16 Questions on the (Kennedy) Assassination - A Must Read For All Assassination Buffs

The Academic JFK Assassination Web Site ^ | September 6, 1964 | Bertrand Russell

[Ditto]

Do you know who Bertrand Russell was? That's as far as I got in reading this thread and as far as I needed to go to understand that this was really written by the KGB in Moscow. They went on a major push to invent and plant conspiracies implicating the CIA and Capitalists in the JFK assassination to obscure the fact that Oswald was a dedicated Marxist. Russell was their 'man in academia' from the 1920s till his death in the 70s. He spent a lifetime as a Soviet/Stalin apologist and was as red as they got.

[mlo]

Can anyone please explain to me the justification for sealing the evidence for 75 years?

The *evidence* wasn't sealed. The evidence was published. Many files were sealed. This is standard practice to protect private information of people that were connected, to prevent publishing unfounded rumor and information that was already deemed to be false, basically all the raw data that goes into an investigation. All of this information has now been released. The actual evidence has been available all along.

[Ditto]

Was the route published in the paper? This alone is a gross error in security preparations.

Yes.

Did the Secret Service make a change at the LAST MINUTE?

If they did, they must have also notified the several hundred people who were lining the sidewalks of Dealy plaza waiting for the motorcade.

Consider the source here. Bertrand Russell = KGB.

[mlo]

Here is something else from Ken Rahn's site:

The rational thinker versus the paranoid

Presented with the same evidence for a mystery, the rational thinker and the paranoid respond very differently.

The rational thinker:	The paranoid:
1. Checks the evidence carefully and doesn’t rely on uncertain evidence	1. Grabs onto a few pieces of evidence and defends them inflexibly.
2. Doesn’t care which evidence he must let go.	2. Seemingly irrationally seizes onto something and won’t let go.
3. Seeks a realistic answer in simple and familiar processes.	3. Invokes complex, unrealistic scenarios controlled by powerful forces behind the scenes.
4. Accepts only what he can critically assess (falsifiable ideas).	4. Deals in explanations that can never be critically assessed (unfalsifiable theories).
5. Is willing to live with unresolved explanations for long periods.	5. Demands quick, even immediate explanations.
6. Accepts the roles of chance and human foibles.	6. Invents scenarios when nothing ever goes wrong.
7. Uses same rational approach in the rest of his life.	7. Approaches many other “events” in the same irrational, paranoid way. (i.e., both people are consistent across their lives.)
8. Finds empowering explanations.	8. Feels powerless before these huge forces (victims).
9. Accepts all demonstrated evidence.	9. Will not face evidence that destroys his theory.
10. Is willing to live with some fraction of unexplained or contradictory evidence.	10. Insists on fitting everything into his explanation, often by explaining difficult items as further evidence of conspiracy.
11. Tries to keep everything in proportion.	11. Often seizes single pieces of evidence and blows them out of proportion.
12. Will change ideas a new evidence emerges.	12. Sticks to preconceived notion regardless of new evidence.
13. Open, flexible, empowered, strong.	13. Preconceived, rigid, victimlike, cowardly.

 

[Jhensy]

Thank you for your sanity. The buffs don't understand that in ANY criminal case, there will inevitably be a fact ot two that somehow doesn't seem correct, no matter how vast the evidence of guilt is. Witness the OJ case- HITLER left less clues, yet Johnny Cochran was able to convince 12 fools to let him go because of a dried, shriveled-up glove.

Everyone, please read Posner's Case Closed. Again.

[mlo]

I wish they would show all of this again, I am sure there is more we could see through different eyes now!

There is a website, I think one of the TV stations in Dallas, that has streaming video of a lot of the coverage that day. You can go there and watch it. I'll see if I can locate that site again.

[Focault's Pendulum]

bump for later read.

[mlo]

Found it. Go here

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Re: Crenshaw. I read his book back around 1992, so agree 100% that the rerelease of his book should not be construed as meaning anything one way or the other. More likely than not, he got old and he died. Nothing sinister there, it seems to me.

Also people should know about Crenshaw was that he was a THIRD YEAR RESIDENT on Nov. 22, 1963. A little farther along than a medical student to be sure, but not a major player. The major players were people like McClelland, Clark, Perry, Carrico, Jones and also Shires. From what I remember of Crenshaw's book was that he was sort of along for the ride that day. To say he was "one of JFK's doctors" is really a bit of a stretch.

[Tymesup]

"Considering his book had just been republished in October of 2001, his death could be considered suspicious. "

"What kind of logic is that? The book has been out for a long time. Even if there was something new in the republished version, it is still out. Him being dead changes nothing. "

The republished book attracts attention - it is number one on the Amazon list of Crenshaw books, while the old version is number 45. Is this enough reason to kill Crenshaw? Maybe, maybe not.

"The reality is that Dr. Crenshaw is just one more in a line of people who have tried to make something off their connection to this case, real or imagined. He lied in his book. He did not see what he wrote. He was not one of the doctors that treated Kennedy. The doctors that were there do not back him up. "

From the Amazon review - " In the aftermath, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) called Crenshaw’s book "a fabrication." But JAMA’s claim did not hold up in court and Crenshaw subsequently prevailed in a defamation suit against JAMA. "

[carton253]

You might want to check with Jimmy James. I think he knows who did it.

[mlo]

The republished book attracts attention - it is number one on the Amazon list of Crenshaw books, while the old version is number 45. Is this enough reason to kill Crenshaw? Maybe, maybe not.

Again, the book is out. His death didn't change this. In fact, he got more attention by dying. Where is the logic in using this as a motive to kill him?

I saw the bit about JAMA. Court cases like this turn on more than whether he was telling the truth. He wasn't. That case doesn't change the fact.

[Tymesup]

Perhaps a message not to talk was being sent to everyone else. Remember Carlos G (I won't try to spell his last name), who analyzed the FLIR tapes from Waco. He died before he could publicize his results. Has anyone else volunteered to replicate his analysis? Anyone smart enough to do what he did is smart enough to realize this was a very dangerous job.

[Shooter 2.5]

What Crenshaw forgot was that the doctors, the real doctors, were still around to call him a liar. And they did it on talk shows right after the book came out. One of the reasons that the book was on the bargain table as soon as it came out along the looney tune book that said a secret service man stood up in one of the limos and shot Kennedy.

I don't know which fantasy is my favorite. The story that there was someone in the sewer or the poster[who will remain anonymous] who said that there were TWO shooters in the window.

[OPS4]

When your President is killed and the conspirators go unpunished the Scum is still at large that paid for the death of our leader. Our Nation still mourns. This should never be accepted, Nor will it. E. Howard Hunt the ring leader should be brought to Justice and then all heads would roll. OPS4

[Shooter 2.5]

"Perhaps a message not to talk was being sent to everyone else."

You mean that anyone who disagreed with the Warren Commission didn't talk? 35 years of silence? No one at all hawking papers and books in the middle of Dealy Plaza for over three and half decades?

[PLMerite]

Somebody else has seen that picture, I love it!!!

[PLMerite]

Somebody else has seen that picture, I love it!!!

[OPS4]

E Howard Hunt , Claire (Booth) Luce, comrades who helped carry the assasination out? Mourn for your dead President, Since that day not much has been the same. OPS4