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Secret Service Standdown:
Introductory scene of the film “JFK”:
Kennedy wanted troops out of Vietnam. He signed NSAM 262 ordering the first 1000 troops OUT of Vietnam by 1964. NSAM was quietly reversed on November 24, 1963, two days after the assassination.
Read John M. Newman’s JFK and Vietnam, and Oswald and the CIA by the same author.
“Oswald subject was trained by this agency…”
The physicians who attended President Kennedy in the ER at Parkland Memorial Hospital agree: He had a large EXIT wound in the BACK of his head. Link
The Warren Commission claimed a single, ‘magic’ bullet–Commission Exhibit 399-caused seven wounds in two men and came out looking like this:
This pristine bullet supposedly performed an impossible trajectory:
Warren Commission Member and future POTUS Gerald Ford participated in altering the evidence of the location of JFK’s back wound so as to make the ‘magic bullet’ theory somewhat more plausible. Link.
Warren Commission member Allen Dulles had been fired by Kennedy as head of CIA over the Bay of Pigs disaster. Link Kennedy had declared his intention to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds”. Link… Link<<provides excellent refutations of the constant assertions that JFK remained an ardent Cold Warrior.
JFK nrejected a plan by the Joint Chief’s of Staff called Operation Northwoods–”
“.. a false-flag operation plan that originated within the United States government in 1962. The plan called for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other operatives to commit genuine acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which had recently become communist under Fidel Castro. One part of the Operation Northwoods plan was to “develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington.”
Operation Northwoods included proposals for hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government. The plan stated:
“The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere.”
Many efforts have been made to blame the assasination itself on Castro, both at the time and in the present day. Link..Link
Some say future head of the CIA and later POTUS George H.W. Bush was pesent in Dealey Plaza that day:
We can’t leave out Richard Nixon. Not only was he in Dallas that fateful day but CIA agent and future Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt was ‘arrested’, along with fellow agent and burglar Frank Sturgis, in Dealey Plaza on November 22. Hunt lost a court case to this effect. Plausible Denial.
The best, most comprehensive book on the assassination and Kennedy’s presidency I have ever read: JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters, by James Douglass. A well sourced and documented account of how the courageous actions of the president enraged factions of the power elites and threatened their interests, particularly the money to be made off the Vietnam War.
The people involved in killing our duly elected president in a brutal public display of power enacted a coup d’état and have been running this country ever since. This is why the truth matters.
Thanks for this reminder, Sunny. The Old book depository has been turned into the Sixth Floor Museum to document the history of that day in 1963. While they stay away from conspiracy theories, they do a superb job documenting the national and local political climate that was the setting for the assassination.
JFK.org
Yes, I’m familiar with Gary Mack, the curator of the Sixth Floor Museum. I’ve always wanted to visit Dealey Plaza–my cousin is in Dallas right now and I am SO jealous. If I ever make it over that way we can hook up.
Thankyou for this Sunny. And for the links. I will never forget where I was the day I heard of the assassination. The announcement came over the PA system in the middle of our French exam. Even as a young teenager I never believed Oswald was a lone gunman. It was a sad introduction to the notion that evil could be done by people that we were supposedly to trust. Watching the events following Kennedy’s death marked many of my generation permanently.
Indeed. I was 22 days old on Nov. 22 and about 20 when I started seriously reading about the subject. This conspiracy is exactly the reason I question authority. To know how these ‘people’ operate you only have to do a close study of the assassination and you will recognize that techniques they employed back then are still being used today, to great effect. If it works…
Yup. It never pays to think it can’t happen again and has.
Ha, my parents were 13 in 1963. We moved to Dallas in 1969, and until JR Ewing came along in the 80s, the assassination was the one and only thing most people identified with the city. Everyone who lived here was tainted with it.
Most people these days think of JR. Ewing when they hear the word “Dallas”. There are some who would call that “Keyword Hijacking”. Take a negative or dangerous association to a word or concept and replace it with another, less threatening association.
As a resident, I welcomed the change. Seriously, it was awful. When you met someone from out of state and said the word Dallas, it was nearly certain they would bring up JFK.
