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The curious little book detailed in this issue [A Time to Remember, reviewed in issue #7] actually turned up again as a made for TV movie. I've seen it broadcast twice in the last three years....and its just as frustrating in TV as in print. The only redeeming feature is how the lead character's brother shows up alive after all....it's a nice touch.
Just thought you might be interested, Larry
Thanks for doing such a great job.
Gratefully,
Douglas E. Berryhill
See Ya! Glen
P.S. I'm a writer myself, with one book under my belt, maybe I'll send you a inquiry someday......
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Let me explain: No matter Lee Harvey Oswald's involvement in this affair, there can be little doubt it was physically impossible for him to have been the shooter who fired the shots from the sixth floor (or to have even been on the sixth floor during the assassination). I base this on the unrefuted testimony of Dallas motorcycle officer Marion Baker, who encountered LHO in the second floor lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository just 70 seconds after the final shot was fired that day.
Even though the Warren Commission and its legion of apologists would have us believe Oswald made his made dash from the sixth floor to the second in an unbelievably short period where he stood, calm, cool and holding an open bottle of pop, if we believe Baker's first deposition it's a matter of common sense that that scenario is improbable, at best.
However, in that same vein, there can be no disputing shots were fired from the sixth floor. The testimony of a great many people make that clear in particular, that of Bonnie Ray Williams, James Jarman and Harold Norman, who were watching the parade from the fifth floor.
And that is the problem, in a nutshell. There were only two ways off the sixth floor that day by the steps and on the elevator. Baker testified that, after he encountered Oswald on the second floor, he continued up the steps to the upper floors of the TSBD. He says he met no one else on that trek and the steps were empty. In addition, the elevator remained still in the moments following the shooting.
So, if Oswald wasn't the shooter (which, again, it's pretty clear he wasn't) and the real shooter from the sixth floor did not escape by either the stairs or elevator . . . then how did that person escape? I've never read or heard an adequate explanation. I've never even seen or heard it addressed!
In that vacuum of opinion, I have developed my own theory. Although I have no desire to sound like just another wild-eyed conspiracy buff who see shooters everywhere in Dealy that day except for inside Jean Hill's raincoat, I must confess I can think of few other logical answers than this:
Could it be possible that the person who fired the shots from the sixth floor that day did not immediately flee the building, choosing instead to hide and the blend into the crowd in the chaotic moments that followed? Could it be that person disguised as a Dallas detective, police officer or even a TSBD employee waited just a few minutes for the rush and confusion that was sure to follow? Could it be that person gambled on the madness that would engulf everyone and everything, then made a clean escape . . . one that would not have been possible in any other way?
The fact is, in waiting for that moment of panic and hysteria, it would have been relatively easy for the shooter to blend into the crowd, and simply walk away from the scene.
Another point that I believe lends credence to the theory is the testimony of, I believe, Dallas detective Luke Mooney, who was the first person to investigate the sixth floor. All alone on the sixth floor just minutes after the shooting, he said his initial pass over the area and past the windows failed to turn up anything . . . including the famed "sniper's nest" at the farthest window. Seeing nothing out of place on the sixth floor, Mooney said he then went to the seventh floor. And, after a few moments there, he returned to the sixth . . . where, unbelievably, he discovered the "sniper's nest" at the corner window!
Could it be that, on Mooney's first pass through the sixth floor, he was not alone? Could it be the shooter never even ventured off the floor, choosing instead to wait in the shadows somewhere? Could it be the shooter was responsible for the "sniper's nest" miraculous appearance, then waited to blend in with the crush of people who flocked into the building after just a few minutes? You may recall it took an extraordinary amount of time for the TSBD to be sealed, which would simplify the task of escaping the building.
One other point to consider, a bit off the point. Although I have no doubt a conspiracy (of both thought and deed) took the president's life on November 22, I have trouble with those who promote the theory LHO was a completely innocent dupe set up to take the fall for the crime. It's a theory without basis in logic.
Let me explain: No matter how intricate the plan and devious the motive, there was absolutely no way to insure that -- at the moments the shots began to crisscross Dealy Plaza Lee Harvey Oswald would not have been sitting in that lunchroom across from someone completely uninvolved in the situation . . . someone who would have been able to provide him an air-tight alibi. There's just no way to insure that wouldn't have happened! No way!
Did Oswald shoot the president? Absolutely not. Did he seem to have some knowledge "something was up" that day? It seems pretty clear he had to have had!
What do you think? Possible? Realistic? Probable? Crazy? I'd like to know what others think.
Thank you for the forum!
Jeffrey Haag
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
So, I want to thank you for Fair Play. I also want to let you know that the investigation continues in Canada as well as the USA. Keep up the good work. We're with you all the way.
Cyndie Boyer
North Bay, Ontario, Canada
Thanks a lot, Cyndie. We don't know how anyone could accept the lone nut scenario either.
Sure. And it's also possible that Ringo was a really good drummer.
Just after having a great discussion/conversation with my farther, I recognized that JFK was more than an human beeing for the world. I mean, even Portugal were sad about JFK's death , the Land where i've been born, and from whom i just learned, that it is lazy in all kind of lifethoughts.
All I want to say, is that JFK is that, and we could think for generations about, what had been going on, in the 60's including JFK's assasination, but just these, that realy acted, will know the truth.
In my Opinion, Oswald isn't the killer, but that doesn't mean, that he hasn't anything to do with the assasination and all this anti-Kennedy-Underground-Movement.
Let's take some example from Nowadays: I. Rabin. His Killer seemed to be a normal person, but he was able to kill someone, who stood for peace. How could he do that? In a time, where everyone just takes care about hisself and is egoistic, I think that there outside in the world are more killers than we think of. But just time will tell.
All I know, is that every time that I see, how JFK is shot in his car in Dallas, something makes me feel hateful about how cowardly the actors were/acted. And: my Dad looks like JFK, realy. And I love my dad, and every time that I think about JFK's assasination , it makes me feel like, that it is my Dad, sitting in that car.
JFK just could be killed like that, because his killers knew, that he was STRONG and had more power than human beeing could think of. Right now, writting this words, I feel like, wanting to cry.
America, once I used to call you Amerikkka. But after seeing your tries about destroying nuclear weapons, i see that you are afraid of yourself and that's huge!!!! That's the reason, why I would do anything for you and even if knowing, that Life could end on the next day: we got to fight. Not on the other, Fight against all the faults that people had made in the last years.
And even if people like JFK or Rabin, who fight with all their power, die, we got to get together and continue, where they have stoped.
Thanx for your pages and thanx for letting me take part of your thoughts. Take care of yourself and lets hope that we all will make it until some power wants us to die. But not human-power.
In respect,
Carlos Pinto, Hamburg / Germany.
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