Haroldson Lafayette Hunt was named in 1948 as the richest man in America. Born in Illinois, he moved to Dallas and was in the mid-30’s, pumping over 65,000 barrels of crude oil a day from his many oil wells. He was also a man of extreme political worldviews. He blended his oil capital with the vinegar of his opinions tossed into his two radio programs: Life Line and Facts Forum. He also wrote several pocket books he published himself and sold at tables in front of his office building for 50 cents apiece. One of these books was called Alpaca, a book about a Utopian culture run by wealthy people much like himself.
Some conspiracy realists believe H.L. Hunt was part of the JFK Assassination. I submit these 10 questionable actions for you to decide:
- The day before the assassination, Eugene Hale Brading, (aka Jim Braden) a Mafia man with a long arrest record, visited Hunt’s office building in Dallas. Why? Brading was arrested in Dealey Plaza on the day of the shooting when he was found to have taken an elevator to the ground floor of the Dal-Tex Building shortly after the shots were fired. What was he doing in the Dal-Tex building? Was he placing an order with Jennifer Juniors? Brading was released, however, because he gave the police an alias.
- Did Marina Oswald know H.L. Hunt? According to Hunt’s aide, John Curington, Marina visited the Mercantile Bank Building at 1 Main place (Hunt’s office building) 2 days before the assassination. Why?
- Hunt’s son, Nelson Hunt, was responsible for the hate ad placed in the Dallas Morning News the day of the assassination. Documents declassified in 1983 revealed that the FBI apparently believed the note Oswald addressed to “Mr. Hunt” was intended for H. L. Hunt’s ultra-conservative millionaire son, Nelson Hunt.
- George de Mohrenschildt bragged about going to parties and socializing with H.L. Hunt. He also suggested to Willem Oltmans that H.L. Hunt was going to pay Lee Harvey Oswald $100 thousand dollars to kill president Kennedy. Oltmans claimed that de Mohrenschildt had admitted serving as a middleman between Lee Harvey Oswald and H. L. Hunt in an assassination plot involving other Texas oilmen, anti-Castro Cubans, and elements of the FBI and CIA.
- Again, in another comment made by H.L. Hunt’s right hand man John Curington, Hunt actually had a direct line to J. Edgar Hoover’s office. Hoover supplied information about MLK to Hunt who broadcast it in his ‘lifeline’ radio program which aired accross the country and portrayed King as a communist.
- Hunt was friends with General Edwin Walker. In the controversial book Farewell America, the author Hepburn writes that Hunt and Walker vacationed together at one of Hunt’s Mexican hide-aways until after Christmas of 1963.
- Again back to Curington, he says in Dick Russell’s book, The Man Who Knew Too much that Hunt called him early Saturday morning (November 23, 1963) and go check out the security surrounding Oswald at the DPD. Curington followed orders and went to the jail, got onto an elevator, where Fritz and Oswald just happened to be! Curington said that Captain Fritz said to him, “Meet the son of a bitch that killed the president.” Curington reported that security was lax to his boss who immediately left town.
- H.L. Hunt and General Edwin Walker were active in the Dallas branch of the John Birch Society.
- Did H.L. Hunt own the Dallas Uranium and Oil Co. housed in the Dal-Tex building as some have speculated? Since it wasn’t registered, was it a front?
- Jack Ruby took a woman, Connie Trammell, to the Hunt offices for a job interview the day before the assassination as per Hunt Security man, Paul Rothermel. The smarmy Ruby and the Right wing Hunts? Whatever could they have had in common?
As an end note, I would like to add that Curington was indicted in the mid-70’s as well as the Hunt brothers. Rothermel was later found to also be employed by the CIA while working for H.L. Hunt.
