Tag: Seymour Gelber
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A Miami police informant, a prophetic racist and lingering questions about JFK’s death
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Bulldog first published this story in November 2013 in advance of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Today, on the 60th anniversary, questions about Kennedy’s death are once again in the news… -
A Miami police informant, a prophetic racist and fresh questions about JFK’s death
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
At 94, former Miami Beach mayor and still active Miami-Dade Senior Judge Seymour Gelber is among the few who remember Miami police informant No. 88, Willie Augustus Somersett. Somersett has been dead 43 years. But in the half-century of assassination lore that’s grown up around the murder of President John F. Kennedy, Somersett has attained a kind of immortality as the man who heard about it first.
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