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  1. On 2/24/2024 at 4:54 AM, Pat Speer said:

    Perhaps some backstory is needed. There is not now, nor has there ever been, a Malcolm Blunt Archives, as an Archives is normally understood. That is, there was no place you could go and talk to a librarian and have her retrieve something, or whatever. What there was was dozens of boxes filled with papers that Malcolm had collected over the years from his many trips to the archives, plus some boxes of videotapes he'd collected and so on.

    To continue to clarify from previous post, Mr. Blunt also obtained the research papers of Harrison Livingstone.  These have been partially put on-line on D.P.U.K.'s website.  Livingstone's papers on JFK's autopsy are expected to follow sometime next year.

  2. 4 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

    Excellent.

    Coming from your eloquent self Joe, I take that as a great compliment.

    The above posts come from my article 'Jack Ruby and the events of November 22nd 1963' that was published in the Dealey Plaza Echo in the winter edition of 2014.  Vol.17 Issue 2.

  3. 7 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

    This is a great post Pete.  The lists of names associated with Ruby's phone bills, sightings in Dealy Plaza, at Parkland and those who said he knew Oswald is stunning.  I know a lot of the names but need to dig some for several I don't remember/have never seen.  Taken together, overall it seems overwhelming he knew something was going to happen.  

    E.G.  I have The Ruby Cover-Up by Kantor, known of his encounter at Parkland for about 35 years.  I'd read somewhere along the line elsewhere of another person seeing him there, a nurse?  Did not know of two other sightings.  Obviously ignored by the Warren Omission.  Was Tice a nurse, who was Roy Stamps?

    There's more!  Carracci & Pecora were associates of Marcello in NOLA. On October 10th Ruby took flight 985 on American Airlines to NOLA, he was seen meeting with Carracci. Weiner was linked to Trafficante & Hoffa. Baker was a bagman for Hoffa & Gruber was one of Hoffa's 'key officials'.  Miller was head of the Southern Conference of Teamsters.  On the 21st., Ruby visited Lawrence Meyers at the Cabana Hotel.  Meyers was with Jean West aka Jean Aase who lived in a Chicago apartment that David Ferrie telephoned on 24th September.  Dallas cabdriver Raymond Cummings informed Garrison that he had driven Ferrie and Oswald to the Carousel in early '63.  Around 8pm on November 23rd., David Ferrie arrived in Galveston, just before the arrival in that town of Ruby's friend Breck Wall, and just before Ruby made a phone call to Galveston.

    As for Mrs. Louis Valez, she and two co-workers saw Ruby walking up and down the street near the TSBD. The 3 women observed Ruby handing a pistol to a man who was identical to LHO. Was this the pistol with the defective firing pin taken from the possession of the man arrested in the Texas Theatre?  Mrs. Valez told her story of Ruby giving Oswald a pistol to her mother (Mrs Evelyn Harris), who was interviewed by FBI agent Manning on 30th November '63. Neither Mrs. Valez nor her co-workers were interviewed by the DPD or FBI.  Also remember Dallas police patrolman Tom G. Tilson Jr., alleged that he saw a man loading a rifle into a vehicle immediately after the assassination.  According to Marrs' 'Crossfire' Tilson immediately recognised the man as Jack Ruby.

    I do not know Wilma Tice's profession.  I had always assumed she was just an onlooker outside Parkland.  As for Roy Stamps, he was a newsman and was in the hall at Parkland when he noticed Ruby enter the hospital.  He said Ruby was carrying some television equipment and trailing behind a tv crew.  Penn Jones was also at Parkland, and he took a photograph that he published in his 'Forgive My Grief', that he claimed contained the image of Ruby.

    This post could go on longer with Ruby's links to witnesses etc., in the Tippit murder case.

  4. 7 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

    I thought Ruby had foreknowledge based primarily on his "let's go watch the fireworks" statement.  All this supports my thoughts.  The you will know me statement to the upper level officers the day before and the bell hop make me wonder how much he knew.  He may have been more involved than I previously believed.  Did he know prior to the assassination he was supposed to kill Oswald afterwards?  If Tippit didn't?  Was he at the Texas Theater?

