Dallas
Police comment that they have been unaware of the Committee’s desire to test
fire the pistol until the day before the tests. It also should be noted that
two of the three piles of sandbags are located in the middle lane of Elm Street,
exactly where films show the presidential limousine. However, one pile -
apparently representing one of the early shots - is located in the far left
lane. Asked why it is in this location, Dallas Police sharpshooter Jerry
Compton says he could not get a line of sight on the bags when they were in the
center lane due to intervening tree branches. Less than a year before these
tests, a film crew worked in Dealey Plaza producing a network movie entitled,
“The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald.” The tree which prevented a line of sight
between the sixth-floor Depository window and the location of the first shot
was pruned back to its 1963 size, based on photographs taken the day of the
assassination.
Monday 9 December 2013
ATM Skimming
Police release CCTV images as investigations into ATM card skimming continue - Strike Force Bournemouth
Tuesday, 10 December 2013 11:57:13 AM
Police conducting ongoing investigations into a card skimming gang targeting automatic teller machines (ATMs) in NSW have released new CCTV images of a number of people they believe can assist with their inquiries.
Strike Force Bournemouth is a Fraud and Cybercrime Squad investigation established in June this year after an increase in card skimming activities. Assistance has also been provided by the Central, North West and South West Metropolitan Regions.
Police believe up to three separate groups with links to Romania are involved in the installation of sophisticated skimming devices on to ATMs across the Sydney metropolitan area. The devices copy the card details, while a tiny video records the victim entering their personal identification number (PIN).
Two people have been arrested by police so far and remain before the court, but investigations are continuing to locate and arrest other members of the groups.
The latest group detected by authorities are using the very latest in miniature skimming technology, meaning suspect devices are particularly difficult to detect. They have struck ATMs at Narellan, Mosman and Five Dock.
Detectives are continuing to work closely with financial institutions to detect the car skimmers and any unauthorised transactions on customer accounts.
As Strike Force Bournemouth investigations continue, police are also asking members of the public to help them locate a number of people they believe can assist them with their inquiries.
They have released CCTV images of those people who are all described as being males of Caucasian appearance.
Anyone with information to assist police should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://www1.police.nsw.gov.au/. Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence.
We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Meanwhile, police are reminding members of the public of the following safety tips to reduce their risk of being targeted by card skimmers at ATMs:
• Be alert when approaching an ATM and take your time to visually inspect the machine prior to inserting your card for any suspicious device or covering in the vicinity of the card reader. Any illicit addition to the ATM will generally be similar in colour to the original ATM, but on closer inspection it may be obvious a device has been fitted;
• If you notice something suspicious, report it to the owner of the ATM immediately and don't conduct any transactions;
• Always use your hand or an item to cover your PIN when entering it;
• Be vigilant and inspect your bank statements for unauthorised transactions and report any unauthorised transactions immediately to your bank and the police
• Wherever possible when conducting ATM or EFTPOS transactions, maintain sight of your card; and
• Report any people acting suspiciously around ATMs to the police.
Think Chart
Chop Schaffer- horn, representation he is the judge
Sammy Sweet/Greek Sam was he a pawn within the chess game?
Sonia Schaffer
Essam Nicola Gerges,
Claudia Dent
Debra Miller
Karyn Englehardt
Larissa Goodman
Sex worker Michelle Porky's Brothel
Anna Cabana ...Amanda Barnes William Street
Hennessy? Theresa?
Ten pin bowling, one ball the Judge throwing the dirt to the pins.......
Sewe Eastern Suburbs Chapter Manhattan Bowl
People that came to the brothel premises.
Sammy Sweet/Greek Sam was he a pawn within the chess game?
Sonia Schaffer
Essam Nicola Gerges,
Claudia Dent
Debra Miller
Karyn Englehardt
Larissa Goodman
Sex worker Michelle Porky's Brothel
Anna Cabana ...Amanda Barnes William Street
Hennessy? Theresa?
Ten pin bowling, one ball the Judge throwing the dirt to the pins.......
Sewe Eastern Suburbs Chapter Manhattan Bowl
People that came to the brothel premises.
