James DiEugenio

Now, let us take a look at the other side of the transaction: the official story for Oswald ordering the rifle. As Bill Kelly points out, Oswald was working at JCS at this time. JCS billed their clients by using time cards. Oswald worked on nine jobs that day until 12:15 AM. (Armstrong, Harvey and Lee p. 450) By the markings on the envelope the money order had to be purchased before noon. So either these time cards are fakes and JCS way lying to its customers, or Oswald did not leave work that day in time to mail the money order.

Thanks Bob. Just getting started.

Now, when Holmes testified to Wesley Liebeler, he lied and said that Oswald could have written down a name on the box form, and that person could have picked up the rifle. Here is my question: If we go by Mr. Ralph Rea, and not the lying Harry Holmes, would not Oswald have had to prove he was Hidell? In other words, since the box was not in Hidell's name, Oswald would have had to have shown he also went by Hidell, right? And would not something like that have gone up to the immediate supervisor? And you are going to say that no one in the post office remembered that either? Even when it was revealed in the news that Oswald used the alias Hidell in New Orleans and in Dallas to order the rifle? And let us stay with this absurdity. How did the FBI know about the Hidell alias? Through Oswald!! When Oswald was arrested in New Orleans, he called for the FBI to interview him. (Think about that one a minute. An arrested communist wants to be interviewed by the FBI.) Oswald wanted DeBrueys, but Quigley showed up. Quigley picked up a lot of the stuff confiscated by Martello from Oswald. One of these things was the FPCC card with the Hidell alias on it. Now, recall, this is August. And Oswald understood what Quigley was doing since he spent over an hour with him. (What did they talk about, what life was like in the USSR?) So Oswald knew that the New Orleans FBI had this card. In other words, he knows that the alias will trace right back to him in FBI files! What he was too cheap to buy a different rifle to shoot Kennedy with? Oswald had an IQ of about 112. He was not an idiot. But yet this is the kind of junk the WC wants us to buy. Your kryptonite is back Davey. You should not have called me a clown.

Again, working backwards: The official story says that Oswald picked up the rifle at his PO box on an unknown date. Except, this would have been highly improbable. Why? Because the rifle was not ordered in Oswald's name. The official story has the rifle ordered under the alias Hidell. This created an enormous problem for the WC. See, there was a postal regulation that said mail could not be delivered to a PO box unless the mail matched the box holder's name. Therefore, under this regulation, the rifle should have been returned to Klein's marked "addessee unknown". How does the WR dodge this one? Through lies and alteration of evidence. Harry Holmes, an FBI informant, was called by the WC to say the regulation only applied to mail and not merchandise. The problem was he showed up with no regulation book or regulation citation in his hands to prove this was so. (Reclaiming Parkland, p. 61) If it was so, would he not have cited such a source, and would not the Commission have brought in like say the Postmaster General to testify to this exception? But the FBI , who coordinated the witness agendas and supplied background info on them, knew they could trust Holmes. And boy did Harry lie his head off for them. He also said that Oswald probably allowed for someone else to pick up mail for him. That would have been marked down in Part 3 of the box application form. The only problem with Harry saying that was this: there was no part 3 available. So Harry told another lie. He said that that it was SOP to dispose of those applications once the box expired. And the WR repeats this lie. (see page 121) How bad was the WC? This bad. Young Stewart Galanor wrote a letter to the post office HQ in Washington in 1966. A man named Ralph Rea wrote back and said that in all post office branches in 1963 no one should get mail not addressed to him; and that the mail application in all parts should be retained for two years after the box was closed. Further, that delivery receipts for firearms and statements by shippers of firearms should be held for four years. (See Galanor, Cover Up, Documents 37-38) Just how bad of a perjurer was Holmes? And just how bad was the FBI? Regarding the latter, the FBI knew that the box application did not include permission for anyone else to get mail from Oswald's box in Dallas. (Reclaiming Parkland,p. 61) Concerning the former, after his death, Holmes' family contacted JFK Lancer Group. They apologized for what he did and tried to chalk it up to the pressures of the Cold War. (ibid)

Let us start backwards. That always helps in this case because it sets off the evidence more dramatically. In this case, for Oswald to have ordered the rifle and used it, he had to pick it up, right? The official story says that Oswald picked up the rifle on. . . . . .???????!!!!!!! Well, that is one problem. There is no date ever given as to when Oswald picked up the rifle. Read the WR, pages 118-22. You will find nothing in that regard. Not even acknowledgement of the fact that they do not know when he did so. They just say he picked it up during the time period he had the box. So this leads to a question: How often did postal workers deliver 3-5 foot long rifle boxes from Klein's to people who rented boxes? Did it happen every day? Unlikely. Every week, I doubt it. Maybe every other week? Once a month? I would lean toward the last. Then why did no postal worker recall the transaction on 11/22/63 when Oswald's name flashed on the TV screen that evening? What makes this even more puzzling is this: There were FBI informants infiltrated throughout the Dallas post office to inform on suspected communists who were getting leftist literature in their boxes. (Reclaiming Parkland, p. 62) Duh, what about a rifle from one of the largest arms dealers in America? Would not that be a suspicious mail order item for a commie like Oswald?

