{"id":1070,"date":"2007-07-16T13:43:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T13:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2007-07-16T13:43:13","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T13:43:13","slug":"profile_of_melvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/16\/profile_of_melvin\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile of Melvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you, like me, are <a title=\"Melvin and Howard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2007\/01\/melvin_and_howard\/\">interested in the strange, sad tale<\/a> of Melvin Dummar, Howard Hughes, and the so-called &#8220;Mormon Will,&#8221; check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/ci_6386849\">this profile<\/a> of Melvin in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/\"><i>Salt Lake Tribune<\/i><\/a>. I think it provides a reasonably balanced overview of Melvin&#8217;s life and his claims about meeting Hughes, neither supporting nor denouncing him but simply presenting the evidence &#8212; which, at this point in time, is mostly hearsay &#8212; for both points of view. As <a title=\"Melvin Tries Again\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2007\/04\/melvin_tries_again\/\">I&#8217;ve said before<\/a>, I personally think he&#8217;s on the level about giving Hughes a ride, and I also think it&#8217;s plausible that the Mormon Will was the real thing. That said, I highly doubt he&#8217;s going to see any of the money he&#8217;s now trying to so desperately to sue out of Howard&#8217;s surviving heirs. Even though Melvin&#8217;s experience with Howard sounds like something out of a movie, in real life the little guys almost never win the fight and earn their reward in the end. The odds are too much against them. But I do love them for trying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you, like me, are interested in the strange, sad tale of Melvin Dummar, Howard Hughes, and the so-called &#8220;Mormon Will,&#8221; check out this profile of Melvin in today&#8217;s Salt Lake Tribune. I think it provides a reasonably balanced overview of Melvin&#8217;s life and his claims about meeting Hughes, neither supporting nor denouncing him but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoterica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}