Paul Alexander Rusling was not the first person to trade on dimentia as a means of covering his tracks in order to sell books about people who could not be cross-examined, either because of illness; death or the fact that in sound health they never, ever told the truth. You can make-up anything you like about a person who is dead and who lied consistently while still alive.

Now on to this same Ruslingesque platform has stepped Mike Plumley to write about the recently departed Christopher Moore, who sounds as if he, like Ronan O'Rahilly departed without being fully aware of who he was or where he had been. That is what various forms of dementia do to the human mind. I knew a person who died in a nursing home not so long ago with similar symptoms, and her death was tranquil and without pain, but she only had a frail grasp of reality.

The storyline about the original station called Radio Caroline is enmeshed in a trio of deceit and diseased minds, by people who were brought in by the real promoters to mislead and deceive both the press and public. As the years went by this trio went in separate physical directions but continued to engage in deceit about their prior activities.

Paul Rusling was but one of the latest hack writers to engage in the game of 'tell all for cash', when in reality he had nothing to tell, but he did have a need for cash. Some engage in this game for vanity having a semi-association with one or more of the original Caroline conning trio. Rusling did have connections to O'Rahilly, but not in the formation period when the original Radio Caroline came on the air. Mike Plumley is not asking for money, he is just dispensing misinformation, or at best, confused and garbled information based upon hearsay,

There have been two recent accounts of Mike Plumley doing this, and in both instances his vehicle of dissemination was Offshore Echos magazine. A prior instance was referenced by this Blog a few months ago with regards to Mike Plumley's comment about Ian Cowper Ross. See: https://www.yesternoir.org/caroline-brooks-blog/oem-202-review

Now, with the death of Christopher Moore, an obituary by Mike Plumley has appeared Online in the website belonging to Offshore Echos magazine. You can read this for yourself at: https://www.offshoreechos.com/Main%20page.html

Offshore Echos did not publish Plumley's obituary to deceive, but the magazine does appear to have been deceived by Mike Plumley, and here's why:

We, as an investigative team of journalists, are trying to uncover the true story behind the 1964 creation of Radio Caroline, but it is a story that has been previous drowned in lies and deception quite deliberately. To prove the real facts in evidence requires documentation and that is what we have provided regarding Ian Cowper Ross and his father Charles Edward Ross.

Now, with the death of Christopher Moore another enigma has arisen from the grave. Chris Moore was around with both Ross and O'Rahilly in 1964, but he appears to have been the victim of a con job himself. So back then Chris Moore sued Ronan O'Rahilly only to discover that Ronan O'Rahilly did not know the true story about Radio Caroline. So in 1990 Chris Moore seems to have patched-up his rift with O'Rahilly and appeared with Ian Cowper Ross in a BBC-TV documentary about the start of Radio Caroline, which was primarily a work of fiction, and not a work of journalistic documentation.

Chris Moore then disappeared and the episodic recital provided by Mike Plumley about the last days of Christopher Moore do not appear to have been happy, contented days looking back on a pleasant life. It is on this note that Mike Plumley has decided to step forward and tell readers of Offshore Echos magazine all about the life of Chris Moore.

This is part of Mike Plumley's recital:

The problems with this paragraph are many!

Ian Cowper Ross in his own work of biographical fiction does recount how and where he first met Chris Moore who then introduced him to Ronan O'Rahilly. But Ian Cowper Ross' book has taken basic facts and run them through a mangle to which has been added all manner of make-believe nonsense. Ian Cowper Ross' book has no documentary value at all. It merely confirms a developing storyline retold on BBC-TV that is a work of fiction that is intended to deceive. Chris Moore was in that TV show and he appeared on camera with Ian Cowper Ross.

So the question is this: Before he died, or in a letter he left behind, did Chris Moore do a 'tell all' with documentary proof for the benefit of Mike Plumley, or has Mike Plumley merely repeated hearsay from some other unnamed source?

Mike Plumley claims that before his involvement with Radio Caroline in 1964, Christopher Moore worked as DJ at the Crazy Elephant Club at 28 Curzon Street, and Ian Cowper Ross has claimed by inference, that he first met Christopher Moore when he was a club DJ. But did Christopher Moore ever work at the Crazy Elephant Club, because if he did, it was not on Curzon Street!

There was a restaurant at 28 Curzon Street called the White Elephant, but Mike Plumley claims that the establishment called the Crazy Elephant Club was owned by "Benny Fisz". and that he was tied into the 'James Bond' film franchise. In this way Plumley drops the name of George Lazenby. Now he is getting into a murky pool of criminality involving Lazenby's conman and associate thief who claimed to be the heir of 'Drummond Bank'. More lies, and more deceit.

So what about Benny Fisz? Well, he is in reality Szlomo Benjamin Fisz who was a Polish film producer and writer. He died on November 17, 1989. No association in his movie-making with 'James Bond'.

Then what about the White Elephant, did Szlomo Benjamin Fisz own part of it? Not that we can discover. It was opened by a husband and wife team in the early 1950s, and when the husband died of illness, his wife maintained management for a while. But her interest was in producing plays at the same time and for the same ITA franchised television companies that Dorothy (Kitty) Black was working for, and both were performing similar work. The probability is that these two women knew each other.

Then what about the Crazy Elephant Club, did it exist? Yes it did at 57 Jermyn Street, and here is a picture of its basement doorway taken not so long ago:

Tennessee Ernie Ford asked that question regarding sixteen tons, and his explanation was that you get deeper in debt. We explain that you kill and main more people and destroy more property by closing your eyes to what happened in the days following September 3, 1939.

What happened on September 3, 1939?

On that day, the great and majestic United Kingdom declared war on Germany, because two days earlier, Germany invaded Poland. The UK said "Get out, or else!"

Germany ignored the UK and so the UK went to war with Germany, supposedly to force Germany out of Poland. But it did no such thing. The UK did not solve a problem, it blew it up into a worldwide conflagration of murder and destruction of property.

Germany did invade Poland, but the UK declared war based upon a fiction!

On September 3, 1939, the UK may have had the excuse of ignorance, unless of course you ask whether UK Crown spies already knew what the truth was. If they did, then the UK was simply waiting for "the other shoe (boot) to drop".

If a German foot occupied one boot in Poland, whose foot occupied the other boot?

On September 3, 1939 the British Crown pretended that a one-footed German soldier invaded Poland. But that lie was revealed just a few days later on September 17, 1939, because that is when the USSR sent in its own symbolic one-foot soldier to invade Poland.

The narrative of the one-foot soldier is still parroted by the British Broadcasting Corporation and its State authorized siblings in media, to this day. But it is only a half-truth to say that Germany invaded Poland and consequently the UK declared war on Germany.

