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

"Martin Shackelford" <mshack4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Two rather bizarre errors, Paul.
> First of all, I didn't write a book--Judyth wrote a book.

O really.
Thanks for telling me, I didn't know.


> Secondly, you are talking about Reader's Digest journalist Henry Hurt,
not
> Josiah Thompson.

I said :

Another example - didn't
>> Josiah Thompson get led up the garden path by some guy called
Easterling 
>> ? Or maybe that's just my memory failing again.. :-)





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> Martin
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> "paul seaton" <paulNOseatonSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Peter Fokes" <jpfCT@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> If so, what?
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>>> Please list the im****tant points in order ....
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>> Hi Peter ,
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>> IMHO , Judyth has given us a classic case study of a JFK related scam, 
>> sub species what you might call the Pseudo-Witness Scam. From the edges

>> of my increasingly hazy memory , others would include the Roscoe White 
>> thing, Beverly Oliver, Gordon Arnold.... others with sharper memories 
>> please feel free to expand the list.
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>> This kind of scam seems to be most effective when the pseudo witness 
>> really does have some real connection to events, no matter how
miniscule. 
>> ( eg Roscoe White really was DPD at the time, I think, & Judyth really 
>> did work at Reily. ) The microscopic 'connection' is usually inflated 
>> into some giant imaginary 'solution' to the crime, which is often 
>> championed by one particular ( & particularly gullible) 'researcher' (
no 
>> doubt fired by the ego-stroking prospect of being the guy who finally -

>> ahem - 'cracked the case' ) who ends by writing a - hopefully best 
>> selling - book about it, staking his reputation on it, and who 
>> consequently eventually loses - or at least seriously harms- his 
>> reputation.  (Another example - didn't Josiah Thompson get led up the 
>> garden path by some guy called Easterling ? Or maybe that's just my 
>> memory failing again.. :-)
>>
>> paul s
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