David Andrews

The Siege of Jadotville (2016), about the Irish peacekeeping force in the Congo. Can't think of another film that cared enough to have Dag Hammarskjold as a character. Ignore the phony "Hyena Road II" monicker intended to evade YouTube takedown. And bring up the Vickers gun.

Here is a guy who stars in films ( The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and now Inferno. ) for what...$20,000,000 each? And where his lead actor role is to step up to dig for the truth that the main stream media is just not getting and under life and death risk to "save the world" and is looked upon as a conspiracy kook while doing so. Seems like the perfect cover for a disinfo agent to me. A*** J***s has been using it for years.

It would seem from the context of the WC emigre interviews that G DeM;s White Russian friend in Houston specifically objected to him bringing communist types around. But, other than GHW Bush, have we looked into whether G DeM could be meeting characters such as David Atlee Phillips in Houston? Note that Dr. Jitkoff, the Houston White Russian cited in the Voshinin WC testimony, is not deposed by the WC.

If the U2 is brought down because of info Oswald supplied the Soviets - is this info fed the Soviets in order to bring down the plane for a clandestine objective?

Marina allowed to leave USSR with Oswald so quickly because the Russians hoped to receive intel on the false defector program, Oswald's contacts, etc.? All within that limited, household context? (Sorry, just noticed Jim D. beat me to the punch here.)

Ruby would have had a lot of sex scandal dirt on these people. And therefor he ( and his bosses ) would have also had protection and influence with them as well. Which, if not in Dallas then in larger cities, would be accessible to intelligence agencies.

Not to make a big thing of this, but: My post glances off Ron Ecker's article on the oddities surrounding how Ruby's dog, Sheba, was left in Ruby's car during the Oswald shooting. Why did Ruby name a dog "Sheba" in the first place? "Sheba" is not exactly a wiseguy's dog's name, and Sheba was not exactly a wiseguy's dog breed. I'm suggesting that the name "Sheba" is a homosexual subculture reference, based on the movie/stage play title's having become become a camp catch phrase by the 1960s. I linked to the Wiki page for the movie in my post. I admit that the 1952 movie caused "Sheba" to become a popular dog's name...but not among your average wiseguys. "Come back, little Sheba" stuck around long enough as a gay catchphrase to be recorded in Angels in America by Tony Kushner, in the 1990s (see link): https://books.google.com/books?id=yvfoCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=come+back+little+sheba+gay&source=bl&ots=uLplP_XvXg&sig=AosgvMJJZ6vVWHxRb0usMjsAH-g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYqov297zPAhWRxiYKHYKfAZA4ChDoAQgzMAY#v=onepage&q=come%20back%20little%20sheba%20gay&f=false They used to use "Come back, little Sheba" in gay-subtext gags on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. I can't be the only old man who remembers this.

An overlooked reference to Ruby's character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Back,_Little_Sheba_(1952_film) As I remember it from the 1960s, "Come Back, Little Sheba" was a camp phrase slung about by homosexuals to refer to lost hopes, or to call out neglected-acting drama queens (such as the pining dog owner that Shirley Booth plays in the movie).

Without contradicting you in the least, this doesn't preclude development of a private medico-espionage industry devoted to the legend of assassination through cancer cell tramsmission. David: I agree that there were (and maybe still are?) devilish plans of intelligence agencies over the world to use biological vehicles to kill someone. Andrej, Chris: In the case of the Castro-kill industry of the 1960s, I meant the legend (as in con-job) of assassination through cancer cell transmission. Imagine a part-privatized medical assassination cabal - offshoot of the military industrial complex and ancestor of today's privatized warfare - that sucked in uncountable dollars from the fathomless black budget, for facility and personnel subsidization, R & D, and some field trials on humans, all based on the spurious concept of injecting political targets with live cancer cells and killing them. A spurious concept sworn to by a cabal of doctors and researchers. It's not far-fetched when measured by later espionage and biowarfare developments. I don't mean to beat this to death, but I had limited time to write my original post and want to be clear. This was the light bulb that went off over my head when I opened this thread this morning. I can't convince myself that such chicanery would have been beyond the pale for the cold war era.

Without contradicting you in the least, this doesn't preclude development of a private medico-espionage industry devoted to the legend of assassination through cancer cell tramsmission.

Was anyone arrested in the Michigan cherry bomb incident? Seems like the kind of thing that might have been staged for effect, on-camera.

