Robert Howard

This has some interesting stuff..... The Zapruder Film and Harry Holmes: by Vincent Palamara Fred Newcomb and the late Perry Adams interviewed Harry Holmes for their unpublished manuscript entitled "Murder From Within"* (a 1974 production that took five years to research/ write: the authors' only tv appearance** was on the now-defunct "Inside Report" on NBC back in May 1990), a great body of work that introduced everyone to body alteration (years before Lifton, who offers a "legalese" footnote pertaining to another topic on page 370--and page 732---of "Best Evidence"), ZAPRUDER FILM TAMPERING (as acknowledged by Harrison Livingstone in "Killing Kennedy" and on several pages of "Assassination Science"), LHO backyard photo fakery (as acknowledged by Jack White in "The Many Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald" and in Jim Marrs' "Crossfire"), Dodd Committee/ Seaport Traders/ LHO theory (see pages 300 and 528 of Henry Hurt's "Reasonable Doubt"), and, last but not least, Greer shooting JFK [years before Bill Cooper!] (which, like Hickey shooting JFK in "Mortal Error", greatly damaged the good work in the rest of the book). Newcomb was also the first to track down the Air Force One transcripts at the LBJ Library back in 1975 ("Best Evidence", p. 681) and that one of the Willis photos had been retouched by the FBI ("Who's Who in the JFK Assassination" by Michael Benson, p. 310), but I digress... The authors interviewed the following members of the DPD: Jesse Curry, B.J. Martin, Douglas Jackson, James Chaney, Stavis Ellis, Marion Baker, Joe M. Smith, and Earle V. Brown. Also, Jean Hill, Bill Newman, Charles Brehm, Ralph Yarborough, Joe H. Rich, Bill Greer, Roy Kellerman***, Henry Gonzalez, Dean Andrews...and HARRY D. HOLMES. PAGE 129: "Also on Friday evening, November 22nd, [Forrest] Sorrels did a frame-by-frame study of the Zapruder film in his Dallas office. According to Dallas Postal Inspector Harry D. Holmes who was present, "...we thumbed (through) that thing for an hour or more...push (ing) it up one frame at a time." PAGE 213: "A postal inspector [Holmes] picked up a piece of skull from the Elm St. pavement. He said it was as "...big as the end of my finger..." Furthermore, it was one of many: "...there was just pieces of skull and bone and corruption all over the place..." He later discarded it.[!!!]" Seymour Weitzman found a "firecracker" sized skull fragment on Elm Street which he turned over to the Secret Service [7 H 107]; the Harper fragment; the back-of-the -head piece Sam Kinney found lying in the rear of the limo while on the C-130; the three pieces found in the limo: what is going on here??? In any event, Harry Holmes is certainly unique: he had perhaps the best vantage point, witnessing the assassination THROUGH BINOCULARS on the fifth floor of the Post Office Terminal Annex Building. Holmes was previously an FBI informant and, in his capacity as Postal Inspector, had traced the paperwork concerning the Oswald mail order rifle and revolver and testified about it to the Warren Commission. Holmes was present asking questions during the final interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald on 11/24/63, shortly before Ruby would silence him forever. Holmes was a friend of John Martin, a man who also worked in the same building who took a film on that fateful day ("Pictures of the Pain", p. 574). And, now, we know he found a piece of President Kennedy's skull on Elm Street---which he then DISCARDED---and he analyzed the Zapruder film on NOVEMBER 22, 1963!!! Vince Palamara * a nice summary of their work can be found in a lengthy letter sent to the HSCA's Patricia Orr dated 3/7/77 [RIF# 180-10090-10263]. **Newcomb and Adams' work was the basis behind the two-part CFTR radio (Canada) 1976 program entitled "Thou Shalt Not Kill", available from The Collector's Archives in Quebec. Included is a short conversation with Roy Kellerman. ***In a letter to the author dated 1/21/92, Fred Newcomb wrote: "We did two telephonic interviews with Kellerman and two with Greer. Those were the only S.S. we talked to." I never knew until 5 minutes ago, that Holmes knew John Martin..... Martin 's activities on November 22, 1963 were so intertwined with the day's events that he had to have been clairvoyant, unless your like me and don't believe in clairvoyance.....I also believe Harry D. Holmes was a morally bankrupt person. Thought for the day. What would he say to Oswald, if he did say anything to Oswald on the elevator going down to be mortally wounded....., If he did say anything to Oswald I'm sure it mirrored what Leavelle said...I'll always wonder about that....When he was interviewed by Larry Sneed, he leaves it open that Oswald might not have even done the shooting......At the least if the story about destroying forensic evidence in the JFK Assassination is true, he should have been legally prosecuted, small wonder that never happened.

The definitive interview of Harry Holmes is in the book No More Silence, after I saw this thread had been bumped I went back to see if there was anything I had overlooked. And there was something I had overlooked that was so glaring that I was embarrassed I hadn't noticed it. Holmes, in addition to watching the Plaza at the time of the assassination through binoculars had an open line to Washington. If that isn't a smoking gun, I don't understand what the word means. Someone should post the entire interview, it is not exactly your father's Oldsmobile.

https://books.google.com/books?id=EkFRSiBVRyoC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=Arthur+Wyndham+Allan+Cowan&source=bl&ots=xGQmvTIBsm&sig=k8_KBbrvw7c5bEtAjoeT7--0VMY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uWgiVd3lH8KLsAXJxoDIAQ&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Arthur%20Wyndham%20Allan%20Cowan&f=false This book excerpt refers to how Lillian Hellman was left the complete rights to Dashiell Hammett's works upon the death of Arthur Cowan, who died in November 1964. On a separate note the Dallas Morning News of 11/11/63, made mention of a memorial service in Terrell, Texas to British pilots who died there during World War II in training exercises, the service was attended by Arthur W A Cowan, Victor J. Toogood (died 2010) Rev. Fr. Robert Flagg & Jewish layman Joseph Braffman. Victor was the president of the British American Club, and Arthur was also a member. Toogood was a Richardson, Texas resident at the time of his death according to an online obit blurb. DMN - "20 Training Victims Honored by Terrell" At one time, & probably currently Arthur W. A Cowan's will was available for a fee at ancestry.com. I have never seen it. At this point in time, with the exception of Arthur's relatives and his enigmatic death in Malaga, Spain, the most interesting JFK link is the fact that Lillian and Arthur were close and that Leonard Bernstein was very acquainted with Lillian. I think Leonard's Russian sojourn might have been more than just a random factoid in the historical record.

