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Another group of CIA-baiting researchers is now overlapping into ufology. They are the comparatively small teams of amateur sleuths dedicated to investigating the assassination of President Kennedy. Here the black Cadillacs and the slight, dark men in black suits are viewed as Cubans and CIA agents. Paranoia runs high because now over fifty witnesses, reporters, and assassination investigators have met with sudden death, some under the most suspicious circum- stances. The full story of Kennedy's murder in Dallas in 1963 is filled with incredible details, many of them similar to things found in the most mysterious of the UFO incidents. Photos and physical evidence have vanished or been tampered with just as in so many UFO cases. A wide assortment of mystery men have been involved; including doppelgangers of the late Lee Harvey Oswald,' This other Oswald even turned up at a public rifle range before the assassination, making a nuisance of himself (so the witnesses would be sure to remember him?} as he fired an unusual gun which spat out balls of fire at the target. He also visited an automobile showroom and went for a demonstration ride in a new car. The real Oswald could not drive. His The huge Warren Report contains numerous pieces oi sworn testimony describing MIB-type men in the vicinity of Dealer Plaza and the School Book Depository building immediately before and after the assassination. Long-haired men were seen. This may not sound extraordinary, but remember that long hair was most unusual in 1963. The Beatles did not begin to make an impression until 1964, and the long-hair fad did not get underway until 1965-6. Elemental hair styles have always been on the longish side, as we have already noted. The UFO lore is filled with accounts of pilots with angular faces and long, shoulder-length hair, usually blond, just as the gods, demons, and angels of earlier times sported long hair, Another interesting consistency is the unnatural colour of their hair, ,,. so unnatural that witnesses often comment on it. The late Mrs Mary Hyre, a newspaper reporter in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, received visits from strange personages soon after she began to write about local UFO sightings. Two of these strangers had long, silver hair, she said; They were young men, and I couldn't under-! stand why they had dyed their hair such a funny colour.’ Mrs Hyre also claimed encounters with darkly tanned, soberly dressed gentlemen who rode up to her office in black Cadillacs. One of them askofl her what she would do if someone ordered her Jerome Clark, one of America's leading ufologists, has his own theory about the present trend towards long hair. 'For a long time . contactees and their followers talked freely of the New Age, while the rest of us . *, merely sneered,' Clark wrote in Flying Saucer Review, September- October, 1970< 'Now there is considerable talk, even a popular song, about the coming of the Aquarian Age. One of the features of the New Age, as contactees predicted years ago, is the revival of interest in the occult: astrology, the Tarot, palmistry, telepathy, spiritualism, magic, ' See Richard PopMnh, The Second Oswald;, whereabouts at the time of these incidents are known. m .-and he was nowhere near the rifle range and auto agency. to stop publishing UFO reports, I'd tell them to go to hell," was her reply- v