Jonathan Cohen

David, you're correct that Landis has never mentioned this crucial evidentiary detail until now. I suppose whether one believes his reasons for doing so will color one's opinions of the validity of his statements now.

Was surprised nobody had posted the link to this story, which is detailed by Vanity Fair. Secret Service agent Paul Landis now claims he retrieved an intact bullet from the top of the rear seat of the presidential limousine in the minutes after the assassination and placed it on President Kennedy’s stretcher at Parkland Hospital.

As much as I deeply respect the work of Dr. Newman, I find it very hard to believe that bumbling Watergate burglar James McCord was a Soviet spy...

10 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said:

What rubbish.

This forum has commentaries by such luminaries as James DiEugenio and Larry Hancock.

Quality before quantity.

W, the point is that all of the ridiculous conspiracy theories outlined in my original post, plus the wall-to-wall spamming by Linda O'Hara about a datebook of dubious authenticity, frequently overshadow the excellent research presented on this forum by Larry, Joe Backes, Jeremy B., and others.

13 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:

Some of the posts here are embarrassing, in particular regarding provenance of evidence.

The JFKA community could easily become a laughing stock. 

This forum already borders, if not crosses well into, laughing stock territory due to its embrace of preposterous nonsense such as Lee Oswald doppelgangers, the Three Tramps being different people than their arrest records confirm they are, every film and photo taken in Dealey Plaza having been altered, and so on. It's really a shame.

13 hours ago, Sandy Larsen said:

 

Pat,

If you spent more time looking for the truth and less time looking for evidence of a conspiracy, the quality of your findings would be much greater.

IMHO

 

Isn't it a bit rich for you to be telling anybody here how they should be researching this case?

50 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said:

So, if Oswald was in fact in Mexico City — not to establish an image but for something else entirely — would you venture what that something else might have been?

Exactly what he told Cuban and Russian officials during the trip - to obtain a visa to return to the Soviet Union.

36 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Why don't you visit the reviews and the cover blurbs; get back to me when you have.

 

I have. And the majority of reviews from actual students of the case find the book to not be credible.

You're making a big deal out of a made-for-TV fake trial. Who cares what Lopez said then? Gerry is correct that the Lopez report does NOT say Oswald never visited the Cuban consulate and Mexican embassy.

2 hours ago, David Josephs said:

Even Frazier does not put a person into the WEST corner of the landing...  wonder why?

Because he didn't see and/or wasn't paying attention to whoever was there?

8 hours ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Vince Salandria was rarely mistaken, but when he said, they'll wear you down,  he hadn't met Albarelli or those of us who recognized his revelations would shift the cold case murder investigation 180 degrees.

Uh-huh. That must be why hardly any serious student of the Kennedy assassination believes your conclusions.

27 minutes ago, Gerry Down said:

His investigation concluded no such thing. He personally might have thought that, but the investigation itself did not. 

Amen, Gerry. Thank you for pointing this out.

25 minutes ago, Paul Cummings said:

I agree with Larry Hancock and the interview with Hargraves in the back of his book. Tangodown63 is a great resource besides Larry. It's comical a guy would bring an umbrella to the hearing and claimed he still has it from 15 years ago. 

It's also comical you believe the three Tramps aren't actually the men their arrest records say they are.

1 hour ago, Ed Berger said:

Why should discussion of the history of this most curious corporate entity be prohibited?

I'm not saying it should be prohibited. It should just be moved out of the JFK Assassination forum, because the only aspect that bears even a tangential relationship to the subject is the unverified "datebook."

Once again, a series of posts that have no connection whatsoever to the JFK assassination. Will the moderators please intervene?

Yet another un-asked for, lengthy post from Leslie Sharp that has absolutely nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination. Will it ever stop?

What does ANY of this have to do with the Kennedy assassination?

3 minutes ago, David Josephs said:

Some visuals to go with the names...   I did not compile this collage fwiw

The Umbrella Man is a normal, everyday, non-conspirator human being named Louis Stephen Witt, and always has been.

15 hours ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Gen. Walker, identified as a significant force within the John Birch Society, was in direct communication with OAS officials in early 1963 — post Algerian Independence.

So what? Walker communicated with many people who shared his beliefs during this time.

15 hours ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Jean Rene Souetre is identified along with Walker in an April 30 entry of the datebook maintained by Jean Pierre Lafitte.  

Utterly meaningless until authenticated by proper authorities.

15 minutes ago, Doug Campbell said:

Why was the Lafitte "flow chart" posted twice as a topic in two different threads in 2 days? Spammers gonna spam.

Indeed. The moderators should do something about it.

1 hour ago, Leslie Sharp said:

(The following memo regarding Edwin A. Walker has been buried in  FBI files related to the John Birch Society until recently. BOLD emphasis added.)

Why are you posting this on two separate threads?

1 hour ago, Leslie Sharp said:

(The following memo regarding Edwin A. Walker has been buried in  FBI files related to the John Birch Society until recently. BOLD emphasis added.)

And the significance of this is ... what, exactly? Are you implying none of this information had heretofore been known about Walker's activities?

3 hours ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Thank you for that trajectory.  The popular meme is that "Hosty tore up his notes because he was ordered to."  This sets the record straight, presumably.  As a matter of interest distinct from PM, did Hosty keep notes from his visit at the Paine's house in early November? I'll search, but if you know off the top of your head . . . 

I believe you’re confusing what Hosty did with his interrogation notes with what he did to the note Oswald left at the FBI office, in which he asked Hosty to stop interviewing Marina when he wasn’t home. Hosty’s boss Gordon Shanklin ordered him to destroy the latter, which Hosty then did.

2 hours ago, Gil Jesus said:

I don't know the way you do it in Canada, but in the States we mark evidence for positive identification at a later time and date, like at a trial.

"The way you do it in Canada" ? Take your holier-than-thou, xenophobic nonsense somewhere else.

43 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Holding names close that were given you in confidence is admirable; in a murder investigation is that sufficient justification for protecting the identify of suspects? 

This is a truly unbelievable rhetorical question by you in light of your numerous "justifications" for who is or is not allowed to study the alleged datebook for themselves...