Showing posts with label JFK Assassination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JFK Assassination. Show all posts

Nov 22, 2016

Retracing The Fatal Shot: The Other Grassy Knoll--The Experts TalkBlood Spatter at JFK Lancer 2016 November In Dallas


Viewing the "grassy knoll" from the other grassy knoll on the other side of Dealey Plaza

Blood Spatter expert, Sherry Fiester believes the fatal shot came from this area, this is the other grassy knoll on the other side of the plaza



Attending the JFK Lancer November in Dallas Conference 2016 offered many opportunities.  

One of the best things about the symposium was the tour of Dealey Plaza on Sunday and we had several experts to show us around and offer their opinion of the events that took place on the fateful day in November of 1963.


As Chris Gallop took us around we went from the famous picket fence area of the grassy knoll across the railroad bridge where the three tramps were found and circled all the way over to the other grassy knoll completely on the other side of Dealey Plaza.

Standing on the railroad bridge was really exciting.  After seeing the bridge and hearing about it in so many shows I could not believe that I was actually standing in that place.

Chris told us that criminologist and blood spatter expert Sherry Fiester believes that the fatal shot came from this area in the picture above.  He said he really cannot go against Sherry's philosophy as she proved her case so well in her book "Enemy Of The Truth."

Sherry Fiester worked for many years as a criminal investigator, blood spatter and the science of murder was her speciality.

Being a fan of Sherry Fiester's it is easy to enjoy her conversation as she often guests on radio shows discussing the murder and the crime scene investigation of JFK.

Thanks, Chris Gallop, for taking time to show us around Dealey Plaza and sharing your expert knowledge with our group.

The Lancer Conference was really well worth the trip.






from the Lancer page:

Chris Gallop ~ Oswald's Marine Photo
Chris, a paramedic for 28 years, began researching the assassination at the young age of 17, mentored by author/researcher J. Gary Shaw who he met in 1987. Chris was introduced to 1st generation researchers such as Penn Jones, Jr., Mary Farrell, Bud Fensterwald, Larry Harris, and Larry Howard where he honed his research skills. Learning from the masters and contributing to the future, Chris is holding his 4th Annual Luncheon & Symposium, November 17th, from 11am to 4pm, at Stephen’s Garden Grill in Mansfield, TX. He is also an administrator of several Facebook forums and groups which include “JFK-The Continuing Inquiry”, “A Tribute to Roger Craig”, “John F. Kennedy-Europe”, and “LBJ and the Murder of JFK”. He is the owner of jfk.thecontinuinginquiry.com with photographs, interviews, and research links, as well as his Book and Gift Shop inventory of rare and out of print books, magazines, autographed memorabilia, and many other items of interest. ris will have a table in the JFK Lancer “November In Dallas” 2016 Conference book room again this year offering many items of interest. He is devoted to the JFK research community, lending his expertise and working closely with JFK Lancer to provide and assist with the important witnesses and research sources. 





Jul 25, 2015

Larry Hancock Talks LBJ and the Odd Way He Acted After the Assassination



One of my long time interests has been behavior of Vice President Johnson during the hours immediately following the attack on President Kennedy – an attack which at the time could not have been known to be limited to an action against only the President. There has been a good deal of speculation, including some of my own, that Johnson’s actions were not what should have been expected of the Vice President. Others have suggested that there was a broader pattern of national security failure.




One way to test such speculation is to actually compare the response of the people at the very top of the national security chain of command during major crises, including events that would have produced fears that the nation itself might shortly come under attack. To do that effectively it’s necessary to really dig into what the plans and preparations for such crises have been and to study their evolution over time.  As it turns out there are ample incidents which do allow comparison, beginning with at least two instances under President Eisenhower when he was informed of an apparent, incoming Soviet attack on the United States. I’m not talking about some quickly resolved NORAD alert, but presumed incoming atomic bomber strikes which were tracked and monitored over several hours.


