Joe Bauer

So, here we have a Dallas motorcycle police officer who was right there in Dealey Plaza when JFK was shot ( and supposedly one of the first DPD officers to run up to the area just above and beyond the Grassy Knoll ) saying he saw and recognized a fellow Dallas police officer Roscow White in uniform right there also ( close enough to him to recognize him ) just above the Grassy Knoll area , again, just seconds after JFK was hit? If Hargas is telling the truth it begs suspicious Roscoe White questions so important it's ridiculous! What is this evidence/photo clerk hire with only a few months active duty on the force doing right in Dealey Plaza during the JFK shooting or at least seconds after the JFK hit? What was White's assignment that day? Was White out patrolling that day? Was he stationed on foot patrol in Dealey Plaza? Or, was he inside the DPD building and simply ran out the building and over to Dealey Plaza seconds after he heard of the shooting? If so, he must have been given permission to leave his duty post by someone, right? I don't think DPD officers were just deciding what to do on their own impulsively at that Earth shaking time. Yes, Dealey Plaza was swarming with both DPD and Dallas Sheriff officers seconds and minutes after the shooting. But covert military background intrigue Roscoe White? Up behind the picket fence area within seconds of the shooting? Well, we have at least one DPD officer on the scene who verifies White's presence above the knoll and the area just beyond, seconds after the shooting. And at least two eyewitnesses saying they saw a uniformed DPD officer in that area just seconds after the shooting ( and before more officers ran up there ) as well. Are Ed Hoffman and the on leave Army soldier taking film footage from the knoll top both totally discredited witnesses? Along with their accounts?

Monsieur Reeves. You've caught me. Yes, the color of the Fedora Ruby is wearing while leaping to blow Lee Harvey's guts out in the Dallas Police Department building basement just two days after 11/22/1963 is very light colored. As light colored as the Parkland man. Although I do think the bright early afternoon sun at Parkland that day did make things lighter looking in color. For some reason I remembered Ruby wearing a darker one most of time in pictures of him like the other picture you posted of Ruby in that street crowd.

Speaking of the money laundering front of the dinky, junky little Casino built way out in the boondocks of that isolated ugly terrain Indian reservation land and with what...only 24 tribal people living on it? ... I've read a little about the genesis of the prolific movement of gaming casinos popping up on native American sovereign land all over the country starting decades ago. Many have turned into absolute gold mines for the tribes people living on those lands. Not all have. And gold mines for the real power non-native American groups and people behind them. It was my understanding that the owners of Nevada based casinos that were devastated by the proliferation of easy short travel access ones instantly co-partnered with these tribes and basically took over their operations from start to finish. I once went to Reno well after the shift to Indian land casinos. I was shocked! Seemed like the old casino's I remember going to back in the 70's there were almost totally void of customers. Ghost caverns. The Hyatt ( which was packed 7 days a week in the 1970s ) had just a few card tables going and maybe a dozen players? The slot areas were completely devoid of any customers! The parking lots and streets were so empty of cars it looked like an apocalyptic event had occurred with tumble weeds blowing down the street? I didn't realize how effecting the Indian Casino movement was to the old Reno gaming establishment until that day. My point being this other aspect however. Organized crime was always a part of the Nevada gambling industry...always. Even after the so-called change of ownership cleaning up era after Howard Hughes. These people didn't just watch the Native American casino movement happen without jumping into it themselves. Their role and influence in so many of these casino's was immediate and significant. I believe it still is. That weird, dumpy little card room casino in the Danny Casolaro documentary was never meant to make money. It never did according to it's security crew who were murdered after trying to get the authorities involved. It was a money laundering scheme from the get go. The story of the main characters behind the Indian reservation take over here sounds typical of the possible corrupt aspects of our world of covert ops which when left alone unto themselves outside of constitutional law restraints and oversights can get abusively out-of-control. How long and deep and high up has this outlaw covert corruption gone on in this country? Well, Watergate and the Daniel Berrigan break-ins ops ( and so many others ) by Nixon's private law breaking criminal gang "The Plumbers" went all the way to the top of the White House chain of command back in the early 70's. The story of deep covert connections corruption in this documentary seems all too true. It's a serious wake up/warning piece imo. Not to be downplayed and forgotten.

