1. Raising Arizona 2. Burn After Reading 3. Miller’s Crossing (One I simply can’t re-watch: No Country for Old Men. I reacted to that one pretty much the way @pattonoswalt reacted to Jerry Maguire.)

Afraid not, Bobby. It’s the former Scottish verdict of “not proven” for all the theories surrounding the JFK assassination. And, yes, that includes the three-bullet, lone-assassin theory. We are now mainly arguing for posterity, researching for the knowledge of future generations, not to convince some dozen random Americans, today, of any damned thing.

Alexandra de Mohrenschildt, daughter of the recently and suspiciously deceased George de Mohrenschildt, said that her father wasn’t worried about appearing before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, but that he was “just terrified” of the Dutch journalist Willem Oltmans. Oltmans had interviewed the Russian emigre shortly before his death, and portrayed de Mohrenschildt in the 1991 @TheOliverStone film JFK. (Washington Star, 4/4/77.)

Incredibly encouraging. Good work gents!

Less than three months before the JFK assassination, mixed signals from Dean Rusk’s State Department on official U.S. support for paramilitary raids into Cuba by anti-Castro exiles. While insisting the U.S. would not offer any support for exile groups that were “seeking…publicity through ineffectual attacks on Russian and other shipping in Cuban waters,…and other installations of nonmilitary value,” the unnamed State Department spokesman said there would be support for exile raids targeting Cuban infrastructure and agriculture, or efforts to “build…up an underground army in Cuba.” “Thus, Cubans who bombed a sugar mill, oil refinery installations, and a sulfo-metal plant earlier this month presumably have the tacit blessing of the United States. No raids by anyone or of any kind, it was made clear, will be permitted or condoned if based, financed, or planned on U.S. territory.” (Washington Post, 8/31/63.)

Interesting man and an interesting life, regardless of one’s view of the appropriateness of the CIA “infiltrating” corporate media. Find and read his memoir— very capably written.

Tremendous service to researchers! The blogs assembled here have so much to go through— all of it fascinating— but looking for XYZ item or artifact can take a ridiculous amount of time on these (at times disorganized) websites. Kudos to @BowTiedPinto for stellar work in making these searchable!

Fantastic, detailed overview of the USS Liberty incident and its immediate and lasting coverup, from @RogerJStoneJr. The spotlight on Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s role in helping the coverup, is welcome and overdue. Too many liberals of a certain age continue to give McNamara a general pass after his embarrassing crocodile-tears book tour for In Retrospect (1995). stonecoldtruth.com/p/lbj-rob…

Happy USS Liberty Remembrance Day.

“…Nazism no longer should be a serious consideration from a viewpoint of [American] national security…To continue to treat Nazi affiliations as significant considerations has been aptly phrased as ‘beating a dead Nazi horse.’” - Captain Bosquet Wev, March 1948. I will leave it to other and more capable writers to memorialize both the mission undertaken and the lives lost on the sixth of June, 1944. So many young Americans lost in the perilous, by no means assured quest to eradicate the Nazi threat. Well…not *all* the Nazis. Captain Bosquet Neill “Bosko” Wev, USN (left), the head of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) within the JCS, was the individual in charge of Operation PAPERCLIP from 1945 on, the program that rescued significant German military, intelligence, and technical figures from both the rope and the “influence” of the Soviet Union. The “denazified” Germans saved by PAPERCLIP went on to robust political and industrial careers, rebuilding postwar, Cold War Europe, establishing NATO, and helping to advance American rocketry ambitions. Colonel Holger N. Toftoy, the head of the War Department’s rocketry R&D efforts during and after the war, was one of the driving forces behind the acquisition of German expertise and shielding various Nazi officials from legal repercussions in the years after WWII. Col. Toftoy was especially interested in the sophistication of the Germans’ V-2 rocket and wanted those responsible for it recruited to help the guided-missile program he envisioned, and eventually accomplished.

A consistently great writer and thinker on the assassinations and their impact, on a fantastic podcast. Well worth your time.