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I found it interesting also when it was posted but the first thing that came to mind was whether this late surfacing document is an actual letter from Oswald or whether someone has created a hoax either to make money off its auction or to falsely ink Oswald directly to the Communist Party USA for a reason not known. The fact that it bears no date is a telling omission.
Its provenience is crucial.
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I think this is also important.
"In a 1986 set of recollections by close associates of Johnson, I found that, according to speechwriter and adviser Horace Busby, two weeks before JFK traveled to Texas, Johnson told Busby that when he was with the president in Austin on the evening of Nov. 22, he would tell him he had decided against running for vice president in 1964 and would instead return to Texas to run a newspaper. Busby doubted that he was serious and thought that LBJ just wanted the president to cajole and flatter him. But given Kennedy’s increasing estrangement from Johnson, it is possible that he would have accepted his offer with alacrity."
It shows that, at least in LBJ's mind, he wasn't a shoe-in for the VP spot, and was anxious to save face by leaving office before he was dumped.
Now, just think about it. You're an organized crime figure, or an oil baron, or an intelligence agency, friendly to Johnson. And Johnson tells you he's gonna leave, before they force him out. Do you let this happen, and HOPE Kennedy replaces Johnson with someone who'll serve your interests? Or do you take the bull by the horns, and act?
Pat, my interpretation of this is that LBJ was laying the preliminary groundwork for an alibi in the event he was publicly accused right after JFK was assassinated of orchestrating the murder from behind the scenes (or from the top of the pyramid) so that he could achieve his lifetime goal of being President of the United States of America.
What helped drive him crazy after he achieved his goal was the constant yelling of the kids outside the White House, "Hey, hey, LBJ, who you gonna kill today?" His actions resulted in the deaths of over 50,000 American service men and women in Vietnam - in addition to the death of his predecessor. Shakespeare would have written a whole play about LBJ's lust for power with LBJ waking up at night in the White House and seeing the ghosts of JFK and other past presidents standing at the foot of his bed pointing their fingers at him in as accusatory fashion.
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Dr. Gary North wrote the follow on his website today:
“You get to certain events, such as the Kennedy assassination, and there are incomplete records. Some of the records are inaccurate. Some of the records have been suppressed. You can establish certain kinds of patterns, such as what was going on with the CIA, or the mob, or in the morning events of Lee Harvey Oswald. The problem, above all, is this: connecting what happened in the Texas book depository with what happened, or maybe didn't happen, on the grassy knoll. It's the timing factor. If JFK was shot from behind, how was the timing coordinated with whoever shot him up from the grassy knoll? People can make all kinds of connections between Oswald and other groups, but in a few seconds, recorded on Zapruder's film, the events come together in just a few frames. The coordination of those brief sequences of causation is really inconceivable. That is what baffles historians. There are the other issues, such as what happened to Kennedy's body while it was in the airplane. But, ultimately, it is the coordination of the events of the actual shooting that has to be explained, and it resists explanation.
“I contend that virtually every event has the same problems, but most events are not worth assembling the documentation. I call it the irreducible complexity of an historical event. The event is a combination of multiple chains of causation, and every time you look in detail at these chains of causation, you cannot sort all of them out. Furthermore, there are not historical records for most of them.”
http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/~anderson/PDF_files/Chaos.pdf
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Why we keep writing about JFK
By Thurston Clarke
Washington Post
October 25, 2013
From this article that is not to be missed:
“The trustees of the Truman Library chose de Kooning to paint the notoriously restless Kennedy because she had a reputation for being “the fastest brush in the East,” capable of finishing a portrait after a single sitting. When she arrived at the Kennedy family’s Palm Beach, Fla., estate on Dec. 31, 1962, she planned on making some quick sketches before finishing the portrait in a temporary studio in West Palm Beach. She had expected, she said, the monochrome man of the newspaper photographs. Instead, Kennedy struck her as “incandescent, golden,” “bigger than life” and inhabiting “a different dimension.” After a single morning she decided that he was too intriguing and changeable to capture in one portrait. She stayed for four days, drawing dozens of sketches, charcoals and watercolors, and working on several oil portraits at once.”
