Pete Mellor

Nice one Anthony. Lesley Sharp contacted me last year asking about John Howard Bowen. So I am looking forward to this book too. Cheers!

A first test screening of the film Dr. Strangelove was scheduled for November 22, 1963. The film was just weeks from its scheduled premiere, but because of the assassination, the release was delayed until late January 1964, as it was felt that the public was in no mood for such a film any sooner.

Ben, no cognitive bias with me BUT I did like Greg's piece on that wallet at the Tippit scene. The wallet at the Tippit scene: a simpler solution? - JFK Assassination Debate - The Education Forum (ipbhost.com) I also consider the amount of setting up/sheep dipping of LHO in NOLA & Dallas as a patsy, with rifle & sniper's nest accoutrements etc necessitated preventing his day in court, hence Ruby. If Ossie knew or suspected anything prior to 22nd Nov is anyone's guess.

Joe, according to Mellon, Wallace was hired by Ling Electronics in Anaheim, California in February '61 & he was living in Orange County, having left son Michael and daughter Meredithe with his ex wife Andre in Texas. "On that June weekend when Marshall was murdered, Mac entertained his brother Harold David Wallace and his family. It was the weekend after the Dallas public schools had recessed for summer vacation. David, as he was known, brought along not only his own children, but Mac's son, Michael, who had not seen his father since he had moved to California. Michael was to celebrate his thirteenth birthday at the end of the month, and welcomed this oppertunity to celebrate with his father. The weekend was memorable for another reason. He was being taken to Disneyland by his father and uncle. Harold David Wallace, his family, and Michael arrived in Anaheim on June 2, the day before Henry Marshall was murdered. Later Harold recounted that they had spent June 3 at the beach. "We were there all day long, along with Mac, until evening," he said." I believe that Billie Sol Estes stated at one time that there were two killers of Henry Marshall. Perhaps Mr Caddy knows more of this.

I reckon you can take that to the bank Greg!

I recently obtained a copy of Joan Mellon's 'Faustian Bargains' (2016) from Malcolm Blunt's collection. In that publication she covers LBJ & Mac Wallace's biographies and associations. The book also covers the so called Wallace fingerprint discovered on a box on the 6th floor of the TSBD. Originally investigated by DPD Officer J. Harrison with Walt Brown. It was these two that had Nathan Darby examine a photocopy of the TSBD print with a copy of Wallace's prints from Austin taken at the time of the Kinser case. Darby declared matching points. Harrison & Brown also employed E. Hoffmeister to confirm Darby's findings. After agreeing with Darby's verdict, Hoffmeister retracted. Mellon re-investigated the so called Wallace print & discovered that Darby's fingerprint examiner accreditation had expired at the time of working for Harrison & Brown. She employed a Robert Garrett a certified latent print examiner from Denver. After seeing the copies of the prints that Darby had worked with, he declared them too poor quality to obtain certain results, so Mellon got high quality copy of the Wallace print from NARA and better quality Wallace prints from U.S. Marine Corp that Wallace had submitted during WWII. According to Garrett there was no match from Wallace's prints to the TSBD print. Mellon also obtained a statement from Wallace's son who was just a schoolboy in Nov. '63. He recalls JFK's assassination & states that he was living with his father in California at that time. Mac Wallace was employed at Ling Electronics and son Michael remembers his father returning home from work that day. The above calls into serious question statements of Madeleine Brown of Wallace on a shooting range in Dallas days prior to events in Dealey Plaza. Also, many link LBJ to the plot with the Wallace fingerprint link. Then there is the man seen with horn-rim glasses on the 6th floor & walking along Houston St., that many suspect to be Mac Wallace. 'The Men on the Sixth Floor' by Sample & Collom also include Wallace as a shooter. It appears, if Joan Mellon's work is kosher, that the fingerprint remains unidentified.

Steve, that's Robert Webster, working on plastics for Rand. Gary Hill reports that Marina had Hill's address in Leningrad prior to her meet up with Oswald in Minsk!

Thanks so much Jim! I wrote to the parole board last March from the U.K. for clemency in this case. Your K's&K piece has allowed me to follow up with e-mail to Gov. Newsom. Wouldn't surprise me if parole is turned down, but I feel better after the communication.

No. It was too fragmented to identify microscopic striations unique to Sirhan’s firearm.

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Yeah, & didn't Helms state that many pages in the Oswald file were destroyed right after the assassination.

Agree! As always, very logical analysis Greg. Thanks.

Good stuff Greg! Shame neither Martin or Lane got Clemons to give a description of the killers clothing, but short & heavy isn't Oswald.

Jim, There are so many reasons that can be attached for reasons behind Dallas as we all know. For me, one topic that is rarely aired is Indonesia. Having read Poulgrain's 'JFK vs Allen Dulles' although he was no longer Director, Dulles' plans for the coup against Sukarno and his secret knowledge of the billions in natural resources, it was vital for these plans that JFK was no longer in the White House.

