Steve Duffy

Thanks Bill, that's the info on Masen I've read, I'm trying to find out as much as possible. Evica had some good information, also...I'll do a thorough search on him, glad you mentioned Brinegar, it's another name i'd forgotten.......I hope more people add to this thread...

Thirded...I'm interested, very interested, in all info on John Masen...

Keep posting guys, some of us stay silent...but we respect the input greatly.

I'm glad this thread has been bumped...Jack I appreciate your work here also...Norton is a fascinating figure. Do you think Armstrong will be talking about this at Hawaii?

God help me, I ordered it....it had free shipping, I'll wonder if that will be honored to Australia?...

Interesting, thanks William.

I've had the pleasure of speaking with Stephen, and will let him defend himself, but will say he is extremely willing to back up any claim with first hand information. He is, indeed, the Ferrie expert. He said above he was willing to provide more evidence if necessary, so calling him "Naive" is extremely condescending...and he hardly seems to be excepting info on Blind faith, when he pointed out he goes directly to first hand sources. You could possibly do a search on this forum regarding his knowledge. It speaks for itself.

Thanks Robert and John. Why is no one discussing this?

Email from Gary Mack, "Steve, The city of Dallas has NO say in what the Museum does or does not do. No news media or filmmakers are allowed access to the window. Oliver Stone was the first and last. Gary" So no production on the inside of the museum, at least. Thanks to Gary for his reply.

That's a great website, Robert, and I've read that info on Mailer only recently...The Blog owner of Rigorisintuition has a collection of articles in book form. An author called Peter Lavenda has written of Mailer as well, in his "Sinister forces" trilogy. Mailer contributed the forward to, I think, the second volume? Lavenda talks about some of these "coincidences" surrounding Mailer...interesting.

Very nice, Jim. I think the DiCaprio movie will be seen and pass in the night, like most thrillers. In fact, I imagine it to become a very watered down version of the book, making it seem even less serious by the average film-goer. My hope, anyway...depends on the push behind it... The Mini series though has some real weight behind it. I'm interested in when it starts production, and whether the city of Dallas and the Sixth Floor Museum will grant total access...

That's excellent, Bernice, and speaks volumes. Imagine if every historically inaccurate movie had people in hysterics like JFK did. "You mean Ben Kingsley's character in Schindler's list was an amalgam of 2 people" Is Spielberg an anti-Semite. He couldn't have 2 actors? It was an amazing outpouring against one movie, something that spread even as far away as down here...

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I wrote to Dawn. She is aware. The admin lives in New Zealand...and is looking into it. That was about 10 hours ago...

That's what I'm saying...ordering others is not what a serial killer does, in it's proper phraseology. That's why dictators aren't classified as Serial Killers. Even Manson isn't a serial killer. To put Johnson with the list above is erroneous in every way.

He's gone? He sounded like such a swell fella.

Gary's been ever so helpful of late to whoever asks. I've seen a lot of "Gary Mack Emailed and said" on a few forums of late. And Please, for my own sanity, Robert stop, please stop, calling LBJ a psychopathic serial killer. Anything but that. Well, Steve, you have the book LBJ: Mastermind of JFK's Assassination by Phillip Nelson (2010), so you know exactly what I am talking about. It is about time folks started being told what Lyndon Johnson was: a psychopathic serial killer who had murdered a lot of people long before he got his knife wet with the blood of John Kennedy. Your most deadly killers - folks like Lyndon Johnson and George Herbert Walker Bush - have just enough social skills to remain functional, without completely falling apart. LBJ skated very close to that edge of complete disintegration - a very dangerous man. Also, Johnson's depraved character also is revealed in the deception game he played to get the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and also in the USS Liberty incident in 1967. 1) http://www.amazon.com/LBJ-Mastermind-Assassination-Phillip-Nelson/dp/1453503013 2) http://www.lbj-themastermind.com/ You ought to hear Ed Tatro talk about Lyndon Johnson. Ed Tatro may be the most knowledgable person in the country on the Lyndon Johnson angle of the JFK assassination. Ed Tatro says that besides Adolf Hitler, Lyndon Johnson was the worst person in history. Btw, Ed Tatro has done a tremendous amount of primary research into the JFK assassination; he is working on book titled Urgency to Kill. He has over 1,200 pages of this potential book on his computer. There is a urgent need for this extremely valuable book to be published, mainly for the tremendous amounts of in-the-field primary research that Ed Tatro has done. Tatro's information deserves broad distribution. Tatro says that besides Adolph Hiter, Lyndon Johnson was the worst man he can think of. Jack Ruby called Lyndon Johnson a "Nazi of the worst order." I merely think that the psychopathic serial killer Lyndon Johnson is more in the Ted Bundy, "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, Jeff Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy category. Billie Sol Estes says people feared Lyndon Johnson so much in Texas, they feared him AFTER he was dead! So maybe I am a little soft on Lyndon Johnson. Yes I have Nelson's book. I can even understand your vitriol, being from his hometown. Not questioning most of the above, really, just the phrase Serial Killer. Doesn't apply to Johnson, never has, never will. Never heard of a case of a serial killer who, didn't actually kill. One on one, as it were. No sexual component, no ritual, phases, in fact, no repetition of modus operandi. That's what I and others have pointed out. Johnson, by the evidence, ordered murders, carried out by others. A Serial Killer that doesn't make. http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Serial_killer There's more important stuff to do and read than this...but phrasing things properly can be the difference between being taken seriously or not. "I merely think that the psychopathic serial killer Lyndon Johnson is more in the Ted Bundy, "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, Jeff Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy category." I mean, where's the similarity between Johnson and the above? Seriously?

Gary's been ever so helpful of late to whoever asks. I've seen a lot of "Gary Mack Emailed and said" on a few forums of late. And Please, for my own sanity, Robert stop, please stop, calling LBJ a psychopathic serial killer. Anything but that.

