On the Trail of Delusion, Episode 35, with John Corbett

[Benjamin Cole]

I thought you did a good job in expressing your point of view.

[Charles Collins]

I just listened to the first 10 minutes of the debate and I was starting to get a headache listening to Rossley again. His strategy seemed to be to shout me down with his constant interruptions.

Rossley's website remained up for several years after he passed away. Out of curiosity I tried to access it again to see if it was still around. It's not. I think I told him once on alt.assassination.jfk that his screwy ideas would die when he did. They actually survived a few years longer but eventually vanished. I doubt there is any record of all the material he had accumulated over the years. It's no great loss. I can't remember the name of Tony Marsh's website but I'd bet that has gone bye-bye too.

By contrast, all seven members of the Warren Commission have passed on as well as most of the staff lawyers who did a lot of the work, but the Warren Commission Report still stands as the definitive explanation of the assassination of JFK. While some of it's findings have been fine tuned over the past 6 decades thanks to an army of people reviewing their work, the original parameters they gave us remain valid. Oswald was the assassin and the murderer of J. D. Tippit. There is still no credible evidence that anyone else took part in either crime. While the Warren Commission was unable to determine with certainty which of Oswald's three shots missed, I believe there is now a clear consensus that the miss was on the first shot. The SBT is still the only explanation that makes sense for the shot that went through JFK's torso and caused all the wounds to JBC. The parameters they gave us for that shot are still valid. They said the single bullet was fired between Z210-225. That remains true although I think we can narrow it down to being fired at Z220 plus or minus one frame and wounded the two men a few frames later.

A google search tells me that Burt Griffin is still alive but he is the only one I've been able to verify. I know Arlen Specter has died and I'm pretty sure David Belin has too. Not sure about the rest.

UPDATE: I did a google search and found out the name of Tony Marsh's website was The Puzzle Palace. The article contained a link to the website but when I clicked on it, ii indicated the website was not found. I would have been surprised if it had.

If anybody is interested, I found this compilation of various JFKA websites. I haven't gone through them to find out which ones are still operational.

https://www.jfk-assassination.net/sites.htm

A google search tells me that Burt Griffin is still alive but he is the only one I've been able to verify. I know Arlen Specter has died and I'm pretty sure David Belin has too. Not sure about the rest.


I believe that Howard Willens is still alive. His book is very good and a very long oral history from Howard is available online from the SFM.

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The SFM also has his journal available. I feel like I learned a good bit about how the WC operated by reading his book.

[John Corbett]

I am surprized that there are so many John Corbetts around here & elsewhere (ie that believe the WC report)(that Oswald fired 3 shots).

I am at least as surprised that there are still believers in Donahue's Mortal Error theory. That one is ludicrous.

Me myself i got into the jfk saga 4 years ago & (with the help of some smart fellas around here) it took me only a few months to see that Oswald's first shot ricocheted offa the overhead signal arm.
And (with the help of some smart fellas not around here) i could see that Hickey fired an accidental auto burst of at least 4 shots the last being the headshot.
I will write a short quick eezy jfk book.  Praps in late 2026.
I am busy writing a book on billiards at present.
And then i will write a book on elekticity.
And then the jfk book.

Stick with the billiards and/or electricity. We don't need another Mortal Error 2.0. Donahue was full of beans. There is no definitive evidence as to what the first shot struck. It MIGHT have hit the overhead traffic bar. It MIGHT have struck the pavement near the limo. There is no chance at this time that we are going to discover a piece of forensic evidence that tells us definitively what happened to that bullet. I happen to think the first shot, which was by far the most difficult of the three, struck the pavement and if so is the most likely cause of Tague's injury down range. The same thing could have happened if the shot ricocheted off the traffic arm. It seems less likely but possible to me that Tague's injury was caused by a fragment from the head shot that flew over the windshield before striking the curb in front of Tague. I also wouldn't rule out the possibility that Tague's injury had nothing to do with the shooting and was caused by a pebble being thrown up by a car traveling in the opposite direction. I've had to replace two windshields due to that. The problem with that explanation is it doesn't explain the apparent bullet strike on the curb in front of Tague.

[John Corbett]

A google search tells me that Burt Griffin is still alive but he is the only one I've been able to verify. I know Arlen Specter has died and I'm pretty sure David Belin has too. Not sure about the rest.


I believe that Howard Willens is still alive. His book is very good and a very long oral history from Howard is available online from the SFM.

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The SFM also has his journal available. I feel like I learned a good bit about how the WC operated by reading his book.

Thanks for that information. I will look into it.