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https://www.union.edu/news/stories/202404/jfk-assassination-focus-special-ucall-presentation
Not much new herein, but Bob Saltzman has been at this a long time, and deserves a nod.
(Unimportant side note: More than 150 years ago, Union was one of the big four – right up there with Harvard, Yale and Princeton – before losing ground amid a scandal over college finances.)
JFK assassination focus of special UCALL presentation
Publication DateApril 16, 2024For more than 50 years, Robert (Bob) Saltzman ’69 has been on a quest to uncover the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963, while riding in a car with his wife, First Lady Jackie Onassis and Texas Gov. John Connally.
Robert (Bob) Saltzman ’69 has been on a quest for decades to uncover the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald was immediately charged with the killing. Two days later, local nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald. The events sparked a wave of conspiracy theories about who may have been behind the Kennedy assassination.
A week after Kennedy’s killing, his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, convened a panel led by Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Supreme Court, to investigate the case. The Warren Commission’s main conclusion was that Oswald acted alone.
That finding has been challenged over the decades by many, including Saltzman, who took a keen interest in the case shortly after graduating from Union with a B.S. in electrical engineering. Saltzman became a member of the Committee to Investigate Assassinations (CTIA), an unofficial, private organization founded in 1968. He opened a branch office in Niskayuna, N.Y.
Through exhaustive research, Saltzman has amassed a trove of material related to the assassination that he says conclusively proves that there was a conspiracy, and that Oswald likely was not the assassin.
Saltzman has given scores of lectures and presentations around the country on his findings, including at Union.
On Saturday, April 20, from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. in the College Park Hall ballroom, Saltzman returns to his alma mater to present “The Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Fact or Fiction? (JFK Assassination 101 and my 54-year journey Seeking the Truth).” The presentation, free and open to the public, is a special event hosted by UCALL – the Union College Academy of Lifelong Learning. Registration is suggested.
The following conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.
When did you first become interested in the JFK assassination?
In late 1964 when the Warren Commission report was released, which I read. I then read an early book about the topic. I wrote a paper in high school about it but did not pursue it in earnest until 1970, after I had graduated from Union.
How did you become involved in the Committee to Investigate Assassinations?
In May 1970, I read an article about the assassination and the use of computers with the photographic evidence. I wrote to the executive editor of the CTIA offering my help. I subsequently developed a comprehensive computer data base and information retrieval system for JFK assassination related evidence and research. The following year, I was asked to fill in for the author of the article I had read. He was supposed to give a presentation for the organization.
Is the committee still active?
It is now the Assassination Archives and Research Center. The founder, and my mentor, Bernard Fensterwald Jr. unfortunately died unexpectedly in 1991.
How much material have you collected related to the assassination?
Quite a bit over 54 years. A huge library of books, images, slides, film, videos, artifacts, documents – much of which I am trying to donate to libraries and other researchers and organizations to carry on the work as I get older.
The central conclusion of the Warren Commission’s 888-page report was that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, firing three bullets from a sixth-floor window, the third of which killed Kennedy. Why do you think the Warren Commission’s findings were flawed?
There is virtually nothing about the Warren Commission’s conclusions that is accurate. They are inconsistent with the evidence in their own 26 volumes of hearings and exhibits, and they blatantly ignored a huge amount of evidence, in addition to vast amounts that were intentionally withheld by government officials at the highest levels. Several of the Commission members did not even want to sign it. The documented proof has been uncovered over the years. Fundamentally, their conclusions are flawed by the simple fact that they defy observations, science and human capabilities.
In most recent polls, 70 percent or more of U.S. adults believe that there was a conspiracy, and also want all of the JFK related records to be released.
In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which mandated that materials related to John F. Kennedy’s killing be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration and that all records be publicly disclosed by 2017. Yet some records remain sealed. Do you think those records could shed more light on what happened?
They likely do. It is not unreasonable to ask the question, “Why are they still hidden after 60 years?” What is there to hide, if this was just the act of a single “lone nut” with no discernable ability or motive? Why have congressional mandates for their release been stonewalled by government agencies and ignored by presidents? Last fall we actually brought a lawsuit against President Biden requesting that he follow the law and have all of the documents released as mandated by the ARCA. It is still an active case in court. In fairness, Obama and Trump did not release them either, despite their commitment to do so. RFK, Jr., has been making a campaign issue of this. Many of the documents that have been released are so highly redacted that they are of little value.
Why do you think, more than 60 years after the assassination, people like you remain obsessed with the case?
I do not feel that I have been obsessed with this event, but maybe rather meticulous, thorough and persistent over a long period of time. I stay with it because of my concerns about the implications of what happened in 1963 affecting us all to this day, well beyond the disenfranchisement that resulted from the murder of an elected president. In general, I do not subscribe to conspiracy theories, but this event is well beyond being a theory. All indications are that the same forces of “hidden government” are still in play today – maybe even more powerful (with potential outcomes that could be very unsettling).
Finally, who killed JFK?
If I knew that answer I would probably not be speaking about it only at Union College. However, over the years, and with document releases and research, the evidence becomes clearer about the who and why. The CIA, FBI or organized crime did not kill JFK. However, there are clearly elements of people in these organizations who appear to have been involved, and had aggregated their resources and expertise to make it happen. It may have been motived by ardent anti-communist and extreme hawkish military types, with counterparts in the CIA, and anti-Castro Cuban community, with assistance from organized crime. Evidence shows that even Oswald was working for both the CIA and FBI. The evidence also shows that he was not knowingly involved in the assassination, but was set up to become exactly what he stated he was after he was arrested and before he was conveniently silenced – a patsy.
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13 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:
Let us examine what exactly Seth Kantor said in his Warren Commission testimony taken on June 2nd, 1964, that the Commission used to determine that Kantor was most likely confused about meeting Jack Ruby at Parkland at approximate 1:30 PM on 11,22,1963 and that in their final finding they stated this meeting did not happen.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, can you tell us what happened when you saw Ruby--when you encountered Ruby at Parkland Hospital, what the encounter consisted of?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes; I apparently walked right past him, because the first I was aware of Jack Ruby was that as I was walking, I was stopped momentarily by a tug on the back of my jacket.
And I turned and saw Jack Ruby standing there. He had his hand extended. I very well remember my first thought. I thought, well, there is Jack Ruby. I had been away from Dallas 18 months and 1 day at that time, but it seemed just perfectly normal to see Jack Ruby standing there, because he was a known goer to events. And I had my mind full of many things.
