Edward t haslam biography for kids

Perhaps no one else has a better understanding of mysterious events that were unfolding in New Orleans during 1963 than Edward Haslam, who grew up in that enchanting city and learned of Dr.

Mary Sherman from his father, who was an accomplished physician in his own right and a member of the faculty at the Tulane Medical School. Ed’s curiousity and perserverence in attempting to unravel the circumstances of the death of Dr.

Sherman (the DR. MARY of the title of his book) led him into a network of secret operations, not only those one might expect–of CIA/mafia gun-running to Cuba and missions to sabotage its facilities–but highly surprising projects, first, to develop an antidote for a cancer-causing vaccine infected with a monkey virus, second, to use injections of cancer cells as a bio-weapon to take out enemies of the state, such as Fidel Castro, but no doubt others unnamed, including, it would appear, inconvenient witnesses like Jack Ruby.

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