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Is it Dorothy Hunt, playing sheep-dog?
xol-xo-xo !!!
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52 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:
My last reply to anything PT says. And hopefully we can start an embargo of this blowhard. Maybe then he will go argue more about Hegel's pernicious influence on philosophy.
Mr. DiEugenio, you might want to wait until Oct, 26. What if turns-out that he called-it, spot on?
You might be forced to say, in a battered Wyle E. Coyote voice.....
"Paul Trejo, Super-Genius!"
xol-xa-xa !!!
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Doctoral candidate discovers early Walt Whitman novel
AP February 21, 2017, 2035 PM
Zachary Turpin, a University of Houston graduate student, poses for a portrait at his home, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in Houston. Turpin recently discovered a previously unknown novella by the poet Walt Whitman.
Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP
Doctoral candidate discovers early Walt Whitman novel
AP February 21, 2017, 2:35 PM
Zachary Turpin, a University of Houston graduate student, poses for a portrait at his home, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in Houston. Turpin recently discovered a previously unknown novella by the poet Walt Whitman.
Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP
HOUSTON -- Zachary Turpin was propped up in bed with his laptop in May, his wife and newborn son sleeping beside him, when he made a discovery that stands to rock the literary world.
There on his screen, he saw a small ad in an 1852 newspaper. The ad promised “A Rich Revelation:” A six-installment piece of fiction called “Life and Adventures of Jack Engle” was coming soon to the Sunday Dispatch, a three-penny weekly published in Manhattan.
The Houston Chronicle reports the short novel, like the newspaper that published it, was all but lost to the ages. But the author, Turpin believed, was Walt Whitman, one of America’s best-known and most beloved poets.
Now, Turpin, a 33-year-old doctoral candidate in English at the University of Houston, has found the novel itself -- a discovery that upends what previously was believed about the 19th-century poet’s early career. Published anonymously as a serial in 1852, “Life and Adventures of Jack Engle” reveals much about Whitman’s early life and work that the poet later tried to hide.
You might recognize Turpin’s name: Last spring, he unearthed a book-length newspaper series on fitness and healthy living that Whitman published under a pseudonym in 1858.That discovery was important, but Turpin’s latest “is going to change everything we thought we knew about Whitman’s writing career,” said Ed Folsom, a University of Iowa English professor and editor of the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, which is publishing “Jack Engle” on its website today.
The novel also is being published in book form by the University of Iowa Press.
Any discovery of new work by Whitman is a major find, said Stephen Enniss, director of the Harry Ransom Center, a massive arts and humanities archive at the University of Texas at Austin.
“He is, along with Emily Dickinson, our major 19th-century American poet -- and arguably, one of our first modern poets,” Enniss said.
Whitman’s most famous work, “Leaves of Grass,” offers a distinct voice to the American canon -- expansive poems that spill freely across the page, overflowing with rich and earthy images and a democratic, inclusive spirit.
But Whitman was in his mid-30s when he published “Leaves of Grass.” By then, he’d had a long career in journalism and had published a novel, several short stories and novellas.
For decades, scholars wrote off Whitman’s early fiction as mediocre. And until now, Folsom said, scholars assumed that Whitman’s last piece of fiction was published in 1848, which meant a seven-year gap between his fiction-writing days and the publication of “Leaves of Grass.”
“It’s always been easy to kind of assume that Whitman, at some point, just said, ‘Well, that’s it for fiction; it’s just not going anywhere for me,’” Folsom said. That assumption, he said “has allowed us to miss the ways in which the fiction led into the poetry.”
Thanks to Turpin’s find, Folsom said, we now know that Whitman was still writing and publishing fiction even as he worked on the poems that would immortalize him as America’s bard.
“What we are beginning to realize with this novel, now, is that the fiction and poetry are mingling in ways we never before knew.”
“Jack Engle,” the story of an orphan’s adventures, can be classified as sentimentalism, Turpin said. The serial appeared “unsigned, practically unheralded and riddled with typographical errors” - and then, he said, “it sank like a stone.” The story received little response. It was never reprinted or reviewed. And Whitman never mentioned it again.
Then last year, in one of Whitman’s notebooks, Turpin found a detailed plot outline for the story.
