Part 1375 of my "JFK Assassination Arguments" series includes a variety of my posts and comments covering the period of April 1—30, 2024. To read the entire forum discussion from which my own comments have been extracted, click on the "Full Discussion" logo at the bottom of each individual segment.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I recently created the video linked below, which puts all three of Lee Harvey Oswald's August 1963 New Orleans radio and television interviews on one single video:
And here's quite a bit of interesting information from Vincent Bugliosi's 2007 book concerning Lee Oswald's New Orleans radio and TV appearances:
GERRY DOWN SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Regarding Gerry Down's inquiry about whether or not there is anything cut out of the interviews with Lee Oswald presented in the video I posted above....
There is at least one section of dialogue cut out of the first interview. I'm not sure of the extent of that edit, but it's obvious that at least a little bit of the conversation is missing at the 29:10 mark of the above video.
Another indication that there might possibly be just a little bit more edited out of the "Latin Listening Post" program is because Vince Bugliosi, in his book, says the interview lasts "37 minutes". But my copy above only lasts about 35+ minutes.
However, there's also this Warren Commission exhibit, which indicates (FWIW) that the Stuckey/Oswald interview on 8/17/63 lasted a total of 35 minutes, which perfectly matches the length of my copy.
David Von Pein
April 1, 2024
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CHARLES COLLINS SAID:
I looked for an 11/22/63 affidavit by Charles Brehm. But so far, all I have found is an FBI report taken on 11/24/63. In “No More Silence” by Larry Sneed, Charles says that he and his son were put in a police car in front of the TSBD, shortly after the assassination, and taken to the police station for questioning. It sure seems to me that the police would have made a report and hopefully taken an affidavit from Charles Brehm.
I have seen a video on YouTube that appears to be Charles Brehm in a police station shortly after the assassination being interviewed. In the video, Charles indicates only two shots. Yet, two days later in the FBI report Charles indicates three shots (with the third shot missing everything) after the shot that hit JFK’s head. So, I am wondering where (if there is one) Charles’ 11/22/63 affidavit can be found.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
A related link of interest:
CHARLES COLLINS SAID:
Thank you very much David. That second interview (the one on radio) seems to answer my question about whether or not on 11/22/63 Brehm was saying there were two shots or three. He definitely said three in the radio interview. Do we know the circumstances of the radio interview? The time and place it was conducted, etc?
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
That radio interview with Brehm was taken (I think) from some of the network radio coverage I have in my collection. But since nobody else can be heard during the interview except Brehm himself, I can't pinpoint the network or station where it originated. I just don't remember.
Side note....
One thing that has always had me scratching my head concerning Charles Brehm is....
He claims to have grabbed his son and run away from the scene of the shooting by the time the third shot was fired, and yet we know from the photographic record that Brehm & Son are still standing in just about the same spot on Elm Street several minutes after the shooting (see photo below). So if he "grabbed the boy and ran" (as he claimed in some of his interviews), then it would have to mean he returned just a few minutes later to virtually the same spot on Elm Street where he had witnessed the assassination. Very curious.
CHARLES COLLINS SAID:
I noticed the difference between “grabbed the boy and ran” and what he reportedly said to the FBI on 11/24/63. Here’s a snip from the FBI report:
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"Immediately after the third shot rang out, BREHM pushed his son down on the grass and for the moment was more concerned with the safety of his son who might be hit accidentally by any wild gunfire which might follow."
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Definitely curious, we should be on the lookout for any images that would show the Brehms in the first sixty seconds following the third shot. It might be that they just got up off the ground and were getting ready to cross the street when the photo you posted was taken.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Thanks for the snippet from the FBI report. Interesting. (That 11/24/63 FBI report on Brehm, BTW, can be found HERE.)
Regarding photos taken within the first minute after the shooting, I think the photo below (taken by Wilma Bond) would qualify. It shows Brehm and son on the ground shortly after the shots rang out:
David Von Pein
April 3, 2024
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DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Like millions of other people in the United States, I experienced the incredible total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8th, 2024. Total darkness descended
upon my front yard in central Indiana at 3:06 PM (EDT) and lasted for almost four minutes. It was an amazing sight to be sure.
