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    Interview with Andrew Armstrong

    in JFK Assassination Debate

    Posted

    Francesca,

    Being a big Garrison fan myself I loved the article in the echo, I read it in Gatwick after Canterbury. I remember reading a detail of it and then looking for a footnote, which will only be punblished in the next installment. You sure know how to keep your audience keen.

    Great article all in all, can't wait for the next one.

    John

    Misread the post, apologies.

    John

    Scott Enyart

    in Robert Kennedy Assassination

    Posted

    We only have Enyart's word for this. Please give a citation for your statement that Enyart was 'accosted' by two officers at gunpoint 'AS HE WAS LEAVING THE PANTRY'. Or are you relying solely on Enyart's story, parts of which were challenged by one of his friends.

    Mel,

    With no disrespect I fail to see why we should be able to take Eugene Thane Cesars account of his actions at face value, while not doing the same for Scott Enyart, a highschool student at the time.

    John

    Anthony Summers: The Kennedy Conspiracy

    in History and Political Books: Debates with Authors

    Posted

    Anthony,

    John Geraghty here. Am I correct in saying that you are Irish, I heard you on Pat Kenny after Mark Felt outed himself. I'm a student myself, yours was one of the first books I read on the assassination while studying for exams.

    A question on Jim Lessar, do you think he would be willing to fire off a copy of the philips material?

    If so do you have contact details for him?

    Any help would be great.

    All the best,

    John Geraghty

    wereallgointaheavenlads@hotmail.com

    JFK Grand Jury

    in JFK Assassination Debate

    Posted

    Hi bill,

    I'm a dublin man myself. Your right donegal is lovely, though a bit breezy. I'm not sure where i'm going this Summer, I am on the lookout for an internship somewhere, possibly sixth floor museum or the JFK library. If there were organisations working solely on the JFK assassination or MLk for that matter i would be willing to come over and help out part time or full time. I think it would be a good a way as any to spend the summer.

    John

    JFK Grand Jury

    in JFK Assassination Debate

    Posted

    Bill,

    It might be worth setting up a website detailing the goals of the grand jury. It would be a point from which to start, where people could learn more about the project. As I have learned in the past people won't sign a petition if its just posted on a forum, a certain amount of badgering is required. I posted a petition up around democrat forums and other sites who are interested in political conspiracies and wrongdoing.

    You seem to have a few friends with a bit of sway, perhaps use them a bit more for the public relations side of things. Well done on the King grand jury project.

    If I were more well versed in web design I would offer my services, ut alas I have no talent in that area.

    See organisations such as www.makepovertyhistory.com and www.greenpeace.com who use systems whereby people can simply enter their name and a prewritten email will be sent to their congressman/senator petitioning them about whatever.

    I'm from Ireland so I have no such representative to write to.

    If I can be of any assisstance in any way just ask. I am considering working in the states this Summer, If you have a reasonably organised network I would love to contribute part time to help out.

    Where are you based?

    John Geraghty

    wereallgointaheavenlads@hotmail.com

    Lamar Waldron: Ultimate Sacrifice

    in History and Political Books: Debates with Authors

    Posted

    Just to add my two cents. I also got the impression that the coup leader was Che Guevara. Slowly making my way through the book. It is so far an excellent read and comes highly reccommended by a few people I know. One thing that keeps repeating in my mind is that I can't believe the kennedys would take such a bold step clse enough to the election, surely they would wait for a second term to try anything with Cuba, given they were burned once.

    I'm keeping an open mind with regard to the book, as I find it hard to believe that both Harry Williams and Dean Rusk are lying for some unknown reason.

    No questions as of yet, but I'm sure I will find a few by the end!

    Regards

    John

    Film and audio sources for JFK, MLK, RFK

    in JFK Assassination Debate

    Posted

    Seeing as the threads on songs and tv shows related to the assassination in some way were such a success in compiling information I thought that it might be a good idea to compile some sort of a list of websites that contain audio and visual files, including photograhs relating to the assassinations of Robert kennedy, john F kennedy and Martin Luther King junior.

