Robert Howard

I cannot imagine the following not being pertinent on a few elements, related to the topic at hand. The International Telecommunications Union, Space Radio Communications, and U.S. Cold War Diplomacy, 1957–1963Hugh Richard Slotten AbstractThis article examines the role of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a specialized agency of the United Nations, in the international effort to manage the radio spectrum. The management of the radio spectrum has been one of the most important activities of the ITU. International agreements for the use of the radio spectrum have been necessary because radio waves do not simply stop at national borders. Governments have viewed the spectrum as an international common resource.Specifically, this article focuses on the development of radio spectrum policy for one of the most significant new radio “services” of the twentieth century: radio transmissions involving outer space. Crucial ITU administrative radio conferences in 1959 and 1963 organized especially by the United States laid the foundation for the Cold War space race. A focus on the efforts by the United States to manage the meetings is particularly important for gaining a deeper understanding of Cold War diplomacy and international relations during this crucial period. In the context of total cold war, diplomacy was closely linked to a broad range of national security concerns, not only military preparedness but also the symbolic and material struggle over hearts and minds. A central concern of the early efforts to arrive at international agreements for space frequencies was satellite communications. The United States was particularly concerned about convincing the international community to set aside large blocks of frequencies for a planned global satellite communications system that would serve multiple national security objectives. The global satellite system would, in turn, play an important role in convincing other countries to agree to set aside frequencies for all forms of space communication. http://dh.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/2/313.abstract

There is a lot more to this story than just what has been posted here...... For starters, and I am really surprised, he testified before the Warren Commission.... At some point you will realize there were a lot more Kaisers in the JFK annals than these persons, they might actually both be still alive...... And I do believe this story is cooked up, more or less See below TESTIMONY OF FRANKIE KAISER Mr. Lovelady. The testimony of Frankie Kaiser was taken at 2:30 p.m., on April 8, 1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney, 301 Post Office Building, Bryan and Ervay Streets, Dallas, Tex., by Mr. Joseph A. Ball, assistant counsel of the President's Commission. Mr. Ball. Will you hold up your right hand and be sworn, please? Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give before the Commission shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mr. Kaiser. I do. Mr. Ball. Will you give me your name, please? Mr. Kaiser. Frankie Kaiser. Mr. Ball. What is your address? Mr. Kaiser. 5230 West Ledbetter in Duncanville. Mr. Ball. What is your occupation? Mr. Kaiser. Warehouse workman at the Texas School Book Depository. Mr. Ball. How long have you worked for that company? Mr. Kaiser. Oh, just about 2 years. Mr. Ball. What time do you go to work down there? Mr. Kaiser. Eight o'clock in the morning. Mr. Ball. What date did you go to work for them? Mr. Kaiser. It was August 24, 1962. Mr. Ball. Where did you go to school? Mr. Kaiser. Texas---Texarkana, Ark. Mr. Ball. Were you born there? Mr. Kaiser. No, sir; I was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Mr. Ball. And then you went to school in Texarkana, did you? Mr. Kaiser. Right. Mr. Ball. And what did you do after you got out of school? Mr. Kaiser. I never finished. Mr. Ball. How far did you go? Mr. KAISER. I went to the tenth grade and quit and went in the service and went in for 6 months in the National Guards and come out and then came to Dallas and started to work and I worked for Morrises. Mr. Ball. You worked for whom? Mr. Kaiser. Morris Warehouse. Mr. BALL. Then what did you do after that? (Testimony of Frankie Kaiser) Mr. Kaiser. Mr. KAISER. I worked there for about 3 years and then I started to work over there. Mr. Ball. You started to work over at the Texas School Book Depository? Mr. Kaiser. Yes--then I got married. Mr. BALL. You did--what kind of work do you do at the Texas School Book Depository? Mr. KAISER. Drive a truck--fill orders--just about anything that needs to be done. Mr. BALL. Did you ever know a fellow by the name of Lee Oswald that worked there? Mr. Kaiser. Not personally--I would know him when I would see him. Mr. Ball. Did you work in the same building with him? Mr. Kaiser. Same building. Mr. Ball. Where were you when the President's parade went by? Mr. Kaiser. At the Baylor Dental College. Mr. Ball. Where? Mr. Kaiser. At the Baylor Dental College. Mr. Ball. Sir, you weren't anywhere near the School Book Depository? Mr. KAISER. No, sir; I was off Thursday and Friday with abscessed tooth. I was sitting in the chair and when I got off, we was out in the lobby watching it on TV down at the dental college there. Mr. Ball. When did you go back to work? Mr. Kaiser. It was the following Monday. Mr. Ball. That would be the 25th, wouldn't it? Mr. Kaiser. Yes, sir; I believe so--the 25th. Mr. Ball. Now, one day you found a clipboard, didn't you? Mr. KAISER. Yes; it was about a week later. I went upstairs, you see, the corner I found it in--we keep a certain teacher's edition of Catholic handbooks. Mr. Ball. I didn't quite hear that--Catholic what? Mr. Kaiser. We keep our teacher's edition of Catholic "Think and Do" books. Mr. Ball. I didn't quite hear that--Catholic what? Mr. Kaiser. We keep our teacher's edition of Catholic books--separated. Mr. Ball. You do? Mr. Kaiser. Yes, sir; and I went up there to get a teacher's edition. Mr. Ball. On what floor? Mr. Kaiser. On the sixth floor. Mr. Ball. Now, what part of the sixth floor is this Catholic edition located? Mr. Kaiser. It was in that corner. Mr. Ball. And in what corner is that? Mr. Kaiser. Let's see--- Mr. Ball. Without saying north or south, was it near the elevator? Or the stairway? Mr. Kaiser. Yes, it was right in front of the elevator. Mr. Ball. Where was it with reference to the stairway? Mr. Kaiser. . It was right next to the stairway--right in the corner. Mr. Ball. Right in the corner next to the stairway, is that right? Mr. Kaiser. Yes, sir. Mr. Ball. Now, what day did you find it, do you remember? Mr. Kaiser. I couldn't tell you. It was about a week or a week and a half, somewhere in there. Mr. BALL. Now, this statement you gave to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the 2d of December 1963, says you talked to an agent named Pinkston; do you remember that? END The agents name here at the end was Nat Pinkston

