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Ruth simply hated Lee Oswald imo. For many reasons. I believe much of this hatred was born early on after she observed what she felt was boorish mistreatment of Marina by Lee from the first days she encountered Marina and Lee, all the way through to his end. Ruth seemed to develop an infatuation with Marina. From the first day she met her. Marina was Russian born and raised. Ruth was always interested in Russia. Their culture and their language. Marina was young and very pretty. She had a soft feminine demureness in her manner. Also a vulnerability obviously being so young and in a new strange land and not speaking the language very well. Her sparkling blue eyes ( big and wide set ) were simply alluring and also shown an innate intelligence. Everyone who met Marina felt an immediate physical attraction toward her. Why wouldn't Ruth? In the course of Ruth's year and a half long, off and on contact with Marina and Lee, I believe she also developed a growing protectiveness toward Marina. She'd see Marina and Lee living in some of the lowest standards of housing. At one point after a long summer vacation trip with her children she stopped to see Marina while pregnant Marina and Lee and Junie were living in a rundown apartment in New Orleans. She spent the night there but had to buy roach repellant and spray it in a big circle on the floor around where she and her two children slept. She observed that Marina was getting no prenatal health care, her teeth were rotting out and she made the offer to Marina to escape that neglectful situation and come live with her until the baby arrived. From there we know much. Including Ruth's growing dislike of Lee. I believe she found Lee to be boorish, arrogant and at times chauvinistically controlling of Marina. Yet at the same time seeing him as a no-count cad unable to responsibly take care of his wife and children which she took on. She was civil toward Lee obviously. Allowed him to even stay at her house to spend time with Marina and his little girl Junie. Over-all Ruth deserves credit for all she did for Marina and Junie and her tolerance of Lee. Personally however, she despised Lee. He was unappreciative. Disrespectful in the most egregious way..." he ( Lee ) used my typewriter without asking!" "And that offended me greatly." I think that in some way Ruth felt that Lee's demise freed Marina from a possible continuous miserable life if Marina gave into Lee's pressuring and went back to him. Ruth Paine is an intriguing person. Her and her husband came from wealthy and seriously politically engaged lineage. That story alone makes her and her husband stand out in the realm of curious interest. I think Ruth felt an emotional, even smitten loss when Marina was taken away and chose not to stay close to her at all...forever.

Oswald's true mental state back then is one of the biggest mysteries of the entire event. If one is not a trained killer for hire or ordered to kill by authorities such as military and Mafia ... it takes a certain mind set to go over the line and kill someone and not in self-defense. Killing another human being using your own hands is one of the most deeply effecting experiences any person can ever go through. Veterans of military conflict combat often have lifetime PTSD and even nightmares about killing others in battle. A murderous mind set is explainable however in times of passion and especially enhanced by alcohol. Like Mac Wallace shooting his sexual love triangle rival Doug Kinser in broad daylight and in front of nearby witnesses. Delusional mental illness is also a common trait of people who kill others without a rational reason. Serial killers also have deep mental illness. But Oswald seems to have been none of the above! Yet, he allegedly plans and carries out a shooting of General Walker? He missed but his intent was to blow Walker's head off? He justifies this insane extreme action to his upset wife Marina by asking her if killing Hitler wouldn't have also been a good thing? Then, again allegedly, Oswald not just kills officer Tippit but does so in an extremely brutal way. 3 body shots topped off with a coup de grace shot in his head? 3 body shots weren't enough? Mafia hit men go that far to send a message of fear to anyone else who may threaten their bosses. The shots into JFK on Elm street were just as brutal. Sadistically brutal. Blow his head apart and into a showering cloud of bloody spray ... inches from his wife's face? If Oswald was the shooter of JFK and Connally...he had to have been seriously mentally ill. His doing so was not just an act of extreme brutality but also an act of suicidal insanity. He knew his position was extremely visible and exposed with fully illuminating mid-day sun light to hundreds below. He knew the booming loudness of his shots would draw attention to his location. And he then believes he can just walk down some stairs afterwards and walk away? He has no help in escaping? He is so poor he has to use the cheapest form of transportation to get away - a city bus? There's something so irrational there that it begs total doubt and suspicion. But it's the brutality of his killings that throws me. If Oswald was hate filled to the point of rage then "maybe" one can understand his blasting these three people's heads off. If Oswald did what he allegedly did there seems to be no other psychological explanation that fits his motives. Just pure deep rage?

