John Kennedy White
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I feel like his JFKA reporting was the incredible exception to the rule of his past
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As someone who worked in MSM for 20-plus years (albeit in Canada, where entrenched political polarization arrived five years later than in the U.S., as with most things exported from the U.S.), I will suggest it was less about political pressure and more about not wanting to give credence to conspiracy researchers, lest the editors and publishers topple off of their journalistic ivory towers.
Any suggestion that the government's official line on the JFKA was off would imply endorsement of conspiracy, and most publishers I knew would rather stop drinking than put that in ink.
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7 hours ago, Jonathan Cohen said:
I've never been more happy to block someone on this forum than I am with Matthew Koch. Go peddle your nonsense somewhere other than a thread about the death of a significant assassination researcher.
Can those posts be removed
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8 hours ago, Gerry Down said:
Once the street is closed to traffic, it is only a matter of time before it would be paved with paving stones "to make it look nice". There is no way they would allow the street to be an actual street as it is now if it was to be pedestrianized long-term.
Valid point. I witnessed a few near misses when I was there.
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9 hours ago, Matthew Koch said:
🔥Classic and Hilarious
If I’d known I would have worn a babushka to be more mysterious.
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1 minute ago, John Kennedy White said:
I walk through the background of the shot at 1:25 on my last walkthrough before heading to the airport...
Dubbing myself The Backpack Man
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13 hours ago, Joseph Backes said:
So, a Dallas preservationist is against it. Some good news.
I walk through the background of the shot at 1:25 on my last walkthrough before heading to the airport...
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On 11/21/2022 at 5:45 PM, Benjamin Cole said:
My guess is 99% of the people who visit Dealey Plaza do so to see a historical site, preserved.
They want to see it as it was during the JFKA.
There was once a proposal to tear down the TSBD.
No slam on Dallas, but why else visit Dallas? No coastline, no mountains, no world-class or even national-class anything.
It might be a great place to live, better than most big US cities.
Having just returned from there, I agree on point A. They should really work very hard to preserve the site (including landscaping and tree pruning) to match what it looked like in 1963. They should also close Elm to vehicular traffic and figure out a different route for people to get to Stemmons north.
Dallas has world-class sports teams, so a well-timed visit can include those. But I'm horribly skewed to JFKA research so I'm not a typical tourist.
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1 minute ago, Roger Odisio said:
Considering the structure of fabrications, changed testimony, disappearing evidence, ignored evidence, and lies that was built to frame Oswald, it's hard to fathom that, by now, anything the least bit incriminating remains in the CIA and FBI files.
IMO, it must first be proven that Oswald *didn't* do it, *and* that proof must be widely disseminated, getting past the media gatekeepers, before there can be enough support for an investigation of what really happened. If Oswald didn't do it the Warren Report collapses. Given the enormity of the crime and destructiveness that has resulted since, something must replace it.
I remain optimistic about the first part. Evidence exonerating Oswald is piling up. But getting the word out has always proved daunting. An optimist would point to the plummeting faith people have in what they are being told by the government and the media. The Warren Report, signed by the 7 great Americans, and "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq are stitched from the same fabric.
Maybe the time is becoming ripe for the truth about the murder, and the social destruction in its aftermath, to get a hearing.
I add my optimism to yours
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I've felt for a while that the only remaining docs relating to the CIA would show their MO with black ops/wet work taking out heads of state in other countries in the name of "deMOcrACY" as anything making them culpable in the JFKA would have been burned three times.
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7 hours ago, David Butler said:
Thanks very much for this @John Kennedy White
I'm looking forward to studying the photo's
Happy to be the eyes of those who can't get there in person
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Heading to the airport soon. Last call for any photos not already included in my Google Photos gallery.
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34 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:
These three pictures partially show why I believe the throat shot may have come from the south knoll, having seen these views myself.
In this one keep in mind at one point Perry said the throat wound tracked to the right side of the larynx. Though this view is not quite from the actual end of the south end of the overpass.
This next one shows what I've commented on before, the end of the concrete "fence" I said curves but actually angles back towards the plaza. Anyone along this part could not be seen by others along the straight part of the overpass directly over Elm/Main.
The last one, is an extension of the prior one looking the other way. I've crouched down beside that last larger concrete post. From there you certainly can't be seen from the rest of the overpass. With only your right arm/shoulder, edge of your head exposed you wouldn't be seen unless they were looking directly at you by anyone in Dealy Plaza. A shot through one of the "holes" in the fence nearest its end would have been further concealed.
A point should be made here that all eyes here were focused on JFK and the immediate surroundings.
As John mentions, a quick, un-noticed exit from here could be made to the Postal Annex parking lot at the time. Or over the hill. Over the tracks, down the hill was another more remote parking lot. With quick access to now I-35 South. Away from the parade headed to the Trademart, or the limo headed to the hospital
The top non-zoomed photo actually is from the south knoll overpass sniper’s perch discussed in the other two photos.
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1 hour ago, Gerry Down said:
Nice collection of photos. So the manhole opening where some believe an assassin might have fired from is now sealed up?
Also didn't see Robert Groden selling his materials in his usual spot in your pictures. Is he still the plaza man?
Robert was busy with the conference so likely focused on that.
The manhole covers require a simple key to open on the north knoll. The mirror version on the south knoll has the original circle finger opening but my finger was not strong enough to lift it this morning. Regardless, the three or four added inches of asphalt would make it impossible to verify the ability to sight a rifle or pistol in that space.
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YouTube video link for clip from Zapruder pedestal
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Here's a link to my Google Drive with all of my photos from the last three days, all with descriptions.
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On 10/6/2022 at 4:54 PM, David Butler said:
Some from as close as you can get to the South Knoll.....I'm always intrigued by the late Sherry Feister's blood spatter analysis by shots coming from that location.... Would they make it over the parts of the limo to be able to land at the right timeframes...
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On 10/6/2022 at 4:54 PM, David Butler said:
Some from as close as you can get to the South Knoll.....I'm always intrigued by the late Sherry Feister's blood spatter analysis by shots coming from that location.... Would they make it over the parts of the limo to be able to land at the right timeframes...
Here's my first Substack post from my visit this week, looking at the south knoll.
https://johnkwhite.substack.com/p/south-knoll-of-dealey-plaza
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First of many images to be shared.
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12 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:
Oh really?
Take a look at his discussion with Willens at the Sixth Floor Museum.
And just recall, we are now forty years past the HSCA.
Whatever progress we have made in understanding the crime was through the ARRB.
Oof. That is painful.
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1 hour ago, Michael Griffith said:
The longer I study the JFK case, the more I am inclined to view Blakey as someone who did much to advance the case for conspiracy and to increase our knowledge of the case. For a long time, I thought Blakey should have been prosecuted for obstruction of justice. But, now that I know more about the conditions and constraints under which he worked, I see him in a more favorable light.
Agreed. After reading Gaeton Fonzi's The Last Investigation, it took me a while to see beyond his personal frustration and understand the bigger picture.
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Does anyone know if there’s a way to access the roof for photos of the plaza?
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9 hours ago, Anthony Thorne said:
JFK 11/22 WTF? would be another good one.
You win the internet today
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3 hours ago, David Josephs said:
https://www.history-matters.com/analysis/witness/index.htm
This may have been what you are looking for John... click a name and it shows you what they said and where they were...
If not, it is still a decent resource
DJ
I was thinking of the Roberdeau map, but this is an exceptional resource, thank you!
The NARA 12/15/2022 data dump is now a searchable PDF archive
in JFK Assassination Debate
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Time for some binge searching! Thanks for this