Glen Sample - The Men on the Sixth Floor

Glen Sample

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In the threeyears it took to research and compile this book, Mark and I cameinto contact with many individuals who were more than helpful inassisting us with our efforts. First and foremost, ourunderstanding and ever-patient wives must be thanked for putting upwith the many inconveniences related to this project. They not onlyallowed us our fantasy, but they encouraged it.

Larry Howard,R.B. Cutler and Robert Johnson from the former JFKAIC were mosthelpful. If it were not for these gentlemen we may never have foundour man and the story he bore.

John Small mild mannered reporter was instrumental in getting to the truthand helping us lay it out.

Thanks too tothe Hunter family who put up the whole team at their home more thanonce. Thanks also must be given to the many researchers, writers,reporters and witnesses that we had occasion to interview andconsult with. The late Harold Norman was extremely helpful as wellas Stephen Pegues, William Weston, Larry Hancock, Larry Chenault,Lyle Sardie and a host of others. But without the help of LawrenceLoy Factor, who, after living for 30 years in fear, decided thatthe time had finally come to tell his story and Madeleine Brown,who helped us put that story into perspective there would be noknowledge of the men on the sixth floor.

Glen Sample andMark Collom

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CONTENTS

Preface

Foreward

Chapter 1 AMurder in Johnston County

Chapter 2 ATrip to Bonham, Texas

Chapter 3 ALittle House in Dallas

Chapter 4 TheLoy Factor Story

Chapter 5 TheFactor Tapes

Chapter 6 TheSecond Interview

Chapter 7 TheFactor Story Confirmed

Chapter 8 TheDiscovery of Mac Wallace

Chapter 9 TheStrange Story of Gene Noblitt

Chapter 10 TheWindows on the Sixth Floor

Chapter 11 TheDallas Revelation

Chapter 12 TheIncredible Ms. Madeleine Brown

Chapter 13 TheEstes Documents

Chapter 14 Onthe Trail of Wallace

Chapter 15 ItsNot What You Know

Chapter 16 ACloser Look at the Colonel

Chapter 17 TheMan in the Horn-Rimmed Glasses

Chapter 18Farewell Loy Factor

Chapter 19 TheGuilty Men

Chapter 20 TheMac Wallace Fingerprint

Chapter 21Conclusions

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If theresanyone out there who thinks the following narrative isnt beingsubmitted to the public with a certain amount of trepidation on thepart of its authors and editor, all I can say to you is thinkagain.

And who canblame us? After over 30 years, countless books, television specialsand motion pictures, first-person accounts and revelations, andmore conspiracy theories and counter-theories and twists and turnsthan one could shake his Ovaltine Captain Midnight Decoder Ring at,youd think theres not much new that anyone might have to sayabout the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Yes, the eventsof November 22, 1963 were pivotal - to some, the moment the fatalshot was fired represents the single most significant event inAmerican history, certainly of this century - and, yes, it seemsthat there were plenty of groups and individuals who might have hadmotive enough to engineer the execution of an American President,and the nerve to pull it off in broad daylight. The problem is, itseems weve heard it all before. The names may change, themotivation may alter, but the story remains basically the same.

So why do it?Why one more book about the Kennedy Assassination? What makes usthink that anyone might be interested in yet one more spin on thesame old story?

As for mypersonal involvement, thats easy enough to answer. I was born lessthan six months before the death of Kennedy; Ive read about hislife, about the aura that seemed to surround the man during hisbrief time in the White House. I lived during his lifetime, yetbecause of a senseless act one Friday in Dallas, he is as distant ahistorical figure to me as Washington or Lincoln.

But beyond allthat, the plain and simple truth is, this isnt the same old story.Honest. As it turns out, this is a book about the Kennedyassassination, but the focus of our attention is upon two menyouve likely never heard of before now.

One of thesemen is the late Loy Factor, whose only real goals in life were tobe a good husband and father, to make a name for himself, and in sodoing, make his wife and children proud of him. The other characterin this drama is a hired killer, with strong political ties, whoselife ended violently in 1971. This is the story of howcircumstances led these men to play a role in the most shockingcrime of the 20th century, and the tragic effects theirparticipation had later for themselves, and others around them. Itis a story that has taken a team of investigators - including theauthors and editor - a great deal of time and energy to piecetogether, and yet could never have been told at all if not for thecooperation of the man who survived in silence for threedecades.

It is entirelypossible, of course, that those of us who have worked so long andhard on this project have been the victims of an incredible hoax.It is possible, but I personally doubt it. Too many pieces havefallen into place along the way for any of us to discount the truthof the tale. Besides, this remarkable man stuck to his story, rightup to his death, in May of 1994. There is very little reason forthe subject of this story to have lied about the events inquestion. He had little to gain from stepping forward; and in hislast years of declining health, he had little to lose as well. Itseems unlikely, then, that this story is anything other than thetruth this witness proclaimed it to be. I admit, however, that itis also unlikely everyone will believe this story at first. Thatmuch seems inevitable. Speaking simply from my own vantage point aseditor, and on behalf of the authors and those who haveparticipated in the investigation, all I can ask is that you readthe story. Carefully. More than once, if need be. If, after youvedone so, you still do not believe, so be it. We have done what weset out to do; the rest is up to you.

John A.Small

ProjectEditor

(An award-winning reporter and columnist, John A. Small iscurrently the Managing Editor of the Durant Daily Democrat, anewspaper headquartered in Durant, Oklahoma. His articlesconcerning the investigation into Loy Factor and his alleged tiesto the Kennedy assassination earned him an award for investigativereporting from the Oklahoma Chapter of the Society of ProfessionalJournalists in 1995.)

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What Im goingto tell you may be hard to believe, but I am going to tell youexactly as he told me.

These were thewords of Mark Collom in January, 1992, when I received his firstphone call about a man named Loy Factor. The call was one of manythat I received after the movie JFK premiered, but this call wasdifferent than most.