I came to the conclusion that the only way someone could not think that the Oswald Diary was a fraud is to just simply not ever try to read it. If Oswald was inclined to keep a diary...why start with his [presumed] travel to the Soviet Union? Also, why end it with his [presumed] return to the USA? Why didn't he chronicle his daily life in the Marine Corps? Who has ever read this rambling journal in its entirety? Much of the writing reads like Pollyanna in the 5th grade. Printing here...scripting there. I was concerned with its purpose and where it came from. Was Hugh Aynesworth involved with that question? Why didn't Oswald proceed with his memoirs pastime after returning to America? Certainly he had the time on his hands while he wasn't working. Have a glance here--------------- 

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg Subject Index Files/E Disk/Epstein Edward Jay New York Magazine/Item 05.pdf

On 9/18/2020 at 7:12 AM, Bill Fite said:

 

Also the difficulty of learning Russian specifically, with its Cyrillic alphabet and difficult pronunciations makes it a lot more difficult than French, Italian, Spanish, etc.

I find it difficult to believe that it could be done.

Should be easy enough to prove tho -- just find a graduate of a military language school in a 2 year period that speaks Russian fluently, can read Russian language papers & magazines and has a great vocabulary covering military, technical, slang & local accents and variations.

Got one? -- I'm willing to be convinced.

 

I am too. Where is a recording of Oswald speaking in Russian? His writing in Russian as well as English is poor at best.

1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:

  Its a joke that Sirhan has not been released yet.

With this new guy as DA, maybe he will get out.  From my understanding he does not allow anyone from the office to appear at the hearings.

Sirhan was stabbed some time ago [an assassination attempt?] If he isn't pardoned...Gascon will just say that it was up to the parole board.

23 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

Just coincidence? Is that a common Russian patronym name?

Sure. If the father's first name is Nicolai...the daughter's middle name would become Nikolayevna.

On 2/21/2021 at 6:47 PM, Micah Mileto said:

 ...evidence that Oswald was an agent working for somebody".

Like a lot of other evidence...all that evidence disappeared.

9 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

 

Yes, eye/ear witness testimony is all over the place in this case. However, the sequence of the last two shots being very close together seems such a consensus above all others by a broad margin, I would reason that this observation is pretty valid.

Many witnesses stated that the last shot [the fatal one] was a pa-pow sound. I believe that JFK was hit twice in the head simultaneously. One shot in back of the head with a forward motion............. and instantly, a shot from behind that fence on the grassy knoll.

On 2/27/2021 at 9:51 AM, John Butler said:

No, unless I am recalling wrongly.  It takes  about 10 seconds for the camera to process a Polaroid shot before it is taken from the camera.  This is why Moorman had only the one shot of the shooting sequence.  If the film came out instantly she may have had time to take a second photo.

 

Was it ever reported exactly which model she had? The Series 40 covered several models around 1958 on. I had a Polaroid [wished I could have hung on to it] The original would eject a picture that one peeled of the backing after allowing as mentioned 10 seconds for a B&W to process. Then one needed to allow some drying time before handling or damage may occur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Polaroid_instant_cameras

On 2/27/2021 at 6:35 AM, Mark Tyler said:

When I first started studying the witness statements and interviews in 2019 I was quite shocked by this.  For many years I had read books and seen TV presentations about this case and I was always told that the head shot was the final shot.  Quite whether this was poor quality research or a deliberate deceit I'm not sure, but I do feel rather foolish for naively accepting what I was told without checking primary sources.

Don't beat yourself up...There are those that claim they are researchers that have studied the case for 40 years [or so] and are absolutely convinced that Oswald did it...all alone for no apparent reason that they can offer...[did it for his love of Castro etc] As far as the shots---No one will ever know [in this life]---How many and when. The search links are really hairy. What did that Dictabelt recording ever offer?

On 2/12/2021 at 9:35 PM, Joe Bauer said:

 Magnificent work? They [the Dallas police] failed to protect the President in the absolute worst case scenario way - his death.

 

 

Dallas police...'Secret Service protects the president'--- Secret Service... we had assurance from the Dallas police and the Sheriff's dept to secure the Dallas streets----Dallas County sheriff...'Wasn't our job to protect the president, that was Dallas police responsibility'

"Let them see what they've done".... was an interesting choice of words.