Hrrmph.... https://books.google.com/books?id=2gLq2qN6oiIC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=Pearl+Harbor,+Microdots+%26+J+Edgar+Hoover&source=bl&ots=HizcR_cYd1&sig=o85PEix28Kuha48Er0vo5ScJsys&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qdceVZWGM4HOsAXW04CQAw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Pearl%20Harbor%2C%20Microdots%20%26%20J%20Edgar%20Hoover&f=false

I can see both sides of the argument; I just think after the way the DPD recorded in their documents that "Oswald" was arrested in the balcony AND in the general seating area; they probably decided to quit while they were behind.

I believe Greg makes a pretty good point; I don't post near as much as I used to, Greg's absence here ie [ridicule of Prayerman belief, et al & behavior of alleged contemporaries] didn't help matters. He is the single best researcher in the mix, and has been for some time. (Sorry critics of GP) Some of the threads & postings over the last 12 months seem pretty amateurish considering the fact that the available documents and scholarly work are, in effect a database going on 52 years. I am not trying to knock the forum or any of its current members, some of it is due to I guess what you would call the "downside of endless debate over key points" as a lowest common denominator in the quality and professionalism of debate. It would not be miraculous for some of the former best & brightest to come back to posting here, but that would require a considerable infusion of a higher standard of behavior in postings and savoir faire. I never have understood why that is so difficult, until I recall the adage "don't you know who I am." I still have a lot of "information not currently known." I guess my view is that the forum of days gone by and its quality of dialogue and back & forth went away a long time ago. Thank God for facebook.

According to the website, The Dallas Public Library's copy of the "The Shark and the Sardines," was, checked out to Lee Harvey Oswald, and his copy was "50 years overdue.* " * http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/11/on-top-of-everything-else-oswald-had-an-overdue-library-book.html/ The websites story goes on the assumption that on November 22, 1963 it was overdue & had not been returned.. So, how did the Dallas Police miss this find, if it was checked out by him? According to H.P. Albarelli's "A Secret Order........" in 1966 Albert Newman inquired to the Dallas Public Library's, Lillian Bradshaw, [who had been interviewed by the FBI in February 1964 regarding Oswald's use of the Dallas Public Library and Juan Jose Arrevola's book, translated by CIA asset June Cobb,] the book had been returned, although it was not indicated by whom. The website above may have not done their homework. I would certainly take Mr. Albarelli's information in his book over the former, but this is whole topic seems unexplored, as far as the book checked out to Oswald goes.........I also wonder if there could be a connection between Lillian Bradshaw and the Mr. Bradshaw whose copy of the Wall Street Journal was discovered in the possession of Jack Ruby after he shot Oswald, although that could be a reach. Also see https://books.google.com/books?id=SfoBBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT82&lpg=PT82&dq=a+secret+order+albarelli+The+Shark+%26+The+Sardines&source=bl&ots=tH_16PmIRH&sig=gabzmGCPqMdb5FoPHUrBvkNG9hg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xPT0VJetFYO-ggTlwYCgBw&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=a%20secret%20order%20albarelli%20The%20Shark%20%26%20The%20Sardines&f=false

Coming Soon to Fox News Hitler's Bunker: And I Was There........

I cannot say for sure, but there was someone, I want to say, "associated" with the Hotel de Comercio, whose name was given as Roberto Lee. My maryferrell.org subscription is expired. But it could be checked out for anyone interested. There was a person employed in Chicago, I believe whose name was Odes Howard Lee.......Which, abbreviated is, O. H. Lee. The document related to the latter is in the original Warren Commission supporting documents.......I thought that was rather odd......., BTW - Does anyone know who Earle Deathe is, crossed upon his name from LBJ Library document?

Has anyone in the research community or anyone qualified ever wrote about intelligence agencies linkage to the Import/Export business? We all know Lee Oswald worked at Gerard F. Tujague's, after working at Dolly Shoe....so, that has always intrigued me. Anyone else?

Recently I came across an allegation regarding Michael Paine which I had never heard of before. It was from Buchanan's book Who Killed Kennedy, in which he references, "Michael Paine, a Bell Helicopter engineer who had once toured Europe as a singer." see page 135. Obviously, not a profound revelation, but I thought it was interesting considering that the Paine's had a proven interest in madrigal singing. Moreover, an item like this could be fact checked via newspaper archives, and if it were true could hopefully provide additional information besides the usual knowledge of Allen Dulles connection to the Forbes family, ie Mary Bancroft. Also, pro-Warren Commission authors, in this case, Thomas Mallon points out, referencing page 121 of William Manchester's Death of A President......that Ruth Carter Johnson [daughter of Amon Carter,] became the surprised recipient of John Kennedy's last telephone call.........." This was due to the placing of famous artworks that had been placed in the Kennedy's suite at the hotel. Mallon goes on to write in his interview of, now, Ruth Carter Stevenson [page 202], "Did she herself help set things up at the Hotel Texas?" I ask. "Hell, yes, I was over there! They'd just washed all the carpets and we were all in stockinged feet." Mrs. Stevenson was on familiar ground; her brother and sister-in-law, during the first weeks of their marriage, while waiting for their own house to be ready, had lived in the same suite now being prepared for the Kennedy's. This same couple, later on, had employed a local woman, Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, as a babysitter, until they decided she was too odd a character and, as Mrs. Stevenson puts it, "discontinued her." At the time of the assassination, Mrs. Oswald, who had angrily failed at various retail jobs, was working as a practical nurse. On November 21, a Secret Serviceman who looked at the haul of art being brought into the hotel remarked to Mrs. Stevenson: "It's sort of valuable, isn't it." She recalls telling him. "Yes, but we don't worry about things like that here in Fort Worth. [The] paintings were probably covered with blankets." Anyway, I thought it was interesting. It sort of made me think about the phrase "household names," and how the term is relative to whose "household" one is referring to.

