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Ralph Yates
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Never discuss religion or politics is still solid advice. I've aroused suspicions, despite my record.
Now it is time to serve me with a litmus test. I've emphasized that it is reasonable to react as I have to Ralph Yates as a presenter of extraordinary claims, until adequately supported . His claims are in FBI reports and the inconsistencies in his claims and his inability to substantiate how he came to be located during the course of his workday, are included in the FBI reports. There is a report that he experienced a "nervous" episode a few years prior, and there is the matter of his death certificate displaying "paranoid schizophrenic" as an ongoing medical condition.

There is reasonable doubt as to Yates's claims, aggravated by his parallel mental health deterioration, but not any doubt of the other participants in this discussion. They weigh all of the details differently than I weigh them, but does this imbalance change the known facts?

An FBI report states that Yates's polygraph test was inconclusive because his responses to control questions could not be measured for the purpose of establishing a baseline in the rise and fall of his metabolic indicators.

Is it helpful that Mr. Doyle asserts that Yates "passed his polygraph" if the goal of this discussion is to attempt to discern whether or not Yates's claims about the hitch hiker he claimed he picked up, were in fact accurate. One claim was that the hitch hiker was carrying a package Yates estimated to be four to four and one-half feet in length, and Yates said he directed the hitch hiker to place it in the back of his truck, but the hitch hiker replied that he preferred to carry it and that he hopped into the cab of the truck with the package and shared that it contained curtain rods.

I try to add to any thread that I participate in. Readers can decide if what I have added to this thread is more helpful than an opinion that Yates passed his polygraph. This opinion is contradicted in an FBI report, but DC Dave writes that he interviewed Yates's widow 42 years later and she recalled an unnamed FBI agent sharing with her that Yates passed his polygraph test.

David Joseph asks in a sincere way, why I exhibit obvious hesitancy to accept that Yates's claims of his discussion details with a hitch hiker carrying a long package, supported by a conclusion of Yates's passing an FBI administered polygraph are reasonable (and accurate) claims. I view the Yates claims, and the claim that he passed his polygraph test, as extraordinary, as I view the claim that CE-399 was a "magic" bullet, or that a magic bullet passed through JFK before being the source of all of Connally's wounds.

I've studied the statements attributed to Yates and his wife in late 1963 through early 1964, and I've been able to verify every detail I picked from them that has turned into a researchable lead, including two in the poem attributed to Yates as he allegedly slipped into incoherence.

I probably know more details about Yates's mother, described by him as Bernice Gordon, than anyone who has researched this. His paternal grandmother died from cancer in 1959, as is attributed to Yates in the poem. Yates's mother was pregnant with Ralph eight months before he was born when his older brother died suddenly of unexplainable convulsions at the age of six months. Yates's paternal grandfather was recorded living in Evanston, IL in the 1940 US Census.

Maybe David, Mr. Doyle, and Mr. Scull should be asking themselves why they appear to be so incurious, yet so confident about knowing what they know.

I believe that the ordeals Mr. Bolden experienced indicate a similar impression left on me by the treatment of Frank Olson by his fellow "CIA scientists". If they abuse their own as the evidence indicates, what hope is there for any outsider who they set their sites on? I accept the claims by Bolden that can be verified through independent research, and I reserve judgment about some of the extraordinary claims he has made in which, so far, he must be taken at his word.

I try to avoid accepting anything as fact, primarily on faith, because religion and research are very different.

I try to speak truth to power. Oswald is a construct of Jerry Ford, unelected president with a secret FBI briefcase and a mobile bullet hole in JFK's back, and the other denizens of the Warren Commission and its investigative arm, the FBI, "assisted" by the CIA.

Bush eulogized Ford, specifically admonishing CT's that if Ford said that was the way it happened, presumably both Oswald, LN shooter, and CE399, we can all accept it because Ford was a man of his word.

