Gary Magnesen
Biography:
His curiosity piqued by an offhand comment by a relative, former FBI agent Gary Magnesen launched a private investigation into the controversial meeting between Howard Hughes and Melvin Dummar, and the validity of the handwritten Howard Hughes Will which named Dummar as an heir.
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| Sunday August 24, 2008 |
George Knapp welcomed Melvin Dummar, who has famously claimed that Howard Hughes left him over $150 million. He was joined by former FBI agent and author Gary Magnesen, along with attorneys Stuart Stein and Ron Greening to discuss new evidence in the most contested will in American history. "It was beyond my wildest imagination to even think of being left in Howard Hughes' will," Dummar said, regarding the infamous document that purportedly stood to net him a large portion of the Hughes fortune. During the first hour, Dummar detailed his fateful meeting with Howard Hughes and how it began the chain of events discussed throughout the evening. He explained how, while traveling through Nevada in December of 1967, he discovered a wounded man on the side of the road and gave him a ride to Las Vegas. "I thought he was a vagrant," Dummar said of the stranger who claimed to be Howard Hughes. Nine years later, following Hughes' death, a document emerged (dubbed the "Mormon Wil
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Host: George Knapp
