Joe Bauer

In my twenties ( the 1970's ) I went to Tahoe's South Shore ( and/or Reno ) maybe once every 3 or 4 years and always in a car load of friends. It was a 300 mile one way commute. We were average low wage manual labor fellows and would have maybe $300 at most to play with. When I finally went to North Shore in the late 1990's the Indian casinos had been up and running and like I said, everyone knew that so many of the people who used to drive or take buses to Reno and even Tahoe from Northern California just said " to heck with that long commute" and would instead spend their gambling money closer to their homes. I hadn't been to Reno since a visit there in about 1986 or 1987. A friend asked me to go to a gathering on Eagle Lake near Susanville, CA in about 2005. We had to drive through Reno to get to Highway 395 to Eagle Lake. My friend had to stop in Reno because he wanted to play "21" at Harrahs. I don't play cards so I just walked around waiting for him to finish losing his money. Several hours of bored waiting. In that walk around I was stunned! Harrah's was deserted! Just a couple of card tables going. When I went there in the 1970's Harrahs and every other Reno casino was packed and the streets were packed with people too! The streets of Reno were completely deserted. All I remember seeing were scattered newspapers being blown around like tumbleweed! Like an apocalyptic movie. The Indian Casino's in California devastated Reno's gambling business base. However, I have often read that the Nevada gambling industry big shots were partners in these Indian casinos, so they were still in the money. Getting back to Cal Neva, Sinatra, M & M etc. My lifetime observation is that organized crime ( Sicilian Mafia in particular) has never been fully and honestly acknowledged and exposed regards the amount of wealth, influence and power they truly had and exerted throughout our country since the end of WWII and in every level of government ( city, county, state and federal ) and all the way up to the presidency. Hoover himself was compromised by them. JFK too to a certain degree with Judyth Campbell Exner and who knows who else. LBJ and Nixon had ties. There is no real debate about this level of mob influence anymore. To doubt this reality is simply choosing to be naive. And enough beautiful Hollywood starlets had affairs with these mobsters ( allegedly ) that one cannot say it could never have occurred with Monroe imo. Lana Turner, Phyliss McGwire, Liza Minelli, Liz Hurley, etc. Mickey Cohen had Candy Barr although she was a star of the strip club circuit only. Less attractive starlets and female celebrities were safe from the advances of these mobsters because like almost everyone else, they wanted only the beautiful ones. Think Ruth Buzzi, Totie Fields, Phyliss Diller, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bette Davis, etc.

I stopped in to Cal Neva once. After all the Indian Casino's were built in Calif. this devastated the customer base for Cal Neva and Reno as well. There was just "one" table open for card games. Maybe 5 to 10 people in the whole place. North Shore has never done well with only two or three casinos there anyway. South Shore was where it was at.

Oh great. Just what we need on top of this entire body attacking virus. I was stung on the arm once by a wasp. One of those mean, black two body part ones. It was a burning hot sting. Within 4 hours my entire arm from my bicep to my hand was swollen like a water balloon. Had to visit the Stanford Hospital ER in Palo Alto and get a couple of shots.

