I saw the film last night, and got confused about something.

If CE 399 fell out of Kennedy's back during heart massage, it couldn't have gone through him and into Connally.

I don't ever remember reading about a big old hole in Connally's thigh. I thought they just recovered a few grains of lead.

If CE 399 had lodged in Connally's thigh, and just fell out on his stretcher, I think somebody would have noticed it when they moved him to the operating table.

PS: Good job Jim (and Oliver). I liked your segment on Lumumba.

Steve Thomas

I keep thinking about the title of this thread. Fintan O'Toole described our current state of affairs as, "outlandish idiocy:" He wasn't far off.

Over 100 QAnon believers show up in Dallas waiting for JFK Jr -- who never arrives

by Brad Reed November 22, 2021

https://www.rawstory.com/qanon-dallas-jfk-jr-2655776684/

“Over 100 believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory gathered in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Monday morning in anticipation of the late John F. Kennedy Jr. coming back from the dead and declaring former President Donald Trump to be America's true president.

Much to their disappointment, however, the late son of former President John Kennedy never arrived, never proclaimed Trump the true president, and never revealed himself as Trump's new vice president.”

JFK-obsessed QAnon cultists set off alarms with ominous chatter: 'We have to experience physical death'

by Travis Gettys November 22, 2021

https://www.rawstory.com/michael-brian-protzman-2655776085/

“Online conspiracist Michael Brian Protzman drew his followers, who call him Negative48, to Dallas last month to await the return of John F. Kennedy and his son John F. Kennedy Jr., but the tone of his comments turned morbid over the weekend in a video chat participants openly discussed their own deaths as part of a journey toward some unknowable truth, reported Vice.

"Ultimately," said one participant, "we have to experience that physical death ... let go ... come out on the other side."

An administrator for Protzman's Telegram channel posted an ominous screenshot hours later that showed the destination on a navigation app as Waco, Texas, where a months-long standoff between law enforcement and the Branch Davidian religious sect ended in the fiery deaths of 76 people, including 25 children. “

Is the past, prologue?

Steve Thomas

I thought this Thread might be appropriate for this:

1) Integralism

There was a throwaway line in something Jean-Claude Perez told Fensterwald in 1982. He said that,

“post 1962, Souetre was part of an ultra-right, ultra-Catholic splinter group which included four men named Pichon, Lefevre, Bourget, and Grossouvre. Group called Integraliste
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/S%20Disk/Souetre%20Jean%20with%20aka%27s/Item%2011.pdf

p. 4.

(Albert Lefevre, by the way, was the one man I could find that both stood trial with Souetre in December, 1961 and who escaped with him from the Camp at St. Maurice L'Ardoise in February, 1962.)

From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integralism

Integralism is an ideology according to which a nation is an organic unity. Integralism defends social differentiation and hierarchy with co-operation between social classes, transcending conflict between social and economic groups. It advocates trade unionism (or a guild system), corporatism, and organic political representation instead of ideological forms of representation. Integralism claims that the best political institutions for given nations will differ depending on the history, culture and climate of the nation's habitat. Often associated with blood and soil conservatism, it posits the nation or the state or the nation state as an end and a moral good, rather than a means.[1]

The term integralism was coined by the French journalist Charles Maurras, whose conception of nationalism was illiberal and anti-internationalist, elevating the interest of the state above that of the individual and above humanity in general.[1]

Although it is marked by its being exclusionary and particularistic, and there has been consideration of its historic role as a sort of proto-fascism (in a European context)[1] or para-fascism (in a South American context),[2] this link remains controversial, with some social scientists positing that it combines elements of both the political left and right.[3]

Catholic Integralism does not support the creation of an autonomous "Catholic" state church, or Erastianism (Gallicanism in French context). Rather it supports subordinating the state to the worldwide Catholicism under the leadership of the Pope. Thus it rejects separation of the Catholic Church from the state and favours Catholicism as the proclaimed religion of the state.[5]

Catholic Integralism appeals to the teaching on the subordination of temporal to spiritual power of medieval popes such as Pope Gregory VII and Pope Boniface VIII. But Catholic Integralism in the strict sense came about as a reaction against the political and cultural changes which followed the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.[6

(Where have we heard “Blood and Soil” recently?)