    The files may be original recordings of these men, files relevant to the assassination itslef or interviews with those who have investigated the assassinations in any way.

    This is a fairly broad topic, I think it would be useful to pool resources in this way to come up with even a small online database of where to look for audio and visual information.

    If anyone has a link to any of JFK's speeches in Ireland I would be most grateful.

    If you wish to upload footage or audio you do this for free on http://youtube.com and post the link here or on your webpage if you have one.

    The best are the JFK presidential and white house tape libraries, They are definitive for speechs, phonecalls etc.

    I shall get the ball rolling with a few obvious ones.

    http://blackopradio.com Talk show relating to political conspiracies

    http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/...dacted_Episodes -Interviews with prominent researchers in the case.

    http://jfkmurderphotos.bravehost.com/photos.html -an index of the photographers of the assassination of JFK

    http://www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban/ -Cuban Missile Crisis

    http://www.jfklancer.com/Audio.html -media reports, oswald in custody, LBJ, love field, inaugural address

    http://www.jfklibrary.net/tapes_samples_1998.html -10 samples of jfk dictating letters and speeches

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/j...rialspeech.html - JFK speaks tothe greater houston ministerial association

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm -Martin Luther king 'I have a dream'

    http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/cl...sp?id=tdih_0330 -video Reagan shot. other Reagan links in the right hand column

    http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/cl...sp?id=tdih_0404 -video. king speech 10 hours before he was shot. also in right hand column RFK annunces MLK's assassination, Harry Belafonte, Maya Angelou, Jesse Jackson and LBJ on MLK and his assassination

    http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/cl...sp?id=tdih_0608 -video RFK burial, shooting footage.

    http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/cl...ex.jsp?id=d1t54 audio RFK announces condidacy for presidency

    http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/cl...sp?id=tdih_1122 -video. JFK assassination video

    Take a look at the history channel website for a lot more video and audio resurces, too many to list. Relating to JFK,RFK,MLK, Jackie Kennedy, watergate, civil rights. Also unrelated Brown vs Board of education ruling. http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/se...=U.S.%20HISTORY

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/t...ppaquiddick.htm -ted kennedy on chappaquiddick

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/e...ibutetorfk.html -edward kennedy's eulogy for RFK

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/j...inberliner.html -Kennedy Berlin speech

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/l...uscontinue.html -LBJ's senate speech after death of JFK

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/j...ommencement.htm -Kennedy at yale university

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/j...convocation.htm -JFK Vanderbilt University

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rfkcapetown.htm -video. RFK University of cape Town

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/m...eulogytojfk.htm -sen Mike Mansfileds eulogy for JFK

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/m...reaksilence.htm -MLK beyond Vietnam: a time to break silence

    http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/m...mountaintop.htm -MLK 'I've been to the mountaintop'

    http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resou...+F.+Kennedy.htm -Pretty much every speech kennedy made while president

    http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resou...+F.+Kennedy.htm -RFk speeches, including tribute to JFK at democratic convention

    http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resou...ces/default.htm -Presidential press conferences

    http://www.jfk-assassination.de/media/audio/radio.php -oswald material, johnson swearing in

    http://www.earthcam.com/jfk/ -not really an audio or film clip. It gives a live view from the 6th floor at all times

    http://home.cfl.rr.com/mayhr01/audio/connally.wav =john connally describing assassination

    http://www.jfk-online.com/jfkaudio.html -Jim garrison audio including shaw and andrews interviews. garrison lecture. garrison on loran hall

    http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/kennedy/audio.html -motorbike microphone recording

    http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/kennedy...tage_video.html -video. oswald shot, snipers nest, other footage

    http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/dpdtapes/dix.htm -dallas police department tapes in the wake of the assassination

    http://www.prouty.org/audio1.html -Prouty interviews

    http://www.prouty.org/audio3.html -oliver stone lecture

    http://www.prouty.org/audio4.html -various-shaw,oswald, crenshaw, madeleine brown, jean hill,dean andrews, garrison, latin listening post,

