Mitchell Severson Wrote:This thread should be re-titled: "Detailed discussion confirming all H&L evidence - criticism of this sacred text will end in your expulsion"
Mr S... have you read the book or not?
Have you taken any time to follow the research at the Baylor site?
How much time have you spent researching the actual assassination itself... ? I am sure it dwarfs the time spend with the H&L materials...
If you have a point you'd like to make, make it then... What the expelled person did was to focus on the nonsense and ignore the evidence...
As a single example let's look at his "voodoo tonsillectomy" approach... His points were:
Quote: The doctor named on the insurance application was a "Dr. Philben." His full name was Patrick Donald Philben and he was a doctor of osteopathy; a form of "healing" developed along lines of spiritualist philosophies and hands-on manipulation. In the early days it was closely associated with such pseudo-intellectual attempts to merge science and spiritualism as Theosophy. Drugs were not part of treatment, and surgery was regarded as a last resort. Lee's tonsillitis was treated along osteopathic lines which may have mimicked for instance, a faith healing session in which Marguerite honestly believed the tonsils had been removed. This also makes explicable the lack of hospital records confirming a tonsillectomy. One wonders if non-traditional medicine was introduced to Marguerite by her new husband. All records prior to her meeting Ekdahl show the use of traditional doctors.
and then he goes on to disparage the doctor himself, the licensing of TX doctors, the licensing of oesteopaths, that tonsils can grow back (but only in the rarest of cases and only to a small fraction of their original size - he forgets to tell you that)... while thaings MAY have been one way or another... and one WONDERS about many things... GP offered nothing but opinion and insults about the doctor as opposed to actual research and evidence as I posted...
and yet... TONSILS are not and were not the point of the discussion and H&L conflict.... the CONFLICTS arise in areas GP does not do so well within, the EVIDENCE (like his linking to virtual duplicates of a FBI Summary report which asks about 1954-55 when the time period in question was 1953-54).
So for clarity of purpose, please take a moment to review the actual CONFLICTS in the evidence which shows that HARVEY and LEE were not at the same places at the same times up thru their time in Biloxi Miss thru June 1957:
In 1956, when Oswald joins the Marines, the only medical problems he is having are 1) ear/nose/throat and 2) Running Ears...
CE1962 - which follows on the heels of his service recap - is Allen Felde describing a completely differet timeline... btw - Basic Training and Combat Training at Camp Pendleton and for most all Marines is 13-weeks plus 3 more weeks...
How does LEE finish Basic in only 5 weeks, by Feb 26th... yet his medical record shows nothing for the tonsillitis in Jan 1957 while it appears as if he is in southern CA (San Onofre) prior to his 15-MAR-1957 med visit in JAX, FL...
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From research and the H&L text and supporting documentation:
Tonsillectomy
During his time in the Marines Oswald's medical record was kept as was the medical records for all the marines.
Oswald was in San Diego from 26 Oct 56 thru 18 Jan 57 and in platoon 2060 with one Alan Felde and 6 other men who were then sent to Camp Pendleton for 13 WEEKS of Boot Camp followed by 3 weeks of specialized combat training starting January 20 1957. (Google "Marines Boot Camp" and see discussions of it being 13 weeks for as long as anyone remembers with the 3 weeks that follow as well)
13 weeks from Jan 20, 1957 is April 21, 1957 plus the 3 weeks of combat training is now
May 12, 1957 ….
