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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!"

Ah...I see.

Sylvia Odio? In what way?

Totally agree with your postulation here JC. Krulak's praise of Prouty and his stellar career back when Prouty retired in the early 60's is important. Did Krulak let Livingstone know if he felt Prouty had flat out lied about Krulak IDing Lansdale in the Tramp photo? You would think Krulak would have personally called Prouty and complained to him about the inference of his (Krulak's ) take on the Tramp photo. I assume Krulak never complained to Prouty personally about it...correct?

The national anticipation level for this particular Super Bowl is the highest in my memory. It's all anybody is talking about! The streets here are absolutely empty with no traffic...not even the "sounds" of cars. The sound vacuum is even more pronounced than the typical "Super Bowl Silence" Sunday. I don't even hear birds chirping. It reminds me of the JFKA day, or the live broadcast of Lee Harvey Oswald being lead through the basement of the Dallas Police Department event on 11/24/1963! The local grocery stores and their parking lots yesterday resembled the Trump worked up riot insurrection crowds on January 6th, 2021! People fighting over parking spaces, charging through the store entrances, and once inside ramming into each other's grocery carts fighting over shelf-depleted avocados, dips and chips, scrambling for packed check-out line space and looking like they were in a totally stressed trance ready to do a Jack Ruby 38 special pulling freak out thing from it all. I saw this because I was doing the same thing - grabbing jars of salsa, chips, and ready-to-eat ripe avocados out of more infirm shopper's hands! Ignoring angry shouts of "HEY, that's MINE you SOB!" I don't have a confident theory about this unprecedented "Lourdes Vision" anticipation level societal Super Bowl event this year. I don't know if we should light candles and get on our knees and pray during the game or simply "twist and shout" and do high fives and fist bumps and hip grinds. However, I strongly suspect the TAYLOR SWIFT "Lourdes Vision" factor may have a lot to do with this beyond Holy Sunday reverence thing. "LOOK...SHE'S ACTUALLY HERE!" Gasps and signs of the cross! Her almost immaculate inspiration presence has transfixed millions of Americans and other fans across the globe, drawing in a female audience unlike anything the sport of professional football and their marketers ever imagined. I think the usually "super hyped" half-time show should match this unparalleled viewership interest phenomena. I would just show a non-stop, twenty minute long clip montage of Taylor Swift and K.C. Chief tight end Travis Kelsey engaged in steamy hot make out sessions ... Now THAT would knock everyone's socks off and make this Super Bowl the most exciting ever and turn on millions of TV viewing family and friend's parties into "YEAH BABY...GO TAYLOR AND TRAVIS!" cheering frenzies. And how about Travis Kelse getting on his knees during this half-time event and proposing to Swift right there! This Super Bowl Sunday will surely be the wildest and most exciting ever! Thanks to the Taylor Swift presence and her epic Travis Kelsey romance. This event has truly evolved into the "TAYLOR SWIFT" Super Bowl. The Brock Purdy/Lee Oswald doppelganger story just adds even more high interest energy to this almost religious frenzy worldwide societal grabbing event. IMO anyways.

EGADS! That highlight video is incredible! I haven't watched NBA games for a few years. I really didn't know Jokic was that good. This is Larry Bird/Magic Johnson maybe even Kobe and Jordan level skill set stuff!

Let's win one for....TAYLOR SWIFT! The "JACKIE KENNEDY" of pro-football Camelot lore.

Other Pro Football JFKA nefarious character look-a-likes. Jack Ruby and E. Howard Hunt?

Weird that Brock Purdy is the exact same age ( 24 ) as Lee Harvey Oswald was when Jack Ruby whacked him in the midst of 70+ armed security personnel right inside the Dallas PD building. Just hope the media doesn't refer to Purdy by his full three names "Brock Richard Purdy" if he loses and millions of 49er bettors feel he was to blame. Seems calling someone by their full 3 names is somewhat of a target setting curse. Another weird coincidence...Purdy is being referred to as "Mr. Irrelevant." The same moniker the Warren Commission branded LHO with in explaining his "lone gunman" motivation in seeking fame and recognition.

If they lose Cory...I just pray there isn't some fanatical 49er fan who blames Purdy and who looks just like ... Jack Ruby!

If the Niners lose today and the pundits blame Brock Purdy he will truly be justified in reclaiming the most famous of Lee Harvey Oswald's public quotes... "I AM JUST A PATSY!"

Was Krulak alive when Prouty published his claim regarding Krulak IDing Lansdale in the three tramps photo?

Never asked to testify before the Warren Commission? With all his firsthand engagement with many of the most important principles? Typical selective investigative process.

