Chuck Schwartz

Dylan very recently gave an interview. Within that interview , he said: "

Was “Murder Most Foul” written as a nostalgic eulogy for a long-lost time?

 

Yes they do, Steve. And, funny thing about that , they were all in Dallas around Nov. 22-23.  Maybe they were there to discuss the upcoming Army-Navy football game, which was the only game my Dad watched all year. He served in the Army/Air Force (Radar Tech) and saw action in Guadacanal, Iwo Jima, Solomon Islands, Okinawa, and then occupied Japan in 1946.  Needless to say , he rooted for Army. In 1963, my Mom did not want the game to be played in honor of JFK.  So , she was angry when the game was played anyway.

Note that Storey served with C. Cabell, who was fired by JFK for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. And whose brother (Earle) was the Mayor of Dallas at the time of the Big Event. And, we have since learned that , at that time , Earle was a CIA Asset.

Very good post, Robert.  And this came from Bill Kelly's JFKCountercoup site:Colonel Robert G. Story – Dallas attorney

Though this thread ended in early 2015, it now seems relevant again (re: DAP / Alpha 66) discussion).

Rob C., in regards to the DAP / Alpha 66 connection, this is on Sparticus.."

Gaeton Fonzi was unconvinced by this evidence. He found it difficult to believe Phillips would not have known the leader of Alpha 66. Especially as Phillips had been in charge of covert action in Cuba when Alpha 66 was established. Other information also emerged to undermine Phillips. CIA agent, Ron Crozier, who worked in Cuba during this period, claimed that Phillips sometimes used the code name, Maurice Bishop.

....

According to Larry Hancock, the author of Someone Would Have Talked, just before his death Phillips told Kevin Walsh, an investigator with the House Select Committee on Assassinations: "My final take on the assassination is there was a conspiracy, likely including American intelligence officers." (Some books wrongly quote Phillips as saying: "My private opinion is that JFK was done in by a conspiracy, likely including rogue American intelligence people.")

David Atlee Phillips died of cancer on 7th July, 1988. He left behind an unpublished manuscript. The novel is about a CIA officer who lived in Mexico City. In the novel the character states: "I was one of those officers who handled Lee Harvey Oswald... We gave him the mission of killing Fidel Castro in Cuba... I don't know why he killed Kennedy. But I do know he used precisely the plan we had devised against Castro. Thus the CIA did not anticipate the president's assassination, but it was responsible for it. I share that guilt."

In January 2004, E. Howard Hunt gave a taped interview with his son, Saint John Hunt, claiming that Lyndon Baines Johnson was the instigator of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and that it was organised by Phillips, Cord Meyer, Frank Sturgis and David Sanchez Morales."

On that last sentence, was that taped interview disinformation or real- I am not sure.

John Newman, in his last sentence of chapter 11 of "Into the Storm" says " I will have much more to say about these events and rest of Veciana's story in Volumes 4 and 5."  So, John has not closed out the book on Veciana. I am not sure where he will land on this topic.

Later Years

LeMay continued to be a strong advocate for use of nuclear weapons. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, LeMay tried to goad President Kennedy into bombing the missile sites in Cuba. LeMay believed that a massive display of US force would force the Soviets into capitulation. Kennedy was more cautious; the blockade worked and the crisis passed. Early in the Vietnam War, he advocated widespread bombing of key North Vietnamese industrial and military targets; President Johnson thought that this would draw the USSR and China into the war. LeMay wanted to threaten to North Vietnam that they stop aggression or “We’ll bomb them back into the Stone Age.” Outspoken and unpopular, he retired in 1965.

During the 1968 election, LeMay joined Alabama Governor and infamous segregationist George Wallace as vice-presidential running mate. Wallace and LeMay ran as part of the newly-established American Independent Party. Both were controversial candidates: Wallace opposed federally-enforced desegregation, while LeMay called for use of nuclear weapons on North Vietnam. They won 13.5% of the popular vote and won five states in the Deep South--a strong showing for a third party.

Hypothesis: the offspring of that 13.5% now form the Trump base-CS

From the current issue of Forbes..

The Internal Revenue Service watchdog TIGTA says the IRS is ignoring hundreds of thousands of delinquent high-income taxpayers who owe billions of dollars in total. That’s sobering news as millions of Americans still are gathering documents to file their 2019 tax returns by the July 15, 2020 deadline—pushed back from the normal April 15 deadline because of Covid-19. The American tax system is voluntary: You file an annual return and pay your share. Most taxpayers (84%) pay their taxes in full and on time.

