Leslie Sharp

14 hours ago, Matthew Koch said:

 

What does this have to do with the JFKA other than the book is partly about it.

What a lame attempt to derail the thread, I should have mentioned you in the other thread I posted because this is the same kind of casting doubt "why is this thread here" malevolent behavior I was mentioning on it.. that Lefties like you use to get the Mods to kill threads your confirmation bias doesn't like.. But I guess that's Par for the Course with Pastor Galloway. 

 

Do the photos on the cover give it away, Matthew? Exploitation indeed.

15 hours ago, Kirk Gallaway said:

What has this really got to do with the JFKA other than a another Republican con politician with no special knowledge of the assassination exploiting it it for political influence, just like Roger Stone..

 

 

Ron Paul is a one  issue politician who represents billionaires, the mega rich and corporate interests who don't want to pay taxes, or at least as little as possible, but however  is distinguished in his honesty that he wants to screw you and take away your social security, retirement benefits and medical care. To that end, he'll relentlessly attack government*,  who through taxation are the only means to redress wealth inequality, standing in his way.

 

*He says  all the safety net is going to bankrupt the nation anyway. When in reality if you just raised the cap to start taxing all personal annual income of over 140,000 a year, Social Security would be solvent indefinitely! Currently no ones pays a dime of income to SS over $140 K income.

 

 

There's not a chance in hell if any of Paul's Republican bids for the presidency were to come true that Paul would serve over one term. Paul's stated aim of  starvation of the "administrative state" would dry up all government activity outside of defense and render the U.S. economy into a barren wasteland, all the while proclaiming it some victory for "liberty"!  Either Paul is deluded to see that as a last ditch necessary reset or he's naively stupid to actually think a super trickle down would then magically ensue that would save everybody although there's no evidence in the past that supports that idea at all.   Either way he's deluded.

 

 

Hear! Hear!

6 hours ago, Greg Doudna said:

Ok, but just to be clear I am doing you the favor here, not vice versa. I intend to try to make contact with Aginsky’s office tomorrow and request advice and perhaps contact referrals. I have said and I repeat that under no circumstances will I become responsible for payment or fundraising. That is not my problem or responsibility. 

However it is possible—MAYBE—that if a top-rate examiner, credentialed and referred by Aginsky—could be found, I could ask, and maybe, just maybe, obtain, an offer to do so for research purposes with an intention of a scientific publication, to which of course you would be invited to be on as coauthor with the scientists and I assume me. That will be my attempt or ask, of contacts vetted and recommended by Aginsky or his office and that otherwise are credentialed and experienced. 

I will assure them up front that their all parties concerned are committed to knowing the truth of the findings whatever they may be, and that there will be no non-disclosure agreement or control over their disclosure or discussion of their findings after the fact, with the possible exception of a reasonable (e.g. 90 days) embargo period on public discussion or announcement after the lab and expert examination is concluded for the purpose of allowing you the exclusive opportunity to make first announcement, if you so wish.

I must be assured you are serious about a serious offer, if such can be obtained. I will not risk insulting you by asking for that assurance explicitly but will assume it unless advised by you otherwise. 

if it is not possible to obtain a gratis research-purpose analysis, I will forward to you what I can obtain in terms of costs and in the best case see if it is within your means at your end. I am assuming you will not be imposing non-disclosure restrictions on the results after the fact as a condition of payment or making the physical datebook available. 

Ok, but just to be clear I am doing you the favor here, not vice versa. I intend to try to make contact with Aginsky’s office tomorrow and request advice and perhaps contact referrals. I have said and I repeat that under no circumstances will I become responsible for payment or fundraising. That is not my problem or responsibility. 

With respect, and not to be contentious, but I’m curious: if it is not your problem or your responsibility why have you interjected yourself into the dynamic?

However it is possible—MAYBE—that if a top-rate examiner, credentialed and referred by Aginsky—could be found, I could ask, and maybe, just maybe, obtain, an offer to do so for research purposes with an intention of a scientific publication . . . 

If the ink and pen are, as you indicate here, being analyzed for research purposes only, with the intention of a scientific publication, I would insist on parameters related to which — if any — specific entries from the datebook could be incorporated in an article meant for scientific publication. 

I would expect to exercise editorial control over any references to Hank’s story regarding the history of the datebook and his access. I would be identified as joint-work copyright holder of Coup in Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK with H. P. Albarelli Jr., including all ancillary projects. 

The lab and expert examiners will agree to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement applicable to the information found in the 1963 datebook maintained by Pierre Lafitte.

You would also agree to the Non-Disclosure specific to the details contained in the datebook that are no yet in the public domain; you would not publish anything you learn during this exercise, including preliminary reactions/comments made by the experts, without prior agreement with me.

to which of course you would be invited to be on as coauthor with the scientists and I assume me. That will be my attempt or ask, of contacts vetted and recommended by Aginsky or his office and that otherwise are credentialed and experienced. 

