A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File: Interview with the author

A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File is a shocking 23-page "underground" document that appeared in the United States in 1975. Based on the notes and letters of a San Franciscan named Bruce Porter Roberts, the Skeleton Key not only provides an alternative interpretation of historical and then-current events, it also names the shooters of President John F. Kennedy and explains who was behind other political assassinations of the period.

The author of A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File, Stephanie Caruana, remained a mystery for many years, but she eventually wrote a book called The Gemstone File: A Memoir, which provides detail on the Skeleton Key based on Roberts' letters and conversations she had with him. I became acquainted with Stephanie Caruana after writing a review of her book for Amazon. She eventually agreed to a telephone interview with the Examiner.

When she first typed the Skeleton Key on her IBM Selectra typewriter after meeting with Roberts and reading some of his letters at the Norwegian consulate, she included her name and address on the copy she Xeroxed and distributed. After that, however, the file was retyped, often by people who would add or delete parts according to their tastes or biases, and these copies were reproduced thousands of times around the world with her name deleted. Many who have read the Key still don’t know that Caruana wrote it.

The genesis of the Skeleton Key involves a conspiracy-oriented radio talk show host named Mae Brussell who lived in the Carmel Valley in the early 1970s. Caruana then was a contributing editor of Playgirl magazine, which had assigned her to write about the whereabouts of Texas billionaire Howard Hughes in an article that would be titled, “Is Howard Hughes Dead and Buried Off a Greek Island?” This article, published in December, 1974, was largely the product of Bruce Roberts’ notes and letters along with articles and news clippings from Brussell’s files.

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