An even more direct comparison can be made concerning the Vice Presidential and national security response to the shooting and near death of President Reagan. One of the most dubious parts of Johnson’s response to President Kennedy’s death is his apparent ignorance of his responsibilities as Commander in Chief and his conduct in taking over those duties on November 22. Of course if he had prior knowledge that a Soviet “decapitation” attack was not actually in play, it would provide an explanation for what appears to be a dereliction of duty on his part. Some have painted the brush even more broadly, pointing to similar failure to act by the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Adviser and other senior officials – indicative of a conspiracy involving one or even all of them.



The question then is how their actions compare to those of their counterparts during other crises, including President Reagan’s shooting or the attacks of 9/11. It is possible to explore that question in detail, even to the point of comparing events on and communications from the Presidential and Vice Presidential aircraft during major crises. I tackle those comparisons in Surprise Attack and while I’m not going to give away the conclusions I can say I found doing the research absolutely fascinating. The comparisons in the book apply not only to Johnson’s performance but to that of other positions, specifically that of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Adviser and beyond that to the Presidential military aides.



I can also say that certain of Johnson’s activities on November 22, 1963 were impossible to compare – and for readers of Someone Would Have Talked, I refer to the calls from Presidential aides to Texas on the evening of November 22. What would be most revealing, and something someone should undertake, is a study of the phone calls and contacts made by Johnson immediately following the Tonkin Gulf incident and the attack on the intelligence ship Liberty. The question being, was it routine practice for Johnson to initiate major cover ups for any incident in which he failed his duties as Commander in Chief. I have gone down that trail to a certain extent and some of that is discussed in the book; there is a much expanded story to tell though, of that I’m sure.




Chloe Louise says:
Dear Larry…..Just can’t resist mentioning…..just today I asked the guy at the dog park, “who do you think killed JFK,” as I had just been watching the you-tube show about Tippit by the author McBride…….


I said to my friend it is so fascinating and I often spend my spare time looking at this kind of thing.
He said he did not know who killed JFK and he did not care since it was 30 years ago and people have moved on.


Well, not only does he have a problem with addition, but he should be more interested in the whole thing–this ultimate mystery of the century really should be solved–the cover-up won the minute LHO appeared on the cover of Life Magazine.


Has anyone ever noticed how odd LHO acts in custody…..to me he does not act like the average 25 year old just accused of murdering the president……always admiring your work…..what do you think?




copied from the webpage of Larry Hancock............

About Larry Hancock

Larry Hancock is a leading historian-researcher in the JFK assassination. Co-author with Connie Kritzberg of November Patriots and author of the 2003 research analysis publication titled also Someone Would Have Talked. In addition, Hancock has published several document collections addressing the 112th Army Intelligence Group, John Martino, and Richard Case Nagell. In 2000, Hancock received the prestigious Mary Ferrell New Frontier Award for the contribution of new evidence in the Kennedy assassination case. In 2001, he was also awarded the Mary Ferrell Legacy Award for his contributions of documents released under the JFK Act.

