David Andrews

Jack's funnin' us. But is there enough evidence in contacts, phone numbers, residences (esp. those LHO had or visited in Dallas) military assignments and documents, civilian cover jobs, etc., to prove or strongly imply that LHO was an active operative for one or more intel services on November 22, 1963? Perhaps this is an area where research consensus can be reached. I hope without resort to either Baker or Haslam.

Indeed. Johnson told Walter Cronkite in an April 1975 interview that “he was quite a mysterious fellow, and he did have a connection that bore examination, and the extent of the influence of those connections on him I think history will deal with more than we're able to do now." From Plausible Denial Mark Lane page 45 Maybe Alexander the Great had Lee beat for connections at 24 - but Alex came from money. In all their experiences, Oswald's contemporaries - Gordon Novel, Gerry Hemming, Loran Hall - had never done the Mission to Moscow duty that Lee did. To Jim DiEugenio - when you discuss with Len Osanic and John Judge how the research community should convene to establish CT issues that can't be argued or ignored...maybe the range of connections attributable to Oswald (or "Oswald") is one talking point to apply.

Oswald was perhaps the best-connected 24 year-old in history, with incredible breadth of association. It would be an unexplainable anomaly for such a person to act - or be acted upon - apart from some confluence of those connections.

I looked to my left and saw a man in a suit running. To my amazement, another man in a suit jumped in his path and smashed a Thompson submachine gun across his chest and face. The first man’s eyes immediately turned glassy, and he fell against a gray tile wall, and slithered to the floor unconscious. When I heard that gun slam against his face, I just knew the man’s jaw was broken. *Normally, I would have rushed over and treated the poor guy, but the president of the United States was waiting for me, and his condition was worse than broken bones. I was to learn later that the man with the gun was a Secret Service agent, and the one who had been hit was an FBI agent. (C. Crenshaw, et al, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence, 1992, p. 75) Can we understand from this a larger interpretation of SS policy toward FBI on that day (and in the planning for the post-assassination op)? Or was it just tension and shock taking duty too far? SS was manhandling people that day. Why, in each case? Organizational shock, or other?

Well, I got it to work as "Anonymous," but I signed my name.

Just what we need - more understanding.

I went back to Youtube after reading your post, because I have just bought a new laptop and I am moving files and could not retrieve the clip I downloaded right now. I have found a version of the same doc sequence, but this one is not as good, and rather pixelised (by the way, I saw some of your work: really good...; I am quite sure that the original clip I downlo Author garotted in mid-post?

How do I use the "Comment as" box in your blog replies? It doesn't like my name or my e-mail address.

Just an impression, a frisson from history's sandpaper edge: When I heard GHWB interrupt an address to decry the things written about his family on the internet, I thought of Louis XVI defending Marie Antoinette, Or Nicholas II faced with the slurs on his family (wife a German spy; Rasputin the cuckolder of the Czar). Tragedy and farce, as Marx wrote. But which incident was which?

Re: the JFK clip. Set decorators and cinematographers use all sorts of "cheats" to create illusions that objects, even walls, are present when they're not. In that tight shot of Gary Oldman firing and ejecting, photographed from front left, there may not be an entire box in the foreground at all. just the sliced off end of a box, with the markings facing the camera. Such a rig-up might have been necessary to get the actor, camera, lights and other gear together in a tight space.

Sullivan and Cromwell had a Standard Oil account, no? Predating the Dulles brothers?

It was a plaza surrounded by old official buildings, the county records, county court, old red, the terminal annexe out of the windows of which many persons would have spent years looking. If amongst them are the conspirators they would have a jump on whatever the route ended up being, familiarity with weather, wind, sun and other fundamentals... ie highly flexible and a place to usher in a new era. (#45) Absolutely - I forgot to mention the convenience to DPD, courts, county jail, sheriff's department...the postal inspector's office... Interesting the mentions one hears about an early sniper location being at the Adolphus Hotel - the 20th-century locus of power in big D. In the end, though, I suspect it was all logistical. Follow the pioneer thing too long, and you end up in the territory of the guy who wrote "King Kill/33." I'd still like to know if the sewers connect the TSBD and the Dal-Tex.

Sooner or later the question of why DP. Kennedy was a target as soon as he emerged from AF1. So why DP. There is one way that it makes sense and that lies in the history of Texas and therefore necessarily: DP. John Dolva @ #41 Logistically, DP offered multiple crossfiring positions, and so multiple opportunites for witness confusion. It gave quick access to the highways, making the dead and wounded easily removed from witnesses and non-conspiring lawmen. As the last crowd point before the highway ramps. it may have lulled the parade participants (and Kennedy) into relaxing, falsely supposing that the most dangerous parts of the long motorcade had passed. Arguably, it was the most escapable location for the conspirators. (It even worked for "Oswald.") A thing of awful genius. But I'd love to hear about the historical motivation...

Bump. And - Thank you, John Kelly.

Stand up for Libra, which is CT-friendly, presents useful speculative insights into small aspects of Oswald's character (apart from the book's own assassination theory), and is an important contributor to making CT reputable and discussable. Libra is also a stylistically perfect novel, one of the best novels of its time. This is a rich piece of writing that I hope will be remembered in literary opinion.

Obviously a tempest in a teapot. I deleted. Good luck.

Deleted for continuity's sake.

Deleted for humanity's sake.

Wondering if anyone knows any more facts about Kathy Ainsworth, fingered as Polka Dot Dress in this website: http://members.fortunecity.com/wernerhoff/rfk5.html I gave the link for the middle page of several. No credence in the contents is implied.

The Rosenbergs of their day, anarchism v. communism aside. Especially in being divisive of public opinion, and in stirring up bigotry. Note Edgar Hoover's involvement in both cases and both Red Scares.

It probably doesn't help when people quote a post, and the quote also replicates the image. Just a guess, though. (Evan Burton, #7) Maybe in some cases the thing to do is to just copy the relevant section of a post in bold, then add the author and post number, as above.

Thank you for this great and valuable forum. I believe this will become part of the history of assassination studies, and ought to be part of the history of modern governmental study as well.

A museum to Ruth would make a lovely church project. Michael could have his own small exhibit room, and Lee, the garage. Maybe the backyard could be redone to reflect Ruth's missionary experiences in Central America. Gerald Posner for curator.

Orlando Martin was on Black Op Radio this week. He favors a Dal-Tex shooter for the Tague miss, based on angle, and calls it as the first shot. Says too many fragments in the car, including substantial pieces of two bullets, to allow three shots/one shooter

Thank you, Tom. I'll look into the sources.