John McAdams part 1

[Jim DiEugenio]

http://www.ctka.net/2013/mcadams.html

The first full scale study of the disinformation artists par excellence.

Part 2 is coming up.

[Tracy Riddle]

Looks like good stuff.

Jim, why do most of the CTKA articles not display a date, even if they aren't copyrighted? Sometimes I read old articles on the site, and I wonder what year they were written.

[Steve Minnerly]

Jeeze it must be 10 years ago that i tried to ask John M. a question.

I can't remember the question but i remember his answer cause i didn't think he was serious.

Basically he said he didn't like my question so he wasn't gonna answer it.

[Magda Hassan]

Jeeze it must be 10 years ago that i tried to ask John M. a question.

I can't remember the question but i remember his answer cause i didn't think he was serious.

Basically he said he didn't like my question so he wasn't gonna answer it.

Kind of fits doesn't it? No illumination. Keep people in darkness. He's just doing his job.

[Albert Rossi]

He's just doing his job.

The Sergeant Friday of on-line JFK fora. "Just doin' my job, ma'am".

[Tracy Riddle]

Regarding the section on Miranda, here's what William Alexander told Posner. I don't know if it's true or not:

"In Texas, an oral statement under duress was no good. We had Miranda before the Supreme Court handed it down for the rest of the country. We had to inform that he did not have to make any statement, and that any he did make had to be voluntary, witnessed, reduced to writing, and could be used against him. So our questions for him were strictly to get information, but there was no way they could be used in court....Even if we gave him the proper warning, and then reduced his statement to writing, if he then refused to sign it in the presence of a witness, it was useless. That's how strict the Texas law was...That's why it was not important to record or transcribe the discussions."

[Jim DiEugenio]

That was six years ago.

I am still waiting for the citation to case law.

Neither Bugliosi nor Alexander, who are both lawyers, produced it.

And if you see what Bugliosi left out about Alexander, sorry, but I don't trust him. In fact, I don't trust either one of them.

Especially when you consider who Alexander was working for.

ANd Bugliosi himself notes the discrepancy. Oswald asked for a respite from questioning. They didn't give it to him.

Where's the tough Texas law Alexander was talking about?

Further, when did they advise him of his right to remain silent? And when did they tell him they would furnish him a lawyer?

If they did not do any of this, and they did not, how was Texas law tougher than Miranda?

[Steve Minnerly]

Jeeze it must be 10 years ago that i tried to ask John M. a question.

I can't remember the question but i remember his answer cause i didn't think he was serious.

Basically he said he didn't like my question so he wasn't gonna answer it.

Kind of fits doesn't it? No illumination. Keep people in darkness. He's just doing his job.

I know that area of Alabama where hes from. Before i got married my wife was stationed in Anniston in the national guard and we use to take road trips around there during 1973. You could almost call it the Marianas Trench of the deep south. Its another world unto its own.

I suppose its changed today. I hope it has.

[Jim DiEugenio]

When Brian told me he was born in Kennedy, Alabama I didn't believe it.

Then I looked up where it was.

And a big light went on in my head.

[Tracy Riddle]

I don't trust Alexander either, but I find it amazing he would make a claim like that and no one has either confirmed or debunked it since Case Closed.