Doug Caddy...thank you for posting this Peter Dale Scott entry. It is so enlightening in so many ways. Scott says to rationally and meaningfully study the JFK and JFKA story, you must study "everything" as well. The huge percentage of peoples simply don't have the freedom and inclination to do so. In reading the thread I also found myself linking back to the great philosophers and their teachings and sharings that in the least have guided us to be more than just law of the jungle dog-eat-dog bullies and survivalists. And led us to actually create something as close to the Greek ideal of a constitutional democracy as we have... Cleisthenes and Pericles : Solon, was a wise man among the Greeks. He blamed the turmoil of Athens on greedy aristocrats. He laid the foundation to make all citizens equal and reduce the greed among aristocrats. But, it was Cleisthenes who is remembered as the Father of Democracy. Also Scott wonderfully expounds upon the need for balancing the descent into the dark heaviness of the JFKA with an equal amount of more light-minded, light-hearted and even playful diversion of thought and activity. So true! A walk outdoors? Or maybe just a drive which in my area means rich forest and ocean views? Cleaning chores around the house? Watching TV cooking shows, and/or comedic or old classic movies or TV shows on the internet...you name it. Yes, a conglomerate killed JFK. They all hated JFK with equal fervor ...even to a murderous degree. Machiavellian in it's purest form. Murchison family seamstress and housemaid Mae Newman: "When JFK was killed the mood in the Murchison household was joyous." "Like the champaign and caviar flowed for a week. I was the only one who grieved for the Kennedy family."

That was a very touching memoriam.

The proven truth is Roscoe White was a man of many secrets. Serious secrets. Perhaps even involving killing others according to his long-time pastor. He guarded and kept those secrets even from his wife and children, to the very end. A man steeled with a tough, obeying orders Marine mind set. His post military job life seemed somewhat unsettled and random. Different jobs, moving about. He only stayed on the Dallas Police force for what...2 years? He seemed restless as if civilian life didn't provide the visceral excitement of the combat ready duty and travel life of a young Marine overseas. White was a man of physical action intrigue. He seemed drawn to it. He liked the ladies and indulged himself. Roscoe White was no Ward Cleaver. And his Carousel Club waitress wife Geneva was no June Cleaver. At one point in his post Dallas Police employment life, White had a large instant income boost that enabled him to afford a new home, a lake side cabin and other amenities. According to his wife's and son's recounting, this seemed strange and unexplainable to them. They didn't think his regular work pay could have provided this. Again, another Roscoe White secret. With all this known irregular work and personal life background info regards the secretive Roscoe White ( as well as his Lee Harvey Oswald coincidences ) it makes total sense to consider him with serious minded suspicion from the minute he entered the Dallas police force scene imo. And what is it about diaries? Oswald had his diary. White kept one. Mary Meyer kept one. And they all go missing? I never even thought of keeping one and I can't recall knowing anyone who has kept one.