For sacred privacy reasons I can not and will never give details but for general sharing purposes to add to the truth of the virus and how much and easily it is spreading, I was informed yesterday that a fairly close relative of mine has been diagnosed with the virus. The first one in our family. Many thousands of miles away from my home. Like American families back in the late 60's who lost a loved one in Vietnam, when a controversial event finally hits you personally with such a loss, you feel it's reality much more deeply and seriously. Also, would like to express some thoughts about the virus hitting New York City so massively. I was raised in a small forested town area here on the California Coast. Have been here ever since outside of a little traveling up and down the West Coast back in my twenties and some but less in my later years. I have always been near large forested settings and within minutes of walking to the ocean shore. No skyscrapers. Not much cement. Not much traffic. Lucky me, I know. Whenever I did visit the large cities such as L.A., San Francisco, etc. I felt very uncomfortable and out of place. Tall buildings and huge freeways and massive fast pace traffic just seemed so unattractive and even stressful to me. Still does. I've never felt the so-called "excitement" of big cities. And with the Covid-19 disaster that has now befallen NYC I believe even more my feeling that our large overly developed cement monstrosity, large building, subway, train system cities are truly one of the most disastrous mistakes in our national culture. NYC is so packed with people on top of each other in closed environments such as huge office buildings, subway and train systems, huge apartment complex living situations, etc that any natural or man-made crisis hitting it can't help but be devastating simply because of this out-of-control, overly crowded and closed-in environment. I don't know how many here have been to Los Angeles in the last 20 years. It is a place that is so overly populated it is a disaster in the waiting if the "BIG ONE" earthquake should hit it and bring down freeways, break water lines, topple power lines and cut off electrical service, etc. Talk about chaos if that ever happens there? And 40 years ago, when I visited L.A. and further South to San Diego, there was a definite break of urban sprawl development between L.A. and San Diego. The last time I drove this 405 , Coast highway route however ...that break is gone! It is like one continuous city from L.A. to Sand Diego! My point here is this. One of the massive national and society changes we are going to have to acknowledge and embrace after what we are seeing in our big building crowded cities with this pandemic sweeping through them like wildfires in a dried shrub forest, is that these types of overly developed and overly populated and crowded environments are extremely unhealthy and no longer safe. Our future must consider any more urban development with a much more open and natural space separation setting in mind versus these cement monstrosities with their massive cement towers, packed freeways, underground subway caverns and ugly and loud above ground rail tracks ( think Chicago) that are simply death traps in times of crisis. I think New York City and other big skyscraper cities should seriously start planning on tearing down more and more of their ugly cement towers and replacing them with open green spaces. We should begin to develop much more open and green space smart and safe areas around the country to spread out our population in much more environmentally healthy ways. You say it can't be done? If the death and economic damage is great enough from crisis's like this virus or a massive earthquake in L.A. we may have no choice.

Yes, no footnotes. I admire, appreciate and respect your 30 years of JFK research and your advice regarding understanding the need for solid fact checking with stated footnote sources in validating pieces like this or not. I do have strong personal feelings about Trump and the 1% I feel are running things and I am sure these do influence me ( to a degree ) with a tendency to believe most of the corruption reports regards Trump ... so I will keep your advice in mind. I may be overly emotionally reactive in this way at times, but the more I read biographical pieces ( books, articles, essays and editorials etc. ) and watch documentaries and interviews ( many by seemingly credible authors, producers and speakers ) on Trump and his lifetime actions and associations the more it all seems as troubling as many of these sources suggest. Relative to the average adult American I feel that I have taken more effort to find and read and watch what I can on Donald Trump and his life than 85% of such. Obviously being retired I have more time on my hands than most to be able to do this. Even acknowledging my untrained analytical skills I still think the evidence of Trump's corruptness is overwhelming, coming in more each month it seems and from so many credible ( imo ) sources. Regards the specific article linked here that we are referring to, I can't say I think this author is credible or that Trump was a confidential informant. This suggestion is not something I automatically believe or feel is even worth considering. However, regards the other areas of Trump's associations with organized crime figures in his building businesses and that have been reported in so many other venues, I do feel they are believable and not overly sensationalized. Trump's condo sales and his Atlantic City gambling projects specifically. Just a couple other Trump corruption suggesting items that I have come across over the years that are admittedly lightweight in their context but have stayed in my mind because of their interesting national TV exposure. In a 2014 interview of New York City Mafia Capo-Hit Man Sammy Gravano by Diane Sawyer, Gravano states "Donald Trump couldn't build a building there (Manhattan ) if I (Gravano) didn't want him to." Gravano controlled the cement workers union in Manhattan at that time. Trump did build at that time. Obviously, according to Gravano, Trump played ball. In an interview of Donald Trump on the David Letterman TV show, Letterman asks Trump if he ever had to deal with members of organized crime in any of his many business dealings? Trump at first equivocates and says "there might have been one of those characters", then a few seconds later he adds " I must admit I have met on occasion a few of those people and they happen to be very nice people. " "They happen to be very nice people" ... really? At the 6:50 minute mark of the interview below. 16:05NOW PLAYING Donald Trump on David Letterman 17 October, 2013 Full Interview Trump praises these dangerous corrupt gangsters and yet constantly trashes countless members of our own national press? If these on record, publicly stated Trump conflict of crazily misaligned respect comments don't trouble you about the man and his true moral value system ...what would?