I tried to follow-up on this, on Mary Ferrell's site at the link below..... https://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Photos_-_HSCA_Mugbook_-_p1 ...there is a photo of #18 Mario Bermudez.......FWIW

Here is what the magazine for people with Inquirin' Minds has to say....Interesting.... Published on: October 25, 2013 by JOHN BLOSSER & ROBERT HARTLEIN, NATIONAL ENQUIRER LEE HARVEY OSWALD did NOT act alone – and The ENQUIRER can finally name the second gunman who fired the fatal shot at President JOHN F. KENNEDY from the grassy knoll in Dallas 50 years ago! In a blockbuster exclusive, The ENQUIRER has learned that a Cuban exile with ties to both the Mafia and the CIA confessed to being involved in a conspiracy to kill America’s beloved 35th president. The startling new evidence was uncovered by re­spected author Anthony Summers, who revealed the assassin’s identity in an update to his classic 1998 book on Kennedy’s slaying, “Not In Your Lifetime.” According to Summers, the second rifleman was Herminio Diaz, a hired killer who worked for notorious Mafia boss Santo Trafficante Jr. in Cuba. Diaz executed a Cuban police chief in the late 1940s and likely committed 20 murders in his lifetime. “Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone,” Summers told The ENQUIRER. “There was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy, and the same people who hired Lee Harvey Oswald – whether it was the CIA, the Mafia or Cubans opposed to Fidel Castro – also hired Herminio Diaz.” Diaz arrived in the U.S. in mid-1963, according to CIA documents, just months be­fore Kennedy was struck down in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22 of that year. “Diaz was a professional hit man with a record of political assassina­tions,” Summers said. “He’d also worked for Mafia chief Trafficante as security director of the Hotel Habana Riviera casino in Cuba. “He was in the country at the right time and was involved in the anti-Castro movement. Many people in that movement thought President Kennedy had betrayed them during the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and had a motive to kill him. “Frankly, it all adds up.” According to Summers, Diaz revealed his role in the Kennedy assassination to a friend named Tony Cuesta. The two men were headed to Cuba by boat on an anti-Castro raid in 1966 when Diaz spilled the details on the murder plot. “Diaz and Cuesta talked on the boat while waiting to land in Cuba,” Summers said. “During their conversations, Diaz admitted to Cuesta that he’d taken part in Kennedy’s death.” Diaz was killed in the raid. Afterward, a photo published in a Cuban Communist Party newspaper showed that he was carrying a valid Florida driver’s license and a Social Security card when he died, evidence that he had indeed been in the U.S. His buddy Cuesta was badly injured in the raid, captured and jailed at Cuba’s infamous La Cabana Prison. While being treated at the jail infirmary, Cuesta confided Diaz’s assassination story to another anti-Castro inmate, Cuban Rein­aldo Martinez. After his release from prison, Martinez fled to Miami, and in 2007 he contacted G. Robert Blakey, who’d served as chief counsel of the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations. “Martinez thought he was about to die and wanted to set the record straight,” Blakey told The ENQUIRER. “After speaking with him, I believe he was telling the truth. It wasn’t just Lee Harvey Oswald who killed Kennedy. It was a conspiracy, and Herminio Diaz was the second shooter.” Summers also interviewed Martinez for two days in Miami. “Martinez had nothing to gain by telling his story, except for setting the record straight,” Summers, who videotaped the interview, told The ENQUIRER. “He told me he was close to death and was telling the story because, ‘It is the truth – my truth.’” Kennedy’s brutal slaughter stunned America and prompted his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, to order a thorough investigation of the tragedy. According to the official Warren Commission report on the assassination, Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy. BUT in the famed Zapruder film that shows the presidential motorcade moving through Dealey Plaza, Kennedy is first hit from behind, where Oswald was located in the Texas School Book Depository. After that, it appears that Kennedy was hit from the front at an angle which would indicate a shooter located on the “grassy knoll.” One expert who’s convinced there was a second shooter is world famous medical examiner Cyril H. Wecht, who’s spent decades studying the assassination. “Based on the available medical, physical and photographic evidence, all of which I’ve exam­ined multiple times, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was carried out by two gunmen – not just Lee Harvey Oswald,” Wecht told The ENQUIRER. According to his analysis, Wecht says two gunmen fired four shots, and one assassin was situated at the front of the motorcade. “Based on the initial backward trajectory of the president’s head after being impacted by the gunshot blasts, I believe a shooter operated from the right front of the vehicle behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll,” he said. “Eyewitness accounts corroborate this.” While the Warren Report discounted that scenario, multiple eyewitnesses told the same story to the congressional committee between 1977 and 1979, according to Blakey. “At our hearings, there was lots of testimony that a shot was fired from the grassy knoll,” Blakey, also author of the anti-mob RICO act and professor emeritus of law at Notre Dame, told The ENQUIRER. “I believe there were four shots. The first, second and fourth shots came from the Texas School Book Depository. The third shot came from the grassy knoll. “The committee had everything but the names of the people involved in the conspiracy. Marti­nez’s story has filled in the last pieces of the puzzle. There were two shooters.” According to both Summers and Blakey, Marti­nez approached the FBI to tell his story but was told that the assassination investigation was closed. And Blakey called Summers’ discovery of Diaz’s role in the assassination a “breakthrough of historical importance.” “Summers’ book deserves to be read and taken seriously by all those who care about truth or justice,” he said. Summers added: “I completely believe the stories told by Reinaldo Martinez and Tony Cuesta about Herminio Diaz’s role in the assassination of President Kennedy. “Fifty years after the fact, their information has blown the investigation into the Kennedy assassi­nation wide open!” Robert: The only problem, if you want to call it that, is this is by no means "new information." And I say that with all due respect to Anthony Summers...I have a very strong feeling that the media machine will be in overdrive between today and 11/22/2013....My own response is does the QD cryptonym come into play?....seems like a logical question QDBIAS Pedro Diaz Lanz. 104-10061-10115 (and following page), 104-10260-10178, 104-10260-10168. MFF. QDCHAR Marcos Diaz Lanz, brother of Pedro Diaz Lanz. 104-10177-10039, 104-10260-10061 (these identify Lanz's "201" file number as 201-259716), 104-10167-10132 (associates 201 number with QDCHAR). Note: Herminio Diaz' name pops up on page 10 of the following URL; it is in an Orlando Bosch Villa document....

