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  1. And here's a Radio Free Europe article -- wait a minute, Radio Free Europe of cold war days? -- yeah, still around. Does this article mention that an "organized crime boss" lived next door to a certain family and they were friends? I believe it does.

    http://www.rferl.org...n/24963691.html

    So, let's see: who started Radio Free Europe? Maybe this article can help: http://en.wikipedia....r_a_Free_Europe

    Like I said, don't get me started...lol...

  2. Vastly different eras and situations...but a couple of things: the FBI had information on the older brother from 2 years ago. That info apparently provided by...Russia. And the MIT policeman killed, execution-style, later, on the other side of town...brings to mind J.D. Tippit.

    Too much conspiracy thinking from JFK study colors my view of all events like this. I have to watch it, really.

  3. Dr. Fetzer, well done. Just to be clear, I believe it was Pellicano that interviewed Frazier, not O'Toole. Pellicano recorded the call on O'Toole's behalf. Then, O'Toole ran the stress evaluator. Couple of things here: the pse is still in use by law enforcement agencies. Modern updated versions. I don't think it's allowed in court, but a detective told me that it's VERY useful during investigations. And: Pellicano's in prison in California. I definitely think he would be worth talking to about this subject.

  4. Tonight's presidential debate moderator, Bob Schieffer, once played an interesting side role in the JFK shooting:

    When President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas in 1963,
    Schieffer was the Star-Telegram’s night police reporter. As he wrote in a guest column for the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank, phone calls that night were pouring into the newsroom.

    “Every phone was ringing,” he wrote. “I grabbed one, only to hear a woman caller ask, ‘Is there anyone there who can give me a ride to Dallas?’

    “‘Lady,’ I shouted, ‘We’re not running a taxi service, and besides, the president has been shot.’

    “‘Yes,’ the voice responded, ‘I just heard it on the radio and they said my son is the one they’ve arrested.’

    “It was Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother.”

    Read more at http://shortformblog.com/post/34107554405/jfk-shooting-bob-schieffer#U8hLAeOU08800eC2.99

  5. I am saddened to hear the news of Carl Oglesby. I read The Yankee And Cowboy War about 5 times, starting in 1992, I think. This is the first I've read of Carl's background and I'm fascinated. By the way, that Yankee and Cowboy war continues in America. Might not ever end.

  6. http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/09/08/jfk_feared_lbj_becoming_president.html

    "Jacqueline Kennedy recalled in a series of oral-history interviews recorded in 1964, but just released, that President Kennedy felt strongly that Lyndon Johnson shouldn't become president, ABC News reports. In the months just before his death in 1963 he has even begun talking to his brother, Robert Kennedy, "about ways to maneuver around Johnson in 1968."

    Said Mrs. Kennedy: "Bobby told me this later, and I know Jack said it to me sometimes. He said, 'Oh, God, can you ever imagine what would happen to the country if Lyndon was president?'"

    "Mrs. Kennedy describes a vice president who was far from the inner sanctum of power. She describes a lieutenant who resisted the president's efforts to solicit his input and involve him, even in areas that interested him.""

  7. Tony Pellicano found a very difficult to find Buell Wesley Frazier back in 1975 for George O'Toole. You could read about it in O'Toole's great book The Assassination Tapes.

    Not much of direct relevance in this interview, except that he seems to claim that he's saved tape recordings. Now, that's interesting.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/07/hollywood-phone-hacker-anthony-pellicano-breaks-his-silence.html

  8. I'd forgotten all about WUSA -- set in New Orleans. Seedy, grim, wised about politics. Not great, but definitely 11/22/63 influenced.

    And you've got the real life comparison: New Orleans radio station WNOE owned by James Noe, the former Democratic governor -- a Huey Long Democrat who leaned right after the 1960 elections.

    James Noe's daughter was married to -- wait for it -- Gordon McLendon, owner of KLIF in Dallas. Yeah, the same guy whom Jack Ruby called one of his best friends in Dallas. And the same guy who started that retired intelligence agents group with David Atlee Phillips.

    WUSA was based on the Robert Stone novel Hall Of Mirrors, but Stone's follow-up novel was much better and captured the nation's cynical mood even better: Dog Soldier, about CIA drug-running during the Viet Nam War. The movie based on that book was Who'll Stop The Rain, complete with Credence Clearwater music and one of Nick Nolte's best roles.

  9. "Although murder warrants for Flemmi and Salemmi had been issued in Las Vegas in the Poulos murder, "everything came to a sudden stop," Lee once told me. Attempts to interview the suspects were denied. When a try was made to extradite, it was as if the suspects were residing in a foreign country that simply didn't speak the language of the Las Vegas street cops."

    http://www.lvrj.com/news/fbi-pride-in-mobster-s-arrest-may-vanish-as-he-starts-talking-124558804.html

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