The Truth Comes Out at Last

Musick: Howard Hughes lived on: "The book says eight years before his 'death,' Hughes substituted a Las Vegas derelict for himself and escaped his identity yet continued to operate his business affairs until his stand-in died and his family overturned his famous will in court. It says Hughes spent his exile in the Panama Canal Zone, the Florida Panhandle, Arizona and Alabama in the privacy he craved. He assumed the identity of aircraft maintenance supervisor Verner 'Nik' Nicely, the name of a real person who conveniently disappeared while working with or for the CIA in Panama."