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“Three days before going to Dallas, he told Lincoln he was thinking of replacing Lyndon Johnson with North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford as his running mate in 1964, but he did not share this bombshell with his brother Bobby, with whom he often spoke several times a day. Not surprisingly, Bobby later dismissed the conversation as a fabrication, telling historian Arthur Schlesinger, “Can you imagine the president ever having a talk with Evelyn about a subject like that?” Yet when former Cabinet member Abe Ribicoff went sailing with Bobby several months after Dallas, he was shocked to discover that he knew things about John that Bobby did not, confirming his impression that the president had “exposed different facets of himself to different people.”
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In the next few weeks public interest in the assassination will reach its highest levels in decades as the mass media carries numerous reports and stories about the 50th anniversary.
The question is whether after the anniversary will interest taper off slowly, fast or continue at the same level as in recent years?
My guess is that it will fade fairly fast because all the major players have died and there is no universally accepted version of what actually occurred. There will never be a closing to this open wound in America’s psyche.
I was 25 years old when the murder occurred. I can remember all the details of when I learned of it. In my mind’s eye it is almost like yesterday.
But I won’t be around for the 75th anniversary. Before then I shall have joined JFK on The Other Side.
The younger generation today has little interest in the assassination. Most don’t even know anything about LBJ, the Vietnam War or Watergate.
What will be the future of this forum and others like it when the hoopla of the 50th anniversary dies away?
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Oswald's wedding ring is also to be auctioned.
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NY Times Book Review: Kennedy, The Elusive President
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/books/review/the-elusive-president.html
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Surgeon in ER insists 2 gunmen shot JFK
October 18, 2013 12:04 am
By Michael A. Fuoco / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A surgeon who half a century ago was among the doctors who tried to save President John F. Kennedy's life said Thursday that the Warren Commission got it wrong in determining a lone gunman assassinated JFK in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
Speaking via teleconference to a Duquesne University symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination, Robert N. McClelland said he was the first doctor in Parkland Hospital's Trauma Room One to notice the massive wound in the back of Kennedy's skull and that a trauma of that size had to be an exit wound.
"The whole right side of his skull was gone. I could look inside his skull cavity. Obviously, it was a mortal wound," he told a spellbound audience of legal, medical, forensic and investigative experts and the public who packed the university's Power Ballroom.
Dr. McClelland, now 83 and professor emeritus at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, said that because it was an exit wound, it logically followed that it had been fired from in front of the president's limousine. And, in turn, that meant a second gunman was involved in the assassination, contradicting the Warren Commission's finding that there was but one assassin.
The Warren Commission determined that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he fired three times with a high-powered rifle on the president's motorcade in Dealey Plaza from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. The commission said that one bullet missed, another went through the president's neck and also wounded Texas Gov. John Connolly -- the so-called "single bullet theory" -- and the third caused the fatal head wound.
But Dr. McClelland was resolute. "Having seen what I saw" in the emergency room and then viewing the Zapruder film of the assassination, he said, he believes JFK "was initially hit from a bullet fired from the sixth floor that went through his back and out through his neck. The next injury was caused by somebody behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll firing a shot that blew out the right side of his head."
Speaking on the first day of the three-day symposium sponsored by the university's Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law, Dr. McClelland also recounted how two days after Kennedy's assassination he and other surgeons tried in vain to save Oswald's life after he was shot by Jack Ruby while being transferred from Dallas police headquarters to the county jail.
In his address, Dr. Wecht, the renowned forensic pathologist and longtime critic of the Warren Report, railed against what he called was the "inept, inexplicable, totally incompetent" autopsy performed on the president by Navy pathologists James J. Humes and J. Thornton Boswell. They concluded the president had been struck by two bullets, fired from above and behind, with the fatal shot being the one that struck his head.