I just read the article in the first link. Most of the information shared about Trump is based on documented fact. How Trump was ever allowed to become President will be a corruption story of the ages. Too bad 99.99999% of Americans will never read true life Trump background pieces like this or even know they exist.

Trump's main base is mostly a crazy mix of confused, angry, fearful, frustrated and uninformed people who have for decades had these frustrations and fears inflamed by massive media propaganda machine ( Fox News and right wing 24/7 talk / commentary radio - Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Levine, Glenn Beck, Hannity, Savage, etc ) along with being brainwashed into believing that only Trump and the Republicans ( which is now totally controlled by the wealthiest 1% ) can remedy these.

Nice American follow up piece. Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the editor of the Coronavirus Daily Brief and author of the new book "Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. (CNN)What is most galling as the nation faces its worse crisis since World War II is how the Trump family keeps demanding recognition for their brilliant work and also our thanks for the catastrophic mess they have helped land us all in. Case in point is Jared Kushner, who has fallen upwards throughout his life, inheriting a vast real estate empire and then making one of the worst purchases in the history of Manhattan, which was buying the office building 666 Fifth Avenue for a then-record $1.8 billion in 2007, a lemon which was only finally taken off his hands after his father-in-law became president. Infectious disease expert: We're only in the second inning of the pandemic So, perhaps it was only fitting that he was awarded the job of shadow secretary of state at the beginning of the Trump administration. Kushner was in charge of managing the US-China portfolio, a responsibility that drew criticism, given Kushner's own business interests with China. He also destroyed any vestige of American leadership in the Middle East with his promotion of the reckless Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his sabotage of the two-state solution in Israel. According to officials cited by The New York Times, early on in the Covid-19 crisis, Kushner privately agreed with his father-in-law that this whole coronavirus thing was being overblown by the lamestream media. Kushner then championed a new Google site where you could go and get your virus symptoms tested. His father-in-law touted 1,700 Google engineers who were working on the site at a White House news conference in March. If that sounds like a fantasy, it was. Time to fire Jared and Ivanka And now, Kushner comes to Fox News, the Pravda of the Trump administration, to marvel on Wednesday that the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus is "a great success story," claim that that "we have all the testing we need to start opening the country" and state his hope that "by July, the country's really rocking again." This is as more than 60,000 Americans lie dead -- more than the death toll of the Vietnam War -- and more than 1 million have been confirmed to have been infected with the virus with no end in sight. There is widespread agreement among experts that we don't have the testing capabilities to return to any semblance of normal life and also that a second wave of infections could hit the country badly later in the year. During World War II, the United States had Franklin Delano Roosevelt and George Marshall to navigate us through a crisis that saw the US spend more than a third of its GDP and during which more than 12 million Americans donned military uniforms. Today, we have a completely unreliable President -- anyone can get a coronavirus test, the virus will disappear when the warm weather comes, the list of Trump's whoppers goes on and on and on and on -- and his feckless son-in-law as coronavirus czar prattling on about bringing more private sector efficiency to government. Meanwhile, Trump demands thanks from governors when he is just barely doing his job as president. This is the kind of thing we expect in a banana republic: the nepotistic incompetence and the demands from the public to lavish praise on the brilliant ruling family. It would be laughable if there weren't so many lives lost already and so many more in our future. So, Jared Kushner, we, the American public, want to thank you for your service.

Dallas Don Joe Civello was powerful and respected enough to be invited to the 1957 "Apalachin" meeting of the top members of organized crime in the U.S. including a few members from Cuba and Italy. Civello was among the 60 meeting members who were caught, detained, questioned and fined by the state police there after they raided the meeting. Others managed to run away through the open country around this estate meeting place. Joe Campisi was known as the #2 Mafia man in Dallas. Sounds as if New Orleans based Mafia Don Carlos Marcello had more power than Civello though, even in Texas.

Powerful.

