Jonathan Cohen

1 hour ago, Roger Odisio said:

Where would you get such a ridiculous idea, Jon?  From anything I've written?  Does it have anything to do with my posting of the point that Castro quickly understood that JFK was murdered by the war machine/CIA in his own government?  To which you're supposedly commenting?

Or was your post simply a ploy to have your name appear on the topic's first page, so people would move on without reading the thread?  

There's really no need for such nastiness. I simply asked you the question because you were the first person to reply to the original post on this thread and you didn't address the specific (and ridiculous) claim Douglas Caddy makes regarding aliens. Relax, man.

15 minutes ago, Roger Odisio said:

How would the Cuban Government know? Start with Castro's reactions, published in a Dec 7, 1963 article by Jean Daniel, an envoy from JFK who was having lunch with Castro at the time, when he heard JFK had been murdered.   https://newrepublic.com/article/120460/fidel-castro-reaction-kennedy-assassination-cuba.

 

The article is full of insights into Castro's thoughts about Kennedy and US  policy.  His first reaction: "This is bad news." Then: "Everything is changed." "Everything is going to change."

 

His explanations for those statements is contained in two speeches he gave soon after the murder. The first on the day after: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvqRAu42gs0.   

 

The second on Nov 27. https://archive.org/details/CastroSpeechJFK2/page/n1/mode/2up

 

Castro was a keen student of the US government.  His life depended on it.  He immediately understood the murder in a way the still eludes many today. 

Roger, do you believe Kennedy was assassinated because he was about to tell the free world that aliens existed?

6 hours ago, Sandy Larsen said:

This is one of the copies of Altgens 6 that has been intentionally altered to show the plaid pattern on Carl Jones's arm and hand.

I didn't really want to get into all this at this time. But here is a summary of why it is that somebody saw fit to draw a plaid pattern on Jone's arm and hand.

Of course, there is no "they" and nobody ever drew "a plaid pattern" on anybody in this photo, which went out over the AP wire very shortly after the assassination (as has been discussed here at length). Absolute and total nonsense.

29 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said:

The late William F. Buckley's "National Review" seems over the moon with Robert Kennedy Jr.s' run as an independent candidate against Biden and Trump.

Further to a previous post on EF Mainstream Water Cooler related to Buckley, it is important to note that the Buckley oil dynasty enjoyed business association with Jack Crichton prior to Castro's nationalization of US oil interests in Cuba.

On what planet do any of these things have ANYTHING to do with one another? Why are you connecting the fact that William F. Buckley's family did business with Jack Crichton 70 years ago to the fact that a magazine founded by Buckley just as long ago is now, in 2023, supporting a specific presidential candidate? The leaps in logic are extraordinary and reveal absolutely nothing.

29 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said:

Crichton is identified in the 1963 datebook maintained by Pierre Lafitte that reveals significant clues to the plot to assassinate Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963.

You mean the unverified, un-authenticated "datebook" ?

8 hours ago, Robert Reeves said:

A.J. Weberman may be a pot smoking Bob Dylan admitted stalker, but he was, along with Garrison, seemingly, doing more work to track down who the three tramps were than the FBI, CIA, Dallas Police, SS or anyone else.

In Fact, A.J. Weberman offered, and paid, quite considerable amounts to a couple of the police officers photographed with the tramps for interviews. At least someone bothered!

And your point is .... ? Just because he did "more work" than others doesn't mean his work has any validity to it whatsoever. Of course it is clear now that the three tramps do not include Charles Harrelson and Howard Hunt -- they're the three ordinary men whose DPD arrest records were found by the LaFontaines in the early 1990s.

10 minutes ago, David Josephs said:

As for the Wallets...  Here is 2005 "Oswald's Wallet" thread:  there were 5 wallets identified

Posted July 31, 2005
On the WALLETs...all of the above and more.

I wrote articles for the Fourth Decade in the 90s on the wallets.

John Armstrong has the best answers in HARVEY&LEE, pages 862-868.

There were at least four. DPD suppressed photo below. Also, wallet

at Tippit scene.

Jack

The idea that John Armstrong "has the best answers" about ANY subject related to the Kennedy assassination is thoroughly laughable ...

Sadly, "Coup d'Etat in America" is worthless as serious scholarship of the case.

1 minute ago, Larry Hancock said:

On another note I can say that Hosty was quite clear during his talk at a Lancer conference and later with me personally that his FBI buddies in MC told him in no certain terms that they  had heard Oswald was under surveillance in MC and had been photographed.

