Friday, December 20, 2019

It All Went To Crap In Cancun

Another thread unravels.....

I'm Judyth....Fly Me!

Any of you that have kept up with the perpetual train wreck that is Judyth Vary Baker, know quite well the story of the Cancun, Kankun debacle. For the uninformed, shortly after Judyth Baker decided to "come out", she made the claim that she and Lee Harvey Oswald were going to head to the Yucatan and start their lives over in Cancun. Unfortunately, members of the JFK research community called her on her claim since in 1963, Cancun was basically a coconut grove containing a few huts and not the fine hotel to which Oswald was going to take her. Baker had to hit the books and find references to what was actually located in Cancun to try to validate her claim cover her ass. She has consistently referred to the area in blog posts and her books in multiple efforts to salvage her story.

Let's begin.....

From Me and Lee
 By the time Judyth's book Me and Lee, was published, she figured she had covered her claim well enough. It was settled in her mind since she had a book to back up her claim. The date of her and Lee's perusal of The Lost World of Quintana Roo was July 31, 1963.

But some time after her book Me and Lee was published, the claims of her falsifying her story based on her Cancun claims reared it's ugly head again. Judyth took to her blog for the book and tried to set the record straight... again. This time, she had the help of Jim Fetzer. At the time, Judyth felt she needed Fetzer's help. I don't think that would be the case today. (Fetzer just got slammed with a $450,00 judgement in a civil trial for defamation against the father of a Sandy Hook School shooting victim.) As you will see, every time Judyth dives into the murky waters off of her version of  paradise, in Cancun, she embellishes a little more. It will eventually lead to another thread in her tapestry of life, with Lee, becoming unraveled.
 Here is the reference to the situation in one of her blogs, dated March 8, 2015....


A book published in 1963, available to Judyth and Lee, was unavailable when she mentioned it to researchers in 1999. What happened to the book? Nothing. A little background on The Lost World of Quintana Roo; it's copyright date is May 29, 1963....




Judyth would have you believe that a book published on May 29, 1963, made it to the Tulane University Library and into her hands, in 62 days. I seriously doubt it. (More on this book and the Tulane Library later.)





Judyth covered her studies of Cancun again, in her next book published on December 1, 2017. As in most cases of improbability involving Judyth's ever changing tapestry of life, Judyth will take hundreds of words to explain just a few....  Here is an excerpt from her book Kennedy and Oswald: The Big Picture...


You have to laugh whenever Judyth Vary Baker titles a chapter Dispelling the Myths. Her entire story of life with Lee Harvey Oswald is a myth. At the end of the excerpt above, we see a footnote notation.
Let's explore the footnote:




Earlier, we saw where Judyth claimed that she and Lee made copies of the maps contained in The Lost World of Quintana Roo. I say it didn't happen (we'll see why shortly). But here, Judyth's tale takes a turn. Enter E. Wyllys Andrews IV...

 E. Wyllys Andrews IV could be considered a real life Indiana Jones, sans the drama. Judyth states that Andrews mapped parts of Quintana Roo during WW II, joined the CIA and continued his work in the region. Um, yeah....no. Didn't happen that way at all. Judyth tries to tie the CIA into the mix because she needs to further her lie of involvement with the agency while boinking Oswald.



The following is an excerpt from an article published in American Antiquity: Vol. 37, No. 3, 1972, written by Andrews' friend and cohort, Robert Wauchope, after Andrews death in 1971....




Judyth should really do a little more research before she name drops. It's a very bad habit, she has. If you read the entire article linked above, you'll see that Andrews spent the last 20 years of his life living in Mexico and unlike Indiana Jones, never taught a course. In addition, the Middle American Research Institute which although housed at Tulane, is a separate entity unto itself. You'll see where this is important momentarily.
Judyth continues spinning yarn, invoking Andrews....

 Now, in her first book, Judyth claims to have copied maps from The Lost World of Quintana Roo. In her second book, she claims The Lost World of Quintana Roo was available to her and Oswald, but they actually copied maps by Andrews on display in Tulane's Latin American Library. 

She continues....


Now, none of this caught my attention until just a few days ago when Judyth posted this entry on Facecrook...


Diagram showing that The Latin American Library and M.A.R.I. are in two different locations

Huge problem....Judyth didn't see any displays of an excavation of a midden (refuse heap) by Andrews at Tulane in 1963. Not in the main Library, not on the 4th floor Latin American Library and not at the Middle American Research Institute in a separate building on campus. Cancun is 188 miles east from where Andrews IV lived. The excavation was done in July 1963. Andrews' information was not compiled and sent to Tulane, it went home with him, the next State over. According to Judyth, the information was sent to Tulane for her to view in August. Information from the dig wasn't published by M.A.R.I. until 1974 and as you can see below, the progress report from 5 years of field seasons wasn't published until 1965....
Now, if all of the information that Judyth and Lee Oswald, saw, became intrigued with, was right before their eyes and was poured over at Tulane, why couldn't Judyth defend her statements about Cancun until she sees a book, written in Spanish, in a tourist trap in Mexico in 2016? 

BECAUSE HER CLAIMS TO HAVE SEEN AND COPIED ALL OF THE IMPORTANT STUFF WITH LEE OSWALD NEVER HAPPENED!

When I saw Judyth's post on Facecrook the other day, I decided to do a little checking. First, I started surfing the net to find a contact at the Latin American Library. I was able to speak with the Director, Dr. Hortensia Calvo. I asked her if it was feasible for Judyth to have seen exhibits and copy maps from exhibits on display in 1963. She told me that she doubted it for several reasons. She explained that M.A.R.I. was housed in a different facility and had always been so. She also explained that the majority of their artifacts are housed off campus. She then explained that the Latin American Library was on the 4th floor of the main library and didn't have the ability to display exhibits for M.A.R.I. or anyone. 

So then I decided to go one better. I searched to see if the original publication mentioned by Judyth, The Lost World of Quintana Roo was located in the Latin American Library. It is. I then called the Curator, Dr. Christine Hernández to see if she could find an acquisition date for the book. She was at lunch, so I left a voice message and then followed up with an email containing the specifics of my search. Not long after, she returned my call. A most pleasant woman, she graciously searched the catalogue but could only find where the call number record was changed in 1998, from the old Dewey Classification System to the Library of Congress System. She said there were a few other things she could check but she would have to actually put her hand on the book to continue the search. She then told me that if she found any additional information, she would send me an email. Not long after that, she replied.....


Here is what she sent....

The above photograph shows The Lost World of Quintana Roo. You can see the hand written changes of the classification call numbers and something else....

The publisher's name, E. P. Dutton. The price, $5.95. The date, January 19, 1966.

Judyth's claim to have copied maps from this book on July 31, 1963 is crap. Remember, the copyright date was only 62 days prior. I contend the book didn't arrive at The Latin American Library until Wednesday, January 19, 1966.

1 comment:

  1. An outstanding exposé based on excellent research, especially your correspondence with the librarian! The story of Oswald planning an escape to Cancun to live with his paramour flies in the face of the evidence that points to his devotion to his two children. Even Ruth Paine, who worked overtime to throw Oswald under the bus of history, told the Warren Commission that Oswald doted on his two daughters. There is an implicit grandiosity in Baker's yarn about an exotic escape of the two lovers, which could be the basis for a film on the Lifetime cable network. The story is dripping with grandiosity, not on the part of Oswald, but the person spinning this far-fetched tale, who obviously has an inflated sense of self-importance.

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