It is this time frame comparison for the 60,000 deaths ( 2 months versus 10 years) that is so shocking in the greater power society effecting reality of this monster virus versus the Vietnam war. If new cases and death counts spike upward dramatically and quickly in the restriction lifted states and cities and this can be proven as a direct result of such, what does our society do in response? Morally, ethically, legally and logically? Should we demand a stop to this plan and hold these leaders (from Trump down to those that have been motivated by his aggressive touting of this lifting ) responsible for these new spikes which will endanger many more who might catch the virus from new victims in these states and who didn't want this plan to be implemented in the first place? I read where 18 or more new cases of the virus came about just in the Wisconsin election process last week due to the close physical contact of those voting in person. Well, guess we'll see in the month of May what Trump's pushed agenda of having business's open back up will do to the infection and death rate. Like many others however, I see Trump's sole motivation in pushing this business as usual breakout as having everything to do with his desire to improve his election chances via the economy and nothing to do with a true and sincere concern for American's lock down stresses. Typical Trump self interest over everyone else morality mind set.

Of course MM had contemplated suicide, perhaps many times. Millions of people who have had 10% of her life's stresses and pressures ( beginning with a hugely traumatic childhood ) contemplate suicide. And certainly some of the men who bragged about bedding MM made this up, but of the many powerful and famous others, it seems illogical that they all did. And does anyone really think that women loving Frank Sinatra didn't have sex with Monroe? Right back at you Jim ..."Please!" Sinatra was Mafia. He knew Sam Giancana well. Sinatra could have logically been the Hollywood connection that facilitated the hook up between Giancana with another beautiful and sexy show business starlet Phyllis McGwire. Giancana being sexually smitten with this type of famous celebrity starlet could easily explain a similar attraction directed towards Monroe. If JFK was proven to have had sex with Giancana moll Judyth Exner, it isn't hard to believe he had sex with other women in the Giancana connected Sinatra and pimp Peter Lawford Rat Pack circle ( Monroe herself cites Lawford as procuring call girls to his Santa Monica beach home the night before her death in that call to Rupert Allen - no?) such as Angie Dickinson, Monroe and others? The famous video of provocatively dressed Marilyn Monroe singing "Happy Birthday Mr. President" to JFK in her most animated sultry voice on May 19th, 1962 ( less than three months before her death ) sure doesn't look like a truly innocent case of simple platonic admiration. I think most anyone who knew of JFK's proclivity for dalliances and Monroe's reputation for many relationships sensed a sex-hook up or two between them sometime in the past as being as likely as not. But, what does this have to do with any scenario of Monroe being murdered versus suicide? I don't absolutely see the connection between JFK's having sex with Monroe and her death any more than her having had sex with Howard Hughes, Giancana or Daryl Zanuck. etc. Except these all being super powerful men who for sure didn't want this information made public. To obvious degrees. Monroe's seriously great mental instability at the time of her death could explain suicide, but it could also bolster the claim that she was unstable enough ( combined with her deep hurt, anger and resentment regards how many times she had been so demeaned and mistreated by powerful men as she told Rupert Allen the night before by Lawford ) to do something else as desperate as suicide such as expressing her inner rage publicly to expose and get back at them? I suppose John And Dr. Rock Positano are two more authors of a book on Joe Dimaggio and Marilyn Monroe that we are to write off as discredited, but their recounting of Dimaggio's comments about Marilyn and Sinatra and the Kennedy brothers is interesting and at least somewhat bolstered by the known fact that Dimaggio did actually bar Sinatra from Marilyn's funeral.

Who could doubt that Marilyn Monroe had so much intimate insider information on so many powerful people that if she were to reveal "everything" she knew and that was shared with her by her many lovers, an entire new history of the rich, famous and powerful of her day would be re-written. A no-holds-barred tell all book from MM would have been Earth shaking. She would be killed before such a book could be written and published however. Do you really think men like Sam Giancana, Sinatra, Howard Hughes, movie studio heads and so many powerful others would allow MM to tell the world about anything of such a personal, private, and secret sharing nature? Just looking at a partial list of famous persons Marilyn had sex with blows the mind. Even Joan Crawford? Egad! MM was sexually used to a degree beyond any famous female celebrity I have ever heard about. There must have been many abortions. Surprised her gynecologist didn't write a book or clinical medical journal article on the physical limits she endured. How could anyone totally dismiss MM dying from something other than a simple medication overdose. She had so much on so many and in the highest power positions... any number of these threatened suspects could have killed her to keep her from exposing such. This reality of the highest power intimate connections to Marilyn Monroe is what separates her from a typical depressed woman who isn't involved ( for years ) with so many dangerous characters who meant the most serious business in their daily doings. Too bad MM ever got involved in the show business industry.

