from an advanced craft, goes on to be promoted all the way up to:FOUR STAR GENERAL and VICE CHIEF OF STAFF, till he suddenly died. To me this was an honorable man whose’ first instinct was to give this story to the people where it belonged.

Note From Over The Hills:
I remember a craze that very few debunkers want to talk about. How the authorities were always blaming “Comic Books” for crime and juvenile delinquency.
Well there is one thing we know for sure now after 60 years, since the government forced Mad Comic Books and EC and other comic’s to make a choice; change their content or go to a magazine style, juvenile delinquency has all but disappeared in America.

“Hey mister you want to be just like me grab a six-shooter and rob everybody you see, just tell the judge I said it was all right…Yea! Bob Dylan

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matter

Not a bird, plane, light, It’s A Craft dam it!

PART 1 of 2

-What happens when both the clueless
and the disinfo pros tell you…
you didn’t see what you saw? photographed? videoed?

I read a lot of bloggers who deal with the UFO topic who just don’t get it. Or don’t want you to get it.

One Big Thing they don’t get is: there is as much evidence of technologically superior craft flying around as there is evidence of bizarre lights in the night.

I believe the everyday people --and the pilots-- do observe lights that do very odd things. Plenty of witnesses are bringing a lot to the table, as far as credibility, and when you include photos and videos, well, it’s a no-brainer.
But when bloggers claim what it is all about is non-intelligent anomalies, I have to take umbrage.
Another tactic is to claim these widely witnessed craft are all designed by our government in above-top-secret projects, and therefore not “alien”. They fly them all around the world folks even in the jungles of South America.

But this last-ditch assertion doesn’t ring true if you look at the history of UFO sightings. Here’s an under-reported example, some almost-hidden history about UFOs

I was at a lecture featuring Timothy Good in New York City; Mr. Good’s presentation showed newly released documents, including the many reports by US Airmen during World War II citing foo fighters. Notably, some of these were described by both pilots and by radar ops not as lights, but as air craft shaped like cylinders. Wouldn’t that have been pretty far back for any kind of technological breakthrough as speculated by some UFO researchers curiously focused on Germany and its aeronautics? That alleged German tech --boy, must have been pumping out those flying disk out early in those factories!
Here's an example Foo Fighters Japan and Craft photo 1870.

http://sped2work.tripod.com/foo_fighters.html

http://www.ufocasebook.com/bestufopictures.html

Circa 1955, consider the famous “Newhouse Film”; those still debating the Newhouse case, saying it was birds, are forgetting one important point. Newhouse witnessed craft that “were like discus.. gunmetal in color”.
What was finally caught on film were lights, because they moved too far away for any detail. In other words, the witnesses say they were craft. Newhouse’s wife was the one who first saw them --and observed the craft for several minutes-- while she tried to persuade her husband to pull over and look. Another interesting note--but unfortunately, not a rare occurrence in the field-- it took her husband several minutes to look for his camera:

http://www.ufoarea.com/events_tremonton.html

When astronaut Gordon Cooper reported his account of chasing UFOs over Germany, he didn’t say ‘we chased lights’. He said they were “lens-shaped objects” and observed how they “flew in formation”. They had this crazy way of moving “sideways” when the pilot tried to close in on them. This was a quote from Cooper’s statement on the “UFOs Unplugged” DVD.

By the way, Jumping’ Jim Oberg would be funny debunking on Cooper if it wasn’t so spineless. Oberg reports he spoke with a NASA engineer who happened to be a friend of Cooper who knew all about these sightings by Cooper and that that it was in New Mexico and not in Germany and the explanations was… floating seed pods carried by the wind.

I think we all know technocrats and disinfo guys like these who must have an answer --or feed us a line-- no matter how just plain dumb it is. Yeah, Jumpin’ Jim Oberg would have us believe that an Engineer at NASA he met at lunch, over the repeated statements of an American Hero who was up in space and flying many commercial and experimental aircraft --not behind a computer.

Reader, you buy this load from Oberg? Oberg, who never had the cojones to call the American Hero from Shawnee, Oklahoma a liar outright in print when he was alive --and therefore able to respond to the professional debunker’s disinfo campaign.