Yes, off his rocker.

"I'm afraid we were misled...All the critics, myself included, were misled very early. I see that now. We spent too much time microanalyzing the details of the assassination when all the time it was obvious, it was blatantly obvious that it was a conspiracy...The tyranny of power is here. Current events tell us that those who killed Kennedy can only perpetuate their power by promoting social upheaval both at home and abroad. And that will lead not to revolution but to repression...[T]he interests of those who killed Kennedy now transcend national boundaries and national priorities. No doubt we are now dealing with an international conspiracy. We must face that fact -- and not waste any more time microanalyzing the evidence. That's exactly what they want us to do. They have kept us busy for so long..." (emphasis added) Vincent Salandria, as quoted by Gaeton Fonzi in The Last Investigation "The real history of the world is a history of competing conspiracies." Ishmael Reed

A week ago I was viewing news clips about the upcoming Super Bowl and of course stories about 49er QB Brock Purdy. Last player chosen in the 2021 NFL players draft. From the last pick in the draft to starting QB in the Super Bowl? And if the 49ers happen to win and Purdy wins the MVP... what a story! That scenario might even warrant a feel good sports movie? Now, I swear...it came into my head while seeing Purdy's up close facial pictures last week that I saw a resemblance to ...yup...Lee Harvey Oswald! Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby when he was only 24. Same age as Purdy is now. There is a truly a facial resemblance. I figured since I see Lee Harvey Oswald's face several times a week due to my participation on the forum...my noticing the resemblance was due to my over-exposure to LHO in that way. And then I just noticed the LHO/Purdy resemblance story on-line yesterday. So, I guess my observation was oddly/coincidentally shared by others. I am in 49er country. Their fan base here is huge. Always has been. I watched the John Brodie led Niners when I was just a kid. I can still remember the players...John Brodie, Gene Washington, John David Crow ( face partially paralyzed ), Dave Wilcox, Cedric Hardman, etc. even Dick Nolan their head coach. That was the pre Bill Walsh era. When the 49ers never quite made it to top tier of winning. I hope they do win Sunday however. and I hope Purdy does well. He seems like a truly humble young fellow. And I like the fact he is not endowed with the typical 6 ft. 3 inch, 220 lbs physical stature of most NFL QBs nowadays. He's a little guy. Not a great and speedy athlete. Kind of a hero to average kids who love playing the game but will never be big enough to go past high school football? I was 6ft. 1 inch in high school. I loved throwing the football...from a young age. I once threw one a measured 70 yards in the air. But at 165 lbs and not strong or fast, I never even tried out for our team. I just loved throwing the football. I read that Purdy had that same love of throwing the football from a very young age. Yet, he kept playing on teams and stayed with it, despite his smaller size. Lee Harvey Oswald look-a-like or no...he's my man!

Jack Ruby...God's stupidly pathetic gift to all of America in their time of desperate truth seeking need regards who just brutally slaughtered their young president JFK. To White Knight save Jackie Kennedy from more distress, or to prove Jews had guts he blows away "the most important" criminal suspect in America's history ( Lee Harvey Oswald ) and the only person who could have provided the truths America sought in the JFKA case. Thank you Jack Ruby. America loves you and I am sure Jackie K. saw you as her avenging hero! The only thing I appreciated Jack Ruby for was his Carousel Club bevy of beauties. Which added a sensually pleasurable side-story aspect to the entire JFKA story imo. If only Jack Ruby could have kept his delusion of hero grandeur under check we might have learned so much from a living Lee Harvey Oswald. And Ruby could have continued his love affair with Sheba and his gorgeous girls could have kept warming the hearts, desires and fantasies of thousands of customers for years more. What a loss! And why the Warren Commission believed this nut case over highly reputable journalist Seth Kantor regards Kantor's under oath claim of meeting Jack Ruby at Parkland hospital the afternoon of 11,22,1963 is...well... a travesty.

Thank goodness. Maybe some day Dorothy Kilgallen's murder will receive the just investigation it deserves, if the case is indeed re-opened. We all know she was murdered. There is no debate. There is no way a guy like Pataky gets close to DK except for nefarious reasons. He was never attracted to her physically.

Exactly. Great point. Rational question.

WOW!

