Benjamin Cole

SL-- Thanks for your comments. No, many researchers believe LHO was in MC, and visited the Russian Embassy. You incorrectly cite John Newman. In fact, Newman believes LHO was there, and was also impersonated. The Russians sent contemporaneous cables back to Moscow confirming LHO visit. The CIA noted the visit in a 11/23/63 memo. The three KGB officers confirm the visit. Well, each to his own.

Yes, Newman believed the LHO was impersonated in phone calls. But that the real LHO did visit Kostikov. The CIA memo of 11/23/63 also reports the Kostikov-LHO meeting. Well, each to his own.

What Sheridan did to Garrison in New Orleans is unbelievable. Sheridan once wrote a book about Jimmy Hoffa and worked with RFK1. Now I wonder who the heck was Sheridan. Was he assigned to RFK1 as a handler of sorts from the intel community? Powell Jobs likely knows little about the JFKA, the Kennedy legacy, RFK 1 and RFK2. Perhaps she is told a few lurid details about RFK2, and then is hands-off anyway. She has a gigantic empire to govern, and likely receptions, parties, soirees every day and night. Likely, she is satisfied if The Atlantic is perceived as liberal, and boosts her image and access to D-Party lawmakers. Why does Bezos own the WaPo? You know how it goes. Real journalism, and history-writing, is done by guys who grunt around libraries, read primary documents, interview people low and high on various organization chains, and eat sandwiches or burrito-truck fare between documents. Powell Jobs? A somewhat different life story.

I tend to agree that the CIA fabricated/elaborated on LHO adventures in MC. Yes, the CIA and DRE almost immediately tried to blame Cuba-Russia-commies for the JFKA. Then...that Russia-Cuba chatter almost immediately stopped. However, the CIA PR skullduggery does not refute LHO being in MC, as witnessed by the three KGB agents, and noted in the 11/23/63 CIA memo, and as seen by bus riders and hotel staff. BTW, the CIA doc I show in another post, as far as I can tell, was classified until 1976. That doesn't seem like a "made-for PR" document. Well, each to his own. We are on different pages on LHO's adventure in MC. So it goes.

He sure does. I guess the Nixon people used him to try to plant the fake cables story. You wonder what to believe at any point in time.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32364160.pdf Some have posited the Kostikov-LHO meeting never happened, and the meeting was fabricated. But this CIA memo, dated 11/23/63, details the CIA-LHO meeting. Three KGB officers, in 1993, in front of Frontline-PBS cameras, confirmed the meeting. Possibility: The CIA ginned up a fake memo on 11/23/63, and then the KGB officers, three of them, all lied about the meeting 30 years later, in exchange for financial rewards. Possibility: Hotel workers and bus riders who saw LHO in September 1963 in Mexico were lying too. But...I would say the preponderance of evidence is that LHO was in Mexico City Sept. 1963. Likely as a CIA asset. I do not know why this is controversial.

Lucien Conein? I had forgotten about that. Great story.

That is nearly the same storyline that applies to Eugene Hall Brading.

Sandy-- Your comments are welcome here. But the meeting between Kostikov was recorded in CIA memos long before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Indeed, nearly contemporaneously. Indeed, the Kostikov-LHO meeting is cited for the whole "WWIII virus" by John Newman.

Nixon wanted Hunt to manipulate or gin up some fake cable-traffic indicating JFK complicity in the Diem murder, as I recall. Hunt was eager to the task, and working on it. Yet another reason to take documents with a pinch of salt.

OK, so DAP said he was uncertain whether LHO visited MC, or wanted to generate confusion about the visit. Do we have audio of what DAP said? But...knowledge about the CIA handling of LHO's visit to MC, like everything else, may have been held closely on a "need to know" basis closely by Bruce Solie or James Angleton. DAP was not in the loop. After the JFKA, Solie nor Angleton was about to blab, "Oh, LHO was our man in MC." John Newman, of course, knows all about the WWII virus and Bruce Solie. Anyone know what is Newman's latest thinking on this topic? Previously, Newman held that LHO was in MC and also impersonated, pretty much my view. Newman also thinks the whole MC story is a diversion. I think I disagree. If it can be shown the CIA was running LHO in MC, that adds a lot to the complexion of the JFKA.

