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Ron Ecker

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  1. The idea of the assassination as a military coup always reminds me of two emotional episodes involving Maxwell Taylor, who in 1963 was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The episodes suggest guilt or remorse, unless we are to believe that the murder of a president by a lone nut, mobsters or Cubans was enough to make an Army general cry, not just months but years later. This is from “An American Soldier: The Wars of General Maxwell Taylor,” by his son John M. Taylor, pp. 290-291: “In mid-1964, just prior to his departure for Saigon, Taylor had several conversations with Elspeth Rostow, who interviewed him at his quarters for the Kennedy Library’s oral history series. All went smoothly until the subject of the assassination arose. According to Rostow, Taylor then broke down; for several minutes there was nothing on her tape except the sound of an occasional passing car. Once he had composed himself, the interview continued. “More than a decade later, at a family dinner, the subject turned to political dissent in the country under Nixon. Taylor had recently returned from a speaking engagement at a small New Jersey college, where hecklers had prevented him from speaking. He commented that Kennedy, had he lived, was the one person who might have preserved a degree of national cohesiveness. Then his voice broke; it was a moment before his normal self-control returned. Surrounded by his family, he had let his defenses down.”
  2. Well, this is the kind of thing that makes you want to beat your head against the wall.
  3. They must have shown Trump that Ted Cruz's daddy was not involved after all. Trump threw a bottle of ketchup against the wall and said, "No release!"
  4. Jim, I just wanted to point out, on the subject of Garrison, that one of the usual suspects (credibly or not) in the assassination was a Mob boss right there in Garrison’s back yard of New Orleans. The only books on the subject I remember looking at are “Fatal Hour” and “Mafia Kingfish.” I don’t remember if I read the whole things or not. But in “Fatal Hour,” Blakey argues that Garrison approached the assassination, in the words of Carl Oglesby in Playboy (which proves that I only read that mag for the articles), as “a stooge of Carlos Marcello.” I don’t think I ever had an opinion on the possible role of Marcello in the assassination, or on any desire on Garrison’s part to cover it up, and as far as I know I still don’t.
  5. Carol Burnett got her big break in show biz on the Garry Moore Show by singing "I Made a Fool of Myself over John Foster Dulles."
  6. One knock against Garrison (justified or not) was that he chose to ignore an elephant in the living room, or more specifically Carlos Marcello, a Mob boss right there in New Orleans. The HSCA Report states that "The committee found that Marcello had the motive, means and opportunity to have President John F. Kennedy assassinated, though it was unable to establish direct evidence of Marcello's complicity". But Marcello was full of complicity according to G. Robert Blakey's "Fatal Hour," John H. Davis's "Mafia Kingfish," Lamar Waldron's "The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination," Mob lawyer Frank Ragano's "Mob Lawyer," and Stefano Vaccara's "Carlos Marcello: The Man Behind the JFK Assassination." Garrison mentions Marcello one time in "On the Trail of the Assassins," on page 337 of my paperback edition, where Garrison states, "I do not even know Carlos Marcello." Well, that settles that!
  7. Pat, thanks. So it's a re-edit of a 2013 film, not a "long-buried" and "never-before-seen" interview. I'll take the Enquirer issue back to the grocery store and see if I can get my money back.
  8. I saw the December 18 issue of the Enquirer this morning at the grocery store while buying all the 2-for-1 items I could find. I bought it because of the front-page headline “JFK Autopsy Cover-Up Exposed!” I felt like a sucker buying it, but figured hey, could there be something in here that I don’t know about? It turns out that there is (possibly). I’d like to know if what the Enquirer calls a “never-before seen interview” of seven Parkland ER doctors has in fact never been seen before. And if hasn’t been, why? More specifically, who buried the “long-buried video”? The rag, I mean mag, doesn’t say, or who dug it up from its burial, which leads me to believe it was never buried. The thing is, I wasn’t aware of this interview, which apparently did take place somewhere. At least there’s a photo of the seven doctors, “reunited in 2013” (it doesn’t say where or who interviewed them), sitting on three couches with a table between them. They are: Joe Goldstrich (“a fourth-year medical student when JFK died”), Lawrence Klein (then “a third-year medical student”), Ronald Jones, Donald Seldin, Robert McClelland, Kenneth Salyer and Peter Loeb. The article says these seven doctors “shared the same opinion,” that JFK was shot from the front. McClelland is quoted as saying, “There was more than one shooter.” Salyer says, “When I saw the autopsy pictures, I thought somebody had tampered with the whole thing and it made me very suspicious.” Goldstrich asks, “How could a gunshot from the rear peel the scalp from the front back?” Is this interview old news, or in fact something that whoever conducted the interview decided should never see the light of day? Or, is it just another National Enquirer invention to get gullible grocery-shoppers like me to buy it? The article goes on to mention Paul Landis on “the so-called magic bullet,” and Rob Reiner, who claims, it says, to have “indisputable proof JFK was murdered by no fewer than four people in a CIA operation ordered by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.” Having not heard Reiner’s podcast, I have no idea if he makes any such a claim or not.
