Don't get bit.....

[Walt Cakebread]

I have affidavits and investigation reports from Boone and Weitzman saying they found a 7.65 Mauser.

You have a grainy black and white piece of film showing LT Day picking up what appears to be a Mannlicher Carcano.

I have affidavits and investigation reports from Boone and Weitzman saying they found a 7.65 Mauser.

Are you referring to the affidavits that say .... The rifle "APPEARED TO BE" a 7.65 Mauser?     

You have a grainy black and white piece of film showing LT Day picking up what appears to be a Mannlicher Carcano.

Of course you're limiting the photographic evidence to a single frame of Alyea's film..... When in fact there is more of his film which shows Detective Day holding the MANNLICHER CARCANO up in plain sight.....And there is more Alyea footage whish shows Detective Day dusting a MANNLICHER CARCANO looking for finger prints on the rifle, and then there are several photos of Detective Day carrying a MANNLICHER CARCANO on the sidewalk in front of the TSBD as he departs to take the CARCANO to the DPD crime lab.

[Walt Cakebread]

I have affidavits and investigation reports from Boone and Weitzman saying they found a 7.65 Mauser.

Are you referring to the affidavits that say .... The rifle "APPEARED TO BE" a 7.65 Mauser?     

You have a grainy black and white piece of film showing LT Day picking up what appears to be a Mannlicher Carcano.

Of course you're limiting the photographic evidence to a single frame of Alyea's film..... When in fact there is more of his film which shows Detective Day holding the MANNLICHER CARCANO up in plain sight.....And there is more Alyea footage whish shows Detective Day dusting a MANNLICHER CARCANO looking for finger prints on the rifle, and then there are several photos of Detective Day carrying a MANNLICHER CARCANO on the sidewalk in front of the TSBD as he departs to take the CARCANO to the DPD crime lab.

Play it again, Sam....

[John Iacoletti]

Vallee is intriguing because of the similarities to Oswald.

Both were former Marines who had served at bases in Japan that hosted the U2.  Both had been involved with anti-Castro Cubans.  Both had recently started jobs overlooking a presidential motorcade route.  Both were accused of assassination plots.  The FBI in Chicago was reportedly tipped off by an informant named "Lee".

[Tom Scully]

Vallee is intriguing because of the similarities to Oswald.

Both were former Marines who had served at bases in Japan that hosted the U2.  Both had been involved with anti-Castro Cubans.  Both had recently started jobs overlooking a presidential motorcade route.  Both were accused of assassination plots.  The FBI in Chicago was reportedly tipped off by an informant named "Lee".

Then why did James Douglass "oversell" the Vallee story?

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters - Page 203 books.google.com › books
James W. Douglass - 2010
FOUND INSIDE - PAGE 203
Why He Died and Why It Matters James W. Douglass ... license plate on the 1962 Ford Falcon he was driving: 31–10RF.151 A few days after President Kennedy's assassination, NBC News in Chicago learned about Vallee's arrest on the same ...

http://22november1963.org.uk/jfk-assassination-plot-chicago
......
Edwin Black: ‘The Plot to Kill JFK in Chicago’
The main source of information about the Chicago plot is an article by the investigative journalist, Edwin Black, ‘The Plot to Kill JFK in Chicago’, Chicago Independent, November 1975, which is available in various formats at:

scribd.com
archive.org
thechicagoplot.com
Black’s main source was a former Secret Service agent, Abraham Bolden, who was also interviewed by James Douglass for his book, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, Orbis Books, 2008; see pp.200–207, 213–217.

Abraham Bolden and the Secret Service
.......

The House Select Committee on Assassinations investigated Bolden’s account of events in Chicago. It pointed out that “no agent who had been assigned to Chicago confirmed any aspect of Bolden’s version”, which it found to be of “questionable authenticity” http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=69299 (HSCA Report, pp.231f).

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbolden.htm
Abraham Bolden
....
....According to Bolden, the Chicago Secret Service office received a teletype from the FBI shortly before Kennedy's November 2 visit warning that an assassination attempt would be carried out in that city by a four-man Cuban hit squad armed with high-powered rifles. Bolden said the entire office was involved in this matter, but that it was kept top secret.

Years later, Bolden could not identify Vallee as a participant in this threat, and the belief among researchers is that Vallee played no part in the second assassination plan.....

On page #4 of a 1977 letter to Rep. Louis Stokes from Amos Peacock :

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/H%20Disk/Heacock%20Amos%20E/Item%2001.pdf


Versus:

Church Committee asked for this document, in 1975, (two years before letter above) see bottom of page: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=148779&relPageId=2&search="chris_hester"

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62272&relPageId=50&search=nycpd_and%20larkin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2#First_overflights_of_Communist_territory

..... The CIA told the president that the Soviets could not track high-altitude U-2 flights; this belief was based on studies using old Soviet radar systems and American systems that were not as effective at high altitudes as current Soviet systems, of which the U.S. was not aware. Knutson later said that "the U-2 was really quite invisible to American radar, but Russian radar were a little different – better, you might say". Although the Office of Scientific Intelligence issued a more cautious report in May 1956 that stated that detection was possible, it believed that the Soviets could not consistently track the aircraft. Dulles further told Eisenhower, according to presidential aide Andrew Goodpaster, that in any aircraft loss the pilot would almost certainly not survive. With such assurances and the growing demand for accurate intelligence regarding the alleged "bomber gap" between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, in June 1956 Eisenhower approved 10 days of overflights.[61][28]

The first U-2 overflight had already occurred, using existing authorization of air force overflights over Eastern Europe. On 20 June 1956, a U-2 flew over Poland and East Germany, with more flights on 2 July....

[John Iacoletti]

Then why did James Douglass "oversell" the Vallee story?

Don’t know. He didn’t consult me. I haven’t even read his book yet.

[Walt Cakebread]

Don’t know. He didn’t consult me. I haven’t even read his book yet.

The book isn't that great.....IMO  It's a rather boring book that doesn't reveal anything new.....

[Tom Scully]

Don’t know. He didn’t consult me. I haven’t even read his book yet.

Dealey Plaza Echo, Volume 6, Issue 3
Current Section: A Rough Guide to Oswald Lookalikes (Part VI), by Mark Bridger
(Right column of page) Thomas Arthur Vallee

First page - 14 - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16249&search=vallee_and+otsu#relPageId=18&tab=page

page - 17 - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16249&search=vallee_and+otsu#relPageId=32&tab=page

Points out that Vallee was at Camp Otsu, likely at the base hospital, in 1951, later a U2 base like Atsugi.

page -25 - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16249&search=vallee_and+otsu#relPageId=29&tab=page

Describes FBI "freeze" on NY license plate number registration info request, bur does not add the information confirming the plate number was allegedly a NY registraton in the name of Vallee.
SEE: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=62272&search=nycpd_and+larkin#relPageId=51&tab=page

Last pages - 26- https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16249&search=vallee_and+otsu#relPageId=30&tab=page
- page 28 - https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=16249&search=vallee_and+otsu#relPageId=32&tab=page