Nothing to do with Deepthroat or Watergate.
The only similarity is that an informant revealed a very important event under strict conditions of anonymity.
Numerous advisors, cabinet members and scientist made sure that Nixon never became involved with death rays. The consensus was that Dick could not be trusted with such weapons. It was felt he would use them not only against enemies of the nation, but his personal enemies as well.
And of course it was rumored for years what Nixon was quoted as saying in those missing minutes:
Esprix
Let’s hope. Supposedly the executor of Wilhelm Reich’s estate has decided to surpress his writings in excess of Reich’s wishes. The same could happen here.
Do you think there is any truth to the Rumor that JFK was taken out by a 1960s style death ray? I think the colorful flash was well documented at the time, but (obviously) doesn’t show on the Black and White video. It all makes sense you see. 1920s style death rays were loud and very flashy, but the 60’s were more considered with a much more flashy and loud death. In fact, Dr. Beeblebrox (the man behind the 1960s death-ray revival) was known to incorporate a feature into his designs that cause the body of the target to move back and to the left, even if blasted from the right and the rear. It was his way of thumbing his nose at all those physicists who said it couldn’t be done
Unlikely. Most of the probable death rays that the assasin could have used weren’t designed in that manner. If it were to make sense, it would have had to either 1) completely destroy the President’s head, 2) killed Connoly as well, 3) blown the entire car up, 4) destroyed the overpass that the first shot hit, or 5) slaughter most of the crowd.
Death rays are too powerful to make good assasination weapons.
GQ, you are ignoring Dr. Beeblebrox’s work on refining the amplitude of the death-rays themselves. If you wire 5 bendex coils in series as well as two Flux capacitors in parallel the beam is refined to mere microns. This device when couple with his Beeblebrox’s own invention the Tradex module Which would reduce the effects of the death-ray a well as account for the back and to the left motion. Add on a sniper rifle and you could blow people heads off from a mile away. What a hippy frood that Beeblebrox was
I think you’re wrong there on the range, MM. I have a Mechanix Illustrated from the late 1950s which has an article discussing Hughes Industries research into death rays, which had a seven mile range! The unit was also man-portable, however, it’s stopping power left something to be desired, IIRC.
I ment sniper scope, not rifle. sorry
It’s hoopy frood, you twit.
Beeblebrox was a cover name for an entire department in what was then known as NACA. You should know that.
Their death ray work was the predecessor of ion engines, a “new” development of what is now known as NASA. The slow implementation of those engines is a result of their technological similarity to death rays. The similarity puts them in a restricted class of the ODRT (Orbital Death Ray Treaty) between the U.S., USSR, and Portugal. Bush’s controllers were able to ease those restrictions at the same time they eased the treaty restrictions on missile defense systems.
I was really speaking of the range of the scope. even though the ray fires a beam to a maxim of 7 miles, it’s very hard to aim a 3 micron beam at that range with only a scope. Computer Controled devices however can make uses of the extended range
Speaking of computer assisted firing of a “1920’s style Death-Ray”, the last time I checked, WANG was out of business and the only supplier of the bug-ridden “Compulators”, replacement parts are now being produced by Columbian Drug Cartel. The Panamanian invasion brought to light the extensive manufacturing development. The US was going to take out most of these other countries but figured they could still get cheap labor and just stopped at Ortega. Hence, the mob IS involved!!
I remember that article – vaguely!
MI got heavily into “marvels of future technology” in those days. And, of cours, the 1950s style were substantially advanced over the 1920s style. 
Waitaminute. You don’t mean that article from MI by that guy Blascowitz? The one in December '58? Snort. The guy’s an idiot, fer chrissakes! Take my advice and don’t believe a word of it, Tuckerfan. Now, if you’d been talking about that article in '49, by Robertson, now, there’s a guy worth listening to.
I’m not sure if it’s that one or not. I’ll have to dig out my copy and find out.
Can’t be Blascowitz. My copy of the December 1958 MI has him discussing a different subject.
S.H Blascowitz or S.H Blascowitz Snr?
Because the latter was a well known for his discussion of different subjects, but the former was an idiot.
Coulda been November. It’s been a while.
The Hughes Industries device was a Hyper-Death Ray, and careful examination of the literature will show it.
And Hyper Death Rays are off limits in this thread, as stated in a previous post.
Has there been any research into the use of 1920’s style death rays for execution? It would seem most humane.
Yes there has been research, it takes about a week to kill you but seemingly it leaves you with a lovely perm.
It says Samuel H. Blascowitz without a “Snr” or “Jnr”, and, according to my index, no other Blascowitz published an article in 1958.