I appreciate the time you may expend, but the document examiners currently under agreement to analyze the handwriting in the db obviously have contacts in the field. Based on the third-party assurance I have that Valery Aginsky was in the process of producing a final sufficiently positive report when the documentary project was interrupted by Hank’s untimely passing, the lead examiner has recommended I not go to the expense of another paper/ink analysis. 

I will assure them up front that their all parties concerned are committed to knowing the truth of the findings whatever they may be, . . . 

That should go without saying. It is also my prerogative to first exercise due diligence to determine the objectivity of your candidate before analysis is initiated.

and that there will be no non-disclosure agreement or control over their disclosure or discussion of their findings after the fact . . . 

The Non-Disclosure Agreement will cover the content of the datebook; I wouldn’t expect a non-disclosure agreement for the findings, providing the conditions established in the next paragraph are agreed to.  
 

. . . with the possible exception of a reasonable (e.g. 90 days) embargo period on public discussion or announcement after the lab and expert examination is concluded for the purpose of allowing you the exclusive opportunity to make first announcement, if you so wish.

I will make the announcement, and I would also be open to a joint statement if the experts so wish.

Yes, a 90-day embargo is acceptable and provides sufficient time for a second opinion if, after reading the report, I exercise the option.  

I must be assured you are serious about a serious offer, if such can be obtained. I will not risk insulting you by asking for that assurance explicitly but will assume it unless advised by you otherwise. 

Thank you.

if it is not possible to obtain a gratis research-purpose analysis, I will forward to you what I can obtain in terms of costs and in the best case see if it is within your means at your end.

That wouldn’t be necessary.

 I am assuming you will not be imposing non-disclosure restrictions on the results after the fact as a condition of payment or making the physical datebook available.

To repeat, the lab and expert examiners will agree to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement applicable to the information found in the datebook, not the results of their findings, with the understanding the results will not be revealed for 90-days; I will announce the results. 

I will not be funding the effort for reasons previously stated; and, if you are not funding the project, it wouldn’t be your place to determine conditions of payment either.

The logistics of the analysis will need to be worked out; I will not be releasing the datebook, so arrangements would need to be made for a speedy turnaround.

The aforementioned does not constitute a legally binding agreement; it is intended primarily to establish the spirit behind the effort. If your attempts in the near future are successful, we can enter into a more formal written agreement with the concerned parties.   

"You can't put a criminal in the White House." — Rudy Guiliani, 2016

min. 14:00
 

4 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

Well Leslie i never really thought about this.  Sharp is a somewhat common name.  I know there were some in Strawn in the early 2000's.  I might have pegged you for a distant cousin by marriage of John Sharp, Chancellor of TAMU.  Though I hate to accuse anyone of being related to an aggie.  He is from a different part of the state (Victoria).  He is also that rarest of animals, a democrat in aggieland.  Running for Lieutenant Governor in 1998 he lost to Rick Perry 50-48%.  Who appointed Sharp Chancellor, all of the members of the board of regents voting for him were appointed by Perry.  I was told by a professor this was done to keep him from running for office anymore.  I've heard him speak once.  He was an articulate orator.

No relation that I'm aware of, although I lived in married student housing at A&M from 1966 when it was an all male (ROTC) university and only wives were permitted to walk the campus. The ban on females was lifted in '67/68 as I recall. 😞

Not to be overlooked when studying East Texas is Lone Star Steel with the major plant located in Daingerfield.


(We turn now to four of those major tenants of headquarters building of Republic Naitonal Bank of Dallas that relate directly, or were positioned closely to the periphery of the plot to assassinate President John Kennedy: Schlumberger Oil Services; Lone Star Steel (which on the surface provided the essential commodity for the military during WWII, Korea and Vietnam, but played a far more intriguing role); Ling Temco Vought (LTV) (the aerospace concern that served as precursor to today’s mega military contractor L3 Technologies); and Neil Mallon’s Dresser Industries (which serviced the petroleum industry on an international scale). Each of these contractors were locked in a symbiosis with the military-intelligence apparatus, reliant on the military for profits and dependent on intelligence for security.) 
 

Lone Star Steel

Lone Star Steel manufacturing operations were located in the small East Texas community sixty miles to the Northeast of Tyler called Daingerfield. Referred to as “A Secret Cold War Military Installation” in the East Texas Journal of October 21, 2017, the Daingerfield Project was a closely kept secret, secured within a compound behind the gates of a state-of-the-art government funded steel plant built during WWII. 

