-Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) - (after the most recent mass shooting at a shopping mall in Texas)

“Reid later asked Self about criticism that “prayers aren’t cutting it” when it comes to addressing gun violence before the Texas Republican took aim at the analysis.

“Well, those are people that don’t believe in an almighty God who has... who is absolutely in control of our lives,” said Self…”

It’s Gods will

Inshallah

Steve Thomas

 

The Governor of Mississippi put out a campaign ad of him shooting Mexicans.

No promises to fix the potholes or provide better health care.

That's all - just him shooting people.

We have sunk that low.

Steve Thomas

When you're a star, you can assault women whenever you want.

It's been that way for a million years.

Fortunately.

Steve Thomas

5 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

 I wonder if you m might have any suggestions in my search.

 

Ron,

Outside of the LBJ Library (with is a good bet), you might also try here:

A Guide to the Henry Wade Papers, 1927-2009 - University of Texas
legacy.lib.utexas.edu 
"Henry Menasco Wade was born on Nov. 11, 1914, in Rockwall, Texas, and studied at the University of Texas. He worked as an F.B.I. agent before becoming an Assistant DA in 1947. Three years later Wade ran for district attorney of Dallas Wade held the position for 36 year, retiring in 1987."

(I tried going there online, but it kept telling me I had tried doing too many searches, so I don't know what's going on there).

Steve Thomas

If Donald Trump declassified hundreds of government documents simply by taking them home with him, why hasn't he been hit with thousands of Freedom of Information requests?

Steve Thomas

39 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said:

Everyone already knows that Israel could nuke the entire planet.

W.,

Yes, but where are they located?

What are the launch codes?

Can they be hacked?

What is the command and control structure? By assassinating certain people a priori, can that be disrupted?

Steve Thomas

Trump could have been planning to share his classified information with the Saudis: Former DOJ official
By Matthew Chapman May 5, 2023, 
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-classified-information-2659970386/

"Former Justice Department official Mary McCord suggested on MSNBC's "Deadline White House" on Friday that special counsel Jack Smith needs to investigate whether former President Donald Trump intended to show his stash of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to the Saudi government to grease the wheels of his deal to host golf tournaments backed by the Saudis at his properties."
Trump made a lot of money by letting the Saudis host their LIV  Tournaments at his golf resorts.
What did he give them in return? Did he provide the Saudis with information on Israel's nuclear capabilities? Wasn't there a story early on that some of those classified documents contained the nuclear secrets of an Allied power?
Steve Thomas

- Mark Keith Robinson, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina -

https://www.facebook.com/mark.k.robinson.3/posts/pfbid02G8s51gReW3GvPnxKbeCVzQAJ8DvX9Pf5Xnq7ovn92iZ98H7ezfqqn9RVYL2cvufdl

“Let me see if I have this correct. A spoiled, angry, disobedient CHILD shot and killed 17 of his classmates, and now spoiled, angry, know it all CHILDREN are trying to tell law abiding ADULTS that we must give up our Constitutional RIGHT to own certain weapons. Cue Rod Serling because this must be an episode of the Twilight Zone? David Hogg and the rest of these silly little immature "media prosti-tots" need to grab a passy, have seat in time out, and shut up. The very ideology of conservatism that your liberal mollycoddling string pullers have taught you to despise is exactly what you and your schools have desperately needed to prevent these massacres as well as the multitude of FAILURES that exist in public education. The conservative principles of excellence, hard work, self respect, RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE, and DISCIPLINE are what your schools need. Instead you have the liberal syndrome of rectal cranial inversion mixed with a healthy dose of just plain evil and stupid permeating your hallways. If, two days before this shooting, a hard nosed nonsense conservative had walked into that school and put into place the ideals and principles that would have avoided that massacre, you spoiled little bastards would have kicked and screamed like babies in a crib. That's what you are doing now. In fact you're doing less than that. A baby's cries are useful and necessary. You are simply making irritating noise. You say you want to "make a difference." Well here's how you do it. Go to school. Behave well. Study hard. Respect your fellow classmates. And enjoy being children while you can.
Pretty soon you'll be adults...