I can't tell people what to do...but I'd just flat ignore this happy HS. Only the worst will snap at it. (Funny how a list is now assembling itself in my mind...)

I've read Perlstein's Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge. One of his tactics as a historian is to characterize strategies and motivations in quick, shoot-from-the-hip descriptions and epithets ("bugout plan," "closet peacenik"). When his judgments are accurate, this audacious style works. In the opposite, the style is a methodological liability, and can lead to big-picture misrepresentations, as with JFK's Vietnam strategy

Can't the CIA afford to give a syndicated show to anyone they want anymore? Or do some simply not pass the audition? (Beatles joke within, if you stretch your memory.) PS: If you're a Beatles fan steeped in the Paul is Dead myth since 1968, then this short film (link below) will be a lot of fun for you. Features better fake-Beatles songs than do more expensive and "accurate" Beatles bio-pics:

From my early childhood, I remember that on his death and in his UN years, Hammarskjold had a popular/media reputation as one of the foremost humanitarians in public service. (My small town schoolteachers praised him upon his passing, and after.) It's not surprising that he didn't fit the neocolonialist age, and had to be removed from it. I'm sure that wasn't surprising to people in the know then, as it wasn't to Truman. But did Kennedy know?

I would tend to agree, Chris. I'm far from an expert, but I did some shooting with 16mm Arriflex wind-ups in college, and saw plenty of developed film reel with image bleeding over into the sprocket hole area. So why not in a cheaper 8mm consumer model from 15 years previous? Did the images I saw go flush left, as Lifton and Zavada complain they shouldn't? I'm afraid I can't remember. But apparently your sample above obviates the different color = two passes in the optical printer argument.

You could make some future political candidates there, too.

Can we reconcile this at all with still photos of the limo emerging from the underpass? I'm thinking of the ones with the Old Charter billboard visible.

Something I myself hadn't before thought of in the years of references to I Led Three LIves, but we have a cultural penchant for associating our assassins with a particular literary work or film said to have served as a formative or obsessive influence. Taxi Driver, The Catcher in the Rye, The Turner Diaries, even John Wilkes Booth with Julius Caesar (which is where this theme seems to have originated). John Pic's Warren Commission testimony is interesting: he seems to have carried in with him some kind of attitude that isn't directly apparent in his transcribed words, but which rattled his deposer (I think it's Rankin) so much that he called Pic on it several times, warning him of his legal standing and also his military obligation to comply. WSs it the hypocrisy of holding a commission to whitewash a truth generally known among the commissioners that Pic objected to? Because he was standing by his past attitude as well when he spoke to Armstrong. There's a great contrast between Pic and Robert Oswald before the WC - one that might have eluded us if the commission counsel hadn't put Pic's demeanor on record. Pic was perhaps as close to having a hostile witness as the WC ever got.

What prompted the protest gathering that paved the way for this? Had there been police-on-civilian violence in Dallas this year? (It's getting hard to keep track.) EDIT: OK, my own answer: "The protests in Dallas were among several across the country that were held after a Minnesota officer on Wednesday fatally shot Philando Castile , a black American, while he was in a car with his partner Diamond Reynolds and her daughter in a St. Paul suburb. Reynolds live streamed the aftermath of the shooting in a widely shared Facebook video. "A day earlier, Alton Sterling was shot in Louisiana after being pinned to the pavement by two white officers. That, too, was captured on a mobile phone video." So why a protest event in Dallas? Was a city permit issued?

Just as a research lead, does anyone know if Tippit's body was photographed on the ground before it was taken away? Is there any log of still photos taken at the scene, excluding later recreation photos?

Of course it would make sense. To encourage or reinforce Ruby. I imagine that Ruby standing there waiting with the task of shooting Oswald could use a little moral support. And from a public perspective what did it matter who was standing next to him, as the perps knew they could have Ruby execute Oswald on national TV and get away with it, as surely as they got away with blowing JFK's brains out in broad daylight? I mean, how many people have ever heard of officer Croy? Is Westbrook also in the garage for "crowd control"?

Does the limo hood/fender area appear larger/taller also once it goes to b/w?

Yow! No wonder academia is in the dumps. Check other Asian book marts online - there's gotta be a better deal.

Poulgrain currently out-of-stock at Amazon. $10.95 USD from the publisher, a Malaysian progressive think tank: http://sird.gbgerakbudaya.com/category/books/history/