Roger Craig deserves a special medal of honor for his sacrifice.

Fascinating to go back and see and hear the first, first hand assessment of Connally right after his surgery with a detailed description of his wounds from the actual surgeon in charge. I'd never seen this clip. This doctor Shaw seems very sure about Connally's injuries all being caused by one bullet only as well as his evaluation of the trajectory of this one bullet through Connally's body. Please excuse my asking these most simple questions again but is the Connally injuries causing bullet still lodged into Connally's thigh at this point ..."the Magic Bullet?" The almost fully intact 6.5 millimeter bullet identified as exhibit 399? I have forgotten the time line of this bullet being found on Connally's stretcher. Was it discovered on the stretcher used to take Connolly away "after surgery" or was it found on the stretcher used to bring Connally "to" the surgery room before he was unloaded from this to the surgery table? Was the same stretcher used for both purposes? I know I should know these facts and time line scenarios being on the forum so long but one forgets after years of venturing into other discussions and reading. Also, did Shaw or any other doctor ever remove the bullet lodged into Connally's thigh? Or did they not and it simply fell out onto the stretcher later on? Just went into the many histories of the Magic Bullet. Most questions answered. The stretcher and magic bullet finding testimonies however are still greatly contradictory and unanswered and wide open to suspicion. If the bullet Dr. Shaw mentioned as still being embedded into Connally's thigh during this post surgery news conference was not removed before Connally was wheeled out to recovery, why not? I just can't imagine surgeons leaving a large caliber bullet ( the main injury causing and vitally important evidence one ) inside a wounded patient's body, especially when it was not deeply embedded and in a risky location place and was just under the surface of the skin. Isn't leaving such a large foreign body copper/lead metal piece inside a patient's body a serious infection risk? Did the 399 bullet supposedly fall out of Connally's thigh onto the stretcher wheeling him back to post surgery recovery or his regular hospital room? If the Magic Bullet fell that easily out of Connally's thigh it must have been just barely under the skin. One can be sure that the doctors and nurses first attending to Connally saw the bullet entry wound in Connally's thigh. Must have been some blood and entry wound trauma there. One of the first things done in such a discovery is to clean the bloody wound and with a disinfectant to prevent infection. If the Magic Bullet was able to simply fall out of the wound on it's own, you would think that when the wound was being rubbed down in cleaning, that this manipulation alone would have dislodged it. And wouldn't a bullet entry wound be dressed and covered in clean gauze before a patient is sent to recovery? And anything just coming out of a person's body would also have at least some blood on it's surface. When Parkland hospital senior engineer Darrell Tomlinson and Parkland personnel director O.P. Wright first found the Magic Bullet they claimed they actually held it in their hands. And they didn't see any blood on this at all, over even on the stretcher?

A guy walks into a bar wearing a Trump "Make America Great Again" cap and orders a "Trump Gin and Tonic." The bartender looks at the man quizzically. The ordering guy condescendingly explains the drink to the bartender: "Two shots of Tanqeuray, two slices of lime and three shots of bleach ... in soda water." Upon receiving his drink the guy knocks it down in one big swig. 20 seconds later the guy's eyes roll back in his head, his tongue juts out, he starts convulsing and then drops dead on the floor. News of the man's horrific death spreads and a White House News Correspondent asks Trump what he makes of the man's disinfectant ingesting death. Trump motions his arms and hands outward and says boastfully " See...one less death from the Coronavirus!" "It works...right?"

