Still from Rush to Judgmen t with Napoleon Daniels and Mark Lane. Napoleon Daniels was a Dallas police officer who claimed that he saw officer Roy Vaughn allow Jack Ruby to walk down the Main Street ramp. Vaughn called Daniels at home on the Monday morning after the assassination : But Daniels said in an affidavit on November 29, 1963 that he did see a man enter through the ramp : A couple of things to note. Daniels writes that the person going down the ramp came from the d

Charles Brehm at the Dallas County Sheriff's Office on November 22, 1963. Charles Brehm and his son were witnesses to the JFK assassination, Here is the FBI report : Brehm told the FBI that the "shots came from one of two buildings back at the corner of Elm and Houston Streets." Here is the Charles Brehm segment from the film Rush to Judgment : (1:04:20) Mark Lane : Mr. Brehm, where were you on November 22 1963? Charles Brehm : I had taken my five year old son downtown to se

Marguerite Oswald and Mark Lane A ridiculous theory from Marguerite Oswald : If Marguerite was alive today, she could be on Tucker Carlson's show and she would be quite a hit among the antisemitic crowd. Was Israel Behind the JFK Assassination? Tucker Carlson Again ... on the JFK Assassination Tucker says the CIA and another country assassinated JFK. Previous Relevant Blog Posts Marguerite Oswald Sends a Telegram to Jim Garrison Garrison got her upset. Garrison Investigators

Here is an excerpt of G. Robert Blakey's book, Fatal Hour : Here is what the HSCA Final Report said : Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Mark Lane George Lardner on Mark Lane Mark Lane and the HSCA. When Mort Sahl Kicked Mark Lane Out of his House An interesting anecdote from Mort Sahl's book, Heartland. Should We Blame Mark Lane? Some ads for Lane's film Rush to Judgment. In Defense of the Warren Commission A Garry Wills opinion piece on Mark Lane. Victor Navasky Reviews Mark L

Hat tip: Hideji Okina, who is a terrific JFK assassination researcher in Japan. The Moorman photograph Josiah Thompson wonders in his book, Six Seconds in Dallas , if the gunman behind the fence appears in the Moorman photograph: (pages 128 - 129) "Looking right down at the barrel of that gun." Really? Talk about wanting to please. Holland also told Thompson that Kennedy was hit in the head by two shots, something he had never mentioned before. Here is what the HSCA said abo

S. M. Holland and Mark Lane in a scene from Rush to Judgment. There are some serious inconsistencies with S.M. Holland's statements and testimony about his supposed sighting of "smoke" on the grassy knoll. Here is his statement to the Sheriff's Department : Holland says that "I heard what I thought for the moment was a fire cracker and he slumped over and I looked over toward the arcade and trees and saw a puff of smoke," and then he heard three more shots. The only puff of

During Life Magazine's investigation of the JFK assassination in 1966, Holland McCombs decided to do a test and see if it was possible to see smoke from a rifle on the grassy knoll. Here is their report: Here is the text: Last week end we sent out a crew of four hunters to perform and witness. They were Carol and Roy Lutz, and Bill and Lucilla Dahnke. They carried to a nearby ranch a 32-20 rifle, a 30-30, an Army M-1, A Texas Ranger 38, a Beretta Automatic Pistol, a 22 Target

George Davis was another one of the railroad men who watched the motorcade on November 22nd from the triple overpass. Here is his FBI report : In 1966, Life Magazine briefly started investigating the JFK assassination and they looked into the issue of smoke on the grassy knoll. As part of their investigation, Holland McCombs, one of their reporters, interviewed George Davis: Davis says that "one of the policemen that was riding in the rear of the President's car on the motorc

Here is an excerpt from a transcript : S. M. Holland : The President slumped over forward like that and he tried to raise his hand up. Governor Connally, sitting in front of him on the right side of the car, tried to turn to his right, and he was sitting so close to the door, he couldn't make it that way. And he turned back like that with his arm out, to the left. And about that time the second shot was fired. It knocked him over forward, and he slumped to the right, and I gu

Mark Lane and Richard Calvin Dodd from the film Rush to Judgment. Richard C. Dodd is another one of Mark Lane's 'smoke on the grassy knoll' witnesses.(page 40 of Rush to Judgment ) In filmed interviews, both James L. Simmons and Richard C. Dodd told me that they had seen smoke near the bushes and trees at the corner of the wooden fence ... Dodd said, 'The smoke came from behind the ledge on the north side of the plaza'. However, Dodd said nothing of the kind in his FBI interv

