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Blogger Gary Welsh Dies In Apparent Suicide
5/8/2016, 5:04:50 PM · by SatinDoll · 187 replies
IBJ ^ | May 1, 2016 | Indiana Business Journal
The Indiana blogger, Gary Walsh, was found dead by apparent gunshot to the head in a stairwell outside his office in Indianapolis. Next to his body was a gun. Gary Walsh exposed a great many corrupt politicians in Indiana, who were shredding official documents. Too, he exposed the photo of Raphael Cruz, Sr., handing out leaflets while accompanying Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans, from 1963.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)enlightenment
(8,830 posts)I'm not big on conspiracy theories, but really? In a stairwell?
840high
(17,196 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)enlightenment
(8,830 posts)Generally? In a private place - their home, their car, or similar. Alternately, very public - choosing a crowd to see the suicide to make their point (for example, the man who shot himself in the hotel buffet - Las Vegas - after losing a lot of money gambling).
I suppose a stairwell could be private - but in a public building, not really. I'm not saying the guy didn't shoot himself; that's for the coroner to decide. Just that a stairwell is an odd venue.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)rockfordfile
(8,695 posts)craigmatic
(4,510 posts)Wednesdays
(17,312 posts)that the force of the bullet was great enough to knock him into a stairwell.
salin
(48,955 posts)I don't know Walsh, but am passingly familiar with his right wing blog Advance Indiana. The OP was startling enough for me to look for the ibj link.
http://www.ibj.com/articles/58378-blogger-gary-welsh-dies-in-apparent-suicide
840high
(17,196 posts)too good with links. I always thought he criticised dems and repubs equally. Maybe I was wrong
salin
(48,955 posts)but, reading the comments at the ibj - sounds more like he was very conspiracy theory oriented - which would probably go strike in both ways.
When I first encountered Advance Indiana, I was under the impression that he was aligned with Eric Miller who ran for Governor against Gov. O'Bannon in 2004. That might have colored my later periodic readings of his blog.
Am still reading the comments on the ibj article. Interesting.
All that aside, RIP and peace to those close to him who are grieving.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)brush
(53,741 posts)and soon ends up dead with an alleged self-inflicted gunshot to the head in a stairwell.
So that's where that charge from Trump about Cruz's father and the JFK assassination came from.
H-u-u-u-u-u-h?
Guess some questioning is in order for the Cruz family.
HubertHeaver
(2,520 posts)He was found in his kitchen with a .22 revolver in his hand and a .38 hole in his head.
Richard D
(8,741 posts)or two?
DVRacer
(707 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Wow. Cruz's father and Lee Harvey Oswald? We all know Bush Sr was involved in 1963.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)In the hour of the death of President John F. Kennedy, Texas oilman George Herbert Walker Bush named a suspect to the FBI in a "confidential" phone call. He then added he was heading for Dallas. Skeptics need not take my word for it, that's what Poppy told the FBI:
Here's a transcript of the text:
TO: SAC, HOUSTON DATE: 11-22-63
FROM: SA GRAHAM W. KITCHEL
SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
JOHN F. KENNEDY
At 1:45 p.m. Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer by long distance telephone call from Tyler, Texas.
BUSH stated that he wanted to be kept confidential but wanted to furnish hearsay that he recalled hearing in recent weeks, the day and source unknown. He stated that one JAMES PARROTT has been talking of killing the President when he comes to Houston.
BUSH stated that PARROTT is possibly a student at the University of Houston and is active in political matters in this area. He stated that he felt Mrs. FAWLEY, telephone number SU 2-5239, or ARLINE SMITH, telephone number JA 9-9194 of the Harris County Republican Party Headquarters would be able to furnish additional information regarding the identity of PARROTT.
BUSH stated that he was proceeding to Dallas, Texas, would remain in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel and return to his residence on 11-23-63. His office telephone number is CA 2-0395.
# # #
Gee. Why was Poppy Bush in Dallas when JFK was assassinated?
Could it be, he was on official business? I suspect he was on Secret Government business. After all, his eldest son bragged during his Texas Air National Guard and Harvard grad school days that his daddy was CIA.
Here's an FBI document from the same week of the assassination in which FBI Director J Edgar Hoover briefed one "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency." Some strange coincidence there, wot?
Here's a transcript of the above:
Date: November 29, 1963
To: Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Subject: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Our Miami, Florida, Office on November 23, 1963, advised that the Office of Coordinator of Cuban Affairs in Miami advised that the Department of State feels some misguided anti-Castro group might capitalize on the present situation and undertake an unauthorized raid against Cuba, believing that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy might herald a change in U. S. policy, which is not true.
Our sources and informants familiar with Cuban matters in the Miami area advise that the general feeling in the anti-Castro Cuban community is one of stunned disbelief and, even among those who did not entirely agree with the President's policy concerning Cuba, the feeling is that the President's death represents a great loss not only to the U. S. but to all of Latin America. These sources know of no plans for unauthorized action against Cuba.
An informant who has furnished reliable information in the past and who is close to a small pro-Castro group in Miami has advised that these individuals are afraid that the assassination of the President may result in strong repressive measures being taken against them and, although pro-Castro in their feelings, regret the assassination.
The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by Mr. W. T. Forsyth of this Bureau.
# # #
I do remember that GHWB was head of the CIA when the Church Committee was looking into the CIA assassination programs. He made things all friendly-like and turned what had been a serious hunt for truth under previous DCI Colby into another dog-and-pony show that was big on show and light on facts.
Regarding Dallas: Now I don't know if Poppy was a trigger man, was only there to watch what happened or what just happened to be there. I do know Poppy Bush has never explained these memos. He's never even admitted where he was the day JFK was killed.
Seeing how he would go on to become President, as would his dim son, I believe it's vitally important that we learn the Truth.
Why? The United States and the world haven't been the same since November 22, 1963. And not a single major player in the nation's mass media have stepped up and demanded a real investigation. So, it's up to us, We the People.
What's more, Poppy Bush sheltered mass-murdering jet-bombing terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,153 posts)According to Mick Jagger and company, at least.
JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)OBVIOUSLY a suicide.......
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Some very suspiciously.
Including the guy found in his garage, and it determined he had used a nail gun into his head about 8 times.
a banker type guy....had a nail gun......8 times.
Riiiight.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Like anyone else who believes the Cruz Oswald photos.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Never heard of him until the Rafael Cruz-LHO thing.
Here's the guy's blog (seems to have had his stuff together):
http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2016/04/ted-cruz-family-full-of-mysteries.html
It reminds me of the death of Steve Kangas, a "suicide" in a bathroom outside Richard Mellon Scaife's offices in Pittsburgh.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/
Good people interested in telling the truth are a problem for those who got something to hide.
just4lulzidk
(60 posts)WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)woke him up in the middle of the night.
MinM
(2,650 posts)One of the producers of the Hulu series 112263 laments not having this when producing the show...
Greatest regret-- not writing [font color=darkred]Ted Cruzs Father[/font] into 11.22.63 #112263onHulu #regrets @StephenKing