Hi Tom. How do you see the composite acquaintances/relationships re DeMohrenschildt overall, in the grand scheme of JFK being assassinated? Surely it looks like agency assets collaborating. Not that they'd be knowingly tied into the woven plot of assassination. Or would they? Objectively, Priscilla Johnson MacMillan quite clearly should have been questioned under the accusation of an Oswald conspirator/groupee. She knew Oswald before the assassination and talks so much in-depth spombleprofglidnoctobunse about him you'd think she was writing a book, oh wait.
I have listened to De Mohrenschildt and his wife talk to Willem Oltmans over and over. I am struck by how many times De Mohrenschildt had to remind Oswald ''how to act'' like an American. On multiple occasions De Mohrenschildt reminded Oswald ''that is not how we act here in USA'' -- I'm thinking -- wait, a Russian guy has to keep reminding Oswald that his socially aggressive/awkwardness isn't acceptable in U.S society. Is he really suggesting Oswald had been coopted into acting differently, and towards women, in particular It's almost like he's suggesting the Oswald he knew was actually in fact born and bred in the male chauvinistic culture of U.S.S.R. It's a very odd warts and all interview with Oltmans. Oltmans appears to be coaching & steering De Mohrenschildt, guiding him how to structure his points of views on Oswald ''no no George you should speak like this'' with his wife in agreement at the suggestion. Odd
Robert, thoughtful and interesting observations and questions. I've been thinking since this morning how to
reply to the level of quality I think your post merits. I've been looking closely at these people since 2009 and my biggest challenge is what to risk dismissing as coincidence vs what to leverage as evidence of conspiracy to, at the least, obstruct the investigation.
Oswald and George DeM are both contradictions, but the more I learn, what about "all this" isn't contradictory?
Examples:
What were DeMohrenschildt and Oswald, considering their FBI files, doing anywhere near the home of Admiral Henry C Bruton?
What was DeMohrenschildt doing, in wartime, no less, anywhere near naval officers Paul Joachim and Harry Hull in Washington, DC in 1943? In both examples, what is the responsibility Office of Naval Intelligence or FBI Division 5, if not to keep people with backgrounds like Lee or George away from submariners like Bruton and Hull or someone even more interesting, like future admiral Paul Joachim?
https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/13699-the-cia-and-hollywood/?tab=comments#comment-220362
Tom Scully - Posted February 26, 2011 (
....Paul L. Joachim was a 1934 Annapolis Academy graduate. During the Korean War, he was executive officer on the USS New Jersey. He attained the rank of Rear Admiral on the occasion of his retirement. Joachim was shot four times and killed in a presumably still unsolved murder on October 21, 1962, in front of 1350 Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Joachim was residing at 1400 Lake Shore Drive, in business as an art dealer.
Joachim's mother, Elmina Nance, married Dr. Paul L. Joachim of Washington, DC in 1910. Their other son was Phillip Nance Joachim, later an Associated Press editor. The widowed Elmina Nance Joachim later married Carl A. Joerissen, an Underwood Typewriter Co. executive and design engineer based in the Underwood, DC office. Elmina and Carl had a daughter named Kay, who married attorney and Coast Guard Reserve Lt. CDR William Helvestine in 1944. Helvestine died in a January, 1947, private airplace crash. Helvestine's brother, Albert Harrison Helvestine was the US Navy's patent attorney.
The most interesting details of Paul L. Joachim's background are that his stepfather, Carl A. Joerissen is reported by one source to have been the chief engineer of LF Safford. In 1924, these two men quickly designed and sold the first KATA-KANA typewriters to ONI (aka CSP-62, RIP-5 or Underwood Code Machine "RIP-5").
Laurance F. Safford went on to oversee the WWII US Navy Cryptographers, and he worked with Frank Rowlett to perfect the PURPLE code breaking machinery.
Another curiousity is that Carl A. Joerissen was associated with Gertrude Laughlin Joerissen, a linguist who translated Chinese and Japanese poetry. This Gertrude is not the daughter of US Ambassador to Spain, Laughlin.
The fact that the brother-in-law of Paul Joachim's sister, Kay, was the longtime, US Navy patent attorney is also intriguing. How did George De Mohrenschildt manage to insinuate himself with navy officer Paul Joachim, and Henry C. Bruton? Is it only coincidence that Paul Joachim was murdered in the same general time period that Edwin Walker was shot at, and also when Thomas J. Devine's foreign service brother-in-law went missing and washed up dead, considering that the dead man's brother, Howard Bucknell, III was a Navy submarine commander? Does any of this increase the significance of De Morhenschildt's introduction of Oswald to Henry C. Bruton?...