With the opening of the Lone Star Steel Company and the United States Navy Bureau of Ordnance Aerophysics Laboratory, the population of the town tripled during and after WWII. Research involved wind tunnels creating airflow at supersonic speed and compressing air related through nozzles to create thrust. . . . The steel plant’s blast furnace blower and steam generating plant provided nearly four times the capacity needed to build the biggest wind runner on earth . . . the guided missile business’ appears to be a coming thing . . . the first thing that was different than any other secure area on a military [installation[ was being behind the gates of a publicly held company making steel . . . the thing that was really different was the first time I saw a fuel truck be back into a blacked out bay where we opened up the area under a false floor in the tanker and unloaded a rocket engine.

At its height, the Daingerfield Project employed 373 physicists, scientists, engineers, and technicians. The labs also tested prototypes developed by military contractors from Australia, Canada, and England as well as the Department of Commerce and NASA. 

            The heads of four Dallas banks and one from the oil rich North Texas town of Wichita Falls held positions on the board of Lone Star Steel, signifying each institution’s extensive investments in the success of the military contractor that would soon be ramping up for a full-blown war in Vietnam. In addition to: Nathan Adams, chairman of First National Bank of Dallas; R. L. Thornton, Jr., former Dallas mayor and chairman of Mercantile Bank; James Aston, president of Republic National Bank of Dallas; T. L. Bell, Robert Storey’s representative from Lakewood State Bank; and Charles McGaha, president of City National Bank, Wichita Falls, the board of Lone Star included Tyler businessman Watson Wise, who was a business partner of Jack Ruby’s banker Michael Nash, and Joe Zeppa, cofounder and president of Delta Drilling. Both Wise and Zeppa joined Republic National Bank board member Algur Meadows in the founding of Premier Petro Chemical Corp. located in nearby Longview, Texas, a scheme of apparent great interest to SS Otto Skorzeny as evidenced in his private papers. 

            Longview was also home of the heavy moving equipment company LeTourneau, Inc., another domestic and foreign contractor that benefited greatly when nations, including the United States, were at war. Lafitte in fact was knowledgeable of LeTourneau when he recorded “DeLong meet” in his datebook, a likely reference to engineer L. B. DeLong’s corporation whose numerous patents were invaluable to LeTourneau. We encounter the name LeTourneau as the book closes with the revelations of assassin Jean Rene Souetre. 

            Before leaving the Tyler-Longview area, it is of interest that when it came time to sell a sizable ranch in East Texas, the family of founding partner of Delta Drilling, Ukrainian born Sam Dorfman chose the international real estate firm Previews, Inc. to handle the transaction. Sam’s close relative, Louis Dorfman, Jr.’s Dallas office was located in R. L. Thornton’s Mercantile National Bank introducing another web of interlocking interests, both business and political. Thornton served on the board of Jack Crichton’s Amarillo-based Dorchester Gas, along with D. H. Byrd, owner of the building located at 411 Elm. Mercantile National was housed in a pair of adjacent buildings: one was home of the bank, and the other, Mercantile Continental, served as headquarters of H. L. Hunt Oil in 1963, a fact that has long fueled speculation that Ruby’s visit to the twin buildings was somehow related to his gunning down the accused assassin Oswald, then in custody of Dallas law enforcement. 

            Hunt is also alleged to have dispatched his head of security, Paul Rothermel, to secure a copy of Abraham Zapruder’s film which was alleged to have captured the disturbing images and incriminating detail of the assassination. A reminder to the reader that the name Rothermel appears in the financial ledger of Lafitte. First edition copies of the Z film are said to be still in existence. 

Another thread in this web of chance circumstances was Jamieson Labs which produced those copies of the Zapruder film once Eastman Kodak’s Dallas facility had developed the original. Hugh Jamieson, owner of the lab, was the next door neighbor of Robert G. Storey—named in the Lafitte records—located in the prosperous but understated Lakewood neighborhood of Dallas.

          @Greg Doudna  An equally intriguing milieu housed in Thornton’s Mercantile building provides an expanded look behind the curtain. In a well-documented episode, Jack Ruby had recently met Connie Trammell, a young University of Texas student who was on the brink of graduation and looking for opportunities. She told Ruby that she had contact information for Lamar Hunt and that he might be interested in her as an employee. Ruby jumped at the opportunity, explaining that he needed to take care of some business in the Mercantile, and that it was a simple enough act of kindness to drop her off to meet Lamar, the son of H. L. Hunt. 

            Ruby’s business was most likely related to the leases on his establishments, the Carousel Club in downtown Dallas and the Vegas Club in Oaklawn. According to Ed Jordan, an officer at Mercantile National who would later join Lamar Hunt on the board of the city’s prized Cowboy’s football team, also managed Corrigan Properties for his father-in-law which owned the buildings that housed Ruby’s clubs. Jordan later reported that on the day in question, Ruby insisted that he wanted to “see to the boss,” which Jordan knew to be his father-in-law, Leo Corrigan, Jr.

