I have officially retired from the JFKA Wars in the interests of my sanity. However, I happen to be finishing Gus Russo's Live by the Sword, the Kindle edition of which I bought in connection with my work on the Sportsdrome Gun Range. Russo basically accepts the LN scenario but with a high likelihood that Oswald's willingness to kill JFK was made known in Mexico City and actively encouraged by Castro’s people (even though the plan was to dump Oswald’s body in the Gulf of Mexico rather than fly him to Havana after the JFKA).

My immediate problem with this conspiracy theory was, "Why didn't Oswald do a whole lot of things more suggestive of his intent to kill JFK in the nearly two months between his return from Mexico City and 11-22-63? Why does the JFKA seem like such an unplanned last-minute decision?"

Russo does have Oswald doing several assassination-type things, including scouting tall buildings in Dallas and practicing at the Sportsdrome Gun Range. Since I am the world's leading expert on the Sportsdrome - well, sort of, anyway - Russo's credulous acceptance of everything related to it was enough to make me call into question the rest of his authoritative-sounding research. (In fact, ALL of the most dubious aspects of his research seem to be precisely those relating to Oswald being part of a conspiracy!)

But forget all that. All we’re talking about here is Oswald's mysterious inquiry about employment at the Alright Parking System at 1208 Commerce in Dallas (0.7 mile from the TSBD) and his exceedingly odd questions about the view from the roof. Russo seems to accept this as an actual Oswald sighting. Because I am officially retired from the JFKA Wars in the interests of my sanity, I am not going to be exploring or attempting to bust this potential factoid.

BUT IT IS DAMN WEIRD, and I would definitely be looking into it if I were a CTer. It’s the sort of weird little incident that probably has far more CT potential than the Bombshell Lunacy that Bombshell Loons like Certain People I Could Mention love to post here.

If it’s all entirely innocent, it still falls squarely into the category of “YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP” – yet another twist and turn to the JFKA that you’d laugh at it if it were in a really bad Agatha Christie whodunnit.

I won’t beat this to death because you can do your own research. At Michael Capasse’s JFK Boards, the mysterious “Tom Sorensen,” who may or may not exist, has done a nice job of summarizing and linking the relevant documents about halfway down this page: https://jfk.boards.net/thread/621/dead-ringer-lee-oswald?page=2. Russo did some follow-up interviews in 1993, and his discussion begins at Kindle Location 6,006 of his book.

In a nutshell, here is what will have you slapping your forehead and saying, “WHAT?”

1. Detective Bob Carroll of the Special Services Bureau of the DPD received information from a confidential informant that Oswald had applied for a job at Alright about two weeks before the JFKA.

2. The Special Services Bureau took the Alright sighting seriously. The piece at JFK Boards summarizes and links their several visits and reports.

3. From those reports, the witnesses’ photo identifications, and Russo’s follow-up, it certainly sounds like someone who looked very much like Oswald and gave the name Oswald did inquire about a job at Alright and weirdly asked about the view from the roof. His first reported visit was the evening of November 16, the day the Dallas Morning News first reported that JFK’s motorcade would go down Main Street (but did not mention Elm). He asked night manager Hubert Morrow about JFK’s motorcade and whether Main Street could be seen from the roof. He then returned the next day and asked cashier Viola Sapp about a job and the view from the roof. It’s hard for me to see what any conspirators would have gained by having an Oswald imposter go through this exercise.

4. “Oswald” did not fill out a job application. However, Detective W. S. Biggio went through the job applications and discovered that in early December a guy named Fred Kaiser Jr. had applied. Fred listed his last place of employment as the TSBD and told the general manager of Alright, Garnett Hallmark, that he had quit his job at the TSBD the day before the JFKA!

5. Fred Kaiser listed his address as 5230 W. Ledbetter and his emergency contact as Frankey Kaiser at the same address. He also, somewhat weirdly, gave Geneva Hine as a reference.