I don't believe one can properly weigh the proper perspective on this document without recalling the woman...Mary Sims? who ostensibly summoned the Sheriff's Department in Dallas, in the aftermath of the assassination to "pick up" material which belonged to her Cuban boyfriend, that had material linking Oswald and Ruby.....Although I am going by memory, I believe there was a Ruby Communist Party badge, although it may have only been a FPCC badge. This was either the material or documentation in support of provided by Dallas DA Craig Watkins a couple of years ago. My take on this is that it was [the Cuban boyfriend's material] all "manufactured evidence."I would really feel good if the Cuban boyfriend's identity could ever be ascertained.....

I can only speak for myself, but the photo made me think back to the incident of Oswald leaving the court hearing after the fracas (August 9, 1963?) between Carlos Bringuer where Oswald was fined and was detained....WDSU, [i would imagine it was] cameras showed newsreel footage of Oswald walking out of what looked like a drugstore, and as he was about to walk out the door, there were at least three Cuban's, in his path. He walked past them & they looked very unhappy about the fact that they were on camera. I never was able to determine who the Cubans were in the footage, but the photo reminded me of what they might have looked like much later, not all of them, but the one on the far left..... FWIW

For the have's and the have more's...... http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2013/1024/Marina-Oswald-to-sell-wedding-ring-for-100-000 I am very sympathetic to any person who has lived in a fishbowl. At one point she was working in a 7-11, back in the day. After quite some time any student of the assassinations of the 1960's, comes to realize that the intertwining of the famous and infamous to this topic, is to say the least a double edged sword.

A Precursor to the SS Maturata after November 22nd 1963.....methinks so... 11/27/1960 Houston Police, Federal Agents Seize Raw Opium HOUSTON, TX (UPI) Twenty-four pounds of raw opium - one of the largest seizures in the United States has been impounded by T-men and city police. A Pakistani seaman Said Ahmad, 40, is in Harris County jail facing federal charges of illegal possession of the opium. John L. Kelly, agent-in-charge here, of the Federal Narcotics Bureau here, announced the seizure and arrest here. Ahmad, a helmsman on the M. V. Elmbank, is being held on $10,000 bond, set by U. S. Commissioner Ralph Fowler, Saturday. The arrest was the climax of a one year investigation of opium traffic in the Houston area Kelly said. Federal narcotics and customs agents and the Houston police narcotics squadron cooperated in the case. Ahmad was arrested as he sought to board a bus for Beaumont.

I have Jim Gatewood's bio of Decker, Bill, what would you like to know? If your thinking "Does he mention Wean's "story," the answer is no. There is no mention of Audie Murphy, Senator John Tower, et cetera. I used to have Wean's book, I hated it because it was sort of like a minaturized version of Piper's Final Judgement....and a serious overuse of the word Mishapuka. The URL below gets into some of this..... http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread351437/pg1 When I had the book, I searched various databases which are my wont, and found no corroboration for any of the allegations Wean made. The fact that I ditched the book says alot regarding my perspective....FWIW A quote attributed to Jim Hougan about Watergate is, also applicable to the JFK Assassination which is "if one tries to understand Watergate in terms of a single monolithic operation conducted by a team of spooks with a unified goal, it will defy understanding."

The Appendix to Furiati's tome has a page from an article referencing the Trujillo assassination; Costa Rican newspaper La Republico, May 18, 1957, with the headline TRES PISTOLEROS TRUJILLO, with accompanying individual photographs of Herminio Diaz, Jesus Gonzalez Cartas, and Juan Manuel Delgado..... There has to be a "real photo" somewhere, instead of a dupe from a newspaper article over 50 years ago......