My understanding is the mainline narrative always was that LHO met Kostikov (a KGB'er in charge of KGB wetwork in the Western hemisphere), and two sidekicks, in the Embassy on that Saturday. This might be the one time the official narrative is actually true---as that meeting was intended to happen. But thanks for your comments and open-minded response. I will research more the people you mention. If I learn something, and expand my understanding of that event, all good.

I contend LHO was in fact in Mexico City in September 1963. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/oswald/ The above is a PBS Frontline documentary, first aired in 1993. Go to about 1:10 mark. The three KGB agents, who worked in MC in September 1963, on camera, and on record, attest to PBS they met the real LHO at the embassy. Kostikov is among the three attesting to LHO's visit to MC. The trio have little doubt about the meeting, thanks to LHO's erratic behavior. Like LHO wanted to make an impression. Sounds like LHO. Perhaps the three KGB'ers were bribed to say they met the real LHO, as some suggest. But that is a slippery road, to suggest some witnesses were bribed. Where do we stop with this sort of analysis? We all want to cherry-pick witnesses. My explanation is that the CIA wanted LHO to meet Kostikov, and they intrigued Kostikov into the meeting. Why else would the Soviet Embassy receive LHO on a Saturday? There are other witnesses to LHO's presence in Mexico and MC, including hotel workers, and bus riders. Can we dismiss all witnesses? LHO was also likely impersonated in MC. LHO can be in MC and also impersonated---the two thoughts are not mutually exclusive. In fact, likely LHO was shadowed, even possibly impersonated by a KGB'er or CIA'er at the Cuban embassy. There was a ton of Spy vs. Spy stuff going on. Spy agencies like to create false leads and confusion, for the simple sake of creating false leads and confusion. LHO's Mexico bus-trip paperwork is perhaps sketchy. Perhaps fabricated. Or perhaps just 1963-era paperwork for a Mexico bus company. I suspect LHO got a ride in a car or airplane. Of course, in the immediate aftermath of the JFKA, the CIA tried to leverage his presence there to hype the commie angle. See David Atlee Phillips and also the DRE. That angle, it turns out, was also effective in ending a true investigation into the JFKA, due the what John Newman calls the WWIII virus. It looked like the KGB may have had a hand in the JFKA, which could mean WWIII, thanks to a barely controllable Joint Chiefs of Staff. And so the WC and establishment went with the "leftie, but loner-loser angle" on LHO. Blame LBJ too. From 11/23, the State Dep't was "finding no evidence" of Russian or even foreign collusion in the JFKA. In fact, I am not sure what happened in the JFKA, except that a lone gunman, armed with a single-shot bolt-action rifle, could not have shot Connally at Z-295 and then JFK at Z-313, which I believe the Z film shows. I suspect elements of the CIA-Miami Station had a role in the JFKA. How high up from there? Who knows? It would be nice if the JFK Records were released.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/oswald/ About 1:10 mark. This is a PBS production. The three KGB officers state, on the record and filmed, that they met the "real" LHO in Mexico City at their embassy in Sept. 1963. That seems conclusive. I suppose all three could be lying, but to what end? A much more sensational and anti-US story would be to say they met a fake LHO. I am aware of the Alvarado and Garro statements. I am not sure what Sandy Larsen means in regards to this.

I think the CIA arranged the Mexico City meeting between LHO and Kostikov, and the real LHO was there. I wonder how many other wayward American tourists visited the closed Soviet embassy on a Saturday in 1963, and then were received by not one, but three KGB agents? I suspect (without proof) the CIA intentionally "leaked" info to the KGB that LHO was a CIA asset. Intrigued, Kostikov dropped everything and met with LHO, as Kostikov was professionally obligated to do. The purpose of the meeting was to establish LHO as a commie sympathizer or asset. Part of the LHO biography build. I suspect a false flag op was planned at that time (Sept. 1963), to be blamed on Castro. Was the JFKA planned? Who knows? I suspect LHO was inveigled into the false flag op. It would be nice to get the JFK Records and track down the connection between Joannides and LHO.