            Jordan’s colleague at Mercantile National was Jacques Pierre Viliere, a dapper Frenchman from New Orleans who joined the Dallas bank in 1946 advancing to vice president of Mercantile’s international department by 1968. When Jacques moved from New Orleans to Dallas, he left behind his brother Pierre Blaise Villere to continue in a public relations enterprise the brothers had launched together. Their clients in the Crescent City included Clay Shaw’s International Trade Mart, and Permindex, the international front closely aligned with the World Commerce Corporation which, as covered earlier, benefited from the business acumen of Jack Crichton. Jacques Villere became honorary consul of Belgium and is seen photographed with Dresser’s Neil Mallon on the occasion of bestowing him with the Cross of the Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Couronne. According to Major Ganis in The Skorzeny Papers, the Villere brothers appear in the private papers of Otto Skorzeny.

42 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said:

😅

3 minutes ago, Paul Brancato said:

Reading with interest and appreciation for both your efforts. 

And thank you for your continued interest, Paul.

17 minutes ago, Greg Doudna said:

Ok, but just to be clear I am doing you the favor here, not vice versa. I intend to try to make contact with Aginsky’s office tomorrow and request advice and perhaps contact referrals. I have said and I repeat that under no circumstances will I become responsible for payment or fundraising. That is not my problem or responsibility. 

However it is possible—MAYBE—that if a top-rate examiner, credentialed and referred by Aginsky—could be found, I could ask, and maybe, just maybe, obtain, an offer to do so for research purposes with an intention of a scientific publication, to which of course you would be invited to be on as coauthor with the scientists and I assume me. That will be my attempt or ask, of contacts vetted and recommended by Aginsky or his office and that otherwise are credentialed and experienced. 

I will assure them up front that their all parties concerned are committed to knowing the truth of the findings whatever they may be, and that there will be no non-disclosure agreement or control over their disclosure or discussion of their findings after the fact, with the possible exception of a reasonable (e.g. 90 days) embargo period on public discussion or announcement after the lab and expert examination is concluded for the purpose of allowing you the exclusive opportunity to make first announcement, if you so wish.

I must be assured you are serious about a serious offer, if such can be obtained. I will not risk insulting you by asking for that assurance explicitly but will assume it unless advised by you otherwise. 

if it is not possible to obtain a gratis research-purpose analysis, I will forward to you what I can obtain in terms of costs and in the best case see if it is within your means at your end. I am assuming you will not be imposing non-disclosure restrictions on the results after the fact as a condition of payment or making the physical datebook available. 

I'll study this carefully and revert back to you.

Your interest is appreciated, and it's a relief that you have finally approached the question of authenticity in a professional manner.

Chapter Notes
 

“As we know now, Willoughby and Skorzeny met…”: In 1953, CIA operative Miles Copeland, then formally employed by contracting firm Booz Allen Hamilton in Cairo, Egypt, but acting as an adviser to Egyptian President Nasser was privy to the genesis of one Skorzeny-Willoughby meeting. Nasser was attempting to modernize his military forces and to instill needed discipline, and reached out to Skorzeny through American contacts. Copeland later wrote: “He (Skorzeny) was approached in a routine manner, then at a higher level, then through a personal visit from a certain well-known Major General of the American Army…”: —The Game of Nations, The Amorality of Power Politics, Simon and Schuster, 1969, pp. 87–88

excerpt:

Giannettini’s sponsor in Annapolis in ’61, Pedro del Valle had always consorted with a vile collection of people, and none more so than those participating in the April 1963 "Congress of Freedom'' meeting—mentioned by Pierre Lafitte in an ominous context of “Willby [sic] soldier kill squads”—in which, according to information furnished to the Miami Police Dept. Intelligence Unit (derived from an informant in attendance) the assassination of numerous well-known figures was seriously discussed. Later in the year and somewhere beyond the bounds of the suggestive, del Valle was the lead speaker at the Constitution Party convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, held from October 18—20, 1963, an event during which “the plot to assassinate a large number of individuals which had been discussed at the Congress of Freedom [in April] had narrowed to talk of killing President Kennedy…” wrote Caufield. An all-star collection of radical right-wing talent, the convention featured among others, Georgia racist Joseph Milteer, a member of the Congress of Freedom. 
 

Askins?

—Lafitte datebook, September 12, 1963

Askins - Willoughby OK

—Lafitte datebook, October 2, 1963

Canon-- S + V?

—Lafitte datebook, September 14 1963

Willoughby team – Canon (Z org) D.

—Lafitte datebook, November 21, 1963

 * * *

Willoughby team— Canon (Z org) D.

