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does anyone have this book?

I've got it, Joe - the one by Michael Benson, yeah? Want me to look something up?

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!See what is said about Mary E. Bledsoe and maybe gher son. I think the page was in the 130 range?see what you can find, I assune there is a search aid?

Actually it is about david ferrie pg 133? wher eit mentions Marys some.I need to know what it says

Righto, here ya go:"BLEDSOE, MARY E., Oswald witness. Bledsoe told the WC that she saw Oswald board a bus near Dealey Plaza ten minutes after the assassination. When the bus became stuck in traffic four minutes later, she said, Oswald left the bus at Lamar and Elm Streets, four blocks from the TSBD. Bledsoe had rented a room to Oswald for a week in October 1963, so she knew what he looked like. She said that Oswald, while on the bus, "looked like a maniac...and his face was so distorted." It's likely that Bledsoe was describing the Oswald she saw on TV later in the day-after his face was bruised by police battering-rather than the man she saw on the bus.Bledsoe died on March 27, 1969, at age 72. The Midlothian (Tex.) Mirror (April 10, 1969) reported, "...we have learned that her son was acquainted with [assassination suspect] David Ferrie." Like Oswald, Bledsoe's son was trained by Ferrie when Ferrie was a captain in the Civil Air Patrol."No separate entry for the son, but there's a list of sources if you want them?

Dealey Joe wrote:Actually it is about david ferrie pg 133? wher eit mentions Marys some.I need to know what it saysSorry, Joe I was busy typing the last one when you posted this. I'll see what I can find about her in the Ferrie entry.

Thanks that is what I was looking forI was in hopes there might be a little more.her sons were Porter and DavidDo you think the sources would helpif so post them if you don.i mind

From FERRIE, DAVID WILLIAM:"...As Captain David Ferrie of the Civil Air Patrol, Ferrie counted among his students Oswald and the son of Mrs. Mary Bledsoe, Oswald's onetime landlady, who told the WC that she recognized Oswald on a city bus moments after the assassination..."List of sources from the Bledsoe entry coming up!

"SOURCES: WR 24, 34, 119, 148, 150, 152, 235. WCH VI, 400. RTJ 162-5, 174. BELIN 57, 72. BISHOP 163. FMG III, 48, 70. BLAKEY 360"Now I'll go to the list at the front and get the full names of the sources (except WR - I guess you can figure out what that is! )

WCH: Warren Commission Hearings (refers to the 26 volumes of hearings and exhibits published with the Warren Report).RTJ: Rush To Judgement, Mark LaneBelin: Final Disclosure, David W BelinBishop: The Day Kennedy was Shot, Jim BishopFMG: Forgive My Grief vols I - IV, Penn Jones JrBlakey: The Plot to Kill the President, G Robert Blakey and Richard N Billings