Vince Palamara

G. Gordon Liddy, a cloak-and-dagger lawyer who masterminded dirty tricks for the White House and concocted the bungled burglary that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974, died on Tuesday in Mount Vernon, Va. He was 90.

His death, at the home of his daughter Alexandra Liddy Bourne, was confirmed by his son Thomas P. Liddy, who said that his father had Parkinson’s disease and had been in declining health.

Decades after Watergate entered the lexicon, Mr. Liddy was still an enigma in the cast of characters who fell from grace with the 37th president — to some a patriot who went silently to prison refusing to betray his comrades, to others a zealot who cashed in on bogus celebrity to become an author and syndicated talk show host.

As a leader of a White House “plumbers” unit set up to plug information leaks, and then as a strategist for the president’s re-election campaign, Mr. Liddy helped devise plots to discredit Nixon “enemies” and to disrupt the 1972 Democratic National Convention. Most were far-fetched — bizarre kidnappings, acts of sabotage, traps using prostitutes, even an assassination — and were never carried out.

44 minutes ago, Joseph McBride said:

All that harassment is appalling, Vince. It is a backhanded

tribute to how powerful and influential your investigation

of Secret Service complicity in the assassination has been.

Thanks, Joe! It was truly bizarre and a little scary, at least at first. The HR lady (twice) was very nice and reassuring about it. She was baffled how this person thought my First Amendment writings could be taken as something to be fired over! Still, it showed me that I had them worried (Lisa McCubbin gave my book a one-star rating on GoodReads on its first day of release, while Gerald Blaine marked it as to-read a few months earlier (and both himself and Hill talked about me on C-SPAN). Former agent Charles Zboril likewise gave my first book a one-star rating. I knew I struck a nerve.

Secret Service Agent Clint Hill & Friends- I am always on their minds - YouTube

3 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

Being banned from reviewing on Amazon?

I had not heard that. I mean that is really weird.

If anyone is biased, its Lance Payette.

Blaine's one friend was livid at me for both my as-yet-unreleased-but-forthcoming book ("How dare you criticize this fine patriot" etc.) and my negative review of Blaine's book. Soon after Blaine and Hill's appearance on C-SPAN (where they showed a You Tube video of me and talked about my work), I was called by the HR department not once but (a few weeks later) twice about this gentleman who wrote a lengthy letter to the company CEO (!) requesting that I be terminated due to my "unamerican and unpatriotic" views. Luckily, the HR lady laughed on both occasions, told me the CEO never saw either letter because they screen all his mail, AND  the writer was told the company would file harassment charges on my/their behalf if he wrote another letter [I have since moved on to another company]...he then disappeared, his review left Amazon, and his Facebook was gone, too (he went by the fictitious name "Carlo Rossi", bragged in his info about being in military intelligence for decades and also being a recently retired postman).

Not long after all that, my hundreds of Amazon reviews were wiped and any attempt at further reviews gets either that "bias" note or "we have noticed strange activity on your reviews" message.

3 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

Being banned from reviewing on Amazon?

I had not heard that. I mean that is really weird.

If anyone is biased, its Lance Payette.

It all began soon after I was harassed at work a couple times by a friend of Gerald Blaine's in 2013 (as I note briefly in my last two books). The friend of his had a military intelligence background and was, ostensibly, also a retired postman. Some of my blogs disappeared, my You Tube and Google-connected blogs would temporarily be frozen and then, out of nowhere, all my Amazon reviews were wiped out. Ironically, as an author, I am able to update my own book page and so forth, but I am barred from reviewing other author's books. A couple other authors told me the same thing happened to them. 

8 hours ago, Joseph McBride said:

They ban reviewers because of "bias"? How do they define "bias"?

Isn't all reviewing opinionated by nature? Legally there is no

such thing as a right or wrong opinion; it has to be backed up

by facts to mean anything.

I agree with you.

On 3/25/2021 at 1:44 PM, Pete Mellor said:

Yeah, I would love to....however I have the honour of a lifetime ban from book reviews on Amazon!

I feel your pain! I know a couple other authors who are banned from reviews (like myself) due to "bias."

