Tom Valentine (born August 20, 1935) is the owner of a dietary supplement business, writer, commentator and radio host with an anti-establishment perspective, aligning himself with populist, libertarian and revisionist viewpoints.
His main journalistic interests have been True Health, Conspiracies and Christianity. All three of these views are at odds with the mainstream press and the establishment.
He is the founder of Carotec, a mail-order seller of vitamins and alternative health products based in Naples, Fla.
From July 17, 1988 through August 22, 2004 he hosted a talk radio show, "Radio Free America". It was carried on a succession of shortwave radio stations, including WWCR and WHRI, as well as a handful of AM stations. The Spotlight newspaper was the show's sponsor for most of its run. Radio Free America was one of the first talk shows to give sympathetic coverage to the Branch Davidians during the 1993 Waco siege and to the family of Randy Weaver during the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident.
Frequent guests were Col. Fletcher Prouty, the retired intelligence officer and inspiration for the character "X" in Oliver Stone's film JFK; Chicago-based investigator Sherman Skolnick and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). Valentine also gave considerable airtime to guests from the Christian Patriot movement such as Bo Gritz, as well as to alternative health practitioners and people with unorthodox views on science. Frequent callers to the program, including Ray Martin (AKA "Ray in Miami") and "Brian from Brooklyn" developed followings of their own and at times served as virtual co-hosts.
The only Hollywood celebrity ever to appear on the show was Valentine's lifelong friend Eddie Albert, who discussed tree conservation.
Valentine's "Radio Free America" opened and closed with a stirring rendition of John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever." He signed off each broadcast over the song's first bars with "They're playing my song! Good night everybody."
A long-time skeptic of the mainstream media (despite a brief stint with an arm of the Chicago Tribune), Valentine would often segue into network news breaks with the line "Back after the alleged news!"
Also during the 1990s he published a magazine, Search for Health, on alternative health subjects.
A frequent supporter of populist candidates, including the quixotic presidential run of Charles E. Collins in 1996, Valentine surprised many listeners in 2000 when he backed the establishment Republican George W. Bush in that year’s presidential race. Valentine, a Florida resident, said he did so because the born-again future president was “a repentant sinner.” However, he later became a strong critic of President Bush’s invasion of Iraq.
Valentine was on a long-planned vacation in Italy during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and could not return to the airwaves until several days after that event.
In the show's final years, Valentine embraced Fulfilled Prophecy Christianity and began incorporating religious themes and guests into his broadcasts. However, he rejected the idea of becoming a full-time religious broadcaster.
After a successful 16-year run, Valentine signed off "Radio Free America" in August 2004, citing the emergence of like-minded radio talk show hosts such as Alex Jones who were doing what he was doing "just as well."
He is the author of several books, among them: * Psychic Surgery (H. Regnery, 1973) * The Great Pyramid: Man's Monument to Man (Pinnacle Books, 1978, ISBN 0-523-00517-2) * Applied Kinesiology : Muscle Response in Diagnosis, Therapy, and Preventive Medicine with Carole Valentine and Douglas Hetrick (Healing Arts Press, 1985, ISBN 0-89281-328-8) * Medicine's Missing Link: Metabolic Typing and Your Personal Food Plan with Carole Valentine (HarperCollins, 1987, ISBN 0-7225-1031-4) * Search for Health: A Classic Anthology (self-published, 1995, ISBN 0-9648325-0-X)
Is Tom Valentine still alive? I want to contact him about a book I wrote on the subject of psychic surgery, published last year by Weiser Books. thanks, Jessica Bryan 541-535-6044 (Oregon)
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2. 22-12-2009 13:37
Tom had a letter to the editor in the Naples Daily News just a few months ago, so I assume so. I'm writing this on Dec. 22, 2009 for future reference.
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4. 13-07-2010 20:43
Tom became a good friend when I saved a new born baby with leukemia, from dying by giving him laetrile in the 1970s. The infant was given 30 days to live and today still survives in good health. I would love to speak with Tom. I did a lot of things to get Laetrile while the FDA was raiding doctors offices! Canadian TV did a documentary on me and the child. Hope to hear from you, Tom.
