01-10-2023, 05:07 PM
To add my 2 cents:
Jim DiEugenio, unfortunately, is past his prime. He reached his peak with the Bugliosi critiques and re-issue of Destiny Betrayed. Since that time he has run off the rails and become megamaniacal in his assertions. In several instances he has relied too heavily on innuendo, taking it as proof of his suspicions, and I have personally called him on it.
He tried to make hay out of the fun fact that Baker's testimony went off the record 5 times, but I showed on pp. 35-36 of Death of the Lunchroom Hoax that not one iota is taken away from our knowledge that Baker, Truly & Oswald had an encounter in the 2nd-floor lunchroom.
In a Deep Politics discussion about the lunchroom encounter, several years ago, Mr. DiEugenio insinuated that Harold Weisberg had sketched out the inklings of a lunchroom hoax in his rare 1965-66 books Whitewash and Whitewash II. But he didn't realize that I had copies of those books, and called him out on his underhandedness. All Weisberg critiqued was the timing questions of Baker and Oswald.
There are other examples, which is why I do not put my trust in Jim's analytical skills; they have become more political than hard-nosed.
That being said, it appears to me that Mr. DiEugenio is making a political move at the moment, claiming that he has a Non-Disclosure Agreement about PrayerMan information he is privy to- that this blurry figure is NOT SARAH STANTON.
With this tack, he avoids saying that this blurry figure is NOT LEE HARVEY OSWALD. And he grants his faithful minions- the ROKC substance abuse brigade- the dogtreats they crave so that they can pretend their "research" hasn't been completely buffoonish, and clownworld Bolshevik, the past dozen years.
My guess is that Jim's NDA is another nothing-burger of his- he's pretending he's got something substantive to protect, when all it is is his usual baloney- hackneyed favoritism with Oliver Stone, who can thereby source Jim DiEugenio as his very own trusted source. And it's got nothing to do with the question of whether PrayerMan is Oswald- which was settled a decade ago by Brian Doyle, and poor Jim can't bring himself to admit that.
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Next question- why did Chris Davidson keep his "scoop" enhancement of Ms. PrayerMan a secret for three years? Is that MI6 agent, James Gordon, slipping him a few shilliings in a back alley somewhere? Asking for a friend.
Jim DiEugenio, unfortunately, is past his prime. He reached his peak with the Bugliosi critiques and re-issue of Destiny Betrayed. Since that time he has run off the rails and become megamaniacal in his assertions. In several instances he has relied too heavily on innuendo, taking it as proof of his suspicions, and I have personally called him on it.
He tried to make hay out of the fun fact that Baker's testimony went off the record 5 times, but I showed on pp. 35-36 of Death of the Lunchroom Hoax that not one iota is taken away from our knowledge that Baker, Truly & Oswald had an encounter in the 2nd-floor lunchroom.
In a Deep Politics discussion about the lunchroom encounter, several years ago, Mr. DiEugenio insinuated that Harold Weisberg had sketched out the inklings of a lunchroom hoax in his rare 1965-66 books Whitewash and Whitewash II. But he didn't realize that I had copies of those books, and called him out on his underhandedness. All Weisberg critiqued was the timing questions of Baker and Oswald.
There are other examples, which is why I do not put my trust in Jim's analytical skills; they have become more political than hard-nosed.
That being said, it appears to me that Mr. DiEugenio is making a political move at the moment, claiming that he has a Non-Disclosure Agreement about PrayerMan information he is privy to- that this blurry figure is NOT SARAH STANTON.
With this tack, he avoids saying that this blurry figure is NOT LEE HARVEY OSWALD. And he grants his faithful minions- the ROKC substance abuse brigade- the dogtreats they crave so that they can pretend their "research" hasn't been completely buffoonish, and clownworld Bolshevik, the past dozen years.
My guess is that Jim's NDA is another nothing-burger of his- he's pretending he's got something substantive to protect, when all it is is his usual baloney- hackneyed favoritism with Oliver Stone, who can thereby source Jim DiEugenio as his very own trusted source. And it's got nothing to do with the question of whether PrayerMan is Oswald- which was settled a decade ago by Brian Doyle, and poor Jim can't bring himself to admit that.
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Next question- why did Chris Davidson keep his "scoop" enhancement of Ms. PrayerMan a secret for three years? Is that MI6 agent, James Gordon, slipping him a few shilliings in a back alley somewhere? Asking for a friend.