Yet CE1961 has Oswald finishing Combat Training in only 5 weeks and going to Jacksonville FL between Feb 26[SUP]th[/SUP] and March 18[SUP]th[/SUP] (normally a 2 day trip as recorded by those who went to Biloxi on May 2nd)
Allen Felde says that in MAY 1957 he and Oswald were sent to the A&P School in Jacksonville FL… Yet according to the testimony of one Daniel Powers LEE Harvey Oswald was given orders to report to Keesler AFB effective May 3, 1957 with 4 other men:
On the evening of May 2 these six Marines boarded a train for Biloxi and arrived
on May 4.[SUP]21[/SUP] Their departure from Jacksonville is confirmed by Marine Corps
Unit Diary No������ 105-57, p. 722. 57-12
…Camarata, Bandoni, Brereton, Schrand, and Powers. [SUP]23[/SUP]
Donald Peter Camarata told the FBI that he first met Lee Oswald when they
traveled together on a train from Jacksonville, Florida to Biloxi on May 2. Camarata
said that during the time he knew Oswald, "He had no recollection .... of any remarks on his
part concerning Communism, Russia, or Cuba. " [SUP]24[/SUP]
Edward J. Bandoni and James N. Brereton met Lee Oswald when they traveled
together on the train from Jacksonville, Florida to Biloxi on May 2. Neither man
was interviewed by the FBI or Warren Commission.
Martin Schrand also met Lee Oswald when they travelled together on the train
from Jacksonville, Florida on May 2. Lee Oswald and Schrand were assigned to the same
unit in the Philippines on January 5, 1958 when Schrand was killed by a shotgun blast while on
guard duty.
Daniel Patrick Powers was the only member of the 6-man group interviewed
by the Warren Commission. Reading from his Marine Corps orders, Powers told the
Commission that his group attended Course number AB27037 and Class number
08057.25 57-13 Harvey Oswald's Marine Corps record, however, show that he attended Course
number AB27330, and Class number 24047.
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So basically we have Lee HARVEY Oswald in platoon 2060 at combat training thru May 1957 while LEE Harvey Oswald from platoon 1070 or 1069 has already been to Combat Training, been to Jacksonville FL and is on now his way to Biloxi Miss by May 2, 1957, when HARVEY and FELDE are just arriving in Jacksonville.
The men who traveled with LEE are not called to discuss their time with him, while the one man who is called Daniel Powers has orders which match the Marine Corp Unit Diaries and has LEE traveling with this same group of men. This is an example of the combining of records and the dismissal of anyone who could connect LEE with HARVEY between Jan 1957 and May 1957.
What does this have to do with Tonsils? It simple establishes that the Oswald with the colds, and reoccurring sore throats was HARVEY Oswald from platoon 2060, Allen Felde's acquaintance… and NOT the man Powers and a handful of others knew as LEE who supposedly finished 13 weeks of basic training in 5 weeks.
You see Mitchell - when you are only BARELY AWARE of the evidence, and not taken the time to read and research each of the subjects - as I have done - or to take the time to talk with John Armstrong and ask point blank WHY/HOW certain evidence corroborates other evidence, you get the approach that GP tried.... focus on the minutia and maybe they wont notice the actual mountain of evidence as opposed to the mole-hill he tried to create about information that was ancillary at best to the entire point of the research.
If you can read the entire book and do some of the necessary digging while you are reading it and STILL feel there are problems to resolve... great, let's talk evidence, FBI, Angleton, Cold War and any of the multitude of subjects H&L revolves around... But if you want to make this about some FBI informant who does not exactly say they left NYC as opposed to diggin into who she was or how she came to be in the first place... If you want to discuss Ekdahl's height as opposed to the real connection he had with Fred Korth and who he was to begin with... fine... do so.
Believe or don't - it remains the EVIDENCE which needs reconciliation... not those who have put in the time and effort needed to even BEGIN to understand the H&L situation.
I'll leave you with this: Why are these two action critical to the investigation of JFK's death?
On Saturday morning, less than 12 hours after Oswald was officially charged with JFK's assassination, the FBI was knocking on Kudlaty's school office door... Kudlaty had gotten a call from his boss that morning to go and retrieve Oswald's records and give them to the FBI who would meet him at the school.
On Sunday morning Nov 23rd, the FBI shows up at Pfisterer's Dental Labs in NOLA and confiscate all of Oswald's employment records...
These two actions represented two time periods in Oswald's life when the records show he was in two different places at the same time...
NONE, I repeat - NONE of the original records are available... ALL FBI records of Oswald's life are copies... and the originals are nowhere to be found...
How are Oswald 1954 school records and his 1957/8 employment records germaine to the investigation?