Excellent post, Lee. When one thinks immediately of David's question, it seems an easy thing to post the most glaring piece of "proof" we have. But when one does some careful, untainted re-reading (I've been flicking through Harvey and Lee again for info on Robert Webster), it's amazing all the detail Armstrong has given, that is hidden away to be bought into play again. Kudos.

Thanks for the reply, Don. Yes it's Trow that names the mortuary assistant. The book was accompanied by the special. The book has a geographical solution to the crimes, as you say Mann lived in the...general...vicinity (explains why he was so timely to work, I suppose... And was a bit slow at the inquests....and that's about it. So, a menial labor guy, lived close, and worked at the mortuary were some of the victims lived. Hard to get excited. I'm a conspiracy guy, but I, for whatever reason, can't get into the Royal, or any one, on the JTR murders. I think the truth would be seriously mundane (And I sort of hate that, but feel it with every fiber on this case) I do have to thank Knight for an entertaining theory, or at least furthering what was "in the wind" about some of the early suspects. And for inspiring Alan Moore's From Hell, one of the greatest pieces of fiction I've read, so there's that. When you get a moment, Don, tell us why you believe in the Royal theory, love to know. Also, saw there's an upcoming book just listed on Amazon, all about Kosminski. That one I might pick up... Steve.

Steve, just in case Rob doesn't answer, (he is wont to post and leave) Malcolm Wallace: The best accounts are "Bloody, Money and Power" by Barr Mclellan, which includes research on the "disputed" finding of Mac Wallace's fingerprint on one of the snipers nest boxes, Barr has recently claimed more info is upcoming, but so far... "LBJ: Mastermind of the Assassination" Phil Nelson, and "The Texas connection" by Craig Zibel. There are also the episodes on youtube of "The Men who Killed Kennedy-the Guilty men" For Curtis LeMay, His animosity toward the Kennedy's can be found in many non assassination books. As for his attending the autopsy, it's still being debated, I believe. He could have been. Autopsy tech Paul O'Connor said he was there: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=10724&st=60 You could do a further search, but it's not written in stone. It's possible he may have been, for what that's worth. Cheers, Steve.

Sounds like a great effort, Duke. I'd be very interested in seeing what you've done.

The title of the thread there was a bit of a giveaway, though, "What have conspiracy nuts..." Wasn't going to be an unbiased debate from the start. S V failed when he couldn't answer simple questions, which is what he proposed to do. A one star Rating for Harvey and Lee, and yet he was unaware of the Albert Schweitzer college? which Armstrong goes into painstaking research on. As does Evica's whole "Certain Arrogance"...it's obvious he never owned the book, or didn't read it, or read it and his aging mind forgot. His review, therefore, was worthless. He stated he left the Ed because of all the nut's, kooks etc. Later he said he was banned for being to logical. I don't really care who it is, though certain phrases has him sound much like a certain poster or one of his kin at JFKAssassination.com.. They will hide behind pseudonyms. I would like to know what name he posted under here... To be far though, Robert, Arguile is the only one really "debating" the issues against him, and doing a good job. I wasted a number of hours there, but learned bugger all. And Amazon management are taking a close look at the entire thread.

John, for all his faults, I for one am glad to live in a world with David Icke. Wouldn't you agree, he would be a damn site more fun to talk to than Richard Dawkins? David is, like Alex, one of those "everything is a conspiracy" people. Some may see this as being unhealthy, but in the end, it's their belief, and David has never swayed from his version of the "truth". So whatever pleases him, and his followers. Honest, I have stopped reading him, pictures of him in all his aural, er, glory were a bit much, but I do like that type of stuff, I see it as a bit of fun, and sometimes, just sometimes, he points me toward something worthwhile. I'd be interested to know what he has said that sounded good to you? Steve.

I never looked at this thread before, as it seemed dead in the water (see a Druitt reference....!) I've had a major interest in The Ripper case, ever since I thumbed through an old paperback copy of Rumbelow's when I was about 12, and thought "How could do such brutality, and was hooked for many, many years. I lost interest for a couple of reasons. As someone who loves a historical whodunit, It came to the point I knew we wouldn't know... The suspects kept getting, well, sillier, and I moved into other areas of history. I came back briefly this year, when I read Trow's "JTR Quest for a Killer" another stimulating "here it is folks", without a scintilla of factual evidence to back it up. I thought it was time to let this one go, though I still have most of the recent books on my Amazon wish list. Damn, sometimes I can't help but have a complete a library as I can. If this thread continues, I'll be sure to pop in know and then, I'm eager to catch up. Gene, just to respond with my IMHO, Cornwell was a massive disappointment. It was a reason why I switched off. She's an preeminent pathologist, but her case was so, so weak (excuse me if I make some errors, it has been a long time since I read it...) Her suspect was in Paris, during some of the crimes? It's only mitochondrial DNA that links him to some letters? And my problem with the paintings, and this is hard to explain. Lets just say you were an Artist, and you butchered someone, in a small shack, with next to little light, for whatever reason, over a fairly lengthy period of time. At of all that, miasma, of a scene to paint, why chose an angle, look, style etc, that so mimics the extant pics of Mary Kelly? It looks like a painting of the photograph, if you understand, rather than someone who was there in the room. It doesn't look like a painting of someone intimately involved in her murder, we see it's connection, or similarity, because it looks like a photograph we've seen. Does that make sense? Also, I think he stopped, possibly after the murder of Alice McKenzie. Anyway, Over 120 years, I think anything that can be learned can be found in 4-5 books. If something earth shattering is revealed, I'm sure I'll be the first to jump back in. Just not another item of Kate Eddowes...maybe a diary? ha ha