You see, in addition to being a Marine, an astronaut, a highly decorated Colonel, and a pilot with more than 7,000 hours of flight time, 4,000 hours of that in jet aircraft flying all types of commercial and all kinds of general aviation airplanes and helicopters, Col. Gordon Cooper was also both a test pilot of experimental craft, and an aircraft designer, who consulted with Lockheed and other aeronautic groups involved in commercial, defense, and space exploration on advanced craft.

So, hey, Oberg, it’s ok to spin a story around a professional pilot, astronaut, and aircraft designer’s first-person testimony? But to call him a liar out loud? That’s a NO NO! What’s the matter Jimmy, afraid Col. Gordon Cooper might’ve sued you…and won?

You sir, in my book, have no ethics, only innuendo.

Answers to Oberg debunking Cooper Here:

http://www.cohenufo.org/obergsiterebut_7d.htm

Part II
There Are Craft Out There

Note:
I love the idea of free speech. But with this
wonderful blessing we received through the maximum sacrifice of our fellows human beings must come the serious responsibility of using it justly.

Joseph Capp
UFO Media Matters

Part II Travis Walton The Hoax That Wasn't

Part II

Walton: the man with a second chance.

What would happen to a person emotionally who was abducted by intelligent entities for five days.? Do the debunkers even start out with the possibility it is true? History speaks volumes to the only answer, and it is no.
APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization) held a secret polygraph test (November 15) five days after the abduction, and three days after the emotional breakdown induced through the introduction the drug alcohol by the psychiatrist. The polygraph examiner described Travis as “trying to control his breathing” so as to fool the test. APRO tried to protect Watson by hiding the results ( with friends like these…). This usually happens when a belief system gets in the way of the facts. If there are aliens our only hope is following the data honestly. Although we may not get the results we want we should apply common sense and honesty to get to the truth. An example of debunking in history is the Louis Pasture. A doctor who felt Pastures claim that “Rabies” came from a “Virus” was publicly debunked when the doctor injected massive amounts of the “Virus” into his body. He did not get “Rabies”. I am sure at the time the case was closed for everyone except of course Pasture. Eventually it was discovered the Virus was weakened from setting in the lab. For all purposes the doctor had immunized himself by injecting the weaken Rabies virus.
There are millions upon millions of people out there just like Travis Walton, before he was abducted by a UFO; people who lived in a fantasy world, and who ended up in trouble as a youth. Travis took a turn in his life during his probation. He started working and eventually married. Because of his effort, his youthful conviction was expunged from the record.
The “National Inquirer”, investigated the story, found Travis to be so upset it necessitated flying in a husband-and-wife team of psychiatrists from Colorado to tranquilize the kid (Travis) and keep the cowboy (his brother) from exploding.
Jeff Wells reported “The kid was a wreck and it was all the psychiatrist could do to get him ready for the lie-detector expert we had lined up.
The test lasted an hour and I was in the next room fending off the TV crew when I heard the cowboy scream: "I'll kill the son of a bitch!"
“The kid had failed the test miserably. The polygraph man said it was the plainest case of lying he'd seen in 20 years but the office (The National Enquirer) was yelling for another expert and a different result.
To head that off we had the psychiatrist put the cowboy and the kid through a long session of analysis.
Their methods were unique. The next day the four of them disappeared into a room and soon a waiter was headed there with two bottles of cognac.
At the end of it the psychiatrists were rolling drunk but they had their story and the brothers were crestfallen.
It seemed that the kid's father, who had deserted them as a child, had been a spaceship fanatic and all his life the kid had wanted to ride in a spacecraft.
He had seen something out there in the woods, some kind of an eerie light which had triggered a powerful hallucination which might recur at any time. There was no question of any kidnap by any mushroom men.”
Does anybody believe this scenario? I ask you, if you were a prosecuting attorney, would you introduce this psychiatrist report as evidence of guilt? If the psychiatrists believed the possibility of trauma in this case, they should have refused a polygraph test at that time. Could you imagine what would happen in a traumatic rape case, where the victim was held for five days, if the police asked the victim to take a polygraph test the next day? And after not getting the answer they wanted, they get the victim stinking drunk and declare them insane.
