Still on the case...william penn jones jr.

[Bernice Moore]

tributes and penn's obit..

http://www.jfk-info.com/Pennobit.txt


http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back...ibute.html

[Bernice Moore]

I love this'' Pure Penn Jones...
Explaining why he was not asked to appear at universities, for lectures back in the 70's, Penn Jones said:

"I go too far to be on any college campus.. I say who did it. I'd be delighted to be proven wrong, but it's too goddamn late to be still winkin and saying ah well we don't know .' If I'm wrong, fine, then make an ass out of me. But somebody's got to get off their ass and go to work on this and do it. And nobody's done that. That's the reason I don't get on campuses. The colleges get too much federal money to have a little sumabitch like me on campus saying this is ike Germany in 1934, and 1935.":iluvu::rofl::rofl::iluvu::danceing:

[Bernice Moore]

magda please delete the stump water article above, the clipping, it cannot be read it is so small a print, so hopefully this is larger but not too much so.....i still cannot figure out how to delete a photo, etc after it is posted, thanks for your help and any info...best b ps, the clipping is not enlarging when clicked on, and isn't large enough to read, perhaps magda you could fix it, many thanks, the bug...:cheer:

[John Kelin]

Random thoughts on Penn Jones, unrelated to deep political structures...

I love that picture of Penn holding the "Disgrace of Dallas" headline. It first appeared in LIFE mag, I think in 1991, during the media hoopla surrounding Stone's JFK.

In 2003 I went down to Midlothian when I was researching Penn. The office is no longer where it was in Penn's day, but is just around the corner. I can't remember the editor's name offhand, but he very kindly allowed me to snoop around and go through issues of the Mirror as far back as the 1940s, when Penn first took the helm. The papers were originals, nothing online, and quite brittle and flaking as I pressed them against a photocopy machine.

The Mirror by then was owned by a newspaper syndicate, but still felt like a small town paper that is, a small office with just a couple of guys working there. At one point the editor's young son came in looking for his dad ran in, slammed the screen door, called out hello it felt like a scene from Andy of Mayberry.

One thing seemed almost eerie. I was due to meet Penn's son Michael that weekend. The Jones family, of course, has nothing to do with the Mirror, hasn't for many years. Michael, who knew my schedule, called asking for me called not my cell, but the Mirror office. It was nothing, really, of course but seemed a little strange, taking a call in the Mirror office from Penn's son. One of just a couple odd episodes during my research phase.

Michael and I caught up with each other the next day in Dealey Plaza.

[Peter Lemkin]

I love this'' Pure Penn Jones...
Explaining why he was not asked to appear at universities, for lectures back in the 70's, Penn Jones said:

"I go too far to be on any college campus.. I say who did it. I'd be delighted to be proven wrong, but it's too goddamn late to be still winkin and saying ah well we don't know .' If I'm wrong, fine, then make an ass out of me. But somebody's got to get off their ass and go to work on this and do it. And nobody's done that. That's the reason I don't get on campuses. The colleges get too much federal money to have a little sumabitch like me on campus saying this is ike Germany in 1934, and 1935.":iluvu::rofl::rofl::iluvu::danceing:

WOW!~ Great quote and statement by Penn! Never heard that before...but sounds like him. As I said on another forum [which erased all of my threads], I had the honor of being the last person to sponsor a public talk by Penn. I had a parade and event permit for DP. For the 'parade' we simply walked the last part of the motorcade. We had speakers, mike and amplifiers set up on the part of the Knoll area just East of the steps. I had asked several speakers to talk, but up walked Penn. In true modesty he asked if I might kindly allow him to say a few words. I was more than ecstatic and of course he was put on mike just then...no waiting. His body was frail, but his voice and mind still strong. John Kelin was kind enough to locate and send to me the actual speech he made that day, which I didn't have a copy of. I believe that was likely his last public talk; sadly he died not long afterwards. He not only accomplished so much, he inspired so many others and inspired courage - the kind of courage and greatness that Americans can come up to the mark with; but the last few decades TPTB had tried to suppress, drown out, label as nutty conspiracy theorists, and at times even suppress with dirty tricks to death - and all in between. We miss 'ya Penn!