Actually, now Dallas is probably more closely identified with George Bush than JR, sigh. I’m doing what I can to hijack the city for Godric and the vampires of Area 9.
Haha, good idea!
If you make it to Dallas, I’ll buy your ticket to the museum and follow you around with my iphone recording every comment.
Then we can go to Starbucks and talk True Blood
Sounds like a plan! (seriously!)
Oh just dandy. Now I find out I’m old enough to be your mother and Sunny’s. Sheeesh!
BTW. If I ever get to Dallas (they may not let me across the border ha-ha) can I join you for a Starbucks?
They’ll let you cross the boarder, but if you fly you’ll be molested first by a surly TSA employee.
When you get to Dallas, the latte and bear claw are on me.
Actually, that didn’t come out right. If you fly within the US, you’ll be molested. We’ll send you home with something to remember us by.
I have serious doubts I could leave the country these days. I know I’m probably on the infamous ‘watch list’. Even if I did manage to leave I might not be able to come back.
(I know this sounds paranoid but during the eighties when I was seriously studying the assassination I corresponded with some well known researchers and I know for a fact my mail was tampered with)
LOL! You are endlessly fascinating, Sunny!
LOL. Well, truth be told I doubt it was because of ME that my mail was tampered with. Some of the people I corresponded with, like Harold Weisberg and Penn Jones Jr., had had some experiences with ‘men in black’.
Weisberg in particular was very good about answering my questions and directing my research. The fact that he had been in the OSS–the precursor to the CIA– and later a State Department intelligence analyst most likely contributed to his mail being monitored.
How cool! I can now say I know someone whose mail was monitored and who is on the watch list.
Now that is caché.
I don’t know how cool it is but I can assure that at the time it made me very afraid and paranoid. I didn’t stop though until a few years later when I felt the whole mind-set had taken over my life. I rid myself of my entire Kennedy assassination library, including a first edition of one of the earliest books critical of the Warren Report, Rush to Judgement by Mark Lane, which I acquired through Mr. Weisberg. I also sold my set of the 26 volume Warren Report, which my grandmother had bought with her own money and placed in the library of the school where she was principal. When the school closed she brought them home. Am I kicking myself nowadays for that bone-headed move? Hell yes.
As an addendum to the post, I wanted to point out that the woman in the JFK clip, the one who was thrown out of the car and taken to the hospital where she claimed, in advance, that Kennedy was about to be assassinated? Her name was Rose Cheramie and she really existed, though not for long after this little incident:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKcheramie.htm
Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t think you were making light! I just felt I had to get across what a ‘paradigm shift’ I went through at the time, and why.
As for Cheramie, her story is well-known among researchers but not to the wider public. I’ve run across literally thousands of damning details not widely known. For instance, did you know that
1. there is no arrest record for the ‘Three Tramps’ that were “arrested” that day? They just went poof.
2. No record whatsoever was made of Oswald’s interrogation.
3. From the jail, Oswald tried to make a call to a Mr. John D. Hurt, a member of the Army counterintelligence corps. during WWII.
4. Our friend Bertrand Russell had some questions for the Warren Commission as early as Sept. 1964:
http://www.kenrahn.com/jfk/the_critics/russell/Sixteen_questions_Russell.html
I could go on for years!
I’m sorry to make light of such a frightening experience for you. How awful.
Thanks for the info about Rose Cheramie. I’ve never heard of her before. Is her story well known? The reason I ask is that when I worked in a book store in the late 80s, I thumbed through tons of books on the conspiracy and don’t recall running arcross her story. I’m wondering if I missed it or it wasn’t there.
Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t think you were making light! I just felt I had to get across what a ‘paradigm shift’ I went through at the time, and why.
As for Cheramie, her story is well-known among researchers but not to the wider public. I’ve run across literally thousands of damning details not widely known. For instance, did you know that
1. there is no arrest record for the ‘Three Tramps’ that were “arrested” that day? They just went poof.
2. No record whatsoever was made of Oswald’s interrogation.
3. From the jail, Oswald tried to make a call to a Mr. John D. Hurt, a member of the Army counterintelligence corps. during WWII.
