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    Any regrets or missed opportunities regarding witnesses and evidence?

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    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.

    SAM KINNEY AND HIS WIFE HAZEL- DISTURBING KNOWLEDGE

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    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.

     

     

    Something for the eye not the brain

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    4 hours ago, Karl Kinaski said:

    Wangstedt takes for granted that Jarman, Norman and Williams where on the fifth floor under the Oswald window, when there is a good reason to assume, they were at the sixth floor at the west side of the TSBD where they were laying plywood at the time of the shooting. 

    ???? 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?

    Paul Landis Revelation About Assassination Bullet

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    Another media article appearing today, following on from the Landis story.  Old news, but more MSM noise.

    Several interviews given by nurse Hall in 2013 seem to corroborate Landis' fresh claim. 

    'On the cart, halfway between the earlobe and the shoulder, there was a bullet laying almost perpendicular there, but I have not seen a picture of that bullet ever,' she told The Telegraph almost 10 years ago. 

    Separately, she told the Sunday Mirror: 'I could see a bullet lodged between his ear and his shoulder. It was pointed at its tip and showed no signs of damage. I remember looking at it – there was no blunting of the bullet or scarring around the shell from where it had been fired.

    'I'd had a great deal of experience working with gunshot wounds but I had never seen anything like this before.

    'It was about one-and-a-half inches long – nothing like the bullets that were later produced.

    Jack Ruby / James Earl Ray connection?

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    On 9/9/2023 at 2:41 PM, John Kowalski said:

    Was Pepper able to establish a connection between Raul and Ruby?

     

    Pepper had information from a Glenda Grabow who told him that in 1963 she had occasionally seen a man whom she only knew as 'Jack' with Raul.  At that period, in the autumn of '63 Grabow had a relationship with Raul.  It was about a month or two before Roy, Glenda's other,  was released from prison.  She only realised who this 'Jack' was  when his photograph was flashed across the world after he had killed Lee Harvey Oswald.

    Don Wilson & his material on which the name of Raul was written next to the letter 'J' and the telephone number of Jack Ruby's Vegas Club.  Following up on this lead, Pepper went to Dallas in order to interview some former strippers and associates who had worked for Ruby.  He met Chari Angel, Bev Oliver & Madeleine Brown.  Pepper produced a spread of photographs in front of each on separate occasions and each one independently confirmed that she had seen Ruby with the man Pepper had identified as Raul.  In fact, Bev remembered Raul giving Ruby what appeared to be a large amount of cash in what she described as a grocery store paper bag.  There was no doubt that each of these women corroborated Glenda Grabow's information that Jack Ruby and Raul knew each other.  Don Wilson's materials appeared to fortify that fact.

    'The Plot To Kill King' Dr. William F. Pepper Esq. (pages 156-158)

    Jack Ruby / James Earl Ray connection?

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    3 hours ago, Mike Aitken said:

    Thanks for the info, Sir!  I have the book and will have to go back and check out the interview.

     

    One of the reasons I raised an eyebrow reading Wilson’s book is that he made numerous references to a traitor/FBI informant within King’s inner circle, who sold out King and may have been involved in the plot to eliminate King, known by the initials “J.J.”.  The obvious conclusion (at least to me) is that he is implying that Jesse Jackson was this individual.  I’m no expert, but I dunno…that’s what leads me to question him finding Jack Ruby’s phone number in Ray’s car.

    Mike, If you haven't read Dr. Pepper's 'The Plot To Kill King' you may well find more information on Don Wilson's evidence, as well as the threats and hassle he and his wife suffered to 'persuade' him not to testify in court.

    There is also mention of Jesse Jackson's suspicious actions prior to King's killing.  Getting the 'Defenders' out of the Lorraine and moving King's original room booking from ground floor to up on the balcony.

    Pepper also investigated the links between the mysterious 'Raul' and Ruby.

    Prayer Man More Than A Fuzzy Picture

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    On 9/5/2023 at 6:47 PM, Gerry Down said:

    So there's a hardback special coming down the line? That makes me want to wait for the hardback edition. Don't want to feel like I'm missing out on anything.

    Well, the timeline is unknown. You could be waiting a while.  Bart has also intimated there could be further books in his timeline.  At this time the e book is favourite.

    Edwin Lopez: Oswald never visited embassies in Mexico City

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    14 hours ago, Steve Roe said:

    The photo that was used on Oswald's Cuban Visa application was found in Oswald's possessions. They are one and the same (a copy). It was shown to Marina, and she didn't recognize it, but she recognized the tan pullover sweater.

