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Whose idea was it to let Creative Speculation posts back into GD? longship Nov 2013 #1
It's bad enough to believe in silly conspiracies, but it is worse for somebody to completely duffyduff Nov 2013 #3
patterson, is that you? RobertEarl Nov 2013 #4
No. I despise made up shit being presented as fact, especially when the facts are well known. longship Nov 2013 #8
Aww, patterson RobertEarl Nov 2013 #12
You're off-topic, RobertEarl. Stop discussing posters and discuss the post. Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #13
Your OP is very transparent. Did you know that DUers are, on the whole, extremely smart people? sabrina 1 Nov 2013 #36
"Octofish's OPS otoh, are excellent sources of real information and belong in GD." zappaman Nov 2013 #38
!! dionysus Nov 2013 #80
Your post is nothing but meta. Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #43
What topic? What you posted is ridiculous nonsense, which I know you know. Octafish's OPs sabrina 1 Nov 2013 #50
More meta. n/t Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #51
Who's Patterson? And whatever are you posting about? longship Nov 2013 #14
You are off topic RobertEarl Nov 2013 #18
I'm glad to see your concern that we stick to the OP topic Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #19
Be Free to discuss the post! zappaman Nov 2013 #21
Given the political atmosphere of these mother earth Nov 2013 #6
A taped conversation between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson is "total bunk"? Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #11
I am referring to the chraracterization of RFK as not being a man of truth, character mother earth Nov 2013 #22
Well, I agree in principle with your post. longship Nov 2013 #32
No, there are more than crickets, if you listen. When Cyril Wecht uses forensics to dispel the mother earth Nov 2013 #39
Okay. State your hypothesis of what really happened. longship Nov 2013 #54
My hypothesis is the Warren Commission was a neatly packaged facade of a full investigation, meant mother earth Nov 2013 #68
Longship, once again, we agree to disagree, wishing you well as always, my friend. mother earth Nov 2013 #70
No problem, Mother Earth. longship Nov 2013 #74
That last person known to have possession of JFK's brain was RFK. stopbush Nov 2013 #63
I think this qualifies as CT and rumor, aka disinfo, not surprisingly, he's no longer around mother earth Nov 2013 #69
Oh, really? Read and learn - from the HSCA report: stopbush Nov 2013 #71
Read what you posted yourself, it is undetermined & remains so, like it or not, mother earth Nov 2013 #79
Ooooooh. There's conspiracies all around us. They're out to GET us! Run away! Run away! stopbush Nov 2013 #83
Last I looked, every single murder investigation held in this country stopbush Nov 2013 #62
Good question, they are completely to be trusted! LOL, where have you been? With a nic like mother earth Nov 2013 #85
This Boston Globe article from earlier this week exposes the childinh thinking of Warren apologists BlueStreak Nov 2013 #101
TY, BlueStreak. They would have us denying history and the relevant facts that were never mother earth Nov 2013 #102
It is the same people and the same reasons for their authoritarian views about the NSA BlueStreak Nov 2013 #104
Well said. mother earth Nov 2013 #105
Equating the people you are debating with as holocaust deniers the epitome of incivility. The Midway Rebel Nov 2013 #112
Hard to confirm without a quoted transcript. ucrdem Nov 2013 #2
JFK conspiracy theories are enjoying a dispensation because of the anniversary. Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #5
Bobby gave him Dulles name in a private conversation? Hard to confirm, and given the position of mother earth Nov 2013 #7
Perhaps you missed the name of the book: Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #10
You can't judge a book by its cover Bolo. ucrdem Nov 2013 #20
What? RobertEarl Nov 2013 #30
Still no transcript? RobertEarl Nov 2013 #111
TY, BB, I did not realize this private conversation was on tape. Do you have the excerpt mother earth Nov 2013 #23
Didn't Dr Cyril Wecht also participate in the "Alien Autopsy" TV show? stopbush Nov 2013 #64
Here are his credentials if you are interested, what were his findings? mother earth Nov 2013 #67
No one is doubting his credentials. He's highly credentialed. stopbush Nov 2013 #72
Forensics is not congruent with woo, it is science based. Woo is in the eye of the beholder, one mother earth Nov 2013 #75
Then there's the Katzenbach memo. nyquil_man Nov 2013 #9
Al Gore, too RobertEarl Nov 2013 #15
That's not the reason Katzenbach gave to the HSCA. nyquil_man Nov 2013 #17
Here's what the HSCA said about it: nyquil_man Nov 2013 #16
Based it appears on the 1978 testimony of the same Nicholas Katzenbach: ucrdem Nov 2013 #26
Yes, he was explaining why the Justice Department abdicated its role in the investigation nyquil_man Nov 2013 #29
It sounds like he's blaming RFK who as AG ran the Justice Dept ucrdem Nov 2013 #33
