Having not read through all the comments due to time constraints I thought I would share this, with apologies if it's already been mentioned.
I read an interesting article in FT years ago by Robin Ramsey, editor of the journal Lobster. It's basically a summation of information to be found in his book "Who Shot JFK?". Anyhow, Mr Ramsey comments on how an unidentified fingerprint found on the sixth floor of the book depository had finally been identified as belonging to one Malcolm "Mac" Wallace, a hitman and fixer for Lyndon Baines Johnson! Mr Wallace died in a mysterious car accident some years later. Apologies for any mistakes but I don't have the relevant article to hand and am relying on my increasingly fallible memory.
The UK Independent is reporting that the new JFK files show that Jack Ruby asked an FBI informant on the day of the assassination if he wanted to watch the "fireworks".
If Ruby knew about the assassination in advance, that surely throws a different complexion on things.
While I am interested in the JFK assassination, I am something of a novice. I have often wondered what is the explanation for Oswald getting the job at the book depository. Is there an official line on this and are there another more suspicious explanations out there?
Now - you got to ask yourself - who is Ruth Paine? And who owned the Texas School Book Depository? Despite the official sounding name, that was a privately owned company.
Read up on it, and make up your own mind. That's where the fun is.
Oh, go on. Who was/is Ruth Paine? Who owned the book depository?
At the time, the building was owned by D.H. Byrd, a cousin of U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., D-Va., who was a longtime friend of then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson — a relationship that fueled rumors about Johnson having a role in Kennedy’s murder.
David Harold "Dry Hole" Byrd (24 April 1900 – 14 September 1986) was a noted Texan producer of petroleum, and a co-founder of the Civil Air Patrol.
Ruth Paine is still alive - and a bit of a mystery. Many people claim she was a CIA asset, something she strenuously denies. She also is a devout Quaker. Her husband is interesting too. There's lots of room for speculation, but no prrof, as usual.
As for the company:
http://www.richmond.com/news/specia...cle_b6c51644-9e90-5543-b773-00e455ddc5b7.html
If you want to go down that rabbit hole, everything ultimately leads to LBJ in my opinion.
Interesting! Yes, I read about the husband but couldn't find out very much about her.
Interesting! Yes, I read about the husband but couldn't find out very much about her.
The new JFK files reveal how the CIA tracked Oswald
The latest batch of JFK assassination files, released December 15, illuminate a story that the CIA still denies: the surveillance of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the years before he shot and killed President John F. Kennedy.
Two files corroborate what the CIA continues to obfuscate to this day: the early interest of the Agency’s counterintelligence staff in Oswald, a former Marine Corp radio operator who lived in the Soviet Union and publicly agitated for a pro-Castro group in New Orleans in late 1963.
“For decades, debate has raged not only over whether Oswald acted alone but whether the FBI and CIA could have stopped him. The latest documents provide fresh proof that he was in their sights,” reported the Dallas Morning News.
The CIA started intercepting and reading Oswald’s mail in November 1959, just days after he defected to the Soviet Union, according to a declassified Senate memo. The mail intercept program, run by counterintelligence chief James Angleton, opened and copied Oswald’s correspondence from Nov. 11, 1959, to May 3, 1960, and again from Aug. 7, 1961, to May 28, 1962.
The CIA captured several letters from Oswald’s mother, which were copied and filed by Angleton’s staff. The mail surveillance was discontinued when Oswald returned to the United States in June 1962.
But the CIA continued to monitor Oswald’s actions through late 1963. A previously released memo shows that nine CIA and FBI documents about Oswald were delivered to Angleton’s staff between September and November 1963. Those reports concerned Oswald’s pro-Castro political activities in New Orleans, his arrest for fighting with CIA-funded Cubans, his propensity to beat his wife, and his contacts with presumed Soviet and Cuban intelligence officers in Mexico City.
From the Quincy Jones interview by David Marchese in www.vulture.com published on 7 February 2018
Marchese: What’s something you wish you didn’t know?
Jones: Who killed Kennedy.
Marchese: Who did it?
Jones: [Chicago mobster Sam] Giancana.
In their early days, they were bad musicians. I met a couple of people (who saw them play live) who told me their live performances were really raw. They mostly got away with it by being drowned out by the screaming crowds.Would you trust the opinion of a man who thinks the Beatles were terrible musicians? I think he was rambling to extreme degrees.
Would you trust the opinion of a man who thinks the Beatles were terrible musicians? I think he was rambling to extreme degrees.
"I had said that [Dallas Police Captain Will] Fritz had said to Oswald, 'This man saw you leave' (indicating me). Oswald said, 'I told you people I did.' Fritz then said, 'Now take it easy, son, we're just trying to find out what happened, ' and then (to Oswald), 'What about the car? ' to which Oswald replied, 'That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine. Don't try to drag her into this.' Fritz said car -- station wagon was not mentioned by anyone but Oswald."
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/rambler.txt