Which, if true, would naturally destroy the years-long insistence of many, many members of this forum that Oswald was never physically present in Mexico City...

13 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:

Just about everywhere.

Can you be more specific please?

The various oddities found on the tape are covered in great detail in Josiah Thompson’s “Last Second in Dallas.”

1 hour ago, Sandy Larsen said:

But it's sad to see that John Newman is way off on what Mexico City was all about. For one, he thinks Oswald actually was in the Cuban consulate. I can't imagine what his explanation is for why there were no surveillance photos of him. But I'll keep my mind open.

You think just because there aren't surveillance photos of Oswald at the Cuban consulate that Oswald wasn't there? Guess that means you're intentionally ignoring the mountain of evidence proving he was.

1 minute ago, Sandy Larsen said:

OMG, you are so right Jonathan!  I mean, had Ruth Paine been a CIA asset, she simply would have admitted so! 

Your attempt at humor notwithstanding, there's not a shred of actual evidence that Ruth Paine was anything other than a Dallas housewife.

20 minutes ago, Pamela Brown said:

Ruth got Lee Oswald into a lot of trouble. In fact, it could be said she dotted every 'i' and crossed every 't' to cause as much trouble for him as possible while pretending to 'help'...

I think there are too many odd coincidences to buy into  the "ever-so-helpful" myth about Ruth...i

But if she was in fact a 'govt spy' as you suggest I am claiming, just whose 'govt' would she have been taking orders from? 

More complete nonsense. Ruth did nothing to Oswald that Oswald hadn't already set in motion himself.

1 hour ago, Sandy Larsen said:

 

Yep. What she said.

 

Absolute nonsense. Ruth is on record as to why she copied the letter, and her reasons for doing so are perfectly legitimate without having to accuse of her of being a government spy. 

I greatly respect Dr. Newman and his work, but I am not buying these claims about James McCord.

31 minutes ago, Sandy Larsen said:

What I used is the average of multiple polls. It is known in the field of statistics that averages of polls give more accurate results. (Because of the "law of large numbers.")

Oh really? Can you cite a source for your claim that averaging polls is "known in the field of statistics" for giving "more accurate results" ? Because averaging an average does not in any way give an "accurate" result. To arrive at such, you'd need the actual raw data (total number of respondents, for example).

36 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:

If she cannot get anything out of LAPD then they must have clamped down hard.

Why?

Because they're ... still investigating what actually happened? Not sure why that's so hard to believe ...

29 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said:

National Geographic is regarded as a CIA front, including by Mark Groubert. 

National Geographic is a CIA front? In 2023? Is EVERYTHING a big government conspiracy to you?

23 minutes ago, Lori Spencer said:

It’s rather an interesting coincidence (?) that the night before a heavily armed man was arrested at RFK’s Los Angeles speech, Kennedy gave a major TV interview about the Paul Landis revelations, called for a real investigation of the JFK Assassination and the release of all JFK Records Act files. 

Are you seriously suggesting that “they” sent an assassin the next day to kill Kennedy because of this “major TV interview?” Give me a break.

3 hours ago, Micah Mileto said:

Does it still work for you?

It works perfectly fine, as it did when you previously asked the same question, only to later admit it was an issue on your end because you were using a proxy ...

2 hours ago, David Josephs said:

Fiction doesn't belong on this forum unless to debunk it for being offered as "non-" 

Great! So that must mean we can look forward to never hearing about "Harvey and Lee" ever again!

1 hour ago, Paul Brancato said:

Duh - shows up to a campaign event uninvited and fully armed

I guarantee you many people have done exactly the same (especially in open carry states), without any intent to assassinate the given candidate....

3 hours ago, Lori Spencer said:

Lisa Pease and I spent the weekend researching the suspect, Adrian Paul Aispuro. 
 

Here’s what we know so far. 
 

He’s a weird one! 

Yawn ... he went bankrupt and believes in alien conspiracies? Why are you in such a rush to connect this person with an "assassination attempt" ?

22 minutes ago, Joseph Backes said:

Do you think he was there to get his autograph?

Joe

Joe, I don't know why he was there, and as of now, apparently neither does anybody else. So it's irresponsible for people to shout "assassination attempt!" at this juncture.

Robert Kennedy Jr. is "no conspiracy nut" ? Now that's hilarious ...