"JFK's own dirty trick" by Mark Feldstein [For Nixon to call Kennedy "a dirty politician" is rich]

[Jan Klimkowski]

The original Val Imms story about the so called Dallas high society party was actually quoted by Penn Jones, but was not even about the Murchison myth. It was about a party hosted by Paul Ragorodsky, allegedly associated with Permindex. When I studied this, I noted it to Livingstone who I was arguing with about it at the time. I said that Penn segued from this real party in the paper, to a completely different affair which he only heard about second hand way after the fact. But yet he calls the second affair something like an assassination meeting. And he then relates it, get this ,to another assassination meeting which he says took place in Shreveport. He only mentions the last in passing. So how or why he calls it that is never dealt with.

When I started examining this genesis, that is when I began to trace it through all the books it was mentioned in. And I saw how it had gained a life of its own. ANd time after time, more people were added to it. Until Brown capped it off with Hoover and McCloy--who, as Seamus shows, could not have been there.

Research of this quality, tracing back to the original sources, and then meticulously seeing how this source material is used and abused, is fundamental to any search for the truth.

In this instance, Jim DiEugenio, with assistance from other researchers, has made a very strong case that the "assassination eve party" could not have happened with the cast of high profile figures as described by Madeleine Brown.

The onus is now surely on those who maintain that the "assassination eve party" did take place to provide corroborating evidence other than the testimony of LBJ's mistress and a "chauffeur".

If such evidence is not forthcoming, then I can only concur with Jim DiEugenio's conclusion that:

I don' t know how they missed Hunt or Phillips. But here is the irony there: they actually WERE IN DALLAS at the time. But the fact they were ignored, while McCloy and Hoover were added, tells you what you need to know about this tale.

In other words, the "assassination eve party" story is either a fabrication for mundane reasons, or - more sinisterly - active disinformation to discredit genuine investigation.