George Govus

Since it is not in the Max Good film, can one learn "the best part of this" somewhere else?

"A little yin-yang here for ya, folks." (Joni Mitchell, Miles of Aisles.) https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/health/420-weed-day-origin-trnd/index.html According to Chris Conrad, curator of the Oaksterdam Cannabis Museum in Oakland, California, 420 started as a secret code among high schoolers in the early 1970s. A group of friends at San Rafael High School in Marin County, California, who called themselves "the Waldos," would often meet at 4:20 p.m. to get high. For them, it was an ideal time: They were out of school but their parents still weren't home, giving them a window of unsupervised freedom. They met at that time every day near a statue of Louis Pasteur, the scientist who pioneered pasteurization.

Clean-up on Isle Denial. Never having read Edward Gibbon, it was a separate thrill to find him quoted at the end.

Yes, Steve, well said. Quite apart from which oil producer is scum and which might not be, reliance on fossil fuel is driving the sixth greatest extinction of life on the planet. Non-human life. Renewables are already cheaper. It's down to political will.

Trying to be Forever and Aday?

The alternative search engine, preferred by privacy enthusiasts, is called "Duck Duck Go." "Duck Duck Go Go" is a much better name for it, thank you for that. And for the heads up about the article. But, I stubbornly refuse even a free NYT account.

Bill Kelly decided some time ago to discontinue posting here. He is still in the hunt, as you can learn if you go to https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/

"Temporary Continued Postponement." Just had to see that again.

Some kind of "upgrade" took place awhile after I joined. I got demoted from Dilettante to Milquetoast. I am guessing no one likes the ranking system now. But, as David Andrews quoted from The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, we don't need no badges!

The Oxnard call is a huge tell. With little chance of being elaborated on. Ron is right that the dispatcher's report of ambulances standing by begs many questions. To which I'd add, standing by where? Parkland? For what? Was this standard procedure? We should keep bumping this thread. Or start a new one about an individual stepping forward in the line of the Dallas motorcade procession, giving a desperate, last-ditch, urgent warning. Instantly neutralized by Secret Service, never heard from again. Someone here knows more about this. Ron, Jamey and I each read about it. I seem to recall this incident made it into a brief account in a local paper. I've tried to search this forum for confirming detail. Duck Duck Go so far no help. Doesn't seem to be in Larry Hancock's Someone Would Have Talked. I've looked in my Palamara books and my scattered notes. Jamey thinks it was mentioned in The Lone Star Speaks, not a book I've examined yet, and not a part of the several vintage and out-of-print Internet archives I've stumbled over: one associated with DPUK, the one at Archive.Org, and this one I only discovered lately, Robert Morrow's stash located at https://www.box.com/s/8b408e6999f8799dfd0a?page=1 Apocryphal? It tracks somewhat with the otherwise-lamentable story "Profile in Silver," from the 1985-1986 season of The Twilight Zone.

Oo, oo. Name rang a bell. I looked in Freedom From Fear, David M. Kennedy's history of the period 1929-1945. Multiple references in the index. I'm early into reading The Golden Age now, Gore Vidal's historical fiction novel of the period 1939-1953. It is, regrettably, the last in his "Narratives of Empire" series, and was published in 2000. Vidal's historical fiction mixed invented characters with real historical events and people. Not one to overlook any assassination, disaster, hypocrisy or scandal. I'm sure to read a bit more on Welles.

Kirk, I find Barlow's book is not at hand just now. I'll have to refresh my memory of the particulars. But, from a prominent Wyoming family, Barlow was was active in the Republican party there for a time. He thought Cheney's policies were nuts, but, he found a kind of integrity in the man.

One of the strangest parts of John Perry Barlow's memoir was, I thought, his account of getting to know Dick Cheney, due to Barlow's Wyoming upbringing.

Goggles. I've got goggles. Gonna start using them. A family relic while I was growing up was a WWII gas mask with tube but no respirator. Wish I had that now. Someone miracled me some disposable N95 masks. Hell to get on. So, that's good. Early in 2020 I took to wearing gloves in public. Wore them for months. Then it was weird not to wear them.

One thing I noticed as I navigated a couple of the donation windows was that the entity to which one was donating was called "Forum Support," i.e., generic, not encouraging. But at the go/no go donation point, the entity receiving the donation is specified as JFK Education Forum. That helped a lot. Back of the envelope, including Sean's donation, we should be at or near the funding mark for the next fifteen months. Hellfire, I have an astonishing Paypal Credit line, I can carry us across the finish line, for heaven's sake. I will definitely set up, using Paypal, an automatic monthly donation, ad infinitum, e pluribus esse.

I gave $25.

Yes, and Oliver praises the quality of a question!

I'm just lukewarm to Tink. Has nothing to do with that astonishing comb-over. And, every time the Sixth Floor Museum guy comes on, I have to take a break. But, I bookmarked it. Thanks for the link.

Gee whiz, I guess I'll have to read Cunningham's testimony. But, it almost stands to reason, it takes a magic rifle, to fire a magic bullet.

Looking forward to what you have to say about the four-hour version, Anthony. I was fortunately able to record the two hour version to DVR while Showtime offered free access through my television provider. I've watched it, think it a worthy effort. Planning to watch again (and again, fates willing). The contemporaneous footage at the start made me tear up. I confess I'm puzzled by the release of the two hour version ahead of the four hour version. If I ran the zoo I think I would have switched that around, or skipped the two hour version altogether. I bet James DiEugenio explained this strategy here somewhere. Two hour version = we can get this in theaters. Am I right?

Sure, John, please convert your list to pdf. I can open a pdf. Thanks.

That would be all right and good, I suppose, W., if CIA, et al., including the executive, were following the law, in terms of there being a statement of reason for each item withheld, each item redacted.

Joe Friday, I mean, Jefferson Morley's new opinion piece probes what it means when the CIA continues to defy the JFK Records Act. Here's a bit of it. It's all good stuff. He covers the waterfront.

That's some catch, that Catch-22.

Charles Pierce wrote this short piece, published in Esquire recently. Brings the snark. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38054778/jfk-assassination-records-biden-administration-delay-release/