Just watched the entire Hugh Aynesworth celebration of life video. The man was certainly well liked, well loved and well respected by many. STILL ... even such a man is not totally incapable of some transgressions. Some secrets. Some temptation flaws. Maybe even lying about such things? JFK included? We see a photo of HA standing next to Walter Cronkite. Did HA ever view the 1969 interview Cronkite did of LBJ? The one in which LBJ stated ( on camera ) that neither he ( LBJ ) nor anyone else can ever be absolutely sure that others may not have been involved with Oswald? With LBJ himself ( who would know more highest level secrets and truths than HA could ever imagine ) expressing this doubt ( again, in 1969 ) regards whether Oswald acted alone...HA didn't think this astounding LBJ statement was worthy of consideration in at least giving himself some pause in continuing to dismiss conspiracy talk as nothing more than the rantings of loons? And what did HA think of Sylvia and Annie Odio and their Oswald introduction story? And as the intrepid praised HA was such a superman in investigative journalism... why was it that it took another highly respected journalist (Seth Kantor ) to deep research Jack Ruby and tell the world more about him than anyone else? Kantor revealed incredibly important background information on Ruby that the WC and HA wouldn't even begin to search for on their own. And, did HA think Kantor lied in his sworn oath WC testimony where he told the Committee he met and talked to Jack Ruby at Parkland hospital the afternoon of 11,22, 1963? Seth Kantor was just as worthy as HA in so many professional ways...imo. And in the life-long integrity department as well. Robert, I'll bet your sphincter tightened a few times during the testimonials. The ceremony was tightly controlled and personal family emotionally reverent and somber to the degree that trying to shout out a question or two about some of the more gushing integrity claims about HA would have been danger risk out of place and probably resulted in a Trump Rally type pummeling physical attack. Questions like..."did HA ever claim he bedded Marina Oswald?" And in the video there is a photo of HA standing next to one assumes is Fidel Castro? But the Castro figure in the photo appears to be toothless! Does the photo prove HA's tale of having a one-on-one pickup basketball game with Castro? And did HA ever think the reality of LBJ's massive personal and professional corruption was ever worthy of even one day's worth of investigation and reporting? And how about the murder of Henry Marshall? Especially after a grand jury ruled that his death was not a suicide? Wasn't that big news of the day? With incredibly important incriminations such as Billy Sol Estes? And how about the almost unbelievably corrupt and perverted justice case of Mac Wallace? Where LBJ's personal attorney John Cofer got him off from a murder with malice guilty finding by the jury? Wouldn't any big news investigative reporter be running after that big Texas news story? Not HA obviously. I sense HA knew better than to ever investigate crime and corruption in his own state, especially involving LBJ and Ed Clark. And how about some stories about Texas Big Oil? The wealthiest men on Earth at that time? And their JFK hating super extreme far right anti-communist fear mongering organizations they funded like the JBS and Minute Men? No, such realms of power and corruption were not HA's cup of tea...imo anyways.

I too find this "Mary Mintz In Minsk" story very intriguing. And whimsical song title mellifluous as well. Try saying "Mary Mintz In Minsk" 5 times quickly without getting tongue tied. Seriously...the fact that she would not know of or ever meet or want to meet this well known American defector ( 2 to 3 year residency? ) in her own city is totally illogical.

