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My Mother Was Never a Kid, 1981.

​In “My Mother Was Never a Kid,” a 1981 episode of the ABC Afterschool Special, teenage Victoria Martin feels misunderstood by her mother, Felicia. After a bump on the head, Victoria mysteriously travels back to 1944, where she meets a young Felicia. This time-traveling adventure helps Victoria appreciate her mother’s teenage years and the challenges she faced.

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Memorandum from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Special Assistant to the President, to President John F. Kennedy, “CIA Reorganization,” June 30, 1961.

June 30, 1961
MEMORADUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT: CIA Reorganization

I submit the following views as one who worked in OSS during the
war ad served as a periodic CIA consultant in the years since.
On balance, CIA’s record has probably been very good. In the
nature of clandestine operations, the triumphs of an intelligence
agency are unknown*) all the public hears about (or should hear
about) are its errors. But, again in the nature of the case, an
agnecy dedicated to clandestine activity can afford damned few
visible errors. The important thing to recorgnize today, in my
judgement, is that the CIA, as at present named and constituted, has
about used up its quota. Its margin for future error is practically
non-existent. One more CIA debacle will shake faith considerably
in US policy, at home as well as abroad. And, until CIA is visibly
reorganized, it will (as in the Algerian instance) be widely blamed for
developents of which it is wholly innocent.

The argument of this memorandum is that the CIA’s trouble can be traced
to the autonomy with which the agency has been permitted to operate,
and that this autonomy is due to three main causes: (1) an inadequate
doctrine of clandestine operations: (2) an inadequate conception of
the relationship between operations and policy; (3) an inadequate

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*Or should be – – a gross and repeated CIA failing has been its
occasional readiness to succumb to the temptations of favorable
publicity. The Guatemalan ad Iranian operations were almost
nullified by the flood of self-congratulatory publicity which followed
them (e.g., the articles by Richard and Gladys Harkness, “The
Mysterious Designs of CIA,” Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 30, NN.6,
19, 1951.
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conception of the relationship between operations and intelligence.
The memorandum also suggests ways in which some of these prob-
lems can perhaos be alleviated.

1. CIA Autonomy
   CIA conducts three main forms of secret work; clandestine intelli-
   gence collection; covert political operations; and paramilitary
   activities. It carries on these functions with relative autonomy.
   The reasons for the autonomy are historical.

When CIA began, the State Department, still thinking too much in
terms of its traditional missions in foreign affairs, looked on this
new venture with suspicion and renounced the opportunity to seize
firm control of CIA operations. It did not, for example, try to
establish any effective system of clearance for CIA activities; and
some ambassadors frankly preferred not to know what CIA was up to
in their countries. After 1953 the fact that the Secretary of State and
the Director of Central Intelligence were brothers further confirmed
CIA’s independence from Supervision by State Department desks.

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Rough Transcript

well I watched the hearings right up to the point where you know

things were being said about um Hunter Biden did this

Joe Biden did that and I just stopped right there

so my experience with it was cut short

but I just jotted down several things I wanted to bring up

you know first of all I think the whole thing is giving a false impression

that this task force is investigating or reinvestigating the JFK assassination

I mean the House Select Committee on Assassinations did that

considering I guess you know how much more might be disclosed and not a whole lot beyond that

you know they’re not they’re not testing evidence

they’re not actually talking to witnesses

the people they talked to the other day I guess are referred to as “witnesses” (quote unquote)

but my question there is

what are they witnesses to?

