Linda Powell

Dankbaar - I did know of the link on your site, but can't get the video to play, only the sound, so I can't say if it's the same one that I remember where a female reporter spoke to him.

Thanks to James and Larry for their replies.

Hi John - thanks for this info (assuming it's in response to my recent bio posting - if not, thanks anyway!). I hadn't heard of the Smathers connection so I'll put that on my list to look into, also the books you mention.

You probably also know that it's said Kilgallen had been trying to reach both Marilyn and Bobby during the last week of Marilyn's life and that she'd also published some speculation in her column about their romance - without naming Bobby specifically.

I've also pondered the Kopechne death and you may know of this site http://www.ytedk.com/chapter5.htm which gives an outline of events.

Cheers

Hello

My name is Linda Powell. I live in Yorkshire, England and appear to be one of the handful of forum members who is not a teacher! The greater part of my professional life has been spent in HM Customs and Excise, latterly in the prosecutions division. After leaving HMC&E, I worked in the computing studies department at a local University for two years. At present I work (in a limited capacity) with my husband who runs an import business.

My interest in the JFK assassination goes back to 1988 when coverage of the 25th anniversary was widespread. Since then I've developed an interest in the RFK assassination, along with Watergate and J Edgar Hoover.

Inevitably, my interest in the Kennedy brothers has led me to Marilyn Monroe and I'm presently researching material for a book about her relationship with Jack and Bobby and the circumstances of her death.

I was very pleased to find this forum because, unlike so many others on the web, it contains so much intelligent and informed debate.

By the by, if anyone would like to start a similar forum on Monroe's death, I'm game!

Hi Lee

You said in your first posting on Gordon Arnold that you had uncovered a death certificate for him, but I assume from your other comments that you haven't seen it. You might be able to get a copy if you follow the link below:

http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/certcop.htm

I haven't heard anything of his military career and there doesn't seem to be anything on the web, but I'll let you know if something turns up.

While the speculation continues about who fired the head shot and where from, I don't think I've ever heard much about the location of the shooter who inflicted the entry wound in Kennedy's throat. I know there was an idea of a shooter firing from a drain cover but I understand that's been discounted because the bullet would have had to pass through the windscreen and possibly one of the front occupants of the car.

I've never been to Dealey Plaza so can only guess from the photo's I've seen that the picket fence shooter would have been unable to make the throat shot because he was obscured by the road sign. If Kennedy were looking to his right as he disappeared behind the road sign (from Zapruder's view point) the shot would have presumably come from the right in order to strike him below the Adam's apple. If he were looking straight forward the shot must have come directly up the road. I've often wondered if the railroad bridge had someone concealed beneath it, though of course Skinny Holland and his colleagues made no mention of hearing a shot from there and the bridge, judging by the photo's I've seen, doesn't seem to be particularly accommodating to house a sniper.

So, I wonder if anyone can enlighten me about what theories have been put forward for this shot, or if anyone's stood behind the fence and seen how much the road sign obscures the view?

In 1988 to mark the anniversary of JFK's assassination, there were a number of investigative programmes shown here in the UK, but alas, this was in the days before I possessed a video recorder. I recall however a brief clip on one programme which showed Jack Ruby, post-Oswald killing, dressed in a suit being led through a room by a number of officials. As he passed by the rows of chairs set out to his left, a female reporter (not shown) followed him with a microphone and asked him a question about who he believed was responsible for Kennedy's murder and he answered, cautiously and it seems unheard by his escorts 'Well, the man who's in office now' and he continued walking.

I don't know if the reporter was Dorothy Killgallen and I've never seen that clip again, nor heard it referred to, neither after so many years can I remember what the programme name was – though I don't think it was part of the infamous Turner documentaries.

Does anyone else recall seeing this?