PS-- Yes, there is reasonable speculation about LBJ. There is also tons of evidence against LHO, and no one has any evidence he was working with others on the JFKA. I have been looking for 50 years for something concrete. So...do we have one standard to exonerate LHO, and another to convict LBJ? Well, little do my concerns matter, but suffice it to say it is unsettling to see suspicions aired as truths, in the JFKA or more-recent political events.

I am not campaigning for RFK2. But who would vote for the existing parties, now led by the weakest or most-unpleasant presidential candidates, maybe ever? The US, pop. 330 million, and this is what we come up with?

Yes...but suspicions we have of the CIA, the Mob, LBJ, ...some kookball theories about Nazis (even some wherein Israelis work with Nazis, a novel concept). If someone wanted LBJ to replace JFK, why would they clue LBJ in at all?

Here is an "LBJ Did It" view, from a fella named Richard Pruet. Has too many actors and moving parts for my comfort. But, a fun read. ---30--- Related Did Lyndon Johnson conspire to assassinate JFK? I believe that Lyndon B. Johnson did indeed conspire to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Johnson’s long-time mistress Madeleine Brown stated that she thought LBJ began hatching the plot as early as 1961. Johnson was one of many individuals who appeared to have foreknowledge of the coming assassination. Brown related the story of how she was surprised to meet LBJ at a party at the home of Texas oil tycoon Clint Murchison on the eve of the assassination. She claimed he had just emerged from a large closed-door meeting when he noticed her and paused to speak with her. Instead of whispering sweet nothings, he told her: “Darling, after tomorrow those SOB Kennedy’s are never gonna embarrass me again. That’s not a threat, that’s a promise!” She claims he repeated a nearly identical statement to her in a phone call the next morning. A month after the assassination she confronted him about the murder. He told her the real people behind it were her fat cat Texas oil friends and “those spooks” in Washington. At the time of the assassination, the ruthless, corrupt and ambitious Johnson was in desperate straits, just one step away from political humiliation and criminal charges. Life Magazine, fed dirt on Johnson by Robert Kennedy’s Justice Department, was about to publish an exposé of Johnson’s incriminating ties to the Bobby Baker corruption scandal in its December 1 edition. JFK appeared poised to use the scandal to ditch Johnson from the Democratic Party ticket in 1964 in favor of Terry Sanford of North Carolina. JFK seemed likely to coast to a second term as president, Robert “Bobby” Kennedy was in a strong position to succeed him. Youngest brother Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy might follow Bobby. The White House might be in Kennedy hands for another 21 years. Anti-Soviet military hawks seeking war in Vietnam, Texas oil tycoons fearful of losing the oil depletion allowance, Central Intelligence Agency officials fired by Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs debacle, Mafiosi angered by Kennedy’s war on crime, Secret Service agents scandalized by Kennedy’s private behavior, jealous husbands cuckolded by Kennedy, etc. — Johnson knew Kennedy’s many enemies in and outside the government and presented himself as their guy. I believe LBJ set the plot in motion, then left its execution largely in the hands of CIA agent Cord Meyer, probably on the recommendation of fired CIA Director Allen Dulles, who knew Meyer’s wife was one of JFK’s favorite mistresses. LBJ probably used his personal attorney Ed Clark and assistant Cliff Carter as his conduits to those, like retiring USAF Col. Edward Lansdale, who were most involved in planning the operation. The mainly CIA plotters called on embittered Bay of Pigs veterans—including Frank Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt, and George H.W. “Poppy” Bush—and Mafia allies to carry out the “Big Event.” The Mafia pulled in various elements, including, possibly, French Corsican assassins recruited out of Marseilles with the help of CIA’s William Harvey in Rome. LBJ’s personal hitman Malcolm “Mac” Wallace was one of the shooters in the Texas School Book Depository Building. Billie Sol Estes’ 1983 affidavit swore Wallace carried out several political murders for LBJ, including the assassination of JFK. Years after the crime, Wallace’s fingerprints were identifed as matching a previously unidentified set on file at the National Archives. The set had been lifted from boxes at the TSBD sniper’s nest within an hour of the shooting. The conspirators created a kill zone clearly demarcated by bright yellow hash marks painted on the Elm Street curb. They used timed triangulated fire but failed to kill the president. Upon seeing the frantic signalling by “Umbrella Man” and others that Kennedy still lived, Secret Service Agent William Greer momentarily stopped the limo between the hash marks, where JFK was struck in the head by at least one frangible round, possibly fired from the above ground sewer opening at that location. Secret Service agents then set about destroying the crime scene, washing out the limo and illegally seizing and transporting the president’s body to Washington. LBJ insisted JFK’s widow, Jackie Kennedy, join him in his swearing-in ceremony aboard Air Force One. This allowed the removal of JFK’s body to Air Force Two on a farther tarmac while the bronze ceremonial casket was loaded aboard Air Force One. When the district judge called by LBJ to swear him in as president could not locate an Oath of Office, LBJ reportedly adduced one from his own coat pocket. Immediately after the ceremony, he shared a smile and wink with trusted Democratic Congressman Albert Thomas. A mortuary specialist worked on Kennedy’s cadaver during the flight to Washington in an attempt to hide evidence of a second gunman. LTG Curtis LeMay and other brass oversaw the rigged autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital designed to do the same. Hoover then led the FBI in framing hapless U.S. double agent Lee Oswald for the crime, declaring the crime “solved” within hours. Mobster Jack Ruby murdered Oswald in a room full of police detectives to prevent Oswald from telling what he knew. Johnson