Steve Thomas

W., Thanks, I was going to bring that up in response to your thread title. https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1279251628466622466 I was reading a fascinating piece the other day from a speech coach (I'm sorry, I don't remember who). He was saying that Trump can't read. If you close your eyes and listen closely to Trump's, Mount Rushmore speech, you can hear him pause every two or three words, many times at very inappropriate places before he goes on to the next two or three words. The timing is way off. I can remember my mother telling me when I was just a little kid struggling with a big word, "Sound it out". That's what Trump is doing. He's sounding words out in his mind before he verbally expresses it. His speech writers have to put his speeches on a teleprompter because otherwise he would take off on his usual stream-of conscious psycho babble, but he can't pull it off because he can't read. Steve Thomas

The Daily Beast has come out with a list of the only five books you need to read to understand the JFK assassination. The Only Books on JFK’s Assassination You Need to Read https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-only-books-on-jfks-assassination-you-need-to-read?ref=home?ref=home The first one they list is, "Oswald's Tale" by Norman Mailer. I do not subscribe to this website, so I don't know what the other four books are. Perhaps someone who does subscribe could list the other four. This is for discussion only. I personally don't believe you can understand what happened in JFK's assassination by limiting your reading to only five books. Steve Thomas

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-administration-says-its-too-soon-to-say-if-safe-to-hold-rnc-in-florida_n_5f0213f3c5b6ca970920116a Trump Administration Says It’s Too Soon To Say If Safe To Hold RNC In Florida “We will have to see how this unfolds in Florida and elsewhere around the country,” Stephen Hahn told CNN. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Trump administration health official said on Sunday it was not clear whether it will be safe to hold the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville next month, as Florida sees record numbers of coronavirus cases. Stephen Hahn, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner, also refused to confirm President Donald Trump’s claim that 99% of coronavirus cases were harmless and called the situation a “serious problem.” This is funny. Jacksonville started requiring masks for all indoor events as of June 29th. How will Trump get out of it? If he defies the local authorities, how will that look for the Law and Order President? The RNC is screwed. Steve Thomas

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Executive Order on Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes Issued on: July 3, 2020 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-building-rebuilding-monuments-american-heroes/ (b) Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Task Force shall submit a report to the President through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy that proposes options for the creation of the National Garden, including potential locations for the site. (v) The National Garden should be located on a site of natural beauty that enables visitors to enjoy nature, walk among the statues, and be inspired to learn about great figures of America’s history. The site should be proximate to at least one major population center, and the site should not cause significant disruption to the local community. (c) To the extent appropriate and consistent with applicable law, these agencies shall prioritize projects that will result in the installation of a statue as described in subsection (b) o f this section in a community where a statue depicting a historically significant American was removed or destroyed in conjunction with the events described in section 1 of this order. I keep wondering whose land he's going to steal. Central Park? Some place down South? Steve Thomas

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Greg, I hesitated to comment on any of this because I have never studied an Oswald's (any Oswald) trip to Mexico. You know a heck of a lot more about this stuff than I do. Here's what David quoted from page 731 of the Warren Report in his article: https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/mexico-city-part-2-the-trip-down-part-1 There seems to be an awful lot of assumptions there/ PS: I liked what David did with the luggage. Just where was the rifle all this time anyway? Steve Thomas

Greg, While I agree with your assumption that an Oswald was driven to Mexico, I'm not so sure about your phrase about this being, "not on a direct line to Houston." New Orleans to Dallas to 505 miles, and according to Google maps takes 7.5 hours. That's an average speed of 67 mph. From information developed by David Joseph in Kennedy's and King David Joseph reviews in detail the evidence for Oswald's alleged trip to Mexico City – Part 2. https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/mexico-city-part-2-the-trip-down-part-1 “In Warren Commission Document 442 we find a telegram from Mexico City to Sec of State Rusk (dated November 23, 1963) stating the records show on October 3, 1963 a Lee HENRY Oswald left Mexico by Automobile. WCD 442 p.9 “ Lee Henry arrived in Nuevo Laredo on September 26, 1963, but they didn’t know if he arrived by car. A bus ticket was purchased in Houston, but I don't know if was purchased by an Oswald. As David put it, "There is no record of his travel from New Orleans to Houston. No record of a ticket from any mode of transportation; the FBI checked. There is a record of a bus ticket being purchased in Houston by 2am which should have covered Oswald's travel from there to Mexico City (FBI report of SA Edwin Dalrymple, 2/20/64).", but I don't know if there is any record that shows it was Oswald who bought that ticket. How do we know he went through Houston at all? Steve Thomas

