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Not Every Conspiracy is a Theory!

 

My friend Gail sent me this cartoon so I thought I would liven up this Wednesday’s installment in the conspiracy theory about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

For 20 weeks, I have been retelling the conspiracy theory known as COUP D’ETAT.  Stay with it, you  will be shocked if you’re not already by what you have read these past many weeks.

CLAY  SHAW

In 1067, New Orleans D. A. Jim Garrison arrested New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw for conspiring with Oswald and the recently deceased David Ferrie to kill John Kennedy.  The ensuing scandal laid bare Shaw’s closeted homosexuality, but although Garrison convinced the jury that Kennedy was the victim of conspiracy. he failed to prove that Shaw was involved with Oswald or Ferrie.  The case hinged on whether Shaw used the alias “Clay Bertrand.”  In 1964, New Orleans lawyer Dean Andrews told the Warren Commission that on November 23,1963, a client named Clay Bertrand asked him to represent Oswald, who had previously visited Andrews’ law office in the company of some Latin “gay kids”.  Andrews, who also represented Maia boss Carlos Marcello, refused to divulge the true identity of his mystery client to Garrison, saying it would be “Bon voyage, Deano” if he did.

In 1977, a CIA document surfaced showing that Shaw, a former OSS colonel, had a long history with the Agency.  Shaw was director of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans, a subsidiary of the Rome-based Centro Mondiale Commerciale.  The CMC was in tun linked to Permindex, a shadowy company with, according to French Intelligence agents, funneled $200,000 to the French Secret Army Organization for a 1962 coup attempt against Charles De Gaulle.  allegedly both Shaw and Schlumberger corporation president Jean DeMeni sat on the board of Permindex. Along with names of prominent European fascists, Shaw’s address book contained the listing: “Lee Odlum, P.O. Box 19106, Dallas, Texas.”  Oswald’s address book contained the same P.O. Box number, with no name attached.


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We are in the 18th week of exploring the conspiracy theory of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.  There are literally millions of Americans that DO NOT BELIEVE Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in this deadly mission.

Lone assassins are on a mission and are proud of their accomplishment – they do not deny their actions.  Lee Harvey Oswald claimed he was innocent.

JAMES HOSTY

The FBI‘s interest in Oswald had begun in June 1960, while he was in the Soviet Union, when a memo from the FBI to the  State Department warned of the “possibility that an impostor is using Oswald’s birth certificate”.  His mother told the FBI that he had taken it with him, but he returned without it, and the document has never surfaced.  When questioned by Ft. Worth FBI agent Fain, Oswald offered to report any contacts with suspicious Soviets.  The FBI’s links to Oswald continued in New Orleans, where at his own request, he was interviewed by Agent  Quigley while under arrest for the street scuffle with Cuban exile Carlos Bringuier.  He was released shortly after paying a ten-dollar fine.  Guy Banister, with whom Oswald worked, was an ex-FBI agent said by some to have been secretly working for the FBI’s counter intelligence Division 5.

An hour after Oswald’s arrest, James Hosty, the Dallas FBI agent who monitored local Cuban-exile activities, burst into Police Headquarters with the news that Oswald was a “communist…capable of committing the assassination…”.  Though Hosty knew where Oswald worked, he had not warned the Secret Service or Dallas Police of the presence of this “dangerous” man along the motorcade route.  Strangely, Hosty’s name and phone number were found in Oswald’s address book; Texas justice officials alleged to the Warren Commission that the FBI   $200 a month for over a year as “Confidential Informant 179”.  In 1975 Hosty said Oswald had brought a note to his office weeks before the assassination asking him to leave Marina alone, but on the order of his superior, Gordon Shanklin , he had  destroyed it immediately after Oswald’s  death.

