James Morasco

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James J. Morasco (born in Michigan, USA on May 6, 1915; died on March 15, 2003, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) was a carpenter in Philadelphia. Some believe he was the person who wrote and placed the Toynbee tiles in the streets of many cities.[1]

John Stoehr wrote in a 2001 article for CityBeat:

Morasco was reportedly a social worker who believed we could colonize Jupiter "by bringing all the people on Earth who had ever died back to life and then changing Jupiter's atmosphere to allow them to live." Morasco discovered these ideas while reading the works of Arnold Toynbee. He also believed Toynbee's ideas of resurrecting dead people's molecules were depicted in Stanley Kubrick's monumental film of regeneration and growth, 2001: A Space Odyssey.[2]

Morasco's widow has denied that he knew anything about the tiles.

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Clark DeLeon, "Theories: Wanna Run That One By Me Again?" The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.), March 13, 1983, p. B-2.
Doug Worgul, "A Space Oddity? Strange Kansas City marker part of world-wide mystery," The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A.), September 6, 2003, Star Magazine.
"Death Notices," Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.), March 16, 2003.
U.S. Census, April 1, 1930. Michigan, Mason County, Ludington, enumeration district 15, p. 2-A, family 43.
Social Security Administration. Death Master File.