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Oswald and OJ had two things in common. Both murdered two people and neither was ever convicted for it.

That's oh so true. And the evidence in each case proves their guilt beyond all reasonable doubt.

Vincent Bugliosi; "Ab-so-lute-ly 100% Guilty"; 1999 video:


(Another word for Duncan to fix that's getting auto-corrected by mistake is "ab-so-lute-ly". It's coming out as Poppledoodle when extra characters aren't added. ~shrug~)
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   WRONG as usual.

So tell us which of them you believe is a double murderer?
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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: Alert to Duncan
« Last post by John Corbett on Yesterday at 10:12:01 PM »
Fixed  Thumb1:

Thank you for your efforts on this and other matters.
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I find it difficult to read this as referring to Landis. Landis said he didn't tell anyone about his finding of a bullet, and he said he took the bullet and a put it on a stretcher in Parkland. The Landis bullet would not have been reported as having been found in the limo.

However, the memo could be referring to the bullet that Chiefs Mills and Martinell found in the limo and brought to Dr. Young at the autopsy, since their search was allowed by the SS agents in the White House garage.

It makes more sense to me that the memo is referring to the bullet that Dr. Young said was found in the limo and brought to him at the autopsy.

So SS agent claimed to find a bullet in the limo. Two modest-sized bullet fragments were found in the limo after it arrived at the White House garage, but the SS said nothing about finding a bullet in the limo. The two fragments amounted to less than half the mass of a standard rifle bullet.

This is a very important memo because it definitely establishes that an extra bullet was found in the limo, a bullet that the lone-gunman theory cannot accommodate.

A fragmented bullet was found in the limo and it is perfectly compatible with the WC narrative. It is undoubtedly the bullet the blew apart JFK's head.
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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: The Miracle On Elm Street
« Last post by John Corbett on Yesterday at 10:07:33 PM »
Yes, bullseye. Arnold Rowland was easily more credible than Howard Brennan, but the WC reached and strained for lame excuses to reject his account, yet they gobbled up Brennan's contradictory, problematic testimony.

Howard Brennan's account is validated by the fact that within minutes of the shooting, he told a cop the window he saw the shooter fired from. A short time later, 3 spent shells were found at the window Brennan identified as the source of the shots.
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Nope, not at all. I accept VSA technology because of the strong scientific and experiential evidence of its reliability. I accept it partly from my knowledge of VSA usage in intelligence operations from my many years in U.S. intelligence.

You, on the other hand, reject VSA technology solely and only because it refutes your narrative.

Uh-huh, so never mind the numerous studies published in scientific journals that validate the reliability of VSA technology, right? Never mind the numerous tests and experiential cases that have established that VSA lie detection has a very high rate of accuracy, right? Never mind that hundreds of security and intel agencies, and thousands of law enforcement departments, around the world use VSA technology because of its proven reliability, right?

There are several kinds of perfectly valid evidence that courts won't allow to be presented to juries.

Uh, says who? You? If there's no "widespread consensus" that VSA technology is reliable, why do thousands of police departments and hundreds of security and intel entities around the world use it for lie detection? Why have numerous scientists published studies in peer-reviewed scientific journals that present evidence that VSA lie detection is reliable, and that VSA devices are actually more reliable than the standard polygraph?

Ballistic matching?! I have personally documented for you the fact that over the last 20 years ballistic matching has come under increasing and powerful attack from the scientific community, and that it continues to have restrictions or bans placed on its use as evidence in court. It is revealing that you would cite ballistic matching in the same breath with fingerprint evidence, given the information you've been given about the scientific objections to ballistic matching.   

You have identified skeptics but that doesn't invalidate the concept. There have been a few cases where human error falsely claimed a shell casing came from a particular firearm. Other experts in the field identified the error, but that does not invalidate the science behind it. The WC took the step of having the FBI's findings validated by the Illinois state crime lab to ensure that the FBI findings were valid. The FBI has very strict standards for identifying a positive match between bullets and a firearm. That is why they did not conclude the bullets recovered from Tippit's body matched Oswald's revolver. They could not conclude that because the bore of Oswald's revolver was .004 of an inch larger than the diameter of the .38 Special bullets. It could only determine they were the same types of bullets with the same twist characteristics but that did not allow them to determine there was a positive match. Ballistic matching is still accepted as a valid science by our courts. Most of the cases of false positive matching has involved shell casings and not bullets. The odds that both the shells and the recovered bullets would produce a false positive match to Oswald's rifle, especially when both were examined independently by the FBI and the Illinois crime lab, are astronomical.
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LOL! Ah-ha! So, your bottom-line reason for rejecting VSA technology is that it contradicts other "well established and acceptable forms of evidence," i.e., forms of evidence that you find "acceptable"! This is the same lame, uneducated excuse you've given for rejecting the results of other scientific testing, such as the JFKA SBT and headshot wound-ballistics tests, the most sophisticated SBT trajectory analysis ever done, the HSCA's acoustical analysis that found scientific evidence of four shots and a grassy knoll gunman, and the NAA testing of Oswald's right-cheek paraffin cast that proved he did not fire a rifle on 11/22/1963, etc., etc. -- you reject these results from those scientific fields because they refute your version of the shooting.