Not only that, but twelve days after declaring war on Germany, the UK knew that it was promoting a lie, because a half-truth is not the whole truth, and after September 17, 1939, the UK had no excuse left in promoting this lie regarding the German invasion of Poland resulting in the UK Declaration of War on Germany.

What might still have been true on September 16, 1939, was not the whole truth on September 17, 1939, because on that date, the USSR (Russia) invaded Poland from the east, and its forces joined up in a handshake with German forces half-way into Poland. In other words, Germany and the USSR divided Poland between them. In fact, Germany had an agreement with the USSR to stop invading Poland at the half-way mark.

It was not the United Kingdom that halted the Nazi German invasion of Poland. It was Nazi Germany that stopped invading according to the terms and conditions of its agreement to do so with the USSR.

But here we are in the Twenty-first Century still hearing the official lie, because in a court of law a half-truth is not the "whole truth", and therefore it is a distortion of the truth, or to put it bluntly, it is a lie! The BBC and its British media siblings are good at telling Crown-endorsed lies for which no one goes to prison, and anyone who does not believe in official BBC lies is deemed to be unpatriotic.

The BBC (and its Crown siblings), are corruptors of truth. Putting it bluntly: they lie!

This media mess is engaged in by all those who take on British Crown licenses and none can be more corrupt in this sense, than the mini-organization that has sprung up under the name of 'Radio Caroline'.

While supposedly championing freedom of the airwaves it is in reality preaching a totally propagandistic lie about the creation of Radio Caroline in 1964, and the now departed Christopher Moore was a part of that corruption. He realized that he had been conned by the lies uttered from the mouth of Ronan O'Rahilly, and he even filed suit against Ronan O'Rahilly. Then the penny dropped when Christopher Moore realized that the entire charade spun by Ronan O'Rahilly was so complete, that even Ronan O'Rahilly did not know what was going on.

But these anorak jokesters of today and the conmen of yesterday are one thing, but the BBC and its siblings (of which the misbranded mini Radio Caroline is a part), are all engaged in furthering a big lie in which millions of human beings died and maimed for life, and caused millions of Pounds in property damage.

That big lie surrounds the uncorrected Declaration of War on September 3, 1939, and its broadcast at 11:15 AM that day over the government controlled airwaves of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

It has come to our attention that another bogus account regarding the start of Radio Caroline in 1964, has used the recent death of Christopher Moore as an excuse to post more fake information about the original offshore station called Radio Caroline. This bogus account has appeared on a web page created by a new enterprise calling itself 'Radio Caroline', but which has no connection to the original operation.

This fake posting is part of the ongoing attempt by that new venture to sell books and raise money for this new enterprise, but in doing so it is trading upon a fraudulent premise. The notice of death (without date), states in part that: "Chris was born on April 16, 1940 in Washington, DC into an Irish-American family. He moved to the UK with his American mother at the age of 8, and attended English boarding school from a young age. By the early sixties, he had became a noted London club DJ, being resident at the fashionable Crazy Elephant club in London's West End. His flat mate at that time, Ian Ross ...."

This fake posting then continues with these words: "He founded Radio Caroline, together with Ian Ross and Ronan O'Rahilly, in 1964. Funds having been successfully raised through Ian's father ...."

We have previously explained in detail on this Blog who Ian Cowper Ross is, and what his father was doing in 1964, and we can state quite emphatically that Charles Edward Ross (Ian's father), was not the financier of the original Radio Caroline.

But this fake posting also makes this claim about Christopher Moore: ".... he was the one who was thought to know about ships, as it appeared that he had worked briefly as a steward on a cruise ship. He was sent by Ronan to Scandinavia in 1963, reportedly with a suitcase full of cash (or maybe the money followed later), to purchase the former Danish passenger ferry, MV Fredericia, which was fitted out, in secrecy, as a radio ship in Greenore, Ireland."

This again is nonsense.

The ship (mv Fredericia) was obtained by Wijsmuller and partially outfitted at Rotterdam where it spent almost as much time as it did at Greenore. She ship was going to the Isle of Wight for rigging but at the last moment its destination was switched to Greenore.

It should also be noted that Christopher Moore became convinced that he had been swindled by Ronan O'Rahilly due to the lies and misinformation that Ronan O'Rahilly spread about putting Radio Caroline on the air, so Christopher Moore sued him in a English Court. He then discovered that because of the true military "need-to-know" legal and financial structure behind Radio Caroline, that Ronan O'Rahilly was not the person that he claimed to be, and that Ronan O'Rahilly had no knowledge about the legal and financial structure of the station.

There are so many aspects of this story that involve a lot of specific interest groups which seem to go around and around in circles with their comments.

They are like religious cults in that sense, because their topic subject is also their dogma. To deviate from it, is to deviate from their doctrine. Consequently other factors never come into play, and so they work upon a confirmation bias that cannot reach a resolution. Why? Because they have closed their eyes to the bigger picture which they view as extraneous matter.

In the instance of this Blog the bigger picture is called "oil", or more specifically, offshore natural gas and oil. So before any particular post on this Blog advances too far with detailed information, and then deviates from the trunk of the tree, we will remind you of this basic fact because it took us years to identify it!

The trunk of the tree is called "oil", and we will keep reminding you of what we are investigating, and why we are investigating it.

An example of deviation by confirmation bias leading to obfuscation of the real issue, is found in the 'Declaration of War' by the United Kingdom against Nazi Germany. That document resulted from a failed ultimatum over Poland.

The UK has continued to hammer out the message over its State influenced media, that it got into WWII because Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and Nazi Germany would not withdraw when told to do so by the UK.

But that is an explanation based upon half of the facts in evidence.

In a courtroom demanding the "whole truth", that explanation would be deemed to be a lie.

The real story, which the UK knew, was that Nazi Germany and the USSR had concluded a trade deal involving oil shipments. Those shipments from Baku, USSR, were delivered to the Polish border in train tank cars running on one gauge of rail line. They were then transferred to another train of tank cars at the Polish border which was running on a different gauge of rail line. After the transfer they were taken to Nazi Germany.

This trade deal was then followed by a Nazi Germany and Communist Russia (USSR) 'Non-Aggression Pact'. That Pact was followed by a Nazi invasion from the west of Poland. Seventeen days later, Communist Russia invaded from the east of Poland. But the UK only blamed Nazi Germany for its invasion of Poland.

However, the UK devised a plan to bomb Baku in order to shut off oil shipments that were fueling the Nazi war machine. But that bombing raid never happened. In hindsight, armchair critics have contended that if it had, then the USSR would have joined Nazi Germany to wage war upon the UK. But would it? The USSR would have also been deprived of oil.

