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  1. 58 minutes ago, Sandy Larsen said:

     

     

    For someone like Norman Mailer to make stuff up about MM's death "for a buck," that's a pretty good indication that other writers were doing the same. Nobody knew the truth about her death, so those who wrote about it were all speculating.

     

    I read Mailer's "Oswald's Tale" some years ago. He really had me swayed to think Oswald was just "nutty", unpredictable enough to pull off the JFK murder on his own. I came back to my senses in time.

  2. 30 minutes ago, Michael Griffith said:

    Curtin seems overly suspicious to me, and I think he oversimplifies the facts when he declares that we know the CIA killed Kennedy. Curtin argues there is an extensive media conspiracy to hype Landis's disclosure in order to divert the public's attention from the "fact" that the CIA killed JFK. He suggests that Landis's disclosure is being purposely used by powerful forces that are still covering up the truth about JFK's death. I think this is an overly suspicious take on Landis's disclosure and on the media's coverage of it.

    I agree that elements of the CIA were involved in the assassination, but other powerful elements also played a role. I think we need to be careful to point out that the CIA as an institution did not play a role in JFK's death, but that powerful rogue elements of the CIA were involved in the plot. To simply say "the CIA killed JFK" ignores the important roles played by certain Mafia leaders and by elements of the FBI and the military industrial complex. 

    Seems like the Dallas DPD also played a major role, at least in the coverup and the implication of the Patsy.

  3. 19 minutes ago, Leslie Sharp said:

     

    • Why then did Landis remove evidence from a crime scene (limo) and relocate it to a stretcher instead of handing it off to his superior or at the very least local authorities?

    Guess he screwed up. We will get a chance to hear his explanations I am sure. What about all the failures to follow rules of evidence by the Dallas police that weekend? What about Roscoe White shenanigans? When do we get explanations for that?

     

     

  4. 14 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:

    MG--

     

    If Landis found what is now CE399, then was it shot from the front? 

    Or was it an undercharged bullet that struck JFK in the back, and somehow fell out? 

    If the bullet was lodged in the seat, that makes it sound more like it came from the front. If it was the bullet that fell out of JFKs back, that would require an explanation of how it got embedded. One possibility is the SS agent (Hill?) inadvertently pressed on it when he landed in the limo.

  5. 28 minutes ago, Larry Hancock said:

     

    It is true that the Secret Service seems to have been very casual about handling evidence and you can explain that with poor training, bad supervision, or the chaos of the moment.  

    What about the stories of SS agents out drinking/partying until 5 or so in the morning? Might have had an effect on their judgment.

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