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https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/should-we-believe-victor-marchetti-part-one

Should We Believe Victor Marchetti?, Part One

A recent article by Jefferson Morley touted the importance of Victor Marchetti, author of The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. In Part One of this three-part series, I show that Marchetti said that Clay Shaw was just a contact source for the CIA, not a CIA operative. Part Two will show that he (sic) part of a hoax to tie the CIA and E. Howard Hunt to the JFK assassination. Part three will examine his character.

Dear Fred,

Did you know that a probable KGB "mole," Bruce Solie, was "all over the Kennedy investigation and all over Clay Shaw for Jim Garrison," according to (JFKA CT!!!) Malcolm Blunt?

-- Tom

Note: Blunt said "Jim DiEugenio . . . Jim DiEugenio" when he meant to say "Jim Garrison . . . Jim Garrison."


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And exactly what tiny fraction of the "2/3 to 3/4 of the Western world" have actually read the Warren Report and from there how many have even heard of the twenty six volumes and from this infinitesimally teeny-weeny sample, how many have actually read even 1 page of the twenty six volumes??

And exactly what tiny fraction of the 1/4 to 1/3 of the people in the Western world who agree with your version of the shooting--how many of them have read even half of the Warren Report, much less any of the 26 volumes of hearings and exhibits? Hey?

BTW, huge numbers of people believe . . . that 9/11 was an inside job, . . .

Oh, dear. I guess you don't know that the percentage of the Western world that still buys your lone-gunman theory is about the same as the percentage of people who believe that 9/11 was an inside job! Congrats! I'm guessing you weren't aware of this.

huge numbers of people believe that the Earth is flat, 9/11 was an inside job we never went to the Moon and we are ruled by Alien shape shifting Lizard people. . . . but surely you don't believe in any of that, or do you? Well actually from your far out JFK conspiracy theories, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that you believe in all of the above!

"Huge numbers" of people do not believe those things. Indeed, again, the percentage of people who still believe the lone-gunman theory is about the same as the percentage of people who believe 9/11 was an inside job.

In fact, polling data show that as many as 20% of Americans have expressed doubt about the Moon landings, which is not too far below the percentage of people who agree with you on the JFK shooting! Congrats again!

Just look at the unserious arguments you are making in response to the control-test verified scientific evidence that Oswald did not fire a rifle on 11/22. You guys are so emotionally committed to the lone-gunman theory that you can't bring yourselves to deal rationally and credible with facts that refute the theory.



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LP--

Well, I enjoyed this report from John Orr, and it may be one of the more-plausible JFKA CT's out there.

Of course, we can sub in anybody for the Dal-Tex shooter--Mafia, anti-Castro Cubans, G-2 double agents, OAS assassins and so on. As LHO confederates were never apprehended, and LHO dead by the mobbed-up Jack Ruby's hand with days...who knows?

Interesting that Sam Holland and Amos Euins both said they heard four shots.

I assume the GK smoke-and-bang show then was a diversion...

Did Euins ever say he heard three shots?
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LP--

Well, I enjoyed this report from John Orr, and it may be one of the more-plausible JFKA CT's out there.

Of course, we can sub in anybody for the Dal-Tex shooter--Mafia, anti-Castro Cubans, G-2 double agents, OAS assassins and so on. As LHO confederates were never apprehended, and LHO dead by the mobbed-up Jack Ruby's hand with days...who knows?

Interesting that Sam Holland and Amos Euins both said they heard four shots.

I assume the GK smoke-and-bang show then was a diversion...



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https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/should-we-believe-victor-marchetti-part-one

Should We Believe Victor Marchetti?, Part One

A recent article by Jefferson Morley touted the importance of Victor Marchetti, author of The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. In Part One of this three-part series, I show that Marchetti said that Clay Shaw was just a contact source for the CIA, not a CIA operative. Part Two will show that he part of a hoax to tie the CIA and E. Howard Hunt to the JFK assassination. Part three will examine his character.

Dear Fred,

How many typos are there in this sentence, one or two?

"Part Two will show that he part of a hoax to tie the CIA and E. Howard Hunt to the JFK assassination."

-- Tom
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https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/should-we-believe-victor-marchetti-part-one

Should We Believe Victor Marchetti?, Part One

A recent article by Jefferson Morley touted the importance of Victor Marchetti, author of The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. In Part One of this three-part series, I show that Marchetti said that Clay Shaw was just a contact source for the CIA, not a CIA operative. Part Two will show that he part of a hoax to tie the CIA and E. Howard Hunt to the JFK assassination. Part three will examine his character.
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You do realize you are not watching actual assassination film footage? You are watching a visual aid cartoon.

