Tag: oswald
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ike pappas, who broadcast oswald death, dead at 75
from ap: Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who reported the shooting death of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on the radio as it was happening, has died at age 75. Pappas died Sunday in a hospital in Arlington, Virginia, of complications of heart disease, his family said. Pappas was among the reporters at the…
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jfk: students honored for bullet study & new exhibit
study of jfk assassination bullets honoredfrom upi: Three Texas A&M University faculty members were honored for a study challenging the lone-gunman theory in the assassination of U.S. President John Kennedy. Statistics Professors Cliff Spiegelman and Simon Seather along with research chemist William James analyzed the makeup of bullets that came from the same production batch…
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ford told fbi about warren commission members who were ‘not convinced’ that jfk was shot from 6th floor of depository
from ap: Former President Ford secretly advised the FBI that two of his fellow members on the Warren Commission doubted the FBI’s conclusion that John F. Kennedy was shot from the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas, according to newly released records from Ford’s FBI files… The new details were included in…
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oswald’s wallet, frame 313 & the dictabelt
the tale of the two walletsfrom george bailey: [A]fter Oswald is arrested at the movie theater he refused to identify himself. After searching him, his wallet is retrieved, containing an ID for Lee H. Oswald and a second ID for the Alek Hidell alias. Here comes the rub. Back at the Tippet murder scene the…
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‘JFK & The Unspeakable’ Author Speaks In Portland
After longtime peace activist James Douglass finished talking about a 45-year-old conspiracy, the first question underscored its relevance in the summer of 2008: If the “national security state” rose up to take down the Kennedys, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, how frightened should we be for Barack Obama?
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new evidence reasserts 2nd shooter killed rfk
from raw story: Forty years after Democratic rising star Robert F. Kennedy was killed at a Los Angeles hotel during his presidential run, new evidence suggests the man serving a life sentence for his murder did not fire the shots that killed the charismatic senator. ford ‘memoir’ fuels jfk plot buffsfrom grand rapids press: Over…
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60 minutes heat ray, wikileaks again & the jfk materials
military heat ray gun zaps 60 minutes reporterfrom raw story: “You have to feel the ray gun to believe it,” says 60 Minutes correspondent David Martin, speaking about a non-lethal weapon the Pentagon has developed, “and there’s only one way to do that.” Martin was reportedly “zapped” 17 times for this piece, demonstrating the effects,…
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Old JFK Documents May Stir Controversy
from reuters: A batch of old documents linked to the slaying of President John F. Kennedy has reportedly been unearthed, including a highly suspect transcript of a conversation between assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald’s killer Jack Ruby, the Dallas Morning News said on Sunday. The newspaper said the Dallas County district attorney’s office, which…
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jfk buff takes potshots at other assassination theories
from home news tribune: Just as the date Sept. 11 will jar memories between now and the end of the 21st century, the date Nov. 22 still stirs memories for a generation old enough to have watched Ed Sullivan introduce the Beatles, Walter Cronkite give up on Vietnam and Nixon swear he was not a…
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why is the cia suppressing jfk files?
from lisa pease: As Jefferson Morley reports in the Huffington Post: “Lawyers for the Central Intelligence Agency faced pointed questions in a federal court hearing Monday morning about the agency’s efforts to block disclosure of long-secret records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.” Morley filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against…
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oswald ‘had no time to fire all kennedy bullets’
from telegraph: Lee Harvey Oswald could not have acted alone in assassinating President John F Kennedy, according to a new study by Italian weapons experts of the type of rifle Oswald used in the shootings. In fresh tests of the Mannlicher-Carcano bolt-action weapon, supervised by the Italian army, it was found to be impossible for…