Part 1386 of my "JFK Assassination Arguments" series includes a variety of my posts and comments covering the period of March 1—31, 2025. 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.
JAMES DiEUGENIO SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Jim,
When you say (as you did in your post linked above) that "people like Liebeler and Ball did not want to use Markham, Marina, and Brennan", are you seriously trying to imply that Liebeler and Ball did not want any of the important things that those three witnesses had to say to be published in the Warren Commission's final report?
Such a notion of "not using" those witnesses is just plain ridiculous, especially in light of the very pertinent and relevant testimony that each of them provided to the Commission, even though that trio of witnesses consisted of one so-called "utter screwball" (Helen Markham) and two others who are considered to be nothing but rotten liars by most conspiracy theorists (Marina Oswald and Howard Brennan).
But given the very important events that were witnessed by each of those three individuals, the Commission had virtually no choice but to "use" those witnesses, warts and all.
David Von Pein
March 2, 2025
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PAT SPEER SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
The evidence as to who killed President Kennedy is most certainly not "nebulous". Far from it. The term "nebulous" means "hazy", "vague", "unclear", "ill-defined", "indistinct". None of those words comes close to describing the evidence in the JFK case as far as determining to whom that evidence points, and that's because virtually every last scrap of evidence in the JFK case (and the J.D. Tippit case too) points in the direction of Lee Harvey Oswald and nobody else---and everybody knows it (even the conspiracy theorists).
Come to think of it, it's kind of interesting and rather amusing to ponder the fact (as Pat Speer pointed out) that there have been so many different "suspects" placed on the table in the JFK assassination debate over the last six decades (CIA, LBJ, FBI, Mafia, Secret Service, etc.), with no real consensus being reached at all as to which of these suspects is the guilty party.
The "amusing" part is:
1. Conspiracy theorists have lots of suspects, but none of the evidence leads to any of those suspects in either the JFK or Tippit murder cases.
2. Lone Assassin believers have Lee Harvey Oswald, a man to whom all of the physical evidence points (not to mention Oswald's own guilty-like actions).
And yet, there are many conspiracists who continue to believe that Lee Oswald fired no shots at all at either John Kennedy or J.D. Tippit on 11/22/63. I can only shake my head in bewilderment at such a belief.
And the "Faked Evidence" excuse has always been nothing but a convenient cop-out for conspiracy theorists who have no valid or believable explanation for why all of this "Oswald Did It" evidence exists in the JFK case:
David Von Pein
March 3, 2025
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SIMON ANDREW SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
This remark made by Simon Andrew is an outrageously uncalled-for and inappropriate comment.
But it's the type of silly remark I've come to expect from conspiracy theorists who, for some reason, seem to think that the only "LNers" who exist on the Internet are employed by the CIA in order to continue the make-believe
"cover-up".
Because no LNer who posts a lot of stuff on the Internet could possibly really believe Oswald acted alone....could they?
~sigh~
David Von Pein
March 20, 2025
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DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
While looking through some of these newly-released JFK documents,
I noticed THIS 133-PAGE CIA FILE, which includes "The President's Intelligence Checklist" for various days during the month of November 1963, including the Checklist for the day of JFK's assassination.
Here's an excerpt from the 11/23/63 Checklist that I thought was kind of interesting:
DAVID VON PEIN ALSO SAID:
Below is another snippet from the CIA files, this one directly related to Lee Harvey Oswald, from the "Intelligence Checklist" dated November 25, 1963:
Also See:
Another CIA document that might be of interest to some researchers is the one linked below. It contains several "Annual Fitness Reports" evaluating the performance of CIA Operations Officer George Joannides, covering the period of 1962 to 1964 (plus a memo from 1979):
David Von Pein
March 21, 2025
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LANCE PAYETTE SAID:
If the LN scenario is correct, there has to have been a quirk in his psychology that overrode his love for his children and the despair about leaving them without a father.
My best guess is that (1) for all the reasons I can articulate, he was at his lowest ebb that week in November; (2) his conviction (or perhaps delusion) that he was someone who should be taken seriously and would one day have a place in history must have been the single greatest driving force in his life; and (3) JFK’s motorcade route must have truly seemed like the universe speaking to him at last. But still, the “babies thing” makes me uncomfortable.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
My two cents....
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"Lee Harvey Oswald was a first-rate, bona fide kook. And he killed President John F. Kennedy, by himself, when he was afforded the perfect opportunity on November 22, 1963.
Knowing Oswald (who we know for an absolute fact had murder in his veins, via the attempt on General Edwin Walker's life 7 months earlier), it would probably have been criminal (from Oswald's POV) to have allowed such a golden opportunity to pass him by when the President of the country he hated conveniently drove right by the Texas School Book Depository at 11 MPH.
How often does a chance like that drive by your workplace doorstep (in an open-top convertible, no less)? It's almost as if Oswald was daring HIMSELF to take those shots at the President."
-- David V.P.; September 11, 2007
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More of my thoughts here:
jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2013/01/Oswald's Decision To Shoot JFK
David Von Pein
March 29, 2025
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DENIS MORISSETTE SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
In this Fox News interview, Representative Luna said this:
"NBC actually has a video that's never been seen before."
And if she was referring to the Dave Wiegman (NBC-TV) film specifically, then Luna's "never been seen before" language is particularly odd and very inaccurate, because the American people were shown the Wiegman film more than once on NBC on the day of the assassination itself, starting just two hours after the shooting (see video below).
I'm not totally certain whether the Darnell film was shown to the public on NBC-TV on Day 1 or not. But James Darnell's film has, nevertheless, still been "seen" by many people since 1963 (quite obviously).
David Von Pein
March 29, 2025