I hope you're referring to the animation by Tyler and not to the clips by Couch and Darnell, themselves. If so, gee, I didn't realize that. If not, then there's even less hope for you than I thought.

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We still have no idea how it is that we are seeing Lovelady blowing smoke on the steps of the TSBD. Their testimony is that they were inside the TSBD for 30 minutes.

Agreed, but it doesn't necessarily mean that something sinister was going on at the time.

Edit: Grok says there were no DPD radio transmissions on the subject, but witnesses like Roy Truly and Jack Dougherty testified that the police started letting TSBD employees back into the building around 1 o'clock.

The John T. Martin / Jack T. Martin clip shows the police letting Bonnie Ray Williams back into the building while "Neanterthal" Lovelady is standing on the steps, wearing his distinctive "checkered" / "plaid" shirt, watching "the action" and jutting his jaw out as he exhales some cigarette smoke.

Scroll down about halfway to watch a good, properly exposed copy of the aforementioned John T. Martin / Jack T. Martin clip.

http://www.prayer-man.com/tsbd/billy-nolan-lovelady/

I figure Lovelady, desperately needing a shot of nicotine after being cooped up inside since around 12:35, stepped out onto the front steps to have a quick "fix."

That works for you, doesn't it?

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The Martin Film was part of the DCA film package. Maybe the Martin Film was mixed with other assassination footage then?

Point being?

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Whether accidental or intentional, Groden did do this with the Couch Film and the Darnell Film.

Did do what?
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IN 2017, SANDY LARSEN SAID:

I haven't yet encountered an LNer who gives a damn about the question, "HOW DID THE MAGIC BULLET PASS THROUGH THE KNOT OF THE TIE WITHOUT MAKING A HOLE?"

DAVID VON PEIN SAID:

But don't you have the exact same problem if the bullet ENTERED the throat (versus it EXITING the throat)?

Don't the CTers who think JFK's throat wound was an ENTRANCE wound still have to ask themselves the very same question you just asked me? I.E.,

"HOW DID THE BULLET PASS THROUGH THE KNOT OF THE TIE WITHOUT MAKING A HOLE?"

How does the belief that the throat wound was a wound of entry make the above question go away for the conspiracy theorists? Do they think if the bullet entered the Adam's Apple area of JFK's throat, it somehow was able to miss the tie knot area entirely? But if it exited there, it had no choice but go through the tie knot and create a hole? Is that it?

Nope, not at all. You again show that your research is decades behind the information curve.

Your question is easy to answer: The throat wound was above the tie knot/collar, just as Dr. Carrico, Dr. Jones, and Dr. Goldstrich said it was. JFK's tie and shirt slits confirm this. They confirm that Carrico was correct and truthful when he told and showed Dulles, and later Weisberg, that the throat wound was above the tie. This explains why the Parkland doctors described damage behind the throat wound that was larger than the throat wound itself, a dead giveaway and textbook indicator that the wound was an entry wound. This is a great example of evidence powerfully coming together to form a clear picture.

Dr. Ronald Jones saw JFK's body before the clothes were removed. Interviewed for the 2023 Paramount documentary JFK: What the Doctors Saw, Dr. Jones said the throat wound was "visible" and that it was "just above where the shirt and tie was":

The first thing I noticed was a very small wound in his neck in the front. . . .
We could tell that the wound was in the front of the neck just above
where the shirt and tie was. So it was visible to you.
(18:12-18:19, 18:32-18:39)

Also, this was not the first time Jones said the throat wound was above the tie and visible before the clothing was removed. He said the same thing in an interview years earlier, in 2014:

“I noticed a small wound in the midline of the neck just above the
tie knot
that was approximately a quarter of an inch or 6 mm in diameter.”
(“The President’s Been Shot and They Are Bringing Him to the Emergency Room,”
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Volume 218, Issue 4, April 2014,
pp. 856-868, http://www.journalacs.org/article/S1072-7515(14)00108-2/abstract)

In the Paramount documentary, Dr. Joe D. Goldstrich, a fourth-year medical student at Parkland Hospital at the time, said he could see the neck wound when JFK's clothes were still on:

I do remember that very early on, even when his clothes were
still on, I saw the wound in his neck. (18:20-18:28)

He would not have been able to see the throat wound if it had been under/behind the tie knot and the front shirt slits.