they are people with opinions

and as far as the Sawinger memo goes you know that was a good point that was brought up nothing happened as a result of it kennedy was president for two and a half more years after that memo was written right and he did not reorganize the CIA and he put somebody in charge of it McCone who I’m sure had zero% interest in having it broken up so um you know that’s very accurate to say that um nothing came of it and if you read it with the impression that this is all pretty esoteric by the way it it seems Fred it seems to me like it ought to be a news story that that your blog revealed the contents of that redacted page you know before it was released that’s right i don’t know why that wasn’t a news story it’s it’s it’s amazing well you you were you were the one who actually found the the George Lardner article from 1975 that talked about controlled American source right and and that was all part of the So yeah the the the memo we’ve known about this for a long time but yeah so you know and people are going some people are just going absolutely bonkers about it yeah one more thing I wanted to say about the comparison between this task force you know when the House Select Committee on Assassinations is the the House Select Committee back in uh 7879 well 77 for that matter you know did not really uh invite or or bring in u participation by JFK assassination researchers or so-called researchers uh you know it was a pretty much u well sealed um project you might say in that respect and if you look at the uh you know in its final report there’s practically nothing in it you know that shows input from um researchers JFK assassination buffs people of that sort Uh the only exception to that actually that I ran across in in the House Select Committee’s report was something that I some input I gave them that’s mentioned in a footnote um so you know they just really didn’t uh it it was a different kind of operation certainly and and of course uh I followed the House Select Committee hearings on radio because it was broadcast live on NPR you know and took copious notes that that you know so it had a degree of uh visibility you know that certainly this uh current house task force isn’t getting because you know who gets C-SPAN 3 right uh yeah and I mean but also the that task force I mean I have to say that the some of the members were not that impressive during those hearings i mean they’re they’re just they really don’t know the assassination they don’t know the case at all and they’re just sort of using sort of conspiracy talking points um to I think make the the the the the MAGA point about the deep state i mean that’s why the the MAGA folks in that committee are really doing this is they want to really get some evidence to lead to the malignancy of the deep state and and how the deep state is going after Donald Trump i mean that’s what I see as what what they’re really trying to do yeah maybe we’d have a a better uh you know better public service if they held a hearing on uh what the deep state is and what it originsions are you know and how the term deep state got appropriated from Turkey you know and transplanted here um and so what’s what’s going to happen in the future i mean are they going to hold more hearings i mean are we going to have Douglas Horn come come testify to the committee about uh you know the the the multiple autopsies or the multiple this or the multiple that and and uh I mean who who what’s I mean I don’t think they’re going to be I don’t think they’re finished with the JFK assassination well that would be too bad well it would be uh it would be really too bad um and then there’s Jefferson Mley who basically has taken some of the documents that have been released or some of the redactions and for instance the FBI memo about HT Lingual and then reads into that memo that Angleton wanted Oswald as a source or a contact back in 1959 and just an incredible misreading of a document and then he links it all together into a what he calls a fact pattern you know and the fact pattern shows that counter intelligence killed JFK i mean it’s an incredible overreach i mean there should be an award for this sort of overreach

i I liked in the hearings when one of the congressmen thanked Mley for letting us know that uh Oswald met with a a Soviet spy in Mexico named Costakov why didn’t the Warren Commission tell us and they did of course yes that was like you know Morley didn’t Mley didn’t correct him you know Mley probably didn’t know i mean it’s just it’s it was full of stuff like that and and also there were there were a lot of I mean Dageno throwing out all the the conspiracy factoids oh there was a plot in Chicago and there was a plot in Tampa and the women on the fourth floor and how come they didn’t see Oswald going down the stairs and and they’re they’re throwing out all these factoids and nobody knows what they’re really talking about and nobody’s going to counter them and and it just gets into the record and uh it was just astoundingly horrible right i have this cartoonish image of those women uh in the staircase at the depository as soon as the shots rang out they all pulled out their stopwatches so they knew exactly when what second they were on the staircase and how long to get to the second floor you know I mean there’s there’s this belief that there’s a video recorder that’s you know recording them and so we know we know exactly how long it took them to get to the staircase when in fact if you look at their testimony it’s it’s quite imprecise and and Styles wasn’t really sure and and and Adams wasn’t really sure and it’s it’s just but but to the buffs they’re they’re sure i mean they they are far more sure than any witness they could find um Steve are you with

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Glo Geeks lighting at Diamond Shine car wash

Version 1, graphics on top and bottom of the final shot:

Version 2. Graphics only on the bottom of the final shot

These video commercials were shot with a DJI Mavic Pro 3 and edited with Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro.

