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mentalgongfu2 wrote:The Interstate trip through Nebraska is the most boring length of scenery in a geographic region full of long stretches of boring scenery.
Keel mentions the discovery that Native Americans shunned West Virginia, and that no Indian tribes can be identified as "indigenous to that State." He refers to maps of pre-Columbian tribes...in which the area we know as West Virginia is marked as "uninhabited." No one seems to know why the Indians didn't settle there, when the land itself would certainly have supported a large population in terms of fish, game, and vegetation. What is found in West Virginia, however, are petroglyphs and other evidence in stone pointing to the existence of wandering Europeans. There is also a heavy concentration of Adena sites northwest and northeast of Charleston, sites that date to the first millennium BC. Keel wonders if the Native Americans avoided West Virginia because of something they knew, and something the Europeans didn't know. Something inherently strange about the place. A sinister force.
NUMBER 10: Intimidated Witness #1: Atta's American girlfriend.
Mohamed Atta had an American girlfriend with whom he lived for two months in Venice, FL., a lingerie model named Amanda Keller. You haven’t heard her story because she was intimidated into silence by the FBI.
In the aftermath of the attack she spoke only a dozen words to the press: “I can't really discuss anything. I'm afraid I'll get in trouble."
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John Simkin wrote:I am very interested in the role played by George Smathers in the assassination. Although he claims to have been JFK’s friend, he had long ceased to have supported him and appears to have been LBJ’s man (Smathers was definitely closer to LBJ political views).
I am also interested in George Smathers relationship with Bobby Baker and Fred Black (the Serve-U Corporation).
Smathers was also the man who was trying to link the Kennedys with the death of Marilyn Monroe. At the time of the assassination of JFK his secretary was Mary Jo Kopechne...
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