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Yes, interesting photo. The man is certainly not Roger Craig. Craig stands out as being so thin back then he looked childhood starved emaciated, even skeletal. Clothes just hung off of his boney shoulders. The man in question here has some meat on his bones. Those suited men in the lower left corner look like plain clothes cops ( is that a pistol handle in the waist band area of the lowest left hand corner fellow? ) with the dark suited man to his left looking like an executive type with his perfectly folded coat pocket white kerchief. Lots of suited men. They sure didn't come from the Billy Lovelady, Wesley Frazier, rag tag dressed TXSBD worker crowd. Notice also how all the black men in this photo stayed among themselves? Reflected 1963 Dallas's racial segregation sentiment I would guess. One small boy right in the thick of the crowd. Bottom of the pic. What a powerful memory experience for him I would image he shared with his kids and grandkids later on in his adult life. I always wondered why Jack Ruby reportedly didn't run the few blocks from the Dallas Morning News offices to join the action in the Plaza as soon as he heard JFK had been shot there. Instead he jumps in his car and races in tears back to his club? Ruby was a man who wanted to be where the action was. He ran right into the Dallas PD building and got right into the Press crowd there Friday night for hours and even perched himself on top of a table and verbally interjected himself with a shout out to Dallas DA Henry Wade during the nationally covered press conference there. Ruby "did" go to Parkland hospital right after JFK was brought there. Reputable journalist Seth Kantor saw him there and Ruby even engaged Kantor in conversation! Yet the Warren Commission decided that Kantor was so worked up with excitement during his visit to Parkland that his sworn oath testimony regards seeing and talking to Ruby there was the result of an over-active imagination. A delusion. Ha! Preposterous! Instead they believed Ruby's disjointed, meandering, almost incoherent jibberish saying he didn't stop at Parkland that day. The woman in question in the original post photo doesn't look to me to be anything more than an innocent parade route watcher.

Thank you Ron. In some ways yes. In some ways no. I feel I've been knocked down 50%. My balance is still off. Worry it may be permanent. Still using a walker outside of home. And my legs are very weak. Reading all the never ending, supremely outrageous and whacky stories of George Santos ( a new one every day ) has been a nice humorous distraction for me.

Oh, by leaps and bounds. KH was a product of the political scene of Northern California. She knew that world well. I think she may have been kind of one state insecure moving into the much more broad power 50 state and international affairs dealing federal political realm world? DC is a far cry from San FRANCISCO. In a million different ways. Socially, politically, culturally, weather... What a head trip

I assume the huge majority of Americans since 1963 are like me. 80% of my time, energy, focus commitment 5 to 7 days a week 52 weeks a year was centered around one main real life goal...making enough income to pay the basic needs of housing, food, transportation, health, clothing, insurance, utilities, etc. etc. And when I chose to marry and have children, the cost of those needs tripled, and required even more commitment centered around...a job. Your entire day is structured around this priority reality. In my case, I always seemed to be just barely making it, to a degree that when I did have some free thought time, I was quite tired usually. I think the vast majority of American adults have lived this typical structure life. In my case, it was only when I stopped working full time that I was able to find the time and energy to pursue my passion for the JFK truth ( and to a lesser degree the RFK and MLK ones ) which I felt was the greatest American unsolved crime of the twentieth century and which changed our society in bad ways beyond anything most Americans could fully realize. Millions of work centered Americans still find time to read and contemplate larger realms of national and world affairs of course. And even develop opinions about them and express concern over ones that involve actions that they may conclude are universally wrong, immoral and hurtful to innocent people everywhere. Where am I going with this contemplation? I guess partly to express my take that even our limited efforts by thousands of Americans versus millions who could be labeled apathetic ( wrongly ) should be given the greatest appreciation. This effort "has" kept this ultimate unsolved crime ( crimes ) alive in our societal consciousness at least to a degree that the perpetrators behind it can never totally escape their fear of exposure? Most Americans like me have lived to work our entire lives to keep from being homeless and to protect and nurture and provide for our families. This life structure reality often doesn't allow for much extra free thought time to meaningfully study, contemplate and engage in matters outside our immediate family needs world. Guess it will always be this way regards JFK, RFK and MLK. Keep up the good fight my fellow truth seeking brethren and sisteren.

