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Anatomy Of The Second Floor Lunch Room Encounter
Gerry Simone replied to a topic in JFK Assassination Debate
Thank you for the well-crafted and detailed backgrounder. I will study this further. -
Anatomy Of The Second Floor Lunch Room Encounter
Gerry Simone replied to a topic in JFK Assassination Debate
Excellent imagery but I'm a little confused (the moving gifs that merge makes my head spin a little). Do Shelley and Lovelady walk away (I've seen that before) at the same time as the person talking with the lady in black? It could be Lovelady by the edge of the wall on those steps, but I'm not sure what you're getting at. -
Maybe it wasn't supposed to be a multi-shooter ambush after all because other shooters were simply a contingency or back up plan in case a shot from the rear (whether TSBD or County Records or Dal-Tex Building) did not clearly end Kennedy's life. But that part of the mission failed. So they ended up having a problem when a fatal shot came from the front but alas, they had a contingency plan to remove that evidence. The original plan still could've been to frame a lone gunman who was a Commie nut with a dubious history that would have unfolded in the aftermath, because that might have been enough to persuade the government to take retaliatory action, as well as enhance or emphasize the threat by the "evil empire", and maintain the Cold War. But LBJ and Hoover weren't stupid to take the bait. They knew something was up and had to cover things up. The pre-autopsy contingency plan was still in place, but this time, it would become a legitimate national security measure. P.S. It's also possible that the plotters just hated Kennedy and wanted him dead. IF an invasion of Cuba resulted from the assassination, that would've been a bonus, but the plotters might not have cared much for that.
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Anatomy Of The Second Floor Lunch Room Encounter
Gerry Simone replied to a topic in JFK Assassination Debate
I didn't know you could attach a pic file (thought you had to include a link, so this is more convenient). This is a photo by another gentleman in another thread I believe. When you say Lovelady who's talking with Gloria Calvery, do you mean this pic that shows the colorized Lovelady? That's what I was referring to.
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Anatomy Of The Second Floor Lunch Room Encounter
Gerry Simone replied to a topic in JFK Assassination Debate
Thanks. I'll have to read that after Easter. -
Anatomy Of The Second Floor Lunch Room Encounter
Gerry Simone replied to a topic in JFK Assassination Debate
I thought I saw it on a photo in this forum (I can't recall now) and not on Di Eugenio's site. BL has that distinct open flannel shirt with a white undershirt look. -
Hi Paul, You insist that Lifton must presume a LBJ-did-it theory because having a lone gunman means a) WWIII is avoided, otherwise that means that a multi-shooter pro-Castro or Soviet kill team was in Dealey Plaza, and b ) no evidence of a domestic conspiracy lest LBJ be a suspect which might affect his succession to the Presidency. However, it can also be true that the motives behind the plotters getting rid of JFK was a) to avoid WWIII [continue black ops against Cuba and/or escalate Viet Nam] and b ) ensure LBJ is the next President [leave CIA alone, continue black ops in Cuba, escalate the Viet Nam War and the MIC makes money, and the Mob can flourish too]. The plotters can achieve this by having a lone nut leftist, otherwise, it's suicide for them too. The lingering problem in all of this is what I was thinking earlier about that pointy* bullet planted instead of the WCC round. Was that a mix-up by someone involved in the conspiracy? Or were they trying to give the appearance of involvement by multiple shooters? *You previously mentioned Larry Hancock suggesting that that could've been to give the appearance of multiple shooters. I wasn't aware that he said that but it's possible since he's a well-respected researcher who I admire, and a very entertaining and engaging speaker at Lancer.
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Plan B might also be simpler to carry out if the new President is ordering the military to ensure that pre-autopsy is carried out, all under the guise of National Security. That wouldn't be incompatible with the prep for the Sniper's Lair as the latter was simply to ensure pro-Castro Oswald is the only one caught, but that his comrades got away. However, why would it have been so hard to kill Oswald earlier in the game, if that was the original plan? Did the/those knucklehead cops who supposedly stopped in front of Oswald's rooming house and honked their car horn, not wait around long enough or try knocking on the house's door?
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Mr. Lifton took the words out of my mouth in his reply to you Paul about phony DPD officers. Not sure about that Roscoe White story (especially if he's supposed to represent Badgeman who's in the wrong position). Not sure about the Gordon Arnold story either (he said a cop with dirty hands took his movie camera but we don't see Gordon Arnold in any films or photos). Ed Hoffman says he saw a shooter wearing a coat and fedora, but not dressed like a cop, and who gave his rifle to a railway or construction worker that disassembled it and put it inside his tool box.
