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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: Professor Pearcy's Bad History Lesson
« Last post by Tommy Shanks on Today at 06:00:00 PM »Great video, Fred. Too bad Pearcy turned out to be just another conspiracy kook.
The majority of internet posters represent an impairing of conspiracy evidence rather than promotion...
Larsen's photo analysis was very good...It showed the distinct plaid pattern close up and matched it perfectly with its black and white stripes...So good, in fact, that when Larsen realized he had proven the timing for when Frazier was looking at Stanton he went back and deleted it with no protest from the members of The Education Forum...This, apparently, was OK with James Gordon's pinned "Site Behaviour" rules...Calling Larsen out on it was not...Even though that was Gordon's job...The new rules make it simpler: "Thread is now closed to replies"...

Dear Stormtrooper Storing,
You have a disconcerting habit of believing any eyewitness statement, no matter how implausible, that seems to suggest that the Zapruder film was altered.
Why is that?
-- Tom

Dear Stormtrooper Storing,
The strap goes almost straight down because Euins was quite short.
You can see a shiny spot (not the really bright spot which is the sunlight shining through) on the camera's leather case which is lying semi-suspended behind him on the pedestal.
The thing in his lap may very well be his "pork pie" hat.
-- Tom
...the authorities avoided identifying the cop who stopped Oswald in the Lobby...
I don't doubt you can find disciples within the kook-sphere. You are preaching to the choir. Nobody outside that realm is ever going to take you seriously. Why the hell would they?
I posted a couple times at EF-JFKA how JFK authorized the anti-Diem coup, despite being told it would likely result in the Diems' assassinations, and the complete lack of Kennedy Administration efforts to extract the Diems. Indeed, CIA inquiries about extracting the Diems were ignored---Lodge appeared to not want a government-in-exile situation, preferring the Diems dead.
There is a recorded conversation between Ambassador Lodge and JFK, in which Lodge lays this out, and many other warnings.
JFK responds, in part, by calling Madame Nhu a "bitch" and a lesbian (she appears to have been heterosexual).
The tapes and documentation indicate that while the Kennedy administration did not explicitly order an execution, Washington officials and JFK were well aware that a military coup could result in the assassination of Diệm and his brother.
There were different standards at play in 1963, and JFK tried to have Castro assassinated several times, and authorized the Diems' assassinations. That is part of the historical record.
People forget that JFK was deeply instrumental to the founding of South Vietnam, and he committed 16,000 military personnel to SV to help it survive against communist terrorism---and JFK himself called it terrorism. Cardinal Spellman was an influential figure as well, and close to the Kennedy family.
JFK may have wanted to modestly reduce US presence in SV in late 1963, but he was not going to abandon SV.
Professor Pearcy's Bad History Lesson
Professor Thomas Pearcy is the supposed CIA whistleblower who allegedly saw CIA documents which indicated the agency fooled G. Robert Blakey of the HSCA. He gave a speech last week in Indiana and here is an analysis of his speech -- and a full transcript. He didn't sound like a professor of history -- he just sounded like a JFK conspiracy theorist. Why would anybody take him seriously?
https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/professor-pearcy-s-bad-history-lesson