Thursday, June 4, 2009

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO BUDDY HOLLY?

In the fall of 2008 I got laid off from my job and wound up doing temp work digitizing old materials at libraries around Florida. I would come in at closing and stay all night scanning pages and organizing files. 


One night I had been about a week at the Tampa central library and was going through a pile of the old St. Pete Beach-Comber. This was one of those alternative type free weeklies. It was 3:00 am and I was in the boring-job-brain-dead-zone. Papers were in and out of the scanner in a blur. 


But when I got to March 1993 I stopped scanning and did what your never supposed to do, I started to read.


I had noticed the name Buddy Holly which was kind of weird because me and my room-mate had just been talking about him. He said that when Dylan was in high school he went to Buddy Holly's last concert and I said, well that's just the kind of story the old man liked to tell about himself. So who knew if it was really true? But anyway, we both agreed that Buddy Holly was way ahead of his time.


I never scanned another page that night and hardly did a thing since then but stay obsessed about what I sat there and read:



Local Man Says Mob Killed Buddy Holly

by the Beach-Comber's investigative reporter, 

Phillip Golding

Everyone knows the first great loss in Rock and Roll history was the 1959 death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper" when their small airplane crashed in a frozen Iowa cornfield.

  But what if it was not an accident? 

 Frederick (Fred) Newsome is a security consultant, who came to central Florida after retiring as Chief Inspector of the Las Vegas Police organized-crime unit. He has decided to come forward now with a story that seems utterly fantastic; he claims that a bomb was placed on the small plane that carried the legendary rocker, in a Mafia hit that had been ordered by the Hollywood recording industry.

 I recently spoke with Mr. Newsome at his home in the quiet suburb of Oldsmar. 

 He gives the impression of a careful, methodical thinker, and as he talked I was drawn inevitably to the conclusion that the truth about Buddy Holly's death had been concealed from the public, repeatedly and deliberately.

 "You wouldn't think so," Mr. Newsome began, "but the type of interrogation cops hate the most is when some perp decides to spill it all. 

 “He'll start out in the morning connecting a lot of dots in unsolved cases, and by dinner time he's takin' credit for killing Marilyn Monroe and Elvis.

 "So back in '78 we had this mob hit-man name of Tony Rizzo, who was getting all giddy after a long day, and he starts trying to tell us he did the hit on Buddy Holly!"

 Newsome says the interrogators started laughing and ridiculing the prisoner, who immediately got offended and refused to say another word.

 So the officers all called it a night, hoping to get better information in the morning. But when they arrived they were transferred to other cases and told that Tony Rizzo had been handed over to the FBI.

 "I wouldn't a thought nothin' of it except for two things: when I pulled into the lot that morning I recognized Sam Caputo leaving the commissioner's office. 

 "Caputo was a Reprise Records exec that we'd suspected of mob activity but could never pin down. Rumor was the commissioner owed him a lot of favors.

 "And second thing, I had a drinking buddy in the FBI mob detail. We always traded favors and tips, but this guy never heard a word'a Rizzo neither. He just plain fell off the map."

 In 1989 Fred Newsome left Las Vegas to go into the private sector, and he has quietly used his law enforcement connections to investigate what he concluded was a vast cover-up of the truth about the death of Buddy Holly.

   My first question, of course, was WHY? Why would anyone pay for a Mafia contract on this brilliant and talented young man?

 According to Newsome, Buddy Holly was hated and feared by  the recording industry establishment.

 At the height of his popularity, Holly moved to New York and started his own studio. It was only a matter of time before he started producing other young rockers.

 "Just think about it," he mused, "the big boys in Hollywood had those rock'n'rollers tied up in one big money making package. 

 "The whole idea of a musician writing and producing his own music had them shakin' in their boots." 

 All this made sense, but it sounded like a lot of speculation on some pretty thin evidence. But Fred Newsome is a professional, and evidence is his bread and butter. 

 When he decided he really had a case was when he located Detective-Lieutenant Carl Long of the Iowa State Patrol.

 Officer Long had been assigned to the investigation immediately after that terrible crash in the snowbound Iowa farmland, and one small detail had really bothered him.

 "He told me." said Newsome, "that there was confusion about who'd been around before the plane took off." 

 Apparently, some of the witnesses mentioned a man that'd gotten on, then right back off again. The local people thought he was with the tour and the tour people thought he was local.

 Long told Newsome that he reported this to his Captain and the next day he was pulled off the case. They said he was wasting time on a 'wild goose chase.'

 For years Officer Long obsessed about this, and looked into the case quietly on his own. 

 The most confusing fact that he uncovered was a visit to the governor's mansion by some executives from Capitol Records, which is odd because none of the three on that plane had ever worked with that label.

 But here's the real clincher -- Fred Newsome told me that when the now-retired Long faxed him the composite police sketch of the missing witness, his heart skipped a beat.