Timeline John F Kennedy 22 November 1963
Timetable for 22 November 1963
Fort Worth, Texas
Warren Commission
Report -
Page 42 - 4th paragraph:
On the morning of November 22, President Kennedy attended a breakfast at the hotel and afterward addressed a crowd at an open parking lot. The President liked outdoor appearances because more people could see and hear him. Before leaving the hotel, the President, Mrs. Kennedy, and Kenneth O’Donnell talked about the risks inherent in Presidential public appearances. According to O’Donnell, the President commented that “if anybody really wanted to shoot the President of the United States, it was not a very difficult job–all one had to do was get a high building someday with a telescopic rifle, and there was nothing anybody could do to defend against such an attempt.” Upon concluding the conversation, the President prepared to depart for Dallas.
On the morning of November 22, President Kennedy attended a breakfast at the hotel and afterward addressed a crowd at an open parking lot. The President liked outdoor appearances because more people could see and hear him. Before leaving the hotel, the President, Mrs. Kennedy, and Kenneth O’Donnell talked about the risks inherent in Presidential public appearances. According to O’Donnell, the President commented that “if anybody really wanted to shoot the President of the United States, it was not a very difficult job–all one had to do was get a high building someday with a telescopic rifle, and there was nothing anybody could do to defend against such an attempt.” Upon concluding the conversation, the President prepared to depart for Dallas.
8:45 a.m.
President Kennedy appears before a large crowd of two thousand on-lookers gathered in the Hotel Texas parking lot. Governor Connally of Texas is there and Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) briefly introduces the President as “our fearless leader”. Kennedy gives a planned and uninspired speech of 6 minutes and then works the crowd before returning into the Hotel Texas. A light rain is falling.
President Kennedy appears before a large crowd of two thousand on-lookers gathered in the Hotel Texas parking lot. Governor Connally of Texas is there and Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) briefly introduces the President as “our fearless leader”. Kennedy gives a planned and uninspired speech of 6 minutes and then works the crowd before returning into the Hotel Texas. A light rain is falling.
9:00 a.m.
President Kennedy speaks at a large breakfast gathering in the hotel grand ballroom of the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas on Friday November 22, 1963. The breakfast event that began at 8:00 a.m. is sponsored by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.
9:22 a.m.
The President beckons Agent Duncan to the head table and asks him to ask Mrs. Kennedy to come down to the ballroom and to ask the orchestra to play “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You” when she enters. Agent Clint Hill advises Mrs. Kennedy that JFK expects her downstairs in the Ballroom.
President Kennedy speaks at a large breakfast gathering in the hotel grand ballroom of the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas on Friday November 22, 1963. The breakfast event that began at 8:00 a.m. is sponsored by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.
9:22 a.m.
The President beckons Agent Duncan to the head table and asks him to ask Mrs. Kennedy to come down to the ballroom and to ask the orchestra to play “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You” when she enters. Agent Clint Hill advises Mrs. Kennedy that JFK expects her downstairs in the Ballroom.
9:25 a.m.
Jackie Kennedy appears at the breakfast wearing a pink suit and pill box hat. She is warmly received. The orchestra plays “The Eyes of Texas are upon you”.
Jackie Kennedy appears at the breakfast wearing a pink suit and pill box hat. She is warmly received. The orchestra plays “The Eyes of Texas are upon you”.
9:55 a.m.
At the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, JFK and Jackie have returned to Suite 850. JFK informs Kenny O’Donnell that the Presidential party will leave at 10:40 a.m. Jackie asks, “We have a whole hour?” JFK asks her if she is enjoying the trip. “Oh, Jack,” she replies “campaigning is so easy when you’re President.”
At the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, JFK and Jackie have returned to Suite 850. JFK informs Kenny O’Donnell that the Presidential party will leave at 10:40 a.m. Jackie asks, “We have a whole hour?” JFK asks her if she is enjoying the trip. “Oh, Jack,” she replies “campaigning is so easy when you’re President.”
After President Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy return to their
suite shortly after 10 a.m. President Kennedy telephones former Vice President
John Nance Garner at his home in Ulvade, Texas, to wish him a happy 95th birthday.
The Kennedys spent time looking at the art exhibit that had been mounted in
their suite especially for their visit including a Van Gogh, a Monet, and a
Picasso.
Aides point out an
advertisement in the day’s Dallas Morning News accusing the President of disloyalty
to the country through “softness on communism”. At this point
Kennedy muses out loud about how easy
it would be to assassinate a traveling President (See: William Manchester “Death of a President” (1967, p. 121). Before the
Kennedys depart for the motorcade, the President reiterates (on the telephone)
to aide Lawrence F. O’Brien the importance of getting Senator Yarborough to
ride in the same car with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, the V.P. that had
been introduced at 8:45 a.m. (two hours before) as, “the greatest Texan that
ever lived.”
