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AK Wilks wrote:Little house not ringing a bell.

The writer mentions 'MARIN HILLS'.
This looks a bit like his drawing,no?

Thanks, morf, for your work in getting that.

Here's what I found from the FBI files:

Thanks Dave for saving me the work of digging

I think the drawing MAY be of (what is now) the Tiburon museum. Check out the older photos:

http://landmarkssociety.com/landmarks/r ... ry-museum/

Tahoe27 wrote:I think the drawing MAY be of (what is now) the Tiburon museum. Check out the older photos:

http://landmarkssociety.com/landmarks/r ... ry-museum/

1920 Paradise Drive

I am curious why this person would write this letter to the NY state Draft board from CA. Wouldnt his local Draft Board notify him? What reson would he have to write to a draft board all the way across the country? Some connection to that state?? Maybe he was from there, but had come out to CA, and his draft notice was forwarded to him in CA? We have seen some connections to Albany in the Z case obviously. For any men here in their 60's, what was the procedure back then for draft? Would you expect to get a draft notice in CA from the NY State Draft board?

At this link- http://www.wayzata.k12.mn.us/cms/lib/MN ... eading.pdf
it mentions that "local draft boards were made up of various community members, usually with political ties to the community. Local draft boards held the fate of potential draftees in their hands, they decided who went to Vietnam in the end".
So again, how is a guy in CA getting a draft notice from somebody in NY state?

It looks like the person who wrote the letter did give his name, it's been redacted. He also gave his selective service number which would have identified him. My feeling is that the guy wrote the letter to try to exempt himself from the service by saying he took drugs and was still tripping after six days. And he wrote a bunch of other stuff just to sound like he was crazy. Probably setting himself up to be classified 4F. He may have been from NY and going to college in CA and his mail was forwarded.

Zodiac never gave his name or anything close to it.

Seagull wrote:It looks like the person who wrote the letter did give his name, it's been redacted. He also gave his selective service number which would have identified him. My feeling is that the guy wrote the letter to try to exempt himself from the service by saying he took drugs and was still tripping after six days. And he wrote a bunch of other stuff just to sound like he was crazy. Probably setting himself up to be classified 4F. He may have been from NY and going to college in CA and his mail was forwarded.

Zodiac never gave his name or anything close to it.

While you may certainly be right, I am wondering if he gave his real name & number, and either way, how/why his letter got into the Zodiac file. I agree, if he really put his real name and selective svc#, he would certainly be identifed. Another scenario, maybe back in 68, he did really write the letter to the draft board to get out of the draft, but later on, he became a Z suspect and they pulled this old letter for his writing.

It may be that any letters that were hand written particularly with drawings became suspect and that is why this group of letters were checked. These letters were not checked until April 1970, so they were not suspected immediately. It says that SF requested the comparison so the SF FBI office or SFPD must have been sent the letters from back east and probably had an eye on the guy. If he really wasn't who he said he was in the letters SF may not have been given the letters.

Yes, Zodiac could have used someone else's name, address and selective service number but to have all that information on someone probably meant you knew them. Sooner or later a connection would be made between the person the letters were supposedly written by and Zodiac.

It looks like a letter of someone who is trying to get out of going to Vietnam. !968 was a bad year in Vietnam. I wouldn't blame the writer if this was an attempt to get out of service. How did you find this writing?