And in Dallas, Texas, at the site of President Kennedy's assassination, many people gathered to watch the eclipse in Dealey Plaza. I captured the three images below via the Sixth Floor Museum's Dealey Plaza Cam. Click to enlarge:
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EIGHT DAYS LATER, DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
FYI / Addendum / Eclipse Follow-Up....
A Mr. Brian Roselle took some spectacular still pictures of the April 8th eclipse from Lake Santee, Indiana (which is about 70 miles southeast of my location here in the Hoosier State). Brian today sent me this link to his incredible eclipse photographs:
Addendum #2....
My brother took this video from my front yard during the eclipse:
http://dvp-potpourri.blogspot.com/total-solar-eclipse-april-8-2024
David Von Pein
April 8-16, 2024
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CORY SANTOS SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Yes, of course Ruth Paine knew, weeks prior to the assassination, that Lee Oswald worked at the TSBD. She was made aware of that fact on the very same day he was hired there (October 15th):
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ALBERT JENNER -- "Did you hear from him [Lee Oswald] then either on the 14th or 15th [of October] in respect to his effort to obtaining employment at the Texas School Depository?"
RUTH PAINE -- "He called immediately on Tuesday, the 15th, after he had been accepted and said he would start work the next day."
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But until Nov. 22, Ruth was not fully aware that there were two different TSBD buildings in downtown Dallas. And the explanation she gave to the Warren Commission concerning this matter (seen below) is a perfectly logical and reasonable and (IMO) believable explanation. But many conspiracy theorists who have a burning desire to drag Mrs. Paine through the mud and into an assassination plot of some kind obviously don't think this testimony given by Ruth is the slightest bit believable or credible at all:
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ALBERT JENNER -- "I heard you mention the Texas School Depository warehouse. Did you think the warehouse was at 411 Elm?"
RUTH PAINE -- "No. I had seen a sign on a building as I went along one of the limited access highways that leads into Dallas, saying "Texas School Book Depository Warehouse" and there was the only building that had registered on my consciousness as being Texas School Book Depository. I was not aware, hadn't taken in the idea of there being two buildings and that there was one on Elm, though, I copied the address from the telephone book, and could well have made that notation in my mind but I didn't. The first I realized that there was a building on Elm was when I heard on the television on the morning of the 22nd of November that a shot had been fired from such a building."
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Repeating something I wrote on July 25, 2022:
I think it's important to keep in mind that the Depository warehouse building on Houston Street that Ruth saw while driving on Stemmons was located very near Elm Street. It was only---what?---two blocks north on Houston. So the two TSBD buildings were, indeed, very close to one another.
Given that fact, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible for someone casually driving on Stemmons to think that the "warehouse" building on Houston was located on Elm (or vice versa). Was Ruth supposed to keep track of all Dallas streets at all times and where things were located on those streets? Why would she have cared what street that warehouse she saw was on? And why would she have needed to commit such knowledge to memory? It didn't make any difference to her what street that TSBD warehouse was located on.
The conspiracy theorists who think that Ruth Paine was involved in a scheme to plant Lee Oswald in the TSBD on Elm Street must think otherwise, of course. But I'm not wired with "Conspiracy" circuitry. So it's my view that the "Elm Street" address that Ruth did, indeed, write down in her address book (and see in the phone book) meant very little to her at all. And therefore there was no reason for her to concentrate on that address at all after jotting it down in her address book or seeing it in print in the telephone book. And, in fact, she pretty much told us that very thing in the above testimony.
Lots More:
CORY SANTOS SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Of course the 11/4/63 FBI Airtel isn't forged. But Ruth's explanation is entirely reasonable and is not inconsistent in the slightest way with the Nov. 4 Airtel.
What part of this sentence uttered by Ruth Paine don't you understand, Cory? ....
"I was not aware, hadn't taken in the idea of there being two buildings and that there was one on Elm, though I copied the address from the telephone book, and could well have made that notation in my mind but I didn't."
David Von Pein
April 15, 2024