In the initial post interview video of Dallas PD motorcycle patrolman Hargis, he mentions knowing Roscoe White as a fellow Dallas Police Officer. If Hargis knew officer Roscoe White, it must not have been very well and for very long. White only had a month of Dallas PD employment when JFK was killed. An he initially worked in the Identification Bureau. How well could motorcycle patrolman Hargis have known White at that time? Hargis spent 45 years on the force? Wow! That is a long time. Yet, White was only on the force for two years? Way back from 1963 to 1965? The Dallas PD employed over 1,000 men ( and women in administrative positions ) in 1963 and frequently we have heard many of those employed during that time say that they may not have known everyone on the force because of the sheer high number of employees and such varied departmental differences in duties, specialties and assignments. Throw in constant personnel turn-over to retirements, resignations, new hires, etc. Certainly Hargis didn't know everybody on the force because of those facts. Yet, he knew Roscoe White? Again, how well? In this interview, Hargis scoffs at the notion of officer White being involved in any way to the JFKA. He inferred that he knew White well enough to defend his integrity as a police officer as unquestionable. Was Hargis knowledgeable about White's military travels, duty stations and assignments? And the coincidences of White's and Oswald's sharing many of the same specific military duty locations and assignments at the exact same time? Did Hargis ever read about or hear the facts of White's post Dallas PD duty life? Was Hargis informed of the Reverend Shaw's claim that White confessed to him that he ( White) had killed men both here and on foreign soil? Suggesting that White may have been trained as a hit man both in the military and in civilian life? How about White's multiple trysts with women other than his wife which even she knew about. These are integrity honesty issues. Hargis's unquestionable belief of White's good and loyal character seems less credible because of these proven Roscoe White actions...imo anyways. Did Roscoe White really own a Mauser rifle ( as his son Ricky claimed ) like the one Dallas County Sheriff Department Constable Seymour Weitzman ( a gun buff and sporting goods store owner ) first described as the rifle found on the sixth floor of the Texas Schoolbook depository just after JFK was shot? White's death does sound more plausible as a murder versus accident imo. Roscoe White's wife Geneva did work for Jack Ruby. If only for a month or two like most of his constant turnover employees. The famous picture of her displaying her sexy feminine wares to a leering Jack Ruby more than proves this claim. And Ruby most certainly knew she was married to a DPD officer and surely seen him dropping Geneva off or picking her up from the Carousel which stayed open until late in the evening? An acquaintance relationship that could easily have included an occasional get-together ( if even one ) such as a barbeque invite to Ruby, especially if the White's and Ruby lived fairly close to each other. Do the famous Lee Oswald backyard photos show Oswald's forearms as somewhat hairy versus not? I'll have to look. I was surprised at how much hair Oswald had on his forearms as shown in his DPD lineup ( see below ) and autopsy morgue table photos. And I am now curious about Life Magazine getting Oswald's back yard photos and putting them on the cover of their national magazine. They got these within days! I just don't see the DPD or even the FBI so easily and immediately handing over such crucially important and Oswald incriminating evidence like that to be splashed all over the nation. Isn't that a risk of tainting such Oswald incriminating evidence? Who violated such important protocols regards such evidence? Was it Roscoe White? Did Life magazine ever reveal their BYP leaking source? Life had to have paid something for them. Life Magazine got both the Zapruder film AND the BYFs! Whoever owned Life must have had some highest level connections to pull off that coup.

Violent segregationist Joseph Milteer knew JFK was going to be assassinated. He described JFK's killing and Oswald's arrest to Miami PD informant Willie Somerset that JFK's assassination was "in the workings." He said JFK would be shot by a high powered rifle from high floor building. He said the police would pick up suspect ( patsy) within hours of the shooting. Milteer shared this scenario to Somerset within just two weeks prior to it's happening. Hours after it did, Milteer called Somerset to boast..." I told you it was going to happen." If all those specific details were just a lucky guess on Milteer's part, the man should have been contacted by the SRI "Remote Viewing" project. Even Ingo Swann and Joseph McMoneagle couldn't have had such a detailed hit like that. Milteer engaged with the same White segregation groups as Guy Banister.

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If only there was a picture of Tortoriello. He is involved personally with so many major characters in the Mafia/Ruby/Carousel Club connection. Dallas Mafia Capo Joe Civello, Lewis McWillie, Ruby himself, Jada. He was certainly known in other high level Mafia circles as well as the mentioned in the FBI memos above including, New York, Chicago and one would think Vegas where McWillie lived and New Orleans as Jada lived there right up to her three month gig in Dallas.

Fascinating. Tortoriello was a Mafia bodyguard? Was this the fellow who raced to help Ruby's feature stripper Jada ( Janet Conforto ) right after her pedestrian hitting incident while trying to race out of Dallas the morning of 11,22,1963?

If true it is a huge revelation. A two month duty Dallas PD employee ( with no police academy training and assigned to the identification bureau ) is in Dealey Plaza and chasing supposed suspects up into the knoll area within 25 seconds after the JFK head shot? Ridiculous. I've always believed the Roscoe White story is truly a majorly important one in the JFKA affair.

