Hal Verb

[Jack White]

Hi all,

I posted the following info to a site similar to this one. Hope no one minds the cross post.

Ray Marcus, an early WR critic, called me this afternoon (12-17) with the news that Hal Verb died a couple of weeks ago, on December 4. He had been in a hospice for the last six months or so.

Like Ray, Hal Verb was an early WR critic. He lived in San Francisco. I met him on several occasions, but when I was researching the early critics a few years back he did not reply to my query letters, so I don't know much about him. He worked with Harold Weisberg for a time, I think, and is mentioned in "Oswald In New Orleans." I think he taught a class about the assassination at San Francisco State College...? Not sure about that though.

I remember Hal speaking on the grassy knoll at a remembrance ceremony a number of years back. He modified a familiar quote usually associated with the CIA: "You shall know the truth, and the truth will make you MAD."


John Kelin

A CIA document (I cannot locate it at the moment) lists HAL VERB
as an officer in the San Francisco Branch of the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee and an agency informant. Once when confronted with
the document on an internet forum, he had no answer, but dropped
off the forum.

Hal once asked to borrow some slides from me and never returned
them.

My opinion of Hal is based on the above comments. RIP.

Jack