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This thread might well have been transferred to the Questions, Comments and Criticisms on EF moderation several days ago. Andrew makes a good point. Maybe there is some value to it after all.
For the moment let's all rejoice, it's Christmas in July, at least on Hallmark.
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On 7/18/2024 at 1:09 PM, Andrew Iler said:
The JFKA community and this forum have unique insight to how badly things can be done from a historical perspective.
Thank you, Andrew.
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15 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:
Ben's cut-and-paste is certainly off topic, and has nothing to do with the JFKA article that is the subject of this thread.
It's unclear why he posted it here.
Which is why it should not be a part of the thread. Since you seem to agree, the admin's can return the post to the thread if they see fit.
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1 hour ago, Cliff Varnell said:
The paralytic developed for CIA project MKNAOMI instantly paralyzed guard dogs to keep them from barking.
https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/vol1/pdf/ChurchV1_6_Senseney.pdf
page 162
Never read this full testimony by Senseney before, never heard of him. Obviously working indirectly for Gottlieb. I'd read of the dog silencer, I thought much earlier in history. A really interesting full read.
Senator SCHWEIKER. The only thing that I know that was really used was the dog projectile. The other things were in the stockpiles. I don’t think anyone ever requested them. Senator SCHWEIKER. How do you know for certain it was for dogs? Mr. SENSENEY. Well, that is what they asked us to test them against. They wanted to see whether they could put a dog to sleep, and whether sometime later the dog would come back and be on its own and look normal. Senator SCHWEIKER. Of course, as I recall, that is what they did with Gary Powers’ drill with shellfish toxin. They tested it on a do to see if it would work. So I do not know that that at all woul Fi conclude that it was only provided for dogs. Of the devices that came through you, which of these were utilized in any capacity other than for testing! Mr. SENSENEY. That was the only one that I know of-the dog projectile. I call it a dog projectile. We were developing it because the scenario read that they wanted to be able to make entrance into an area which was patrolled by dogs, leave, the dog come back, and then no one would ever know they were in the area. So that was the reason for the dog projectile. Senator SCHWEIKER. And how many of these were made? Mr. SENSENEY. Well I would say there were probably as many as 50 at least. They tookSenator SCHWEIKER. About 502 Mr. SENSENEY. Yes. Senator SCHWEIKER. And didn’t you get any reports back from the field on their effectiveness ? Mr. SENSENEY. No. That is one thing you never get; you never get the feedsback. You did not know what happened. Senator SCHWEIEER. I’m puzzled by that. You are the research and development person ; you design the weapon-and I haven% seen a part of the military yet that did not have some feedback on whether it was effective in hitting the target or missing it. How do you know if you are doing things right ‘or wrong! Mr. SENSENEY. We must have been doing right. They kept asking for it. Senator SCHWEIKER. Then somebody was using them, I gather. Is that correct Z Mr. SENSENEY. I would assume so. The missile was gone when they returned the hardware, sir. Senator SCIIWEIKER. But you cannot give us any specific e
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The title/subject of this thread is FBI Director: Trump Assassin Searched for Information on Oswald. Oswald nor much about the JFK assassination has been mentioned since the 4th post on the 1st page. Nothing in the last 8 1/2 pages, zip, nada. After discussion between mod's and an admin it is being moved.
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38 minutes ago, Kevin Balch said:
Amazon book reviews that say “don’t waste your time” rarely offer specific or thoughtful reasons why the book is a waste of time. Such as Gary Shaw’s review.
Here is some of why I respect Mr. Shaw's work/opinion.
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1 hour ago, Kevin Balch said:
Lee Bowers was transported to Methodist Hospital in Dallas (where J D Tippit was brought) where he died about 3 1/2 hours after the accident. So the Justice of the Peace was from Dallas.
Has anyone read this book which goes into great detail about Bowers death?
I think there may be a topic on this book or it was discussed in a thread on Bowers here on the forum some years ago. I remember checking it out on amazon shortly after it came out. I wondered about her sudden interest in one aspect of the JFK assassination in relation to her years at the DPD, then going on to write fiction. Gary Shaw's (whose work I respect) review convinced me not to buy it.
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2013
Don't waste your time and money on this book. It is a feeble effort to debunk the "strange death" scenario that surrounds the tragic automobile death of an extremely important eyewitness who saw sinister and suspicious men behind the stockade fence in Dealey Plaza at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. The "who" and "what" Lee Bowers saw that fateful day was one of the most damaging pieces of evidence against the government's "lone assassin" theory. And a "Johnny-Come-Lately" attempt at investigating this 45-plus year-old accident is "no accident." -
6 hours ago, Cliff Varnell said:
Bob Dylan
Iggy Pop
George Clinton
Jimmy Page
Diana Ross
Joan Baez
Joni Mitchell
Elvin Bishop
Quincy Jones
Ozzy
Van Morrison
Eric Burdon & Alan Price
Al Kooper
Dave Edmunds
John Fogerty
Roger Waters
Cyril Jordan
Billy Gibbons
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1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said:
Ben,
Why did you just cut-and-paste the wrong entry from Philip Stahl's Brane Space blog on the JFKA board?
