Let's Start Off With The Funnies

              PENN JONES T H E
CONTINUING
INQUIRY
VOLUME V, NUMBER 3 OCTOBER 22, 1980 1
LET'S START OFF WITH THE FUNNIES
The world is in such a hellofarness these days,
to serious business.
Did you shoot J.R.?
No, I haven't been charged
with t h a t . In fact, no-one
has said that to me y e t.
The f i r s t I heard about it
was when, uh, a newspaper
r e p o r t e r in the h a l l , uh,
asked me t h a t question
from Harry Irwin's JFK Assassination Forum
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 9-13-80
let's get a few grins in before getting down
Roger finally
sfUks it fo Dan
Roger Hudd thinks that
Dan Rather is one slimy,
sneaky, conniving, under­handed,
unscrupulous and
downright rotten guy, albeit
with a certain charm.
"Roger.will kill me for tel­ling
you that," says Hughes
Rudd, former CBS corres­pondent
and friend to both
Roger and rival Rather.
"Oh, hell, go ahead and use
it" Here goes. Mind you,
Roger wouldnever actually
be caught dead (at least in
public) talking ill of Dan.
Indeed, ever since Dan
walked off with Walter
Cronkite's anchorman job,
Roger's been professing no­thing
but love and admira­tion
for him, even as he
speiit months at home sulk­ing,
until he recently took a
correspondent's job at NBC.
But Rudd blew Mudd's
cover in an interview the
other day with the L.A.
Times. According to
Hughes, "Mudd's nickname
for the Texas-bred Rather is
•J.R.,' after the stealthy,
ever-plotting villain of
'OaUas.'"
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Afghans want Dan Rather returned for trial
ISLAMABAD, Pakisun (.AP) — American
diplomats in Afghanistan said Friday that
Afghanistan has demanded the return of
American television reporter Dan Rather for
trial on charges of participating in the "tor­ture
and fatal stoning" of three Afghans last
March.
Rather, a CBS correspondent, said in New
York, "I deny these lies absolutely, complete­ly
and without equivocation." CBS News said
in a statement the allegations were "totally
preposterous and absolutely untrue.".
The American diplomats said the Afghan
foreign minister handed a note demanding
Bather's return to George Griffin, acting
chief of the U.S. mission in Kabul.
The note, delivered on Thursday, referred
to t he reporter as " Dan Keezer," and repeated
allegations made against himearlier thisyear
after he returned from a tour of rebel-con­trolled
villages in eastern Afghanistan.
Rather and CBS categorically denied the pre­vious
allegations.
. "Last March, a group of American journal­ists
led by Dan Reezer participated in the
torture and fatal stoning of three Afghan
laborers near the village of Fatahabad in
Nanaga Rhar province" of eastern Afghani­stan,
the note said.
The Foreign Ministry's note demanded
that "Reezer^'-compensate the families of the
alleged victims for "monetary and spiritual
losses" suffered during the alleged incident.
No monetary figure was given.
The official Soviet news agency Tass pub­lished
a story Aug. 4 quoting a newspaper in
Kabul that alleged Rather "participated" in
the killings of three workers while he was on
assignment in Afghanistan.
"This is a classic case of the propaganda
technique known the world over as 'the big
lie.' None of the allegations have any basis in
fact," Rather said in New York.
CBS said the latest allegations "are as total­ly
preposterous and absolutely untrue" as the
earlier allegations and "there is not the slight­est
scintilla of truth to them." CBS said it
intended to approach the State Department
to explore possible official U.S. action to pro­test
"this irresponsible action on the part of
the Soviet Union and Afghanistan."
ODDITIES. INCONSISTENCIES, ANOMALIES. MYSTERIES AND COINCIDENCES OF THE JFK INVESTIGATION
You've probably come across a lot of them. Send us your favorites and we'll publish them
along with some we've noticed. Some that we plan to document include these: Did you know
that Jack Ruby's piano player lived down the street from the Raines? Did you know that
Oswald came down with venereal disease "in line of duty"? Did you know that before going
to Russia Oswald spelled his mother's name correctly, but in 1963 spelled it Margret?
If you've noticed any strange little facts like these, please send them to us.