That men of the egocentric character and intemperance of Gen. Willoughby and Jack Canon would be involved in an operation as spectacular as November 22, 1963 should probably not shock us. Among researchers into the assassination, in addition to chipping away at Charles Willoughby, Dick Russell was the first to glance at Canon. In reference to the 1951 kidnapping and subsequent torture of a suspected Soviet spy Japanese writer Kaji Wataru, Russell wrote: “A mysterious intelligence outfit, based in Okinawa and run by Colonel Jack Y. Canon, was accused of involvement, but hard evidence was lacking.” 

            According to Richard Case Nagell, the double agent at the center of Russell’s book, the Army Counter Intelligence Corps’ (CIC) intelligence files stated that Canon’s “ZED group” [perhaps an acronym, but more likely the pronunciation of the letter “z” in many cultures.] was indeed behind the kidnapping; further, “the CIC was advised to stay clear of the project because it was considered to be an ‘indiscreet’ CIA operation.” 

            When Nagell brought up Canon’s name to an investigator for New Orleans District Attorney, the investigator’s notes read: “Jack Canon: rub-out man for the CIA.” Russell noted, as would Morris-Suzuki many years later, that Canon had affiliations with projects of Gen. Willoughby, including the “International Committee for the Defense of Christian Culture,” and Willoughby’s Foreign Intelligence Digest, for which Canon became an associate editor. 

Russell also noted that a 1977 article based on a book that had been recently released by a Soviet journalist, Michael Lebedev, featured Lebedev’s claim that the assassination of Kennedy had been carried out by “an international fascist cabal,” and that the fatal head shot had been fired by an agent with the alias of “Zed.”

22 hours ago, Greg Doudna said:

What funding range are you able to do for an ink dating alone assuming a qualified reputable examiner, that would not require external funding? 

I'm under no obligation to discuss this with you, Greg.  You offered to fundraise - or more accurately, you suggested someone else fundraise, not you - and I established the parameters. Valery Aginsky is considered among the top of his field so I would expect your candidate to be comparable.

20 hours ago, Greg Doudna said:

Could you be specific on exact wording of a statement said by who that you understand to be a “prelim guarantee that the ink and pen are compatible with 1963”? 

This is important. Please be as specific as possible. 

Have you disclosed this before? I don’t recall you saying before that there was a “prelim guarantee” or finding by a forensic examiner that the ink had been found compatible with 1963.

But it is important now if you have that and can disclose specifics. 

And that prelim guarantee is of sufficient weight and credibility that upon being told of it your current examiner agreed and advised no ink analysis or dating was recommended or necessary for the Lafitte datebook’s authentication, and you have undertaken or been quoted $21,000 for authentication analysis from your examiner but NOT including ink dating, based on reliance upon the “prelim guarantee” told the examiner from Aginsky who was told that by someone else? Is that the way it went that $21,000 spent by you or quoted to you, whichever it is, on forensic authentication has not included or will not include dating the ink?

I wish that you had been following my responses long before now. With the exception of a dollar figure, I believe I've addressed your concerns.

After you've reviewed my "specific" remarks on this thread, "specific" to the question of datebook authentication, you're welcome to rephrase your questions.



 

Is anyone following this thread actually interested in the June Cobb story?

2 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

Just for the record, Ponca City Oklahoma is in the far eastern part of the state, not too far from the Arkansas state line.  Been through there several times.  Over 300 miles from the Texas panhandle, e.g. Clarendon.  Which I've been through several more times than P C.

Distance is relative to this Texan! no pun intended.  

I failed to flesh out that the move was to Duncan, just three hours from Ponca City, and I wondered if perhaps they were moving closer to their roots?  The weren't. In fact they were pulling up roots.

1 hour ago, Matt Allison said:

As difficult as it is to comprehend, the indictments and arrests for the 1/6 investigation are only beginning. The story of this conspiracy will eventually dwarf every other bit of American history.

 

Is it coincidence or high strangeness and synchronicity as we approach the 60th anniversary of the assassination in Dallas that four key players indicted for their role in the attempted coup of 2020 — Chesebro Powell Waldron Ramsland — were based in Texas where Alex Jones built his bizarro propaganda operation? Continuity of the coup in Dallas?

After the failed 1961 French generals’ putsch, the OAS was determined to halt de Gaulle’s move toward Algerian independence at all costs. The price was not simply removal of the president, but deadly removal. The war between de Gaulle and the OAS had ramped up when de Gaulle’s political changes continued to move forward in Algeria. In May 1961, the French government had started negotiations with the FLN. These talks did not have immediate success, and over the course of the next year the level of extreme violence had escalated. Finally, in March 1962, a cease-fire was reached, setting the stage for the Evian negotiations that would eventually lead to independence for Algeria. Taking command of the “secret army” was General Raoul Salan who by the time Pierre Lafitte made note of him in his 1963 diary was still in prison on orders of President de Gaulle on November 22. However, Hilaire du Berrier, the North Dakota native described as an ambitious soldier of fortune, pilot and spy — identified by Lafitte on the same day as Salan — was not. Regardless, it appears that the former leader of the OAS preferred as the next leader of France and Algeria by powerful Texas oilmen, and his sympathizers including du Berrier and Jacques Soustelle were at the very least a rallying point for events in play in the spring of 1963. . . . 

