GOODBYE FREEDOM OF SPEECH CONCERNING OSWALD: 6th FLOOR MUSEUM HAD GRODEN ARRESTED

City Hall Blames Dealey Plaza Arrest On Sixth Floor. Can You Guess Who Sixth Floor Blames?
By Jim Schutze Thu., Jul. 14 2011 at 12:19

==THE ONGOING SAGA: THE 6TH FLOOR MUSEUM PEDDLES "OSWALD DID IT" TO A NEW GENERATION OF PEOPLE UNAWARE THEY'RE BEING FED A BATCH OF LIES; ROBERT GRODEN, MEANWHILE, WAS ARRESTED VIA COMPLAINTS FROM THE 6TH FLOOR MUSEUM FOR PEDDLING THE OTHER VIEWPOINT. FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS A HALLMARK OF AMERICA'S GREAT BILL OF RIGHTS. BE SURE TO SUPPORT ROBERT GRODEN IN HIS FIGHT FOR JUSTICE AT DALLAS CITY HALL. 2013 IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER, AND DALLAS WANTS "OSWALD DID IT" TO BE THE O-N-L-Y STORY AMERICA --AND THE WORLD--GETS. COPY THIS AND SEND IT EVERYWHERE!===JVB==

​Just for the sake of historical accuracy, I would like to point out that the city of Dallas has claimed in court filings that the Sixth Floor Museum was behind the June 10, 2010, arrest and incarceration of Kennedy assassination author Robert Groden, who is charged with illegally selling literature in Dealey Plaza.
And just for the sake of even more historical accuracy, I would like to remind you of a statement given to me by Sixth Floor director Nicola Longford and included in an Observer cover story published back in April. I'd asked Longford to talk to me about why the museum got Groden arrested. She told me, in a frosty email: "Concerning the city of Dallas and activities in Dealey Plaza, we are not party to the matters you have referenced, and it would thus be improper for us to comment."

Au contraire, it would appear. Not only was the Sixth Floor a party to the arrest of Groden, it was the host of the party, according to papers filed June 16 in Groden's federal lawsuit against the city.
Groden does a brisk weekend trade in books, magazines and CDs, which he sells to tourists from a folding table in the old pergola at the west end of Dealey Plaza, where President John Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. But last year, Groden was arrested by city police officers for selling without a license in a city park. That arrest was tossed by two criminal courts after Groden's lawyers demonstrated that the city doesn't even offer licenses to sell in parks, and Dealey Plaza isn't a park, anyway.

Groden is suing the city in federal court, arguing that his arrest came as the culmination of years of persecution in violation of his civil rights.

But why?



Mark Graham
Groden peddles his conspiracy theories on Dealy Plaza.
​Groden, a conspiracy theorist, has a fairly conspiratorial case to make: that the city wants tourists to hear only the Sixth Floor theory (Oswald did it) and not his own (more people were in on it). Other vendors who work the weekend crowds at Dealey Plaza offer a simpler story: that the Sixth Floor is all fancy-schmancy and best-foot-forward and doesn't want a bunch of rag-tag conspiracy guys junking up the landscape.
And while Longford, the Sixth Floor's gal, told me that the museum had nothing to do with Groden's arrest (before shutting down our brief interview), half the city's defense appears to be that that the Sixth Floor made them do it.

Court records show that police arrested Groden because a security guard working for the Sixth Floor "had observed Groden sell some merchandise from his parked vehicle." Police made the arrest after the guard, who worked for a company hired by the museum, "explained that he was a security guard and that such commercial activity was not permitted there."

Interesting source to rely on in making an arrest. Just a month before, police had accused an employee of the same security company, Platinum Security and Consulting, of trying to steal a safe from the Sixth Floor. And the day after Groden's arrest, Tanya Eiserer in The Dallas Morning News had what we in the news business call a real good story pointing out that Platinum had recently paid a $10,000 fine for using 140 unlicensed guards, some with criminal histories.

But, sure. If we're the cops and we have to decide whether to arrest a prominent author for selling books and CDs in a public place, let's ask Professor Platinum. He works for the Sixth Floor Museum, after all.

