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.

To be fair, the record shows that JFK did not want Diem killed, and that he was stunned and dismayed when he learned of Diem's murder.

JFK's authorization of the coup was one of the worst mistakes of his presidency and proved to be disastrous for the war effort, which had been going well from mid-1962 until the day the coup was launched (as we know from released North Vietnamese sources). The North Vietnamese could not believe that the Americans had been so foolish as to allow Diem to be overthrown. The Communists rightly viewed Diem's removal as a huge gift to the Communist cause in South Vietnam. 

As bad as JFK's decision to authorize the anti-Diem coup was, his decision to approve Averell Harriman's ridiculous, fatally flawed "neutrality" deal for a coalition government in Laos in 1962 was arguably even worse. Eisenhower correctly warned JFK that Laos was the most crucial battleground in Southeast Asia. Eisenhower even told JFK he should deploy U.S. troops to secure Laos, since Laos was the key gateway for Communist supplies going into South Vietnam.

The North Vietnamese ignored Harriman's deal from the get-go and never withdrew their troops from Laos, just as Ambassador Nolting and General Harkins warned Harriman would happen. Thanks to Harriman's pathetic deal, the North Vietnamese were able to expand the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos, enabling them to increase the flow of supplies to the Viet Cong in South Vietnam (and later to North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam). In fact, U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam began referring to the Ho Chi Minh Trail as the Averell Harriman Memorial Highway.     

My discovery of our generation, of Sarah Stanton hearing Oswald say he was going to go back in to the 2nd Floor Lunch Room to eat lunch and not going down to watch the motorcade, was published in Vince Palamara's book around 2018 (Can't remember the title)...

Richard Gilbride also published this discovery in his book "JFK Inside Job"...

In my postings about the assassination on Deep Politics I mentioned the JFK Assassination being like the "Devil's Chessboard"...Shortly after Talbot came out with a book with the same title...

It is pathetic that the reason this discovery is not being accepted and promoted by the JFK research community is so they can cater to the punk researcher Bart Kamp and flatter the ego of Jim DiEugenio - while maintaining the clique's pecking order for whom the replies are now closed...

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 hate to burst your bubble, [not really] but you haven't discovered anything of importance. Nothing you post here will ever see the light of day outside this forum. It's only make believe.

My discovery of our generation, of Sarah Stanton hearing Oswald say he was going to go back in to the 2nd Floor Lunch Room to eat lunch and not going down to watch the motorcade, was published in Vince Palamara's book around 2018 (Can't remember the title)...

Richard Gilbride also published this discovery in his book "JFK Inside Job"...

In my postings about the assassination on Deep Politics I mentioned the JFK Assassination being like the "Devil's Chessboard"...Shortly after Talbot came out with a book with the same title...

It is pathetic that the reason this discovery is not being accepted and promoted by the JFK research community is so they can cater to the punk researcher Bart Kamp and flatter the ego of Jim DiEugenio - while maintaining the clique's pecking order for whom the replies are now closed...

Much agreed.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/

MTG has tried to make a big deal out of Vincent DiMaio's observations regarding how FMJ bullets behave when striking a human skull. What he fails to take into account is that handguns are far and away the most commonly used weapons in US homicides and would make up the overwhelming majority of the case studies DiMaio observed. For 2024, the most recent year for which statistics are available, there were 6246 handgun homicides compared to 356 for all other firearms. That would include both rifles and shotguns. Rifles make up only a portion of the 356, and homicides using FMJ ammo would be a small fraction of that, given that hunting ammo is by far the most common rifle ammo used by the civilian population. Of the few homicides committed with FMJ rifle rounds, only a fraction of those would be gunshot wounds to the skull. I would hazard a guess that the number is in the single digits.

For that reason, DiMaio would see very few such cases, if any, on which to base his conclusion. In fact, it would not surprise me if DiMaio was addressing only handgun rounds in his textbook on gunshot wounds.  More to the point, I doubt DiMaio ever looked at another case of a homicide committed with an FMJ Carcano round fired into a human skull. He would therefore have no basis for concluding how such a round would fragment when striking a human skull.

DiMaio made general observations on how FMJ ammo reacts to striking a human skull and it would be poor science to take from his observations that all FMJ ammo would behave the same way, but that is exactly what MTG has done.

One more pertinent question which I doubt MTG will even address is this. If the fragmented bullet found on the floor of the limo did not shatter when striking JFK's skull, what else could it have struck that would cause it to break apart and what evidence is there for such a bullet strike.