28-03-2010, 07:54 PM
[quote name='Jack White' post='188029' date='Mar 28 2010, 12:37 AM']
Reply segment number two.
.............
So here are my questions:
(1) The man who died, according to you, was "Harvey", whom Judyth
knew as "Lee" and who was shot to death by Jack Ruby on 24 November.
That is correct.
(2) Although Robert was the brother of the one you call "Lee" and not of
the one Judyth knew and Ruby shot, they were "dead ringers" of each other.
This "Harvey" and "Lee" business is driving me up the wall. I am talking
about the guy who was in the Marine Corps AND who was at Thanksgiving
dinner with Marina in relation to Robert, whose face you partially impose
over the one I am talking about and who is sitting in front of him at the
Thanksgiving dinner. I do not believe there is anyone who looks like the
"Hunting Lee", which appears to me to be a very crude fabrication. I am
impressed by Judyth's analysis of the photos that the ones you seem to
find most distinctive of "Lee" versus "Harvey" can be explained by a far
simpler theory on the basis of distortions in the images that are either
accidental or deliberate--where I am inclined to believe that they have
been manufactured to support the fantastic theory of "Harvey & Lee".
No. You misunderstood. Robert and Lee were "dead ringers"...NOT
Robert and Harvey.
But of course if there really was only one guy and a variety of photos,
which may or may not withstand critical inspection, then the brother
Robert would have resembled Harvey no less than he did Lee, right?
(3) According to your latest, #678, you have always insisted that Robert
was involved in framing the man that Judyth knew and that Ruby shot.
I have not always insisted that Robert was involved in framing Harvey
BEFORE NOVEMBER 22. I do admit that some of his actions AFTER NOVEMBER 22
were suspicious. This is especially true since he knew of the false defector
activity. Speculating, I'd say that AFTER the assassination Robert may have
been pressured by the Secret Service to "help" by doing certain things like
"discovering" that he had LHO's camera. His failure to reveal the false defector
program can be interpreted, I suppose, into failing to assert the innocence
of Harvey.
Robert, of course, has not only not asserted "Harvey's" innocence but has
actively declared his guilt, and I explained in relation to his PBS interview,
which I found shocking, not to mention that he has written a book in which
he explains why he is convinced that his brother--he certainly affirms that
they were brothers here!--and provides a classic vindication of the Warren
commission's lone-gunman theory. Given his affair with Marina, his "find"
of the Imperial Reflex, and coming into a new home he could not afford, I
cannot imagine why any student of the assassination would believe in him.
(4) In your earlier, #674, however, you state (a) that Robert likely was an
unwitting participant and ( was astounded when "Harvey" was fingered.)
Yes. Read Robert's testimony about his reaction on 11-22. Also about his
testimony on the return of LHO from Russia. He was AWARE OF THE FALSE
DEFECTOR PROGRAM, but was unwitting on any involvement in the murder.
I can't wait to learn more about "the false defector program". This sounds
like something dreamed up just for this occasion as an ad hoc explanation.
(5) Now, if Robert was helping to frame "Harvey", how could he possibly
have been astounded when "Harvey" was blamed for the the assassination?
See above. Same answer. He went for a long nighttime drive "to sort
things out." The reported conversation in jail between Robert and LHO
has some strange clues.
Judyth has been accused of being a "fantasist" when you offer this?
(6) Reading his testimony for his reaction to the event sounds like a waste
of time when we know that (a) he "found" the Imperial Reflex camera no one
had been able to locate in the Paine's garage;
I believe the Secret Service pressured him to "discover" the camera.
So he held his brother in such regard that he was willing to frame him!
(B) he had an affair with Marina following her husband's death;
This is undocumented and unbecoming speculation and gossip by JVB and
others. Show me some documentation for this.
Jack, if we start asking for documentation, I don't think there is much
left of your "defense" of Robert, but I will ask Judyth to address the issue.
and, © he move into a nice, new brick home, which he previously could not
have afforded.
I know of no documentation on this. Please show me. Robert had worked
for many years as a brick salesman for Acme Brick Company. What is
extraordinary about a brick salesman acquiring a brick house?
Well, I suppose it has to do with income and cost and mortgages and stuff
like that, don't you think? But I will invited Judyth to say more about it.
What speaks louder to you?
(7) Moreover, Judyth has shown that, when you correct for distortion, the
images of "Lee" and of "Harvey" tend to converge
Distortion did not exist until someone PUT it there (JVB claimed 10%).