10:02 a.m.
John F. Kennedy confers with Governor John Connally.
John F. Kennedy confers with Governor John Connally.
10:40 a.m.
The Kennedys and Governor Connally enter a white convertible waiting in front of theTexas Hotel, a car borrowed by the Secret Service from professional golfer Ben Hogan. There are waves and cheers from the onlookers. The motorcade leaves for Carswell Air Force Base.
The Kennedys and Governor Connally enter a white convertible waiting in front of theTexas Hotel, a car borrowed by the Secret Service from professional golfer Ben Hogan. There are waves and cheers from the onlookers. The motorcade leaves for Carswell Air Force Base.
11:17 a.m.
Kennedy departs from Carswell AFB onboard Air Force One to fly to Love Field (DFW) in Dallas, Texas. The air distance is about 35 miles. The flight takes 13 minutes
about none (9) minutes.
Kennedy departs from Carswell AFB onboard Air Force One to fly to Love Field (DFW) in Dallas, Texas. The air distance is about 35 miles. The flight takes 13 minutes
about none (9) minutes.
Dallas, Texas
11:39 a.m.
Air Force One arrives (touches down) at Love Field (DFW) in Dallas, Texas.
Air Force One arrives (touches down) at Love Field (DFW) in Dallas, Texas.
11:40 a.m.
Warren Commission Report - Page 1 - 2nd paragraph:
At 11:40 a.m.., c.s.t., on Friday, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy, and their party arrived at Love Field, Dallas, Tex.
Warren Commission Report - Page 1 - 2nd paragraph:
At 11:40 a.m.., c.s.t., on Friday, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy, and their party arrived at Love Field, Dallas, Tex.
The eight cars comprising the
motorcade are lined up and waiting on the tarmac at Love Field.
Dallas Deputy Police Chief
(of Services) George L. Lumpkin is the driver of the pilot car. In the
pilot car is Jacob
L. “Jack” Puterbaugh and Lieutenant Colonel George Whitmeyer. The pilot
car is the first car in the motorcade, usually traveling about 1/4 mile (1,300
feet) (1.5 minutes at 10 mph) ahead of the main motorcade. TheWarren Commission fails to interview any
of those in the pilot car.
The lead car is an unmarked
four-door white 1963 Ford
Galaxie 500 (police
interceptor) driven by Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry. The
Presidential limousine, a 1961 Lincoln Continental convertible is the second
vehicle. The third car is the Presidential follow-up car, Secret Service
car #1, a 1956 Cadillac limousine convertible carrying ten (10) aides and
agents (including those on the running boards) code-named the Queen Mary.
The Vice Presidential limousine, a 1964 Lincoln Continental convertible,
is the fourth vehicle. Vice Presidential follow-up car Press pool
car, (on loan from the telephone company) Press Car:
The motorcade was originally
scheduled to leave Love Field at 11:30 a.m. It was anticipated
that it would take between 38 and 45 minutes to reach the Dallas World Trade Mart, arriving
at the Trade Mart about 12:15 at the latest. This itinerary would put the
leading cars of the motorcade at Dealey Plaza somewhere between 12:03 and
12:10, or at Dealey Plaza for a “High
Noon” rendezvous.
11:50 a.m.
The presidential motorcade leaves Love Field.
The motorcade left Love Field shortly after 11:50 a.m., and proceeded through residential neighborhoods, stopping twice at the President’s request to greet well-wishers among the friendly crowds. Each time the President’s car halted, Secret Service agents from the “follow-up” car moved forward to assume a protective stance near the President and Mrs. Kennedy.
The presidential motorcade leaves Love Field.
The motorcade left Love Field shortly after 11:50 a.m., and proceeded through residential neighborhoods, stopping twice at the President’s request to greet well-wishers among the friendly crowds. Each time the President’s car halted, Secret Service agents from the “follow-up” car moved forward to assume a protective stance near the President and Mrs. Kennedy.
The 11 mile route of the
Kennedy motorcade through Dallas was: left turn from the south end of Love
Field to West Mockingbird Lane, right on Lemmon Avenue, right at the “Y”
on Turtle Creek Boulevard,
straight on Cedar Springs Road,
left on NorthHarwood Street, right on Main
Street, right on Houston
Street, sharp left on Elm
Street, through Triple
Underpass, right turn up ramp to North Stemmons
Freeway, to Dallas
Trade Mart at
2100 North Stemmons.
11:30 a.m. - 12:30
p.m.