I'm a proponent of studying pictures of suspicious characters taken in the Dealey Plaza area before, during and after JFK was shot there. And giving some more credence than others regards who they depict. Haven't seen many of the crowd at Parkland. With that said - I do not get a strong sense that this picture shows Jack Ruby. Yes, the man in the baggy suit is built like Jack Ruby - thick set, shorter than 6 ft. etc. The Parkland man seems much broader in the butt area than Jack Ruby. However, there are side and back view pictures of Jack Ruby in the DPD building the night of 11/22/1963. The same day of the above photo. In the DPD building photo Ruby doesn't look as short and squat as the Parkland Hospital man. The suit type is different and fits differently. And the fedora worn by the Parkland Hospital man seems much lighter in color than the one Ruby is almost always shown donning. None-the-less there was some suspicious concern expressed by Ruby's sister Eva Grant with a friend about her brother Jack's denial of going to Parkland that day. It sounded as if she knew different. Her friend claims she saw Jack at Parkland talking to another man that day. From a close up position ( just feet ) away, although from behind.

Were Ruth's living expenses totally covered by her estranged husband's salary? She wasn't working all the time she knew and interacted with Marina...was she? Did Michael Paine receive monthly family wealth endowment monies besides his employment salary?

Dear God....that's just SICK! SICK, SICK, SICK, SICK ........... SICK! So, Robert, you think Jackie was actually playing LBJ for a fool in her breathy Marilyn Monroe "Oh, Mr, President" back and forth with the pervert LBJ?

Question: If LBJ did more for black Americans than JFK and spent so much time and effort to pressure and push those opposed to his "Great Society" black America lifting agenda, why is it he wasn't viciously vilified and even physically threatened by millions of segregationists who were filled with this murder wishing rage toward JFK and RFK? Our top military generals, CIA, FBI, Texas Big Oil and their extreme right wing organizations, the American Mafia, hot headed ex-patriate Cubans, et al...all seemed absolutely fine with LBJ in charge in complete contrast to their mutual hatred toward JFK.I think that reality says it all.

Ruth was smitten with the young, beautiful and mysterious Russian born and raised Marina. Starting from the first night she laid eyes on her. Sparked of course by Ruth's Russian culture and language interests and being able to interact directly with a native born Russian citizen, but eventually evolving to the point of physical attraction and caring protectiveness...and eventually possessiveness. She felt the opposite toward Lee Oswald. "He ( Lee ) used my typewriter without asking...and that offended me deeply!" RP.

Quote from a person supposedly involved in some high security work position. Admittedly shared 20th person however. "If the average person knew 'half' of what's really going on in the world, they might very well go into their backyard and kill themselves." I'll never know half of what's really going on in the world, and cowardly or not...I think I don't want to know.

Just finished watching the final episode. Not sure what to fully make of the presentation. I will say however, that the extremely nefarious cloak and dagger to murderous degrees context of the Docudrama is something we can all agree is much more a reflection of true fact reality...than not. Real life, White House level high government position holders E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy were part of secret teams who performed illegal deeds that sounded not too different and intimidating than the ones described in this series. Someone in the Nixon Creep world stated that the Watergate and Daniel Ellsberg break-ins were just...the tip of the iceberg! Liddy once proposed putting LSD on Nixon threat muckraking journalist Jack Anderson's personal car steering wheel? What happened to Danny Casolaro and the three casino security workers and Michael Reconosciuto cohort Jack Morasca happened. Somebody did this and got away with it. I've always sensed that corruption even to our highest levels of government was 100X more prevalent than the average American citizen could even imagine throughout the 20th century and most likely through today. This depth of corruption to murderous degrees is totally believable imo.

