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Mark Alexander's avatar

I'm rather late in reading your JFK articles. But I did want to thank you for all of your excellent work. The bits about the competing narrative frames (especially the frontloading ones) have been very helpful.

One thing stood out for me here: "Ralph Yates did as the FBI suggested. Within days of checking in at the hospital, his mental health rapidly deteriorated."

Mental hospitals are notorious for drugging their inmates (who are essentially prisoners) with mind- and soul-destroying chemicals, so his rapid decline doesn't surprise me at all. And then the electroshock treatments made things even worse. It's a sad story, and one that is not unique by any means. I'm sure the FBI knew that getting Yates into a mental hospital would be the end of him.

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Paul Abbott's avatar

This is an excellent article. I'm fascinated to know who messed up between generating the Yates incident pre-11/22 and conjuring the need to press Frazier for his curating rods account on 11/22. To me, the clear inference is that the DPD were either largely or only used by the plotters in the cover-up... not the planning prior to Dealey Plaza.

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