Previous scholars had concluded it was probably just an outline that never amounted to anything, but Turpin wanted to see for himself. He started searching digital databases for some of the character names Whitman had listed.
That’s when he found a match -- the newspaper ad for a story called “Life and Adventures of Jack Engle.”
“There’s nothing (in the ad) that says Whitman,” Turpin said, but the character name matched and the timeline was plausible. Immediately, he started searching for a library that had archived the Sunday Dispatch.New York Public library delivers books on a train
Online, Turpin discovered that the only remaining copies of those issues are at the Library of Congress. He requested an image of the story’s first installment.
Weeks later, the library emailed him the story’s first page. Turpin knew that if he saw more of the character names Whitman named in his outline -- “Covert,” ‘’Wigglesworth,” ‘’Smytthe” -- he’d have a confirmation.
“I open it up and my eyes are furiously scanning,” he recalled. “The first names I see are ‘Jack Engle.’ ‘Martha.’ ‘Wigglesworth.’ It was quite a good moment.”
Because of their size and age, it cost about $1,200 to have the newspaper pages scanned and digitized.
Wyman Herendeen, a UH English professor who was chairman of the department at the time, immediately paid the cost from the department’s discretionary fund.
“I do a lot of original archival research,” Herendeen said. “I know the excitement. I know the thrill of a seeming discovery that oftentimes proves to be misleading.” But Turpin is “a very cautious scholar,” he said, and “there were enough pieces of the puzzle that certainly made it sound convincing.”
Bits and pieces of Whitman’s work have emerged over the years, but works like “Jack Engle” are well hidden.
Whitman wrote much of his journalism and fiction anonymously or under pseudonyms, and later, when he’d established himself as a poet, he wrote that his “serious wish” was to have “all those crude and boyish pieces quietly dropp’d in oblivion.”
But Turpin believes Whitman would be proud to see his fiction being republished today.
“Whitman deeply desired publicity,” he said. “That his work gets so much attention now, and that scholars like myself will snatch after any scrap that he wrote, I think would probably please him.”
Turpin is “one of the most talented of a whole new generation of scholars,” Folsom said -- scholars who will create “a golden age of discovery” as they dig through digital databases and uncover material that hasn’t been seen for decades, even centuries.
Digitized archives -- including the Walt Whitman Archive -- are “democratizing” research, Herendeen said, taking materials tucked away in basements and on microfilm and making them accessible to scholars everywhere.Librarians still finding answers in the Google era
Whitman’s archive is widely scattered, Enniss said, and in the past, a researcher like Turpin would have to visit multiple libraries to find these materials and piece the clues together. Digitization makes the job easier, “but one still has to know what one is looking for.”
Searching digital archives is “sort of like an adrenaline sport,” Turpin said, especially when it turns up material no one’s ever seen.
He knows there may be more work to discover, from Whitman and others, and he can’t stop searching now.
“It sort of makes me feel like the first 49er, pulling up a (gold) nugget and telegraphing home: ‘Come now, come right now.’ “ -
I am getting "404" error messages on the posts that introduce Jim's works which are the subject of this thread.
Can those links be edited to work once again? I just cruised through this thread looking for updated links and I must have missed them. Google search did the trick..
https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/why-cbs-covered-up-the-jfk-assassination
Cheers,
Michael
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It looks like the person in black is actually blocking and forcing back the person who is trying to come down (possible lovelady).
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Interesting and relevant to the Revolt of the Colonels topic,,,
"Then the clincher is the fact that the Dallas Civil Defense Emergency Bunker, an underground nuclear bomb proof cellar with special communications equipment, was located under the Health and Science Museum, located at the Dallas State Fairgrounds.
Was this emergency bunker in use on November 22nd, 1963? And if so, did they tape record all of the emergency radio communications? Russ Baker asks the same question and notes that Jack Crichton, who worked with some of those DPD officers in the Pilot Car in the motorcade and assisted in obtaining the interpreter for Marina Oswald on the day of the assassination, was also in charge of this shelter."
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6 minutes ago, Ray Mitcham said:
So I take it you don't believe the journalist.
