Was John D. Howard (aka TOM Howard) REALLY Jeremiah Mason James...? No REAL "kin" to Jesse James... thus, EASY to "knock off"...? Did the REAL James family (JJ) have KGC/CSA Sentinels, thus putting Pastore's JJ Museum "under"...? Enquiring Minds wanna KNOW!
Thomas Benton Howard is who the home in St Joseph, MO was leased to. Tom Howard and Ben Woodson are who were listed on the 1880 Tennessee census. To me, that was not an accident they were listed under that name. From what I could find John Howard was another alias like John Davies was.
My opinion based on all of the testing on Jere Miah James, the community and property found is that he really was just Jere Miah James. HE never said anything to anyone regarding being Jesse James, that came much later when one of his sisters died and survivors found a box or trunk that had a Louis IV pocket watch (that could be the wrong number) in it along with other 'Similar Jewelry' that had been photographed while being worn by Jesse James and family members. The watch was the one supposedly stolen in the stagecoach robbery from the judge...Not all of the family thought that he could of been Jesse James.
The items were analyzed and compared to the jewelry in the photos and they were not the same. Similar but different. Look at the MOTHERS Pin in Pastore's book and you can see the differences easily. Even the watch fob is different. The pictures of people are in most cases wrong and some are modern and staged to look like old photographs. Look at the Sepia Tone and Petina in the photos...They are the same. Done by the same computer generated photographic software.
Pastore claimed J. Frank Dalton was Jesse James, when that blew up he found a Jere Miah James in Kansas who's family wondered publicly, based on the James name, JMJ's age and items found and whos family had made the same Scots-Irish western migration from Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia that Jesse James family had. Some of the family had just wondered innocently if it could be.
It was a lie and he just expanded on the lies Houk, Shrader, Turilli, Dill and Dalton told. See the profound similarities in Pastore's book compared to Shrader's...He just expanded on the high point lies of Shrader's, Houk's, Dalton's Jesse James Book. Complete with KGC claims.
I Don't believe KGC Sentinals were watching anything Pastore did, even though for the show they had badges and guns LOL! Gunshots in the background etc. Pastore is just like all the others who claim to be Jesse James experts. He is selling hyped up lies to fund his scatterbrained claims of finding KGC Treasure.
His cover story about how he has inside information is to say 'Confidential Sources'. The claims/sources are always wrong.
Wouldn't he be one of the last people you would trust with anything KGC or Treasure related?
Personally, I think to find JWJ movements looking at RR and the Chiles family of Lake City, Jackson County, MO. That Includes Independence and Blue Springs, MO as well as Kansas City, MO Is a strong possibility and then back to Crittended...Railroad
You read about Gould...Take a look at Chiles and then Quantrill's Roster.
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