Mitchell Severson Wrote:Good article, Jim. You do an excellent job criticizing the critics of the critics. The funniest thing on the McAdams site is his BS on the "Single Bullet Theory". He seems to think he can reference Boswell's diagram (from the Baltimore Sun-Times) showing a wound on the back of the neck (at least an inch above the shoulders and more or less in line with the Rydberg drawing) to discredit those critics who rely on the autopsy face sheet. I'd let it go as another case of "choose your own evidence", but he proceeds to post a picture of Kennedy's BACK in the crosshairs from Dale Myers work! Which is it, back or neck? Cognitive dissonance on the same damn web page.
Thanks Mitchell. THis is what I wanted to encourage. More exposure to that deceitful sinkhole of McAdams' site.
If I had gone through every page my article would have been maybe 200 pages long. ANd I still would not have gotten everything.
But by picking and choosing I hoped to poke enough holes to show that none of it is trustworthy or worth reading.
FOr the life of me, I cannot figure out why Jeff Morley and Rex Bradford recommend it as JFK Facts.
By the way there are three other disturbing aspects of that film I posted.
1. It looks like a slight underhand Fritz wave that Fritz gave to Ruby.
2. After Ruby gets off the first shot, everyone is looking at him and Oswald--everyone except FRITZ! Was the guy deaf? Why didn't he look backward?
3. The two horns that go off at the instant that Oswald steps into the foyer area, and then right before Ruby jumps forward. Really startling.
BTW, I don't think someone like Fritz was in on the plot either. I agree with Magda. This was more or less SOP for the Dallas Police under Fritz and Wade. ANd the fact that he was accused of killing the president and a cop was just too much for them. I mean if they were going to let Ruby have the run of the place for three days, I mean they must have known something was going to happen.
Funny, how Seth kantor writes, after the murder of Oswald, you couldn't find five cops who admitted they knew Ruby. Before, half of them admitted it.
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Funny, how Seth kantor writes, after the murder of Oswald, you couldn't find five cops who admitted they knew Ruby. Before, half of them admitted it.
...And before that 75% of them were over at the Carousel partying with him and getting paid-off.
And we are just finding out about it today. But the cover up about Ruby and the police basement was incredible.
I mean, when Burt Griffin suspected something, and he essentially called Dean a liar, and when Warren would not back him up, I mean that was it.
I mean the HSCA did not do much that was good, but that was one thing good.
BTW, in Evidence of Revision, if you look at about the one hour and eleven minute mark, when the news comes on about Oswald being shot, the guy said a cheer went up at the county jail.
That is how screwy things were by Sunday. Wade's pronouncements and the media had essentially convicted Oswald.
I don't have any strongly formed opinions about this one way or the other, but I was just wondering if I could solicit your thoughts. Do you think that there is any reason to believe there was recruitment of (selected) members of the DPD into the plot before the fact (e.g., through Ruby perhaps?). You, Tracy and Magda are certainly right to point out what the DPD was like at the time, but I'm just wondering what evidence there is (if any) to suggest it went beyond that.
Certainly -- whatever else Tippit may or may not have been involved in -- I would imagine that the pinning of his murder on Oswald virtually guaranteed the cooperation of the DPD.
Ruby's correcting Wade by voicing the name of the "Fair Play For Cuba Committee" pretty much made everyone in the room know what the game plan was. God knows how the direct plan for the basement was transferred to the Dallas Police. I'd imagine that they dared pull-off such a brazen plan because they knew intel was behind it.
It's hard for people under the age of 50 today to realize how much trust and faith Americans had in the police, government, FBI, military, etc back then. It was totally misplaced trust, because those institutions have always been corrupt, but the power of propaganda back then was incredible. Most Americans got their information from newsreels shown in movie theaters, government training films, or very brief news reports on TV.
I don't have any strongly formed opinions about this one way or the other, but I was just wondering if I could solicit your thoughts. Do you think that there is any reason to believe there was recruitment of (selected) members of the DPD into the plot before the fact (e.g., through Ruby perhaps?). You, Tracy and Magda are certainly right to point out what the DPD was like at the time, but I'm just wondering what evidence there is (if any) to suggest it went beyond that.
Certainly -- whatever else Tippit may or may not have been involved in -- I would imagine that the pinning of his murder on Oswald virtually guaranteed the cooperation of the DPD.
Besides M.W. Stevenson, I have suspicions about Patrick Gannaway, who was the head of the DPD intelligence unit. If he was doing his job, he would certainly have known about a local "subversive" like Oswald. He and some of his people could have been well positioned to help frame Oswald.
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archiv...eId=520841
Dallas Mosaic: The Cops, The Cubans, and the Company, by Philip H. Melanson [URL="http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=48723"]
The Third Decade, Volume 1, Issue 3[/URL]
