The Vehicle on the Grassy Knoll

[Peter Lemkin]

[quote=Dawn Meredith]

The point is that if Jay trusted Tosh Plumlee with the car, there must have been a reason. Why is it that Tosh has been working so hard to discover who set him up on the hot check charge in Columbus, but nobody seems interested in that? I'm just trying to find out if Jay knew something that connected Tosh's allegations about a gun-running network he was involved with, a National Guard-Army Intelligence unit operating in Dallas out of Love Field under his Commanding Officer Seiwell, and a man who may have been the driver of the car at some time?

I don't know whether there was a link or not, but Jay must have thought so in order to have opened up to Tosh. Walt Brown is not the issue here. Why not duplicate Jay's work and find out what he knew about how this network was linked to both Tosh and the Rambler?

Linda, Jay had good reason to trust Tosh, they were good friends dating badk to the 50's.
As for anyone "duplicating Jay's work" I don't know anyone with the kind of connections and contacts Jay had, in the intel world, Dallas police- (of which he was an alum)- and far, far more. Jay was, as he called it, "very deep cover" . I just don't understand why Walt refuses to do anything meaningful with Jay's research.
What is your basis for connecting Seiwell to this particular Rambler? Richard is really the Rambler expert, but he is not doing much these days in this area. I am sure many of us would love to have the ability to dublicate Jay's research. It's certainly a meritorious idea.
Dawn

Jay spent from the day of the assassination until his death investigating the whole case and its players [with unique access to DPD and MI people because of his own connections to both]. While one can in theory try to 'duplicate' that, most of the people he had access to we never could and/or they are now not alive. His archive is somewhere between 1-4 million pages! We are told it sits in a public storage facility somewhere in NJ under Walt's control. The easiest thing would be to get Walt to make it accessible. Troubling is that Tosh once told me he told Walt not to make anything about him [Tosh] accessible to me or others - so go figure. As Jay and Tosh were long and close friends, it is reasonable to assume that the amount Jay had on Tosh was very large and would cover all his activities - including the very ones under discussion. The research HAS been DONE! It sits somewhere in New Jersey we are told - along with documents, I'm sure. Another troubling aspect is that Walt had/has a request from me to copy and send for reimbursement of copy/scan costs all that Jay had on Tosh. That now seems to be on permanent hold, but in his last email to me Walt told me that 'another researcher' was in the storage looking at the Plumlee materials as he wrote! When asked who it was and if I might work with this 'other researcher', I was greeted with silence and now non-contact. Again - go figure. I hope Tosh has changed his mind on trying to block access to what materials Jay might have on him, as Walt is problematic enough. This is the kind of endless 'stuff' that goes on investigating this case that is frustrating and end with us chasing our tails moving quickly, going nowhere. The jury is still out on this one, but it is troubling, indeed. Tosh, how'z about you asking Walt to scan and make two copies on DVD or CD of Jay's files on you for us? Would go a long way to getting to the bottom of the Rambler story, the Seiwell and MI story, your story and perhaps opening-up Jay's work to others.......

Seiwell is a VERY interesting character and the person who brought Tosh into the covert world. Seiwell was connected to many interesting persons we are familiar with and more so those in TX and Dallas area. It wouldn't surpise me one bit that he was in some way connected with the car....but, again, Jay would have copious notes on that - Tosh directed him toward Seiwell and others in his past long ago, I'm sure.