Pete Mellor

I'm sure that will happen Robert. Already, I can highly recommend what Ian Griggs has left us! I'm sure that when published very many in the JFKA research community will find Ian's final work an essential addition to their book collection.

B.C. The work really belongs to Ian's son Steve Griggs. Initially he would wish to have the work published as a book, hard copy or e-book or both. What develops in the future is up to him.

Sandy, it was posted to me in an e-mail with Ian's work in attachments. The main file (1.7Mb) consists of 166 pages of DPD Officers listed in alphabetical order A-Z. There is a further file of 31kb with further background notes on the main file. The rest of the data consists of 1 Excel spreadsheet list of all the DPD personnel (261.8kb) & 9 Appendices that list various things like DPD Officers at the Trade Mart, DPD Officers who were in the basement when Ruby shot Oswald to DPD personnel who were Notaries Public etc., all totalling 234kb.

Thank you Michael. I will update on the progress, as and when Ian's son Steve Griggs gives the go ahead.

Absolutely Chris. I have had strong support from the DPUK membership on this and the feeling seems to be that DPUK should advance Ian's manuscript to publication. What I have so far perused, it is a definitive work, a complete compendium of the DPD personnel, their career background, their department within the DPD and their duties and actions over the assassination weekend. Nothing of this depth and level of research on this topic has ever been published before and I'm certain would be greatly received by many in the JFKA research community.

How would you defend Lee Harvey Oswald in a court of law vs How you would prosecute Lee Harvey Oswald using fraudulent evidence.

Due to JFK/Lancer's Debra Conway suffering her illness (she is suffering from Alzheimer's) Ian Griggs' final manuscript covering the Dallas Police personnel over the assassination weekend had been inactive. Ian's son Steve Griggs sent Ian's work via e-mail to Lancer some years back, but due to Debra's health issues nothing progressed towards publication. After making enquiries to Lancer, through Larry Hancock, and to Steve here in the U.K. I am now in possession of said manuscript. It's gold! A huge piece of work. The main body is an alphabetical listing of every DPD officer on the books over the assassination weekend, accompanied with a short biography of each, their rank, department & duties etc. There are also around ten appendices covering such things as listings of personnel who were on duty at the Dallas Trade Mart, who were in the basement when Ruby shot Oswald, list of persons in Fritz's office during Oswald's final interrogation on the 24th., even a list of the nine African/American officers serving the DPD at the time. Perhaps because it is such a huge and comprehensive work, it looks like it could only be published as an e-book, but it surely must be published. I hope to connect Ian's son Steve with Lancer to once again push this seminal work to become available to the wider research community.

Gil, #46. The perps would have had no need to hijack JFK's body enroute to Bethesda Naval hospital in a plain shipping casket.

Thanks Robert, we are of the same opinion.

Beverley attended Lancer's 2013 conference held at the Adolphus. She sang 'Amazing Grace' at the commencement of the Saturday evening banquet prior to Jeff Morley's keynote address. Jim Marrs was also present. I spent some time talking to Bev and Sherry Fiester. Sherry took photographs of Bev and I, one where I got a kiss. Her kiss hotter than her singing, but both not bad for a lady around 70 years old! I'm no photographic expert to give any verdict on the images in the Zapruder film and other stills. All I can go on is a judgement on her character. Having met and talked to her she came across to me as genuine and honest. FWIW, I can't square with a woman fraudulently pushing herself into a historical figure over decades, testifying to H.S.C.A., attending conferences and repeatedly giving her story to researchers, all the while proclaiming her religious beliefs.

Can anyone confirm this?

Not my game folks, there's just a few names in the sport that I'm familiar with, Mays included. What comes to my mind is Chuck Berry's lyrics, :-" Two, three count, with nobody on, he hit a high fly into the stand. Round the third he was headin' for home it was a brown eyed handsome man that won the game it was a brown eyed handsome man." Always wondered if Chuck had in mind the lyric Brown skinned handsome man...but thought better of it.

Jean, Vol IV of Horne's 'Inside the A.R.R.B.' Worth having Vols i to V anyway.

and not under oath!

No, Noguchi spoke to Wecht by phone and suggested he fly to L.A. & take part in RFK's autopsy. He did not. However, Wecht flew to L.A. days later reviewing the autopsy photographs & microscopic slide tissues and the preliminary draft of Noguchi's autopsy report.

You're not alone Ben. Both lone-nut shooters arrested on site, guilty, case closed. Only when these cases are examined seriously, so called facts re-checked, ballistics, background links etc., then there are firm doubts raised on the simplistic open and shut case evidence.

Thank you James. I take it any communications to the Parole Hearings board, as in previous years appeals, should omit references to any evidence of conspiracies in the case.

Ben, I was referring to John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman. Anyway, both John Hinckley & Mark Chapman had one thing in common, they both had copies of Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye'. My post above was just to point out links to MK/Ultra in Sirhan & Chapman. Well, now I'm out of here before I get beat on by Michael Griffiths. 🤣

Apologies for high-jacking the RFK case, but on the topic of hypnotic associations with assassins, Mark Chapman from his early teens got involved with Christian/Jesus freak/hypnotist characters Arthur Blessitt, Charles McGowan, Fred Krauss and Paul Durbin. Chapman was later treated in Hawaii at the Castle Memorial Hospital by Dr. Ram Gursahani, which was run by the 7th Day Adventist Church. Chapman's wife Gloria then went to work at Castle Memorial. Also in Hawaii Dr. Jules Bernhardt, a so called Chapman family friend & psychological counsellor/hypnotist was described as having innate capacity to connect with nature and unseen realms. Dr. Richard Bloom-Director of Research & Development at Institute for Research in Hypnosis & Psychotherapy also connected to Chapman. Bloom had previous career in Intelligence and the military. Just days after the murder of Lennon, Pastor Charles McGowan who had no known contact with Chapman for years visits him in Rikers. Dorothy Lewis a psychiatrist on Chapman's defence team gave a report that stated "he might have been acting in response to a command hallucination on the day of the shooting." Dr. Emanuel Hammer (to crack a nut) a prosecution psychologist had previously published a book 'Post Hypnotic Suggestion'. In early '81 our old friends Dr. Milton Kline (CIA consultant on MK/Ultra) & Dr. Bernard Diamond were given access to Chapman's cell.

You and I were there in 2013 Pat, but not Dr. McClelland.

Just a thought concerning documents stashed by the HSCA. Is it another 4 or 5 years to go before Blakey's stash is supposed to get released? & does anyone know the contents of this pile? I assume the ARRB didn't liberate all these documents. What do we know?

Like Mahmoud Hamshari & Ari Onassis.

There was never going to be a funny one liner from a curmudgeon like Weisberg, but his summing up of the W.C., (not a one line quote) says it all:- The government never really intended to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and it never did. It never intended to tell us what really happened, and it didn't. It never at any time sought the fact of this frightful crime, properly called that of the century, searched for the available evidence or followed each clue to the truth, regardless of the consequences. There never was any let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may inquiry. Indeed, there never was what reasonable men can call an inquiry, a decent pretence even of an investigation. From the very first moment there was, at best, what I call a "whitewash", nothing better, and one so thin it was transparent.

Wow Denis! That's a massive collection, could easily cost me a lot of money! Too dangerous though, my other half is still giving me grief for spending a grand on the W.C. set.

Yeah, but can't keep a good man down!