created his handpicked Warren Commission in order to forestall an independent Congressional investigation. His first pick for the Commission was Kennedy hater Allen Dulles. The Warren Commission relied wholly on the FBI investigation for its own conclusions. The CIA strategy designed to defend the Warren Report, and laid out in Document 1035-960, still seeks to discredit skeptics of the Commission’s reports as “conspiracy theorists.” Thanks to the penetration of our media by the CIA, via Operation Mockingbird, and CIA's penetration and discrediting of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s investigation, this strategy succeeded to such a degree that the Kennedy Assassination is now regarded as the Third Rail of American journalism. The press never told us anything. Influential columnist Drew Pearson withheld a scathing column about LBJ’s corruption. Life Magazine immediately dropped its exposé. No one reported that Ruby had been running guns to Cuba from where he'd helped spring Mob boss Santos Trafficante from prison — not newsworthy enough, apparently. Ruby also hinted repeatedly that Johnson was behind the crime, but the media didn’t mention it. The media can dote on every piece of trivia about the Kardashians, but no network ever publicized the fact that a dozen witnesses testified that Ruby knew Oswald (once introducing him as "my friend, Lee, from the CIA"). None even told us that Ruby had once worked on the staff of then-Congressman Richard Nixon at the behest of then-Senator Lyndon Johnson — a hiring that was documented in the Congressional Record! The corporate-controlled media doesn’t want the American people to connect the rest of the dots leading to their corporate owners and sponsors. I believe LBJ had a leading role in initiating and covering up the plot, but the conspiracy chiefly centered on elements of the CIA, the least accountable arm of that Military-Industrial Complex of which President Eisenhower had warned Americans in his Farewell Address in 1961. The MIC became what we today term the "Deep State" when it seized power on November 22, 1963, for the conspirators not only got away with murder, they got away with the government, too. Most of the conspirators have since died, but the influence of the Deep State continues to be perpetuated institutionally through their agencies, corporations, families, and appointments. They continue cynically to bank on the apathy and laziness of the American public, the services of professional and well-meaning "debunkers" and misinformation agents, and the cupidity and craven cowardice of their corporate-controlled media to allow the lie of Oswald's guilt to dominate the historical narrative. The brazenness of the assassination and the gradual exposure of their crimes serve to demonstrate to the American people and our elected leaders that they can deal as they wish with anyone with utter impunity. The Warren Commission was never designed to find the truth. Its mission was to reassure the American people that no conspiracy was afoot, despite the evidence of our eyes. It was to cherrypick the evidence and ignore, manipulate, discard, alter, replace, plant, or otherwise suppress any evidence that didn't fit the desired narrative -- i.e., a Procrustean Bed, where the truth is stretched or cut away as much as editorial license requires in order to make the pieces of the fairy tale fit, out of "patriotic duty." After all, what are a few white lies if they help to prevent World War III — or so LBJ told some of the commissioners. Four of them later disavowed the Commission’s conclusions. I can well understand why the Lone Nut theorists cling to the findings of the Warren Commission that a malcontent killed JFK acting alone. Having spent most of my life in the Federal government myself, I certainly don't relish the idea that the government would lie to us about the murder of our president. After all, what does that say about "our" government? What would it say about us? Most members of the “Shadow Government” — i.e., the intel agencies and related defense contractors — undoubtedly are essentially honest and very patriotic Americans dedicated to the defense of our Constitution and way of life. The compartmentalization of secrets can permit a situation to arise, however, where a small coterie of highly placed individuals can leverage, unchecked, vast resources in the pursuit of an unconstitutional or even treasonous agenda. In the age before the Internet, a Vice President who succeeded to the presidency through such plotting, could—and, I believe, did—orchestrate a far-reaching and effective coverup of the crime with the knowing support of just the FBI Director, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, leading elements of the CIA and Secret Service, and a few others. Many repeat the patronizing argument that those who question the Report have a psychological inability to accept the notion that a great hero like JFK could be slain by a "maladjusted loser" like Oswald. That's ridiculous. I accepted the notion of Oswald's lone guilt for many years, as did most Americans. Later, when the pieces no longer fit, I first suspected the Mob. Only when I began to research the case more deeply in recent years did I finally realize LBJ's central role in the conspiracy. Kennedy was murdered by elements of his own government. It was, essentially, a palace coup. I’m ashamed that my naïveté blinded me from realizing it sooner. I am revulsed by my memory of greeting LBJ in person in 1964. Oswald could not have been fairly convicted. He had no motive, means or opportunity. Oswald was a gung-ho Marine who enlisted at the earliest possible age, served in sensitive positions, volunteered to become a double agent for the USG, and then pretended to defect to the USSR. When he failed to get recruited by the KGB, he returned to the States. Despite having "defected" to the USSR, Oswald walked into a job with a graphic arts firm that did Top Secret work for the USG, and the FBI hired him at $200/month to pretend to be a Communist sympathizer in order to help it identify pro-Castro Cubans. We know from the confessions of his mistress Judyth Vary Baker that Oswald also worked with her and others on a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. In one of his last conversations with her, he said he was