Nov 27, 2013

Beautiful thougts from JFK researcher Larry Hancock

Thoughts from the 50th Annivesary

by Larry Hancock
I'm just back from several days in Dallas and as promised will offer some observations, however my first thoughts are rather personal and also rather unanticipated.  It being Thanksgiving week here in the United States, they do seem appropriate to me, although they will be a great contrast to what you normally see me post.
These thoughts are based in several recent observations from significant figures, including Robert Kennedy Jr., Kathleen McCarthy (a cousin of JFK) and Secretary of State Kerry.  Basically it appears that as of the anniversary (although both RFK Jr. and Kathleen McCarthy have commented on this earlier), it is now becoming more widely accepted that there were were some major issues with the Warren Commission inquiry and its report and that despite of Kennedy family comments of the time, even the family itself was of the view that there had likely been more to the assassination than was portrayed in the Warren Report.  Even the most conservative remarks of the last week or so, from John Kerry, have offered the view that the assassination remains an open subject and deserves further attention.  OK, that's all good, what is not all good is that a number of other quotable media sources have acknowledged the same thing but essentially concluded that "we can never know" so we might as well drop it and go forward - a view reflected in the official ceremonial speeches in Dallas last Friday.
I'll grant that may be an honest position, one that produces honest remarks. But it reminds me of a college class where a professor listened to me give an "acceptable" answer to his question and then remarked that it was indeed correct on one level but displayed very little thought on my part, was simply too simple for the question at hand and that he thought I could do much better if I really put some work into it rather than give him an answer that the question really demanded.  After getting into a snit and trying to drop the class - which he would not sign off on - he proved to be without doubt my most significant mentor during over five years of university study and I came to understand his response that a superficially satisfactory answer is not necessarily an acceptable one.
I find the "well we can't know now, lets accept that and look to the future rather than the past argument" unacceptable for a great many reasons, some objective and fact based and others much more subjective and personal.  The objective and factual response are very much in play and with the 50th anniversary of the WC Report coming up next year are going to continue to receive my attention.  The personal reason is much more immediate to me at the moment so I'm going to get it off my chest now...those of you who don't like subjective thoughts or emotional positions should probably bail out about this point.
In Dallas,  I was asked to give brief remarks at the conference banquet.  Amazingly to some I was brief.  The gist of the remarks was simply that as a matter of historical certainty, we now know that if President Kennedy had not exercised the leadership that he did during the Cuban missile confrontation, if he had chosen the tempting knee-jerk reaction of air strikes on missile sites, full scale engagement with Soviet submarines or troop landings in Cuba, it almost certainly would have triggered full scale combat, in Cuba including Soviet use of tactical atomic weapons and very probably launch of missiles from unidentified sites (the Generals thought they had all of them located, JFK was skeptical, JFK was correct - the Genrals were not even aware of the half dozen short range tactical nukes that had been covertly moved directly to attack the American base at Guantanamo).  In what would  have followed I most likely  would not be alive at this point nor would most of my generation.  And very likely civilization as we know it today would be largely defunct - the American targeting plan for any nuclear engagement involved a full scale reaction against Russia, its allies and China.
When I read a number of the snide remarks which appeared last week stating that it was not really necessary to worry too much about the Kennedy anniversary because of his personal foibles and the fact that his Administration really was not Camelot, I wonder...have those people forgotten that in a single terrible week, against virtually all the pressure on him, President Kennedy almost certainly saved their lives?  Have they never heard the concept of "debt of honor" - perhaps not, such things are terribly old fashioned today, very much out of style and certainly I heard little of that expressed even in the official anniversary remarks in Dallas.  Perhaps it was too personal, perhaps it would be uncomfortable to acknowledge much less put into words.  Well I admit I'm pretty old fashioned - not to mention pretty old - but I do remember it and I do feel it and in that regard alone I find the "we can't ever know so lets get on with it" view totally  unacceptable.
Now none of this is relevant or even of any concern to those who are fully satisfied with the official Warren Report view of the world, that's fine, its not their issue.  And it may simply make me look terribly emotional and rather ancient.  But for some reason, at this particular moment, that really does not trouble me.  On the other hand, unpaid debts always have.
-- Larry


Larry Hancock | November 25, 2013 at 4:12 pm | Categories: Everything else | URL:http://wp.me/p1DeOb-65
copied from the websie of Larry Hancock...here is a link to the page:

Larry--thank your for those lovely words--actually, they are quite inspirational to me.  

That is part of it isn't it--Kennedy was such a complex figure.  

Personally, I do not know why everyone does not put the greatest mystery of our century in the forefront 24/7.  But, right now I am worn out from the thing, as well.  The recent information in the Boston Globe concerning the statements and suspicions of RFK was refreshing--finally.  

I really appreciate your hard and tedious work--I could never do it.  I want to thank all of the hard working JFK researchers.  

I do want to know the answer--obviously it is there somewhere--it would be nice if the government would cooperate.  

I guess I was originally inspired by Harold Weisberg.  The thing is if we are to accept the lone gun Oswald theory then that would mean that all of those other facts out there, all of those other average citizens and esteemed researchers are wrong.  

That does not make sense.  Once something does not make sense I am hooked on figuring it out.  

