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Investigation confirmed Parr died by suicide

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1969 Chrysler Imperial similar to Parr's car. POSTED BY:  CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   MAY 24, 2018 On May 20, the Washington Post ran a story debunking the idea that Adolph Hitler had escaped alive and was living in the moon. About the same time, the Alice Echo-News Journal ran a story on the presentations made at the Jim Wells County District Courtroom on May 17 regarding George B. Parr and the Freedom Party. One reader commented on the newspaper’s Facebook Page that he was “not convinced Parr committed suicide. I think Parr was gonna roll over on LBJ and their involvement in JFK’s assassination in order to escape the tax evasion charges and LBJ just tied up some loose ends.” Or perhaps he was hiding out on the moon with Adolph. The fallacy of the comment is that LBJ would have had to do his shenanigans from the grave since he had been dead and buried for two years. Or maybe, he too was on the moon in a colony of political reprobates. This question also arose at the Q&A of ...

The first George B. Parr also died a violent death

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TOPICS: Duval County George Parr Oakville Texas Politics First Live Oak County Courthouse at Oakville where the first George B. Parr served as county clerk. POSTED BY:  CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   NOVEMBER 28, 2015 Any follower of Duval County or Texas politics is familiar with the name of George B. Parr, the patron and political kingmaker. Not so well known is the Duke of Duval’s grandfather and the first George Berham Parr. The progenitor of Texas’s most notorious machine politicians, the elder George Parr, was born in 1829 in Virginia. In December 1846, at the age of 17, he enlisted in the United States Army at Petersburg, Virginia, in the 1st Virginia Volunteers. Capt. Larkin Smith of Company E mustered the young private into service in Richmond, Virginia, on December 15, 1846. Parr left for the Mexican War from Fortress Monroe, Virginia, in January 1847 and reached Mexico about February 21. He served until the end of the war and was with his company at the battles of Ca...