Exactly.

Thanks for posting this JM. And this is just one small part of your book? It inspires me to buy and read it in it's entirety. I had a high school friend join the Navy in 1969. He served on the Air Craft Carrier Oriskany. Pac duty off of Vietnam. Home ship of John McCain. Scene of a huge fire with many deaths earlier than 1969. I still talk to him maybe once a year. He likes to share stories of his time on the carrier. Just a few months ago he told me that his ship's fighter jet combat action over Vietnam was so hot it was often 24/7. He marveled at the tonnage of ordinances that his ship's fighters alone dropped on their missions. The numbers of tonnage was so great, he said the average American probably couldn't fathom it's massiveness. I once read that we inundated Viet Nam with more bombing power than we dropped in all of WW II? And yes, Vietnam was indeed a battle over natural resources such as oil and rubber? Between us and the Soviet Union?

The fairgrounds look remarkably the same as they did in 1967. the main stage pavilion especially.

Did Ruth Paine ever state that the type of paper Oswald allegedly wrapped the rifle in was something she had or could have had in her garage and home anytime before the evening of 11,21,1963? Otherwise, Oswald must have brought the paper into Ruth's home? Possibly concealing it folded up inside of his jacket while riding with Frazier to Ruth's home on Thursday afternoon? Did the DPD or FBI ever establish the provenance of the paper type? And the tape type ( if used ) as well? Was it a kind used at the Texas School Depository for any reason? Was it from a store of some type that Oswald may have done any business with? Seems like it would not be difficult to establish where that exact kind of paper could be found and where it was manufactured, no? Was the paper package Oswald carried to Frazier's car and then into the back of the TXSBD building held together just by folding it into itself, or was there tape used in doing so? Again, if it was taped, did Ruth Paine state the tape was hers? Was the paper cut in anyway? Did Ruth Paine have scissors handy that Oswald could have used to cut the paper? Oswald simply left the gun wrapping paper next to his perch after unwrapping it? He didn't think of disposing this evidence in anyway? Like rolling it up into a ball and putting this into a building trash can or tossing it out of another opposite side sixth floor window? If Oswald did the shooting I have pondered something that puts Oswald into a different category than most everyone including myself has had a hard time accepting. That underneath his calm public demeanor...he was a psychopathic killer time bomb. A man so full of murderous rage that blowing JFK's head apart just inches from his wife's face didn't faze him. That blasting Tippit with "over-kill" shots including a coup de grace one in the head also didn't faze him. A man so disturbed in this way...that he couldn't conceptualize the reality and understanding that committing these acts would be the most self-destroying ( and his two baby family destroying ) ones imaginable? Totally suicidal. The kind of actions people do to die ( suicide by cops) when they want to destroy themselves but just can't turn the gun on themselves. Or, something you could imagine a "Manchurian Candidate" might do? Unconscious brainwashed order following? With perhaps a code word message used to begin the killing? Like "Lee...time to listen to your mother." ? Also, if Lee thought that doing the shooting would be his ticket into Cuba...well, again, that is hard to believe.

