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"How did you come to know Joe?"

"BTW, the school was located about five miles east of Santa Rosa, California on Mark West Springs Road. Santa Rosa is about 47 miles north of San Francisco, which is where I had been born and raised. "

"I met Joe at the Marine Cooks & Stewards (MC&S) Training School in the summer of 1969. MC&S was a west coast maritime union. Enrollees, all men, were trained to cook on passenger ships and freighters by European chefs. I was 20 years old…"

"Joe had dinner with my parents and I on two occasions. We did not, of course, know that his real surname was Barboza or anything about his history.  "

"Joe was shot to death in San Francisco's Sunset District where he was living on, I believe, 25th Avenue. The Sunset is not far from the neighborhood where I grew up, which is the Ingleside District. "

"I wonder where this interview was conducted. Barboza had been barred as a condition of parole and entry into the federal witness protection program from ever setting foot in Massachusetts again. The interview probably took place somewhere in the San…"

"I knew Joe Barboza quite well although I didn't learn until after he had been shot to death who he really was. When he and I met at the Marine Cooks & Stewards Training School, which was located near the Napa Valley, in the summer of 1969…"