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/obituaries/29hargis.html November 29, 2004 Billy James Hargis, 79, Pastor and Anticommunist Crusader, Dies By ROBERT D. McFADDEN The Rev. Billy James Hargis, a fiery evangelist and anticommunist preacher who founded the Christian Crusade and reached millions in an international ministry that used radio, television, books, pamphlets and personal appearances, died on Saturday at a nursing home in Tulsa, Okla. He was 79. Mr. Hargis, who had Alzheimer's disease, died at St. Simeon's Episcopal Home, where he had lived since last July, said his daughter, Becky Jean Frank. No cause of death was listed, Ms. Frank said. At the height of his popularity in the 1960's and 1970's, Mr. Hargis - a shouting, arm-waving, 270-pound elemental force whom Oklahomans called a "bawl and jump" preacher - broadcast sermons daily or weekly on 500 radio stations and 250 television stations, mainly in the South, and in other countries. He traveled almost constantly to deliver his Christian and anticommunist messages, wrote 100 books and thousands of articles and pamphlets, and published a monthly newspaper. Mr. Hargis, who began preaching as a teenager and later abandoned life as a pastor to engage in what became a lifelong crusade against communism, first gained international prominence in 1953, when he went to West Germany and sent aloft thousands of balloons bearing Biblical passages in hopes of reaching the people of Eastern Europe. Throughout the 1950's and 1960's, he organized and spoke at rallies across America, allying himself with the Rev. Carl McIntire, retired Gen. Edwin A. Walker and other anticommunist crusaders. In 1966, he established the David Livingston Missionary Foundation, which ran medical clinics and orphanages in Asia and Africa, and in 1970 he founded and became president of the American Christian Crusade College in Tulsa. Mr. Hargis appeared to be on his way to rivaling the Rev. Billy Graham and other major evangelists of his time. But his ministry and his following began to diminish after a series of reverses, including a long fight with the Internal Revenue Service that led in 1964 to the cancellation of tax-exempt status for his $1 million-a-year anticommunist Christian Crusade, for "political activities." Another case produced a landmark court decision and sharply cut Mr. Hargis's broadcasting empire. He was accused by Fred J. Cook, a journalist, of unfairly maligning him in a radio broadcast. Mr. Cook sought free air time to reply under the Federal Communications Commission's fairness doctrine. A radio station in Red Lion, Pa., sued, saying its First Amendment rights would be violated. But the Supreme Court in 1969 upheld the constitutionality of the fairness doctrine, and many stations thereafter were less inclined to broadcast controversial programs. In 1974, after Mr. Hargis was accused of having sexual relations with students of both sexes, he resigned as president of the college he had founded. He denied the accusations at the time and in a 1986 autobiography, "My Great Mistake," which was published by the Christian Crusade. Billy James Hargis was born on Aug. 3, 1925, in Texarkana, Tex., and was adopted by Jimmie Earsel Hargis and Laura Lucille Hargis. He graduated from Texarkana High School and attended the Ozark Bible College in Bentonville, Ark., but dropped out to become a preacher. At 18, he was ordained a minister in the Disciples of Christ denomination, and became a pastor at several churches in Oklahoma and Missouri. But in the early 1950's, he gave that up to become a radio preacher, and soon developed a passion for anticommunism that blended easily with his Christian sermons. As his charges of harboring communists widened to include government, business, labor, entertainment, cultural and charitable institutions and religious organizations, the Disciples of Christ dropped him as an accredited minister in 1957. By then, however, his crusade had grown into print and television media and was thriving. While his audience later faded, his message essentially remained unchanged. He continued to serve as the director of the Christian Crusade Ministries until last summer, when his son, Billy James Hargis II, took over. Besides his son, a Houston resident, and his daughter, Becky, of Tulsa, Mr. Hargis is survived by his wife, Betty Jane, whom he married in 1951; two daughters, Bonnie Jane Choisnard and Brenda Jo Epperley, both of Tulsa; 11 grandchildren; and 4 great-grandchildren. Genealogy is the great unknown of the JFK assassination.....

