E. Howard Hunt's take on JFK assination-Comments welcome

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DWalt said:
Does anyone remember the hitman who ran an ad in “Soldier of Fortune” magazine for his services? And someone hired him? I don’t remember any of the details, but it was big news at the time, I think that was sometime back in the late 1980s. I remember thinking that the ad staff at SOF must have been total morons to run an ad like that.
I found he story. Soldier of Fortune Magazine Held Liable for Killer'''s Ad - The New York Times
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But there was just NO way I could let this go!

Back before I enlisted, I had a subscription to SOF. Thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. The want-ads in back were interesting to say the least. One that stood out was from a "Capt. Whitehead" who had two heavy weapons platoons and one A-team for hire and that they were "expensive".

A lot of that was real.....and a lot not so much...but it was part of that magazine's appeal.

Of course when I joined Uncle Sam's Misguided Children we still enjoyed reading SOF...it was considered in the same vein as "Crazy", "Cracked", or "Mad" magazines.
 
The Last Standing Knight said:
But there was just NO way I could let this go!

Back before I enlisted, I had a subscription to SOF. Thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. The want-ads in back were interesting to say the least. One that stood out was from a "Capt. Whitehead" who had two heavy weapons platoons and one A-team for hire and that they were "expensive".

A lot of that was real.....and a lot not so much...but it was part of that magazine's appeal.

Of course when I joined Uncle Sam's Misguided Children we still enjoyed reading SOF...it was considered in the same vein as "Crazy", "Cracked", or "Mad" magazines.
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I've never seen a "Soldier of Fortune" magazine but figured the readers were mostly harmless goofy folks who had watched too many mercenary movies or read too many violent comic books. Nowadays you could probably include video gamers and YouTubers. Is that an inaccurate assessment?
 
Nixon's Plumbers were an excellent example of people who engaged in nefarious and illegal activities and who were worse than rank amateurs.
There is a cachet to idea of a "mercenary", the "soldier of fortune". The reality is quite different.
I read "Soldier of Fortune" 40 + years ago, it was fun, so long as you didn't take it too seriously. A friend said its readership was mostly veterans reading about the military they wish they'd served in.
In "Underboss" Sammy "The Bull" Gravano describes his first hit, says he missed a lot of the fundamentals, made a lot potentially serious mistakes. James Earl Ray-another one, he left plenty of clues behind.
"Explosives" experts usually think explosives are merely firecrackers on a larger scale.
 
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