Pat Valentio Jr. (Sept 20th – Aug 2nd 2026) Interview from Pat’s home in Sept 2012 Pat, a long time JFK researcher is a music arranger, Chris writes the BOR show notes Pat’s interest began the day of the assassination, and with the murder of Oswald Oswald was tried by the WC with no defense, Rush To Judgment (Lane 1966) The evidence and testimony did not gel with the Commission’s report Inquest (Epstein 1966), Pat tape recorded Mark Lane being interviewed on the radio in LA Six Seconds in Dallas (Thompson 1976), Pat taped a debate with Lane and Louis Nizer Pat knew and worked with Donald Freed and Steve Soter Steve and Pat interviewed a chef at a restaurant frequented by JFK and Jack Ruby The War Conspiracy (Scott 1972), Executive Action (Freed/Trumbo 1973) Pat did a lot of taping off the TV, before the availability of video recording 9/11, the Bush Administration dodged valid questions and concerns 1993/94 Pat met regularly with Gary Aguilar at his home Pat has given presentations of his JFK recording archive BOR provides new research revelations and a historical perspective Convoluted arguments by WC defenders, Robert Oswald in Lifton’s new book Best Evidence (Lifton 1981), was ready to go to press, then came the HSCA releases In 1975, Pat’s sister was dating David Lifton, David had a lot of rare books David asked Pat to attend a lecture by Fred Newcomb, the body alteration theory David read Sibert and O’Neill, “surgery of the head area, namely, in the top of the skull” He showed it to professor and Warren Commission counsel Wesley Leibler Leibler wrote a memo and sent it to many people in Washington Katzenbach dismissed it saying, “Bobby Kennedy would have done something” David questioned Allen Dulles at a UCLA lecture re: back and to the left Patricia Lambert cooperated with, then fell out with David and Pat Jim Garrison may have been gun shy, he was courageous Patricia was a dedicated participant with David Lifton Gary Aguilar on C-SPAN with Max Holland, re: Jim Garrison and Clay Shaw Hal Lieberman, Harry Livingstone, Donald Freed, monthly meetings, William Turner The 1993 ASK conference, Norman Mailer David on his own and with Pat recorded many interviews with witnesses 1983, David a set of FBI Agent Fox’s autopsy photos, Pat invited David to Dallas They interviewed several Parkland doctors, first, anesthesiologist Marion Jenkins He was a Kennedy hater, shown the photos, he was noncommittal Jenkins claimed he felt an unseen shoulder wound, but only 17 years later to the HSCA Dr. Peters, Dr. Jones, Peters says, “Oh no…it’s occipital parietal“ Dr. Kemp Clark, though reluctant to talk to researchers, called David In his office, Clark didn’t look at the photos, so he wouldn’t have to go record 1989, Pat and David filmed extensive interviews, including John Newman Pat has the original draft of Newman’s JFK and Vietnam (1992) Fletcher Prouty and John Newman, Oswald and the CIA (Newman 1995) It’s the intelligence community, not a lone Marxist, deeper then the CIA, like ONI John Kennedy handled the Bay of Pigs, finessed the Missile Crisis, greatest capacity for learning He had the greatest capacity for learning, and the willingness to learn Johnson, Nixon, Dealey Plaza compared to entering Oz, Nixon was assassinated by Watergate Nixon’s criminality, paranoia, red-baiting, Helen Gahagan Douglas The Hiss and Rosenberg cases, typewritten materials precede the typewriter manufacture Hoover and Roy Cohn, 9/11, Dealey Plaza II, Building 7, Silverstein, “pull it” A tremendous breakdown in security, George Tenet and David Boren, a pilot’s license Hijackers in Las Vegas, a hubbub that disappeared, believers wouldn’t be visiting strippers The Warren Commission did not invent suppressing documents for years, there was precedent Richard Case Nagell, Mort Sahl, Garrison subpoenas denied by Governors Garrison’s war service, this was not the country he fought for Pat followed the Kennedy candidacy and his administration, the Best Evidence Lifton’s work, body alteration is bizarre, then you hear the Bethesda witnesses Jerrol Custer observing Jackie entering the lobby after x-raying JFK Events in and surrounding Bethesda, Gerry Spence and Paul O’Connor in London (1986) The helicopter lifting off from the right side of Air Force One, you can hear it That casket does not have John Kennedy’s body, Lifton’s approach to evidence Two sets of doctors, two lenses, the potential of interviewing David Lifton
