Bernice Moore Wrote:Dick Russell Author and Environmental Journalist
http://www.dickrussell.org/
Just goes to show that we all have other interests besides JFK.
When Dick Russell wrote his book on fish "Striper Wars" I had him come to Somers Point to promote his book and introduced him to the stuffed mounts of the current and previous world record striper bass fish.
In introducing him I mentioned that when we met at Dealey Plaza, I didn't know he had such an interest in fish, and he then mentioned that he didn't know I wrote a book on golf.
So we have to get out of Dealey Plaza once in awhile and fish or play golf or whatever.
BK
Indeed.
My journeys from Birdland to Little Bighorn to bookcases filled with modern British and American fiction, from the Fens to Foxboro, from women half my age to wine twice my age, lead me home.
CD
Charles Drago Wrote:Indeed.
My journeys from Birdland to Little Bighorn to bookcases filled with modern British and American fiction, from the Fens to Foxboro, from women half my age to wine twice my age, lead me home.
CD
CD did you ever come across the National Geographic within which the Little Big Horn featured and they had a brilliant article on it? I think it was mid 80's as a nipper I couldn't stop reading it. Brilliant article!
I have that issue somewhere on the Custer shelves. If memory serves it details some of the initial findings of the archaelogical digs conducted in the wake of massive wildfires that denuded the battlefield of its overgrowth.
Subsequent excavations and analyses led to significant rethinking of the progress of the fight involving Custer's five companies.
Elsewhere on this Forum you'll find a very lengthy treatment of Custer and the LBH that provides my deep political perspective on a deeply political series of events.
My CURRENT verdict: Custer was set up, if not to be massacred along with 300+ officers and men plus uncounted number of the Tribal Peoples of the Great Plains, then certainly to remain victory-free and thus fatally damaged as a political figure and pop culture hero.
thanks for that link,found it very interesting and passed along to some of the kiddos, who also appreciated it, i recall i think it was on the other forum, the ef, a very long drawn out, thread and deep discussion of the different opinions on the Little Big Horn, and very historically informative it was, thanks, yes we all have other interests, like'' life'' aside from assassination research, thank goodness.....some normalcy shall i say.or at times anyway.....b:loco:
The DPF Custer discussion is found at:
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...Hypothesis
The "other" forum's Custer discussion was immediately infiltrated by one of its resident LNutters -- a former Green Beret and a perennial Empty Beret -- who stayed in character by defending the long-discredited official coverup as concocted by the Army and its civilian masters in 1877.
Charles, your hypothesis rings true, that Custer presented a threat to the corrupt Orville Grant, to the Manifest Destiny requiring demonization, was personally loathed by Benteen.
A threat was removed and a symbol (Maine, Alamo, Tonkin etc.) provided for popular mobilization a la WW II poster art.
Oswald was also multi-use, making a "communist" out of an intelligence operative, as Custer was changed from an adapting historio-political figure into a reactionary genocidist martyr.
In another vein, I am reminded of Target: Patton by Robert L. Wilcox positing the deuce and a quarter was steered into the Cadillac's path because we can't have a Patton-for-Senate campaign the following year.
So you believe the Gatling guns would have been effective--and in light of your correction of the false cavalry-centric enemy order of battle, it may have very well been All Quiet on the Eastern Montana Front.
You strike another blow against magic history.