{"id":117922,"date":"2022-10-18T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T21:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=117922"},"modified":"2022-10-18T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T21:42:12","slug":"its-the-drivers-inset-stupid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=117922","title":{"rendered":"It’s the Driver’s Inset, Stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Laurie Efrein Kahalas<\/strong> is a regular contributor to<\/em> the jonestown report. Her other article in this edition is <\/em>Final Witness: The Legacy of Marceline Jones<\/em><\/a>. She is also the author of the poem, <\/em>The River<\/em><\/a>. Her previous writings may be found <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>. She <\/em>can be reached through <\/em>dan_laurie44@comcast.net<\/em><\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

I am the author of the In Plain Sight<\/em><\/a> project, solely devoted to bringing clarity and understanding to the killings at the Port Kaituma airstrip. For decades now, I’ve wondered how I could boil this complex project down to….\u00a0simplicity<\/em><\/strong>. I must have missed the mark \u2013 given the number of people who disagree with or, worse, dismiss the incontrovertible evidence I have compiled \u2013 so I would like to try again and make it short and simple.<\/p>\n

People around today may be too young to remember, but the most famous mantra of Bill Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign was\u00a0“It’s the economy, stupid!” <\/strong>This wasn\u2019t because Clinton, his supporters, and even his adversaries of the time weren\u2019t intelligent. It’s just that sometimes things stick out like a sore thumb so much that one wonders how even “brilliant” people cannot see it.<\/p>\n

If I tried to persuade a second-grader that two plus two does\u00a0not<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0equal five, they would get it. But educating Jonestown researchers has made herding cats look like a romp, and even hundreds of pages of explicit research barely makes a dent. Why<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0people have been so unwilling to consider it is still sometimes a mystery \u2013 group think, taboos, unable to get one’s brain out of “Park,” along with “but everyone says,” “but the press,” “but the public,” “but the survivors,” whatever<\/em><\/strong>. But I will now make this\u00a0simple<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0for people: “It’s the Driver’s Inset, Stupid!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

To wit:\u00a0every<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Massey Ferguson tractor manufactured during that time (and many others, of course) had a wide\u00a0driver’s inset,<\/em><\/strong> where the driver steps in. Every single one, no exception anywhere. And I freeze-framed multiple filmings of the real Jonestown tractor from that time at Jonestown. Also how the tractor appeared within the community — exactly the same. \u00a0Wide driver’s inset.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were MANY modifications of that vehicle used for the duped tractor-trailer. But the easiest one to spot unmistakably right off the bat is that\u00a0lack of a driver’s inset in the duplicated vehicle<\/em><\/strong>. It’s not like anyone is doing guesswork, or that the degraded film could conceal that BASIC a modification. Filming from same source clearly showed the wide driver’s inset in the\u00a0real<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Jonestown tractor. So this is not just my “opinion,” nor is there anyone else’s (differing) “opinion” that would make any sense! It’s just like two plus two cannot equal five.<\/p>\n

Okay, let’s go over this again:<\/p>\n

Baseline<\/u><\/strong>: Photos\u00a0filmed at the same place at the same time by the same camera<\/strong>, and by as reputable a source as NBC, is as hard-and-fast comparison as one can get.<\/p>\n

Fact<\/u><\/strong>: Every Massey Ferguson tractor of that era, or even tractors generally across the board, had a\u00a0wide driver’s inset<\/strong>. Certainly the tractor at Jonestown did.\u00a0 The tractor used in the assassination did\u00a0not<\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Verification<\/u><\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>As you can check for yourself at\u00a0Section 3, Part 1 of\u00a0In Plain Sight<\/em><\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0 First press “2” for the definition of a driver’s inset and on-site photos of same in\u00a0the real Jonestown tractor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Then note the row of numbers across the top, 1 through 7.\u00a0 Press “3” for on-site photos of the\u00a0lack<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0of a driver’s inset in\u00a0the vehicle used in the assassination.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Compare<\/u><\/strong>: The (obviously modified!) vehicle used in the airstrip killings had\u00a0NO driver’s inset at all<\/strong>, just a sealed area where the driver’s inset should have been. And it does not even matter that this is an old, degraded film. Failing to note a modification of a vehicle that blatant, as verified by on-site\u00a0comparative filming of both the real tractor and the duplicated one,<\/strong>\u00a0is about akin to failing to spot an elephant.<\/p>\n

Oh, it was hardly the only difference between the real and the duped vehicle; there were several.\u00a0 Just note the\u00a0logistical<\/strong>\u00a0reason for this alteration:\u00a0 Namely, that a driver’s body shoots up into the air in an “ordinary tractor.”\u00a0 So it could have been spotted on the approach that it was\u00a0NOT<\/strong>\u00a0anyone from Peoples Temple driving that vehicle.<\/p>\n

Not even the first time<\/u><\/strong>:\u00a0 All that said, I myself was puzzled at first.\u00a0 Who ever heard of a farm tractor being converted (here at least visually) into a tank?\u00a0 Well, turns out that as far back as 1941, with Germans attacking Russians at the Siege of Odessa, a whole factory was converting to “tractor-tanks” for defense.\u00a0 Here, simply for a different purpose:\u00a0 to camouflage the driver upon approach.\u00a0 But in any case, it marked this as\u00a0a completely different vehicle<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0than the Jonestown tractor.<\/p>\n

Ergo<\/u><\/strong>: Different\u00a0vehicle<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0means different\u00a0personnel<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0=\u00a0NO ONE<\/strong>\u00a0from Jonestown killed the Congressman. It was “false flag” then, it’s false flag now, and false flag in the 40-plus years in between. (But oh, how can that be? Someone else had it in for that Congressman? Yes. Leo Ryan was Public Enemy No. 1 in Congress for the C.I.A.\u00a0 Learn some history.\u00a0 Or ask\u00a0me<\/em><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

Suppositions? Not at all! Because the assassins arrived on\u00a0an entirely different vehicle<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And are there concomitant questions? Of course there are! That’s why it took me years to meticulously address them in\u00a0In Plain Sight<\/em>. But it has been daunting to get people to even look. Even though it is the only work on\u00a0the assassination<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>that makes any sense.<\/p>\n

So will someone, anyone, please just\u00a0LOOK???\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>This is embarrassing. No, not to me. To anyone reading this who is so blocked by their own suppositions, that they will discount the obvious without even\u00a0looking<\/em><\/strong>. Hint: “It’s the Driver’s Inset, Stupid!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Laurie Efrein Kahalas is a regular contributor to the jonestown report. Her other article in this edition is Final Witness: The Legacy of Marceline Jones. She is also the author of the poem, The River. Her previous writings may be found here. She can be reached through dan_laurie44@comcast.net.) I am the author of the In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":117881,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117922","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117927,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117922\/revisions\/117927"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}