Gen. Edwin Walker always maintained that the German newspaper was the first to alert him about Oswald having taken a shot at him, but jottings in Pierre Lafitte’s datebook made a few days before the attempt on Walker occurred make this seem unlikely. As noted in a previous chapter, Lafitte wrote on April 7, 1963: “Walker – Lee and pictures— planned soon- can he do it? Won’t.”\ The following day, Lafitte made a note: Hal du Berrier (Salan R.).

. . . Lesser known than the German newspaper’s scoop positioning “the patsy” a hundred yards from the window of Walker’s house on the night of April 10 are the remarks made in the aftermath of the assassination by “Hal” du Berrier, the correspondent who wrote primarily for the American Mercury which was owned by J. Russell McGuire with General Edwin Walker as the magazine’s military advisor. Du Berrier revealed that he was staying in Walker’s home in Dallas on November 22. It should also be noted that du Berrier’s history included a role in the Spanish Civil War, service in Bill Donovan’s OSS perhaps providing him introduction to the president of World Commerce Corporation Frank Ryan and Otto Skorzeny, and spying for Italian fascists. By the late 1950s, he had begun publishing "H du B Reports, A Foreign Affairs Letter," with particular focus on Saigon, Vietnam, a concern he shared with his close friend, French rightist General Raoul Salan. 

Seizing the opportunity to capitalize on the assertion of conservative writer William F. Buckley (another featured political essayist for McGuire’s American Mercury before a falling out) that had an anti-communist been responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy, a bloodbath in the United States might well have occurred, Hargis promoted a report from “French” correspondent Hilaire du Berrier who had been staying in Walker’s home when Kennedy was murdered. Hargis noted that while the report was frightening, it warranted consideration because it somehow verified the view of the highly esteemed conservative, Bill Buckley, thus giving du Berrier’s account greater stature and a wider audience than it might otherwise have been accorded. Although Buckley had for months been speaking out against the rapid growth of the fringe movement within the Republican Party, the John Birch Society of which Hargis and Walker were members, the leader of the Christian Crusade apparently recognized this brief window to advance the Oswald legend on Buckley’s coattails. . . . 


Billy Joe Hargis, infamous religious firebrand traveling the US with General Edwin Walker under the banner, "Operation Midnight Ride" [did we see parallels sixty years later with General Mike Flynn's "Reawaken America / Army of God" roadshow?] quoted Hilaire du Berrier directly:

“Out of the Dallas crucible came facts which realistic America must face: for meanness, viciousness, dishonesty, and absence of all sense of honor, the groups referred to as the American Right are no match for the organized, entrenched, and internationally-supported Left lined up against them. Radio, TV, the press, government agencies, and militant politicians took a position against America’s interests and for the Left. Your correspondent [Hilaire du Berrier] was in Dallas when it happened. The first announcement of the killing was still coming over the air when the first threatening telephone call reached the home of General Edwin A. Walker who also lives in Dallas. . . . General Walker was out of Texas at the time of the death of the President. Had he been in Dallas, he would have been assassinated by the Left that is shouting ‘Hate Mongers! Bigots!’ today.” 

Du Berrier further bemoaned, “Though out in force, Dallas police never stopped or questioned a driver circling the home of the General who had been shot at on April 10, 1963,” and then skillfully du Berrier introduced the proscribed backstory of Oswald the patsy, “by the same Communist assassin who would later take the life of the President of the United States." So, it was du Berrier, close confidant of General Raul Salan of the OAS — both of whom are mentioned by Lafitte in April just forty-eight hours before a bullet lodged in the wall of Walker’s study the night of April 10 — who reinforced, if not helped initiate, the legend that Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist responsible for both April 10 and November 22. 

8 hours ago, Evan Marshall said:

Doubt it. 

Why? Lots of overlap from what I've read.

16 minutes ago, Greg Doudna said:

This is some progress.

I am not in a position or willing to take on any fundraising myself, but I will see what I can do regarding getting an ink analysis quote that is affordable (not $21,000), that would be doable from resources that can be raised from this forum. 

I will make some phone calls over the next ca. 7-10 days and will get back to you about this. 

 

I wouldn't consider a candidate that offers a "discount."

Find and fund a top notch ink analyst the equivalent of Valery Aginsky; otherwise, please don't waste your time. 