Looks like a match; I wasn't able to do much else; my MFF subscription is expired. I know Arch Park Kimbrough helped mary Ferrell with the MFF chronology. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Orr&GSfn=Maurice&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=2007&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=100081478&df=all

If you want to see something very odd, go to the find-a-grave entry for Richard Case Nagell. It states he is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, then in the comments section someone says something about having obtained his papers........sounds a bit hard to believe myself......Arlington National Cemetery??? Really???

Wow this thread really went to hell; All I can add for the moment is that the publishing company which does the Images of America books have several releases out now; they are strictly historical and avoid any reference to controversial aspects of the JFK assassination. But they are compelling, but only if you are interested in the history of Dealey Plaza, Historical areas also in Dallas, plus some very hard to find photos, et cetera.

Several pages back on this thread there was mention of the "portion of Cox's boxtop" in LHO's possession. Did anyone dig further into this? In that era there were two Cox Department stores, one in Waco that went bankrupt in 1995 The other was in Fort Worth and according to Wikipedia, [granted not the most reliable source] it later merged with W. C. Stripling & Sons fortwortharchitecture.com, writes on their website W.C. Stripling Middle School 2100 Clover Lane - 1927; 1955; 1958; 1989 (CFW)This school was constructed in 1927 as W.S. Stripling High School to serve the growing population of the Arlington Heights area and to replace the 1922 Arlington Heights High School. The building was designed by Wiley G. Clarkson and constructed by K.H. Muse. Clarkson also designed for the same school bond package, William James Middle School in the Polytechnic area of the city. The plans for the buildings were identical, but Clarkson put different facades on the two schools. The school was named after W.C. Stripling, founder of Stripling's Department Store. The Stripling building is a 3 story "H" shaped plan and has some Georgian Revival details. At the projecting entry, inscriptions of "Knowledge", "Citizenship", and "Character" appear above each arched opening. The campus was landscaped as a part of the Works Progress Administration by Hare and Hare of St. Louis. The school was converted to a junior high school in 1937, when the current Arlington Heights High School opened. With the West Side continually growing, eight classrooms, designed by Jim D. Vowell were added in 1955 and twelve more were added in 1958, thereby extending the wings of the building to the west. I thought that was worth a post, especially since Oswald went to school there. It might not mean much, but it might at some point in the future.

On March 24, 2006, Herbert Manell passed away, although I cannot say with certitude, I am curious as to if he is the same person cited in State Secret Chapter 3. http://www.faqs.org/people-search/manell/ FWIW more Birth: Sep. 15, 1925 Death: Mar. 24, 2006 Note: TEC4 US ARMY Burial: Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Arlington County Virginia, USA Plot: Sec: 8-N2 ROW 11, Site: 4 Created by: John C. Anderson Record added: Mar 06, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 49253426 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Manell&GSfn=Herb&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=49253426&df=all&

I second Tommy's motion; as far as I am concerned, when new information on someone as significant as DeMohrenschildt appears, there is no such thing as too much information. Thanks Shane

Pretty interesting regarding JFK's May '63 visit to James Forrestal's grave. One wonders just what was going on in JFK's mind. My most recent book read is the Best & The Brightest, which is far from a "official version of JFK's administration," in the sense of the fact that Halberstam writes in a very accurate account of just how much JFK resisted the JCOS, Walt Rostow and Maxwell Taylor kept pushing for ground troops in Vietnam. Ironically, Halberstam died in an automobile accident on his way to address a group of college graduates. One myth Halberstam destroys is the fact that Maxwell Taylor was a proponent of counterinsurgency in Vietnam. Counterinsurgency was talked about a great deal during JFK's 1,000 days, but in reality didn't really take off until after November 22, 1963 had long passed. Whereas Lansdale was from Day One eager to up the ante using that type of approach, once he was brought in to JFK's closer advisors. In fact, Halberstam vividly describes how Taylor was in charge of compiling a list of officials to go on a 1961 Vietnam Fact finding mission to that country, and Taylor had intentionally left Lansdale's name off the list. So much of the Best and the Brightest, I believe requires an innate ability to read between the lines. Regarding the 1946 trip to Berlin, the JFK Library confirms the trip took place, which I admit I wasn't aware of. http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-007-005-p0058.aspx

You can't tell where your going.......if you don't know where you've been. 1967 7:00 O'clock News Silent Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgYFXCUEL4Y

