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November 13, 2013
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This last Thursday night, on KPFA, some
guy named Don Joyce was substituting This takes me back to the old
for Barb Goldman, and this being the days of WBAI in the early 70s.
50th anniversary of the assasination of And recently, Amy Goodman put
JFK he took the opportunity to display Oliver Stone through his paces...
his encylopedic knowledge of the subject.
He tells a coherent tale-- which is
more than you can say for many in There's supposedly a cache of
this business-- without claiming that documents ready to go unclassified in
there's "proof" that it's true, or 2017 or so... it could turn out it
that any real proof is even possible. was inexpertly sanitized, and there's
something about to come to light.
He does take it as proven that
the Warren Commission tale of
Oswald the lone assassin up on The Warren Commision report is frequently
the book repository was false. called the "magic bullet theory", with a
single shot from a funny angle doing a
He takes it as a wildly implausible amount of damage.
given that the hit
was done by a Joyce is of the opinion that
confluence of That "Cuban" the medical photos released
CIA/mafia/ex-Cuban business sounded were complete fakes-- and
forces, intending to pretty funny to me points out that many of the
make it look like when I was a kid-- medical staff later disowned
Castro had done it, you need to remember them, e.g. stating they showed
so that the US would that the Cuban equipment they didn't even use.
respond with an revolution had only
invasion of Cuba. just gone down, and Joyce's reconstruction is
there was a multiple bullets striking
The way Oswald was displaced force of nearly simultaneously,
arrested and then anti-Castro Cubans the first of them clearly
killed before trial who had run to the coming from in front.
is then a screw-up US. The theory goes
he was supposed to that these guys also
be gunned down in had heavy mob
some circumstance connections-- Cuba
that made him seem had a rep as a mafia Consider the "Flying to
like a pro-Castro playground up 'till Havana" bit in "Guys and
conspirator. (And then, something like Dolls".
you might imagine Las Vegas East. And
this was a planned these anti-Castro OUT_OF_THE_DUMPSTER
screw-up, a reason guys were also
they can give the natural allies of He makes the point that this
shooters for not the CIA in the Great is all just "a bunch of guys".
delivering on a war Game against the The idea is not "The CIA did
with Cuba.) Soviets. it!" but that some guys
associated with the CIA did it.
The picture Joyce
paints of the Dealy
Plaza scene is a
cluster of pro But there's also a theory--
assassins, waiting popular with the Right--
for the car to reach that the shooters were I've also heard some
a pre-arranged "kill *pro-Cuban*. A Thom half-hearted attempts
box", operating in Hartmann (author "Legacy of from the Right to pin
pairs, a shooter and Secrecy") argues that this it directly on the
a "brass catcher". notion is what the Warren Soviets, but I think
Commission felt the need to they're just going
Then-- continuing the suppress (irrespective of through the motions.
Joyce tale-- when the whether it was true). It You point right, we
local cops show up might really provoke a point left.
running around trying Cuban invasion, which could
to figure out what lead to a nuclear exchange
happened, they tend to with Russia.
find guys with
impressive looking
credentials (e.g. up
on the infamous Don Joyce stresses out a lot about some
"grassy knoll") issues I don't understand, e.g. there
telling them were some guys in the Book Repo, and
everything is under they went somewhere from there, but
control, and their no one seems to have seen them leave.
assistance isn't Is that really such a problem?
needed.
There's a pattern
after that of people TOO_MANY_ACTORS
being told to shut up
for national security But with something this big, wouldn't
reasons. someone have talked? They have, and
they do, but no one really pays
attention to them. You need to want
to hear a leak before a leak can do
any damage. The usual reasons to
shrug them off come out; they're
crazy, they're stupid, they're fame
whores, and so on... and of course,
any of those reasons might be correct.
A point to remember with Don Joyce:
he also has a certain fascination
with some of the crazier ideas
around-- could there have been more
than one Oswald, the real guy and
a look-a-like who was seen being
taken out the back way?
He claims he's heard about a "Harvey
Lee Oswald", perhaps a relative of
the other one, who looked just like
him...
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