Pete Mellor

Not possible Ron! Willis took his pics on Elm. He would have to fly with a red cape on to snap the other shot...just around 30 Zapruder frames after from Main. That's Bronson.

Ron, for what it's worth, from a non expert of these photographs, I think the top one is cropped from Charles Bronson, and the bottom one is Phil Willis.

I have the Kindle app on my pc, so bought 'Prayer Man: More Than A Fuzzy Picture' which I finished reading yesterday. My review:- Bart Kamp's book presents the reader with documents, photographs and films from W.C. testimonies, newspaper sources, research archives, JFKA published books as well as information from internet forums (including the Education Forum) all aided by the proliferation of links throughout the Kindle text. In over five hundred and seventy pages this book covers Bart's ten year investigation of the blurry figure in the TSBD front steps at the time of the shooting in Dealey Plaza, found in the films of Dave Weigman and James Darnell. Perhaps only until researchers are able to obtain access to the original film, now locked away in a safe at NBC's offices in New York will this matter ever be resolved. However, Bart's work is covering much more than 'a fuzzy picture'. It also challenges the famous 2nd floor lunchroom encounter between Oswald, Truly and DPD Officer Baker as well as casting doubts on the many aspects of 'so called evidence' presented by the Dallas Police over that assassination weekend, accompanied with a chronological order of events over the three days inside City Hall. As Malcolm Blunt writes in his Foreword, "the reader may discover, at last, a true representation of Lee Harvey Oswald's final hours." Also, these intriguing pages include a comprehensive floor by floor study of the TSBD building and the persons employed therein, as well as their whereabouts, before, during and immediately after the killing of Kennedy. To quote Blunt's Foreword once again, "Bart's huge effort has produced the ultimate reference point for future authors and researchers working on this aspect of the Kennedy assassination."

Error with post, full review below.

Bart says at the end of this week.

I'm with you on this Pat.

Cough the money Gerry. Even the PM pages are very interesting, as Bart documents the long history of researchers who have examined the Weigman, Darnell & Couch stills. I never knew it began in the late 60's! Still not through the book but I reckon it's well worth the money. I've searched Cadigan & Recordak with no items found.

Mart, I'm busy with a number of interests and commitments, so I'm not quite half way through the book, one of four that I have on the go too. As far as the text is concerned, and Bart is Dutch, and as he states English is his second language, I have so far only come across a couple of words to edit. I am a fellow member of Dealey Plaza U.K., but I have no knowledge of any review/edit to his work prior to publication. & as stated I'm under half way through, so too early to comment. I assume Malcolm Blunt gave it the green light as he wrote a Foreword, apart from advice from a few sources it's all down to Bart.

Yes, Bart has a link to Hosty's notes. Written during the interrogation (one) & directly after (two). Hosty passed his notes to the ARRB in '97. The book also links to the Fritz notes that were also donated to the ARRB in '97. Negative. I'm not one to post photographic images on E.F. or anywhere. I'm just a book reader Leslie. 📚

Gerry, Bart's publication is more than a fuzzy picture, to quote the title. Suggest you buy the book as the papers are transformed into the book, as his essays are not available any more on the website. Under £8, cheap at half the price!

However, there are also the notes from the Oswald interviews i.e. 'Out with Bill Shelley in front' & 'then he went outside to watch P parade'. Interested to know if you have, or will obtain Bart's book & then post your opinion?

Leslie, the early pages provide a brief history of the depository building's ownerships. Having just downloaded the book I've only just covered the first hundred pages. Slow going as there are so many interesting photographic and textual links embedded into the pages. So far the text has documented statements given by TSBD employees along with the other occupants of the building, Scott Foresman & S.W. Publishing Co., etc., establishing their whereabouts and actions before, during & after the assassination.

Ron, Although Bart doesn't post here anymore, he e-mailed me after I opened this thread, so he is well aware of Forum activity. I would suspect he is aware of your post too. Anyway I'll pass on your thanks, as well as that 'howdy' to Mr. Blunt.

Gerry, maybe that recommendation came from Langley.

Sure! & as Poulgrain's books on Indonesia documented, with JFK's supporting stance for Sukarno, would Allen Dulles have resorted to assassinating the President of the United States to ensure the achievement of his ‘Indonesian strategy’? This is the central question addressed by Greg Poulgrain.

Cheers George. The link to Amazon is below. https://www.amazon.com/Prayer-Man-More-Fuzzy-Picture-ebook/dp/B0CD9GB83W/ref=sr_1_7?crid=2F84IJBF04IO&keywords=prayer+man&qid=1691144930&sprefix=prayer+man%2Caps%2C745&sr=8-7 Bart informs me that the hardback book will be available in 7-14 days. However, as pointed out, the Kindle book does contain multiple links for reference to further information.