6. Frankey (or “Frankie,” according to the Warren Commission) Kaiser was Franklin Kaiser, who was still employed at the TSBD in a role similar to Oswald’s. While Fred “just happened” to quit the TSBD the day before the JFKA, Frankie “just happened” to be absent both the day before and the day itself; he told the Warren Commission he was having a tooth abscess worked on at the Baylor Dental College when the JFKA occurred. He did not mention Fred but confirmed that he lived at 5230 W. Ledbetter, which an FBI interview describes as a trailer park.

7. Mysterious Frankie is the TSBD employee who gave Oswald his order-filling clipboard. Mysterious Frankie is also the TSBD employee who later found Oswald’s clipboard on the sixth floor. Mysterious Frankie is also the TSBD employee who later found Oswald’s blue jacket in the domino room.

8. On the list of TSBD employees assembled by Detectives Westphal and Parks for Lt. Revill, Frankie Kaiser does not appear (nor does Fred, although presumably he had quit). Frankie’s name does appear on Hoover’s 4/3/64 transmittal of witness statements to Rankin, but Hoover notes that no statement was obtained from Frankie because he was absent from work on the day of the JFKA.

9. Fred and Frankie were twins. Neither resembled Oswald. Fred died in 2004 at age 65, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195093977/fred-kaiser, and Frankie died in 2018 at age 78, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187187721/frank-kaiser. Freddie and Frankie sound like distinctly unsuspicious characters to me – but, hey, that’s exactly why they ARE suspicious, right?

That’s all I know and is as far as I’m taking this, but it does all strike me as damn weird and potentially a more fruitful avenue of CT-oriented research than, say, the Huge Gates or the Missing Brain. 

That's all for now and for the foreseeable future from the Prison of Rational Thought.

(I suppose it should be noted that Oswald practicing at the Sportsdrome and scouting tall buildings after JFK's trip had been announced would be entirely consistent with the LN scenario. It's the Kaiser stuff that's bizarre.)

No matter what evidence were to be developed by digging into the above material, you and your fellow WC true believers would never admit that someone was impersonating Oswald in the weeks leading up to the assassination.

What is the ? Make it simple;

He has no right to put his name on it.
It is against the rules. He will need an act of Congress

To be fair, Trump has not proposed that Kennedy's name be removed from the center's name but only that his name be added: "The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts." Anyway, my point is that this is not the forum to be discussing such things.

A decades long and continuing propaganda campaign by the media and political establishment has affected the minds of many people to produce deep seated personal feelings about Trump.  The barrage of different influence techniques on society is much more frightening than AI.  A successful psyop that would make Joseph Goebbles blush.  The unhinged anger and obsession with Trump is the result (i.e. TDS). Interestingly, those most affected are older, white, college educated types.  The impact on that group might be explained by their prolonged exposure to the media sources that espouse this propaganda.

What is the ? Make it simple;

He has no right to put his name on it.
It is against the rules. He will need an act of Congress

Does anyone deny that the HSCA, after a two-year investigation, was coming down on the side that JFK was assassinated by Oswald alone, but in a sudden rush, changed their mind because of an acoustic study that was presented in the last few weeks.

And this acoustic study seems clearly very flawed to me.

MTG--

Please expand on this.

For example, one of Halberstam's primary sources, if not his leading source, was Pham Xuan An. At one point, Halberstam gushed that An had the “best military contacts in the country.” But An was actually a Viet Cong spy. Cheevers is not the first one to discuss this fact. Several other Vietnam War scholars, such as Dr. Mark Moyar, discussed this fact years ago.

ARVN Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao was a key player in the anti-Diem coup forces. Thao was the inspector general of the strategic hamlet program and was close to three main coup generals, Big Minh, Khiem, and Khanh. Thao was a key player in the aborted August coup plot. The coup generals themselves had to restrain Thao when he tried to launch a coup on October 24, before the other coup plotters were ready to act. After Diem's death, Thao persuaded General Phat to attempt a coup against General Khanh, but the coup failed. A short time later, Thao was in the process of preparing a coup against the new prime minister, Phan Huy Quat, but he had to abandon the plot and go underground when security agents arrested dozens of the coup members. It was subsequently revealed that Thao was a Viet Cong agent. His job was to foment as much trouble for the Diem government as possible, an assignment he performed masterfully.