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( Part 1 & # 8211 ; The first Ricky White News Story ) NOV. 22, 1963: ANOTHER STORY BLURS THE FACTS SON OF DALLAS COP SAYS DAD WAS 1 OF 3 WHO SHOT KENNEDY By Andrew Likakis In another eccentric turn to a enigma that has haunted Americans for more than a one-fourth century, the boy of a former Dallas constabularies officer programs to state the universe that his male parent was one of the bravos of President John F. Kennedy. Ricky White, a 29-year-old, unemployed oil equipment salesman in Midland, says he & # 8220 ; had no construct of of all time, of all time giving this narrative out & # 8221 ; but decided to make so after FBI agents began inquiring inquiries in May 1988. & # 8220 ; I & # 8217 ; m stating you a narrative that has touched me, non merely others, and I feel uncomfortable merely stating it to aliens, & # 8221 ; White said during a recent interview with the Austin American-Statesman. Monday in Dallas, White is scheduled to demo studies material implicating his male parent, Roscoe Anthony White, in the 1963 blackwash. It suggests that White, who died in 1971, was a member of an blackwash squad of three taws, that he fired two of the three slugs that killed the president, and that he besides killed Dallas constabularies officer J. D. Tippit during the manhunt for Lee Harvey Oswald. Among the stuff: a rifle with telescopic sight that uses the same sort of ammo as Oswald & # 8217 ; s gun ; records demoing that Oswald and White served together in the Marines ; three faded messages that appear to be decoded orders to kill person in Dallas in November 1963 ; and a boy & # 8217 ; s remembrances of his male parent & # 8217 ; s implying diary & # 8211 ; a papers that is losing. The imperativeness conference is being sponsored by two private groups & # 8211 ; the JFK Assassination Information Centre of Dallas and the Assassination Archives and Research Centre of Washington & # 8211 ; and some Midland Businessmen. The possibility of Ricky White & # 8217 ; s narrative being a fraud & # 8211 ; a falsity concocted either by Ricky or his male parent & # 8211 ; has non been dismissed by the people pressing him to publically speak about the affair. During the last 27 old ages, many private research workers have claimed to hold found grounds of a confederacy, merely to be proved incorrect or fallacious. Bernard Fensterwald, executive manager of the Assassination Archives and Research Centre, says if there was a confederacy, Ricky White may hold the key. & # 8220 ; I think it & # 8217 ; s our best shooting, & # 8221 ; he says, & # 8220 ; and we better take it. & # 8221 ; J. Gary Shaw, co-director of the JFK Assassination Information Centre, says he hopes White & # 8217 ; s narrative will ensue in an probe of the blackwash by Texas governments. Two Washington-based investigations & # 8211 ; the Warren Commission in 1963-64 and the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1976-78 failed to decide the mystery of the Kennedy shot, Shaw maintains. As with old confederacy theories, White & # 8217 ; s narrative is teasing, the grounds intriguing. Yet, as with other theories, it raises more inquiries than it answers & # 8212 ; such as: Who issued the orders to the alleged blackwash squad? Why was the blackwash ordered against Kennedy? And why is Ricky White stating this narrative now? AN OSWALD CONNECTION Using hints discovered in his male parent & # 8217 ; s effects and trusting on available authorities records, Ricky White says he has determined that Roscoe White and Lee Harvey Oswald likely met in 1957. Ricky White & # 8217 ; s female parent, Geneva, is soberly sick and unable to be interviewed, household members say. Harmonizing to Military records, both White and Oswald were among a contingent of U.S. Marines, who boarded the USS Bexar in San Diego that twelvemonth for the 22-day trip to Yokosuka, Japan. In its concluding study, the Warren Commission published a exposure of Oswald with other Marines in the Philippines. All but one of the Marines was crouching on the land. Ricky White says his male parent claimed to hold been the standing Marine and claimed to hold become acquainted with Oswald in Japan and the Philippines. Military records show that Roscoe White took frequent unexplained trips in the Pacific, and Ricky White says that his male parent & # 8217 ; s diary described those as secret intelligence assignments. It has been established in old probes that Oswald was discharged in 1959 and defected to the Soviet Union. He returned to the United States in mid-1962, settling foremost in Fort Worth with his Russian-born married woman, so traveling to Dallas a short clip subsequently. Military records show Roscoe White was discharged in late 1962, fall ining his married woman and two immature boies in Paris, Texas. Ricky White says that shortly thenceforth, his male parent moved the household to Dallas and took a occupation as an insurance salesman. Man WITH TWO NAMES Ricky White says that two months ago he found several bleached messages in a military arms canister in the loft of Geneva White & # 8217 ; s parents place in Paris. Ricky believes the messages to be decoded overseas telegrams in which Mandarin, a name he says his male parent was known by, was told his following assignment would be & # 8220 ; to extinguish a National Security menace to worldwide peace & # 8221 ; in Houston, Austin, or Dallas. Another message from the same beginning & # 8211 ; & # 8220 ; C. Bowers & # 8221 ; of & # 8220 ; Navy Intelligence & # 8221 ; & # 8211 ; identified Dallas as the finish and provided White with a list of contacts. It stated White had a & # 8220 ; topographic point hidden within the department. & # 8221 ; The message was dated September 1963 & # 8211 ; the same month that Geneva White began a brief stretch as a cocktail hostess at Jack Ruby & # 8217 ; s Carousel Club in Dallas. Ruby fatally changeable Oswald two yearss after the Kennedy blackwash. Dallas constabulary records show that on Oct. 7, 1963, Roscoe White joined the section as a lensman and clerk. He did non go a patrol officer until 1964. A staff member in the constabulary forces section said late that White & # 8217 ; s file contains no occupation mentions. Ricky White says his male parent & # 8217 ; s diary referred to several trips made during this period to a distant country in the foothills near Van Horn, Texas. There, Roscoe White and several others practised hiting at traveling marks, Ricky White says. Although he was younger than 3 old ages old, Ricky White says he has obscure memories of being taken to Van Horn. & # 8220 ; My feeling was they ( others at the Van Horn cantonment ) had been working with my male parent in the armed forces, & # 8221 ; Ricky White says, & # 8220 ; because they had known each other good when this took place. & # 8221 ; A FOOTLOCKER AND DIARY Ricky White says that, after his gramps died in 1982, he was given his male parent & # 8217 ; s footlocker, which had been stored in the gramps & # 8217 ; s house in Paris. The cabinet contained military memorabilia, a Marine uniform, a safe sedimentation box key and a black leather-bound journal with gold trim that detailed Roscoe White & # 8217 ; s life. As he and his female parent read the diary, Ricky White says they found transitions that implicated Roscoe White in the Kennedy blackwash. & # 8220 ; My female parent and I cried together, & # 8221 ; he says, & # 8220 ; because it hurt really profoundly to larn what I know now. It hurt so much because the adult male I had known couldn & # 8217 ; Ts have fired those shootings. It took this probe to be able to larn it & # 8217 ; s true. And my household & # 8217 ; s given a portion of themselves to state the story. & # 8221 ; From the journal he says he learned the significance of the hunting plunder his male parent gave him: a 7.65mm Mauser with telescopic sight, an Argentine rifle that shoots round-nose, elongated slugs & # 8211 ; missiles that closely resemble those of a Mannlicher-Carcano, an Italian rifle that Oswald was accused of utilizing. After reading the diary, White says he was convinced his male parent was one of three bravos who fired six shootings from Mauser rifles into the president & # 8217 ; s unfastened top limousine in Dealey Plaza. Roscoe White shooting from behind a fencing atop a grassy mound to the right and forepart of the limousine, his boy says. Two other sharpshooters were in the Texas School Book Depository and Records edifices behind the vehicle. Three shootings struck Kennedy ; a 4th wounded Texas Gov. John Connally. Ricky White says the two shootings that his male parent fired both smitten Kennedy: the first in the pharynx ; the 2nd, and last of the shootings fired, in the caput. Oswald, Ricky White says, knew of the secret plan, but did non fire a shooting. He had been instructed to convey his rifle to the Book Depository, where he worked, and to construct a sniper & # 8217 ; s nest of book boxes near the 6th floor window, from which he was accused of firing all the fatal shootings, Ricky White says. Ricky White says the diary referred to the other taws merely by codification names: Sol in the Records edifice ; and Lebanon in the Texas School Book Depository. The diary indicated each of the three riflemen was accompanied by an helper who disassembled the rifles after the shot and carried them out of the country, Ricky White says. Harmonizing to the journal, Ricky White says, his male parent was to get away with Oswald by siting to Red Bird Airport in South Dallas in a metropolis constabulary auto driven by a friend and fellow officer who did non cognize what was go oning. That officer, Ricky White says, was J. D. Tippit, who was shot to decease at 10th Street and Patton Avenue in the Oak Cliff subdivision of Dallas about 45 proceedingss after Kennedy was shot. Oswald was seen running from the scene of that hiting. Ricky White says his male parent wrote that, as they drove south, the unsuspicious officer began to recognize what White and Oswald were involved in. Oswald panicked and jumped from the auto. When the officer insisted on & # 8220 ; turning in & # 8221 ; White, White got out of the auto and shot the officer, Ricky White says. & # 8220 ; I killed an officer at 10th and Patton, & # 8221 ; Ricky White quotes the diary as stating. Less than a half hr subsequently, Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theatre on West Jefferson Boulevard in Oak Cliff. He had a.38- quality six-gun constabulary said was the slaying arm. Murder charges against Oswald in connexion with Tippit & # 8217 ; s decease were filed before he was charged with Kennedy & # 8217 ; s decease. Whether the six-gun found in Oswald & # 8217 ; s ownership was really the arm that killed Tippit has been a affair of difference in several authorities probes. Ricky White says that shortly after the blackwash, his male parent sent the household to Paris and that he and other members of the blackwash squad used a & # 8220 ; hideaway house & # 8221 ; in Dripping Springs. He says that, among his male parent & # 8217 ; s effects, he found a 3rd decoded message, dated December 1963, that advised his male parent to & # 8220 ; remain within section, informants have eyes, ears and oral cavities & # 8230 ; .The men+will be in to cover up all deceptive grounds soon. & # 8221 ; That same month President Lyndon Johnson named Chief Justice Earl Warren to head a committee to look into the blackwash. The Warren Commission concluded in September 1964 that Oswald acted entirely in killing both Kennedy and Tippit. Police records show that on Oct. 19, 1965, Roscoe White quit the Dallas Police Department and became director of a Dallas country drug shop. During the following six old ages, he switched occupations several times, eventually working as a chief at M & A ; M Equipment Co. , in East Dallas. FAMILY TROUBLE AND DEATH By early 1970, Roscoe and Geneva White were a deeply troubled twosome and sought aid, said the Rev. Jack Shaw, their Baptist curate in Dallas. During a recent interview with the American-Statesman, Shaw said Roscoe White told him at the clip that he and his household were & # 8220 ; in danger. & # 8221 ; White confessed to taking & # 8220 ; a dual life, & # 8221 ; the curate says, & # 8220 ; and I knew something was non right, something strange was traveling on. & # 8221 ; Shaw says that within the last two old ages he tape recorded a figure of reding Sessionss with Geneva White about her remembrance of what she believed to be her former hubby & # 8217 ; s function in blackwashs. Shaw, who is really guarded in speaking about the instance, says Ricky White has merely a little part of the full narrative, which he says & # 8220 ; will strike hard your eyes out. & # 8221 ; Shaw says he met with the Whites several times in 1970-71, but the Kennedy blackwash was non mentioned. In 1971, Roscoe White was fatally injured in an explosive fire at M & A ; M Equipment. Before White died, Shaw talked with him in the infirmary. He recalls White stating he didn & # 8217 ; t believe the fire was an accident & # 8211 ; that he had seen a adult male running off merely before the fire. After the funeral, Geneva White moved her household back to Paris. There, about four old ages subsequently, the White place was burglarized and some of Roscoe White & # 8217 ; s personal ownerships were taken, Ricky White says. Police captured the two burglars and returned the ownerships which included some of Roscoe White & # 8217 ; s photos & # 8211 ; among them a shooting taken by Marina Oswald of her hubby Lee Harvey Oswald keeping a rifle in the back pace of their Dallas place in 1963. For about 15 old ages after the blackwash merely two such exposures were known. Roscoe White & # 8217 ; s became the 3rd. In its concluding study, the House Special Committee on Assassinations identified the exposure as coming from the household of a former Dallas police officer. Harmonizing to Ricky White and an research worker for the House commission, Geneva White had contacted the FBI after the burglary. The FBI informed the commission of the being of the exposure. The affair was non pursued because commission research workers didn & # 8217 ; t know about White & # 8217 ; s past relationship with Oswald or Geneva White & # 8217 ; s brief employment at Jack Ruby & # 8217 ; s Carousel Club. OTHERS FIND OUT Until he discovered the footlocker, Ricky White says he didn & # 8217 ; t believe much about his male parent or the Kennedy blackwash. He grew up in Dallas and Paris, where he went to school, got married and moved to Midland where he and his married woman have two kids. There he took a occupation selling oil field equipment. Equally flooring as the journal was to Ricky White and his female parent, Ricky says it was the safe sedimentation box key that was to pull others into the Roscoe White narrative. Thinking his male parent might hold left money or valuables in a sedimentation box, Ricky White tried to happen a bank that would acknowledge the key. By 1988 he was so defeated in his efforts that he turned to Midland District Attorney Al Schorre for aid. Schorre says he and his head research worker, J. D. Lucky, failed to happen the bank. Schorre and Lucky say they repeatedly asked to see Roscoe White & # 8217 ; s diary after Ricky White mentioned it, but that he told them a relation in the Lubbock country had it. Ricky White says he may hold told Schorre the journal was someplace else but that he had ever kept it in his ownership. Finally,

Schorre, who lacked authority to demand the diary, called the FBI. Ricky White says three agents came to his house and asked him to answer questions in their Midland office. He says he took his father’s effects with him and the FBI made copies of all the items except the diary. He says after several hours of questioning he returned home with all his father’s effects. Later that same day, White says, FBI agent Tom Farris came to his house to retrieve a notebook he had inadvertently left in the box of Roscoe White’s effects. White says he became aware that the diary was missing three or four days later. “I never said that the (FBI agents) took it,” he says. “I am just saying he was the last one to leave that box.” Agent Farris, who is in the Midland FBI office, transferred inquiries about the diary to his supervisor, Tom Kirspel. Kirspel would neither confirm nor deny that the agents had seen a diary. White says he never asked the FBI if it had the missing diary because he was “scared” of the agents who called at his house. “I don’t want to have anything to do with the FBI,” he says. Ricky White says FBI agent Ron Butler told him in 1988 that the FBI had determined that Roscoe White was at a crime scene in far Northeast Dallas at the time Kennedy was shot. Butler declined to comment on any conversations with Ricky White. QUESTION OF AUTHENTICITY Shaw, the director of the JFK Assassination Information Centre in Dallas, says Ricky White has passed both a polygraph test and a voice stress analysis and passed both tests “with flying colours.” However, the authenticity of the messages Ricky White says he found is undetermined. Office of Naval Intelligence spokesman John Wanat says the agency cannot determine whether the messages came from authentic ONI cables without the coded cables. “What they have there is really nothing that we can narrow down as far as who may have generated it or if it’s legitimate or whether it’s something that was fabricated,” Wanat said after viewing texts of the messages. John Stockwell, former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Angola Task Force in Washington, D.C. has seen the messages and sees a “90 to 95 percent probability” that they are genuine. However, he says he cannot discount the possibility the messages are part of “an elaborate hoax.” “I’ve measured it against my own readings and consultations with researchers of the Kennedy thing,” says Stockwell, who ended a 12- year CIA career in 1976 after being accused of violating his secrecy agreement with the agency. “I can’t see anything in what they have found and what the young man (Ricky White) is saying that is implausible in terms of what our best knowledge of the assassination is now. It all could very well be true, and I would put it at a high probability that it is true.” Bob Inman vehemently disagrees. After reading copies of the text, Inman, former naval intelligence director (1974-76) and CIA deputy director (1981-82), says the messages were not ONI- generated. None of the three-digit code names in the heading of the messages means anything, he says. “My reaction is that it’s a forgery of some kind or invalid,” Inman says. “There is not anything about this format that I have ever seen before. That’s not the way messages were set up in those days at all.” Less is known about what Ricky White says is a witness elimination list that he found in the canister. Ricky White says there were 28 witnesses on the list, news clippings of each victim and accompanied in some cases by his father’s writing. “Ricky White’s story is no less logical than what we have been led to believe in 27 years.” says Fensterwald. “If just anyone came out of the woodwork and said, ‘I shot John Kennedy,’ I would be exceedingly cautious about it. But if someone who was in the Marine Corps with Oswald, whose wife worked for Jack Ruby and who knew the Tippit family, crawls out of the woodwork and says I was involved in it, that doesn’t stretch my credulity at all. “It does, however, need a lot more investigation by some official body with power to subpoena witnesses. I don’t think private citizens can carry it much further.” PREVIOUS INQUIRIES ON ASSASSINATION The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas was investigated by two government bodies: The Warren Commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, concluded after a nine-month investigation in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, fired two shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, killing President John F. Kennedy and wounding Texas Gov. John Connally. The report conclusions left many skeptics. Since bullets passed through the victims and shattered, investigators were not able to match the rifling on the bullets to the marks that would have been caused by Oswald’s rifle. After a three-year investigation, the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in early 1979 that Oswald fired two shots that killed Kennedy and wounded Connally. Scientific acoustical evidence indicated a “high probability” that an unidentified second gunman was firing from the grassy knoll to the front and right of the presidential limousine, but missed. TEXT OF NAVY CABLES —————————————————————— Navy Int. Code A MRC Remark data 1666106 NRC VDC NAC Dec. 63 Remarks Mandarin: Code G: Stay within department, witnesses have eyes, ears and mouths. You (illegible) do of the mix up. The men will be in to cover up all misleading evidence soon. Stay as planned wait for further orders. C. Bowers RE – rifle Code AAA destroy/on/ —————————————————————— Navy Int. Code A MRC Remark data 1666106 NRC VDC NAC (illegible). 63 Remarks Mandarin: Code A Foreign affairs assignments have been cancelled. The next assignment is to eliminate a National Security threat to world wide peace. Destination will be Houston, Austin or Dallas. Contacts are being arranged now. Orders are subject to change at any time. Reply back if not understood. C. Bowers OSHA RE – rifle Code AAA destroy/on/ —————————————————————— Navy Int. Code A MRC Remark data 1666106 Sept. 63 Remarks Mandarin: Code A Dallas destination chosen. Your place hidden within the department. Contacts are within this letter. Continue on as planned. C. Bowers OSHA RE – rifle Code AAA destroy/on/ —————————————————————— (Part 2 – The post-press conference follow-up story) August 7, 1990 DALLAS COP’S SON ROLLS OUT JFK THEORY MATTOX, CIA, HOLLYWOOD ANSWER CONSPIRACY CLAIM By Andrew Likakis The Texas attorney general, a major Hollywood producer and the Central Intelligence Agency are now being written into the newest chapter in the never-ending mystery of who assassinated President John F. Kennedy. A 29-year-old unemployed oil equipment salesman from Midland stood before scores of reporters in Dallas Monday and implicated his dead father in the assassination. Soon after, Attorney General Jim Mattox said he’d gladly review the evidence, and the CIA issued an unheard of denial. At the same time, the FBI, which had previously refused to comment on Ricky White’s story, issued a statement in Washington saying agents had reviewed and dismissed White’s story two years ago. And, finally, those who believe White’s story is true acknowledge that last weekend, several of them met in Hollywood with producer/director Oliver Stone, presumably to discuss movie rights to the White story. The latest chapter in the Kennedy epic began at a two-hour press conference in which White said his father, Roscoe Anthony White, joined the Dallas Police Department in October 1963 with the express intent of killing Kennedy. During the press conference called by two assassination research groups and several Midland businessmen, White and Baptist minister Jack Shaw talked about incriminating entries in Roscoe White’s missing diary, decoded cables, and the relationship that Roscoe White and his wife, Geneva, had with Lee Harvey Oswald, Dallas Officer J. D. Tippit and Jack Ruby. Based on his own memories, his father’s diary and effects, and the recollections of his mother, Ricky White told reporters that his father had been one of three shooters on the day Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Although Officer Tippit was a friend of his father’s, Ricky White says his father shot Tippit to death in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas about 45 minutes after the assassination, as he and Oswald were trying to get away. Oswald was later accused of killing Tippit. During the press conference, White said his father was following orders to kill Kennedy and that, while he did not know who issued the orders, three messages found among his father’s effects have coding that might have come from the Office of Naval Intelligence or, indirectly, the CIA. CIA RESPONSE: ‘LUDICROUS’ The suggestion of CIA involvement brought a sharp response Monday from agency spokesman Mark Mansfield in Washington: “These allegations – that this was done on CIA orders, that this guy worked for us and that CIA had any role in the assassination of President Kennedy – are ludicrous.” Roscoe White never worked for the CIA, Mansfield said, adding: “normally, we never confirm nor deny employment, but these allegations are so outrageous that we felt it necessary and appropriate to respond.” Also Monday, the FBI issued a statement saying its agents had considered the Ricky White story in 1988 and had “determined that this information is not credible.” Bernard Fensterwald, executive director of the Assassination Archives and Research Centre in Washington, said Monday that Mattox will be given all material that points toward Roscoe White’s involvement in the assassination. RUBY, OSWALD MEETING In another curious twist to the case, Mattox said late Monday he is interested in pursing the White story because he was once told by his mother, a waitress at Campisi’s Egyptian Restaurant in Dallas, that Ruby frequented the restaurant and that she thought she saw Ruby and Oswald eating dinner there together once. The restaurant owner, the late Joe Campisi, testified before the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 that he didn’t see Oswald in his eatery, Mattox said. Mattox said he believes he has jurisdiction in the case, and he would interview White and his associates “to see what they’ve got and let them explain it to me.” “The key to the thing, of course, is, if the FBI acknowledges seeing the diary,” Mattox said. “The only thing to do is to get a look at the diary or acknowledgement (by the FBI) that it existed.” “This is not a solution to the John Kennedy case,” Fensterwald said after Ricky White told his story. “It’s information we think is important, and we think it’s true. Even if what is said here today checks out, the case is not solved. We still don’t know who planned it and paid for it and basically what the shooting was about. The best we can hope for is to get out of this an idea of who the actual assassins were.” It may be difficult for Mattox or anybody else to do much with the case without the Roscoe White diary, which disappeared in 1988. The leather bound journal talked about the assassination and the aftermath, said Ricky White, adding that he and his mother read it. Roscoe White died of injuries sustained in an explosive fire in 1971. His widow, Geneva, is critically ill and, according to family members, unable to be interviewed. A ‘SILENCED’ WIFE According to the Rev. Shaw, Geneva White could help an investigation. Shaw says Roscoe and Geneva White confided in him in 1970-71 when they were having marital problems. And, he says, Geneva White confided in him again during the last year, telling him that she was working as a hostess in Ruby’s Carousel Club when she overheard her husband and Ruby discussing “the entire plot of the assassination of the President two months before the shooting. After the assassination, Shaw says, Geneva White was given electric shock treatments and kept sedated so she “would be silenced.” Ruby had told her “in no uncertain terms that if she opened her mouth she was dead and her children were dead,” Shaw says Geneva White told him. Shaw says Geneva White told him she confronted her husband after an organized crime figure approached her in New Orleans in 1971 and told her to deliver a warning to her husband. According to Shaw, Geneva White was shown nearly a dozen photographs and identified the man in New Orleans as Charles Nicoletti, formerly the number one hitman with the Sam Giancana Mafia family in Chicago. Nicoletti was executed gangland style in 1977, about a year after Giancana also met the same fate. Shaw says that, when she returned to Dallas and told her husband of the ominous meeting in New Orleans, “he told her everything.” Shaw says that, as he lay in a hospital dying from burns in 1971 Roscoe White told him that he had been marked for execution by some of his underworld associates and that he believed the fire had been deliberately started to kill him. A HOLLYWOOD INTEREST Ricky White said Monday that, since he found his father’s diary, he has been consumed full-time with trying to find out what role his father played in the assassination. He said that for more than a year he has received a “monthly salary” from the Matsu Corp., which was formed by seven Midland oilmen solely to help finance Ricky’s investigation into his father’s involvement in the assassination. Matsu president Gary Baily said Ricky began receiving financial help from Matsu on a “day-to-day basis” about six weeks ago after getting just expense funds for more than a year. Baily also said Ricky White is negotiating with Hollywood producer/director Oliver Stone for movie rights to his story. Last weekend, Ricky White, his wife and Larry Howard of the JFK Assassination Information Centre in Dallas met in the Los Angeles area with Oliver Stone and toured Universal Studios. “Oliver Stone is interested, but no deal has been made,” Baily said. Matsu so far has spent more than $100,000 on the White project, Baily said. If any money is generated by the White story, about 74 percent will go to Ricky White’s family. The rest would go to the Matsu Corp., Baily said.