Mar
22
JFKA Records Releases Mar 18-21
Donald Trump did what he said he would do after backtracking during his first run.
Speculation was rife and not one person was on the money. My hopes on seeing something really relevatory were slim, due to the area of interest I operate in. In the ten years that I have dug into documents I have barely come across CIA documentation that was pertinent to Oswald’s last 48 hours.
But this batch needed checking out.
At this point, after checking a resepctable amount of records these past few days, I can say that with these PDFs:
- No OCR is implemented (how much longer would that take?).
- Other than its actual rif number there is no date, description or from which agency it is coming from. I find it hard to accept that this batch of such important documents does not have an index of some sort. However people like Rex Bradford have been hard at work on amending that. The files can now also be searched at the Mary Ferrell Archive.
- Certain docs miss RIF Coversheets.
- Some docs are very hard to read. Then again so did a fair few of Malcolm Blunt’s archive when I scanned them in.
- I am surprised by the amount of documents that have no bearing on the John F Kennedy assassination. There are some intelligence files on operations with names in them that have no bearing and should have been classed NBR (not believed relevant).
- HSCA staffers renumerations, really?
- Who is Manuel Marti, of which there are several records, and what is his relevance?
- There are MLK documents inside this batch.
- There are records that had (partial) redactions that have been lifted, but there are still some records with its redactions intact. I found about half a dozen of them.
- I have not come across any George Joannides files.
Any finds then? Slim pickings to be honest.
Amos Lee Euins arrest report from 1970. And the point of keeping this locked up for 60 odd years is what exactly?
James W Bookhout, various documents that have little or no bearing on his work that weekend.
Larry Florer, again I ask why keep this biographical data under wraps that long?
Mary Hall a statement for the HSCA I had not known of before.
Joe Molina (many pages missing btw)
I shall add more findings as I go along.
Not a lot to be honest, then again I did not expect much. This collection is much better suited for uncle Malcolm’s interest.
I for one am more hopeful of seeing something of importance in the 2,400 FBI files that have been discovered.
The only question right now is when will they be shared?
Nov
15
Recently I had the pleasure to talk with Bill Raider and Sean Kane on the That’s Enough Outta You! podcast.
I had a great time, thank you very much gentlemen.
May
19
Greetings all!
It has been a while since I posted as I did not have much to share and I needed a much needed break from it all. And now I have a few things to share with you. But before I start I wish to thank everyone who bought my book and also took the effort of reviewing it and heaping it with such praise. I am completely chuffed by the overal large postive feedback to it.
A new job, which I started in Jan. this year, was the perfect escape from it all. In early Dec. 2023 I was approached for it and after a trip to Germany I was offered the job within 15 minutes and the first 10 was just about my book. So after all it was good for something!
Although I did look at some things, the work I did is so demanding from a time perspective that pro-activeness wasn’t on the cards at all and it will take some time before I get back into the ring.
But (there is always one) I have started to collect some bits that will be used in an update to the book. But it will be quite a while before I even attempt to do that. I am planning to release a hardback version then and will also insert more photographic media. The print quality of photographs prevented me from doing this last year. Hopefully things will have improved by the time the updated version will be released. Watch this space for further announcements.
Instead I started to work on some technicalities of the Malcolm Blunt archive and I can tel you that in the past month I have been busy using OCR on about 15,000 PDFs to increase ease of searching through the entire set of records. This was the easy part as I could let it do its job in the background.
Next comes grouping the records, renaming and catagorising and rehousing it on a new Google Drive depository which I hope to have completed by the 61st anniversary. It will have a few thousand extra PDFs which have not been shared before. I shall announce its completion of course. I know this is a thankless task, but I wish to complete the whole thing there and then before I can move on. The beauty of doing this huge undertaking is that I end up reveiwing previously scanned documents again and this ‘break’ from all that documentation has enabled me to see further bits that I can use, also for books 2 & 3. Whenever that may be.
Oh yes!!!!!!
Nov
20
JFK Lancer 2023 Conference
Below some pictures of the crowd at the JFK Lancer Conference while my presentation was on in Dallas on Nov 19th 2023.
With thanks to Peter Antill for the photographs.
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And here is the video of it, added Nov 24th.
Nov
04
The Opperman Report
I spoke with Ed Opperman on Sept 25th about Prayer Man.
You can listen to it on Spreaker HERE.
Enjoy!
Sep
19
Thanks to Robbie Robertson for featuring me again on his out of the Blank podcast.
Also my book Prayer Man More Than A Fuzzy Picture is now also available through Barnes & Noble.
Jul
07
JFK Lancer Conference 2023
I will be doing a one hour presentation remotely at the 27th Annual JFK Lancer Conference!
This event is being held on November 17th – 19th, 2023 at the Lorenzo Hotel, Dallas, Texas.
I shall be speaking about some of my key findings from my book “Prayer Man: More Than a Fuzzy Picture“.
