James DiEugenio

FRUS is invaluable, I agree. Interesting about Derrick Thomas. Thanks. I think that more than one factor was the reason for JFK's murder, but as time goes on, I tend towards Indochina as paramount.

It was more than that, it was over 300 K according to my sources. But Paula if you do not mind, what were some of the ideas that Lifton developed that led to your separation? I did hear that he maintained that Jackie got out of the car en route to Parkland.? DId he really think that?

This is Jeff Carter's latest and it uses Fletcher's own words to describe how he knew about NSAM 263, and his thoughts on how it was altered. In that sense it is original. It is truly incredible how the MSM missed this story so completely. And how only very few people in the critical community, like Scott, were on to it I am one of those who thinks this was simply integral to what happened to JFK. https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/prouty-on-vietnam-nsam-263-and-273-60-years-on

Boy is that interesting Paula. Were you working for or with Lifton? That is was he paying you or did you volunteer? And how long did it last?

The Bobby Kennedy of 1968 made his brother look like a moderate. A good book on this is The Revolution of Robert Kennedy by John Bohrer.

Lowenstein was a Yale educated lawyer who started and ran the Dump Johnson movement. He tried to get RFK to run against LBJ but Bobby turned him down. So he went to McCarthy. Contrary to popular belief, Bobby changed his mind before the New Hampshire primary. It was probably due to Tet. After RFK was killed, Lowenstein became one of the first high profile advocates that there was a conspiracy involved. He wrote an article, IIRC, in Saturday Review that got some attention.

Is that not an incredible episode? I mean that could not be a a coincidence.

Yes Ron that is where Joe McBride got that title. And that is why people like Salandria were suspicious of Epstein from the get go. Vince was a lawyer, there is not political truth in a homicide case.

She knows that case as well if not better than anyone. Although have to read the John Hunt book, did not even know it was out.

I still think the point I brought up about Epstein is a valid one. That is, did he turn, or was he not kosher from the beginning? I mean how do you go from being a Commission critic to cooperating with FBI informant Larry Schiller to blast the critics in less than a year? And also calling someone like Lane a demonologist? If he knew that Specter told the Commission that it was either the Magic Bullet or look for a second shooter, then that is not a kind of innocent explanation for negligence. And why did he keep it secret for so long?

Film of the extra bullet holes in the pantry. (I should note that Shane said he had seen this already.)

When people are opening doors for you at the FBI and the CIA. And you have people like Allison and Bush in your corner. I think so.

Whatever one thinks of the Gannon memo, Trump used it to delay release twice. And Andrew showed how above, as NARA obeyed it. Mark Adamczyk showed in his article that I posted that the Gannon memo is likely illegal. But that did not matter to Trump, the FBI or the CIA. Here is my question: where was Tunheim? Or maybe the next challenge should come in his court?

Its Holland McCombs. This is interesting because McCombs was the guy who was overseeing the Life magazine inquiry into the JFK case. The one that Thompson talks about at length in his book Last Second in Dallas. But here he is, at the outset, conversing with Mr. Cover Up artist about ways to sandbag it. To anyone objective this would show that maybe the reinquiry was not meant to be one from the start. I mean if the guy running it is in contact with flotsam like Hugh? McCombs ended up canning the two best investigators on the case that he had, Kern and Thompson. And the article Life published was so weak that it was essentially a blip on the screen. But even at that, they let Specter reply to it in the same issue. By this time McCombs had also been in contact with Clay Shaw and they exchanged a few letters. The fact that McCombs did this to Life and John McCloy did what he did at CBS shows just how compromised the MSM was on the JFK case.

Hard to believe that a local Fox affiliate would put this up, it is essentially a long form about the true circumstances of RFK's death. Plus they filled it out with pictures and illustrations.

