more than just a mere coincidence?

 

I found an article on the Internet, titled:

The Bizarre Deaths Following JFK's Murder

by David Martindale

Handwritten in the upper right-hand corner of the first page are the words, "Argosy, March 1977"

The article begins:

[Martindale] -- Rose Cherami was not the kind of woman you'd invite to a state dinner at the White House.  A junkie and a prostitute, she had been arrested at least 28 times on a variety of charges, using as many as 19 different aliases to try to camouflage her identity.  On November 20, 1963 -- two days before John F. Kennedy was assassinated -- Rose Cherami and a companion were driving back from Florida with a shipment of dope that was bound for a Dallas nightclub owner named Jack Ruby.  

Rose Cherami never made it to Dallas.  

Near Eunice, Louisiana, she got into a fight with the driver of the car, and after being beaten severely, she was thrown out of the moving auto onto Highway 190, where she was left for dead.  

Badly bruised but still alive, Rose Cherami was taken to Louisiana State Hospital in Jackson, where besides recovering from her injuries, she also was suffering narcotic withdrawals.  While at the hospital, she told psychiatrist Dr. Victor Weiss, Jr., that President Kennedy was going to be killed during his forthcoming motorcade in Dallas.  

Weiss ignored her remarks.  Heroin addicts say a lot of things when they haven't had a fix.  Only later, after he learned of Kennedy's death, did Weiss recall his conversation with the seemingly clairvoyant junkie.  

        A few days later, Rose Cherami was questioned by the Louisiana State Police.  She said she had been a stripper in Ruby's Carousel Club and was forced to smuggle dope for him or else he'd harm her children.  Asked if Ruby and Oswald knew each other, she said she had seen them together in Ruby's club on several occasions, and that, in fact, they were even "bed partners."  

After she was released, Rose Cherami returned to Texas, only to die mysteriously within two years.  On September 4, 1965, her head and the upper part of her body were lying on Highway 155 near Big Sandy, Texas at 3 A.M. when a car struck her, crushing her skull.  After a brief investigation, the police labeled her death an accident.  

No one knows why Rose Cherami was lying on the road that night.  

Few people would have taken note of her death, except that Rose Cherami is only one of dozens of individuals who have died mysteriously since the assassination of President Kennedy.  Penn Jones, Jr., the feisty former editor of the Midlothian (Texas) Mirror, was the first person to call attention to these strange deaths, and today his list includes well over 50 names.  

And although some of the victims had only a peripheral connection to the events in Dallas on November 22, 1963, others were either important witnesses or people who knew a great deal about Lee Harvey Oswald or Jack Ruby.  Most died within a three year period following Kennedy's death.

Yet according to the Warren Report, Lee Harvey Oswald and only Oswald was responsible for the death of President Kennedy.  The Commission emphatically denied there was any evidence of conspiracy.  But even as the Warren Commission was conducting its investigation, the mortality rate of witnesses began to soar, causing even the most sober observer to wonder whether the ensuing bloodshed was more than just a mere coincidence.

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