Picture of the KwaZulu-Natal house, a house in South Africa. According to a fringe theory, the location of Jake Featherston from 1944 onwards.
Ever since his actual death in 1944, conspiracy theories had floated around of Jake Featherston not being killed by Cassius Madison; instead, a body double was killed, and he escaped elsewhere in secret. These theories were made by Freedom Party diehards between the week of Featherston's death and the signing of the Confederate Instrument of Surrender and afterward during the readmission into the Union. These rumors were used in Thomas Dewey's campaign for the 1944 election, something that he would be criticized for by the Socialists in both 1944 and 1948.
South Africa was chosen as the location where Featherston escaped, as many Confederate war criminals escaped to South Africa. The Apartheid government (to try and avoid sanctions and possibly an invasion) had denied that Featherston was in their country and claimed not to know that Confederate war criminals were in their country. The Apartheid and post-Apartheid governments found no records of Featherston in their country. Nevertheless, claims of seeing Featherston in South Africa and beyond still emerged, although that's because of people resembling Featherston or other Confederate war criminals were mistaken for Featherston.
Both Clarence Potter and Willard Dixon (because he was recently made Confederate chief of the general staff, Willard was not put on trial) had said that Featherston was indeed, in fact, killed on that fateful day and were even cross-examed multiple times, and they were telling the truth.
"If that was a body double, then he sure as hell fooled me."
Clarence Potter, in the final chapter of How I Blew Up Philaphedia, published in 1950.
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