In the JFK case that is true. But his books on the Paula Jones case, the Bush vs Gore decision, and the phony pretense for the Iraq war, those were good. As I argue in Reclaiming Parkland, neither he nor Spence should have taken part in such a farce as the London trial. Because it did not come close to approximating a real trial. (And BTW, when I did some research on this, i got hints that Tony Summers was actually the lead consultant. Whew.) But then, Vince doubled down with Oliver Stones' film, and then he doubled down with the ARRB. RH was actually going to be three volumes long at one time. I asked Vince, "Why so long?" He said, "I have to knock down all that stuff you and Lisa wrote in Probe." Well it ended up he was trying to knock down every conspiracy theory ever written. Which as Jefferson Morley said, is not a good way to write history, But that is how combative he was.

If you read his thread saying that Oswald sure did order the rifle, Davey used Bugliosi to certify that he did. Now, like the mad dog prosecutor Vince Bugliosi was, he was all in for convicting Oswald--with any and all evidence he could get. Including the most discredited stuff one can imagine. But he usually did a tap dance around problems with that evidence. All you have to do is read, for example, his section on Kennedy's brain. Which, as Stringer said, are not the pics he took of the brain. (But somehow Vince left that out of his text.) Well, Vince also is "all in" with the rifle. He writes a chapter on it in RH. He wants to use everything he can to try and show Oswald ordered it. And like other things that work against him, he actually says: So what if its the wrong rifle? (And it is the wrong rifle. With Vince, wrong rifle, wrong brain =so what?)) Well, Vince says that there were two Klein's magazine ads found at the Paine household, specifically in the garage. And he pretty much leaves it at that. Smart move Vince. I never said Vince was dumb. Now let us explain why he does not tell the whole story about this "discovery". Which Martha Moyer did tell in her fine article "Ordering the Rifle." First of all, the DPD said they found this on the 23rd. Which is the day Harry Holmes sent his secretary out to find ads for Klein's in magazines. He said he found two, American Rifleman and Field and Stream. Which, no surprise, is where the two ads the DPD say they found came from. Except, what Vince does not say is that there were two differing stories as to where the ads are found. The one Vince uses says that the ads were found in a small box in Ruth's garage marked "miscellaneous photos and maps". Hmm. The ads were neither maps nor pictures. They were literally ads. Why does Vince use this source? Because as Martha notes, the other one is even worse. This source says--please sit down before you read this: The ads were found on the bedside table in Marina's bedroom! Yep, Oswald kept those ads for about 8 months. He then transported them from apartment to apartment to apartment to apartment, even to New Orleans and back. He then left them at the Paine garage, but took them out the night before he shot Kennedy. He then was looking at them in bed while watching TV with Marina. He fell asleep, and on the day he was going to kill Kennedy, he forgot to pick them up and left them in plain sight. Right before he picked up the rifle he had ordered from them, and used to kill Kennedy! LOL ROTF Can you believe this stuff? Apparently Vince did. And so does his acolyte Von Pein. Any objective jury would be sitting there with mouths agape if any prosecutor had the chutzpah to present this nuttiness to them. But there's more. These cut out ads were not on the DPD inventory assembled for the FBI on the 26th. Nor according to Martha, are they on the original DPD inventory. And guess what, when Curry published his book in 1969, he used a different ad. From which he omitted credit, which he did not usually do. And when Gary Savage did his book, in the 90's, he used an ad from Guns and Ammo to show how Oswald ordered the rifle. Needless to say, Adrian Alba handed over about five magazines he said could have been used to the FBi on the 23rd. All three of the above plus two more. In other words, the DPD, Holmes and the FBI were hunting down any and all magazine ads after the fact. Anything to convict Oswald. And they got plenty of them. Only Vince would leave all that detail out. And only DVP would make like a parakeet and mimic it without pointing out any of the problems with it.

http://www.ctka.net/2015/the_prosecutor_bugliosi.html VInce was Davey's hero. Go to his site and compare what he wrote about him with what I wrote here. See what he leaves out. Nothing about that phony Helter Skelter pretense, about which there are two books coming out which will further explode it. Nothing about his perjury trial. Nothing about his scandals with the milkman and his girlfriend which detonated his political career, in which he went zero for three. Nothing about his saying that LAPD did not frame black Americans, in the wake of the horrific Ramparts scandal. And by the way, I had nothing personal against Vince. I actually liked the guy. But if we are going to be honest about heroes and villains, we have to admit some inconvenient truths. I give Vince some credit here. He did write three good books. But in those cases, he was not the prosecutor. In the Tate/LaBianca case and the phony JFK London trial, he was the prosecutor. (Or in the latter, he had had to make like it was a trial.) This clouded his judgment and temperament. Vince was nothing if not combative. And it got the better of him. Anyway, I think this is the best and fullest bio of Vince there is. My publisher cut it out since he thought it would get me sued for Reclaiming Parkland. I said, "You cannot get sued successfully if its true." That didn't matter to them. Which means the truth didn't matter to them.

Jim DiEugenio is the author of bot Destiny Betrayed, first and second editions, and Reclaiming Parkland. He is the co-editor of The Assassinations along with Lisa Pease. He was the publisher of Probe Magazine in the nineties and he is the editor and publisher of the CTKA web site

Author of Destiny Betrayed, co-editor of The Assassinations. Publsiher and co-editor of Probe Magazine.