Still, the city won't cry "Uncle!" in Groden's federal suit. They admit they don't really have licenses for selling in parks, but they say they could totally have some if they wanted to. They admit that Dealey Plaza isn't really a designated park, but they say it totally should be. And, anyway, the Sixth Floor started it.

Not the strongest case. So what does the city have going for itself? An entire wing of City Hall filled with lawyers. That's what they have. That and a great deal of patience. Plus, when the suit finally does settle and that big cash register rings in the sky, guess who will will be paying Mr. Groden?

That bell tolls for thee, my fellow taxpayer. It tolls for thee.

COPA'S JOHN JUDGE SPEAKS OUT ABOUT ROBERT GRODEN'S ARREST AT DEALEY PLAZA

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Robert Groden is the man who keeps the "X" at Dealey Plaza, showing where President Kennedy was shot. It is on the street just across from the Grassy Knoll, and surprisingly far from the Sixth Floor well behind it: the City of Dallas has never tried to demarcate where the President was killed, to its shame.

And, shamefully, in July they arrested Robert Groden.
As they have done many times before.

We who love America need the Robert Grodens who dare to speak the truth.

John Judge has written well: COPA's leader should be heard from sea to shining sea -- and he will be, if you will spread this message far and wide.

I wrote Robert Groden and offered (for I live in exile and am poor) a little pittance toward helping his attorney fees. He graciously declined my offer and thanked me.

With "vendors" wiped out of Dealey Plaza, all we'll have left is the Official Version --that Oswald shot JFK (for no reason, and though he denied it to his dying breath). You will have to pay a tidy sum to the City of Dallas to get he propaganda fed to you.

Take heed, then to what John Judge tells you: writing to the Dallas DM, in the comment section, after the usual paid voices registered nasty comments about Groden, just as they do against me, John Judge weighed in.

Read it here:
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Robert Groden is no clown. He is a serious and committed researcher
for decades into the truth of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and
the mendacity of the official version and the media that still denies
reality to support it, including the Sixth Floor Museum, funded to
perpetuate the lies.

Groden was hired as a photographic consultant to
the House Select Committee on Assassinations and is the author of many
critical and groundbreaking books on the evidence in the JFK case. He
sells videos of the actual footage of the assassination as well as
those works on the Grassy Knoll and has for decades now.
He has not failed to fill out any paperwork, none is needed and no permit has
ever been offered.

He was not ticketed 80 times for harassing anyone.

It has been a long campaign of harassment and each time the court
threw out the charge and voided the ticket. It is a matter of free
speech, free thought and the protection of dissent in the face of the
propaganda, lies, cover-up and even witness murders that have marred
the lack of investigation into the Kennedy assassination from the
start.

I come to Dealey Plaza each year on November 22 to hold a
moment of silence begun in the 60s by journalist and newspaper editor
Penn Jones, Jr. who also knew and respected Bob Groden. I represent the
national network of serious assassination researchers based in
Washington, DC, responsible for freeing 6.5 million pages of
classified records on the JFK case. I do not come to honor JFK's life
and record, which were impressive, but to talk about how those things
got him killed, why and by what forces that are still in power in this
country.

I come, as Groden does, to speak truth to power in the
dimming light of this democracy before darkness overtakes us all.

Those who harass Groden for telling the truth are those who wish to
extinguish one of the few remaining lights in this age of blind
consensus. Shame on the Dallas police, and shame on the Dallas press
for not searching the truth they were honor bound to pursue in the
name of law and justice. Shame on a country where a man must spend his
life at the scene of a murder, like the mothers of the disappeared in
the foreign countries ruled by dictators we put into power, holding up
the mirror to the lies incorporated at the Museum nearby.

Oswald did not kill Kennedy; he did not shoot anyone that day. The forces
that placed him as the patsy go to the top of the government and the
Pentagon that removed him for their own venal agendas which to this
day ruin our economy, our lives, our freedom and our future.

Forgive my grief, as Tennyson and Penn Jones said. Forgive my refusal
to bend down to a lie. Forgive the boldness of Robert Groden to spit in the
eye of false history and demand the truth, much less to speak and
spread it on the vile location where democracy died long ago.


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