Dr. Carrico told the WC that the throat wound was above the tie:

Dulles: Will you show us about where it was?
Dr. Carrico: Just about where your tie would be.
Dulles: Where did it enter?
Dr. Carrico: It entered?
Dulles: Yes.
Dr. Carrico: At the time we did not know --
Dulles: I see.
Dr. Carrico: The entrance. All we knew this was a small wound here.
Dulles: I see. And you put your hand right above where your tie is?
Dr. Carrico: Yes, sir. (3 H 361-362)

When Carrico spoke with Harold Weisberg in 1975, he confirmed that the throat wound was above the collar; he was “definite on this” (Weisberg, Never Again, 2007 edition, p. 241). Weisberg continued:

When I asked him if he saw any bullet holes in the shirt or tie, he was
definite in saying “No.” I asked if he recalled Dulles’s question and his
own pointing to above his own shirt collar as the location of the bullet hole.
He does remember this, and he does remember confirming that the hole
was above the collar. . . . (Never Again, p. 242)

Carrico also told Weisberg that the nurses used scalpels to remove the president’s shirt and tie because they were, understandably, in a big hurry, and that it was “likely” that the nurses made the slits and the nick in the tie, adding, “I saw neither the nick in the tie nor the cuts in the shirt before the nurses started cutting” (Weisberg, Post Mortem, pp. 375-376; http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/N%20Disk/New%20York%20Times/Item%2093.pdf, p. 4; https://www.google.com/books/edition/Matrix_for_Assassination/SC-wBAAAQBAJ?q=&gbpv=1#f=true, pp. 95-96; http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Book Images/Never Again - Draft/Never Again Draft.pdf, p. 14)

Rockefeller Foundation fellow Henry Hurt, in his book Reasonable Doubt, notes that one of the nurses confirmed that nurses made the shirt slits when they hurriedly cut away JFK’s tie and shirt (p. 60).

Dr. Malcolm Perry diagnosed the throat wound as an entrance wound because it was small (3-5 mm in diameter), neat (no ragged edges), and punched-in, and because of the damage he saw beneath the throat wound. He believed the missile had entered the throat and then ranged downward into the chest.

Dr. Kemp Clark said that Dr. Perry discovered that the trachea was deviated, and that Perry believed the missile had ranged downward into the chest:

He discovered that the trachea was deviated so he felt that the
missile had entered the President's chest. (6 H 22)

Dr. Clark said that Dr. Perry also saw blood in the strap muscles of the neck and that Perry believed this was another indication that the bullet had entered the chest:

The part pertaining to the bullet entering the President's chest rests
on the reasons for the placing of the chest tubes which were being
inserted when I arrived. It was the assumption, based on the previously
described deviation of the trachea and the presence of blood in the
strap muscles of the neck that a wound or missile wound might have
entered the President's chest. (6 H 28)

Dr. Perry explained that in addition to the damage to the trachea and the blood in the strap muscles, he also found “free air and blood” in the “superior right mediastinum” (the upper-right part of the central compartment of the chest cavity), which further led him to believe the missile had entered the chest:

I made a transverse incision right through this wound and carried
it down to the superficial fascia, to expose the strap muscles overlying
the thyroid and the trachea. There was an injury to the right lateral
aspect of the trachea at the level of the external wound. The trachea
was deviated slightly to the left and it was necessary to divide the
strap muscles on the left side in order to gain access to the trachea.
At this point, I recall. Dr. Jones right on my left was placing a catheter
into a vein in the left arm because he handed me a necessary
instrument which I needed in the performance of the procedure.

The wound in the trachea was then enlarged to admit a cuffed
tracheotomy tube to support respiration. I noted that there was
free air and blood in the superior right mediastinum. Although I saw
no injury to the lung or to the pleural space, the presence of this free
blood and air in this area could be indicative of a wound of the right
hemithorax, and I asked that someone put a right chest tube in for
seal drain age. At the time I did not know who did this, but I have
been informed that Dr. Baxter and Dr. Paul Peters inserted the chest
tube and connected it to underwater drainage. (6 H 10)

Dr. Perry also noted there was considerable bruising in “the right lateral portion of the neck” and also the right upper mediastinum:

Mr. Specter. What did you observe, if anything with respect to bruising
in the interior portion of the President's neck?

Dr. Perry. There was considerable hematoma in the right lateral portion
of the neck and the right superior mediastinum, as I noted. (6 H 11)

The fact that this damage was on the righthand side of the superior (upper) mediastinum is important because the nick on the tie knot was in the left half of the knot, an obviously impossible trajectory given the thickness of the knot and the fact that the knot was neatly centered in the middle of the collar band.

