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Is he claiming Oswald was part of an RFK assassination plot vs Castro? I think that goes too far in linking to RFK. But I absolutely think that Oswald may have gotten caught up in a Castro assassination plot and that helps explain some/most of what happened in Mexico City and parts of what happened in New Orleans. I think Garrison proposed that at one point. And I believe David Kaiser thinks it is a distinct possibility. That has been where I have been at for some time.

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omg the GOP is so screwed. Tonight was the Pennsylvania Presidential Primary; again, this was a primary where only registered Republicans could vote, so no crossover Dem voting. Despite that, Nikki Haley, a candidate that dropped out 7 weeks ago still received over 100,000 votes and 16.5% of the vote total. Trump = toast.

But it looks so much like him in the pictures. Is it . . . fake photography?

They've got great content, but it's like the site was designed by sadists and operated by disinformation agents.

An interesting tidbit from Alan Kent's essay A Well-Concealed T near the end of Hank Albarelli's Coup in Dallas. "Barnes and Angleton were both Yale men, and both had attended Harvard Law School, although Angleton did not graduate. Barnes, a few years older than Angleton, did not attend these institutions at the same time as did Angleton, but both men were members of Yale's secret society "Scroll and Key", the major rival of the more famous "Skull and Bones" for the souls of young Yale men. To surmise further for the moment, they and their wives were part of the Georgetown Set.

IF the probability estimates are sound and extremely low that proves beyond a reasonable doubt (to borrow a phrase) that something suspicious is going on in the witness deaths. Playing the devil's advocate here: I would guess the probability of a mafia boss being murdered is actually several orders of magnitude higher than a person in the 1960s general population. It probably increases a couple more orders of magnitude if he is scheduled to meet w the Feds, no? Wouldn't the probabilities for murders of reporters who investigate criminal activities be much higher also? As for stealing notes - why would the criminal have to necessarily be looking for JFK notebooks and not notes on some other crime? I think you can make the anecdotal argument about specific deaths from now until forever and it won't convince many more people. If that would work wouldn't it have closed the issue already? On the other hand, if the estimated probabilities of the number of witness deaths are extremely low wouldn't that convince anyone other than an OJ jury member that something was going on? You asked how I would estimate probabilities for witness deaths and I answered that question.

Incision was made to remove the entrance.

What are the odds John Roselli shortly before his HSCA testimony would disappear and later be found having been garroted, stabbed and shot. Legs cut off and stuffed in a 55 gallon oil drum with holes cut in it and wrapped in heavy chain. Dropped in the ocean. With all those contingences, probably pretty high. Separately, what are the chances the gases in his own decomposing body would be enough to lift it, the drum and chains to the surface to be washed up near shore?

I'm debating on hiring a ghost writer for a book idea I have called "Turn In Your Man Card" so,I'm just shopping around.

Any particular reason for this?

Thanks, Pat. I'm through the first 90 minutes, and it's been fantastic. Never having met you it was great to see and hear you.

Thant makes sense. He's an Olympic-level one at this point

The Absolute Looniest Trump Trial Takes on Fox News So Far https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-absolute-looniest-trump-trial-takes-on-fox-news-so-far?ref=home Just two days into this historic trial, Fox News has managed to compare Trump both to a civil rights era freedom fighter and a Roman emperor being assassinated.

Well, I'm shocked, shocked to learn today that Ted Cruz's father didn't kill JFK! What's next? Finding out that Hillary isn't really dying of brain cancer? National Enquirer Made Up Story About Ted Cruz’s Father April 23, 2024 at 4:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard “David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified at Donald Trump’s trial Tuesday that the tabloid completely manufactured a negative story in 2016 about the father of Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas, who was then Trump’s rival for the GOP presidential nomination,” NBC News reports. “The paper had published a photo allegedly showing Cruz’s father, Rafael Cruz, with Lee Harvey Oswald handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets in New Orleans in 1963, not long before Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy.” “Trump repeatedly referred to the story on the campaign trail and in interviews.”

Okay. Here's the brain teaser of the day: In one hour or less, tell me the difference between Fox News and the Natonal Enquirer. You get three guesses, and the first three don't count. Steve Thomas

Matt, Jamelle Bouie published an op-ed in the NYT about this subject a month or two ago. The gist of it was that Rudy Giuliani has always been a sleazeball. Most Americans don't know that Rudy Giuliani lied to the 9/11 Commission about the fact that he was forewarned on 9/11 that the Twin Towers were going to, unexpectedly, collapse to the ground. Giuliani admitted this to Peter Jennings on 9/11. (The NYFD thought Giuliani was nuts when he told them the steel skyscrapers were going to collapse.) Ron: Yes, I'm familiar with the Elizabeth Reed story-- about the headstone and the magic mushrooms. Fascinating rock 'n roll history about Dickey Betts's brilliant composition.

Bill, My point is that the specific forensic details of many of these deaths render mere actuarial probabilities less than significant-- although the actuarial stats indicate high improbability. For example, it's one thing to estimate the actuarial probability of George De Mohrenschildt suddenly dying at age 66, and another thing to estimate the probability that he would suddenly die of a gun shot wound to the head the day before his scheduled testimony about the JFK assassination. Why did De Mohrenschildt die on that particular day, rather than on one of the other 5,100+ days that had elapsed after JFK's murder? The same probabilistic logic applies to Giancana's murder, and most of these JFK witness murder cases. So, yes, we can get a composite number about the actuarial probabilities of all of these witness deaths-- as Beltzer and Wayne did, in Hit List -- but what is even more improbable are the strange, specific circumstances of the murders occurring when, and how, they did by mere chance. What is the probability that Giancana would have been murdered, by chance, by multiple gunshot wounds spelling an "O" around his mouth-- for "Omerta"-- the day before his scheduled testimony about the JFK assassination? What is the probability that a random burglar would have stolen Koethe's JFK assassination notes, by mere chance, after killing Koethe with a karate chop? (We could ask the same question about the Killgallen and Pritchard Smith murders.) Aside from actuarial mortality stats, how frequently do burglars steal manuscripts and notes written by their victims?

Since this linked to Matt Douthitt's YouTube channel, could someone please tell Matt to respond to my comment about SMiLE on his Heroes and Villains reconstruction. It's my other document-centric hobby and I was floored to see another JFKA enthusiast share my passion for reconstructing the greatest album that never was. It's a conspiracy as vast and as far ranging as the JFKA Matt I promise I have stuff you need to see! I promised I would never post on this forum again but since it is for Brian Wilson, I have to 🤷‍♂️

Thanks. Looking forward to watching this.

I would respectfully suggest not including de Mohrenschildt for the reasons stated and more. The facts are contested. I think if you limit it to six people or something like to start with - Koethe, Hunter, Kilgallen, Pritchett Smith, Giancana and Rosselli - you will obtain a very positive result.

Going through “Hit List” entry regarding George DeMohrenschildt, it’s claimed that a doctor who treated DeMohrenschildt for bronchitis apparently induced his mental collapse. It further states that this doctor started this treatment in April 1976 at the time the House Select Committee on Assassinations was beginning to be funded (page 234, hardcover edition). I checked and found that the HSCA was not even created by vote in congress until September 17, 1976. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/94-1976/h1183 It’s further claimed that his wife Jeanne continued to believe he was murdered to silence him. However, the clean up squad let her live for another 16 years. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/160217231/jeanne-de_mohrenschildt DeMohrenschildt was staying at the residence where he died as a guest. It was quite fortuitous for the clean up squad that there was already a shotgun present in the home. You would think that someone covertly entering an occupied home they were presumably unfamiliar with and had intruder alarms to kill someone and make it look like a suicide would stage it as a self-hanging perhaps withe the aid of a hard to detect tranquilizing agent. Although the shotgun blast was apparently not heard by those present elsewhere in the house, how would a presumptive killer know this? Did the presumptive killer have cooperation of one of the occupants? The authors of “Hit List” ask why such an upscale man would use such a gruesome instrument such as a shotgun to commit suicide (page 237). But didn’t Ernest Hemmingway and Philip Graham of the Washington Post use a shotgun to commit suicide? Here is an detailed report into the investigation of DeMohrenschildt’s death. I realize it has been taken from McAdams site but it appears to be the work of the local police, perhaps at the behest of the HSCA. https://www.jfk-assassination.net/death2.txt

This Rufus Youngblood myth was taken care of by Bob Groden in his book JFK:Absolute Proof. Johnson was upright when the shooting started. ( see page 272)