Here is Part 3:

Here is Part 2 for you:

I talked to Rachel Rendish today. Very knowledgeable about Hugh. She told me that he was one of the most frequent guests on KERA in Dallas about JFK. Why is that odd? Because that is the PBS outlet there. She also told me that the late Wallace Milam made a video out of the Holland McCombs archives at U of Tennessee. In it was a receipt by Life to Aynseworth for his stealing of the so called Oswald Diary and selling it to them. A deal Marina was cut out of. She showed my article to someone who was going to the Aynseworth memorial. When the wife of the program director at KERA saw it she got really angry.

MK :ITS HARD TO THINK OF "FAR FETCHED BELIEFS " WITHOUT THE H AND L THEORY Not hard at all. David LIfton's theory of body interception and alteration. All the bullets came from the front and they surgically altered Kennedy's corpse to make it look like they came from the rear. David Lifton's theory of Zapruder film alteration which goes back to Murder from Within. Almost any installment of Nigel Turner's series which went on for years e.g. the LIggett undertaker angle which he was sued on, the metal detection images, Judy Baker etc etc How many do you want? There are literally scores of them out there.

Ben: Just remember, 2 million budget back then. Today, that is about ten million. For a JFK assassination book?

The other point I was trying to accent was: how quickly Epstein flipped. Inquest was published in January of 1966. And Clay Felker gave it a big blast off at his house, many celebrities there. And it got attention in the press. It was mostly well reviewed. But yet, by the end of the year, Epstein has gone over and is cooperating with the likes of Richard Warren Lewis and FBI fink Larry Schiller. He is on their record album accompanying that horrible book, The Scavengers and Critics of the Warren Report. Then, he does not show up as part of the Boston debate team with Salandria. But he does approach him later and they have that strange conversation which I took from John Kelin's fine book, Praise from a Future Generation. Where Epstein says to Vince that he has changed. That debate was in November of 1966. And then of course he goes to work on the smear job on Jim Garrison. In light of the record, there are two schools of thought on Epstein and the JFK case. For whatever reason, he turned in late 1966. I mean when you are cavorting around with the lawyers for Clay Shaw, and Jack Ruby and Gordon Novel, and your end product is put out by the CIA as an example of how to counter the critics, then you have changed your ways. The other school is that Epstein was not really ever a critic, because his first book seemed to tolerate the concept of Political Truth. And very soon after he called critics like Mark Lane "demonologists". He even accused Lane of sending a burglar to his house to steal a document. (This turned out to be untrue as Lane already had it from Salandria.) But on top of that he was, by the seventies, firmly in the Oswald did it camp. As can be seen by the conclusion of Legend. He even supports the forensic conclusions of the HSCA! Which is nutty. I mean Guinn, Canning, Baden? They have all turned out to be jokes. For myself, I really don't know which is the answer. If you forced me at gunpoint, I would probably vote for the latter. On the grounds that he hid Specter's reply to him about how he convinced the rest of the Commission into the SBT. Specter told Epstein that he simply showed them the Z film in slow motion and said, "We either go with the Magic Bullet, or we start looking for a second shooter." To my knowledge he did not reveal this until the 21st century.

The importance of the letter is it indicates the kind of connections and backing that Epstein had and could use to pressure Lord to talk to him against his will. These were real and they really bothered Lord. If you look on page 622 of The Assassination Chronicles, it does not look like Lord consented to an interview since it is not noted in Epstein's sources section. And Readers' Digest used their own connections to the FBI and the CIA. A 2 million dollar book budget was huge back then.

On the passing of Edward Epstein, and his rather odd career in the JFK field. How does anyone get a half million advance for a book on the JFK case? And why and how can anyone switch positions as fast as Epstein did? These and other mysteries are noted below. https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/edward-epstein-the-critic-who-flipped

If NARA had the powers the ARRB had, then why did they not overrule the Gannon Memo? That memo was an alteration of the law was it not?

Harry Connick was a poor excuse for a DA. He had a tendency to ignore the Brady rule and was sued over this more than once. John Volz, who worked under both Garrison and Connick, once told me that the latter could not convict someone if his name was on the bullet. We all know what he did with the files in Garrison's office, he set them aflame. And the clincher is the Dino Cinel pedophilia case. Look that one up if you want to get nausea.