Hello Ray, I wasn't headed in that direction at all. I was reading the Mockingbird thread last night, then read your post this morning and I thought the TSBD, intelligence and Mockingbird angle were interesting, if off topic. I generally veer away from photo analysis issues since it gets so contentious. I wouldn't go near an argument about how tall someone was based on anything other than a mugshot with the ruler/tape thing in the pic.
I just bumped a thread, linked it from here with your quote, thinking it might spurn interesting analysis elsewhere. I'll spend some time on that angle and it's a plus when others chime in with their current thoughts as I read.
Cheers,
Michael
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Bump for relevance to current threads.
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...... Operation Mockingbird. It is in the Google database but for some reason the normal rules do not apply. The same is also true of the two leading figures in Operation Mockingbird: Frank Wisner and Philip Graham. Interestingly both Graham (1963) and Wisner (1965) committed suicide in the same way (shotgun to the head)."
and... Bump, in relation to the recent post in "Oswald leaving the TSBD?" Thread.
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42 minutes ago, Ray Mitcham said:
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For the sake of clarity, I met Shelley while he was working at the Scott Foresman school book warehouse in Northwest Dallas. This was the new home of the Texas School Book Depository. As for Shelley, after reading his Warren Commission testimony years later I realized I had learned little new information about him. Perhaps my biggest takeaway from the experience was a strong suspicion the Texas School Book Depository was a storefront for domestic intelligence. After the assassination, the storefront may have been moved to the new Scott Foresman warehouse in Northwest Dallas.
Hope this information sheds a little light for you."
Seems to answer the question of Bill Shelley being shorter than Lovelady.
From http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/5142-operation-mockingbird/
"The Covert Use of Books and Publishing Houses
The Committee has found that the Central Intelligence Agency attaches a particular importance to book publishing activities as a form of covert propaganda. A former officer in the Clandestine Service stated that books are "the most important weapon of strategic (long-range) propaganda." Prior to 1967, the Central Intelligence Agency sponsored, subsidized, or produced over 1,000 books; approximately 25 percent of them in English. In 1967 alone, the CIA published or subsidized over 200 books, ranging from books on African safaris and wildlife to translations of Machiavelli's The Prince into Swahili and works of T. S. Eliot into Russian, to a competitor to Mao's little red book, which was entitled Quotations from Chairman Liu.
The Committee found that an important number of the books actually produced by the Central Intelligence Agency were reviewed and marketed in the United States:
* A book about a young student from a developing country who had studied in a communist country was described by the CIA as "developed by (two areas divisions) and, produced by the Domestic Operations Division... and has had a high impact in the United States as well as in the (foreign area) market." This book, which was produced by the European outlet of a United States publishing house was published in condensed form in two major U.S. magazines."
* Another CIA book, The Penkorsky Papers, was published in United States in 1965. The book was prepared and written by omitting agency assets who drew on actual case materials and publication rights to the manuscript were sold to the publisher through a trust fund which was established for the purpose.............
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1 hour ago, Jeffrey Reilley said:
Now, this will sound completely ignorant, but why was Edwin Walker called Ted?
7. WHY IS TED FROM EDWARD?
The name Ted is yet another result of the Old English tradition of letter swapping. Since there were a limited number of first names in the Middle Ages, letter swapping allowed people to differentiate between people with the same name. It was common to replace the first letter of a name that began with a vowel, as in Edward, with an easier to pronounce consonant, such as T. Of course, Ted was already a popular nickname for Theodore, which makes it one of the only nicknames derived from two different first names. Can you name the others?
http://mentalfloss.com/article/24761/origins-10-nicknames
example: Edward "Ted" Kennedy
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33 minutes ago, Larry Hancock said:
.... Basically I've felt for some time now time the primary field contact recruited for Dallas was Jack Ruby and he was a perfect fit for everything I listed above. That was really the extent of his role but he got a very new one assigned - which actually made him physically ill for a time - after news spread of Oswald's arrest...alive.
I wondered down a lot of paths before fixing on Ruby, but in the end he fits so well and a micro analysis of his activities supports him as the guy so well that I have focused on him as the key element in the local "means".
Ruby drafted Larry Crafard into his crew when Ruby did a short stint at the fair grounds. I'm sure you were aware of that.
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The capital "O" is connected in the first but not the second.