Now consider this:

The planned bombing of Baku was also contemplated by the USSR itself - after Nazi Germany broke their 'Non-Aggression Pact' by invading the USSR, because Nazi Germany intended to seize Baku. Although Nazi Germany never made it that far, the USSR dismantled the facilities at Baku and shifted most of them to other oil deposits further in land.

If this bombing by a fleet of both British and French planes (before the fall of France) had taken place, then would the rest of the story have played-out as it is now written?

Think about the bigger picture: Those mass extermination Nazi death camps may never had a chance to be put into operation as part of 'Final Solution'! Yes, the Nazi Germans hated Jews, but Winston Churchill was also blaming 'bad Jews' for being responsible for the creation of the USSR! As long ago as 1920 when Winston Churchill was the MP for Dundee in Scotland, he identified the leader of those 'bad Jews' as being the founder of a Germanic secret society called 'Illuminati'. Winston Churchill was an anti-Semitic conspiracy nutcase, according to today's "wok" standard of judging human behavior!

The USSR ruthlessly exterminated its enemies. They exterminated the Polish soldiers that they captured and then falsely blamed their executions upon the Nazis. But the USSR under Joe Stalin had years of experience at ruthless extermination of its enemies. Joe Stalin was way-ahead of Adolph Hitler in that comparison. Whether Hitler 'caught-up' with Stalin in their race to exterminate human beings is another matter. Communist China may have been a late-comer to this awful 'game' of mass-exterminating enemies, but Mao certainly joined the 'Hall of Infamy' already populated by Stalin and Hitler. Mao was major-league monster. 

This speculation about "what if" is what happens when anyone deviates from the trunk of the tree. The people engrossed in the conspiracy theories surrounding the murder of JFK are also engaged in this useless kind of prattle, and so are the people who devote their lives to the story of broadcasting, both onshore and offshore. But both of those sub-topics are merely branches off the main topic.

That topic, the topic of this Blog, is all about oil.

 It has taken us decades to uncover the real story behind offshore broadcasting, and it seems that to date, no other author has put together the real story. One reason is because the foundation of the story is not about offshore broadcasting, it is about offshore oil.

Uncovering the history of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust became the major contribution of Ida Tarbell, many decades ago. Then the U.S. Government took action and it caused that Trust to fragment into what is commonly referred to as the 'seven sisters', and those seven companies have hidden behind as much fake promotion as it has been possible to do, given that their public persona blares out at every filling station selling their products.

'Energy crisis' flashpoints have triggered both frustration on street corner fuel pumps, and hot wars of aggression at foreign pumping and refinery installations. It is the latter that begat the strangest concealment of all, because it relates to the real trigger behind the British entry into World War II.

We did not make either of the two videos below, but they both highlight information that has been obfuscated about events that led up to the United Kingdom declaring war in 1939 on Nazi Germany.  It has been claimed that this formal Declaration of War was caused by the German invasion of Poland, but only later was it revealed that the USSR had an agreement with the Soviet Union to carve-up Poland as equal spoils of war.

So, if the United Kingdom entered WWII to honor its commitment to defend Poland against aggression, why wasn't this first Declaration of War against Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939  followed by a second Declaration of War against Communist Russia on September 17, 1939?

Footnote: The U.S. commentator towards the end of this video confuses pronunciation of Edinburgh, Scotland with Edinburg, Texas.

​Because details of the trade agreement in which the USSR supplied Nazi Germany with fuel to wage war on other nations has become public, it became necessary for the British Crown to engage in a game of 'What if Britain had bombed Baku and shut off the oil supply to Nazi Germany?' The official answer is that the USSR would then have become an active partner with Nazi Germany and declared war on the UK, and consequently Britain would have lost WWII.

But is that true, or is it more British propaganda?

​If Hitler needed Soviet oil to wage his war on other nations, then at the very least his loss of fuel would have led to a reassessment of his own situation, and perhaps a pause in his future plans of conquest. On the other hand, the loss of fuel by the Soviet Union would hinder any immediate plans that it had to wage war in retaliation on the UK.

Therefore the initial cover-up of the joint Nazi Germany - Communist Russia trade agreement, and the subsequent downplaying of the joint invasion of Poland by both Nazi Germany and Communist Russia, is simply a case of more obfuscation to bring about a brainwashed propaganda message to the British people via the British Broadcasting Corporation and other State influenced media to continue to deliver a British perspective of WWII.

The UK still does not have a written constitution, and freedom of its airwaves is still not a factor today, anymore than freedom of the press was a factor in the days of Freeborn John Lilburne.

No matter how much idealism was involved, underwriting the first offshore station required a knowledge of national laws and international treaties, and that was not the domain of teenagers having a good time listing to the radio. Neither was the choice of location for the original station. It was at the chokehold of the Baltic Sea which is where the USSR had a fleet of surface ships and submarines ready to turn the Cold War into World War III. But for those vessels to serve any purpose they had to get out of the Baltic Sea and into the North Sea.

Another overlooked vital piece of information is the real story behind the United States Coast Guard Cutter 'Courier' which was eventually anchored off Greece. Offshore broadcasting idealists have oft-cited this ship, but little did they seem to know its back story. That ship was a  stopgap measure, and it was based upon a failed attempt at offshore broadcasting by the US Navy during World War II. How do we know this? Because it is part of the official U.S. government records that explained both the financing and purpose of the floating 'Voice of America' station. Unfortunately the pop writers did not do the research required, and so they never read this foundational information.

Just like a pebble thrown into a pond that causes ripples to spread in all directions, so this story about offshore broadcasting is also linked to those initial ripples. But offshore radio was not the cause of that first splash. It was caused by a Texas company dropping anchor for the first time as part of their quest to find and exploit natural gas and oil deposits under the waters of the North Sea. Meanwhile a fleet of U.S. nuclear submarines based in Scotland sent one of their number to stand guard at that same gateway to the Baltic Sea, and that is where the first commercial offshore station was located.

Clearly from reading the background to the Danish Nazi Party, it is obvious that no one forced Alex Brask Thomsen to help create this fledgling political group, which even its original leader decided to desert - before Alex Brask Thomsen claims that he quit when the Germans invaded Denmark. So therefore it is worth taking a much closer look at all those who later involved themselves with the offshore station Radio Mercur, because nothing about offshore broadcasting is what it has been claimed to be.

The location is Jutland and it is a peninsula that is central to explaining the background to our investigation, because this is the location where the subjects of offshore oil and offshore radio collide.

This is where Jutland is located in relationship to Demark and Germany. Its borderlands contain ethnic minorities from both Denmark and Germany - on opposite sides of the two borders:

This is where the Nazi Third Reich took its last stand with a de facto and de jure government ....