4. Our friend Bertrand Russell had some questions for the Warren Commission as early as Sept. 1964:
http://www.kenrahn.com/jfk/the_critics/russell/Sixteen_questions_Russell.html
I could go on for years!
(moved this, have no idea how it ended up on top of your comment I was replying to)
Thanks for opening my eyes to all of this. My great-grandfather had some business dealings with John Connelly and always thought highly of him. It always seemed that he and his wife had reservations about what really happened that day.
Connelly never would accept that the same bullet that hit Kennedy in the throat was the same one that hit him several times. When he died he had more bullet fragments in his knee than was missing from the ‘magic bullet’. Always regretted that they didn’t remove and analyze those fragments.
The article by Russell is fascinating. I’m afraid none of us will live to see any of his questions adequately answered. The disillusionment people feel today about elected officials IMO, stems a great deal from that time. It seems to have been a catalyst for the negative attitudes regarding authority figures.
ROTFL….a grope…a latte…and a bear claw. What more could a person ask for? If I ever have the opportunity I’ll email.
Bobsgran: “The article by Russell is fascinating. I’m afraid none of us will live to see any of his questions adequately answered.”
The questions are mostly answered they just aren’t officially acknowledged.
Here’s another little known fact:
*In 1979, Richard Helms, former director of the CIA, testified under oath that Clay Shaw had been a part-time contact of the Domestic Contact Service of the CIA
Part of the reason Jim Garrison lost his case against Shaw was that he could never prove Shaw was CIA–CIA lied and denied during trial– or that he used the alias “Clay Bertrand” to hire an attorney for Oswald.
Shaw wasn’t the only CIA handler working with the Domestic Contact Service to lurk around Oswald. George de Mohrenschildt was a wealthy ‘White Russian’ who, bizarrely, knew Jackie Kennedy:
http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diary/dem.htm
He was also connected to George H.W. Bush:
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=13941
Is that the same Garrison that Oliver Stone made the movie about?
Absolutely. A true American Hero in my book, though he’s reviled in ‘mainstream’ circles.
Garrison’s Playboy interview, 1967:
Part 1:
http://www.maebrussell.com/Garrison/Garrison%20Playboy%20Intvw%201.html
Part 2:
http://www.maebrussell.com/Garrison/Garrison%20Playboy%20Intvw%202.html
Wow…I wish CSI was around back then. I don’t think the public would stand for it…but you never know Bush got “elected”
I know exactly what you all mean when you talk about the reputation that a certain city carries….I live in Detroit and I haven’t gotten murdered yet!!!!
Oh and when you all meet in Dallas invite you ole pal Jerron! I’d love to visit.
and as a joke…are we sure Bill wasn’t in Dallas at the time? I’m just saying.
If Bush can get elected absolutely anything can happen.
Of course there are plenty of well documented theories about him stealing the election. The Bush’s are a plague on humanity.
I’d love to have a Dallas meet-up!
Remember Buster Bousseau sending back the Texas Special Sawdust Pie because no one ordered that?
Yes. What could it mean?
Methinks AB was happy to see GWB go back home.
Hahah, oh no doubt about it!
LOL, I just remembered this. Did you ever see it? Beginning around the 2:25 mark. Bet AB was there:
Consider yourself invited Jerron!
Oh my…I see a plan…Bobsgran can head over to Detroit to hook up with Jerron and me…then we can get a group grope on our was down to the other “Big D”, have a tour, then do you think we could go somewhere where they serve more adult beverages?
Sounds like a convoy building Osterby. I’m all in favour of adult beverages. LOL
I’ll bring the weed.
LMAO…Sunny, I prefer Opium but will settle for some monkey paw…
Now that’s a plan!
As long as I get to go on a certain Dallas roof to meet up with my Boo because he’s sad about his dad!
How about this itinerary?
After your complementary pre-flight grope and several of those little bottles of booze that Sookie likes so much, I’ll pick y’all up at DFW Airport. Coming from DFW, you will view the skyline as it appears in the title sequence of ‘Dallas.’ That’s a sight most residents don’t see too frequently.
We’ll use the route Isabel took when she drove Bill and Sookie to the Dallas nest.