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So here I am about to post the 16th installment of COUP D’ETAT, the conspiracy theory about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and I’m wondering….how many of you all out there are reading these Wednesday posts? Do you have any comments about what you’ve read so far?  I know many of you are way too young to know anything about this except for what you may have read or heard in a history class (uh oh I just dated myself even MORE) uh, I mean CIVICS class.  So what do you think? Please comment and if you don’t want to be public, then send your thoughts to pbenjaytoo@gmail.com

TOO MANY OSWALDS

While Oswald was supposedly en route to Mexico, a strange incident occurred at the Dallas home of Cuban exile Sylvia Odio.  She was visited by three anti-Castro activists, two Latin men, and an American introduced as Leon Oswald.  A few days later one of the Latins told her over the telephone that Leon Oswald thought the  Cubans had no guts and should shoot President Kennedy.  When Miss Odio saw pictures of Lee Oswald after the assassination she was sure he had been one of her visitors.  Though Odio was too scared to report the incident, a friend who told Odio’s story to the FBI also claimed that Oswald had been seen at two Cuban exile meetings that were addressed by General Edwin Walker.

An Oswald “double” was clearly at work in Dallas during the 7 weeks Oswald lived there prior to the assassination.  On Nov. 23, the FBI received a report that “Lee Oswald” test-drove a car two weeks earlier, speeding the demo at 80 mph, claiming he would have a “lot of money in the next two or three weeks ” and mumbling something about “going back to Russia where they treat workers like men”.  The real Lee Oswald id not know how to drive.  On Nov. 24, Dallas police found a gun shop receipt in Oswald’s name for mounting a telescopic sight on a Mnnlicher-Carcano rifle.  Oswald’s had come with a sight.  A day after having retrieved the rifle, “Oswald” had fgone to a firing range and drawn attention to himself with obnoxious behavior.  A month earlier he was seen firing a rifle on private property in the company of two other men, one of whom was “Latin, perhaps Cuban”.  The landowner have a shell to the FBI, who later said it had not been fired from Oswald’s rifle.

Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK assassination, Dallas, Dealey Plaza,

The Weapon

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OMG – where did those 24 months and 730 days go?  I am desperately trying to enjoy Finny’s birthday vicariously through photos!  And waiting for a possible Skype call.

From what I heard, Finley got to pick out her own outfit today which consisted of a princess tutu, a strawberry shirt and red ruby slippers.  That was this morning and she went to the playground and out to lunch – hope a photo of this outfit surfaces soon….

In the meantime, late this afternoon,  she changed her clothes and got to ride the carousel with Daddy!!! Look at how happy she is!!!!

Happy Birthday Finny, Finley Ray Clark, merry-go-round,carousel, Tom Clark

Happy Birthday Finley!

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TEN TIPS THURSDAY

If you live in New York City, these word are already in your vocabulary!  However, sometimes even I forget there’s a world out there that doesn’t just toss out Yiddish words in their everyday conversations – BUT everyone can…it’s not like dropping French phrases which might make you seem pretentious – you know like with sangfroid!

With a little practice, these words will be rolling off your tongue in no time.

  1. Oy Vey –  Is an expression expressing exasperation, dismay or grief.
  2. Kvetsh –  Most often used in English to mean complain, but in Yiddish it literally means to squeeze or press like if your shoes were too tight.
  3. Maven –  An expert, often used sarcastically.
  4. Chutzpah –  In Yiddish this denotes arrogance and nervy presumption and is NOT a compliment.  In English, it is used to convey courage and confidence.
  5. Klutz –  Literally means block of wood so it is used when to describe a dense or clumsy person.
  6. Bubbe –  We all have one – a Grandmother.
  7. Schlep –  To drag something around, most likely something you don’t need or are doing unwillingly.
  8. Nosh –  To nibble a light snack – like what we eat when we play Mah Jongg.
  9. Kibbitz –  This doesn’t translate easily; the word is similar to Kibbutz, a collective community or it can refer to verbal joking.  The English innovation is giving unwanted advice about someone else’s game.
  10. Mazel-Tov – Literally good luck and used to convey good wishes for what just happened, not a hopeful wish for some future event.
Yiddish humor, Hebrew, Yiddish cartoon, common Yiddish phrases

Shmendrick

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I have spent so much time talking about the heat and NOW that the heat wave is OVER and today was just as pleasant as yesterday, I have to bring up the HEAT one more time.  Today is Saturday and the sun was warm and the breeze light.  A perfect summer day! Not so last week.