Now we know there were those teams of Cuban exiles and CIA/mob groups that in fact worked together on assassinations--that cannot be denied now by even the O"Reilly and Bugliosi types--well, it is really not that big of leap to the next step.  I am just saying it is not an outrageous thought anymore is it?

Thank you again, Larry, for all of your hard work--It is my dream to make the conference next year and go on your tour.......cl  


here is a link to Spartacus Educational--this is a great site for info and this page is about Harold:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKweisberg.htm






Nov 21, 2013

News about Mark Lane-Appearances and the 50th


Dear friends:

I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to let you know all the things that are going on about the 50th anniversary of the murder of President John F. Kennedy.

The best interview Mark has done this year was with Alec Baldwin, who had a long, surprisingly meaningful discussion with Mark that was to be aired on his show, Up Late with Alec Baldwin, at 10:00 on Friday, November 22. Unfortunately, the show has been canceled for a couple of weeks (I really don’t want to talk about it) which  of course, covers the time slot that was reserved for Mark, so his interview will not be aired at that time. We have heard that it will be shown on Friday the 29th, but that is not set in stone. I will let you know as soon as I do. It is really worth watching.

Pacifica Radio is planning 6 hours of special programming on Friday, the 22nd, including interviews with Mark, Oliver Stone, and an archived interview with Jim Garrison.

Mark will appear on the Mark Thompson show on Sirius XM tonight, with Dick Gregory. They will be on at 6:30.

He will make an appearance electronically at the COPA conference tomorrow night.

He spoke at Dr. Cyril Wecht’s Pittsburgh conference at Duquesne University, Passing the Torch, at the end of  October. They will be publishing DVD’s of that conference.

Mark did a very long interview with CNN for their show on the assassination, which was produced in part by Tom Hanks.  The show aired for the first time on November 14, and continues to air on CNN – it will be on at 9:00 tonight. Mark is on there, but the show focuses on Vincent Bugliosi’s writings and gives little if any new insights on the crime.

We have been hard at work getting a new trade paperback version of Rush to Judgment out with a new preface by Mark, and we did it!  You can get it through Amazon here:  http://www.amazon.com/Rush-Judgment-Bestseller-Concealed-Assassination/dp/1940522005/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385063009&sr=1-4&keywords=rush+to+judgment


The Kindle versions of Rush to Judgment, Plausible Denial and A Citizen’s Dissent came out just a little while ago.





Soon, we will have Mark’s story of his survival of the Jonestown Massacre, The Strongest Poison, out on Kindle.

Thank you for continuing to support Mark and his efforts to educate the public on this important part of our history. 

Sue

Sue Herndon
Assistant to Mark Lane

copied from an e-mail from Mark Lane........

Nov 15, 2013

The Slot Drain In Dealey Plaza.......Jesse Ventura on Coast to Coast

Just wondering if any other JFKers  out there heard John B. Wells on Coast to Coast talking about the slot drain in Dealey Plaza.

Apparently this was a drain that had been used to fire a shot at President Kennedy during the assassination.

He felt he had this on good authority…..the drain was then covered up--cemented in--on authority of the head of the Bonanno crime family.

This story was related by John B. Well on Coast to Coast, the nighttime radio show, during an interview with Jesse Ventura.  It was an interesting show due to the nature of Jesse Ventura and John B. Wells and their ability to tell a story.  Not talking about agreeing or disagreeing but listening to the show was fun and interesting…..especially in light of all of the recent Kennedy shows taking the notion that LHO was a lone gunman/nut.

The question…..this is very interesting information but is it true…..

Can it  be verified in any way shape or form…..

What should the average Joe interested in the Kennedy Assassination and following it for years take away from these thoughts……

In short…...what the heck does all of this mean…..what should we think now….is this true and is there any way of proving it……

All of these tidbits of information seem so grand and exciting at first but what do they really mean……

Your thoughts…..

here is a link to the show….oh, wait…….I think you have to have a subscription to hear it.

some people listen to it on you-tube...does anyone have any tips if one does not want to pay the price of 6.95 per month?