Robert, you posted some links a few days ago that played taped conversations between LBJ and Jackie Kennedy, recorded just a few short months after the assassination of Jackie's beloved husband JFK. I don't know how many of our members or guest visitors actually clicked on the links you provided or even know these LBJ/Jackie Kennedy conversation tapes exist. Regardless, I highly recommend everyone listen to them. Could you repost them? I had heard these recorded conversations between Jackie K. and LBJ many times before. Each time I re-hear them I am left with the same confused and gut-wrenching queasiness. LBJ fawns over Jackie so shamelessly he sounds like a love-struck teenager who can't profess his amorous yearnings for her with enough dumb-struck goofiness. "You know we love you"..."we need you...I need you by my side"..."I LOVE YOU" !!!. Yes, that's a quote..."I LOVE YOU!" We'll just go for a walk together just you and I on the outside lawn. OH PLEASE! YUCK! If LBJ's openly expressed adolescent lust hots for Jackie aren't embarrassing enough it was "Jackie's responses back" that really makes their exchanges so confusingly disturbing...even creepy. I just cannot make sense of Jackie's part in these conversations. She returns LBJ's affection and in such an overly flirty way it's ... well...I can't begin to understand her motives for doing so. In her most faux Marilyn Monroe breathy sexy voice she says things like "Oh, Mr. President..." I love you too... and I can't thank you enough...etc. etc. You have got to hear their syrupy, flirty exchange to believe it. It's so incongruously over the top it's laughable. From everything I have read Jackie knew of her husband and his brother's utter contempt for LBJ ( and LBJ's like brothers friend J. Edgar Hoover ) for years starting with the Democratic National Convention. She surely knew of the bitter animosity between them. She surely heard many dark secrets about LBJ and his corruption in private conversations with her husband. It's been reported Jackie instantly felt LBJ had something to do with her husband's brutal murder. JFK's long time personal secretary Evelyn Lincoln immediately felt LBJ was in on the deed. Jackie wasn't thinking the same? And with her elite class Eastern establishment upbringing and sophistication I feel certain Jackie K. looked at LBJ as a crude Southern Good Ole Boy. Her own husband never used LBJ speak peppered with crude vulgarities such as "Bung Hole", "Nut Sack" and Negras." And Jackie surely had her own particularly high standard sense of physical attraction. JFK was the epitome of movie star glamor handsome. Women around the world would swoon upon seeing his tan, perfect teeth smile, warm eyes and healthy shock of brown hair and heathy super fit athletic body. LBJ on the other hand had a beady eyed, big nose hang dog face, elephant sized ears and almost bald head on top of a large pot bellied, lumbering Baby Huey body. I couldn't help but think Jackie Kennedy was purposely acting the exaggerated, sultry and flirty talk, mutual affection part in those one-on-one exchanges with LBJ. Leading him on as an inside joke! And maybe laughing hysterically along with whoever she was in the room with right after those calls? If Jackie was speaking to LBJ in those calls with mutual flirty love and respect expressing sincerity ... you got me and all I can say is..."what the heck?' Classy, JFK loving Jackie ... please say it wasn't so!

Milteer also mentioned "the Cubans" were involved. ??? Which ones? Castro agent ones? Or ex-patriot Castro hating and JFK BOP blaming ones?

Who is the person immediately behind Jackie?

JFK...and whose picture was just behind his right shoulder...Ed Lansdale.

Over the years I have occasionally considered the following contemplation: A different take on the response of every branch and ancillary entities of our government and military to the assassination of the President of our nation. If any foreign adversary nation government had actually facilitated the murder of JFK, even if brilliantly fire wall distanced from them officially through 50 layers of misdirection to the most disconnected hit squad or even deranged or Manchurian Candidate patsy...one would think that every intelligence gathering agency in America would have combined their world's best skills into one massive, all-out, act-of-war level of concern cooperative effort to find out if they did and which one. Our President was just taken out! Outside of a full-on attack with troops and bombs, the murder of your adversary's chief of state must rank as the most aggressive act-of-war action an enemy state could perpetrate upon another - right? If that highest level act-of-war aggression scenario actually took place due to the planning and coordination of one of our adversary nations, our entire military, every intelligence gathering entity, every government investigative agency, every elective branch of our government, every news organization should have immediately mobilized their efforts into one "massive and cooperative" single intelligence gathering effort equal to or at least close to that which we undertook upon the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. By 1963, I have to believe we had the most sophisticated and skilled intelligence gathering apparatus ever created. If there was proof ( even half ) that JFK's murder was planned and carried out by an adversary nation no matter how deviously and cleverly disguised as the action of a lone nut...we would have discovered the true perpetrators through an all-out combined and cooperative effort to do so imo. I think the huge majority of Americans fully assumed that our most powerful military and civilian leaders and organizations would be so outraged at the murder of their President that they would have automatically blasted their way into the unprecedented all-out fully cooperative investigative effort as I describe above. Did they? Did the Chief's of Staff, the Pentagon, every military intelligence branch, the FBI, etc. work as one? If they did, even to a higher than normal degree, I can't accept that they wouldn't have found out who was truly responsible for the murder of their President. And if it was the Soviet Union, please enlighten us to the reciprocal punitive actions we took in response? LBJ put the fear of all-out war in the minds of those he needed to follow his post-JFKA agenda. Strongly inferring to them that it was the SU that had JFK taken out...but we couldn't retaliate to save the world from even greater death and destruction? So, if true, shouldn't we still have done something extra-ordinarily punitive to them? Or, did we give the Soviets a non-retaliatory pass on the JFKA? I mean, if LBJ's scary warning excuse to Earl Warren and others was true...and we didn't respond in some half-way serious degree what else could you call it? Or we didn't because we knew they were not the perpetrators? I don't think our military and intel-world and civilian agencies did seriously combine their brain trusts into investigating who really did JFK. And if so...that suggest to me they weren't seriously committed to finding the main behind-the-scenes perpetrators. Or, they already knew the guilty party wasn't a foreign adversary nation? Just some rage filled minimum wage loser wanna be. Who just got lucky with one of the worst and cheapest old rifles one can buy to defeat a small army of security forces protecting the President of the United States. And who then ran down some old wooden stairs to a "see inside window" employee lunch room to grab a Dr. Pepper, calmy drink this and then walk down to the first floor entrance lobby to stand around for at least a few seconds more before then walking a couple of blocks to get on a city bus and then catching a taxi to complete his successful escape run? Did Dulles, Lemay, LBJ, Hoover et al really want to know who did JFK?