My next reaction was to just turn and continue on my way. But he did have his hand out. And I took his hand and shook hands with him. He called me by name. And I said hello to him, I said, "Hello, Jack," I guess. And he said, "Isn't this a terrible thing?" I said, "Yes"; but I also knew it was no time for small talk, and I was most anxious to continue on up the stairway, because I was standing right at the base of the stairway.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Were you inside the building or outside?
Mr. KANTOR. I was inside the building, just immediately inside the building.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Were the doors guarded?
Mr. KANTOR. If there was a guard on the door, I don't recall seeing one.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, you do recall, however, that there was a guard at the entrance to the emergency area?
Mr. KANTOR. There was at least one guard, yes--when I first got there.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I see. Go ahead.
Mr. KANTOR. A Dallas policeman. I am not sure how many Secret Service men or other guards there were. But I do remember this one man, because he let me in.
At any rate, Jack Ruby said, "Isn't this a terrible thing," or words to that effect. I agreed with him that it was.
And he said--and he had quite a look of consternation on his face. He looked emotional---which also seemed fitting enough for Jack Ruby.
But he asked me, curiously enough, he said, "Should I close my places for the next 3 nights, do you think?"
And I said, "Yes, I think that is a good idea."
And I excused myself. And he said he understood, and I went on. And that was the sum total of it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let me ask you this: At the time you were out at Parkland80
Hospital, did you see any other press representatives whom you had remembered from your days in Dallas, who worked in Dallas?
Mr. KANTOR. I didn't see any outside. However, by the time Kilduff made his announcement at 1:30, there were newsmen coming in from all over whom I recognized. And because of this weird situation, unreal situation, I didn't speak to any then.
During the next hour or so that I was in the hospital I saw a number of news people from both Dallas and Fort Worth who I at least said hello to, who I know.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you remember if there were any people from the Dallas Morning News that you saw at Parkland Hospital, either reporters or photographers?
Mr. KANTOR. I can tell you who I remember seeing, and I don't think I recall seeing a Dallas Morning News person at all until I got to the police station later that afternoon.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You are going to tell me who you remember seeing from the Dallas papers at Parkland Hospital, or just who you generally remember seeing during those 3 days.
Mr. KANTOR. I can tell you who I can remember seeing in the makeshift press headquarters from Dallas and Fort Worth.
Mr. GRIFFIN. At Parkland?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. But I take it you don't remember anybody from the Morning News?
Mr. KANTOR. I don't recall anyone from the Dallas Morning News, no, as a matter of fact.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. How far is the Morning News Building in Dallas from the Times Herald Building?
Mr. KANTOR. The better part of a mile.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When you saw Ruby, did you notice anybody with him? Did he seem to be with anybody?
Mr. KANTOR. He didn't seem to be with anybody. The only other people I noticed in this area--as I say, it seemed like a small entranceway, and it was just a very few steps to the stairway--were these people who appeared to be hospital attendants.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, do you recall if at the time you were at Parkland Hospital there were television cameras setup outside the main entranceway?
Mr. KANTOR. No. I was told later on that various people around the country who I know saw me on television as I came out to talk to the Congressmen before they went out to Love Field, and I was not aware of any cameras.
Mr. GRIFFIN. But it is your best impression that you were shown on TV?
Mr. KANTOR. Well, I have been told that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Have you any idea what TV networks you appeared on?
Mr. KANTOR. No, sir; none.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now--
Mr. KANTOR. This happened frequently, incidentally, over the weekend, also, in the police station as well. I don't know--I guess all the networks were involved at one point or another, but I don't know when or where.
Mr. GRIFFIN. In ,the first report that you made of this encounter with Ruby, you reported that you saw him before you went to the press conference.
Mr. KANTOR. That is right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And now as I understand your testimony, you are not sure whether it was before or after.
Mr. KANTOR. Yes; and the thing that gave me pause was that Jack Ruby had specifically said to me, or asked me my opinion about closing his places for three nights, and it occurred to me later on that no announcement of the President's death had been made. as I was following Kilduff up the stairway, at 1:30, whereas at approximately 2 o'clock it had been made.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Would you try to focus on your state of mind at the time that you first wrote your newspaper article about this, and reported that it was before the press conference. What was it at that time that made you think that you saw Ruby before the press conference?81
Mr. KANTOR. To be honest, with all the events crowded into that weekend, I don't think that I recalled the significance of my second brief trip out of the hospital to the main entranceway in front of the hospital, and then back in again. It was a very fast trip. And I think it was just a failure on my part to remember the second incident.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. As you were going back into the hospital the second time, where were you going?
Mr. KANTOR. I was returning to the makeshift press headquarters in the classroom, on the second floor.
Mr. GRIFFIN. As you were entering that building, did you have any expectation that there was something important going on at that pressroom that you ought to get to right away?
Mr. KANTOR. Well, I didn't know. I knew that I was not going with this pool group, and that my people in Washington were interested in knowing the logistics of the U.S. Government at that moment, where Lyndon Johnson was going and what was going to happen, and were we remaining in Dallas, and John Connally's condition, and everything at once. And this seemed to be the logical place to get whatever information there was, because information was very scanty.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What I want to get at is whether your concern or apprehension about getting into the building was any greater as you went in before the press conference than it was when you returned after the press conference.
Mr. KANTOR. No; I would I say this was a consistent feeling.
Mr. GRIFFIN. So that your reluctance to stop and talk with Ruby when you saw him wouldn't have been any greater at one time than at another?
Mr. KANTOR. Oh, no. I saw really a number of close friends on the second floor of the hospital, newspapermen who I had known intimately, been to their house, and they had been to my house quite often. And we still didn't indulge in anything resembling small talk.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, do you have any question in your mind that you did see Ruby out at Parkland Hospital?
Mr. KANTOR. >>> If it was a matter of just seeing him, I would have long ago been full of doubt. But I did talk to the man, and he did stop me, and I just can't have any doubt about that. <<<
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now---
Mr. KANTOR. As a matter of fact, I didn't give it much thought, or any thought, perhaps, again, concrete thought at least, until the following night, Saturday night, when things quieted down enough so that I could take a walk in downtown Dallas, somewhere around 10 o'clock in the evening. And I passed by Ruby's place, the Carousel, and saw a sign on the door stating that it was closed. And I recalled this weird conversation I had had with him at the hospital.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now--
Mr. KANTOR. Excuse me because a man named Barney Weinstein, who operates a strip joint a couple of doors away, had his place open.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When did you first think about this again after Saturday?
