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Barnaby_McEwan:
He claims on his website that he was in the US Olympic judo team in 1964:

http://www.ten-no-kishi.com/

Trisha shows on her site that that's rubbish:

http://users.pandora.be/gohiyuhi/frauds/frd0011.htm

Here's a twist: guess who was the captain of that team? Former Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who has also been US judo champion three times:

http://www.powersource.com/campbell/default.html

I'm also curious about Regan's claim to have been world ju-jitsu champion between 1967-70. John Linebarger is a US Ju-Jitsu Federation rep for Arizona:

http://www.usjujitsu.net/bio/index.htm

http://www.wkf.org/dir.psdi/personnel/psdiLinebarger.html

Perhaps somebody in the US would consider contacting him, since I'm sure he'd be in a position to verify Regan's claims.

Regan refers to himself as a 'soke': this is incorrect. It's a Japanese word roughly meaning 'headmaster' and only applies to the head of a Japanese 'koryu' or classical martial-arts school. Regan himself says he's 'blended' an existing school with 'American Indian Fighting Arts', and that his instruction combines just about every martial art there is:

http://www.ten-no-kishi.com/#more

Here are a couple of in-depth articles about classical Japanese martial-arts instruction, which demonstrate that Regan should not refer to himself that way:

http://www.koryu.com/koryu.html

http://www.koryu.com/library/mskoss4.html

Oh yeah, I forgot something: the prestigious '1994 Golden Life Achievement Award' from the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame. Regan bought that award, as does every other tough guy who brags about similar accolades. I couldn't find a website which might tell me something about that mysterious institution, but I did find this posted on a martial-arts forum:


--- Quote ---I was talking to my Sensei about this last night (the world champion thing) and he said "It get's worse". He said that at least three times a year he gets offers to be inducted into the Martial arts Hall of Fame, the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame, and a few others. Apparently you can choose from an array of awards that you want to be given! And they have a huge ceramony where you fly out to some convention center and sit with a hole bunch of other guys who bought these awards  They all clap for each other and pat each other on the back  Now is that the DUMBEST thing you have ever heard?
--- End quote ---


http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/search/topic/20604-1.html

I also found hundreds of links to others who'd bought into this Hall of Fame. I've never heard of any of them.

kosowith:
If I remember right - Ben Nighthorse Campbell was the Captain of the US team in 1964 - coach from around '64 to '67 or so - and yes I've seen the pictures to prove that he was in Japan at the Olympics in "64 - It sure is "odd" that Harley is not in any of all those pictures and that Ben has NEVER ever mentioned him  - perhaps with all that legislating it just slipped his mind.

Barnaby_McEwan:

--- Quote ---If I remember right - Ben Nighthorse Campbell was the Captain of the US team in 1964 - coach from around '64 to '67 or so
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He coached the US *international* team rather than the Olympic team - but I had to go and look it up on the powersource.com page on Campbell's career that I quoted earlier.

Yoshihiro Uchida was the Olympic coach at that time. Here's a page on him:

http://www.asianpacificfund.org/awards/bio_uchida.shtml


--- Quote ---and yes I've seen the pictures to prove that he was in Japan at the Olympics in "64 - It sure is "odd" that Harley is not in any of all those pictures and that Ben has NEVER ever mentioned him  - perhaps with all that legislating it just slipped his mind.
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Reagan says he seved as an 'alternate' in the team: they don't often seem to be listed, but he also says he competed, and competitors are *always* listed. Reagan's not in any list I've seen.

In looking for team listings, I came across a man called John Roseberry who also says he was an alternate in the '64 US judo team, and is also an ex-Marine (and was in the USAF before that - Reagan also claims he was in the USAF for a time):

http://www.shoreishobukan.org/shihan-article.htm

I wonder whether Reagan has read Campbell's and Roseberry's stories and thought 'Yeah, I'll have some of that glory'.

It's interesting to compare the articles on Uchida and Roseberry with Reagan's publicity material. The former both go out of their way to downplay their achievements, mentioning the countless people who've helped them along the way. John Roseberry, in particular, seems like a shining example of what studying a martial art can do for a person - he evidently used to be a real badass. He's based in Lincoln, Nebraska. Is there anyone nearby who might like to look him up and ask about Reagan's claims?

kosowith:
Since I'm a "relative" of Ben's - albeit very distant -I think I'll contact him and ask him if he remember any thing about Harley.

Richard L. Allen:
There's an electric-blue Para-Ordnance .45 pistol on his belt, the handle engraved with a red, white and blue eagle and "Gunnie" in black gothic script. "Gunnie" is what he goes by on the range, and nowadays he admits, "People call me Gunnie more than they do Swift Deer…Reagan completed four tours in Vietnam as a gunnery sergeant before being blown out of a helicopter by enemy fire and tumbling 300 feet to the earth. He then was sent to recover at the Bethesda Naval Hospital and was discharged in 1969.

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A Marine Gunnery Sergeant is appropriately referred to as "Gunny" and it is spelled in that manner not "G-u-n-n-i-e."  Anyone who has been in the Corps knows that. Obviously, Harley Reagan doesn't know anymore about the Corps than he does Cherokees.

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