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/11/zuckerbergdismissalmotion.pdf

@Greg Doudna writes, But as long as Leslie is reaching back 50 years to my teenage years to ad hominem me because I attended a fundamentalist Bible College (when I was young and less wise than now)--which has not the least relevance to the issue of the authenticity of the Lafitte datebook-*-I can help out in a different way, by showing that, in a certain sense, Leslie is indeed on to something: certain parallels between the pan-Nazi overview, the international Nazi conspiracy of the Ganis/Albarelli/Coup in Dallas explanatory model of the world applicable to the JFK assassination ... and the eschatological prophetic view of an imminent takeover of America and the world by an international Nazi conspiracytaught by Herbert Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God in the 1960s and 1970s when I was at Ambassador College. 

This post is not relevant to authentication of anything; it is meant to draw attention to those influences in our formative lives, and in this instance, the ideological environment of East Texas in 1963.  Leading figures in the region were associated with prime suspects in the assassination in Dallas. THAT is the topic of the thread.  Greg Doudna deflects. I invite him to address the details I provided here, beginning with the Katanga Freedom Fighters, the murder of Lumumba, and the QJ/WIN operation ... apparently he's offended by a "pan-Nazi" overview.  Why is that I wonder?

 Everyone has a story, everybody comes from somewhere, we're all in certain ways walking wounded, we need to be kind to one another.

I couldn't agree more; had you exhibited what you espouse here when I challenged your analysis of my coauthor's statement on the provenance and authenticity of the datebook, perhaps we could have built on common ground - maybe even advance the investigation instead of expending such energy for so little in return? 

Steve Roe I am hoping will be present (via zoom) to cross-examine and/or counterpoint following my presentation.

I've encountered Steve Roe on Facebook; as I understand it he and Hank conferred occasionally.  Perhaps he has shared some of that history? Apparently, after Hank passed, Steve felt comfortable with posting less than flattering comments which he refused to back up with facts. I continued to challenge him to do so and he then blocked me.

Time will reveal the significance of du Berrier and your collective refusal to consider the implications; I'm beginning to understand why the Lafitte material is so threatening to those who protect the sacred cows of this case.

So, you'll excuse me if I don't pursue discussion of Walker et al with you.

2 minutes ago, Greg Doudna said:

Actually yes, that is responsive and straight, thank you. 

To be clear, as I understand you, "Sharp" is a name in your family, in the Texas Panhandle area, not too far from June Cobb's birthplace where she grew up in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

And not surprisingly you, aware of this, checked what you know in your family lines and ancestry and so far have found no genealogical connection between your family's Sharps and June Cobb's mother's Sharps. You did not meet June Cobb before she passed away. You were not one of the three CIA handlers of June Cobb or agency contacts that Hank made in the course of his work on the June Cobb interviews or story.

I am sure some would be interested in your mention of brushes with Valerie Plame and her husband if you ever cared to tell anecdotes, however that is afield from topic and maybe another time.  

Speaking of the Panhandle, in my book (Showdown) I tell of spending my 30th birthday camped with about 300 protesters outside the Pantex plant outside Amarillo, which was then the site of final assembly for all nuclear weapons in the US arsenal before deployment. A huge native American drum was set up and 24/7 with volunteers in shifts every 10 seconds or so a giant mallet would be swung to hit the drum, with the drumbeat reverberating across the flat land. It was some Native American prayer for the Great Spirit to end the weapons of mass destruction being assembled inside the plant. It was August and very hot, near 100 degree temperatures, with heat lightning at night creating a dazzling light show. I thought I was staring into the source for the end of the world, into manmade Dante's inferno itself. Anyway there's my Panhandle story.

I'm not sure why you felt compelled to repeat back to me what I wrote, but we all have our idiocyncracies.

My experience in the Panhandle continues to inform my perspective - nay alarm - regarding where our nation is headed; I'm convinced more than ever that the assassination in Dallas in 1963 is the Pole Star to lead us out of this pending inferno of Civil War.
 

@Greg Doudna

I invite you to secure a quote from a pen and ink analyst for this project.

So far, the second attempt at authentication is teetering at $21,000, sans Ink and paper analysis because our examiner accepts that Valery Aginsky indicated to those who paid him that he didn't have a problem that the ink and pen were available in 1963.  

The initial effort in London, which included travel, documentary teams and equipment, etc. as well as the handwriting expert and the ink analyst was running at $100,000 when Hank passed away. The NDAs they secured from the contract examiners remains in place.

Let me know if you have any inclination to raise funds to complete the ink analysis with Mr. Aginsky - providing he will come out of retirement and is permitted to resume the project with someone other than those he is under an NDA; or perhaps you might organize the launch of a new quick turn-around ink analysis as you suggest? Start from scratch?  As the custodian of the datebook, I would consider a proposal from you.

Why does the phrase, put your money where your mouth is, come to mind? In all candor, I wouldn't recommend you go to this expense when we already have a prelim guarantee that the ink and pen are compatible with 1963, and I have a written statement form Sweet Life Foods Distributors which printed the blank datebooks for their Christmas gifts, 1962 — chef Pierre Lafitte/Jean Martin being among the recipients.