On 3/25/2021 at 3:29 AM, Joseph McBride said:

That attack review on the book on Amazon is grossly unfair. The guy

obviously had some animus toward it ahead of time and unleashed

it. I recommend anyone here who likes the book (as I do) post

a good review to counterbalance that garbage.

Thanks!

8 hours ago, Pete Mellor said:

Another copy in the post Vince!

Thanks!

21 hours ago, David Boylan said:

Can't wait to read it. Thanks Vince.

 

thanks!

10 hours ago, Denny Zartman said:

Great book, Vince! It's certainly packed with images of documents and extensive footnotes sourcing everything. It sure does feel like the reader is getting their money's worth.

One of the things that keeps me endlessly interested in this case is the fact that it seems no matter how many books I read on the subject, I always manage to learn something new. In this case, I was pleased and interested to read some supporting evidence for a theory I had considered but didn't think there was any way of confirming.

Page 218 of "Honest Answers" quotes John Armstrong saying that the TSBD electrical panels were on the first floor near the first floor segregated lunchroom, where Oswald was seen and said he was at the time.

So, I now feel fairly confident that it's, in my mind, more likely than not that Oswald's role during the operation was to turn the building power off thereby disabling the phones and elevators.

For the sake of argument, assuming this could be true, it seems to me to be a slight indicator that possibly Oswald thought he was part of a counter-assassination team. Assuming again that the power and phones were restored within minutes after the assassination and didn't seem to hinder subsequent police activity, cutting the power appears (to me) to be something that could only interfere with an assassination team already in the building.

Thanks a lot, Denny! The reaction has been great so far!

No doubt---there is so much that is endlessly fascinating and, in some respects, create more conundrums and seeming contradictions. 

1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:

This book is  an important volume for people seriously interested in the JFK case. Which should mean everyone on this forum.

Malcolm Blunt is, for my money, the best archives researcher there is.  The guy has dug up more important stuff from the ARRB than I think anyone has.  And he is quite generous with his work.  I know since he sends it to me on occasion.  In fact, I used some of it in my destruction of Fred Litwin. But in this volume Alan Dale gets him to talk about a variety of subjects, many of which--for reasons of length-- I did not touch on in my review.  IMO, Malcolm is the most important person working on the JFK case right now.  Yet many people, even in the critical community, have never heard of him. 

That is their problem. The guy is a treasure trove of new information.  Just what he did with Betsy Wolf is worth the book.  In fact, 98 per cent of the research community would have never heard of Betsy if it were not for Malcolm Blunt. Yet, IMO, she made the most important discovery about Oswald in the last forty years. 

https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-reviews/the-devil-is-in-the-details-by-malcolm-blunt-with-alan-dale

 

 

You and Malcolm Blunt belong in the research Hall of Fame, Jim.

4 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

Lance is a real card isn't he?

I don't know how to take that endorsement VInce.  But I will read the book.

Don't get me wrong-he was critical. That said, he gave it 3 stars (not one or two) and was begrudgingly nice in a few respects. I find it weird that he was even a little gracious LOL!

Thanks, Jim!

23 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said:

Lance Payette 

THAT is the one! I was even forewarned about him [name not known at the time] "he is going to tear you a new one-be prepared; it is what he does." Then he drops a mild 3 star review-I was surprised in a good way...kind of.

40 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:

Isn't this the Arizona Lawyer?

The guy who used to frequent these pages?

OMG yes!!!

Whoever LBP is, he is renowned for soul-wrenching JFK assassination book reviews. Witness the one he gave for Alan Dale's new book-yikes!  I was forewarned by a couple researchers that he will have his eyes on your work and it won't be pretty. Like Patrick Collins, another lone-nut reviewer, one gets the distinct impression that he is out to scuttle sales or opinion about new pro-conspiracy books.

That said, he gave my new one three stars and was actually not too scathing overall. Hope springs eternal!

34 minutes ago, Joseph McBride said:

I received the book yesterday, Vince, and started reading it. A 

fine job, thorough and encyclopedic and lively to read, with

fascinating documents and photographs as well. I look forward to reading the rest

of this major work in the field.