Perhaps one can go to the website and read about it but you cannot actually listen to it.

Regardless, just saying….what does all of this mean?


here is a link to Coast to Coast with a page about that show:


here is a link to the Jesse Ventura page on you-tube if anyone wants to listen to the show:


There may not be any new information but on the issue of the slot drain and a possible connection to the assassination---wouldn't the authorities be interested enough to follow this idea and make a statement about the drain?

The  whole thing becomes very frustrating after a while because obviously the government could shed light on the subject if they wanted to....why is so much info still secret...what is the point....it's almost ridiculous after a while.

Probably rogue elements of the CIA were involved, there never will be any definitive proof--and the government can't just go around and say to Caroline Kennedy that we messed up and killed your dad and or a very beloved president and public figure.


Really, what is the government suppose to do--we are having a hard enough time with health care and public anger.  Can you imagine if the state was a participant in a presidential assassination--the outrage may never end.  People say we can handle the truth but would that actually be the case?

Thanks for reading....what do you think....... 



Nov 13, 2013

Larry Hancock, top-notch JFK Assassination Researcher on the Jeff Bushman Radio Show Tonight

New post on Larry Hancock

Patsy 102

by Larry Hancock
Before I continue further down this train of thought, I need to mention that if anyone would think it entertaining to hear me discourse in person, there are a couple of new opportunities.  This coming Wednesday evening I will be on Jeff Bushman's internet radio show for about an hour.  We will be covering a broad variety of topics and Jeff's a great host so it should be a good session.  In addition, a recent lengthy interview by Alan Dale is now up on the Lancer web site and archived for access.  The links are below:


I've been following a number of the current media interviews on the anniversary of the assassination as well as a couple of the television specials - not all of them, after close to 20 years on this subject I do hit overflow now and then - and it appears that there is a new trend.  Many quotable personalities are acknowledging that the Warren Commission inquiry was lacking in a great many ways, even "dysfunctional", and that it was not provided with a considerable amount of information as well as with questionable evidence.  Now that's a good thing, its only taken four decades or so to have that point acknowledged.  Beyond that however, the new operative responses seem to be  for the speakers to fall back on a position of stating that its important to keep an open mind or simply to pontificate that we will simply never know what really happened.  Both of which are pretty safe positions to take, although I've note noticed any of the "open minded" folks on my voice mail, clamoring to be informed of what they might have missed in the past 50 years.  Perhaps we will see all of them joining our ranks in Dallas?
Perhaps the most striking recent comment came from John Kerry, who seems to have taken the position that conspiracy of some sort may well have been in play - with his first thought being that perhaps another look should be taken at Oswald's Cuban and Russian associations. Which of course, in my view, is exactly what the plotters in the Dallas attack wanted to happen - Kerry is simply behind their playbook about 50 years, for those of them still living, it must be pretty frustrating.  In that regard, lets take a step further in thinking about the "patsy" concept I introduced in my last post.
How many of you mystery fans, print or television, have seen the show which begins with the police arresting the supposed murderer - who generally has at least some level of motive but who has been stupid enough to take the murder weapon, with their prints all over it, and hide it in their dresser drawer, in the trashcan out back or maybe the utility shed.  The police and DA are happy, and justice is about to prevail...until Jessica Fletcher, Matlock or Perry Mason steps in to reveal that many murderers are just a little brighter than that.  In other words, the obvious suspect is not necessarily the guilty party, no matter how the evidence originally stacks up.  And the bad guys have usually taken some pains to stack the deck, not only with the evidence but in creating a series of associations and a motive that falls apart with a bit of work -  within half an hour or so of air time.
Now this concept of setting up patsies is not really all that complex, William Harvey's notes address the fact that any ZRRIFLE operative will have to have a fake document trail and evidence pointing them out as a Soviet or perhaps Eastern bloc asset in case they are caught.  And in SWHT I describe Veciana's remarks about how similar one Castro assassination attempt they set up in Latin America was to Dallas, even going so far setting up the patsy with photographs implicating him as a Communist and other evidence showing he was acting for Communist handlers.  So, if Mr. Kerry is open to a conspiracy I would encourage him to consider the fact that the now obvious sponsors might be just a bit too obvious. I would also suggest he consider that both the Soviets and Russians had an excellent reputation for intelligence work and would be unlikely to leave such an obvious trail positioning Lee Oswald as being associated with them if they were indeed the true instigators of a conspiracy.  In other words, lets give the real bad guys just a trace of credit here.
In this series of posts I've brought forth a number of specific incidents and sources that associated Lee Oswald with unknown individuals who were positioning themselves as Castro agents. As we get closer to the attack in Dallas those associations and suspicions continued to grow.  In Dallas Sylvia Odio was introduced to an individual identical to Lee Oswald and told later, out of his presence, that he was a hired gun who could equally kill either Castro or Kennedy.  In SWHT I review Odio (and her fathers) suspicions that those individuals were not the peo0ple they claimed to be but were playing some sort of deeper game in those remarks.  Currently Bill Simpich is in the process further detailing the same type of false associations being planted in Mexico City and later in Dallas, according to FBI Agent Hosty, Oswald would still be in contact with "subversives".   I would submit that it was not Russian or Cuban agents handling Oswald in such a matter so as to implicate themselves in such a transparent fashion, surely insuring American retaliation following an attack on the U.S. President.
I will also submit that Lee Oswald was not stupid enough to shoot the president with his rifle and then think about hiding it at the same location, with fingerprints likely on it and then adamantly deny any such act immediately upon being taken into custody.  If I hear that "he did it to become famous" motive on one more TV show...well enough for now.
Larry Hancock | November 11, 2013 at 1:03 am | Categories: Everything else | URL:http://wp.me/p1DeOb-5Q