 Alex Brask Thomsen emerged from this geographical area of Jutland bordering both Denmark and Germany, and became a founding member of the Hitler-era Danish Nazi Party, and then, after World War II he became the financier underwriting the offshore station Radio Mercur. It is therefore unfortunate that his family members commissioned his autobiography to be written in such a way that it became merely a non-controversial tribute, and not an in-depth account of his life. To find his real story, is necessary to seek the facts elsewhere by following oblique references that are within the book.

Clearly there are a lot of people with a lot of vested interests who do not want the true story that links the roots of offshore broadcasting to the roots of the North Sea Oil and Natural Gas industry, because some of those roots are derived from the original Nazi Era of Gas Chambers. But if the true story is to be told, then it has to be told in context with as many of the real facts that can be retrieved from the censored past. That is the story we will continue to reveal here, in depth, day after day. Eventually we will synthesize it into book format. We are of course well aware that a lot of people still revert to the old line that they just didn't know the entire Nazi agenda. Well, whether they did, or whether they didn't know is besides the point, because they all contributed to a yesterday that they pretend never happened. But unfortunately, it did.

LBJ was first "inaugurated" on a jet parked at a Dallas airfield, after the previous president had part of his head blown off. So the Vice-President became President for the remainder of the term won by John F. Kennedy. When it came to his own election in 1964, he could not ask the previous president to attend and validate a transfer of power, so he asked the president before John F. Kennedy. That was President Eisenhower, and he refused, in a very polite manner!

 On January 17, 1961, President Eisenhower in his final address to the U.S. nation warned viewers about the dangers of the Military Industrial Complex. It had been created in response to the Cold War which followed on from the nuclear conclusion of World War II. Of course the Internet owes its foundational existence to the academic aspects of the Military Industrial Complex, but in today's world nothing, especially the Military Industrial Complex, could function without oil. That is the vital ingredient that makes everything in today's world function. Whoever controls the oil supply ultimately controls everything else, and that once included the political career of Lyndon Baines Johnson. [Note: This video has been edited by us to include an excerpt from the introduction to the last television address by President Eisenhower. It then quickly moves on to that now often cited portion of his speech in which he drew attention to the ad hoc activities of academia and industry who were working together in secrecy for the benefit of the U.S. Armed Forces, and all deriving their funding from U.S. taxpayers via the U.S. Treasury.]

On January 20, 2021, as dawn broke in Washington, D.C., preparations were still being made to transfer power from one living President of the USA to another. The formal staged transfer would occur at approximately Noon on that same day, outside the West Front wing of the U.S. Capitol building.

It was a surreal moment in the midst of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic where everyone was required to wear face masks. It was also a heavily restricted event that was enforced by armed and facially concealed troops.

When the Presidential Oath of Office was finally administered that day by the U.S. Supreme Court Justice, both he and presidential candidate Joe Biden slipped off their masks to face each other. It was then, at that moment when the office of President was officially and peacefully transferred to Joe Biden from the previous office holder, Donald Trump.

But several decades before that event, and at approximately thirty minutes past Noon on the afternoon of November 22, 1963, the office of President was violently, but officially transferred to Lyndon Baines Johnson. The trigger-causing event that begat that transfer, was when a bullet blew away part of the brain of President John F. Kennedy.

It was a bright sunny day and on busy city street in Dallas, Texas when John Kennedy lost his life. A short time later on that same day, away from the crowds and on board an isolated jet on a Dallas runway, the Oath of Office was administered to President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

No one wore masks that day in 1963, and everything was in plain sight. Yet everything about that day has been turned into a mystery. It was certainly a turning point in American politics.

How quickly we forget just how strange and how awful the events of yesterday really were! Let us recall that in 1963 the assassination of President Kennedy was followed by an avalanche of conspiracy theories and allegations about Lyndon Baines Johnson.

The landslide of non-certified claims about voter fraud following the election of 2020, are nothing compared to the heavily documented voter fraud of 1948 that was engineered on behalf of Lyndon Baines Johnson. A few year later, fingers again began to point in his direction as a criminal when he became the chief beneficiary to the murder of President Kennedy.

If Lyndon Baines Johnson was involved in the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, then on November 22, 1963, a Texas crime boss became President of the USA. This alleged criminal was also linked to a number of other murders, not as the trigger-man, but as one of the masterminds. These were events that paved the way for Johnson's progressive rise to the office of President, and it was as President Johnson that his record blossomed into a war-mongering despot sending thousands to premature deaths as part of a war for profit centered upon the nation of Vietnam.

So far there is no scale upon which to compare the consequential events of November 2020, to the events of November 1963. In 2020 there was an election for president. In 1963, there was a public execution of the elected President.

That killing enabled a transfer of power to Lyndon Baines Johnson.

The thread that links the 1963 murder to a transfer of power is oil, and the people who looked to exploit that oil with drilling rigs, also exploited the career of Lyndon Baines Johnson with bank notes. To claim "their" oil, the drillers needed contracts and legal permissions. They also needed demand for product, and as President, Lyndon Baines Johnson could facilitate both requirements.

President Kennedy had been engaged in trying to restrict profits enjoyed by oilmen who collectively huddled for discussions about remedying this situation from the now infamous hotel room number 8F, which was once located in the City of Houston, Texas. 

But there are also trickle-down sub-plots to this story, and they involve broadcasting.

That sub-plot is a part of the bigger picture of this same story.

Broadcasting can be a very noisy and distracting affair, and so it was with the jingles and Top 40 sounds of the Fifties and Sixties that distracted the attention away from the core of this tale. By only following the sub-plots which have been deliberately surrounded by misinformation, it is possible to waste an incredible amount of time recreating memories of a yesterday that never happened. Others have tried to do just that by confirmation bias. But many end up by attempting to hammer square pegs into round holes.

Everyone engaged in research has to use a hypothesis against which to try available evidence, but when the original hypothesis is not supported by the evidence, the initial hypothesis has to be discarded and a new hypothesis put into its place, and then the search for an answer has to begin anew. This is how both police investigations into cold cases, and medical research into the cure for diseases, and scientists seeking to understand the cause and consequence of life on this Planet and the possibilities for life on other planetary bodies, all attempt to find solutions to their unsolved problems.

But by rigidly focusing on a belief system in support of a predetermined and inflexible confirmation bias, it is not only possible, but more than probable that the big picture will become totally obfuscated from view. If a researcher does not know that a bigger picture exists, and if existing beliefs preclude the ability to even search for one, then it is doubtful that  the bigger picture will even be known.