DISCIPLINE! THAT’S WHAT YOU NEED! BEHAVE YOURSELF!

BEAT THOSE LITTLE SNOTS!

Steve Thomas

19 minutes ago, David Josephs said:

You're amazingly good at finding things.. any chance you can set your sights on what the "ID Number 54018" might reference and lead to, as that last entry on the copy on the left?

David,

No, but it;s larger than the number above it, and looks like it might be written in the same hand as the person who wrote

"Assault to Murder OFF# (offense #?) F85964" about 2/3 of the way down the page.

That's kind of what makes me think it's a District Attorney's reference number, rather than a Department of Police number

Steve Thomas

54 minutes ago, David Josephs said:

I get you Steve... My concern arrises from the fact that all three appear to be carbon copies of each other based on the image at the far right which has none of those numbers.

David,

I think the one on the far right is the original, and then with each time they wanted to use it, somebody said, "No, we've got to jazz it up a little. Make it look more official."

Wasn't the charge for the assault on Connolly added a little afdter the initial charge for the murder of JFK?

The one on the extreme left reminds me a little of the documents I was looking at when I was poring over the Henry Wade documents related to the Jack ruby trial Those stray numbers floating around on the page could relate to Exhibit numbers Wade was going to present at trial.

Steve Thomas

10 hours ago, David Josephs said:

Yeah, those "notes" 

 

As you mentioned before Steve, the different and successive versions of his report are extremely telling...  Kinda like the Oswald arrest report...  check this out (Fritz is also key to these as well)

We've all seen the one to the far right.  Had never seen the far left with Fritz's signatures on the 22nd and 24th and the added assault charge for Connally...  but how do we have the middle copy dated the 24th without Fritz's signatures or the assault added... and vice versa.

David,

It may have something to do with the numbers up in the top right hand corner, and the record-keeping purpose for which that report was being filed.

I mean where that Report was being sent (Archives vs. State Attorney General's Office vs. FBI, vs. Henry Wade's office and the Jack Ruby trial, etc.)

Steve Thomas

11 hours ago, David Josephs said:

Devil in the details my friend.  and the breadth of knowledge to know when something doesn't fit.  

Maybe just me... the lancer link doesn't want to connect?

This site can’t be reached

www.jfklancer.com took too long to respond.

 

David (and Larry),

A copy of Fritz's Interrogation Notes can be online here:

https://www.jfk-info.com/fritztit.htm

Steve Thomas

6 hours ago, Paul Rigby said:

Jean Ghenassia

 

GHENASSIA Jean, Moïse

https://maitron.fr/spip.php?article149117

Jean Ghenassia, son of Salomon and Renée Ghenassia, joined the French army at a very young age and participated in the liberation of the country from German occupation. He took part in 1947, in the ranks of the Israeli army, in the first Israeli-Palestinian war. He was seriously wounded in the chest during these fights. He remained in his adopted country for a few years. Back in Algiers in 1953, he resumed his studies to become a teacher. Established on January 1, 1958, he was assigned to the Hussein-Dey boys' school.

After the events that took place in Algiers, on May 13 of the same year, he bonded deeply with Pierre Lagaillarde, one of the leaders of the supporters of French Algeria. He joined and then actively militated in the Algiers section of the SII (Independent Union of Teachers), then affiliated with the CGSI (General Confederation of Independent Unions). This section was directed by his friend Dominique Zattara*.

A staunch supporter of "French Algeria", like Dominique Zattara, Jean Ghenassia was suspected by the authorities, after the putsch of the generals of Algiers in April 1961, of being an active member or sympathizer of the OAS (Organization of the secret army)."

I read a rather enlightening piece concerning the Algerian/Israeli historical connection, the struggle for Algerian independence, the Suez Canal

Algeria, Israel and the last European settler colony in the Arab world

by Joseph Massad 19 July 2022

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/france-algeria-israel-settler-colonies-arab-world

"France’s military alliance with Israel and its hostility to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser increased, especially as the Egyptian leader became identified as the force behind the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN)."

Israel joined England and France in their invasion of Egypt at the Suez Canal in 1956.