"They had never done a single gunshot wound autopsy before. If you heard of this in another country, you'd say condescendingly and dismissively, 'What do you expect from that country?' but this was our country," Dr. Wecht said. "This should bother you so much; this should be so distressing, even 50 years later."
Dr. Wecht, who used a skull and dissected a brain during his address to illustrate his criticism of the autopsy and what wasn't done, said the "cold case" needs to be reopened.
"The Warren Commission Report is scientifically absurd," he said. The burden of the report's detractors is not to have all the answers about the assassination, he said, but to point out defects in the investigation, which they have done. He received a standing ovation.
Among the speakers today will be Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, director of the controversial 1991 film "JFK" and director/narrator of the Showtime docu-series "Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States."
Michael A. Fuoco: mfuoco@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1968.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YtUL-BpZAu8
Cyril Wecht is interviewed: "Let's uncover the truth."
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On the bow, in the waters above Hawaii, you could see right down into the depths. I could see that the debris isn't just on the surface, it's all the way down. And it's all sizes, from a soft-drink bottle to pieces the size of a big car or truck.
"We saw a factory chimney sticking out of the water, with some kind of boiler thing still attached below the surface. We saw a big container-type thing, just rolling over and over on the waves.
"We were weaving around these pieces of debris. It was like sailing through a garbage tip.
"Below decks you were constantly hearing things hitting against the hull, and you were constantly afraid of hitting something really big. As it was, the hull was scratched and dented all over the place from bits and pieces we never saw."
Plastic was ubiquitous. Bottles, bags and every kind of throwaway domestic item you can imagine, from broken chairs to dustpans, toys and utensils.
And something else. The boat's vivid yellow paint job, never faded by sun or sea in years gone past, reacted with something in the water off Japan, losing its sheen in a strange and unprecedented way.
BACK in Newcastle, Ivan Macfadyen is still coming to terms with the shock and horror of the voyage.
"The ocean is broken," he said, shaking his head in stunned disbelief.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1848433/the-ocean-is-broken/
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October 17, 2013
The Last King of Ireland
By TIMOTHY EGAN
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/opinion/egan-the-last-king-of-ireland.html
DUBLIN — Oscar Wilde still lounges, louche-like, on a boulder in Merrion Square. As always, the Liffey, a river crossed by bridges named for playwrights and patriots, lumbers its way to the sea. Grafton Street is packed with moneyed pedestrians. But Irish ayes are missing.
The Gathering, as they call this year, is a campaign backed by the government and the tourism industry to induce the clamorous clans of Erin to pay a visit here. Given that half the world is Irish and the other half wants to be, in Bill Clinton’s phrase, it’s an easy sell.
Yet, what should be a year of discovery, a diaspora of 70 million summoned to the home of their not-so-distant ancestors, is clouded by a bittersweet anniversary. Fifty years ago the last king of Ireland, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, came to the land of his great-grandfather Patrick. A few months later, he was gone, shot by an assassin in Dallas.
To look back now, at a time when Ireland and the United States are staggered by doubt, is to realize how much has changed in the half-century since he was here -- change, in too many respects, for the worse.
Kennedy was mobbed. Over several days, he delighted a lyrical people with his wit and his one-liners. He charmed old ladies, nuns and schoolgirls. He lifted hearts by his very presence: here was the leader of the free world, the descendant of people who fled a famine that killed a million Irish. To see what time and good fortune had done to produce that youthful leader was to believe that anything was possible.
The Ireland he toured was the youngest of old countries, an independent nation barely 40 years on, finding its footing after 750 years of British occupation enforced by hangman’s noose and cannon. It was a poor island of farmers, shopkeepers and laborers, a nation of devout Catholics. It had a tomorrow, one that would lead to the Celtic Tiger period of a few years ago -- an Ireland of unfathomable, and unsustainable, prosperity. Hipsters from Google and Facebook flooded pubs in Dublin’s Temple Bar area and danced to traditional music as mournful as it was infectious.