2 minutes ago, Jamey Flanagan said:

Well, the most commonly accepted reason why he would want Jackie there is to ease the public's mind about the transition and the continuity of government. 

Yes sir but it was also "commonly accepted" that Oswald did the deed..all by himself..for no apparent reason at all.

The statement below [from Chapt 2 Warren Report 'the Assassination] is contradicted by several sources.... 

It was Johnson's super desire to get 'the hell out of Dodge'.

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In the hospital, Johnson was surrounded by Secret Service agents, who encouraged him to return to Washington in case he too was targeted for assassination. Johnson wished to wait until he knew of Kennedy's condition; at 1:20 pm, he was told Kennedy was dead and left the hospital almost 20 minutes later.^. 

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson#cite_note-Warren-2

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/lyndon-johnson-jackie-kennedy-inauguration

I have read the Fred Litwan stuff and saw no reason to dig up and ridicule the Garrison inquiry over and over again accomplishing nothing but unproductive mockery.

Everybody stay warm......

Karl

On 2/15/2021 at 4:08 AM, Benjamin Cole said:

Egads--at his late date is there, yet again, another government-corporate media effort to re-write JFK assassination history? 

I ask this because of Fox News' Feb. 3 telecast by their star commentator, Tucker Carlson. Out of the blue, Carlson revivifies the "Oswald was a true commie" theme and that left-wingers are defending Oswald, but only as a fellow leftie, and trying to blame the righties. The same public argument made in 1964, under CIA direction. 

 

 

 

I saw that program... and the irony is that Tucker advocates all this disdain for the bias and misleading fabrications of the main stream media . I would like to ask him if he is aware that there is absolutely nothing new about fake news. I don't think that I am all that "right-wing" but I am a conservative guy and can see clearly that someone had to take the fall to placate the general public. The main media folks are not and have never have been interested at all in 'defending Oswald'.

I do wish to amend the above that Pete Mellor is correct in saying that register and ledger are commonly  used interchangeably. I was simply referring to the dictionary definition. 

On 2/5/2021 at 11:07 PM, Ron Bulman said:

Trouble is from what I remember of the official story is that Jackie was with his body from Parkland to Bethesda.  Though I question this myself. 

Apologies if this was mentioned already.....

When LBJ was sworn in...Jackie was present by his side in AF1. She did not wish to personally leave her presence beside her husband's casket but submitted to Johnson's wishes to attend. Why LBJ wanted or even insisted that she be there is anyone's guess.

Yes...Room 0 was originally a dinky storage room. Jail cells in Mexico are bigger than Room 0.

Here at the house we keep a record of our deposits and withdrawals in a ledger. When we went to a hotel or sometimes at a wedding or funeral we sign a register... this is a record of attendance.

Gladys Johnson was [not so clearly] describing something that she apparently didn't [if ever] had. Her words [" I couldn't tell you exactly"] indicates this.

I don't think that Exhibit A originally said "Moved Out". Oswald did not move out...or I guess the Dallas Police moved him out one could say. Exhibit A was created all in one sitting...anyone can see that. If anything it is evidence of collusion and conspiracy. Regardless of the granddaughter's claim...I cannot see what hassle the record could have caused her as Mrs Johnson mentioned in her very testimony that she saw a chance to make some money from it. Today...such a souvenir might certainly fetch hundreds if not thousands.

On 1/30/2021 at 2:24 PM, Karl Hilliard said:

 

 

 

 

 

One more thing can be said about this Exhibit A....It appears to me that in addition to being a copy of the original...it seems to me that there was some alteration. It looks like there was a [something] OUT [something] and possibly writing underneath that also received a block-out. And again..Why was it ever filed as Top Secret? What national security could have been conceived?

On 1/31/2021 at 11:15 PM, Karl Hilliard said:

 

Staff Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations
U.S. House of Representatives
Ninety-fifth Congress Second Session
March 1979

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/jfkinfo4/jfk12/hscawtns.htm#tsbd

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From that same link ....