Bart Kamp's book 'Prayer Man More Than A Fuzzy Picture' is now available on Kindle for just short of eight squid on Amazon U.K. Amazon's review:- The publication of Prayer Man: More Than a Fuzzy Picture represents an unprecedented decade-long investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald’s last 48 hours. Bart Kamp has produced a comprehensive work which delves into Lee Harvey Oswald and the other Texas School Book Depository employees inside the building during and shortly after President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd 1963. Kamp’s detailed research also examines the period of Oswald’s incarceration and interrogations. It presents an entirely new and deep perspective of how the law enforcement agencies gathered their evidence that weekend. It reveals a dramatic new context in relation to understanding Lee Harvey Oswald's innocence. Within these pages are many new and never before published revelations that contrast the altered accounts that were represented before the Warren Commission and challenges many commonly accepted assumptions and interpretations. Prayer Man: More Than a Fuzzy Picture is Kamp’s debut on the JFK Assassination.

I seem to recall Bill Decker in the 'lead' car reported seeing a shot hit the street. I've always assumed this hit to be in front of the presidential limousine but not certain. Bet there's a separate thread on this Forum covering the 'flurry' of shots on Elm St.

Mellen also interviewed Wallace's son Michael (a 30 year law enforcement officer) who recalled Mac at home in Anaheim, California on the 22nd Nov., '63. (Faustian Bargains-Joan Mellen p257)

Digress some more Robert. I am led to believe that the mysterious aka Jerry Droller was originally one Friedrich Schwend. Do you have any links between Herr Schwend and James Angleton back in '44/'45 when Angleton was head of X2?

George, according to Newman's excellent 'Uncovering Popov's Mole' it was Bruce Solie in the Office of Security/Security Research Staff who kept the mole hunt spotlight on the Soviet Russia Div., causing much damage therein. Was LHO's Soviet sojourn flypaper to catch the mole in CIA, set up by Solie? Solie's report on Nosenko gave a verdict that Nosenko was a bona fide defector! Nosenko then marries Solie's wife's sister!! Le Carrie couldn't write this stuff.

The Jewish News Syndicate make no mention of Angleton's blind eye non-reporting of the stealing of weapons-grade uranium from NUMEC to facilitate Israel building its first nuclear weapon by 1967. As Jefferson Morley wrote, Angleton thought collaboration with Israel was more important than U.S. non-proliferation policy under JFK.

I think 14 ex-members of the Cambridge paper is a lot more black & white that the call never happened, than any claim that Osborne was responsible even if it did happen. I'm sure, if such a tip off was received by such a relatively small newspaper the buzz would have been, as stated, talked about all round the office. I don't see anything factual in regard to Osborne and a school for assassins. With regard to John Howard Bowen's death, a newspaper obit was found by researcher John Kowalski, of this Forum. No. The only J.W.H. I'm aware of is the British journalist with the Cuba link to Trafficante & Ruby. 😄It happens all the time. It's the n for r in the surname that should be corrected. Prost!

It's remarkable he had opted to make a phone call related to the assassination; I want everything in black & white or I get cynical, which in the JFKA case is quite often. I assume you are referring to the supposed phone call to the Cambridge News, linked to Albert Osborne, just hours prior to the assassination. My take is it never happened. Former Cambridge News editor Keith Whetstone, who worked at the paper in '63, said in 1981 "It sounds like a completely fictitious story." He traced 12 members of staff who also worked at the paper in '63 and none of them recalled the telephone call. Also former senior reporter Jock Gillespie said, "There is no way that would have happened without being talked about. That's been a wind-up, are you sure it isn't Cambridge Massachusetts they are talking about?" It's high time this fabrication was put in the trash can. With regard to 'Coup in Dallas' on Osborne, pgs.239-242:- Albert Alexander Osborne first tole the FBI when they tracked him down in 1964 His birth certificate reads Albert Osborne. The 'Alexander' was Albert's invention, among a few other monikers. Intrepid researcher Mae Brussell, long overdue for recognition by the wider community of assassination research, confirms, and takes it a bit further: "Bowen-Osborne had been running a school for highly professional marksmen in Oaxaca, Mexico, since 1934. Maybe one of the real researchers on this Forum can educate me with evidence on this aspect & I haven't dug into the Floyd case either, but once again I am somewhat cynical of this 'academy of assassins' stuff. Torbitt's 'Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal' is typical of these fairy stories that has Osborne & his men in a safe house at 3126 Harlendale in Oak Cliff, Dallas on the 22nd November '63. These tales are repeated in quite a few books, as is Hugh McDonald rhubarb about Osborne being a Soviet agent. No sale for me! A women who contributed to both Osborne's and Bowen's missions told Russell that Bowen who died probably in 1958, but that the two had a history of working together. Not surprising that people get confused about Osborne. To be clear, it is Albert Osborne that we are dealing with here. Osborne met John Howard Bowen in North Carolina in the 1920's and thereafter stole & used Bowen's identity. Bowen never worked with Osborne and took no part in Osborne's shenanigans. Osborne travelled to MC in '63 using the Bowen alias because Mexican authorities had previously bunged him out of Mexico as Osborne. The real John Howard Bowen died in 1962 as a result of injuries from a car accident. Visiting family he had not seen in 40 years. Not true. Albert visited family in Grimsby in 1953, Daryl Featherstone still had the 'Bible Stories for Children' that Uncle Albert presented to him at Christmas 1953 when I visited him c2019 in Grimsby. p.s. In any future Index of 'Coup' my name is Pete Mellor, not Peter Mellon. Cheers!

Nice one Ron! Here's another Nice one.