Tony Rose

For me, the thing that is causing me to suspect forgery and/or fraud is the number of names that are dropped. This document could be used to support anybody's pet theory, Mafia, CIA, oil men, Cubans, anybody. It could be be that it dropped into Albarelli's hands and it suggested Nazis to him. If had fallen into my hands, I'd go with the CIA. It's a one-stop shop.

How did you arrive at a snub-nose .38?

Ditrral = Kitrell, a woman with whom he had established some measure of rapport, making her name (mangled though it was) something that was in his memory.

Outstanding work, Mr. Doudna. Lots of things start to click into place when you follow your suppositions about Crafard.

Tips of probes used to -- well, probe -- the track of wounds?

Why did he cross Houston after his run?

Pretty important. If Barnett only ran 20 past the northeast corner of the building, he couldn't see the railroad yard; the enclosed triangle of the dock was in the way.

Just ordered! Congratulations!

Really good work, David. Much appreciated.

Shooting from behind the picket fence, a shooter would use the iron sites of his weapon. Even a trained sniper wouldn't be able to keep the target in the scope's field at that range. Nicely, the shooter closest to the civilians wouldn't have a scoped rifle and thus would be that much less noticeable.

I'd like to throw Ralph Leon Yates' hitchhiker into this mix.

Bedell Smith took Wisner's operations group away from the State Department, and the Joint Chiefs rubber stamped it because of Smith's general pull at the Pentagon. Sorry, I forgot to include the date: October 1950. And, in January '51, Dulles takes a formal position as Deputy Director for Plans and becomes Wisner's immediate boss.

I've wanted one for a long time myself. Thanks, Steve!

The more thought i've put to it, the more I think that your military commentator was right: Crichton was running a social club, much akin to the "intelligence committees" of the 50s in Mississippi and Louisiana. You don't just start your own unit in the military, regular Army or Reserves. And I doubt you can start your own unit in the Texas Guard, whatever it was. This all just smacks of those "sovereign committees" and the like that were intent on watching blacks in the 50s. AND, connecting them to communists when they could. Tony

Steve, it's not that they actually had mysterious titles, it's that the media has always been awful about understanding the military. Those some reporter's shorthand for what he thought he understood or wanted to pretend that he understood. Tony Rose

I find it hard to imagine any operation that would be too mickey mouse for General Walker. So often portrayed as someone important in the ultra-right, all I've ever seen in him is buffoonery. Bobby didn't just have him lock up on psych charges for fun. Tony Rose

I don't see anything sinister about a couple of FBI agents joining the CIA in '47. That's when the CIA was created and plenty of government agents from all over the federal executive org chart made the move.

Why is the Chancellor introduction in black and white if this is from a 1977 NBC report?

I've done some more digging. Check out p 19 here . Informant (almost certainly Harry Holmes) questioned postal employees about box 6225 Oswald rented from Nov 1. Only one could recall ever placing any mail in that box for Oswald - Russian newspapers - although he was not claiming 100% certainty. These of course, could not have been the Worker or the Militant which were in English. The informant (again probably Holmes) stated that in his opinion, no mail had ever been placed in the box because of the amount of undisturbed dust present. Where does this leave us? Is there any proof that Oswald actually did subscribe to the Worker and to the Militant? If such proof exists then the papers must have been sent to the Paines or elsewhere - and if to the Paines, then Ruth would have known about him getting them long before Nov 23. Unless someone knows of solid evidence of his subscriptions, I would have grave doubts that Oswald was a subscriber to either... which in turn would reinforce my earlier suggestion that the two papers tossed out by Ruth were ones obtained by her, Mike or some associate in order to manufacture the fake BYPs. I'm not arguing about what subscriptions Oswald had or did not have, but it should be considered that a copy of the Militant or the Worker might be thought of as "Russian" newspapers by a postal clerk unfamiliar with the papers in question under the Russian=Communist school of thought.

Ms. Haines, I will readily admit that I have not read any of your work. Could you explain to us how the death of JFK eliminated a nuclear holocaust threat? tony

My name is Tony Rose. I'm in my early 50s and have studied the JFK assassination since I was a teenager. I am an historian and mathematician by training, my most recent academic posting was as the assistant director of the Sequoyah National Research Center, but I am now trying to eke out a living as a freelance writer and researcher. I have published and presented on Native American removal, ante-bellum Arkansas history, Cold War(and other) comic books, and Arkansas legislative history. And somewhere in the dim past I sold a short story or two.