Of those who might be considered ordinary citizens, I was one of the first I know of to have been told by someone 'in the know' that 'Terrorism' and the War on Terrorism was the next 'big thing'. I was told this in my own home [parent's home] in the NYC area summer of 1976. My parents and relatives [and myself even then] were very far left and progressives - political activists; however my mother was a friendly type and had some friends in the neighborhood she knew who were not politically progressive. One of these type of friends had a son I saw rarely, but enough to know him. I saw his mother more at our home ocassionally. I can't remember exactly the reason why I had contacted the son, but his mother had just told me had had returned to the USA. I knew he has been working for the intelligence community and/or military as a mathematician if I remember correctly - and doing top secret work in Kwajalein. He was [or said he was] a theoretical electronics & math expert - but I think he was more than that, or involved in something much broader. Anyway, he came to our house and only I was home. We talked uncomfortably for a few hours, as his political views and my view of how the USA and the World should be were diametrically opposite. That my family had some relationship over the decades with his mother was the only 'glue' and basis for discussion. I was beginning my research work on the Secret Governmental structures, actions, crimes, modalities, etc. He was, it seemed to me, working within that Secret structure. I remember him telling me in a way that reminded me of the scene in the Graduate where some family friend tells Benjamin that the next big thing was plastics, that he told me [at a time when the term terrorism was rarely used and NOT in the news, at all], that Terrorism and fighting terrorism in a total and endless War on it was the next big thing the USG was going to be involved in. How prescient he was - or perhaps he knew they were going to cook up the very terrorism we would fight. He is still an expert on the matter [or so he is regarded]. His name is Robert Kupperman. How correct he was long ago. I asked him what he did on Kwajalein, but he said he couldn't tell me, as it was classified. I remember feeling some very strange darkness come over me when he left - he sort of implied 'just you wait and you'll see how right I am in what I said'. I have NO way of knowing how he knew this, or his role in anything specific. But he was on the mark. Since then his views and mine, while always oceans apart, have moved even further apart. He has always claimed just to be a private contractor, and maybe that is all he ever was - but the circles he moved/moves in are those I fear most vis-a-vis the War OF terror.

I think this essay turned out pretty well. It was a lot if work to read all that testimony.

But I think it paid off.

As of now, the Tippit case has risen to a new plateau. But I don't see any way to take it further. I try to explain why in the essay.

You will enjoy it I know.

https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kenne...millennium

Dale contacted me by PM. He has been a member of the Forum for five months, but has never posted. He has sent me a number of emails and finally gave me permission to post them. Anyone here is welcome to post and we can hope will be respond to questions, or contact him directly. He seems to prefer calls to writing things down. I have urged him to post here, but so far he has not...so I am instead. For those of you not familiar with Doug Valentine's book on the Phoenix Project, I recommend it highly. These below are not in the order he sent them to me and there is some overlap in information.

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I am Dale E. S. Blommendahl and during the Vietnam war I was to be assigned to the Phoenix Program, an assassination program used to neutralize Vietnamese civilians who were suspected of being unsympathetic to the South Vietnamese Government. This is a synopsis of my almost 38 months in the US Army.
US Army time line and Phoenix issues:
Joined US Army (to allow me to select an MOS and duties of my choice) after being classified 1A in December 1967.
Took Basic at Fort Ord, California starting end of Feb 1968 soon after the Pueblo Incident.
Took Leadership Prep Course immediately after basic (Honor Graduate)
Took Advanced Individual Training as a Clerk immediately after Leadership Prep Course
I was pushed hard (I "was going to go into OCS or regret it") by my company commander which got me to apply for Officer Candidate School, selected Combat Engineer school at Fort Belvoir, VA
Attended OCS in the Combat Engineer Regiment immediately after AIT (starting about July 1968)
Injured on obstacle course (left knee, blind side tackle by MI State lineman) cast on left leg for 6 weeks
Turned back from Charlie Company to Hotel Company (two months)
Offered commission in Military Intelligence Officer as MOS 9666 which I accepted.
Graduated OCS as 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Lieutenant in early 1969 and left for Fort Holabird, MD to attend US Army Intelligence School.
Graduated Intelligence School June 1969 with orders to be operations officer at the Palo Alto Field Office (California) of the 115[SUP]th[/SUP] MI Group.
I went to the field office on the Friday before I was supposed to report and because I did not look "appropriate" was asked to come in to the office and explain "who the hell" I was.
Commander of Field Office was Major Ralph W. Dulin (soon thereafter promoted to LTC), operations officer was a civilian employee named DeCagney.
My early and poor first impression was not good on Dulin or DeCagney.
When I reported on Monday the three of us had a long talk in which I explained that the only reason I came by the office was to ensure that I knew where the office was. I was asked what my expectations and desires were related to being operations officer were. I told Dulin that I if I had a choice I'd rather work as a Special Agent in the field until I had proved myself to myself, DeCagney and Dulin. I later found out that Dulin had been enlisted prior to being commissioned and that my desire to prove to myself and them that I did know what I was doing gave me a chance to improve my image in both their minds.
I ran every Special Investigation Section case (complex and sensitive) for months until DeCagney came to me and said "Now you're going to learn how to be an operations officer." No more fun cases.
Around that time the field office was moved to Sunnyvale and Captain Allen Jones (Westpoint grad and biological son and stepson of two generals, nicknamed "Tappy," last I knew he lived in Huston, TX) who had just returned from Vietnam and became the office commander when Dulin was promoted to LTC.
By mid 1970 Captain Jones resigned and Dulin left me as the office commander as a 1[SUP]st[/SUP] LT long enough to get a commanders MOS.
At that time I got orders to attend the Military Assistance Security Advisor course, Class 70-1. LTC Dulin was elated that I had been accepted(?). He proceeded to tell me just how privileged my career had become; I had previously turned down US Army Flight School and a Regular Army commission due to an option the Army reserved to switch me to rotary wing from the fixed wing that I wanted). Dulin then went on to explain to me the benefits of the MASA assignment for my career:

1. Guaranteed promotion to Captain at 2 years being an officer. (They did send me orders promoting me to Captain but I declined the promotion because I knew from my clerk training that a promotion causes many other personnel actions to be dropped and I had a request for change of assignment out of the Phoenix Program pending).
   
2. My family would have first choice at any military housing anywhere for the length of my Vietnam tour.
   
3. I would have two out of Vietnam R&R periods
   
4. I would have one out of Vietnam leave.
   
5. I would have one in Vietnam R&R (maybe it was a leave).
   
6. I would be promoted to Major at the end of my Vietnam tour (w/ three years as an officer).
   
7. I would have first choice at any assignment (including finishing college) after Vietnam.
   

1. The Geneva Convention used specific words to describe things that were not "legal." Our convention classes were secret because we were being instructed on how to speak of things using words that would sound like they did not violate the convention. I pointed out that I did not think the words being used would change the FACT that we were being told to assassinate civilians (anyone accompanying a "target", put them in "detention" (tiger cages) without judicial procedures and clearly breaking the intent of the convention.
   
2. I said above that we were intended to assassinate civilians. Here is how:
   
   1. We ran intelligence collection among the civilian population looking for those who might be opposed to the South Vietnam government or sympathize with the Vietcong or North Vietnamese government.
      
   2. If we got three "reliable" reports of wavering loyalty the MASA officer was to determine if we thought it was "sufficient" evidence to "neutralize" them (which as intended to mean, for purposes of the convention, to remove them as a "threat" by "detaining" them).
      
   3. The method was to set up an ambush along a known travel route. People frequently travel in family units of up to 6 or so people and occasionally they had some who might be armed, Vietnam was a dangerous place. The ambush design was to have a 3 foot by 3 foot square which was a "no fire zone." When the target stepped into the no fire zone the ambush was sprung. If the target stayed in the no fire zone I was told that 1 in about 13 survived. The rest of the group usually perished. Of the one in 13 targets who survived each would be brought before a three person South Vietnam Government appointed commission(?). They would decide whether the target should be detailed as a threat to the government.
      
   4. I ask how many of the targets that survived were "determined" to be a threat. The answer blew me away: 1 in 3. Assuming the ratios are anywhere near accurate (and the Major was pretty sure of himself) means that two thirds of the targets and their travelling companions were "not a threat." That was a highly certain fact since they were almost certainly dead. The provincial reconnaissance units (PRU) and the long range reconnaissance patrols (LRRP) were used to ambush targets.
      
   5. I offered my analysis of the numbers in class and was threatened with a court martial by the Major teaching the class:
      

1. After the threat of a court martial I went to the Judge Advocate General's staff to discuss my "issues." After ensuring that I had a confidential relationship with the JAG officer to whom I spoke, I tried to tell him the full Phoenix Program story. He stopped me after about 15 minutes and advised that I never return to a JAG office and get a civilian attorney.
   
2. My wife was having a hard time because she figured out how bad the Phoenix Program was. I had about six other officers in our trailer to talk about what kind of trouble Phoenix might cause us. I said it did not matter about trouble with the Program because I was not going to do it. All seven of us agreed that the words used could not cover for or excuse the actions being taken … it was clearly an terrorization program being used against the civilian population.
   
3. I got orders for Vietnam assigned to Phoenix and left SWS, Fort Bragg to settle my wife and daughter in the LA area. Oddly my orders put me into the LA field office of the 115[SUP]th[/SUP] MI Group on temporary duty.
   