    The Visa photo was stapled to the application when it was sent off to Havana. The other photo found in Oswald's possessions, naturally did not have a staple mark.

    The plausible answer was Oswald had one or more of those photos with him and took it down to Mexico City. That would explain why the FBI could not find any local photo shops in Mexico City that remembered him taking pictures. Even though Duran told him where to go take a visa photo, most likely he went back to his room and submitted the photo in his possession for his application. The clothes Oswald wore at the Cuban Consulate did not match what he had on in the visa photo. 

    The tan pullover sweater is CE 161 (FBI Q188). It was found at Beckley.

    https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1133#relPageId=544 

    Oswald was in Mexico City, and there's plenty of evidence to back it up. 

    Thanks Steve!  V. Interesting post & completely new information to me.

    I look forward to counter replies to refute this evidence.

    David Lifton died on 12/6/2022

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    2 hours ago, Michael Crane said:

    Rumor has it that leading up to the assassination that ambulances were called multiple times and timed on how long it took them to get there.More than likely for diversion tactics the day of the assassination IMO.

    Michael, In a 1997 interview by Walt Brown, Aubrey Rike told of receiving several "bogus" ambulance calls during the days preceding the President's motorcade, and the location was usually the corner of Houston and Elm Streets.  Did Rike get to Belknap on the 22nd too quickly?  Was this a ploy to slow the motorcade on Houston?

     

    Political Documents on USB drives available

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    The Mystery of Kennedy's Brain Deepens

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    54 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:

    the actual report does not say that the casket picked up by Boyajian’s men was President Kennedy’s.[67] In the one sentence that deals with the issue it is referred to only as “the casket”.

    Yes I agree and did notice that is a doubt when not referring to 'Kennedy's casket'.

    Yet back in 2003 at Lancer I first heard Dennis David's account of meeting a black Cadillac hearse, delivered by men in suits, and offloading a lightweight ordinary shipping casket.  David's team working under orders from Secret Service.  Apparently three other witnesses to this were Paul O'Conner, Don Rebentisch & Floyd Riebe.  Add the report from Gawler's Funeral Home dated 23rd November stating "Body removed from metal shipping casket at USNH at Beth."

    O'Conner also told of JFK's body taken out of shipping casket in a zippered body bag & John Van Hoeson of Gawler's also told ARRB that Kennedy's body arrived in a "black zippered plastic pouch."

    1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:

    But yet for the Boyajian report to say what Horne declares it says, somehow this transport traversed the 18 miles in about 20 minutes.[71] Unless the driver was proceeding at a continuous 60 MPH on city streets, this does not seem possible.

    Correct.  Many report a helicopter landing on a Bethesda hospital car park area. I don't know what to make of these claims.  Whatever went on before and during Kennedy's autopsy, testimonies and statements do not add up to the official story.  It all seems like a David Blaine routine.  I've never bought into Lifton's idea that JFK's body was lifted out of the Dallas casket on AF1, but I can understand why he arrived at that theory to explain these later anomalous reports.

    The Mystery of Kennedy's Brain Deepens

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    14 hours ago, Michael Crane said:

    Humes & Burkley are up to their neck in this sh*t.Both under orders from superiors of course IMHO.I honestly feel that Humes was trying to tell us that something was up to no good.Sure,he went along with what he was told to ...but he left us with little clues like "surgery of the head area" and his descriptions of the head.And of course "it just fell out into my hands"

    I feel that the theory of David Lifton's pre autopsy...autopsy happened at one of those 3 locations that Jenkin's mentioned and not at Walter Reed as others have heard might of happened.

    Michael, the kicker for me is the evidence from Roger Boyajian, (U.S. Marine sergeant in charge of a Marine security detail at Bethesda) in his report submitted November 26 '63 he wrote "At approximately 1835 the casket was received at the morgue entrance and taken inside."  He personally kept a copy of his report & 30 years later submitted same to the ARRB.  Boyajian's report was never submitted to either Warren or HSCA.

    Further, other Bethesda personnel witnessed the front arrival of the grey ambulance from Andrews AFB with Jackie & RFK AFTER X-rays of JFK's body had been taken.  Officially the autopsy began c8 o'clock.  So that amounts to around 80 minutes for a pre-autopsy/surgery of the head scenario.

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