If Walton was traumatized by an “eerie light” which caused a “psychotic break”, as reported by the psychiatrists, what psychiatrist would feed a person alcohol? It is obvious the good doctors believed Travis was either hallucinating or lying. There was no other possibility.
Now, for the first lie detector test. Mr. McCarthy, the examiner, had excellent credentials. He was trained at the Army's polygraph school at Fort Gordon. Mr. McCarthy is a member of the American Polygraph Association and has been licensed by the State of Illinois since 1964 –impressive. Remember, Mr. McCarthy reported it was an obvious hoax, with Travis trying to control his breathing.
I think we can discount this test for several reasons. Wouldn’t any person who, the last time they were tested, three days earlier and broke down completely, try to control their emotional reaction, especially after a five day traumatic kidnapping? Is it possible they would, during the test, instinctively, hold their breath, breathing erratically, or even controlled breathing? I would bet all three.
Travis’ breakdown happened four days earlier. Remember Travis and Duane were drugged (alcohol). It would be conceivable to me that Walton would try to get his name cleared of the “hoax”, especially if it true. He may have pretended he was OK even though he was in a severe state of shock or he may have not even known how bad he was. In either case the above polygraph test results should never be considered a definitive answer at that time, no matter who administered it.
Duane, Walton’s brother, was not a “psychopath”. Yes, he believed aliens were good, he said he had sightings himself. None of them tried to hide these facts from the authorities. Duane appeared to hate the press and authority figures. He was very protective of his brother. So what? With a father who cared more about UFOs than his family, I think the idea that his brother protected him is fine in my book. It is amazing they didn’t hate the father and believe it was all bunk. Or, maybe, they had seen the evidence themselves and it couldn’t be denied, exactly what they said.
Walton didn’t believe the aliens were so great.
It was the psychiatrists, the journalist, and the debunkers who showed no concern at all, no emotion just the critical eye examining every detail with a predefined conclusion in mind and no common sense. Walton acted like a man with “battle fatigue”. His battle was not only with the alien reality but also with human reactions to the unknown. I don’t think any of us could imagine how it must feel to wake up with strange creatures around, not in a state of semi consciousness, but wide awake. Think about the magnitude of what we are examining here before you answer that.
He ran toward the craft, sure he would meet wonderful space brothers, and what he found was far from it.
The idea of multiple sightings in Hyneck and NICAPs days was frowned upon. It was usually dismissed as a product of either hallucination or a hoax. Many reports were not made public or were dismissed because they wanted UFOs to be taken seriously. It was hard enough to make the powers that even look into the subject matter. As always humans decided what these aliens should do, or shouldn’t do, based upon the pre-conceived agenda we have given them.
Talk of aliens and you were dessert for the debunkers. Especially if you were, let’s just say, not a professional, to be polite. In these days, however, there have been thoroughly researched cases where multiple interactions with UFOs have been documented by MUFON and others. As far as the UFO close encounter, many witnesses have reported quasi- religious feelings. That is exactly how some process their encounters. Now as far as the debunkers pointing out Walton was not dehydrated after 5 days of captivity, I guess they got me on that one. I can’t think of any way the aliens could have given him water.
At this point you may be at least open minded enough to say:
I agree the way everyone handled this case was very unprofessional from the on-start. This ended up clouding the picture. None of the tests were conclusive. Most people believed these men saw something. They are still alive today. Perhaps another lie detector test is in order…
“The following report on the final polygraph examination of Travis Walton, Mike Rogers and Allan was actually sponsored by a skeptic, Jerry Black. The test was performed with the latest state of the art equipment, by Cy Gilson, the most highly respected polygraph expert”.
The relevant questions asked during the polygraph test, and the answers given, are reproduced here:
http://www.cohenufo.org/Gilson_Wltn%20Ltr%20to%20Black.htm

Of course the resilts of this test can't be right TRAVIS was in his right mind.

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Part I Travis Walton The Hoax That Wasn't

Travis Walton: The Hoax that Wasn’t
Part One:
By Joseph Capp

Sometimes the truth is hiding in the spin.