Anthony, I'm sorry, I dropped a letter. It should be TPELIDE. It's on page four of the first link you provided about Lee Henry Oswald: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=29805&search=FBI_"Bustos"#relPageId=4&tab=page If you look up TPELIDE in the CIA Cryponyms, you can see a lot of confusion across the various documents. "At least through 4/64, used by the Mexico City station as a generic term for "embassy" and also used for a CIA team conducting surveillance. Caused confusion within CIA ranks. [status: Probable] https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php?id=TPELIDE Steve Thomas

Rob, Just in case you're interested, you can read a summary of this incident in 19H p. 683 here: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1136#relPageId=701&tab=page Oswald remembered inviting the Sergeant outside, "but didn't remember calling him yellow, or anything like that." Like some Private is going to call his Marine Sergeant yellow. That's like a death wish or something. :-) Steve Thomas

Richard, I'm sorry that life has thrown you a curve ball, and admire your determination to overcome it. Steve Thomas

Anthony, Well done! PS: That PELIDE crytonym is a real mystery, isn't it? Steve Thomas

I've decided that I'm going to vote for Donald Trump for President. According to his Press Secretary, President Trump can read, and at his last campaign rally he demonstrated how he can drink a glass of water with one hand. He's got my vote. Steve Thomas

Ron, Oh. Okay. I thought maybe Bentley said somewhere that Oswald had been given a test. Steve Thomas

The Associated Press has reported that at least one of Trump’s daily intelligence briefings included evidence of Russian bounties. Trump has insisted that he was never briefed on such details because they weren’t credible. https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-officials-found-russian-bank-transfer-data-supporting-bounty-accusation-nyt-reports?ref=home Data that shows bank transfers from a Russian military intelligence agency to the Taliban was part of the intercepted information used by U.S. intelligence officials to draw the conclusion that Russians were paying bounties for killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan, according to a New York Times report. The bank transfer data, along with information learned from detainee interrogations, pointed intelligence officials to the determination. Officials were also able to identify several Afghans involved in the alleged Russian operation, including one who is believed to have served as an intermediary in fund distribution. Afghan officials said that several businessmen who have been involved in money transfers with Russia have been arrested over the past several months, and half a million dollars was found in one of their homes. Steve Thomas

Russians squeeze U.S. troops in Syria amid uproar over Trump’s dealings with Moscow By LARA SELIGMAN and BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN 06/30/2020 02:00 PM EDT https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/30/russians-us-troops-syria-uproar-trump-345584 “The growing friction between U.S. and Russian troops in Syria comes against a backdrop of deepening mistrust between the national security community and President Donald Trump’s White House over dealings with Moscow. The tension burst into the open last week with revelations that Russia’s secretive military intelligence service offered bounties to the Taliban for killing U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan. “ “Intelligence and defense officials have become increasingly embittered about the White House’s approach to Moscow, particularly regarding the repeated request to increase cooperation with the Russian military, according to four former Trump administration officials, several of whom requested anonymity to discuss sensitive operations. From the beginning, the Trump White House wanted “a reset with Russia,” which included counterterrorism cooperation, said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA official who retired in 2019. Even so, Moscow consistently rebuffed their efforts, he said. “This was a nonstop request as part of the administration's oft-stated and well-publicized desire to engage with Moscow,” Polymeropoulos said. “While we once again attempted to engage the Russians, the effort as had always been the case was futile. There was never any gain to the U.S. in this endeavor." “In the days after Trump’s election, incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn immediately tried to increase cooperation between the U.S. and Russia in the region, with the stated goal of fighting terrorism.” “Initially shocked, Pentagon and intelligence officials quickly grew to resent requests for closer cooperation with the Kremlin and to question White House motives, the people said. After an election that the intelligence community determined had seen unprecedented campaign meddling by Russia, officials were especially wary of the new administration and its friendly stance toward Moscow. “I don’t think the [intelligence community] trusts the White House at all,” said one former Trump administration official. “Not with information, and not to make the right decisions.”” Back in Washington, Trump has mostly lashed out at the media over the recent reports about Russia’s behavior. Some national security veterans say it reflects Trump’s long-standing rhetorical approach to Moscow. Since the beginning of his presidency, the commander in chief has repeatedly second-guessed and denigrated the intelligence agencies on issues related to Russia, including its meddling in U.S. elections. Trump has also sometimes responded negatively to information in his daily intelligence briefings that presented Russia in a bad light, according to a former White House official. Over the course of 2017, briefers would choose not to highlight negative material about Russia when verbally briefing the president, the official said. That included intelligence about Russian activity in Syria that was detrimental to American troops or interests. “I don’t remember a thing that involved Russia that people were comfortable discussing with the president,” the former official said. “Even at the most senior level, at the Cabinet level, it would be like drawing sticks to see who would have to raise a Russia issue with him.” -more- Steve Thomas