On the contrary, I reject VSA evidence for the same reason our courts do. It has not been proven to be reliable. The Justice Department found it to be little better than a coin flip in identifying deceit. On the other hand, our courts have long accepted fingerprint and ballistic matching as acceptable forms of evidence because they have been determined to highly reliable. They even accept fiber evidence matching even though it isn't proof positive. It can determine if fibers match even though the possibility exists that matching fibers could come from a different identical source. It still has probative value and it is left to the judgement of juries as to what weight it should be given.
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Indeed, you've even rejected (1) the entire field of wound-ballistics testing with the juvenile strawman argument that no two gunshot wounds are exactly alike in every single aspect, (2) the entire field of trajectory analysis because, according to you, even a 2-4-inch difference in the locations of bullet wounds makes no difference in the trajectory of the bullets that caused those wounds!

That is an outright lie. I have never rejected wound ballistics testing. I don't recall a specific incidence, but I wouldn't doubt I have rejected your FUBAR analysis of it. I never said it wasn't a valid form of evidence.

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Only in your poorly educated mind. For starters, the WC's scenario is hardly "complete." Good grief, the HSCA blew that myth out of the water.

Second, you're in no position to be saying whether a plausible alternative scenario has been presented (in fact, several such scenarios have been presented), because you've done so little reading on the JFK case that you don't even know what the WC said about key issues, nor do you know what leading WC defenders have said on key issues, much less what WC critics have documented.

Dear Comrade Griffith,

When did you become so impervious to common sense and facts?

When you watched Comrade Stone's "JFK," or the abomination called "The Men Who Killed Kennedy"?

-- Tom

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Again, MTG accepts VSA solely because it supports his narrative.

Nope, not at all. I accept VSA technology because of the strong scientific and experiential evidence of its reliability. I accept it partly from my knowledge of VSA usage in intelligence operations from my many years in U.S. intelligence.

You, on the other hand, reject VSA technology solely and only because it refutes your narrative.

There is a reason neither VSA nor traditional polygraphs have been widely accepted by the courts.

Uh-huh, so never mind the numerous studies published in scientific journals that validate the reliability of VSA technology, right? Never mind the numerous tests and experiential cases that have established that VSA lie detection has a very high rate of accuracy, right? Never mind that hundreds of security and intel agencies, and thousands of law enforcement departments, around the world use VSA technology because of its proven reliability, right?

There are several kinds of perfectly valid evidence that courts won't allow to be presented to juries.

Unlike fingerprints and ballistic matching, there has never been widespread consensus that either is a reliable form of evidence.

Uh, says who? You? If there's no "widespread consensus" that VSA technology is reliable, why do thousands of police departments and hundreds of security and intel entities around the world use it for lie detection? Why have numerous scientists published studies in peer-reviewed scientific journals that present evidence that VSA lie detection is reliable, and that VSA devices are actually more reliable than the standard polygraph?

Ballistic matching?! I have personally documented for you the fact that over the last 20 years ballistic matching has come under increasing and powerful attack from the scientific community, and that it continues to have restrictions or bans placed on its use as evidence in court. It is revealing that you would cite ballistic matching in the same breath with fingerprint evidence, given the information you've been given about the scientific objections to ballistic matching.   

The fact that it finds Oswald's declaration of innocence to be truthful when there are so many well established and acceptable forms of evidence that clearly indicates his guilt is reason enough not to accept VSA as a credible evidentiary tool.

LOL! Ah-ha! So, your bottom-line reason for rejecting VSA technology is that it contradicts other "well established and acceptable forms of evidence," i.e., forms of evidence that you find "acceptable"! This is the same lame, uneducated excuse you've given for rejecting the results of other scientific testing, such as the JFKA SBT and headshot wound-ballistics tests, the most sophisticated SBT trajectory analysis ever done, the HSCA's acoustical analysis that found scientific evidence of four shots and a grassy knoll gunman, and the NAA testing of Oswald's right-cheek paraffin cast that proved he did not fire a rifle on 11/22/1963, etc., etc. -- you reject these results from those scientific fields because they refute your version of the shooting.

