Roger Small

1939 - 2022

Roger Small

Newport, NH — Roger Small, 83 passed away April 22, 2022.

I am writing this Mid-October 2017. I am dying. I was born February 8, 1939. I always said that my father, Harry Chester Small was the nicest person I ever knew. My mother, Irene Beatrice Corron Small was a descendent of Paul Revere. I have had 54 jobs and 36 addresses. I wrote 5 non-fiction books and had several columns published every week in local newspapers. I read over 1,300 non-fiction books, which must some how merit consideration for a college degree. I read 63 books on the Vietnam War. I read 48 books on the Kennedy assassination. I wrote a screenplay about the event, titled Oswald Was Innocent. I wrote over 300 Letters-to-the -Editors. I was in the U.S. Army for six years with a top-secret NATO security clearance. I therefore cannot comment on my life as a solder. I have donated my body to the Dartmouth Medical School.

In the last 1970s Newport's local newspaper contained few stimulating Letters -to-the Editor. Over a 2-year span a guy named Julius Irving sent letters critical of how the town operated. No one knew who he was. In those early days you did not need to sign the letters. Eventually the newspaper (probably at the urging of the offended town officials). I sent a few letters commenting on his letters. Finally Mr. Julius Allen signed his letters from Newport. Still no on could find him. A Selectman friend of mine told me a special meeting was held to possibly hire an investigator to locate him. Then the paper required a street address. Julius Allen listed 54 Main Street, the address of Judge Harry Spanos' office. The letters stopped. I was Julius Allen. Julius Irving was my oldest friend, Allen Whipple. Good night.