Laymen do not understand that a digitized image properly copied can
produce identical images an almost unlimited number of times without
ANY distortion. Back in the pre-digital days, however, it was common
for prints to be distorted, because of photo paper shrinkage. Most
8x10 prints had an eighth-inch distortion one direction because of
the paper grain shrinkage one direction...UNLESS plastic based
print materials were used. I always used them to insure no distortion.
I can easily ALSO distort an image 10% as was done by someone
with the Bringuier photo ON PURPOSE. It definitely was not "compression."
I am not accusing anyone, because I do not know the source of the photo;
however, a 10% shrinkage in one direction does not just happen; anyone
with a graphics program can do it.
So I take it you and she agree that distortion is present in that photo,
even though you had previously asserted that they were identical?
which suggests to me that, while there may have been "two Oswalds",
they are not adequately identified as "Harvey & Lee" but instead more
plausibly as "Robert & Lee":
That makes no sense at all. Robert was not involved in any way in the
plot to kill JFK. But he did have knowledge of the false defector program
and that Harvey was substituted for Lee for defection to Russia. Robert
conidered this a patriotic act during the cold war. All Marguerite did was
lend the identity of her son to someone. Nobody ever dreamed that it
would involve them in a murder.
Well, this is called "begging the question" by taking for granted an answer
that requires independent establishment. IF ROBERT WAS IMPERSONATING
HIS BROTHER (WHOM YOU CALL "HARVEY"), THEN IT CASTS AN ENTIRELY
NEW LIGHT UPON THE SITUATION. GIVEN HIS OBVIOUS LACK OF LOYALTY
TO "HARVEY" AND HIS ONGOING EFFORTS TO CONVICT HIM OF A CRIME
THAT WE ALL KNOW, ON INDEPENDENT GROUNDS, HE DID NOT COMMIT,
I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ADOPT SUCH A NAIVE ATTITUDE HERE.
So my question for you, my friend, is how can you reconcile what I have
just presented, especially your claims (i) that Robert was involved in the
framing of "Harvey" and (ii) that he was an unwitting participant who was
"astounded" when "Harvey" was fingered as the assassin? I don't get it.
Read Robert's testimony to the WC. Read Harvey&Lee. Then you may
get it. And again, I do NOT claim that Robert was "involved in the framing
of Harvey" with the possible exception of "finding" the Imperial Reflex...
plus his failure to exonerate Harvey when he could have.
It is plausible to me that Robert was impersonating Lee on some occasions.
That is not plausible to me. The "Lee" you speak of was HARVEY, who was
NOT his brother. Robert Oswald was NOT a part of the plot to kill JFK.
He would have NO reason to impersonate his brother unless he was a
conspirator. There is NO reason to suspect this.
THE STUNNING DEGREE OF FAMILY RESEMBLANCE STRONGLY SUGGESTS
THAT YOU ARE WRONG. AND JUDYTH HAS PROPOSED WAYS TO PURSUE
IT. I MUST ADMIT THAT, WHEN YOU HAVE INSISTED SO STRONGLY THAT
ROBERT AND "HARVEY" WERE NOT BROTHERS, I'VE HAD TO ASK MYSELF,
"Well, then, what were they? Step-brothers? Was one of them adopted?"
NOW I DISCOVER THAT THIS CLAIM IS SIMPLY PART OF AN ELABORATE
THEORY FOR WHICH THE EVIDENCE APPEARS TO BE HIGHLY DUBIOUS.
And I hope you are not going to suggest that Robert "found" the Imperial
Reflex camera, had an affair with Marina, and purchased a new brick home
because he had to "play along" with the perpetrators "for safety reasons"!
Yes, when he found the situation he had been thrust into, he did whatever
the Secret Service asked him to do. Except I highly doubt the "affair with
Marina" gossip.
NOTE GRAPHIC ADDED AT BOTTOM OF POSTING.
Jack
Jim
[quote name='Jack White' post='188017' date='Mar 27 2010, 08:27 PM']
Reply segment number one...my responses in bold.
...........
OK. Let's see if we can sort some of it out together. By "you guys", I am
referring to you, John Armstrong, and David Lifton, whom I have taken
to be the leading experts on Lee Harvey Oswald. I know that John and
you believe there were two, one "Lee", the other "Harvey", and that the
one Judyth knew in New Orleans was the one to whom you refer to as
"Harvey".
This is correct.
According to Dawn Mededith, the one you call "Lee" (not the
one whom Judyth knew) was short-tempered, non-intellectual and could
not speak Russian, while the one you call "Harvey" was mild-mannered,
intellectual and fluent in Russian.
This is essentially correct, but Dawn Meridith is just a researcher and
what you quote is her research, not mine.
