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Robert Ellis's avatar

Thank you, Jefferson for all of your hard work. I follow your posts closely and pray that you and others find the truth in this murder. Please keep up the good work you have done.......you are awesome.

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TemplarScribe's avatar

As much as I still hold out hope for AI being a global human aid, it still faces inordinate hurdles, as seen just this week where an AI assistant logging Utah police vest cameras determined that an officer had transformed into a frog while dealing with a suspect, all based on the images it logged from the scene.

We also have to be conscious of how the owners and handlers of these AI programs can tweak and adjust these programs to spew out results more to their liking. At present, and for the foreseeable future, I tend to see AI more as an adversary than an honest assistant.

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Jamie Capildeo's avatar

I’m philosophically sad that I didn’t get a chance to talk to Ruth Paine. She knew everything, but I don’t think anyone ever asked her the right questions.

For example, she got Lee the job in the TSBD well before the motorcade route was known. Why? Many other places were hiring for sure, but he was ‘steered’ towards this job specifically. Lee had to be in this building on 22nd November and Ruth Paine knew that. It’s the only explanation (the ONLY one).

Paine then had Marina and the kids come and live with her and Lee took a place at a boarding house. Lee couldn’t drive, so relied on lifts from Ruth and Michael Paine. In essence, Lee was ‘geo-fenced’ by the Paines. Why? Because Ruth Paine was in the perfect position to manage the ‘second Oswald’ sightings in Dallas leading up to the assassination (the gun range, the car dealership, the furniture store). The two Lees could never meet - so she geo-fenced the real Lee to ensure the second Oswald could never bump into him.

There are the weird stories about a neighbour seeing a ‘fake Lee’ on Ruth’s driveway, when the real Lee was at work. There is also the transcript of the call in the Dallas Police Archives from Ruth to her husband, telling him Lee shot the president BEFORE Lee was even arrested.

She was the one that found every single piece of incriminating evidence against Lee - every single piece (the Walker letter, the Minox spy cam that was Michael’s, the rifle which she’d never seen herself), plus her sister, father and mother were all connected to the CIA (including Dulles via his mistress, a spy herself), whilst Michael Paine worked at Bell Helicopters and had top level security clearance (which should have been revoked for housing a communist defector but wasn’t, he even took Lee to work).

There are many more strands here, but I would have put this all to her - some of it is flatly deniable if you’re a spy (that’s fine), but other elements really not so…she’d have been caught out as lying.

So truth in 2026 comes in many ways…one of which is to nail the Paines for who they really were, once and for all; the handlers on the ground of LHO, the second Oswald and the very people who kick-started the lone nut assassin cover story.

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

Good observations. According to other researchers, she was very particular about to whom she would grant interviews. She had a lengthy vetting process according to Ted Yacucci. In a nutshell, she wouldn't talk to people who she thought would ask hard questions.

Imagine what could have been learned if she had been subjected to enhanced interrogation. Also, according to someone who was granted an interview, she was very concerned about what her then demented ex-husband might say when not in her presence and under her control. (They lived together at the same retirement home at the end). She would bang on a pot or pan if she saw him talking to an interviewer. He might have spilled the entire story had someone been able to get him alone.

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Eldon Krugman's avatar

JC, keep leading the “charge!”

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Jamie Capildeo's avatar

I bet she was very selective on who she spoke to! And very careful to remind everyone she was a little old caring Quaker lady…and yes you are so right about Michael, it’s no coincidence that she was there to silence him, I’m quite certain. These two held the truth and still do - they are the hieroglyphs of our story; we just need the Paine Rosetta Stone to decipher their true roles. Maybe in a document release, who knows. We can hope.

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edward connor's avatar

David Morales is "one of the likliest suspects?"

He admitted his guilt in a bar in Tucson.

"We finally got the S.O.B.!", he exclaimed.

The S.O.B. was JFK. The 'we" was he, and his CIA pals.

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

Is there written documentation that he made this statement? If so, wow.