Sights will include the grassy knoll, The Texas School Book Depository. Arrive after dark and you will see them as Sookie did. You will also see the Bank of America Plaza, which is the skyscraper outlined in green lights that was visible behind Godric from the rooftop of the Hotel Carmilla and the Merc with its clock tower that was also behind him.
Our destination will be The Adolphus hotel.
http://www.trueblood-news.com/true-blood-character-bursts-into-flames
http://www.hoteladolphus.com/
This is where Sookie and Eric said goodbye to Godric.
Food and refreshment can be had at the hotel’s bar and grill. I’d recommend Sookie’s gin and tonic, Tara’s margarita, or Jane Bodehouse’s stinger, which is especially nice, even if not exactly cheap. I think it would be best if everyone avoided Sam’s Patron Tequila, though. You’ll find the chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes a cut above Merlottes.’
Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club was once across the street.
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/spe/2002/hiddenhistory/1951-1975/070002dnhhcarousel.442a5654.html
The original Neiman-Marcus only a couple blocks away, and I’m sure Osterby will want to pay it a visit.
As a poke in the eye to the Fellowship of the Church also based in Dallas, we can visit Thanksgiving Square.
“A common ground, a sanctuary, where there can be a confluence of faiths and traditions.”
http://www.thanksgiving.org/window.html
We can take the twisted JFK tour, which includes The Sixth Floor Museum and ends in Fort Worth at Oswald’s grave.
http://www.texastwisted.com/attr/jfk/
http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/kennedymemorial/index.htm
And while there, it wouldn’t be totally amiss to stay for a rodeo in order to see where Sam learned how to wear those jeans and why he always sports a bronc busting belt buckle.
http://www.fortworthstockyards.org/Event.aspx?eId=75
An excursion to Southfork could also be arranged if there is interest.
Love it! I really want to do it! Maybe I could arrange something around May…
Oh ladies…this sounds like a wonderful time. I think we should go for it!!
Renee, The “Grand Tour” sounds wonderful and I am so thankful that you have included NM in our plan. (it really is a must stop by in any city where there is one.) We could have so much fun. Let’s really consider this….
That would be fabulous. Now I have to work on getting a passport. BTW, what is a chicken fried stake?
My mom used to fry everything in bacon grease, good for the heart don’t you know.
That’s steak….must be thinking vampires.
Please see:
http://www.texascooking.com/recipes/texascfs.htm
Texas style, don’t cha know.
Do you have Nexxus cards or enhanced driver’s licenses in Canada Bobsgran? They really speed things up (Special lines) at the borders and make traveling between countries easy and then you wouldn’t need a passport.
Yes we do have Nexus cards, but I need to get a passport anyway. My sis wants to do some travelling in the future. Shouldn’t take long to get one. They say about 6 wks.
Done right, chicken fried steak is a little slice of heaven.
http://homesicktexan.blogspot.com/2007/03/independence-and-chicken-fried-steak.html
Ha ha. Thanks for the link Renee and Osterby. I do recognize it as a schnitzel. Like I said, my mom used do the same thing, although hers was fried in bacon grease. It’s a wonder I’m not as big as a house with clogged arteries.
The downtown store is not just a NM. It’s the flagship store, and honey, if you haven’t been there, you haven’t been to Neiman’s.
It is the center of the Universe in the NM culture. Like NOLA is Mecca to vampires, “Downtown” is Mecca to fashionistas…LMAO
Now that is the proper way to pay homage. LOL!
I’ll be here.
Jim Garrison’s book On the Trail of the Assassins is a very good primer on the murder and was the inspiration for the movie:
http://www.amazon.com/Trail-Assassins-Jim-Garrison/dp/0446362778
It really is an amazing story and reads like a thriller.
My son just told me he read that book when he was 12. And I thought it was nothing but Xmen etc.
Just goes to show that the kids can still surprise us parental units.
Hey! That’s really cool of your son! Kudos to him.
Another interesting fact: Nitrate tests were conducted that day on Oswalds hands and cheeks. They were negative.
You are endlessly fascinating, Sunny! Great post! I’m ashamed to say I know (knew) very little on the JFK assasination other than the basics I remember from school. Off to read more.