I tend to agree that Abraham Isaac Goldberg is more than likely still with us... Nevertheless, there are some interesting factoids about the Goldberg surname, and its place in American History.....first off I want to be very clear that I completely and utterly despise the people who hate Jewish persons....So I am posting this for informational purposes only..... That whole ilk of so called American's who hate Jewish persons, African-American's, Italians, Catholics et cetera, have a great deal of responsibility for the degeneration of our culture, and which promotes hate and division.....I do not subscribe to the belief that any group, which can be summed up in a single word, surname, or organization "Killed Kennedy" Enough Said..... Continuing You definitely need to be aware of Warren Commission Document 1399, A. I. Goldberg was knee deep in Oswald's arrival in the Soviet Union, along with Priscilla McMillan. See link https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=11794&relPageId=2 Pardon moi.....but here are some excerpts.... July 31 1964 A.I Goldberg Correspondent Associated press (APB 50 Rockefeller Center New York New York) was contacted by Special Agents of the Federal bureau of Investigation in an effort to determine Lee Harvey Oswald Oswald replied that he did not know the language but that he could learn and that he would "make out" Goldberg stated that Oswald did not want to have his picture taken.... ....explained that AP usually monitors all foreign language broadcasts Goldberg stated that he did not know a Lev Setyaev associated with the North American section of Radio Moscow. I would keep in mind PD Scotts' "negative template" regarding that last sentence...but that's just me.... more... GOLDBERG, ABRAHAM ISAAC Sources: WC Vol 26, p. 99; CE 2719; CD 1399; CIA 624-823 Mary's Comments: Associated Press correspondent in Moscow. Interviewed LHO Oct 1959. By 1964, he is with AP at United Nations, New York. Robert: This JFK document below when you go inside reveals nothing but the words of the person cited 1993.08.05.14:17:54:750006 FILE CARD - ABRAHAM ISAAC GOLDBERG Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA) - July 10, 1997 Deceased Name: ABRAHAM GOLDBERG , QUARTER CLOTHIER, DIES Abraham Jacob Goldberg, whose Decatur Street store was the source of clothing for generations of New Orleans men and boys, died Wednesday at Touro Infirmary. He was 95. Mr. Goldberg was born in Poland and lived in New Orleans for the past 75 years. For years, Mr. Goldberg was one of many merchants who made a living in the French Quarter. With his father and brothers, he operated I. Goldberg & Sons on Decatur Street, serving workers on the riverfront and in breweries and other industries in the Quarter. Mr. Goldberg's father, Isaac, came to New Orleans from Poland in 1910. In 1920, Isaac Goldberg brought his wife and three children to America. In 1922, he opened his first clothing store in New Orleans at 1119 Decatur. When an Army surplus store at 925 Decatur closed down, the Goldberg family moved their store there, living in spartan quarters on the second floor for a while. In 1927, Mr. Goldberg joined his father and brother, Israel, working in the shop, which was kept open seven days a week to build up the business. In later years, as the character of the French Quarter changed, the store's stock of men's work clothes decreased as T-shirts and other items geared to the tourist trade came to predominate. Mr. Goldberg retired in the early 1980s; his brother kept the store open for another 10 years. Mr. Goldberg was gabbai emeritus of Congregation Beth Israel and a member of B'nai B'rith and the Jewish Community Center. Survivors include a son, Myron S. Goldberg; a daughter, Shirley Ruth Goldberg Hecklin of Philadelphia; a brother, Israel Goldberg; a sister, Rae G. Smolensky; and four grandchildren. A graveside service will be held today at 2 p.m. at Beth Israel Cemetery, 4321 Frenchmen St. Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. END Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA) - April 11, 2004 Deceased Name: Emanuel Goldberg , journalist and activist, dies HARWICH - Emanuel Goldberg, a decorated World War II veteran, journalist and dedicated civil rights activist, died Friday at the Cranberry Pointe Rehabilitation Center. He was 83. From 1986 to 2001, Goldberg, who lived in Harwich and later moved to West Barnstable, was a columnist for the Cape Cod Times. One of his most popular offerings each year was his New Year's column containing predictions on coming events, as well as a look back at his forecast record for the past year. "He always poked fun at himself," recalled his son, film director Daniel Adams, who also lives in West Barnstable. "People took great interest in his prognostications and on his hits and misses," remembered former Cape Cod Times Editor William Breisky. "His predictions column is probably his best remembered." Goldberg was known to many colleagues and friends as Manny. "I remember many, many times Manny coming into the newsroom with a great smile. I remember him as consistently positive, warm and buoyant," he said. Goldberg was born in Lynn, graduated from Boston University and earned a master's in journalism from the University of Wisconsin. He also did work on a doctorate in government at Harvard University. During World War II, Goldberg served as a captain in the Army in the China-Burma-India theater, and was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery and the Purple Heart. He was also the last editor-in-chief and business manager of the Stars and Stripes Magazine, and served as the chief press censor for the CBI theater of the war. Following the war, he worked as a Washington correspondent for Newsweek covering the White House and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He later worked as speechwriter, along with the late Elliot Richardson, for then-presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower. Massachusetts Gov. Christian A. Herter asked Goldberg to be his press secretary, a post he held from 1952 to 1956 during Herter's two terms in office. He was Boston University's news director from 1956 to 1964, and from 1964 to 1969 was dean of planning and development at Brandeis University. From 1969 until his retirement in 1985, he was president of the Arthur Monks Associates public relations firm in Boston, during which time he personally worked on the opening of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. He was also a lecturer at Boston University's College of Communication from 1969 through 1987. In 1972, President Nixon asked him to serve as Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Goldberg declined. "My dad thought he didn't want to work for someone like that. One of his biggest themes in life was integrity in government," Adams said. Although a lifelong Republican, Adams said his father always referred to himself as a "Lincoln Republican." A strong advocate of civil rights, Goldberg served on the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in the 1950s, and chaired the Boston Mayor's Committee for Civic Unity during the civil unrest in the 1960s. He organized the Rev. Martin Luther King's first official visit to Boston during that time, and received death threats at his home, his son recalled. Goldberg also became the first white member of the Boston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. During his other careers after the war, he regularly produced articles, columns and book reviews for various publications, including the Cape Cod Times. He also served on a number of boards of trustees for various organizations. In 1985, Goldberg received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University, and his professional papers were acquired by the university's Mugar Library, along with those of King and Dan Rather, for its contemporary history collection. Goldberg is survived by his wife, Paula M. Goldberg; a son, Daniel R. Adams; and three grandchildren. He was also the father of the late Betsy Rae Waldron. A funeral service will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, followed by burial at the cemetery. more San Jose Mercury News (CA) - January 23, 1990 Deceased Name: FORMER JUSTICE ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG IS BURIED NEAR GRAVE OF EARL WARREN With the late-afternoon sun casting long shadows at Arlington National Cemetery, former Justice Arthur J. Goldberg was buried Monday beside his wife and near the grave of Chief Justice Earl Warren, under whom he served on the Supreme Court. Retired Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and six of the eight associate justices were among mourners at private Jewish services in the Fort Myer Memorial Chapel, but did not go to the grave site. Lt. Cmdr. Eric S. Renne, an Air Force chaplain, presented the flag from the casket to Justice Goldberg's son, Robert Goldberg of Anchorage, Alaska. By Robert Goldberg's side was his sister, Barbara Goldberg Cramer of Chicago. Justice Goldberg's wife, Dorothy, died in February 1988. Their grave site lies between that of Warren and that of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in a hilltop area of the cemetery across the Potomac River from Washington. Justice Goldberg and his wife were entitled to burial in Arlington because of his service as an Air Force colonel. Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz conducted the graveside service, an Air Force firing party fired three volleys and Air Force Staff Sgt. Joel C. Guyton played taps. Justices John Paul Stevens and Anthony Kennedy did not attend. Retired Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. was also absent. Powell and Burger are the only surviving retired members of the court. Justice Goldberg, who served on the high court from 1962 until his resignation in 1965 to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, died of coronary artery disease Friday at his home in Washington. He was 81. He came to Washington as President John F. Kennedy's first secretary of labor in 1961 after a career as a union lawyer. Kennedy named him to the Supreme Court on the retirement of the ailing Justice Felix Frankfurter. He left the court when President Johnson persuaded him to accept the United Nations post left vacant by the death of Adlai E. Stevenson. Johnson appointed Abe Fortas to succeed him on the court. Mr. Goldberg resigned from the U.N. position in 1968, and was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for governor of New York against incumbent Republican Nelson Rockefeller in 1970. He practiced law in Washington and served on public commissions and as an arbitrator until shortly before his death. end San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - February 13, 1995 Deceased Name: Irving L. Goldberg Judge Irving L. Goldberg, a friend and adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson and one of the federal judiciary's strongest links to the civil rights era, died Saturday at his home in Dallas. He was 88 and died of complications of a long-standing neurological disorder, family members said. Johnson appointed him to the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans in 1966. Judge Goldberg remained there until his death. In nearly 29 years on the appellate court, he ruled on issues ranging from school desegregation to Cold War- era loyalty oaths and public school financing. Judge Goldberg was born June 29, 1906, in Port Arthur, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas and, before his 23rd birthday, from Harvard Law School. He first met Johnson, a friend of his wife's uncle, in the early 1930s. A decade later, during World War II, Johnson, by then a congressman, got Judge Goldberg, who was working as an officer in the Navy, assigned to the staff of the House Committee on Naval Affairs. In 1950, Judge Goldberg was one of the founders of the law firm now known as Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. One of his partners was Robert S. Strauss, later chairman of the Democratic National Committee and an ambassador to Russia. While practicing law, Judge Goldberg was active in several civil rights and Jewish organizations. On Nov. 22, 1963, a few hours after the assassination of President Kennedy, when Johnson sought an explanation of the laws of succession, he called Judge Goldberg at his home. He is survived by two daughters, Nancy Todes and Julie Lowenberg; and five grandchildren. more.... Evening Tribune (San Diego, CA) - January 20, 1990 Deceased Name: Arthur Goldberg , former justice, remembered as 'a man of dignity' WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The death of Arthur Joseph Goldberg, whose resignation from the Supreme Court 25 years ago can be seen as the beginning of the court's shift to the right, was mourned today as a "grievous loss to the nation." Goldberg, the former Kennedy administration labor secretary and onetime U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was found dead in his Washington apartment yesterday afternoon. He was 81. Goldberg, who built a legal and political career around labor law, had been reported ill and canceled plans to come to a celebration at the Supreme Court on Tuesday to mark the bicentennial of the high court's first session in 1790. Justice William Brennan, who served on the bench with Goldberg and was a close friend, called Goldberg's death "a grievous loss" to the nation. "He was very human, a man of dignity and courtly bearing, punctilious, courteous, cultivated, a superb host," Brennan said, adding, "It is a mistake to suppose that such traits describe a stuffy man. ... He was a delightful, stimulating companion." Retired Chief Justice Warren Burger said he had been "warm friends" with Goldberg for nearly 40 years and praised his long career. "As a justice of the Supreme Court, he was a balanced and thoughtful jurist," Burger said. Goldberg was named to the court by President John Kennedy in 1962, moving from his post as head of the Labor Department to replace Justice Felix Frankfurter. While Goldberg sat on the high court for just three years, he regarded it as the high point of a long and active career. Despite Goldberg's short tenure, his appointment brought historic change to the court, then headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren. Goldberg was the crucial fifth vote to solidify a liberal majority on the court that led to a virtual revolution in constitutional law. He stepped down in 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson asked him to become ambassador to the United Nations -- a move in which he gave up a lifetime appointment to the nation's most prestigious legal position in exchange for a transient foreign policy assignment. Just as his presence solidified the liberal majority, Goldberg's departure was one link in a chain of events that led to the eventual appointment of Burger as chief justice and the shift of the court to the right -- a quarter-century transition that has continued to the present day. Goldberg was born Aug. 8, 1908, in Chicago, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He grew up on Chicago's West Side, worked his way through college and earned a law degree from Northwestern University. He set up a private law practice in Chicago and began working with labor unions. During World War II, Goldberg worked with the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the CIA, and set up a network of labor activists in occupied countries that spied on the Nazis. Returning from the war, he worked as counsel for several labor unions. Two leading labor leaders -- John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations -- took a liking to Goldberg. The young lawyer played a major role in bringing the American Federation of Labor and the CIO together in a merged organization. Goldberg also was instrumental in convincing labor leaders to endorse Kennedy's run for the presidency, and Kennedy named him secretary of labor in 1960. more.... Dallas Morning News, The (TX) - February 15, 1988 Deceased Name: DOROTHY K. GOLDBERG , ARTIST AND AUTHOR, DIES NEW YORK -- Artist and author Dorothy Kurgans Goldberg, wife of former Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, has died at the age of 79. Mrs. Goldberg died of lung cancer Saturday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, said hospital spokeswoman Ellen Watson. The couple lived in Washington. Mrs. Goldberg was well-known as an artist and a writer. Her feminist novel The Creative Woman was published in 1963. She also wrote A Private View of a Public Life and a story for children, Lola and the Moving Stairs. She recently completed the manuscript of a fourth book, about international negotiations on human rights. A painter for most of her life, Mrs. Goldberg had her work exhibited in several one-person shows. In the late 1940s she helped found the Associated Artists Gallery in Washington. In 1977-78 she served as a U.S. delegate to the Belgrade Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which reviewed the Helsinki human rights accords. She was born in St. Louis and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1932, the year after she married Goldberg. Goldberg served on the Supreme Court from 1962 to 1965, when he became U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Goldberg is survived by a son and a daughter. might want to see this http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goldman-gomulka.html it always includes a trip back to Cook county Birth: 1876 Greater London, England Death: Jan. 12, 1957 Chicago Cook County Illinois, USA Abraham Goldberg was the father of Harry, Charles, Lenny and Ruth. He was of Russian decent born in England. Came to USA in 1904 on the New York left from Southampton England. Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery Forest Park Cook County Illinois, USA Plot: Section Violet Block 9 Lot 9 Created by: corey glick Record added: Sep 05, 2001 Find A Grave Memorial# 5738904 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Goldberg&GSfn=A+&GSmn=I&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=5738904&df=all&

