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Blurbs Are In

Time to celebrate again. I just achieved another significant milestone by meeting the deadline to submit all the blurbs for my investigative memoir to my publisher, Milspeak Books. I sent them yesterday, July 1, which is also the 46th wedding anniversary of my wife Brenda and me. I am thankful to the influential figures who provided endorsements for my book, “Because: A CIA Cover-up and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew” (to be released on Father’s Day, June 15, 2025).

I am blessed to have received endorsements from a diverse group of highly respected individuals, including authors of books of similar themes, Kentucky Poet Laureates, Pulitzer Prize nominees, whistleblowing authorities, creative writing and religious scholars, as well as internationally known Vietnam War era veterans and civilians who have dedicated their lives to making amends, which my book explores in various ways.

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By James b. Wells

JAMES B. WELLS is a retired criminology and criminal justice professor in the School of Justice Studies in the College of Justice, Safety, and Military Science at Eastern Kentucky University, and is the recipient of the 2025 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences John Howard Award, an award given intermittently, upon significant demand, to recognize an individual who has made significant and sustained contributions to the practice of corrections. A former carpenter, soldier, and correctional officer in a super-maximum-security prison and later as a researcher/planner assisting architects in prison design, he has multiple degrees, including an M.S. in Criminal Justice, a Ph.D. in Research, and an MFA in Creative Writing. He’s authored or co-authored over sixty-five books, chapters, articles, and essays, as well as over a hundred and fifty research reports for various local, state, and federal agencies. Recent essays from his research and memoir work appear or are forthcoming in Collateral Journal, About Place Journal, Wild Roof Journal, Military Experience and the Arts, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Shift, Proud to be: Writing by American Warriors, Trajectory Journal, and From Pen to Page III: More Writings from the Bluegrass Writers Coalition.

His investigative memoir about his father's still CIA-classified death in Vietnam in 1965, titled Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew, will be launched on Father's Day weekend, 2025. Links to publications, presentations, trailers, social media, blog, and other information can be found at https://jamesbwells.com. James enjoys spending much of his leisure time with his spouse on their Lexington, Kentucky farm located on the palisades of the Kentucky River, where he is an organic gardener and beekeeper.

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James:

I wrote a comment but do not know if it reached you or not because I do not know how to send it. It is reference Ambassador James R. Bullington, who is originally from Tennessee, now believed to be in Virginia.

B. W. Rush, Sr.

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James: Ambassador James R. Bullington joined the Foreign Service same time as I was recruited and sent to Saigon, March, 1962, Battle-Field Commissioned in-country 1964 Limited, and again, 1968 Career Appointment. He did not arrive in-country until 1965, but he was in position at Main State, DC, to know details of some of the great mysteries of the Vietnam War such as loss of 107 persons, March, 1962 (Flying Tiger), loss of your Kentucky Public Safety Advisor father, (Air America), Hau Nghia Province, 1965. I did not meet Bullington personally, in Vietnam, until 1965, at Nha Trang, Region II, when we were same rank. He worked with, and for, JFK‘s Hatchet Man, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, both in DC and Saigon, if I remember correctly. Have you ever spoken with him? His wife, from Danang, is Vietnamese. I would also like to speak with them concerning my own and other FSO mystery cases.

Regards,

Bruce Warren Rush, Sr.

James:

I wrote a comment but do not know if it reached you or not because I do not know how to send it. It is reference Ambassador James R. Bullington, who is originally from Tennessee, now believed to be in Virginia.

B. W. Rush, Sr.

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