This topic can't be considered adequately covered without a nod to Aldous Huxley, who, of course died the same day John F. Kennedy died. Reprinted courtesy of the Fortean Times. Also See http://m.deseretnews.com/top/2066/0/Nov-22-1963-A-look-at-the-lives-of-JFK-CS-Lewis-and-Aldous-Huxley-.html Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley was already a legendary figure in the literary sphere when he was introduced to the milieu of mind-bending drugs. Antonio Melechi takes a trip down memory lane to fling wide The Doors Of Perception and seek the pathway to Heaven and Hell. By Antonio Melechi February 2004 In the evening of 5 May 1953, the tree-lined streets running off Sunset Boulevard “trembled on the brink of the supernatural” and the houses in the hills of nearby Hollywood “gleamed in the sunshine, like fragments of the New Jerusalem”. For Aldous Huxley, this was a last, dazzling glimpse of a vanishing Eden. Eight hours earlier, he had swallowed four-tenths of a gramme of mescaline, courtesy of Dr Humphry Osmond, the psychiatrist now riding in the back seat, and immersed himself in the quivering “is-ness” of his everyday surroundings. The downtown drive to the ‘World’s Largest Drug Store’ confirmed what Huxley had suspected: “transfiguration was proportional to distance. The nearer, the more divinely other.” But now, as his car pulled up to North Kings Road, even the nearest of objects had recovered the dull patina of familiarity. Huxley, the mystic manqué, had come back through the door in the wall. This was not what he had expected. The medical literature on mescaline described the restless “visions of many-coloured geometries”, “animated architecture”, “landscapes with heroic figures” which experimenters had seen with closed eyes. But Huxley, whose eyesight was extremely poor and capacity for vivid recall almost nil, was not to be transported into these visionary realms. “The great change,” that occurred to him under mescaline, “was in the realm of objective fact.” A vase of flowers appeared to glow and breathe. The books in his study seemed to be illuminated by a “living light”. A bamboo chair offered “new direct insight into the very Nature of Things.” And, most miraculously of all, the folds of his trousers hosted “the unfathomable mystery of pure being”. Earlier that morning, Osmond had watched nervously as he poured the silvery-white crystals into water. Fearing that he might be remembered as the “the man who drove Aldous Huxley mad”, he decided to halve the dose, then changed his mind. After giving Huxley his mescaline at 11 o’ clock, Osmond, who had recently begun to use the hallucinogen in his research on the biochemistry of schizophrenia, monitored Huxley’s response to music, illustrations and various objects about him. Very soon, all his worries were allayed. Aside from one moment in the garden – when Huxley was briefly panicked “by a chair which looked like the Last Judgement” – he proved a perfect subject. “This is how one ought to see, how things really are,” he kept repeating to the tape recorder that quietly whirred by his side. Peyote, the small, spineless, parsnip-shaped cactus (below) from which mescaline is derived, grows south of the Rio Grande, which divides southern Texas from northern Mexico. The remarkable properties of this ‘divine cactus’, deified as peyotl by the Aztecs, were first catalogued by the Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagun. “Those who eat or drink it,” Sahagun wrote in 1560, “see visions either frightful or laughable… it stimulates them and gives them sufficient spirit to fight and have neither fear, thirst, nor hunger… It causes those devouring it to foresee and predict; such, for instance, as whether the weather will continue; or to discern who has stolen from them”. Condemned as an agent of sorcery and superstition by the Catholic Church, the use of peyote was never successfully outlawed, and most of the surviving tribes of Mexican Indians continued to consult and seek protection from the magical plant. Western science began to take an interest in the peyote cactus in the 1880s – the period in which the young Freud gave up on cocaine, another ‘magical substance’ from the New World – when the Ghost Dance religion took hold on the Comanche and Kiowa reservations. After James Mooney, an agent of the American Bureau of Ethnology, observed and participated in the newly-flourishing messianic rites, samples of peyote were sent to chemists who dryly confirmed that “the production of visions is the most interesting of the physiological effects” of the drug. The race to unpack its chemical constituents was led by German chemists. In 1888, the Berlin toxicologist Louis Lewin reported having isolated an alkaloid, Anhalonin, from the samples of dried peyote. As research into this new visionary substance intensified, his compatriot Arthur Hefter succeeded in isolating four alkaloids. Through self-experimentation he attributed the most potent effects to the alkaloid which he dubbed Mezcalin, and which American commentators re-christened mescaline (popularised as mescalin). A wave of medical and literary self-experimentation greeted the discovery. As Freud dabbled with free association, a preamble to the full-blown talking cure, peyote and mescaline set about ram-raiding the unconscious. This little-known chapter in the history of psychopharmacology had two distinct phases. First, came the self-experiments of eminent physicians such as Weir Mitchell, whose breathless account of closed-eye visions (replete with silver stars, gothic architecture, precious stones and coloured fruit) culminated in predicting a “perilous reign of the mescal habit when this agent becomes available.” Inspired by Mitchell, the English psychologist and critic Havelock Ellis undertook the first of a number of experiments on Good Friday, 1897. The “orgy of vision” which unfolded before him was “not only an unforgettable delight, but an educational influence of no mean value.” Following the laboratory synthesis of mescaline in 1919, research accelerated and revealed a common core of visual phenomena – filigree, cobwebs, cogwheels, flowers, snowflakes – which all appeared to be generated by the eye’s sub-cortical system. To render these ‘indescribable’ visions, European researchers turned increasingly to professional artists. At London’s Maudsley hospital, for example, Julian Trevelyan was one of a number of painters who tried to capture the drug’s ‘mechanical ballet’. Like Ellis before him, Trevelyan also experienced something more. As doctors assailed him with ‘ridiculous questions’, Trevelyan found himself gripped by a secret rapture – he had “fallen in love with a sausage roll and a piece of crumpled newspaper from a pig-bucket”. Mescaline had by now embarked on its second, more diabolical career as an agent for producing a ‘model psychosis’. (The chemical search for drugs capable of mimicking madness harked back to the 1840s, when the French alienist Jacques Joseph Moreau took hashish in order to examine the nature of delirium from within.) Research conducted by Kurt Beringer at Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic in the late 1920s underlined mescaline’s capacity to similarly stir delusions and hallucinations, paranoia and depersonalisation, especially when administered in higher dosage. One Italian psychiatrist was able to report these effects at first hand. During a profoundly paranoiac episode in his Milan apartment, GE Morselli watched helplessly as a Titian portrait became eerily animate. For the next two months, Morselli was haunted by this belligerent squatter. It was while writing Brave New World (1932) that Huxley first became aware of mescaline. By this time, the drug’s popularity among European intellectuals was beginning to catch the attention of the medical press. “The use of this alkaloid,” warned the British Journal of Addiction in 1931 “has indeed become almost a cult by reason of its peculiar physiological effects”. The spectre of so-called ‘mescal addiction’ was, however, far-fetched. Twenty