From jmcadams@earth.execpc.com Mon Jan 20 12:50:13 CST 1997 Article: 5439 of alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated Path: news.primenet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!visi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!supernews.com!mcadams.posc.mu.edu!earth.execpc.com!not-for-mail From: jmcadams@earth.execpc.com (John Mcadams) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated Subject: La Fontaine's Use of Evidence -- V Date: 17 Jan 1997 23:26:20 -0600 Organization: PrimeNet Lines: 90 Approved: jmcadams@primenet.com Message-ID: <5bpmts$sec@earth.alpha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.48.30.18 Cc: Xref: news.primenet.com alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated:5439 The La Fontaines were deeply involved in the Roscoe White fiasco. White, as most people reading this will have heard, was the former Marine and Dallas cop whose son "revealed" that he shot JFK on orders from an intelligence agency. The case involved a "diary" that conveniently disappeared when the FBI supposedly took it and wouldn't return it (where have we heard *that* before?), and some "cables" which "proved" that White was an assassin. The cables were shown to be forged. It was a shameful fiasco, but the La Fontaines choose not to drop the subject, but rather to continue to push the notion that White was somehow involved in the assassination. They do this by implying, against all the evidence, that Oswald and White were together in the Marines. The closest one can get to putting them together is to note that both took the U.S.S. Bexar to Japan. That's true, but the LaFontaines fail to mention that the Bexar held several hundred troops. Travelling on the Bexar was not some intimate little affair where every traveller knew all his shipmates. Next, the LaFontaines try to put White and Oswald together at Subic Bay. They note that "In November of the same year, both White and Oswald ended up in Subic Bay, the Phillippines . . . " (p. 334). In fact, while Roscoe White was training at the automotive mechanics school at Subic Bay, Oswald unit was on a ship quarantined in the harbor! This is what the La Fontaines interpret as Oswald being "stationed at Subic Bay at the same time as White" (p. 436). Then the LaFontaines try to put Oswald and White together "off the coast of Indonesia as part of a secret CIA invasion force planned for that island nation." Unfortunately, the LaFontaines simply have no evidence for this. If they would bother to give the dates of the supposedly secret "CIA invasion force" it might be possible to judge whether Oswald and White could have been together on the same ship or the same base. But the LaFontaines don't bother to do that. They just make an entirely unsubstiantiated claim. And that's it. That's the case for Oswald and White being "together" in the Marines. As David Perry put it: >>> Through innuendo the LaFontaines attempt to link the two Marines but remain bashful when it comes to presenting hard documentation. Based on some unsubstantiated tidbits the reader is left to decide if Oswald and White became trained intelligence assets during some unnamed clandestine action. <<< THE FOURTH DECADE, Nov. 1996, p. 23. One final piece of innuendo deserves a mention. The LaFontaines assert that (p. 334): --------------------------------------------------- Roscoe White, in the meantime, remained in the Marine Corps. He was a superb marksman, and frequently wrote of his duties on the rifle range. One of these included developing a specialty in "surveying target sites." ---------------------------------------------------- Sounds sinister, doesn't it? Makes one think of Roscoe surveying Dealey Plaza and laying out a plan involving triangulation of crossfire. In fact, as David Perry notes, White was assigned in 1960 to the Target Acquisition Department, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He received his Certificate of Proficiency for completing the department's Artillery Ballistic Meteorology Course. In plain language: he was trained to release weather balloons to measure winds aloft so that artillery batteries could compensate for the wind in aiming their fire. Sounds pretty comical when applied to Dealey Plaza, doesn't it? This is Conspiracy Evidence Enhancement Technology(tm). Instead of describing something in an honest and straightforward way, you omit key details, choose your words carefully, and with some effort it can come out sounding *real* sinister. This is the way conspiracy books are generally written. OSWALD TALKED is not only not an exception, it's in fact worse than most. I would urge anyone who has an interest in the LaFontaines work to read David Perry's article in the November 1996 issue of THE FOURTH DECADE. Why the LaFontaines would not drop this entire shabby Roscoe White farce is a huge mystery. .John