Is Spartacus Educational still operative?

[James DiEugenio]

When I went to look up Howard Hunt there I got a generic message that the site was for sale.

 

Has that been cut off for whatever reason?

[Robert Morrow]

This is a very important question and I've always thought that U.S. intelligence would have love, love, loved to murder that web site a long time ago.

I figured they might try to buy the website through a 3rd party, probably for a very little amount of money, just so they could kill it off.

What is so incredibly DISTURBING is that usually in these situations you can count on the Internet Wayback Machine to give you a copy of what a web link had on it, going back 10-20 years.

I tried googling "Edward Lansdale Spartacus" and got nothing.

Then I said, okay, let's try the old web link on the Internet Wayback Machine. Something like the Lansdale bio would surely be on it.

Here is the old web link for Lansdale:

http://spartacus-educational.com/COLDlansdale.htm

Well, thank God the Internet Wayback Machine grabbed it!: Edward Lansdale (archive.org)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240221222102/http:/spartacus-educational.com/COLDlansdale.htm 

Here is the Internet Wayback Machine web crawl of the Spartacus Web site as of May, 2024

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (archive.org)

Here is E. Howard Hunt's bio Everette Howard Hunt (archive.org)

 

 

 

 

[Robert Morrow]

1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:

When I went to look up Howard Hunt there I got a generic message that the site was for sale.

 

Has that been cut off for whatever reason?

It is an absolute disaster if the Spartacus Website material on the JFK assassination goes down. I have learned a tremendous amount by reading the Spartacus bios.

Someone needs to get that web page UP AND RUNNING again!

However, the INTERNET WAYBACK MACHINE is your friend. Here is the E. Howard Hunt bio:

Everette Howard Hunt (archive.org)

Here is a very good Internet Wayback Machine web link for Spartacus

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (archive.org)

I really wish someone would tell us what is going on with that incredibly informative and educational web site.

 

[Ron Bulman]

Is John Simkin still alive, lucid, I certainly hope so.  He commented on here within the last two-three years I believe.  Given the scope of the Education Forum overall and his creation of it I would think and hope he had taken precautions and put it in the hands of responsible parties for the future.  It is history, it should be preserved for future generations.  But I don't know.

[Robert Morrow]

53 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

Is John Simkin still alive, lucid, I certainly hope so.  He commented on here within the last two-three years I believe.  Given the scope of the Education Forum overall and his creation of it I would think and hope he had taken precautions and put it in the hands of responsible parties for the future.  It is history, it should be preserved for future generations.  But I don't know.

See the last post on this thread 

Now, is that John Simkin private messaging you this June, 2024 or is he replying to you 13 years ago in 2011, as you perhaps were begging, pleading with him to put me on moderation just because you don't like it when I talk about JFK's sexual promiscuity, which happens to be historically completely true and important?

As for John Simkin being alive, he was November or December of 2023 when he copied me on a mass email.

John Simkin

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I have placed Robert Morrow on moderation.

 

[Dan Katzenberger]

What amount do we think the value of this website may be?  Hard to imagine if an outsider could buy it. 

[Mike Aitken]

5 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

When I went to look up Howard Hunt there I got a generic message that the site was for sale.

 

Has that been cut off for whatever reason?

I’m getting the same message, unfortunately.

Does anyone know what can be done to save the website?

[Benjamin Cole]

Spartacus was a great resource. 

I recently checked on the Scott Enyart RFK1A photo theft there, as a starting point. 

BTW, Scott Enyart is writing a book about the RFK1A and photo theft. 

I have a strange story to tell about contacting Enyart on Facebook. 

[Robert Morrow]

Here is a very good Internet Wayback Machine web link for Spartacus:

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (archive.org)

I really wish someone would tell us what is going on with that incredibly informative and educational web site.

It is an absolute disaster having the Spartacus web site on the JFK assassination go down. I really wish someone could get it up and running again!!

I have referred to it so many times in my JFK assassination research!!

[Mark Knight]

John Simkin would absolutely be the one to contact for that information.

[David Butler]

It's still there and working

It looks like they have enabled SSL which has changed the URL's from http to https so you may need to add the s into any links that you have saved. 

https://spartacus-educational.com/

So Robert's Lansdale link above becomes

https://spartacus-educational.com/COLDlansdale.htm

The above was using Firefox browser. I haven't tried any others.

 

[Paul Cummings]

Thanks David!

[Robert Morrow]

2 hours ago, David Butler said:

It's still there and working

It looks like they have enabled SSL which has changed the URL's from http to https so you may need to add the s into any links that you have saved. 

https://spartacus-educational.com/

So Robert's Lansdale link above becomes

https://spartacus-educational.com/COLDlansdale.htm

The above was using Firefox browser. I haven't tried any others.

 

Thank God!

[George Govus]

Cool!

Plenty good reason to archive topics on the site using Wayback Machine, all the same.

[Ron Bulman]

On 7/1/2024 at 12:32 AM, Robert Morrow said:

See the last post on this thread 

Now, is that John Simkin private messaging you this June, 2024 or is he replying to you 13 years ago in 2011, as you perhaps were begging, pleading with him to put me on moderation just because you don't like it when I talk about JFK's sexual promiscuity, which happens to be historically completely true and important?

As for John Simkin being alive, he was November or December of 2023 when he copied me on a mass email.

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I have placed Robert Morrow on moderation.

 

You're a bit mixed up Robert.  Your posting privileges were suspended for four days over James Gordons rule about "sexually oriented" topics.  The post of you being moderated by John Simkin in 2011 was for the edification of newer members.  That I was not the first to do so.