"Against this background, France launched its invasion of Egypt with the British and the Israelis in 1956, an adventure that ended in their defeat and only increased Nasser’s popularity."

“Other groups, however, formed Algerian Jewish commandos and organised themselves in Oran against Algerian Muslims. They sought partition of the colony along “racial” lines. 

They were said to be inspired in their quest by Israeli government policy. Israel conscripted at least one Algerian Jew, who had joined the OAS, into Israel’s spy network, namely one of the OAS leaders, Jean Ghenassia, who had contacts with Israeli agents, for which he was later prosecuted by the French."

After losing at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and the Suez Canal in 1956, the French were spoiling for a fight.

Steve Thomas

15 minutes ago, David Josephs said:

Thanks Larry.. that's too bad - I hope they can resurrect it. 

The following Thanks to Bart's Anatomy of Interrogations...

Timeline of Oswald’s interrogations and transfers.

Nov 23rd.

10:30 - 11:30 Interrogation, Capt. Will Fritz’s Office. Boyd and Hall of the DPD are inside the office as well. US Marshal Robert Nash, FBI SA James Bookhout and Secret Service agents Forrest Sorrels, David B. Grant and Thomas J. Kelley are also present.

 

David,

Bart and I spent many hours going over this timeline.

I was very sorry to see he left out any mention of this 12:35 Interview, especially since both Fritz and Kelley refer to it in Appendix XI of the WC Hearings.

4) There is a version of Fritz's interrogation of Oswald in Appendix XI of the Warren Report. On page 607 of the Appendix, Fritz references the 12:35 interview and uses the same language “with Inspector Kelley and some of the other officers and myself”.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=946#relPageId=631&tab=page

5) There is also a version of the Interrogation of Oswald in CD 81 AG Texas Letter with attachments dated 07 Jan 1964 beginning on page 452. Covers the Interrogation of Oswald and takes up 13 pages. On page 460, Fritz references the 12:35 interview in the same language as is in the DPD Archives “with Inspector Kelley and some of the other officers and myself”.

Appendix XI of the Warren Report p. 628. This is Thomas Kelley's Report of Oswald's interview at 12:35 on Saturday the 23rd. Page 628
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=946#relPageId=652&tab=page

Steve Thomas

24 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said:

And now this bullsh*t...

Trump Says He's Returning to New York to 'Confront' Rape Accuser E. Jean Carroll 

 

 

W.,

I read that on Thursday, the lawyers are meeting with the judge to go over the instructions he is giving to the jury.

On Friday the jury has the day off. On Monday, you have final summation.

The only way Trump is going to "confront" E. Jean Carroll is in the public. He'd better be careful that the judge doesn't throw him in jail for witness or jury tampering or intimidation.

P.S. Sorry for stepping on your toes about Gordon Lightfoot. I didn't realize that you has posted something before I did.

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, David Josephs said:

I post this Steve as the links to that Archive are all broken...  they moved all that to the larger Dallas archives.  It can still be found of course... but the xl sheet I had with links to all this evidence is now worthless...  luckily where they are now is actually a bit easier to search...  whether everything made it over as it should, who knows.

 

David,

Thank you.

Yes, the DPD moved its JFK Collection over to the Texas Portal to History, but not all of it was copied over.

I haven't had the time or strength to try and go to the Portal and try and find everything I found in the original Archives. (I have dozens and dozens of citations in my notes at home).

Another reason that I think Fritz's Interrogation notes are fraudulent is this:

Remember what I said about pages 4 and 5 of the Notes had been fiddled with?

Fritz Interrogation Notes
http://www.jfklancer.com/Fritzdocs.html

On page 5 of those notes, Fritz writes that during the 6:35 PM Interrogation on Saturday night, Oswald complained about wanting a jacket for a lineup.

Since the only lineup on Saturday was at 2:15 PM, it wouldn't make sense for him to be complaining about wanting a jacket at 6:35 PM for a lineup that didn't exist, but would make sense if he was told at 1:10 when he was taken back to jail and told he was being taken down for another lineup at 2:15.

Steve Thomas

"I wouldn't rape this woman. She's not my type."

Oh really? So what type of woman would you rape?

