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No Ron, it does not look like him, as I have seen close up pictures of Cruz back then. Trump really wanted to accent this phony story by the way, he actually mentioned it on TV. Richard, can you provide a source for him being on the route working for IBM, and then running away to Canada.?

BTW, how did Johnson eventually find out about the plots? It was the Drew Pearson story through Johnny Roselli. When that got into the papers, LBJ told Helms he wanted a report on this. That is how we got the CIA IG Report. After reading it, Johnson told his assistant he now thought the CIA was involved in JFK's murder. Although he never said that in public. The closest he got I think was when he said Oswald was likely not working alone. He had some help.

NICOLE WALLACE – LONE NUTTER - MSNBC TV host On 4/24/24 at 3:01PM CST on MSNBC she referred to Lee Harvey Oswald as “JFK’s assassin” as she was referencing the Donald Trump hush money trial that was going on in NYC. Wallace was referring to the 2016 National Enquirer article that attempted to link Sen. Ted Cruz’s dad to Oswald in New Orleans. Nicole Wallace Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolle_Wallace Miramonte High School – 1990 – an elite high school Miramonte High School - Wikipedia Univ. of California, Berkeley – BA in mass communications - 1994 Northwestern Medill School of Journalism – MA 1996

Jeremy Kuzmarov’s scholarly 2023 article for Covert Action Magazine which indicts LBJ for the JFK assassination: https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/11/22/60-years-after-jfks-death-it-is-more-and-more-apparent-that-kennedy-was-a-victim-of-a-palace-coup-spearheaded-by-vice-president-lyndon-b-johnson/ I would put D.H. Byrd, Ed Clark, close associates of LBJ, along with Gen. Edward Lansdale, whose career LBJ resuscitated, as front row participants in the JFK assassination. In my rarely humble opinion (which changes) I have FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and fired CIA chief Allen Dulles as "murderers-after-the-fact" for their roles in covering up the JFK assassination. I think people should focus more on the role of the Air Force than merely the CIA in the killing of JFK, although Oswald was obviously a CIA operative and a fake pro-Castro Marxist. I do think Gen. Edward Lansdale roped in some CIA anti-Castro Cubans to help kill JFK ("Dark Complected Man" also known as "Radio Man" was for sure involved in the JFK assassination as a spotter for snipers on the Grassy Knoll.)

Trump to receive bonus worth $1.2bn for Trump Media stock performance A price floor means ex-president gets bonus even though Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock value has plummeted https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/24/trump-media-bonue “He was able to receive the bonus if TMTG’s stock traded above $17.50 a share for 20 days out of any 30-day period within the first three years of the firm’s stock market debut...” Steve (slaps his forhead) Thomas It just never ends.

Christian, these images are visible and very interesting! Thank you.

...Thks for the feed back. I am trying to fix this by trying different hosting sites. I am really not of the Digital Generation, and it shows....

I think Secret Service agent Clint Hill went to work for Lyndon Johnson, who never trusted him, just like LBJ never trusted anyone who was close to the Kennedys.

The CIA didn't conduct any successful covert operations under Allen Dulles? I guess Joe Kennedy and Robert Lovett got worked up over nothing, eh?

Ok, so let's see what we can find in the right lateral autopsy picture. Hee is the original below: Below are two results after processing: There appears to be a large, roughly circular area of bruised tissues, devoid of scalp and hair, about 1,5 inches above the right eye, just at the hairline. Note how deep the metal rest is sinking into JFK's head, indicating absence of bone. Below we compare these results with Kilduff spontaneous description of the wound during the Press conference in Dallas: Below is a comparison with Z 337: And below is my interpretation of the head wounds, after comparative analysis of Moorman, Z 337 and those two autopsy pictures. I chose a top view of the skull, for a change of perspective: I had intended to go on with a presentation dedicated to the forgery of the record, but I will to see if this link problem is actually solved. If not, I will put this presentation on hold and see what I can do

LBJ's and Hoover's phone call occurred Saturday morning on 11/23/1963. Here is what LBJ did on the afternoon of Saturday 11/23/1963: Lyndon Johnson personally told Dallas Police Detective Capt. Will Fritz to STOP questioning Oswald on late in the afternoon on 11/23/63 There is an extremely important passage in Noel Twymann's Bloody Treason; it is on pages 792 to 803 of the hardback version. Twymann details and confirms Lyndon Johnson PERSONALLY calling Will Fritz late on Saturday 11/23/63 and telling him to QUIT interrogating Oswald. The fix had been in on Oswald beginning 14 minutes after the JFK assassination when Marguerite Oswald’s 1960 physical description of him to the FBI was broadcast all over the Dallas police radio five times within 24 minutes. Author Noel Twymann spoke to 2 people: Frank B. Harrell and Jim Leavelle. Here is what Twymann says about his meeting with Harrell: "He was very cooperative. He remembered the lunch and confirmed that Captain Fritz told that story, that Lyndon Johnson had called and ordered Captain Fritz to pull off questioning Oswald." [Noel Twymann, Bloody Treason, p. 794] "Harrell says that Fritz was 'pulled off because he was getting too close.' He said that in 'a couple of more hours he'd have broken Oswald, but they pulled Oswald out.'" [Noel Twymann, Bloody Treason, p. 794]

That is a pretty good short summary of what Scott has put forth Sandy. And unlike Fetter, it does fit the evidence. But I have always wondered if Johnson really believed what Hoover was telling him. Because after proffering this evidence, Hoover tells him that the picture is not Oswald and the voice on the tape is not either. I have never known what to make of this. Maybe LBJ realized he was being tricked and decided to call it off? But this is what is so odd about Fetter,: he never pursues this question!

No Stu, that is not it. He is saying that somehow RFK had knowledge of the third phase of the CIA plots to kill Castro. And therefore when the name Rolando Cubela came up in a CIA cable, this froze him in place. I replied that if one looks at the CIA IG Report, this does not work. Because they say that the plots were never given presidential approval and were kept from all three presidents, Ike, JFK and LBJ. And Helms specifically forbade that Cubela have any kind of meeting with RFK. He does not even prove that RFK saw this cable.

I was under the impression that Hill stayed with Jackie when she left the white house.

...Apparently still having problem with the image links: the results on Z337 are missing, and even I can't access them... I am reposting them

JFK's killers had 3 objectives. 1. A plan to murder Kennedy 2. A plan to cover up their involvement and blame someone else. 3.The implementation of the policy changes that were the reason for the murder in the first place. Johnson was indispensable to the last two objectives. All parts of the plan had be be in place before the murder. The murder was too risky and the planners too vulnerable to go ahead without a clear plan to get what they wanted and escape reckoning. Like most such plans alterations had to be made on the fly, but the murder would not have happened without the killers having confidence they could execute each part of the plan. The killers' top priority was that Kennedy must not survive the ambush in Dealey Plaza. If he did they were toast. If you have been to the scene you know how small the murder area in DP is. How simple the shots from several points were for an experienced shooter. Still, near certainty of success required several shooters firing from different locations. But that contradicted the coverup plan they were going with that Kennedy was murdered by a single shooter from the 6th floor window That contradiction had to be resolved and as the new president Johnson was one key in that process. Unlike some other political coups the planners didn't get to choose who would replace Kennedy. The Constitution says it would be Johnson. As the new president he would be in charge of the crucial second and third elements of the plan. As such, he would literally have the success or failure of the whole project in his hands. For that reason alone, the others would need clear assurances from Johnson that he would do the part that he was uniquely suited to carry out. Johnson knew there were others besides himself who wanted to get rid of Kennedy. As a powerful Washington figure in his own right, he had choices. He could turn on the perps, do a real investigation, and become a hero that likely would ensure his reelection in '64. But he understood that way led to chaos for the country, (a coup by elements of the government!) that would probably leave the presidency he had lusted after for years in shambles. It was an easy decision to instead join the planners to help them get rid of Kennedy. But in joining he would insist on certain prerogatives. Early on in the process, e.g., he would insist that there was to be no attack on Cuba. That would surely have risked a war with the Soviets and his presidency would be likely to go up in smoke. There would be those who refused to accept that and would continue planting the links of Oswald to Cuba. But once he became president he quickly squelched them by making his preference officially known. What kind of assurances would the others need from Johnson? I suppose it could be argued that the others knew Johnson and his views well enough to proceed without getting clear assurances from him. That's implausible, to say the least. The murder was too important and the others too vulnerable for that to be enough. Moreover, we know enough about Johnson to conclude he would not sign on as some kind of junior partner. He knew he was crucial to the plan's success and he wanted it to succeed. He would be a major decision maker in the group in certain areas of the plan I discuss. What we know about what Johnson did that weekend, from soon after the murder that afternoon in fact, verifies his role. Top of the coverup agenda: Oswald must be murdered before he could talk to a lawyer. They knew he didn't do it; they could not prove he did in court. Just one example: after talking to him, a lawyer for Oswald would have immediately moved to prevent NBC from hiding the Darnell and Wegman films that could substantiate Oswald's alibi. What happened instead was that without a lawyer there began that afternoon a series of interviews to discern Oswald's alibi so they could immediately begin to destroy elements of it. Besides burying the content of the interviews themselves as much as possible. (they ultimately failed when Hosty kept his notes from the first interview and turned them over to NARA after he wrote a book in the 90s to try to capitalize on the renewed interest in the JFKA) Once Oswald was killed there would be no trial. But there would have to be an investigation. That weekend Johnson squelched an investigation by Waggoner Carr the Texas AG, and the talk in Congress of doing one as well. He would control a federal investigation and he had already worked out exactly what he wanted: a commission to gather information to frame Oswald led by figureheads of the highest regard to sign the report. The Warren Commission was established by Johnson with the 7 figureheads in place one week after the murder. Must be a modern record for such a thing in Washington. Richard Russell had not yet agreed to do it, he was resisting, so Johnson simply announced the names he had chosen, his included, and told him he was on the commission. Naming his likely co-conspirator, Allen Dulles, to the Commission to guide it and particularly to shield the CIA from scrutiny, was the crowning touch. In typical Johnson fashion, he later pathetically claimed appointing Dulles was Bobby's idea (I think that was after Bobby was murdered) to try to shield himself from scrutiny as the one who was pulling the strings; Most laughable of the Johnson misdirections is the phone call you've heard where Joe Alsop tries to convince Johnson to appoint a commission of prominent people to investigate the murder. Johnson plays along and that is one piece of information from that hectic weekend that survives today. Typical misdirection. Johnson knew there would be an investigation. He had already sifted through his long list of Washington denizens to decide who could be trusted to go along with the frame of Oswald But first, the body had to be (illegally) snatched from Dr Rose at the hospital and taken back to DC where the autopsy could be controlled. A real autopsy exploring the actual wounds would have destroyed the Oswald story. Roughly 2 hours passed between when Kennedy was shot and AF1 took off to fly back to DC. Kennedy was pronounced dead, and Johnson became president, a half hour after the shooting. Johnson spent most of another half hour at the hospital before boarding AF1. Despite people all around him on the plane imploring him the take off, (most of them didn't know what happened or how much danger they were in) Johnson spent another hour on the ground to wait for the body to be sent to the plane. His transparent excuse: he had to wait because wanted to be sworn in first, only local judge Sarah Hughes could do the job, and she had to be located and brought to the plane. He knew he already was president and the swearing in ceremony was window dressing for the public. At some point, in the hour and a half after the became president, Johnson ordered the body sent to the plane. When exactly? Jack Valenti was sitting next to Johnson on the plane awaiting takeoff and later recounted that he heard Johnson ordering the body to be transported to him. That's plausible. Or Johnson could have given the order to his security people before heading to the plane and what Valenti heard was Johnson confirming it, or asking what was taking so long. Either could be true; it probably doesn't matter which. Johnson also knew that the autopsy was jurisdictional to Dr. Rose. That didn't matter. He knew control of the body was crucial to the success of the coverup and it was his job to ensure a fake autopsy. That leaves, as the final piece, Johnson's assurance to the others that he would carry out at least some of the policies they wanted. Kennedy had publicly challenged them by rejecting a "Pax Americano enforced by American weapons of war". If Johnson agreed with Kennedy's foreign policies, a major reason for the murder would be lost. Johnson didn't agree, particularly with Kennedy's plan to withdraw from Vietnam. He later told McNamara that he had disagreed with Kennedy on Vietnam but kept his mouth shut. There would be no war with the Soviets, Johnson decreed, but they could have their war in Vietnam. Indeed a draft of NSAM 273 on Vietnam reflecting Johnson's views and reversing essential parts of Kennedy's NSAM 263 had already been prepared before Kennedy was murdered. Johnson signed the new policy four days after the murder, one day after Kennedy was buried. That clearly would be Washington record for a reversal of a major policy that had been painstakingly worked out by Kennedy over many months, were it not for the fact that subbing 273 was part of the premurder plan. This is more evidence of Johnson's hand in the plan before the murder.

Why would it be expected that Ivy League adventurers born with a silver spoon in their mouths would be competent at covert and paramilitary operations? I think Barnes was the only one that had any military experience in WW2.

He’s protecting our democracy. Do you want fascism or something? /sarc

Biden just signed the bill that would ban Tiktok

A Black Progressive Democrat scores big. How Rep. Summer Lee Cruised to Victory (theintercept.com)

Hilarious. Horne's history is one of taking inconsistencies in the record and spinning them into the wildest tale possible. I urge you to do the research. What did Tom Robinson tell the HSCA? That he recalled a small wound on Kennedy's temple. What did Tom Robinson tell the ARRB? That there were two or three tiny wounds on Kennedy's cheek. What did Doug Horne take from his statements? That there was a bullet hole high on the forehead above the right eye. What did James Jenkins say? That he recalled seeing a gray smear on the skull above the right ear. What did he come to claim later? That he saw a bullet hole above the right ear. What did Horne claim in JFK: What the Doctors saw Jenkins REALLY saw? A bullet hole high on the forehead above the right eye. What did Ed Reed say? He and Custer took the x-rays, developed them, brought them back to the morgue, sat down for twenty minutes, saw Humes start cutting on Kennedy to remove the brain, was asked to leave as his services were no longer required, and never returned to the autopsy. What did Horne take from his statements? That he came in to take the x-rays and sat down, saw Humes cutting on Kennedy to remove bones from the top of the head to phony up the x-rays, was asked to leave, and was asked to return after 20 minutes to take the phony x-rays. The statements of Robinson and Reed are the pillars of Horne's theory. And yet he grossly misrepresents their statements to conjure up this theory. Now, as you know, he has few if any supporters among the upper echelon of researchers within the "community." That doesn't mean he 's wrong. But it's saying something that he has spent dozens if not hundreds of hours with Mantik in which he undoubtedly pushed. a theory holding that the largest recovered bone fragment was removed by Humes at Bethesda, and that Mantik would never embrace this, telling you, a few years back that the fragment was missing at Parkland but the hole was covered by scalp, and telling his audience in 2021, that this is pretty much what Humes saw when he first saw Kennedy's head. Now, as a refresher, here is what Horne claims Humes saw, prior to his alteration of the body... Now I'm guessing you're siding with Horne. But Horne, in case you haven't noticed, is by far the most slanderous researcher of all. Virtually everyone interviewed by the ARRB, in Horne's eyes, was a coward or a liar. Heck, he claims Tom Robison, his star witness, was involved in the clandestine delivery of JFK's body at Parkland an hour and a half before its official arrival.

Roselli had already been before the HSCA. He had been recalled for further testimony. Is there anything in the testimony he did provide that would give a clue to his untimely demise? Assuming a 55 gallon drum weighing 30 pounds containing a 200 pound man so that the bloating of the body expands its volume to entirely fill the drum and displace all water results in a drum density of 31 lbs/cubic foot. This results in a net buoyant force of about 240 pounds in saltwater. For a 42 gallon drum weighing 25 pounds, the resulting drum density is 40 lbs/cubic foot. In that case, the buoyant force would be about 133 pounds. So it would depend on the weight of the chains as well as the drum size. The above results are an upper limit on the buoyant forces because 1) the body was dismembered and decomposing gases would escape the body and the barrel and 2) it would require the body having an initial volume of 24 gallons to expand by bloating to fill the barrel by a factor of at least 1.75. So it’s not impossible that the barrel could rise to the surface but more specific info on Roselli’s weight, the barrel used and the weight of chain ballast used would give a more precise estimate. The big question is how much of the decomposition gases would escape the dismembered body. The above was done without writing anything down on paper which is always error-prone but the numbers look reasonable.

Jackie Kennedy’s cartoons from the 1960 campaign show a cartoon of Lone Star “Texans” Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn shaking hands with JFK. The big Texan LBJ is squeezing a tiny frail JFK’s hand to the point that it hurts: https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/jackie-kennedy-knew-all-about-lyndon.html Daily Beast article on Jackie’s 1960 campaign cartoons: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jackie-kennedys-jfk-cartoons-1 (7th cartoon down is Jackie’s cartoon of how LBJ and Sam Rayburn treated JFK at the 1960 Democratic convention. Notice how LBJ is crushing the hand of a noticeable smaller and diminished and pained John Kennedy.) That is a pretty good summary of how LBJ “strongarmed” his way onto the 1960 Democratic ticket. The JFK-LBJ ticket was seemingly an act of friendship but in reality an act of hostility and one of the parties was “forced” to go along with it. No wonder the JFK-LBJ relations were so rancid during JFK’s presidency. No wonder Robert Kennedy was out to utterly destroy Lyndon Johnson in the fall of 1963! (I wonder how LBJ would feel about that?)