31-05-2010, 06:12 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:When did John J McCloy utter his statement? Was it before or after the Dealey Plaza hunt? And in what context? I'm wondering if JFK's wasn't in response to McCloy's. Or vis-a-versa.
From memory, Maggie, at the end of WWII or thereabouts, in the course of a private correspondence with said fellow-lawyer (?). McCloy shortly thereafter went off to Germany to superintend the re-employment of any Nazis he could lay his hands on.
I am temporarily unable to lay my hands on the tome in question due to a leak, miserably misdiagnosed by a motley succession of Cuban plumbers, which caused me to evacuate my boxed books to less aquatic climes. I shall clamber through the garage in question later today in pursuit of the wandering Bird, not least because my handwritten notes have a record for reliability usually to be found only in a political manifesto.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
Joseph Fouche
Joseph Fouche