Kid Berwyn
Profile Information
Member since: Mon May 6, 2019, 08:01 PM
Number of posts: 11,556
Number of posts: 11,556
Journal Archives
So, if there's nothing to Stone's JFK, why all the effort to suppress it?
Must go with the territory. So who remembers E Howard Hunt?
Nixon’s Plumber knew how to trigger certain reaction. Richard Nixon's Greatest Cover-Up: His Ties to the Assassination of President Kennedy Don Fulsom Crime Magazine, Oct. 15, 2003 (updated March 22, 2009) Excerpt... As for Nixon's stated compassion for the Kennedys, let's not forget that he deeply despised them. So much so that, as president, he ordered chief White House spy E. Howard Hunt to forge diplomatic cables to make it look like President Kennedy ordered the murder of South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem. He sent another spy, Anthony Ulasewicz, to Chappaquiddick, Mass., to investigate the 1969 crash of a car driven by Edward Kennedy that killed the senator's female companion. He placed Sen. Kennedy under a 24-hour-a-day Secret Service surveillance in an effort, in Nixon's phrase, "to catch him in the sack with one of his babes." And Nixon pressed aides to plant a false story in the press linking Sen. Kennedy to the 1972 assassination attempt against Alabama Gov. George Wallace. Snip... Back in the Eisenhower years, Vice President Richard Nixon and CIA agent E. Howard Hunt were principal secret planners of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that failed so miserably when it was later launched by President Kennedy. Some historians are convinced Nixon was a prime mover in an associated — and also ill-fated — plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. For example, onetime Nixon aide Roger Morris says Nixon "had been an avid supporter of the Eisenhower administration's covert operations to overthrow Castro, including the alliance with organized crime to assassinate the Cuban leader." For his part, Hunt has readily admitted his role in efforts to murder Castro. For the "executive action" mission, potential assassins were recruited from Mafia ranks, so that if any of their activities were disclosed, organized crime could be blamed. Nixon confidant Robert Maheu fronted for the CIA on the Mob plots. A high-end private eye (and ex-FBI undercover operative) who functioned in the shadowy realm between U.S. intelligence services and the national criminal syndicate, Maheu had performed previous "dirty tricks" for both Nixon and Giancana. Hoffa had also been a client of Maheu, who would eventually become the top aide to Mob-and CIA-connected billionaire and Nixon financial angel Howard Hughes. Snip... E. Howard Hunt, of course, went on to become President Nixon's chief dirty trickster and secret intelligence operative. In 1972, five Hunt-recruited former CIA men — all veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion planning — were caught by police while burglarizing Democratic headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington. Fearing that Hunt's role would soon be learned — and the burglary traced back to the White House —Nixon immediately set out to blackmail g an FBI investigation of the break-in. He had his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, tell CIA Director Richard Helms that Hunt, if apprehended, might spill the beans about a major CIA secret. On one of the original Watergate tapes, the president rehearsed Haldeman on exactly what to tell the intelligence chief: "Hunt knows too damned much ... If this gets out that this is all involved ... it would make the CIA look bad, it's going to make Hunt look bad, and it's likely to blow the whole Bay of Pigs thing ... which we think would be very unfortunate for both the CIA and the country ... and for American foreign policy." Continues... http://www.crimemagazine.com/richard-nixons-greatest-cover-his-ties-assassination-president-kennedy Nation has not been the same since November 22, 1963. |
Posted by Kid Berwyn | Fri Nov 12, 2021, 02:07 PM (3 replies)
Astronaut Robert H. Lawrence, USAF, another vet to remember.
Air Force Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr.