 "I'm tellin' ya, by God, it was Tony Rizzo!"


 (end of part 1) 

NEXT WEEK: I Interview Carl Long



My head was spinning. I set the paper down and I didn’t go back to scanning. I reached right into the drawer for the next weeks issue of the Beach-Comber.


It wasn’t there.


I panicked, throwing magazines and newspapers onto the floor but there were no more issues of the St. Pete Beach-Comber. 


Alright, I told myself calm down. I looked for copies of area newspapers from around that date. Right off I saw the front page of The St. Petersburg Times dated two days after that last issue of the Beach-Comber.


Fire at Offices of

St. Pete Beach-Comber

Arson Suspected in Destruction of Local Weekly



Oh shit, I thought I’ve just stepped into something big. I don't think theres anything quieter than a library at 3:00 am but it just got a lot quieter.


I went into the mens room and left the light off while I looked out the window and tried to think. That was fifteen years ago, I thought so calm down. Nobodys watching you and your not in any danger. If the Mafia knew that the library had a copy of that paper they would of already done something.


So I signed out of my project and spent the rest of the night pouring through copies of The St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune following the last issue of the Beach-Comber. 


It was just what I was afraid of. Phillip Golding died with a bullet from his own gun in what the police called “an apparent suicide” on the day after the fire. There was no mention of his news files or any investigation. Three days after that Frederick Newsome "lost control of his car at high speed" flipped over a barrier into oncoming traffic and died instantly. When police went to his home they found that burglars had already been there. No arrests were ever made.


For the next few weeks when I wasn't working I was at home searching the net. Fortunately Iowa had most of their state records and libraries online. I found mention of State Trooper Carl Long but nothing was there about him and the Buddy Holly case or the questions he raised. When I searched newspapers in central Iowa for late March of 1993 here is what I found. The "elderly widower" Carl Long was killed by a hit-and-run driver while out on "his daily walk". The officer sent to his home discovered it had been burglarized. The story was in the papers for a few days but investigators said they couldnt find any connection between the two crimes.

So there it is. Was Buddy Holly murdered? Was there a deadly cover-up? My friends say I'm paranoid but this whole thing creeps me out. Maybe getting this online now will jog some memories before all the witnesses are dead.


-- J. J. Roberts June 4, 2009



26 comments:

  1. If this is true, then scan and post the articles. This is typical internet b.s. Come on... the mafia killed Buddy Holly, get a life!

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    1. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Instead of calling Mr. Roberts a liar, it is for you to provide counter-evidence.
      I believe Mr. Roberts, and deplore your libelous comment.

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    2. There is a rather sorry and long record of men in music trying to go their own way then dying at their peak or trying to reach it. If Buddy was murdered so the pretty boys and teen idols could hold sway, it's no surprise as his good friend Eddie Cochran perished a year later. Both were hoping to tour together but Eddie suddenly got called away (maybe his phone was bugged) and like Buddy, wanted to change rock and roll from the kitsch it had become. Alex Constantine's book The Covert War Against Rock is a thought provoking book on rock murders that come across as credible, of Hendrix and other notables.

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    3. Well, you're entitled to your stupid-asshole opinion of course, no matter how insane it might be. That's what makes America great: lunatics and their willingness to blat about it so the sane folks can keep an eye on them.

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    4. You call people assholes, yet again- provide no counter proofs. You're at the "Anonymous" status, which means you like to troll. This all said; provide counter proofs, because many people know that even today's "rap/pop" music is controlled...... what makes America Great is certainly not asshole like YOU......

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  2. Thanks, James. I am a 9/11 Truth campaigner, and I have thought that Buddy and the others may well have been murdered (being in the Truth movement, I have come across scores of other 'suspicious' 'accidents', 'suicides' and murders.
    Fred Newsome's fatal crash sounds like a 'Boston Brakes' hit; the fire, 'suicide', hit & run death, and of course, Rizzo's 'disappearance' and burglaries, make the case for me a slam-dunk.
    Buddy was a brilliant artist; I frequently play his records on the pub jukebox, as I do Big Bopper's 'Chantilly Lace'. Ritchie Valens also did some good numbers. That was one heck of a time for good music; they are all deeply missed.

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    1. Bill and Hillary Clinton also have this problem with everyone they know, or knew who could be whistle blowers on all of the Clinton scandals all eventually die suddenly and without reason. Hmmm

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    2. Add to Buddy, Eddie Cochran, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding. All had in mind creating independent, artist controlled staples. Something in the USA seems determined to destroy virility and nobility in the culture and among humanity. 1958-1964 had a rather high rate of rock mortality or careers sidelined so the teen idols reigned and their biggest fan base was and remains girls and women.

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    3. Wouldn't be drug abuse and general recklessness, right? HAS to be the government. Faggot.

