Installing issue. Forge 11.14.3.1486

Win7.  Latest java. Latest mc.  Forge 11.14.3.1486   

Starting from a clean install all around.     

Minecraft has been run.   

Attempting to install the client and it hangs as a hidden/minimized task after working a little.  Have to manually kill the process.

And this is what shows up in the forge installer log. 

Considering library net.minecraftforge:forge:1.8-11.14.3.1450: Not Downloading
Considering library io.netty:netty-all:4.0.15.Final: Not Downloading
Considering library net.minecraft:launchwrapper:1.11: Not Downloading
Considering library org.ow2.asm:asm-all:5.0.3: Not Downloading
Considering library com.typesafe.akka:akka-actor_2.11:2.3.3
Checking "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\typesafe\akka\akka-actor_2.11\2.3.3\akka-actor_2.11-2.3.3.jar" internal checksums
    checksums.sha1 validated successfully
    Jar contents validated successfully
Considering library com.typesafe:config:1.2.1
Checking "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\libraries\com\typesafe\config\1.2.1\config-1.2.1.jar" internal checksums
    checksums.sha1 validated successfully
    Jar contents validated successfully
Considering library org.scala-lang:scala-actors-migration_2.11:1.1.0
Considering library org.scala-lang:scala-compiler:2.11.1
Considering library org.scala-lang.plugins:scala-continuations-library_2.11:1.0.2
Considering library org.scala-lang.plugins:scala-continuations-plugin_2.11.1:1.0.2
Considering library org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.11.1
Considering library org.scala-lang:scala-parser-combinators_2.11:1.0.1
Considering library org.scala-lang:scala-reflect:2.11.1
Considering library org.scala-lang:scala-swing_2.11:1.0.1
Considering library org.scala-lang:scala-xml_2.11:1.0.2
Considering library lzma:lzma:0.0.1: Not Downloading
Considering library net.sf.jopt-simple:jopt-simple:4.5: Not Downloading
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Attempt to get fields on a JsonNode without fields.
at argo.jdom.AbstractJsonArray.getFields(AbstractJsonArray.java:34)
at net.minecraftforge.installer.ClientInstall.run(ClientInstall.java:203)
at net.minecraftforge.installer.InstallerAction.run(InstallerAction.java:42)
at net.minecraftforge.installer.InstallerPanel.run(InstallerPanel.java:290)
at net.minecraftforge.installer.SimpleInstaller.launchGui(SimpleInstaller.java:154)
at net.minecraftforge.installer.SimpleInstaller.main(SimpleInstaller.java:40)

Have also tried several other versions of forge back to 1450.  ALL of the installer types. 

All the same result. 

Clearly i'm missing something simple.  Any ideas?