Mentioning LeMay...something I only recently came across, but which could well have stoked LeMay's ire was a project that in 1963 had run for 17 years and had by then cost around $7 billion. Between the U.S.A.F. and the Atomic Energy Commission efforts were made to launch a nuclear powered aircraft! Faced with objections relating to the dangers of flying over cities, it was scrapped by JFK at the time of the Partial (Atmospheric) Test Ban Treaty in '63.

Yeah Richard, many of your thoughts have crossed my mind too. Although I wrote to the Parole Board earlier this year I was ignorant of the rigmarole involved. Sure, in U.K. a parole decision is then sent up to the Home Secretary for his final yea or nay. American jail terms are much longer. Here a life term is somewhere around 20-25 years, so after over fifty years behind bars I tend to think it is well past time for clemency. Many on this Forum hold strong suspicions of MK/Ultra involvement, so yes, there could still be interests in keeping a lid on things.

Micah, Bart's e-mail reply on your query;- Livingstone medical work stays under lock and key for now. Some of it will be released next year, but some will only be released when my work on a specific area is done which is what I am going to do as soon as my Anatomy papers are out. I will start with the med stuff in Jan next year, no idea how long it will take to get my specific medical research done. But some of the stuff will be out next year.

Below is the link to Bart's You Tube collection. The earlier conversation with Malcolm is there. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAG--Ai7Xh56gr6nxnX-24A

Another belated tell all of an affair with JFK. One of many. I judge JFK as a president. An esteemed world statesman, liberal, environmentalist, advocate of world peace etc. No, not perfect....who is? Times change and I don't go too judgemental on the morals of figures of history. It's sad that a lot of news believers will judge, when we know that so many of JFK's contemporaries were holding skeletons in their closets, never really reported, that were many times more darker than JFK's love life.

The law requires that for conviction of a criminal offense, the jury must be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt. If there is a reasonable doubt, then the jury must find the accused not guilty. In my own jury I have trouble with a guilty verdict. 1) The autopsy evidence from Noguchi does not allow Sirhan to have fired the shot into RFK's head from witnesses testimony relating to Sirhan's position in front of the victim. 2) Bullet holes in RFK's clothing, originating below and traversing upwards also could not be fired from Sirhan's position. 3) The total wounds of victims in the pantry + recovered bullet holes in the pantry exceed the Iver-Johnson chamber'. 4) Even under hypnosis the accused had no recall of events in the pantry. 5) Many witnesses gave testimony of Sirhan being accompanied by a 'girl in a poka-dot dress'. Strangely never located after the event. 6) Like the investigations in Dallas and Memphis, the LAPD had their man and case closed. Yes Steve, sadly I have little confidence in Sirhan being released.

Ron, yes I agree, the video is full of interesting info. Malcolm Blunt is a walking gold mine. I've had the pleasure of a one to one talk with him & his knowledge is encyclopaedic! Over recent weeks Malcolm has had his JFK library, along with assorted pamphlets etc., for sale to DPUK members. More are on the way too. A revised list of stuff available will soon be posted on DPUK's FB site, available to anyone. Bart has been digitising Malcolm's files for some time now. New stuff is added almost daily. You can search our database for free.(Dealey Plaza U.K.) I missed their first talk. If I find the link I'll let you know. The next one is sometime in September, which I will add to this thread. Glad to pass on your thanks!

Diana de Vegh said she first met Kennedy in 1958 when she was 20 years old at a ballroom in Boston, where he was on a re-election tour for senator. “The senator was standing directly across the table. And he was looking … at me. ‘Oh, God, don’t let me blush’, I prayed. Useless, of course,” she wrote in an essay published in Air Mail News on Saturday. “Give me your seat, so a tired old man can sit next to a pretty girl,” she recalled him saying to her date. Ms De Vegh, a student at the time, said he would often tell her she was “special” and had a “spark”. “‘I’m expecting great things from you, ya know.’ Always laughing, always looking at me in what I hoped was a special way,” she wrote. “I didn’t realise then that I’d simply been netted, separated from the other students, who might have offered some emotional ballast in this situation.” She said the #MeToo movement “has provided a specific context for needed re-evaluation,” as she reflected on the “inequality and idealisation” of being in a relationship with the president, who was assassinated in 1963. The affair reportedly continued for about four years.

I checked out the U.K. teletext last thing last night and whooped when I read the parole board hearing decision. Then I read the second page about the final say going to the California Governor, and that didn't give me a good feeling. I did write to the Parole Board months back, as per Lisa P's recommendations. Reading Richard's posts above, I'm going to try to keep optimistic, cockeyed or not.

Nice one W. It rocks!