The JFKA As A Whodunnit

[Lance Payette]

I am perhaps the only person who will find this amusing ...

I was reviewing some of the threads at the Ed Forum where Lawyer Jimbo chided me for my lack of lawyerly knowledge and skills. I came upon his citation of an article at Kennedys & King as to "what a real trial of Oswald, with everything on the table, would have produced." Larry Schnapf, who actually is a lawyer, described it as "a nice piece."

Actually, it's nothing but a three-article litany of supposed problems with the physical evidence. Nothing about what would have been far more critical to the defense: (1) Oswald's puzzling, non-assassin-like behavior before the JFKA and (2) severing the Tippit murder as we've discussed here.

The humorous part is the author of this scholarly legal analysis: "Johnny Cairns, an Edinburgh electrician." Hey, next time you need your kitchen rewired, just call me, a "former Arizona lawyer." I'm pretty sure I could do it.

Another crazy episode was spooky Jon Tidd, a well-established regular and active CT zealot when I arrived. He repeatedly suggested I wasn't a lawyer at all and started posing non-JFKA legal questions to see if I could answer them - a veritable JFKA forum bar exam! The absurdity? Tidd was a FELLOW ARIZONA ATTORNEY and could have verified my bar membership in good standing at the Arizona State Bar site in 15 seconds! To his everlasting credit, at least as far as I'm concerned, James Gordon summarily banned him.

Hoot, here is Johnny my lad on a podcast. I must admit, not what I expected.