Ten years and three months, actually, nyquil_man Nov 2013 #37
"the Department largely abdicated ... important responsibilities" etc. ucrdem Nov 2013 #41
That's from the House Select Committee on Assassinations report. nyquil_man Nov 2013 #42
Sec. D2 claims "The DoJ Failed" and cites Katzenbach's 1978 testimony: ucrdem Nov 2013 #45
Oy vey. nyquil_man Nov 2013 #47
Better the victim's brother than the accused murderer ucrdem Nov 2013 #49
So you do think RFK should have been in charge of the investigation? nyquil_man Nov 2013 #52
RFK wasn't President, LBJ was. ucrdem Nov 2013 #53
You didn't really answer the question there. nyquil_man Nov 2013 #55
What authority? The Warren Commission was LBJ and Hoover. ucrdem Nov 2013 #56
He was the Attorney General of the United States. nyquil_man Nov 2013 #57
And LBJ was president. nt ucrdem Nov 2013 #58
Are you suggesting LBJ would have fired him? nt nyquil_man Nov 2013 #59
"exceedingly sleazy if not suspicious tactic" Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #60
RFK said Warren Commission was 'shoddy workmanship.' Octafish Nov 2013 #24
RFK suggested Dulles for the Commission to Johnson, Octafish. Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #25
That's really disrespectful. nt ucrdem Nov 2013 #28
What are you talking about? Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #34
Thanks, Octa. ucrdem Nov 2013 #27
Hey Octafish RobertEarl Nov 2013 #31
You have yet to get on topic, RobertEarl. n/t Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #35
Be Free to take your own advice. zappaman Nov 2013 #40
Did Johnson consult with Robert Kennedy about who to put on the Commission, Octafish? n/t Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #44
Let's not forget E. Howard Hunt's deathbed confession. Doesn't seem RFK liked Dulles, he fired him. mother earth Nov 2013 #46
More...excerpt from same Hunt article, above link. mother earth Nov 2013 #48
Good post. Major Hogwash Nov 2013 #61
The "I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces" quote was first attributed to JFK. stopbush Nov 2013 #65
More like they BOTH said it, they were a force to be reckoned with when it came to actually mother earth Nov 2013 #66
If only JFK had made a public statement about the CIA, the country would have known stopbush Nov 2013 #73
And oh how they hated him despite that little olive branch, while BOTH brothers planned to mother earth Nov 2013 #76
I voted D in my first presidential election in 1972, Elmer, and have voted D ever since. stopbush Nov 2013 #95
No, you act pathetically when you shit on others who do not share your same opinions. mother earth Nov 2013 #98
Hard to take the heat when you haven't a leg to stand on, isn't it? stopbush Nov 2013 #99
I guess his family is disgracing his memory too, because they aren't buying it either, never have. mother earth Nov 2013 #100
I'll take your non-response as an answer of "no" that you've ever read the WCR or the HSCA. stopbush Nov 2013 #103
You know nothing of me, nor of the Kennedys. Who are you to say any of these things? You are mother earth Nov 2013 #106
More blowing of smoke. Why not just admit you've never read the WCR? stopbush Nov 2013 #108
You aren't convincing anyone of anything, why so bent on stalking those who simply do not agree mother earth Nov 2013 #114
You've proved you haven't read the WCR but you'll still criticize it. stopbush Nov 2013 #115
Question for you: RobertEarl Nov 2013 #107
Aww, wittle baby got his diapers in a bunch. stopbush Nov 2013 #109
You're not even funny RobertEarl Nov 2013 #110
What does one learn from Octafish? That fantasy trumps evidence? stopbush Nov 2013 #113
Kennedy wanted to go back to the gold standard? KamaAina Nov 2013 #77
So says the CIA guy's son...jury's out on that one, but he knew the fed reserve's power, mother earth Nov 2013 #81
Is it? KamaAina Nov 2013 #84
Maybe you should direct this to Saint John Hunt. Clearly, the widow should take legal action if true mother earth Nov 2013 #86
Impressive resume, this. KamaAina Nov 2013 #87
He's making money off of this revelation, no doubt. I don't hear much new on JFK on MSM, mother earth Nov 2013 #88
The WCR is a whitewash and a lie regardless. KurtNYC Nov 2013 #78
Good point. mother earth Nov 2013 #82
I forget offhand how the police recording of Milteer came out. Was it RFK? KurtNYC Nov 2013 #89
"Whitewash and lie"...confirmed in its essential conclusions by every subsequent investigation? Spider Jerusalem Nov 2013 #90
"subsequent investigation" should include the HSCA KurtNYC Nov 2013 #91
"Subsequent investigation" does in fact include the HSCA. Spider Jerusalem Nov 2013 #92
RK was not afraid of being marginalized, no that was the reality LBJ lived in before the arthritisR_US Nov 2013 #93
All I get from the 'skeptic' link is 'the page does not exist'. Mc Mike Nov 2013 #94
Looks like they took down the link. It worked yesterday. stopbush Nov 2013 #96
Let's see if this link works. Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #97
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