    Ron, I'm certainly in the 'he was involved camp'.  As for your three question marked sentences, I have no answers.

    Ruby's upsurge in his telephone records and his meetings with known 'mafia' which began in May '63 through to November tell there own story.  Links to Frank Carracci, Nofio Pecora, Harold Tannenbaum, Louis McWillie, Irwin Weiner, Barney Baker, Dusty Miller, Alex Gruber and Paul R. Jones.  On the 20th Nov., Ruby attended a party at Frank Tortoriello's Tanglewood Apartment in Dallas. On the 21st Ruby is at the Cabana Hotel where Eugene Brading and Morgan Brown are checked into Suite 301.

    On the morning of the 22nd we have the sighting by Julia Ann Mercer, who thought the driver in the pickup truck was Ruby.  Garrison also wondered if the man with the gun case could have been Larry Crafard.  Garrison also suspected Crafard of being the Tippit killer, as the man who fled the scene wore a light coloured windbreaker like the one Crafard wears in an FBI photo. (Picture in Groden's 'The Search for LHO'.)  There are many Ruby sightings in the Plaza, not just Mercer.  Jean Hill, Vicky Adams, Avery Davis, Mrs Louis Valez + two co-workers linked Ruby there after the shots. 

    The Ruby denial of his presence at Parkland is also suspicious, clearly seen by Kantor, Tice and Roy Stamps.

    I sit on the fence as to whether Ruby knew prior to the assassination that he was to kill Oswald, but his stalking began that evening and his Wade correction on the 'Fair Play for Cuba'  is another giveaway of his prior knowledge.  Did Ruby know Oswald prior to the 22nd?  Bev Oliver, Carroll Jarnagin, Madeleine Brown, Bill DeMar, Wally Weston, Paul Buccilli, Ester Ann Mash, Little Lynn, Jada, Shari Angel , Bill Willis, William Chesher, Carl Maynard, Jack Sparkman, Rose Cheramie and Rev. Clyde Johnson are in a long list of those who stated Ruby and Oswald were linked.  

  5. On 2/24/2024 at 4:54 AM, Pat Speer said:

    P.S. I'm sorry if that sounded vague. Perhaps some backstory is needed. There is not now, nor has there ever been, a Malcolm Blunt Archives, as an Archives is normally understood. That is, there was no place you could go and talk to a librarian and have her retrieve something, or whatever. What there was was dozens of boxes filled with papers that Malcolm had collected over the years from his many trips to the archives, plus some boxes of videotapes he'd collected and so on. At a certain point he realized he needed to do something with this stuff before he got too old and it all ended up in the trash. So, if memory serves, he donated his materials to the Assassination Archives and Research Center, which in turn hired Bart, for a nominal fee, to scan and place it online. Now I could be wrong. Perhaps he gave it to Dealey Plaza UK and they asked the AARC to chip in or something. But the bottom line is that Malcolm's papers were made available to us all through a group effort. And that is to be commended.

    Pat,  Indeed, not an Archive in the true sense of the word.  Malcolm had his massive stash of papers in filing cabinets and boxes in a location close to his home that Bart was introduced to when he visited Malcolm in Gloucester.  I think it was Bart who insisted that instead of languishing unseen this treasure-trove should be digitised and put on-line for JFKA researchers to access.  Which is what he undertook over the following years, loading these docs onto Dealey Plaza U.K.'s website.

    Also in Malcolm's possession was Harrison Livingstone's research papers, (if memory serves the two had worked together at some point in time) & the intention was to put these in a shipping container & send it back to the States, possibly for the A.A.R.C.  I'm not certain of these details & have asked Bart to clarify if & when Livingstone's archive was sent back across the pond.  I know of nobody hiring Bart for his tireless efforts on this project, but again I'm not certain.  However, massive kudos to Uncle Malcolm for all his time spent in the U.S. researching this case, and Bart for the years spent loading this goldmine onto D.P.U.K.'s pages!