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5. 13-09-2010 03:21
Hell, yes I'm still alive; I sell dietary supplements, the very best. Amazing story, Lynn King please help me contact you. As for Bill Cooper; he hated me from the first interview I gave him; he was mostly a jerk and followed my show with his. Jessica left a phone number so I'll call. I lucked into this website.
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6. 09-10-2010 19:38
I am so happy to find that you are still around. I was an avid listener to your show, and a customer of Carotec. Hope every thing is going well with you.
Good wishes, Marie Bolin
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7. 26-10-2010 18:47
Great to hear from you Tom. Thanks so much for all your years of work on RFA. I learned a lot listening to your broadcasts, and remember those evenings with you and my old shortwave radio very fondly.
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8. 29-10-2010 21:16
Tom Valentine was outed years ago as a 33 degree freemason. He is dis-info agent who is involved in crimes against the freedom and the Amercian Constitution. Freemasonry needs to be stopped. Congress is easily amd has been infiltrated - only a king or queen are impossible to infiltrate. The King or Queen feeds the people, ask for just enough tax and keep the poeple healthy and well - for there are wars to fight and loyality of the people is important for survival - none of this is possible with the prositutes in congress
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9. 03-11-2010 17:05
I am a customer of Carotec and love your newsletter. Question: A relative of mine is using a supplement powder mix which has a warning on the lable that "the product contains lead". The company says that is because Prop.# 65 in California requires this lable, but the lead in negligiable and not harmful. I know lead is cumulative and deadly. Should the product be suspect or not? Thank you for your help. P.S. My mom listened to you for years.
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10. 03-11-2010 17:10
One piece of information that I forgot to put in with my previous question was that the lead came from the fruits and vegetables used in the powder. Thanks.
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11. 12-04-2011 14:36
Tom, good to hear you are "still out there" - - I used to listen to you when I lived in Kansas, in fact I recall I won a prize for answering one of your questions; "The people of Lapland adopted something which changed their culture. What was thet "something?" I called and answered; "The snowmobile" which was correct. Thanks for so much entertainment and information.
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12. 10-05-2011 13:44
Hello Tom Valentine.Do you remember any abalone diver stories?
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13. 12-05-2011 17:42
I lived in St. Petersburg managing a small hotel with my wife for a while and listening to Tom every afternoon. It was great and you were great. But I wasn't a meat-head I think ! John Marko
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14. 22-05-2011 15:20
I think I remember you John. I guess most everybody died off or moved on to another adventure.
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15. 29-05-2011 12:04
Hi Tom,
We had dinner in the mid-1070s with Curt Johnson. I've lost touch with Curt, sadly. We were in Illinois. Curt in Joliet, and me near Kankakee.
I loved then, and now, your pyramid book.
Send me an email. Or call.
I'm in Seattle.
Kelly
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16. 03-06-2011 05:09
Well, Tom is likely busy with urgent matters.We could just all meet here and discuss the old days on radio Free America.I liked Col Fletcher Prouty and Allen Denham the Marine. I remember when Ross Perot was running for president . Too bad he quit.He was right.We are now debtors to the tune of 14 trillion bucks. Not only that but no real source of wealth to pay our way out. Oh yes Cooper who had a shortwave program after Toms.He is no longer in this world. He was kinda off the beaten path of reality . For example. He told on his show that he had pictures of JFKs driver shooting at JFK while driving by the bookstore in Ft Worth.
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17. 12-06-2011 07:13
I LOVE YOU TOM VALENTINE! and I remember some abolone diving stories you used to tell. I thank God you were a part of my life...there is a huge smile on my face right now. XOXO
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18. 12-06-2011 07:35
He made several nights of his diving stories. I had them all on tape but travel a lot and lost them.Too bad WWCR wont have copies. I think the cigar smoking TV preacher Gene Scott bought Toms Pryramid books. Unlike most radio or TV people.Tom has been out in the real world.He used to hitch hike.
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19. 18-06-2011 05:36
Tom never liked my singing and guitar picking.But I just might do one I don't remember very well in honor of Toms dad who packed up and moved to kangaroo land.He don't read this stuff anyhow. >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12470786/aussie.mp3
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20. 20-06-2011 00:20
Well.That was an MP3.Sometimes a WAV works best on some browsers.This is what goes for music in Cajun country >> https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/.wav?w=00e31c58
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21. 21-06-2011 04:05
Well. Tom must really be busy.While we wait.I will do a song I wrote called the Road of roses. It takes ten seconds or more to get going.I have to turn on the recorder. This is for the fine folks up at Spotlight who asked me to play a song. I never did. (Dallas told them I can't play)>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12470786/road%20of%20roses%20k.mp3
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22. 21-06-2011 17:15
Well.Looks like Tom is not coming out.Yell jump in the truck.We are heading for Rosie's cantina.That's where Tom used to hang out when he ws in the Navy.>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdUvDgZoPSU
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23. 24-06-2011 05:07
There is always Col Bo Gritz.I bet he will talk to us.Look him up by Google.I wonder how ole Wisllis Carto is doing these days? The gang at Liberty Lobby?
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24. 25-06-2011 19:26
Well.It took little time for Col Bo Gritz to respond.His message was >STAY VERTICAL!
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25. 27-06-2011 00:50
OK, I am sending Col Bo Gritz on a mission.I authorized Bo by the powers invested in me by the great state of Texas to come post here and inquire about the presence of one Mister Tom Valentine.
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26. 29-06-2011 05:40
OK.Let that be a lesson to all of you. A lesson about radio and TV. The people who do the talking want to be heard by millions. But they do not want to hear from any of the people who listen to them.The rebellion by radio personalities was to respond to the TV people.Who for thirty to forty years would tell us how things are in the USA and the world.They were telling combat veterans about how wars are.The working folks how things are down at the factories.They covered all bases. But the millions who were actually doing all the stuff wanted to have a say about things they experienced on a personal level.This created a large radio audience.They allowed callers. But the fact is. People like Rush Limbaugh or those well known on the left in the media are not the kind whom most of us rub elboes with in our walk through life.Keep this in mind.You are not important if you play the part of couch potato. Don't sit and ogle at an electronic box. The country is going down. Prepare for a hard landing.Nobody is going to save you.But you can certainly be entertained on the way to the bottom. 14 trillion in debt. God looks down and counts fools.He is the only one besides a bi Cray computer that can sort through such numbers.
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27. 29-06-2011 06:09
So ,In effect .We in the USA have cheapened our society to the point we are looked upon by the world at large as little more than uncultured clowns.Why? Because we hang around those electronic boxes.I suggest to each and all of you.Get out and expand your horizons.Go do things constructive,Create new things.Being an audience is not a productive lifestyle.Go study big books,Go to a cultural center and find quality entertainment.Most of all.Be yourself.Be your own person ,Not a follower.It is there that you may find personal happiness and satisfaction. It is time to say goodbye. Let us do it in a grande way. HERE >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_JLkIOnq04
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28. 29-06-2011 08:38
Well.. I am downloading another version of Linux.Most often when I make a request to Col James Bo Gritz he complies with my orders. After all I am a hardcore American.I decided to play another little tune I made down in the bunker below the Phoenix bar in Saigon.While I wait for Colonel Bo Gritz I may as well do something rather than twiddle my thumbs. God Bless America.> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12470786/america.mp3
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29. 09-07-2011 02:17
I WICH YOU WERE STILL ON AIR, YOUR A BLESSING.
CORKEY MONTGOMERY
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30. 10-07-2011 23:06
I think I have discovered the problem we have here.As demonstrated in the following video.>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o
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31. 02-01-2012 07:22
Tom, just read your request via email that I contact you re Shaun Taylor, the infant that was actually born with leukemia and given 30 days to live after birth. Today he is a grown healthy man, very successful. You were such a great help. I, also, became very successful. e-mail is lkingbroker@yahoo.com, San Francisco area. Great to locate you. Lynn
