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JFK Book Review - Oswald... The Truth · The Lone Gunman Podcast : JFK Assassination

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to JFK Book Reviews, a
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  Speaker 1: division of the Lone Gum and Podcast. I'm Rob Clark,
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  Speaker 1: along with me as usual Joe Barelli, and today we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be reviewing the book Oswald the Truth by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Kim Jostin or Jokim Yostin or however these dan
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  Speaker 1: these people pronounced their names. This book was published in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen and sixty seven by Peter down A Limited of
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  Speaker 1: London for the English version. As mister Jostin is a foreigner,
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  Speaker 1: his books were published in German and Dutch, first in
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  Speaker 1: French and Spanish and all kinds of stuff. This book
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  Speaker 1: clocks in at three hundred and seventy two pages. It
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  Speaker 1: does include a forward by the author and a conclusion
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  Speaker 1: by the author and a small index section. There are
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  Speaker 1: three parts to this book that is divided up into
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  Speaker 1: thirty five different chapters, and it covers a vast array
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  Speaker 1: of subjects, but focuses mainly on the position and theory
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  Speaker 1: of the tewod Oswald before it was popular. With that
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  Speaker 1: being said, you know joking. Jostin, like I said, he
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  Speaker 1: was born in Germany in nineteen oh seven and he
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  Speaker 1: attended universities in France and Spain. So this guy was
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  Speaker 1: a world traveler and he wrote many other books about
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  Speaker 1: the assassination, including one that was published before the Warrant
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  Speaker 1: Commission even published its report, before the investigation was done.
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  Speaker 1: This guy was on it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, which is crazy. It's crazy, and it caused
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  Speaker 2: some problems because mister Richard Holmes thought it was such
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  Speaker 2: a problem. He wrote to Jay Lee Reagan, of course,
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  Speaker 2: the General Council of the Warren Commission, talking about this
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  Speaker 2: book and saying how mister Jostine was a comedy in
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  Speaker 2: Germany since nineteen thirty two, trying to discredit him right away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he had a good theory when it came
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  Speaker 1: to posting his stuff. He was a journalist by trade,
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  Speaker 1: and he would send newsletters to various publishing companies and
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  Speaker 1: news outlets and media outlets in the United States and
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  Speaker 1: around the world to promote his book and get the
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  Speaker 1: word out there. Now, this is what the book looks like, folks,
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  Speaker 1: nice beautiful, simple green cover. And unfortunately, at the time
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  Speaker 1: of this recording, it is not available on Amazon. It
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  Speaker 1: is not available in places of like a Books or
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  Speaker 1: thrift books or anywhere that we could find but but
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  Speaker 1: we do have have a PDF copy. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: a channel member or subscriber to our channel and you
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  Speaker 1: would like a copy for gratise, feel free to email
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  Speaker 1: the d lonegumanpodcast at gmail dot com and we'll be
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  Speaker 1: more than happy to hook you up with this because,
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  Speaker 1: as you can see, we're fans, so Joe, with that
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  Speaker 1: being said, take us into the meet and entaters if
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  Speaker 1: you will please, Sestion.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, and this book definitely has a conspiracy lean to it,
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  Speaker 2: and as you mentioned it is it does have three parts.
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  Speaker 2: Part one focusing on the false Oswalt who is Larry Crayford,
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  Speaker 2: and he has three chapters on Crayford. Enter Larry Crayford.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, Jack Rebe's favorite chapter.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter four, A Murky Background, goes into depth into Crayford's
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  Speaker 2: past and highlights the relationship between Crayford and Ruby and
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  Speaker 2: how it was far more significant than the War Commission portrayed.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just going to read a small snippet from this.
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  Speaker 2: The well established fact that Crayford was there is one
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  Speaker 2: of the premises of what now becomes an escapable conclusion.
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  Speaker 2: The other premise is not is the no less well
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  Speaker 2: established fact that Lee Harvey Oswald at that hour on
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  Speaker 2: that morning was asleep at the home of Ruth Payne
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  Speaker 2: and Irving Texas. Oswald there four could not be the
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  Speaker 2: person the waitress saw at the B and B Cafe
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  Speaker 2: with Ruby the night before the assassination. Adding it all up,
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  Speaker 2: not a shred of doubt can be left. Not only
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  Speaker 2: have we established the existence of a false Oswalt, but
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  Speaker 2: also even more important fact that this man was Larry Crayford.
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  Speaker 2: That has another chapter, Exit Crayford, which is Jack Ruby's
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  Speaker 2: probably least favorite chapter, which details Crayford's suspicious fleeing of
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  Speaker 2: Dallas the morning after the assassination. And so that's Part one.