  6. 53 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

    I also was not aware that Oswald reportedly shook his head (back and forth?) when on the jail office floor after being shot when asked if he had anything to say by officer Combest.  I think I'd read someone tried to get him to confess.  But I thought there was no response at all. 

    After the shot, the deputy explained to McClelland, when Oswald was on the ground, he got on his hands and knees and put his face right over Oswald’s.

    “I said, ‘Son, you’re hurt real bad. Do you wanna say anything?’ ” the deputy said. “He looked at me for a second. He waited, like he was thinking. Then he shook his head back and forth just as wide as he could. Then he closed his eyes.”

  7. Q. The bullet you found was more European? 
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    A. Yeah, it was more round nosed than a 303 or a 30.06 or 
     anything like that. 

    Interesting that Pool's description fits CE399 & doesn't fit with O.P. Wright's description of a bullet with a pointed tip that he told to Mark Lane.

    I'm sure I've read that Tomlinson passed the found bullet to Wright, but Pool states Tomlinson passed the bullet to a Secret Service agent.
     

  8. 10 hours ago, David Von Pein said:

    "Evidence Does Not Support Theory Of Oswald Conspiracy"

    Well, you can't fool all the people all of the time.  The Barnum effect is manifested in response to statements that are called "Barnum statements", meaning that general characterizations attributed to an individual are perceived to be true for them, even though the statements are such generalizations that they could apply to almost anyone.

    So, the man who admired JFK had a bad night & spirited his cranky Carcano into his workplace to kill the president. Let's ignore the many Plaza sightings by witnesses of two men together with scoped rifle on the 6th floor of the TSBD just prior to the arrival of the motorcade.  Bang..........Bang...Bang went the three shots.  So LHO blasts away from his 6th floor sniper's nest and in the blink of an eye fires again from behind the grassy knoll and then poses as a S.S. agent to confront Joe Smith, who could also smell gunpowder behind the knoll.    Let's also ignore Sen. Ralph Yarborough D-Tex., riding three cars behind Kennedy, also reporting smelling gunpowder when the vice-president's car passed the knoll area, he stated he didn't think that possible if the shot came from the 6th floor of the TSBD.  Let's ignore Kellerman's flurry of shots and accept they were all fragments of FMJ ballistics, that must also have winged James Tague & hit the street that Decker & others witnessed or the fragments that gouged out concrete next to man-hole covers.  Let's ignore the blow out evulsion wound to the occipital region of JFK's skull and the tiny metal fragments seen on x-rays etc. Let's ignore Perry's expert professional medical knowledge that witnessed a 3-5mm diameter wound of entry in JFK's throat.  Let's ignore the lack of evidence of Jack Ruby's D.P.D. basement entry to kill Oswald and accept his ridiculous stated reasons for doing so.

    All this, despite the opinions of the many Warren Commission theorists who believe otherwise.

  9. 21 hours ago, John Kowalski said:

    Hi Pete:

    MK-Ultra sub-project # 103 was created to study European children to see if they could be used in future CIA operations.

    https://www.newspapers.com/article/abilene-reporter-news-mkultra-and-childr/7536363/

    https://humansbefree.com/2017/06/cia-using-mk-ultra-mind-control-on-children.html

    Cheers John, you're still the master of the newspaper archives!  I have no trouble accepting the study & mind-control of children through project MK/Ultra.  Nothing would surprise me in that field by CIA.

    I also respect Armstrong's depth of research, along with Jim's posts on this Forum, which I always read.  I admit there are records and photographs of this monumental switcheroo I have no explanation for.  It's the logic of this supposed intell. op., running for years with false brothers and mothers to have one assume the i.d. of the other to defect behind the iron curtain for CIA just to languish in a Minsk radio plant & then burn up on re-entry as a patsy in the JFK assassination.  Saying that, this isn't the only aspect of this case that I can't get my head around.  Probably why the fascination.