The motorcade follows a route through Dallas, during which the president stops the car several times to talk to citizens who approach his limousine.
The motorcade follows a route through Dallas, during which the president stops the car several times to talk to citizens who approach his limousine.
12:28 p.m.
Dallas police radio channel 1, #56 Patrolman W.P. Parker, “traffic on a 1956 Chevrolet. I can’t see the license number.” Dallas police radio channel 2, #5 Deputy Chief of Police George L. Lumpkin, “Notify Captain Souter of the location of the convoy now.” Dispatcher: 15/2, now on Main, probably just past Lamar. #1 Dallas Police Chief Curry, “Just crossing Market Street.”
Dallas police radio channel 1, #56 Patrolman W.P. Parker, “traffic on a 1956 Chevrolet. I can’t see the license number.” Dallas police radio channel 2, #5 Deputy Chief of Police George L. Lumpkin, “Notify Captain Souter of the location of the convoy now.” Dispatcher: 15/2, now on Main, probably just past Lamar. #1 Dallas Police Chief Curry, “Just crossing Market Street.”
12:30 p.m.
President Kennedy is shot and taken to Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
President Kennedy is shot and taken to Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
1:00 a.m.
President Kennedy is pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital.
President Kennedy is pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital.
2012.03.11 - 07:50.
September 24, 1964 The Warren
Commission’s report is submitted to LBJ by Chief Justice Earl Warren
The
lead story in The New York Times says that “the commission analyzed every issue
in exhaustive, almost archeological detail.” A Times editorial says that “the
facts--exhaustively gathered, independently checked and cogently set
forth--destroy the basis for conspiracy theories that have grown wedlock in
this country and abroad.”Of the $1.2 million allocated to the investigation, $608,000 went to the cost of printing the report and the 1500 copies of its 26 volumes.
Saturday 7 December 2013
Nomads Clubhouse raided Strike Force Raptor
Nomads clubhouse raided - Strike Force Raptor
Saturday, 07 December 2013 09:36:41 AM
Premises have been raided in Girraween overnight as part of a Strike Force Raptor operation targeting the Nomads OMCG.
Police received information that the building was being used to supply alcohol and was illegally set up as an OMCG clubhouse.
About 9.15pm yesterday (Friday 6 November 2013), officers attached to Strike Force Raptor, the Public Order and Riot Squad (PORS), the Police Dog Unit, and Holroyd Local Area Command, executed a search warrant on the building in Wiltona Place.
Alcohol, cash and other items were seized during the operation; 22 people were searched and issued with written pre-consorting warnings. Two firearm prohibition orders were also served.
Police are also examining the alleged breach of the Development Application of the premises, under the Environmental Planning and Protection Act, due to it being used as an illegal clubhouse.
Investigations are continuing.
Friday 6 December 2013
Facebook tells all... Doubles played within the Scorpion game
Judyth Baker wrote the following on her Facebook Page and it is worth reading because she makes it clear the theory, by John Armstrong, of two IDENTICAL Oswald's by blood has some serious problems with it. We know Oswald was being ordered by his CIA superiors to cast himself as a Castro sympathizing communist patsy, and was also impersonated on various occassions by SIMILAR impersonators; such as in the sniper's nest and at the Texas Theater, but that may very well have been the extent of it. In Judyth's words:
There are serious issues with Armstrong. First, he decided not to interview me AT ALL because I was NLOT pregnant in 1963 when I posed as Marina in New Orleans. He said I could not have posed as her, even though most of the posing I did was BEFORE MARINA ARRIVED. Fact: he did not want to interview me because it would have destroyed his huge book. He provides valuable new research as to the rifle and revolver and why Lee could not have purchased them, for which he deserves credit. However, he makes serious errors. i will give a few examples. (1) he contends that Lee came from a family that spoke Russian and he learned it from birth. He repeats this many times in his book. FACT: Lee practiced his Russian all the time and had a box of flash cards in Russian that i saw him use a number of times while i was with him, and I also was with him in the Tulane music listening room when he checked out a Russian language lesson record, a big black vinyl one. FACT: an anonymous woman called from New York to Mrs. Tippit and told her that Lee's father and uncle were communists who had emigrated from Hungary. From this anonymous phone call Armstrong rests his entire theory that Lee spoke Russian from childhood. FACT: Lee's half brother, John Pic, had married a Hungarian girl and it was John Pic's father-in-law and his brother who spoke Hungarian (not Russian--many Hungarians knew Russian, but it was their second language and they spoke Hungarian as the number one language--my grandparents were Hungarian). So he mixed up this tipster's info and said lee knew Russian from childhood, while "Lee' knew none. He went on to say that Ernst Titovets, Lee's best friend in the USSR, said "Harvey" was fluent in Russian, but Titovets is going to speak at the Arlington Convention on the 23rd, and he has told us that Lee (called "Harvey" by Armstrong) worked hard to learn Russian and he never said he was fluent from the story, so Armstrong misquoted Titovets. FACT: Robert Oswald HAD to know both "Harvey" and "Lee" since he has the photos of "both" men on his wall, as can be seen in Thanksgiving movie clips. FACT: I could not find any interviews of Robert Oswald, Lee's brother, in Armstrong's book conducted by ARMSTRONG, who should have asked him if he knew 'both' Lee and "Harvey." So he did not interview me nor Robert Oswald for his book. FACT: Armstrong says "Harvey": in New York was nine inches shorter than "Lee" who was big and strong. QUESTION: Why would CIA ever believe these two very different height boys would grow up to be able to take each other's places? FACT: By saying there is basically only "Lee" impersonating "Harvey" the actual impersonators are let off the hook and people stop trying to find traces of them, thinking they are all "Lee." FACT: Lee told me that he was often called HARVEY in school to tease him and make him fight. Teachers sometimes called him "Harvey" because they heard the other boys call him that and thought it was his preferred name, when he HATED the name "Harvey" and would fight a guy who called him that. For this reason, "Harvey" was used to taunt him to fight, and teachers picked it up. That does not mean that a "Harvey" and NOT a "Lee" attended school there, juyst because records show a Lee attending, and yet teachers remembered a "Harvey" whose records sometimes, also, vanish (because he is really LEE). FACT: if "Harvey" is not "Lee" why is the man arrested by police, who Armstrong calls "Harvey" wearing an ID bracelet that clearly says LEE? FACT: Police get many tips from tipsters and most do not pan out. Armstrong uses every tip he can find that supports "Lee" being in the US, for example, when "Harvey" is in the USSR. But Lee was a spy--the real Lee who was in Russia. At the height of the Cold War, no less. To get a job, he said he had just left the marines, but also, some records were generated in the US to make it harder to trace him as having lived in the USSR. FACT: Armstrong did not understand that many records in the marines that he was looking at were deliberately obscured or altered to hide Lee's true identity. That doesn't mean there was a "Henry" or a "Harvey" as well as a "Lee." There is much, much more. The worst problem is that there was no need to have to switch kids and raise them for years with dual families and all of that. There had to be two mother Marguerites, for example: he does not understand the devastation that thyroid deficiency causes (I suffer from it myself, and it ruined my looks).Marguerite's looks were ruined by thyroid deficiency--she gained weight, stopped wearing heels, lost hair, and aged quickly. Armstrong uses photos of Marguerite when she was younger versus when she was older as if they are two separate women, when they in fact wear identical real pearl earrings throughout, both keep losing jobs and moving to the same cities throughout, both somehow are "Marguerite"to the entire Murret family (including "Harvey''s" Marguerite whose sister is Lillian--Lillian in fact, along with her husband and their many children all have to know there were two Oswalds--both "Harvey" and "Lee" since they KNOW the addresses of "Lee's" Marguerite as well as of "Harvey's" Marguerite. In one photo, Lillian is identified as Marguerite, as well. Ed Voebel, Lee's friend at Bearegard Jr. High, also has to know 'both' Oswalds since he visits Exchange Place and is "Harvey's" friend but always calls him "Lee" in the historic record. A teacher there said little Harvey got hurt by a piano falling on him and had to be transported home to Exchange Place at the same time that Lillian Murret says LEE is living there with his mother. The teacher is supposed to have remembered "Harvey" very well because he was in ONE home room ONE semester, decades ago, and he 'watched' her teach a girl's P E class after school sometimes. She remembers him as "Harvey" even though "Lee" is registered at the school. There is much, much more I can say, and eventually will write, about this Harvey and Lee theory, especially regarding the exhumation where everyone was surprised to find "Harvey" (that is, LEE) in the grave. they decided his head had been replaced and other nonsense, since Harvey had a mastoidectomy that did not show up on the autopsy. However, lee had plastic surgery when he was hospitalized in MINSK USSR for an adenoid operation. he was supposed to stay only a few days but remained there two weeks (got some plastic surgery done, he told me so). This tucked up the scar under his ear, so it did not show up on the autopsy report, yet showed up on the exhumed skull-hence the legend the head had been replaced, helped along by the head being dislocated from the skeleton because the tiny cervical vertebrae cannot hold the heavy skull if it rolls, as it certainly did when the coffin was being lifted out of the broken vault. I can say much about why the skull cut done in autopsy was not visible, having to do with semi-mummification of adipose tissues of the scalp...ugh. I assure you that the only reason Lee looked so strange in the coffin before his burial was because his tissues had bled out, collapsing the muscles that made his face rounder and his entire body more muscular than it looks in the autopsy photos.... It was him. There's more to say, but hope this suffices for now.
While John Armstrong has contributed new files to the case which are valuable, he errs as to his theory. One matter which I didn’t mention, above, is the idea that Lee and "Harvey" went to two different schools. In our long exchange of talk about New York, Lee commented to me (and I first told researchers about this in 2000) that he had not attended enough days in school in New York to be allowed to pass and advance to the next grade, when they returned to New Orleans. "Nobody in the family had ever been held back," he told me, "and Ma was not about to put up with this, if New York called and told my school I shouldn't be allowed to go on to the next grade." I remember quite clearly the solution: Marguerite got a Mafia associate to get into the school records and "make sure" Lee had enough attendance days. To back that up, there was an attendance record created at another school at the same time in Texas (this had to be in Fort Worth). The idea was to make sure Lee looked like he was attending school in Texas, where his brothers had previously gone to school, when he was actually attending in New Orleans. Armstrong has used this as evidence of two Oswald’s, even though in other places in his book he has "Lee" and "Harvey" attending the same school, one fulltime, the other part-time, in the Dolly Shoe scenario, of which I've written an essay explaining the problems he created by saying the Jr. high got out at 4:30 (it got out at 3:30), that the shoe store closed at 5:45 (stores closed at 6:00) all to make it 'impossible' for "Harvey" to have worked there part-time, so has him working fulltime while "Lee" attends school fulltime, poor Harvey doesn't... atop this, Lee (the real Lee) clearly wrote that he worked TEN WEEKS for a shoe store...which Armstrong tried to make seem just two weeks. How did he do that? By assuming that Lee (Harvey) did not start working there until he got his official work permit. Sorry, things were a lot looser back then, and only when the manager was sure he would keep Lee on did he apply for a work permit for him. Lee's W-2 form was signed weeks earlier, the same date as his mother, Marguerite, who also applied and was hired to work there. Only by assuming Lee didn't work a lick until weeks later --and cutting off times open for the store and times that school got out, in an effort to 'prove' Lee could not have worked as many hours as it would take to show part-time work for the pay given, does Armstrong try to convince readers that "Harvey" had to work fulltime for a couple of weeks. It wasn't so. For example, Armstrong does not count the day after Easter, when school was out, as a day that Lee could work there fulltime. When this is added, the figures come out correctly for a generally part-time job where Lee would pick up shoes and tidy up for an hours or so every day, for some ten weeks, including a fulltime day on the Monday following Easter, which was a special sale day. Then the hours for part-time work add up.