Last Saturday was brutally hot, sticky hot and just hot hot! Walking, moving at all was painful  We had tickets to see Smokey Robinson in the Great Auditorium which is NOT air-conditioned.  It was extremely uncomfortable; couldn’t figure out what to wear that would not stick to me – how silly, everything stuck to me including me to me.  I also forgot my fan and for the first time that I can remember, instead of giving the fans away, they were selling them!! The fans cost a dollar each but well worth every penny.  The entire audience was in motion.  Fans were waving all over – it was sea of sweaty people waving hot air over themselves and sweating from the energy expended to wave the fan.

Smokey Robinson was superb and how he performed in a suit, I’ll never know.  We were like limp rags and he was jumping around the stage.  The only two items allowed in the auditorium during a concert are fans and WATER !  The fans cost a dollar, the water cost a dollar and I think the Camp Meeting Association made more money from the sale of those two commodities than they did from the ticket sales!!!

See what I mean….

The Great Auditorium, Smokey Robinson, water bottles

Recycle Me

Photo by Susan Taylor (Blackberry phone)

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Oh WELL color me BLUE today!  I cannot believe yesterday happened; one mere mention of a fairly insignificant blog on the SITS site and WOWIE YIKES – I had 259 hits to my blog in one day!!! Talk about a rush…it was so exciting for me because yes I am one  of those bloggers who checks their stats just to see if any of the world is listening.

So what happens the next day when you look at your stats and the graph shows a line literally going up and off the chart and then there is a straight downward line which looks like it hit zero.  Ugh, how depressing!  The fact is the line did not hit zero it just looks that way and I guess for the next month until my graph moves beyond my day in the sunshine, all my stats will look puny.

It’s okay, I understand it was only 15 minutes of fame BUT what a great 15 minutes it was.  I was a very grateful blogger and wrote to each person who commented thanking them for stopping by.  Along the way I came across several very interesting blogs and got some good inspiration and even subscribed to a couple.  I think I found a fellow blogger at the Jersey Shore, one town away.  And speaking of the shore, I got to get off the computer, take a shower, go get some Starbucks and maybe just maybe put on bathing suit and go to the beach – it’s hotter than hell already this morning and me who owns a cottage still has a bottle tan.  Well that’s what fear of the dreaded bathing suit will do to you or in other words, if you didn’t lose weight in the spring, you’ll be sorry in the summer.

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  1. Keeps garden tools rust-free
  2. Removes crayon from carpet (be sure to test WD-40 on low visibility area of carpet before using)
  3. Removes adhesive price tags from shoe bottoms
  4. Removes paint from tile flooring (be sure to wipe floor clean after using WD-40)
  5. Removes mascara from tile floors and mirrors (be sure to wipe floor clean after using WD-40)
  6. Removes felt pen marks from floors (be sure to wipe floor clean after using WD-40)
  7. Cleans black streaks from hardwood floors (be sure to wipe floor clean after using WD-40)
  8. Removes marks from floors left by chair feet (be sure to wipe floor clean after using WD-40)
  9. Removes sticker residue from clothes (be sure to test WD-40 on low-visibility area of garment before using)
  10. Removes permanent ink from most items
    cleaning product, degreaser,

    WD-40

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birding in Central Park, male cardinal

Patriotic Cardinal

Central Park, frog, bull frog

A Fine Frog

Look Closely

central park

Is It a Wasp or a Hornet?

central park

Patriotic Blue Jay

All photos by Murray Head

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