     

  10. 15 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

    Did the Jack Ruby signed Carousel Club business card shown to Chris by his grandaddy have the message you cite anywhere on the card? "Everyone's going to know who Jack Ruby is soon." ?

    I don't feel Jack Ruby would ever write something like that down on any card or document ever.

    Joe, "Everyone's going to know who Jack Ruby is soon", is what he said to the bell-boy as he signed the back of the card.

  11. On 2/8/2024 at 2:24 AM, Ron Bulman said:

    On the day before Kennedy's assassination . . . in the Dallas County District Attorney's Office.  One officer, Dallas Police lieutenant W.F. Dyson, later told the Warren Commission that it was here that he and other officers encountered a short, stocky nightclub owner who was going out of his way to make their acquaintance.  Dyson overheard this man - Jack Ruby - tell the officers, "You probably don't know me, but you will".

    Ron, D.P.U.K. recently had a Zoom presentation with U.S. researcher Chris Gallop.  He told us that his Grandfather was a bell-boy working in the Adolphus Hotel, where Ruby would often enter to pass out his business card to tout for customers for his Carousel Club just across the street.  So, Chris' Grandfather knew Ruby by sight and shortly before the big event JR came into the Adolphus and passed the bell-boy his business card.  Jack then signed it on the reverse side saying something like "everyone's going to know who Jack Ruby is soon."

    When Chris became interested in the JFK case years later, Grandaddy gave him an old envelope containing Ruby's signed business card.  A cute piece of memorabilia he has in a glass case which he displayed to us on the Zoom session.

  12. Gerry's original photo shows the '63 County jail building, circled in red on the right side of the picture.  The building stands on the corner of Main & Houston & next to the County Records Bldg., on Houston.  The Dallas sheriff's office was also in the County Jail bldg., with their car park behind the north knoll., where gunfire, gun smoke & smell of gunpowder was detected on the 22nd., when Decker's men were taking no part in the security detail for JFK's visit, just stood on the sidewalk on the corner of Main & Houston to see the parade pass.

    Situated on the 6th floor of the County jail was a holding cell where on the 22nd John Powell along with around 20 inmates are reported as observing two men on the 6th floor of the TSBD, prior to the arrival of the motorcade.  The men in brown clothing seen by Powell so clearly he could observe the adjusting of the rifle's scope.  

  13. 1 hour ago, James Keane said:

    Most important thing is the link between the killer’s hands and the fingerprints - which you present a compelling case for using her interview. Again - great find!

    I agree James.

    ....and 'just one more thing', I've long thought that Greg Doudna is the nearest thing to Lieutenant Columbo that we have in this Forum!

  14. 6 hours ago, Jamey Flanagan said:

    Groody also said he heard the agents saying that they didn't know who that was in the casket. Maybe they were fingerprinting him to see if it was really Lee Harvey Oswald and not a replacement sent to Russia to spy on them.

    Or, to see if it was really LHO and not a replacement sent to the U.S. to spy on them.

    It is an interesting thought, especially considering Marina has been described as a 'swallow' by Soviet agency in Minsk.  We know Marina was previously in Leningrad hooking into U.S. defector Webster.  Did U.S. intelligence know of this by the 24th Nov?  Quite possibly if Marina's address book had been scrutinised over the previous 48hrs.

    As Gerry states above, The Russians seem to be good at producing doubles.

  15. On 12/25/2023 at 6:09 PM, Pamela Brown said:

    David pontificates far and wide, imo, in his distress over John having been rushed to cremation, and cremated at all, as that was against John's wishes...without, however, mentioning where the cremation took place...pp 176-178

    Also, in David's 'recap' on pp 186-187 he mentions the rush to John's cremation without citing just where it took place...

    Why is that?

    Is David being intentionally vague, or does he not know?

    Would revealing the location give us information he does not want his readers to have?

    If so, why?

     

    Not sure what you are getting at.  What information do you think could be revealing with regards to the location of a cremation?

    It was at the Ferncliff Crematorium, Hartsdale, N.Y.  Attended by Yoko's employed security guard Doug McDougall.  Disturbingly, after years of close shadowing of Lennon and suspected phone tapping by the FBI, Yoko employed McDougall who was ex-FBI.