Steve Bannon's criminal indictment is the best thing that's ever happened to him

by Heather Digby Parton, Salon https://www.rawstory.com/u/heather_digby_parton_salon

November 15, 2021

https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-s-criminal-indictment-is-the-best-thing-that-s-ever-happened-to-him/

“Bannon tried to make himself into a kingmaker during the 2018 primaries but saw dismal results so he spent the next couple of years wandering around the world, connecting up with leaders of other authoritarian regimes, acting as something of an alt-right entrepreneur. Nothing much came of it, at least institutionally. Bannon's ballyhooed global far-right movement he branded with an exceptionally catchy name, "The Movement," failed to ever get off the ground. Likewise, his hopes to start a far-right Catholic political academy in an 800-year-old monastery in Italy were thwarted last March when The Council of State ruled against it after years of court battles. Bannon was designing the curriculum for the Academy for the Judeo-Christian West for Catholic activists in which, as The New Yorker's Ben Munster put it, "a new class of right-wing 'culture warriors' would be trained."”

“Bannon's philosophy has been written about quite a bit, including by yours truly, because it is extremely radical and very, very weird. It's all wacky mysticism mixed with antediluvian, pre-enlightenment, authoritarianism posing as nationalism based upon the writings of an obscure French writer named René Guénon from the early 20th century and the teachings of one of his followers (and Mussolini adviser) Julius Evola. (If you're interested in going deep, these articles will fill you in.) The school of thought is called "Traditionalism" and it is like no tradition you've ever heard of. But Bannon is not alone with this philosophy. It's held by members of far-right leaders' inner circles throughout Europe and in places like Brazil and Russia. If there is an intellectual rationale for Trumpism beyond the Dear Leader cult of personality, this "traditionalism" is it.”

Inside the Secret, Strange Origins of Steve Bannon’s Nationalist Fantasia

“The chief strategist of Trump’s triumph reveals his strange brew of intellectual influences, including a French-Egyptian Muslim occultist guru, and his apocalyptic view of history.”

By Joshua Green Vanity Fair July 17, 2017

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/the-strange-origins-of-steve-bannons-nationalist-fantasia

Steve Thomas
 

On 11/12/2021 at 2:05 PM, Sean Coleman said:

……what did LHO do between the hours of 1240pm - 100pm?

Sean,

If my own personal hunch is correct, and the driver was Manuel Rodriguez Orcarberro, Oswald could have spent that time at 3126 Harlandale.

I wrote an article entitled, "Possible Rambler lead?" and posted it here:

https://myjfksite.weebly.com/

Steve Thomas

Flu shots uptake is now partisan. It didn't use to be

by Harry Enten, CNN November 14, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/14/politics/flu-partisan-divide-analysis/index.html

“Uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine has, unfortunately, become partisan like so much else in our society. Almost every Democratic adult (90% to 95%) has gotten a shot, while a little less than two-thirds of Republican adults have.

That partisanship appears to have transferred to at least one other important vaccination. An examination of flu shot data suggests that which party people belong to is highly correlated with whether they have or will get a flu shot this season -- something that was not predictive of flu shot uptake the last few years.

Take a look at two recent polls that have asked about whether or not people have gotten the flu shot: Axios/Ipsos and Kaiser Family Foundation. By assessing two polls instead of one, we know what we're seeing is a real phenomenon and not statistical noise.

According to the Ipsos data, 68% of Democrats said they have gotten a flu shot or are very likely to get one. Just 44% of Republicans said the same. This 24-point gap is very similar to the 30-point gap for Covid-19 vaccines.

The Kaiser poll shows basically the same thing. A clear majority (65%) of Democrats indicated that they had received or will definitely receive the flu shot. Just 40% of Republicans indicated they would. The 25-point partisan gap in this data is a near carbon copy of the 24-point gap in the Ipsos poll.”

Let’s bring back polio and malaria and smallpox!

I miss the good old days.

Steve Thomas

5 hours ago, Gil Jesus said:

Oswald's shirt

by Gil Jesus ( 2021 )

 

https://gil-jesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CE-150-small.png

After his arrest, Oswald told the Dallas Police that after he left work, he went to his room and changed his clothes.


The significance of this is that if true, then the witness Mrs. Bledsoe, who claimed to have seen him on the bus wearing the arrested shirt ( CE 150 ) BEFORE he got to his roominghouse, was either lying or simply mistaken.




The evidence also proves that Bledsoe had NOT seen this shirt prior to its being shown to her by the FBI.

This is my opinion based on the evidence I've seen.