And BTW, Renee, the first two things that come to mind when I hear “Dallas” are Sookie and Texas Blue Bonnet Potpourri (that I got as a gift once). LOL. I’m so shallow but at least I don’t think of JR!
Thanks EO!
EO–Sookie and blue bonnet potpourri are just fine in my book. No complaints there.
Very interesting article, and apropo to some of the themes of True Blood imo:
THE BIG CON at DEALEY PLAZA – Paul Linebarger and David Maurer
“President Kennedy’s assassination was the work of magicians,” said Hevve Lemarr of French Intelligence. “It was a stage trick complete with actor’s accessories and props. And when the curtain fell the actors and even the scenery, disappeared. But the magicians were not illusionists, but professionals, artists in their own way.” 1.
Whatever you believe happened at Dealey Plaza, President Kennedy was killed there, and regardless of who was ultimately responsible, it is important, at least to the security of the United States, to determine how the assassination occurred.
It’s natural that a well planned and executed covert operation seems like a unnatural miracle or a magic trick. That’s why covert operators are often called “spooks,” their talents are said to be black arts, and they are participants in what they call “the Great Game” of espionage.
The “spooks” we’ve come to know sometimes compare the Great Game to chess and rank their power as knights, bishops and rooks. E. Howard Hunt was known as “Knight,” and David Atlee Phillips, who was born on Oct. 31 – Halloween, was known to some as Mister “Bishop.” 2.
Then there’s Ed Lansdale, Frank Wisner and William Harvey, all legends, each with covert aliases and code names to conceal their true identities, or as the Cubans called them, “war names.” The use of aliases is only one attribute all covert intelligence operatives have in common. Other similar attributes include the use of post boxes, dead drops, safe houses, microdots, codes and ciphers, as well as the standard trade crafts by all intelligence agencies, as outlined in Allen Dulles’ book “The Crafts of Intelligence.” 3.
Like most trades, “the crafts of intelligence” are taught and passed on by those who were previously taught the arts through a teacher-student, master-apprentice relationship, as they have for generations and over centuries since the days of Sun Tzu. 4.
Some of those individuals who standout in the history of espionage during he Cold War – E. Howard Hunt, David Atlee Phillips and Ed Lansdale, all had one thing in common – they were trained in the black arts of psychological warfare by a man they considered a legend among legends – Paul Linebarger.
That you wouldn’t recognize him is a testament to Linebarger’s success, as both a teacher and a player in the Great Game.
PAUL M. A. LINEBARGER
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in July 1913. The grandson of a preacher and the son of an American Judge in the Philippines and advisor to Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat sen, Linebarger’s godfather. 5.
Well traveled and a student visitor to Japan, China, France and Germany, Linebarger earned his Ph.D. in political science at John Hopkins University at the age of 21.
Linebarger enlisted in the Army during World War II and served in the Pacific Theater. One report notes, “As a Far East specialist he was involved in the formation of the Office of War Information and of the Operation Planning and Intelligence Board. He also helped organize the Army’s first psychological warfare section. Linebarger was sent to China and put in charge of psychological warfare and of coordinating Anglo- American and Chinese military activities. By the end of the war, he had risen to the rank of major.”
Based primarily on manuals he produced for the Army during the war, Linebarger’s book Psychological Warfare and Propaganda (Combat Forces Press, 1948; 1954) is the classic textbook on the subject, still used today. Taking Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Linebarger updated its principals and applied them to today’s international circumstances. 6.
When the CIA produced terrorist and political assassination handbooks for the Contras in Nicaragua and Panamanian dissidents, which were later discovered and published, parts were found to have come from one of Linebarger’s psychological warfare manuals. 7. [See: http://www.socialcon...2003/guatemala/]
Although Linebarger also taught at Duke, after the war he became professor of Asiatic Studies at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was also a part time professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a CIA think tank. 8.
It wasn’t until after his death that Linebarger was exposed as also being science fiction writer Cordwainer Smith [See: Notes below]. It was then also revealed that he was not only the foremost authority on psychological warfare in the Training Division of the CIA, but that he had also worked on operations with E. Howard Hunt in Mexico City. 9.