Wednesday, November 5, 1975
Seven men working a “tree-thinning” contract (9 years in business) in Turkey Springs, Arizona returning home from working late due to trying to meet a deadline, sight a UFO craft in a clearing in the woods.
They report to an officer later that they had spotted a UFO hovering there and a fellow worker, Travis Walton, ran towards the UFO despite their warnings. He then was hit by a beam of light from the object. He was knocked back ten feet and lay unmoving.
Frightened, the remaining six fled in the car. When they returned later, he was gone, so was the craft. They reported it to the police two hours later. The police officers returned with them to the site and after a through search Travis was officially listed as missing.
On Nov 10th, suspecting foul play, the authorities asked the 6 members of the crew to take polygraph exams. They agreed. Five passed the test; one was inconclusive.
On Nov 11th, five days later, Walton calls his brother-in-law at 12 midnight and begs him to pick him up. When he is found, he appears visibly frightened. He starts babbling about spaceships and aliens.
The story gets picked up by the national press then the circus moves in including the UFO researchers.

“The Skeptical Inquirer” and its late truth machine; Phillip Klass weigh in on this “laughable story” by attacking the characters of the 7 men and the evidence supporting their story.

Debunkers’ Concerns:
1. The young man, Travis Walton, had a expunged record (burglary) so Mr. No Klass mentioned the record in his book, but didn’t mention how he came by this fact. Of course, this should have been a plus to Walton’s character, since he did get the conviction wiped off the record by doing what was right, but Klass didn’t represent it that way in the book. Travis had revealed his youthful offence in the primary examination after the UFO incident.
2. Mr. Klass had valid data which indicated that certain information had been withheld intentionally by APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization) which was based in Tucson, Arizona. (Travis Watson failed his first polygraph test administered by an expert with 10 years experience, hired by APRO).
3. Travis took a second Polygraph test (two months later) and he passed, but Klass pointed out the examiners only had 2 years experience and was instructed what questions to ask.
4. The motive given for the hoax by the debunkers and others is: Mike Rogers, owner of the business for nine years,” had grossly underestimated the magnitude of the job and could not complete it on time” This would result in payment held up till spring unless he could prove an act of God –which this was.

The Walton family are described as a “UFO Freak family” because they believed that UFOs were space ships from other worlds. Some members of the family had claimed to have witnessed UFO craft. "I'm not surprised,” said one member, “I don’t think he (Travis) is on this earth. Duane, his brother, “the psychopath” said "Travis will be found; the UFO's are friendly” when he was questioned by the authorities right after the disappearance. Travis Walton admitted that his father, who deserted them, believed in UFOs. “Klass noted: “no concern expressed by family” therefore they knew his disappearance was a lie and family was fantasy prone. And, yada, yada, yada…

By the way, just a note, under the freedom of information act documents were de-classified to indicate activity by UFOs in and around the areas at that time:

“DOD, USAF, and CIA document reveal that during October, November, and December of 1975, reliable military personnel repeatedly sighted unconventional aerial objects in the vicinity of nuclear-weapons storage areas, aircraft alert areas and nuclear-missile control facilities at Loring Air Force Base, Maine; Wurtsmith AFB Michigan; Malstrom AFB, Montana; Minot AFB, North Dakota…”

http://www.cohenufo.org/Gilson_Wltn%20Ltr%20to%20Black.htm


There is no doubt the press thought this was a good story - but never real. Listen to the tale weaved by the “National Inquirer” journalist Jeff Wales – never a real champion of the abduction story.
From the man who picked Wales up: "The brother has taken charge and the brother is some kind of… The kid is scared to death of him and so is our reporter."
Jeff Wales, upon seeing Travis’s brother for the first time reported “The cowboy (Travis Watson’s brother Duane) was no disappointment. He was one of the meanest and toughest-looking men I've ever seen - in his late twenties, a rodeo professional and amateur light-heavyweight fighter, a total abstainer, broad-shouldered, T-shirt packed with muscle, chiseled-down hips, bow legged, eyes full of nails, tense, unpredictable.”
"Nobody is going to laugh at my brother," he told Wales.
Wales replied… “we would hide them away and pay the kid a grand to tell his story”
“To our relief the cowboy agreed - but not, he said, because of the money, because his brother had a true story to tell which would enlighten the world”.
“Our first sight of the kid (Travis) was at dinner in the hotel dining room that night. It was a shock. He sat there mute, pale, twitching like a cornered animal. He was either a brilliant actor or he was in serious funk about something”.
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Part II
Walton: The Man With Second Chance.