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David Andrews

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  1. Keven, in your "stare of death" detail posted above, with yellow arrow, notice there is almost a straight line of black on the left border of the front wound. Looks very un-hairlike. If you look at a full, larger version of the photo, the black covers the parietal area and seems to proceed upward into JFK's crown hair. That's what I meant by "What's all that black?"
  2. In this fine and valuable post, terms used are a bit fluid among interviewees and the author. The author makes distinction between use of an optical effect (an inserted traveling matte, not used) and aerial imaging (painting in the forward head wound, skull "flap," and skull explosion). Rutan, however, cites the forward wound as an "optical" effect. The forward skull "flap" is rather realistic looking in Zapruder. Is it possible that the forward wound is actually a filmed image of the rear wound transposed to the right front, through whatever means? Combination of traveling matte for the "flap" with aerial imaging used to create the skull explosion? Appearance of a manufactured right front "flap" in the autopsy photos would require taking the time to review the doctored Z-film and replicate the altered frames. Alternately, what's up with all the black over the parietal area in the "stare of death" photo? Check full size at link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy_of_John_F._Kennedy The frontal wound images and records need some further examination. Good one, Keven.
  3. If one wanted a warts-and-all analog to Joe Frady, protagonist of The Parallax View... But let's see what Jim D researches. And, I agree - someone got too close to the network and paid for it. It's obvious Riconsciuto spread disinfo...but why did someone have to die if it was a pack of lies?
  4. Jim, for a view on the October Surprise, try Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America's Private Intelligence Network, by Joe Trento. https://www.amazon.com/Prelude-Terror-Americas-Private-Intelligence/dp/0786714646
  5. Thank you. I don't think it's a bad documentary, I just think it should have been sharper on the origin issues you cite. The doc puts forth that the Octopus was created by a set of named characters (Shackley, Cline, etc. ...but not Paul Helliwell), but not how these characters created Safari Club and the Octopus network. Along the way they busted out a number of criminally managed US savings and loan companies, causing a financial crisis. All this is more important to understand than that these characters were machinating before the creation of CIA, an assertion the narrative leans on heavily without saying why it's significant. We know what's going on, but the general audience might not. Better to discuss the deeds.
  6. Here's a documentary on Mark Lombardi, a New York artist whose death in March 2000 was ruled a suicide. Lombardi was attracting attention through creating graphic representations of flow charts showing the movement of money and influence among politicians, intel ops, corporations and banks from the Safari Club/Contra war period forward. It was a truly modern art, and some critics may have taken up arms against it.
  7. Probably no one else is so undignified as to bring this up, but what separates the Z-film that RB Nichols showed the reporter from the not-so-deepfake that Bill Cooper unwisely pedaled for years? Nichols' version was faked on film, not video? If a film fake was circulating as far downstream as Nichols, then someone at some intelligence-friendly film lab was proud enough of their 1963 work to create extreme fakes in order to show off their capabilities, and Nichols and other intel bottom feeders were using the fakes to awe, influence and mislead viewers. My note on The Octopus Murders: the credibility of Danny Casolaro's research would have been underscored by explaining the Ted Shackley-GHW Bush axis at CIA that created the private, international intelligence network known as the Safari Club to counteract the Jimmy Carter-Stansfield Turner budget and personnel cuts at CIA. That, and some exploration of how banks like BCCI and Nugan Hand operated as funders of illegal clandestine ops through investments made by several countries' intel services, not just CIA's. It was the background that enabled and informed the Reagan admin's Contra war in Central America and its flows of arms, supplies, capital and drugs.
  8. You can see Danny Arce's long raincoat in your second pic above. If Oswald had worn such a thing that day...who would need a curtain rod story?
  9. From the original Lansdale hypothesis post, Prouty: [Lansdale] knew the "Protection" units and the "Secret Service", who was needed and who wasn't. Those were routine calls for him, and they would have believed him. Given Lansdale's jobs and the associations he would have made therein, why would this be so?
  10. Michael, is this another version of Robert's list, or someone else's list? I'm surprised not to see Bill Shelley or Danny Arce on it, the latter in his long, rifle-concealing, raincoat. In the fireteam section, what method or information was used to pair the shooters with specific weapons? One question we never consider: could Oswald (CAP cadet, Ferry protege, Atsugi operator) fly a prop plane? Might be useful to know. Garrison was a pilot, but we never hear about Oswald's capabilities from him.
  11. Well, how could Ruby predict Oz would take the dogleg off North Beckley over to 10th and Patton? Unless Oz was told to expect a car pickup near that location, with Texas Theater the default. But - tradecraft be damned - if someone told me that the day before, I'd go another way to the default, especially if I'd been told DPD would be picking me up. Better to be just another working stiff at lunch, walking in the crowds of tragedy-distracted people on Jefferson Blvd.