Mr. KANTOR. Well, I understood later on that Jack Ruby had been in the assembly room in the basement of the Dallas Police Station after midnight on Friday going into Saturday. I didn't see him at that time. I was in that room. It was a very crowded room. But I thought about our conversation on Saturday when I passed by his place. And earlier Saturday evening I thought of Jack Ruby because meat sandwiches, beef sandwiches, I believe they were, had shown up in the pressroom of the Dallas Police Station, and I heard someone remark
that Jack Ruby had brought them in. I didn't see him then, either.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You heard this while you were at the police station?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes; Well, I was going in the room to get a sandwich, and they were gone, they were gone very rapidly. I heard someone either specifically say it to me or I heard someone specifically saying, to someone else that Jack Ruby was the person that brought these in.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was that Friday afternoon or late Friday evening, or in the middle of Friday?82
Mr. KANTOR. I am not sure now. It seems to me that it was Saturday. It seems to me that it was Saturday, late afternoon.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, when, after you walked down Commerce Street on Saturday night did you next think about your encounter with Ruby at Parkland Hospital?
Mr. KANTOR. Well, having walked past his place, and having seen that it was closed, I don't know whether I gave it any more thought.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I mean after that, when was the next time you thought about it?
Mr. KANTOR. The next time was just moments after 11:21 a.m., Sunday morning, when I discovered that Jack Ruby had shot Oswald.Thanks for posting JB.
I have seen the video of Kantor also.
Sure seems like Kantor met Ruby at Parkland.
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1 hour ago, Robert Morrow said:
Yes sir! Lee Harvey Oswald was a reader. People who are readers often have active minds and are trying to improve themselves. The other thing to look for is diversity in reading habits.
Teenage Oswald to William Wulff, the head of the New Orleans Astronomy Club: “I like to infiltrate.”
http://www.joanmellen.com/oswald.html
Joan Mellen
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Among the most telling details about Oswald emerged in the testimony of William Wulff, who had been head of the Astronomy Club of New Orleans. One day Oswald showed up, wanting to be a member, although it was clear he had no interest in astronomy. Wulff asked him why he wanted to join the Astronomy Club.
“I like to infiltrate,” Oswald the teenager said, even then a person who preferred the company of others to being alone. At the same time, he cultivated invisibility, as if he were transparent. Infiltrating, he could follow the path laid out by that favorite of his fictional characters, FBI informant Herbert Philbrick, hero of “I Led Three Lives.” A caveat: it was Oswald’s brother Robert alone who gave out that Lee watched obsessively “I Led Three Lives,” while, as John Armstrong points in his book, “Harvey & Lee,” Robert is less than credible.
In his book “Lee,” Robert Oswald wrote that when he left home to join the Marines, Lee was still watching the reruns of “I Led Three Lives.” In fact, Robert joined the Marines on July 15, 1952, and the re-runs were not aired until after the series ended, in mid-1956. Oswald may have watched “I Led Three Lives,” but it wasn’t as his brother said. The program was first aired in September 1953.UNQUOTE
Evidently, LHO liked to play chess through his military career. No word on his skill at chess, that I know of.
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22 minutes ago, Kirk Gallaway said:
Ben, The 56 year thread is permanently closed. I never suggested the 56 year thread would be moved on to this main page.
What I suggested is if you pick the Water Cooler thread option on this JFK side, there would be a picture of the latest poster as in every other thread. And by clicking it, it would take you directly to the water cooler page, where you could still post your alternative view option.. It would save time and clicks.
Excellent suggestion Kirk Galloway.
I salute the Kirk Galloway flag.
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The 56 years tread had become a cesspool of pig excrement, with various members in trading sphincter-expulsions with Mathew Koch.
Better off the main page.
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3 hours ago, Robert Morrow said:
Lee Harvey Oswald was a big fan of James Bond, too
Original web link (no longer active): http://www.lee-harvey-oswald.com/images/Lee_Harvey_Oswald_and_His_Reading_Habits_in_New_Orleans.pdf
Reading List of Lee Harvey Oswald in summer, 1963
Date Out/Title of Book/Full Title Author(s) Pub. 22 # Pages Date Returned
22 In the 1960’s, public libraries usually purchased hardcover editions.
05/22 Biography (by a noted biographer)
Portrait of a Revolutionary: Mao Tse-Tung 1961 311 06/03
Robert Payne
06/01 Murder Investigation (respected Chicago-New Orleans journalist)
The Huey Long Murder Case Hermann B. Deutsch 1963 180 06/15
06/01 Documentary History (conservative writers)
The Berlin Wall Dean & David Heller 1962 ~223 06/15
06/12 Documentary History (author of popular books on US military history)
Conflict Robert Leckie 1962 448 06/26
Full title: Conflict: the History of the Korean War, 1950-53
06/17 Geography and economics textbook (US geographer and professor)
Soviet Potentials George B. Cressey 1962 262 07/01
Full Title: Soviet Potentials: A Geographic Appraisal
06/17 Expository textbook on Communism by husband-wife writing team in psychology & sociology: J. Edgar Hoover wrote recommendation. (The book was checked out for me: Oswald, a recent USSR resident, knew all this material. See Me & Lee for details)
What We Must Know Harry Overstreet 1958 348 07/01
About Communism (actual authors: Harry & Bonaro Overstreet)
Full Title: What We Must Know About Communism: Its Beginnings, Its Growth, Its
Present Status
06/17 Cerebral essays by Schweitzer, Huxley, Oppenheimer, Marcel, Sartre, etc.
This is My Philosophy Edited by Whit. Burnett 1958 378 07/01
(actual editors: Whitney, James & William Burnett)
Full Title: This Is My Philosophy: Twenty of the World's Outstanding Thinkers
Reveal the Deepest Meanings They Have Found in Life.
Date Out/Title of Book/Full Title Author(s) Pub. # Pages Date Returned
06/23 Science fiction: Hugo Winner by the author of 2001
A Fall of Moondust A. C. Clark 1961 224 07/12
(actual name: Arthur C. Clark)
(Why was this book estimated by the FBI to have been checked out by Oswald on
06/23, when it was returned four days later than Thunderball?)
06/24 James Bond spy novel, 9th in the series
Thunderball Ian Fleming (US) 1962 ~272 07/08
07/01 Biography by a noted author, also a Kennedy admirer and personal friend of JFK
Portrait of a President: John F. Kennedy 1962 ~266 07/15
John F. Kennedy (struck through: by Secret Service?)
