JEFFERSON MORLEY SAID:
By setting up a series of straw men, adopting a supercilious tone, and
ignoring new evidence, Dale Myers manages to unpleasantly restate the
official theory of a lone gunman in a way that makes it less convincing
than ever.
"Fifty-two long years, and still *nothing* to exonerate Oswald or uncover
the so-called 'true conspirators'." -- Dale K. Myers; November 22, 2015
Myers is correct on one point: there is no proof beyond a reasonable doubt
that any specific named individual conspired to kill President Kennedy.
This factual statement also applies to Lee Oswald.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I keep hearing conspiracy theorists constantly talking about the "new
evidence" and all of the many ARRB documents that supposedly "prove" a
conspiracy in the JFK case.
James DiEugenio, for example, just loves to declare victory for the CTers
by claiming there are a number of "ARRB documents" that serve as the
bombshell proof that a conspiracy exists in the JFK assassination. But
whenever I ask Jim D. (or any other conspiracy theorist) to link to just
ONE specific document made available by the ARRB that proves a conspiracy,
all I get in return is dead silence or stuff like the junk linked below
(which doesn't "prove" a conspiracy at all)....
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2015/09/jfk-assassination-arguments-part-1038.html#What-Documents?
So, can somebody PLEASE provide a link to just ONE document released as a
result of the JFK Records Act of 1992 that allegedly "proves" that John F.
Kennedy was killed as a result of a conspiracy? I've yet to see such a
document produced by anyone.
And the reason I've never seen such a document is quite easy to explain --
it's because no such "bombshell" document(s) exists--and never did. It's
all a matter of flawed interpretation on the part of people who are
anxious to confirm their beliefs in a make-believe plot that only exists
in the minds of individuals who are desperately seeking a conspiracy in
the JFK murder case.
PAUL F. SAID:
David:
Show me a single document that proves that Oswald did it. You can't,
that's a silly argument.
There is not a scintilla of proof that Oswald shot Kennedy.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
"Not a scintilla", eh Paul? You surely must be joking.
The amount of evidence that indicates "Oswald did it" is staggering in
depth, scope, and diversity -- from the bullets, to the guns themselves
(Oswald's very own guns), to the bullet shells, to the witnesses, to
Oswald's lies that he told the police after his arrest, and also to
Oswald's very own actions, which practically convict him all by
themselves, including the scuffle in the Texas Theater, where Oswald tried
to kill another policeman.
Yeah, innocent patsies are always whipping out pistols in movie theaters
and threatening cops--and then making statements like this....
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/07/they-say-it-just-takes-second-to-die.html
....Right, Paul?
And I include the murder of Officer J.D. Tippit in my above remarks
concerning the evidence too, because the Tippit slaying is inexorably
linked to President Kennedy's death (IMO).
DAVID REGAN SAID:
For starters, how about evidence of a second bullet being recovered? FBI
Assistant Director Allan H. Belmont wrote a memo to his direct superior,
Clyde Tolson, stating "that Secret Service had one of the bullets that
struck President Kennedy and the other is lodged behind the President's
ear and we are arranging to get both of these."
http://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=707
A notation in the memo indicates the time to be 9:18 PM, which is after
FBI agent Robert Frazier and Special Agent Elmer Todd claim to have
accepted custody of CE 399.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
David R.,
If that's the best you've got, then you've got very little. That document
about a bullet being lodged behind JFK's ear was written as a result of
the initial confusion in the hours that immediately followed the
President's death.
And some of those things that were first reported turned out to be
incorrect. So I see no reason to still adhere to bad information -- like
all of these inaccurate early stories:
>> A "Mauser" or an "Argentine" rifle being found in the Book Depository.
>> The false rumor about a Secret Service agent being killed in Dealey Plaza.
>> The erroneous version of the Tippit shooting which had Officer Tippit being killed inside the Texas Theater itself.
>> The rumors about Vice President Johnson either being shot or having a heart attack.
>> Dr. Robert Shaw's inaccurate statement made during his 11/22/63 press conference about the bullet that struck Governor Connally still being in the left leg of Mr. Connally.
>> The "bullet lodged behind JFK's ear" story.
>> Dr. Humes' remark about "surgery of the head area" (which was repeated in the Sibert/O'Neill FBI report).
>> The initial erroneous speculation entertained by the autopsy doctors that the bullet which entered JFK's upper back "did not exit" the body at all.
All of those things (among other false stories) were corrected at a later
time.
And even FBI agent James Sibert later abandoned a couple of theories that
some conspiracy theorists are still stubbornly clinging to even today --
i.e., the "surgery of the head" remark and the notion that ANY "whole
bullet" was recovered at President Kennedy's autopsy at Bethesda Naval
Hospital....