You say the one called "Harvey" was born in Hungary and liked the name
"Harvey",
This is the conclusion of Armstrong, who has studied LHO more intensively
than anyone. I accept John's research.
while Judyth's says that he was born in Louisiana, had a slight Cajun accent,
and hated the name
"Harvey".
Harvey had a NEW YORK (BROOKLYN) type of accent, not Cajun. He
was raised in New York, not Louisiana. Brooklyn accents are often
mistaken for Cajun. Cajun is a corruption of Arcadian, as many
Louisiana residents were Arcadians (from Canada) who spoke French.
As they learned English, it was with a French accent, which is close
to Brooklynese. As for hating the name Harvey, JVB is unfamiliar
with the teacher at Beauregard Junior High interviewed by John,
Myra LaRouse, who remembered LHO well, and insisted that she
call him Harvey.
So we know that at least some of this has to be wrong. OK?
I do not agree with that. For instance, someone mistaking an accent
for Cajun is not "wrong", but a misinterpretation.
I do not know if Lifton believes there were "two Oswalds", but I rather
suspect he does not.
I cannot speak for Lifton. Before H&L was published, David had worked
on an LHO book, but had not determined anything about two LHOs. I
know that David bought the H&L book, and presumably read it. He thereafter
cancelled publishing his own book. I do not know why nor what he thinks.
So what we know about "Oswald" is very obscure.
There is absolutely NO BASIS for this statement.
Now, in this new post you say that you have been suggesting for years
that Robert was involved in framing "Harvey", the man Judyth knew in
New Orleans as "Lee", who, according to you, was not his brother, even
though they looked enough alike that they were virtually "dead ringers"
for one another. In addition, in a recent post, you make this observation:
NO. I do not suggest that Robert was involved in framing Harvey. What
I said was that Robert KNEW that Harvey was not his brother, but
REFRAINED FROM REVEALING THIS as a matter of self preservation.
He could have blown the whistle on the whole affair by telling what
he knew. The fact that photos of Lee and Robert make them look like
"dead ringers" was used by the perpetrators, not by Robert. Robert
was an innocent bystander. He was NOT one of the celebrated
LHO IMPOSTERS.
It may be a while before I answer more questions. My yard man is
due to be here in 30 minutes...and all of tonight is scheduled for
March Madness basketball. I will reply to the remainder of the questions
later.
Jack[/quote]
[/quote]
Reply segment number two.
.............
So here are my questions:
(1) The man who died, according to you, was "Harvey", whom Judyth
knew as "Lee" and who was shot to death by Jack Ruby on 24 November.
That is correct.
(2) Although Robert was the brother of the one you call "Lee" and not of
the one Judyth knew and Ruby shot, they were "dead ringers" of each other.
This "Harvey" and "Lee" business is driving me up the wall. I am talking
about the guy who was in the Marine Corps AND who was at Thanksgiving
dinner with Marina in relation to Robert, whose face you partially impose
over the one I am talking about and who is sitting in front of him at the
Thanksgiving dinner. I do not believe there is anyone who looks like the
"Hunting Lee", which appears to me to be a very crude fabrication. I am
impressed by Judyth's analysis of the photos that the ones you seem to
find most distinctive of "Lee" versus "Harvey" can be explained by a far
simpler theory on the basis of distortions in the images that are either
accidental or deliberate--where I am inclined to believe that they have
been manufactured to support the fantastic theory of "Harvey & Lee".
No. You misunderstood. Robert and Lee were "dead ringers"...NOT
Robert and Harvey.
But of course if there really was only one guy and a variety of photos,
which may or may not withstand critical inspection, then the brother
Robert would have resembled Harvey no less than he did Lee, right?
(3) According to your latest, #678, you have always insisted that Robert
was involved in framing the man that Judyth knew and that Ruby shot.
I have not always insisted that Robert was involved in framing Harvey
BEFORE NOVEMBER 22. I do admit that some of his actions AFTER NOVEMBER 22
were suspicious. This is especially true since he knew of the false defector
activity. Speculating, I'd say that AFTER the assassination Robert may have
been pressured by the Secret Service to "help" by doing certain things like
"discovering" that he had LHO's camera. His failure to reveal the false defector
program can be interpreted, I suppose, into failing to assert the innocence
of Harvey.
Robert, of course, has not only not asserted "Harvey's" innocence but has
actively declared his guilt, and I explained in relation to his PBS interview,
which I found shocking, not to mention that he has written a book in which
he explains why he is convinced that his brother--he certainly affirms that
they were brothers here!--and provides a classic vindication of the Warren
commission's lone-gunman theory. Given his affair with Marina, his "find"
of the Imperial Reflex, and coming into a new home he could not afford, I
cannot imagine why any student of the assassination would believe in him.