The FBI and SS's inaction in response to the Milter threat tape relative to the Miami Police one is simply not defensible imo. The excuse that the SS just didn't translate that threat to Dallas is patently absurd, ludicrous and totally illogical. Dallas was ground central home to the most rabid and powerful JFK hating groups and individuals in the entire country at that time. The most extreme commie threat promoting ( JFK was a the most targeted commie threat to them ) right wing groups ( JBS and Minute Men ) organized and financed by the world's wealthiest men-Texas oil, General Walker whom JFK and RFK had involuntarily committed to a mental ward, KKK rampant in the city's police department and probably other departments, EXTREME JFK hating Mafia Don Carlos Marcello controlling Dallas through his lieutenant Joe Civello, and even a hot-headed ex-patriot Cuban JFK BOP blaming community, JFK and RFK hating LBJ and Texas's corrupt political machine ... hence, Dallas just wasn't the threat potential of San Antonio ? ... Please.

Exactly DC. And you have me with your "smoking barbecue on your Webber" hobby interest skills. I can taste your mouth watering delicious cooking's right now! Milter should have been on the highest level of the most serious JFK threat scale. That Miami tape so shook up the Mimi police department they cancelled JFK's motorcade to the stadium that weekend. The Miami police department acted more responsibly than the SS and FBI in that area of presidential protection.

Fascinating and hugely important historical info DC. No wonder Castro was able to gain control. Cuba was ripe for a revolution. For decades before 1960 Cuba was one of the most corrupt countries on Earth. Corrupt politicians and organized crime and multi-national corporation ownership all ripping off everything they could out of that country...at the expense of the lowest income citizenry, the huge majority of their population. Same old 3rd world nation stripping of wealth and resources by a relatively small group of obsessed profiteer's story. The vast majority of average American citizens never saw any gain at all in that game. Just a small group of super wealthy.

The SS and FBI should have been all over Milteer continuously from the day they listened to the Miami tape where he told National States Rights informant William Somersette that an attempt on JFK's life was "in the workings." With Milteer even detailing the MO of the attempt..."with a high powered rifle from an office building " and how the police would be thrown off track with a duped patsy picked up within hours as the guilty party. Milteer laid out to Somersette the exact scene that took place in Dallas just two weeks later! Either Milteer was just uncannily lucky in a coincidental way, highly psychic or... he really did know "the plan" imo. My common sense tells me Milteer and his detailed threat against JFK might have been the most serious threat against JFK in the nation at that time. Top of the SS and FBI list! Milteer was a super aggressive, dangerous, serious minded racist provocateur, who was quite wealthy and the FBI knew he had been traveling out-of-state lines and involved in some really serious racially motivated crimes. A known and provenly dangerous character and who hated JFK with a rabid murderous wishing degree. The FBI knew this totally. After the Miami tape, to not be all over this guy24/7 until JFK's election campaign tour was finished and JFK was safely back in DC was so illogical it was highly suspect.

Wonder what top mobsters Jada was close to in New Orleans? Maybe even Carlos Marcello himself? Surely with her hyper sexual movie star beauty looks ( seriously Marilyn Monroe level imo ) she attracted men from the top tier of power and wealth.

I was curious about the Jada TI accident story years ago. Hard to speculate without knowing more details and corroborating testimony. Let us say Jada really was trying to "get out of town" that morning. And when the accident occurred she exhibited much nervous anxiety, not because she thought she seriously hurt this person she hit, but rather for some other reason. She reportedly told someone at the accident scene, "can't we get this over with?" and that she had to go to New Orleans. If those two actions were true I wonder why she was leaving Dallas and the Carousel Club on a Friday morning. Was her professional relationship with Jack Ruby over with on that day? Was she no longer stripping at the Carousel Club? If she was still stripping at the Carousel...you would think that Friday night would be the main night to showcase their feature stripper. So, if her Carousel Club employment gig was over, perhaps going back to New Orleans that day was no big deal? She was stripping in New Orleans right up until she came to Dallas and started working for Jack Ruby. Maybe she was going back there to start over? If Jada actually heard something about the JFKA ahead of time however...the story of her frantic flight out of Dallas that morning takes on a monumentally important and suspicious truth shaking turn. Ruby and Jada clashed. Things became very volatile between them at one point. One story was that Jack Ruby made an implied threat to Jada during one of their heated arguments. To which Jada reportedly fired back at Jack that if he tried anything, she had friends that would put him up on a meat hook. I can believe Jada knew some very serious Mafia figures in her employment in New Orleans especially. She was the hottest strip tease girl there for quite awhile. That was Marcello country. Mobsters loved strippers back then. Candy Barr became Mikey Cohen's girl in LA for years. Candy Barr was one of the most famous of strippers in her day. But, imo, Jada was the most physically beautiful stripper of them all. More attractive than Candy Barr.