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• When Worrell testified before the Warren Commission on March 10, 1964, he said he was running along Houston Street when he saw the man "come bustling out of the door" of the depository.(120) At that time, Worrell described the man as 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 10 inches in height, weighing 155 to 165 pounds, in his early thirties, with brunette hair.(121) He was wearing a dark sports jacket, which was open, and light pants.(122) Worrell said the man came out of the "back entrance" of the depository building.(123)

   

• Richard Worrell died on November 5, 1966, in Dallas from severe head injuries sustained when his motorcycle went out of control.(124)

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/m_j_russ/worrell.htm

Couldn't find Mr James Richard Worrell Jr's Affidavit to the FBI 11/23/63

It has vanished from the mcadams link.

Staff Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations
U.S. House of Representatives
Ninety-fifth Congress Second Session
March 1979

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/jfkinfo4/jfk12/hscawtns.htm#tsbd

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  • In an interview in Dallas with committee investigators on August 26, 1978, Tom Tilson reported that he saw a man running from the plaza immediately after the shots. Tilson stated that on November 22, 1963, he was off duty from his job as a Dallas Police Department patrolman.(218) At the time of the motorcade, he was driving east from Commerce Street and was approaching the triple underpass.(219) He had already heard the report on his police radio that there had been shooting at the motorcade and had seen the Presidential limousine travel at high speed from the underpass.(220) as he was in the are of the triple underpass, Tilson saw a man "slipping and sliding" down the embankment on the north side of Elm Street west of the underpass.(221) Tilson said the man appeared conspicuous because he was the only one running away from the plaza immediately after the shots.(222) Tilson said that because of his speed, the man rammed against the side of a "dark" car which was parked there.(223) Tilson said he then saw the man do something at the rear door portion of the car, like "throw something inside, then jump behind the wheel and take off very fast."(224)

     

  • Tilson told the investigators that his 17 years of experiences as a policeman, combined with the radio broadcast of the shooting and this conspicuous man, caused him to "give chase" to the man speeding away from the direction of the plaza.(225) He then saw the same "dark car" going south on Industrial Boulevard, and he followed it.(226) As the car approached a toll road toward Ft. Worth, Tilson was within 100 feet and called out the license number, make, and model to his daughter, Dinah, who was riding with him. She wrote it down on a slip of paper.(227)

     

  • Tilson described the man as white, 38 to 40 years old, 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 9 inches in height, with a round face.(228) Tilson said he had dark hair and was wearing dark clothing.(229) Tilson said he know Jack Ruby, and the man looked enough like Jack Ruby to be his "twin."(230) That impression was so strong in Tilson's mind that he noted that Ruby showed a lot of "resourcefulness" in arranging to be identified in a newspaper office at the time of the assassination with a lot of influential witnesses.(231)

     

  • Tilson said he called the homicide office of the police department and reported the information on the car that afternoon.(232) He said he never heard any more from the Dallas police homicide squad about his report.(233) Tilson said he dept the slip of paper with the information his daughter had written.(234) Nevertheless, Tilson believes he threw it out about 3 1/2 years ago when he discarded many items in his home upon the death of his wife.(235) Tilson explained that he never followed up on the report with the homicide squad because of his perception that the homicide office was run as a kind of "elite," which resented any encroachment on its authority.(236)

   

   

On 1/30/2021 at 4:42 PM, Steve Thomas said:

Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson told the Warren Commission and later interviewers that the police told them that Oswald had a piece of paper in his pocket that had the Beckley St. address on it at the time of his arrest at the Texas Theater.

  I've never seen that piece of paper in any of the Police Department evidence sheets. Were the Johnsons lying? Did the police lie to the Johnsons. 

 

 

1) Why would Oswald walk around with his address in his pocket? So he wouldn't forget where he lived?

2) The [secretive] Dallas cops would have never told anyone what they have and what they don't. That is a fact.

2 minutes ago, Karl Hilliard said:

 

 Mrs. JOHNSON. May I have something to erase this November 13, 15--I got that wrong, anyway. I was looking at the calendar and this, I was thinking it was November 13 that he left he left my place on a Wednesday before this assassination on Friday. 

 

Yikes!....I forgot to point this out---Why did Gladys Johnson ask to correct a date that supposedly Mrs Roberts had entered saying that she herself got wrong? Sound a bit convoluted to anyone else there?

