Joseph McBride

It looks like the Z film has been deleted from the new English-language trailer available on YouTube. Let's hope it is not deleted from the documentary itself.

Are these actually colorized?

Thanks for the info. Looking forward to seeing both versions. Congrats.

Thanks, Jim. I am glad we will see the docu soon. Does this mean Showtime will show the four-hour version in November or later?

It's reported that Showtime will show the documentary on Nov. 12. Perhaps Jim could elaborate on the plans.

My mother, Marian McBride, was in that Milwaukee motorcade on May 12, 1962. She was vice chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party and was riding several cars behind the president along with Evelyn Lincoln and Admiral Burkley. Earlier she had been among the group greeting JFK as he deplaned at General Mitchell Field. My mother helped set up some of the events along the long motorcade route from the airport to downtown, including having school bands playing as the president passed. She later complained that the Secret Service was difficult to deal with. I wish she were around now so I could ask her what she meant by that. I kick myself for not watching that motorcade. That night I was part of the "honor guard" for the president at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner at the downtown Milwaukee Auditorium and Arena and had a brief exchange of greetings with JFK afterward as he passed backstage five feet away before he turned to walk down a ramp into the limousine in which he would be killed the following year. At the VIP reception beforehand, my father, Ray McBride of the Milwaukee Journal, was introduced to the president and had time for one question. So he asked Kennedy if he ever worried about being assassinated. JFK said he recognized that possibility but couldn't think about it or he would not be able to do his job.

Jim, what is the US distributor for this documentary?

This doesn’t pass the smell test for me.Can you even imagine a CIA training camp forsnipers in which the snipers wear name tags?? That sounds like a Mel Brooks gag. (I did get JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy to sign a "Hello, My Name Is" name tag on April 3, 1960, but I can't envision a name tag reading "Hello, My Name Is Lee Harvey [aka Harvey Lee] Oswald" at that camp.)And the family admits it is trying to make a TV dealwith this yarn. This seems another feeble attempt to implicateOswald, who didn’t own a gun and was a mediocreshot in the Marines.The CIA hitman father claimed to have beeninvolved in the bombing of the Cuban airliner, the one in which Poppy Bush and the CIA wereimplicated. So this stinks of Bush family (et al) disinformationabout Oswald, who didn’t shoot anybody on Nov. 22, 1963, ashe told the cameras.

David, thanks for the rundown. Certainly the autopsy photographs always need to be viewed skeptically. I was just pointing out what I think I can see on the trach photo, for what that is worth. As you and others have shown, that trach and the wound it obscured were egregiously altered.

My review of the Sahl documentary from Daily Variety, 1989: https://duckprods.com/projects/mortsahl/ms-dailyvariety890918.html

Robert Weide in tribute to Mort Sahl has made his hard-to-see documentary MORT SAHL: THE LOYAL OPPOSITION available for free for one week on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/364958125

Kudos to the late Mort Sahl for his sacrifices on behalf of President Kennedy. Sahl said in Robert B. Weide's 1989 PBS American Masters documentary about him, MORT SAHL: THE LOYAL OPPOSITION, "The social democrats in this country have a lot of guilt. They didn’t stand up to Vietnam. They didn't stand up to the encroachment of the intelligence community. And they walked away from Jack Kennedy. The most they could come up with after he was shot in the street like a dog was to say, 'He wasn’t that good a president anyway.' Yeah, let me tell you, he had a strange group of friends. Remarkably absent when he fell."

Peggy Noonan will always be in the Hall of Shame for writing two of the worst speeches ever given by an American president, the one by Reagan calling the Contras the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers and the other by Reagan gushing in maudlin tones over the Challenger astronauts after they died so he could do a live cutaway to the "Teacher in Space" on his State of the Union address that night.

Oops. Posted twice. But always worth watching again.

Gore Vidal said that the smoking gun of 9/11 was the claim that 19 Arabs armed only with boxcutters brought down the air defense system of the United States.

JFK, held by his wife, is lying on the seat, moribund. (He couldn't be "laying" anything because that is a transitive verb and he was helpless.) Hill rode spread-eagle on the limo all the way to the hospital, blocking them with his body. The car was going seventy mph ("Fast but safe" was the order on the radio). I drove that route many times at that speed, and it always took four minutes to arrive at the back of Parkland Hospital.

Biden turns 79 two days before this year's anniversary of the assassination. But as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1963, "I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”

Jim Leavelle, the lead detective in the Tippit case, indicated to me that Captain Fritz wanted him to work up a case on Oswald for the Tippit murder since they didn't have a sufficient case on Oswald for killing Kennedy. I asked Leavelle why he thought they had a better case for the Tippit murder, and he said they had witnesses (ignoring the chaotic state of the witness reports). It's a little-known fact that Oswald was arraigned only for the Tippit murder and not for the presidential assassination. Henry Wade and J. Edgar Hoover also expressed doubts about whether there was a sufficient case against Oswald in the assassination.

Nasty attacks on other researchers using hostile language do not advance the cause of understanding this case but drag it down. Informed disagreement, citing evidence to support one's viewpoint, is another matter altogether.

Dallas researcher Matt Douthit informed me that Susan Marie Thornton (born June 17, 1964) has died (on July 16 of this year). She lived in Hawkins, Texas, and was a daughter of Johnnie Maxie Witherspoon, who was Officer J. D. Tippit's mistress. Some have claimed that Susan was J. D.'s. child and that Johnnie Maxie informed him about that pregnancy shortly before he was murdered and that it had something to do with his killing. But I interviewed Johnnie Maxie in 1993, and she insisted Susan was not J. D.'s child and that she could not have been because he had had a vasectomy. Her father was listed as Stephen Thompson Jr. Johnnie Maxie told me Stephen was Susan's father. Larry Ray Harris, however, told me that Steve Thompson thought Tippit was Susan's father. Harris said that Steve told him and fellow researcher Ken Holmes Jr. "very frankly and forthrightly that the child was fathered by Tippit. They had separated, and then after Tippit was killed, they reconciled, she had the baby, and they raised the child like it was their own." Greg Lowrey, who has researched the Tippit case as intensively as Harris did, told me that when Harris and Holmes went to see Steve in Lubbock, Texas, and Holmes "confronted" Thompson, "Ken got pushed and beat up." Lowrey did not believe the "jealous husband" theory about Tippit's murder and thought it was disinformation. Johnnie Maxie also did not believe Steve killed Tippit. In INTO THE NIGHTMARE, I discuss various people who have been spoken about as suspects, and I ruled out, to the best of my knowledge, both Steve Thompson and Johnnie Maxie Witherspoon (as well as Oswald). Johnnie Maxie died in 2016; Steve is still alive. For obituary information on Susan Thornton: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/.../susan-thornton...

You can clearly see a round notch from the bullet entrance wound at the top of the tracheotomy incision (artificially widened as that incision is).

She hadn't even seen THE GRADUATE yet.

For what it's worth, the DHS memo on tomorrow's threatened violence at the Capitol: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/read-the-memo-on-the-sept/66b1a39ce1bf4276/full.pdf