Did the Jack Ruby signed Carousel Club business card shown to Chris by his grandaddy have the message you cite anywhere on the card? "Everyone's going to know who Jack Ruby is soon." ? I don't feel Jack Ruby would ever write something like that down on any card or document ever.

I believe LBJ was terrified at the prospect of an RFK presidency for other reasons way more personally threatening than a humiliation one. He knew RFK had the goods on him and his massive personal corruption. And LBJ knew RFK was aggressive enough to actually go after LBJ with the full power of the presidency. LBJ always feared this scenario as well as the following two: RFK would have also gone after LBJ's closest ( like brothers ) mutual protection and enabling friend J. Edgar Hoover as well and in the least immediately dumped Hoover into political exile obscurity. LBJ and J.E. Hoover would have been toast. And, LBJ had to have feared RFK going all out in a new investigation into JFK's murder as well. AND ... RFK could have ran roughshod over the Mafia ( which no president ever did ) and which was always one of RFK's longest and most passionately held goals. When you've got LBJ, Hoover, the Mafia all fearing your presidency to the ultimate degree and also highest position covert operatives choosing to bestow more respect upon Mafia leaders (Johnny Roselli and William Harvey) than a president ( Harvey thought the Kennedy's were all scum according to his wife's taped account ) your chances at making it to the general election alive are zero to none. Those players played for keeps.

IMO, a reasonable person is forced to ask this question: How does a person justify labeling someone of Prouty's uncommonly high responsibility life-time achievement background with one of the most extreme mentally illness indicating terms of "crackpot?" Anyone reading the decades long bio of Prouty and his constant rise in high military/government responsibility positions all the way to the Joint Chief Of Staff and the even the White House... and with praise from some of the highest command military generals like Victor Krulak, one has to suspend their rational common sense to ignore and dismiss Prouty's intelligent and rational traits needed to achieve such and the extremely high respect for him at that level. Prouty was extremely intelligent. He wrote coherent and interesting books and papers which indicated a learned man of history both military and political. Vince Bugliosi in his 50lb door stop JFKA book "Reclaiming History" resorted to this same juvenile criticism about anyone who suspected a conspiracy in the JFKA. He must have called them Lunatics, Kooks, Crackpots, Nut Cases and a dozen more basest mentally ill labeling names 100 times in his book. IMO that reflected an emotional insecurity flaw with Bugliosi more than the people he was trying to disparage. Those extremely exaggerated labels were as irrational and immature as a junior high school kid's bullying taunts. If Bugliosi's JFKA conspiracy debunking research findings are that provenly strong and valid, they wouldn't need to be infused over and over with junior high school bully taunts and name calling insults toward his JFKA belief adversaries which childishly debases his entire thesis presentation, imo anyways.

