George Bollschweiler

Does anyone else have any information on Schmidt?

John, what about Larrie's brother Volkmar, who, according to Mae Brussel, started working for Walker on a full time base before Larrie did? Does he deserves the same attention as Larrie and if so, what about his role in the case. I think Jim Root maybe could have some more information because of his intrest and research of Gen. Edwin Walker.

A comment I suspect, turned question in a few minds hereabouts! Business as usual?

David,what else are we doing every day? What about all the facts we discovered in the past years concerning our environment?

With all our knowledge about how things in nature are connected with our future, we are still the most stupid individuals on earth. The only one’s who are sawing the branch we are sitting on!

(E.g. what is the flower power generation, who fought in the sixties for a better world doing today? Pushing the shareholder-values and the globalization!) That’s what I call business as usual and therefore you are right, that really turns questions in my mind.

As back to the issue, I think my post was as neutral as it could be.

George

George, this is by far the most perceptive post I have seen in trying to understand both sides and reach an agreeable settlement.

Have you considered a career in diplomacy?

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Unfortunatly not, but considering our history in Switzerland we meanwhile maybe have all developed a diplomacy- gene.

Having e-witnessed the argument between Tim and Shanet shows the difficulties of solving such a dispute on an anonymous platform like an internet-forum. When considering the reasons of the two contenders I can understand both.

Tim, because nobody wants to be accused of something he has not done and specially if such a thing is spread by the net.

Shanet, maybe taken by surprise of Tim’s reaction and threat to sue him, sheltered himself by

withdrawing from the forum. So it won’t be easy to return without loosing the face.

At the moment we have no winners but losers. The forum lost a worthwhile member, whose analyses are appreciated and his knowledge is a brick in the forum’s foundation. On the other hand we have Tim, who beside all criticism is one of the motors of this forum because he is everywhere and almost has a response to everything and fights for his theories, like everybody else. Now he will be blamed by many for dispelling Shanet and the situation might get worse.

In a face to face situation, the conflict might have not accrued in such a way and finally

the dispute could have been ended by shaking hands.

So what we need is a virtual “shake hands” !

Common’ boys, get out of your corner and let's get back to what we are here for.

I guess the killer could have been some jealous husband, if he was smart enough to know beforehand that no matter who did it, LBJ, the CIA, the FBI, and the military would immediately start covering up.

Good bashing Ron I rather thought of some hot-blooded Mediterranean character, who loved the wife of somebody else.

George, I take it your joking right, Jackies head was inches from the bullet that killed her husband, thats sure taking a risk. Steve...

This is certainly "pure speculation" but if anything, Ron would be correct, it would have to be a jealous husband who did not care if Jackie got hit in the cross-fire. Query, however, if JFK was philandering with any MARRIED women in the fall of 1963? I do not recall any. Wasn't Mary Meyer separated from Cord Myer by this time?

Steve, Tim, your are right but as I tried to explane in my second post, it is not my theory or speculation at all ! It is not allways easy to find the right words when trying to be a little sarcastical in a foreign language. After the motto "to bring the animals out, you got to beat the bushes ".

I get a strong impression that Jackie genuinely deeply loved Jack. I don't think she would want him dead at all. Her actions in pulling him closer as bullets were flying, cradling him, and not wanting to let go at parkland to my mind are those of a loving protective person. JohnD

John, open mind is always a great attitude. I just want to say, that I'm not so convinced, that the love from Jacky was so deep and genuine. You are right when looking at these scenes in Dallas but I think in such a moment your instincts work at a diffrent level compared to normal life.

I think Jacky was a well educated and intelligent person and she was a woman. Therefore she sure was aware of all those affairs, had two miscarriages, which were asbiographies mentioning, due to the chronic veneral diseases of her husband. So I believe that they had, apart from the public image, some quite difficulte privat problems.

I knew this is not the right subject to make friends but that was not the point. I’m not saying that Jacky did play any part whatsoever in the assassination!

It was only a (maybe to) provocative way to undermine the core of my thoughts, that

there was almost no investigation, concerning the motive of the assassination, which was not based on political reasons or motivation.

Because the victim was the President of the United States, it was automatically put in the corner of a political crime. It seemed logical, with no doubt at all. So the path was given right after the first shot. But is it really the truth?

This is what I think can be the danger concerning objectivity, today as in the past.

