…with names like Picasso, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Modigliani and so on. And Clifford Irving came up with a contract signed by Howard Hughes, which three handwriting experts said was Howard Hughes Signature. I think it was elmere who did the signature on the…

…and so on. And Clifford Irving came up with a contract signed by Howard Hughes, which three handwriting experts said was Howard Hughes Signature. I think it was elmere who did the signature on the contract he knows he was very good at signatures…

…full name. After fake became a bestseller in 1968, Clifford Irving got a contract from harpercollins to do the biography of Howard Hughes or the authorized not just any biography but an authorized. He had a contract from Howard Hughes in which Howard…

…to do the biography of Howard Hughes or the authorized not just any biography but an authorized. He had a contract from Howard Hughes in which Howard Hughes gave him authority to write the true story of Howard Hughes Whole life, including all the sexual…

…Howard Hughes or the authorized not just any biography but an authorized. He had a contract from Howard Hughes in which Howard Hughes gave him authority to write the true story of Howard Hughes Whole life, including all the sexual scandals, the political…

…He had a contract from Howard Hughes in which Howard Hughes gave him authority to write the true story of Howard Hughes Whole life, including all the sexual scandals, the political scandals and all his technological achievements. Howard Hughes was a very…

…true story of Howard Hughes Whole life, including all the sexual scandals, the political scandals and all his technological achievements. Howard Hughes was a very great inventor and business entrepreneur as well as being one of the most remarkable lunatics of…

…of the 20th century. And this was a well drawn contract obviously fine legal work went into it and it was signed with Howard Hughes Signature. As soon as it was announced that Elmir was getting that Clifford Irving was getting a million and a half for…

…it was announced that Elmir was getting that Clifford Irving was getting a million and a half for a biography of Howard Hughes, Howard Hughes announced he was calling a press conference. He didn't appear at the press conference. There was a loudspeaker and…

…announced that Elmir was getting that Clifford Irving was getting a million and a half for a biography of Howard Hughes, Howard Hughes announced he was calling a press conference. He didn't appear at the press conference. There was a loudspeaker and a…

…was calling a press conference. He didn't appear at the press conference. There was a loudspeaker and a voice saying: I am Howard Hughes and Clifford Irving is a damn liar. We never had a meeting and the contract is a fake. And Clifford Irving responded…

…they went and the three handwriting experts compared the signature with the signatures on other documents undoubtedly done by Howard Hughes Earlier before he went into his reclusion seclusion or reclusion and the three experts absolutely guaranteed on the…

…basis of their expert, their qualifications as experts or expertise I guess you'd call that that the signature was undoubtedly by Howard Hughes. So the biography started to move ahead and then the voice was heard on the phone once more denouncing it and…

…and demanding a further investigation. Meanwhile all the conspiracy buffs got into the act who had been saying for years that Howard Hughes was dead and wasn't in seclusion. So those who claimed he was killed by the mafia, who had a double impersonating…

…Rockefeller Double or a mafia double or did we believe the signature authenticated by three experts? Well, maybe the signature was Howard Hughes. Maybe the voice on the phone was Howard Hughes. Maybe there's a lot more maybes in the world than we generally…

…believe the signature authenticated by three experts? Well, maybe the signature was Howard Hughes. Maybe the voice on the phone was Howard Hughes. Maybe there's a lot more maybes in the world than we generally realize. How many times have you been walking…

…the classics in our museums, and one thing and another they canceled the biography and Irving was even prosecuted for fraud although Hughes never did come out of hiding. According to Irving's story he met Hughes on a pyramid in Mexico and Hughes had hair…

…the biography and Irving was even prosecuted for fraud although Hughes never did come out of hiding. According to Irving's story he met Hughes on a pyramid in Mexico and Hughes had hair so long it hung down to his ass in the back and his fingernails…

…prosecuted for fraud although Hughes never did come out of hiding. According to Irving's story he met Hughes on a pyramid in Mexico and Hughes had hair so long it hung down to his ass in the back and his fingernails were so long he looked like Foo…

…is getting more and more full of maybes all the time. Wilson Wells made a movie about Clifford Irving and elmire and Howard Hughes and all the mysteries circulating in the movie. It's called f for fake and it's one of my all time favorite movies.…

