Joseph McBride

Reportedly, George W. Bush was at Yale that day.

The story about the party does not seem credible to me.

There was a bullet recovered from his right temple and not entered into evidence. See the Belmont memo of 11-22 pm and my discussion of it in INTO THE NIGHTMARE.

We will refer this to Cliff who knows all and has X-ray vision.

A likely addition to the list is Dan Rather.

For a discussion of why LBJ ducked during the shooting, see my book INTO THE NIGHTMARE, in which I interview Sen. Ralph Yarborough about LBJ's behavior during the motorcade, including at the time of the shots and immediately thereafter.

David, you should ask your handlers for a raise, you are working so hard.

See my book INTO THE NIGHTMARE for my revealing interview with Senator Ralph Yarborough on what LBJ was doing before, during, and after the shots.

I am reading a new book, PRESIDENT CARTER: THE White House YEARS, by his aide Stuart Eizenstat. It is filled with fresh insider info and interview material. So far I am not sure where he's going with all the issues, but it's worth reading

And Carter tried to appoint Ted Sorensen head of the CIA to clean it up. That plan was shot down by furious CIA and Senate opposition, using his conscientious-objector status in his youth as part of the excuse.

I saw a NIGHTLINE show in which Ted Koppel claimed the Zapruder film was the only film shot of the assassination. There were at least ten filmmakers and a lot of still photographers shooting parts of the scene. Penn Jones once wondered rhetorically "how so many smart men can be so stupid." The answer is that in the US, stupidity is often rewarded, and smartness is often punished.

David Von Pein, all you do is deny everything, every piece of evidence that doesn't fit the official Warren Commission theory, and defend the transparently phony Warren Report. Your role is that of a professional Conspiracy Denier. It's entirely predictable, and your posts could have been written in late 1964. In case you haven't noticed, this is 2018, and a lot of independent research has been done, and many documents and witness statements have come out that weren't public back then, as well as abundant new evidence. I don't know why people bother arguing with you here. Your role seems to be to take up time and space by reiterating your few simple points and attacking others' arguments through rote denial and to deflect any genuine questioning and investigation. You seem to spend many hours each day at this task. The only interesting question is, Who is paying you?

When Poppy Bush served briefly in the Congress, he was so vehement about providing birth control to Third World countries that his colleagues nicknamed him "Rubbers." This reminds me of Robert Ryan's racist, genocidal speech in EXECUTIVE ACTION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDGbYo5sxdc

At least it shows the Dallas police being involved in the assassination. Sometimes satire brings out the otherwise "unspeakable."

Carl Oglesby gives a brilliant deconstruction of this testimony in THE YANKEE AND COWBOY WAR, showing how Ruby was trying desperately to get the truth out under duress and in fear for his life in jail and to people from Washington who didn't want to hear the truth.

Might be in jail by then.

City directories also could be of help, but that was probably a transient population. Still, one could laboriously try to trace men by tracking down one after another, if it is still possible. There is quite a paper trail on all of us -- even back then.

There are certain BS mantras you hear over and over again in this case, such as the one about a nobody etc., and it's hard to trace them back to their origins. I think Manchester is responsible for some of these or at least for spreading them so widely in his best-selling book. Another idiotic trope is for books on JFK and his life (at least older ones) to leave out the name of Oswald entirely. They ostensibly did so out of contempt for him and as a way of avoiding the topic, but I began to wonder if it was also a subconscious way for the authors to admit that the truth lay elsewhere. You see the same trope in some books on RFK that never mention Sirhan Sirhan. Such books often end before their subject is killed, which is crazy.

I don't know the identities of those men. I'm not sure offhand if that has been investigated. I was hoping from the title of this thread that it would deal with that question!

Behind the house but on the same property was a rooming house inhabited by various men. A subject for further research.

I just got Douglas Caddy's autobiography in the mail from Amazon and am eager to read it. Congratulations!

Also, no Dan Rather in the photo. I noticed that immediately when this was first printed by the Dallas Morning News in 1988 when I was in town for the twenty-fifth anniversary. A colleague has said Rather was at the Trade Mart. Rather has given various claims for his whereabouts at the time of the shooting, including his frequent claim he was on the other side of the overpass from the shooting area waiting for a film drop.

http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/the-sirhan-case-his-attorney-brother-speak-out-video/ Bob Wilson and I interview Sirhan Sirhan's attorney Laurie Dusek and his brother Munir on this new podcast. We are prompted by the 50th anniversary of the shooting and calls by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend for new investigations of the shooting, since they now believe Sirhan Sirhan did not shoot their father, as I agree.

It would be valuable to know how Marie Tippit wound up with the head of the State Democratic Party, Eugene Locke, the man in whose office the motorcade route was decided, as her attorney. The donations to the Tippit Fund were quite large, a reported total of $657,578, which would equal more than $5 million in 2018 money (I think some donations were in the nature of payoffs, and I went through all the police files of them and media reports about donations but still couldn't account for more than half of them), and Marie later complained that she had not received all the money she was due. The fund was administered by the Dallas Police Department. The board consisted of the mayor, the city treasurer, newspaper bosses Joe Dealey and James F. Chambers Jr., and other civic big wheels. She blamed poor financial planning and unwise handling by her advisers. "That [money] was put into a trust . . . and I can't say that we've come out earning a lot of money with it," she said in 1983. She added that her children were each to receive about $100,000, but for reasons she refused to discuss, "They did not get that much money each at all."

I somehow posted this twice and couldn't fix it. Among other things, I plug Lisa Pease's upcoming book on the RFK assassination on the show. I am hoping and expecting it will be the best yet on the subject. She is an ace researcher and writer and doesn't pull punches.