So to put it right, before you put me in the corner of some “other nutters”, did any of you ever question the motive of the assassination or is this a fact, that even will stand when this case will be solved?

It has been quite a while since my last post and meanwhile I didn’t spend much time with the JFK assassination. There is one thought that keeps coming back in my mind even if it is a little far fetched, I would like to know if any of you might had some similar thoughts.

Because JFK was president when he was killed makes it automatically a political crime but what if he had been killed before or after his presidency? Where would you look for the motive? What about some private motivations? I hardly ever read or seen theories that would take that road. What if the reason was much more trivial?

In normal life, if someone gets killed, the investigation will focus the close environment of the victim and it is not unusual, that the husband or the wife will be part of that investigation. I’m not saying that Jacky had anything to do with it, but considering the private circumstances of the marriage, there would be enough circumstantial evidences to create a motive. Husbands kill their wives and the other way round, that’s nothing new and no speculation. Of course in this case it was not possible to kill the husband in his bed while he was asleep. Was or is it just that could be described as double moral standard, which is in mine point of view something, Americans (sorry folks don’t take it personal) are very good at. So just the thought, that the first lady could have been somehow involved comes close to blasphemy.

To make it look like a politically motivated murder would be a very good cover up!

I won’t speculate of any scenario, because as I mentioned before, it is hard to find any pices of evidence to undermine this possibility, but on the other hand, all the evidences that lead in other directions did not bring the breakthrough either.

They look to be European ( German, Polish ) ?

Europaen, no way, IMO this individual looks rather like a red-neck than one of my neighbors

I've just gone through the frames of the zapruder film, starting at the beginnig and making 10 pictures steps. I don't know if this is known but as far as I can see there are some missing frames right at the beginning as if the camara was turned off and than on again.

Within 4 frames (Z130 to Z134) the motorcade jumps into the picture

compared to the way the motorcade travels between Z140 und Z160. unfortunatly

I haven't enough space left, but I'm sure you got these frames taken from Costella.

George

Lee,

concerning the Tippit shooting there is another interesting statement from Bill Drenas.

Professor Bill Pulte related to me the following story. Bill was interviewing an individual who had lived in the neighborhood Tippit was killed since the early 1960s. The interviewee spoke on the condition that his identity would remain confidential; Bill Pulte informs me that his information on other points was very accurate. They talked about many things concerning the Tippit shooting and the individual told Bill “If you are planning to do more research on Tippit, you should find out about a fight that took place at 12th and Marsalis a few minutes before Tippit was killed.”

To this day any additional details about this fight are not known. Could Tippit have observed a fight and watched one or more of the participants take off in an automobile or by foot? Could someone have stopped Tippit’s squad car and told them about a fight? Could Tippit himself have been involved in a fight? These are questions that we may never find the answers to.

Has anybody ever heard of this fight, beside the above mentioned source?

George

Jim,

I wrote to the DNZ today, trying to get some more information concerning the General Walker interview. I'll let the forum know as soon as I get an answer.

Your question about his office in the USA I found the following information:

The most influential Nazi spy to be recruited by American intelligence was Dr. Walter Becher. He had joined the Nazi Party in 1931 during the early days of the Hitler regime. He was one of Hitler's Brownshirts and worked in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry where he disseminated information advocating the purge of all Jews. He came to the United States in the early 1950s and soon built a political machine.

Sen. Joe McCarthy, Charles Willoughby, Gen. Edwin Walker, and Robert Morris' links to the German nazis converged when Dr. Walter Becher set up offices in Washington, D.C. in 1950.

Dr. Becher's early contacts in Washington were McCarthy and William Jenner in the Senate, and a handful of congressmen in the House. T.H. Tetens in The New Germany and the Old Nazis, was awed by the Nazi's camaraderie with Beltway politicians, and tracked his movements through the District of Columbia: "During the early fifties, when he first came to Washington, he began to build for himself a formidable political machine. His scheme was very simple. If he could obtain the support of leading politicians in the United States, his prestige and stature would grow enormously at home.... With the help of the McCarthy faction in the United States, he could establish a nationwide reputation as the foremost leader of the anti-Communist crusade." Among the senators who sent personal letters of support to Dr. Becher in Munich in the 1950s: Prescott Bush, Albert Gore, Pat McNamara, William Knowland, Strom Thurmond, Thomas Dodd, Robert Byrd, William Langer and Stuart Symington. House Speaker John McCormack also offered his unblushing public support to the Nazi editor.

