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Saving Landmarks
Readers Write: Last Call
President Joe Biden, like Donald Trump before him, has delayed the public release of thousands of government documents that might shed light on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In announcing his decision, Biden wrote, “Temporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.”
The CIA or other agencies can stop the release of additional documents if they can convince the president that the papers reveal sensitive sources or methods, or what Larry Schnapf, a lawyer and assassination researcher, says could be “what the CIA was doing in New Orleans, some more info about Mexico City, and likely even some revelations about the CIA role in Watergate.”
Public opinion polls have long indicated most Americans do not believe the official conclusion by the Warren Commission that the assassination was the work of a single gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine who once defected to the Soviet Union and who was shot to death by a nightclub owner Jack Ruby while in police custody. A special House committee in 1978 concluded “on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.”
Much of what has yet to be released involves intelligence activities during the height of the Cold War that likely had no direct bearing on the plot to kill Kennedy but could shed light on covert operations. One heavily censored file involves a CIA plot to kill Castro. Another is a 1963 Pentagon plan for an “engineered provocation” that could be blamed on Castro as a pretext for toppling him. Then there’s a history of the CIA’s Miami office, which organized a propaganda campaign against Castro’s Cuba. Other redacted files are believed to contain new CIA information about the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee in Washington’s Watergate Hotel by former CIA operatives that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Researchers are especially interested in the personnel file of the late George Joannides, a career CIA intelligence operative who staffers on the House investigation in the late 1970s believe lied to Congress about what he knew about a CIA-backed exile group that had ties to Oswald.
Saving Landmarks
Among the properties named to the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance’ 2021 Seven to Save list were the United Baptist Church of Laconia, the Weirs Drive-In and its archaeological site in Laconia, and the Wilder-Holton House in Lancaster.
The United Baptist Church is named as “A classic example of Victorian polychromatic design.” The wood-frame church in Lakeport “remains largely unchanged since it was built in 1892. The church’s structural integrity is at risk and its 120-foot steeple requires stabilization,” the Preservation Alliance wrote.
The Weirs Drive-In is the largest of three remaining drive-in theaters in New Hampshire. Currently listed for sale after an earlier offer fell through, the drive-in sits on land that was heavily used by indigenous people for fishing-related activities.
Lancaster’s Wilder-Holton House was built in 1780. It was the first two-story house in Coös County. Now home to the local historical society, the structure needs considerable rehabilitation to be fully usable.
Readers Write: Last Call
What is happening in the world today is a sleight-of-hand trick. Watch this hand while the other hand is doing the real mysterious work. In this hand, we have multiple battles and issues: school boards, lockdowns, masks, vaccines, mandates, lost jobs (because of the vaccine), supply chain, inflation, fuel prices, food prices, rents, climate change, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Sununu, local town/city issues, and the list goes on; while on the other hand, the Devil/Satan is destroying every human possible by keeping them away from knowing God/Jesus (not knowing of Them, but intimately knowing Them), including our kids, and he already has killed millions of our babies.
This is a warning, an alert, DEFCON 1 alarm, which is the grimmest that is being sent. If you think the issues mentioned above are bad, wait to you see what is coming. Actually, you don’t want to see what is coming.
I alerted my school board in the five minutes they give to speak, hopefully so they see the truth of what is really going on. You can do the same with your five minutes and the battles/issues you’re dealing with. I have to say this is one way to get God and Jesus back into our schools.
Make your decision now: who’s side you are on, God’s or the world? Before Jesus comes back to rule this world, there will be people hunted down like wild animals, billions, not one, not two, billions will be dead, and countries destroyed because we have forgotten who really is in charge, God/Jesus.
If you really want to make a difference in this world, then choose God/Jesus now before it is too late. Save yourself, save others, and start talking about salvation through Jesus. Every one of us needs to ask Jesus for forgiveness of sins now, don’t wait. God sent His only son Jesus to redeem us from this sinful fallen world. God only asked one thing of us and that is to repent, turn back to Him through Jesus. Jesus died on a cross and spilled His blood out for you. He rose from the died, went back to Heaven to prepare a place for you, and He is coming back to collect us who have faith and trust in God/Jesus and then deal with the people that are left behind.
John Sellers
Bristol
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