@Greg Doudnasee my response at Pierre Lafitte datebook, 1963.

23 minutes ago, Greg Doudna said:

You said if I explained what I meant by what I wrote, you would answer my questions concerning what you may know of the three CIA handlers of June Cobb. 

I did. Now you are defaulting on your promise that you would answer my question.

You seem to serially respond to straight questions you do not wish to answer by (a) "I will answer Y if you answer ABCE over here", followed by (b) <person answers ABC over there>; (c) change of subject and no answer to the original question Y asked.

I have fallen for this from you two or three times before. 

Since you are condemning me for not understanding rightly what those three CIA handlers of June Cobb were about, that were in some sort of relationship with Hank of some kind, while refusing to say what, if anything, you know about those three CIA handlers (as promised) to enable a correct understanding, I would like to add an additional question:

Were you one of those three to whom Albarelli referred? The question is designed not to anger you or accuse you of anything, but because you are oddly unwilling to give a straight answer (even "I don't know") to the question of what you may know about those three CIA handlers of June Cobb; and also because you chose to use for the past years a pen name, "Sharp", which is the same alias used by June Cobb and was also June Cobb's mother's maiden name. Does that reflect any connection of you to June Cobb (I don't necessarily mean in a family relationship)?

How did you happen to choose "Sharp" for your pen name in JFK assassination related circles, starting at about the time Albarelli was having his meetings with June Cobb? 

Is it possible to not take offense and give simple straight answers? I guarantee you there are others than just me who would like to know.

Busted!

Seriously, I anticipated the karma of my own "dot connecting" over the decades, so the only thing I'm surprised by here is that it took you so long to come up with "Sharp" and "Sharp". Surely you know that I've delved into the possible relationship considering "my Sharps" were from the Texas Panhandle and eventually relocated their ranch north of the Oklahoma border not far from June's birthplace, which by the way dovetails with the Jenkins / Wheaton storyline.  So far, I find no genealogical connection with Viola June Cobb.  I didn't have the pleasure of meeting her through Hank before she passed away.

And no, I was not one of the three agency contacts Albarelli made in context of June's story. The closest I've come to "the agency" that I'm aware of — other than Dick Stolley, de M's close friend Sam Ballen, a daughter of a renowned CI agent named Moore, and brushes with Valerie Plame and her husband — is a close friend from the dog park. She left, disgruntled, and has nothing but disdain for the dysfunctional bureacracy. She scoffs at the suggestion that anyone she encountered while employed by the CIA might have had the brains to do anything other than create mayhem for mayhem's sake.

Straight enough?

8 minutes ago, Greg Doudna said:

You said if I explained what I meant by what I wrote, you would answer my questions concerning what you may know of the three CIA handlers of June Cobb. 

I did. Now you are defaulting on your promise that you would answer my question.

You seem to serially respond to straight questions you do not wish to answer by (a) "I will answer Y if you answer ABCE over here", followed by (b) <person answers ABC over there>; (c) change of subject and no answer to the original question Y asked.

I have fallen for this from you two or three times before. 

Since you are condemning me for not understanding rightly what those three CIA handlers of June Cobb were about, that were in some sort of relationship with Hank of some kind, while refusing to say what, if anything, you know about those three CIA handlers (as promised) to enable a correct understanding, I would like to add an additional question:

Were you one of those three to whom Albarelli referred? The question is designed not to anger you or accuse you of anything, but because you are oddly unwilling to give a straight answer (even "I don't know") to the question of what you may know about those three CIA handlers of June Cobb; and also because you chose to use for the past years a pen name, "Sharp", which is the same alias used by June Cobb and was also June Cobb's mother's maiden name. Does that reflect any connection of you to June Cobb (I don't necessarily mean in a family relationship)?

How did you happen to choose "Sharp" for your pen name in JFK assassination related circles, starting at about the time Albarelli was having his meetings with June Cobb? 

Is it possible to not take offense and give simple straight answers? I guarantee you there are others than just me who would like to know.

Since you are condemning me for not understanding rightly what those three CIA handlers of June Cobb were about, that were in some sort of relationship with Hank of some kind, while refusing to say what, if anything, you know about those three CIA handlers (as promised) to enable a correct understanding, I would like to add an additional question:
 

Hank conferred with those who knew June to verify her claims.  Are you such a novice investigative journalist that you don't understand sources and how they operate? 

And here again you interject, "relationship." Hank developed a friendship with June Cobb. Why is that your concern, Greg?

I agreed to reply to your datebook authentication remarks — which have nothing to do with the label on this thread —  once you explained how you misinterpreted Hank's acknowledgements. You've yet to convince me it was all in, gosh all gee, innocence.