Should that be interpreted as a form of trolling?
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Where I read this at the moment I don't remember. Therefore, I guess it's unreliable. But I did read it somewhere some years ago, not making it up, nor did I dream it.
Bowers reportedly told his preacher at the church he attended he did not tell the police, FBI, or Warren Commission everything he saw.
In 1963 in the South, a preacher was the ultimate trusted confidante for those attending church (many more than now).
The preacher never commented that I know of.
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1 hour ago, Cliff Varnell said:
Thank you, Pete. In 1966 Gaeton Fonzi humiliated Arlen Specter with the physical facts of the clothing evidence.
Same deal here.
Cyril Wecht is critical of his fellow Pennsylvanian Specter in this respect in his recent book The JFK Assassination Dissected. The Single Bullet, the clothes he inspected in the National Archives.
As a Democrat he used his Warren Omission title to switch parties and become known a Benedit Spechter to become DA of Philadelphia, later running for Senator, then Governor and lost. Winning Senator on another try.
Reading the warren Commission Report in full Wecht said "It was maddening reading" his questioning of witnesses." " He knew exactly what he was doing to negate the process of finding the truth."
Quoting something from law school. "When you have the law on your side pound the Law, when you have the Facts on your side pound the facts. When you have neither pound the table. He was an excellent table pounder."
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8 hours ago, Kevin Balch said:
What do you think of Charnin’s analysis of the 2016 presidential election?
I'm not sure what this has to do with the JFK assassination. But I do have Charnin's book Reclaiming Science: the JFK Conspiracy. It's been a while, but I remember finding it interesting and informative, for me not being much of a math/science guy.
I think this quote from the first review on amazon of the book you mention tells me I don't need to waste my time reading it.
He has come up with his own model of projection which he calls True Vote and which for the 10 years he's been doing it has tracked closely to exit poll results, so he argues for consistent tabulation [and other] fraud in favor of republicans. In this book, however, though again in the 2016 election exit polls were again much higher Dem than official counts, such that if accurate Clinton won handily, Mr. Charnin suddenly renounces the likely accuracy of exit polls he's been touting for years, apparently because he's become a Trump supporter in distaste at H CLinton's unfair treatment of bernie sanders, and suddenly switches to a claim the vote count was several % skewed toward the democrats! In doing so he makes a number of false claims, including that millions of illegal aliens were allowed to vote for Dems
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15 hours ago, Kevin Balch said:
I’ve finished Reading Hit List, looked over Chernen’s analysis and checked other references. I find several problems with the JFK Assassination “Clean Up Squad” theory.
First, it’s indisputable that the Deaths of Oswald and Tippit are both suspicious to say the least.
Second, I focused on the year between the assassination and the issuance of the Warren Report. This is the period when the conspirators would be in greatest danger of having the plot unravelled by troublesome witnesses, when the most dangerous witnesses would need to be silenced and when the original plotters most motivated to squelch the investigation were likely still alive.
According to Social Security data (Table 1 from the reference below), the age-adjusted central death rate for adults in 1964 was 1,209.7 deaths per 100,000 or 1.21% or 0.0121. This figure is for all deaths including natural causes, accidents, homicides and suicides. While the latter 3 groups can show volatility from year to year, in aggregate, they are typically about 5-10% the total death rate.
https://www-origin.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_studies/study116.pdf
Accordingly, from the population of 1400 JFK assassination witnesses, the expected total number of deaths in 1964 is
1400 witnesses * 0.0121 death rate = 17 total deaths.
Approximately 5-10% of these deaths should be from other than natural causes resulting in about 15 deaths from natural causes and 1 or 2 from accidents, homicide or suicide.
From the Appendix of Hit List, there are a total of 21 (omitting Eddy Benevides who died in 1965) deaths listed in 1963-64, only one of which (Bill Chesher) is explicitly cited as from natural causes.
My question is, where are the 15 deaths from natural causes which should be present? I am assuming that all deaths from the period are listed since Bill Chesher is included. If they were not listed, it precludes a verification that the population of witnesses is representative of the general population with the exception of presumed knowledge of the JFK assassination. Both the expected deaths from natural causes and the 21 suspicious deaths are sufficiently small fractions of the 1400 witnesses that there is negligible probability of overlap. Did the clean up squad manage to find all those on death’s door and speed up the process and throw in another 6 to get 21? Or were there actually 36 deaths of witnesses during the period?
Consulting Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination, I see that it does not give date of death of each of the witnesses so it is doubtful that that they were ever identified.