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/07/interview-with-james-sibert.html
STEVE STIRLEN SAID:
David,
You and I have e-mailed each other through your site, and I find you are
one of the more reasonable proponents of the government's version. I do
have a question that the other government folks won't answer. First, a
quote from Jeff Morley:
"The CIA retains a 123-page file on Harvey's assassination-related
activities that has never been seen by bloggers, reporters, scholars, or
Congress. When the CIA's secret Bill Harvey file is made public, Talbot's
claim will be clarified. It is pathetic and outrageous that such material
remains hidden, but that's reality."
David--how is anyone--you, I, or Dale Myers--able to determine what REALLY
happened when documents that STILL EXIST--forget the ones that were
destroyed or never even made in the first place--are not made available to
folks?
[...]
How can we know the FULL truth when the CIA continues to stonewall? Can
you PLEASE talk to the folks at Langley and ask them to release the 1100
pages that still are being held?
One more comment for you to consider:
"I now no longer believe anything the Agency told the [HSCA] committee any
further than I can obtain substantial corroboration for it from outside
the Agency for its veracity. We now know that the Agency withheld from the
Warren Commission the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro. Had the commission
known of the plots, it would have followed a different path in its
investigation. The Agency unilaterally deprived the commission of a chance
to obtain the full truth, which will now never be known. Significantly,
the Warren Commission's conclusion that the agencies of the government
co-operated with it is, in retrospect, not the truth. We also now know
that the Agency set up a process that could only have been designed to
frustrate the ability of the committee in 1976-79 to obtain any
information that might adversely affect the Agency. Many have told me that
the culture of the Agency is one of prevarication and dissimulation and
that you cannot trust it or its people. Period. End of story. I am now in
that camp."
-- Robert Blakey
I think his line of never knowing the full truth is quite telling.
Your thoughts?
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Steve,
I think ALL Government documents pertaining to the assassination should
definitely be made public. No doubt about it. And nearly all of them have
been made public.
But I also know that whenever "new" documents are finally released after a
period of years under wraps, they always end up not meaning very much. And
none of them has ever "proven" a conspiracy took place in Dallas. (Do you
really think any of the documents released through the ARRB have "proven"
a conspiracy?)
We may never know with 100% certainty if Oswald had a helper to aid him in
November 1963. But from the things we do know about Lee Harvey Oswald,
it's highly unlikely (IMO) that anyone was conspiring with him in Dallas
on 11/22/63.
For one thing, if Oswald had a co-conspirator to help him that day -- then
where the heck was that co-conspirator when Oswald needed him most -- just
after the assassination?
Everything Oswald did on both November 21st and 22nd indicates to me that
LHO was working alone. There's nothing in his movements on those two days
to indicate-in any way-that he was part of a multi-person plot to kill the
President.
As for the CIA and its intense desire to keep some things hidden (even if
they only relate in a marginal way to the events in Dallas), Vincent
Bugliosi said this in his JFK book:
"The CIA had nothing to hide in thousands of previous documents the agency
initially refused to release voluntarily but ultimately did release under
court order. The CIA specializes in always acting guilty, even when it is
not, and always being, from a public relations standpoint, its own worst
enemy." -- V. Bugliosi
AN ANONYMOUS PERSON SAID:
There is indeed a "staggering" amount of evidence implicating Oswald as
one of the assassins - a staggeringly small amount.
If you discard the discrepancies in the paperwork, you could make a
plausible case that in March 1963 Oswald purchased the rifle that was
found on the sixth floor. That implicates Oswald in the assassination, but
doesn't put him on the sixth floor with the rifle eight months later. The
evidence of Wesley Frazier and his sister make it clear that it wasn't
Oswald who brought the rifle into the book depository.
To place Oswald at the scene of the crime, we have his fingerprints on two
cardboard boxes, and some eyewitness testimony. But the fingerprint
evidence doesn't implicate him either, because Oswald's job required him
to handle boxes of books on the sixth floor. And the eyewitness evidence
is vague and contradictory: the gunman was white and slender (like
Oswald), with light brown hair (like Oswald) or dark hair (unlike Oswald)
and a bald patch (unlike Oswald), and was wearing a light-colored
open-neck shirt (unlike Oswald) over a white T-shirt (like Oswald).
The main eyewitness against Oswald was Howard Brennan, who declined to
identify Oswald as the man he had seen, then changed his mind, then
changed his mind again. And of course Oswald was seen elsewhere in the
building at the same time as the gunman was seen on the sixth floor.
So much for the fingerprint and eyewitness evidence. What's left? Oswald
may have been less than truthful to the police, although we only have the
authorities' word for what he said. Guilty, your honor!
He behaved strangely after the assassination, by going to watch a film.
Guilty, your honor!
