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Yeah, great addition...edited by John Kelin who put together Praise from a future generation which is a must. Is Salandria still alive?

Cheers Ron. Since posting I've discovered The Assassinations tucked away on my Kindle!! Maybe it's senility creeping in. + those four additions are great books too which I have.

I have never discovered any statement from DPD or Sheriff officers who discovered the Carcano (or Mauser) stating that they sniffed the barrel to prove that their discovery had been fired. Strange that!

Fancy picking Mellen's book on the Garrison case instead of Destiny Betrayed.....even after you signed my copy! I'll get my coat.

The Assassinations anthology isn't one I have, so thanks for the recommendation. Can't see it on Amazon, so can you give me details? I have Destiny Betrayed & The JFK Assassination. The Prouty book title I have is The CIA, Vietnam & the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy (2009) which I assume is the same book. I also have The Secret Team.

Cheers Kishan, I have all on your list....the latter two signed by the authors.

As an avid reader of assassination books, and ready to receive recommendations from the many knowledgeable members of this forum....what publications on this subject do you consider essential inclusions to a library. Attempting to be brief, here are some of mine to start the ball rolling. (I don't say I go along with the full theories of some of these, but value the depth of research.) Accessories after the fact. Sylvia Meagher. Best Evidence. David Lifton. JFK Ordeal in Africa. Richard Mahoney. Crossfire. Jim Marrs. All of John Newman's books. Deep politics & death of JFK. Peter Dale Scott. Bloody Treason. Noel Twyman. Harvey & Lee. John Armstrong. Farewell to Justice. Joan Mellen. JFK & the Unspeakable. James Douglass. Into the Nightmare. Joe McBride. Inside the A.R.R.B. (5 Vols.) Doug Horne. The Incubus of Intervention. Greg Poulgrain. + on Kindle The Master Chronology set. Walt Brown.

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Joe, thanks for your comments. I'm no researcher, just an avid book reader on the case. After all the years collecting & reading assassination books I think my vision of events are more cloudy with time! The one thing I am convinced about is JFK got his head blown off in Dallas by shooters (plural) the rest of the case is ambiguous. Tippit's murder too. But that's why we debate this after all this time. Not sure how you look so much younger in this interview than your Forum pic?

Cliff, according to James Jenkins Humes & Fink had the body in a more or less sitting position to probe the back wound. Boswell made the Y incision while JFK's body was flat on the slab. Jenkins assisted Boswell with the removal of most major organs, intestines, heart, lungs etc, etc and weighing of same and entering data on the face sheet. Humes removed the brain which was passed to Boswell and Jenkins for them to infuse with formalin in bucket.

Joseph, really enjoyed that interview, + I.T.N. which I read some years back. I have a couple of points to ask. 1) You mentioned Clemmons i.d. of the Tippit shooter, short stocky guy, that you intimated could have been Ruby. What are your thoughts on Seth Kantor's i.d. of Ruby at Parkland? 2) Also mentioned taxi cab driver Whaley's drive timing. I have heard Bart Kamp's belief that the cab ride never happened. + do you think Roger Craig's sighting in the Plaza was correct, and/or are you thinking along the lines of two Oswalds leaving the T.S.B.D.?

Somewhere in my distant memory cells I think I read that around 64-65 Dylan travelled through the States in the back seat of a car driven by...maybe Bob Neuwirth, and they made a stop in Dallas & visited Dealey Plaza.

That's brilliant Chris and interesting. Not just McFarland speak no evil, but according to Greg Parker the Aussie girls Winston & Mumford kept clammed up as well. You can just hear the Feebees "we strongly advise you DO NOT speak to anyone of this!"

Just by coincidence one of the U.K. tv channels had a programme on Monroe's death just the other evening. Look forward to your review James. The programme had it as another 'case closed' with RFK's two visits & him sending in the doctor with a fatal injection, witnessed by an L.A. cop + even Lawford later pointing the finger at the Kennedys.

