WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:07.320 Good morning, everybody. Corey is Buddy History. We're continuing on 2 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:10.320 with Kerry Thornley's book Oswald, chapter one today. He did 3 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:15.560 the intro the other day, and I gotta apologize, I am. 4 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:19.320 I'm very close to getting a thousand subscribers on YouTube, 5 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:21.679 which means I'll be able to monetize the channel. But 6 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:24.600 I'd be honest with you, I fucking hate doing video. 7 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:26.559 If I could never do video the rest of my life, 8 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.559 I would never do video the rest of my fucking life. 9 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:31.440 I like audio. I like being able to sit here 10 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:34.719 and just fucking talk and not worry that my hair's 11 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:37.039 messed up or my fucking I'm sitting here in my underwear. Right, 12 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.600 So I don't like doing video. I just don't. But 13 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:44.640 it's become a necessary part of the fucking equation, I 14 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:47.560 guess for people who do what I do. So I'm 15 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.640 going to start doing these on video on YouTube again, 16 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:54.359 probably next week. I was gone at today, but I 17 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:59.799 don't fucking feel like it. So but subscribe on the YouTube, 18 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:01.840 you know. I hate to tell you I fucking hate video. 19 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:04.439 It sucks, And then go subscribe there, right, fucking what 20 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:07.480 am I supposed to do? Guys? So please go subscribe 21 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:09.760 it to YouTube because hopefully they'll pay me, you know, 22 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:11.719 like fifty bucks a month or something. That'd be great. 23 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:18.920 But that'll start next week. I've been slacking, and I 24 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:22.719 apologize for that, but we're gonna continue on today with 25 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:24.359 uh oh, and I've got some other let me talk 26 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:27.359 about this too. So so right now, I've got basically 27 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:31.040 three books in the works. Okay, I have Lee, Harvey 28 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:33.079 Oswald and Black and White Volume two, which is on 29 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:35.959 Oswald in the Marines and all the conflicts there. And 30 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:39.920 then I've got the second edition of A Warning from History, 31 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:45.359 which will end up being a volume one, volume two 32 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:48.319 kind of thing when I get that done. And my 33 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:51.760 plan originally was to knock out this volume two first 34 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.519 of Lee Harvey Oswald and Black and White. I figure 35 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:56.599 I fight, I mean, if I really buckle down, I'll 36 00:01:56.599 --> 00:02:00.640 have it out by early March. But I find myself 37 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:06.159 being overwhelmingly pulled towards the Warning from History project. So 38 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:11.759 I'm going to start probably later today getting my template 39 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:17.840 formats done, and it'll be an interesting process because what 40 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:20.680 I'm doing is I'm basically I'm adding all the documents 41 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:24.479 right I'm updating some of the text, and I'm adding 42 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:27.960 all the documents, and so it's gonna look very similar 43 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:31.159 to Leharvy Oswald and Black and White Volume one, where 44 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:33.439 you flip through it and you got all the documents 45 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:40.400 and pictures and all that stuff. So the changes I'm 46 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:43.960 gonna make, I'm gonna adjust the fonts. If I were 47 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.919 to keep the seventeen point font that I did in 48 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:51.560 Leearvy Oswald and Black and White, this fucking thing would 49 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:54.000 end up being like, you know, a thousand pages just 50 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:57.080 because the font's so big. So I have to experiment 51 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.360 with some font sizes because I'm trying to get the 52 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:03.599 book down to about eight hundred pages two volume set 53 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:07.120 eight hundred pages. I think I went with like a 54 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:09.360 fucking I don't even know what font size I used 55 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:15.400 in the original version, but keeping roughly that original version 56 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.400 font should keep me in the eight hundred page range, 57 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:20.759 which is what I'm trying to do. It's gonna be 58 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:22.560 around maybe it'll probably be a little more than eight 59 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:27.039 hundred pages, but it's gonna end up being a two 60 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.759 volume set. I don't have a choice. I can't. Amazon 61 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.400 will not publish an eight hundred page book. They just 62 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:35.120 won't do it. Uh, so I'm gonna have to do 63 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:40.360 two volume set. And so that's my plan for the year. 64 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:44.199 These three books, right, the past couple of weeks are 65 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.879 actually more like a past month. Every fucking day I 66 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:48.039 come and I sit down, and I go to work 67 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:49.199 on this book. And I just don't want to work 68 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:50.840 on the book. I just don't. I just I don't 69 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:52.800 know what the fuck my problem is. I just haven't 70 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:54.520 wanted to fucking do it. I know what I gotta do. 71 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:56.039 I know the exact you know. I got the next 72 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:58.159 like twenty pages already written in my head. It's got 73 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:00.719 to do it. I just haven't wanted to. So that 74 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:02.840 told me something, right, that told me I should fucking 75 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:05.240 never never. Here's the thing when you're when you're when 76 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:07.000 you're a writer, an artist, or whatever the fuck it is, 77 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:09.919 you do like if you run into a roadblock, just 78 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:11.919 come back to it, like, don't keep banging your head 79 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:13.800 against a fucking wall, which is what I've allowed myself 80 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:20.800 to do for the past month. So I'm probably gonna 81 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:25.879 end up switching over and either knocking out a Warning 82 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:29.720 from History second edition first, or I might just string 83 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:31.560 the whole fucking thing along and work on all three 84 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:35.839 at once. I don't know the a warning for history stuff. 85 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:37.040 I don't know how long it'll take me. I don't 86 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:38.480 think it'll take me too long. I think I could 87 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:41.040 have that done in a couple of months, because basically 88 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:44.480 I'm working with some new software, Affinity software, which is 89 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:48.519 fucking phenomenal for publishing, and basically I can import each 90 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:50.319 chapter right, and then I just have to read each 91 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:56.040 chapter and kind of rewrite or adjust some of the text, 92 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.160 update some of my perspectives because I have a couple 93 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:02.319 of perspectives that have been updated, and then I have 94 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.600 to just go in and pick out the points at 95 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:07.040 which I want to insert documents. And so I figured 96 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:12.439 we'll have documents minimum every third page, but it's more 97 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.040 likely gonna be every other page and on some pages, 98 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.279 every page, right, And so it'll be a balancing act 99 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:21.120 to try to get this thing to the right length 100 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.360 in order to get it into a two volume set, 101 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:25.000 you know, because if you get if it comes out 102 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:27.639 too short, then you then I can't do the two 103 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:29.680 volume set, Like if it comes out around six hundred pages, 104 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:32.120 that sucks because then you get and you end up 105 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.519 with two short volumes instead of one long volume. And 106 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:36.199 so these are all things that I'm kind of juggling 107 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:38.879 in my head right now. But over the next week 108 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:41.879 or two I will have I've already got like fifty 109 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:46.120 pages of volume two Lee Harvey Oswald finished. It's already done, right, 110 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:49.680 I could probably have that much of a Warning from 111 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:54.319 History second edition done in like the next really about 112 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:56.959 the next week or two. And so I think that's 113 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:58.720 what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna hop in. I'm gonna 114 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:01.759 do all my formatting and get the project rolling just 115 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:03.759 to kind of see how much time it's going to 116 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:07.720 take me. And actually, the more I think about it, 117 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:09.279 the more I think that I can probably knock it 118 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:10.680 out a whole lot quicker because I don't have to 119 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:15.920 write anything new original except for some updates. The Le 120 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.319 Harvey Oswell Volume two I still have to write out 121 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:20.839 actually another two hundred pages, right, So I might be 122 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.160 doing myself a favor by doing Neil Warning from History 123 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:27.000 series first, which I plan on it being the definitive work. 124 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.279 I mean, I reference a lot of documents, but you 125 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:31.040 don't see them in the book. And so once people 126 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:32.920 can see the documents and see the statements and see 127 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:35.639 Lauren Hall's confession that he was at Sylvia Odio's right. 128 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:37.800 All this stuff will congeal a lot better than just 129 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:41.800 you know, quoting documents. So I have a lot of 130 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:45.000 hope that the second edition will do really well. The 131 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:47.040 first edition has sold, I don't know. I got to 132 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:52.000 say I've probably sold upwards of two thousand copies thereabouts, 133 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:56.199 which I think is okay. We'd done. We did a 134 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:58.759 couple hundred pre orders for ebooks before the fucking book 135 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.600 even came out, which is crazy to me. I feel 136 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:02.759 like if I were to go back and try to 137 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:04.360 do some of the things I've already done, they would 138 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:06.480 never work again. It's a miracle they worked the first time. 139 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.399 Like getting one hundred fifty plus fucking pre orders for 140 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:12.240 a book for a guy who's never written a book before, 141 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:15.120 I think he's pretty fucking good. So that's kind of 142 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.959 my plans for the year. Three books this year, that's 143 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:20.720 what's going to happen. It's the order that is up 144 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:24.920 for debate, and the debate is ultimately with myself, right, 145 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:32.720 So but yeah, let me just continue on with Chapter 146 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:36.480 one of Oswald by Carrie Thornley. A dastardly individual who 147 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:41.399 was in on the planning of the assassination shot JD. Tippett. Yep, 148 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:44.879 So here we go, Chapter one, A prelude to understanding 149 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:50.839 intellectual evasion and frantic despair. Oh, Kerry Thornley is quite hyperbolic. 150 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:53.319 In case you haven't never realized this, he has a 151 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:55.240 quote here from Lee Harvey Oswald that I never heard before. 152 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:57.600 I don't know where I fuck he got it. Quote. 153 00:07:57.639 --> 00:07:59.560 I wonder what would happen if somebody was to stand 154 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:01.560 up and say he was utterly opposed not only to 155 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.480 governments but to the people. Lee Harvey Oswald sounds like 156 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.759 something Kerry Thorny would make up. Aristotle said that if 157 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:11.160 a man gets drunk, and, as a result of his drunkenness, 158 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:13.720 flies into a rage and kills another, he is not 159 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.079 to be excused in the least from the consequences of 160 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:19.120 his act. For upon wilfully allowing his mind to be 161 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:23.079 dulled or his rationality suspended, a man must assume full 162 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:28.879 responsibility for whatever his uncontrolled actions then affect in justice. 163 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:33.279 To choose to abandon one's mind in any manner is 164 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:35.759 much the same as leaping from a motor vehicle once 165 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:38.279 it is in motion. What really happens is that the 166 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:41.879 mind abandons the vehicle the body, and must therefore stand 167 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:47.399 responsible for whatever damage the uncontrolled vehicle causes. That's kind 168 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:50.759 of ironic, isn't it kind of ironic that I'm reading 169 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:52.919 this paragraph here and we got this ice shooting thing 170 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:57.720 that everyone's getting wrong. Let me read this paragraph again. Injustice, 171 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:01.120 to choose to abandon one's mind any manner is much 172 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:03.279 the same as leaping from a motor vehicle once it 173 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:05.960 is in motion. What really happens is that the mind 174 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:10.000 abandons the vehicle the body, and must therefore stand responsible 175 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:14.120 for whatever damage the uncontrolled vehicle causes, just like the 176 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.960 vehicle that drove away in this ice shooting and smashed 177 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:18.799 into another car in a telephone poll and could have 178 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:23.519 run over anybody on the street. Tragically, there are That's 179 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:25.720 a conversation I've been having on X people are so stupid. 180 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:27.559 I'm an ex cop, I've been through this personally. I 181 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:29.519 know exactly what the fuck the law says on this, 182 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:32.840 and what situations and police psychologies say on that situation, 183 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:38.120 and the general populace is just so stupid on the matter. Tragically, 184 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:41.080 there are more ways of dulling or suspending human rationality. 185 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.960 Than drinking. Drinking, in fact, is one of the least popular. 186 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:47.759 Far more common than blind drunkenness is blind faith. And 187 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:50.960 before that comes what is probably the number one intoxic 188 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:53.159 in the world over, the true opiate of the people. 189 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:59.039 Intellectual evasion and intellectual evasion is a politician's answer to 190 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.720 an unpleasant question. An intellectual evasion is no answer at all, 191 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.600 wrapped up in a package of answer sounding words. When 192 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:08.759 a politician tells you not to worry about the national 193 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.240 debt because we owe it to ourselves, that is an 194 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:15.240 intellectual evasion. When a door to door salesman offers you 195 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:18.759 a set of encyclopedias absolutely free, provided you agree to 196 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:21.840 pay ten dollars a month, that is an intellectual evasion. 197 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:23.879 When a minister tells you to believe in God because 198 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:25.799 the Bible says there is a God, and to believe 199 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:29.399 the Bible because it's God's word, that is an intellectual evasion. 