David Lifton claims he was once left alone in J. Walton Moore's Dallas home office or library while "visiting Moore," long enough to poke around to get a sense of what Moore had been reading about the JFK assassination.
And, there's this...
Joseph Dryer's connection and money partner in this Amsterdam hotel deal was Herbert Pulitzer, brother of Patsy, who married David Bartlett. David's brother Charles brought Jack and Jackie together at that wedding. Another "interesting" wedding included in the wedding party, David Bartlett, Cord Meyer, his cousin S. Willetts Meyer who was best man in Ed Hooker's wedding, and Priscilla's book editor, Marion S. Wyeth, residing at the time two houses from the Philip Sharples...
David and Charles Bartlett grew up on Jupiter Island and were closer to Prescott and George Bush than to JFK. Tom Devine's wildcat oil drilling partner, Cabell, was the spouse of Jackie's best friend Leigh Hunt.
Sometimes it seems friends in the first couple's inner circle, Bradley, Bartlett, and Sylvia Whitehouse, for example, at least had knowledge that would have exposed complicit people in the assassination, or at least in the cover up. Sylvia's brother, Charles Whitehouse, ex-CIA and serving as the last U.S. ambassador in Laos in the early 1970s while Alan Davidson was simultaneously the UK Ambassador. Priscilla was a bridesmaid in the Davison wedding, her close friend the bride, Jane was the daughter of diplomat Macatee. Jane Macatee Davidson was a first cousin of Jinx Falkenberg who lived in a bungalow on Jock Whitney's estate near Priscilla's home in Glen Head, LI, until after Whitney died and his widow Betsy evicted Jinx.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinx_FalkenburgABC TV interviewer Barbara Walters was a protege of Jinx's husband and Yales bonesman, Tex McCrary,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_McCraryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Davidson_(food_writer)
Alan Eaton Davidson
CMG An indication Priscilla was still close to the Davidson's is that Alan Davison was a food writer credited with saving the historic cuisine of the royal Laotian era and wrote a book on North American seafood recioes, including "Frogmoor stew" of the small South Carolina island Priscilla lived on with George MacMillan.
https://www.nytimes.com/1946/05/24/archives/marion-t-butler-becomes-a-bride-she-is-wed-to-edward-gordon-hooker.html
Marion T. BUTLER BECOMES A BRIDE; She Is Wed to Edward Gordon Hooker
- New York Times - May 24, 1946
S. . Willets Meyer of New York was best man. The ushers were George Herbert Walker Bush of Greenwich, ... Mrs. Edward Gordon Hooker
http://www.highwayhost.org/International/Europe/amsterdam1.htmlHoward Johnson's Landmark: July 1968; page 1
Photograph Caption:
"President Howard B. Johnson (seated left) pinpoints Amsterdam on his map of the world for Howard Cummings, corporate executive vice president/operations; Herbert Pulitzer, license operator; Gen. Frederik Kruls, consultant to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines;
and Joseph Dryer, co-operator or our first foreign facility."
Note the failure to recognize the Nassau Howard Johnson's as a foreign facility....In this context...
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/FBI%20Records%20Files/105-82555/105-82555%20Section%20030/105-30b.pdf3 6 FEB 2 1573
Dec 1, 2019 — JOHN PIC was a half brother of LEE HARVEY OSWALD. JOHN ...
her sister DORIS EBEL,
nee Fuhrman, and later DORIS EBEL.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/north-palm-beach-fl/john-ebel-5148867John Ebel Obituary - North Palm Beach, FL - Dignity Memorial
John was a chauffeur, working for hotel and restaurant founder
Howard Johnson for more than a decade in the 1960s. In 1973, John and
Doris moved to Palm Beach ..."
Robert, consider how Oswald handled himself "on a date" with the stewardess sister of his USMC friend from Baton Rouge who had recently taken a Berlitz course in Russian language, or his discussion with the Japanese girlfriend of Dallas cellist Lev Aronson at the first social gathering the DeMohrenschildts brought the Oswald couple to, vs what is claimed about Oswald's Russian language fluency or his treatment of Marina.
I think there is a 50 / 50 chance Oswald was nowhere near as physically abusive of Marina as the white Russian, WC witnesses made him out to be.
https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/23523-what-evidence-is-there-that-lee-harvey-oswald-beat-marina/page/21/?tab=comments#comment-359924
What evidence is there that Lee Harvey Oswald beat Marina?
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In my next post, I'm going to share some observations about DeMohrenschildt. I'm neither an "Oswald was innocent" advocate or a John Armstrong cultist but it does almost seem like Lee and George were potentially dual personality, "cloak and dagger" characters of infamy from a historical perspective.