years on, when Osmond and his colleagues reminded the medical world that mescaline produced “every single major symptom of acute schizophrenia,” the drug was almost forgotten. As a long-time critic of “asinine psychiatry”, Huxley was intrigued to learn that mescaline was being used experimentally by Osmond and his co-workers at Saskatchewan Hospital. The short letter he sent to Osmond in April 1953, after reading about his attempts to unlock the causes and nature of schizophrenia, endorsed the approach but elided his real interests. Remembering what he had read about mescaline in Louis Lewin’s Phantastica, Huxley realised that the drug might also be used as a conduit to the other worlds described by William Law, Jacob Boehme and the perennial philosophers. When the opportunity to experiment finally presented itself, Huxley was not disappointed. Witnessing “what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation – the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence,” he understood how words and concepts came to impede the ability to look at the world directly. The chemical door in the wall had, apparently, allowed him to flee the prison house of language, the tyranny of conceptual thinking. The Doors of Perception (1954) took Huxley two months to complete. A first draft was passed on to his wife, Maria, who had been present throughout the experiment. It was at her suggestion that Aldous’s blue jeans (the folds of which had suggested “a labyrinth of endless complexity”) were swapped for a more respectable pair of grey flannels. To this amendment, Huxley added one of his own: he replaced the solution of mescaline sulphate with a more palatable ‘pill’. But these were trifling details. When it came to the more pressing question of the value of the visionary experience, drug-induced or otherwise, Huxley’s conclusion was emphatic: All I am suggesting is that the mescalin experience is what the Catholic theologians call a ‘gratuitous grace,’ not necessary to salvation but potentially helpful and to be accepted thankfully, if made available. To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world… directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large – this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially the intellectual. Published in February 1954, the ‘little book’ was an immediate bestseller. Hundreds of readers offered parallel experiences of childbirth, sleep deprivation, fasting and meditation. A number of reviewers, including Huxley’s friend Raymond Mortimer, penned their own broadsheet accounts of mescaline visions. Not surprisingly, few of Huxley’s critics picked up on the full range of ideas and observations that he had shoehorned into 20,000 words. The conviction that differences in human physique could explain variations in temperament was passed over. His notion of the mind as a “cerebral reducing valve” was largely ignored, as were his asides on the nature of the schizophrenic experience and the decline of visionary arts. Debate was instead centred on the spiritual register in which Huxley had enshrined his own experience of mescaline – from Meister Eckhart’s ‘Istigkeit’, to the ‘Being’ of Platonic philosophy and the ‘Void’ in Zen Buddhism – and the questionable value of drugs as aids to religious experience. Most of Huxley’s detractors echoed what the novelist Thomas Mann, a one-time champion of Huxley, wrote about The Doors of Perception in a letter to Ida Herz – “an irresponsible book, which can only contribute to the stupefaction of the world and to its inability to meet the deadly questions of the time with intelligence.” RC Zaehner, an Oxford Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, went one step further, volunteering to take mescaline in order to undermine Huxley’s claims. Zaehner’s prejudices were confirmed: “self-transcendence of a sort did take place, but transcendence into a world of farcical meaninglessness. All things were one in the sense that they were all, at the height of my manic state, equally funny.” In the meantime, Huxley resumed his investigations. In 1955, he took mescaline twice. On the first occasion he was in the company of his old friend Gerald Heard, a well-known pacifist, novelist and dilettante in psychical research, and Al Hubbard, the eccentric president of a Vancouver uranium corporation, who had been independently experimenting with mescaline and LSD as bridges to the spirit world. This group session introduced Huxley to the social aspect of the mescaline experience – he had previously felt cut off from Maria and Osmond, avoiding eye contact throughout – and provided him with a “transcendental experience within this world and with human references”. While he attempted to convince Osmond that all future research should provide subjects with undirected time, so that they could make their own way towards the “Clear Light”, he also explored the artistic depiction of visionary worlds in his essay Heaven and Hell (1956). Huxley’s talent for the ‘curious fact’ and the ‘necessary digression’ was nowhere better deployed: the role of the collector in early science; the mystical writings of Traherne and Surin; the importance of precious stones in visionary art; the early development of landscape painting in China; the use of carbon dioxide and stroboscopic lamps as aids to visionary experience; the rise and fall of pyrotechny. The spell of Huxley’s meandering reflections was broken only on close inspection. The central trope of Heaven and Hell – that the borderlands of psychology are to modern day science what the flora and fauna of the New World were to the 19th-century naturalists – was particularly convoluted. This florid analogy stressed “the essential otherness of the mind’s far continents”, yet it altogether neglected the mysteries of so-called ‘everyday consciousness’. Over the next seven or so years, Huxley continued to explore the potential use of psychedelics, adding LSD and psilocybin to his personal repertoire. Whether writing for Esquire, lecturing to the New York Academy of Science, or being interviewed for the BBC, he continued to press the therapeutic and educational benefits that might come of “a course of chemically triggered conversion experience or ecstasies”. As an advocate of the psychedelic experience, he retained all the rhetorical tricks he had deployed in his early satires. Addressing critics like Zaehner, who scorned his brand of ‘instant mysticism’, he argued that to revert to more primitive and prolonged methods was “as senseless as it would be for an aspiring cook to behave like Charles Lamb’s Chinaman, who burned down the house in order to roast a pig”. But there were limitations to his approach. Compared to the Belgian-born poet and painter Henri Michaux, who had begun a remarkable series of prose studies on mescaline and other hallucinogens, Huxley’s scatterbrained offerings were overloaded with reflection and interpretation. Whereas Michaux provided a poetic and forensically intimate account of his ‘co-habitation’ with mescaline and other drugs, Huxley – who never wrote while under the influence – delivered a metaphysical framework and programme. His preoccupations remained essentially utilitarian. Was the Huxley who came back through the door opened by mescaline a different man? Had his outlook changed in any significant sense? Clearly, his passionate engagement with the question of chemical transcendence required no conversion or leap of faith. Before discovering mescaline he had explored most of the borderlands of psychology and was still searching for a via regis to mystical illumination. Yet his sense of intellectual office was clearly affected by his experiences. Having played the role of literary curator and custodian to a range of scientific oddities, Huxley emerged as a full-blown gentleman activist, prepared to address and ask questions of pharmacology, biochemistry, physiology, neurology, psychology and psychiatry. For all his wayward enthusiasm, Huxley was, and remains, a useful antidote to the confederacy of peer-reviewed science. End

