Paul returned to Quebec from visiting Dallas, TX & gives an overview of his conference experiences!
The 2024 conference experience was enhanced by taking the tour of Oswald's 'escape' from the TSBD.
Paul was able to visit Lee's rooming house, the backyard on Neely & the Texas Theatre.
Following Lee's proposed steps & timeline by the Warren Commission, you realize it was impossible.
While there were similarities, witnesses of the Tippit murder refused to ID Oswald as the shooter.
Paul visited Jack Ruby's Marsala apartment building, noting close proximity to the Texas Theatre.
Lee & Marina's prior home on Neely is abandoned & falling apart. Visit while you still can.
Paul is currently reading 'Admitted Assassin' by Brian K. Edwards.
Why would Lee's cab driver drop him off six blocks from his boarding house?
How many times do we have to prove that Kennedy was shot from the front? Expand your research.
Are we seeing the same puppeteers with the historic political assassinations?
Len feels there are 2 sorts of researchers, either focused on Dealey Plaza or focused on the big picture.
This years attendance at the conference was very low for some reason...
Paul encourages Len to hold a quality JFK event perhaps in New Orleans.
Len reminisces the Black Op Radio event 2010 at Hawaii, John Armstrong, Mark De Valk, Wes Swearingen attended.
Part II - Paul Bleau, Jeff Crudele, Andrew Iler
Paul Jeff and Andrew reveal what they discovered at National Archives
Their website JFK Chokeholds
The Black Vault - Online Document Archive - The Black Vault
Mary Ferrell Website
In 1992 Oliver Stone's JFK film gained extensive attention & highlighted the withheld documents.
The American public were outraged that thousands of records were still classified.
9C3B of the JFK Records Act imposes a ministerial duty on the ARRB to itemize record inventory.
The records were specified if they were still to be held as postponed, or with specific release dates.
In the ARRB's final report, they were required to set a date for all JFK records being held.
Andrew often frequents the Mary Ferrell Foundation & The Black Vault when researching.
Internal ARRB memo of June 1997 mentions huge backlog of records, processing 4+ million records.
Final determination forms were created for every single record that was archived by the ARRB.
Paul, Jeff & Andrew met at College Park, MD to go through archived records before the conference.
The men had goals to work together in order to get as many records copied as possible.
Andrew went through 12 boxes of archived records without finding any final determination forms.
On the 13th box, Andrew was relieved finding it full of final determination forms.
These forms are critical because the ARRB was an independent, high level, federal government agency.
In essence, these forms are all court orders.
Archivists have a legal obligation to comply with the ARRB's final orders.
The majority of the records have a release date of 2006, yet they remain behind closed doors. Why?
Paul worked as Andrew's research assistant searching up RIF #'s while onsite at the archives.
Neither Trump nor Biden has had the power to postpone JFK assassination records!
Even the most experienced of archivists have struggles finding JFK documents due to disorganization.
There should be over 100,000 of the final determination forms but boxes of forms are missing.
Andrew has requested the final determination forms for JFK files still being held from the public.
The final determination forms are not indexed, they're mislabelled & actually filed under subject titles.
The archivists at College Park, Maryland were all very helpful & professional.