Dear George Bailey: Here's Why I Laughed When Asked About Death Threats

Dear George Bailey: Here's Why I Laughed When Asked About Death Threats

George Bailey has written some good information about the Kennedy assassination and about Lee Oswald.

I was concerned, then, when a friend allowed me to use his computer today (I am en route to a third world country) so I could see George's remarks....which can be read here...

http://oswaldsmother.blogspot.com/search/label/Judyth%20Vary%20Baker

George didn't appreciate a nervous laugh I made when asked about death threats in the Nov. 22 Coast-to-Coast interview. he waned me to spend that precious few minutes giving details.

Suffice that I had incidents occur just prior to the interview of Nov. 22. What happened to me in London in May, 2010, was equally disturbing to friends there. Dr. Jim Fetzer was made aware --at once-- of several intimidating and outright threatening events that occurred there. We went ahead with those interviews anyway.

I was accepted as a political asylum seeker and given protection over ten months in the EU political asylum system due to death threats. I felt people don't want to hear about that: I believed they preferred to hear what I could say in such a short time about Lee Oswald, a hero.

With very limited time to speak on Coast-to-Coast from a location I wished to keep confidential, I was not about to give time or glory to the clods who were persecuting me, trying to intimidate me.
So this is my reply, George, to your statement:

"When asked by host George Knapp about the death threats she said she has gotten, she never gave a straight answer and laughed it off. I wish she had been more forthcoming on the threats and how they were delivered."

I had only a few minutes to speak, after which the cell phone used would be mailed back to the person who lent it to me, never to be used by me again.


...I was on my way out of the country, but due to an incident that very day, had to actually call in from a different location than the one originally planned...

For those uninformed, my laugh was not because I thought receiving death threats was "funny."

Note this explanation of "nervous laughter":

Unhealthy or "nervous" laughter...is not true laughter, but an expression of tension and anxiety. Instead of relaxing a person, nervous laughter tightens them up even further.

one person online wrote:

"...A few weeks ago, my house burned to the ground, and I lost nearly everything I owned; I almost lost my life. But even that night, I was cracking a few rather dark jokes with some of my friends (albeit aided by a couple of cocktails). Humor can be relied on to "get me through"; because it's been an effective coping & healing mechanism in the past, I often turn to humor in times of crisis."

Posted by: Trista Meehan | February 23, 2010 4:08 PM

the great sci-fi writer, KURT VONNEGUT, WROTE:

"...I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that’s the soul seeking some relief.

Any subject is subject to laughter, and I suppose there was laughter of a very ghastly kind by victims in Auschwitz.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear. Freud said that humor is a response to frustration—one of several. A dog, he said, when he can’t get out a gate, will scratch and start digging and making meaningless gestures, perhaps growling or whatever, to deal with frustration or surprise or fear.

And a great deal of laughter is induced by fear."

GEORGE, YOU HAVEN'T WALKED IN MY MOCCASINS.
I HAD THE CHOICE OF BURSTING INTO TEARS--OR MAKING A LITTLE LAUGH AND GOING ON WITH THE INTERVIEW.

Thank you, George, for all you've done to defend Lee Oswald. perhaps we'll meet one day, and we can talk! :-)

JVB

p.s. as to George's remark that Ed Haslam was in error saying a Mauser was found in the TSBD and that it was "two days" (calendric days) until that was corrected to a Mannlicher-Carcano--- George, he made his statement on the basis of known reports on Nov. 22-24, 1963.

See for them yourself on YOUTUBE here: