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More from the rambling (but in a good way) Rambler story... (emphases mine...)

"As a Cuban senator with his own private army, Rolando "El Tigre" Masferrer protected the Mafia's interests, becoming friends with Santos Trafficante, Jr. in the process. Morrow says that "Richard Nixon was among Batista's frequent and well received guests" during this period.567

The friendship between Masferrer and Trafficante continued in the U.S. after Castro took control. Masferrer escaped from Cuba with Cuban congressman Eladio del Valle. Masferrer's anti-Castro mercenaries (training on Howard Hughes' island, No Name Key) had been the ones approved by Rostow's friend Richard Bissell to assassinate Castro. They were the core group of Operation Forty. The future leader of Masferrer's anti-Castro mercenaries in Florida was Loran Eugene Hall. Gerry Patrick Hemming, who was a member of the group, claimed Oswald had tried to join after leaving the Marines in 1959 but was turned down by Masferrer's men in Los Angeles.568

When Howard Burris' good friend Richard Helms took over Bissell's job as the CIA's Deputy Director of Plans with the blessing of the just fired Allen Dulles and Charles Cabell (Dallas Mayor Earl Cabell's brother), he decided, despite a CIA internal memo to the contrary, to continue the assassination plots against Castro using Trafficante's and Masferrer's men. He worked directly with John Roselli as his sole contact with Trafficante. By February 1962, J. Edgar Hoover had struck a deal with Helms to jointly cover up their agencies' criminal activities. By May 1962, Dulles favorite Tracy Barnes had established his super-secret Domestic Operations Division, hiring Dulles loyalist E. Howard Hunt as its covert action chief.569

After the missile crisis, Kennedy declared a "hands-of Cuba" policy. Antonio Veciana, the head of Alpha 66, defied the Kennedy brothers with a March 17, 1963 attack against a Soviet military post and two Soviet freighters. The Kennedys cracked down against the anti-Castro raiders on March 30. The next day, Oscar del Valle Garcia, the organizer of Operation Forty, used Masferrer's men to blow up a Soviet ship. The sole American on board the raider ship was Jerry Buchanan, protege of Frank Sturgis, Orlando Bosch, and INCA's Manuel Gil -- whose boss, Ed Butler (Oswald's radio debate opponent), later sat on the American Security Council with Rostow favorite Ed Lansdale; the same Jerry Buchanan whose brother James Buchanan became the propagator of Frank Sturgis' false Oswald stories in the Pompano Beach Sun Sentinel.570"

and a paragraph from his conclusions:

"Many researchers of the JFK assassination eventually pass a difficult psychological threshold. When confronted with the first evidence of conspiracy, most rational people have no doubt responded, "so what?" The circumstantial evidence presented here is far from immune from such skepticism. The threshold is different for each person because it is defined by the individual's tolerance for the number of times they can say "so what" before skepticism becomes denial. And denial is perfectly understandable because the alternative leads to frightening speculation about the true meaning of events in the recent history of the United States."

how bout that.

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yes.

my apologies, I thought it was obvious. are there others who've written so extensively about the Rambler(s)?

I'm still a little foggy on how it got this person's attention on the UT campus, about how these books and magazines were "displayed" so as to get attention. It doesn't sound ridiculous whatsoever, after reading it carefully - would just like to know more details.

Barth.- wrote this in 96 i think, and suggests several things that would warrant more research - I wonder how much has been done since this article...

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"On May 29, 1989, a Rambler station wagon was noticed on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) which fit the description of the getaway car reportedly seen by Craig, Robinson, Forrest, and Carr on November 22, 1963.8 A cursory examination of the car revealed apparent associations between it and persons whose lives were intertwined with Lyndon Johnson's political machinery, the military-industrial-intelligence complex in the U.S., right-wing politics, and Latin American politics.

Connections between odd characteristics of the car itself and information found elsewhere on the UT campus could be interpreted as a trail of clues in the form of coded messages connecting this Rambler, its owner at the time, and its previous owner to the JFK assassination.9 These clues appear to have been deliberately planted due to specific interrelationships in their content and the encoding technique used.

Specifically, the Rambler was found bearing a 1964 Mexico Federal Turista window sticker and displaying at least two magazines published in 1963 on its rear seat. Although this made it only a minor curiosity, it became increasingly intriguing with subsequent study.

Physical, anecdotal, and documentary evidence has revealed a mosaic of relationships extending from the car's owners to individuals who have been and are currently subjects of interest to researchers of the conspiratorial aspects of the assassination of President Kennedy."

[...]

"The car was a light, warm-gray 1959 Rambler Cross Country Custom station wagon (License No. 711-TQC). The paint looked old and appeared to be original. During a two-year period of observation it was usually parked near Batts Hall which houses the university's Spanish and Portuguese Department. It had a 1964 Mexico Federal "Turista" Automobile sticker (registration no. 243495) in the right rear window and a "D" (for disabled) UT parking sticker on the windshield. In the back seat were two issues of Esquire magazine published in 1963. Only one of them still had a cover. It showed an illustration of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the movie Cleopatra. The back seat was in disrepair but the interior upholstery appeared to be original.

The car was photographed a year later in exactly the same condition as when it was first seen. This was done because every time it was observed up to that time nothing about the car had changed, not even the identity, number, location or arrangement of the magazines;12 despite the car's daily use. By chance, the day it was photographed, the car's driver was also captured on film driving the Rambler. This lack of change remained through the entire two-year period of observation ending in mid-1991. It was beginning to seem that there might be some significance to the display of these particular magazines in this particular Rambler station wagon with its 1964 turista sticker. In any event photography was the best safeguard against the car's disappearance before it could be studied further.

On November 9, 1990, a request was made to the Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles in Austin, for an ownership history of the Rambler. The first question to be answered was whether or not Ruth or Michael Paine had ever owned it. Unfortunately the clerk at the Division of Motor Vehicles said all of the state's ownership records prior to title numbers beginning with the digits 85 were routinely destroyed, which included those for this car.13 Fortunately the same man had owned this car for the past twenty-seven years and his title showed up in the current computer record. A Title and Registration Verification was obtained for two dollars. It was typed like this:

NDX 239845 LIC 711TQC EXPIRES MAY/91 EWT 2800 GWT 0000
$40.80 TITLE 33883954 ISSUED 05/07/65 ODOMETER N/A
59 RAMBLER SW D713121 REG CLASS O1
PREVIOUS OWNER CB SMITH MOTORS AUSTIN TEX
OWNER GEORGE GORDON WING, 2101 ROBINHOOD TRL,AUSTIN,TX 78703
LIEN 04/13/65 UNIVERSITY FEDERAL CREDITUNION,PO BOX 8090 U T
STATIO
N,AUSTIN TEX
PLATE AGE: 2.

The possibility remains that the Paines owned the car prior to C.B. Smith because its ownership history during its first four years is yet to be established despite several attempts through various means. But just because Oswald was under the impression that the car belonged to Ruth Paine in 1963 does not mean that it did. Bert Sugar and Sybil Leek apparently had information that Paine borrowed such a car.14 (me: and it's mentioned later that she borrowed a car regularly from Jack Ruby...)

Nevertheless the identities of the two known owners have proven to be of potential importance to the events of November 22, 1963.

Cecil Bernard Smith, the previous owner, personally knew Lyndon Johnson. He was a major land owner in Austin who opened Austin's first Volkswagen dealership at Sixth Street and Lamar Boulevard. He was a native of Texas and a star athlete in college. He donated money to Johnson's political campaigns and to UT. During the 1980s C.B. Smith donated land to the university to endow five chairs in Mexican and Latin American Studies..."

"George Gordon Wing, the owner of the car from April 1963 until his death in December 1991, was a Ph.D. and associate professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department..."

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APPENDIX

The Mutilated UT Library Books and Rambler Back seat Magazines

The following are the nine books discovered missing or with pages removed at the Perry-Casteñeda and Benson Libraries on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The first was discovered in June 1989; the rest in May-June 1991 when only the author and one other person knew all of the facts about what was being found. No books were found after these; but books with missing pages yet to be found, now that word of them is more widespread, are less credible. Following the nine books are the only two back seat magazines to be positively identified of at least four that are visible in photographs of George Wing's Rambler station wagon. The identity of the third is at present only tentative, but the visible elements on its cover do appear to be an identifiable match.

  1. Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, (NY: McGraw Hill, 1980), pp. 125-26, 447-52, 545-46, 593-94; discovered June 1989.
  2. Robert Sam Anson, They've Killed the President, (NY: Bantam, 1975), pp. 197-98, 255-58, 267-68, 275-76, 297-300, 307-14, 331-34, 387-88; discovered May 1, 1991.
  3. HSCA Volume V: Trafficante testimony, pp. 363-68, 373-76; discovered May 9, 1991.
  4. Jaques Cattel, ed., Directory of American Scholars, Vol. I, (NY: R.R. Bowker Co. sixth ed. 1974), p. 672 (only the Nathaniel Weyl biography was removed, the rest of the page remains intact); discovered May 13, 1991.
  5. Peter Dale Scott, Crime and Cover-Up, (Berkeley, CA: Westworks, 1977), pp. 7-22, 27-28, 31-38, 41-44, 51-56, 61-62, 65-66; discovered May 13, 1991.
  6. Wim J. Meiners, De Moordfabriek: Tussen Dallas En Watergate, (NY: Ace; Bussum: Centripress, 1974), pp. 42-64, photos 4 pp.; disco vered May 23, 1991. Note: An intact copy of this book was obtained through an interlibrary loan from the University of Kansas Libraries; E / 842.9 /.M43.
  7. Warren Hinckle with William Turner, The Fish is Red, (NY: Harper and Row, 1981), pp. 31-40, 43-46, 53-54, 101-04, 111-26, 131-34, 155-74, 203-06, photo section: 8 pp., 215-18, 223-24, 335-38, 349-52; discovered May 24, 1991.
  8. Michael Canfield with Alan J. Webberman, Coup d'Etat in America, (NY: Third Press, 1975); confirmed missing May 24, 1991.
  9. Julius Mader, Who's Who in CIA, (Berlin: Self-published, 1968), pp. 577-78; discovered June 1, 1991.

Magazines made conspicuous on the back seat:

  1. Esquire, August 1963, Vol. LX, No. 2, whole No. 357.
  2. Esquire, January 1964, Vol. LXI, No. 1, whole No. 362.
  3. Life, June 7, 1963, Vol. 54, No. 23.

me: the short story is, from what i understand, the magazines laid out on the back seat in such an odd manner - and for over a year or so - prompted further investigation, at which point he began discovering books in the UT library with these "certain" pages torn out - and more intriguingly, others as informative left in.

it seems quite apparent to me that these particular pages having been "destroyed" coupled with this enormous group of intelligence types associated with UT, et al. cannot NOT mean something.

the author suggests, even asks point blank for help, researching further.

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I get the story, but how did they come about the conclusion in the first place? How demonstrable is the evidence that it's the Oswald Rambler?

Don't get me wrong, I'd love for a nice neat package like this to wrap everything up. But how likely is it that someone is still using the escape vehicle to commute to and from work every day 26 years later?

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right, my main issue concern was how it is that someone just happens across such a vehicle who would know enough to pay attention in the first place, and yes, why would someone be driving such a car so long afterward -

unless, it's the somewhat far-fetched idea Barth. presents in the first place, the idea that someone is trying to "pass a message" under the table. he even compares it to another similar tactic used somewhere else in the mystery - i can't remember what exactly...

he says this, though - that he's not implying that this IS "the car".

"According to the rule of falsifiability, if this car was not involved in the assassination, the evidence will prove the claim (that it was involved) false. If the claim is true, the evidence will not disprove it. So far none of the evidence disproves that George Wing's station wagon was the car seen by Michael Kensington, Roger Craig, Marvin Robinson, Helen Forrest, and Richard Carr.589 Neither does it disprove Wing's Rambler was the one known to Oswald as the car that took him from Dealey Plaza. The search for evidence continues however. Help in that search is both needed and requested from the research community."

- the fact that Michael Kensington sees a similar car at the Miami cuban Hideaway goes a long way in the possibility of this tying together.

"But perhaps this car had nothing to do with the assassination. Perhaps like the back seat magazines and the missing pages, it too was just a sign or a signal, something that would attract the attention of someone knowledgeable about the JFK assassination, something which would help put the other clues into perspective and lead to previously unseen relationships in the mosaic of the Kennedy assassination."

my mainstay, and the work I'm doing putting all the names together into a chain - or group of chains, is the immense degree of "interrelationship" that the piece brings out.

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i mean, hell, there's an almost direct line from U. Texas to DH Byrd to Mac Wallace just for starters.

...from UT to Dulles and Hans Gisevius to George Bush...

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I get the story, but how did they come about the conclusion in the first place? How demonstrable is the evidence that it's the Oswald Rambler?

Don't get me wrong, I'd love for a nice neat package like this to wrap everything up. But how likely is it that someone is still using the escape vehicle to commute to and from work every day 26 years later?

it's like so much else of this blasted mystery - it's too curious to make any sense, and it's way too curious to leave alone.

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i mean, hell, there's an almost direct line from U. Texas to DH Byrd to Mac Wallace just for starters.

...from UT to Dulles and Hans Gisevius to George Bush...

Wheel invented ....

CIA plot to kill JFK is based only on political bias, and not on solid evidence. That's my final word on it. (tongue in cheek)

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Eleven parts plus addendum. (Addendum total continuity Dulles connection Treasury Department Head Councils 1950s to past assassination)

  • Dulles the CEO of Dallas
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