Summer Reading
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The painting.
Running with the regional publication thread/piggyback….
In 1963, I watched the JFK funeral proceedings on black and white TV with Russell Grandberg and my mother. I suppose the affair had had a pretty profound impact on me. I was 10 years old. The famous pathologist, coroner to the stars, and leading JFK conspiracy guy Dr. Cyril Wecht was county coroner [Allegheny County, PA –where I grew up] for many years. Since then, I’ve been sympathetic to JFK conspiracy stories. I just finished a job for New Orleans Magazine. It was one of those stories, and a pretty crazy one at that!.
Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a
Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and
Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are linked to Lee
Harvey Oswald, ... Assassination and Emerging
Global Epidemics
By Edward T. Haslam
Dr Mary's Monkey - Did HIV originate in New Orleans?
This tale involves Dr. Alton Ochsner, Sr., and his co-worker, Dr. Mary Sherman. Both schooled or trained in Europe during their formative years, migrated to New Orleans to practice medicine, and were on the faculty at Tulane Medical School. Today Ochsner is a local medical legend; one of the physician founders of the medical complex bearing his name, Sherman is an unsolved New Orleans murder mystery.
Ochsner was and an early proponent of the link between smoking and lung cancer. He was a chest surgeon interested in all cancers and was elected national president of the American Cancer Society. He was also known for his ultraconservative politics.
Early in her career, Sherman published several papers pertaining to viral research [beginning in the 1940s]. After medical school, she finished a residency in orthopedics. In 1952, Ochsner recruited Sherman to New Orleans. He offered her a partnership at Ochsner Foundation Hospital, her own cancer laboratory, and a faculty position at Tulane. From 1952 until her death in 1964, Sherman published several research papers and served on expert committees dealing with bone pathology and cancers.
The day before the Warren Commission [investigating the assassination of president John F. Kennedy] arrived in New Orleans, police found Dr. Mary dead in her bed. Murdered. Sherman's death involves a conspiracy tale involving a clandestine laboratory operated by freakish, assassination plot-underworld figure David Ferrie, a heavily guarded linear accelerator, monkeys from Tulane Medical School, a young high school science fair winner [and Lee Harvey Oswald's secret lover], and a plot to kill Castro with cancer causing monkey cells orchestrated by a right wing marriage between Carlos Marcello and Alton Ochsner, Sr. The stealth viruses were then dumped in Haiti where they simmered for almost two decades before erupting into a worldwide epidemic of various cancers and AIDS.
The documented cause of Dr. Sherman’s death was a heart-penetrating stab wound to the chest. The autopsy also documented multiple stab wounds to the abdomen, left arm, and right leg. Her sexual organs were also lacerated, but these were postmortem wounds inflicted on the dead body. Even more fascinating were the burn injuries. The only remaining portion of Sherman's right arm was a piece of charred fragment of her upper arm bone. They rest of the extremity was burned to a crisp. The body was discovered in Sherman's bedroom, and the bed was smoldering. Could a smoking accident have caused such severe burns? Or had her body been tampered with AFTER death and staged?
The low down, according to Haslam, is this: Sherman conducted experiments to mutate monkey viruses to assist Ochsner in research [funded by the State department]. The viruses were to be used for “national security” purposes. Something went wrong with the linear accelerator, and Sherman suffered a severe but non-fatal burn. Her associates covered it up. Coincidentally, she couldn’t talk to the Warren Commission either! The case is closed.
After Sherman’s death, David Ferrie harvested the most lethal of the mutated monkey viruses and delivered them to Haiti, a country despised by the racist Ferrie and also close to Cuba. From Haiti the unleashed viruses spread around the world causing a pandemic of AIDS and soft tissue cancers. Maybe after all these years, the anti-Castro guys have finally won, huh?