4. I had no duties and kept busy throwing wrenches into the machine. I intentionally missed my flight for Vietnam three times, each time notifying my superiors that I was not going to go unless my orders removed me from Phoenix. At one point someone made it clear that I "knew too much" to go in any other capacity.
   
5. Then in March 1971 I received a "hardship" discharge at my earliest convenience. I picked April 1, 1971 to leave my army career behind.
   

Maybe it's just an optical illusion but it appears to me that the camera is not moving nor is it telephoto zooming...


This is that mystery space where Position A comes into play and where z133 pops up a few feet from where TOWNER ends







Somehow, the WC addresses POSITION A with all seriousness and states that JFK passed thru this location - a location SHANEYFELT claims is the farthest spot up Elm where JFK could have been shot in the upper back... which is doubly wrong since the limo is 10 inches higher than where JFK was.... a rifle aimed at that spot would need him moved forward over 15 feet....


The point remains that POSITION A is assumed to be along the limo's path...





yet if you look at BELL and plot it, it appears to pass south of POSITION A.... how is this to be reconciled?

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She is always interesting.

I really do not think anyone knows more about the medical evidence than she does.

https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kenne...outh-knoll

Hi

I'm interested in the math aspect of the JFK assassination - angles, physics, probabilities, etc.

I've come across an interesting site that assesses the probabilities of competing mutually exclusive hypotheses using a Bayesian approach and crowdsourced evidence.

https://www.rootclaim.com/

If you go to the site you will see that they have assessed probabilities of several interesting and several trivial topics.

If enough people would find a JFK topic interesting, perhaps they would incorporate it and run it through their process.

I'm thinking of suggesting a topic with these hypotheses:

Topic: Was JFK murdered by LHO acting alone or by a conspiracy?

Hypothesis 1: LHO murdered JFK acting alone.

Hypothesis 2: A conspiracy was responsible for the murder. LHO had no knowledge of the conspiracy.

Hypothesis 3: LHO either was a member or infiltrated the conspiracy to murder JFK>

If you go to the site, you can see some of their model results.

Does anyone else think this could be an interesting exercise?

Would you register to 'upvote' it at the site?

-- Anyway you might find the assessments of who is responsible for the chemical attacks in Syria interesting examples.

Trine Day has another JFK book out, and happily, Judith Vary Baker didn't write it.

Jim DeBrosse's SEE NO EVIL: The JFK Assassination and the U.S. Media is an expansion, or possibly just a reprint, of a PhD thesis he wrote for Ohio University ("Lost in the Master's Mansion") in 2014. The thesis and the later book both seem to be much the same length. Scrolling through the pages, I saw some decent stuff, and some perhaps less useful stuff alongside it. Your mileage may vary. I can see some new stuff in the new edition, but the meat and potatoes in each look much the same.

The original thesis is here.

https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?...attachment

and the new volume from Trine Day is here, in Kindle and paperback form.

https://www.amazon.com/See-No-Evil-Assas...m+debrosse

Trine Day have another book forthcoming on the JFK assassination and the U.S. media in just a few months - BURYING THE LEAD by Mal Hyman.

Shenon has a new article stinking up news outlets, and he's still pushing the Cuba did it angle, with Cuban folk giving Oswald 'help and encouragement', apparently.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018...-years-ago

Stephen King should write a new book about some desperate, heroic guy travelling to the 21st Century in a desperate attempt to stop CIA media assets before they stink up the rest of the world.

The Campaign to Exterminate Muslims - by Chris Hedges

Though my busy schedule amid this wonderful thing we call life is too busy to afford me an opportunity of a lifetime, just wanted to share the following seminar presentation with its stellar research cast for those of you with more time and a sense of adventure on your hands ---->

The 16th Dealey Plaza UK Canterbury Seminar

12.10pm 1.40pm LUNCH That means of to the pub

1.40pm - 2.40pm Interrogations of LHO-2 by Bart Kamp

2.40pm 3.40pm Staff D and the magic button by Larry Hancock

3.50pm 4.10pm Break: Tea/Coffee

4.10pm 5.10pm Q & A with Malcolm Blunt with B Kamp


Dinner at the Abbotts Barton Hotel 7.30pm for 8.00pm

Sunday 29th April

09.30am 10.30am The DPUK Auction with Mike Dworetsky

10.30am 11.45pm Evidence of Gunmen in D.P. by David Percox

11:45am - 12.30pm Jim Jenkins/William Matson Law at Lancer 2013 with Peter Mellor

12.30pm 1.40pm LUNCH ( Buffet in the Lecture Theatre)

1.40pm 2.40 pm Q & A with John Newman and B.Kamp

2.40pm 3.40pm Jim Di Eugenio on JFK's foreign policy and the declassified files

3:40pm 3.50pm Closure of the Seminar by Stuart Galloway