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Anatomy Of The Second Floor Lunch Room Encounter
Gerry Simone replied to a topic in JFK Assassination Debate
Looks like BL to me too. (Looking forward to reading Bart's updated 2nd floor encounter, and the essay on Di Eugenio's site) -
Excellent. I'm planning on returning this November and might bring a tape measure.
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Excellent checking.
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Just to clarify Robin (or anyone else) - BWF is standing on the landing or top of the stairs, correct? I can almost count the risers for each step. Is there a way to know where PM is by counting the risers and knowing how many there were in total back then? I would guess that PM is on the step below the landing or top of the stairway.
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I don't think LBJ or Hoover knew exactly who was behind the plot, whether a foreign or domestic conspiracy, except that they figured it wasn't just a lone gunman but weren't going to look deeper for fear of what they might find, so they went with the flow. IOW, they also acquiesced to the pre-planned Lone Nut Theory (LNT). P.S. Just wanted to add, that LBJ seemed more interested in finding a politically-expedient solution to the assassination, especially before the next election. He wanted an uncontroversial solution, and not be thought of as a prime suspect.
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I doubt that the APB for Oswald wasn't just the result of a shoe store witness or what someone saw in the Oak Cliff area. Also, the fact that a duplicate wallet of Oswald's was found at the Tippit murder scene means an unknown person or persons were guiding the police to Oswald.
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I might have other pictures from previous visits. How do you mean extended for the top landing?
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If the Radical Right were so instrumental in planning the assassination so that it would look like a Communist conspiracy, why would they via The John Birch Society, advertise their deep dislike of JFK with a full page newspaper ad, which would only draw suspicion on themselves?
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IMHO, a diversion was less important than to silence Oswald soon after the Big Event. It seems the other shooters were well hidden and/or disguised, had phony SSA diverting cops and spectators, possibly used silencers, and took advantage of the commotion and confusion of the crowds to quietly slip away.
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Don't forget that that dragnet and super-efficient arrest seemed to have had a helping hand by an unknown tipster. Surely, they would have tried to alert the cops about a former Soviet residence and communist sympathizer working from the location of suspected gun fire (i.e., the TSBD), or fed some background info into the process about the deceased Oswald had he been shot by police much sooner or before he could speak.
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Thank you Paul B. for keeping me on that beaten path, but sometimes eager minds try to think outside the box sometimes. Your reminder of a very important facet of the assassination cannot be forgotten or ignored. There certainly was a lot of investment or risks taken in ensuring that even others might catch a glimpse of a shooter at or hear one from (who seemed to have had an accomplice on the 6th floor by other accounts) the TSBD, and that's exactly what happened. Of course there was another shooter or more, but that evidence was discounted if not ignored or expunged. Mistakes happened in the execution of the murder conspiracy, but were "corrected" after-the-fact, which left a dubious trail that we still are debating more than a half a century later.
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Would that person who he knew well be his brother? (You don't have to spoil it for us, but I couldn't resist to ask). (If there's one thing they got right in the film Parkland, it was Oswald telling his brother Robert who visited him in jail, "Don't believe in the so called evidence brother".)
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Here's a bit of what the entrance looked like last November (that's me assuming the Billy Lovelady position). It is somewhat deep behind me.
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At last year's Lancer conference, Bill and Gayle Newman made a special appearance to speak to the attendees. Moderating the discussion was the new Sixth Floor Museum Curator, Stephen Fagin. He was all right. You might try to email him. Another person who has great Dealey Plaza measurements is Don Roberdeau, who might have same for the TSBD.
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Understood. So it is possible that PM is halfway down that step? Off the bat, PM looks like he's back in the corner. With respect to the argument that we see something shiny in his hand, that doesn't necessarily negate that he's entirely in the shadows because sunlight can be indirectly shining into that entrance vestibule but deflected back off of a reflective surface.* *(I recall those silly faked-moon landing arguments about artificial stage lights, which were debunked with simple table-top experiments, showing that an astronaut in a shiny suit can reflect sunlight even though he still might be in the shadows).
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Can someone contact him or his son? He attended with his son (a young combat veteran if I recall from viewing that Lancer presentation DVD a few weeks ago again) who surely must use the internet. Has Bart Kamp contacted BWF and/or his son? Thank you for alerting me to the other thread. I'll check it out later Andrej.
