15-06-2012, 10:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 15-06-2012, 03:46 PM by Adele Edisen.)
LR Trotter Wrote:Adele Edisen Wrote:Thank you for your comment, L.R. I don't think your reactions to the assassinations of JFK, and then RFK, were far off from that of most Americans at the time, and up to today. In every opinion poll the great majority of American people believed there had been a conspiracy, either Oswald did not act alone, or he had not acted at all and the shooting was done by others and planned by others. As for Europeans, they were mostly convinced it had been a conspiracy. The Russians and Fidel Castro of Cuba were convinced it had been a right-wing conspiracy, a coup d'etat.
And so, for a young person like yourself, I think that was pretty smart on your part, don't you?
Adele
I have to be careful and not overestimate my GED aquired astuteness, Ms Edisen, especially with the benefit of hindsight. But, as I recall, the Sunday murder of LHO in the DPD basement under guard just seemed to be something of a pattern. I was outside and not watching TV when Jack Ruby shot LHO, and my Brother came out to where we were and told us what happened, so I saw a replay shortly after it occurred. I remember being amazed, but just not surprised. Admittedly, it took a lot of study to reach the point I am at now, including the monitoring of DPF over about 1 1/2 years. Slightly over a year before the JFK Assassination, I had lost my Dad, and I would love to have known his thoughts by the afternoon of 11/24/'63.
:alberteinstein:
That makes two of us who did not see Jack Ruby shoot Oswald when it happened on Sunday, November 24, 1963. I was on my way to downtown New Orleans to meet with US Secret Service Agent John W. Rice at the Federal Building at 600 South Street. It was Agent Rice who told me that they had just received word from Dallas that Oswald had been shot.
Oswald would not have been allowed to live long enough to go to trial or to begin talking about what he might have known, as that would uncover the guilty.
The original plan was to kill Oswald at the Texas Theater where Oswald had been lured on Friday, November 22. Gordon McLendon, millionaire owner of radio station KLIF in Dallas (and a CIA agent in the Far Eastern Division of the CIA and Jack Ruby's best friend) went to his radio station's studio and broadcast that Officer Tippit had been killed at the Texas Theater. Officer Tippit never got to the movie house for he had been killed on the street at Tenth and Patton Streets in view of several witnesses.
On the 35th-year anniversary of the John Kennedy assassination, another Dallas local radio station, KRLD, re-broadcast portions of the KLIF radio station's broadcasts of November 22, 1963, to which I listened on line. KLIF's broadcasts on November 22, 1963, were also shared with other radio stations around the United States because there were no national television or radio stations boadcasting from Dallas that day. I had two friends with whom I had gone to college and were now living in Brooklyn, New York, who heard this broadcast about the shooting of Tippit at the Texas Theater. In addition, I made friends with a couple here who had come from New Jersey and they had the same impression that Tippit had been killed at the theater. I took the wife of that couple with me to Dallas to attend the Lancer and COPA meetings in November of 2001, and while there, we took the Lancer bus tour of sites of importance related to the assassination, such as Lee Harvey Oswald's boarding house on Beckley Street, the Texas Theater, and Tenth and Patton Streets.
When the bus tour guide spoke of Officer Tippit being killed at Tenth and Patton my friend blurted out that she thought he had been killed at the Texas Theater. She was really surprised to learn this.
Gordon McLendon is another person to investigate.
Adele