However, the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration identified 879,415 high-income nonfilers for tax years 2014 through 2016 with an estimated tax due of $45.7 billion. The top 100 high-income nonfilers during that time period that the IRS did not address or resolve had estimated taxes due totaling $9.9 billion. TIGTA says that the IRS failed to send out delinquency notices and shelved cases, missing the opportunity to bring these taxpayers back into compliance at a huge cost to the Treasury.

Here’s the damning evidence from the TIGTA report, High-Income Nonfilers Owing Billions Of Dollars Are Not Being Worked By The Internal Revenue Service:

The IRS did not work 369,180 high-income nonfilers, with estimated tax due of $20.8 billion. Of the 369,180 high-income nonfilers, 326,579 were not placed in inventory to be selected for work and 42,601 were closed out of the inventory without ever being worked. In addition, the remaining 510,235 high-income nonfilers, totaling estimated tax due of $24.9 billion, are sitting in one of the Collection function’s inventory streams and will likely not be pursued as resources decline.

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High-income nonfilers, a small percentage of the nonfiler population, reflect a higher noncompliance risk than other nonfilers, so resolving these cases generates a greater return on investment, TIGTA says. The IRS used to pursue most nonfiler cases, but with some exceptions, that no longer appears to be the case, and the number of nonfilers has been growing.  

Declining IRS resources are to blame. From fiscal year 2013 through fiscal year 2018, there was a 19% decline in staff resources within the IRS’s collection function. As the number of tax collectors has been declining, the nonfiler component of the tax gap has gone up.

How does the IRS track down nonfilers in the first place? There’s third party reporting—those are forms sent to both the IRS and the taxpayer, including Form W-2 for wages, Form 1099-Misc. for self-employment income, and Form 1099-B for stock sales. The IRS also looks at past filers who later fail to file.

Are nonfilers always on the hook for back taxes due? There is no statute of limitations to pursue nonfilers civilly, but the IRS has a policy of only pursuing six years back. The criminal nonfiler statute of limitations is six years.

The IRS agrees that high-income nonfilers constitute a problem, and it is piloting programs to crack down, including compliance sweeps. In one pilot, it found that letters get more results than postcard notices. In another pilot, the IRS reached more nonfilers by pursuing just one year’s unfiled return, but that meant less revenue collected. High-income taxpayers with multiple years of unfiled returns may not be deterred from future nonfiling if the IRS only asks for one year’s tax return, TIGTA notes.

TIGTA calls for more resources for the IRS (that’s up to Congress). It recommends an IRS team that specifically focuses on high-income nonfiler cases, a nonfiler strategy that ensures that delinquency notices are issued to all high-income nonfilers, and says that, at a minimum, the IRS should pursue the 100 folks with the biggest potential bills.

“If high-income taxpayers believe the IRS’s effort in this area is temporary or intermittent, it is unlikely to have a long-term benefit on voluntary tax compliance,” the report says.”

 

Another good post, Robert.

Micah, no , I Believe it is not true- here is Wikipedia on the good Doctor..

After forty-five years on the faculty at Southwestern Medical Center, McClelland retired in August 2007. In September 2007, he was appointed Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, remaining involved in medical student education.^{[5](HE ALWAYS HAD  HIS LICENSES-cs)}

Assassination of John F. Kennedy and aftermath[edit]

On November 22, 1963, McClelland was working at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, when President John F. Kennedy was brought in grievously injured. Despite the efforts of the three attending surgeons (McClelland, Malcolm Perry and Charles R. Baxter),^[6] he died shortly after arriving.^[2] McClelland was the only member of Kennedy's surgical team who supported the idea that Kennedy had been shot from the front, thus the idea that there was a second gunman.^[6] Two days later, McClelland saw on the news that Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot; McClelland immediately went back to the hospital. Along with George Shires, McClelland worked unsuccessfully to save Oswald's life, as he was pronounced dead two hours after being shot.^[2] McClelland preserved his blood-stained shirt from attempting to save President Kennedy for the rest of his life.^[6]

Personal life and death[edit]

McClelland married Connie Logan in May 1958. She was the head nurse at Parkland Memorial Hospital, and the two also attended the same church.^[6] They had two daughters and a son.^[1] McClelland enjoyed reading, and insisted on having a bookcase in every room of his house.^[6]

McClelland died from kidney failure on September 10, 2019, at an assisted living facility in Dallas. He was 89.^[1]

Honors[edit]

In 1990, McClelland became the namesake for the Parkland Surgical Society's Robert N. McClelland Lectureship.^[7]

References[edit]

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Yes, it just about says it all- we have a very sick and demented president who only likes sick and demented people working for him.

David, from the NY Times.'"

His casino companies made four trips to bankruptcy court, each time persuading bondholders to accept less money rather than be wiped out. But the companies repeatedly added more expensive debt and returned to the court for protection from lenders.

 

Steve, great post. Trump had to declare bankruptcy 6 times (see below) . I just hope he does not drive America into Bankruptcy.

"Trump’s companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which means a company can remain in business while wiping away many of its debts. The bankruptcy court ultimately approves a corporate budget and a plan to repay remaining debts; often shareholders lose much of their equity.

Trump’s Taj Mahal opened in April 1990 in Atlantic City, but six months later, “defaulted on interest payments to bondholders as his finances went into a tailspin,” The Washington Post’s Robert O’Harrow found. In July 1991, Trump’s Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy. He could not keep up with debts on two other Atlantic City casinos, and those two properties declared bankruptcy in 1992. A fourth property, the Plaza Hotel in New York, declared bankruptcy in 1992 after amassing debt.

PolitiFact uncovered two more bankruptcies filed after 1992, totaling six. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts filed for bankruptcy again in 2004, after accruing about $1.8 billion in debt. Trump Entertainment Resorts also declared bankruptcy in 2009, after being hit hard during the 2008 recession.

Why the discrepancy? Perhaps this will give us an idea: Trump told Washington Post reporters that he counted the first three bankruptcies as just one."

 

Congressman Schiff said Trump could  face criminal charges after he leaves the oval office. He has had problems with the law prior to his political career....

 

A federal judge in the Southern District of California on Monday finalized a $25 million settlement to be paid to attendees of the now-defunct real estate seminar called Trump University.

Judge Gonzalo Curiel's decision came after an appeals court rejected arguments from a Florida woman who attended Trump University and said she wanted to pursue a separate lawsuit.

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman called the settlement a victory for Trump U. "victims."

"Judge Curiel's order finalizing the $25 million Trump University settlement means that victims of Donald Trump's fraudulent university will finally receive the relief they deserve," he said in a statement, adding that the amount surpassed the initial number the class-action suit initially negotiated.

"This settlement marked a stunning reversal by President Trump, who for years refused to compensate the victims of his sham university," the statement added. "My office won't hesitate to hold those who commit fraud accountable, no matter how rich or powerful they may be."

Trump University was a for-profit series of courses about real estate and entrepreneurship that also pushed people to buy Trump's books.

Bill, is the Corso you reference above related to the Corso that got in trouble with Mueller for his dealings with Roger Stone?

The stock market is going up because a company called Moderna is getting good results on a vaccine they are working on for Covid -19. 

If I remember what Robert Montenegro wrote on a post earlier (and then deleted), Connally was hit at least twice.

Good quote, Peter- it was written in the early 60's , I believe.  Then, in '68 , he wrote:

 

Chris, also, there were some witnesses that said the limo stopped:

1) Jean Hill (who stood to the immediate left of the limousine with her friend Mary Moorman during the assassination), in her Sheriff’s Dept. affidavit of 11/22/63, stated that the limousine stopped for an instant;
(2) Hugh Betzner (standing behind the limousine during the assassination), in his Sheriff’s Dept. affidavit of 11/22/63, said twice that the limousine stopped during the assassination;
(3) Roy Truly, Oswald’s boss at the TSBD, later stated that the limousine swerved to the left and stopped during the assassination;
(4) DPD officer Bobby W. Hargis—riding escort to the immediate left rear of the limousine—in an interview never published by a local newspaper, but whose text was later found and written about by Richard Trask in his book Pictures of the Pain, stated that the limousine stopped during the assassination; and
(5) In numerous interviews over many years, Bill Newman (standing to the immediate right of the limousine during the assassination with his wife and two children) has repeatedly and consistently recalled that there was a very brief, but definite car stop by the limousine during the assassination

 

David, I believe that J Edgar Hoover was an integral part of the cover-up and would never have let the names of the Big Event organizers be revealed on any report.  So, if you are relying on an FBI report to determine if Curtis Lemay was at the Bethesda autopsy, you are being gullible, IMHO.  ( that is like believing Allan Dulles and his WC report, when it was Dulles who helped develop the plan to murder JFK)..  So, to quote  what Bob Dylan said in the song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" : " No one said a thing when they carried him out... except the little neighbor boy, who muttered underneath his breath,  " nothing is revealed.""

David, do you think Curtis Lemay was at the Bethesda "autopsy" barking orders?

Chris, I agree with Ron- nice to see you post and the answer to your question is yes- Marina was under great pressure (not just from HL Hunt) to adhere to the LN narrative.

I agree with Finan O'Toole 100%.

Jim, thanks for the Sylvia Meagher quote- I remember reading her book decades ago and fully understanding that someone was setting LHO up to take the fall for the JFK hit.