Forrestal, Skippy Creator Shared
Similar Fate
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The following is posted with
permission of the correspondent:
Subj: Thanks for James Forrestal incisive story
Date:
9/26/03
For
the last few hours I have been mesmerized by your story, "Who Killed James Forrestal?" I
found this after reading your online book, "America's Dreyfus Affair",
with which I was very impressed, and wanted to learn more about you.
My
father, Percy L. Crosby
(1891-1964) also knew Forrestal, both of whom were clients of the formerly
prestigious NY law firm, Lord, Day & Lord (disbanded 1994, over which
former Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell reigned, Tom Dewey's close friend and
campaign advisor in the Truman-Dewey campaign). Both Forrestal and my father
met similar fates, and had made similar enemies who had them black-listed.
Currently, my family and I are fighting for our lives (in an Emile Zola type
battle you referred to in your book re America's Dreyfus Affair), in a major
fraud lawsuit, too controversial for media to cover, or expose the "truth
buried underground".
Some
of the underlying facts of suit are revealed in my web site story of my
father's life (http://www.skippy.com) who was
the creator of the famous "Skippy" character, among other literary
pursuits (political cartoons, diatribes against the high and mighty, etc.). It
may be of interest to you. If so, I would very much like to speak with you. You
have done an amazing and splendid job of research and writing, and I'm very
impressed.
Your
analysis of the Israel-Palestine problem, and its effect on Forrestal is
superb, and most timely for today—what Forrestal and others feared has
come to pass despite those of us small citizens who tried to speak out and warn
of the consequences. My late husband, Waldo Tibbetts,
and I were stationed in Israel (1957-60) when he was director of C.A.R.E., a
private relief agency, after which he spent 6 years in Saudi Arabia and Egypt
as civilian consultant-economist, 1980-86. I have been vilified and labeled as anti-Semitic
so often by the defendant Skippy pirates it no longer carries any pain,
although I learned to read, write and speak Hebrew fairly well while in Israel,
and could laugh (then) at the disparaging comments made to my husband and me as
"goyim" (gentiles), done in friendly, joking manner.
My
outlook changed after I learned of my father's 16 years of confinement as a
political prisoner in a mental hospital, and those who held him hostage. Like
Henry Forrestal, I also am "damned bitter" about the disinformation,
cover-up and became the target for the defendants' relentless efforts to
silence me, portraying me as mentally ill, like they did my father. So much for
the goodness and popularity of the "famous" SKIPPY brand peanut
butter, truly a story deserving of Dickens, where crime pays big and there is
no honor among thieves.
Sincerely,
Joan
Crosby Tibbetts, President
Skippy,
Inc.
Administratrix, Percy Crosby Estate http://www.skippy.com
If you haven't yet read the Skippy story
on her site you should do so. It's extremely shocking
and revealing.
David
Martin
September
29, 2003
Addendum
See
also ÒCrime, Corruption,
Copyright, and a KidsÕ Comic: SkippyÓ by Michael Dooley and ÒA Tale of Two CartoonistsÓ by Hugh
Turley. Additional information on
Crosby from the present writer is to be found in ÒRooseveltÕs Revenge?Ó and ÒPercy Crosby on Franklin Roosevelt.Ó
July
23, 2014
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