David Andrews

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So, Lyndon Johnson has a lot of suspicion about him, but the first question when he phoned J. Edgar Hoover was “Were they shooting at me too?” He didn’t say “he,” he said “they.” He was a little worried, like, “Were they shooting at me too?” So it was more like, he heard the bullets going over the top of his head and he knew. And J. Edgar Hoover assured him “No, we have the gunman, we have three shots, we have the whole thing already wrapped up”, and this is like a day or two right after, so, someone had a story ready to go. Off on a tangent, but I've always felt that Johnson was playacting when he asked Hoover this, and when he was on Air Force One supposedly shaking about a Communist conspiracy. This is regardless of the level of involvement you or I might feel LBJ had in the assassination.

Meader could have pulled off a dramatic one-man stage show on JFK by 1970, if he'd kept his finances and his head together. It wasn't long after that James Whitmore was collecting awards for Give 'em Hell, Harry. And that was a show that succeeded in reaction to the assassination/Vietnam culture. Better then than now for JFK. We're all too jaded today, and the rest are (shudder)...millennials.

Meader should have bided his time for a couple years, hired some dramatic writers, and polished his act to a different hue - bouncing back with a memorial one-man show on JFK. Tony Award, maybe Emmy Award. Meader certainly had the looks to pull it off. That this couldn't happen in the meta-culture that was developing might be a mark of how traumatic the assassination was, or of how feared the Kennedy family influence was.

Not to be an unsympathetic churl, but we should probably re-evaluate how the national calamity became the "tragedy" that closed Meader's career. A Kennedy dynasty in the Executive was never guaranteed, and Meader should have planned a second act for 1964. One could argue as much that the Johnson years became the harbinger of ruin for Lenny Bruce's career as well.

Wish we could see Newman's slides. THANKS Does anyone know about June Cobb's life after Cuba?

I'm not judging. I'm going to croak before reading a lot that I wanted, and a lot that I should have read before I might aspire to become a snob.

No, TKAM is a good book and an enduring mythos of justice and innocence lost. Sullied, however, by the racism imputed to Lee's other, posthumously published novel, and by the business of Lee having been too timid to attempt another work that might not have met TKAM's standard. "It's a fine book that should be taken out of the hands of children and junior high school English teachers, who invariably spoil everything." -- Mark Twain.

I counted two. Maybe the second howls in two registers, with an overarching self-promotion.

Go over to Deep Politics Forum and hear the outcry and the howls of execration: https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?17123-H-P-Albarelli-has-passed-away#.XR-9dP57mUk

I think the "bungled" assassination attempts on the life of Gerald Ford were warning shots, to keep Ford "on-script." I tend to think that the un-elected V-P Nelson Rockefeller had a lot to do with those attempts, which were followed by Nelson's declination to be Ford's running mate later, allegedly because of his dissatisfaction with the political landscape. (I. e.., the jig was up after a second failed attempt.) The sloppiness of the attempts may have masked a hidden gunman, as in the Hinckley affair between Bush and Reagan. The Rockefellers greatly helped Nixon's election, and staffed his White House with their minders - down, finally, to Al Haig, who convinced Nixon to resign. What, except influence, would cause Ford to accept Nelson as V-P? I often feel that some things are just as naked as they appear, and it is we who insist on dressing them in our incredulity.

Wait! What about Veciana's roommate?

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Skip to Mr. Spacely. Is that Kevin Spacely? Lock up your Elroy. Unless he's James Ellroy. /

________ #1 - Wendell Willkie #2 - Adlai Stevenson...

Pt. 2 of Ray Locker's interview on Midnight Writer News (MWN) now available: https://midnightwriternews.com/mwn-episode-124-ray-locker-on-haigs-coup-and-watergate-part-2/ THANKS, Anthony, for the hookups to all this Haig/Locker material.

Pt. 1 is down at the bottom of the page link below. I'm putting up the whole finding aid page rather than the Zumwalt link because many among Our Beloved Cast Of Characters from the JFKA and Watergate (Bundy, Lemnitzer, Helms, Taylor, e. g.) have interviews archived here: https://history.defense.gov/Historical-Sources/Oral-History-Transcript-3/

I'm not sold on Kamala Harris, but let's make a list of 10 successful national-level politicians (Executive, Legislative) who weren't shameless political climbers. "Name me someone that's not a parasite, and I'll go out and say a prayer for him" -- Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna

Oswald punches McDonald in his face and then draws his pistol and actually tries to shoot and kill McDonald on the spot. Oswald must have known that doing so would have resulted in his being shot and killed immediately by the other officers present. If indeed that's how it went down. Oswald, instead, may have feared that he would have been executed-by-cop right there in his seat. Why else yell that he was not resisting as he was being hustled out?

Everybody should ask questions, and everybody else should answer them. Keeping knowledge and opinion insular and esoteric is no way to make progress, or keep interest in the assassinations and the surrounding culture alive. That said, I'm with Michael - there is so much rich material in the back threads that can be studied first Topics often re-appear in new threads that, frankly, got a better treatment in threads ten years ago, and from members who aren't with us today. (The downside is that many of the photos and illustrations in the old threads have disappeared, but some of these can be hunted down on the web.) Also, turning on the current members to research found in the old threads is a noble effort in itself. There are a lot of people here who will help with a question, or guide you to pertinent research areas, if you send them a private message. That's always been so. However, if you ask public questions, you can sometimes get everybody here debating. And that would seem to be part of our mission.

I wonder myself if the arms are Roscoe White's (taken from a similarly posed photo) the face a composite of White/Oswald, but the body some third person's.

A fine cigar is one way to shut a left liberal up. -- Winston Churchill But anyway...why doesn't Trump excite the antipathy of the military the way Obama did?

When are we going to get Cuban cigars in the US? Can't Trump do that much for us?

I would add, what are the top five takeaways from any non-JFK writing HPA did? I'm reading his Frank Olson book now, but under distracting circumstances.

It's odd that you can still find a lot of Skolnick on the web, but the unpublished plane crash book has disappeared. Even, as I mentioned, from Archive.org, which pointedly notes that it's been removed.