I am very familiar with Walt Brown's work, and consider him, to borrow an old phrase, he is "Aces!" see google books The People V. Lee Harvey Oswald. The great thing about Walt Brown is out of all researchers, he seems to have detailed knowledge of all of the 1555 Warren Commission documents, John Armstrong is also in that category. I should know because I have been working on an analysis of all 1,555 documents myself. There are names that have never even been broached in these stories within a story, as I would put it. FWIW

I believe it is too soon to tell for sure, but the "official" conspiracy theory for the 50th anniversary may have received some impetus from 2011's - Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence. Bill James, the one and the same as the guru of the Bill James Baseball Historical Abstract & Sabremetrics, endorsed Menninger's pablum of the Secret Service agent accidentally shooting JFK as his favorite version of the Kennedy assassination. Apparently taking on the Kennedy assassination wasn't enough, he also embroiled himself in the Penn State - Paterno/Sandusky pedophile scandal, not exactly a good career move. The LA Times review of his book stated "Since high school, in addition to demolishing conventional wisdom with his annual "Baseball Abstract," James has apparently been inhaling true-crime books like, well, a maniac. The result, dressed up with the defensively cerebral title "Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence," may just be the hastiest book it ever took a man 20 years to write. "Reflections" is putting matters generously. "Observations" comes closer; "Jottings" would just about nail it." And they call us conspiracy theorists......

Lawrence Meyers, David Ferrie and Jean Aase & Delaware Towers seems there is more to the story...... I am sure we all remember......... A link between alleged assassination conspirators David Ferrie and Jack Ruby? Phone Factoid: Tortured Connection by Dave Reitzes http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/factoid.htm Did Jean Aase receive the call? Despite whatever Jim Garrison or G. Robert Blakey may claim, the telephone number in question, WH 4-4970, was not Jean Aase's phone number. Dialing WH 4-4970 connected one to the main desk of the apartment building at 20 East Delaware Street, the Chicago building where Aase lived in Room 1405 in 1963.(19) There were 146 apartments at Delaware Towers, plus an unknown number of telephone extensions for employees.(20) Now read the following.... Home/Archive/Documents/JFK Assassination Documents/JFK Documents - Central Intelligence Agency/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm)/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 54: Maheu - Merola, Cobb, Ramon)/ NARA Record Number: 104-10219-10255 CI PROJECT - WATCH LIST/ZRGRACE IDENTITIES FOR INCLUSION IN PROJECT COVERAGE - REVISED https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48447 https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48447&relPageId=5 BENNETT, Prof. Blair M. - Former Supervisor and listed reference of above, also in contact with, if not co-worker of Prof. Josephine UNGE, nee McBroom BENELLO, Charles George - former Navy buddy and ex-business partner aka BENELLO George Charles of above while in Japan aka BENELLO C. George address: 1607 Milmia Street, Berkley 9, California (as of 1960) c/o Katherine LYTTON aka Katherine BENELLO, Delaware Towers Apt. Hotel 25 Kent, Delaware Place, Chicago Illinois Although the above is just a portion of the document, Delaware Towers seems to have had some overtones of being a very strange place back in that day. Suffice to say the above document would have been nice to know about when this thread first started....

From another Forum http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4654 Ron Payne: Now being a resident of the south end of Fort Worth, I find myself emminently qualified to quote its history... OK, maybe not, but an interesting bit of trivia - Lee Harvey Oswald lived at 2703 Mercedes St. in Fort Worth from about July to October of 1962, before moving on to his appointment with history. Looking at Google street view, it appears to be a nice house on the property now, but it was apparently a run down duplex at the time he lived there with his wife. more....: Mercedes Avenue in Fort Worth, or Mercedes Street in Benbrook? That would be 2703 Mercedes Ave., right by Montgomery Plaza. Currently a vacant lot with just an old driveway apron.

