John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee

[Karl Kinaski]

Quote James Fetzer Judyth Vary Baker in Exile Thread, Ed-Forum page 62: Fetzer is addressing Jack White of the "Armstrong-Team."

Jack,

The fantastic theory of HARVEY & LEE is disintegrating before your eyes, but you are so convinced you aren't even reading the posts or else are not comprehending them. Judyth has most recently (in case you missed it) explained that the alleged distinction between "Harvey" and "Lee" based upon the "missing tooth" has no foundation. She has already shown that you do not even have the photographic record straight. And you may recall the sensation when Sylvia Meagher published her INDEX to the 26 supporting volumes, which was welcomed by one and all. And that Allen Dulles could not have been very successful in excluding reference to the CIA from the commission's publications when, in the 888-page volume known as THE WARREN REPORT, which has its own index, there are some two dozen reference to the CIA! So what was John Armstrong talking about?

You ask me to read his book, and when I do, I immediately stumble over a colossal blunder in the first four or five pages. I have asked you repeatedly what principles were used to select between the documents that were published in the public domain that had TRUE content and that had FALSE content. I have heard nothing from you but silence. How did you and John determine that the documents you were including had accurate content and were not part of an elaborate documentary trail to create a false "parallel history" for one man, Lee Harvery Oswald, whom Judyth would meet in New Orleans and Jack Ruby, who was his friend, would shoot before the eyes of the nation? What did you do to cope with the all-too-real possibility that you were actually dealing with a counterfeit history to allow this one man, who was working for the CIA, to return to society with an appropriate cover story based upon the false history that you and John, alas!, appear to have mistaken for real?

I have asked you this question several times now, my friend, but you have never answered it. Just tell me which documents you excluded because you thought that, although they were real documents, their content was false? In the meanwhile, please CEASE TOUTING "THE TWO OSWALDS". I am already convinced that you and Armstrong vacuumed up a mass of documents where, for the most part, you have no idea which have TRUE CONTENT and which have FALSE. Judyth appears to know more than you, John, and David S. Lifton combined with it comes to Lee Harvey Oswald and "the second Oswald", his brother Robert, of whom none of you seem to have the least knowledge. I cannot believe what I am discovering here. HARVEY & LEE is a fanstasy--and you have the nerve to accuse Judyth of being a "fantasist"! I'm sorry, Jack, but I think you have it exactly backwards.

Jim