07-07-2015, 02:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2015, 04:49 AM by Jim DiEugenio.)
Now, as we all know, Vince Bugliosi was all in for convicting Oswald with any and all evidence he could get. Including the most discredited stuff one can imagine. But he usually did a tap dance around problems with the evidence. As I showed for example with Kennedy's brain. Which, as Stringer said, is not his brain.
Well, he also is all in with the rifle. He writes a chapter on it in RH. He wants to use everything he can to try and show Oswald ordered it. And like other things that work against him, he actually says: So what if its the wrong rifle?
Well, Vince says that there were two Klein's magazine ads found at the Paine household, specifically in the garage. And he pretty much leaves it at that.
Smart move Vince. I never said Vince was dumb. Now let us list the reasons why he does not tell the whole story about this "discovery". Which Martha Moyer did tell in her fine article "Ordering the Rifle."
First of all, the DPD said they found this on the 23rd. Which is the day Holmes sent his secretary out to find ads for Klein's in magazines. He said he found two, American Rifleman and Field and Stream. Which, no surprise is where the two ads the DPD say they found came from.
Except, what Vince does not say is that there were two differing stories as to where the ads are found. The one Vince uses says that the ads were found in a small box in Ruth's garage marked "miscellaneous photos and maps". Hmm. The ads were neither maps nor pictures. They were literally ads.
Why does Vince use this source? Because as Martha notes, the other one is even worse. This source says--please sit down before you read this--I warned you.
The ads were found on the bedside table in Marina's bedroom!
Yep, Oswald kept those ads about 8 months. He then transported them from apartment to apartment to apartment to apartment, even to New Orleans and back. He then left them at the Paine garage, but took them out the night before he shot Kennedy. He then was looking at them in bed while watching TV with Marina. He fell asleep, and on the day he was going to kill Kennedy, he forgot to pick them up and left them in plain sight. Right before he picked up the rifle he had ordered from them, and used to kill Kennedy!
Can you believe this stuff? Apparently Vince did. And so does his acolyte Von Pein. Any objective jury would be sitting there with mouths agape if any prosecutor tried to present this nuttiness to them. But there's more.
These cut out ads were not on the DPD inventory assembled for the FBI on the 26th. Nor according to Martha, are they on the original DPD inventory. And guess what, when Curry published his book in 1969, he used a different ad. From which he omitted credit, which he did not usually do. And when Gary Savage did his book, in the 90's, he used an ad from Guns and Ammo to show how Oswald ordered the rifle. Needless to say, Adrian Alba handed over about five magazines he said could have been used to the FBi on the 23rd. All three of the above plus two more.
In other words, the DPD, Holmes and the FBI were hunting down any and all magazine ads after the fact. And they got plenty of them. Only Vince would leave all that detail out. And only DVP would make like parakeet and mimic it without pointing out any of the problems with it.
Well, he also is all in with the rifle. He writes a chapter on it in RH. He wants to use everything he can to try and show Oswald ordered it. And like other things that work against him, he actually says: So what if its the wrong rifle?
Well, Vince says that there were two Klein's magazine ads found at the Paine household, specifically in the garage. And he pretty much leaves it at that.
Smart move Vince. I never said Vince was dumb. Now let us list the reasons why he does not tell the whole story about this "discovery". Which Martha Moyer did tell in her fine article "Ordering the Rifle."
First of all, the DPD said they found this on the 23rd. Which is the day Holmes sent his secretary out to find ads for Klein's in magazines. He said he found two, American Rifleman and Field and Stream. Which, no surprise is where the two ads the DPD say they found came from.
Except, what Vince does not say is that there were two differing stories as to where the ads are found. The one Vince uses says that the ads were found in a small box in Ruth's garage marked "miscellaneous photos and maps". Hmm. The ads were neither maps nor pictures. They were literally ads.
Why does Vince use this source? Because as Martha notes, the other one is even worse. This source says--please sit down before you read this--I warned you.
The ads were found on the bedside table in Marina's bedroom!
Yep, Oswald kept those ads about 8 months. He then transported them from apartment to apartment to apartment to apartment, even to New Orleans and back. He then left them at the Paine garage, but took them out the night before he shot Kennedy. He then was looking at them in bed while watching TV with Marina. He fell asleep, and on the day he was going to kill Kennedy, he forgot to pick them up and left them in plain sight. Right before he picked up the rifle he had ordered from them, and used to kill Kennedy!
Can you believe this stuff? Apparently Vince did. And so does his acolyte Von Pein. Any objective jury would be sitting there with mouths agape if any prosecutor tried to present this nuttiness to them. But there's more.
These cut out ads were not on the DPD inventory assembled for the FBI on the 26th. Nor according to Martha, are they on the original DPD inventory. And guess what, when Curry published his book in 1969, he used a different ad. From which he omitted credit, which he did not usually do. And when Gary Savage did his book, in the 90's, he used an ad from Guns and Ammo to show how Oswald ordered the rifle. Needless to say, Adrian Alba handed over about five magazines he said could have been used to the FBi on the 23rd. All three of the above plus two more.
In other words, the DPD, Holmes and the FBI were hunting down any and all magazine ads after the fact. And they got plenty of them. Only Vince would leave all that detail out. And only DVP would make like parakeet and mimic it without pointing out any of the problems with it.