Greg Parker's post on D.P.U.K.'s FB page referencing this thread:- Amazing how both sides of the "debate" are avoiding directly answering each other. They are all stuck in the same LN/CT tar-pit. Lance makes some good points while still assiduously missing the target. So why are these points being avoided like... oh I don't know, some sort of pandemic that needs social distancing? On the CT side, the CIA is not allowed to run operations internally. That should be enough to set off alarm bells right there. But does it? Of course not. As I have pointed out in the past, Jack Cason had been a former Commander of the American Legion, Post #53 in Dallas. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do… As I have also pointed out, both Roy Truly and his long-time side-kick Bill Shelley, worked in defense plants during WWII. Truly testified that he work for North American Aviation. Mr. BELIN. And then what? Mr. TRULY. I worked on through that time until the present time. During the war I worked in the North American plant at Arlington. Mr. BELIN. That is the North American Aviation? Mr. TRULY. North American Aviation plant at Arlington, for around 14 months, at night. But I continued to hold my job. Well, I would go down to work 2, 3, 4 hours a day. Shortly after that, I took charge of all the shipping. Well, I have been superintendent of the operation since some time in the late 1944. Shelley did not name which facility he worked at but North American Aviation seems a safe assumption since Shelley ended up working at the TSBD after the war and both were very much into show dogs. So you have a director who had been a long time Commander of a local American Legion Post and another director and a section manager who had both worked in a defense plant. What's the big deal about that? The FBI. The FBI Plant Informant Program ran from 1940 to 1969. In 1942, this program had nearly 24,000 confidential informants in nearly 4000 defense plants. The American Legion Contact Program ran from 1940 to 1954. This program used Legion members as confidential sources. But even after it closed the program, FBI Field Offices were instructed to maintain contact with Legion Officials. Background checks were conducted on such sources. You can read more about both programs here https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html… It seems a safe assumption that both Truly and Shelley had been involved in the FBI Plant Informant program and that Cason had been involved in the Legion Contact Program - and it follows that a close working relationship with the FBI continued between all players and the company they worked for. Given that the FBI did background checks on potential informants in these type programs, the Glaze letter stating that two female employees were questioned by the FBI during the process of applying to work for the company may well be within the bounds of possibility. Shelley claiming to be CIA on the other hand was nothing but braggadocio to impress a gullible cub reporter. He had very likely though, been an FBI informant during the war - along with Truly and Cason - and they and the company simply maintained ties to the FBI, bringing the TSBD into the fold of places housing "confidential informants". The CIA angle is garbage - and therefore, so far as the piece on Kennedy and King goes - it is a matter of garbage in - garbage out. The only question is, can either side at the 13" Head Forum bring themselves to admit they were ALL wrong? I won't hold my breath. maryferrell.org showDoc.html

I am convinced that like BLEDSOE and WHALEY, these people were given what was needed to be said. I think so too, in fact it seems to me that Albert Osborne was the only one talking straight. & why those reports quoting Bowen, when the Feds knew that was the alias of Osborne? Add Phillips & Goodpasture in M.C. to the mix & we have a big bowl of spaghetti! I already had the McFarland obit, but cheers!

Yeah John, I too thought my post was a bit crazy after sticking it on here, Zgurita being so far from Severodvinsk. I did more Wiki surfing today around White Sea area but drew a blank too. I find this thread very interesting, always considered John Armstrong's research fascinating. With over 80 pages here I'll be some time to catch up!

In Romanian it is called Zguritza. This was a Jewish settlement in northern Bessarabia, located 20 km from the capital Soroka. It was established in 1853 on leased agricultural land.

Leaving aside the delightful Judyth and her love affair with Lee/Harvey/Henry/O.H. the comment from Rose Cheramie that Ossie & Ruby were 'bedfellows' is interesting. Oswald had early contact with Ferrie in the Civil Air Patrol, and were Ferrie's orgies with C.A.P. members once investigated by the cops? In 63 Oswald is around Ferrie and Clay Shaw, both confirmed homosexuals. Ruby shares his apartment with George Senator in Oak Cliff who Seth Kantor describes as once married but who preferred male company. If I recall correctly some fellow Marines thought Oswald somewhat limp wristed too. With JVB's Mills & Boon tale and his marriage to Marina....did the accused assassin swing it both ways?

Sean, Check out the Mexico City thread. David has links on his post on page one which links to his research @ KennedysandKing Keep you busy for quite some time!

but if my thought-dreams could be seen, they'd probably put my head in a guillotine, but it's alright Ma, it's life an' life only.

Lots of points here Joe! Let me say Ian Griggs was a U.K. uniform & C.I.D. police officer. He not only attended Lancer, but also ASK, COPA & 4th Decade. He knew the structure & quite a bit of the history of the DPD. His interviews of assassination related personnel included Bobby Hargis, Jim Leavelle, Chuck Brehm, Jean Hill, Ed Hoffman, Bill Newman, Aubrey Rike, Johnny Calvin Brewer...the list goes on and on. His Lancer presentation in 2013 was 'Jack Ruby & the DPD'. Your question " are you of the view that Jack Ruby was provided some access assistance into the Dallas PD building the morning of 11,24,1963? After his presentation Ian was asked this very question. Ian stated that without solid evidence nobody knows, but he did think that the scene was one of chaos. As it was all weekend with not just the press all over the building but Ruby too. To misquote Hamlet, there was certainly something rotten in the state of Texas. As for my own views, I'm probably like yourself, a long time avid book reader on the case. The DPD in the 60's, just like in the U.K., had police corruption, maybe not the cop on the beat, but amongst the higher ups. I'm sure the DPD reflected the wider populous in regard to political and racial affiliations. Finally my thoughts on Henry Wade concur with other posts on this forum. It is well known he did not have great regard for solid investigations of crimes, his aim was a guilty verdict.

With all his g'zillions of fans, if [Dylan] had spoken up early, worlds could have turned upside down. Oh yeah, if Zimmy came out with a Murder Most Foul in the 1960's maybe HIS world could have turned upside down! With Hoover and Cointelpro + LBJ & Operation Chaos Bobby may well have experienced the kind of hassle meted out to Lennon in the '70's & we know what happened there!