  9. This paragraph in the press release stood out to me like a sore thumb: "Under Cover of Night is the first truly serious, comprehensive and accurate work about the JFK assassination which has ever been produced by anyone." I wonder what Jim DiEugenio, among others, thinks about none of his work being "truly serious" or "accurate."
  10. If it is, the press release is flat-out lying. If it isn't, it's still lying by calling it "a leading American publisher."
  11. I did a Google search for the publisher of Fetter's book, Arlington Press, described in the press release as “a leading American publisher.” There’s one in New York City. It’s described as a “Provider of printing services. The company prints pharmaceutical leaflets, pressure-sensitive labels and folding cartons. “ I clicked on a link to its website, and it goes to a page that says the domain is for sale. And there’s one in Brooklyn. It’s “categorized under Printing Brokers” and has an employee staff of 1 to 4. There’s a street address and phone number but no website listed. And this is a leading American publisher? Oh, there’s also an Arlington Press that’s a weekly newspaper in Arlngton, Massachusetts.
  12. My first question is, can a fingerprint be planted? Wouldn't you need the person's finger? (At the time of the assassination, how many fingers did Wallace have?)
  13. It's maddening that while RFK Jr. could contribute something meaningful to the American people on the subject of assassinations, instead he wants to talk about vaccinations. His uncle didn't get vaccinated in Dallas, nor his father in L.A.
  14. What does RFK Jr. hope to gain by bringing up such stuff in a presidential campaign? You know, stuff that people around the kitchen table really care about. My theory is that he thinks he can out-stupid Trump in a general election, winning the stupid vote that Trump has proven to be large, and steal another election from the Orange Ogre. RFK Jr. doesn't seem to understand that he has to beat Old Joe Biden first. Old Joe may be mentally and physically slower than he was in his prime, but he ain't stupid. And I doubt that the stupid vote out there is large enough, outside of Trump's base, to win a general election with stupidity.
  15. As I recall, the FBI conducted a study or "investigation" that it claimed debunked the acoustical evidence. Based on what I don't know, but it served its purpose. With respect to the JFK assassination, of course, FBI stood for Federal Bogus Investigations.
  16. The problem we had with Castro always reminds me of the Bob Dylan lyrics (I don't remember which song it is) that involved some kind of problem that this fellow had involving a farmer and his daughter Rita. I had to say something that would strike him pretty weird So I said "I like Fidel Castro and his beard" Rita looked offended but she got out of the way As he came running down the stairs saying "What's that I heard you say?"
  17. I remember reading years ago about a guy who named his child Adolf Hitler. When asked why, he said he just wanted to name him after someone who was famous. Yeah, that makes sense.
  18. The magazine. And since it used quotation marks, I naturally assumed it was quoting what he said. I haven't seen a transcript, so it's possible, of course, that the magazine left out or ignored other things he may have said on the subject (sort of contradicting himself). Wouldn't surprise me but I don't know.
  19. He was a co-conspirator according to self-described "benchwarmer" E. Howard Hunt in his so-called deathbed confession. (I read somewhere that with the confession Hunt was just trying to leave his son something to make money with.) Didn't Jack Ruby also say something that implicated LBJ? I can't remember exactly. It seems odd, though, that LBJ would say that he thought the CIA may have been involved if in fact he knew that the CIA was involved. Maybe he said it as a good lead in case anything should happen to him. And what was in that last meal that he ate before dying of a "heart attack"? (As I remember it was a chicken sandwich, but I may be thinking of the LBJ quote "I may not know much, but I know chicken **** from chicken salad.")
  20. Yes. One could almost believe that LBJ hatched the whole plot on the morning of November 22.
  21. Not exactly. He said “there’s a tremendous circumstantial evidence [that] SSRIs and benzos and other drugs are doing this.” And he said “prior to the introduction of Prozac, we had almost none of these events in our country.” Sounds to me like he’s pretty much blaming these events on drugs. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-conspiracy-theory-twitter-elon-musk-1234747479/
  22. Ironically he does understand that Oswald shooting his uncle and Sirhan shooting his father were both scientifically impossible. (Magic bullets, one shot from behind to hit JFK in front, one shot from in front to hit RKF from behind.) Or he may just base the truth on what other people have told him. I don't recall reading about his rationale in believing the obvious.
  23. I just saw a credible theory that what these right-wingers are really doing is grooming RFK Jr. to run as a third party candidate. To take away votes, of course, from Biden.
  24. There was also a hearing on LBJ's corruption taking place on Capitol Hill on the day of the assassination. The hearing stopped with the news from Dallas and never resumed.
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