Indeed, you've even rejected (1) the entire field of wound-ballistics testing with the juvenile strawman argument that no two gunshot wounds are exactly alike in every single aspect, (2) the entire field of trajectory analysis because, according to you, even a 2-4-inch difference in the locations of bullet wounds makes no difference in the trajectory of the bullets that caused those wounds!


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The official record says 23-year-old, 5’ 9.5”, light-brown-haired, gray-or-hazel eyed, 133 pounds-at- autopsy Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Cuban and Soviet consulates in Mexico City seven weeks before he assassinated President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

Five-foot-three-and-a-half Silvia Duran, the secretary/receptionist at the Cuban Consulate, and Consul Eusebio Azcue collectively described the Oswald they’d dealt with on 27 September 1963 as 35-ish, short, blond-haired, blue-or-green-eyed, slender, and having a very thin face.

This description matches that of KGB Colonel Nikolai Leonov, “Third Secretary and Assistant Cultural Attache” at the Soviet Embassy. As we can see in photos that were taken of him, 5’ 6” or 5’ 7” Leonov was blond-haired, slender, and had a very thin face.

Strangely, whereas Duran said the Oswald that she and Azcue had dealt with was “inelegantly dressed” and was the same man who was shot by Jack Ruby on 24 November 1963, Azcue said he was wearing a “blue Prince of Wales suit” and was not the same person Ruby had shot.

(The passport-sized photos of real-deal Oswald that were taken that day and which were stapled by Duran onto his visa application forms in his presence show him wearing a white shirt, a dark tie, and light-colored sweater vest.)

Background: Leonov had met Fidel Castro’s younger brother, Raul, on a boat in 1953 and had become his and Che Guevara’s mentor. He also funneled arms to rebels in Latin America. When Fidel was arrested in Mexico City in 1956, Leonov’s calling card was found in his wallet.

Upon being refused a transit visa to Russia, Oswald is alleged to have started weeping and brandishing his revolver in front of three “diplomats” at the Soviet Consulate on Saturday, 28 September 1963 — Pavel Yatskov, Oleg Nechiporenko, and the putative head of KGB assassinations and sabotage in the Western Hemisphere, Valery Kostikov.

Kostikov’s name would notoriously be volunteered to a forgetful Oswald or “Oswald” over a sure-to-be-tapped-by-KGB phoneline on 1 October 1963 by the Soviet Embassy’s security officer, Ivan Obyedkov.

Obyedkov (mis-transcribed “Byetkov” in James Angleton’s 19 June 1975 Church Committee testimony) was a Kremlin-loyal triple. In other words, the CIA mistakenly believed it had successfully recruited him.

Interestingly, without mentioning the above incident, Leonov wrote in his 1985 Russian-language book, Difficult Times, and told National Enquirer on 22 November 1993 that Oswald had interrupted volleyball warmups on Sunday, 29 September 1963, and that he and Leonov had retired to his office in the Soviet Embassy (not Consulate) where Oswald proceeded to start weeping and brandishing his revolver (just as Oswald, apparently unbeknownst to Leonov, had done the previous day at the Consulate).

P.S. Author John M. Newman says real-deal Oswald was impersonated over-the-phone several times in Mexico City, as evidenced by the fact that the transcripts show that the caller didn’t know what real-deal Oswald had done (or not done) in the Cuban and Soviet Consulates during his attempts to get Cuban and Russian transit visas.


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Here’s a view.

"A January 2017 U.S. intelligence assessment found Putin ordered an influence campaign to boost Trump and hurt Clinton. The Mueller report called Russia’s interference “sweeping and systematic.”  A Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed the core findings across five bipartisan volumes. Intelligence officials reached similar conclusions about 2020 and 2024, and in 2024 the Justice Department charged Russian state media employees over a scheme that secretly bankrolled American right-wing influencers.

Now look at the past few weeks;

Treasury suspended sanctions on Russian diesel through April 2027. The U.S. reportedly threatened to cut off early-warning intelligence to get Kyiv to stop striking Russian refineries. Someone inside the White House reportedly ordered Ukraine’s military Starlink throttled. As for the people whose job was to catch this: on Pam Bondi’s first full day as attorney general, a memo disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, roughly 50 agents tracking foreign meddling in American politics. Her stated reason was to “end risks of further weaponization.”

A separate directive scrapped the task force that went after Russian oligarchs’ assets. Here’s the kicker: that FBI unit was created in 2017, during Trump’s own first term. Russia has shown up in every election since 2016."
 
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