Joseph McBride

I spent a long time in the film and TV industry, and I am sure HBO must have played a role in forcing Lee to cut this episode. But the handwriting was on the wall when the fool interviewing him for the New York Times raised alarm about the episode at the end of their interview. You can bet he had some urgent messages as soon as the paper came out.

I posted this on Facebook yesterday: It has not been reported whether it was HBO, or some other entity, that compelled Spike Lee to remove the discussion about the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers from his new documentary. But the fact that he had to do so, shortly after the New York Times sharply questioned him for putting that discussion in his documentary, is disturbing and deplorable. This censorship shows again that twenty years after the fact, 9/11 remains the most dangerous third rail in American journalism. Even a discussion of a scientific question -- Can airplane fuel, which is mostly kerosene, raise enough heat necessary to melt steel beams and collapse a skyscraper, which had not happened before and has not happened since? -- is not allowed in a TV documentary. Scientific questions ergo cannot be debated on the media when they relate to 9/11. The official dogma cannot be questioned. That's where we still are in this supposedly "free" country. The best dissident writer on 9/11 is David Ray Griffin. He discusses this particular question in careful scientific detail in his book THE NEW PEARL HARBOR, which your CIA thoughtfully includes in toto on its website. As Lee said, he wanted viewers to listen to the discussion of two differing points of view and make up their own minds. This was not allowed on TV, athough perhaps his banned show will leak out, but you can still make up your own mind by reading books: [link to copy of Griffin book].

Hoping for a good recovery, Pat. Keep the faith and keep up your spirits despite this trial you have been undergoing. All best to you.

Remember how Weisberg tried to sabotage Oliver Stone's JFK while it was still shooting. You wonder what his actual allegiances were.

Rather amazing, isn't it? But it doesn't go into the opium, which is "news that's not fit to print." Readers would have to turn to Alfred McCoy and Peter Dale Scott for that context.

We were in Afghanistan not for the bullshit reasons we were given but for the minerals and the opium. Briefly the truth came out in this remarkable 2010 article in the New York Times, which is a shopping list for the military-industrial complex: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html I realized the end was finally near when Trump complained to his cabinet that we weren't getting the minerals out of Afghanistan because the Chinese were doing it instead. We can't get anything done anymore.

The "brother officer" concern automatically brought many policemen to Oak Cliff, as planned, but the DPD basically abandoned Tippit's case when Oswald was shot and didn't bother properly investigating let alone solving the crime. Oswald had the Tippit killing pinned on him, though he did not do it, because they didn't have a case on him for killing Kennedy. And the police themselves were involved in killing Tippit and covering that up. Tippit was involved in the overall plot at least in regard to being assigned with Officer William Mentzel to capture or eliminate the patsy before Oswald's identity was officially known to the DPD (though they knew very well who he was). So the "brother officer" tradition in this case is a bitter joke.

Why not? Because (1) Oswald didn't shoot Tippit; and (2) the revolver entered into evidence as the alleged murder weapon was not owned by Oswald.

Imagine my surprise when I watched a trailer for Francis Coppola's 1963 Irish-made horror movie for Roger Corman, DEMENTIA 13, on Trailers from Hell (https://trailersfromhell.com/dementia-13/) introduced by the CIA’s MK-ULTRA Dr. William J. Bryan Jr. Bryan allegedly hypnotized Sirhan Sirhan to fire shots in the Ambassador Hotel during the RFK assassination, although Sirhan was a patsy/decoy who shot people other than RFK (another gunman, probably "security guard" Thane Eugene [Gene] Cesar, shot the senator from behind). Bryan was the model for the hypnotist/brainwashing character Orson Welles was going to play in the excellent script he wrote with Donald Freed, SIRHAN, aka THE SAFE HOUSE, with Sal Mineo (later murdered) playing Sirhan. Welles at one point was going to direct the film as well. Bryan is credited as technical adviser on DEMENTIA 13 and on Corman's 1962 TALES OF TERROR (for hypnotism).

Detective Jim Leavelle and DA Henry Wade made it clear in my interviews with them that they and Captain Will Fritz realized they had no real case against Oswald for killing Kennedy, so at the direction of Fritz they went after Oswald for the Tippit killing instead. The backward illogic (which much of the public bought, though not the majority) was that if he shot the officer, he shot the president. It's a little-known fact that Oswald was never arraigned for the killing of Kennedy, only for the killing of Tippit. I asked Leavelle why they thought they had a better case in the Tippit shooting, and he said, "We had witnesses." That is a tacit admission that they discounted Brennan. And as we know, the array of "witnesses" or witnesses in the Tippit shooting is highly problematical.

These are complicated issues I discuss at length in INTO THE NIGHTMARE, so I refer the reader there for the accounts. Marie Tippit's account of the supposed lunch changed a lot in various interviews, so it is dubious. I interviewed a neighbor who claimed to have seen J. D. there, but with my questions I was able to disprove her story as mistaken. The Tippit home was quite a distance from downtown. The Gloco station near the viaduct was a relatively short trip from downtown, about a five-minute trip without heavy traffic. Tippit was out of his district when he was killed. Tippit's father told me what Officer Mentzel (the officer assigned to that district) told Marie about how they were hunting down Oswald from shortly after the assassination, which means they were in on the plot at least as accessories after the fact. The DPD claimed it did not know Oswald's identity until he was taken to the police station shortly after 2 p.m., but they knew it when they ordered Tippit and Mentzel to track him down, i.e., by 12:45 p.m. The DPD had been keeping tabs on Oswald for some time before the assassination, and he was an FBI informant on the plot against Kennedy, not realizing until too late that he was being set up as its patsy. What J. D. allegedly said to his son Allan that morning cannot be verified; Allan later denied the story.

