Pete Mellor

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!

Away from the Plaza, back in D.C. from Andrews AFB to Bethesda, Roy Kellerman & Bill Greer stuck close to the Dallas casket in the grey navy ambulance. Arriving at Bethesda after Dennis David's cadets had delivered the plain shipping casket into the anti-room of the morgue, which David stated to me personally in 2003 had arrived in a black hearse by 'men in suits' eta 18:40. The grey navy ambulance arrived around 19:00, delivering JBK & RFK which David witnessed along with x-ray techs., Custer/Reed. The navy ambulance then drives away from the honour guard and re-appears later to deliver the Dallas casket carried by Kellerman, Greer, Sibert and O'Neil into the morgue! It was Kellerman who told the two FBI men about JFK saying "I've been hit" and or "Get me to the hospital", which nobody else in the limo heard. It seems Kellerman was acting as some sort of 'master of ceremonies' of the comings and goings of personnel in and out of the Bethesda morgue and collecting and destroying autopsy photographs shot by Stringer, Riebe and Knudsen, taken before, during and after autopsy. (All this from memory, correct me if incorrect.) At some time later, wasn't it Kellerman who passed a set of autopsy photographs to James Fox, who eventually just happened to facilitate us all with the bootleg images of JFK's autopsy that otherwise the world would never see? Images of course that show the intact back of the head, to support shots from behind. I've always considered the S.S. magic trick shenanigans at Bethesda to be more than just cover-up, but very early, same day actions to frame the accused assassin and eliminate evidence of conspiracy.

🤣Ha! I saw Airplane @ Bath Festival in U.K. 1970. Course it was wet, & Grace got a belt off the mic....won't type what she came out with.

Comprehensive bios of a dedicated searcher for truth in the JFKA medical quagmire. Met him in 2013 at Lancer when he visited with Doug Horne, got his 'Cause of Death' book signed. Will be sadly missed, but he attained a good age.

Yet LBJ & Connally were at Kennedy for months to tour Texas. Connally was a major player in the tour organisation, selecting the Trade Mart against S.S. security concerns, leading to the Elm St., dogleg. LBJ & Connally's feud with Yarborough caused press reports in Texas of Democratic party disunity, forcing JFK to tour with all three men. Always been suspicious to me.

Kevin, there is no 'perhaps' regarding the seating arrangements in the V.P. car or the V.P. follow-up. The LBJ/Youngblood 'heroic leaping into the back seat story' is a total lie. The only person in that vehicle that I feel I could trust to speak the truth would be Ralph Yarborough. He stated that LBJ was hunched forward listening to Youngblood's radio. He also observed Gordon Arnold having hit the ground on the knoll & said he could smell gunpowder when the car was level with the knoll, adding, "he didn't think that possible if the shot came from the 6th floor of the TSBD." Sure, there was no love lost between LBJ, Connally and Yarborough and LBJ was hassling JFK that morning in the Hotel Texas to not travel with Yarborough. Was he trying to have Yarborough in the presidential limousine?

LBJ's aide Cliff Carter was the man who collected Connally's clothing from TR2 nurse Hinchcliffe. He told her that he was Connally's agent. We know what happened to those articles of vital evidence, or rather what didn't happen. It's also interesting that Arlen Specter kept Carter away from any testimony to the W.C.

Bump.

My distant memory tells me there were only 5 in the V.P.'s car, Jacks the Highway Patrol driver, Youngblood the S.S. agent in the front seat, Yarborough behind Jacks, Lady Bird centre back seat & LBJ behind Youngblood. Carter & Johns were in the car behind, seen in the Altgens photo with rear passenger door partly open. Varsity (Secret Service code name), a yellow 1963 Ford Mercury hardtop: Joe H. Rich of the Texas Highway Patrol (driver), Vice Presidential aide Cliff Carter (front middle), Secret Service agents Jerry Kivett (right front), Warren W. "Woody" Taylor (left rear), and Thomas L. "Len" Johns (right rear).

Christian, Firstly I must state that I have no knowledge of photographic enhancement techniques whatsoever. Neither would I denigrate or discourage efforts to extract information from blow-ups of existing assassination related film. Unfortunately I can never discern anything remotely conclusive from these kind of images, except coloured blobs. As for police uniforms in the 'sniper's nest' window, I wonder why the many reports made by witnesses in the plaza did not spot any blue uniforms on the persons seen in that building prior to the arrival of the motorcade. Mr & Mrs Rowland's two men with rifle & scope gunman wearing white shirt and having dark hair. Admittedly seen on the 6th floor west window. Or Richard Carr's observation of a heavyset man wearing horn-rimmed glasses & brown jacket on the 6th floor. Carolyn Walther reported two men in a corner window, though she was not sure if they were on the 4th or 5th floor, but again one in white shirt with blond hair & 2nd man in brown jacket. Around 20 inmates in a holding cell on the 6th floor of the County Jail reportedly observed two men in brown clothing, one with rifle & scope. Obviously these sightings do not exclude the possibility of a gunman in police uniform on the 6th floor, but if there, he wasn't spotted by any observers. So, I will await more conclusive/convincing results.

I agree Keven. In view of operatives not recognising autopsy photos as the ones that they recall taking, or on different film type than they recall using, or operatives questioning the morgue furniture, i.e. stirrup head rests, or tiles, phones. In addition to the body arrivals in shipping caskets, body bags and such. I lean strongly to not just pre-autopsy autopsy, but also to pre-morgue morgue, and perhaps pre-pathologists. With so much ambiguity and nefarious actions that night a pre-autopsy hospital is not out of the question. Pre Humes & Boswell did we have Osborne & Lipsey? The mind boggles.

Once again, Greg, utilising the McMahon probe, throws a highly logical alternate spanner into the workings of the Tippit case.

I find Angleton's inferences in relation to 'Executive Action' that the Soviets term 'wet jobs' being a bit rich. When he related the killing of Tom Mboya I was waiting for the interviewer to jump in with questions on Dag Hammarskjold, Patrice Lumumba, Allende in Chile, or Sukarno in Indonesia etc., etc. Angleton speaking of a 'Wilderness of Mirrors' is a subject which he was an expert with. Long time since I've heard those chimes of Thames T.V., now defunct.

Yes, I include this photograph when I give my presentations to U3A groups in the U.K. (I am speaking at another tomorrow, Monday 8th April). So, If the pathologists at Bethesda were instructed in the morgue by higher ranks in the gallery, as per Fink's under oath testimony at the Shaw trial, to not investigate/dissect the throat area, then...who, what, when and where caused 'the butcher job'?

Sadly our Frank is no longer with us. Passing some 15 years back due to cancer. A native of Manchester U.K., real name Chris Sievey, only really popular in the NW of England. I found his shows, yes, a real hoot. With his glove puppet called 'little Frank' complete with same head. Such an eccentric local legend in Timperley Gtr., Manchester, when he died penny-less, his funeral was paid by fans and then they commissioned a statue erected in Timperley in his memory. However, we digress. Back to the not so funny big heads.

Because we need to get to the bottom of this case.