trying to foil a plot against JFK's life. In fact, he admired Kennedy and may have been the FBI informant, named "Lee," who Secret Service Agent Abraham Boldin said had tipped off the government to the plot against Kennedy's life in Chicago two weeks before Dallas. No reliable evidence connected Oswald to the purported murder weapon, a Mannlicher-Carcano, including the doctored backyard photos and the highly dubious shipment to a post office box addressed to one "A. Hidell." A paraffin test indicated Oswald hadn't fired a rifle the day of the assassination. Reliable eyewitness testimony would show he wasn't even on the Sixth Floor of the Texas School Book Depository at the time of the shooting. Only after FBI agents had an hour alone with Oswald’s body at the funeral home did his palm print magically appear on the previously dusted rifle, just as a wallet with identification for A. Hidell had magically appeared at the J.D. Tippit crime scene an hour after the area had already been combed by spectators and police. Oswald was carrying a different wallet when arrested. The caliber of the rifle didn’t match that used in the shooting at the home of Gen. Edwin Walker, where an eyewitness had seen two men fleeing, neither matching Oswald. They'd fled in separate cars. Oswald didn’t even drive. Oswald was never given due process or a day in court. The single prison phone call to which he was entitled--he tried to call a retired Army intelligence officer--was deliberately prevented by the government from being connected. Dallas PD claimed it kept no record of his interrogation. Neither did the other agencies who questioned him, supposedly. The police lineup for the witness identification of Oswald was a travesty, with everyone else dressed in suits, and he alone disheveled in a tee-shirt with a black eye. An eyewitness who couldn’t recognize him as the perpetrator only changed his mind after nearly surviving a murder attempt. CIA and the Mob, which worked so closely on so many different endeavors at this time as to be nearly interchangeable, both worked with Oswald, framed him for JFK's murder, and ordered Ruby to silence him before he could speak in his own defense. Oswald was never supposed to be given a chance, and he wasn't. For those of us who weren’t at Dealey Plaza, Oswald's murder by Jack Ruby was surely our first strong indication of conspiracy. Of course, what looked like a gangland hit to silence a potentially problematic witness was quickly explained away as the misguided but well-meaning act of yet another Lone Nut. Never mind the dozen different witnesses who said Oswald knew Ruby. They must have "been mistaken." Silvia Odio claimed she'd met Oswald with two anti-Castro Cubans some weeks before, but she must have "been mistaken," too, even though she never sought publicity, her sister confirmed the visit, and she'd written to her father of the meeting shortly afterward. Perhaps the very first "conspiracy theorist" was Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Jackie Kennedy was another, as was French Intelligence, and the Kremlin, and several members of the Warren Commission, and the U.S. Congress, and up to 85 percent of the American public, and Lyndon Johnson, recorded at least twice as saying he suspected a conspiracy. Yeah, LBJ was a "tinfoil hat" type who admitted the probable existence of a conspiracy. And, as one of the conspirators, he was in a position to know. Supplementing CIA’s disinformation program was a ruthless domestic campaign of intimidation and murder that succeeded in silencing many material witnesses. Former Special Forces Colonel Dan Marvin has related how CIA men once solicited his assassination of William Bruce Pitzer, who Marvin only learned much later was one of many witnesses in the assassination who had died under highly suspicious circumstances. The London Sunday Times hired an actuarial to calculate the odds against so many material witnesses dying of unnatural causes in the three years following the Assassination. The actuarial calculated the odds against it at 100,000 trillion to one. The sad truth is that the government appears to have been stolen from us, and with it, the media. We now have fake news from a fake media serving the interests of those behind our fake government. Part of the proof is the fact that with the first opportunity in 54 years, investigating the reported ties to Cuba of the alleged assassin of the POTUS isn't even part of Washington's agenda. Oswald was supposed to be a Castro agent or sympathizer, remember? Murder and treason have no statute of limitations, Castro is dead, the USSR collapsed nearly 30 years ago, diplomatic relations with Cuba are fully normalized, and yet following up on the murder of the POTUS by an alleged Castro agent or sympathizer isn't even on the bilateral agenda?! A potential Cuban agent murders our POTUS, and the USG doesn't even want to follow on any investigative leads?! Anyone who's ever worked for the USG should find that telling, very telling indeed. Unless President Trump acts now to prevent it, the last remaining Kennedy assassination records still under seal at the National Archives will finally be released next week. CIA is asking President Trump to block the release, using the threadbare excuse of “national security,” as if the sources and methods we used against the USSR half a century ago still outweigh the public’s interest in knowing the truth about whether Dallas was, in fact, a coup. No doubt the most incriminating records have long since been destroyed, but enough might remain to help even the more gullible among us finally come to see the true dimensions of the crime. Even long-time Warren Commission apologist Gerald Posner agrees that the records should be released. Whatever one thinks of the man or his policies, Donald Trump is the first overtly anti-Deep State president the United States has had since Kennedy. Let’s encourage him to release the records. Let the chips fall where they may. Let’s make the pursuit of truth and justice once again part of the American Way. This may be our last, best chance to root out the treasonous influence of the Deep State, restore constitutional government, and bring the last surviving perpetrators of the assassination to justice. Please join me in demanding that justice be done though the heavens fall.

