In article <033fa901-2d12-4e41-adc6-29a28ec86f11@googlegroups.com>,
Dave Yandell <dyand
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave Reitzes (as I recall) pretty much gave up on this forum a long time
> ago, given the absence of even minimal standards of rational discourse or
> decorum.
Actually he did return to post here recently, at least on one day,
September 26. I am seeing at least two articles by him on that date.
> Since your points all rest on gross misreadings and omissions of
> points clearly explained in his article (which doesn't claim a conspiracy
> between the KKK and CORE, but rather considers two possible reasons why
> two CORE workers (Corrie Collins) may have gone along with Garrison's
> perjury-fest (and we know for a fact that the more important witness,
> Collins, perjured himself at Shaw's trial unless he lied in all of his
> early statements to Garrison investigators), in which Garrison adopted a
> line of BS cooked up by some KKK and White Citizens' Council cronies about
> Oswald being at a CORE voter drive trying to register. Garrison reshaped
> the story and added Clay Shaw and David Ferrie, neither of whom appear in
> any witness's early version of the story (except that a "tall man" wearing
> a hat was driving the Caddy for the 10-15 minutes the car was at the
> registrar. (White folks got to skip lines of black folks in rural
> Louisiana when people like Exalted Cyclops Henry Palmer were running
> things; it morphed into a 6-hour stay later to fit more manufactured Klan
> witnesses in.)
> The two theories for why Collins and Dunn went along are intimidation,
> based on evidence from Hugh Aynesworth's reporting (Collins had moved to
> another town and adopted an assumed name after the trial and his father
> was too frightened to discuss the matter), or benefit of some kind. I find
> the former theory far more plausible, but Reitzes takes very seriously
> Collins's much later statement that he wasn't afraid of the Town Marshal
> (another of the Klan/WCC group).
As I said in another article, my impression when reading Dave's article
was not that he was suggesting that the witnesses confused Estes Morgan
with Oswald. It was instead that Garrison and his staff used elements of
the appearance of a white man (or two) in a voting registration line
composed otherwise entirely of black people. IOW, the argument was that
Garrison used a white man in the line, period, to make it into Oswald in
the line; Dave was not saying that any other aspect such as age or
physical appearance entered into it, other than racial appearance.
