Post by Rob Caprio on Jun 14, 2019 20:27:29 GMT -5
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Researcher Wallace Milam did a series on Gerald Posner’s book “Case Closed” years ago and called it “Posner’s Follies."
This part of his research focused on Guy Banister who was a focal point of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison.
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Awhile back researcher Wallace Milam did a whole series on the Posner distortion of history, "Case Closed", and the relationship between these two men (Guy Banister & Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO)) was the focus of one article. I love how he opens the article:
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All assassination researchers are familiar with Guy Banister, the right-wing New Orleans private detective and anti-Castro zealot who operated out of 544 Camp Street and rubbed shoulders with a variety of Marcello associates, anti-Castro exiles, and CIA operatives. **All except Gerald Posner, that is.**
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Milam says in the efforts to avoid any conspiratorial relationship, Posner chose "to ignore glaring evidence that Oswald and Banister were associated." Milam says this was a classic example of "managed evidence" which appears throughout Posner's book.
Perhaps Posner overlooked this info, or missed it, but Milam doesn't think so as "Posner chose to ignore evidence found on the very pages of sources he had used for quite another purpose, revealing once again his bias and his agenda."
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On page 141, Posner wrote: "There is simply no credible evidence that Oswald ever had an office at 544 Camp Street, or, much less, that he knew Guy Banister."
But later, on pages 168-169, Posner has to deal with the sticky issue of William George Gaudet, the man who obtained his Mexico tourist card just before Oswald did. Posner acknowledges that Gaudet was a source for the CIA's domestic contact division until 1961, but that states that he had no relationship with Oswald and that the "House Select committee reviewed Gaudet's CIA file and determined he had no clandestine relationship with the Agency.” As a source for this assertion, Posner cites HSCA Report, p. 219.
When one turns to page 219 of the HSCA Report, one finds this assertion, well enough, but one also finds something else, something which should have jumped out at Mr. Posner:
**Gaudet noted that on one occasion he observed Oswald speaking to Guy Banister on a street corner.**
As we have seen, Posner clearly read this page, since he cited it as a source, yet Posner still wrote, "There is no credible evidence that Oswald ever had an office at 544 Camp Street, or, much less, that he knew Guy Banister."
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As if this were not bad enough, there is further ignoring of his own sources: "He [Gaudet] was able to testify that during the trip [to Mexico] he did not encounter Oswald whom he had observed on occasion at the New Orleans Trade Mart." Gaudet also added that he had seen Oswald distributing literature near his New Orleans office.
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Had Posner, in the course of re-reading and re-indexing the Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits, the HSCA Hearings, the Sears Catalogue and God knows what else, taken the time, he might have viewed a Canadian TV documentary from the 1970's, part of a series called "The Fifth Estate," in which researcher Peter Dale Scott conducted an interview with Gaudet at his home in Waveland, Mississippi [Gaudet has died since.]. Gaudet told Scott that he did indeed observe Oswald though he never spoke to him, that he did not think Oswald capable of the assassination, that he thought Oswald was being manipulated by anti-Castro Cubans and others, and that Oswald had gotten in over his head and was a fall guy.
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Researcher Wallace Milam did a series on Gerald Posner’s book “Case Closed” years ago and called it “Posner’s Follies."
This part of his research focused on Guy Banister who was a focal point of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison.
**********************************************
Awhile back researcher Wallace Milam did a whole series on the Posner distortion of history, "Case Closed", and the relationship between these two men (Guy Banister & Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO)) was the focus of one article. I love how he opens the article:
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All assassination researchers are familiar with Guy Banister, the right-wing New Orleans private detective and anti-Castro zealot who operated out of 544 Camp Street and rubbed shoulders with a variety of Marcello associates, anti-Castro exiles, and CIA operatives. **All except Gerald Posner, that is.**
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Milam says in the efforts to avoid any conspiratorial relationship, Posner chose "to ignore glaring evidence that Oswald and Banister were associated." Milam says this was a classic example of "managed evidence" which appears throughout Posner's book.
Perhaps Posner overlooked this info, or missed it, but Milam doesn't think so as "Posner chose to ignore evidence found on the very pages of sources he had used for quite another purpose, revealing once again his bias and his agenda."
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On page 141, Posner wrote: "There is simply no credible evidence that Oswald ever had an office at 544 Camp Street, or, much less, that he knew Guy Banister."
But later, on pages 168-169, Posner has to deal with the sticky issue of William George Gaudet, the man who obtained his Mexico tourist card just before Oswald did. Posner acknowledges that Gaudet was a source for the CIA's domestic contact division until 1961, but that states that he had no relationship with Oswald and that the "House Select committee reviewed Gaudet's CIA file and determined he had no clandestine relationship with the Agency.” As a source for this assertion, Posner cites HSCA Report, p. 219.
When one turns to page 219 of the HSCA Report, one finds this assertion, well enough, but one also finds something else, something which should have jumped out at Mr. Posner:
**Gaudet noted that on one occasion he observed Oswald speaking to Guy Banister on a street corner.**
As we have seen, Posner clearly read this page, since he cited it as a source, yet Posner still wrote, "There is no credible evidence that Oswald ever had an office at 544 Camp Street, or, much less, that he knew Guy Banister."
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As if this were not bad enough, there is further ignoring of his own sources: "He [Gaudet] was able to testify that during the trip [to Mexico] he did not encounter Oswald whom he had observed on occasion at the New Orleans Trade Mart." Gaudet also added that he had seen Oswald distributing literature near his New Orleans office.
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Had Posner, in the course of re-reading and re-indexing the Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits, the HSCA Hearings, the Sears Catalogue and God knows what else, taken the time, he might have viewed a Canadian TV documentary from the 1970's, part of a series called "The Fifth Estate," in which researcher Peter Dale Scott conducted an interview with Gaudet at his home in Waveland, Mississippi [Gaudet has died since.]. Gaudet told Scott that he did indeed observe Oswald though he never spoke to him, that he did not think Oswald capable of the assassination, that he thought Oswald was being manipulated by anti-Castro Cubans and others, and that Oswald had gotten in over his head and was a fall guy.
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