Ron Ecker

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?)

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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.

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.")

Yes. One could almost believe that LBJ hatched the whole plot on the morning of November 22.

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/

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.

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.

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.

I couldn't believe it when I saw on the news that a list of RFK Jr.'s beliefs includes the idea that the mass shootings in this country are caused by antidepressants. And I thought that I had heard it all. I Googled the subject, and found that apparently this is based on something that he saw in a post on Instagram. Another feather in the cap of the (anti)social media.This article doesn't mention him, it's not about him, but it covers the subject for those interested:Fact check: No link found between antidepressants and school shootings So does stuff like this, like seeing the Ukraine war "through Russia's eyes," (IOW what's wrong with war crimes and genocide?), etc., help or hurt the cause of full JFK disclosure? I can't see how it helps.

On the question of Prouty "outting" Lansdale in Dealey Plaza, it's my recollection that it was Victor Krulak who identified Lansdale in a DP photo, and Prouty in a letter to Krulak agreed that it looked like Lansdale and he wondered "what in the world" Lansdale was doing there. Could Prouty have known that his personal correspondence with Krulak would later be public? Or did Prouty himself go public with it in one of his books?

Conspiracy theories are always loony. Whereas there's nothing loony about impossible lone nut scenarios. Call them ridiculous, stupid, choose you own adjective, but don't call them loony. That adjective has been taken.

Wehle, that was the name I couldn't remember.

Thanks. It’s been years, but I remember an attempt by someone to identify the “Army General” said to be “in charge,” and it meant in charge of the operation in general, not the autopsy itself. The trouble is, like Finck I can’t remember the name. (And I don’t know why an Army General would be in charge of anything at a Navy hospital. Not to mention an Air Force General. But I guess Humes wasn’t in much of a position to argue.)

Thanks. Yes, O'Connor is the name I couldn't remember. But I don't remember him ever saying that LeMay blew smoke in his face. Sounds believable, though. It's the same LeMay who metaphorically blew smoke in JFK's face when he told him in a meeting, regarding the Cuban missile crisis, (as I recall it) "It looks like you're in a lot of trouble, Mr. President." JFK said, "What did you say?" And LeMay repeated, "It looks like you're in a lot of trouble." And LeMay may have meant more than JFK knew.

Has this ever been confirmed? He was not on the "official" list compiled (by somebody) of those who were there. As I recall, the only person who said LeMay was there "with his cigar" in the gallery was the medical staff member (whose name escapes me after all these years) who also said that JFK's body arrived in a body bag (true or false?) and that his brain was missing (really?). And if LeMay was really there, how could he help control things by sitting in the gallery? Was he passing notes to the autopsy participants?

I wouldn't call myself a scholar, but if being a 9/11 Truther means I'm a deranged nutjob (per Michael Griffith), I'm proud to be one. As for Griffith, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but they're not a controlled demolition."

Interesting. You ought to write a book. You could call it "Why I Ran to Iran."

It could be why Maxwell Taylor, according to his son, was brought to tears twice when the subject of theJFK assassiation came up. Was this military general really just a sentimental crybaby, or was it something else?

Out of curiosity, since you grew up in a Mormon family, weren't you required to do two years of mission work? Or is that optional or no longer required? I've only known one Mormon, back in high school, and that's it, so I'm just going by what I've heard. No, wait, I did run into a couple of Mormon missionaries in Peru. What I was doing there is another story.

RFK was shot point blank behind the ear, while Sirhan was of course shooting from the front. As I recall, the coroner got suspended or fired for what he reported. The nerve of the guy!