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I have read about the argument between JFK and LBJ at the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth over who was going to drive in the position that John Connally ultimately drove in.
i approach things with the mind that what ultimately happened is what was meant to happen; and then I look to see if that makes any sense. JFK was killed, and John Connally was wounded such that he could be of no help to JFK. If Connally were able to pull JFK out of the way of the head shot, I believe that he could and would have.
Who was the guy that LBJ wanted to be sitting in the car, ahead of JFK?
Conally took wounds to his hand, leg and chest.
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5 minutes ago, Michael Clark said:
Mr. Parnell, Vicenza was unwilling to state who MB was until only recently, certainly the HSCA was not going to do it, in public papers anyway. In the trades we have a name for what you are seeing. I can't repeat it here. Let's just refer to it as "mush-mouth".
Cheers,
Michael
More to the point, they were not going to reveal his cover story/name.
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16 minutes ago, W. Tracy Parnell said:Fonzi states in his book and his write-up for the HSCA that Veciana met a shadowy figure named Maurice Bishop who directed him in anti-Castro and anti-communist activities. However, an HSCA staff summary of leads (as well as other documents) states Bishop's first name is uncertain and may be "Morris, John or Jim."My question is how did "Morris, John or Jim" become Maurice?
Mr. Parnell, Vicenza was unwilling to state who MB was until only recently, certainly the HSCA was not going to do it, in public papers anyway. In the trades we have a name for what you are seeing. I can't repeat it here. Let's just refer to it as "mush-mouth".
Cheers,
Michael
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4 hours ago, Michael Clark said:
This is how the situation smells to me.
I have recently read about LBJ's knack and M.O. of getting as many hands as possible dirtied-up in underhanded matters. The formation of the WC reflects this as does the host of high level characters visiting Dallas in the days sorrounding the assassination. Perhaps Walker, and maybe his Minutemen, were, at the time, working hard to stay clear of any developing plot. This staged event (the attempt on Walker) could be seen as both dipping him with both a motive to be part of the conspiracy (revenge) and a threat against his aim to stay clear of it. His apparent arrangement of the humiliation of Adlai Stevenson, prior to Kennedy's visit, can be seen as his compliance with the threat. Oswalds purported involvement in the attempt on Walker could have later been twisted into either an attempt to thwart a plot on Kennedy, or, as it happened, evidence of his (LHO's) willingness to take out some big-shot. All that was needed was Chef George De Mohrenschildt to add the mustard or the mayonnaise to the sandwich that was otherwise ready-to-go.
Cheers,
Michael
So my working theory, as quoted above, leaves another option. What if Walker set-up this hit himself? That could mean that he had already been invited or cajoled into the same scheme that I posited, with all the same results and requirements; except that the assault on Adlai Stevenson would have been unnecessary. This does, however, leave open the possibility that whoever fired the shot into Walker's window, also managed to get the Manlicher rifle into the TSBD. Perhaps this was a backup patsy.
I'd have to read-up to be sure, but I think the Walker bullet was unidentifiable. That has a convenience in that a back-up patsy could be set-up after the fact by which rifle was ultimately identified as found in the TSBD and which pristine bullet would be found at the hospital.
Imonaroll likeasandwich
Cheers,
Michael
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34 minutes ago, Michael Walton said:
Mike Clark - how can that be?
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Not even Hollywood or a hack writer could come up with such an outlandish, silly plot.
I can think of a couple of master propagandist/disinformation specialist/ spy novelist folks/teams who could...... DAP and EHH.
Cheers,
Michael
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2 minutes ago, Paul Baker said:
Make assumptions all you like.
A court room doesn't necessarily work in the same way as a laboratory, Michael. Otherwise certain people would be in jail, and others wouldn't.
Paul, you have managed, there, to say nothing at all. At least you didn't expend a great deal of effort, time and words to accomplish that. I know people, who I love dearly, who can go on at length, an manage to say nothing at all.
Cheers, Michael
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Interesting, old thread that lasted 2 days and was never updated.
Latin and Latin inscription area
in Forum Information, Development and Communication
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Greetings Admins, I have an interest in Latin and Latin inscriptions, and, to a lesser extent Ancient Greek and Ancient Greek inscriptions as well. If we had one, I would post to the Latin Inscriptions sub-forum, for-sure.
Cheers,
Michael