Thanks for your kind words on my work and that of other researchers -- you are

working in the best scholarly tradition of acknowledging other

scholars, which unfortunately is not always the case in this field.

Beyond your unrivaled and deep knowledge of the role of the Secret

Service -- a truly groundbreaking study that has changed our views

of the case and followed Penn Jones's advice to take

one area that has not received enough attention

and research the hell out of it -- you have turned up a great deal of other information

and have raised many provocative questions for us to ponder. We

won't all agree with everything, but that's part of the scholarly

process too. Kudos!

Thanks so much, Joe---much appreciated! What I am stunned about is what that "LBP" lone-nutter said about the book. He usually leaves scathing 1-star reviews. He was actually kind in his 3-star review...still critical, mind you, but nowhere near as bad as he usually is!

12 hours ago, Denny Zartman said:

I pre-ordered my copy earlier this week, and I look forward to reading your new book, Vince!

Thanks a lot, Denny! The early response has been very, very good!!!!

22 hours ago, Anthony Thorne said:

Vince's book looks good, and I'll be buying it (probably on Kindle). Trine Day have a future volume from another author on the way attacking Vincent Bugliosi - fine with me - and FLY BY NIGHT, an unexpected, unrelated book coming on Steven Spielberg, Warner Bros and the Twilight Zone accident from the early 80's. There's already been a book on that event, so I have no idea if the new volume will have anything new.

Thanks! Yes- the kindle edition is coming.

On 3/9/2021 at 9:24 PM, Ron Bulman said:

Ordered with wife's amazon prime account.  Free shipping, two day delivery.  Otherwise, free shipping starts at $25, it's $24.95.  At 480 pages, from you, I imagine it will be deep and well documented.  As Joseph and Tony say congratulations.

Thanks, Ron! Yes- very heavily documented. 

14 hours ago, Joseph McBride said:

Congratulations, Vince! I just ordered it. Can't wait to read it. Cheers.

Thanks a lot- you are mentioned in it favorable a few times!

Super excited!!!!! I received a few advance copies of my new book scheduled for release 3/19/2021 (it clocks in at 480 pages and has many photos/docs/articles)! The other ones are already gone- delegated to a few people already. It seems the pre-ordering has been brisk, so I will not receive the rest of my copies until sometime in early (to mid) April...so your best bet to get it quicker would be to just (pre) order it off Amazon rather than wait for me. Also- the kindle is coming.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/163424334X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4?fbclid=IwAR0PrNZauIBttGUldCEtBjdZ-7fNTK9jd313kpB2Qf_kUDH9mfm-qDlQ244

This one is even better because it has audio/visuals and an in-person audience (from 2019):

Vince Palamara JFK assassination Secret Service presentation 2019 (BEST OF series/ 6 of 7) - YouTube

23 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

Thanks Vince.

My pleasure! Check out my channel--I have over 600 videos and well over 300 I have uploaded just this year (these past few days and weeks)!

2 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

Vince, I am coming across video presentations you have recently posted on You Tube that are incredibly interesting, provocative and revealing and which are centered on witnesses and researchers of great credibility.

Hence, my reposting of two of them, one being the KRON TV investigative piece with the Bethesda Navy veterans who were "hands on " eye witnesses to JFK's body and casket upon it's arrival to Bethesda the early evening of November 22nd, 1963.

I just came upon another You Tube submission of yours on the 2003 JFK conference at your home town Catholic Duquesne University in 2003.

Just fascinating content and sharing. Had never seen or heard JFK film co-writer Zachary Sclar speak before. 

What really shocked me is the incredibly low number of views of these great You Tube videos. 38 for the Duquesne University JFK conference one? 38!?

A few hundred for the KRON TV Bethesda witness interview one?

Could you provide a link to this new Duquesne JFK conference one here in this thread?

Thanks for these. JB

Thanks a lot! Keep in mind: a lot of the videos have only been very recently posted (the oldies are a few weeks; the newest ones are minutes ago!). Here you go (now up to 63- only a few hours old):

Duquesne University 2003 JFK Assassination Conference - YouTube