On 1/2/2021 at 10:08 PM, James DiEugenio said:

 Oswald did not use his real name when he signed the room register. He used the name O. H. Lee. On his job application at the TSBD he gave the Paine address as where he lived, even though he rented the Beckley place the day before. So, if this is true,  how did the FBI know to go to Beckley that fast?

 

From what I could understand...there was no "ledger". Johnson was asked to show anything that Oswald had "signed". Why did Ball ask for a "signature"?

Mr. BALL. Did he tell you what his name was?
Mrs. JOHNSON. O.H. L-e-e [spelling].
Mr. BALL. Did he sign anything with that name?
Mrs. JOHNSON. Yes, sir; I have it in my purse.
Mr. BALL. May I see it?
Mrs. JOHNSON. I will be glad to--I don't want you to keep it. I want you to--I brought it for your information. I knew you was going to ask that.
Mr. BALL. Now, is this in his handwriting?
Mrs. JOHNSON. This "O. H. Lee" is in his handwriting and this other is in the housekeeper's handwriting--Mrs. Roberts.
Mr. BALL. And these are the rates you gave him?
Mrs. JOHNSON. Yes.
Mr. BALL. I would like this marked as an exhibit to this deposition, mark this Exhibit A.

Below is Exhibit A. This was our ledger... a previously blank slip of paper. Ledgers are notebooks and usually have all tenants listed do they not? And why was it stamped "TOP SECRET"? The dates and amounts look like they were all filled out at one time along with Room 0 and 'OUT' as the final entry. Also...could not the signature O.H. Lee been made as an afterthought? Why didn't Johnson want Ball to keep that slip? What made her say that she knew he was going to ask for it?

Mr. BALL. Could we make a copy of this and return this to you, Mrs. Johnson?
Mrs. JOHNSON. Yes; I have been told that I could sell this and I haven't gotten any money. I think about $30 is what I have received, all the trouble and all I've had and I've had to take the rugs up once or twice. People like to have driven us crazy before we asked for any information what to do. I hated to be rude to people, I didn't know what to do but they got so----
Mr. BALL. We will make a picture of this and give it back to you.
Mrs. JOHNSON. May I have something to erase this November 13, 15--I got that wrong, anyway. I was looking at the calendar and this, I was thinking it was November 13 that he left he left my place on a Wednesday before this assassination on Friday.

Mrs Johnson thought she could sell this paper that is considered [as an afterthought?] TOP SECRET by the authorities. And then mentions that she has already received $30 if I am reading that correctly.

Mr. BALL. We will make a copy of this and give the original back to you and we will mark this "A." Did he sign that "O. H. Lee" in your presence?
Mrs. JOHNSON. Yes sir.
Mr. BALL. On that day?
Mrs. JOHNSON. Yes, sir; the day he rented the room, they sign the register--they sign the register before I accept any money.

Now Johnson mentions a "register". I suppose that is the same as a ledger but technically not. Earlene Roberts was the housekeeper but apparently assisted in taking in the boarders.  

Mrs. ROBERTS. No, and he didn't register as Oswald---he registered as O. H. Lee.
Mr. BALL. Did he sign his name?
Mrs. ROBERTS. O. H. Lee.
Mr. BALL. Did he sign his own name that way ?
Mrs. ROBERTS. O. H. Lee---that's what he was registered as.
Mr. BALL. Did you rent it to him, or did Mrs. Johnson?
Mrs. ROBERTS. I rented the room to him.
Mr. BALL. You did?

Note Counsel Ball's apparent surprise there. I believe the sheet of paper below was faked. The actual register or whatever simply disappeared....or else why didn't the Commission acquire it?

On 1/24/2021 at 2:16 PM, Chuck Schwartz said:

  LHO was killed trying to leave the City of Dallas Jail. He was supposed to go to the County Jail.  Earle Cabell had jurisdiction of the City of Dallas jail, but not  County jail- that is why LHO had to be killed before he left the City of Dallas jail.

 

The deal was...Oswald was supposed to get gunned down at the Texas Theater. I would suppose that the cops blew their assignment. What "cop killer" wouldn't have been blown away? As far as "jurisdiction" goes... Recall  that Henry Wade [Hoover's shine boy] was head honcho over the entire Dallas County arena. If Ruby had slipped up...Oswald would have probably "hung himself" in the county jail or some other demise.

What I thought about the interview---"I wouldn't want to say".