Pete Mellor

Very best wishes for a speedy recovery Chris. Seems ages since we last met in Canterbury.

Agree, essential reading.

D.P.U.K., ahead of the game, has included a Hot Springs Village Voice article by Jeff Meek in the latest 'Dealey Plaza Echo'. Jeff uncovered a 2022 document release which covers an interview from '78 by Gaeton Fonzi with retired CIA officer Joseph Burkholder Smith. Meek's verdict on Smith's statements to Fonzi is "it's more confirmation of operations going on that connect Lee Oswald to the CIA and the cover-up that followed." (D.P.U.K. members have received a double 60th anniversary special edition with parts one & two of their excellent journal.)

Thanks David. Great to hear Evelyn Lincoln.

& there's more. From Nancy Weiford's recent 'Dealey Plaza Echo' article she quotes from Frazier's 2021 autobiography 'Steering Truth' where he tells of leaving the front steps after the shooting to follow Shelley & Lovelady toward the railroad yards along the street directly in front of the Depository. Without reaching the yards he decided to turn back, but before he could turn around, he suddenly was startled by a man walking east and holding a rifle.

I have recently become a committee member of Britain's U3A charity organisation and almost by accident gave a presentation on the JFKA, which has resulted in my name & this topic being added to the U.K. register of U3A speakers. As a result I have bookings for 2024 from local U3A groups. What books do I recommend is a question that I have been asked. As the U3A is primarily for retired members of the older generation, my talk, lasting just over an hour, features photographs and film and press reports etc., just on historical factual information, with hardly a mention of LHO or the killing of Officer Tippit. I can only include the whys of the Texas trip, the Fort Worth breakfast, the Dallas motorcade, Dealey Plaza and Parkland. I hardly have time to take a breath to fit that in inside the allotted time. However, I have been very surprised at the response, with post presentation Q & A's lasting almost as long as the presentation itself. So, for this age demographic, most like myself, alive and remember JFK as president and the event in Dallas, what further reading do I recommend. I point interest to 'Crossfire' and 'JFK & the Unspeakable' depending on their prior level of knowledge & availability of these books.

Another Jenkins statement @ Lancer 2013, "My attention was such that I had to be aware of the needs of the pathologist, that was my purpose for being there, so my attention was focussed on that table on whatever they asked for help with. At the conclusion of the autopsy, my personal ideas of the things that I said, I was sure that the entrance wound was above the right ear and that the large wound in the back of the head was an exit wound."

FWIW, Jenkins related @ Lancer in 2013, "The other thing I noticed was the brain stem, where the brain stem was cut to remove it from the cranium, the brain stem looked like it had been cut from two different sides, from each side met in the middle. I can relate that because if you've ever tried to cut something from the right side and go back and cut it from the left side it never, almost invariably never is the same level and this is what the brain stem looked like. You know, I've been asked many times about this and did I think that the brain had been removed prior to the autopsy? Taking into consideration the abnormal things that I just described, I feel like it was."

Joe, Clark referred to Godfrey McHugh not LeMay.

Apologies for jumping onto this Newman thread but unable to find any other appropriate topic, I came across a series of reports on CIA projects/operations where this was listed. Totally new to me. Any thoughts? Project Mockingbird was a warrantless wiretapping operation carried out on the orders of President John F. Kennedy between March and June of 1963. It was kept under wraps until 2001.

Send stamped self addressed envelope to a Mr. V. Putin, c/o The Kremlin, Moscow, Russia.

I do follow David's investigative work on the Lennon case and always appreciate Paul's input on many threads, but this is a Forum where there are many contrary views and opinions on many controversial topics. I do find Michael's input to the JFK case very valuable. While he considers other questioning of official verdicts as 'craziness', he is welcome to that opinion. The Lennon killing has never been properly investigated in relation to Chapman's background, in the same way that Sirhan's part in RFK's assassination has been ignored by official investigative agencies. To quote MG, can you imagine what your average educated person will think when they visit this forum and come across the topic of CIA's MK/Ultra? I have read Michael's posts on many topics ranging from the state of Israel, the USS Liberty to climate change, and I could debate the issues surrounding Dianna Spencer's death too. However, whether posts posit conspiracy or otherwise it is all part of the soup of this forum and all members have the right to give their two penneth...or cents worth.