…so many Times I don't want to go into it again so we'll have a ten minute question period. The thing with Howard Hughes was that an irrevocable contract. It was revoked so it was not irrevocable, not legally anyway, according to the gemstone file it…

…irrevocable, not legally anyway, according to the gemstone file it wasn't the mafia and it wasn't Rockefeller, it was Onassis who had Hughes kidnapped, held him prisoner on an island in Greece made him a heroin addict and put an imitator in in his place.…

…on an island in Greece made him a heroin addict and put an imitator in in his place. So now we've got three Howard Hughes theories along with five wills. Any other questions? This has nothing to do with your earlier topics but you looked at the gnostic…

…was. Clifford Irving, after writing this biography of elmire, got commissioned by a major New York Publisher to write a biography of Howard Hughes on the basis of a contract he had with Howard Hughes which was signed by Howard Hughes. And then some people…

…by a major New York Publisher to write a biography of Howard Hughes on the basis of a contract he had with Howard Hughes which was signed by Howard Hughes. And then some people started claiming this was a hoax because nobody had seen Howard Hughes…

…Publisher to write a biography of Howard Hughes on the basis of a contract he had with Howard Hughes which was signed by Howard Hughes. And then some people started claiming this was a hoax because nobody had seen Howard Hughes in a long time and there…

…Howard Hughes which was signed by Howard Hughes. And then some people started claiming this was a hoax because nobody had seen Howard Hughes in a long time and there were always wise acres around trying to screw up somebody's act and they kept saying:…

…trying to screw up somebody's act and they kept saying: Clifford Irving Doesn't have any evidence that he's really got Howard Hughes Except that signature. So Clifford Irving submitted the signature to experts on handwriting and they all testified: yes that's…

…Except that signature. So Clifford Irving submitted the signature to experts on handwriting and they all testified: yes that's Howard Hughes Signature. And by then the Howard Hughes Biography had gotten so much publicity that Howard Hughes, Without coming out…

…submitted the signature to experts on handwriting and they all testified: yes that's Howard Hughes Signature. And by then the Howard Hughes Biography had gotten so much publicity that Howard Hughes, Without coming out of his exile or his hiding or whatever…

…they all testified: yes that's Howard Hughes Signature. And by then the Howard Hughes Biography had gotten so much publicity that Howard Hughes, Without coming out of his exile or his hiding or whatever you call living in that one room Howard Hughes made…

…much publicity that Howard Hughes, Without coming out of his exile or his hiding or whatever you call living in that one room Howard Hughes made a telephone call in which he told one of the major newspapers that he did not sign a contract with Clifford…

…forgery and that he had no contact with Clifford Irving at all. Clifford Irving had told a wonderfully romantic story about meeting Howard Hughes on top of a pyramid in Mexico, which is good enough for the beginning of a UFO story. Howard Hughes said it…

…about meeting Howard Hughes on top of a pyramid in Mexico, which is good enough for the beginning of a UFO story. Howard Hughes said it never happened. If that was really Howard Hughes on the phone some people claim Howard Hughes had been murdered years…

…which is good enough for the beginning of a UFO story. Howard Hughes said it never happened. If that was really Howard Hughes on the phone some people claim Howard Hughes had been murdered years before and somebody else was impersonating him. Anyway the…

…a UFO story. Howard Hughes said it never happened. If that was really Howard Hughes on the phone some people claim Howard Hughes had been murdered years before and somebody else was impersonating him. Anyway the weight of the evidence seemed to indicate…

…to indicate that Clifford Irving had committed a fraud and he was prosecuted for it. And this movie is about Irving's Howard Hughes Hoax and elmere's art hoaxes and the biography Irving wrote of elmere. And the question: was: Clifford Irving Telling the…

…the question: was: Clifford Irving Telling the truth in his biography of elmere? Since we know he can't be trusted about Howard Hughes can he be trusted about elmere? And if Clifford Irving is telling the truth about elmere according to his standards, is…

…close up of Clifford Irving and Irving says oh he's lying about that he signed the paintings. And then Welles asks: who did the Howard Hughes Signature? And then there's a close up of Irving and a close up of elmere and a close up of Irving and a…

