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 254, and it's the second episode in a series of episodes covering the Henry Marshall murder.

We began this little wander in episode 253, and we're reading it to you from what I

consider to be the best articulation of the story, and it comes from an article penned by

Bill Adler back in 1986 for the Texas Observer. Today, the action heats up, and we begin to explore even more details of this

most fascinating and mysterious event. For those of you who have already listened to episode

253 and those that came before on Billy Solestis, well, there is no introduction needed here.

So, without further ado, let, at the Franklin City Cemetery,

a black laborer named Johnny Mims, scooped away the topsoil from the grave of Henry Marshall, clearing enough earth to slip a pair of straps underneath the clips at each end of the steel vault, with Manley Jones, the funeral director from Calloway Jones, in attendance, and operating under the

decree of the Robertson County Grand Jury. The casket was swept clean of dirt and placed in a Cadillac

hearse and transported to the funeral home in Bryant. There, doctors, police officers, and

reporters were awaiting.

It had been about a year, and a lot had gone on since then.

There at the funeral home, doctors, police officers, and reporters were awaiting.

The grand jury had convened only that morning.

In the wake of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman's disclosure that Henry Marshall was the key figure.

In the mushrooming, Billy Saul-S.D. scandal. The only man who could unlock the door.

Now, less than two weeks shy of the first anniversary of his death, the matter of Henry Marshall and how he died

was once more on the agenda, elevated from local whisperings about Marshall's life to the level

of national news. Several times Marshall's widow Sybil had tried to get authorities to change

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