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?
Apr
16
Last year at the JFK Lancer Conference in Dallas, Bart Kamp was awarded the New Frontier award. The citation stated that his work in reexamining the second floor encounter of Oswald with Texas School Book Depository foreman Roy Truly and motorcycle officer Marrion Baker utilized “a broad array of new data, including documents and statements of the participants and a variety of TSBD witnesses.” We agreed with this award and the description of the achievement. The second floor lunch encounter is a thread-worn shibboleth of the Warren Report that – like Oswald’s mail order rifle – the first generation of critics simply passed on; the notable exception being Harold Weisberg in his book Whitewash II. In Reclaiming Parkland, I began to question it, largely based on Marrion Baker’s first day affidavit, where the officer does not even mention the episode – or Oswald or Truly. Even though, as he wrote the affidavit, Oswald was sitting across from him in the rather small witness room. In other words, after he had just stuck a gun in his stomach, Baker didn’t recognize him.
But Bart Kamp goes much further than that in his analysis. We are presenting a small part of that long essay here, with a link to the longer version at the admirable group Dealey Plaza UK. The new revised version of the essay, from which this part is adapted, will be posted there soon and we will link to it then. This is the kind of work, daring and original, questioning accepted paradigms with new and provocative evidence, that KennedysandKing.com stands for.
~ Jim DiEugenio
https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/anatomy-of-the-second-floor-lunchroom-encounter-excerpts
Feb
10
When ROKC (ReopenKennedyCase) was housed at Webs for about just under two years, as you all know we went back the old place and at some point the webs archive became inaccesible due to the subscription expiring and the renewal being just too expensive.
I managed to d/l the collection first ten forum posts pages.
What you can do is browse through the first ten pages with posts and see all the pix that were inserted.
You cannot make posts, it is purely for browsing and reading through the threads.
The search function does not work either, but at some point Google will start indexing this stuff so it will make finding bits on it easier!
There is some wicked stuff there.
This copy is from Sept 1st or thereabout, so not the very latest but still with a lot of great research present!