Weeks before the assassination, I contacted the son of this man, William W. Moss, III,
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......received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1957. During his time in the United States Navy, he spent a year studying Chinese at the Army Language School in Monterey, California He later attended Columbia University in New York City, and studied Chinese, government, and public law there from 1963 to 1964, receiving a Master of Arts a year later.[SUP][1][/SUP] He died in 2007.[SUP][1][/SUP]
Career

Moss joined the United States Navy in 1958, and continued to serve until 1963. In 1964 he began working at the National Security Agency as an Intelligence Research Analyst in foreign language, and held this position until 1969, after which he became an Oral History Interviewer at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. A year later, in 1970, he became the Chief of the Oral History Program. In 1972, he became the library's Senior Archivist for national security and foreign affairs materials, a position he held until 1975, when he was renamed the Chief Archivist.[SUP][1][/SUP] From 1978 to 1979 he served as president of the Oral History Association.....

The archivist, Moss's son is the news director at the Rochester newspaper. I emailed him on a Sunday to share with him that I discovered that Bush's close friend Tom Devine had spent grades K-8 in a class of 20 boys at a small private school at which Devine's father Adrian headed the school's board, with classmate, Peter Dryer. I informed this news director that this was a Rochester story because Joan Mellen interviewed Dryer's brother, Joseph for her book about DeMohrenschildt in Haiti, and Joseph Dryer disclosed that he had inside info that the secretary accompanying DeMohrenschildt and Clemard Charles to their meeting on 25 April, 1963 with Tom Devine, was working for the CIA. Joseph Dryer also claimed to have met with DeMohrenschildt and Charles during that same day.

The point here is that it should matter much more to Bush and to Devine whether or not Oswald had shot at Gen. Walker just 15 days before those 25 April meetings, and what Oswald's role was in the assassination of JFK, than it matters to me or to any other researcher. It is Bush who asserted in such a prominent and inappropriate setting that we must all take Jerry Ford at his word. I was never residing in the AUV society house at Phillips Andover with DeMohrenshildt's business partner Ed Hooker, or with William B Macomber, chief of staff of WC member and bonesman Sen. Cooper (R-KY) and Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller's son Godfrey Anderson, but Bush was. The history teacher's of Andover's AUV boys next job offer was writing the history of the CIA, accomplished in the 1950's and classified secret into the 1990's. Both Bush's former teacher and Bush were given unprecedented access to the CIA based on now apparant prior
experience of either Andover man.

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The late Arthur Darling, a revered teacher of history to generations of Phillips Andover boys (including George Bush), was brought in as the first official CIA ..

Archivist Moss's son emailed a reply that Sunday to me stating that he could not assign an investigative reporter to write a story on the tip I shared with him because he anticipated no local interest, even a few weeks before the 50th anniversary of 22 November despite the central figures being Devine and Dryer, two alumni of the prestigious local Allendale-Columbia school, because Moss's father had seen and heard as much background detail as anyone could have, and had shared his opinion with his son that DeMohrenschildt's role had been exaggerated and that he actually had a very minor role.

The next day I shared the details above in an email to Joan Mellen and she replied that Joseph Dryer had told her that Tom Devine had been his closest friend in Rochester, but only after her book had gone to print. I relayed this new detail in a second email to Moss's son and received no response. A few months ago in reaction to learning that attorney Lopez, author of the HSCA Lopez report lived and practiced law in Rochester, I addressed an email to both Lopez and to Moss's son and suggested that they get together in Rochester because they must have plenty to talk about besides my tip about Devine and Dryer. Moss might even publish an interview of Lopez if his archivist father did not stamp out any and all curious inclination in his son.

The elder Moss was quoted in this interesting report.:
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Mystery surrounds the role of transcriber of Kennedy's secret White House tapes
April 04, 1993|By Philip Bennett,Boston Globe
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Mr. Dalton's role has mystified archivists who have tried to reconstruct the handling of the tapes during the 12 years that they were private property[Image: icon1.png] of the Kennedy family. Particularly, scholars have asked whether the collection, widely regarded as a unique record of the Kennedy presidency, is complete or edited.
As Mr. Dalton left the Navy, performed chores for Robert Kennedy and found work[Image: icon1.png] in the household of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, his contact with the tapes raised more unanswered questions:
For whom and why did he prepare transcripts in the 1960s? Did he have authority to screen or alter tapes? And why and for whom did he continue in the 1970s, according to several accounts, to remove private Kennedy records, including tapes, from a family vault in the National Archives warehouse in Waltham, Mass.?
"I always felt that the story of the tapes was incomplete because we weren't able to interview Dalton," said William W. Moss, the former chief archivist at the Kennedy Library in Boston, who wrote the library's official history[Image: icon1.png] of the tapes. Mr. Moss called questions about Mr. Dalton a "significant gap."