Note to all: Accusations, and suspicions, and perspectives on LBJ's character and personality, do not rise to the level of "guilty beyond reasonable doubt." 1.One could argue LBJ had the motives, and necessary character. 2. Did LBJ have the means? 3. Did LBJ have the opportunity? ---- 2. Obviously, LBJ did not shoot JFK. So he had to organize others to do so. What record is there of this? Did anyone from the Secret Service ever say, "You know, we heard LBJ was muckig around in our arrangements or Dallas?" 3. Did LBJ have the opportunity to organize the JFKA in Dallas? Remember there were likely related JFKA attempts or plans in Miami and Chicago. LBJ was behind those plots as well? I would hope we hold higher than to witch-hunt standards in pursuing JFK's true assassins. No one has ever suggested the slightest connection between LHO and LBJ, or Jack Ruby and LBJ for that matter. In contrast, the CIA and Mob seemed to have their fingers everywhere around the JFKA.

Maybe LBJ was involved in the JFKA. How do you posit LBJ organized the JFKA? With what parties did he conspire? How was the operation kept secret? Do you feel you have an argument, beyond reasonable doubt, that LBJ was wittingly involved in the JFKA? Many in the forum have justifiably examined the evidence that LHO was alone the JFKA. The evidence against LHO is examined under a microscope, and details turned over in excruciating processes. Indeed, I have done so on the "steel-jacketed bullet" recovered from the Walker home on April 10 1963, which I believe was in fact steel-jacketed. So, if we apply that same excruciating detailed and strict standards to evidence of LBJ's guilt...what do we come up with? .

