04-04-2013, 05:25 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Dawn, As we both know, Tosh can be very friendly and helpful....at times; at others refuse to answer direct questions about Dallas or that in any way challenge his version of events [such as with the contradictions in his and January's version]. We both met that same 'stone wall' on Red Bird on that..... I've put it too him a few times and even sent the January portion of Smith's book to him....all were met with silence - eerie silence. I also sent him the version of an exfiltration by plane as per the Douglass book - that too was met without a response. On other issues he answers questions and even provides new information and proofs. I'm not going to post here why or what I think is going on in this. Suffice it to say, there are many possible reasons - more than most would assume. I have my own firm opinions on it, but I've not even told them to Tosh, so don't want to put them here either. He is actively finishing up a book on his life, but according to him will contain on a very limited part dealing with Dallas - and I expect nothing new from what I heard long ago; Vernon heard after; then Dankbaar; and most know - or can search on internet for it all [although several of the best things Tosh took down....[but I have them all saved on computer or my notes and interviews]. Many discount Tosh completely and I think that is a big mistake! Most of his life and adventures 'check out', even if doubts and things unproven [or unprovable] remain about Dallas. Would be very interesting to know what he told Kerry under oath about Dallas - but is is classified in a form I've never known to be usually ever declassified. I had long hoped that Jay Harrison's material would shed some answers on Tosh's story, but alas for reason unknown to me Brown took a dislike to me or had someone whisper lies about me - and I have thus far been denied access to that material, which is logically there, as they were long time friends dating from BEFORE 11.22.63! The entire body of stories re: Dallas are much stranger than anyone could imagine or imagine being imagined...and many parts of those are the truth - some others are not, of course. We are making progress, IMHO and only details remain unknown. Some of these details, while interesting to those of us addicted to all this, are lost to the general public and don't change the general nature of the events, its initiators and its results and coverup [both of which are felt every day - and will be until this matter is exposed fully to the satisfaction of the Public].
Peter: I agree with what you have written here except the Walt Brown part. Having been very close to Jay the last seven years of his life we had tons of contact but I never looked into his files. Only on his deathbed did he give me one thing, and it is all dates, names, a chronology that would not mean anything to anyone but Jay and myself (and two other people I won't name here). A researcher looking into Mac Wallace who died under the usual circumstances, his manuscript gone, he and J were to meet that very day in Dallas. It was Jay's dying wish that this work be continued. So when Joan Mellen told me how crazy J's files were I totally understood. Too cryptic to be of use. It literally drove JOan nuts. (But that is another story that I don't want to put into writing.)
Let's just say for the record she is going down the wrong path and her work on J will not reflect HIM. (I will email you privately). To see any of Jay's stuff you would need to do what Joan did: arrive in a big auto and load up...I know you cannot do that and if you were to come to the US and mend fences with Walt I think he would share, as he did with Joan. I thought for years he was deep sixing them. Sure seemed that way, but now after countless hours on the phone with Joan I get it. I was wrong about him and I was too in the middle to be objective during the dust up with J and Richard Bartholomew. So Walt seemed like the person who caused it all. But it was very complex and Jay demanded TOTAL secrecy while alive. Then demanded it for Nathan Darby at the press conf. in Dallas 1998. So it was not Walt but J calling those shots. (I am sure John Kelin remembers the rest).
Ok back to work but I felt I needed to say this AGAIN. I hope you will accept it this time. I also recall that Tosh publicly, on these pages, demanded that you leave Walt alone and that Tosh instructed Walt not to pass on any files on him to you. I was astounded when I read that.
End of story...For now...
Dawn