Hasan Yusuf's review of "With Malice" by Dale Myers

http://www.ctka.net/2014_reviews/with_malice_1.html

I'm reading it now!

Martin Hay wrote:http://www.ctka.net/2014_reviews/with_malice_1.html

I'm reading it now!

I'm also reading it - in fits and starts in between everything else!

I hope you guys liked it. Part 2 should be up within a week from now.

Great review,Hasan.Looking forward to the next installment.

Will you be reviewing the other Tippit book McBrides "Into The Nightmare" book also?

JFK Student wrote:Great review,Hasan.Looking forward to the next installment.

Will you be reviewing the other Tippit book McBrides "Into The Nightmare" book also?

Thanks for the compliment, I'm glad you liked it. The answer to your question is no. The only other book I intend to review is Greg's.

Hasan Yusuf wrote:

JFK Student wrote:Great review,Hasan.Looking forward to the next installment.

Will you be reviewing the other Tippit book McBrides "Into The Nightmare" book also?

Thanks for the compliment, I'm glad you liked it. The answer to your question is no. The only other book I intend to review is Greg's.

For the first time since lining up in a football game against the Gulargambone Wedgies, I think I'm actually jittery...

greg parker wrote:For the first time since lining up in a football game against the Gulargambone Wedgies, I think I'm actually jittery...

 

Rough week for Dale K Myers.... 

Carmine Savastano wrote:Rough week for Dale K Myers.... 

It will only get rougher for Myers when part 2 comes out; which should be soon.

Very good piece Hasan, you did a great job breaking down a very complex series of events.

beowulf wrote:Very good piece Hasan, you did a great job breaking down a very complex series of events.

Thanks, beowulf. Part 2 is just around the corner.

I have emailed part 2 of the review to Jim Di. It should be up at CTKA.net within the next couple of days.

Hi Yusuf

 George Bailey has commented on your review at his site.

http://oswaldsmother.blogspot.com/2013/10/book-review-with-malice-lee-harvey.html

AT CTKA.net, Hasan Yusuf has posted his review of With Malice.  It covers a lot of ground but has some curious statements.  First off he states the following:

“Although this reviewer discusses evidence further on in this review which casts doubt on Harris's credibility as far as the wallet containing identification for Oswald and Hidell is concerned, Postal's own testimony as described above suggests that she did in fact sell Oswald a ticket.”

Harris in this case is researcher Jones Harris, mentioned above in my review.  Harris has discussed with me many times his interview with Julia Postal, the ticket seller at the movie theater Oswald entered.  I don’t get what is “alleged” about it.  There is some doubt that this interview happened and Harris accurately recorded her reaction?    

Yusuf then says there is evidence that, “casts doubt on Harris's credibility as far as the wallet containing identification for Oswald and Hidell is concerned...”  No telling what that would be as Yusuf never tells it.  In fact, there is little in the article regarding the various controversies regarding the wallet discovered at the Tippet murder location.  

The link has a number one in it so I assume there will be more published regarding the review.  If so, too bad that was not posted at the top under the header.  Overall though, a good review of Myers' With Malice for what is there.

Thanks. I was aware of what Bailey wrote. Hopefully when part 2 is published, he will see why I made those comments.

Martin Hay wrote:http://www.ctka.net/2014_reviews/with_malice_1.html

I'm reading it now!

This is great stuff, Hasan. I "get" that there's a lot of people focusing on Tippit, and as a n00b researcher I find it somewhat difficult getting to the "real" truth - the best I can come up with so far is a disjoint set of "confidence levels". Even the simple stuff seems obscured in all this. My thought though, is, you used the word "frame" several times in specific contexts in your review, and if you really start thinking about a "frame", then you realize quickly that it would've had to be pretty intricate.  I'll be the first to admit that a lot of the evidence does point in that direction, however my thought is that there are very few people who'd be capable of carrying out an operation on that scale. Anyway, I digress... the specificity of your knowledge about the Tippit events is impressive. This is one of the pieces where I feel software tools could be very helpful - and computers don't have personalities.

I also commend you for your logic, and your ability to construct a "weight of evidence". Can I ask you - do you keep files on all this stuff? I mean, paper? Like that? 'Cause it would take me an awful long time to write a review like yours, this looks like something you've been working on for quite a while. I used to write research papers, back in my scientist days, and this is exactly what I'd do, I'd get a big ol' Thermos full of coffee and park myself next to the filing cabinet, and then try to logically piece together the thesis, insert the evidence in all the right places.... it's hard. It's a lot of work. So, well done Hasan, definitely well done.

The issue of the "other wallet" is a big one, IMO. There's little doubt that it exists/existed, and if what you're alluding to is correct, that it was part of some kind of "frame", then we're clearly dealing with something that's an order of magnitude beyond anything like "Carlos Marcello ordered Kennedy killed". It takes me back to the Chauncey Holt story about being a forger in a Los Angeles warehouse, and "creating" several copies of the Hidell documentation (along with the Secret Service badges and all the rest). What's your opinion on all that, is Holt credible in terms of this aspect of his story? Has anyone traced that thread, and if so what did they find? (I'm a n00b, that's an honest question! - anytime I seem stupid like that, it means I genuinely don't know, and any linkage or google verbiage would be greatly appreciated)!

Anyway, great work Hasan, I aspire to stuff like that. You're an excellent writer too, you have a good command of the language. I do find the "personal battles" between researchers somewhat distasteful, however anytime anyone in science used to make arrogant remarks we used to try to bring 'em down a notch too (although I'm not sure if that ever made 'em any more humble), and I can appreciate the power of a little honest ridicule along those lines. Most of the JFK research world, it seems, has been at the butt end of ridicule at some point... maybe it's a rite of passage or something... (although I hope not)...

Thanks for the hard work, Hasan. Kudos on the excellent research. And congratulations on your publication.

Thank you very much for your kind words. To be perfectly honest, writing this review drained my mind badly, and put me off quite a bit from researching the JFK case. I don't have files on the research I did on paper. I think my explanation for how Tippit was lured to tenth and Patton (in part 2 of the review) to be shot will raise a few eyebrows, but I couldn't come up with a better explanation. Of course, the possibility that Tippit was somehow involved in a conspiracy cannot be dismissed. Once again, thanks for your kind words.

I finished your review the other night. I would've read it sooner but Greg's book got in the way....  
Very readable and very insightful.
Looking forward to part 2. There is a hell of a lot of conflicting statements about this event, as with most aspects of the assassination , that is very hard to grasp, and you did well in presenting them all. The problem with Myers and Bugliosi presenting the case as a simple narrative is they must deliberately choose which version suits them. Showing the multiple contradictions makes it all a bit harder to nail down. A fair observer presents all observances and recollections. Myers does love sticking things away In his index... so to speak.
It's a baffling case, and even if you don't review McBride's book, I hope you get to read it. Richard has been posting stuff which I feel furthers our knowledge on this event.
I have Judy Bonners book to read, as well as McDonald's own account. Bonner's book was allegedly co-authored by Hill, so it'll be interesting to see what's left put, rather than what's in.... 
If there's anything in those two works worthy of speaking off, I'll add a post about it.
You're a great addition to the research committee Hasan, I congratulate you.
Best, Steve.

Steve,

Thanks so much for your kind words. It's much appreciated.

I would've read it sooner but Greg's book got in the way....  

I unfortunately haven't been able to read Greg's book yet, because I am hard at work with my current essay for CTKA.net. I am hoping that I can start reading it real soon though.

I have Judy Bonners book to read, as well as McDonald's own account. Bonner's book was allegedly co-authored by Hill, so it'll be interesting to see what's left put, rather than what's in.... 

Anything concerning Jerry Hill is something I consider to be VERY important, Steve. If you don't mind, I may have a question or two concerning Bonner's book to ask you. Also, thanks once again for your help with my review of With Malice. I have acknowledged it in part 2 of the review.

Hasan,

Any idea when Part Two is going to be posted?

terlin wrote:Hasan,

Any idea when Part Two is going to be posted?

I'm hoping that it will be very soon. To be honest, I am becoming a tad bit annoyed that it hasn't been posted yet.

Hasan,

commendations again on part 2, which I just finished this morning.  You do quite an admirable job of navigating between all the Scyllas and Charybdises of the Tippit case, which is nearly more replete with contradictory and self-contradictory statements than the JFK case itself.  I'm looking forward to reading your G. Hill piece.  I've had my own suspicions that LHO's revolver was planted, and I am certain you will make a good case for it.**

As for the Hidell card, it seems to me possible that it was brought to the police station after being removed from the wallet that never was (I guess I'm one of those people Myers thinks has less than half a brain for lending credence to the testimony suggesting that it was found at the scene of the crime with LHO/Hidell id in it).  Who asked Oswald about it and when?  That all seems murky to me, and I think you underscore very well the difficulties in each of the versions of that story; one thing is for certain -- it was not in the wallet they took off of Lee.

Which, if he actually was confronted with it at the police station, would suggest a very interesting frame of mind, don't you think?  "Here's the card (or a copy of it) that I used under cover this past summer; I left it with De Brueys and Quigley;  what the hell is it doing here?".

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** in addition, it goes without saying, to the evidence you have already adduced that the connection between the revolver and Oswald is extremely dubious, and your review of the ballistics problems

Thanks, Albert. As far as Jerry Hill is concerned, I don't think anyone will ever convince me that he didn't frame Oswald. Don't know when I'll get the essay done though.

Hasan, enjoyed part 2 immensely.
If you need anything from the Bonner book, please let me know. It's sitting by my bedside.

casenagell wrote:Hasan, enjoyed part 2 immensely.
If you need anything from the Bonner book, please let me know. It's sitting by my bedside.

Thanks, Steve. I will have some questions to ask you over the upcoming few days. Still need to get back to Allen Lowe re Oswald and Asperger's syndrome.

Good work Hasan.

Dale Myers is a proven cheat, he couldn't get the single bullet theory to work but faked a CGI to make it look like he did.