David Andrews

“I don’t see the Cold War as authentic. Rather I view it as a cooperative effort to foist on both the American and Russian civilian populations an enormous military-Intelligence budget”. It's been suggested here on the Forum in the past, re: Salandria or or otherwise. Usually people point upward to international finance as the creator of competing economic-philosophical systems.

One interesting idea in Salandria is that the military weaponized Fletcher Prouty against the CIA.

How did Marina support herself and her daughters during the years after the Porter marriage?

“So overwhelming and voluminous is the evidence of conspiracy provided for us by the government that we are compelled to conclude that if not the, at least a number of possible plots, were meant by the conspirators to be quasi-visible. The federal government has deluged us with evidence that cries out conspiracy.” ...Imagine if that's another reason that some people had to die, also.

Moïse Tshombe's amusing career highlights, under Western eyes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moïse_Tshombe

There's lots more DH material kicking around the net since this issue last came up on EF a couple years ago. Here's an older documentary that cites a different Bad Guy pilot, who of course hit the DH plane by accident. Very much worth seeing for its other charms:

There are several worthwhile Guardian articles on the crash, if one pursues all the click-throughs. It seems that Europeans care about assassination of their leaders, even on the eve of Brexit. Book on the incident: https://guardianbookshop.com/who-killed-hammarskjold-503078.html And this just in: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/new-clues-to-1961-death-of-hammarskjold/

Story in The Guardian today about new documentary on the Dag Hammarskjold plane crash. Bullets involved: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/12/raf-veteran-admitted-killing-un-secretary-general-dag-hammarskjold-in-1961

Kennedy at Forrestal's grave, 1963 - this link Repaying old favors, Kennedy brought James Forrestal's son Mike into the NSC circle, under Bundy. Unfortunately, the younger Forrestal is accused by some of helping Lodge and Harriman do the famous weekend end-run around Kennedy's wishes for the Diem deposition in Vietnam.

From The Sixth Floor Museum...In which everything but the essay is discussed.

I mostly don't care to compare Mailer to JFK, Joe. I'm sure Kennedy was a better guy than me, also - though I like Mailer better than many people I know personally, and he was nice to me when I met him in Boston in about 1988. What I do say is that, throughout all the Mailer I've read, Mailer's opinion of Kennedy at the time, and over time, is more qualified than Ruha paints it, and in general Ruha paints Kennedy too sentimentally. DiEugenio writes about more germane and important things than whether Kennedy appreciated artists. Is Mailer a better writer when someone makes us think he thought the world of JFK? Like it or not, "Superman" was the liberal press Kennedy was getting on the eve of the election.

What struck me most about the interview was a passing remark whose importance was invisible on the scale of politics, but was altogether meaningful to my particular competence. As we sat down for the first time, Kennedy smiled nicely and said that he had read my books. One muttered one's pleasure. "Yes," he said, "I've read…" and then there was a short pause which did not last long enough to be embarrassing in which it was yet obvious no title came instantly to his mind, an omission one was not ready to mind altogether since a man in such a position must be obliged to carry a hundred thousand facts and names in his head, but the hesitation lasted no longer than three seconds or four, and then he said, "I've read The Deer Park and…the others," which startled me for it was the first time in a hundred similar situations, talking to someone whose knowledge of my work was casual, that the sentence did not come out, "I've read The Naked and the Dead…and the others." If one is to take the worst and assume that Kennedy was briefed for this interview (which is most doubtful), it still speaks well for the striking instincts of his advisers. -- "Superman Comes to the Supermarket," Esquire, November 1960 https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3858/superman-supermarket/

They melted down the beams from the WTC in Asia and sold them back to Trump for the steel slat fence. "I ain't right, but I ain't wrong, 'neither."

I've read Mailer on meeting JFK, and he felt that JFK was groping for praise when he only mentioned the title of Mailer's latest book, and acknowledged in an Er-Um way that there were "others." My reading of Mailer discovered no great partisanship for Kennedy; Mailer, after all, wrote the unfawning, critical piece on the campaign, "Superman Comes to the Supermarket," which Ruha ought to review. That said, I can get behind the bulk of his sentimental praise of Kennedy's intellect and taste. I think DiEugenio's line on Kennedy's geopolitical thought is more incisive, however.

Is it accurate to sum up that Helms put Hunt in the White House to spy on Nixon, plus run ops for Colson that could be used to embarrass Nixon. Then McCord blew the burglary, dumping Hunt and crew to take down Nixon for Helms and Helms' extra-governmental backers? Also, what should we make of Hunt's actions in the ITT scandal follies?

Yes, I just saw that in the FBI report. I was about to ask if I'm correct in remembering that Tippit was found on his back with the top of his head facing the front wheel and tire, and not in front of the chrome front bumper, where the blood smear is. Photo 18 in the FBI report, showing two tire-width paving strips running past an outdoor stairs and out of the alley (a popular installment prior to the 1960s) makes that alley seem more tiny and weird as a place for the Westbrook car to pull up in without prior planning. That Tippit's car and the Westbrook car T-bone the alley shut looks like a prearranged setup, not an accident of time and place. I've asked before: did Tippit's killer exit the Westbrook car in the alley and walk to the street to meet Tippit? Do we have reliable testimony that the killer was walking on the sidewalk when Tippit pulled over? Do we believe Helen Markham on this?

Interesting that there's no blood on the pavement where Tippit supposedly fell.

I get it. Thanks, DJ.

But why is there generationally darkened shadow that covers both the west face and the south face of the building, without even a wrap effect visible on either side of the corner?

That's some major shadow. The last time I saw something that black, rectangular and conspicuously placed, pilgrims were marching around it in Mecca. A shadow hiding the alleged radio control truck? It's as black as the filmstock around the frames

Not to start this business again, but DJ's .gif at 3 posts above keeps flashing in my face, showing me 2 black rectangular areas (one larger, one smaller) under the blue cornice of the building, left of the 3 green arrows. Why would that unnatural looking, unnaturally shaped black patch be there? Sorry, Ron - I want to read about the radio crosstalk as much as you.

The regard of Helms for Hunt is hard to believe, considering that of all involved in Watergate, Hunt fared the worst in personal damage, financial loss, and irrecoverable reputation. This for a burglary that was probably blown in to the police by Hunt's own agency. Doug, I forget: did you know Hunt after prison? How did he speak of Helms?

Larry, you are one of the most necessary people here.

"... I don't know if the Mob did it, but I doubt it. From my experience as a committee investigator and, later, as a team leader, I know that the Committee's investigation was simply not adequate enough to produce any firm conclusions about the nature of the conspiracy. To give the impression that it was, is a deception...." - From The Last Investigation, by Gaeton Fonzi. A country that had just finished interning Japanese citizens in wartime wouldn't extirpate its organized crime syndicates. The value judgments made here signify...what, exactly?

It could have been out of knowledge of Selassie's human rights record, as we say today: when the narrator claims that Selassie curbed his own imperial power to create a stable regime...let's just say that wasn't his first choice or one he made uninfluenced. Then again, JFK's back may have been bothering him. However - what would have been the protocol for having an Emperor in the limo? Give him the limelight? The answer may be somewhere amidst all these concerns.