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    4. You mean "a 9/11 PIECE OF SHIT," don't you? Die in a hole, faggot.

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    5. so youre triggered by truth are you? your satanic deceived mindset and millions similar are the reason why we're all groping around in darkness

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  3. I don't think this is crap. I think it's very weird. James Roberts where are you? You posted this years ago and then nothing? Please post an update or email me at Lac6511@gmail. I'd like to talk to you. I am a writer. I've searched for you, but I have had no luck.

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  4. Exactly, Lisa! But its easy to invent a story and then not back it up with anything else, or respond to anyone... I guess you never heard from Mr Roberts?

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  5. This is obviously a work of fiction, but it's a very good one. I wish he'd written more.

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  6. I also heard through old timers this along with Marciano dying was a mib or CIA hit, it is the CIA favorite method of execution!!

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  7. Deffinetly words of the truth..I cannot elaborate because of the nature of the accident or (crime) if you will. But I will say the body especially of richie valens. In the aurtopsy report it states half the brain was missing. Caused by a tramatic blow to the skull. Wich could have happened during the crash rite?. But mpre importantly other bodies were so severely injured along with the crash.. There was some type of explosion causing the way the plane hit the ground statement:#1 furthure analysis can pinpoint which of the following happend. BUT NOONE WILL ALLOW BUDDYS BODY TO BE EXAMINED! The plane is gone?? Wreckage missing? the news says there is an offial investigation to be re-opened.. Its just going to be drug out until we forget. But the Music still lives. And someday hopefully someone will be honest enough to tell the truth.

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    1. Now one can see why the UK bands were successful, in part. American vocal bands had been neutered. Who knows? Maybe Buddy may have discovered The Beatles! Certainly he brought an adult mentality to the music more than Elvis. He and Eddie Cochran had hoped to tour in 1959 but, alas, it was not to be.

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    2. Douchebag. Junkie. Satanist, pedophile, FUCKWIT!

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    3. WOW! either you're crazy, or an agent, or both.

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  8. The cia has killed many more artists in their war against of what they call subversives.. anything that treathened the corporatist fascist us-establishment was at risk. Musicians, actors, artists had alot of influence in the 60-70s and were deemed a danger, also the vietnam war were the artists played a vital role in taking down that war. The military establishment vindicated that by using rogue killing teams connected with the secret services. They also murdered artists connected to the left that were too political, and not only in thet us, it was a worldwide war against the left by the billionaire class. This is the revised true history that took place. More and more evidence iis surfacing in the last decades

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  9. It's up to other people to DISPROVE the theory? The stupid, it burns! Learn something about logic, shitferbrains.

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  10. PLEASE DON'T RUIN THE BLOG SOMEONE WORK HARD ON, BY ARGUING!

    BUDDY had Alott going on at the time of his death.
    Months before he went to an attorney over a private Dispute) over $ he thaught himself owed, for % a song, Along with % per record sale,
    Coral) the Music label at the time owned the Rite's to each Album! So on CONTRACT there's a sub Amout which provides Amouts payable a copy payment favoring the Label.. therefore by law he got $0
    With a Baby on the way! And everyday exspences" the winter dance party tour would Put Money on the table so to speak!
    After the Dispute Buddy" wanted to start his own Label.. Giving himself ownership over future Albums..aslso cutting out the middle man!
    But you have to understand a one Business owne's another business, hypothetically the powers that Be funded the Label companies. The verry fact Buddy was Choosing to become Self-made cutting out the middle man is no good.. Bad for Business as they say!

    Today his Records are-->
    Estimated Net Worth in 2019
    $1 Million - $5 Million (Approx.)



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  11. Hello I was 19 years young in 1959
    And as it so happens myself along four other's worked for the funeral parlor that carried the Remains of Mr,holley the casket was closed for the entirety of the sevice
    Myself along side two co workers took a gander. To ensure the correction of the casket to say it was anything more than an accident is an understatement.
    By definition there had to have been some sort of explosion to account for the damage and what I saw, completely unexplained something I will never forget.

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  12. I'd say the jews did it they are Behind most crimes especially where money is concerned they should all be sent to israel never to return .

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  13. Regarding Unknown's post regarding the condition of Buddy Holley's body in the casket. The only other statement made about anyone actually viewing the body was Buddy's brother who immediately threw up after raising the coffin lid. All I can say is I've read all of the medical examiner's reports & autopsies of all three of the bodies & regardless of what was stated all three bodies suffered damage from the results of impacting the earth at 160 mph. All 3 bodies were basically crushed with massive damage to the head areas ... but all 3 bodies were intact (one piece) ~ if there had been any kind of explosion bringing down that plane that would not have been the case. Also the plane wreckage was not blown apart by any explosion only suffering the damage it did by crashing to earth in one piece. When It comes to Mob hits I can believe it when reviewing Bobby Fuller but not Buddy Holly.

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