George

To protect himself, I believe, he provided information to a German publication that would tie himself to Oswald's attempted assassination of him.

Jim,

the German newspaper was the Deutsche National Zeitung, a facistic newspaper

published by Gerhard Frey. Frey was a member of a Nazi organisation called

Witiko League, lead by Walter Becher who opened 1950 an office in the USA.

Through this office they had contact to Joe McCarthy, Charles Willoughby, Edwin Walker, Robert Morris, Douglas MacArthur and FBI-Agent Dan Smooth.

George

Sláinte!

Also if you look at Zapruder frame number 312 it shows Kennedy's head down and tilted towards Jackie,right side exposed to a shot from the fence at a facing leftwards position,ie his face is pointing towards Jackies right cheek almost.This i believe would be ample and logical for a right side head rear exit wound. Have a good look at Z312.

Duncan,

to what shoot are you referring to, the fatal shoot or to a shoot fired prior to the head shoot? IMO I tend to belive that the fatal shoot was fired from the south parking lot near the post office building.

Finally the question of the bullet path is now solved. We just have to look at the map found in Oswald's room! What a waste of money for poor old Gerald!

Just a few seconds later one has disappeared from the picture! The other two look

rather shaky compared to Dark complected man and Umbrella man.

Did he mark the shell casings from the Tippet murder scene......or not?

Hi Tom, I don't know if this helps but it would be interesting to know what purpose

is behind your question.

George

Mr. BALL. Domingo told you who was running across the lawn?

Mr. POE. A man, white man.

Mr. BALL. What was he doing?

Mr. POE. He was unloading his pistol as he run.

Mr. BALL. And what did he say?

Mr. POE. He said he picked the two hulls up.

Mr. BALL. Did he hand you the hulls?

Mr. POE. Yes, sir.

Mr. BALL. Did you put any markings on the hulls?

Mr. POE. I couldn't swear to it; no, sir.

Mr. BALL. What did you do with the hulls?

Mr. POE. I turned the hulls into the crime lab, which was at the scene.

Mr. BALL. Do you know the name of the man with the crime lab or from the crime lab?

Mr. POE. I couldn't swear to it. I believe Pete Barnes, but I wouldn't swear to it.

Mr. BALL. How many cartridges, or empty cartridges or shells were given to you?

Mr. POE. There were two in an empty Winston cigarette package.

Mr. BALL. Did you save the Winston cigarette package?

Mr. POE. I turned it in with the two cartridges.

Mr. BALL. To the crime lab?

Mr. POE. Yes, sir.

Mr. BALL. Now, I have here a package which has been marked "Q"--FBI lab. Q-74 to Q-77. Would you look those over and see if there is any identification on there by you to indicate that those were the hulls given to you by Benavides?

Mr. POE. I want to say these two are mine, but I couldn't swear to it.

Mr. BALL. Did you make a mark?

Mr. POE. I can't swear to it; no, sir.

Shanet wrote:

Testimony and photos support it. Bill Miller and others downplay it as a soft drink.

One witness said he tasted it and confirmed it was blood, but I think that was the "Lansdale gate" puddle, not the one at the wall.

I remember that Malcolm Couch testified about the blood spot but also interesting is his statement of a "chase" goinig on around the TSBD. Was that just his excitement or has anyone more on that story?

Mr. BELIN - That would be the west side of the Depository Building?

Mr. COUCH - That's right; that's right. It's there that I saw blood on the sidewalk.

Mr. BELIN - All right. Now, you say you saw blood on the sidewalk, Mr. Couch?

Mr. COUCH - That's right.

Mr. BELIN - Where was that?

Mr. COUCH - This was the little walkway - steps and walkway that leads up to the corner, the west corner, the southwest corner of the book Depository Building. Another little sidewalk, as I recall, turns west and forms that little parkway and archway right next to the Book Depository Building.

Mr. BELIN - Did this appear to be freshly created blood?

Mr. COUCH - Yes; right.

Mr. BELIN - About how large was this spot of blood that you saw?

Mr. COUCH - Uh - from 8 to 10 inches in diameter.

Mr. BELIN - Did people around there say how it happened to get there, or not?

