19-06-2015, 02:28 AM
Dawn Meredith Wrote:Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Well, that poll is meaningless.
Its quite a negative achievement to revive Tracy Parnell, I mean he is an Oswald did it guy from years and years ago.
Pat Speer and Graves are Ok, and they sometimes do good work, but they are quite conservative in their approach.
I mean, please do not tell that that the Carroll guy is Ray Carroll? The guy who said he had a tape of Mark Lane backing down from him at the Wecht Conference? But never produced it? I mean please say it is not him.
Ya it's Ray Carroll. And John told me on Sat that Parnell used to write glowing stuff about H and L. He was going to find some after we got off the phone and email it to me. Oh well. I guess he must be reading the stuff over there. (I forgot to ask).
Hello Dawn
Well, I think you've cut straight to the heart of the matter here. We've all seen new information come out over the years and people's opinions on particular aspects of the case have changed. This is not a bad thing, Dawn. It's what scientists do all the time to test their theories and to prove their theories if they don't hold water they dump them and move on.
It might be tough to walk back on a particular theory which is later disproved but I think a more contestible approach only strengthens the research community not weakens it.
No-one is expected to possess perfect knowledge about this case and new information is still coming to light even after 52 years, so who knows where the actual truth will end up. But if we're not prepared to ditch old theories then we won't get to any sort of truth at all.