by Mary W Maxwell
You may have heard of Frank Hubert Mather (1948-2018). He mostly went by the name Lenny, in honor of comedian Lenny Bruce.
Frank was a “walking encyclopedia” of the JFK assassination, which took place 55 years ago this week. Last week I attended a “celebration of life” for his life and learned that he was the man who arranged for a 1993 conference at Harvard Law School on the subject of Dallas 1963 that reinvigorated the research.
Many of Frank’s colleagues are Harvard folk but he himself was a taxi driver. One author of the assassination, James Douglass, sent in a very moving tribute saying that Frank died homeless, age 70 — his body was not found for a few days.
That made me have another look at Douglass’s book “JFK and the Unspeakable.” When I first read it, I did not believe his claim that Kennedy and Khrushchev were working together to stop wars. I also don’t believe it when I hear that Trump and Putin do the same.
Not that my opinion matters – it is based on almost nothing. But ideals definitely were in the air up till 1963 and they vanished quickly. After that we had the widely hated or scorned LBJ and Nixon, followed by Bush-Reagan-Bush. We had all the terrorist baloney and now the comprehensive degradation of humanity.
So maybe James Douglass is onto something. I will play the video below that may give the big key.
MJ
Marijuana became legal yesterday in Massachusetts, the 7th state to allow it to be sold in stores for recreational use; medical use was already there. Only two stores have qualified so far, both are in the west of the state – Leicester and Northampton. They say “pot pilgrims” will be trekking to the Berkshire Mountains for a nostalgic high.
The age is 21, as for drinking. Your landlord is allowed to forbid you to smoke it. But even so, you can buy it in cookie form and your landlord will never guess. The price? A thousand dollars for four ounces. (I seem to recall that an ounce was called a “nickel bag.”)
Does that include GST now that all is above the table? Nope. Sales tax in Taxachusetts is 6 percent and excise tax is eleven percent. So, $1,170 will get you to where you want to be.
I disapprove, because I think it will reach the brains of under 21’s which are still developing, but there again I don’t want to push my opinion on anyone (as I do, God knows, on certain other topics….)
Now for the JFK speech, but first the final message on the printed program of Lenny’s funeral:
“In his memory people are encouraged to redouble their efforts to make this world a better place, where truth and justice rule.”
Dee is too tired to write a caption under the photo on the right (she is now doing the midnite run for Protective Grandparents). We all realize it is Geo Bush Senior outside the Texas Book Depository on November 22, 1963, right?
Dee, if you go to jail for “protection” i will bring you a thermos of pineapple juice.
Not wanting to besmirch Lenny Mather, I omitted mentioning that he was difficult to cope with, and I forgot to say that he was a 9-11-er as well as a JFK-er.
He belonged to the Boston for 9-11 Truth group (remember the Gumshoe articles on two men walking from Rhode Island to Worcester to proclaim 9-11?)
The co-founder of “Boston for 9-11 Truth” got up at the memorial for Lenny and said he had had to boot Lenny out of the group as he was disruptive at meetings. Everyone nodded understandingly and indeed many of the eulogists said a similar thing. Mather would make phone calls that lasted 4 hours, beginning, say, at midnight.
Yet they all loved him and admired his genius and his passion for truth. They referred to him as “our brother.”
Just goes to show ya.
55 years since an evil cohort took over the USA in a coup and has controlled it ever since: http://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/2018/11/85-real-assassination-of-jfk-w-ole.html;
The Great American Con: https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/search?q=JFK
A good read, thanks for sharing, Dee McLachlan.
Rest in Peace sir @ “Lenny” and three cheers for Justice & Truth.
Ah, five years later. — I thought the video (secret societies) was only JFK’s speech, but after that it goes on for 7 minutes of excellent coverage of the press.
I see that in the article I did not mention the venue of the Lenny memorial that I attended. It was the home of Ms Abby Rockefeller. The house used to be owned by e e cummings, and is steps away from Harvard Yahd. There was no “security check” at the door. Isn’t that nice?
Ms Rockefeller had helped Lenny during his happier days.