What a hoot! I was scrolling through old threads and immediately stumbled on this from 2018, which I hadn't seen before.
MTG declared me "an ignorant nutjob." There is simply no higher compliment than having MTG declare you an ignorant nut job.
Tim Nickerson quoted with a hee-hee-hee Smiley Face a challenge by Jim DiEugenio that I, a mere Ed Forum newbie, seemed to think I had "in just a matter of days and sixteen posts ... done what say Gil Jesus, David Josephs, John Armstrong, Martha Moyer and the later Ray Gallagher could not do in literally years of research, going back to the nineties."
Jimbo was talking about my discovery of the File Locator Number on the Klein's postal money order, which pretty much sealed the deal on its authenticity. He was quite wrong that I thought I had done this in a matter of days and 16 posts. It took me about an hour on Google. Up your pompous ass, Jimbo.
I'm kind of surprised that my 2018 Ed Forum post (quoted in John M's original post) holds up as well as it does. It's pretty much exactly what I would say today and is entirely consistent with my recent "focus on plausibility" post here. Not nearly as snarky as I would've expected.
It's kind of interesting to scroll through these old threads. I just started at page 208 and worked backwards from there.
I dug up the research
your File Locator Number discovery inspired me to build on!
The web archive loads slowly, scroll to the bottom of the page.... a long scroll,:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170806231323/http://jfk.education/node/11
Thank you, David.:
Thank you, David.:
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http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=22434&p=318383
David von Pein - Posted November 10, 2015
More information (from 1962 newspaper accounts) on the punch holes, dug up by Tom Scully,
is available HERE and HERE.
Looks like a nice big defeat for the "LN" side regarding the "punch holes".
Celebrate, CTers! Looks like you won this one.
But, I can't help but repeat....
How in the heck do CTers think the Hidell money order managed to get to the Federal Records Center in Alexandria, Virginia, if it wasn't cashed and then processed by someone?
~big shrug~
The response to my presentation
of Arlington, VA archive recovery of the Postal Money Order by archivist Robert H. Jackson, using the File Locator Number that Lance had recently explained the importance and the function of was David Jospeph and Jim DiEugenio going on the Black OP Radio podcast
to abuse their guest privileges by claiming Mr. Jackson did not exist, motivated by Armstrong's claim that the postal money order could only have been found in Kansas City.
They went so far as to declare that archivist Jackson had to be a fictional disinfo subterfuge, I had to locate Jackson's death certificate on Ancestry.com to try to
shut them down!
Jackson's home address displayed on the death certificate, along with his occupation; archivist. This shut down that particular segment of their disinfo efforts!
Their practice is to try to discredit any evidence they regard as threatening their preconceived beliefs. Doing this results in their efforts being worse than if they did nothing.
The document about archivist Jackson that Joseph and DiEugenio attempted to discredit.:
Loads slowly :
https://web.archive.org/web/20170806231524/http://www.jfk.education/node/13
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