…suspicion after selling the biography of Elmir which made a lot of money and was a bestseller. He sold a biography of Howard Hughes on the basis of a contract which Howard Hughes had signed, guaranteeing that he would reveal all of his secrets. To…

…a lot of money and was a bestseller. He sold a biography of Howard Hughes on the basis of a contract which Howard Hughes had signed, guaranteeing that he would reveal all of his secrets. To Clifford Irving and allow Clifford Irving to edit and write…

…his secrets. To Clifford Irving and allow Clifford Irving to edit and write it in his own way. And it was signed by Howard Hughes according to Clifford Irving. I wish I could keep a straight Face at this part. That's why I have never run for congress.…

…arrested me but I'm working on it. But anyway, where was I before I got into that digression about congress and prison? Howard Hughes Yeah, oh yeah I was trying to tell this story with a straight Face. Putnam believed it one of the biggest publishers…

…sound really great by 1990s standards but by 1960s standards it was probably the biggest advance a writer ever got. But Howard Hughes was a fascinating character. Howard Hughes had affairs with at least a thousand of the most beautiful actresses in the…

…but by 1960s standards it was probably the biggest advance a writer ever got. But Howard Hughes was a fascinating character. Howard Hughes had affairs with at least a thousand of the most beautiful actresses in the world. That's a conservative estimate. At…

…the same time he had them stashed in different parts of the los angeles area. I mean talk about satiricist. Well anyway, Howard Hughes was a great pioneer of aviation, a great pioneer of film. Style, a raving lunatic and a multimillionaire and in the…

…and in the 1950s he got into a fight with David Rockefeller. David Rockefeller wanted to buy part of trans world airlines which Hughes owned. Hughes did not want to sell it to Rockefeller. Rockefeller Didn't want to sell any part of it he wanted to…

…1950s he got into a fight with David Rockefeller. David Rockefeller wanted to buy part of trans world airlines which Hughes owned. Hughes did not want to sell it to Rockefeller. Rockefeller Didn't want to sell any part of it he wanted to maintain total…

…part of it he wanted to maintain total control. So Rockefeller hired a lawyer named summers who filed suit against Howard Hughes for mismanaging the corporation and forcing Rockefeller. David Rockefeller did own a little stock in trans world he wanted to…

…forcing Rockefeller. David Rockefeller did own a little stock in trans world he wanted to own the whole damn thing. He wanted Hughes to sell the whole thing to him. He owned a little stock, acting on behalf of David Rockefeller and other minority…

…thing to him. He owned a little stock, acting on behalf of David Rockefeller and other minority stockholders. They charged that Howard Hughes was so crazy that he couldn't manage the trans world airlines and therefore should be turned over to a receivership…

…trans world airlines and therefore should be turned over to a receivership made up of David Rockefeller and two other wall street bankers. Hughes fought like a wild cat. I mean I was looking for a livelier metaphor, but sometimes my brain caves in on me…

…writing, it only happens in my public speaking. Anyway this case was fought through the courts for about 13 or 14 years and Hughes Lost at every level. Even though it was entirely unheard of for the stockholders in a company to sue the company itself…

…entirely unheard of for the stockholders in a company to sue the company itself and there was no precedent for it in law, Hughes kept losing. He decided that Rockefeller had bribed all the judges and all the courts of the United States east of the…

…it to Nixon's Brother Donald he thought the world might not notice. By the time he got to the supreme Court Hughes Actually won William Douglas Justice Douglas writing for the majority, said that Rockefeller's suit was without merit and that Howard Hughes…

…Court Hughes Actually won William Douglas Justice Douglas writing for the majority, said that Rockefeller's suit was without merit and that Howard Hughes had the perfect right to run transworld airline the way he wanted to. But by this point Hughes was near…

…merit and that Howard Hughes had the perfect right to run transworld airline the way he wanted to. But by this point Hughes was near bankruptcy from legal fees and he ended up having to sell transworld airline to Rockefeller after all to avoid losing…

…course nobody will admit having any prurient interest in but it absolutely guaranteed a readership of around 20 million minimum, since Hughes had affairs with Jesus who didn't he have an affair with ava Gardner, Yvonne Dicarlo anyway, there are quite a few…