There are serious issues with Armstrong. First, he decided not to interview me AT ALL because I was NLOT pregnant in 1963 when I posed as Marina in New Orleans. He said I could not have posed as her, even though most of the posing I did was BEFORE MARINA ARRIVED. Fact: he did not want to interview me because it would have destroyed his huge book. He provides valuable new research as to the rifle and revolver and why Lee could not have purchased them, for which he deserves credit. However, he makes serious errors. i will give a few examples. (1) he contends that Lee came from a family that spoke Russian and he learned it from birth. He repeats this many times in his book. FACT: Lee practiced his Russian all the time and had a box of flash cards in Russian that i saw him use a number of times while i was with him, and I also was with him in the Tulane music listening room when he checked out a Russian language lesson record, a big black vinyl one. FACT: an anonymous woman called from New York to Mrs. Tippit and told her that Lee's father and uncle were communists who had emigrated from Hungary. From this anonymous phone call Armstrong rests his entire theory that Lee spoke Russian from childhood. FACT: Lee's half brother, John Pic, had married a Hungarian girl and it was John Pic's father-in-law and his brother who spoke Hungarian (not Russian--many Hungarians knew Russian, but it was their second language and they spoke Hungarian as the number one language--my grandparents were Hungarian). So he mixed up this tipster's info and said lee knew Russian from childhood, while "Lee' knew none. He went on to say that Ernst Titovets, Lee's best friend in the USSR, said "Harvey" was fluent in Russian, but Titovets is going to speak at the Arlington Convention on the 23rd, and he has told us that Lee (called "Harvey" by Armstrong) worked hard to learn Russian and he never said he was fluent from the story, so Armstrong misquoted Titovets. FACT: Robert Oswald HAD to know both "Harvey" and "Lee" since he has the photos of "both" men on his wall, as can be seen in Thanksgiving movie clips. FACT: I could not find any interviews of Robert Oswald, Lee's brother, in Armstrong's book conducted by ARMSTRONG, who should have asked him if he knew 'both' Lee and "Harvey." So he did not interview me nor Robert Oswald for his book. FACT: Armstrong says "Harvey": in New York was nine inches shorter than "Lee" who was big and strong. QUESTION: Why would CIA ever believe these two very different height boys would grow up to be able to take each other's places? FACT: By saying there is basically only "Lee" impersonating "Harvey" the actual impersonators are let off the hook and people stop trying to find traces of them, thinking they are all "Lee." FACT: Lee told me that he was often called HARVEY in school to tease him and make him fight. Teachers sometimes called him "Harvey" because they heard the other boys call him that and thought it was his preferred name, when he HATED the name "Harvey" and would fight a guy who called him that. For this reason, "Harvey" was used to taunt him to fight, and teachers picked it up. That does not mean that a "Harvey" and NOT a "Lee" attended school there, juyst because records show a Lee attending, and yet teachers remembered a "Harvey" whose records sometimes, also, vanish (because he is really LEE). FACT: if "Harvey" is not "Lee" why is the man arrested by police, who Armstrong calls "Harvey" wearing an ID bracelet that clearly says LEE? FACT: Police get many tips from tipsters and most do not pan out. Armstrong uses every tip he can find that supports "Lee" being in the US, for example, when "Harvey" is in the USSR. But Lee was a spy--the real Lee who was in Russia. At the height of the Cold War, no less. To get a job, he said he had just left the marines, but also, some records were generated in the US to make it harder to trace him as having lived in the USSR. FACT: Armstrong did not understand that many records in the marines that he was looking at were deliberately obscured or altered to hide Lee's true identity. That doesn't mean there was a "Henry" or a "Harvey" as well as a "Lee." There is much, much more. The worst problem is that there was no need to have to switch kids and raise them for years with dual families and all of that. There had to be two mother Marguerites, for example: he does not understand the devastation that thyroid deficiency causes (I suffer from it myself, and it ruined my looks).Marguerite's looks were ruined by thyroid deficiency--she gained weight, stopped wearing heels, lost hair, and aged quickly. Armstrong uses photos of Marguerite when she was younger versus when she was older as if they are two separate women, when they in fact wear identical real pearl earrings throughout, both keep losing jobs and moving to the same cities throughout, both somehow are "Marguerite"to the entire Murret family (including "Harvey''s" Marguerite whose sister is Lillian--Lillian in fact, along with her husband and their many children all have to know there were two Oswalds--both "Harvey" and "Lee" since they KNOW the addresses of "Lee's" Marguerite as well as of "Harvey's" Marguerite. In one photo, Lillian is identified as Marguerite, as well. Ed Voebel, Lee's friend at Bearegard Jr. High, also has to know 'both' Oswalds since he visits Exchange Place and is "Harvey's" friend but always calls him "Lee" in the historic record. A teacher there said little Harvey got hurt by a piano falling on him and had to be transported home to Exchange Place at the same time that Lillian Murret says LEE is living there with his mother. The teacher is supposed to have remembered "Harvey" very well because he was in ONE home room ONE semester, decades ago, and he 'watched' her teach a girl's P E class after school sometimes. She remembers him as "Harvey" even though "Lee" is registered at the school. There is much, much more I can say, and eventually will write, about this Harvey and Lee theory, especially regarding the exhumation where everyone was surprised to find "Harvey" (that is, LEE) in the grave. they decided his head had been replaced and other nonsense, since Harvey had a mastoidectomy that did not show up on the autopsy. However, lee had plastic surgery when he was hospitalized in MINSK USSR for an adenoid operation. he was supposed to stay only a few days but remained there two weeks (got some plastic surgery done, he told me so). This tucked up the scar under his ear, so it did not show up on the autopsy report, yet showed up on the exhumed skull-hence the legend the head had been replaced, helped along by the head being dislocated from the skeleton because the tiny cervical vertebrae cannot hold the heavy skull if it rolls, as it certainly did when the coffin was being lifted out of the broken vault. I can say much about why the skull cut done in autopsy was not visible, having to do with semi-mummification of adipose tissues of the scalp...ugh. I assure you that the only reason Lee looked so strange in the coffin before his burial was because his tissues had bled out, collapsing the muscles that made his face rounder and his entire body more muscular than it looks in the autopsy photos.... It was him. There's more to say, but hope this suffices for now.