Sandy, my brother in JFK sentiment arms... I respectfully disagree with you on this one point. I personally would connect with this woman who gave birth to Hunter Biden's child and try to establish some type of relationship to in some way help this child in anyway possible. Most Americans don't have the financial means to do much more than offer their time and help if needed for this child's needs. Those who do have better standing financially could offer more. It could be a risky connection. The mother of the child could be someone who might try to take selfish advantage of such help. Maybe keeping any funds sent to the child for her own use? Maybe even a drug abuser? Or trying to milk the grandparents constantly for more? Still, I know myself. I would be willing to face those risk scenarios. I have a deep, deep conviction regards caring about an innocent child born into my family no matter what the unintentional wrong-side-of-the-tracks procreating circumstances. I've dealt with drug and alcohol addicted persons in or near my family most of my life. Outside of violent behavior towards others, I have never abandoned them when they ever came to me in need. Their children especially. I've visited family ( and friends ) in jail. I've helped to bail them out. I've given them my time and companionship and help when I could. I've sent money ( maybe just a couple hundred dollars) to a few friends and family through the mail or those grocery store money grams. I try to be tolerant regards how they got in such binds. I have this powerful seed of do-gooder sentiment inside of me. It's just who I am. It's just me. Guess it stems from my own childhood. Always praying for someone to jump in and help me during the roughest times. No family was there to do this...but by the grace of good, several adult people outside of family did...from time to time anyway. Can you imagine what it would mean to this child of Hunter Biden's living on the other side of the tracks from his or her father's side, to have the love and support from this side of her paternal family giving her seriously committed acknowledgement, love and support while he or she is growing up? It would mean ... EVERYTHING! Very little is more important than such loving effort in my book of life values.

Remarkable that Crosby would inject that into his performance at the Monterey Pop love fest. Socially conscious even then. I was at the Monterey Pop. Unfortunately only hanging around outside of the fairgrounds. I was just 15 in June of 1967. Driving around with some friends just crowd watching. Up and down Fairgrounds road. Night and day, there were thousands of young people. This was a fashion show with beautiful young people. The latest in hippie fashion. Not a cheap rags affair. Seemed it was a middle to upper middle class affair more than a poorer one in this regards from what I remember. Lots of fancy tasseled leather vests, coats, boots. Bell bottoms and crazy different, colorful and funny hats. If Manson and his merry band of rag tag followers-pranksters were there, they might have seemed a little on the poor dress side I would think. I can still remember the heavy smell of patchouli oil ( always feminine attractive to me ) constantly in the air. That and the smell of weed. You could smell this for blocks around the fairgrounds. The mix was seductively intoxicating...to me anyways. The whole scene and vibe was very attractive and exciting. The youthful hippy love energy and fragrance smells, the music ( which you could hear for blocks around) and the sight of so many beautiful young people everywhere. Again, with their free and expressive and colorful fashion. Even the performers could be seen walking around outside from time to time. Look, there's Hendrix walking into a little open booth flower shop on Fremont street! Hey, isn't that the Mommas and The Papas! The close by Denny's restaurant of Fremont street was constantly packed. Ummm, they weren't half bad back then. Can't screw up eggs and coffee, right? The entire days of the event were remarkably easy going. No crazy or violent incidents. Everyone seemed mellow. It is absolutely true what Eric Burdon wrote in his song "Monterey." "Even the cops grooved with us" "Can you believe me yeah" "Down in Monterey." The police "were" very calm and accommodating it seemed to me. Scores of young people had simply slept outside during the three days and nights with sleeping bags in open land areas behind the fairgrounds versus all the motels in front which were full. The police didn't bother them. I wish I had paid to actually go to the indoor shows. The prices were very affordable. And taken a camera to boot. But, I was not understanding of the historical magnitude of it all. And I was of a different crowd than the hippie movement. I hung around other rougher edged kids from families like mine. Old school booze, violence, cursing, cops. Parents Nixon lovers, Kennedy haters. No money. Many kids from our high school had easily immersed into the more gentle "Peace And Love" music, fashion and lingo identity genre. Volkswagon bugs and vans, patchouli oil, Beatles style longer hair and music on their cumbersome 8 track players. I was an angry, shorter haired, pimply faced kid still wearing 1950's style white T-shirts and Levis and Converse tennis shoes. My music preference was mostly black soul and Motown. Still, even I was attracted to the gentler and more freely expressive new hippie/free love/marijuana/ patchouli oil sea change with young people all around me on the California Coast. The prettiest girls in school were flocking to Peace And Love message and style. The Monterey Pop Festival was an amazingly powerful event that celebrated and advertised this new cultural movement in a dramatically iconic way. Much more I think than even the original creators and organizers of it imagined it would be.

Double-entrendres" Nixon..."you know LBJ... he never likes to be number 2."

My own mother...to a "T."