200 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:32.399 And when a TV panel showed debater passes himself off 201 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:36.600 as culture because of his expertise an intellectual evasion. That is, 202 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:39.279 when you'd better jump behind a lamp post there's a 203 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:43.679 driverless vehicle barreling down the road. Lee Harvey Oswald, I 204 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:46.679 submit arrived at the state of mindlessness that would have 205 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:50.679 permitted him to commit murder through a process of intellectual evasion, 206 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:54.279 a process which was partially underway when I knew him 207 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:58.720 in nineteen fifty nine. Evidence would indicate that Oswald's condition 208 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.559 was what could perhaps best be called a state of 209 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:04.360 despair during the time span that included twenty second November 210 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:08.440 nineteen sixty three. According to the Warrant Commission, Oswald's behavior 211 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:11.600 after the assassination throws little light on his motives. The 212 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:13.679 fact that he took so little money with him when 213 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.519 he left irving in the morning indicates that he did 214 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:18.919 not expect to get very far from Dallas on his own, 215 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:22.799 and suggests the possibility, as did his note, as did 216 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.039 his note prior to the attempt on General Walker, that 217 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.320 he did not expect to escape at all. On the 218 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:30.679 other hand, he could have traveled some distance with the 219 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:33.600 money he did have, and he did return to his 220 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.720 room where he obtained his revolver. He then killed patrolman 221 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:42.279 Tippet went bullshit, motherfucker, you killed Patrolman Tippet. You killed Tippet, 222 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:48.080 You fucking liar. He then killed patrolman Tippet when that 223 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.519 police officer apparently tried to question him as he had 224 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:53.759 left his rooming house, and he vigorously resisted arrest when 225 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:56.600 he was finally apprehended in the Texas Theater. Although it 226 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:59.480 is not fully corroborated by others who were present, to 227 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:02.639 officers have testified that at the time of his arrest, 228 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:05.720 Oswald said something to the effect that it's all over now. 229 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:10.120 Despair it would appear existed, but it was not despair 230 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:13.480 with resignation. Rather, Oswald exhibited something quite prevalent in our 231 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:17.279 culture today, frantic despair. One one hundred and seventy dollars, 232 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:19.840 in addition to the thirteen dollars and eighty seven cents 233 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:22.519 he took with him that faded morning, were in his possession. 234 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:24.879 Yet he left one hundred and seventy dollars in a 235 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:27.159 wallet in the dresser at the house where his wife 236 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:30.279 was staying. All right, let me put this in perspective. 237 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.200 One hundred and seventy dollars is a big chunk of money. 238 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:35.399 I don't leave the house with one hundred and seventy 239 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.639 fucking dollars in twenty twenty six, Okay, one hundred That 240 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:41.960 that much money is like times ten, that's like twelve 241 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:44.840 hundred bucks. Why to fuck would anybody in nineteen sixty 242 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:46.960 three go to work and take twelve hundred fucking dollars 243 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:49.000 with them in their pocket. Why the fuck would they 244 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.279 do that? They wouldn't. It's retarded. This whole story is retarded. 245 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.279 Him leaving his ring and all that shit retarded, fucking 246 00:12:55.639 --> 00:13:00.000 made up after the fact. Yet he left one hundred 247 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:02.519 seventy dollars in a wallet in the dresser at the 248 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:05.799 house where his wife was staying. In considering the possibility 249 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:08.639 of Oswald's planning and escape to Cuba, the Commission points 250 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:11.360 out that it is unlikely that a reasoning person would 251 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.679 plan an attempt to travel from Dallas, Texas to Cuba 252 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:16.879 with thirteen dollars and eighty seven cents when considerably greater 253 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.759 resources were available to him. The fact that Oswald left 254 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:21.879 behind the funds which might have enabled him to reach 255 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:24.519 Cuba suggest the absence of any plan to try to flee, 256 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:27.519 and raise his serious questions as to whether or not 257 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:31.480 he ever expected to escape. Yet we find Oswald killing 258 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:34.279 a police officer and attempting to kill others to resist 259 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:38.919 questioning and arrest. Only an irrational man attempts to embrace contradictions, 260 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:42.840 and Oswald certainly must be judged irrational if one is 261 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:45.600 to go on the basis of these two drastically contradictory 262 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:50.039 tendencies apparent in his alleged behavior on November twenty second. But, 263 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:53.159 as I've indicated, assassins don't have a monopoly on on reason, 264 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:57.360 especially on that variety I've named frantic despair. Consider the 265 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:00.320 philosopher who asserts that life by nature is wretched, and 266 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:03.039 yet who devotes years to panic stricken efforts on behalf 267 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:07.120 of preventing the nuclear destruction of mankind. Or look among 268 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:09.759 the writings of the beats from the antics of Dean 269 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.799 Moriarty on down the line. What term can better describe 270 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:17.240 the behavior of these heroes than frantic despair? Nor is 271 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:21.320 frantic despair in contemporary culture confined to those who passes intellectuals. 