I have Book 3 The Manson Secret.......Levenda is the expert on occult and its relationship to politics in America, Germany and the Soviet Union. He delves into abstract concepts which leaves some, I believe, just a little more than mystified. I look at JFK research as categorized by the Dewey decimal system, I am not trying to be cute, but when you think about it there are the following areas. HISTORY, social sciences, intelligence agencies, biographies, technology and so on. Just to make a point, if you've studied the original documents there are several persons interviewed who were literal engineers not "engineers" in the assassination context, ie engineered the assassination. Some just look at it as a coincidence; my view is, that engineers are, financially speaking, middle class to upper-middle class, their presence in these documents is indicative that a large percentage of educated American's viewed JFK as "soft on communism," which had much to do with the political left largely passive during the McCarthy Era, see David Halberstam's The Best and The Brightest regarding this aspect of American history, or even more so "How the State Department lost China," which Halberstam demonstrates is one of the biggest fallacies of American history.... Halberstam, in my view contextualizes the forces that were in play in the events leading up to Dealey Plaza... But getting back to Peter Lavenda...the following is from his blog...it is required reading in my book..... begin February 23, 2010 Return of the Bishops "Everything about Tommy Baumler was dark." -- Timothy Wyllie Greetings, boys and girls. You may remember my long series of articles (or a series of long articles, mejor dicho) concerning New Orleans, Lee Harvey Oswald, and a veritable apostolic succession of wandering bishops who operated out of Guy Banister's office in the Big Easy. You may recall such names as David Ferrie, Jack Martin, Carl Stanley ... and Thomas Jude Baumler. Well, you'll never believe it, but Tommy Baumler's name came up again in the most bizarre place of all these bizarre places. He was the lawyer who incorporated the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Take a breath. For those of you who need some background on Tommy Baumler, here is an excerpt from my series of articles posted here on the wandering bishops (more may be found in volume one of Sinister Forces): -- Jack Martin remained a bishop with the American Orthodox Catholic Church to the end of his days, even going so far as to bring in another Banister associate, the corpulent attorney and unapologetic racist Thomas Jude Baumler, to the Orthodox fold, consecrating Baumler a bishop in August of 1974, nearly eleven years after the Kennedy assassination and seven years after the beginning of the Garrison investigation and the deaths of both Stanley and Ferrie. From personal correspondence with an individual involved with this affair, I learned that Baumler had already been ordained a priest by Stanley years before; in other words, prior to Stanley's death in March, 1967. Baumler's status in New Orleans society was assured; he came from an old family and was associated with one of the famous Mardi Gras "crewes". In addition, according to my informant, Baumler was also a Mason and belonged to the same lodge – the Etoile Polair Lodge of the French Grand Orient – as Mafia don Carlos Marcello, the man for whom David Ferrie was working on the day of the assassination. My informant goes on to insist that Martin could be relied upon to furnish FBI files on "future applicants for Holy Orders", a strange capability for a hopeless drunk. It is widely rumored that Martin had a source at FBI headquarters in New Orleans who provided him these files, but he also made it known that he was an investigator for the District Attorney's office – something of which the DA was presumably not aware. Yet he had an income of some kind, for he was known to travel extensively throughout the United States for years on one errand or another involving the bishops, a true "wanderer". What was Baumler's interest in Carl Stanley and the American Orthodox Catholic Church? Why was it attractive to become consecrated the Bishop of Baton Rouge-New Orleans in this minuscule, obscure church as late as 1974? Soon after his consecration, he went on to consecrate another bishop, this time William Francis Forbes, in October of 1974. It was Baumler, after all, who told J. Gary Shaw in 1981 that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for Guy Banister. He even told Jim Garrison investigator Harold Weisberg in 1969 that he personally met the elusive Oswald himself. -- Now, in a book entitled Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment, (Feral House, 2009) former Process member Timothy Wyllie goes into some detail about the founding of the movement and much of the day-to-day events in the lives of its members. It is a fascinating tale for those who are interested, and contains over 100 pages of art, articles, and other disjecta membra of that notorious group. It is on page 74, however, that he drops the name Tommy Baumler and describes the man perfectly. There can be no doubt. In 1967 -- while a priest of the American Orthodox Catholic Church, a Freemason, a hypnotist, a racist -- and as the Jim Garrison investigation into his friends David Ferrie and Jack Martin for their alleged role in the Kennedy assassination was heating up, Tommy Baumler was hanging out with the Process and even going so far as to suggest a name for their group: The Church of Christ and Satan. Wyllie says they had to talk him out of it, and finally settle on the name The Church of the Final Judgment. Readers may remember the hysteria surrounding the Process from its earliest days. There were accusations that it was a mind-control cult, that they were devil-worshipers, that they were involved with ritual murder, etc etc. The fact that they were involved to a degree with Charles Manson didn't help; the fact that Charlie once famously proclaimed that he was Robert Moore (the co-founder of the Process) didn't help much either, or the interview with Charlie that appeared in the Process magazine. The fact that issues of said magazine bore such themes as Death and Fear was probably another clue to the already paranoid. But then throw in the Son of Sam connection (made famous by Maury Terry, but to be fair was also bruited about by David Berkowitz himself long after his sentencing, and corroborated by self-described former members of the Process) and you have a truly sinister fantasy. The Process and Charles Manson; the Process and the Son of Sam cult. Okay, that will do. Then toss in the "dark" Tommy Baumler and the Kennedy assassination conspiracy and you are deep inside Sinister Forces territory. end Robert: I don't claim to be knowledgeable about The Process Church of the Final Judgement, but they are still around and according to what little I have read have "mellowed out," but in the 1960's they were what I would considered a "dark force" that more than likely, had something more than a casual relationship with U.S. intelligence. Cheers