More at link:
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=018a03cb5ef7a972b4820d80c7e8597d&showtopic=11162
Wow Sunny. Reading that educationforum has me gob smacked. The statement that the black ops techniques should never be used domestically or it would totally destroy our form of democracy sends a chill up ones spine. Yah Right! Did you ever see E. Hunt during the Watergate hearings? So many questions are raised about so many other “events”.
It is a mind blower, isn’t it? The details on how they pulled the ‘long con’ sound so familiar to truebies who are paying attention, eh?
I was nine years old the summer of the Watergate hearings and watched every minute but I can only clearly recall John Dean testifying because I was so intrigued with his beautful wife sitting behind him so stoically . Shallow, huh?
I do know photos I’ve seen of Hunt at the hearings depict him as smug and smirky, the smarmy bastard. I’m sure I could find Hunt’s testimony on Youtube.
Smarmy is the perfect word, also arrogant. I was glued to those hearings for the duration. Interesting how Gerald Ford got his reward as V.P., for serving on Warren Comm. Maybe I’m just too cynical. LOL
Sunny, I’d like to wish you and all the people who post here, a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving tomorrow.
We, here in the Great White North, had ours in October.
Yes, Happy Thanksgiving to all you lovely ladies! I will be (drinking) cooking all day tomorrow! Enjoy your day!
EO-Why put off for tomorrow what you can start today?
Happy T-Giving to all!
Thanks Bobsgran.
EO, that sounds like a plan! I need a drink right now after all the cooking I’ve done today.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. <3
Hey Sunny, what’s your take on Jack Ruby? He seemed to have more organized crime connections than govt ones. Do you think they played a part in the assassination, too?
I’m not sure if he played a part in the assassination. A witness named Julia Ann Mercer claimed to have seen him in Dealey Plaza that day. She also claimed the Warren Commission changed her testimony. Her story is recounted in “JFK”, if you’ve seen it.
I know Ruby knew Oswald–several witnesses said so–and he had lot’s of organized crime connections, including Al Capone in the thirties and Carlos Marcello, who was the Mafia boss of Louisiana at the time. I think the gov’t operation used the mob as shooters at Dealey Plaza and later to take out witnesses.
Lots of collaboration going on historically between the Mob and CIA, including most notably to take out Castro . see here:
http://washington.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/the-cia-and-the-mob/
and here:
http://www.amazon.com/Barry-Boys-Americas-Secret-History/dp/0970659105
and here:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/62712/lawrence-d-freedman/mafia-allies-the-true-story-of-americas-secret-alliance-with-the
Carlos Marcello is the connection I’m curious about because he was involved in organized crime in Dallas through the Campisi brothers, who were his lieutenants and acquaintances of JR. Do you think they gave him the order to kill LHO the night before when he ate at their restaurant?
Most likely. Ruby was stalking Oswald–here he is in the Dallas PD during Oswald’s Midnight press conference:
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/112C08CE-0980-4D54-AB01-E9B861C24AA1/NA010098.jpg
And he was also at Parkland when the mysterious ‘magic bullet’ showed up on a stretcher.
Have you ever seen this?:
Oh, my! Well, there’s another destination to add to our TB/JFK tour.
Thanks for the links. Seth Kantor’s account of his meeting with LHO @ Parkland is impressive. From his obit, it’s clear that he was well respected and professional.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/19/obituaries/seth-kantor-is-dead-reporter-67-fought-to-protect-sources.html
Kantor was perfectly credible and more importatnly he had no reason to lie. The WC had to deny Ruby was at the hospital because then the suspicion that he planted the bullet on the stretcher becomes more likely. Kantor was only one of at least a dozen witnesses that we know of who was called ‘mistaken’ or ‘unreliable’ or had their testimony changed because it didn’t fit the official narrative.
One witness refused to identify Oswald as the shooter of Officer JD Tippit. Then he was shot in the head. Suddenly, he could identify Oswald. The WC never brought up the shooting or how it might have affected his testimony.
That’s just incredible! Sunny you are single handedly destroying my faith in my government. I hope you are proud of yourself.
Did you see in the news today that LHO’s casket and 1st death certificate are up for auction?
