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droogoy

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  • More vidor-swallop

    [Read the article: Chris Matthews gets it wrong -- again]
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    vidor1 wrote:

    "Oswald was not new to assassination, having tried and failed to kill General Edwin Walker earlier that year. "

    Another set up and fantasy factoid dredged out of the lone nut encyclopedia of dreck. In fact, Oswald never "tried" any such thing and that canard has been shot down by numerous researchers, including: Walt Brown ('Treachery in Dallas'), James Di Eugenio ('Destiny Betrayed'), Gaeton Fonzi ('The Last Investigation') and Jim Marrs ('Crossfire') as well as H. Livingstone ('Killing the Truth')

    I think what you may wish to do, when you can tear yourself away from posting more lone nut codswallop or as I like to call it 'vidor-swallop' is check out Newman's book, and the basis for sheepdipping in agency parlance.

    One of the primary points brought out by all the researchers above, is that to be able to get to Walker's and make the attempt then get away, Oswald would have had to drive, but he never learned to - and possessed no driver's license.

    He took cabs wherever, or relied on his pal Wes Frazier for lifts. But Frazier had nothing to do with taking him anywhere near Walker.

  • Abject crappola

    [Read the article: "Brothers"]
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    Joel _Grant wrote:

    "Oswald did it. The evidence against him is on a par with the evidence against O.J. Simpson. "

    Horse manure. 99 percent of all the so-called evidence was confected by the Warren Commission in order to single out LHO for guilt so no one would have to introduce the c-word.

    Numerous critics have exposed the fraud of the WC for what it is, and the fact it more belongs in the fantasy archives than a source of truth.

    The deficiencies and frauds that make this farrago of baloney are almost too numerous to count, and include:

    - The falsified FPCC handbills (pointed out by Prof. John Newman using photos from FOIA-released documents, in his book, Oswald and the CIA

    - The falsified weapons' evidence that purports to show the alleged Oswald -owned Mannlicher -Carcano did the killing, when it was a Mauser. (The WC test trials had to substitute another M-C just to get anything done

    - the fraud associated with the wound reports, where a 3" rear head wound was clearly verified by at least three Parkland surgeons before it left Dallas, but which was altered on arrival at Bethesda.

    - the clincher is the acoustic evidence from the tests run by the House Select Committee on Assassinations which showed that at least four shots were fired, and six possibly in all.Two of the shots were within 1.8 seconds or shorter than the bolt action recycling time of Oswald's alleged rifle.

    - More than 200 material witnesses who had direct knowledge - including Tom Alyea who filmed the sniper's nest - were excluded. This could have been done for no other reason than to cherrypick exactly those witnesses who would confirm the Warren Commission's lone nut fantasies.

    As a Mensa Bulletin article noted some 13 yrs. ago, only an ideologue, disinformationist, fool or moron would now buy into the Warren Commission Report.

    Which are you?