Re: Does Judyth have anything to offer serious students of the JFK

On Jul 20, 11:19=A0pm, Peter Fokes<jp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> If so, what?
>
> Please list the im****tant points in order ....
>
> Peter Fokes,
> Toronto

If her account is true, it would change the way we regard Oswald and many 
aspects of the assassination. But if it (or large segments of it) are not 
true, it would be beyond useless; it would be an offense to the research 
community. In fact, if just a small but significant part of the account 
were to prove fabricated, it would call the whole account into question.

This is what (forgive me, Martin and Pamela) the prime Baker defenders 
just don't get. The retail credit re****t, the Cancun incident, the seeming

mistakes about Ferrie and company, crazy things like Oswald being 
consulted about the parade route by the USSS and many others - many of the

questions about these things have not been adequately resolved. If any of 
these things proves untrue, then the whole account falls, but the 
defenders don't seem to get it. The legitimate question is whether Baker 
is faithfully recalling real events to the best of her memory, or whether 
she has studied the record and picked the brains of researchers in order 
to create a barely plausible but untrue account, for the purpose of 
bolstering her belief in a conspiracy and her conviction that Oswald was 
innocent.

I, for one, have lost faith that we will ever get past this point: The 
defenders will continue to believe, no matter what, and most of the rest 
of the research community will continue to disbelieve or ignore the story.