While John Armstrong has contributed new files to the case which are valuable, he errs as to his theory. One matter which I didn’t mention, above, is the idea that Lee and "Harvey" went to two different schools. In our long exchange of talk about New York, Lee commented to me (and I first told researchers about this in 2000) that he had not attended enough days in school in New York to be allowed to pass and advance to the next grade, when they returned to New Orleans. "Nobody in the family had ever been held back," he told me, "and Ma was not about to put up with this, if New York called and told my school I shouldn't be allowed to go on to the next grade." I remember quite clearly the solution: Marguerite got a Mafia associate to get into the school records and "make sure" Lee had enough attendance days. To back that up, there was an attendance record created at another school at the same time in Texas (this had to be in Fort Worth). The idea was to make sure Lee looked like he was attending school in Texas, where his brothers had previously gone to school, when he was actually attending in New Orleans. Armstrong has used this as evidence of two Oswald’s, even though in other places in his book he has "Lee" and "Harvey" attending the same school, one fulltime, the other part-time, in the Dolly Shoe scenario, of which I've written an essay explaining the problems he created by saying the Jr. high got out at 4:30 (it got out at 3:30), that the shoe store closed at 5:45 (stores closed at 6:00) all to make it 'impossible' for "Harvey" to have worked there part-time, so has him working fulltime while "Lee" attends school fulltime, poor Harvey doesn't... atop this, Lee (the real Lee) clearly wrote that he worked TEN WEEKS for a shoe store...which Armstrong tried to make seem just two weeks. How did he do that? By assuming that Lee (Harvey) did not start working there until he got his official work permit. Sorry, things were a lot looser back then, and only when the manager was sure he would keep Lee on did he apply for a work permit for him. Lee's W-2 form was signed weeks earlier, the same date as his mother, Marguerite, who also applied and was hired to work there. Only by assuming Lee didn't work a lick until weeks later --and cutting off times open for the store and times that school got out, in an effort to 'prove' Lee could not have worked as many hours as it would take to show part-time work for the pay given, does Armstrong try to convince readers that "Harvey" had to work fulltime for a couple of weeks. It wasn't so. For example, Armstrong does not count the day after Easter, when school was out, as a day that Lee could work there fulltime. When this is added, the figures come out correctly for a generally part-time job where Lee would pick up shoes and tidy up for an hours or so every day, for some ten weeks, including a fulltime day on the Monday following Easter, which was a special sale day. Then the hours for part-time work add up.
Sunday 1 December 2013
Umbrella Man at JFK assassination
Watch: Powerful Errol Morris Short 'The Umbrella Man' Investigates The Mysterious JFK Assassination Figure
"The Umbrella Man" focuses on the lone, mysterious titular figure present in Dealey Plaza that day, who has been the subject of great debate for conspiracy theorists for decades. However, author Josiah "Tink" Thompson, who wrote the book "Six Seconds In Dallas," gives an utterly fascinating breakdown of the surprising truth about who that man was and why he was the only person in Dallas that bright, warm day, walking around with an umbrella.
"You can never on your own think up all the non-sinister, perfectly valid explanations," Thompson explains, and in Morris' typically beautiful way, and aided by a great score, we find out as always, that truth is so much stranger than fiction. This is some pretty great stuff, and the first of what Morris hopes will be a multi-part examination of the assassination (awesome). Watch below, and bear in mind, this is only a small portion of a six-hour interview Morris had with Thompson. Astounding.
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