272 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.279 You'd be surprised at the number of these happy suburban 273 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:27.000 wives who simply go berserk one night and run shrieking 274 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:30.159 through the street without any clothes on quotes Bety Freedom 275 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.320 from an interview with an unnamed doctor in her best 276 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:37.960 selling book The Feminine Mystique. Miss Frieden substantiates in her 277 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:41.559 book of View of the American Career housewife as typically 278 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.759 a driven woman who is by and large both despairing 279 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:47.960 and frantically unresigned in her often random efforts to achieve 280 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:53.440 identity and self esteem. Further, and perhaps significant in this context, 281 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:57.519 her psychological struggles often seem to affect her children, with 282 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:00.279 a tendency to react to life in a similar manner. 283 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:02.799 So I think it may be safely concluded that the 284 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:06.840 state of frantic despair is prevalent enough among individuals in 285 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:09.759 at least our culture at this time to produce in 286 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.840 many situations in atmosphere or frantic despair. An atmosphere more 287 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:17.159 to be expected a tribe of savages helpless against nature's 288 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:21.000 whims than in a highly comfortable and industrial, industrial competent 289 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:25.360 civilization such as our own. And indeed, it has been 290 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:30.320 recently demonstrated by means of a nation survey conducted by 291 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:32.679 doctor Raymond B. Ktel of the University of Illinois, that 292 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.840 the highly industrialized nations of the world, including America, have 293 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:39.679 lower general levels of anxiety than do less developed countries 294 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:43.679 such as India. So we may further conclude that the 295 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:47.919 syndrome involving frantic despair is by no means a result 296 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:52.200 of increased industrialization, nor is it universal in our culture. 297 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.120 The very fact that it can be discerned with such 298 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:58.039 striking clarity here in modern day America would seem to 299 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:00.960 indicate that it is in sharp contrast with what most 300 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.000 of us regard as the logical reaction to this environment. 301 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:07.919 We would seem safe, then, to conclude that the state 302 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.360 of frantic despair is something that must be arrived at 303 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:13.679 by a special route. And if the writings of Sarta 304 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:18.600 Jeanette Kerouac, Colin Wilson, and the reports of Betty Frieden 305 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:21.399 are to be credited, and in this instance their popularity 306 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.679 itself can be considered as a probable accreditation, it might 307 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:27.759 well be that this special route is being followed by 308 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:31.279 an ever widening group of people. It is my opinion 309 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:34.080 that the state of frantic despair is most commonly arrived 310 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.799 at by means of intellectual evasion. And on the basis 311 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.240 of my acquaintance with Lee Harvey Oswald, and on what 312 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:41.759 I have learned about him since then, I've decided that 313 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:44.080 he did arrive at the state of frantic despair by 314 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:47.000 such means, and in the state of frantic despair, probably 315 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:50.840 attempted to assassinate General Walker, and probably did assassinate President Kennedy. 316 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:54.240 I've gone into this subject in some detail at the 317 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.000 risk of belaboring a point here and there, because it 318 00:16:57.039 --> 00:16:59.960 is also absolutely essential in explaining how the Ohs were 319 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:02.200 I knew could have in just four years and five 320 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:04.640 months or so, arrived at a point where he was 321 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:08.240 fully capable of cold blooded murder. For the Oswald I 322 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:10.720 knew was a wholly different sort of fellow in some 323 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.279 essential respects from the angry little man who later was 324 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:16.920 to dwell upon the possibilities of one standing up and 325 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:20.359 announcing his utter opposition to everything, governments, the people, to 326 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:27.519 the entire land, and complete foundations of his society. Chapter two, 327 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:34.119 Private Oswald and the Importance of being persecuted. In Thornley's view, 328 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:38.160 Oswald labored under a persecution complex which he strove to maintain. 329 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:41.640 The report of the Warrant Commission. No clear picture of 330 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:44.640 my first sight of Oswald remains in my memory. He 331 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.599 did not make a lasting first impression on me, for 332 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:51.799 in appearance he was practically nondescript. I transferred into his 333 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:56.200 outfit Marine Air Control Squadron nine in either late winter 334 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:59.599 or early spring of nineteen fifty nine. It was early spring. 