The end graphics were created with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects.

glass-geeks installed the lights onto the Diamond Shine Car Wash (located at 26450 U.S. Highway 281 N, San Antonio TX )

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The lighting of the Christmas Tree at Saint Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. December 2024.

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The client isn’t happy with the “bald spot” of inactive lights in the middle of the Tree.

I have tried to fill it in using After Effects and I couldn’t get it to work.

I tried isolating the tree from the background, putting it into a sub-comp then trying to fill in the blank space with “Content Aware Fill” I think THAT should have worked, but it didn’t work. Or at least, I couldn’t get it to work.

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New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, Ramparts cover

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Vertical Version:

LYRICS:

Who appointed Ramsey Clark, who has done his best to
torpedo the investigation of the case? Who controls the
CIA? Who controls the FBI? Who controls the Archives
where this evidence is locked up for so long that it is unlikely that
there is anybody in this room who will be alive when it is released?
This is really your property and the property of the people of this
country. Who has the arrogance and the brass to prevent the people
from seeing that evidence? Who indeed?
“The one man who has profited the most from the assassination-
your friendly President, Lyndon Johnson!” —Jim Garrison

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Fred Litwin on TV news

Fred Litwin, author of several JFK assassination books, ( I Was a Teenage Conspiracy Freak, On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser, Oliver Stone’s Film-Flam: The Demagogue of Dealey Plaza, A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination) appeared on the TV news and discussed the newly released government files on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

TRANSCRIPT ( auto generated by YouTube)

HOST:

Who decide
Well Fred many would say if not the original sin this takes us back to the Garden of Eden Garden of Eden in distrusting our government This event in 1963 Fred you went through that I assume you wrote “I was a teenage JFK conspiracy freak.” That also is in the past tense
Fred I see you right I was What information do you hope to hold out here will give us answers we deserve answers Fred And it does It is shrouded in conspiracy and silence and cover up That much is a fact So what can we hope to to hold on to here is getting to the truth

FRED LITWIN:

Well I hate to disappoint you but I think that we actually have all the answers we need
and people are going to be very, very disappointed by these documents
The documents that will be released we already know what they are they’re already listed in the various transparency reports that were released by the various departments
For instance you could actually go online right now and look at all the CIA documents that will be released under this release
There’s around 2600 documents
You could see them now
They’ve actually been released It’s just a few redactions In CA some cases some documents have just redacted perhaps the distribution list of where the actual document goes to Like there might be a CIA location they want to keep secret

There’s 400 documents with social security numbers of people who are still living

So I hate to tell you that we you could right now look at all the documents and see the reductions for yourselves There’s not that much in there

HOST

And you’re telling me Fred that if I saw that and where you sit today that you believe in essentially Murphy’s Law that that the easiest explanation is the simplest explanation that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone from the schoolbook depository

(Personal Note: at 1:38 the Fox host is describing “Occams Razor” Not “Murphys Law)

FRED LITWIN:

Well I should also add that the House Select Committee on Assassinations they also concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots and killed JFK Their conclusions of a probable probable conspiracy were debunked by the National Academy of Sciences
which debunked their acoustics evidence
The evidence is very very very clear that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman

HOST:

I think that’s only part of the story though isn’t it Fred look just a few months ago I visited the school book depository and whether or not we want to dismiss the grassy Knoll theory which I don’t find that credible personally But even if you come away from that experience saying Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone shooter that’s not then the end of the story
And I’ll go lastly back to you Thomas The question is who set him in motion was he ever a government asset was there more in creating the events that led to Lee Harvey Oswald that day and to your records that you’ve had there um Thomas you only get what the agencies turn over to you

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I Was a Teenage Conspiracy Freak

On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser

A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Oliver Stone’s Film-Flam: The Demagogue of Dealey Plaza