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  Speaker 2: Most of what Part one talks about is Crayford. And
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  Speaker 2: we had a great episode on Larry Crayford two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: I suggest you listen and go check that out. Part
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  Speaker 2: two talks about the case against the Dallas Police, how
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  Speaker 2: evidence was tampered with, talks about switching rifles and the
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  Speaker 2: brazen lies of some DPD officers. Talks a little b
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  Speaker 2: about the Typic murder hoax, and Part three the case
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  Speaker 2: against the FBI and the Secret Service. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: the author asserts in this book that Oswald was not
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  Speaker 2: a genuine Marxist or defector, but an undercover operative for
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  Speaker 2: the CIA and later the FBI. Jostine suggests Oswald's trip
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  Speaker 2: to the Soviet Union was a CIA assignment now of
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  Speaker 2: voluntary defection, and that he was manipulated by intelligence agencies.
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  Speaker 2: The author points to right wing political Texas oil millionaires,
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  Speaker 2: the far right such as the John Burke Society, and
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  Speaker 2: elements within the CIA, FBI, and the DPD that were
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  Speaker 2: involved in the plot, and highlights a bunch of discrepancies
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  Speaker 2: in witness testimonies, specifically those of Larry Crayford and Jack Ruby.
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  Speaker 2: So I personally loved how he honed in on Larry
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  Speaker 2: Crayford in the early chapters, and I thought, I thought, he,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the with the amount of evidence available
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  Speaker 2: at the time, which is literally just the Warrant Commission,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he did a great job at just deciphering
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  Speaker 2: and kind of honing in on the very suspicious characters
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  Speaker 2: like within the DPD for example, and others. And let's see,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, the book is extremely well written. It's very
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  Speaker 2: easy to read and follow along with the author's arguments.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of the sourcing you mentioned, it has an index.
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  Speaker 2: It does not have an end note sections as we
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  Speaker 2: like to see, but he does include documents and letters
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  Speaker 2: within the chapters. He does have an epilogue section at
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  Speaker 2: about fifteen pages and and has some pictures in there
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  Speaker 2: as well. So with that being said, I will hand
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  Speaker 2: it back over to you, sir for your thoughts and rating.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Joe. Now, part of the reason that he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have an EndNote section is because he specifically names
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  Speaker 1: certain people. He's not afraid to name certain people and
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  Speaker 1: accuse them of certain things because that's his suspicion, that's
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  Speaker 1: his conclusion. And the guy's got some big nuts. Because
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  Speaker 1: you know, the reason he does this is because, hey,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to assume me, let's go to court.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take this thing to court. Let's expect you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is court is where things come out. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to prove that what I said about you
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  Speaker 1: is not true. So a lot of people did not
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  Speaker 1: take him up on the offer. In fact, nobody in
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  Speaker 1: any of his books that he specifically names and accuses
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  Speaker 1: things of ever had a lawsuit against this guy, which
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  Speaker 1: should tell you something. I don't know what, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they just didn't want to go through all the
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  Speaker 1: headaches and spend the money.
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  Speaker 2: And the discovery most importantly.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know about the libel laws back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. You know, you know today you might be
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  Speaker 1: able to get away with it saying that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because of his notoriety, Crayford was a public figure and
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  Speaker 1: you could certainly say things about him like this. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about the laws back then, but certainly interesting.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think Crayford was a heavy reader at all,
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  Speaker 1: or I don't even if you couldn't read. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know if you never knew about this book existing,
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  Speaker 1: which is which, which is crazy because you know he
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  Speaker 1: kind of drops out after the Jack Ruby trial and
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  Speaker 1: until the nineties.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, or or even knew what defamation.
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  Speaker 1: Means, yeah, or diffcation. Yeah. But again, if you ever
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  Speaker 1: see this book any used bookstore or their library and
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  Speaker 1: you stumble across it, grab it, grab it and take
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  Speaker 1: it and run, because it's definitely gonna be worth some money.
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  Speaker 1: And look, I'm a fan, big fan of this guy. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: very early pioneer and authorship about various aspects of the
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy assassination, including alternate theories which he runs down, which
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  Speaker 1: is very intriguing. I believe it's one of the first
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  Speaker 1: people to put out all the oddities of Captain Westbrook
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  Speaker 1: and James Hosty as well. So a very very great
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  Speaker 1: read for me. It's one of my favorite books ever
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  Speaker 1: written about the assassination. It's brave, it's bold, and it
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  Speaker 1: throws a giant middle finger up at the anti conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: loan nut establishment and I like that, sue me. So
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  Speaker 1: with that being said, this book gets nine middle fingers up,
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  Speaker 1: guns up, whatever you want to call them. Nine guns
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  Speaker 1: up out of ten from your boy, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's a very uh, that's a that's a good score.
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  Speaker 2: And I am. I'm right there with you for nineteen
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  Speaker 2: sixty seven, considering really the Warrant Commission is the only
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  Speaker 2: documentation you have to you can go off of, and
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he nails down Crayford as and the
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  Speaker 2: first one too, as the probably the I had the
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  Speaker 2: majority of the sighting the alighted to Ruby Oswald sightings
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  Speaker 2: that were almost certainly Crayford. So I give him a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of respect to And I think the fact that
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  Speaker 2: Helms wrote Ranking before the Warrant Commission was even released,
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  Speaker 2: concerned about this guy gives him some some credibility, So
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  Speaker 2: I am going to give this a very solid eight
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  Speaker 2: point five guns up right on.
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