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Jeff Lorentson's avatar

Jeff - Thanks for providing this focus. These three pillars will continue the push forward to the Truth.

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David Wald's avatar

I think your question "Is the JFK story relevant to America’s current political crisis?" is extremely important. We are in an extreme political crisis. Trump speaks even more like a mad man as he has threatened Colombia, Mexico, Greenland (Denmark), Cuba, and Iran since his attack on Venezuela. If it could be established that elements of the CIA and military conspired to kill Kennedy because he was turning away from the Cold War and planning to get out of Vietnam after the 1964 election, how would Americans react. Half of Americans are in the cult of Trump and have no capacity for critical thinking.

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

There is a split within MAGA now between the America Firsters, like Massie, Tucker Carlson,and MTG, and the Trump sycophants, the former feeling rightly betrayed by Trump who has turned into a full-fledged neocon, appearing with the likes of giddy warmonger Lindsey Graham.

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

"To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question:

Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?"

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Mike S's avatar

It seems like the CIA has been slow walking release of records since the summer of 2025 - we still don't have the Harvey travel records, the records identified by Jeff's whistleblower at a SCIF, etc. I am hoping we can restart momentum on receiving these documents in 2026.

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

It's obvious who is really in charge, isn't it?

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

Where has the coup d'etat of 11/22/63 brought us? To the cusp of a totalitarian surveillance state.

https://youtu.be/Vx0bKVd9Xss?si=4m7rt016h37HVNGq

AI-created videos are already manufacturing consent:

https://youtu.be/_urCJ377fbw?si=7LPnAxvKIXfOIMBq

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ThisOldMan's avatar

Personally (and I suspect I speak for the majority of your readers) I am really interested in one and only one thing: WHO KILLED JFK?

Why do I have the feeling this site is losing contact with its subscribers?

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

The CIA masterminded it, and it was carried out in conjunction with a variety of other co-conspirators. I think most of us agree on this.

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Eldon Krugman's avatar

Two recent UTUBE videos focus on the date; November 19, 1963. Video A quotes from Evelyn Lincoln’s papers, stored at the JFK Library. On 11/19/63, JFK told her that LBJ would be dropped from the 1964 ticket. (This one is verifiable.) Video B states that a distraught JFK calls Barry Goldwater on 11/19/63 and asks him to come to the Whitehouse at 11:30 PM for an unannounced meeting, using a side entrance without signing in. Supposedly JFK was receiving reports from close allies to not go to Dallas. LBJ was Evelyn Lincoln’s suspect.

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Anti-war leftist's avatar

Abraham Bolden overheard LBJ threaten JFK:

https://youtu.be/q_XTAJOtAlI?si=I1YuSUzlDvsIoWa1

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Carter O'Brien's avatar

With apologies to Don Henley, when it comes to those guilty in institutional cover ups and those just lying for self-preservation... kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down, kick 'em when they're stiff, kick 'em all around.

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Charles Drago's avatar

What are you attempting to solve?

The conspiracy-lone nut puzzle.? Well, Jefferson, it's best that you learn this from me: conspiracy was demonstrated to the degree of metaphysical certitude before the limousine reached the triple underpass.

The mystery of why mile wide-inch deep Junior G-Men like your new golden boy Crumpton are afforded invaluable soap boxes from which they can aid and abet the cover-up by regurgitating long-established facts with an air of discovery? Well, Jefferson, it's best that you learn this from me: Vincent Salandria, George Michael Evica, Sylvia Meagher, and their peers did not die for the sins of Crumpton and the rest of the JFKRCOD -- the JFK Research Confederacy of Dunces.

The puzzle in which educated, ostensibly seasoned investigators are on view behaving like Calcutta untouchables begging for baksheesh from justice-obstructing USG committees and acting like shocked gambling-in-Casablanca naifs when mainstream media giants do to the truth what the hit teams did to JFK? Well, Jefferson, it's ..

Nah. Never you mind. I checked with AI, which strongly advised me to just screw it.

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