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

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.

We're coming to the end of the Bobby Baker series.

Oh, really?

We are.

More than a dozen episodes.

That is, a lot of Bobby Baker.

His ignominious sin dragged on for a long time.

Through the congressional and FBI and IRS investigations and then on to criminal indictments that in the end, ironically, the authorities would charge him with stealing funds from one of his closest sponsors, Senator Robert Kerr.

Now, ultimately, Baker was convicted of that crime and other crimes as well, and he went to jail for it, and Kerr himself was the only one who, had he lived,

could have stood up for Baker and proclaimed that Baker was actually telling the truth,

if indeed he was. But Kerr was already gone to his maker by the time the feds got around

the charging Baker and going to court about it. And maybe that was part of their strategy because

Kerr could no longer stand in the way. The court of the issue would be whether Baker took or

was given some $100,000 of money, Money the Kerr held for safekeeping in a

lockbox. Money derived originally and probably from clandestine means. McCur was gone to his

maker and Baker was ultimately left to fend for himself, and in this case, to defend himself,

on a charge that the feds may never have been able to manufacture if Kerr were around,

or a theft that Kerr would never have allowed to happen, whichever is the ultimate truth here.

In some ways, the whole thing is not that surprising for a man who lived

fast and loose on much in life. And that was Bobby Baker. But still in the overall scheme of this

story, if you feel like something might be missing, you're right. And that's something was the

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