Your thoughts are totally well founded rational and sensible. Many times over the years I have had to take serious mental breaks from the JFKA truth seeking mission for the exact reasons you cite.

One Kennedy aide riding back to DC on Air Force Two ( or another plane ? ) with staffers for both LBJ and JFK later reported her disgust at how undisturbed several of the LBJ people seemed to be with some even light-hearted cheerful on that flight. Reminds you of the big smiling, congratulatory wink Texas Republican Congressman Albert Thomas gave LBJ when LBJ turned away toward him right after his swearing in on Air Force 1. Thomas's smiling wink was so happy-minded animated, it was as if LBJ had just kicked the last second winning field goal for their beloved Texas U. football team over Oklahoma! ATTA BOY LYNDON ... YOU DID IT BABY! AHA...YIPPEE KI YAY! That Thomas celebratory wink and smile was so contrary to the otherwise somber mood scene it was perverse. Like someone leaping about and laughing during a grieving family funeral service. You know you are going into the most right wing JFK hating nut country when just weeks before even fur wearing high society dames are attacking JFK representing Adlai Stevenson with rotten egg throwing, protest sign swinging, ugly cursing and even spitting. Dallas in 1963 was JFK hate central with the JBL, Minute Men headquartered there along with a large KKK presence amongst law enforcement and even city government. Even extreme right wing commie threat obsessed General Edwin Walker lived there! The man RFK had involuntarily committed to a nut ward for his instigating action in Oxford, Mississippi during the college integration riots there on September 30th, 1962. A general that was removed from his command for his extreme right view indoctrination antics with his own troops. Talk about entering a den of venomous and hateful snakes.

Plastic bag over his head when found? Please. If that is true it is so incongruous relative to 99+% of other wrist slashing in the bath tub suicide scenes you have to consider another scenario. And, if he had his briefcase and notes upon arriving to the hotel and his room...and never left. How did they disappear? I assume this hotel did not have a security camera system? If they did, they might have been able to see Casolaro leaving the hotel or perhaps walking through the lobby that evening after his initial arrival and check in? Or perhaps captured footage of others coming and going who didn't check in or if they did - stay after checking in? It's sounding more like the Dorothy Kilgallen false suicide story.

Just watched the first episode. The paramedic's observation sharing describing the deepness of the wrist's cuts is intriguing. The drawing ( autopsy drawing? ) showing the twelve cuts and their depth seems to verify his account. Then there is the Casolaro's brother's statement that Danny C. told him that if something bad happened to him "it would be no accident."? Regarding Casolaro's personal finances losses perhaps being a main driving force behind his desperate decision to end his life: Casolaro's family was quite wealthy. They were also very close. Danny Casolaro was beloved to an adoration degree by his family. It's seems reasonable that Casolaro's family would not have just stood by and watched him descend into financial ruin without helping him in some way. Was DC's pride so great however that he would choose to commit suicide and in such a gory blood spattering way before asking his family to help with his financial stresses? Or, were their other deep emotional issue demons Casolaro was dealing with? That he kept hidden from family and friends? Depression? Anxiety and trauma? Sexual issues? Self-esteem issues? Sometimes the warmest, most charming and engaging and thoughtfully sensitive people can carry the deepest emotional struggles and pains. Beyond those who are considered less so, even self-centered and cold.

