Profile of Melvin

If you, like me, are interested in the strange, sad tale of Melvin Dummar, Howard Hughes, and the so-called “Mormon Will,” check out this profile of Melvin in today’s Salt Lake Tribune. I think it provides a reasonably balanced overview of Melvin’s life and his claims about meeting Hughes, neither supporting nor denouncing him but simply presenting the evidence — which, at this point in time, is mostly hearsay — for both points of view. As I’ve said before, I personally think he’s on the level about giving Hughes a ride, and I also think it’s plausible that the Mormon Will was the real thing. That said, I highly doubt he’s going to see any of the money he’s now trying to so desperately to sue out of Howard’s surviving heirs. Even though Melvin’s experience with Howard sounds like something out of a movie, in real life the little guys almost never win the fight and earn their reward in the end. The odds are too much against them. But I do love them for trying…

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