No one in a position to fill the gap seems eager to do so today. Approached at his home on a Florida golf course, Mr. Dalton, said to have become a prosperous gas station owner after leaving the Kennedys' employ, refused to discuss his work on the tapes.
In a letter to the Boston Globe, Mr. Dalton wrote: "I have no information[Image: icon1.png] to contribute to your interest in the history, content, or historical significance of any tape recordings which may have been made during the Kennedy Administration."
Senator Kennedy's chief of staff, Paul Donovan, confirmed that Mr. Dalton joined the senator's household staff in the early 1970s but added, "Mr. Dalton did not work on the tapes at the direction of Senator Kennedy."
Mr. Donovan also said: "Senator Kennedy has no specific knowledge about the tapes."......

It is for you to decide, assuming the sudden inquisition by Mr. Joseph and Mr. Scull is concluded,
if I am mistaken in my approach, know too much for my own good or to fit snugly into a CT team jersey, or whether or not I am worth putting up with. I am drawn toward people who give the impression that they can impart new knowledge to me or who seem to be talented partners in collaborative research. If you view everyone as typed a loyal believer or as one of Sunstein's forum agents, consider how little thought is required for that.

I want to be in a place in which the most reliable details are welcome, and the Education Forum certainly proved not to be such a place. From the heavy investment in Remington Eddystone and Remington Bridgeport in 1914 through the formation and development of OSS and CIA devotion to the priorities of the powerful, the assassinations of the 1960's the October Surprise in 1980, Iran Contra and Kerry's "investigation", the SCOTUS coup in 2000,and the two 2004 Bones candidates covered by bonesman Dana Milbank of the WaPo, I identify a pattern and I document the presence of the same blood and S&B. Did the circle remain unbroken when Bush's AUV mate
Godfrey married Eddystone's Samuel Vauclain's granddaughter, Constance Hamilton, who Vauclain raised, or when Oliver North's "courier" Rob Owen turned out to be son of Cranston Printwork's PR man and 39 year employee Dwight Owen?

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If this response makes my bona fides suspect to the self professed keepers of the flame, you challenged me to explain myself because you know you know better than I do. Take care not to appear too similar to Simkin or Janney in reacting to my research or to how it has influenced me.


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#92
I've always been an agnostic about the Ralph Yates story. The case for conspiracy (and Oswald as a framed patsy) doesn't depend on accepting it, anyway.

Some of these fake Oswald sightings have always seemed gratuitous and unnecessary, even absurd, far beyond what is necessary to set up somebody for a crime.
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#93
Tracy Riddle Wrote:I've always been an agnostic about the Ralph Yates story. The case for conspiracy (and Oswald as a framed patsy) doesn't depend on accepting it, anyway.

Some of these fake Oswald sightings have always seemed gratuitous and unnecessary, even absurd, far beyond what is necessary to set up somebody for a crime.



Tracy,


I don't think Jack Kennedy would have written-off Yates so quickly. I think he would have seen how important a symbol he was to the powerful being able to turn the phony claim of American government protection of individual rights on its head and destroy the vulnerable using some of the dirtiest tricks in the book.

None of what you wrote answers the evidence that shows serious validity to some of those sightings.


Scully is just entering more wind that ignores that Yates passed a lie detector test showing the rifle in the brown paper wrapper was real. And the Oswald double walked towards the Depository with it. JFK Assassination researchers should be able to detect that FBI's reaction to Yates showed a serious need to hide something.
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#94
Quote: If this response makes my bona fides suspect to the self professed keepers of the flame, you challenged me to explain myself because you know you know better than I do. Take care not to appear too similar to Simkin or Janney in reacting to my research or to how it has influenced me.