I knew that. Everyone knew that.

Wealthy and violent White Council leader Joseph Milteer knew in advance. His JFKA prediction was more presciently accurate with specific details than a truly skilled psychic. Is Joseph Milteer a key to the JFK assassination? On the morning of November 9th, 1963, two weeks before JFK was assassinated, right-wing extremist Joseph Milteer was in a Miami hotel room talking with Willie Somerset, an undercover police informant who happened to be wearing a wire. This conversation was turned over to the FBI immediately, although it would not surface publicly until four years later. Here is what Milteer had to say: [Killing Kennedy] “was in the working” and would be accomplished “from an office building with a high-powered rifle”….that could be “disassembled” to get it into the building and they will “pick someone up within hours if anything like that happened just to throw the public off.” Milteer also mentioned “the Cubans” were involved.

Does anyone here really believe that the Life Magazine owners would ever allow any extra-powers government agency ( nefarious agenda or not ) unfettered access to the Z film, once they purchased it from Abraham Zapruder? Access to do anything with the film they wanted such as this alleged alteration? Or, did the owners protect the sacrosanct integrity of the film with their highest effort security measures?

Now I will have to check this series out too.

RIGHT ON Grand Master Flash DZ! A life and death fearing Oswald walks ( or runs ) down to the 2nd floor employee lunch room, buys and casually drinks a Dr. Pepper ( his favorite soda pop and mine too ) then saunters down to the first floor main entrance lobby where he calmly directs journalist Robert McNeil to a wall pay phone, then walks ( not running ) to the nearest city bus stop, gets on and sits for a few minutes until a stopped in traffic delay inspires him to get off and hail a cab ( 2nd one after gentlemanly allowing a woman to have a first available one ) for a ride back to his little rented room back in Oak Cliff. The cab ride was 95 cents and running for his life LO actually told the driver to keep the nickel change. Then it was off to the races down residential streets ( to where no one knows ) and eventually ending up in a local movie theater where he skips past the entrance ticket booth without paying, yet shells out a quarter for a box of popcorn and settles down in a theater seat albeit initially jumping from one to another to find just the right comfy one. Henry Wade tells the press this equates into weeks and months of planning on Oswald's part? Yes, and Wade also pretended to not know Jack Ruby when a reporter at the first night news conference told Wade at the second news conference ( after Ruby shot Oswald ) it looked like he and Ruby were old friends when the reporter noticed Wade talking one on one with Ruby seconds after the first news conference on 11,22,1963. To which Wade only gave a sheepish childlike "hand caught in the cookie jar" guilty grin. Not even answering the reporter's curious question.

I know I've said it 100 times in posts - how in the world did the Dorothy Kilgallen life and death story avoid being made into an A list film? And being done so within a short time after her death or in the least no more than 10 years? Yet, "never" in 60 years? Impossibly illogical imo. I would have thought one or more major movie studios would have easily seen the screamingly obvious intrinsic appeal to a mass national and even international audience and "fought" for the rights! Her real-life story had all the needed elements ( in spades ) of a major film blockbuster. Highest society level celebrity engagement ( daily ) , unprecedented professional achievement - breaking ( smashing ) traditional barriers for women, national and even international fame and notoriety "on her own" ( national TV star recognition for 10 years ) controversial high drama conflicts ( Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover ) and in the end an almost Hitchcockian darkly suspicious and mysterious type death. For decades she associated with so many world famous people from every corner of celebrity. Presidents, famous writers, Hollywood glamour. One day she's posing with Marilyn Monroe, the next JFK himself? She even added the extra-interesting label of top criminal case reporter and investigator. Dr. Sam Sheppard trial for murder of his wife and the Jack Ruby Oswald murder trial. Meryl Streep would have ferociously devoured the role of DK. But it's all gone now. Meryl Streep is too old. Generations have passed. Well over half the countries citizens over 18 don't even have a clue about Dorothy Kilgallen, who she was, her remarkable lifetime achievements and her totally suspicious murder with the most high level corruption dark implications. What an important cinematic production opportunity loss.