…He set several speed records and long distance records and he survived two crashes, which many people think explains some of Howard Hughes Later behavior. I think he suffered brain damage in one of those crashes. I don't know maybe just fighting with the…

…like the claws of some ferocious beast. At least that's the way Clifford Irving told the story. It appears that at that time Howard Hughes was in his one room in his hotel in las vegas and Clifford Irving had invented the whole tale. Meanwhile he had a…

…Irving had invented the whole tale. Meanwhile he had a million dollar advance and a chance to write a book about Howard Hughes Out of his own imagination. Unfortunately the publisher and all the media were notified that Howard Hughes was not coming out…

…to write a book about Howard Hughes Out of his own imagination. Unfortunately the publisher and all the media were notified that Howard Hughes was not coming out of his isolation but he was going to make a statement over the phone, a voice claiming to…

…was not coming out of his isolation but he was going to make a statement over the phone, a voice claiming to be Howard Hughes announced that he hadn't met with Clifford Irving on a pyramid, he didn't have long hair and long fingernails he didn't agree…

…his biography. The whole thing was a fraud which should have settled matters. Except Clifford Irving came back with the claim that Hughes was dead and that this was an impersonator that somebody had hired to steal all of Hughes money by pretending this…

…back with the claim that Hughes was dead and that this was an impersonator that somebody had hired to steal all of Hughes money by pretending this guy was Howard Hughes. For a while there were alternative use theories wandering around in the sensational…

…and that this was an impersonator that somebody had hired to steal all of Hughes money by pretending this guy was Howard Hughes. For a while there were alternative use theories wandering around in the sensational press. For quite a long time there was…

…alternative use theories wandering around in the sensational press. For quite a long time there was a lot of disagreement about where Howard Hughes died when he died what he died of. There's even a book called the gemstone files which claims he was killed…

…world of the west and apparently he didn't feel any need to kill the rockefellers. But he did feel the need to kill Howard Hughes so he had him kidnapped and murdered him on an island in Greece and had him buried in the bottom of the Mediterranean…

…signatures on the paintings. That was two crooked art dealers in Paris who did that and Orson asks: and who forged the Howard Hughes Signature on the contract? And then you get ten rapid shots of elmire looking into the distance and Buford Irving looking…

…and they seized the ship. Well they did that with a glomar explorer. It's like a 60 million special vessel that Howard Hughes developed and they went up looking ostensibly looking for drug shipments. And while looking for massive drug shipments they opened…

…everything but it's afraid of everything so it's in hide in the real world outside of allegory. A good example was Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes bought state legislatures en masse he was bribing politicians in every state of the union and he was bribing…

…it's afraid of everything so it's in hide in the real world outside of allegory. A good example was Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes bought state legislatures en masse he was bribing politicians in every state of the union and he was bribing congressmen. He…

…every state of the union and he was bribing congressmen. He gave Nixon's Brother a million dollars to start an auto business. Howard Hughes idea was that the rockefellers ran the country and they were trying to take his airline away from him and they had…

…while they were making the film. Clifford Irving was denounced as a hoaxter because he had a contractor write the autobiography of Howard Hughes with Howard Hughes Signature on it. Irving denied that he was a liar, a hoaxter or a swindler. There was a…

…making the film. Clifford Irving was denounced as a hoaxter because he had a contractor write the autobiography of Howard Hughes with Howard Hughes Signature on it. Irving denied that he was a liar, a hoaxter or a swindler. There was a lot of debate…

…a lot of debate about it experts were called in and they authenticated the signature. Then somebody from Howard calling from Howard Hughes Headquarters in las vegas claiming to be Howard Hughes, repudiated the whole thing, said it was a forgery and he…

…and they authenticated the signature. Then somebody from Howard calling from Howard Hughes Headquarters in las vegas claiming to be Howard Hughes, repudiated the whole thing, said it was a forgery and he never met with Clifford Irving. And Irving was sued…

…very carefully that he's not in the shot, just his voices. So you think he was there. Wells asks who did the Howard Hughes Signature? And then you get shots of elmire and Clifford Irving looking in various directions and you can read as much guilt…