Passing of Former HSCA Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey

[Benjamin Cole]

MTG--

You make good points.

True, LHO attended the air-school run by Ferrie. But after that, no firm evidence they knew each other.

I have to concede, Ruby was a low-level mob guy, who had run guns to Cuba.

Ruby waxing LHO remains a fishy event.

[Michael T. Griffith]

MTG--

You make good points.

True, LHO attended the air-school run by Ferrie. But after that, no firm evidence they knew each other.

Actually, we have good evidence that they associated with each other long after they met in the Civil Air Patrol. See the research of the HSCA, Dr. David Kaiser, Anthony Summers, Dr. David Scheim, Lamar Waldron, etc. etc.

I have to concede, Ruby was a low-level mob guy, who had run guns to Cuba.

He did a lot more than just run guns to Cuba, although that was no small thing.

Ruby waxing LHO remains a fishy event.

It was clearly a Mob hit to silence a major loose end.

[Lance Payette]

It was clearly a Mob hit to silence a major loose end.

Sigh.

This makes no sense from any angle. Let’s put on our rational-thinking beanies:

1. Team A – think “Mission Impossible” – manages to alter JFK’s body, the Z film, the autopsy photos and X-rays and God knows what else the very night of the JFKA. Wow, these folks were pros!

2. Team B – think Carlos, Curly, Larry and Moe – cannot manage its little task of whacking the patsy at any time between 12:31 PM on November 22 and 11:20 AM on November 24. Even then, the best Team B can do is have him whacked on national TV, while surrounded by police and reporters, using a “hit man” with an erratic and volatile personality and more red flags than the Kremlin, so even your cousin Fudsy the potato farmer is screaming “Dat hadda be a Mafia hit, dood!” On top of which, Team B can’t even arrange for its “hit man” to be silenced then and there by a police revolver, which pretty much defeats the purpose of silencing the patsy since the “hit man” is nuttier and less reliable than the patsy.

Geniuses at steps 1-3-5-7-9, bumbling fools at steps 2-4-6-8-10. Mission Impossible and the Three Stooges.

Only in the lunatic fringe of Conspiracy World occupied by MTG and his ilk does this MAKE ANY SENSE. MTG just wants conspiracy factoids – they can be completely irreconcilable (as they are) and collectively make no sense whatsoever (as they don’t).

Plausibility, people, plausibility. Let this be your motto.

Mr. Niederwacky at the Ed Forum seemed to suggest in a recent post that MTG might be one of them there cognitive infiltrators. Far be it from me to endorse this view since Niederwacky fits the profile equally well, but I wonder how many folks know the sad tale of Paul Bennewitz? He observed strange lights and whatnot over the Defense Department's Sandia Labs as well as Kirtland Air Force Base and began aggressively monitoring radio communications. He ACTUALLY WAS the target of a disinformation campaign by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the intelligence community. Did that disinformation campaign try to convince him it was nothing out of the ordinary (i.e., "the LN narrative" in JFKA terms)? Hell, no! They fed him so much wild "alien" crap ("body alteration stuff" in JFKA terms) that he went off the deep end and was finally committed for psychiatric treatment. Really! If there are such things as cognitive infiltrators in the JFKA, they probably aren't the LN zealots you suspect. I'm just sayin' ...

[Michael T. Griffith]

Not true. I would refer you to Dr. Donald Thomas's extensive research on this issue. The photographic evidence is not a complete, second-by-second record of the events in Dealey Plaza, but Dr. Thomas makes a strong case that McClain was in the right position to have been in position to record the sounds on the dictabelt.

The Dealey Plaza site test done by the BBN scientists proved that the dictabelt was recorded during the assassination. Even the NRC/NAS panel concluded there was a 93% chance that the timing-movement correlations identified by the BBN scientists between the dictabelt impulses and the test-firing impulses occurred because the dictabelt was recorded during the assassination.

Have you read the HSCA materials on the acoustical evidence? How about Dr. Josiah Thompson's extensive discussion on the new developments from new research into the acoustical evidence done at BBN in 2019-2020 in his 2021 book Last Second in Dallas? His two chapters and appendices on the acoustical evidence total 114 pages. Dr. Thompson also spends considerable time on the issue of which patrol bike's mic recorded the impulse patterns on the dictabelt--he, too, makes a strong case that McClain's mic recorded those sounds.

This is an overstatement and an oversimplification. There was disagreement among the HSCA experts about matching the gunshot impulses with events in the Zapruder film. Furthermore, as I have explained in other threads, the dictabelt did not necessarily record all of the shots fired in Dealey Plaza for two possible reasons: shots could have been fired several feet away from a window and/or a silencer could have been used. The acoustical scientists noted that if a gunman fired 6-8 feet back from a window, the dictabelt probably would not have recorded the sound.

Also, we need to keep in mind that because of restrictions imposed by the committee, the BBN test firing in Dealey Plaza was limited to the sixth-floor window and the grassy knoll. If shots had been fired from one or two of the lower floors of the Dal-Tex Building or the County Records Building, more dictabelt impulse patterns may have been matched with test-firing impulse patterns.

If anyone is interested in an extensive introduction to the acoustical evidence, here's the link to my article "The HSCA's Acoustical Evidence: Proof of a Second Gunman":

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KvdvH8gTqFgMn-2vTI5ppg_egWxRKg9U/view.

Furthermore, regarding the matching of the dictabelt's gunshot impulses with the Zapruder film, not only did the HSCA's experts disagree about this, but the matching that was published in the final report (1) excluded the 140.3 impulse pattern, even though it passed the echo-delay matching test, and even though 8 of its 10 impulses matched the impulses of one of the Dealey Plaza test shots, and (2) excluded two shot reactions in the Zapruder film.

Most WC defenders don't know that new research done by BBN acoustical scientists in 2019-2020 produced new information that supports the HSCA's acoustical evidence. Among other things, the BBN scientists proved that Decker's  “hold everything” transmission is not time synchronous, that it was recorded at a different speed than the valid crosstalk transmissions, and that it is almost certainly an overdub that occurred in the copying process. In addition, they proved that the Fisher "I'll check" transmission is genuine crosstalk, which proves the impulse patterns were recorded in Dealey Plaza during the assassination.

These important developments are discussed at great length in Dr. Josiah Thompson's 2021 book Last Second in Dallas