In this instance we are now aware of the bigger picture, and that is why we turned our own time clock back to the Nineteenth Century and the pioneering work of people like Ida Tarbell. This investigative reporter identified for us the trunk of the tree, and that allowed us to then place the various branches of this story on the trunk of that tree.

This is a story that affects the lives of millions of people who are alive today, and it is a big story about life and death events that did happen, but which became obfuscated by false leads and total guesswork as to their raison d'etre.

Like all true crime stories, and this is a true crime story, because its actors and their actions are all contrary to accepted human rights laws of behavior, the persons involved with criminal activity that has taken place rarely explain their actions. This true crime story is no exception to that rule.

The evidence is available, but it remains scattered like a jigsaw picture that has been knocked off a table and broken into fragmented segments. The big picture is no longer immediately visible, but it does come back into focus when all of the fragments are reassembled. However, in this instance, some of the pieces which have been missing, are now being recovered.

With both the passage of time and the advance of Online technological library facilitation, some of those missing pieces have now begun to reappear in various forums and formats, but they have not as yet been reassembled to form the bigger picture. Some of those missing pieces are in old newspaper accounts that when first published raised more questions than provide answers. But time has marched on and those old reports have become available again.

Today a large number of individuals and organizations have been reexamining the facts in evidence surround the the cold case murder of John F. Kennedy. Because that crime took place at a fixed moment in time, it is also possible to layer other events that are also related to that central event in order to form the bigger picture.

This is why we have begun to place the advent of Radio Caroline in March 1964, into the time sequence of events surrounding the murder of President Kennedy in November 1963, because they both occupy the same time frames; some of the same people, and underlying both is one common area of interest: the exploration and laying of claims to riches derived from the 'Black Gold' that had been lurking unclaimed beneath the waters of the North Sea.

[Text amended by edits on 1/21/2021.] Tomorrow we will begin to assemble the seemingly convoluted parts of this story, by placing them into a more understandable timeline.

The land area controlled by George Parr as the 'Duke of Duval' with help from officials in adjoining counties, was extensive. Political life in the Valley of South Texas was under his ruthless control, which meant that the inhabitants who were mainly Spanish speaking persons with connections to the neighboring country of Mexico, had to abide by the political choices of George Parr, if they wanted to survive. That meant voting for Lyndon Baines Johnson.

In 2021 it is almost impossible to avoid two subjects that have fused to become the trigger for the threatened dawn of a new 'Dark Age' of information: Donald Trump and Covid-19. Coupled together they are rapidly becoming an excuse to ban, block, censor and limit information about the U.S. Election of 2020 and its aftermath.

This gives us cause for concern because in unravelling the tangled flow of modern day events that brought us to this point in time concerning our own investigation, we have collided with the stark reality of the 1948 stolen election by Democratic candidate Lyndon Baines Johnson. This man then rose in power to become the primary beneficiary to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 - which is not to say - that Lyndon Baines Johnson was the mastermind behind the death of President Kennedy. However, without the swift execution of John F. Kennedy on that day in late 1963, there is no way that Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson could or would have become President on that same day.

Since the 1948 ballot box stuffing was the trigger that eventually propelled Lyndon Baines Johnson into the White House, and it is apparent that the owners of Brown and Root were the primary financial backers of Lyndon Baines Johnson, and that they, the owners of Brown and Root, then prospered considerably from government contract work handed to them as part of the ramped-up War in Vietnam that was championed by Lyndon Baines Johnson.

The year of the assassination of President Kennedy is also key to this investigation into the origins of Radio Caroline. But more than Radio Caroline, it was also the year that the REM Island project got underway with construction by Brown and Root, with assistance from the floating crane that was operated by their Dutch and former Nazi SS partner.

His name is Pieter Schelte Heerema, and he was born during 1908 at Amsterdam in Holland on April 27, which was a few months before Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27 in Stonewall, Texas. In other words Heerema and Johnson grew up in a world that saw the advent of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi atrocities of World War II. They both experienced the Cold War of the Fifties which embraced the Korean War, and they were also part of the dawn of that era which has been branded the "Swinging Sixties" into which Radio Caroline was born.

Pieter Heerema, a Dutch citizen, persuaded Heinrich Himmler to allow him to join his elite Nazi troops known as the Schutzstaffel, or SS, for short.
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​But parallel to the birth pangs of Radio Caroline was the planning for an offshore television and radio station aimed at Holland; manufactured in Cork, Ireland from a design used for oil rigs in Venezuela, and called REM Island. Just like a conjuror who distracts the audience with the non-relevant antics of an attractive stage hand, so REM Island distracted everyone with television pictures and radio broadcasts. But Brown and Root and Heerema were not in the business of broadcasting. They were in the business of oil exploration and extraction, among many other ventures which were mostly paid for by U.S. taxpayers.

The owners of Brown and Root had also been the financial backers of Lyndon Baines Johnson who won his 1948 election in Texas by fraud with the paid help of George Parr, the so-called 'Duke of Duvall'.  But then came the Cold War and the blanket of censorship that smothered everything, thanks to the association of Texas "good ol' boys" who paid for a patsy named Senator Joseph McCarthy to go on a witch hunt for anyone who might be friendly towards the Soviet Union. Truth was smothered and a lot of people had to assume fake identities just to get some form of employment.

Now here we are in 2021, and thanks to the Covid-19 War triggering isolationism on a worldwide scale, we are off once again into another round of witch hunts to root out anyone claiming to have some sort of relationship to President Donald Trump, and all of this is against the backdrop of another round of claims about a rigged election. Curiously enough, it is the same Democratic Party members of the USA who were responsible for the rigged election of LBJ in 1948; the Cold War Era using the patsy Joe McCarthy, and then fake allegations swirling around about the 2016 General Election. That led to a new round of claims that the 2020 General Election was rigged by Democratic Party beneficiaries.

Social media has been co-opted into enforcing this new McCarthy Era of censorship, and the mere utterance of anything to do with a rigged Democratic Party election is enough to cause the shutters to go up. This has given us cause for concern, because the 1948 election of LBJ was rigged, and that has been substantiated by many responsible investigations. But so too has been the part played by Brown and Root in that rigged election.

While it is obvious that LBJ was the primary beneficiary from the murder of JFK, and Brown and Root did very well from their government contracts regarding the War in Vietnam, the fine details, the 'glue' that puts this jigsaw together, has not been covered.

Deep in the heart of Texas: that is where bribes were paid; elections rigged and events began that resulted in the murder of President Kennedy, and his replacement: Lyndon Baines Johnson.

You have to follow the trail backwards, if you want to find the legacy trail that resulted in claims about 2020 U.S. Election fraud, and that is why this story has its roots in the Nineteenth Century.

