Joseph McBride

That's part of the reason Trump is encouraging violence. it knocks the virus off cable TV (which for some reason can only cover one story at a time) and crowds it in newspapers. And it gives him part of the excuse he will probably use to call off the November election and declare martial law -- the virus and civil unrest.

I thought I was past the point of having heroes, but as a professional journalist since 1960, I have a new hero, Omar Jimenez of CNN, a journalist who kept his cool under duress and risked his life to keep broadcasting in a lucid, entirely professional, remarkably calm way while being arrested. I watched this shocking incident live. The media are there to represent us as witnesses. But as Brecht wrote, "Unhappy is the land that needs a hero."

The 1960s DRAGNET shows are unintentionally hilarious today. I preferred Ben Alexander in the original TV version to Harry Morgan, though Harry is funny.

Byrd, as many here know, also helped found the Civil Air Patrol, which included among its members Lee Oswald and David Ferrie.

That last post about MM smacks of enduring McCarthyism. And wanting to star in THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV hardly makes an actor a commie. Have you read that book? It's one of the greatest novels ever written. It's even Laura Bush's favorite book, which I find intriguing (she has cited the Grand Inquisitor section as her favorite). Maybe you think Laura is a closet Red?

Congratulations, Vince! I eagerly look forward to this one. Your groundbreaking work is so important.

I interviewed Senator Ralph Yarborough in 1988. He was riding two cars behind the presidential limousine, along with LBJ and Lady Bird in the back seat of a convertible. He told me he had "a lifetime of handling arms" and described his reaction to the shots fired in Dealey Plaza as well as giving me revealing comments about LBJ's strange actions and demeanor before, during, and after the shots. Yarborough's description of the events surrounding the shooting meshed with those of numerous other eyewitnesses but not with the extant Zapruder film. Yarborough said, "The first shot I heard I thought was a rifle shot. The second shot, the motorcade almost came to a halt. They said later that the president's car slowed to something like five miles an hour. I wondered what the hell they were stopping for when somebody is shooting. People were jumping out of the car in front of me [the Secret Service followup car] and running to the president's car. I thought maybe somebody had thrown a bomb in there. The third shot I heard was a rifle shot." Yarborough scoffed at LBJ's lie that Rufus Youngblood jumped over the seat and threw his body over LBJ. The senator discussed how Youngblood and LBJ huddled together over the agent's walkie-talkie, while leaning into the gap in the front seat. I go into all this and its implications in INTO THE NIGHTMARE.

Anna Chennault, the widow of Major General Claire Chennault, conspired with Nixon to commit treason in 1968 so he could win the election by secretly dealing with North Vietnam to stall the peace process.

He was struck by a bullet that lodged behind the right ear, according to the Belmont FBI memo on the night of Nov. 22, a bullet that was never entered into evidence. That report is backed up by eyewitnesses and destroys the WR. And that shot most likely caused the wound that blew out the back of his head. The wound at the top right hairline could have done so as well. Neither required his head to be spun around.

No, the book to which I refer is an obscure one called Oswald's Trigger Films: The Manchurian Candidate, We Were Strangers, Suddenly? by John Loken (2000). It's still available on Amazon. At least there's a question mark in the title.

Ian Griggs's interview with Brewer has Brewer saying he doesn't know why he was in the theater and talking about the two mysterious IBM men being around before and during the day of November 22 and even locking up the store for him on the 22nd. It is frustrating that Griggs doesn't probe further about those two men and why they were around for weeks, even if Brewer says he doesn't know who they were, which in itself is strange and a lead that needed to be followed.

I watched almost everything on TV in those years and found I LED THREE LIVES fascinating as a kid. Oswald aside, I think it appealed to kids struggling to figure out the craziness of the adult world and the schizoid way adults acted. There is a goofy book on LHO claiming he was inspired to kill JFK by watching THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, SUDDENLY, and WE WERE STRANGERS, though (1) there is no evidence he saw those films and (2) he didn't kill JFK.

"Does this mean I have to sell my goddam Halliburton stock?" -- LBJ on the phone to his tax lawyer, Waddy Bullion of Houston, at 1 p.m. November 22 in Parkland Hospital. He didn't. He kept it, while Bullion supervised his "blind trust" (talking frequently with LBJ on a phone in the Oval Office), and LBJ's fortune kept growing as he expanded the war, which greatly benefited Halliburton. Halliburton also played a major role in bringing you the Iraq War thanks to former CEO Dick Cheney.

There was no "Deep Throat" in the original ms. Bernstein and Woodward submitted. Their editor, Alice Mayhew, suggested they make up the Deep Throat character. It stands for ONI man Woodward's many unacknowledged intelligence sources.

RT has been one of the few networks to treat Oliver Stone with respect.

Edwin Black, who wrote that terrific article on the Chicago plot against JFK, wrote a disturbing, thoroughly researched book about IBM's role in faciliating the Nazi Holocaust, IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST: THE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE BETWEEN NAZI GERMANY AND AMERICA'S MOST POWERFUL CORPORATION (2001, 2012).

Not "zero" coverage: a quick Google search turns up this Oct. 31, 2016, story in The Atlantic citing the Corn article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/donald-trump-faces-a-barrage-of-new-allegations/506060/ And here's a Nov. 1, 2016, story from New York magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/11/final-october-surprises-fbi-probing-trumps-russia-ties.html And here's a Nov. 2, 2016, Washington Post column with a link to Corn's article, though the columnist tries to debunk it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/11/02/russia-stories-debunk-donald-trumps-media-bias-whine/ I am sure I could find more if I went on checking. These are three major news outlets. FYI, Corn's article ran on Oct. 31, and the election was on Nov. 8.

All beside the point since this was not a bullet that struck JFK but a plant.

No wonder witnesses report it was very crowded in there. If this is an accurately scaled rendition of the autopsy room. I thought the galley was larger, raked, and off to the side.

I remember that Steele dossier getting a lot of MSM coverage. But I'd have to go back and check how much it received in the few days leading up to the election. And as you note, it was broken not in a major outlet but in Mother Jones. I know from experience with MSM reporters that there is an unwritten law not to break potentially damaging stories about candidates right before an election, on the grounds that they could be wrong and there would not be time to correct them. This stems from trepidation over the old practice of releasing dirt on a candidate the day before an election, when it was too late to counter it before people began voting. One could ask if Corn wanted to print that story, why did he wait so long? And what were his motives in any case, since it was unproven, to say the least?

FYI, David Corn is CIA-connected.

Just a sideline -- when I interviewed Jim Leavelle about the Tippit and Kennedy murders, he was largely forthcoming and gave me some extraordinarily important insights (such as that Will Fritz indicated to him the night of the assassination that they didn't have a case on Oswald for killing Kennedy and so they should get him on killing Tippit instead, dubious as that was), but sometimes he was cagey and evasive and deceitful and clearly defensive. I had to sort out what was credible and match it with other sources, documents, and data, which I did in INTO THE NIGHTMARE. At one point he told me there were some things he knew but wouldn't tell me. So I said, OK, like what? He said the death of Marilyn Monroe, for instance. I could have pushed him further but didn't because I was getting a lot from him and he seemed adamant. I also thought maybe he would repeat some dubious story about the Kennedys being involved in killing her, but in fact I don't know what he would have said.

Secret Service agents protecting Kennedy in his Fort Worth hotel left their posts and turned them over to firemen.

Even Alex Jones admitted in court that he just makes up some of his claims for effect.

There were many people at the autopsy whose presence was not officially recorded. It's like the missing list of civilian witnesses at the Texas Theatre, but at least we know that such a list was taken before it was deep-sixed.