TG--

Unfortunately, President LBJ ordered a snuff job on LHO links to KGB, G2, DGI. "No nuke wars, please," he said to Warren. And Senator Russell.

Thereafter, left-wing ideologues seized JFKA narratives.

Only a very few, such as Gus Russo, even pursued LHO links to Moscow and Havana.

The HSCA-1979 concluded there was likely a JFKA conspiracy.

Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman said on 11.22 bullets entered the cab of the limo in a "flurry."

How does a lone gunsel armed with a single-shot-per-bolt-action rifle do that?

So...who conspired with LHO?

I almost forgot that yesterday was the sixty-seventh anniversary of former Marine sharpshooter and U-2 radar operator Lee Harvey Oswald’s arrival in Moscow.

Oswald had gotten out of active duty via a sketchy hardship deferment (his mother had hurt her nose when a box fell on it at work), and he entered the USSR from Helsinki as a tourist, but on 30 October 1959, he walked into the Embassy and told Consul Richard Snyder, Consular Officer John McVickar, and the KGB microphones in the walls that he had applied for Soviet citizenship, that he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship, and that he planned on telling the Soviets everything he had learned as a Marine radar operator. (After the JFK assassination, the KGB claimed that it hadn’t realized that Oswald had been stationed at a U-2 base in Japan).

Snyder and McVicker later reported that Oswald seemed amazingly well-prepared for a twenty-year-old high school dropout.

Author John M. Newman believes Bruce Solie (about whom Tennent H. Bagley wrote scathingly in his 2007 book, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games) in the CIA’s mole-hunting Office of Security was a KGB mole, himself, and that when (probable mole, imho) George Kisevalter sent a cable to CIA headquarters in April 1958 telling it that its spy, GRU Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov, had just told him in West Berlin that the Kremlin had all of the top-secret details of the U-2 spy plane, Solie sent Oswald to Moscow as an ostensible “dangle” in a (unbeknownst to Angleton and Oswald) planned-to-fail hunt for “Popov’s U-2 Mole” (Solie) in the wrong part of the CIA — the Soviet Russia Division.

If true, Kisevalter's and Solie’s doing so caused a mole hunt that not only lasted nine years, tore the Soviet Russia Division apart and drove CIA Counterintelligence chief Angleton nuts, but prevented Solie from being uncovered.

P.S. 16 October 1959 was also, ironically(?), the same day that Popov was publicly arrested in Moscow after having been secretly arrested there in early December 1958. (In other words — contrary to what Cherepanov and Nosenko, et al., said and the zombified CIA now says — Popov wasn’t uncovered due to "superior KGB surveillance and sloppy CIA tradecraft" in early 1959, but was betrayed by a mole significantly earlier than that.)

JC--

You think when people use the word "bullet," even in an FBI memo written by a licensed lawyer, they are leaving open to interpretation, in fact make it misleadingly unclear, whether they are referring to a whole bullet or slug, vs. a fragment or shrapnel?

I think 99% of people call a whole bullet a "bullet" and small pieces of a bullet "fragments", "pieces" or "shrapnel."

Can you find an example of an FBI memo that refers to fragments as a singular "bullet"?   

Not with that idiotic story. It made no sense.
Neither does "whole".

BTW / FWIW ....

OCTOBER 16 is also the anniversary date of Lee Harvey Oswald's first day on the job as an order filler at the Book Depository.

Hey, Tim, no, not out of bounds. I understand your point, I'm comparing apples and oranges to a possibly unreasonable extrent. OTOH, ChatGPT informs us the average net worth of Boston black households is $8,000 compared to $247,500 for white households.

My point is to show how extreme Richard's POV is.

Total population figures are both genders combined.

Another angle.....females incarcerated in Idaho, 1,470, total population, 2 million.  Wallethub safety ranking #19
Males incarcerated in Idaho, 9200, total population, 2 million.

Arkansas population 3,000,000 State and local combined imprisoned 23,850, including 1,650 females, safety ranking #46

females incarcerated in Massachusetts, 700, total population, 7 million.  Wallethub states safety ranking #2
Males incarcerated in Massachusetts, 5300, total population, 7 million.
 
Only Floridas, Arkansas and Georgia actively execute :

Illinois population 12,700,000 Total incarcerated, 30,000 including federal prisoners State Wallethub safety ranking #38
New York population 20,200,000 Total incarcerated, 41,000 does not include federal prisoners  safety ranking #20
Florida population 23,400,000  Total incarcerated 143,500 does not include federal prisoners  safety ranking #47
Georgia population 10,700,000 Total incarcerated state prisons 50,400, total local state and federal 105,000 safety ranking #41

People are fleeing the liberal hellscapes for red states.  All the deflections in the world don't change the obvious conclusion that they are doing so due to the failed leftist policies that have made those places unlivable for law abiding American citizens.  The only people who are staying are the homeless, illegal aliens, and criminals.

IOW, the "beatings" (other worldly incarceration rate and counter productive executions) will continue as far as states with Republican controlled state governments are concerned until they run out of money building each ding new prison beds at $300,000, or until the morale improves!

https://alabamaappleseed.org/news/alabama-department-of-corrections-5-billion-in-spending-in-five-years/
Alabama Department of Corrections: $5 billion in spending in five years
Aug 25, 2025$85 million from the General Fund in FY25 and FY26 for debt service on prison construction bonds issued to build the 4000-bed prison in Elmore County. By way of comparison, each bed in the Governor Kay Ivey megaprison, comes at a cost of $300,000, significantly more than the...

Two states with similar populations but almost nothing in common, other than that,
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/
Massachusetts, Democratic Party controlled state government, Ranked 2nd safest state
Population 7.2 million. No executions, 241 per 100,000 population incarcerated.

Tennessee, Republican Party controlled state government, Ranked 37th safest state
Population 7.3 million. Executions, 817 per 100,000 population incarcerated.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?eid=391444&rid=330
Massachusetts, 48.3% earned at least Bachelor's degree
Tennessee, 32.4% earned at least Bachelor's degree

Disability, percent ages 18 to 64 with a disability, reply to question by ChatGPT,
Massachusetts 9.0 %
Tennessee 15.4 %

https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-states-to-live-in/4566

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Nope, sure can't.