Jack Ruby always owned a gun. Carousel Club errand man Larry Crafard and others testified he would keep the gun in a bag and maybe in his car. And even carry it on his person while transporting cash to deposit in his bank. Didn't Ruby run into some gun ownership and carrying legal problems with the Dallas PD years before 11/22/1963? One can reasonably assume from the testimony of those who knew Ruby and/or worked closely with him at the Carousel Club, he usually didn't keep his gun on his person. I don't think Ruby kept it on his person when he went to his synagogue, or to the YMCA gym, to visit his sister, etc. etc. When Ruby was MCing his club act I doubt he kept his gun on his person. Probably kept it in his office. Maybe in a drawer or in his safe? I have read where Ruby did keep brass knuckles on his person semi-regularly and possibly while doing his show in case he had to perform some serious lesson teaching bashing of any unruly customer who dared fight him back while he threw them down the entrance stairs and/or beat their brains out on the sidewalk. To which one of his strippers recalled once seeing him do this and then standing up and with a look of bewilderment shout to no one in particular..."why am I doing this?" Ruby's gun, brass knuckles and gym punching bag training, etc. suggest to me a Mafia muscle experience type person. One who knows what he needs to carry and use to handle any enforcer message job that may come his way. Which leads me to ponder the following facts: Ruby runs to the Dallas PD building and enters it the evening of 11/22/1963? He is worked up after an afternoon of anguished tears and crying about the loss of our beloved president and the plight of his traumatized young wife. He decides to literally thrust himself into the DPD building and the middle of the bustling press crowd which he must have known was risky with someone important among the DPD very possibly recognizing him and telling him to leave. The police had to have had at least some concern about who was running into their building in that frantic Oswald presence time. Maybe even stationing guards at the entrance? Most of the police hated the fact that they had to fight through crowds of press people and their cameras and cables to do their job. Chief Curry insisted this press crush be there however, to show the world he and his department weren't physically abusing Oswald. Tacky strip club owning Ruby just saunters into that unprecedented frantic security scene though, like he just sauntered into the other super heightened security scene DPD basement just 44 hours later on 11/24/1963? And both times Ruby is carrying his pistol to boot! He knew that beyond his risky entrance and presence in the DPD building during the most heightened security time in their history, that if he was stopped and found to be carrying his gun he could have been asked to leave and dressed down by even his buddies in the department. Bringing in deli sandwiches into the DPD building late at night to hand out to his friends there on a slow night was just not the same as going in there armed the evening of 11/22/1963 when the entire scene was a super frantic security armed camp. My ponderances are why Ruby felt he needed his gun on his person upon thrusting himself into the DPD building that evening. Especially when he knew the scene there would be hyper-security minded charged and touchy. He certainly also knew he didn't need his gun for his own personal protection there at all. So why did he bring it? To me it was clear that Ruby brought his gun into the building to try to get to Oswald and do him in. Just as he did on the morning of 11/24/1963 inside the DPD basement just before Oswald was led to within feet of him where he could blow a hole into Oswald's guts. Again, going into the DPD parking basement Ruby knew he didn't need his gun on him for his own protection. Arming himself in penetrating both those scenes showed only one intent. To use his gun in a killing or seriously harming of Oswald ...if he got the chance. Totally premeditative thought process. If Ruby really just innocently happened to be at the Western Union office within walking distance to the DPD basement just minutes before Oswald's transfer from there and also out of innocent curiosity decided to see what the outside crowd scene was all about to the degree of walking down there...It is totally illogical to think he should arm himself while doing so, and not simply leave his gun locked in his car. Ruby transferred what...$25 to Little Lynn on his visit to the Western Union office? He felt he had to carry his gun while doing so? $25 to $30 in cash on his person made him feel that vulnerable? Ruby knew the afternoon of 11/22/1963 he had to get to Oswald. And everyone knew then and now it wasn't to prove Jews had guts or to save Jackie Kennedy from more pain and suffering. As Seth Kantor well established through solid research, Ruby was a bag man, a gun runner, a pimp, a gambling facilitator, mob errand boy when called on (his Cuba trip to help Mafia Don Santos Trafficante get out of prison there ) and even at times an FBI informant even if rarely and low level. All those proven nefarious background facts regards the real Jack Ruby, forces you to strongly suspect that his actions on the weekend of 11/22/1963 through 11/24/1963 were motivated by what Ruby himself described..." outside forces/people who put him in the situation he found himself in" after shooting Oswald. Are those people in high positions Jack? Ruby..."yes."

Stones references to Lansdale in the film were no more visible than a quick back side shot of suited man walking by the three tramps and a small wooden name plate partially obscured on a desk. 98 % of viewers of that film surely didn't even know who General Lansdale was as well as Prouty and Newman. Stone's film didn't advertise them personally. So criticism of Stone for that charge is mute.

