a termination mission, on one hand, and the distant, far removed, deep submerged command level on the other." Tacoma talk show and politics Starting on August 1, 1968, Crisman hosted a radio talk show under the pseudonym "Jon Gold" on station KAYE. Crisman authored a book, The Murder of a City, Tacoma published in 1970 through Transistor Publishing Company. The book was described by reviewer Michael Sullivan as a "weird, politically slanted rant" that manages to "tie corruption in Tacoma to everything from communist infiltrators to the Kennedy assassination". At his death, it was noted that Crisman was a graduate of Willamette University with degrees in political science, history, and education and psychology. In 1970, Crisman was elected Vice-President of the Tacoma library board. Final years Beginning in 1970, a photocopied document called the "Torbitt Document" circulated among Kennedy assassination buffs claimed that Crisman was one of the "three tramps" allegedly employed by a secret government agency. In 1973, Crisman resigned from the Tacoma Library Board of Directors. Crisman unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the Tacoma city council.In September 1974, Crisman was hospitalized for kidney failure. On April 12, 1975, Crisman married Mary Frances Borden. In May 1975, True Magazine published a photo of Crisman, speculating he was one of the "three hobos" of JFK conspiracy lore. The November 1975 issue of Crawdaddy Magazine repeated this claim and further claimed, without evidence, that "Olympia police suspected [Crisman] of narcotics activity in connection with a group called "Servants of Awareness". Fred Crisman died on December 10, 1975. Legacy In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations reported that forensic anthropologists had analyzed and compared the photographs of the "three tramps" with those of Crisman, as well as with photographs of Watergate figures E. Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis, and two other men. According to the Committee, only Crisman resembled any of the tramps; but the same Committee determined that he was not in Dealey Plaza on the day of the assassination. In 2022, an animated film titled "Fred Crisman and the Cave of the Space Nazis!" won Best Comedy at Gen Con Film Festival. References External links Crisman's Grand Jury Testimony in the Shaw JFK assassination case. 1919 births 1975 deaths American conspiracy theorists Maury Island incident People associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy Shaver Mystery Writers from Tacoma, Washington United States Army personnel of World War II