copied from Larry Hancock...........

Nov 8, 2013

O'Reilly goes "O'Reilly" on Geraldo Rivera's radio show when asked about JFK.......and how I made the cutest pillowcases with the barn yard pigs.

Just wondering what people think about Bill O'Reilly....he insisted to Geraldo Rivera on his radio show yesterday that there was absolutely no evidence there was anyone involved in the JFK shooting except Lee Harvey Oswald......Of course then he went "O'Reilly" when Geraldo just asked the question about others and started yelling...we all know how well O'Reilly accepts and idea if it is not his.........the point is, a lot of people listen to his show and think he is the end all be all.....there are plenty of facts, just straight facts not even open for interpretation, that show others were involved...not to mention the conclusion of the House Committee on Assassinations.  Not to mention the big fact that one can easily see more than one shot hitting him from another direction by the movement of his head.  it is also speculated that Bill O'Reilly may have other information to the contrary of just one shooter from information he received when he was doing Inside Edition....Bill is just putting everything out there opposite of Lancer.....it is just that so many people believe him, this is what I am sad about.


Chloe Louise Geraldo is doing an interview with Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey, on his Fox News television show this weekend. He says it is a bombshell.......

here is a link to the reference of Inside Edition...it is from David Talbot at Salon and suggested by Knapp's news on the radio show Coast to Coast:

http://theronnierepublic.blogspot.com/2012/12/killing-kennedy-bill-oreilly-wimps-out.html


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my really, really cute pig pillowcases.......
and how I made them.
Well, first I went to the quilting class of Kathy Green---one of my sewing heroes...

then I saw the barnyard pig fabric...one of the other students was making a pillowcase...

I felt as if I would expire if I could not have that fabric....so I immediately went to Rosie's Calico Cupboard and bought it...It was about 8 dollars a yard...100% cotton.
I used the pillowcase pattern Kathy gave us in class...it is all over you tube...it is basically the burrito technique with french seams...it is very simple.,,,(after I cut it incorrectly and had to re-cut it so the pigs would be right side up on the bed.)
The lace is from a inexpensive table runner that I cut up....and now I am trying to sell them....or use them for a wall hanging....anything to just keep talking about them because they are soooooo cute.

to purchase the cute pigs go to.........www.chloetoo.com......


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these pillowcases will require ironing
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