The unsung astronaut Robert Lawrence, America’s first black astronaut, died in a tragic accident in 1967, but it took decades longer for his accomplishments and hard-won status to be recognized. By James Oberg NBC News, Feb. 23, 2005 Maj. Robert H. Lawrence, America’s first black astronaut, had already traveled far by the time he was selected as a military astronaut in 1967. His death later that year in a tragic accident not only cut short a promising career, it led full recognition of his accomplishments and hard-won status to be obscured for decades. Only after his supporters traveled their own difficult journey was Lawrence accorded his proper place in space history. Lawrence was a 31-year-old Air Force officer when he was selected in 1967 to join a small team of military officers training for a planned small space station. The Pentagon's "Manned Orbiting Laboratory," or MOL, was intended to explore the value of military space missions for astronauts. Two-man crews would be launched aboard advanced Gemini capsules and spend a month or more in orbit, practicing visual reconnaissance and communications intercepts and other national security tasks. SNIP… In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts left a memorial plaque on the moon that named fourteen American and Russian names. Lawrence was not included. When, in the wake of the Challenger shuttle disaster in 1986, a private foundation built a memorial at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Lawrence’s name was again omitted. If in the end the difficulties turned out to have been more connected with the color of his uniform -- Air Force blue -– than of his skin, the fact remains that Lawrence's legacy was allowed to go unheralded for decades. SNIP… Fred Abramson attended graduate school with Lawrence and remembered him as extraordinary. When Ohio State dedicated a lecture hall in 2000 to Lawrence, Abramson sent in this remembrance: "I still have that Reader's Digest 'The Most Unforgettable Character I Ever Met' attitude toward Bob," Abramson wrote. “He was gifted in every area. He was smarter and more efficient than the rest of us. He could dust me off on the basketball court. ... And, oh yes, he could fly a jet fighter!” CONTINUES… https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7018497 PS: You are most welcome, chiwder66! I’ve been to both, KCMO and KCKS. Great towns and great people. My nephew is a proud K State grad. |
Posted by Kid Berwyn | Thu Nov 11, 2021, 05:13 PM (0 replies)
A Veteran to Remember: Astronaut Ed Dwight, USAF
Ed Dwight Was Going to Be the First African American in Space. Until He Wasn’t The Kennedy administration sought a diverse face to the space program, but for reasons unknown, the pilot was kept from reaching the stars Shareef Jackson Smithsonian Magazine, February 18, 2020 In the early 1960s, U.S. Air Force pilot Ed Dwight was drowning in mail. “I received about 1,500 pieces of mail a week, which were stored in large containers at Edwards Air Force Base. Some of it came to my mother in Kansas City,” Dwight, now 86, recalls. Fans from around the world were writing to congratulate Dwight on becoming the first African American astronaut candidate. “Most of my mail was just addressed to Astronaut Dwight, Kansas City, Kansas.” The letters, however, were premature. Dwight would never get the opportunity to go to space—despite the publicity and hype—for reasons that remain unclear even to this day. Dwight was working at the time as a test pilot at Edwards in the Mojave Desert of California, the U.S. Air Force’s premier experimental flight base and a pathway to entering the astronaut corps of NASA. He trained in the Aerospace Research Pilot School, run by aviation icon Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier. Edwards holds a legendary status, then and now, as the premier flight test facility of the Air Force, where the likes of Gus Grissom and Gordon Cooper, two of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, and Neil Armstrong, selected in the second group of astronauts, trained as test pilots in experimental jets over the vast high desert that often served as an impromptu runway. During his time at Edwards, Dwight flew jets such as the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a supersonic aircraft capable of soaring into the high atmosphere where the pilot could observe the curvature of the Earth. “The first time you do this it’s like, ‘Oh my God, what the hell? Look at this,’” Dwight recently told the New York Times. “You can actually see this beautiful blue layer that the Earth is encased in. It’s absolutely stunning.” Snip… Around this time, Kennedy encouraged leaders in all the military branches to work to improve diversity among their officers. When the first group of NASA astronauts were selected in 1959, the nation’s military officer pilots, initially the only people who could apply to be astronauts, included no people of color. But as Murrow advocated for a black astronaut, Dwight was rising to the rank of captain in the Air Force, armed with an aeronautics degree from Arizona State University and enough flying hours to qualify for the flight test school at Edwards. Continues… https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ed-dwight-first-african-american-space-until-wasnt-180974215/ 
After the assassination of President Kennedy, Capt. Dwight fell off the track. He would become a sculptor, like all he worked to accomplish, one of excellence. 