Mortician Tom Robinson told the HSCA that he believed the autopsy doctors found a bullet fragment in the chest (HSCA interview, 1/12/77, p. 10).

All of these facts enable us to more fully appreciate the ARRB disclosures about the back wound. We now know that on the night of the autopsy, the autopsy doctors were absolutely, completely, and totally certain that the back wound had no exit point. They established this with prolonged probing, both with fingers and with surgical probes, and even removed the chest organs and positioned the body “every which way” to facilitate and observe the probing. Men standing near the autopsy table could see the end of the probe pushing up against the lining of the chest cavity and that there was no exit point.

This explains another fact that we now know thanks to ARRB disclosures: the first draft of the autopsy report said the throat wound was caused by a fragment from the head shot.



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I hate to break up this thread's exercise in mutual admiration and automatic agreement, but here's part of the rest of the story:

-- Oswald was at work when the money order was purchased.

-- The FBI was never able to verify that Oswald picked up the rifle from the post office. No postal worker recalled giving Oswald the package. Plus, there was no evidence that an "A. Hidell" was on the list of persons authorized to pick up mail from that post office box.

-- When the post office box form was entered into evidence, it was conveniently missing the part of the form that listed authorized recipients, even though postal regulations required that this portion of the form be retained for two years. However, the FBI, in a buried memo, admitted it knew that the form did not list an "A. Hidell" as an authorized recipient.

-- The alleged murder rifle was not the rifle that was ordered from Klein's. The 36-inch, 5.5 pound Mannlicher-Carcano carbine allegedly ordered by Oswald does not match the murder weapon entered into evidence by the Dallas police, which was a 40.2 inch, 7.5 pound Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.

-- The First National Bank of Chicago's unstamped deposit slip for the $13,827.98 deposit, which allegedly included the money order for the rifle, shows a deposit date of February 15, 1963--one month before the postal money order was purchased in Dallas.

When the Secret Service asked Klein's VP William Waldman about the $13,827.98 deposit, Waldman admitted that the bank had listed the deposit date as 2/15/63, but Waldman claimed the bank must have made a mistake on the deposit date, although Waldman added that he had no way of proving it was the wrong date. Really? No way of proving when a $13K deposit was made?! If the $13K deposit had been made on 3/15/63, instead of the date shown on the deposit slip (2/15/63), then Waldman merely needed to produce the Klein's bank statement for the month of March 1963. But he did not.

-- The $21.45 money order that Oswald allegedly mailed from Dallas to buy the rifle supposedly arrived at Klein's Sporting Goods on March 13, less than 24 hours after it was mailed, an amazing feat for the Post Office in 1963. We are also asked to believe that the money order was then deposited in the First National Bank on March 13, the same day it arrived at Klein's, a remarkably rapid processing of a money order, never mind that the deposit slip said the money was deposited on February 15.

Some sources for further reading:

https://harveyandlee.net/Mail_Order_Rifle/Mail_Order_Rifle.html

https://share.google/AeDdzmbMZXfnUAdUh

https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/a-presumption-of-innocence-lee-harvey-oswald-part-1

Wow, how could you be not aware of the evidence surrounding Oswald's rifle purchase?

For a start, expecting a postal worker to recall a single event out of hundreds or even thousands of interactions from over a half a year ago is borderline insane!

According to Kleins American Rifleman magazine advertisements, Oswald received what he ordered.
Oswald ordered C20-T750 and Oswald received C20-T750. End of story.



Even though the Dallas section of the post office application was missing, Oswald's New Orleans application clearly identified A.J. Hidell as an accepted recipient. Besides, as Holmes said and from anyone who has received mail will know, a wrong name will rarely if ever be returned to sender. And if there was a problem, Oswald possessed Hidell photo I.D.

Mr. LIEBELER. Now supposing that Oswald had not in fact authorized A. J. Hidell to receive mail here in the Dallas box and that a package came addressed to the name of Hidell, which, in fact, one did at Post Office Box 2915, what procedure would be followed when that package came in?
Mr. HOLMES. They would put the notice in the box.
Mr. LIEBELER. Regardless of whose name was associated with the box?
Mr. HOLMES. That is the general practice. The theory being, I have a box. I have a brother come to visit me. My brother would have my same name---well, a cousin. You can get mail in there. They are not too strict. You don't have to file that third portion to get service for other people there. I imagine they might have questioned him a little bit when they handed it out to him, but I don't know. It depends on how good he is at answering questions, and everything would be all right.






And finally we know Oswald got his rifle because he was photographed with the exact rifle that Kleins sent. Cased Closed!!



JohnM
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