What a terrible title. It buys the lie about Ruby's motive, the lie his lawyer told him to use. And it's one of those titles that puts its conclusion in the title itself, so why then does one have to read the book? People today want to know what a book or film contains before they read or see it, because they are neophobic and worried about spending, etc. Hence movie trailers that give away the whole plot except for the ending (and then people who don't object to this complain about "spoilers" in reviews).

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I was surprised Thompson's new book largely ignores the topic of the authenticity of the Zapruder film, since so much of his earlier book is based around that film being authentic and the "clock" of the assassination. Thompson has been a vocal opponent of alterationists, so I wonder why he shied away from that topic in his supposed last word. Since he is so engrossed in the acoustics, one would think he would find the "so-called evidence" of the Z film worth reconsidering (thanks and a tip of the Hatlo Hat to Oswald for the phrase in quotes).

Oswald met with the FBI in Dallas at least two and possibly three times in November before the assassination. He was an FBI informant. He had infiltrated the plot for the FBI without realizing he was being set up as the patsy. See my book INTO THE NIGHTMARE.

From "Gems from the 26 Volumes": by Vince Palamara SETH KANTOR ON THE "DEAD" SECRET SERVICE AGENT 20 H 410: "A Western Union man who had been with us since we came down from Andrews Air Force Base came into the [Parkland Hospital] office. A nurse asked him about a report that a Secret Service agent had been killed out on the street. HE SAID THAT IT WAS TRUE. This was one of the immediate rumors which sprung up. It took several days for this particular rumor not to be believed in Dallas itself (FELLOW IN JAGGARS-CHILES-STOVALL who got it from a friend who got it from a POSTMAN* supposed to have been at the death scene that the shot and bleeding SS man was in on the plot to kill the President.)" [emphasis added]

The term "political correctness" was popularized by George H. W. Bush in the 1980s to mock liberals. Then some liberals foolishly adopted it as their way of seriously describing their belief system. It metastasized from there.

I see they misspell Tippit (which still happens) and use the 1952 photo (his original DPD photo; they carefully avoided showing the public later, more recognizable photos of Tippit). I wonder if the shootout in the theater was a fallback plan if Oswald escaped the Oak Cliff manhunt by Tippit and Mentzel that I discuss in INTO THE NIGHTMARE and my followup article on the Kennedysandking site (the manhunt was underway at least 12:45, indicating complicity in the plot, since Oswald officially was not identified by the DPD as the suspect until 2:10). There was also an early report that a policeman was killed on the street near downtown. And the persistent reports of a dead Secret Service agent should not be discounted. That might fit into some of these scenarios. From INTO THE NIGHTMARE: "All three television networks reported the agent’s death as fact, and the Associated Press was quoted on Dallas’s WFAA-TV reporting, 'A Secret Service agent and a Dallas policeman were shot and killed some distance from where the President was shot.' The story was dropped by the news media after received a carefully worded 'denial' (with significant holes in it) at 3:40 p.m. by Robert A. Wallace, assistant secretary of the Treasury (the department that included the Secret Service): 'No Secret Service man was injured in the attack on President Kennedy.' Note that this non-denial denial would not cover an agent’s death in another location that day in Dallas."

Mary Ferrell urged me to study John Lattimer's book on Kennedy and Lincoln as what she claimed was the best medical analysis of the JFK murder. That was one of the alarm bells that made me realize she was not the benign helpful mentor to researchers she made herself out to be and that some delusional people still think she is. Lattimer, in addition to being a urologist, was a collector who had such items as (so he claimed) Lincoln's bloody collar from the night of the assassination, drawings by Hitler, the glass ampoule that had contained the cyanide Goering used to kill himself . . . and Napoleon's penis.

The 11/22/63 DPD HOMICIDE REPORT against in the Tippit shooting says, "Suspect ran south on Patton from location toward Jefferson. Suspect was later arrested in the balcony of the Texas Theatre at 231 W. Jefferson." Armstrong did a lot of great research, but I disagree with his claim that Oswald (either one) killed Tippit.

The authoritative male voice of Ed Herlihy expounds on what happened in Dallas:

Here's the authoritative male voice of Ed Herlihy expounding what happened in Dallas:

Needing a male "voice of authority" to narrate a documentary is, to put it diplomatically, old-fashioned. We are not living in the 1950s anymore. And for those who think Whoopi Goldberg is "just" a comedian, she speaks out on social issues and gave a great dramatic performance in Spielberg's THE COLOR PURPLE. That and Ben Kingsley's performance in SCHINDLER'S LIST are the best in Spielberg's work.

Gil, as another veteran researcher, I always learn from you. Thanks for your careful and diligent research.

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg Subject Index Files/M Disk/McMillan Priscilla Johnson/Item 07.pdf Does someone have the original Nov. 24, 1963, FBI memo to post?