[PDF file]: […] something interesting might just appear. In this case, nothing did. I also asked Google AI about Holt and got this. While Holt’s claims are often cited in JFK conspiracy literature, they were largely undermined in 1992 when the Dallas Police Department released records identifying the “three tramps” as Harold Doyle, John Gedney, and Gus […]
[…] about Platoon – Stone’s Vietnam War movie, based on his experiences there as an infantry private. Then they moved to the Kennedy assassination, the subject of Stone’s JFK. Rogan is a hunter and knows about rifles. Like other shooters who have looked at the case, Rogan focused on CE399, the so-called ‘magic bullet’. Rogan […]
[PDF file]: […] field of subjects and I recently wandered into one: the three ‘tramps’ photographed being taken into custody on Dealey Plaza after the shooting. This is a classic JFK assassination quagmire:1 disputed photographic IDs; testimony from unreliable or selfinterested sources; third-hand reports about second-hand reports, and a great backlog of attempts by other people to […]
[PDF file]: […] burglar), William Colby, Richard Helms, William Donovan, Allen Dulles (later the intelligence community’s ‘minder’ on the Warren Commission, who had earlier been sacked from the CIA by JFK) and many others, including Dr Harold Abramson and the Dr Strangelove of the whole shebang, Dr Sidney Gottlieb. Like his associates, Gottlieb saw his work – […]
[PDF file]: […] round the subject: ‘The almost-certain assassin, a troubled former marine named Lee Harvey Oswald . . .’ (p. 227). Similarly they are carefully sceptical and non-committal about JFK and Vietnam: ‘. . . over time became increasingly sceptical about South 1 ‘. . . . against all odds, the worse scenario occurred: the U-2 […]
[…] account of JFK’s foreign policy thinking and – once again – shows in detail that, far from being just another cold warrior, as he is conventionally presented, JFK really was trying to take US foreign policy in a new direction. Far from perpetual war, Kennedy refused to go to war in Cuba—even when he […]
[PDF file]: […] 1966 Jack Colhoun London and New York: OR books, 2013, £17.00 (UK), p/b As academic historians are wont to say: this is not my field. Like other JFK assassination buffs, I have acquired most of what little I know about this subject while reading about the assassination. The big surprise about this book was: […]
[PDF file]: […] years ago in a lecture,1 and it was clear when this book was announced that it was going to try and debunk the LBJ-dunnit thesis in the JFK assassination. In Mellen’s view, that thesis has just two planks: the fingerprint of Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace apparently found on the 6th floor of the Texas School […]
[PDF file]: […] same network had been killing people in Texas since 1951 (when Wallace received a five year suspended sentence for a first degree murder). In Estes’ version the JFK killing is merely one element in the wider scandal, the core of which were his secret payments to politicians, notably vice president Johnson. This is a […]
[…] stoop, and big class ring, he looked very distinctive to me.25 24 Gregory C. Lavin, Chasing Ed: Was Major General Edward G. Lansdale the Mastermind of the JFK Assassination?, p. 176 in the Kindle version. 25 8 Four people identifying him means we have to accept that Lansdale was there, even though we can’t […]