(4) In your earlier, #674, however, you state (a) that Robert likely was an
unwitting participant and ( was astounded when "Harvey" was fingered.)
Yes. Read Robert's testimony about his reaction on 11-22. Also about his
testimony on the return of LHO from Russia. He was AWARE OF THE FALSE
DEFECTOR PROGRAM, but was unwitting on any involvement in the murder.
I can't wait to learn more about "the false defector program". This sounds
like something dreamed up just for this occasion as an ad hoc explanation.
(5) Now, if Robert was helping to frame "Harvey", how could he possibly
have been astounded when "Harvey" was blamed for the the assassination?
See above. Same answer. He went for a long nighttime drive "to sort
things out." The reported conversation in jail between Robert and LHO
has some strange clues.
Judyth has been accused of being a "fantasist" when you offer this?
(6) Reading his testimony for his reaction to the event sounds like a waste
of time when we know that (a) he "found" the Imperial Reflex camera no one
had been able to locate in the Paine's garage;
I believe the Secret Service pressured him to "discover" the camera.
So he held his brother in such regard that he was willing to frame him!
(B) he had an affair with Marina following her husband's death;
This is undocumented and unbecoming speculation and gossip by JVB and
others. Show me some documentation for this.
Jack, if we start asking for documentation, I don't think there is much
left of your "defense" of Robert, but I will ask Judyth to address the issue.
and, © he move into a nice, new brick home, which he previously could not
have afforded.
I know of no documentation on this. Please show me. Robert had worked
for many years as a brick salesman for Acme Brick Company. What is
extraordinary about a brick salesman acquiring a brick house?
Well, I suppose it has to do with income and cost and mortgages and stuff
like that, don't you think? But I will invited Judyth to say more about it.
What speaks louder to you?
(7) Moreover, Judyth has shown that, when you correct for distortion, the
images of "Lee" and of "Harvey" tend to converge
Distortion did not exist until someone PUT it there (JVB claimed 10%).
Laymen do not understand that a digitized image properly copied can
produce identical images an almost unlimited number of times without
ANY distortion. Back in the pre-digital days, however, it was common
for prints to be distorted, because of photo paper shrinkage. Most
8x10 prints had an eighth-inch distortion one direction because of
the paper grain shrinkage one direction...UNLESS plastic based
print materials were used. I always used them to insure no distortion.
I can easily ALSO distort an image 10% as was done by someone
with the Bringuier photo ON PURPOSE. It definitely was not "compression."
I am not accusing anyone, because I do not know the source of the photo;
however, a 10% shrinkage in one direction does not just happen; anyone
with a graphics program can do it.
So I take it you and she agree that distortion is present in that photo,
even though you had previously asserted that they were identical?
which suggests to me that, while there may have been "two Oswalds",
they are not adequately identified as "Harvey & Lee" but instead more
plausibly as "Robert & Lee":
That makes no sense at all. Robert was not involved in any way in the
plot to kill JFK. But he did have knowledge of the false defector program
and that Harvey was substituted for Lee for defection to Russia. Robert
conidered this a patriotic act during the cold war. All Marguerite did was
lend the identity of her son to someone. Nobody ever dreamed that it
would involve them in a murder.
Well, this is called "begging the question" by taking for granted an answer
that requires independent establishment. IF ROBERT WAS IMPERSONATING
HIS BROTHER (WHOM YOU CALL "HARVEY"), THEN IT CASTS AN ENTIRELY
NEW LIGHT UPON THE SITUATION. GIVEN HIS OBVIOUS LACK OF LOYALTY
TO "HARVEY" AND HIS ONGOING EFFORTS TO CONVICT HIM OF A CRIME
THAT WE ALL KNOW, ON INDEPENDENT GROUNDS, HE DID NOT COMMIT,
I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ADOPT SUCH A NAIVE ATTITUDE HERE.
So my question for you, my friend, is how can you reconcile what I have
just presented, especially your claims (i) that Robert was involved in the
framing of "Harvey" and (ii) that he was an unwitting participant who was
"astounded" when "Harvey" was fingered as the assassin? I don't get it.
Read Robert's testimony to the WC. Read Harvey&Lee. Then you may
get it. And again, I do NOT claim that Robert was "involved in the framing
of Harvey" with the possible exception of "finding" the Imperial Reflex...
plus his failure to exonerate Harvey when he could have.
It is plausible to me that Robert was impersonating Lee on some occasions.
