The Umbrella Man: JFK

[Tyger]

The Umbrella Man was an oddity that was discussed in relation to the JFK assassination. I like his end statement - about any fact that seems sinister.

LINK: The Umbrella Man - Video - NYTimes.com

 

[Ezechiel]

That's one extremely weird way to protest Joseph Kennedy (who had lucrative contracts with the Nazis) lobbying Neville Chamberlain to negotiate a peace agreement with Hitler in 1938.
Who would have made that convoluted and educated connection 26 years later in 1964 beyond the guy with the deployed umbrella ? Unless this was common knowledge back then ?

A better interpretation, IMHO this guy may have been what you call a 'point man' guiding the firing team hiding behind that weird protest story.

In contrast to the conclusions of the Warren Commission, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded in 1978 that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.[10] The HSCA found the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously flawed. While agreeing with the Commission that Oswald fired all the shots which caused the wounds to Kennedy and Connally, the HSCA stated that there were at least four shots fired (only three of which could be linked to Oswald) and that there was "...a high probability that two gunmen fired at [the] President

 

[trainedobserver]

Excellent post! I think the "micro world of the weird" explains a lot of things.

 

[trainedobserver]

That's one extremely weird way to protest Joseph Kennedy (who had lucrative contracts with the Nazis) lobbying Neville Chamberlain to negotiate a peace agreement with Hitler in 1938.
Who would have made that convoluted and educated connection 26 years later in 1964 beyond the guy with the deployed umbrella ? Unless this was common knowledge back then ?

A better interpretation, IMHO this guy may have been what you call a 'point man' guiding the firing team hiding behind that weird protest story.

I'd have to disagree. It seems even more improbable that a "point man" would need to stand by the Stemmons Freeway sign to mark the spot or that it would even be necessary for someone to perform such a function.

 

[Ezechiel]

I'd have to disagree. It seems even more improbable that a "point man" would need to stand by the Stemmons Freeway sign to mark the spot or that it would even be necessary for someone to perform such a function.

But this does raise some interesting stuff and I kind of understand how a Nazi connection to the assassination got set up. Joseph Kennedy was an anti-Semite and lived to witness the assassination of two of his sons, a crueler punishment than death itself.

The fact that a member of the audience bothered to deploy an umbrella to protest against Joseph Kennedy and actually showed up in 1976 to explain his act raises a few dust balls:

• Who else had the same issues with the Kennedy's
• What did it mean to be on the bad side of the Kennedy's

According to Harvey Klemmer, who served as one of Kennedy's embassy aides, Kennedy habitually referred to Jews as "kikes or sheenies". Kennedy allegedly told Klemmer that "[some] individual Jews are all right, Harvey, but as a race they stink. They spoil everything they touch."[34] When Klemmer returned from a trip to Germany and reported the pattern of vandalism and assaults on Jews by Nazis, Kennedy responded, "Well, they brought it on themselves."[39]

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia