USAF AND THE PARANORMAL
The Grey's sometimes appear as owls.
"MAJOR" in the script and by coincidence in reality Major (Ret.) Dewey Fournet, was involved with communications concerning "visitors" in 1952.
June 25 1910: The United States Congress passes the Mann Act (White-Slave Traffic Act), which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for "immoral purposes"; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come. The white slavery hysteria became a cultural narrative of moral panic, sensationally depicted in newspapers and films. It was amended by Congress in 1978 (definition update of "transportation") and again in 1986 to further protect minors and added protection for adult males.
Charles Manson was charged in 1960 of taking two prostitutes from California to New Mexico to work. Charges were dropped.
In October and November 1912, boxer Jack Johnson was arrested twice under the Mann Act. It was generally acknowledged that the arrests were racially motivated. A posthumous presidential pardon was granted in 2018 by President Donald Trump.
The latest notable person convicted on the Mann Act...Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021, sentenced to 20 years.
June 25, 1950: The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea...and has never ended...a peaceful frozen conflict.
June 25, 1960: Cold War: Two cryptographers, William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
Within days of the press conference, citing a trusted source, Congressman Francis E. Walter, chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), said Martin and Mitchell were "sex deviates", prompting sensational press coverage. U.S. officials at the National Security Council privately shared their assumption that the two were part of a traitorous homosexual network. Classified NSA investigations, on the other hand, determined the pair had "greatly inflated opinions concerning their intellectual attainments and talents" and had defected to satisfy social aspirations.
I was watching the The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) the other night and afterward was skimming around IMDB...
One of the tallest actors ever, at 7′ 4″ (2.24 m) (wiki says 7' 7" & 7' 1" in the DVD commentary) he held various odd jobs before his debut on the silver screen. He worked for Spike Jones and his City Slickers, Ardens Dairy (in California,) as a Cowboy for Public Relations and at Knotts Berry Farm, (in California) also as a Cowboy. It was while he was working as a doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood that his height was noticed and because of it he was chosen for the role of Gort. He also hosted a children's TV show in the Los Angeles area in the 50s called 'The Gentle Giant'. Father of nine children.
A funny coincidence that some will catch regarding his real name:
Lock Martin aka Joseph Lockard Martin. (October 12, 1916 – January 19, 1959)
Lockheed and Martin Marietta married (merged) in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin.
You'd best heed Lock Martin...Or "the planet Earth will have to be eliminated."
He also had a role as an uncredited Giant in Million Dollar Mermaid (also known as The One Piece Bathing Suit in the UK) is a 1952 American biographical drama film about the life of Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman.
Knew I shoulda been an archaeologist. Valérie Quennessen, The Princess in Conan the Barbarian. She allegedly discovered several pieces of 3500 year old pottery on set of Summer Lovers at a real dig site.
I had her for dessert tonight, err, I mean I had a delightful dish of strawberry shortcake with a devil's tower mound of whipped cream.
The Price Is Right is saying goodbye to its longtime home in a special season finale, airing Monday, June 26 on CBS. After 51 years of taping at Television City’s historic Bob Barker Studio 33 in Hollywood, the classic game show will make the move to Haven Studios in Glendale, Calif., for Season 52, premiering this September.
MULHOLLAND FALLS (1996), now streaming on Tubi.
The Grey's sometimes appear as owls.
"MAJOR" in the script and by coincidence in reality Major (Ret.) Dewey Fournet, was involved with communications concerning "visitors" in 1952.
Quote:Interview with Blue Book liaison, Major Fournet
I finally came face to face with former military Blue Book officers in 1988. A local ufologist from Arkansas, Bill Pitts, sponsored a conference on Blue Book in Eureka Springs in the Ozarks. (It later became a very successful annual UFO conference under Lou Farish where I have often spoken.) The star was Major (Ret.) Dewey Fournet, who was the Pentagon liaison officer with Blue Book in the early period under Capt. Ruppelt, which included the flying saucer wave of 1952 and the Washington, DC radar cases. Another speaker was Max Futch, Airman 1st Class, who took over the project for a brief period after Ruppelt, and is a rather obscure figure in the history of the project.
I had the opportunity of conducting a lengthy and relaxed interview with Major Fournet about some of the key events he had lived, like working with Ruppelt during the ’52 wave, briefing the 1953 CIA-convened Robertson Panel, or serving later in the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena’s (NICAP) Board of Governors. Fournet was very frank and revealing. He confirmed having reviewed the first draft of Project Sign’s legendary ‘Estimate of the Situation,’ which concluded the saucers were not only real but also probably of interplanetary origin. The USAF Chief of Staff, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, wouldn’t sign it and the report was toned down and rewritten without the pro-ET conclusion. The revised version was declassified under the FOIA only in 1985.
June 25 1910: The United States Congress passes the Mann Act (White-Slave Traffic Act), which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for "immoral purposes"; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come. The white slavery hysteria became a cultural narrative of moral panic, sensationally depicted in newspapers and films. It was amended by Congress in 1978 (definition update of "transportation") and again in 1986 to further protect minors and added protection for adult males.
Charles Manson was charged in 1960 of taking two prostitutes from California to New Mexico to work. Charges were dropped.
In October and November 1912, boxer Jack Johnson was arrested twice under the Mann Act. It was generally acknowledged that the arrests were racially motivated. A posthumous presidential pardon was granted in 2018 by President Donald Trump.
The latest notable person convicted on the Mann Act...Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021, sentenced to 20 years.
June 25, 1950: The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea...and has never ended...a peaceful frozen conflict.
June 25, 1960: Cold War: Two cryptographers, William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
Within days of the press conference, citing a trusted source, Congressman Francis E. Walter, chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), said Martin and Mitchell were "sex deviates", prompting sensational press coverage. U.S. officials at the National Security Council privately shared their assumption that the two were part of a traitorous homosexual network. Classified NSA investigations, on the other hand, determined the pair had "greatly inflated opinions concerning their intellectual attainments and talents" and had defected to satisfy social aspirations.
Quote:But according to the NSA's own investigative files, obtained exclusively by Seattle Weekly, there's one major problem with the flaming traitor theory: Martin and Mitchell weren't gay. The formerly classified Pentagon and NSA documents, which reveal previously unpublished details of the historic spy-agency saga, appear to clear Martin and Mitchell of the sexual charges that rocked the country 47 years ago this summer and led to landmark NSA policy changes.
The Worst Internal Scandal in NSA History Was Blamed on Cold War Defectors Homosexuality (July 2007)
I was watching the The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) the other night and afterward was skimming around IMDB...
One of the tallest actors ever, at 7′ 4″ (2.24 m) (wiki says 7' 7" & 7' 1" in the DVD commentary) he held various odd jobs before his debut on the silver screen. He worked for Spike Jones and his City Slickers, Ardens Dairy (in California,) as a Cowboy for Public Relations and at Knotts Berry Farm, (in California) also as a Cowboy. It was while he was working as a doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood that his height was noticed and because of it he was chosen for the role of Gort. He also hosted a children's TV show in the Los Angeles area in the 50s called 'The Gentle Giant'. Father of nine children.
A funny coincidence that some will catch regarding his real name:
Lock Martin aka Joseph Lockard Martin. (October 12, 1916 – January 19, 1959)
Lockheed and Martin Marietta married (merged) in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin.
You'd best heed Lock Martin...Or "the planet Earth will have to be eliminated."
He also had a role as an uncredited Giant in Million Dollar Mermaid (also known as The One Piece Bathing Suit in the UK) is a 1952 American biographical drama film about the life of Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman.
Knew I shoulda been an archaeologist. Valérie Quennessen, The Princess in Conan the Barbarian. She allegedly discovered several pieces of 3500 year old pottery on set of Summer Lovers at a real dig site.
I had her for dessert tonight, err, I mean I had a delightful dish of strawberry shortcake with a devil's tower mound of whipped cream.
The Price Is Right is saying goodbye to its longtime home in a special season finale, airing Monday, June 26 on CBS. After 51 years of taping at Television City’s historic Bob Barker Studio 33 in Hollywood, the classic game show will make the move to Haven Studios in Glendale, Calif., for Season 52, premiering this September.
MULHOLLAND FALLS (1996), now streaming on Tubi.
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” — Marshall McLuhan, from Culture Is Our Business, 1970