Joseph McBride

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.

Pete, thanks much for your comments about my work. I believe Kantor about Ruby. Kantor was a solid reporter, and his book on Ruby is good. Kantor's typed notes about his assassination coverage are in one of the 26 WC volumes and are valuable. Ruby would have had time to go from the Tippit murder scene (if he was there) to Parkland. He may have been involved in helping stage the witnesses (etc.) for the Tippit murder; I go into that in INTO THE NIGHTMARE, basing it partly on the theory proposed by Jerry Rose. Ruby tried to tell Earl Warren he was involved in the Nov. 22 plotting, but Warren wouldn't listen. Roger Craig was a reliable and honest witness. The station wagon story is credible, and you can see the vehicle in a photo taken at 12:40 p.m. There were two Oswalds, as Armstrong has shown, and so they left Dealey Plaza in different ways. I am not convinced the cab ride did not happen.

Milton Friedman helped come up with the idea of starving the government so programs to benefit people would be cut.

Thanks, Jim. Yes, it was in LEGEND by Epstein. That is supposed to be Oswald in the doorway. Wayne was filming THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA for John Huston and paid a visit to Corregidor by helicopter to see the troops.

HARVEY AND LEE confirms Oswald and John Wayne were both on Corregidor when Wayne visited Marines there in January 1958. Jim Hargrove, is this supposed photo of the two authentic? It first appeared in the Epstein book on Oswald.

If he is re-elected, toxicity will have become the lifeblood of American politics That is the mark of how deep the trouble is for the US – it is not just that Trump has treated the crisis merely as a way to feed tribal hatreds but that this behaviour has become normalised. When the freak show is live on TV every evening, and the star is boasting about his ratings, it is not really a freak show any more. For a very large and solid bloc of Americans, it is reality. And this will get worse before it gets better. Trump has at least eight more months in power. In his inaugural address in 2017, he evoked “American carnage” and promised to make it stop. But now that the real carnage has arrived, he is revelling in it. He is in his element. As things get worse, he will pump more hatred and falsehood, more death-wish defiance of reason and decency, into the groundwater. If a new administration succeeds him in 2021, it will have to clean up the toxic dump he leaves behind. If he is re-elected, toxicity will have become the lifeblood of American politics.

Thanks, Anthony.