In light of the JFK files finally being released, this is a handwritten account by my 84 year old aunt regarding one of the possible shooters within our family. I’m interested to see if any of this shows up in the released documents.

SS: I asked my aunt to write down what she remembered about the story within our family about Richard (Dick) Sanford as possibly being one of the shooters of JFK.

Here is the text of it – in case her handwriting is too hard to read:

Things I was told by my parents —

My Dad had 2 brothers. The eldest, Dick Sanford and youngest was Glen Sanford. The eldest, Dick, had two sons, Bobby and youngest Billy Jack. They lived in Vider, TX – sign that entered the city said “N—-r – don’t let the sun go down on your head here”

Dick, I was told, was a Grand Wizard of the KKK there – When he joined the KKK, he had to vow one of his sons to the order and chose Billy Jack. Don’t think he was involved in JFK.

Dick was close to LBJ and visited his ranch. One time he shot the head off of a goat. He was also invited to the Capitol in Austin, TX.

The day of the assassination, Bobby, just out of College,was working for a senator in DC as a speech writer. He drove from there, stopped in Alexandria, LA, where my parents lived and made the statement “Dad killed JFK!” – scared, really scared.

My dad always kept his discance from Dick – now I knew why. They visited, talked in private sometimes – just saw very little of him and his family – rest of the family lived in Bay City, TX. We’d stop on the way there and back.

Somehow, Glen and his wife were involved, but I don’t know how. Just know they were scared of Dick. Every time they moved, Dick would go and bring them back to the Beaumont area. Once, Evelyn left her three boys with my Dad’s sister Ruby and took off alone. He went after and brought her back too.

One strange thing one of the boys was working on an oil rig. He was up on a platform and it collapsed and he fell and died. All of us thought it was supicious.

Billy Jack had a band – a good band – he played piano and sang. They had lots of places to play – Texas area and other states also. Once, my parents were visiting and got to go and listen to them. While there, they met a guy named Red.

Years later, we were visiting Dick again and my Mom said “Whatever happened to Red?” Dick was upset and said to Mary. “She can’t know anything, can she?” Mary then reminded him that they had met Red at the gig for Billy Jack. He calmed down but as Mom and Dad were leaving, he stopped mom at the door and said, “If I thought you knew anything, you’d have a BAD accident on your way home!”

Years later, I bought every book I could find and in one of them, I read Red was visiting the home of a lawyer. They were both found dead there.

A lot of people died after the JFK assassination.

This is the story my parents told me. This is the first time it’s been told!