The 0.0121 annual death rate can be converted to an annual survival probability (1-0.0121 = 0.9879) which can estimate (while the general death rate was declining during this period, the surviving witnesses were also growing significantly older) the number of expected deaths over the 15 years between the assassination and the HSCA investigation as follows:
1400 * (1 - 0.9879^15) = 234 which is suspiciously close to the 240 or so suspicious deaths claimed for the period in Chernen’s anslysis.
I found it curious that the one witness who might have actually known something important about the JFK assassination that died during 1964-64 was Guy Banister who died of a heart attack (which is actually a natural cause) but is considered suspicious. Maybe the hit squad used their heart attack-inducing agent to kill him. But then why not use it in the other cases as well?
Most of the other witnesses have some extremely tenuous connections. A good example is Hank Killam who was acquainted with John Carter who resided at Oswald’s rooming house and who’s wife worked for Ruby and were apparently not significant enough themselves to be eliminated.
The final note I’ll make is that several of the dead witnesses were in occupations that had to have death rates significantly higher than the population in general including organized crime figures, strippers, paramilitary mercenaries and drug runners, cops.
I can offer several more criticisms but that’s enough for now. Needless to say, I found no probative value in Hit List.
In addition to other things, I found Hit List valuable for the part on the what was it (from memory) 7 or so top FBI officials from 1963 dying in 1977-78 when they were coming up for HSCA testimony. Like Roselli, Giancana and de Mohernschildt. among others.
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No one knows for sure, no autopsy, quicky cremated.
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As far as FDR wanting to enter the war to stop fascism, I'm down with that.
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17 minutes ago, Kevin Balch said:
So you don’t believe in democracy?
That is a rather slanderous statement to a moderator whose father served as a tank commander in WWII.
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48 minutes ago, Kevin Balch said:
I wish this much attention was paid to the Single Bullet Theory.
Cyril Wecht did many times over the years. It's addressed in his last book. As well as versions on youtube and in Destiny Betrayed.
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2 hours ago, David Von Pein said:
Donald Trump was quite obviously struck by something during the July 13th assassination attempt (probably a bullet or bullet fragment), but after looking at this remarkable picture below, which seems to actually show the bullet speeding past Trump's head, I'm wondering how this speeding bullet could have struck the UPPER part of Trump's right ear? The trajectory looks too low. It looks like the bullet would hit the LOWER part of the right ear, not the upper portion. ~shrug~
So, David, do you think it's a conspiracy somehow related to the JFK assassination?
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Notably not reported by media on the scene. Nothing in the msm about it.
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Regarding the chapter on the Autopsy report near the end of it he goes into JFK's health throughout his life and during his presidency. Many other interesting points but I found this of particular interest.
Steroids were apart of FK' regular drug regimen throughout his presidency. H tool 25 micrograms (mcg) of liothyronine, a synthetic thyroid hormone, twice daily. Add to that adaily dose of 10 miligram (mg) of hydrocortisone and 0.1 mg of fludrocortisones, and 2.5 mg of prednisone twice daily. To combat weight loss and the gonadal atrophy associated with steroid usage, he took 10 mg of methyltestosterone daily. And to treat diarrhea he took diphenoxylate hydrochloride and atropine sulfate, as needed. He also took 500mg of vitamin c twice daily. And, according to a 2013 book called Dr. Feelgood, by authors Richard A. Lertzman and William J. Birnes (Skyhorse Publishing), Kennedy was a secret user of methamphetamines. The book describes a celebrity doctor, Max Jacobsen eho had invented an injectable formula for giving people energy and curing pain. So familiar was Jacobsen around the Whitehouse, where he also supposedly treated Jackie, the Secret Service dubbed him "Dr. Feelgood."
The doctors formula consisted of vitamins, enzymes, animal placentas, and hormones, with a dollop of methamphetamine. He administered Kennedy's initial treatment right before the historic debate with Richard Nixon. Hours before the televised event, JFK's voice was a mere whisper, and he was suffering from extreme lethargy. Jacobsen plunged a needle directly into his throat and pimped methamphetamine into his larynx," the authors wrote. Kennedy was revitalized in minutes and handily won the showdown. The authors stated that Kennedy flew Jacobson on Air Force One to a Vienna summit not long after the Bay of Pigs crisis to speak with Nikita Khruschev. Kennedy whose back was causing him woe, got a megadose of the doctor's formula, but it wore off before his meeting. Kennedy asked for another dose, but Jacobson advised against it because there would be a serious crash when the drugs wore off. Kennedy prevailed by convincing Jacobson another shot would be good for America.
Pg. 132.
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Well maybe like Slim Pickins might say, I been whipped by the wind. Riding the bomb down.
Give Peace A Chance
in JFK Assassination Debate
Posted · Edited by Ron Bulman
From JFK trying to Give Peace A Chance, to Imagine being peaceful to yesterday being described as communistic at the Olympics. I know it was a response to a McCartney song but this one makes me think more of Dulles or LBJ for starters. Featuring George Harrison on slide guitar.