The crucifixes are gone from many homes, after an epic institutional failure of a church that protected pedophiles and abusers among its clerics. The belief in government as a force of good has been displaced as well. The ruling elite, aided and abetted by bankers, financiers and insurers, wrecked this economy, and then got out on the bailout express.
Everyone else paid a price -- in higher taxes, in across-the-board slashing of essential services, in real pain. The unemployment rate is still 15 percent, and nearly one in four mortgages are in arrears. Once again, the numbers are up regarding the greatest of all Irish exports -- people. Since 2008, more than 300,000 have left.
What remains, in homes and shops and pubs, are pictures of President Kennedy. He is forever frozen at age 46, when the American Century was in full flower.
We could do things then -- go to the moon, ensure health care for the elderly, legislate full citizenship rights for a race of people originally shipped to the country as property. Landmark environmental laws were passed under Richard Nixon, with robust support from both parties. Ronald Reagan brought optimism and cold war closure. Bill Clinton, who idolized Kennedy, raised taxes and ushered in years of balanced budgets and record job gains.
Of late, the United States has been under a siege of the politics of destruction and do-nothing. The Republicans, chained to a Tea Party wing that laughably compares itself to the founders, have demonstrated just one thing: how unpatriotic and incompetent single-minded zealots can be.
It baffles people here, as it does all over the world, why the government was shut down and the global economy threatened with catastrophe -- willful, injurious political misconduct. Was it over health care access? At first, yes. And then, it came down to -- what? Nothing. The Seinfeld Shutdown. For nothing, they cost us almost $5 billion in lost business, wages and income. For nothing, they threw millions of lives into chaos. To nothing, is what the Tea Party should be reduced to as a governing force of any sort.
It does no good to wonder what could have been -- if Kennedy had lived, if a domino effect of downward economic moves had never happened, if one blow after another had not produced a Western world where too many people feel that the game is rigged against them.
But looking back is always productive. Memory is embedded in every square foot of Irish sod. These days, Kennedy’s visage is on posters and pamphlets at the Dublin airport -- an effort to use him to inspire others to help Ireland. It’s a straightforward proposition: bring a job to Ireland, and earn a government reward of 1,500 euros.
Well, it’s something. But at the time, both countries would do well to recall the feeling of doubtless possibility from Kennedy’s era. It hasn’t entirely disappeared; it’s just so much harder to find.
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October 15, 2013
Leaving Dealey Plaza
The New Yorker
Posted by George Packer
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/10/leaving-dealey-plaza.html
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Snowden Journalist’s New Venture to Be Bankrolled by eBay Founder
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Was Cuban professional hit man Herminio Diaz a second Kennedy assassin?
- Author Anthony Summers has claimed that Cuban exile shot President John F. Kennedy in 1963 with Lee Harvey Oswald
- Diaz was part of an anti-Castro movement that felt betrayed by Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- He 'told a friend that he was responsible for the killing before his death'
Daily Mail
October 16, 2013
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JFK assassination eyewitness won’t be at 50th anniversary ceremony
From the article: “James Tague was an eyewitness to the assassination to President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22 in 1963. Tague is the only man in addition to President Kennedy and Texas Governor John B. Connally who was wounded by gunfire in Dallas’s Dealey plaza that day, yet he cannot get a ticket to the tightly controlled “public ceremony” in the tightly locked-down Dealey Plaza. They are turning away a witness whose testimony caused the Warren Commission members to rewrite their report.
“Tague is among the handful still living who saw JFK’s murder. Tague sustained a scrape on his face from a bullet that ricocheted off a curb where Tague stood. Tague testified to the Warren Commission. But Tague can’t get into the ceremony, nor can any other citizen.”