335 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:02.279 I remember only that it was after New Year and 336 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:05.799 before Easter. Previously I had been with another unit located 337 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:08.519 at the same place and directly next door to m 338 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.599 ACS nine, So at the time the change was a 339 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.480 mere minor one more important to the Remington raiders in 340 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:19.279 the administration sections than to me. Okay, this is significant. 341 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:21.079 Let me because I'm gonna have to go double checked this. 342 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:30.480 I'm gonna have to go double checked this because I 343 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.599 have his roster and it says here that he was 344 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.759 at Oka. See he was less than like in Temecula, California, 345 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:38.480 and a bunch of shit like he was in California 346 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:43.839 for most of his on paper marine life. But you know, 347 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:47.920 I busted him December nineteen fifty seven, graduating from Biloxi 348 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.119 in a basic electronics course. After that he'll go, he'll 349 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:57.599 attend the Aircraft Control and Morning Operator course that Oswald took, right, 350 00:18:57.720 --> 00:18:59.680 But none of that's on his fucking roster. But that's 351 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:02.039 exactly what he did. It's funny because when you read 352 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:05.160 the roster, it's like there's no nothing about aircraft control 353 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:07.000 and warning operator at all, and then all of a sudden, 354 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:11.359 he's a fucking allegedly a radar operator. So I got 355 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:13.480 to clarify something. None of these guys were really radar operators. 356 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:14.960 They worked in the radar operator room, but to be 357 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:16.720 a radar operator you had to do a thirty three 358 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:19.240 week course. None of these focks did this, not carry Thornley, 359 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:21.440 not Oswald. None of the guys who were in Oswald's group, 360 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:24.279 they weren't radar guys. They mostly worked the plotting board 361 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:25.799 and they did I don't know other shit in the 362 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:27.720 radar room. See, this is all supposed to be top secret, 363 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:29.240 like we're not supposed to know any of this stuff. 364 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:31.519 But I do know for fact, because it's in their 365 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:36.359 own goddamn marine documentation that the guys who sat behind 366 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:38.839 the radar booths took a thirty three week course. None 367 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:41.000 of our guys in the cast of characters did that. 368 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:48.319 But yeah, where the fuck was was Thornley right before 369 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:50.799 he was at MACS nine. I have to double check. 370 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:53.960 When I think of Oswald's name and connection with those days, 371 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:58.160 I hear it being shouted by an authoritative voice that 372 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:01.839 seems worn thin by her, And in my mind's eye, 373 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:03.920 I see an out of focused picture of a jar 374 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:07.559 head private with a swab in hand, slopping soapy water 375 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:10.519 over the wooden plank porch of the operations hut. The 376 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:13.119 private has the bill of his utility cap pulled down 377 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:15.599 over his eyes, apparently so we will he will have 378 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.319 to see a little of the unpleasant military world around 379 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:20.920 him as possible. Yep. So Oswald was always in trouble 380 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:23.119 like he did. He was never behind a radar operator 381 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:25.880 unit because he was always fucking on admin duty because 382 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:27.680 he was in trouble, and he was seeing emptying garbage 383 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:31.359 cans and mopping shit up and stuff overlaid on this picture, 384 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:35.559 as in multiple exposure, I see the same private with 385 00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:38.119 a broom, with the rake, with the lawnmower, and with 386 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:41.599 a grass edger. Associated in my mind with these visions 387 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:44.160 is a vague feeling of sympathy that might find expression 388 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:46.079 in the question why are they always picking on that guy? 389 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:49.480 As time went on, I came to gather other more 390 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:52.240 vivid impressions of Private Oswald, but the image of him 391 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:56.799 as a poor persecuted soul never entirely vanished. Oswald kept 392 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:59.599 afresh when he was ordered to do something, he would 393 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:02.759 answer sir in a tone that conveyed clearly that he 394 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:05.400 had fully expected to be ordered to the task, but 395 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:08.119 that he sure didn't have to pretend that he liked 396 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:10.839 an liked it any It was the kind of tone 397 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:13.279 that most people would use while saying, wouldn't you know 398 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:17.119 it after a particularly bad piece of luck, And if 399 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:20.039 by some chance you didn't see that Oswald was obviously 400 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:22.839 being singled out for special treatment, he would mention it 401 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:25.039