22-01-2011, 03:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 22-01-2011, 03:45 AM by Jim DiEugenio.)
I could not disagree more with a top down analysis.
What a top down, or Big Picture analysis does is explain WHY JFK was killed. And I think Douglass' take on that is probably the best we can get right now. And it is quite good.
But as far as figuring out who was involved and the way the plot worked, you have to work from the bottom up. After doing that, you find a paradigm that will then fit over the circumstances and evidence that you have adduced. But that model you fit the paradigm over has to be detailed, inclusive, and logical. And it must include the most crucial pieces of evidence.
Jim Garrison wrote a memorable letter to Jonathan Blackmer near the beginning of the HSCA, when Sprague was running things with Tanenabum. JG was sending Jon very valuable stuff from his files. And then he summed up the stuff he had sent him, and said words to the effect that you would never solve the JFK case by conventional investigative means. The reason being that the DPD and FBI had manipulated or faked too much of the evidence. You had to collect as much pertinent and real evidence as possible, and then begin to apply the most logical paradigms one after the other. Then you would eventually find one that matched all the circumstances and that was the one you went with.
To me, and today, things that Garrison did not know about are of the greatest interest and value in constructing a more inclusive paradigm: the Lopez Report, the Chicago Plot, Oswald's call to John Hurt the night before Ruby kills him, John Armstrong's work on the rifle and the Walker shooting, Carol Hewitt's excellent work on Ruth and Michael Paine. (How many here know that the Imperial Reflex Camera was not on the DPD inventory on Saturday night. But that Ruth Paine "found" it nine days later and gave it, not to the FBI or DPD, but to Robert Oswald since Marina was staying with him at the time.) The work of Gary Aguilar, Dave Mantik, and Doug Horne seems to me of prime importance: the photos in the Archives cannot be of Kennedy's brain, and the X rays are ersatz also. And today we can actually prove when and how CE 399 was substituted. It was by the FBI at the end of the first day.
This is all remarkable evidence. And the ARRB discovered most of it. Or was very helpful in aiding writers to close the circle on certain aspects or characters.
An author like North or Nelson who is going to ignore this treasure trove should be looked at with an arched eyebrow from the start. ANd North has now done it twice. First it was to say that the Mob killed JFK, now its to say that the Mob did it with LBJ's help. What utter malarkey.
And before we say that the MSM is building toward an LBJ did it peak for the 50th, let us look to our false friends first. If you recall, that utter goofball Nigel Turner was at work on this scenario back in 2003, with that jerk Barr McClellan. (And so was Alex Jones.) McClelan is a guy who I saw through instantly. This McCllellan crap resulted in Jones going batty in an episode on his show which Seamus captured beautifully in his long essay. You know, if JFK was not killed in the Kill Zone, LBJ was on the radio to call in Swat Teams via helicopters, to strafe the place, and then declare martial law. Yep, that is what the McClellan nuttiness has led us to. No wonder they call us kooks.
Pity the country that has to choose between the likes of Jones, Turner, Dan Rather, and ABC and Chris Mathews on the JFK case. As far as the JFK case goes, I really do not know which is the worst. But I do know this firsthand: between the unfounded LBJ hysteria of the first two, and the continual WC denial by the last three, the public stays confused and inactive, and the possibility of a reopening remains off the monitor. Because the net sum of the above does not allow for any actionable evidence to empower people.
And that is the real sin of the likes of Nelson and North and now perhaps Farrell. Who are supposed to be in our camp. I want no part of them. They are in Alex Jones country with the likes of John Hankey.
What a top down, or Big Picture analysis does is explain WHY JFK was killed. And I think Douglass' take on that is probably the best we can get right now. And it is quite good.
But as far as figuring out who was involved and the way the plot worked, you have to work from the bottom up. After doing that, you find a paradigm that will then fit over the circumstances and evidence that you have adduced. But that model you fit the paradigm over has to be detailed, inclusive, and logical. And it must include the most crucial pieces of evidence.
Jim Garrison wrote a memorable letter to Jonathan Blackmer near the beginning of the HSCA, when Sprague was running things with Tanenabum. JG was sending Jon very valuable stuff from his files. And then he summed up the stuff he had sent him, and said words to the effect that you would never solve the JFK case by conventional investigative means. The reason being that the DPD and FBI had manipulated or faked too much of the evidence. You had to collect as much pertinent and real evidence as possible, and then begin to apply the most logical paradigms one after the other. Then you would eventually find one that matched all the circumstances and that was the one you went with.
To me, and today, things that Garrison did not know about are of the greatest interest and value in constructing a more inclusive paradigm: the Lopez Report, the Chicago Plot, Oswald's call to John Hurt the night before Ruby kills him, John Armstrong's work on the rifle and the Walker shooting, Carol Hewitt's excellent work on Ruth and Michael Paine. (How many here know that the Imperial Reflex Camera was not on the DPD inventory on Saturday night. But that Ruth Paine "found" it nine days later and gave it, not to the FBI or DPD, but to Robert Oswald since Marina was staying with him at the time.) The work of Gary Aguilar, Dave Mantik, and Doug Horne seems to me of prime importance: the photos in the Archives cannot be of Kennedy's brain, and the X rays are ersatz also. And today we can actually prove when and how CE 399 was substituted. It was by the FBI at the end of the first day.
This is all remarkable evidence. And the ARRB discovered most of it. Or was very helpful in aiding writers to close the circle on certain aspects or characters.
An author like North or Nelson who is going to ignore this treasure trove should be looked at with an arched eyebrow from the start. ANd North has now done it twice. First it was to say that the Mob killed JFK, now its to say that the Mob did it with LBJ's help. What utter malarkey.
And before we say that the MSM is building toward an LBJ did it peak for the 50th, let us look to our false friends first. If you recall, that utter goofball Nigel Turner was at work on this scenario back in 2003, with that jerk Barr McClellan. (And so was Alex Jones.) McClelan is a guy who I saw through instantly. This McCllellan crap resulted in Jones going batty in an episode on his show which Seamus captured beautifully in his long essay. You know, if JFK was not killed in the Kill Zone, LBJ was on the radio to call in Swat Teams via helicopters, to strafe the place, and then declare martial law. Yep, that is what the McClellan nuttiness has led us to. No wonder they call us kooks.
Pity the country that has to choose between the likes of Jones, Turner, Dan Rather, and ABC and Chris Mathews on the JFK case. As far as the JFK case goes, I really do not know which is the worst. But I do know this firsthand: between the unfounded LBJ hysteria of the first two, and the continual WC denial by the last three, the public stays confused and inactive, and the possibility of a reopening remains off the monitor. Because the net sum of the above does not allow for any actionable evidence to empower people.
And that is the real sin of the likes of Nelson and North and now perhaps Farrell. Who are supposed to be in our camp. I want no part of them. They are in Alex Jones country with the likes of John Hankey.