Some Wiki notes regards Yoko (Ocean Child): After living apart for several years, Ono and Ichiyanagi filed for divorce in 1962. Ono returned home to live with her parents, and, suffering from clinical depression, was briefly placed into a Japanese mental institution.[16][32] Early career and motherhood[edit] On November 28, 1962, Ono married Anthony Cox, an American jazz musician, film producer, and art promoter who had been instrumental in securing her release from the mental institution.[17 [16] The marriage quickly fell apart, but the couple continued working together for the sake of their joint careers. They performed at Tokyo's Sogetsu Hall, with Ono lying atop a piano played by John Cage. Soon, the couple returned to New York with Kyoko. In the early years of the marriage, Ono left most of Kyoko's parenting to Cox while she pursued her art full-time, with Cox also managing her publicity. Ono and Cox divorced on February 2, 1969, and she married John Lennon later that same year. During a 1971 custody battle, Cox disappeared with their eight-year-old daughter. He won custody after successfully claiming that Ono was an unfit mother due to her drug use.[32] Ono's ex-husband changed Kyoko's name to "Ruth Holman" and subsequently raised the girl in an organization known as the Church of the Living Word (or "the Walk").[36] Ono and Lennon searched for Kyoko for years, but to no avail. She would finally see Kyoko again in 1998.[32] Relationship with John Lennon[edit] Yoko Ono and John Lennon when they married, March 1969 Ono's first contact with any member of the Beatles occurred when she visited Paul McCartney at his home in London to obtain a Lennon–McCartney song manuscript for a book John Cage was working on, Notations.[37] McCartney declined to give her any of his manuscripts but suggested that Lennon might oblige.[37] Lennon later gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to "The Word".[38] Ono and Lennon first met on November 7, 1966, at the Indica Gallery in London, where she was preparing Unfinished Paintings, her conceptual art exhibit about interactive painting and sculpture. They were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.[39] One piece, Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting, had a ladder painted white with a magnifying glass at the top. When Lennon climbed the ladder, he looked through the magnifying glass and was able to read the word YES which was written in miniature. He greatly enjoyed this experience as it was a positive message, whereas most concept art he encountered at the time was anti-everything.[40] Lennon was also intrigued by Ono's Hammer a Nail where viewers were invited to hammer a nail into a wooden board painted white. Although the exhibition had not yet opened, Lennon wanted to hammer a nail into the clean board, but Ono stopped him. Dunbar asked her, "Don't you know who this is? He's a millionaire! He might buy it." Ono feigned not knowing of the Beatles (even as she had gone to see Paul McCartney asking for a Beatle song score), but relented on the condition that Lennon pay her five shillings, to which Lennon replied, "I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in."[40][41] In a 2002 interview, Ono said, "I was very attracted to him. It was a really strange situation."[42] Ono started writing to Lennon, sending him her conceptual artworks, and soon the two began corresponding. In September 1967, Lennon sponsored Ono's solo Half-A-Wind Show, at Lisson Gallery in London.[43] When Lennon's wife Cynthia asked for an explanation of why Ono was telephoning them at home, he told her that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her "avant-garde bullshit".[44] In early 1968, while the Beatles were making their visit to India, Lennon wrote the song "Julia" and included a reference to Ono: "Ocean child calls me", referring to the translation of Yoko's Japanese spelling.[18] In May 1968, while his wife was on holiday in Greece, Lennon invited Ono to visit. They spent the night recording a selection of avant-garde tape loops,[43] after which, he said, they "made love at dawn".[45] The recordings made by the two during this session ultimately became their first collaborative album, the musique concrete work Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins. When Lennon's wife returned home, she found Ono wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon, who simply said, "Oh, hi."[46] On September 24 and 25, 1968, Lennon wrote and recorded "Happiness Is a Warm Gun",[47] which contains sexual references to Ono. Ono became pregnant, but had a miscarriage on November 21, 1968, a few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted.[ Early collaborations, marriage and "Bed-ins"[edit] Main articles: Bed-In, Give Peace a Chance, Bagism, and Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins Lennon and Ono at a Bed-in at Hilton Amsterdam, March 1969 During the final two years of the Beatles, Lennon and Ono created and attended public protests against the Vietnam War. They collaborated on a series of avant-garde recordings, beginning in 1968 with Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins, which notoriously featured an unretouched image of the two artists nude on the front cover. During the Amsterdam Bed In press conference, Yoko also earned controversy in the Jewish community for saying during the press conference that, "If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would approach him and become his girlfriend. After 10 days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking. This world needs communication. And making love is a great way of communicating."[58] It was acknowledged that some Nazis, including Nazi "First Lady" Magda Goebbels, had Jewish lovers at one point in their lives.[58] The Dakota, Ono's residence from 1973 to 2023 After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, Ono and Lennon lived together in London and then moved permanently to Manhattan to escape tabloid racism towards Ono.[76] Their relationship became strained because Lennon was facing deportation due to drug charges that had been filed against him in England, and because of Ono's separation from her daughter. The couple separated in July 1973, with Ono pursuing her career and Lennon living between Los Angeles and New York with personal assistant May Pang; Ono had given her blessing to Lennon and Pang's relationship.[77][78] By December 1974, Lennon and Pang considered buying a house together, and he refused to accept Ono's phone calls. The next month, Lennon agreed to meet Ono, who claimed to have found a cure for smoking. After the meeting, Lennon failed to return home or call Pang. When she telephoned the next day, Ono told her Lennon was unavailable, because he was exhausted after a hypnotherapy session. Two days later, Lennon reappeared at a joint dental appointment with Pang; he was stupefied and confused to such an extent that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. He told her his separation from Ono was now over, though Ono would allow him to continue seeing her as his mistress.[79]

To what extent was Yoko's influence over John Lennon is a question many have speculated about for decades. I would love to know what Paul, George and Ringo "really" felt about Yoko and her relationship with John. I have never researched Yoko. Obviously however, she was totally engaged with John creatively. I guess the question of whether she had truly good and protective intentions regards John and his work or something much more "self interest" orientated will always be a debatable mystery in some ways.

The Sylvia Odio story ( including her sister Annie ) is one of the most compelling Oswald sighting testimonies of all. The WC really didn't know what to do with her. I have never doubted her story. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1am-EkfBcmM The Odio Incident - YouTube