Ron, please tell me how my post is spreading disinformation? All I said about JVB was her presence in New Orleans during the time Oswald lived there, her employment at Reilly's Coffee ( during the same time period that Oswald worked there ) and her taking buses on the same route bus taking Oswald probably used. These three JVB points are not true? This is disinformation? My statement regards JVB's sister Lynda is debatable, yet isn't it at least true that JVB's sister has never come out and solidly refuted or discredited her in a public way? Whether JVB had any "direct" contact with Ochsner or Mary Sherman is again debatable, but she should have known of them. These were well known people in their field of cancer research. The same field JVB was involved in ever since high school, correct? JVB wasn't in New Orleans just to do nothing but flip burgers and flirt with men other than her husband Robert who was away. What was she doing there? Anything to do with her studies? An internship with Dr. Mary Sherman? Of course I do feel JVB exaggerates much about many things. Possibly including how much she "personally" interacted with Ochsner, Sherman ... and David Ferry as well? Yet, I still find her take on these figures, even if exaggerated, as just knowledgeable enough ( regards their covert doings ) to be interesting imo. I think I fairly balanced my JVB take with this exaggeration aspect and a very negative take on her over-all personality and character as well. My post wasn't a glowing JVB promotion piece. Lastly, I relegated JVB and her Oswald tale to interesting others which have limited proof other than testimonial evidence. Like Sylvia Odio and Dallas car salesman Albert Bogard. Yet, both these stories had just enough additional back up testimony ( Odio's sister and Bogard's manager on duty that day ) to not totally dismiss them out of hand. I know, JVB's only corroboration witness is Anna Lewis. One that comes across as less than credible. Yet, she did say what she said and is a real person who was married to real person David Lewis who has also stated an Oswald connection in NO at the relevant time. My shared take on JVB is not one of bold and definitive claims. It is a very general take with general but not untrue points ( 3 ) as I mentioned. Again, same employment company as Oswald and during same time period. Same bus line usage. I believe I trash JVB sufficiently in the personal character department along the same negative take line as Pamela Brown. My less than 100% dismissal of JVB is really just a minor person subjective thing that I don't think threatens the JVB truth status of our top research members here. Not heavy weight worthy enough of the disinformation charge for sure. And maybe I just like the JVB story whether it's entirely made up? If it's a total scam, it's creation, implementation and charged controversy that it has inspired with long term legs is a story unto itself. I like big scam stories. Loved Richard Gere's portrayal as Clifford Irving in the fake Howard Hughes autobiography film "The Hoax." And the Melvin Dummar/Howard Hughes story as well.

You know what's so disturbing about Bill Cosby and others like him? We now know that behind Cosby's self-created and often smugly promoted image as some type of shining example of exceptionalism ( especially black American exceptionalism ) with his icon of intelligent humor status, his PhD, 300 million dollar fortune of wealth, long running TV show, successful record and book sales, etc. ... he was in reality a serial sexual predator monster whose perverted kick was drugging women to the point of reduced resistance and even unconsciousness where he then raped them. With at least 50 victims! And from what I've read, Cosby is still as arrogant and cockily non-remorseful and in denial of his sick action guilt in prison! What an absolutely corrupt and sociopathic jerk. Our societal history is full of high status, achievement and wealth acquiring icons who are in reality deviants whose criminal charades are sometimes exposed, sometimes not. Cosby, Weinstein, Madoff, Spectre, Epstein, Clay Shaw and on and on including politicians ( LBJ and Nixon imo. ) Jim Garrison once stated a famous quote in a speech or interview or book relating to the mistake of giving total truth expecting trust to those of high position simply because of their position and the paper documentation that supposedly validates such. Just wanted to throw this high station corrupt reality out there even though the subject here is JVB and how much of her and her story we should rationally believe or not believe. The woman is so often described as a pushy, shamefully and overly self-promoting shrew with a highly exaggerated and manipulated Lee Oswald love affair story that she aggressively promotes to the point of obnoxious audacity. Yet, I personally can't get more than a 85% dismissal handle on her validity. It's that darn 15% of somewhat believable anecdotal claims that keeps me from total doubt. I want to doubt her and her tale ( and it's so easy to see her as personally unattractive based on her reported unpleasant traits ) but there's just enough validated documentation that proves she was at least in New Orleans when Oswald was there and had some cross-over connection with not just Oswald ( same bus line-Reilly coffee ) but other very important nefarious characters ( Oschner) and non-nefarious people like Mary Sherman. And Baker was a highly achieving high school science student ( with newspaper write ups ) as she claimed. I don't feel she exaggerated this part of her tale at all. And Baker's own sister does verify JVB telling her early on of an unusual love affair when JVB was in New Orleans. Ah, so what to believe? Guess it's just another debatable intrigue JFK event story among hundreds of others that one can make of it what they want, if only for entertaining conspiracy discussion? Others...Silvia Odio Del Toro, Rose Cherami, Dallas Car Salesman Albert Guy Bogard's Oswald's fast test drive one and on and on.

Michael Bloomberg spent nearly 500 million dollars over a two to three month period as a late entering but so-called serious candidate. He said he jumped in because none of the Dem candidates looked strong enough to defeat Trump. But his real mission was to make sure Sanders and Warren did not get the nomination. When he started his aggressive massive money commitment campaign, Biden was looking defeated and Sanders was looking like the man. And Warren was about equal to Biden in votes. Bloomberg declared victory ( and immediately closed up shop ) when Warren and Sanders were finally and successfully marginalized. Bloomberg drew enough votes away from both Sanders and Warren, enabling Biden to win not with a majority vote, but a plurality. Thank you M. Bloomberg for successfully sabotaging Sanders and Warren this last primary. You got your 500 million dollars money's worth. Bloomberg fears Sanders and Warren way more than he ever feared Trump. Obviously, Biden is no threat to MB. Lots to ponder in that regard. And Bloomberg will probably tell Biden, that if Biden picks Elizabeth Warren as his VP, he will not commit any funds to help him this election imo. Biden would have a hard time turning down another half a billion of that kind of election funding. Biden will not allow Warren to be his VP.

Thank you.

P. Mellor, in your reading of Griggs work and hearing him speak and perhaps through your own reading and research, do you have a general sense of the political, racial and even corruption make up of any number of members of the Dallas Police Department back in 1963? How bad was it? I know other researchers have written about this subject but since you mentioned Griggs and his focus on at least some aspects of the DPD at that time including interviewing former officers, I am hoping you have some thoughts on this? Did any of the officers Griggs interviewed give up anything remotely intriguingly suspicious about the assassination itself, the political and racial make up of their own organization, feelings toward JFK, Jack Ruby etc, including the security measures taken in transferring Oswald which resulted in the worst case scenario possible? My feel from my limited reading is that Dallas's Police and even Sheriff's department was rife with a stark racism and alignments with the most extreme far right political organizations such as the John Birch Society, Minutemen even the KKK. In this context, a large number of these department members must have viewed JFK as the worst kind of mortal enemy...a Ni**er Lover AND a Commie! And we know that many big city police departments all across the country before and up to 1963 had huge rates of internal corruption. Of course Dallas had it's share of this ( Jack Ruby's DPD connections alone are worth a small book ) and their own Mafia head Joe Campisi seems to have had no major problems with the police for decades in keeping his operation going there. And lastly, are you of the view that Jack Ruby was provided some access assistance into the Dallas PD building the morning of 11,24,1963? And do you have any thoughts on Dallas DA Henry Wade regards all the points I listed concerning the DPD? I don't think one can logically separate these issues from and say they have no bearing in the larger context of the JFK assassination occurring specifically in Dallas at that time. Thanks for your response.

I agree.

Put yourself in Connally's place as the bullets are hitting him and JFK. I can't personally imagine the level of body shock and pain and brain thought panic. You are hearing these booming gun shots, you then hear the President right behind you yell out in pain and panic "My God I'm Hit" ( quote from Agent Roy Kellerman in his Warren Commission testimony) right as you yourself feel a two-by-four slam into your upper right back with accompanying lung collapse and burning bullet pain exploding throughout your body and into your wrist! Yet, even in that five to six seconds of booming gun shot loud body ripping attack you still have the conscious ability to shout out. And if the shout is not a scream of pain then perhaps it's the first traumatic shock thought that enters your brain. I must wonder if in his panic, pain and shock but still conscious thoughts, when Connally shouted "they are going to kill us all" that he must have felt that "one man alone" couldn't have rained into the limo such a devastating barrage of bullet flying injury to both JFK and himself. Connally knows that there are hundreds of security personnel all around, and can't fathom one man blowing up the inside of the Presidential limo with the lethal destruction force of a Thompson submachine gun. Just a speculative real life thought and view on why Connally may have shouted the word "they" versus any other in his bullet blasted extreme pained/shocked mental state.

Exactly.

And how about this weird appearance of three national TV mental health figures all popping up "at the exact same time" pushing this "free America to work again" agenda with national media coverage? Dr. Phil, Dr.Drew and Dr.Oz ? Sounds like someone made phone calls to them to do their Trump defending duty... and now!