We have followed that trail and geographically it leads to the Lone Star State of Texas. That is where corruption has been rife for a long time, and that corruption is the story of Democratic Party politics; good ol' boys and government contracts, all fueled by oil money.

One man epitomizes election fraud in Texas and that man is Lyndon Baines Johnson. But he did not act alone, he had a primary financial backer in two brothers who ran the Brown and Root company which became part of Halliburton. This firm was built on government contracts and it was drenched in the blood of U.S. military personnel. They fought wars on behalf of Brown and Root under the banner of the Stars and Stripes, so that Brown and Root could be paid to build military installations from which they could operate.

It is all quite cynical and nothing like you imagined the way things were run. Or did you, but couldn't figure out how?

The Browns had an early partner named George Parr. He went by the nickname 'Duke of Duval'. Parr was the ruthless boss of a big chunk of South Texas that stretches downwards from the Nueces River, to the Rio Grande River which separates the U.S. border in Texas from the nation of Mexico.

In the South Texas Valley, the rival ethnic group to Anglos was not Black, it was Hispanic, and George Parr had them under his control. That is because the 'Duke of Duval' held their voting block in his hands, and that meant that he could make or break any candidate he chose.

He chose Lyndon Baines Johnson.

From the 1930s onwards, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate were almost unchallenged in their domination by the Democratic Party. That kind of power resulted in the ability of the Democratic Party to award major U.S. government contracts, of which Brown and Root became a major beneficiary. That is how the alliance between LBJ and Brown and Root blossomed, and it was facilitated by fake votes under the supervision of George Parr.

Lyndon Baines Johnson even began bragging about his fraudulent election. His fraud has been well documented by many authors of books, and by journalists who have written both magazine features and newspaper articles.

Lyndon Johnson was also the major beneficiary from the murder of President John F. Kennedy.

That is a fact.

LBJ was Vice President one minute, and then, after a bullet splattered the brain cells of JFK during the next minute, LBJ was about to sworn in as President of the United States of America.

This brief saga which took place at High Noon in a jam-packed, spectator-strewn Dallas street on a bright sunny day, was also about to make Brown and Root a lot more money. They would become beneficiaries from the War in Vietnam that LBJ waged with ruthless determination, and to the point that he trapped himself in his own quagmire of death.

That same quagmire resulted in LBJ quitting his own presidential career path, but before that, it made Brown and Root's bank accounts swell. That is because Brown and Root were on the receiving end of a lot of U.S. taxpayers' Dollars that were paid to them for building U.S. military installations serving LBJ's War in Vietnam.

LBJ was a Texas "good ol' boy", and radio in Texas sang the praises of the "good ol' boys" of Texas almost as soon as the political power of that medium was discovered. Texas car dealers loved the medium of radio, and Texas automobiles all ran on gasoline. So the people who drilled for oil and then exploited its sale, loved Texas car dealers, and as it turns out, Texas car dealers also loved offshore broadcasting. The development of radio broadcasting blossomed in Texas as a means of influencing Texas politics, and that influence, backed by Texas car dealers, eventually spread to Europe.

But way back, before LBJ there had been a Texas governor who was sponsored by a Fort Worth flour company and he was accompanied by the emerging sound of what is now known as 'Texas Swing' music. So radio plus music plus "good ol' boy" politics became a winning combination to be exploited by the fellow-travelers of the guys who drilled for oil.

It was the medium of radio that helped the Democratic Party to establish its corrupt track record of "big boss" domination in many U.S. cities, because that is when the power of radio advertising came into the service of political boss promotional power. But the tweaked Texas airwaves became the new birthplace of political broadcasting power that managed to influence many voters who listened in.

This marriage between Texas promotional radio and political boss management of cities, then spread across the USA like wildfire when Texans started tinkering with both its sound and its transmitters. Dallas, Texas became home to both the doyen of top 40 radio, and one of the biggest manufacturers of broadcasting transmitters.

The sound of Texas radio was even exported to Scandinavia on board a ship, and then it was exported to the British Isles aboard many ships that were anchored off its shores. Offshore broadcasting with Texas branding behind-the-scenes, also appeared on Dutch television screens from a reconfigured Venezuelan oil platform. That platform was constructed by Brown and Root of Houston, with the help of a former Nazi SS officer.

But while Brown and Root were not into broadcasting, they were linked to a network of "good ol' boys" that included Gordon McLendon who had observed how people listening to juke boxes played the same record, over and over again. He didn't invent 'Top 40' radio, but McLendon received the credit. He was also a maverick who had one hand in the grip of Bill Meek who invented PAMS jingles, and his other hand clasped one belonging to Robert F. Thompson. McLendon was also into making films and he got his pals like Robert F. Thompson to appear in them, more for fun than any claim to a work of art.

Thompson was also a close associate of Clint Murchison Jr. He was a multi-millionaire who held a string of government contracts to construct everything from roads to reservoirs and a lot more in-between. McLendon; Thompson and Murchison were all pals together, and these "good ol' boys" of Dallas, were also pals with the "good ol' boys" of Houston, who of course included the guys who owned Brown and Root.

But these guys knew how to make money. Big money and that came from government contracts of one sort or another. Brown and Root were after the riches obtained from natural gas and oil, and their own legacy of work experience tied Houston to London during World War II.

It was Winston Churchill who brought the know-how of Texas oil developers to England when the entire United Kingdom was being starved of oil due to the activities of German U-boats sinking so many cargo ships making the Atlantic crossing. It was known that England had oil, and so did Scotland, but no one was sure how much there was, or how to get it out of the ground in commercial quantities.

So in utmost secrecy, Churchill turned to the home of experts who were located in Houston, Texas, and over they came to explore and exploit beneath the leaves of Sherwood Forest where the Luftwaffe could not spot them to drop their bombs. Robin Hood was one fable, but the oil deposits in Sherwood Forest were not a myth.

Texans not only pumped British oil to help supplement the stepped-up WWII demands being made in UK, but they also discovered that this oil patch stretched offshore and out into the North Sea. But back then, the technology did not exist to extract it, and that was long before international agreements regarding ownership of undersea natural gas and oil deposits had been determined.

Besides which, after WWII in the Fifties, demand was less and the world was awash in cheap oil extracted from the lands of other countries or from their shallow waters during a time when international transportation was not a problem. But the deep and turbulent North Sea waters were not only a problem for the technology of the day, but a nightmare waiting to be unleashed upon those who dared to go in search of its seabed secrets and hidden riches.

This was also the secret reason why a modified Venezuelan oil platform was built off the coastline of the Netherlands on its continental shelf below the surface of the North Sea. It was in the Netherlands that a major natural gas field had been discovered, and it had been exploited by people who knew that there was a lot more natural gas and probably oil, sitting off its Dutch shores.