Sean, Perhaps a better way of putting this might be that Oswald felt he was being made a patsy because he had defected. In my mind, Oswald didn't feel that he was being made a patsy or "a fall guy or was set up for something he didn't do,...", because he knew in his own heart that he was innocent. Voice stress will only take you so far. It can only measure emotions. Oswald felt he was being made a patsy because he had gone to Russia. That's the way he felt for a long time. In her WC testimony, Marina said that Oswald began to change after the FBI started leaning on him. According to the Tobias's on Elsbeth St., Oswald told Marina to tell them she was from Czechoslovakia. Ruth Paine said that Oswald blamed the FBI for him losing several jobs after they began hounding his neighbors and work environments. It was a long standing bone of contention with him. Steve Thomas

Ron, I'm sorry. Who says that Oswald was given a polygraph test? Steve Thomas

Chuck, https://apnews.com/02975c59e71e65327e2f582cd1a91f43 In early 2020, members of the elite Naval Special Warfare Development Group, known to the public as SEAL Team Six, raided a Taliban outpost and recovered roughly $500,000. The recovered funds further solidified the suspicions of the American intelligence community that the Russians had offered money to Taliban militants and linked associations. Can somebody explain how some guy sitting in a mud hut in the middle of the wildlands of Afghanistan came up with $500,000 in American money? It strikes me that in the 1970's the Taliban were getting money from the Americans to kill Russians. In the 20 teens, they're getting money from the Russians to kill Americans. They're sitting in the middle of their poppy fields just raking it in from everybody, aren't they? Anybody need a couple of Pakistanis or Tajiks bumped off? Steve Thomas

Micah, Thank you for this tip. If you back up a little in the directory line, you can get an index of other Lane interviews, such as Lee Bowers, Acquila Clemmons, etc.: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/pdf/lane_interviews/ Steve Thomas

Donald J. Trump is informed that Russia has engaged in a murder for hire scheme. His response? "Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us....." Oh well, in that case... Steve Thomas

Cliff, If God forbid something like that were to happen, remember Larry Hancock's, Someone Would Have Talked. The inevitable end result of our last 56 years Steve Thomas

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-russia-putin-bounty-us-soldiers_n_5ef80417c5b612083c4e9106 "Critics erupted Saturday after an explosive New York Times story asserting that Russian President Vladimir Putin secretly offered a bounty to Afghanistan militants for American soldiers they killed — and that Donald Trump knew about it. Both the White House and Putin denied the story Saturday,..." Trump: Putin strongly denied Russia meddling in 2016 election By White House July 16, 2018, 12:46 PM https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article214959765.html During the summit in Helsinki, a reporter asked President Trump about United States agencies concluding that Russia meddling in the U.S. 2016 presidential election. Trump revealed that Vladimir Putin strongly denied interference in their talks. Intelligence professionals are trained to look for patterns. Steve Thomas

W,. “The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!!” I wonder if the Secret Service is now investigating Donald Trump for threatening the life of a Presidential candidate. Steve Thomas

Joe, He already has. That's why I was bringing it up. From the Associated Press: Native Americans protesting Trump trip to Mount Rushmore https://apnews.com/50f6bdb9e2fd2349bb39b99c1250b093 "Trump has long shown a fascination with Mount Rushmore. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said in 2018 that he once told her straight-faced that it was his dream to have his face carved into the monument. He later joked at a campaign rally about getting enshrined alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln." Steve Thomas