The International Memorial to the Underground Railroad |
Posted by Kid Berwyn | Thu Nov 11, 2021, 12:50 PM (2 replies)
At the Willard and the White House, the Jan. 6 Panel Widens Its Net
Homing in on the pigeons…
At the Willard and the White House, the Jan. 6 Panel Widens Its Net Luke Broadwater and Mark Mazzetti Wed, November 10, 2021 WASHINGTON — “We are essentially in a national emergency,” Michael T. Flynn declared on Jan. 5, during an interview with the internet conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recorded in a luxurious suite at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel near the White House. “The truth is going to come out,” said Flynn, the former three-star general and national security adviser. “Donald Trump will continue to be president of the United States for the next four years.” In another room of the five-star hotel, a phalanx of lawyers and political advisers for Trump — including Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer; Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner; and John Eastman, a scholar working feverishly on a legal strategy to prevent Joe Biden from assuming the presidency — had set up a kind of command post. On the hotel’s grand front steps, Roger Stone , a longtime Trump adviser, was flashing his signature Nixon victory sign to fans as members of the Oath Keepers, a militant group, protected him. SNIP… The panel has learned details about how “Stop the Steal” rally organizers used deception to obtain permits from the Capitol Police to hold rallies near the Capitol; how Trump and White House officials coordinated with organizers of the rally whose attendees would later storm the Capitol; and how deeply Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was involved in pushing false claims of widespread election fraud. CONTINUES… https://www.yahoo.com/news/willard-white-house-jan-6-125537192.html I look forward to learning what the Committee learns in regards to “foreknowledge of violence,” especially as it relates to the delayed National Guard response Flynn’s little three star brother was all forgetful about when he was in another war room. |
Posted by Kid Berwyn | Wed Nov 10, 2021, 09:30 PM (11 replies)
Need to remind voters who wants to eliminate US Department of Education.
Posted by Kid Berwyn | Tue Nov 9, 2021, 02:17 PM (0 replies)
Nixon really waged war on hippies and Blacks, not drugs, per se.
Posted by Kid Berwyn | Mon Nov 8, 2021, 12:28 PM (0 replies)
Nixon won GOP Style -- Treason
The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'
by David Taylor BBC Archive On 4, 22 March 2013 Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls provide a fresh insight into his world. Among the revelations - he planned a dramatic entry into the 1968 Democratic Convention to re-join the presidential race. And he caught Richard Nixon sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks... but said nothing. Snip… It begins in the summer of 1968. Nixon feared a breakthrough at the Paris Peace talks designed to find a negotiated settlement to the Vietnam war, and he knew this would derail his campaign. He therefore set up a clandestine back-channel involving Anna Chennault, a senior campaign adviser. At a July meeting in Nixon's New York apartment, the South Vietnamese ambassador was told Chennault represented Nixon and spoke for the campaign. If any message needed to be passed to the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, it would come via Chennault. In late October 1968 there were major concessions from Hanoi which promised to allow meaningful talks to get underway in Paris - concessions that would justify Johnson calling for a complete bombing halt of North Vietnam. This was exactly what Nixon feared. Chennault was despatched to the South Vietnamese embassy with a clear message: the South Vietnamese government should withdraw from the talks, refuse to deal with Johnson, and if Nixon was elected, they would get a much better deal. So on the eve of his planned announcement of a halt to the bombing, Johnson learned the South Vietnamese were pulling out. Continues… https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21768668 
The Paris peace talks may have ended years earlier, if it had not been for Nixon's subterfuge |
Posted by Kid Berwyn | Sun Nov 7, 2021, 08:55 AM (0 replies)
"When do we get to use the guns?"
A man at a local event by Turning Points USA asked, just hours after the Boise Towne Square shooting, asked Charlie Kirk when he would get to start killing political opponents.
‘When do we get to use the guns?’ The police should be able to take that guy’s guns. BY BRYAN CLARK The Idaho Statesman, OCTOBER 28, 2021 Excerpt… The main speaker was Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Points. Kirk’s hucksterism is obvious. He is a traveling salesman at heart. Snip… According to the nonprofit organization’s tax filings, Kirk was paid about $330,000 last year. Turning Points reported earning about $10.3 million from fundraising events, more than a quarter of its total revenue for 2020. Snip… The man, claiming the state had fallen into tyranny, asked Kirk: “When do we get to use the guns?” — to applause and cheers from many in the audience. Then, to remove any doubt that this aspiring Brownshirt wasn’t being metaphorical or facetious but was, in fact, asking when to start murdering political opponents, he continued: “That’s not a joke. I’m not saying it like that. I mean, literally, where is the line? How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?” Kirk did not respond with a simple message like: “Terrorism is wrong. You shouldn’t do it.” Instead, he cast political violence as a tactical blunder. It would play into the hand of the same hidden media-deepstate-Democrat forces trying to institute tyranny by installing Joe Biden as president, he claimed. Continues… https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article255354321.html |
Posted by Kid Berwyn | Thu Nov 4, 2021, 05:01 PM (22 replies)
