Show #557
Original airdate: Dec 15, 2011
Guest: Jim DiEugenio
Topics: JFK Research
Play Part One - Jim DiEugenio (2:11:13)
# Death of Prof. Donald Scott last week (12/6), Show #556 is a replay of a Scott interview
# CTKA review, How to Think Like John McAdams by David W. Mantik
# CTKA review, The Lost Bullet: Max Holland Gets Lost In Space by Jim DiEugenio
# Holland surfaced after Stone's movie, he was hired by The Nation to write about the Kennedy case
# Nov 20, 2011, JFK: The Lost Bullet, produced by Robert Stone of Oswald's Ghost (2008)
# In 2007 Holland stated that the first shot occurred even before Zapruder started filming
# Could Oswald really have gotten off the three shots?, Larry Sturdivan, not a re-opening of the case
# Begins with Z-313, the head shot, no mention of the Clark Panel (1968) rear entrance wound placement switch
# No mention of the 6.5 mm fragment, bloody mist exiting from the skull slightly forward, flimflammery
# No gunman seen 'on' the knoll, well, look behind the fence, the Moorman photograph and 'Badge man'
# Oswald's 'hand' print on the rifle, the FBI did not find it, the Dallas Police did, kind of suspicious
# They place the gunman at the end of the fence, not the middle, fire a laser, mis-placement of Kennedy and Connally
# They do not question the provenance of CE 399, Oswald had no special training in marksmanship
# In the Hughes film Holland sees two figures on the sixth floor, one of them Oswald, absolutely crazy
# Holland says the position of the shells proves an earlier shot, Tom Alyea first saw the shells
# Tina Towner and Amos Euins and other eyewitness testimony is edited selectively
# How did an earlier shot miss?, it hit a traffic light!, no hole, no visible dent in the pole
# All that Stone and Holland prove is that documentary films can lie
# Sylvia Meagher in Accessories After the Fact (1967) questioned whether a clip was found with the rifle
# No evidence that Oswald ever purchased any ammunition, problems with Oswald's purchase of the rifle
# George Michael Evica in And We Are All Mortal (1978) proved it was the wrong rifle in evidence
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CTKA review, Elegy for Roger Feinman by Jim DiEugenio
# Roger Feinman passed away (10/14), he was hired by CBS as a writer and was a student of Sylvia Meagher
# His two interests in this case were the media and the medical evidence, Edward R. Murrow, William S. Paley
# CBS support of the Warren Commission, 1964 re: critics, 1967 re: Garrison, 1975 re: the Church Committee
# Roger internally criticized CBS for violating their own written journalistic standards in 1967
# The producer Les Midgley caved into pressure, there was virtually no debate at all on this series
# Warren Commissioner John McCloy acted as a consultant, through his daughter, who worked at CBS
# Gerald Posner, Case Closed (1994), Bob Groden and Jim Garrison, "Guilty of Misleading the American Public"
# Roger was disbarred trying to defend Groden against Random House with a judge who had clerked for Earl Warren# Yoko Ono lists JFK and the Unspeakable (Jim Douglas, 2008) as her number two most recommended book
# JFK: Ordeal in Africa (Richard D. Mahoney, 1983), diplomat Edmund Gullion became Kennedy's Third World mentor
# In 1963 he wanted to appoint Gullion as the Ambassador to Vietnam, Dean Rusk put in Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
# Kennedy's first defining moment, his 1957 speech critical of the French re: the Algerian struggle
# On nine different occasions, Kennedy refused to send combat troops to Vietnam
# The Dulles brothers forged American foreign policy under Eisenhower, they represented giant corporations
# 1953, Allen Dulles put together the coup against Mossadegh, 1954, Allen Dulles sanctioned the coup against Arbenz
# Kennedy's foreign policy was outside the box, he went around his advisors, Rusk and McGeorge Bundy
# The Umbrella Man (Errol Morris, 2011), Josiah "Tink" Thompson, Neville Chamberlain's umbrella
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