William Manchester
07/06 3rd in popular Napoleonic era quasi-historic adventure series by the noted author
Hornblower and the Hotspur C. S. Forester 1962 400 07/20
07/06 Soviet Prison Camp Life by (Nobel Prize) anti-communist Russian author
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch 1963 160 07/20
(Russian Title: Один день Ивана Денисовича) or 192
Alexander Solzihnitsyn
(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
07/10 Documentary History by the famed Russian-born anti-Nazi British journalist
Russia Under Khrushchev Alexander Werth 1962 ~342 07/24
07/10 1st volume (9 stories) of Science Fiction‘s best, ed. by a noted scientist-author
The Hugo Winners Ed. Isaac Asimov 1962 318 07/24
07/15 History: exploration of the Nile by the renowned author & war correspondent
The Blue Nile Alan Moorehead 1962 ~368 07/29
Date Out/Title of Book/Full Title Author(s) Pub. # Pages Date Returned
07/15 Then-Senator John F. Kennedy‘s account of 8 US Senators whose courageous political battles created a better America
Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy 1954 272 07/29
07/18 Five full-length spy novels: The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim / Greenmantle by John Buchan / Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler / No Surrender by Martha Albrand / No Entry by Manning Coles
Five Spy Novels selected by Howard Haycraft 1962 757 08/01
07/30 Historical Fiction Description on the dust cover: “At the head of the onrushing Hittite legions was Lord Marduk. He was young, he had great wealth, high rank and his wife, Arinna was the most beautiful woman in the empire, but her warped passions drove him to seek another woman's arms.”23
23 By this time, Oswald and I had become lovers: both of us were unhappy with how our mates treated us. I am therefore intrigued by the description on this dust cover.
The Hittite Noel B. Gerson 1963 224 08/13
07/30 Science Fiction : 9 novelettes of life in the future
Mind Partner ed. H. L. Gold 1962 241 08/13
07/31 1976 Ed. listed in Bibliographies, AIS (Archeological Institute of America) p. 19
Everyday Life in Ancient Rome F. R. Cowell 1961 ~207 08/14
07/31 9 short stories, 2 comic poems by the great Asimov; re future computer dangers
Nine Tomorrows Isaac Asimov 1959 236 08/14
08/03 Science Fiction anthology: 15 stories
The Expert Dreamers ed. Frederik Pohl 1962 248 08/19
08/03 12 Science Fiction stories by the famed classic S-F writer
The Worlds of Clifford Simak Clifford Simak 1960 302 08/22
Date Out/Title of Book/Full Title Author(s) Pub. # Pages Date Returned
08/12 17 selections from the writings of Huxley, Wells, Poe, Jules Verne, etc.
The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics ed Harold Keubler 1954 694 08/26
08/22 5th in the famed series; one of JFK‘s 10 favorite books (Life Magazine: 03/17/61)
From Russia with Love Ian Fleming 1957 253 09/05
08/22 Anthology: 16 Science Fiction and Fantasy stories
Portals of Tomorrow August Derleth 1954 371 09/05
Actual Title: Portals of Tomorrow: the Best Tales of Science Fiction and Other Fantasy
08/22 “How to Write Science Fiction‖ and 11 other Science Fiction stories
The Sixth Galaxy Reader H. L. Gold ~1962 240 09/05
08/22 The famed novel, a Christian classic, by a revered US General
Ben Hur Lew Wallace 1961 510 09/23
Actual Title: Ben Hur – a Story of the Christ
08/22 Considered the best Science Fiction anthologist by many.
Big Book of Science Fiction Groft (sic) Conklin 1950 187 09/23
Actual Title; The Big Book of Science Fiction (‗The‖ often dropped from its true title)
Actual Author‘s Name: Groff Conklin
08/22 Historical fiction. Trans.from French. Author a former Japanese prisoner of war.
The Bridge Over the River Kwai Pierre Boulle 1954 ~225 09/23
09/19 Science fiction: Huxley‘s vision of a brutal world after nuclear war, circa 2108
Ape and Essence Aldous Huxley 1948 207 10/03
09/19 Brave New World ranked 5th on The Modern Library‘s Board list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century in 201024. Futuristic novel w/ science fiction.
24 http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
Brave New World Aldous Huxley 193225 288 10/03
Date Out/Title of Book/Full Title Author(s) Pub. # Pages Date Returned
09/19 The 7th novel in the series.
Goldfinger Ian Fleming 1959 ~220 10/03
09/19 The 3rd novel in the series.
Moonraker Ian Fleming 1955 ~256 10/03
―None of the books that OSWALD read were written by leftists…‖
A. J. Weberman, Nodule 11, orig. p. 39)
Though Oswald‘s library books were not written by leftists, what about the newspapers to which he subscribed? Official version accounts will probably not mention the possibility that Oswald was a fake defector who had to keep up a veneer of being a communist, though even in the USSR he never joined the communist party and was not arrested when he returned to the United States more than two and a half years later. His saga as a ―defector‖ is worth a close study.26 There is no doubt he read many Communist newspapers, and this was known to the US Postal service before Oswald moved to New
Date Out/Title of Book/Full Title Author(s) Pub. # Pages Date Returned
06/23 Science fiction: Hugo Winner by the author of 2001
A Fall of Moondust A. C. Clark 1961 224 07/12
(actual name: Arthur C. Clark)
(Why was this book estimated by the FBI to have been checked out by Oswald on
06/23, when it was returned four days later than Thunderball?)
06/24 James Bond spy novel, 9th in the series
Thunderball Ian Fleming (US) 1962 ~272 07/08
07/01 Biography by a noted author, also a Kennedy admirer and personal friend of JFK
Portrait of a President: John F. Kennedy 1962 ~266 07/15
John F. Kennedy (struck through: by Secret Service?)