Austin Lawrence Miller Austin Miller was another one of Mark Lane's witnesses who claimed to have seen smoke on the grassy knoll: (page 40 in Rush to Judgment ) Austin L. Miller stated in an affidavit on November 22, 'I saw something which I thought was smoke or steam coming from a group of trees north of Elm off the railroad tracks.' He was questioned for the first time by counsel for the Commission four and a half months after the assassination. The interview was a brief on

Mark Lane and James L. Simmons in the film Rush to Judgment Another one of Mark Lane's witnesses to support his theory that a gunman was firing from the grassy knoll was James Simmons: (page 40 of Rush to Judgment ) In filmed interviews, both James L. Simmons and Richard C. Dodd told me that they had seen smoke near the bushes and trees at the corner of the wooden fence. Simmons said the sound of the shots 'came from the left and in front of us, toward the wooden fence, and t

Another one of Mark Lane's witnesses to support his theory that a gunman was firing from the grassy knoll was Clemon Johnson: (page 40 of Rush to Judgment ) Clemon E. Johnson told FBI agents that he had observed 'white smoke.' Here is his FBI report : Johnson tells the FBI that, at the time, "he did not know that it was shots and he could not say how many shots he heard." But, for some strange reason, Mark Lane does not quote the last line: Mr. Johnson stated that white smok

Walter Winborn witnessed the JFK assassination from the railroad overpass in Dealey Plaza. He is one of the witnesses that Mark Lane quotes in his book Rush to Judgment (page 40) to help prove a shot from the grassy knoll. Walter L. Winborn and Thomas J. Murphy told an independent investigator that they also had seen smoke in the trees on the knoll. Here is his statement to the FBI from 1964: Winborn said all the shots came from the same location, but he could not tell where

It was a pleasure to talk with Josh Sundloff who has a terrific channel on TikTok [Reason and Reality] the JFK assassination. Previous Episodes of On the Trail of Delusion : Episode 1 My first guest was Robert Reynolds who is an expert on the JFK assassination files . Episode 2 Robert A. Wagner discusses his new book, JFK Assassinated . Episode 3 Gerald Posner discusses the JFK assassination and conspiracy theories. Episode 4 Dr. Martin J. Kelly, Jr. discusses conspiracy theo

Did Hale Boggs have reservations about the Warren Report. Paul Bleau thinks that he did -- here is excerpt from the book, Chokeholds : Boggs was neither convinced that Oswald was the assassin, nor that Ruby acted alone. According to legal advisor Bernard Fensterwald: “Almost from the beginning, Congressman Boggs had been suspicious over the FBI and CIA’s reluctance to provide hard information when the Commission’s probe turned to certain areas, such as allegations that Oswa

Here is the article from the Los Angeles Times that Edwards was referring to: Here is a George Lardner article on the controversy: Previous Relevant Blog Posts George Lardner on Mark Lane Lane supported Don Edwards until he complained about the HSCA.

Tucker Carlson who has gone completely antisemitic over the last year has another rant on the JFK assassination. His guest is Zach Lahn who is running to be Governor of Iowa. Here is an excerpt from a transcript: (1:16:47) Lahn : Somebody asked me the other day, what do you think the most pressing issue facing America is? And I, like, taking out the spirituality, because spirituality is intertwined. But taking that out, it said, I think it's that our government is run by une

Washington Post, May 14, 1977 Money Quote When Rep. Don Edwards (D-Calif), as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, protested against the intrusive nature of the hidden recording devices, voice stress analyzers and other gadgets proposed for the investigation by chief Counsel Sprague, Lane began denouncing him on the lecture circuit and noting darkly that Edwards was a former agent of the FBI. Up to that point, Edwards had been mentioned favorably in Ci

It was great fun talking with Dr. Robert Vitt on JFK conspiracy stories, the first generation of critics and how to evaluate evidence . Robert Vitt is a tenured professor of philosophy at Long Beach City College in California, where he teaches courses in critical thinking, philosophy, and law-related studies. He holds a J.D. and M.B.A. from Chapman University, as well as an M.A. in Philosophy from the City University of New York Graduate Center. His research focuses on the JF