That is not plausible to me. The "Lee" you speak of was HARVEY, who was
NOT his brother. Robert Oswald was NOT a part of the plot to kill JFK.
He would have NO reason to impersonate his brother unless he was a
conspirator. There is NO reason to suspect this.
THE STUNNING DEGREE OF FAMILY RESEMBLANCE STRONGLY SUGGESTS
THAT YOU ARE WRONG. AND JUDYTH HAS PROPOSED WAYS TO PURSUE
IT. I MUST ADMIT THAT, WHEN YOU HAVE INSISTED SO STRONGLY THAT
ROBERT AND "HARVEY" WERE NOT BROTHERS, I'VE HAD TO ASK MYSELF,
"Well, then, what were they? Step-brothers? Was one of them adopted?"
NOW I DISCOVER THAT THIS CLAIM IS SIMPLY PART OF AN ELABORATE
THEORY FOR WHICH THE EVIDENCE APPEARS TO BE HIGHLY DUBIOUS.
And I hope you are not going to suggest that Robert "found" the Imperial
Reflex camera, had an affair with Marina, and purchased a new brick home
because he had to "play along" with the perpetrators "for safety reasons"!
Yes, when he found the situation he had been thrust into, he did whatever
the Secret Service asked him to do. Except I highly doubt the "affair with
Marina" gossip.
NOTE GRAPHIC ADDED AT BOTTOM OF POSTING.
Jack
Jim
[quote name='Jack White' post='188017' date='Mar 27 2010, 08:27 PM']
Reply segment number one...my responses in bold.
...........
OK. Let's see if we can sort some of it out together. By "you guys", I am
referring to you, John Armstrong, and David Lifton, whom I have taken
to be the leading experts on Lee Harvey Oswald. I know that John and
you believe there were two, one "Lee", the other "Harvey", and that the
one Judyth knew in New Orleans was the one to whom you refer to as
"Harvey".
This is correct.
According to Dawn Mededith, the one you call "Lee" (not the
one whom Judyth knew) was short-tempered, non-intellectual and could
not speak Russian, while the one you call "Harvey" was mild-mannered,
intellectual and fluent in Russian.
This is essentially correct, but Dawn Meridith is just a researcher and
what you quote is her research, not mine.
You say the one called "Harvey" was born in Hungary and liked the name
"Harvey",
This is the conclusion of Armstrong, who has studied LHO more intensively
than anyone. I accept John's research.
while Judyth's says that he was born in Louisiana, had a slight Cajun accent,
and hated the name
"Harvey".
Harvey had a NEW YORK (BROOKLYN) type of accent, not Cajun. He
was raised in New York, not Louisiana. Brooklyn accents are often
mistaken for Cajun. Cajun is a corruption of Arcadian, as many
Louisiana residents were Arcadians (from Canada) who spoke French.
As they learned English, it was with a French accent, which is close
to Brooklynese. As for hating the name Harvey, JVB is unfamiliar
with the teacher at Beauregard Junior High interviewed by John,
Myra LaRouse, who remembered LHO well, and insisted that she
call him Harvey.
So we know that at least some of this has to be wrong. OK?
I do not agree with that. For instance, someone mistaking an accent
for Cajun is not "wrong", but a misinterpretation.
I do not know if Lifton believes there were "two Oswalds", but I rather
suspect he does not.
I cannot speak for Lifton. Before H&L was published, David had worked
on an LHO book, but had not determined anything about two LHOs. I
know that David bought the H&L book, and presumably read it. He thereafter
cancelled publishing his own book. I do not know why nor what he thinks.
So what we know about "Oswald" is very obscure.
There is absolutely NO BASIS for this statement.
Now, in this new post you say that you have been suggesting for years
that Robert was involved in framing "Harvey", the man Judyth knew in
New Orleans as "Lee", who, according to you, was not his brother, even
though they looked enough alike that they were virtually "dead ringers"
for one another. In addition, in a recent post, you make this observation:
NO. I do not suggest that Robert was involved in framing Harvey. What
I said was that Robert KNEW that Harvey was not his brother, but
REFRAINED FROM REVEALING THIS as a matter of self preservation.
He could have blown the whistle on the whole affair by telling what
he knew. The fact that photos of Lee and Robert make them look like
"dead ringers" was used by the perpetrators, not by Robert. Robert
was an innocent bystander. He was NOT one of the celebrated
LHO IMPOSTERS.
It may be a while before I answer more questions. My yard man is
due to be here in 30 minutes...and all of tonight is scheduled for
March Madness basketball. I will reply to the remainder of the questions
later.
Jack[/quote]
[/quote]