Member McClean's and Ms. Sharpe's postings are amazingly deep, heady and I sense more importantly revealing than I had imagined. I try to keep up with them as best I can, but they reflect research way beyond my pay grade. Most of the time I kind of get lost trying to understand the myriad of connections between the major players they cover and where it all leads. However, the more I read the more I "think" I may be grasping not just the reality of this massive world-wide connected web of covert power and action subterfuge but maybe to some degree what it all means in the larger picture of world events, including the JFKA. It leads me to consider the following possible scenario: That there was an ever growing self-interest corruption in the covert world of world governments, wealth and power that the average citizens of the world back then ( and still now?) were just obliviously unaware of. A much more powerful, influential and interconnected corruption than one could imagine. Corruption that lead to the worst kinds of democratic society principles abuses and crimes. 60 years ago the intrepid Mae Brussell was uncovering this interconnected corruption world with her huge and all on her own research effort. Her findings were shocking, even scary, but still so randomly new and scattered one had a hard time making sense of it all. I think our mentioned members here are now making much more sense of it all to a degree that one can now begin to understand the connections and how they add up to the truth behind so many world events that have and are still shaping our world around us. I think I understand the post WW II political reality of a real existential threat to world democracies from the communist powers who were truly trying to undermine them with extremely aggressive actions globally. And why we were justified in combating them globally. Yet, in that initial logical effort, things more and more started taking dark turns with a growing self-interest corruption factor. Which in my mind explains the JFKA as well as the MLK and RFK assassinations and who knows what other major events during those time including Nixon and Watergate. Members like McClean and Sharpe are finding and putting the covert corruption dark secrets puzzle pieces in their correct places to reveal and complete the fuller truth picture imo. Kudos to them and their like-minded, skilled and huge effort committed contributors. Just my two cents.

Yes, this is a reality about Nixon that at least shows he had a liberal bent when it came to the working class and poor ( including black Americans ) and trying to improve their lives and opportunities. I believe he also initiated some measures to keep the massive health insurance industry under at least some control regards their incessant huge money lobbying push to raise their rates and see their profits explode. Which future Presidents and members of Congress pulled back. Yet, imo Nixon was also so obsessively ambitious in his quest for the Presidency he was willing to okay ( if not order ) some of the most unethical, constitutional law violating actions to obtain and keep it. We all know the crimes Nixon's Plumber's committed ( and which were stated as just "the tip of the iceberg" ) and Nixon was made aware of through plausible deniability channels. Nixon's entire highest level staff ALL went to prison! What 25 or more! Nixon was their ringleader! Ford pardoned the ringleader to save the country from more pain? That pardon outraged more Americans than not. How dare you Ford! Saving your highest crime committing buddy did not save the country from more anger, angst and governmental mistrust. It did the opposite! Instead it sent the absolute worst message possible. That there are people in this country who "are" above the law. Ford was an ardent admirer and enabler of Nixon...from way back. Everyone knew his Nixon pardon was a back room deal to protect and save his buddy. Not to save the country. Ford's embarrassing 1976 Presidential election loss to a laughably wide toothy grinning peanut farmer from sticksville Plains Georgia was sweet justice.

I thought Purdy did "okay." Not great, but not bad. Just not good enough. You could tell that Purdy just doesn't have the over-all physical talent skill set Patrick Mahomes has. Mahomes is a very fast and agile, dodging moves runner. Close to being as fast as his backs and receivers. Mahomes made most of his best passes after running out of his pocket. His speed gave him more time to set himself to do so. Slower runner Purdy got run down very quickly 80% of time he ran out of the pocket. And usually by linemen and linebackers who are not the fastest players on their defense teams. Also, Purdy is just too short imo. Every game I watch him it seems 3 or 4 of his passes don't make it over the outstretched arms of the other team's defensive linemen who are often 6 inches taller than him. Purdy looks like a peach fuzz faced teenager to me. It looks like he hardly has to shave. And Purdy never has any expression on his face. It's just a flat non-emotional look. Again. like Lee Harvey Oswald? Still I like him for the reasons I stated earlier. Hope he has a good career. Loved the zoom-in shots of Taylor Swift jumping, squealing, hugging and high fiving like a love-struck cheerleader in her luxury booth. Also, the beautiful Blake Lively was right there with her. I don't know. I think the Swift/Kelce romance thing added to the whole affair. Something more than the big butt tough guy slamming and tackling. Something more reflective and inclusive of our broader societal culture? A high school girl/football player boyfriend romance story? Oh, and looking more closely at Purdy's face sans his helmet ( especially his profile ) He looks more like Oswald than I previously considered. And like I mentioned earlier...if the main stream sports media critics put too much blame on Purdy for the 49er loss...he really would be justified in making a public statement repeating Lee Harvey Oswald's most famous phrase... "I Am Just A Patsy!"