Mr. COUCH - No; no one knew. People were watching it - that is watching it carefully and walking and pointing to it. Uh - just as I ran up, policemen ran around the west corner and ran - uh - northward on the side of the building. And my first impression was that - uh - that they had chased someone out of the building around that corner, or possibly they had wounded someone. All of those policemen had their pistols pulled. And people were pointing back around those shrubs and that west corner and - uh - you would think that there was a chase going on in that direction.

Again, the reason that I didn't follow was because A.J. had come up, and my first concern was to get back with the President.

Mr. BELIN - This pool of blood - about how far would it have been north of the curbline of Elm Street as Elm Street goes under the expressway?

Mr. COUCH - I'd say - uh - well, from Elm Street, you mean, itself?

Mr. BELIN - Yes. This is from that part of Elm Street that goes into the expressway?

Mr. COUCH - I'd say - uh - 50 to 60 feet, and about 10 to 15 feet from the corner of the Texas Depository Building.

Mr. BELIN - It would be somewhere along that park area there?

Mr. COUCH - Right.

Mr. BELIN - Was there anything else you noticed by this pool of blood?

Mr. COUCH - No. There were no objects on the ground. We looked for something. We thought there would be something else, but -

Mr. BELIN - There was nothing?

George

1) Was the motorcade on schedule at the time of the shooting?

Greg,

in ajweberman nodule 17, he states that JFK was scheduled to speak at the Trade Mart at 12:30.

George

Eugene

finally it worked for Mooreman#5

Eugene,

try this one, but I have a better colored copy and hope to be able to add it later.

http://jfkmurderphotos.bravehost.com/photos.html

Eugene

I wanted to post two fotos but unfortunately I seem to be run out of space, hope to fix that later.

But if I'm correct you can compare the Willis #5, two persons standing on the stairs comming from the knoll, with Mooreman #5, there you can see a man with

a white hat, who joined the other two. As BDM seems to wear a hat wouldn't this

fit?

Jim

IMO he was rather "little" involved than "very" because I think if he had some deeper knowledge of what was going on, concerning his intelligence, he would have acted different. The strange thing to me is, that he seemed to be unaware of

the shooting until he was stoped at the lunch room. But as we know he asked one of his working buddys what was going on when he realized the crowd on Elm street. So it looks as if he didn't watch the motorcade neither form a window nor

form outside the building otherwise he would have witnessed the shooting and, now aware of beeing used, would have left the building or the scene immediately. There would have been no need to go first to the cantina to drink a coke and then "escape". Therefore I also doubt that he did smuggle "a" rifle to the TSBD.

I agree that his movements were monitored by the CIA but that doesn't automaticly mean that these informations were only available for the intelligence or its related groups. If these informations were sold or given to a third party it

contained the blame of those who provided the information. But even if the involvement of the CIA was more coincidence than willingly provoked it would not chance the effort of the WC to negate any involvement.

George

Well of course Oswald went home! He had finished work for the day!

I think his home was rather 1026 North Beckley Ave than the Paine residence where he was allowed to stay only for the weekends. To leave the ring and almost

all his money, taking "curtain rods" to work all this seems to me a little much

coincidence. IMO there is no doubt that he was somehow involved, but how that

is still to be uncovered.

Of course I can think of a reason to leave the wedding ring at home but that shows

us that the whereabouts of Oswald during his time in Dallas are pretty much hiden in the dark. What about his friends or colleges apart from the Paines, compared to

the information that builded up his "background" there is almost nothing for the time he lived in Dallas.

James Tague is less than 60 feet away and he doesn't hear any shots coming from the South side of the plaza and the same can be said about the men on the overpass

Maybe I was not precise enough when I said south knoll/parking lot so I hope

the picture below shows it better. I meant the PARKING LOT.

The other point that James Tague didn't hear a shoot from this direction is an other question but as we still don't know what kind of rifles were used we have to consider that silencers were allready invented. This position also allows a fast and quite save escape for a shooter.

Secondly, in striking the bone in this manner, it may cause pieces of the bone to be blown into the brain and thus act as secondary missiles. Finally, the bullet itself may be deformed and deflected so that it would go through or penetrate parts of the brain, not in the usual direct line it was proceeding.

There you are right but this brings in the question of the body movement. As there have been various discussions and statements if a body now moves forwards or backwards when hit by a bullet, I don't want to start this subject again but when we

are talking about a high powered rifle then IMO we would have to consider a body movement towards or away from the grassy knoll when the fatal shoot was fired.