Gil,

If you read Bledsoe's WC testimony carefully, she identified the shirt she was shown during her testimony as being the same shirt she was shown by the Secret Service out at her house.

Mr. Ball.

Now, I have got a piece of clothing here, which is marked---

Mrs. Bledsoe.

That is it.

Mr. Ball.

Commission Exhibit 150.

Mrs. Bledsoe.

That is it.

Mr. Ball.

This is a shirt.

Mrs. Bledsoe.

That is it.

Mr. Ball.

What do you mean by "that is it?"

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Because they brought it out to the house and showed it.

Mr. Ball.

I know. What do you mean by "that is it?"

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Well, because I can recognize it.

Mr. Ball.

Yes. You tell me what do you see here? What permits you to recognize it?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

I recognize---first thing I notice the elbow is out and then I saw---when the man brought it out and let me see it?

Mr. Ball.

No, I am talking about---I am showing you this shirt now, and you said, "That is it." You mean---What do you mean by "that is it"?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

That is the one he had out there that day?

Mr. Ball.

Who had it out there?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Some Secret Service man.

Mr. Ball.

He brought it out. Now, I am---you have seen this shirt then before?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Yes.

Mr. Ball.

It was brought out by the Secret Service man and shown to you?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Yes.

Mr. Ball.

Had you ever seen the shirt before that?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

Well---

Mr. Ball.

Have you?

Mrs. Bledsoe.

No; he had it on, though.

 

Steve Thomas

https://twitter.com/jonkarl/status/1459116740407930882

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.236632/gov.uscourts.dcd.236632.35.0_2.pdf

“Presidents are not kings”

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

)
DONALD J. TRUMP, )
)
Plaintiff, )
)
v. )
)
Civil Action No. 21-cv-2769 (TSC)
)
BENNIE G. THOMPSON, in his official
capacity as Chairman of the United States
House Select Committee to Investigate the
January 6th Attack on the United States
Capitol, et al.,
)
Defendants.

IV. CONCLUSION
For reasons explained above, the court will deny Plaintiff’s request to enjoin Defendants from enforcing or complying with the Select Committee’s August 25, 2021, requests because Plaintiff is unlikely to succeed on the merits of his claims or suffer irreparable harm, and because a balance of the equities and public interest bear against granting his requested relief.

Date: November 9, 2021


Tanya S. Chutkan
TANYA S. CHUTKAN
United States District Judge

Steve Thomas

Ted Cruz Talks About Joe Rogan Being 'President' Of Texas If State Secedes From U.S.

"If there comes a point where it’s hopeless, then I think we take NASA, we take the military, we take the oil,” Cruz told an audience at Texas A&M University.

By  Mary Papenfuss 11/07/2021

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-joe-rogan-texas-secession_n_6188864ce4b055e47d7c1480

“When Cruz was asked by a member of the audience about the possibility of seceding, he said he “understood the sentiment.” But he added that he wasn’t ready for it — yet.

“I’m not ready to give up on America. I love this country,” he said, again to applause.

For one thing, Cruz insisted, Texas has a “responsibility” to the nation because “right now it’s an amazing force keeping America from going off the cliff, keeping America grounded in the values that built this country.”

But he’s prepared to change his mind.

“Look, if the Democrats end the filibuster ... if they pack the Supreme Court, if they make D.C. a state, if they federalize elections and massively expand voter fraud,” which doesn’t exist, “it may become hopeless,” Cruz said. “We’re not there yet.”

But if it does become “hopeless,” that’s when the state should grab NASA, the military and the oil, he added.

When asked this week what he thinks about the Texas secessionist / independence movement called “Texit,” Ted Cruz says it might be appropriate if certain things happen, and that Joe Rogan should be President of an independent Texas. pic.twitter.com/3crlZlh8VL

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 7, 2021 “

This is from a United States Senator who has declared war on a cartoon character bird and has defended the German WWII salute.

Steve Thomas

No, not that one; the other one.

I've long been intrigued by the gray jacket found on Industrial Ave. and turned over to the police.

Erich Kaminski is also the Officer who was given the jacket found by James Clark Larue on Industrial Ave. under the Ft. Worth Turnpike. Kaminsky turned it over to the Homicide and Robbery Bureau.(Dallas Municipal Archives Box 4, Folder# 3, Item# 26, page 3. This entry is on the list of TSBD employees compiled by Ray Westphal and J.M. Parks that was given to Jack Revill).

