David Andrews

Thank you.

Invite all those witches to be members!

Can we hear more about what two films were spliced, and who has seen them and leaked their existence?

Check the older threads. There may still be one posted. "Pickup" or "Pick-up" might be a good search term.

Alternate title based on the CTKA review: The Godawful Digest: or, How I Made my Auction Spending Back. https://player.fm/series/house-of-mystery-true-crime-history-2427582/the-skorzeny-papers-evidence-for-the-plot-to-kill-jfk-major-ralph-ganis

Note that, at the beginning of this interview, Tosh seems to suggest that the origin of his "abort team" mission was Eugene Dinkin's discovery of an "OAS"-assisted operation launched against JFK. So the assertion that Tosh never quoted published research or was fed (dis)info is somewhat suspect now: See some further statements Tosh made to other researchers on this two-page thread on another forum: https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?943-Tosh-Plumlee&p=124618#post124618

Y'see, Jim, the reason I ask whether "Oswald" (or someone else) could have exited the Croy-Westbrook car in the alley, and then been intercepted by Tippit at the mouth of the alley - instead of while walking along the 10th Street sidewalk - is that it's awfully strange that Tippit pulled over to block the mouth of that alley. Strange especially if there's already a cop car in the alley. The only other thing I can postulate is that Tippit in one car and Croy-Westbrook in another were trailing Oswald at a distance, and at the corner Croy-Westbrook broke away, turned onto Patton and entered the alley, arriving just after Tippit had intercepted "Oswald" at the alley mouth on 10th. But how did the cops in that alley car even know that alley was there? It's really no more than a nameless drive-through between houses that is itself off another, perpendicular, alley. Croy and Westbrook weren't Oak Cliff beat cops. They may have figured that many blocks in Oak Cliff had alleys running the length of the block, separating the house lots on parallel streets - but how to figure a drive-through that would T-bone with 10th Street in that block? There's a lot of police presence around that lousy little drive-through. How did everybody converge on that obscure but fatal spot, and when?

Them's were the days around here.

What witnesses do we trust to have been correct in saying was Oswald walking on Tenth St., from the corner and toward the alley? As opposed to having exited the cop car in the alley and then being cut off by Tippit?

Could two cars have been trailing Oswald, at walking speed, from a block away, and one gone off and around the block, into the alley?

If there's a police car (Kroy and Westbrook?) pulled up at the middle of the alley that Tippit pulled up to block the mouth of in order to intercept "Oswald," how did the cops in the alley car know to pull in there?

My thought: If we ignore it, will it crawl back into its hole? Is that working yet? Let me put forth a new conspiracy: I Anon. In I Anon, Trump is secretly working with Obama to keep the AHCA alive, for the benefit of the insurance corporations and the destruction of the working poor. What, that happened?

The Joesten article says things that perhaps needed to be said, and makes important challenges, but it does so with hyperbole, tactlessness, and a naivete about what was at stake for RFK and the Kennedy family. This is more invective than journalism or history, as if Joesten feels RFK is not taking as many risks as Joesten himself is. It's useful. though, for the descriptions of Johnson-did-it sentiments among insiders.

It would be grimly amusing if "Harvey" and "Lee" didn't know each other, and each had one half of those divided dollar bills to make contact with at the theater. But we digress...

with that third long conversation on pdf. Can somebody point me to a link for the JFk/MacArthur conversation transcript .pdf?

If accurate about the Oswald escape, there's the influence of variables: -- Two Oswalds? -- Competing interests in the direction of the cover-up? How does Martino's statement affect the view that Oswald was always the designated patsy? Throwing this out for all, not specifically Larry.

Juan Romero, 68, Ambassador Hotel bellboy who comforted a dying RFK, moves on: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-busboy-who-tried-to-help-a-wounded-robert-f-kennedy-in-1968-dies-his-life-was-haunted-by-the-violence/ar-BBNTXZH?li=BBnbcA1 "In our many conversations over the years, [Romero] said he often felt we were moving further politically from what he saw as a Kennedy legacy of tolerance and compassion."

There are quite a few past threads here that consider Freeport Sulphur, Clay Shaw, and broader connections. There should also be documents collected at the Mary Farrell Foundation site.

I think the legend is that he put on "his jacket" (so that the white Eisenhower windbreaker could be "found") and "his trousers" (or "pants," depending on the delicacy of the WCR historian). He's photographed being brought in wearing the controversial (Lovelady v. Oswald) nubby, brown-checked shirt, So did he "change his jacket (shirt)" or "put on a jacket"? Or neither?

This is petty but significant: Oswald, staying at the Paine house, didn't even get in a proper morning wash before work on the 22nd, and throughout his day in jail protested that he wasn't allowed a shower. That famous, saggy-necked T-shirt looks like yesterday's model as well. Um, wouldn't you?...

Hasn't Sylvia suffered enough?

Kudos to the author for paraphrasing the title of John Ford's WW II PT boat movie, They Were Expendable. Doubtless a film Kennedy saw,

What I meant: Since Tippit blocked the alley entrance with his car, was it because the subject that he next talked to through the passenger side window had walked down the alley toward Patton (instead of walking along the Patton sidewalk until Tippit stopped him, as is commonly supposed)? And might that person have walked toward Patton after exiting the police car said to be waiting further up the alley? This puts a new spin on things: subject gets out of one police car in the alley and walks down to Patton, where another police car pulls up at his feet. After a verbal exchange through the car window, the cop gets out and starts to come around the front of the car. That might make a subject carrying a pistol feel like he was being set up. Could the subject have been brought to the alley in one cop car (Westbrook's/Croy's), walked down to Patton Street, and been spooked by another cop car (Tippit's) pulling up and blocking the alley where it met the street? Or, instead, was Tippit directed (by radio?) to pull up and block the alley and confront the subject, who had been ordered to shoot Tippit? Too much police focus on one alley to not make the alley significant to the Tippit killing.

See also the past thread on this.

I have a feeling that the story Officer Mensel (sic) told Mrs. Tippit was a lie, and that Tippit was marked for death regardless. Also, since Tippit blocked the alley with his car, did he first observe the person he talked to through the car window exit the alley onto Patton, having been brought there by the alleged Croy/Westbrook car, and dropped off further up the alley?