William Manchester
07/06 3rd in popular Napoleonic era quasi-historic adventure series by the noted author
Hornblower and the Hotspur C. S. Forester 1962 400 07/20
07/06 Soviet Prison Camp Life by (Nobel Prize) anti-communist Russian author
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch 1963 160 07/20
(Russian Title: Один день Ивана Денисовича) or 192
Alexander Solzihnitsyn
(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
07/10 Documentary History by the famed Russian-born anti-Nazi British journalist
Russia Under Khrushchev Alexander Werth 1962 ~342 07/24
07/10 1st volume (9 stories) of Science Fiction‘s best, ed. by a noted scientist-author
The Hugo Winners Ed. Isaac Asimov 1962 318 07/24
07/15 History: exploration of the Nile by the renowned author & war correspondent
The Blue Nile Alan Moorehead 1962 ~368 07/29
Date Out/Title of Book/Full Title Author(s) Pub. # Pages Date Returned
07/15 Then-Senator John F. Kennedy‘s account of 8 US Senators whose courageous political battles created a better America
Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy 1954 272 07/29
07/18 Five full-length spy novels: The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim / Greenmantle by John Buchan / Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler / No Surrender by Martha Albrand / No Entry by Manning Coles
Five Spy Novels selected by Howard Haycraft 1962 757 08/01
07/30 Historical Fiction Description on the dust cover: “At the head of the onrushing Hittite legions was Lord Marduk. He was young, he had great wealth, high rank and his wife, Arinna was the most beautiful woman in the empire, but her warped passions drove him to seek another woman's arms.”23
23 By this time, Oswald and I had become lovers: both of us were unhappy with how our mates treated us. I am therefore intrigued by the description on this dust cover.
The Hittite Noel B. Gerson 1963 224 08/13
07/30 Science Fiction : 9 novelettes of life in the future
Mind Partner ed. H. L. Gold 1962 241 08/13
07/31 1976 Ed. listed in Bibliographies, AIS (Archeological Institute of America) p. 19
Everyday Life in Ancient Rome F. R. Cowell 1961 ~207 08/14
07/31 9 short stories, 2 comic poems by the great Asimov; re future computer dangers
Nine Tomorrows Isaac Asimov 1959 236 08/14
08/03 Science Fiction anthology: 15 stories
The Expert Dreamers ed. Frederik Pohl 1962 248 08/19
08/03 12 Science Fiction stories by the famed classic S-F writer
The Worlds of Clifford Simak Clifford Simak 1960 302 08/22
Date Out/Title of Book/Full Title Author(s) Pub. # Pages Date Returned
08/12 17 selections from the writings of Huxley, Wells, Poe, Jules Verne, etc.
The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics ed Harold Keubler 1954 694 08/26
08/22 5th in the famed series; one of JFK‘s 10 favorite books (Life Magazine: 03/17/61)
From Russia with Love Ian Fleming 1957 253 09/05
08/22 Anthology: 16 Science Fiction and Fantasy stories
Portals of Tomorrow August Derleth 1954 371 09/05
Actual Title: Portals of Tomorrow: the Best Tales of Science Fiction and Other Fantasy
08/22 “How to Write Science Fiction‖ and 11 other Science Fiction stories
The Sixth Galaxy Reader H. L. Gold ~1962 240 09/05
08/22 The famed novel, a Christian classic, by a revered US General
Ben Hur Lew Wallace 1961 510 09/23
Actual Title: Ben Hur – a Story of the Christ
08/22 Considered the best Science Fiction anthologist by many.
Big Book of Science Fiction Groft (sic) Conklin 1950 187 09/23
Actual Title; The Big Book of Science Fiction (‗The‖ often dropped from its true title)
Actual Author‘s Name: Groff Conklin
08/22 Historical fiction. Trans.from French. Author a former Japanese prisoner of war.
The Bridge Over the River Kwai Pierre Boulle 1954 ~225 09/23
09/19 Science fiction: Huxley‘s vision of a brutal world after nuclear war, circa 2108
Ape and Essence Aldous Huxley 1948 207 10/03
09/19 Brave New World ranked 5th on The Modern Library‘s Board list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century in 201024. Futuristic novel w/ science fiction.
24 http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
Brave New World Aldous Huxley 193225 288 10/03
Date Out/Title of Book/Full Title Author(s) Pub. # Pages Date Returned
09/19 The 7th novel in the series.
Goldfinger Ian Fleming 1959 ~220 10/03
09/19 The 3rd novel in the series.
Moonraker Ian Fleming 1955 ~256 10/03
―None of the books that OSWALD read were written by leftists…‖
A. J. Weberman, Nodule 11, orig. p. 39)
RM--
This was a 24-year-old fellow with no college education, yet he was reading some serious stuff. LHO's manuscript on llfe in Russia also shows an active, insightful mind.
LHO strikes me as a high-IQ fellow. Joined his high-school chess and astronomy clubs too.
Now, who joins their high-school chess club.
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Interesting post.
Was Dulles of the character to order the JFKA? Maybe.
Was LBJ? Maybe.
Was Carlos Marcello? Maybe.
Were Cuban exiles-mercs and CIA Miami station? Maybe.
The KGB? Maybe. (Ex-CIA'er Woolsey thinks so).
The Mormon Mafia? Maybe.
Nazis brought to the US after WWII? Maybe.
Did fragments break off from any of these groups and perp the JFKA as a rogue action? Maybe.
Did higher-ups tacitly agree to a "rogue op"? Maybe.
Were any fragments essentially a "cat's paw" for higher ups? Maybe.
Was there a government "investigation" and then cover-up post-JFKA? For sure. One that continues through the present Administration.
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2 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:
Huh? What LBJ-LHO connection? This whole post seems a big mumbo-jumbo-ish to me.
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Yes, a few non sequiturs here and there.
1. In my estimation, the LBJ-LHO connection seems empty. (But others have said LBJ knew people who knew people who knew LHO).
I brought up LBJ as a candidate for someone who met some criteria for perping a JFKA on a timeline.
LBJ did not have power to swing national media or globalist policies, especially if he was going to be disgraced by LIFE magazine. So he had a motive to perp the JFKA sooner, rather than later.
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3 hours ago, Kevin Balch said:
Whoever it was (assuming, as I do, that the Lone Nut theory is incorrect)
1. Saw an existential threat to something very impotant to them. Not something like loss of the oil depletion allowance or government contract. And no, JFK was not about to “end the fed” or “restore honest money”.
2. Could not wait for the results of the 1964 election, implying they had insufficient or no influence within the media to release politically damaging information on JFK.
3. Felt they would get much better treatment from LBJ though that does not necessarily mean it was LBJ.
Far more likely to be about Cuba (either pro or anti Castro) than Vietnam. I find it interesting that the US can have a rapprochement with Vietnam and almost with N. Korea but not Cuba. You would think Trump of all people would have tried to set something up to benefit his real estate business. If communism ever falls in Cuba, I expect intense US government interest in the Cuban archives.
Regarding Dulles specifically, I listened in on a recorded phone call between Dulles and LBJ/RFK regarding sending Dulles to Mississippi to act as a representative of the federal government and check the progress in the search for the missing civil rights activists.on the progress of the search. I did not sense RFK had any animosity toward Dulles based on the tone of voice.