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=217803#relPageId=332

Why was this jacket given to Erich Kaminsky of the Special Services Bureau?

Did Larue know Kaminsky?

Why is it included in a list of TSBD employees?

Why was it turned over to Robbery and Homicide?

Why was it being "held for evidence"? Evidence of what?

Property Clerk receipt for a gray suit coat found by James Clark Larue on Industrial Blvd. Received by F.M. Turner

Portal To Texas History

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth339751/m1/1/?q=Larue

Handwritten note reads, “Put in Kaminsky Folder” “Hold for Evidence 12/6/63”.

F.M. Turner was a Detective in the Homicide and Robbery Bureau.

Is there any connection to either of these two Sheriff Department Tape entries?

Approximately 2”00 PM

Sheriff’s Department Dispatch Tapes

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1134#relPageId=409

Sheriff’s Department tapes:

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1134#relPageId=407

CE 705 p. 381

Did this jacket have anything to do with either of these two entries in the DPD Dispatch tapes?

https://www.jfk-assassination.net/dpdtapes/tapes3.htm

Approximately 1:34 PM

Approximately 1:44 PM

I don't have any answers. It's all just very intriguing.

Steve Thomas

Donald Trump Cashed In On Jan. 6 Riot Furor, Records Show

“Hotel dollars and invective piled up as his supporters gathered for the attack on the U.S. Capitol.”

By Mary Papenfuss

11/05/2021 10:10pm EDT

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-dc-hotel-room-prices-capitol-riot-gathering_n_6185d1ede4b055e47d7ab44d

“Former President Donald Trump has been accused of inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and it appears he also profited from it, according to records examined by Forbes magazine.

As Trump touted the coming gathering of his supporters — at one point last December tweeting: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” — the price of the least expensive rooms in his Washington hotel zoomed from $476 to $1,999. Just over a week later, prices hit $3,600 — and eventually reached an astonishing $8,000 on Jan. 6, Forbes reported.”

Room rates at the DC Hote December 20 – January 30, 2021:

https://twitter.com/Z_Everson/status/1344629191480905728

Who says crime doesn't pay?

Steve Thomas

What would a 21st Century American Civil War look like?

By Lucian K. Truscott IV October 13, 2021

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-would-a-21st-century-american?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1MDcyNDUyOSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDI1NjE0OTIsIl8iOiJJRkxtRCIsImlhdCI6MTYzNDIxNDgxOSwiZXhwIjoxNjM0MjE4NDE5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjU1MzAxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.EIDzo_4dUMbMw8ZzzzLvCI-DAhQ74C7Pp3Ir5Lw3E64&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

“I don’t think anyone in this country is prepared for the destruction and lack of conventional modern amenities that accompanies war.  Deliveries of every sort of goods from food to major appliances to clothing to…well, everything will be disrupted.  Electricity will be absent or at best intermittent as one side attempts to damage the other by taking out generating plants and power distribution infrastructure.”

“ Meanwhile, because refrigeration was not reliable, food shopping had to be done daily, and if fighting interrupted deliveries of fresh vegetables or canned foods to markets, there wasn’t any food, sometimes for days, even weeks.”

“A civil war can be relied upon to maintain one thriving market:  the sale of weapons and ammunition of all kinds will be rampant.  Smuggling from outside the country will bring in all manner of heavy weapons and other materiel.  If there is a war, there is one predominate need, and that is for weapons with which to destroy and kill. They will be everywhere.”

Steve Thomas

14 hours ago, Denny Zartman said:

Denny,

I, for one, am crushed. I've been on pins and needles all day.

Steve Thomas

In a revised filing of her receipts and disbursements with the FEC, Lauren Boebert lists her State as Utah.

This is an amended return, mind you.

Boebert represents a district in Colorado.

Way to go Lauren!

Steve Thomas

#91 - Ricardo Morales Nararette [Navarette aka Mono or Monkey Morales]

HSCA (House Select Committee on Assassinations) "Photo Book"

https://cuban-exile.com/doc_226-250/doc0244.html

More information about Ricardo Morales Navarette can be found in Reel 13 of the HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm)

https://maryferrell.org/php/showlist.php?docset=1129

HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm)/ HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 13: Merola - Moore)/

https://maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=52233#relPageId=13

Steve Thomas

Traffic jam, in Madrid

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/spain-madrid-sheep-herding-migration-road-scli-intl/index.html

"Sorry I'm late honey. Rush hour was murder today".