    http://www.prouty.org/archives.html -mkultra, prouty

    http://www.prouty.org/audio5.html -jim fetzer interviews

    http://www.wosu.org/fm/jfk/remembrance.php -Jfks funeral music

    http://archer2000.tripod.com/archervalerie/1900s/jfkjr.html -john kennedy junior on his life

    http://www.whitehousetapes.org/pages/tapes_jfk.htm -probably the best place online for jfk's white house recordings, including meetings, telephone calls and some pre-presidential audio. the same goes for johnson, nixon. transcripts also available

    http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2003/11/18..._0_1_page.shtml -Video. CBS footage from the assassination itself and from years after. interview with nellie connally, timeline of the shooting, oswald, motorcade arrives, funeral. Very good resource. cronkite confirmation of death

    http://www.fiftiesweb.com/kennedy/kilduff.wav -kilduff announces death of JFK

    http://www.fiftiesweb.com/kennedy/oswald-shot-nbc.mp3 -NBC audio oswald shot

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=13...kennedy&pl=true -video JFk and Jackie on stage with joe and rose

    http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=john+kennedy -google video jfk links

    http://www.youtube.com/w/?v=a0rUiuNG1-E -video, Jim fetzer lecture

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcMbpIhN_rU...piracy%20Fetzer -video, an american teacher gives a class on the assassination

    http://www.youtube.com/results?search=jfk -video, jfk reloaded game visuals

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TueFTkF0S_A&search=jfk -someone drives the motorcade route

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvKkz9pCn0I&search=jfk -video, amateur footage of the grassy knoll

    http://newton.nap.edu/html/JFK_audio/ -more DPD sound recordings

    http://www.cnn.com/US/9611/21/kennedy.lost.film/ -video taken of motorcade by dave Powers, I have never seen this before, if only he had enough film.

    http://www.jfk-assassination.de/media/audio/witnesses.php -assassination witnesses. ambulance driver, eyewitness to oswalds arrest

    http://www.gunsandbutter.net/archives.php -mostly 9/11, but sme good JFK related interviews, rfk and mlk included

    Thats all I will do for now, I'm all googled out!

    Please keep adding on, There are a lot of great interviews on Black op radio.

    John

    Biography: Tony McCulloch

    in Biographical Details

    Posted

    Hi Tony,

    Welcome to the forum.

    I was at canterbury, but didn't have a chance to meet you.

    I look forward to hearing your perspective on the assassination as historians generally stay away from the whole topic, I know my American history lecturer does.

    All the best

    John

    William F. Buckley and the Assassination of JFK

    in JFK Assassination Debate

    Posted

    I'm not sure whether this ground has been covered but, I came accross a small bit of information while looking at Ron Pataky's profile on Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3N6S...1157309-1677722

    In it he describes one of his books "HELP! I'M BEING HELD A PRISONER IN A RANSOM NOTE FACTORY!" as having received a great review from William F Buckley junior. Is it possible that Pataky was friendly with Buckley, who trained with the CIA in 1951 and was sent to mexico city under howard hunt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley,_Jr.

    An interesting if somewhat tenuous link here.

    There are some interesting quotes from Buckley on the wikipedia page, which include a debate with gore Vidal

    "At one point Vidal called Buckley a “crypto-Nazi”, to which Buckley replied, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddamn face, and you'll stay plastered.”

    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbuckleyW.htm

    John

    Dorothy Kilgallen

    in JFK Assassination Debate

    Posted · Edited by John Geraghty

    I'm not sure whether this ground has been covered but, I came accross a small bit of information while looking at Ron Pataky's profile on Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3N6S...1157309-1677722

    In it he describes one of his books "HELP! I'M BEING HELD A PRISONER IN A RANSOM NOTE FACTORY!" as having received a great review from William F Buckley junior. Is it possible that Pataky was friendly with Buckley, who trained with the CIA in 1951 and was sent to mexico city under howard hunt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley,_Jr.