There is another more peripheral matter that, while it doesn't concern the flight from Dallas, concerns the White House Situation Room or White House Communications Agency would ostensibly monitoring future developments. Its regarding Jim Martin in the MFF Chronologies and the assertion that "straight line installed from James H. Martin's home residential address 11611 Farrar, Dallas, DA7-6569 to White House Communications, Washington, 25, D.C., DA7-8876 Noted on 12/3/63 letter of DPD correspondence [TAG5:M3]" Robert TAG stands for Texas Attorney General...... If true, wouldn't that seem a little bit skewed, as they say? see http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=40393&relPageId=92

Instead of updating some of the material I have been gathering, [as I am not finished] I thought this was as topical as anything else going on around lately, no offense intended. ...See the Section Is The Union Corse Still Around These Days? http://z14.invisionfree.com/GangstersInc/ar/t24.htm Also see page 232 of the Security File on Frank Sturgis https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=104140 I also have an interest..... If anyone knows more about the "Vaccaro Brothers Steamship Company" their input would be appreciated. ** Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA) - March 20, 1992 Deceased Name: Salvador "Tudie" Carollo Salvador "Tudie" Carollo, a retired sales manager with Vaccaro Brothers Steamship Co., died Wednesday at his home. He was 87. Mr. Carollo was born in New Orleans and lived in Arabi for many years. For 45 years before his retirement, he was employed at Vaccaro Brothers Steamship Co., which later became Standard Fruit and Steamship Co. and is now Dole Fresh Fruit Co. He is survived by his wife, Mamie Locascio Carollo; two sons, Michael and Salvador "Sammy" Carollo; a daughter, Sarah Serio; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. A Mass will be said today at 2 p.m. at St. Bernard Memorial Chapel, 3710 Paris Road in Chalmette. Burial will be in St. Bernard Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

Nevermind......Found the link.

Does anybody have the phone log, or a URL for the phone log of the phone records of the law firm of Gill, Bernstein, Schreiber and Gill from (March 1962-November 1963)? The main number was 524-0147 and the unpublished line was 288-4648. Both lines were available to all the people in the office, which included Ferrie, Gill, Bernstein, Schreiber and Gill, and several interns, secretaries and investigators. These records show only toll calls, not local calls. Three years after the assassination, on January 4, 1967, secretary Alice Guidroz went through the monthly bills and drew a line through any call she could identify as Gill's, and turned them over to Jim Garrison's office.

With the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy approaching, I have a valid reason for wanting to bring back this thread. The "interesting JFK Books thread" would have been more logical to place some of this material. But I have my own reasons for placing the aforementioned here. The "French connection" to the JFK assassination is an area where the shooters who targeted de Gaulle prior to the JFK Assassination, and afterwards were real people not shadowy figures nobody knew. Historians have documented these activities which commonly centered around members of the OAS and the Algerian crisis. The latter was to de Gaulle what the Bay of Pigs was for Kennedy. Lt. Colonel Bastien-Thiry personified the attitude of many in the French military regarding their feeling that de Gaulle sold them out [he was initially against Algerian independence, but saw the writing on the wall for the colonial rule of not just France, but for Great Britain and Belgium]. Ironically, it was my study of the Galveston heroin transaction which led me to read Target de Gaulle: The true story of the 31 Attempts on the life of the French President Pierre Demaret & Christian Plume Dial Press - 1969 This is a book which, with only a few exceptions everyone has missed the boat on, including myself. If you think you know everything about the JFK assassination and haven't read this book, you are deluding yourself. I would go as far as saying that if Demaret is alive, really don't know. The people who are at the forefront of the research community should be on the horn.

LEE, V.T. "Ted", formerly of Tampa, was born August 11, 1927, and passed Oct. 28, 2012 in Berkley Calif. Ted was a lifelong Political, Civil Rights & Enviromental Activist. Predeceased by Marjorie Speece Lee who loved him dearly. Survived by daughters Victoria Fox, Kathleen Bristol & Cynthia Konold; 7 grandchildren & many great-grandchildren. Also Ena Luz Vizciano the love of his life. Bicoastal services to be planned. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tbo/obituary.aspx?pid=161368832# I would urge anyone to read, or re-read Commission Document 69, you will discover what P.D. Scott was so fond of referencing the Dallas/New Orleans/Florida triangle. Although New Orleans in this particular document, not so much.....

One constant in the study of history is that "facts change our knowledge of history." I ran across a more than slightly unusual news story from the Dallas Morning News dated February 26, 1947. Written some sixteen years before the assassination of JFK, the article entitled Chatterbox is a "Hollywood goings on" type of affair. It has some rather interesting facts, or allegations, depending on how one chooses to spin it; about Inga Arvad. Those who read the piece will be left to draw their own conclusions. pl_009082013_1729_23853_402.pdf The pertinent passage reads...... Inga Arvad sometime Hollywood columnist for The News has been married "for quite a while" to Tim McCoy cowboy film star, it was disclosed Tuesday. How is it that this aspect of Inga Arvad never made it into one of those character assassination books on JFK?

This document might be pertinent....It is from circa July, 1966..... https://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=62388&relPageId=90

So Nick Beef owns the plot next to Lee Harvey Oswald..... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/10/us/mystery-from-the-grave-beside-oswalds-solved.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0 Interesting, sort of....