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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion & Debate => JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate => Topic started by: Fred Litwin on April 30, 2025, 12:34:16 PM
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https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/1991-tosh-plumlee-interview-part-one (https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/1991-tosh-plumlee-interview-part-one)
1991 Tosh Plumlee Interview, Part One
Plumlee talks! Here is a rare video of Plumlee telling his story of trying to abort the JFK assassination. But why would anybody believe such a story?
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As I keep saying, a familiarity with the folks who come out of the woodwork in other areas of Weirdness would greatly benefit JFKA enthusiasts who are inclined to take people like Tosh Plumlee and JVB (and many others) seriously. I could write a very long book just about the seemingly sane, seemingly credible, educated, intelligent and otherwise ordinary characters who have come forth in connection with the 1947 Roswell UFO event and fooled serious researchers, sometimes for years, until their stories collapsed. It's an utterly bizarre phenomenon. Often these folks have no obvious agenda, derive no economic benefit and cannot be explained on any basis other than the ego satisfaction they apparently derive from inserting themselves into an event and seeing how long they can pull off their act. Often, like JVB, they do have "just enough" connection with the event to give their claims superficial credibility for a while.
Ditto for every other area of Weirdness with which I've been associated for 60 years. It's a phenomenon as puzzling as the Weirdness itself. Sometimes, even after they have been exposed, many of those who have been duped refuse to admit they've been duped. At least with Roswell, the basic issue is "UFO event or something mundane?" Unlike the JFKA, there aren't 25 competing non-mundane Roswell theories to draw 25 varieties of charlatans out of the woodwork. My operating principle these days is, "You're a fraud and everything you say is BS until it's proven otherwise to a fair degree of certainty."
(Jim Di Eugenio once said after I'd left the Ed Forum that the main reason my posts got under his skin was my continual analogizing of "JFKA research" to the "UFO silliness." As a serious purveyor of factoids, he was highly offended. Take the word of someone who knows, the analogy could scarcely be more perfect in every way. Neither field is all silliness, of course, but they are literally mirror images of each other.)