KB--
I like your way of thinking about the JFKA.
1. Yes, if a globalist group was powerful enough to sway media and the intel state...would they not prefer to "wait JFK out" rather than assassinate him in broad daylight? Smear him in the media?
2. OK (for sake of argument) then by deduction, the group perping the JFKA was relatively powerless. They assumed they would not be able to influence US policies going forward. Policy was drifting away from their goals.
3. That would suggest perhaps CIA-linked Cuban exiles, BoP mercs. Who also felt betrayed by JFKA, and so had the means and motivation. This would also be a tight group that had served in battle together and trusted one another.
This does not quite exonerate LBJ. He was facing political ruin, and was saved by the JFKA.
But IMHO, the LBJ-LHO connection is dubious.
Moreover, the biography build on LHO was an intel-state operation.
But I am glad to meet someone else who does not know for a hard, incontrovertible fact who perped the JFKA, including by which methods, and how exactly the bullets or missiles struck JFK.
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Another perspective on the the NPR lack-of-credibility issue, his time from a lady who runs an agriculture news publication, The Fence Post.
This article on The Fence Post is probably from the other end of the spectrum from the article I posted from the NYT.
One value of the internet is the ability to read far and wide.
The truth comes out at NPR
Like most everyone, I love it when I have been proven to be right. I have for a long, long time listened to National Public Radio and complained about its left leaning reporting. But I listened any way because I thought it would be good to know what the left is thinking and saying. Many times, I would catch myself yelling at the radio and slapping my forehead in disbelief and frustration.
So, when senior business editor Uri Berliner wrote an opinion piece for Bari Weiss’ Free Press, criticizing NPR, which is funded primarily with taxpayer dollars, for its liberal stance, I felt vindicated.
I have been long raging that NPR should lose public funding because of its politics but I am but a lowly ag editor and my opinion doesn’t much matter in the world.
In his piece Berliner severely criticized NPR on its coverage of “Russiagate” even though it was later debunked. The worst part of the news organizations coverage of Russian collusion by Trump, is that once the scandal was proven not to be true, NPR didn’t bother to apologize or explain to their listeners that they were wrong and felt no need to set the record straight.
“What’s worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no mea culpas, no self-reflection. Especially when you expect high standards of transparency from public figures and institutions, but don’t practice those standards yourself. That’s what shatters trust and engenders cynicism about the media,” Berliner said in his piece.
He also lamented NPR’s coverage of the origin of CVID and Hunter Biden’s laptop, saying, “The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump.”
Berliner even went so far as to research his colleagues and find out where they leaned politically. He found that 87 of NPR’s newsroom were registered Democrats and none were Republicans.
And, what’s worse, although NPR has embraced people of color and sexual identity and jumped on the white conservatives are bad bandwagon, they have made no inroads into the black and Latin communities as far as listenership.
To his credit, Berliner tried to talk to his superiors about these issues but was pretty much ignored. I have to give him credit for coming out of the closet per say but I doubt it will do much to change the liberal bent of the news media because the train left the station many years ago. It will take many years for the news industry to go back to being fair and balanced in its reporting and no amount of telling us how fair and balanced they are will change our views. People need to be able to trust the media and know that they are reporting all the news in a nonpartisan way.
There is plenty of room for opinions in newspapers and magazines, for instance in The Fence Post we have an Opinion page and an Editor’s Note. But if a publication decides to make every page an opinion page then they are not informing you of the news, they are telling you what to think.
Berliner, who has been at NPR for 25 years, is still employed but I must wonder how long that will last. I’m sure he gets a frosty reception whenever he steps into the newsroom.
Although I feel vindicated, I don’t take pleasure in seeing the news industry stray from its mission and lose the trust of the American people.
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I do wonder how a news (or academic) organization could end up with 87 staffers from one major party, and zero from the other major political party.
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5 hours ago, Christian Toussay said:
Ok, so I thought we could move on to the next long suspected shooting location: the DalTex Building. Unfortunately, we only have one single source image in this case, but we will nonetheless try to make our case, using different iterations from the data bank of this specific file that the "optical artefact" argument is void.
Let me add here something which may not be common knowledge: in the 9os, I read the Hugh McDonald book, "Appointment in Dallas". The book is very disappointing, given McDonald reputation as a law enforcement expert (he wrote several manuals). In his version of the JFKA, he pursued along the world an elusive assassin, code name Saul, a professional hit man who killed Kennedy from the Grassy Knoll, and actually agrees to be interviewed...
But on the first page of this fancy book, McDonald claims he was given a tour of Dallas by an ex DPD officer, now a Bank Vice-President, who showed him the 2nd floor window of the DalTex Building and told him "That's where the guy who killed Kennedy shot from...".
It may be me, but going from cop to bank vice-president in a few years seems quite, let's say unusual.
The only member of the Dallas Police who became a bank vice-president is Paul Bentley. As it happens, Bentley is the man who examined Oswald wallet after his arrest while he was driven to police station, and is the original source for the alleged content of Oswald's wallet, including what type of ID he was carrying on him.
I post below the original Altgens picture, for reference (since I believe everybody knows the original, I thought a redux version would suffice): the area of interest is in the red square. Note presence of a fire staircase, hiding the right side of the window:
When processed and enlarged, the picture shows the image of two men in the window: one on the left, apparently the accomplice, and one on the right, apparently the shooter. The composite below summarizes the results obtained on Altgens. Please note the stripped gray area on the right, hiding part of the shoulder, are elements of the fire staircase in front of the window:
I am posting below different iterations of the Accomplice, for analysis:
Below is a comparative with a water colored version:
I post now a water colored iteration of the shooter:
And finally a composite with both men water colored:
So this completes the analysis of the modus operandi of the shooting, based on photographic and films analysis:
- the attack on JFK in Dealey Plaza was conducted by men wearing Dallas Police Department uniforms
- this implies direct complicity from Dallas authorities, whether these are impersonators or bona fide members of the force: the fence team, for instance, was under the constant gaze of a DPD officer positioned on the overpass; DPD officers were located just under the sniper in the DalTex, guarding the intersection of Houston to Elm. Which professional assassin would choose such a precarious spot to carry his deed, if not assured of complicity?
- Oswald did not shoot at Kennedy, and is thus innocent. The documents presented here actually constitute a case for the innocence of Oswald
- the results also establish the full responsability of federal agencies in hiding the truth from the public, by deliberately forging the photographic and film record
All this would tend to indicate, in my opinion, that the JFKA was not some James Bondesque stunt by some disgruntled party, but on the contrary a highly-sanctioned Military/Intelligence operation to remove the President.
