[Letter to John Edgar Hoover from Johnnie Mae Hackworthe] Page: 3 of 14
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2 - Chief John Edgar Hoover March 4, 1967 Rev. Johnnie Mae Hackworthe
(My purpose in qjtoting the above concerning Mac Arthur, coupling it with my letter to you of
March 29, 1951, is to point out that the LORD, at that time (even as He always does), was work
ing on two ends, if not more. Of course, on March 26, 1951, the date of the newspaper article
out of London, I had no way of knowing what was happening there... and had little if any interest
in what MacArthur was doing or saying: for I rembaber at the time I thought he was a wonder-
ful Christian—because it was stated he read the Bible daily—so I was greatly shocked when the
LORD revealed to me that MacArthur fulfilled Rev. 13:1-8, and instructed me to write this
information to Truman on March 26, 1951.)
Now this is what has prompted this present letter: in the letter to you, dated March 29, 1951,
tills was what attracted my attention... it just stood out as if written in large, bold print:
'After I had mailed that letter (to the local District Attorney), the LORD led me to thinking
upon the actions of Mr. Carl C. Booth, then He told me the answer to my ponderlngs was
that Booth is one of the leading communists of our country. I do not know why I had not
thought of this before. I had only thought of the long array of evidence I had against him con-
cerning my own personal self and 1 had a gleaming of an idea that there were other things, but
I never of myself thought of hisn as a communist. I remember I used to wonder where he got
all his money from without working, and why his brother (Sumner Booth of Dalks), who wons
Zero Plate in Dallas, let him do as he pleased, etc., as if he owned the plant and his brother
was under his direction, instead of vice versa."
Mr. Hoover, aside from my personal interests and experiences with this man Booth, what if
he is a leading communist? I have believed all along that in some manner he would be connected
with the plan to assassinate the late President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in Dallas.
I think the term "communist" should be more carefully defined as to exact meaning. A "Virginia
Miller" (I have a niece by that name) has said: "Before December 23, 1913 WE HAD
NO Federal Reserve System—NO World Wars—NO Communist Russia,
NO 'So-called* National Debt—NO One World Government— NO One World Court
HO One World Bank—NO 'Play Money* Standard."
Instead of confining "Communism" to Russia, then a brand of it to China, I think we should
keep in mind that a band of men, called "Jews" went out of New York with Trotsky into Russia
and took over the Russia government; it was in 1917 the Czar was overturned, then murdered
in 1918. Fifty (50) years have elapsed since then; and much is now being published about that
fifty-year old revolution that has so changed the world. But little is being said about what hap-
pened seventy (70) years ago, August 29, 1897) when a group of men met in Basle, Switzerland
in their First Congress, calling themselves "World Zionist Organization" and formulated plans
for a one-world government, with head quarters to be at Jerusalem, Palestine.... a central
world government over the "communities" of the world. This plan is what "communism"
really is., .and Russia was the first country captured. Even now, "London" is "Mother Baby-
lon" where these world planners have long been "holed up" directing many governments over
the world... even controlling elected officials of the U. S. A.!
Now we go back to this man, Carl C. Booth, in Dallas about 1917 or 1918, when he was a "motor-
cycle cop" and had his hand shot up by a negro man who claimed he caught him with his negro
wife... and Booth was "fired" in disgrace from the Dallas Police. (His earlier record is notori-
ous also.) His wife, Nettie Mae Ralston Booth, my mother's sister, persuaded my father,
Victor Wasson Heckwortii, against my mother's pleadings (she was Gertrude Ralston Hack- —
worth), to hire Carl C. Booth in his Hackworthe Oil Exchange.. .and this Booth was in charge
when all of us were taken with the flue that killed so many in that winter of 1918-19..., my
father had secured an oil lease for which he was offered $3,000,000 cash by a major oil com-
pany (the then County Judge, Kenneth Foree, Sr. of Dallas, stated this fact to a crowd my
Dad addressed in a liberty Bond Rally where I was present and heard him); upon returning to
his office, having recovered from the flue, he was charged with embezzlement (the charges
amounted to less than $600); Booth persuaded mother to have Dad declared insane to escape
punishment for embezzlement of many thousands of dollars.... Mother believed Booth....
my father was taken at once to Brenham, Texas (Washington County) where he had not lived
for a number of years, and illegally had a jury rounded up who gave a verdict of insanity
as a result of my mother and my father's mother shedding tears, and begging those jurymen
to save the family from disgrace.... little realizing that what was back of the whole thing was
the fight to get possession of my Dad's oil lease. Dad was then taken to San Antonio Sta te
Hospital, checked in, released that day and spent some time in the home of his half-sister in
Ban Antonio.. .the State Hospital gave him a certificate declaring they found him not Insane...
and he used to show this, saying to others that they could not prove they were not insane.. .but
he could... then produced the paper with all the signatures of the physicians who certified him
as "sane."
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Dallas (Tex.). Police Department. [Letter to John Edgar Hoover from Johnnie Mae Hackworthe], letter, March 4, 1967; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth339217/m1/3/?q=%221967%22: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.