51 minutes ago, Joe Bauer said:

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LOL----they are referring to the Rolling Stones classic song Sympathy For The Devil:

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul to waste

And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain

I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah

I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made

I shouted out,
Who killed the Kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me

Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint

So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, mm yeah

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, mm yeah
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, mm mean it, get down

Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah! (woo woo)

Tell me baby, what's my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what's my name
I tell you one time, you're to blame

Oh, who
Woo, woo
Woo, who
Woo, woo
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Oh, yeah
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who

Oh yeah, what's my name
Tell me, baby, what's my name
Tell me, sweetie, what's my name

Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Oh, yeah

On 10/6/2020 at 12:17 AM, Micah Mileto said:

I think those links lead to an error page. Still in advance, thank you for them!

I don't know what happened to the image, but here it is again. In case you can't read that, it is also on my blog:

https://vincepalamara.com/2020/10/10/from-fbi-agent-frank-oneills-book-a-fox-among-wolves/

On 10/4/2020 at 3:45 PM, Micah Mileto said:

Do you have a snapshot or transcript of the pages in O'Neill's 2008 book A Fox Among Wolves where he says "some surgical procedure had been performed before the autopsy such as cutting of hair or removal of some tissue to view the head wound"?

On 9/30/2020 at 9:08 AM, Jessica Shores said:

John R. Woods II passed away in December 2019.  He had amassed an archive of over 3000 images which he would share with anyone who showed interest.  He communicated with Harry Livingstone, Harold Weisberg, Gaeton Fonzi and even provided security detail for Bradley Ayers.  John challenged the legitimacy of Oswald's palmprints on the rifle and got the Miller Funeral Home pictures and Oswald autopsy pictures released.  He always told me, "Dealey Plaza has been picked apart, the answers lie within the [Cuban] exiles."

Wow---I did not know he passed away. Sorry to hear that.

On 9/28/2020 at 9:27 AM, Rob Clark said:

I miss Peter Whitmey...he's not dead, just not active since the 90's..😪

I wrote to him a lot back and forth on Facebook earlier this year (we presented at the Third Decade conference in Fredonia, NY back in June 1991). He is doing well and still interested---he inquired as to JFK Lancer archiving his materials.

8 hours ago, Larry Hancock said:

And I remember Vince's first work...issued on CD...or was it floppy disc...grin.   And Groden's first picture books in book stores.  Not to mention the Compuserve JFK forum.   Its been a long road and people with expertise like Sherry's are sorely missed.

Thanks haha! Yes- very true.

15 hours ago, Richard Booth said:

What a depressing subject.  

Definitely! I remember the halcyon days of roughly 1988-1993 (pre-Stone movie to pre-Posner) when it seemed that the case was electric: seemed to always be on television, even if it was just tabloid tv specials. Bookstores had whole JFK assassination sections. Jackie, JFK Jr, Teddy, and Governor Connally were still alive. Print journals ruled the day. There was a certain naivete to those times. Looking back at it, it seemed the running theme of the fascination with the case was dramatic entertainment.

The Paine experts: Steve Jones, Barbara LaMonica and Carol Hewett. These three were big in the (mid-late) 1990's and all seemed to disappear by 2000 or so.

Best-selling author Harrison Livingstone (twice for High Treason + High Treason 2): deceased February 2015.

Anna Marie Kuhns-Walko: health reasons made her retire. I used to hear from her on Facebook now and again a few years ago, but no longer.

Kathlee Fitzgerald (assistant to Livingstone- helped with research for High Treason 2 and Killing The Truth): deceased 3/17/2019

Canadian researcher Ulric Shannon: in 1991, Ulric was a 17-year-old wunderkind at Jerry Rose's Third Decade conference in June 1991. Ulric went on to contribute to both the Third and Fourth Decade journals, as well as write several major articles still up at McAdams' site. He retired around 2004ish and is now Ambassador of Canada to Iraq! 

Medical evidence expert Kathleen Cunningham retired around 2000 and donated her materials here:

https://digital.lib.usf.edu//content/SF/S0/03/19/00/00001/U29-00082-C51.pdf

21 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

I don't recall how CBS had the idea passed on to them.

But Carol told me that, she volunteered to work for them in hopes that she could get some of her writing on the Paines on afterwards.

She also said that, at that time, Haslam was not convinced by Baker.  But as she worked on the case, she just did not find the story credible or cohesive.  And she also felt it was very much romanticized. And she could not understand why so many covert operators would expose themselves to meeting with her.

So she handed in her report.  But they did not do her Paine segment.  But further, she was really surprised how Haslam turned around and now accepted the Baker story.

Its really too bad that Carol just dropped out of the community.  She got sick when she was writing for Probe.  She had to undergo chemotherapy for cancer.  And from what I understand, from Max Good, she did not keep her files.

I have no problem saying, she was one of the best writers we ever published.

Carol was amazing--her, Steve Jones and Barbara LaMonica were the three Paine experts. They all faded away at the turn of the century. Kathleen Cunningham, a medical evidence expert, likewise gave up the ghost and donated all her archives to a Florida university and quit. I believe the end of the ARRB, the turn of the century, and 9/11 made some people think that was that.

14 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

Well sir, you asked for an honest opinion. . . 

