Coffee With Jeff

Imagine a man who was a civil engineer, a sheriff’s deputy, an assistant prison warden, a doctor of applied psychology, a hospital orderly, a lawyer, a child-care expert, a Benedictine monk, a Trappist monk, a cancer researcher, a teacher and a military ship doctor and surgeon. He acquired all these positions without ever graduating high school. He was known as the Great Imposter. Today I have the story of Ferdinand Waldo Demara on the 183 episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff. Show notes and links: FERDINAND WALDO DEMARA, 60, AN IMPOSTOR IN VARIED FIELDS (nytimes.com) Ferdinand Waldo Demara – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) LIFE – Google Books (google.com) The Great Impostor: The Amazing Career of Ferdinand Waldo Demara, who Posed … – Robert Crichton (google.com) Fred Demara, the Great Imposter (headstuff.org) Brother, doctor, soldier, lies | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★