Another film about JFK? Where is the film about Dorothy Kilgallen? Ten years ago an A list mystery film ( supposedly with some tie-in to the JFK assassination ) was just about green lighted starring Kate Blanchette and written by David Mamet! The title was "BlackBird." Always felt bad that this project was abandoned. Blanchett ("The Aviator," "I'm Not There," "Elizabeth," "Notes on a Scandal") will play Janet, who travels to L.A. for the funeral of her grandfather, a Hollywood visual effects artist whose secrets become a threat to her. Mamet will also direct the film, which is described as a "Hitchcockian nailbiter." "Blackbird" is produced by SBS Prods. and is scheduled to shoot in Sydney.

I thought both men and women wore their wedding ring on their left hand? You are saying Oswald chose to wear his Marine Ring on his left hand instead? And switched his marriage ring to his right? It looks like no ring on his right hand in one photo. Are you stating that there was a ring on his right hand but it was so small in size you could not see it without a blow up like the ones you have posted?

But there must be "something" in her statements and her claimed connection to the main characters involved through probable verifiable employment documentation that is motivating you to at least say she sounds credible? And not dismissing her right off the bat...correct? Seems to me someone with your long career experience in interrogation can make an immediate determination whether a witness is even worth your valuable time interviewing? IMO, if I could verify her employment claims for the specific times she states and cross check to see if anyone else knew that Jack Ruby visited her restaurant as well as the officers she mentions and found they did? I would really have wanted to speak to her as you stated ... face to face. One thing I feel is that she doesn't seem to have some questionable motivation to share her recollections like seeking fame and attention, money, revenge etc.

Stone brought up Jim Garrison and his book "On The Trail Of The Assassins." Obviously, it had a huge impact on Stone. So much so, he frames almost all of his film JFK around Garrison's shared findings in it. This was my first JFK book reading as well. It pulled me in totally. A super entertaining and at times even funny tome as well as inspiring in it's righteous indignation regards the JFK truth coverup. I've watched Stone's film JFK so many times since 1991 ( I also watched it twice when it first came out in theaters ) I can quote almost every line and even decently mimic the characters in their deliveries of them. My wife long ago tired of being my only audience for my act though. It's a sad thing to accept the reality of such lonely unfulfilled performance urges. Garrison's book gave the JFK event a life so much more scintillating and expansive than others before it. Every character in it pulls you in. Their eccentricities only enhance their dramatic attractiveness and story and plot contributions. I am watching the film in my neurofeedback sessions even today. This involves watching a film while monitoring leads are attached to your scalp. Something to hopefully aid in long term concussion recovery. Can't get enough of incredible performances by so many top actors in the film. John Candy's Dean Andrews is fabulous. Same with Jack Lemmon's Jack Martin, Tommy Lee Jones's Clay Shaw etc. etc. Jim Di said in the interview above that Stone's JFK should have won so many more Academy Awards than it did. That pressure from sinister outside forces kept it from doing so. Of course, this is absolutely true.

Stone seemed enthusiastic yet at ease. The young interviewer ( sincerely enthusiastic and informed herself ) brought the best out of both of you. Great job on her part. Clearly Stone felt supported with your presence Jim. He often looked to you to help fill in areas of his recollections of different aspects of the film research and editing, knowing and totally trusting your vast JFK research knowledge in so many areas such as JFK's foreign policy challenges. And thank goodness you have a manner of injecting some light humor in your interviews JD. Which most often wonderfully exposes the laughable absurdity of the Lone Nut proponents and their arguments as well as pointing out coincidences that are simply too illogical to be blindly dismissed as not importantly suspicious. Well practiced, polished and not over done. It keeps your interviews enjoyably balanced versus ones that are overly heavy as the subject matter inherently is unfortunately. My take anyway.

Of course I embellished my take on BWF's car being a constantly not starting junk yard special. Call it ... occasional comedic compulsion syndrome. Now and then this dark heavy subject matter needs a little lightening imo. Actually would love to have a restored 54 Chevy like Frazier's. 4 doors. Lots of room. Love Frazier's two toned, white topped, "spats" type loafers shown in this reenactment. Frazier had a little "Elvis" coolness back in the day didn't he?