Not to hijack the the thread but I've wondered about your thoughts about C. Douglas Dillon for some time given your expertise on the Secret Service.  Power Elite with Dulles, might the lack of security have trickled downward from the top?

C. Douglas Dillon, former OSS and anti-Castro, is definitely someone to raise eyebrows at. That said, I have found no hard evidence of anything.

14 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

There is a film coming out soon that will contest the claims of the book.

thanks for the info!

haha--thanks for your succinct comment

What do you think of this book? It was/is a best-seller and a steady seller with 800-plus reviews and a very nice aggregate average on Amazon, yet (maybe I missed it) I never hear anyone talk about it. Thoughts? I have my own but I am waiting to hear from all of you.

On 9/10/2020 at 2:47 AM, Adam Johnson said:

Wow thats spooky....Friday Nov 20th, 1959 the clock began ticking.

Vince, thru all your research do you have any opinion on SS chief Rowley ? As a man and regarding his work during 63 and 64 at the white house?

Many Thanks for your time in advance,

A.J

Hi! I don't view Rowley in a harsh light. In other words, he isn't someone I am overly suspicious of. He was a former FBI agent and was friends with Hoover. I am mad that he did not punish the nine agents who drank the morning of 11/22/63. That said, I view him thru more of a incompetence/negligence point of view than anything sinister, per se.

On 9/10/2020 at 7:35 AM, Robert Burrows said:

Your post made me curious, so I went to Newspapers.com and I found this article from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram dated November 1, 1959. To me, the young man in the photograph doesn't look like the Oswald pictured in the clipping from The Progress-Index.

thanks for sharing!

Some guy sent this to me with the caption "Vince!!! They put Oswald together like some dummy corporation for years!! Here is how the CIA knew to use him as a patsy later on!!"

Still, it is an interesting coincidence.

Comment?

Honest Answers about the Murder of President John F. Kennedy: A New Look at the JFK Assassination

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/163424334X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i4

coming 3/19/21 (paperback and kindle; available for pre-order now)

Thousands of books and articles have been written about the murder of JFK, many of which are large in volume and short on facts. Quite often, these works try to reinvent the wheel, attempting to cover every single area of the assassination, as well as many tangential and unessential points, as well. The reader is often left exhausted and confused. The sheer volume of pages, conflicting facts, and theories leaves one unsatisfied and, quite frankly, not sure exactly what did happen on 11/22/63. This book seeks to separate the wheat from the chaff. It is 55-plus years later: it is time for real, honest answers in an easy-to-read and understand format. Proof of a conspiracy; no theories; to-the-point; a perspective on the assassination for the millennial age and beyond. Based on years—decades—of primary source research and having read countless books on the subject

22 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

In my article about JFK and Trump, i wrote that Politico proves that the online revolution in journalism was stillborn.

Here is another example.  Norman Mailer as necessary reading on the JFK case?

THE TOP FIVE BOOKS:

The JFK Assassination by James DiEugenio

Destiny Betrayed SECOND EDITION by James DiEugenio

The Girl on the Stairs by Barry Ernest

The Lee Harvey Oswald Files by Flip de Mey

(warts and all) Inside The ARRB (Volumes 1-5) by Douglas Horne

One thing I can "give away": it is a PRO conspiracy book. It strongly advocates for conspiracy in the death of JFK.

8 hours ago, Daniel Rice said:

Yes, and any chance you (Vince) could post the table of contents?

Hi, Dan!

I will see if I can (the publisher seems to prefer I keep a tight lid on it until publication). That said, see my other comments to everyone else.

If I can, I will

7 hours ago, Micah Mileto said:

Maybe assassination research is overdue for a discord server!

I believe my book is a paradigm shifter for the better. It's greatest strength is the benefit of hindsight (56-plus years), the ARRB releases, etc. My big "tag line" on my book is that it is NOT the "same ole same ole": SBT, Oswald's bio, theories, rinse, repeat, zzzzzz  

Also----no tangential waters: dozens/hundreds of pages of "fluff". I like everything to the point.

3 hours ago, Anthony Thorne said:

I’ll give this a read Vince, keen to see what you have to say.

Browsing the Trine Day site, it looks like Whitney Webb has a new book forthcoming on the Epstein case. Good to see that Kris Milligan is hanging in there. 

Thanks, Anthony! Oh, yes---Trine Day seems to be doing well. Kindle is really keeping things going, no doubt.

My first two books have done very well...my last two books did so-so. Unfortunately, not a whole lot of people are into the Secret Service like I am LOL

My new book coming out early next year is something people have been asking me to do, off and on, for years---write a detailed book on just the assassination and what I believe/know happened. I think it turned out really well.

9 hours ago, Micah Mileto said:

What subjects will be in there?

It covers all aspects regarding the assassination- the physical evidence, the eyewitness evidence, the medical evidence, Oswald, Ruby, Tippit, suspects, the state of the case, what is valid, what is not, etc.. I firmly believe in the phrase "don't bore us- get to the chorus." You won't find dozens or hundreds of pages of tangential material where you are asking yourself "when can we get to the point" or "is this truly relevant and important?" I wrote a massively detailed work that gets straight to the point and is firmly NOT the "same ole same ole" when it comes to many assassination books.