George Govus

Oops, Simkin left out an apostrophe in the bit I quoted. Notify Credibility, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Police.

Simkins' account of the Zapruder film includes the business with Life Magazine printing key frame stills out of order, and Hoover's acknowledgement of same.

Ten-four.

Thank you, Charles. Puts me in mind of Zapruder being told he stopped filming while the limousine turned from Houston onto Elm.

Yes, must learn more about Croft photo No. 4. No. 3 I have stared at and stared at. Would anyone care to say which extant Zapruder frame corresponds with Croft No. 3? Trying to answer my own question led to this article dated today from the Powell Tribune... synchronicity... https://www.powelltribune.com/stories/silent-witness-powell-native-snapped-famed-jfk-photo,5102

I am way late checking this thread out. I came in at the present point. So I'll start at beginning, but @Micah Mileto and anyone else interested in the first item Micah linked to in the above post, the .pdf link above downloads with zero bytes in it. You must download that .pdf directly from it's hosting page at http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg Subject Index Files/C Disk/Clark William Kemp/ Item 01 downloaded for me okay that way. Four pages of Weisberg's personal notes. What a mensch.

Paul, you are on the horns of a dilemma. Yes, you can pitch Case Closed in the trash, which adds to the trashing of the planet. I guess you could detach the pages from the binding and treat it as paper recycling. Or you can give it away, to a library or something, where it can mislead some unsuspecting future reader. I face this dilemma with Philip Shenon's A Cruel And Shocking Act. My only consolation is I bought it as a remaindered book. So far, it remains on my bookshelf, albeit I turned the dust jacket inside out, so it's simply a big white hardback which doesn't catch my eye when I go past.

The Soviet and Cuban diplomatic posts in Mexico City were monitored and bugged. Both sides lived with the other side constantly (or continually) spying on them. Is my take. Going from memory here. wasn't Oswald's visit to the U.S. embassy on a weekend? He was told that in order to renounce his citizenship, he had to come back during business hours. And didn't. That sure sounds like a ploy to me.

I turned on CNN and it's the freaking coronation!!! This is like a balm.

@James DiEugenioAt the end of Rob's introduction, posted at K & K, is a link to a BookFinder page intended to guide a buyer to where the book made from Marks' play may be purchased. The first time I clicked that link I got But, the second time I clicked that same link it worked way better than Duck Duck Go, it pulled up twenty-two instances of the book for sale. Go figure.

Are we in the weeds yet?

I reckon Jeff Meek is the author of "The JFK Files" on Twitter, which regularly brings to my attention aspects of the assassination I hadn't gleaned before. Recent example:

I'll see your David Talbot, and raise you Dorothy Kilgallen.

Great news, thanks! Here is the link to the paperback edition of the play for sale on Amazon.

I gotta go look at that article again, James. W., thanks. Great to see Greg Burnham's Prouty timeline. Greg's website, AssassinationOfJFK.net, was the among the very first I stumbled across. I see he's attractively redesigned it! I wonder if my log-in still works.

it was my understanding that Kennedy never committed to U.S. air cover. He distinctly forbid U.S. explicit participation no matter what. The opposite was communicated to the Brigade by the C.I.A. Is that your understanding of the matter, Greg?

If it was a joke, it was very "meta." There's more than one newspaper he's gripping in his fist, correct? Two newspapers, both identifiable to those in the know as being either Communist or Socialist. But, juxtaposing those two newspapers wasn't commonplace. Weren't they antithetical to one another? Incongruous, at least?

Since a certain someone is selectively exhuming media accounts of non-compliance with the JFK Assassination Records Act, it's refreshing to re-encounter this thread, as the failure to follow the law is a cross-party problem. Concord in our alliance will be stronger if we can in a balanced way focus on current politicians doing our will, or acting against us. We who want transparency like to remind folks that the Records act passed unanimously. Implying that there was a great sense in Congress at that time to bring all hidden records into the light, no matter the consequences. I cannot produce a cite, but I remember reading somewhere something to the effect that, if you had taken a poll of members of Congress at that time, you would have found that they all voted the way they did because they believed there was nothing significant being hidden. Can anyone point me to a detailed political history or explication of the passage of the Records Act?

I read Morley's The Ghost. I thought he underplayed the Angleton-Israel connection. I plumb forgot Morley mentioned the tie to Rabin. I guess I should read it again. Elsewhere I had read that Rabin was in Dallas that day. Things that make you go, "hmm." Is there any chance Rabin's assassination in 1995 had a deeper connection with JFK's?

Larry Hancock advised me in the recent thread here to do with LeMay that Hancock's book Sneak Attack includes a section about the U.S. military response to the JFK assassination. I was hoping to find a smoking gun there. A few years agoI was visiting relatives, standing behind my parked car with the Randolph Benson "The Searchers" bumper sticker image of JFK on it. My brother-in-law, a naturalized West German, spotted it and he volunteered that he was in the German military on 22 November 1963. The West German government, he said, placed its forces on high alert.

I will defer to Professor Schnapf. I should have added, I was disappointed with Biden's position. It seemed to me Biden's actions track similarly with Trump's. So maybe it's not fair or helpful to hang Biden's name on this to the exclusion of Trump. Although I guess you could also say that Trump more or less winged it. And Biden has effectively codified stone-walling, which is worse. Sigh.

Benjamin, your suggestions are good, but you just can't quit with the Biden-bashing. His rules do not assure that any records are kept in perpetuity. They are to be released as soon as the perceived harm dissipates. The rules. What I see from this is that we still have to do the heavy lifting on this thing and make it so full release is on the public's agenda.

It's out of the perpendicular, at the far end from this view. To my artist's eyes. As if some force acting from the west impacted it. Huh. Wonder how that happened. I seem to recall somebody quite some time ago dug into the Stemmons Freeway sign removal, what became of it, even. Just now, I cannot find that research using the site search engine or Duck Duck Go. The sense of it was that the city said the Texas Department of Transportation made the change. And the DOT said it was the city. And, no, you may not examine it for yourself. Something like that.

This spot is so empty and roomy! Like Biden's head! J/K because, while Bernie was my candidate in 2020, and what happened in the primary was curious, I did pull the lever for Biden in the general. He's been hit or miss. But a lot better than I expected. This oil oil drilling deal he's allowing to go forward on Alaska's North Slope pains me. But, it's been scaled back. And Alaskans are for it.

Thanks to Larry Hancock for correcting my mistaken recollections of William Kelly's blog posts.