    An interesting if somewhat tenuous link here.

    There are some interesting quotes from Buckley on the wikipedia page, which include a debate with gore Vidal

    "At one point Vidal called Buckley a “crypto-Nazi”, to which Buckley replied, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddamn face, and you'll stay plastered.”

    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbuckleyW.htm

    http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=5078

    John

    Journalists and the Assassination of JFK

    in JFK Assassination Debate

    Posted

    Conspiracy theorists have been successfully smeared as being paranoid. Those on the left wish to avoid this label. They would rather see themselves as romantic revolutionaries. They know that they are unable to change the system. However, that does not really matter. As long as the remain intellectually respectable, they are more than happy to earn a good living criticizing the failings of capitalism.

    Good points John, this too can be said of historians, who don't want to be seen as in any way extremist by their peers. They take the assassination in an all too broad perspective and do not take a detailed look into the circumstances surrounding the murder.

    I hate to admit it but had I not become interested in the assassination I would have become one of the left leaning romantics as seen above.

    John

    Eugene Thane Cesar: Did he do it?

    in Robert Kennedy Assassination

    Posted

    Hi mel,

    I find it a pity that i am not well versed enough in the RFK assassination, nor the MLK assassination to engage you in any real debate.

    With regard to your statements about eyewitness testimony, i fully agree that in a scenario such as the one that played out in the Ambassador it would prove difficult to find very accurate testimony from witnesses in a very crowded and condensed area. This plays badly for all witnesses, both those used as examples of conspiracy and for Sirhans guilt.

    Yesterday i listened to a speech larry teeter gave in 2003, giving a reasonable overview of his case for conspiracy, given that he only had an hour to do so. I don't know whether you have covered the hypnosis element of the case or not, but what do you make of the fact that psychologists and hypnosis experts deemed Sirhan programmable. There were instances where Sirhan was under hypnosis and was asked to write about RFK and he simply reproduced what was written in his diary 'RFK must die etc', in another instance he was told to climb the bars of his cell like a monkey, in both instances he had no recollection of who had told him what to do and had no memory of doing it.

    Teeter also raised the point of people trying to railroad his investigation by opening him up to perjury and trying to set him up. In one instance he details how two men arranged to meet him so that they might give him information on an FBI agent in return for the film rights to Sirhans life.

    I apologise for my lack of specific information, I have only articles, soundbites and a small Melanson book at my disposal at this moment in time.

    I just bought William Bradford Huie's book on the King case, any reviews? Post it in the MLK section if you like and i can read it there.

    All the best

    John

    Eugene Thane Cesar: Did he do it?

    in Robert Kennedy Assassination

    Posted

    Hi Mel,

    Nice to see you here again.

    Did you by any chance see a programme made by the discovery channel titled 'Unsolved history'? Don Moldea and others attempt to recreate the assassination using actors that fit Ueckers, Sirhans and Kennedys measurements. They use a red beam on top of a gun to depict at what angle either Cesar or Sirhan would have had to have been standing at in order to make all the wounds to Kennedy.

    The kitchen was remade in a studio, with exact measurements. It was excellently made.

    They also conducted an experiment whereby they let actors walk into the Kitchen (they were unaware of the scenario about to unfold) and stand in the exact spot the actual witnesses were and played out 2 scenarios, 1. The Sirhan firing alone scenario, 2. Sirhan and Cesar both firing. The purpose of the experiment was to test peoples on the spot reactions with regards to the origin and number of the shots.

    Most heard only three or four shots in both scenarios. Nobody noticed the actor playing Cesar taking three shots at kennedy as he was right beside him and there was a considerable amount of people who did not realise that there was a security guard or policeman in the room!

    If you can I suggest that you try to obtain a copy. It is an excellent piece of recreationist History.

    Alas they come away with no definite answer, they rule that either scenario was possible depending on Kennedys positioning, though Cesar looking the liklier option, having factored in witness, balistics and forensics evidence.

    All the best

    John Geraghty

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