"The reason I am interested in someone named Oswald, who is not Oswald," is because....... 1. There are, in my viewpoint a small number of people who were genuinely trying to find out who was behind the assassination & I believe the person interviewed was one of those persons, moreover I thought it was interesting, at worst......not every post that I make is "an answer to who killed JFK." It is obvious you have a high opinion of yourself, and yet your posts never have any new information or reference a singular contribution other than your own opinions.......So what are you contributing besides sarcasm? More relevant is what I consider to be the Definitive book on Operation Paperclip, and was able to sort through it today..... Until now, I considered Blowback by Christopher Simpson to be the definitive word on Paperclip, although there is a large body of material available in book, and video now that wasn't around when Simpson's book came out. http://books.google.com/books?id=UyWe4zFhmVwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Operation+Paperclip+Annie+Jacobsen&hl=en&sa=X&ei=87rnU7XoOsSYyAT14oCQBg#v=onepage&q=Operation%20Paperclip%20Annie%20Jacobsen&f=false An interview with Annie Jacobsen regarding her book Operation Paperclip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHs5M3pyd3Q

Hi Paul, thanks for the input. There is no question that what is known as "speaking truth to Power" comes with little reward and great risk. Sometimes words are inadequate to even comment on the current State of the World. There is an old quote, I used to use on my signature at the bottom, that read "We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us." So, trying to sum up an adequate response that has meaning for "like-minded people, there are a couple of things. I would like to throw down..... Some people, I suppose JFK researchers, who are more voyeuristic, [reading posts and visiting forums] see Oliver Stone as a charlatan and via extension Jim Garrison, of course, we are all entitled to our viewpoints. The other night I watched Oliver Stone's - The Secret History of the United States, Episode about the Bay of Pigs and the chronology up to JFK's assassination. Although Stone does so in a very generalized manner, i.e. mentions institutions, but not persons] in my view he represented the unofficial historical record of that time period. In so many ways not much has changed with America's role in the world in terms of foreign policy. The Achilles Heel of American Foreign policy from the time of JFK's presidency to former President George W. Bush is an inherent inability to utilize political solutions versus the military option. JFK wanted a political solution, a negotiated settlement regarding Vietnam. So the death, dying and destruction continue, while the drumbeats "rally round the flag boys." John Lennon wrote about this in 1973 in a song called Bring On The Lucie Freda People. see below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQbJHTLBaZM We don't care what flag you're waving We don't even wanna know your name We don't care where you're from or where you're going All we know is that you came You're makin' all our decisions We have just one request to you That while you're thinking things over Here's something you just got to do Free the people now Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it now Well, we were caught with our hands in the air Don't despair, paranoia is everywhere We can shake it with love when we're scared So let's shout it aloud like a prayer Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it now Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it now We don't care what rules you're playing We don't even wanna play your game You think you're cool, you don't know what you're doing And 666 is your name So while you're jerking off each other You bear this thought in mind Your time has come, you better know it But maybe you just can't read the sign Free the people now Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, now Well, you were caught with your hands in the kill And you still got to swallow your pill As you slip and you slide down the hill On the blood of the people you killed Stop the killing now, stop the killing now Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it now Do it, do it, do it, do it now Do it, do it, do it, do it now Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it end Songwriters Lennon, John Published by Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC Send "Bring On The Lucie …" Ringtone to your Cell Discuss these lyrics... Terms of Use

