Peter McGuire

Great post. I enjoy recent Chinese history - 1917 and beyond. When I was in Shanghai in 1998 you could still walk quietly down the bund. I understand it has grown a lot since then. These collaborators were just one element that sold out their country. It was bad enough that there was a civil war going on, ( well good for the Japanese) but lowlifes and highlifes alike selling out their country made it a whole lot easier for the Japanese.

It looks like David Ferry in this film @ 1:35 Anyone see that?

Joe Kennedy made his fortune in banking, hollywood and the crash of 29. He probably made some money in "bootlegging" as the legend goes, but you do not make the kind of money he made selling liquor - even if by the trainloads. Kennedy had, according to what I have learned 200,000,000 thats two hundred million dollars way back when. Thats billions now.

It is the best choice in my opinion as well. Douglass understands the most important issue - that the order came from Washington and that the Secret Service was ordered to suspend security and not move when the shots rang out.

I tried. I'm using Google Chrome and I received an immediate message that said, "Your session has been closed....Message Name: Session killed." It also said to try different browsers. I just want to say that gossip columnist, John Austin, told me that Oliver Stone seriously considered putting "Karyn Kupcinet" in his film JFK, as having foreknowledge. He decided to focus on "Rose Cheramie," as there were witnesses to her saying before it happened that they were going to kill Kennedy. Irv Kupcinet got wind of this. His tirades against that film were endless. But other columnists around the country were also outraged about JFK. Like Operation Mocking Bird? Kathy C Thanks Kathy. I will keep trying. I haven't read about Karyn Kupcient and her father recently. Is he the one who said when asked about who killed her daughter " the same bastards who killed Kennedy?"

Again. I am not saying it was Oswald. Its a photograph which doesn't demand answer A: Oswald, answer B: Lovelady It a fill in the blank question___________________. or Who is it? I understand that most people do not believe it is Oswald. I am not saying it is Oswald. But I don't believe it is Lovelady.

Oliver Stone addresses the National Press Club Great stuff!!

It is indeed amazing that the Warren Commission chose to believe a murderer over a respected newsman!

Well it wasn't Lovelady either. I could never figure out why the debate has always been that it had to be one or the other.

Joesten was a great first generation researcher. The Dark Side of Lyndon Baines Johnson (1968) is excellent.

I hope she has "closure" now, and understands that her father did not kill President Kennedy.

You mean like this with Williams as the Black Knight right? Yes, this one. But now I see that he said that famous line with one leg still left.

I just love the way you write about specific people and situations, Jim. This xxxxx, on the other hand, is not unlike all the others in that their posts have no substance whatsoever. Kind of reminds me of the man in Monty Python who lost all his limbs but kept yapping - and his enemy said " what are you going to do, bleed on me?"

What I want to know before I purchase it is how they handle the assassin (s). If they "caught" Oswald, or killed him I want nothing to do with the book. Otherwise, the scenario would make fascinating reading, in my opinion. http://www.memoirsofjfk.com/index.html

Garrison was way ahead of his time. Thanks for the great input.

I still dont see a single example of why he was a corrupt DA or why he was unstable mentally That is new to me too, Dean. And the comment about "Oswald being a zero." This after page after page showing what his life was really about. Sometimes I think people like this idiot can't read.

"So he jacked up the fines for doing so and he pursued those who did not pay. He even got a bill passed to suspend the licenses of habitual offenders." Now here is a man, who in a different context I would not even like. "The Man", as it were. A man who upheld the law, that was who Mr. Garrison was. Then, when he goes against the very government he worked for ( I realize he was a parish D.A. and Washington killed Kennedy ) , all of a sudden, "The Man" is a nut.

Like so many aspects of this tragedy I also hate to say. In the end, however, there are too many "unprovable" stories and coincidences for this fella, not to lean towards the quite possibly true side. Wait a minute. The air links are the weak links in the covert action chain - as Eugene Hasenfrass showed when he was shot down in Nicaragua. When you have air flights, you have air planes, with tail numbers, flight plans, pilots, ground crews, air ports with records of incoming and outgoing flights. These are all well documented, military flights that only require someone with the ability to check them to find out the truth. Congress has the investigative ability to do this, as does a grand jury, or the Military Inspector General. Bill Kelly jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com Good point Bill. I guess his story is not so "unprovable," after all. I looked at the video, as an afterthought to reading JFK and the Unspeakable. "Flight from Dallas" is on the way. These arguments are indeed,very weak; 1. That he waited 30 years to tell it (I realize he explained the reason for that that and it makes a certain amount of sense, but nonetheless. . .) 2. That he had no supporting witnesses to the general story about the airplane ride; it would seem that someone back at Andrews could have helped, though it is understandable why no one at Groom Lake (Area 51) would come forward. 3. That a military version of what was a DC-6, four engine turboprop airliner landed somewhere on the shores of the Trinity River south of Dallas, in the mid-afternoon of November 22, 1963 and then took off again, evidently unnoticed by anyone on the ground. That he waited until he could tell his story is a testimony to his allegiance to his oath. This man is as credible as credible gets. Soldiers at Roswell, or the flight crew on the plane are going to spill their guts? Someone would NOT have talked had their life depended on it, and they didn't. Alright, a big plane flew in and out of a suburb of Dallas. Planes land and take off from airports. There were no markings. What was someone going to say? " A plane flew in and out of here today." Oh really? Which airline? I don't know.

The Commander in Chief of the United States, John F. Kennedy may have said: "Through these fields of destruction Baptism of fire I've watched all your suffering As the battles raged higher And though they did hurt me so bad In the fear and alarm You did not desert me My brothers in arms" But "they" deserted him.

These mist covered mountains Are a home now for me But my home is the lowlands And always will be Some day you'll return to Your valleys and your farms And you'll no longer burn To be brothers in arm Through these fields of destruction Baptism of fire I've watched all your suffering As the battles raged higher And though they did hurt me so bad In the fear and alarm You did not desert me My brothers in arms There's so many different worlds So many different suns And we have just one world But we live in different ones Now the sun's gone to hell And the moon's riding high Let me bid you farewell Every man has to die But it's written in the starlight And every line on your palm We're fools to make war On our brothers in arms

Did some people break this oath on November 22, 1963? The Oath of Enlistment (for enlistees): "I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." The Oath of Office (for officers): "I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance tot he same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God."

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"You Can Pick Your Friends, But You Can't Pick Your Family." Attorney Jim Garrison will forever be part of the JFK assassination family. Yet, he often came accross the wrong way. He was a hero, who in the early stages of the investigation, often with little information compared to what we have today, pushed the limits of what could be done at the time. Often going too far, which actually hurt the cause more than it helped it. Such is the case for many of us now who only make us look like so called "conspiracy theorists" who know more about an event that occoured nearly 50 years ago than whats happening right outside our doorstep. Jim Garrison was a husband and father, a military veteran, an attorney, district attorney and a judge. Just like Lee Harvey Oswald was no oddball loner, Jim Garrison was an American Hero on the trail of assassins who were supposed to be working for the same government and country that he did.

Like so many aspects of this tragedy I also hate to say. In the end, however, there are too many "unprovable" stories and coincidences for this fella, not to lean towards the quite possibly true side.