Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 253, and it might be a rather long-aw-aw-ssteed episode in the

Billy Saul-Sstees miniseries or not.

Well, like Billy Joel says, a bottle of red, a bottle of white. It all depends on

your appetite. What we do know is that it's the story of Henry Marshall. There is more than one

murder mystery associated with the Billy Saul Estes story. Slowly but surely will work our

way through each and every one of them. But there is no doubt

that this is the granddaddy of them all. Marshall's passing was a tragedy. He stepped in front of

the train and tried to stop it. And of course, we know who wins when that happens.

Because this story is so famous and because it is the keystone of the Billy Soleste's story tell, there are a lot of talented people who have written about this event, and there

are quite a series of stories and facts available from which to draw from. All the rich details that make up

a murder mystery. And many of these authors have already done a fine job on it. So why reinvent the wheel?

And that's why, for this storytell, I'm going to use my favorite version of the Henry Marshall story.

It's written by a man named Bill Adler, who was,

at the time, a freelance writer living in Austin. It was adapted from a longer work that was in

progress at the time. And what I'll be reading to you, a 1986 article written by Adler for the Texas

Observer. I'm going to read it in its entirety, and it's the

best storytell of the Henry Marshall incident that I know. And by its nature, some of it may be redundant

with certain aspects of what I've already told a story on, but to keep it rich and to keep it

continuous, we won't try to cut any of it out.

I refer to this story as the keystone because it creates a most important intersection

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