Rev. February 21, 2025
Between the fourth and fifth conversations that follow below, I met with Mr. Moussally at the Food Court at the Prudential Center in Boston. And he finally admitted to me that he had known all along about what had happened. And he gave me the name of “James” as one of the perpetrators. He knew the last name, but he did not want to give it to me just yet. But he did agree to write a letter to the Club corroborating my allegations, which he subsequently refused to do.
Fourth Conversation
A Request to Meet
Moussally: Hello.
Chester: Mr. Moussally, it’s Jim Chester.
Moussally: Oh, yeah, hi.
Chester: How are you?
Moussally: Okay, thanks. How was your Christmas?
Chester: I was going to say the same thing to you. I got together with my friends. We had a nice time.
Moussally: Oh, good.
Chester: Is it possible to meet with you?
Moussally: Ah, sure. When were you thinking?
Chester: Just a quick meeting. Just to show you the photographs that I have to see if you can help me with that. It’s nothing extensive or anything like that.
Moussally: But when were you thinking of it?
Chester: Well, it’s entirely up to you, whenever your schedule permits.
Moussally: Okay, I’m not sure, might as well get it over with in the next couple of days. Why don’t you give me a call tomorrow morning ’cause I haven’t planned out what I’m going to do, ’cause I have to get into the conservatory, I have to get into Roxbury Community College, and I also have to do some shopping. So, I think tomorrow I’m going to go downtown. But, I won’t know, could you call me in the morning?
Chester: Sure, what would be a good time to call?
Moussally: Well, nine o’clock would be perfect.
Chester: Okay, I’ll call you at nine o’clock. Thanks, Mr. Moussally.
Moussally: You’re welcome.
Chester: Bye, bye.
The Fifth Conversation
Moussally Corroborates the Allegations
Moussally: Good morning.
Chester: Good morning, sir.
Moussally: Hi.
Chester: How are you?
Moussally: I wrote that thing up.
Chester: You did?
Moussally: Yeah. Can you call me back in an hour?
Chester: Sure. At ten o’clock?
Moussally: Yeah.
Chester: Okay.
Moussally: Thanks.
Chester: Alright. Bye, bye.
Moussally: Hello.
Chester: Hi Mr. Moussally.
Moussally: Yeah. Do you want me to read you that letter?
Chester: Could you?
Moussally: Okay.
To whom it may concern, I would like to share some vague memories of my tenure as assistant to Bob Dolan at the Charlestown Boys Club summer day camp in ’62.
Or should I say ’62-’63? I don’t know.
In conversations with James Chester, I recollected the indoor pool and gym connected by a tunnel, the setting for the incident which traumatized Mr. Chester. Among other memories was a freckle contest that I remember hearing, oh, and that I remember hearing about such an incident after the fact, that I’m sure that Dolan did not take part. Remember that this is a vague memory and that I remember Dolan as a very positive leader and would not condone this kind of behavior. I also believe this was a teenage prank gone astray, a hazing, like college fraternity hazing.
Ah, I’m still, I’m still working on it I think.
Chester: Okay, ah, I would say ’62 and ’63 that you were there.
Moussally: Okay
Chester: You were there in ’63? You were there for two years?
Moussally: Yeah, yeah, I was there for two years, yes. ‘Cause I remember I came back for just one more year. Yeah.
Chester: I would say ’62 and ’63.
Moussally: Okay.
Chester: Also, umm, you said that Mr. Dolan asked you about the incident.
Moussally: No, no, I think he, well he, alright, that he had mentioned it to me.
Chester: Do you remember what you heard about the incident?
Moussally: No, I remember it was sort of like a casual thing, something that was, you know, passing. It might have been right after the incident….
Chester: Right. What might have been after the incident?
Moussally: My hearing about it. It might have been the next day, I don’t know. But I sort of, you know, heard about it that way.
Chester: … But you think that it was Dolan who told you about it? Or, who mentioned it in passing.
Moussally: Yeah….
Chester: Lastly, umm, you did say to me that you thought it was a teenage thing?
Moussally: Yeah, that it was like a, like, like a rite of passage or like a, like a hazing.
Chester: And that it went too far?
Moussally: Yup.