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Suspect In Military Impersonation SeizedSANTA ANA — A man, Los Angeles, identified as the person who in August, 1971 Cunningham two years ago made headlines received national attention when he acquired potentially when the roll of 100 six-cent valuable misprinted stamps stamps he purchased over the and then gave two to the wife, counter at a post office each of an Air Force officer miss- , had three mistakes. He gave ing in Vietnam, is in county two of the stamps to Mrs. jail here charged with imper- Roosevelt Hestle, Los Ange-sonating a Marine Corps gen- les, whose husband was shot eral. down over Vietnam in 1966.Clifford Cunningham, 40, The flawed stamps con-, formerly of Panorama City in tained red stripes of the the San Fernando Valley, was American flag which were arrested last week at the Dis- partially overlaid in blue. The neyland Hotel attired in the perforation ran through the uniform of a major general, stamp instead of between FBI agents reported. paired stamps, and the back-He assertedly had in his f01™1. ,™ally white’ was possession Navy, identification. tin^ed blue*-as Lt. Commander C.L. Cun-■ ningham. w . Schools ChiefAgents had traced him to r ^ .the Disneyland Hotel in Found G7Ullty III connection with an alleged c j *siimpersonation of a Marine vOQOniy Uilflrgfi Corps major general earlier gAN JQSE (upi) _ Former in the month m Las Vegas. Woodiahd Schools Superin-He reportedly appeared at tendent David E. Reeves has the Wayne Newton show and been found guilty of two convinced the singing • star to counts of felony, sex perver-accord him (Cunningham) a s}ontspotlight introduction in the The se^en-man, five-woman audience. Superior Court jury ,took lessC u n n i n g h a m has been than two hours to find Reeves charged with two counts of guilty of sodomy and oral violating federal law regard- copulation with a 19-year-old ing illegal wearing of a mili- Mountain View man Feb. 6. tary uniform and impersonat- Reeves was accused ofing a federal officer. coercing Robert E. Carlino, aHe remains in custody In former employe, to a Palo lieu of posting $5,000 bail each Alto motel and committing on'both the Anaheim and Las the hompsexual acts;Vegas charges. He is sched- Judge Albert DeMarco setuled to be arraigned Aug. 6 in sentencing for Aug. 15.
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Santa Ana Register

Santa Ana, California, US

Sun, Jul 29, 1973

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