- Pat Valentio Jr. (Sept 20th – Aug 2nd 2026)
- Interview from Pat’s home in Sept 2012
- Pat, a long time JFK researcher is a music arranger, Chris writes the BOR show notes
- Pat’s interest began the day of the assassination, and with the murder of Oswald
- Oswald was tried by the WC with no defense, Rush To Judgment (Lane 1966)
- The evidence and testimony did not gel with the Commission’s report
- Inquest (Epstein 1966), Pat tape recorded Mark Lane being interviewed on the radio in LA
- Six Seconds in Dallas (Thompson 1976), Pat taped a debate with Lane and Louis Nizer
- Pat knew and worked with Donald Freed and Steve Soter
- Steve and Pat interviewed a chef at a restaurant frequented by JFK and Jack Ruby
- The War Conspiracy (Scott 1972), Executive Action (Freed/Trumbo 1973)
- Pat did a lot of taping off the TV, before the availability of video recording
- 9/11, the Bush Administration dodged valid questions and concerns
- 1993/94 Pat met regularly with Gary Aguilar at his home
- Pat has given presentations of his JFK recording archive
- BOR provides new research revelations and a historical perspective
- Convoluted arguments by WC defenders, Robert Oswald in Lifton’s new book
- Best Evidence (Lifton 1981), was ready to go to press, then came the HSCA releases
- In 1975, Pat’s sister was dating David Lifton, David had a lot of rare books
- David asked Pat to attend a lecture by Fred Newcomb, the body alteration theory
- David read Sibert and O’Neill, “surgery of the head area, namely, in the top of the skull”
- He showed it to professor and Warren Commission counsel Wesley Leibler
- Leibler wrote a memo and sent it to many people in Washington
- Katzenbach dismissed it saying, “Bobby Kennedy would have done something”
- David questioned Allen Dulles at a UCLA lecture re: back and to the left
- Patricia Lambert cooperated with, then fell out with David and Pat
- Jim Garrison may have been gun shy, he was courageous
- Patricia was a dedicated participant with David Lifton
- Gary Aguilar on C-SPAN with Max Holland, re: Jim Garrison and Clay Shaw
- Hal Lieberman, Harry Livingstone, Donald Freed, monthly meetings, William Turner
- The 1993 ASK conference, Norman Mailer
- David on his own and with Pat recorded many interviews with witnesses
- 1983, David a set of FBI Agent Fox’s autopsy photos, Pat invited David to Dallas
- They interviewed several Parkland doctors, first, anesthesiologist Marion Jenkins
- He was a Kennedy hater, shown the photos, he was noncommittal
- Jenkins claimed he felt an unseen shoulder wound, but only 17 years later to the HSCA
- Dr. Peters, Dr. Jones, Peters says, “Oh no…it’s occipital parietal“
- Dr. Kemp Clark, though reluctant to talk to researchers, called David
- In his office, Clark didn’t look at the photos, so he wouldn’t have to go record
- 1989, Pat and David filmed extensive interviews, including John Newman
- Pat has the original draft of Newman’s JFK and Vietnam (1992)
- Fletcher Prouty and John Newman, Oswald and the CIA (Newman 1995)
- It’s the intelligence community, not a lone Marxist, deeper then the CIA, like ONI
- John Kennedy handled the Bay of Pigs, finessed the Missile Crisis, greatest capacity for learning
- He had the greatest capacity for learning, and the willingness to learn
- Johnson, Nixon, Dealey Plaza compared to entering Oz, Nixon was assassinated by Watergate
- Nixon’s criminality, paranoia, red-baiting, Helen Gahagan Douglas
- The Hiss and Rosenberg cases, typewritten materials precede the typewriter manufacture
- Hoover and Roy Cohn, 9/11, Dealey Plaza II, Building 7, Silverstein, “pull it”
- A tremendous breakdown in security, George Tenet and David Boren, a pilot’s license
- Hijackers in Las Vegas, a hubbub that disappeared, believers wouldn’t be visiting strippers
- The Warren Commission did not invent suppressing documents for years, there was precedent
- Richard Case Nagell, Mort Sahl, Garrison subpoenas denied by Governors
- Garrison’s war service, this was not the country he fought for
- Pat followed the Kennedy candidacy and his administration, the Best Evidence
- Lifton’s work, body alteration is bizarre, then you hear the Bethesda witnesses
- Jerrol Custer observing Jackie entering the lobby after x-raying JFK
- Events in and surrounding Bethesda, Gerry Spence and Paul O’Connor in London (1986)
- The helicopter lifting off from the right side of Air Force One, you can hear it
- That casket does not have John Kennedy’s body, Lifton’s approach to evidence
- Two sets of doctors, two lenses, the potential of interviewing David Lifton
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