Once you study this conspiracy in depth you’ll never believe another word out of the government or media’s mouth. Sorry.
No, I hadn’t heard that. Off to google!
“Mr. X” was based on Col. L. Flether Prouty:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKprouty.htm
Weren’t JFK and RFK involved with a girlfiend of a monster at some point? I can’t remember her name, but she was involved somehow. An information highway between the sheets, so to speak?
Judith Campbell Exner was the girlfriend of mobster Sam Giancana. Supposedly she was also slept with Kennedy for two years, some of it during his presidency. But I’ve never studied the issue enough to decide for myself if it was true. You have to remember there has been a concerted effort ever since the assassination to assassinate his charater. I don’t doubt he had extramarital affairs, but was he stupid enough to let a moll get that close? I don’t know but I somehow doubt it.
Another detail to file under “Why doesn’t everybody know this?”
David Talbot wrote:
“In a remarkable passage in “One Hell of a Gamble,” a widely praised 1997 history of the Cuban missile crisis based on declassified Soviet and U.S. government documents, historians Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali wrote that on Nov. 29, one week after the assassination, Bobby Kennedy dispatched a close family friend named William Walton to Moscow with a remarkable message for Georgi Bolshakov, the KGB agent he had come to trust during the nerve-wracking back-channel discussions sparked by the missile crisis. According to the historians, Walton told Bolshakov that Bobby and Jacqueline Kennedy believed “there was a large political conspiracy behind Oswald’s rifle” and “that Dallas was the ideal location for such a crime.” The Kennedys also sought to reassure the Soviets that despite Oswald’s apparent connections to the communist world, they believed President Kennedy had been killed by American enemies. This is a stunning account — with the fallen president’s brother and widow communicating their chilling suspicions to the preeminent world rival of the U.S. — and it has not received nearly the public attention it deserves.”
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/15/warren
JFK had used Walton’s Washington home as the office of the president-elect on the eve of his inauguration. Walton’s Moscow trip had already been scheduled, at JFK’s request, as a cultural meet ‘n greet with Soviet artists. After the assassination, the trip also became the means for the surviving Kennedys to communicate their suspicions to the Soviet leaders. And to tell them, we know it wasn’t you.
More in JFK and the Unspeakable:
James Douglass wrote:
The Kennedys informed Bolshakov through Walton that, “despite Oswald’s connection to the communist world,” they believed “there was a large political conspiracy behind Oswald’s rifle” that came from a different source. In their view, “the President was felled by domestic opponents.” He had been, the Kennedys thought, “the victim of a right-wing conspiracy.”
Walton added that the Russian leaders should have no illusion that Lyndon Johnson would continue JFK’s work for peace. Johnson, Walton said, would be “incapable of realizing Kennedy’s unfinished plans.” The new president’s “close ties to big business would bring many more of its representatives into the administration,” whose adverse impact on hopes for peace Chairman Khrushchev would understand.
Walton also conveyed to the Kremlin leadership through Bolshakov that Robert Kennedy would remain as attorney general only through 1964, then seek an elective office. Walton mentioned the governorship of Massachusetts, whereas RFK would actually be elected a New York senator the next fall. In any case, it would be in preparation, Walton said, “for an eventual run for the presidency.” As the archived Soviet notes for their conversation recorded, “Walton, and presumably Kennedy, wanted Khrushchev to know that only RFK could implement John Kennedy’s vision and that the cooling might occur in U.S.-Soviet relations because of Johnson would not last forever.”
H/T Jeff at RI.
My goodness Sunny. It sure is a Gordian Knot. The more I read the articles that you direct us to the more I come to believe it was most certainly a coup d’etat. The article about RFK and the cultural exchange person is remarkable. It is the first time I have read of this. The people that have any information are all getting on in years and many have already passed on. Whoever the perpetrators were know that there is a “shelf life” to direct evidence.
Whoever the perpetrators were know that there is a “shelf life” to direct evidence.
Absolutely, which is why the cover-up was more elaborate than the crime. “They” even took the time to manufacture numerous red herrings. It was an elaborate con job from start to finish. Even the AUTOPSY was WTF inducing:
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