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Exhibit to show Connally's clothing when JFK shot
Houston Chronicle
October 16, 2013
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Sarah Norris, conservator for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, points out a bullet hole in the blood-stained shirt worn by Texas Gov. John Connally on the day gunfire wounded him and killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22, 1963, at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. Texas state archivists are preparing the suit and shirt worn by Connally as the centerpiece for an exhibit to mark next month’s 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Your eyes instinctively seek the holes in the vintage 1960s black wool men's business suit. The white cotton dress shirt with now-faded blood stains more vividly illustrates the horror of a half century ago.
Emergency room staff at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital removed the clothing from seriously wounded Texas Gov. John Connally, in the rush to save his life from the same burst of gunfire that also had left President John Kennedy mortally wounded.
Texas state archivists now have readied the suit and shirt worn by Connally that day as the centerpiece of an exhibit to mark next month's 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination.
It will be the first public display since 1964 for the clothing Connally wore Nov. 22, 1963, during Kennedy's visit. Connally and his wife gave the clothing to the state archives.
"It makes an impact, it's pretty dramatic and it kind of gives you pause," Sarah Norris, conservator at the Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library where the exhibit opens next week, said Tuesday. "It creates the sense of immediacy about what happened that day."
John Anderson, preservation officer at the archives, said the display tells an important aspect of a well-known story.
"For Texans, this is something that maybe gets forgotten by some of the rest of the world, that Gov. Connally was shot at the same time," he said, noting that Connally's chest wound could have been fatal.
"The first thing that jumps out at you is the damage," said Norris, who has been assembling the exhibit for several months. "The most dramatic is the shirt."
The white Arrow brand shirt, size 16 with a 35-inch sleeve, has faded over the years and the now-brown blood stains and spatters cover nearly all of it. There are bullet holes in the shirt's chest, back shoulder and right cuff. Three buttons are missing, presumably due to emergency medical responders ripping the garment away to reach Connelly's chest wound.
The damage to the three-button Oxford Clothes suit from John L. Ashe of Fort Worth is less pronounced.
Nellie Connally had it cleaned before it was presented to the state archives, Anderson said, so there's no evidence of blood. But the coat has bullet holes that match those on the shirt, plus a hole on the left leg just above and toward the inside of the knee.
The items will be displayed through Feb. 14 in the library lobby in a glass case that will allow visitors to see them from all sides
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All part of a fake debate.
Hey Douglas!
I have an idea...please indulge me...right now, Mr. Douglas Caddy, turn your head to the right.
Glance down upon the fabric of your shirt along your right shoulder-line.
Now raise your right arm and begin to wave like JFK circa z190.
Observe the fabric of your shirt indent along your right shoulder-line.
Given the low location of the bullet holes in JFK's clothes, you've just demonstrated with that indentation the fact that 4+ shots were fired at JFK.
The evidence of conspiracy is literally under your nose.
Who gives a damn about some stupid dictabelt?
It is obvious that the Kennedy family is interested this subject although you may not be.
“Dr. Randolph Robertson, having been given special access by the Kennedy family, is the only non-government Board Certified Diagnostic Radiologist to have seen, studied and analyzed the primary materials of President Kennedy’s radiography and autopsy sequestered at the National Archives. In September 1993 in Fort Worth Texas, at the meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners Postmortem Radiography, he presented an analysis of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Two months later he testified before a House Subcommittee about the effectiveness of the President John F. Kennedy Records Collection Act of 1992 (JFK Act).”
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I was doing local research and just found this article from a local newspaper. Ruth Paine gave a lecture regarding LHO and Marina here in Sonoma County. I had no idea she lived in my area. I wish I would have known about this earlier...
Dave
Here is an article I posted not long ago about Ruth Paine. The article gave notice of her pending lecture.
Texas Monthly lone nutters skipping JFK assassination coverage for 50th
in JFK Assassination Debate
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I have always found Texas Monthly to be an overrated publication, bordering on being just plain boring. But once in awhile it does carry an article of merit.