He may have shot Officer Tippit, although the evidence for that is as
shaky as the evidence that he shot JFK.
If Mr Von Pein is ever convicted of murder, I hope the evidence against
him is a lot stronger than the evidence he uses to convict Oswald.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
You know as well as I do that ALL of the physical evidence points in the
direction of Lee Harvey Oswald, so why pretend it doesn't?
E.G.,
The Carcano rifle, the Smith & Wesson revolver, the fingerprints and
palmprints, the 38-inch paper bag with his (Oswald's) prints on it, bullet
fragments from his rifle found right in the Presidential limousine itself,
and bullet shells from his guns littering TWO separate murder scenes.
(And that's not even counting Commission Exhibit No. 399.)
And yet I'm supposed to believe that the above wealth of physical
evidence, plus the "I Saw Oswald" eyewitnesses at or near the Tippit
murder site, plus Oswald's lies and guilty-like actions following the
assassination, somehow make Oswald look innocent of killing BOTH John
Kennedy and J.D. Tippit?
Puh-lease!
And listening to the CTers make their perpetual lame excuses as they try
to take the Tippit murder weapon out of Oswald's hands too (as they always
attempt to do when discussing the C2766 Mannlicher-Carcano rifle as well)
is the perfect example of "CTer Desperation" on full display.
For a barrel of "V510210 revolver" laughs (at the expense of desperate
conspiracy theorists), go here....
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/08/dvp-vs-dieugenio-part-42.html
WILLY WHITTEN SAID:
If you are really going to deny that the US Intelligence services lacked
the resources and the connections to pull off a staged coup d'etat in
Dallas, Texas, you have a impossible task in front of you to convince
anyone with any historical knowledge and common sense.
You may be able to convince the average simple minded TVZombie with your
tootie-fruity Pied Piper pan pipes lullaby, but you will not be successful
in a debate with informed researchers like those attending [Morley's]
blog.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Yeah, right, Willy. Whatever you say. ~eyeroll~
I guess you must think that Lee Oswald was merely a subservient puppet,
willing and eager to have his strings pulled by any number of CIA
operatives (including Michael and Ruth Paine). Right, Willy?
And just because ALL of the evidence (and a dozen eyewitnesses near or at
the site of J.D. Tippit's murder in Oak Cliff) points toward Lee Harvey
Oswald as a double-murderer, why should those trifling little facts get in
the way of believing (as most Internet CTers do) that Oswald was merely an
innocent "patsy"?
Right, Willy?
[Quote On:]
"Who can believe these people [Ruth and Michael Paine]? Both of them as
phony as three dollar bills." -- Jim DiEugenio
Rebutting DiEugenio's crap about the Paines:
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2013/04/dvp-vs-dieugenio-part-87.html
WILLY WHITTEN SAID:
Oswald was already in the Texas Theater at the time of Tippet's [sic]
murder.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
So you have no problem with Oswald being able to make it all the way to
the Texas Theater from his roominghouse (where we know he was at about
1:00 PM, per Earlene Roberts) in time to be inside the theater BEFORE
Tippit was even shot.
Most CTers moan about how Oswald couldn't possibly have made it from 1026
Beckley to 10th & Patton in time to shoot Tippit. And yet Willy has just
made Oswald an Olympic track star by getting LHO all the way from 1026
Beckley to the Texas Theater in even LESS time. Amazing.
But the "Texas Theater Oswald" was probably just an imposter, eh Willy?
WILLY WHITTEN SAID:
I've seen the map of the area. Taking a route from Beckley to the Texas
Theater, by going through the park and through the school yard, Oswald
could have made that distance in less than 15 minutes at a brisk walk.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
But I'll bet you don't think the same man (Oswald) had a prayer of making
it to 10th & Patton in just about the same length of time, and probably
less time -- i.e., "less than 15 minutes at a brisk walk". Right, Willy?
This reminds me of the (unintentional) hypocritical approach that Oliver
Stone and other conspiracy nuts have taken with respect to trying to prove
that a Carcano rifle like Oswald's couldn't possibly have been fired three
times in 5 or 6 seconds -- even though Stone filmed one of his actors
dry-firing a Carcano 3 times in 5.5 seconds -- and he even kept that scene
in the finished movie. Hilarious.
EVAN CERNE-IANNONE SAID:
Watching CNN special on JFK assassination. I forget how stupid some people
are.
Honestly, why do they think there was a conspiracy?
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
It's probably mostly just a "follow the leader" mindset. Most people don't
know very much about the details of Oswald's guilt. They watch Oliver
Stone's fantasy film, or they read the latest crazy conspiracy book (like
David Talbot's new one about how Allen Dulles Did It), and they conclude
that those silly theories must be correct.
Too bad they don't read this instead....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1939521238
David Von Pein
November 26-28, 2015
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