    Interestingly, he and other security personnel, all managed by Yoko, all not on duty on 8th December.

  16. 16 hours ago, Pamela Brown said:

    Regarding the position of the gunshots in the wood and glass windbreak, Goldman, of all people, has an answer...

    The first two shots caught Lennon in the back and spun him around. (p684)

    I've never read Goldman, so my only comment would be, how does he know the first two shots caught Lennon in the back and spun him around.  The Roosevelt surgeon & nurses describe 4 entries from the front from relatively close range, upper left chest.  Are those bullet holes in the vestibule glass too low.  With these doors opening inwards I wonder how Chapman's shot position could cause these holes.

    The kicker is that this was another open and shut case, the perp admitted his guilt on site and so it seems the NYPD didn't require any detailed follow up investigation.  Hence the anomalies and confusions today.

  17. 16 hours ago, Pamela Brown said:

    With all due respect, I disagree. I have spent time at the Dakota as well.  There was plenty of room for the limo in the Dakota driveway and courtyard and it would have been the logical place for them to exit, especially at night...  

    This was also told to me by a garage attendant I spoke with who was there that afternoon and evening.  In addition, there is a statement by 'audio' on the Steve Hoffman forum that says the same thing:

    https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/lennons-death-lingers-for-witnesses.66941/

    I think it was common knowledge that the limo drove into the Dakota courtyard for the Lennons to exit. They did not have their regular driver, and what happened the night of Dec. 8, 1980 was an anomaly....

    Thanks for that Pamela.  It's interesting that at 17:30 the Lennon's limousine failed to turn up to take them to the Record Plant, so they had to share a cab with others.  This is when Chapman got his copy of Double Fantasy signed, photographed by Paul Goresh.  David's book just states that the driver of the limo back from the Record Plant is unknown.

    Also interesting in that Hoffman piece is this:-"Where's Lennon?" Cullen asked. The rock star was crumpled inside a nearby vestibule, blood pouring from his chest. There were bullet holes in the glass; Cullen went to Lennon's side as Spiro cuffed the gunman.

    That is not where Lennon was according to David's book....in the back office of the concierge area, with testimonies and photographs showing blood on the floor.  It remains strange that hollow points were causing entry & exit wounds.

    Whatever went on at the Dakota, I find 'Mind Games' the best publication to date on Chapman's biography, pre and post December 1980.

  18. On November 12 this year, after Aynesworth was admitted to the UT Southwestern emergency room, doctors determined he had suffered a stroke months before. After a week at the hospital and a week in rehab, he returned home on November 25.

    Earlier this month, his wife, Paula Aynesworth, decided he needed to enter hospice care.

    He died Saturday at home. Aynesworth was 92.

  19. 17 hours ago, Pamela Brown said:

    I have just received David's book.  I am looking for the section on the limousine.  I am sure, when I find it, that it will delve into the mysteries of just who was driving the Lennons that night and why they did not make sure to drive them into the center courtyard of the Dakota, where they could have safely disembarked...

    It is not out of the question (positing that Chapman was a man can) that the limo driver was intentionally negligent...

    Who was driving Lennon that night remains a mystery.  However, I've read that the Dakota driveway is too tight for a large limo's easy ingress & egress.

    I've stood outside the Dakota myself in the 90's and seen the arrival of people exiting a limo on the street & walking across the sidewalk into the entranceway, so it's probably the usual thing, then and now. 

  20. 3 hours ago, Pamela Brown said:

    If there were 'no witnesses' how do we know just where Chapman was standing in relationship to John?

    There were four witnesses who saw Chapman and doorman Perdomo after shots were heard.  All four place Chapman at the left side of the entrance of the driveway (the doorman booth side).  Perdomo & Chapman also stated same.  Chapman also said he was twenty feet away from Lennon when he fired shots.

    Why were two different types of bullets recovered from John's autopsy, 1 x hollow point & 1 x 38cal?

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