Chauncey Marvin Holt (October 23, 1921 – June 28, 1997) was an American known for claiming to be one of the "three tramps" photographed in Dealey Plaza shortly after the assassination of President John F.
[1] He moved to San Diego County in the 1970s and lived in La Mesa, California during the last decade of his life.
[1] In a 1991 Newsweek article about Oliver Stone's JFK, Holt received national attention for various claims he made regarding the assassination of President Kennedy.
[1][2] According to Holt, he was a CIA operative sent to Dallas to deliver phony Secret Service credentials.
[1][2] His account is further explored in his autobiography Self-Portrait of a Scoundrel, which was posthumously released by TrineDay Publishing in August 2013.