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 39. The grassy

knoll is not without its groupies. The people that grabbed onto the idea of a conspiracy and

turned it into a cult-like gathering

of characters, who apparently, through their own self-appointed powers, had clairvoyant and

clear sighting of what actually happened, and could even tie it back to the overall mysterious

characters in the overall conspiracy plot. Sadly, these characters began to creep into the

narrative around the JFK assassination. Well, they have made murky water even murkier. They made it

hard for some of the edgier, but possibly more legitimate research to take hold. I guess for the more legitimate

researchers, it was like climbing a rock wall that had been doused with olive oil. It was no way to

get traction, even if traction was warranted. Not when these more far out and sensational stories

kept coming to the forefront of the dialogue.

Well, the next couple of episodes are definitely sensational, but I would view them as edgy and not cult-like.

We are going to listen to the first of two very edgy stories today, rather famous ones in grassy knoll lore.

Today, in two separate episodes, episode 39 and episode 40, we're going to cover the Babushka

Lady, and in the episode which follows that, episode 41, will cover Badge Man.

I'll explain the nomenclature and its origin as we get into

the episodes themselves. So, without further ado, let's listen to episode 39. The Babushka Lady is the now infamous moniker given to a mysterious woman who was situated right there on the south side of Elm Street.

Her nickname arose from the headscarf she wore that

day, which was similar to scarves worn by elderly Russian women. Babushka literally means grandmother

or old woman in Russian. She was standing right behind Charles Bram and his five-year-old son,

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