History Forum / General / General Topics / September 2003

Subj:  Thanks for James Forrestal incisive story
Date:  9/26/03
From:  jctskippy@aol.com
To:  dcdave1@erols.com (David Martin)

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 (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 labelled 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
Annandale, VA

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DC Dave
Author, "Who Killed James Forrestal?"
"America's Dreyfus Affair, The Case of the Death of Vincent Foster"
"Upton Sinclair and Timothy McVeigh"
"Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression"
http://www.thebird.org/host/dcdave
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