I searched through maryferrell.org, and the URL I posted seemed to contain the most interesting correspondence with Wozencraft, on page 130 and 133. https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=55386 There were several other documents, but I didn't see the one in question. Most of them are documents between Wozencraft and others like Marion Johnson National Archives archivist counseling guidelines for de-classification of Warren Commission documents. I did see one where he was being advised of a communication with someone in Bellevue Mental Hospital. I do believe Pat Speer has a valid point on all this. Actually, I found the genealogy to be much more interesting. Chicago Tribune (IL) - September 05, 1966 Deaths Elsewhere Deceased Name: Col. Frank W. Wozencraft Col. Frank W. Wozencraft who was elected mayor of Dallas in 1919 at the age of 26, former attorney for the Radio Corporation of America, and a retired Washington lawyer; in Dallas Abilene Reporter-News (TX) - March 11, 2003 Deceased Name: Esther Wozencraft Collins NOVATO, CA -- Esther Wozencraft Collins, 93, formerly of Merkel, died Thursday, March 6, 2003 in a Novato hospital. Services will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at Starbuck Funeral Home in Merkel with Reverend Jimmy Griffith officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Esther was born December 17, 1909 in Comanche, Texas to William Allen and Diasy McMillan Wozencraft . She was born on a farm and was the only girl in a large family of eight brothers. She helped care for the younger brothers and the home while her mother and dad worked the farm. The family moved to Merkel in the 1920s where the children attended school. Esther married Reynold O. Collins in 1930 and began a new family at homes in Pampa, Dallas, Abilene, Merkel and in California.She later relocated to Grand Prairie in 1947, and finally returned to California in 1960 where she resided in Novato until her death. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Merkel and Grand Prairie while residing there. Before retirement, Esther worked as a seamstress, child guardian and kindergarten teacher. She also had professional training as a nurse, and provided home care services in the 1950s. Survivors include two sons, Donald O. Collins and Ronald R. Collins, both of Novato, CA; a daughter, Nancy L. Hooks of Houston; two brothers, Alvin P. Wozencraft of Merkel, David N. Wozencraft of San Rafael, CA; two granddaughters, Debra R. Danhof of Grand Prairie, Rhonda K. Sharp of Irving; two great-grandchildren, Robert E. Danhof and Jennifer R. Danhof, both of Grand Prairie. Throughout her life, Esther's faith in God provided guidance, strength and purpose in her daily actions. Esther met every challenge with determination to succeed through good planning, common sense and hard work. She was always helpful to other people who needed assistance and wanted to work on solutions. Her creative talents came out in writing poetry and wining various social contests. Esther lived with gratitude and always in the present moment. Not all of her wishes came true, but her hope never faded and she was happy to adjust to the reality and goodness of ordinary life. She was very much loved by her family. She will be missed with sadness, and remembered with gladness. Dallas Morning News, The (TX) - April 18, 2007 Deceased Name: WOZENCRAFT, JR., WILLIAM EDWARD WOZENCRAFT, JR., , WILLIAM EDWARD Known by his friends as "Bill W." passed on Friday, April 13. Born in Pecos in 1931, the son of the late William E. and Nadine Wozencraft , Bill was a long-time resident of Dallas and member of St. Patricks Church. Survivors include daughters Kim Wozencraft , Karen Amos, and Kristen Hamilton. The family has requested in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the American Stroke Foundation. "Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him may not die but may have eternal life." John 3:16. OB6 Obituaries, Notices Country Gazette, The (Bellingham, MA) - November 9, 2007 Deceased Name: Rev.W.T. Wozencraft Ordained minister DESOTO, Texas The Rev. W.T. Wozencraft , 87, died Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007. He was the husband of Geri Wozencraft of DeSoto, Texas, for 64 years.He was born in Margaret, Texas. He served a little more than two years in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, and was honorably discharged. He was ordained on Oct. 10, 1985, and was a pastor in churches in Texas and Oklahoma. He preached from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and went on mission trips in the United States and Mexico. He pastored his last church when he was 80 years old. In 2000, he had quadruple bypass heart surgery and retired from pastoring a church in Madill, Okla. He worked for Pioneer Medical Systems for eight years, testing medical alert units for the aged and disabled. He continued to preach at the same time, preaching his last sermon on May 27, 2007, and on the same day he was admitted to the hospital. He was diagnosed with cancer at that time. Besides his wife, he leaves a daughter, the Rev. Dr. Sharon Wozencraft of Medway; daughter and son-in-law, Carole and Bob Yarbrough of Duncanville, Texas; six grandchildren and their spouses, Krista and William Buster of Stillwell, Okla., Richard Michael of Fort Worth, Texas, Tanya and Eric Bouwman- Wozencraft of Medway, Todd Michael of Irving, Texas, Darren Michael of Duncanville, Texas, and Lori and Bryan Argenbright of Duncanville, Texas; 15 great-grandchildren, Jamie Spain-Wray, KayLynn Buster, William Buster, Tom Bouwman- Wozencraft , Theodorea Bouwman- Wozencraft , Adam Argenbright, Mathew Argenbright, Bryanne Argenbright, Jacob Michael, Bradlee Michael, Celeste Michael, Jeri Michael, Daniel Michael, Haley Michael and Christopher Michael. Services were delayed slightly because he chose to allow his body to be used for cancer research. Burial was scheduled at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Veterans Cemetery, Thursday, Oct. 25. Instead of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the charity of one's choice or to the Life Legacy Foundation, 6825 East Outlook Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85706; add his name or donor number, 07-10012, on the donation. Re Below: If you find this interesting see Google Books "Alfred Wozencraft" and/or Big D - Darwin Payne 10-28-1929 Dallas Morning News "Industry Heads Visit Dallas" pl_008062014_0834_21365_238.pdf

Steve, I've always felt your presence here was a blessing, sincerely. So I echo the sentiment of others who've expressed their feelings along that line. I have threatened to leave to the point that possibly, if I were black, I might have been confused with the last segment of James Brown's stage act.... {I love the Godfather of Soul, so I don't want any lip from anybody;)But seriously, hope you stay. An old Rolling Stone from 1967, I think it was a review for June 6, 1967 release of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by The Beatles; it had a sentence or title that said "Rock is obsolescent, but then so are you." Point being; even the most astute and cerebral researchers get ignored or dissed by somebody, not to imply that broaching that has anything to do with anyone except myself. What doesen't kill you makes you stronger, unless your a fly that just got sprayed with some variant of DDT, or Raid....You know what I mean. Cheers & Best of everything No matter what!