The Conspiracy Show: Dr. Mary and The Monkey Virus

Ed Haslam helps us fathom what has really happened in our country. The grisly homicide of a nationally-known surgeon in 1964 New Orleans sets the stage for a chilling exposé of scientists and spooks in shadowy hidden laboratories. His modest investigation more than 20 years ago into the curious life and shocking death of the brilliant Tulane medical professor Dr. Mary Sherman, he couldn’t have imagined that this inquiry would connect some of the city’s most prominent citizens to “lone nut” Lee Harvey Oswald, to the Mafia, and to forces high inside the U.S. Government — nor that these new discoveries would ultimately change our understanding of a fateful November day in Dallas.

The Conspiracy Show: Rock and Roll Urban Legends

Richard welcomes R. Gary Patterson, a former consultant for VH1 Confidential who has been called “the self-styled Fox Mulder of Rock and Roll.” He will discuss the enduring urban legends surrounding the industry such as the 27 Club meetings at the crossroads and taking a walk on the darkside.

Ed Haslam

Ed Haslam, the author of Dr. Mary’s Monkey, was born in Kansas
where his family had lived for several generations. His grand-parents
were the school-teachers and country-doctors of the prairie. Shortly
after his birth in 1951, his father (who had just returned from Harvard
and the U.S. Navy) accepted a position teaching at Tulane Medical
School in New Orleans. During the next 35 years that Ed Haslam
lived in New Orleans, he personally heard and saw things that
involved the investigation into the Kennedy Assassination, the murder
of one of his father colleagues, and claims of biological weapons to be
used for political purposes. Haslam’s 1969 comment: “If there is a
bizarre global epidemic involving cancer and a monkey virus thirty
years from now, at least we’ll know where is came from” states his
concerns clearly.

Haslam’s education was that of a well-placed New Orleans male. He attended Jesuit High School in the
late-1960s. The background event of these years was Jim Garrison’s investigation into the JFK
assassination. Haslam had teachers, classmates and friends whose family members were involved in
the case in one way or another. This experience gave him an “insider perspective” of these events.

Dr. Mary\'s Monkey