Steve Thomas

4 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

What do you mean about Fritz David?

Jim,

Here's another one.

Jail Checkouts
Fritz Report on the case. Commission Document 81 - AG Texas Letter with attachments dated 07 Jan 1964 page 467. Shows Oswald being checked out of jail at 12:35 and returned at 1:10 PM
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10483#relPageId=467&tab=page

If Oswald was checked out of jail at 12:35 PM on Saturday, November 23rd. where was he?

If you go to the Portal to Texas History and do a search for lineups, there is this document:

In the document below, the check mark at 12:35 is not mine.

[List of dates and times of line-up participants] Page: 1 of 2

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth339639/m1/2/?q=lineups

For what it's worth, I've come to believe that the Fritz Interrogation Notes are a fraud. Not so much a fraud, as fraudulent; because I believe that a page has been removed between pp. 4 and 5 of those Notes in an effort to hide an Interview with Lee Harvey that took place at 12:35 PM on Saturday, November 23rd.

So far, I have found seven versions or copies of the Report that Captain Will Fritz of the the DPD Homicide and Robbery Bureau filed concerning his Interrogations of Lee Harvey Oswald.

1) Interrogation, by an unknown author. Typed rough draft with handwritten corrections pertaining to the interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald, (Original), date unknown. DPD Archives Box 1, Folder# 15, Item# 1. Consists of 12 pages. This is the version of the Interrogation that has stenographer's notes.
http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box1.htm
On page 8 of that Report, it says that Oswald was brought down for an Interrogation at 12:35 PM on Saturday, November 23rd. In this version, Fritz says that Oswald was brought to the office for another interview with Inspector Kelly (the name Kelly is corrected to Kelley), and “some of the other officers and myself”.


2) Interrogation, by J. W. Fritz. Draft of the interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald, (Photocopy) Poor Quality), date unknown DPD Archives, Box 15, Folder# 1, Item# 111. This consists of 13 pages. By starting new paragraphs as called for in the draft in Box 1, this draft has been extended to 13 pages. You can also see the differences between page 5 in Box1 and page 6 in Box 15 where Fritz wanted language added about the bus transfer in Oswald's pocket. This tells me that the draft in Box 1 came first.
http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box15.htm
On page 9 of this Box 15 version, the 12:35 time has been crossed out, and 6:00 PM has been written in.

5) There is also a version of the Interrogation of Oswald in CD 81 AG Texas Letter with attachments dated 07 Jan 1964 beginning on page 452. Covers the Interrogation of Oswald and takes up 13 pages. On page 460, Fritz references the 12:35 interview in the same language as is in the DPD Archives “with Inspector Kelley and some of the other officers and myself”.

He asks Oswald about the different places he lived in an attempt to find out where the picture was made of him holding a rifle. This is a copy of the version in Box 15 of the DPD Archives

6) CE 2003 (24H beginning at page 195)) - Dallas Police Department file on investigation of the assassination of the President (CD 81b, all pages). The Interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald begins on page 264 of this Exhibit and takes up 13 pages. Page 268 covers the 12:35 Interrogation. Uses the same language, “with Inspector Kelley and some of the other officers and myself”.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1140#relPageId=285&tab=page

In the DPD Archives there is an Index Page, by an unknown author. Index page from notebook containing an inventory of information related to the investigation of the assassination and related cases - under index letter"t", (Original), date unknown
Box 6, Folder# 1, Item# 78 page 3 Gives the Times of Questioning Oswald.
This list includes the 12:35 – 1:10 PM Interrogation.
http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box6.htm


This page is not included in CD 81, page 632. (Either on pp. 631 or 633)
Compare CD 81 page 632 to DPD Archives Box 6, Folder#1, Item# 78 page 3
In CD 81 there is a large gap between November 22nd and November 24th. November 23rd is missing.

This is a problem because the officers were not dispatched to Irving to searh the garage and find the pictures until 1:10 PM and didn’t arrive back to DPD Headquarters with the pictures until 4:30 PM or so.