Steve Thomas

Digital World Acquisition Group, the company behind Truth Social, Donald Trump's new social media site.

The stock fell by more than 19% yesterday.

Doesn't look like it's going well.

Reuters notes that "Trump and his business interests are the subject of numerous investigations from U.S. authorities." And Digital World Acquisition Corp. reportedly highlighted the risks of being associated with Trump in the regulatory filing.

"The Purchaser hereby acknowledges the controversial nature of being associated with the Company Principal and the Company Principal's family," the filing states.

Not the most glowing endorsement I've seen in a Prospectus.

Steve Thomas

A hiker got lost in the mountains of Colorado

He was lost for 24 hours.

He ignored calls from his rescuers.

Because they were coming from a number he didn't recognize.

I can relate.

Steve Thomas

Zeeland Schools respond to militia comment at board meeting

Mitchell Boatman

The Holland Sentinel 10/23/21

https://www.hollandsentinel.com/story/news/education/2021/10/23/zeeland-schools-respond-militia-comment-board-meeting/6139113001/

ZEELAND —“A local school district is calling for civility in public discourse after a public comment participant said they would bring the Michigan Militia to the school over a mask mandate. 

During the Monday, Oct. 18, meeting of the Zeeland school board, Holland restaurant owner Marlena Pavlos-Hackney said she would sue the board members and contact the militia if students aren’t given a choice on masks.”

Oh goody.

Suggested curricula for Grades 4 - 8:

Urban warfare

Sniper school

Counterinsurgency operations

Hand to hand combat

Steve Thomas

Charlottesville’s reckoning: Unite the Right organizers go on trial

by Jordan Green, Staff Reporter October 25, 2021

https://www.rawstory.com/charlottesvilles-reckoning-unite-the-right-organizers-go-on-trial/

“A civil trial against organizers of the deadly August 2017 Unite the Right rally gets underway in Charlottesville, Va. today, the culmination of more than four years of litigation.”

Charlottesville was the coming out party.

Steve Thomas

12 hours ago, Gil Jesus said:

THE CAB RIDE
 

On November 22, 1963, William Whaley worked for the City Transportation Company as a cab driver. He was a veteran driver with 37 years of experience.

 

i just had a passing thought, apropos of nothing really.

Gary Taylor, who knew Oswald in late, 1962, was also a part-time cab driver on the weekends. I wonder if they knew each other.

Steve Thomas

Cory,

I don't recognize the tall white building over the top of Clint Hill's head, but if you take a look at Google Earth, you can see large buildings extending north along Stemmons Freeway for quite some distance. If you read the first few entries of the Dallas Dispatch tapes, there was some concern about the large numbers of people crossing Stemmons Freeway on foot. I think that's reflected in the crowd of people lining the highway in the first picture you showed.

In the second (small) picture in your second post, you can still see Clint Hill's right leg extended out over trunk. I sure as heck wouldn't want to travel down the interstate doing 80 mph trying to balance like that, but who am I to say?

The first picture in your second post provides confirmation to witnesses who said that the Secret Service men were brandishing submachine guns.

Steve Thomas

It was only a matter of time.

Top speed of 63mph

It has a parachute

Only $92.000. You can get one for a $22,000 deposit

The Jetson One

Steve Thomas

20 minutes ago, Cory Santos said:

Where was this at because wasn’t he in the car when it emerged from the underpass?

BDDAFCBF-B7CD-4286-A197-7958F866BD79.webp 95.54 kB · 5 downloads

Cory,

That's on the Stemmons Freeway. JFK is laying down in the seat. That's why you can't see him from that angle. Right by Clint Hill's left hand, you can see Jackie crouched over JFK.

Steve Thomas

Trump's Big Lie is the new Lost Cause — and it may poison the country for decades

Lucian K. Truscott IV, Salon October 23, 2021

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-s-big-lie-is-the-new-lost-cause-and-it-may-poison-the-country-for-decades/

“Donald Trump had to be handed a loss in 2020 in order to begin championing his new Lost Cause. There won't be another one. If he runs and wins in 2024, we will not recognize the smoking ruins left by a second Trump victory. It won't take them long to begin erecting statues to Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson and renaming public squares after the "Great Replacement." The only question is, what will the Daughters of the New Confederacy call themselves? The Mistresses of Mar-a-Lago?”

Steve Thomas