.......
David Joseph asks in a sincere way, why I exhibit obvious hesitancy to accept that Yates's claims of his discussion details with a hitch hiker carrying a long package, supported by a conclusion of Yates's passing an FBI administered polygraph are reasonable (and accurate) claims. I view the Yates claims, and the claim that he passed his polygraph test, as extraordinary, as I view the claim that CE-399 was a "magic" bullet, or that a magic bullet passed through JFK before being the source of all of Connally's wounds.


Josephs... Tom, with an "S". And how about dropping the defensive posturing? This is not about who knows more or better than another; this is about coming to the point of your argument and supporting it with evidence.

You start to answer the question, yet you never get to it.

We all understand you think YATES was somehow able to describe and offer terms and verbiage about the assassination PRIOR to the event due to what, his mental illness..?. The Radionics you describe is better suited for the ROKC Forum where there are a few who subscribe to such mental abilities.

If you can't explain how he was able to relay details of the assassination and a key player PRIOR to the event, you cannot move on to the extraordinary assumption that he claims were somehow extraordinary. And we don't need pages of geneological tangents thrown at us to comprehend your reply. Can you please simply say what you mean?

Your adding to the pool of knowledge with your connections among people is appreciated yet are usually allegorical rather than clarifying. Information for information's sake is interesting and worth analysis yet you never seem to connect the dots you lay out on the page.

We all do not see things as you do Tom...
you obviously have a gift for how the connections MAY work and how the history of relationships among the players dictates the results we now study... Yet like Tom Hume's codes, you spend more time on the process than the analysis and how that changes how we see the assassination related events.

Please answer the question Tom
: Why is Yate's signed statement a serious enough problem for the FBI that Hoover needs it discredited to the point that Yates himself is driven to mental illness?

When Yates, who is now and has been assumed to be mentally incompetent - in YOUR mind - repeats the story without change or embellishment a number of times finally writing it out himself and signing for the authenticity of it, is asked about his mental illness history, we find it was a BACK PROBLEM. That he was never diagnosed as mentally ill.

It matters not what an FBI agent may or may not have said to his wife as recounted 42 years later.
It matters not that the FBI claims the polygraph was inconclusive based on THIER explanation
It matters not what DC Dave thinks or what Douhglass wrote...

What matters is how Yates goes from being a witness relaying the information voluntarily with a request NOT to use his name or grant any publicity for the sake of his children to an FBI initiated hospitalization in order to completely discredit the man.

What matters is that none of the info from Gilpin or Charlie's Meat Market is available other than as a paraphrase thru FBI filters. Unless you have these authenticated FBI interview docs...?

Yes or No Tom -
1. FBI evidence and explanation in this case is reliable and trustworthy on its face FIRST, proven to be so SECOND - as opposed to the other way around.
2. Lee Oswald is completely innocent of killing either JFK or Tippit and was set up as a Patsy
3. Harvey & Lee is a viable and well supported explanation for the conflicts in the evidence left for us to discover since "People don't read" and would never find them anyway


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This, it seems, is what you are not saying but mean to say:

- Yates made the entire thing up, there was no hitchhiker, no story, no check, no nothing... Yet was somehow able to relay info that only becomes known after the assassination, prior to the assassination...

So do you believe that Dempsey Jones is also fabricating yet you accept the FBI report that Gilpin and Charlie's Meat did not corroborate his story... why Tom, cause the FBI says so and it's not an internal cover-up?

Did our man YATES write poems as you claim the FBI says he did PRIOR to the hitchhiker episode?

Is there any event in his life which leads you to believe he did not experience what he did in his truck with this man and chose to voluntarily tell the FBI this huge lie?


Please 'splain as I do respect your work and efforts. I am focused on "the Evidence IS the Conspiracy" and have been for a while now.

After my years of research I come to find one constant:

The overwhelming majority of the evidence we have been given in this case illustrates the conspiracy, not the event. The evidence which illustrates the event can be counted on one hand (JFK's Shirt and jacket are the only ones I've seen so far)

The YATES story is indicative of how the FBI curbed any deeper investigation into a second Oswald for which YATES is only one of a mountain of events which illustrate there being at least 2 Oswald's and that the man Ruby shot was NOT the naturally born Lee Oswald.

Tom - why would the FBI need to discredit Palmer McBride or Oswald attending Stripling Jr High within days of the assassination? why would the FBI create an entirely ficticious trip to and from Mexico City while knowing for a fact the CIA was lying to him about Oswald in Mexico?

What explanation satisfies why potential conflicts in the timeline of his life 5 to 10 years earlier would help solve the case as opposed to insure that records which clearly show the existence of a 2nd Oswald in life but only a shadow in the documents are suppressed as completely as possible?
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right.....
R. Hunter
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#95
Albert Doyle Wrote:
Tracy Riddle Wrote:I've always been an agnostic about the Ralph Yates story. The case for conspiracy (and Oswald as a framed patsy) doesn't depend on accepting it, anyway.

Some of these fake Oswald sightings have always seemed gratuitous and unnecessary, even absurd, far beyond what is necessary to set up somebody for a crime.



Tracy,


I don't think Jack Kennedy would have written-off Yates so quickly. I think he would have seen how important a symbol he was to the powerful being able to turn the phony claim of American government protection of individual rights on its head and destroy the vulnerable using some of the dirtiest tricks in the book.

None of what you wrote answers the evidence that shows serious validity to some of those sightings.


Scully is just entering more wind that ignores that Yates passed a lie detector test showing the rifle in the brown paper wrapper was real. And the Oswald double walked towards the Depository with it. JFK Assassination researchers should be able to detect that FBI's reaction to Yates showed a serious need to hide something.

I'm not writing him off, simply saying that some aspects of this case today are ultimately unknowable. His story may be true, and I certainly don't trust the FBI, but I don't see any point in staging this incident for the benefit of creating a witness like Yates. What did the plotters hope to accomplish? The rifle range and car dealer incidents at least have some reason for them - show that the "Communist hired gun" expected to come into some money, was practicing his sharpshooting skills...What was this sighting supposed to demonstrate? That Oswald was rehearsing his curtain rod story? The man's statements were so disturbing, if I was Yates, I would have gone to the police or FBI that very day, not waited until after the assassination.
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#96
Yates passed a lie detector test. The rest is secondary.
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#97
Lie detector tests are notoriously unreliable, even when conducted properly. That's why they are inadmissible.

For proof, if any is needed, I point to Jack Ruby's "lie detector test." He passed too.
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)

James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."

Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."

Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
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#98
Drew Phipps Wrote:Lie detector tests are notoriously unreliable, even when conducted properly. That's why they are inadmissible.

For proof, if any is needed, I point to Jack Ruby's "lie detector test." He passed too.



Not in these circumstances. This situation has an allegedly unstable schizophrenic man trying to get away with creating an outrageous hoax. It would be very difficult to claim that a man who was so stressed as to cause his commitment was also able to calmly fool a polygraph at the same time. Funny how the polygraph missed that chronic stress. Yates also had a corroborating witness.


They're not that unreliable Drew. If they were that unreliable they would just not use them at all. Besides, the polygraph that FBI gave Yates satisfied the FBI agent who told Dorothy Yates "It showed he was telling the truth". Hoover also said they were having trouble discrediting Yates' story. If Yates was that bogus you would think the FBI wouldn't have any problem proving it.


Read DiEugenio if you think the polygraph given to Ruby was a fair comparison.
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#99
The primary reason that law enforcement utilizes lie detector tests is NOT because they believe in their reliability, it is because the administration of the test forces an emotionally persuasive state that leads often to confessions.

But the lie detector equipment is not the only way to force this emotional state, most interrogative techniques are designed to produce that same result. A (legally) infamous police "lie-detector" case is one where the cops taped a colander to a suspect's head and ran wires from the colander to a copy machine, which printed out a sheet saying "He's Lying" every time a button was pressed. This process elicited a confession from the subject.
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)

James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."

Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."

Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
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I feel general discussion of lie detectors is regressive to the pertinent evidence in the specific case of Ralph Yates whom the FBI agent said "was telling the truth".



A polygraph is a very sensitive machine that would not be likely to miss stress of the magnitude claimed for Yates who was committed because of it.
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