  12. Calvin, in one of the videos by Daniel Sheehan linked below (so sorry, I didn't catch which, or the timestamp), Sheehan discusses a written resolution to attach and preserve world industrial materials for the US and her allies.
  13. In the color autopsy photo shown, the frontal right hairline wound looks like it has already been dissected, with angular flaps retracted. The photo may show a midpoint in the autopsy between dissection of the front wound and any addressing of the rear wound. We're seeing discrepancies between this set of color photos, the "Stare of Death" wound photo, and the officially released autopsy photos.
  14. @5:38 - interesting back/shoulder shot of JFK, for suit jacket comparison.
  15. What is the actual name of the withdrawn Facebook video? In case one wanted to hunt.
  16. I've always looked on the JFKA as a centrist act, where interests coalesced, only some of them politically right-wing.
  17. Thanks, Pat. One wonders why the right side looks intact in the "Stare of Death" autopsy table photos.
  18. I've always been confounded that, at Parkland, no note was made of a blow-out detaching skull from the temporal and front parietal areas, resembling the "flap" in Zapruder and shown in the autopsy photograph taken from the rear. (The only autopsy photo to show the "flap"; the right side is intact in others.) You'd believe that brain tissue loss there would have been recorded at Parkland, and that the sight would have been visual proof of mortality to ER staff, thus memorable. What was up at Parkland? Is the "flap" in any witness recollections?
  19. I'm thinking that driving a car accident victim to a hospital was, by law or custom, a Texas form of due diligence meant to ward off Hit-and-Run charges if no policeman was summoned. Imagine thousands of miles of unpoliced, rural Texas highway - you'd be expected to take someone you hit out there to a hospital. "Nick" would have been a stand-in for Jada at the hospital, and a witness that the driver saw after the victim's welfare. He might have slipped the vic a couple twenties on the way.
  20. "A far mean streak of independence brought on by negleck" (neglect). Did Oz write that about himself, or did Howard Hunt or David Atlee Phillips ghostwrite it, casting Oz in the resourceful loner role, the World Historical Individual shaded somewhere between Davy Crockett and Charles Starkweather? I've read those guys. I'm not sure they're were that expressive as fictionneurs.
  21. Ergotism, or ergot poisoning producing hallucinogenic effects, was well known in Middle Ages Europe and in other periods and places, determined by deduction (and experiment?) in the days before lab analysis. That's one reason why Sandoz chemists turned up their noses at testing grain: they were ergot snobs, they'd been around the block with rye ergot and now were holding instead The Real Junk (as Lux Interior once put it). Maybe Wisner aerosolized it over France figuring that, historically, the source would be pegged at natural grain corruption. Among the medieval Euro-maladies blamed on Ergotism were religious mania, witch persecution, pilgrimages of flagellantes, etc. If sex were involved - it was the devil's work. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6640538/ "Ergotism is thought to have occurred in ancient times (de Costa, 2002; van Dongen and de Groot, 1995), but had its peak level in Europe in the Middle Ages when the disease affected many thousands of people. A monastic order especially cared for the afflicted, the patron saint of which was St. Anthony (Fig. 1). The malady itself was known at that time as ignis sacer (holy fire), or St. Anthony's Fire, because of the burning sensations in the limbs (Matossian, 1989). "The first well‐documented epidemic of ergotism was in ad 944–945, when about 20,000 people living in Paris and the Aquitane region of France, at that time about one‐half of the population, died of the effects of ergot poisoning (Matossian, 1989; Schiff, 2006). Matossian (1989) also speculates that the slow recovery after the plague epidemics in Europe in the 14th century was at least partly caused by reduced fertility as a result of ergot toxifications. Ergot poisoning is nowadays widely believed to have influenced social history, such as the witch trials of Salem and in Norway during the 17th century (Alm, 2003; Caporael, 1976) and even mystic religious movements (Packer, 1998). Already in the late 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries, observations of the link between ergot‐contaminated rye and disease were made (Bauer, 1973), but it was not until the 19th century that the mycologist Louis Rene Tulasne revealed the correlation between infected rye and ergotism (Tulasne, 1853). This led to increased efforts to reduce ergot contamination in rye (for example, by flotation of seeds to remove sclerotia); therefore the occurrence of larger epidemics became rare. The most recent epidemic in Germany occurred in 1879–1881; however, there have been more recent epidemics in parts of Russia (1926–1927) (Barger, 1931; Eadie, 2003) and Ethiopia (1977–1978) (Urga et al., 2002), and, in India, outbreaks continued until the late 20th century (Tulpule and Bhat, 1978)."
  22. A belated Merry Christmas to all, with fondness for some who are no longer here. Let's encourage peace on earth.
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