David Lifton person
also: David Lipton, Lifton, Lipton, the engineering student, the graduate student
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David Lifton member_of
California State University, Los Angeles book_quoted
“would make them a target of media mockery. But they were doing the work the American press refused to do. Among this band of loosely connected independent researchers was a 26-year-old UCLA graduate student in engineering and physics. His n…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 40:21
David Lifton exposed
Allen Dulles book_quoted
“like Dulles at the time of their duel. It was the way he looked, his eyes. He was just evil. They were very, very scary. David Lifton was the only person who ever gave Alan Dulles a taste of what it would be like for him to have actually be…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 26 @ 48:47
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would make them a target of media mockery. But they were doing the work the American press refused to do. Among this band of loosely connected independent researchers was a 26-year-old UCLA graduate student in engineering and physics. His n…
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until he happened to attend a lecture of Mark Lane in September 1964, around the time the report had been released. The graduate student went to the lecture as a lark. He said for the same reasons he might go to an eccentric lecturer on The…
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into researching the Kennedy assassination. Back in LA, Lifton plunked down $76 in a local bookstore to buy the entire 26-volume set of the Warren Report. He spent an entire year looking over everything. He added another dimension to his un…
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By the time Dulles arrived at UCLA, David Lifton was ready to do battle. Contacting the student who was acting as Dulles' host, Lifton passed word that he would like to sit down with a spymaster for a 15-minute interview to discuss the repo…
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Critic had tried to get the best of Dulles the previous night, and he said that Dulles made mincemeat of him. That evening when Lipton showed up at the hall, he had butterflies in his stomach. I had never met, I had never been more frighten…
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pipe and leaned back in his chair. Still alert at 72, Dulles scanned the group of 40 or so students sitting in chairs semicircle in front of him. Lipton had brought along an arsenal of evidence, including two hefty volumes of the Warren Rep…
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He also brought friends. After Dulles deflected a question from a student about the CIA budget, the spymaster suddenly found himself confronted by Lifton. Lifton, not knowing how long he'd be given the floor, leaped right into the heart of …
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We have found no evidence of a conspiracy, Dulles corrected him. There was a twinkle in his eye. Undeterred, Lipton kept going. Contrary to the commission's conclusion, he asserted, there was ample evidence to suggest a conspiracy, not the …
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His own law of physics and the conclusion was unavoidable to him. This must imply someone firing from the front. Dulles would have none of it. He calmly informed the gathering, examined the film a thousand times, and that what Lipton was sa…
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But the images were clear enough. Nobody had ever confronted Dulles like this before in his life. The old man was agitated as he glanced at the photos. Now, what you are saying. Just what are you saying, Dulles sputtered. I'm saying there m…
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There isn't a single iota of evidence indicating conspiracy. No one says anything like that. Well, of course, plenty of people did. They just didn't say it to Dulles' face. But now it was Lipton's turn to school Dulles. Actually, the engine…
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What are you talking about, he said. Who saw smoke? Lifton began giving names of the witnesses, citing the research done by Harold Feldman, a writer for scientific journals. Who is Harold Feldman, Dulles said. This elicited an explosion fro…
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He thought that everybody else was going to laugh too, but he was the only one laughing. It is to the everlasting credit of the students, Lipton later remarked, that even if they did not understand the full meaning of the dialogue that was …
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Dulles was all alone. Dulles tried to retrieve the upper hand by making his antagonist look like a time hog. As Lipton put it, look, the distinguished guest said to the group. I don't know if you really are all interested in this. And if yo…
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With his display of contempt, he seemed at a loss on how to continue the battle. I can't see a blasted thing here, the old man said, taking another look at the hideous photos. You can't see the head goes back. I can't see it goes back. It d…
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Each student can look and see for himself, he told Dulles. After the heated exchange between Lipton and Dulles, the evening began to wind down. Dulles was given the opportunity to restore some of his dignity and was asked a question that al…
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gathered around Lifton, peppering him with questions about the assassination. And for the next two hours, he gave a presentation of why Dulles was lying. Not talking about that evening nearly 50 years later, but talking about that evening, …
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like Dulles at the time of their duel. It was the way he looked, his eyes. He was just evil. They were very, very scary. David Lifton was the only person who ever gave Alan Dulles a taste of what it would be like for him to have actually be…
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and eventually erupt in fury, perhaps accompanied by vague threats, as he did Lipton, when he suggested that the grad student should submit to an FBI interrogation if he had anything new to report. Dulles' performance at UCLA offered a glim…