So Brown and Root sank the legs of a modified Venezuelan oil platform into the continental shelf, and its partners built a television and radio station on top of it. That distracted the attention of nosy journalists from the real reason that it had been built.

However, other Dutch entrepreneurs had also put a radio station called 'Radio Veronica' on board a ship to which large numbers of the Dutch voting public tuned in, and advertisers supported it. But the Dutch government seemed to turn a blind eye to its floating existence. A ship is only semi-attached to the sea bed by an anchor, and that is quite different from a structure with legs that have been driven into the sea floor by pile drivers as though its builders were claiming  ownership of that geographical location.

At that time the mineral rights of the North Sea had not been legally 'carved-up' by international treaties, so the REM Island television and radio station structure was attempting to stake out a geological claim to mineral rights. They appeared to be offshore pioneers who were following others who had staked out claims in the Oklahoma land grab, and prospectors who had participated in the California Gold Rush.

The REM Island challenge was swiftly answered by Dutch legislation, and it was then followed by an invasion of REM Island by Dutch forces who descended from the air, and arrived by sea. Their mission was to capture REM Island, but they left the Dutch ship-based 'Radio Veronica' alone.

In addition to Brown and Root there were their European fellow travelers. They wanted to build licensed commercial radio and televisions stations on land, but not to operate them. However, the European governments would not permit private commercial broadcasting stations to be built. Even the commercial television stations in the UK were owned and operated by a BBC rival government licensed operation called ITA. Only the programming and advertising on those stations was franchised to commercial vendors.

So to create public demand, offshore broadcasting became a means of whipping-up a voting audience that could sway European, and especially the British government bodies into licensing on land stations. This is therefore the tale of two hidden agendas, both concealed by the sights and sounds broadcast by noisy offshore transmitting stations.

Brown and Root were trying to get licenses for natural gas and oil exploration and exploitation, and the PYE Group of companies was trying to get licenses to build "pre-packaged" (off-the-shelf) radio and television stations within the borders of the British Isles. That geographical location includes both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, which is where Gordon McLendon from Dallas first showed up and rubbed shoulders with Charles Orr Stanley of PYE. Stanley's commercial headquarters was located in Cambridge, England, but his family home was near Cork in Ireland. That is where REM Island was built, before being towed out to its on site location by a company founded by a former Nazi SS officer. On site construction was by Brown and Root.

Now, for the first time anywhere, our team has put together the hard evidence to prove this scenario.

It has come from both a personal investigation, and from the work of other researchers who have conducted fragmentary investigations of their own, but which they have thoroughly documented. By fragments, we don't mean to imply that their contributions to this story have been small. Far from it.

What we have been able to do is to take thousands of pieces of a gigantic jigsaw puzzle and put much of it together using our own first-hand research and investigation. We have not been able to put all of it together, but we now have enough of it for everyone to see the big panoramic picture that is on the box. Right now we are publishing what we have uncovered: here in this format, and later on we will be reassembling it in book format, at an appropriate moment.

Please don't think that what began with a USA election rumpus towards the end of 2020, and then erupted into a major protest in Washington DC at the beginning of 2021, is anything new, because it is not. It is just a larger version of the political life of LBJ, because his political life was that of a  is a lie built upon fraud. Now in 2021, we see the Texas fraud of LBJ writ very large indeed!

It may very well be a story that is also tied to the murder of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, because this tale of vote-fraud is a tale that is as American as LBJ's apple pie that George Parr first baked in his South Texas oven. The difference being that the LBJ version leaves a very bad taste in the mouth, and it also results in much more than just an upset stomach.

​[Revised on 1/12/2021]

Next time you hear that 1962 song that begins: "Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl ...." don't think about the singer (who was Gene Chandler), think of George Parr who was promoted as being the 'Duke of Duval'.

But don't stop there!

Think of LBJ who boasted long and hard about stealing the election that eventually landed him the job of President of the United States of America.

Sounds just like Joe Biden.

Same song, adjusted lyrics.

On January 6 of this year, someone (anonymously) posted on Mike Wilson's 'Conversation Central' (to which comments about this Blog are linked), the following message:

"I know it's not supposed to be chronological or sequential, but Caroline Brooks' blog has become a collection of unconnected random brain farts. Unless these musings can be assembled into a proper published book there is little hope. I'd like to think that it will happen, but unless the help of someone without a butterfly mind is enlisted it's not going to happen as the publishing schedule is pushed back once again."

Hopefully this will explain why this work is still chronological, but why it became necessary to reset its  chronological time clock.

When we began to unravel the existing published fables surrounding the 1964 creation of Radio Caroline, we discovered lie upon lie upon lie. So much of it is a lie that by trying to show the real story by answering each lie became more and more complicated as time went on. But while still using that approach we made this video:

However, the more we tried to correct the lies of Ronan O'Rahilly, the bigger our problems became, because Ronan O'Rahilly told an overwhelming number of lies and very little truth. Then came the era of claims about "fake news", and not only were a growing number of books in print featuring distorted or totally untrue accounts about the creation of Radio Caroline, but at least two people had taken our research, twisted it to suit their own needs of vanity publishing, and then claimed that they were revealing the true story for the first time. Like all the rest of them, they were just trying to make money off gullible readers.

Meanwhile, while we continued our research, we accidentally stumbled across an account of the building of REM Island which became home to an offshore television and radio enterprise, and because of the impeccable source of this new information, we began to look behind the people who had created REM Island and why they had built it.

It had nothing to do with broadcasting, but then we discovered, neither did Radio Caroline!

Instead, a number of interested parties had come together and both REM Island and Radio Caroline was the result. These were people with various agendas that criss-crossed each other. They were not all engaged in broadcasting interests, and neither were they all interested in other broadcasting projects, other than the ones they were engaged in. But a lot of them were not interested in broadcasting at all. It was merely a means to an end.

We discovered from the donated legal and financial archives of Don Pierson that he had more or less stumbled into offshore broadcasting as a result of reading misleading information about Radio Caroline in a Texas newspaper. Then we got a tip-off from Canada about declassified CIA documents that linked one of Don Pierson's ships to an ultra secret war on Cuba that was managed under the name of 'Special Group (Augmented)' and headed by Robert F. Kennedy, who was at that time (of 'SGA'), the U.S. Attorney General. The CIA base for this huge operation was known in Florida where it was located, but ignored by everyone else. All of it was drowned in stories about the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' and then obliterated by the murder of Robert's brother, John in a Dallas street on November 22, 1963.

