POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
The Globe's piece on the interview with Judyth Baker is so condensed, I'm sure it has lost much meaning.
I
cannot at all assess her words treated poorly, as they are, by the
Globe, although when she mentions things like the Reily Coffee Company, I
know exactly to what she is referring.
The cancer labs ring
bells too since a significant figure in the conspiracy was a highly
eccentric pilot and gifted amateur researcher in New Orleans named David
Ferrie, a man who was later murdered in an extremely violent fashion.
Her
connection of the lab work like that with the CIA is likely something
she surmised but did not actually know. If the CIA sets up such
operations, the people who work there never know for whom they are
actually working, much like the employees of the fake Apple Stores in
China who believed they worked for Apple.
Her talk about
Oswald in intelligence also rings true. Oswald, when he went to Russia
from the Marines, was undoubtedly a low-level spy set up to find out
about the realities of Soviet life by one or another of America's
numerous intelligence agencies. We know for a fact that there were a few
other servicemen who did much the same thing in the 1950s.
Her
talk about Oswald's loyalties rings true. He was, in fact, a fairly
patriotic young man who joined the Marines when underage, and because of
his above-average intelligence, he was trained for secret radar
operations with the new U-2 ultra-high flying spy planes in Asia.
The
young Marine suddenly had a series of still unexplained incidents in
his life abroad, started taking an interest in Russian matters, and
someone trained him in a condensed course in the Russian language, a
difficult language to learn. The course almost had to be the kind
developed by and commonly used by the American military and
intelligence.
Then he showily defected to Russia, with a lot of
silly, deliberately public statements about his approval of the Soviet
Union - something which totally goes against every factual thing we know
about Oswald.
When he eventually returned, he was peacefully
integrated back into American life...with, of all things, a Russian
bride - this, at a time when there was such intense red-baiting that you
could get in trouble in the United States for subscribing to the wrong
magazine. It really was that dark and hostile, and what happened with
Oswald's return just could not ever have happened without hidden
explanations.
(Oswald’s reintroduction to American life included
his mysterious introduction to a group of Russian-speakers living in the
Dallas area, an event whose probability of chance happening must be
virtually zero.)
We also know Oswald worked at least part time in
the period of his work at the Reily Coffee Company as an FBI informant.
The Warren Commission itself was knocked off its pins when it learned
something of this, but managed to sweep it under the carpet.
Next
door to Reily’s was the Crescent City Garage, which just happened to
provide parking for various government agencies. Two blocks away was the
Newman Building, where ex-senior FBI Agent Guy Bannister had an office
and where Oswald was not only seen but some of the pro-Castro leaflets
Oswald sometimes showily distributed were actually stamped with its
address.
There is sound testimony that a known FBI agent was
seen once handing Oswald an envelope around the Reily location. Money?
And of course, Oswald's last note to the FBI in the Dallas office was
literally destroyed by the Agent in Charge immediately after the
assassination. We have nothing but lies about what it said from the very
people who should have gone to prison for destroying evidence and
obstructing justice.
As someone who, years ago, spent a good deal
of time studying the assassination, I remain convinced Oswald was
sucked into something he did not fully understand, but he didn't shoot
the president, and indeed, both temperamentally and by poor shooting
skill, he simply couldn't have.
The only genuine candidates for
carrying out the elaborate scheme - and it was elaborate - were a few
well-equipped candidate groups who had genuine motives and plenty of
resources. For any one of whom to be identified in 1963, would have
meant a major loss of confidence in America's security organizations and
perhaps a major blow to American policies. Also, there is the distinct
possibility that the authorities never learned who was responsible – a
fact itself which have been highly damaging to the sense of national
security and well worth covering up.
While I have many questions
about the statements thrown together in the Globe piece, I know Ms Baker
is an intelligent woman who did indeed work in research. That is no
guarantee of truth or of detailed knowledge but it is reason to read
what she says. I look forward to reading her book
Readers may enjoy:
http://chuckmanwords.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/1544/
http://chuckmanwords.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/lincoln-was-wrong-the-ease-of-fooling-most-of-the-people-most-of-the-time/
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"Oh, God... Spare us the JFK conspiracy nonsense.
"I've
been to Dealey Plaza and the 'grassy knoll' several times. The physical
space is much smaller than it appears on the Zapruder film.
"Any decent Marine markman could've laid down several accurate shots from the Texas School Book Depository window.
"End of story. Unless you're Michael Moore."
Just
the kind of comment one gets from someone who has read or studied
virtually nothing serious on the subject but yet feels qualified to
speak.
The Zapruder film - long suppressed early on - shows
Kennedy's body responding, according to the laws of physics, to a shot
from the front, full stop.
Interestingly, several notable press
descriptions of the unseen film at the time - most notably Dan Rather's
on CBS - proved absolutely inaccurate later.
Interesting also is
the fact that in the Warren Commission's hastily assembled jumble of
evidence, some key frames from the film were printed out of order,
blurring the evidence of response to a projectile from the front.
The
Luce family who originally purchased the film - of Life Magazine and
Time fame - were well known for cooperation with the CIA. Luce
publications are known to have been used as covers for phony foreign
correspondents.
The autopsy photos, poor as they are, show
massive damage to the rear of the head, half the scalp hangs down -
always evidence of an exit wound with bullets as they mushroom through
flesh.
The doctor in charge of the autopsy wrote one report and
then destroyed it - actually a criminal act. The one we have is his
re-write, the re-write of a military man under great pressure.
All those attending the president at the hospital in Dallas attest to massive damage at the rear of the head.
Bullet
entrance wounds - unless dum-dum bullets are used - always resemble
what you'd see from the stab of an ice-pick. Often they are almost
undetectable, as witnesses to the killing of a young man at a Toronto
school realized.
The Warren Commission said hard-jacketed
bullets were used, so the case for the back of the head being an
entrance wound is zero.
Oswald was not a decent "Marine marksman." He was a terrible shot, getting his badge finally as a mercy with a low score.
Those who knew him in Russia confirm his utter lack of facility with a rifle.
Finally,
no expert marksman has repeated the feat attributed to Oswald. Indeed, a
few years ago, tests in Italy – it was an Italian rifle supposedly used
- confirmed its impossibility.
The overwhelming majority of
witnesses in the Plaza turned towards and pointed towards and ran
towards the grassy knoll immediately after the shots.
Last, the
second investigation of the assassination - the Congressional one -
accepted that there was a shooter from the front on the basis of expert
analysis of inadvertent recordings of a policeman's motorcycle radio
left open.