"Through Emerson, Powell Jobs (Jobs' wife) owns The Atlantic and a stake in Axios. In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Powell Jobs donated $2 million to Hillary Clinton and raised a further $4 million for her. Powell Jobs was an early investor in, and board member of, Ozy." ---30--- In the battle for control of media and government among various elites, the JFKA is merely a tool to marginalize one group or the other. So...RFK2 is a nut for suspecting the CIA had a role in the JFKA, and btw he is also an anti-semite. Even yet, elites do not want the JFKA story told, and will protect Biden for suppressing the JFK Records Act. It is hard to believe. I deduce that there is a fear that government will lose its last shreds of credibility if the true JFKA story comes out. I have to say, no one seems to regard RFK2---certainly no one who knows him, or has worked with him---as an anti-semite. The Atlantic and other legacy media outlets on that end of the political spectrum can print that in headlines, but it does not seem to stick. It is astonishing that vulgar, malicious and unfounded smears are tolerated, or even the norm, in legacy media outlets today. But to keep the JFK Records suppressed, all is fair.

There is something wrong at The Atlantic magazine. They are, of course, now co-hosting Washington Week in Review, the PBS (and thus government sponsored) weekly round-up, that back in the 1970s and 1980s was really quite good (though never hard-hitting on the JFKA). Today, "journalists" migrate in-and-out of government, and party positions, or lobby groups and think tanks. There is a difference between government-partisan hacks and journalists. Jen Psaki is not a journalist. The Atlantic ran this ridiculous but horrid headline back in July: The Most Shocking Aspect of RFK Jr.’s Anti-Semitism What’s surprising isn’t that Kennedy voiced an anti-Jewish conspiracy, but that it took this long. By Yair Rosenberg Right, RFK2 is anti-semitic. People are losing faith in government, media, academia. That congressional hearing starring the three Ivy League presidents was a complete debacle.

Well! Can you elaborate on the mysterious .22 bullet?

Note to anybody: I have an e-mail into Ben Wecht, who is Cyril Wecht's son, asking Ben to ask Cyril if bullet paths can usually be probed successfully. It may be be that it does happen that a bullet path through a body is blocked to probes, due to internal muscles or organs shifting. I have never been able to get a forensic pathologist to answer this question. It may be also that the Bethesda autopsists were not skilled at probing bullet paths. All that said, as of now I am leaning to the explanation that the wound in JFK's back was shallow, and the CE 399 slug popped out due to shock waves from subsequent strikes. Then Landis found the slug. The FBI memo, perhaps based on scuttlebutt, or an fff-the-record statement, reflects that.