Ok, so I will rest a bit and come back here with a new thread "Decoding Dallas: JFK's Headwounds...", in a day or two.
And yes, we will use among others the Zapruder film for that, showing that it has been altered...
Probably not many make the transition to bank veep from DPD...as most are seeking the city pension.
But bank veeps, especially back in the 1960s, may not be as exalted as you might think.
The bank veeps could be loan officers. In any words, their job is to check papers, make sure the borrower is who he says he is, and the loan is secured properly (usually property loans, at 80% LTV) and so on.
In the 1960s, there was more informality and less credentialism in the world. A well-liked guy might get a bank job, if he was reasonably smart and reliable. OTJ training for a few months, and an experienced secretary....
Also, the DPD had civil service exams for employment and promotion in the 1960s. There is a sentiment in some circles that DPD officers were not smart guys. I think they likely were smart guys, having passed civil service examinations.
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3 hours ago, Robert Burrows said:
I'm interested in what you're discussing, but none of your photographs are visible.
Ditto
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This is the NYT take on the the controversy regarding NPR.
The NYT does not mention that of 87 staffers in the Washington office of the NPR, all 87 are registered Democrats.
For the record, the NPR asserts it was not biased in its coverage of C19, the Hunter Biden laptop story and Russiagate, and it is not a biased news organization.
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"Edith Chapin is an American journalist and the current Editor in Chief and acting Chief Content Officer of NPR News. She was previously the senior supervising editor of the NPR News Foreign Desk; prior to working at NPR, she spent 25 years at CNN."---Wikipedia
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24 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:
I wonder now if we will ever see those final classified records.
I really do. And if not, why not?
The executive branch completely coopted an act of congress. But it does not matter.
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Listening to Eiler, I would guess we will never see the JFK Records. The present executive branch position is that they do not have to comply with the JFK Records Act.
Other materials mysteriously held back include tape-recordings of Carlos Marcello. These vinyl tapes have likely degraded beyond repair.
Not to be morbid, many of us are running out of years. When we go, I think the candle out. We can't expect generation after generation to care about an event receding into the past.
The media is complacent, or, worse, coopted by partisan or establishment sentiments.
So it goes.
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6 hours ago, Kevin Balch said:
I think the conflict between JFK and the CIA is overblown. JFK was enamored with fictional and real covert action and unconventional warfare. It seems to me that JFK’s major problem with the CIA was operational competence. The CIA’s strong suit was technical intelligence gathering and analysis which JFK appreciated. This led to the CIA proving there was no “missile gap” on which they briefed both JFK and LBJ during the 1960 campaign. Hardly the revelation the MIC would have welcomed. Nor would they have welcomed the USSR exceeding US nuclear throw-weight capacity during the 1960s which happened despite the removal of JFK.
Here is an interesting dialog between Allen Dulles and Ian Fleming that took place between the JFK assassination and Fleming’s death in 1964. Apparently, Jackie Kennedy and Dulles exchanged James Bond novels before JFK was elected president. Dulles apparently met Fleming at a dinner with the Kennedys as discussed in the article.
Fun article, thanks for posting. Yes, Dulles in this article, appears to admire JFK.
One might wonder if Fleming was trying to push one of Dulles' buttons, after all, JFK had fired Dulles.
A fascinating read from a period when public discourse had not become so coarsened and petty, and speaking derogatorily of those with different viewpoints was pandemic.
Who truly authored the JFKA? I don't know.
I must be the only participant in the EF-JFKA who does not know, as an incontrovertible fact, the answer to this question.
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6 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
Sean and Bill have one of the best podcasts out there, I really mean that. They do a lot of good work.
On their latest That's Enough Outta You, they have one of the co authors of The JFK Assassination Chokeholds, Andre Eiler.
His contribution to the book on the legal side was extraordinary on both the doctrine of standards of proof--which neither the HSCA or Warren Commission had-- and the JFK Act violations. No other books that I have read has this kind of insight into those two areas of inquiry. Which I think are both very important.
https://thatsenoughouttayou.buzzsprout.com/2064141/14852884
Important, especially for the EF-JFKA.
The media is totally complacent on the JFK Records snuff job.
In addition, Eiler speaks of "standards of proof" that litigants or government prosecutors would have to meet in a public courtroom, but do not have to meet in a government investigation and report.
It is useful to remember that government investigations, whether Congressional, special prosecutor, executive branch, or unique (Warren Commission) do not not have to meet any standards of proof in assembling evidence, witnesses and issuing a report. The narrative is likely a fantasy or partisan PR snow-job, as a result.
This is one reason why so many government investigations are essentially kangaroo courts or show trials.
Add on, there is no adversarial process in a government investigation---no talented lawyer challenging evidence, introducing new evidence, cross-examining witnesses, disallowing hearsay witnesses, and presenting alternative but compelling narratives.
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Matt Taibbi's take on the recent spate of stories regarding NPR (I apologize for the truncated article; I am not a Taibbi subscriber....):
Orwell Watch: NPR and the Death of Fairness
A story about facts and decency is quickly reduced to another partisan bias tale.
APR 13∙PREVIEWREAD IN APP
Earlier this week on The Free Press, Uri Berliner dropped a bomb on the public media world with “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.” As discussed on the new America This Week, the longtime senior editor described how NPR fumbled three stories: Covid, the Hunter Biden laptop affair, and the Trump-Russia scandal. Regarding the latter:
At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff… Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR’s guiding hand, its ever-present muse. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.
But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming… It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens… What’s worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no mea culpas, no self-reflection.
Berliner’s piece was immediately swallowed, mangled, and regurgitated as new propaganda. CNN media writer Oliver Darcy wrote “NPR faces right-wing revolt and calls for defunding after editor claims left-wing bias,” establishing the format that this was not about factual impropriety, but about a “right-wing revolt” against claimed “left-wing bias.” The New York Times did much the same thing, saying “NPR is in Turmoil After It is Accused of Left-Wing Bias,” adding that Berliner’s piece generated “firestorm… especially among conservatives.” On cue, human error-vane Jonathan Chait chimed in to insist “The Media Did Not Make Up Trump’s Russia Scandal.”
But this wasn’t about “bias.” It was about ethics, or a lack of them. But this has been going on for so long, most people have forgotten what ethics look like. Audiences have been trained to think that a station or person that doesn’t make overtly political coverage decisions is just hiding its real biases, which must be either right-wing, corrupt, or both. So someone like Berliner, when he talks about feeling “obliged” to cover even Donald Trump fairly, is actually just concealing a form of unfairness, or inspiring another tribe of unfair actors. Fair equals unfair. It’s impressive propaganda, actually. His story brought back bad memories:...
