Both this forum and another major one seem lately to be besieged by newer or less informed posters who tend to
be predisposed to reinventing the wheel. This tendency is aggravated, in my experience, from suspicions incompatible
with making allowance for the notion that Dougherty's medical record was not deemed to be the business of the public,
and similarly regarded records were usually only made public resulting from FOIA litigation.
Will the following have the opposite effect of influencing readers and posters to be less suspicious of Dougherty?
Would fakery not have required Truly and R.C. Dougherty and his son, Jack to have conspired, or did Truly recently
fall of the back of a turnip truck, i.e., a clueless pawn in the Doughertys' deceptions ?
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10490&relPageId=781&search=mr._truly%20and%20retarded
It seems the protection of medical records has since been codified into law. Those not charged with a crime should
be afforded confidentiality and those under investigation should be unknown until charged and this is the legal premise
for secrecy of grand jury deliberations. Our system once valued the standard that it is preferable to endure a thousand
guilty not held accountable vs. unjust conviction and punishment of one innocent person.
Dougherty
did not testify he had graduated from high school.
Dougherty's father, Redfern, described his son's challenges to investigators.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1136&relPageId=638&search=jack_and%20fatherand
Also present during the interview with JACK EDWIN DOUGHERTY was his father, R. C. DOUGHERTY, who advised his son had received a medical discharge from the U. S. Army and indicated his son had considerable difficulty in coordinating his mental facilities with his speech.
http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/html/WH_Vol19_0320b.htm
Immediately before employment at TSBD, Dougherty was employed by Goodwill Ind.
His military service was brief, considering the U.S. was engaged in World War in two major fronts at
the time of his discharge.
BTW, I spoke directly to a child of Dougherty's sister, five years ago. I called that individual to suggest the Dougherty
family donate a photo of uncle Jack to the Sixth Floor Museum, in consideration of the impending 50th anniversary of the
JFK Assassination. The reaction to my suggestion was "no" and the stated reason was the upset to the family in reaction
to negative opinions and suspicions about Jack posted on the internet. I was asked how the recipient of my call could be
certain I was not one of the interenet posters influencing such upset to the Doigherty family. I replied I was not one of those
posters, merely a researcher prioritizing verifiable facts and because I was asking nothing for myself since I had no connection
with the SFM and had not asked anything about Uncle Jack after I introduced myself as a researcher who had independently
determined I was calling and speaking with one of Jack's most immediate surviving relations since Jack had remained under his
mother's roof his entire life and had fathered no known children.