Interview with British barrister Fenton Bresler from 1989 on topic of his book 'Who Killed John Lennon'. https://davidwhelan.substack.com/p/author-fenton-bresler-discusses-john?utm_campaign=email-post&r=28c1rs&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#details

I'm reporting what the trauma room surgeon said who worked on Lennon, i.e. "John Lennon was shot four times in his left front chest, with three bullets coming out of his left back - at close range. He was murdered by a deranged fan of the Beatles. So the MSM reported, however in 1980 Chapman was a fan of Todd Rundgren. Chapman was a nobody. Yes, a low paid security guard who could afford to travel the world as well as stalk Lennon, flying from Hawaii to NY twice, once via Chicago staying in top hotels. Sure, I agree with you, it's another open and shut case! Chapman was there, witnessed by the doorman, and confessed to the killing. So too was Sirhan, he was there in the pantry, shooting, in front of witnesses, killing a liberal anti-war advocate. Sirhan had his mantra 'RFK Must Die'. Chapman's mantra was his Catcher in the Rye. Michael, I don't have answers, but I certainly have questions. As Jim Marrs wrote in my copy of Crossfire, 'Pete, always question authority'.

Look forward to your review. D.P.U.K. have printed my review in their two part 60th Special Edition of the 'Dealey Plaza Echo'. As I wrote in that review, Bart's work is covering much more than 'a fuzzy picture'.

Man, I avoid these types of threads, shooters, bullets, trajectories, wounds etc. 😵‍💫 However, if the JFKA was caused by an accidental flurry of shots by a SS agent, why did CIA send LHO to USSR & have him dance around Dallas & New Orleans with his FPCC Pro/Anti-Castro quick step, then rig impersonated Embassy phone calls in MC while arranging the loco call on Ms Odio? What made LHO a 'useful idiot'?

Speaking in 2011, Dr. David Halleran says John Lennon was shot four times in his left front chest, with three bullets coming out of his left back - at close range. Chapman was 25 feet behind Lennon.

Yes, this Main St. pic is one that I copied, as well as the Hotel Texas Chamber of Commerce audience photo. My presentation on the assassination, concentrating on the 22nd November from Fort Worth to Parkland has been very well received and now have many bookings for 2024. The interest in this topic is very strong in Manchester U.K.

Bart Kamp interview Out of the Blank. Also, 'Prayer Man: More Than A Fuzzy Picture' is now available at Barnes & Noble.

Thanks for these Ron. Lots of photographs I've never seen before. I have added a few to my 'JFK Assassination' Powerpoint presentation.

At Lancer in 2003 I had breakfast with Lawrence Teeter and we spoke about Sirhan's seeming hypnotic state during and after RFK's killing. He was very interested in hearing about fellow lawyer Fenton Bresler's book on the Lennon murder. We spoke for 20 minutes or so, but like Pat's post, I didn't have any recording equipment with me. At the same conference I spent some time with Dennis David, we sat by the hotel pool while he was being interviewed by a film crew. James Hosty and Skip Rydberg were there too. A decade later, even though I did have a recorder this time, I didn't have it to hand while sat with Beverley Oliver. Hindsight.

Correct.

Bullets, shells, hulls, fragments...whatever. I hold very little interest in Landis' so called revelations, sixty years on. What I find interesting though is the fact that the nearest SS agents to JFK's limousine are Landis & Hill on the port & starboard running boards of the Queen Mary & both agents were assigned to the protection of Jackie Kennedy! No need to include the frozen statue that was Roy Kellerman.

???? Karl, what good reason do you have to assume these 3 men were on the 6th floor at the time of the shooting? Do you dismiss Dillard's photograph as well as the testimonies of Malcolm Couch, Pierce Allman, Robert Jackson & James Underwood?