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One fact seems to get buried. Of 87 staffers in the NPR DC office, 87 are D-Party members.
If NPR were a private-sector media outfit, that would be their business. This imbalance at NPR strikes me as taxpayer-funded mouthpiece for one of the major political parties.
Also, how will NPR treat independent third-party candidates?
"I looked at voter registration for our newsroom. In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.
So on May 3, 2021, I presented the findings at an all-hands editorial staff meeting. When I suggested we had a diversity problem with a score of 87 Democrats and zero Republicans,"
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https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
Another deeply experienced journalist, and obviously not a Trumper, raises serious questions about media coverage, and NPR coverage, of the Russiagate follies, the Hunter Biden laptop, and COVID-19.
Remember, Bret Stephens of the NYT called Russiagate affair and media coverage "an elaborate hoax." I do not think the NYT is a Trumpified news outlet.
My point in posting this is not to valorize Trump. It is to remind people of the lessons you know from the JFKA: Do not trust state, major party and mainstream media narratives.
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3 hours ago, Tom Gram said:
ChatGPT is trained on a stupid amount of text, most of it from the open internet. They probably just added more content that tipped the bias in favor of Oswald-did-it, like from news stories, etc.
AI inherits the bias of its training data. If you trained an LLM on Bugliosi, Posner, Myers and the WR, you’d get very different responses than a model trained on pro-conspiracy literature. Heck humans work the same way.
The Wikipedia model.
Wikipedia's founder has refuted his own creation, as having been commandeered by those who insert state narratives on the JFKA, 9/11, Jan. 6, any topic you can think of.
AI will most likely give us the same results.
While independent researchers are smart, they do not have steady funding in the millions of dollars that the intel state has.
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4 hours ago, Sean Coleman said:
Seems you may have a penchant for ‘antique cars,’ though opinions differ and year on year vehicles are slowly nudged into the next category….
I find the most sellable/desirable classics those that appeal to to a person at a comfortable point in their life who want to relive their youth or maybe couldn’t afford such a vehicle way back then, but can now, often way cheaper than the price of a new car today.
BUT……owning a classic needs deep pockets, love, patience and lots of attention. A bit like having a wife. But more fun.
Well, each to his own. Some positively ugly and garish cars (IMHO) from the 1970s are now collectible, with big wings on the rear, and fake wood dashboards, and chintzy plastic knobs, etc.
Now, all the cars look alike.
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5 minutes ago, Matt Cloud said:
Stay on target ...
If that is an accurate photograph of Gardos, I would say "no."
Just IMHO....
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6 hours ago, Sean Coleman said:
John Butler post from ‘22
Souetre sure does look like whoever that is with LHO in Russia, if the photo from Russia itself is not faked.
BTW, you have a huge glaring error in your auto-bio. You refer to so-called "classic" cars in the post-1970s era, an obvious and unforgivable oxymoron. I assume you meant to refer to classic cars from the pre-1970s.
My faves (100% justified) are the finned chrome-mobiles from the late 1950s.
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2 hours ago, Steven Kossor said:
I'd be happy to digitize any audio tape recordings that anyone would like to make available to me (cassette tapes preferred) with the understanding that the digitized product (.mp3 recording) would be uploaded (donated at no cost) to MFF or other research database(s) so that it is as accessible as possible to the research community; no charge from me for the digitization. PM me if you'd like to talk about this.
We definitely need to create digital copies of all analog recordings and the sooner, the better. Audio tapes begin degrading as soon as they're recorded and if they're stored incorrectly, the deterioration accelerates. 50 years is very, very old for an audio tape recording.
This is what I am worried about, re the Marcello audio tapes, still under suppression by the current administration....
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7 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:
Interesting numbers for this thread given it's content and time frame compared to others. Maybe I didn't follow it close enough.
For me, the more interesting question is, "If RFK2 Wins the Presidency...will he really open up the JFK Records?"
I suspect "yes."
Some say RFK2 has no chance, the electoral college will box him out.
I wonder. Ross Perot ran a terrible campaign against much stronger candidates than Trump and Biden---Perot ran against Clinton and Bush Sr. in 1992. Perot actually dropped out of the race for an extended period, and then decided to run anyway.
Whatever you say, Perot face serious smart credible candidates. Perot got 19% of the vote, and so the plurality in most states went to Clinton, meaning Perot got nothing.
RFK2 is running against much weaker candidates, in a very dispirited nation. If RFK2 can just poll a little higher than Perot, towards 30%, then it becomes a three-way race for the plurality in each state.
Maybe the JFK Records will see the light of day at last!
Longtime JFK Researcher To Speak at Union College
in JFK Assassination Debate
Posted · Edited by Benjamin Cole
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Thanks for you comment.
I do not think JFKA CT researchers take that one "patsy" statement as the conclusive evidence of LHO's involvement in the JFKA.
The "patsy" is part of a huge mosaic. Many of us fully admit that the whole mosaic is not completed---and even you should be outraged that the Biden Administration has done what appears to be a permanent snuff job on the JFK Records Act, and 4000 records, perhaps more, have been buried.
As you may know, researcher Jefferson Morley has shown that records pertaining to CIA officer George Joannides in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 have been put six-feet under. Really...after 60 years, records of what Joannides was doing in New Orleans in 1963 are threat to national security? Was Joannides involved with LHO? There are solid reasons to suspect as much.
My own guess is LHO was inveigled into what he believed was an anti-Castro red flag op. Instead it became the JFKA, but LHO was in it up to his eyeballs (to outside observers), and he knew it.
My take is LHO was a CIA asset, and that explains his sojourn to Russia, and later involvement with anti-Castro and Castro elements in New Orleans and Dallas. BTW, the CIA had literally thousands of assets in the US at the time, due to the Cuba situation, and those assets were largely Cuban exiles and other mercs, but also plenty of former Nazis and Eastern Europeans.
If only a fragment of these various CIA assets, all with the means and motivation, decided to undertake the JFKA....then you have the intel-state involved (even if unwillingly) in the JFKA, but in extremis to keep that story blacked out.
That's IMHO, and I am sticking with it.
BTW, LHO was not referring to the DPD as framing him as the patsy. He meant the DPD acting on behalf of the intel state.
My own guess is the DPD was not involved in the JFKA, pre-event.