Our timeline had already been pushed back to the end of World War II, but then we were introduced to one Defton Selmer and his highly secret British broadcasting operation that was not a part of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The UK had two distinct broadcasting operations and one of them was not only highly secret, it was also highly pornographic and crudely sensational. Its cloak of secrecy was maintained due to national security; it broadcast in a language other than English, and it was aimed at an enemy of the United Kingdom. But there was more than just the BBC broadcasting on British soil. The U.S. Armed Forces also had stations peppered all over the island of Great Britain.

But after WWII the blanket of internal propaganda descended on the people of the UK, and all of that was forgotten. Then fake recitals about the history of British broadcasting became full blown.

For our part, the recent revival of claims about 'fake news' became coupled with our reintroduction to a man who went by the Texas tag line 'Duke of Duval'. Because a member of our group had managed a newspaper in a Texas county adjoining Duval county, we had already been introduced to the Wild West nature of Lone Star politics where votes can be bought.

We delved deep and read about the 1948 rigged election of Lyndon Baines Johnson thanks to the ballot stuffing overseen by George Parr, the so-called 'Duke of Duval'. George Parr got LBJ elected to represent Texas in Washington DC by means of a 'rigged election'. Soon, LBJ was on his way to becoming its Vice President, and then President, after John F. Kennedy was murdered in a Dallas street at High Noon on a bright sunny day with onlookers surrounding him.

To this day no one dares to say who killed Kennedy, or why, although officially he was shot by a lone idiotic gunman, and the same people who tell you that, will tell you that vote fraud does not take place in the USA. But the fact is, LBJ was elected by a rigged ballot, and that is now a well documented and accepted fact.

But there is more to our quest to discover the truth about the past!

Backing LBJ were people who built REM Island and by following those leads we arrived at the story of offshore natural gas and oil, which included exploitation in the North Sea.

We went back further in time.

Soon we were reading Ida Tarbell's expose of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. To learn more we turned to documentation from the the Nineteenth Century and how oil came to dominate the political life of not just the USA, but the UK as well. That is how and why our own new chronology of events began to emerge. We are not working backwards in time, but forwards from the Nineteenth Century. (We also make excursions into eras predating the 1800s while in search of the real story.)

Because of recent events that have now resulted in a huge confrontation over whether the last U.S. Presidential Election was rigged, or not, our own startling discoveries which predate current events, concern the fraudulent rigged election of LBJ. Any claim that is arbitrarily made that the Presidential Election of 2020 was "fair and honest", is totally ridiculous. There are too many claims of fraud by too many people to be dismissed out of hand. Many of those claims seem to echo the fraudulent rigged election of Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Therefore, this is our explanation addressed to the anonymous poster who claimed not to understand what this Blog is all about.

Hopefully, you now know what that poster now knows, and to answer one other point that was raised: yes, this material will later appear in both commercial book format as well as academic articles. You are currently reading that same story in Blog format right now.

Because of yesterday's historic events in Washington DC that have roots in events of a similar kind relating to claims of fraudulent elections, we are interrupting our present schedule to bring something to your attention.

As you know, we are presently covering the legacy of corrupted politics of the past, and we have also made many references to the original 'Muckrakers'. Therefore we are delighted to have stumbled across an existing web site that had no connection to our work, but which is dedicated to those pioneering investigative journalists - Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens. You will find a new link button that will take you to that site, in the adjoining side bar.

We have just added Sidney Williams Richardson to our continually expanded Character Birth List, because Sid Richardson financed the Texas State Network of radio stations which assisted in the political climb to the U.S. Presidency by Lyndon Baines Johnson. (A concise account of the birth of broadcasting in Texas can be accessed using this T.S.H.A. link.)

In 1920, a City of Dallas transmitting station for fire and police information came on the air. The following year, the U.S. Department of Commerce licensed this station to broadcast under the assigned call letters WRR. By the end of 1922, twenty-five commercial broadcasting operations had joined educational experimentations which began in 1911, at two university locations in the Lone Star State. At that time the most that the U.S. federal government could do was issue licenses to operate using the Commerce Clause of the 1789 U.S. Constitution.

In 1912 the U.S. passed into law a Radio Act that was administered by the Bureau of Navigation in the U.S. Department of Commerce in order for the USA to participate with other nations in the regulation of wireless signals. Out of this emerged a convoluted system of assigning call signs that in 1929 finally began to settle down to a system whereby transmissions to ships that originated from the west coast of the USA were assigned call letters beginning with 'W', and those on the east coast with call letters beginning with 'K'. Land based radio broadcasting stations were then issued with call letters reversing the nautical assignments.

However, like most bureaucratical decisions made after the material fact of usage, a situation had already developed whereby the demarcation line of call signs was not clear cut. But in 1928, assignments of future land-based call letters east of the Mississippi River which snakes its way from north to south, were to begin with the letter 'W', while everything to its west would begin with the letter 'K'. Unfortunately, this belated decision then created pockets of stations on the "wrong side" of the River with the "wrong first call letter". They were then "grandfathered-in" (which in 2021, some have deemed to be "politically incorrect" terminology! It joins the bastardization of the English language where "Amen" has also been reinterpreted to imply a sexual connotation! This twisting of language does not make communication any easier, it only adds to existing confusion and misunderstanding.)

This realignment of call letters in 1928-1929, resulted in some of the original Texas broadcasting stations having the 'wrong' prefixes. They included WBAP in Forth Worth; WFAA in Dallas; WOAI in San Antonio, and WACO in Waco.

WFAA began transmissions on June 26, 1922 as an entertainment station. It did not carry newscasts because it was owned by the same company that published the daily Dallas Morning News. One of its first dramas was called 'Dramatic Moments in Texas History', which was sponsored by the Magnolia Petroleum Company.

That company was later absorbed by Standard Oil of New York (which eventually became Mobil Oil). Standard Oil of New York was one of John D. Rockefeller's 'splinter' companies that emerged from his shattered Standard Oil Trust.

Coming in successive editions of this continuing serial Blog: How the new 'New Deal' found a sponsor in Texas and the 'Good Ol' Boys' began to assemble as future rulers of Texas; the USA and in their minds, the World.

[Text editorially revised on January 11, 2021 without changing the original editorial content.]

There are several books on the market which help to explain the career of Lyndon Baines Johnson, but this is certainly one of the better biographies:

 While the term "Boss Radio" became a slogan that originated with a California radio station in 1965, and in 1966, it was then taken to the British Isles aboard the radioship mv 'Olga Patricia' (but with a different interpretation).

The concept of radio being the 'Boss Medium' that could make or break commercial, religious and political endeavors, and as the up and coming 'boss medium' nudging print, its practical application to those endeavors is as old as the medium of radio itself.

​Tomorrow we will take you back to the rise of Lyndon Baines Johnson and how radio became an important part of political life within the State of Texas.