I just watched JFK Revisited ( third viewing ) two nights ago on my home TV. I paid $2.99 cents to do so. I've paid this $2.99 fee all three times. In my JFK truth seeking obsessed mind it's money well spent. Just watched the video above. Much covered in such a short one hour long interview. One question regards a point in "JFK Revisited." What was the deal with Oswald wearing a ring on his right hand in one of the backyard photos, and that ring is shown on the other hand in another of the photos? This was the first time I ever heard about the Oswald back yard photos ring hand switch discrepancy.

So you would not dismiss her claims out of hand? What about her makes you say..."She sounds credible." ?

Wesley got ten bucks for the car? From what he told everybody about that car right after the assassination it wasn't worth that. Battery dying all the time. Missing hub caps. Junk yard special. I picture Frazier and Oswald constantly big-eyed praying this sputtering, rattling, oil burning and black exhaust spewing rust bucket wouldn't just die on the way to and from work! Wouldn't be surprised if Oswald was embarrassed to be seen riding in that junker. Maybe that's why he jumped out of it as soon as they arrived at the lot behind the TXSBD that Friday morning, and leaving his friend Frazier behind to keep revving the engine to keep it's battery from dying and/or make sure the engine actually stopped when he turned off the key?

JFK's murder made LBJ our president. To leave that massively important part of LBJ's climb to the top out of the story as much as Caro does seems illogically suspicious.

Greer was looking straight back at JFK all during the headshot. Any driver lets off the accelerator when they turn around 180 degrees behind them while driving. The Zapruder film clearly shows Greer doing this. Why Greer lied under oath about his 180 degree turn around to see JFK's head hit is the big question. And his doing so without more questioning scrutiny just added more mistrust regards the Warren Commission's procedural and purpose integrity.

I am one of the staunchest Oliver Stone fans ever. But, in this case, I disagree with him. For so many reasons. Just two of which are...nuclear power plants being the most dangerous wide-spread human damage threats under several scenarios. Natural earth born events like Fukushima. Maintenance and structural breakdowns like Chernoble and Three Mile Island. And the potential for terrorist attack. It may seem counter productive to keep using the old hydro-electric steam oil energy systems in this day and age, but putting all our marbles into systems that if damaged could wreak as much harm as dirty bombs is too high a price to risk imo. And here is another analogy. Has anyone here experienced a break down in our power grid system...even for one day? Some massive ones like those that took out much of our upper East Coast years ago showed us how frighteningly dependent we were on electrical power. It was like that scene in the old classic film "The Day The Earth Stood Still." I was out and about when our power plant here went down for a little more than a day or two a few years ago. Electric pump and cash register gas stations/stores had to shut down. As well all our grocery and other stores. Traffic came to A stop when all the traffic lights went down to "everyone stop and then go" blinking on and off mode. I witnessed dozens of frantic yelling incidents of people stuck in traffic and by people pounding on gas station and large chain grocery store doors. One mother with kids in her gas needing van went crazy screaming she needed help! Medical care facilities went dark. Workplaces went dark. Schools too. Everyone seemed way too unnerved and edgy. This was just over 1 to 2 days of electrical power loss! I know a few doctor's offices still keep duplicate paper file records on hand now. Most have gone completely digital. Same with most every part of our society. Many individuals buy and store items and equipment as a back-up in case their homes power supplies are down. That mentality makes good sense. We all know this. With so much major natural and man-made created disasters we KNOW will continue to befall all of us every year or years we should not let go of our cumbersome but less risky other sources of electric power versus increasing Nuclear power imo. PG&E wanted to shut down their Diablo Canyon Nuclear power plant for years. Gavin Newsome recently had them stop that process for a few more years. There are all kinds of earthquake fault lines up and down the California Coast. We know major earthquakes are going to happen here. Sacramento ( Smud ) long ago shut down their plant. I don't know if any Southern California plants have shut dowl. But none have been built there in a long while either.