I believe that at some point, someone went into the Dallas Police Department and made a conscious effort to remove traces of Oswald's Interrogation at 12:35 on Saturday, November 23, 1963. I don't know who this was, but they succeeded in eliminating or changing some things, but failed in others. I don't know if they were: a) clumsy or inept; or, b) didn't know all the places they needed to check; or, c) ran out of time.

As to why someone would want to eliminate traces of the 12:35 Interrogation, some have suggested that in his reports of the Interrogation, Fritz writes about asking Oswald about the picture of him with a rifle, at least four hours before it was officially found in the Irving St. garage and brought back to police headquarters at about 4:30 PM. I think it is also possible that something was discussed at that 12:35 meeting that no one wanted disclosed Throughout the versions of the Interrogation, Fritz says that only Inspector Kelly and myself were present, alomg with some other officers, but he never names who they were. Officers like Turner and Senkel, who would normally have been present make no mention of this 12:35 Interrogation in their Reports.

I believe that either:

a) Oswald was being questioned about the pictures before they had officially been found; or,
b) The 12:35 Interview had nothing to do with the pictures, but was about something else.

Steve Thomas

The Illinois State Senate just passed a bill that would deny State Aid to any library that bans books for political or doctrinal purposes.

Yes!

Steve Thomas

Trump business blunder is costing him over $1 million a month: Forbes
By Tom Boggioni May 3, 2023
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-business-disaster/

"According to Forbes business analyst Dan Alexander, the former president and real estate developer made a big business miscalculation right after leaving office that centers on a three-building office complex in San Francisco.
Initially, Trump’s strategy looked smart, as he began with a roughly 2% interest rate while Vornado paid 2.26%. But in early 2022, after the Fed realized that inflation was not going to go away on its own, it jacked rates—and sent Trump’s interest expenses soaring," the report notes before adding, " America’s most famous real-estate tycoon is now contending with an estimated 5.93% rate at the property, putting him on track to hand over $21 million of annual interest expenses, $13 million more than he would if he had followed Roth’s lead and locked in a fixed rate at the outset."
As a result, Alexander is reporting, "The Trump Organization is now on pace to pay an estimated $51 million of interest across all of its properties this year, roughly 30% more than it paid the year Trump left the White House."

Steve Thomas

1 hour ago, David Josephs said:

 

Again, thanks for the concern.

David,

There was concern because you are liked and respected.

👍

Steve Thomas

2 hours ago, Gil Jesus said:

Steve you can find the list of showups and who the officers were who were present at this link:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth340196/m1/1/

 

Brennan is not even mentioned.

Gil,

As I mentioned, there are 7 or 8 versions of the lineups in the DPD records. Sometimes they were referred to as Show-ups and were filed in the S section of the case report.

Here is the one and only place where I found Brennan mentioned:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth339555/m1/1/?q=Brennan

Steve Thomas

Back in 2017, I started a thread on the lineup that Brennan allegedly attended.

You can find it here:

https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/23343-brennans-lineup/#comment-341295

There's a lot of references to the DPD Arcives, which have subsequently been folded into the Portal to Texas History.

When I looked into it, I found that of the 7 or 8 copies of the lineups, Brennan only appears once.

It took place after the lineup with the Davis sisters. He was brought to police headquarters by the Dallas office of the Secret Service.

At the bottom of the lineup report, someone handwrote Brennan's name and also wrote, "Failed to iidentify."

From that point on, he was written out of the Dallas Police Department's official record.

No Dallas policemen attended this Brennan lineup.

You tell me.

Steve Thomas

Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Folk-Rock Troubadour, Dead at 84

I would like to congratulate Marjorie Taylor Greene for the massive support she receives from the constituents in her District in Georgia.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's quarterly filing shows only 6 donors from her district

by David Edwards May 1, 2023

https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-donations/

“Quarterly filings from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene show that the Georgia Republican only received six donations from her constituents.

Rome News-Tribune first reported on Greene's FEC filings, showing $601,517 in total receipts and $1,593,578 in total disbursements. Greene indicated she had $966,133 on hand as of March 31.

The paper observed that only six donors who live in Greene's 14th congressional district contributed to the lawmaker. Those donations were said to total just $2,300.”

Steve Thomas