<xml><p>Subject: JFK:  List of Convenient Deaths
Date: 26 Mar 91 01:10:57 GMT</p>

<p>Here is the much requested list of people associated with the JFK 
assassination whose deaths are called convenient.  Bear in mind that
this is a terse summary of each individual's circumstances in relation
to the case.  Therefore, you may not get the full appreciation of why
a particular death is suspicious.  An asterisk indicates that a death is 
particularly suspicious.  Some 
 These deaths were part of why the House Select Committee on Assassinations
investigation got started.  However, they concluded that due to the highly
varied backgrounds of people involved, a proper actuarial study was not
possible.  
 Aside from the likelihood of x number of deaths over a period of time
of people connected with an invenstigation, there is also the trend that
the number of deaths actually increased closer to the time of these 
investigations.  The listing below is grouped by investigation.  Note that
in 1977, for example, before the HSCA investigation kicked off, six top
FBI officials scheduled to appear before the HSCA died.  William C. Sullivan,
for example, was out hunting, when he was shot by a man with a high-powered
rifle who said he mistook Sullivan for a deer.  This was *not* investigated
by anyone.  And so it goes.
 Some of the causes of death listed appear on the surface to be natural.
Keep in mind that the CIA developed methods to "make it look like an 
accident".  This was documented through the testimony of CIA technicians 
to the Church committee who told of TWEP technology (Termination With
Extreme Prejudice) in 1975.  These methods are designed to not be detected
in postmortem examinations.  I have a couple of exerpts of declassified 
CIA documents to demonstrate the case.  One of the techniques involves
the injection of cancer cells, heart attack inducement, as well as non-
chemical techniques which require no special equipment.  Based on the
strange circumstances of Jack Ruby's death in prison (he died from lung
cancer but the cancer cells were not the type that originate in the 
respiratory system).  Ruby wrote notes and spoke to several people saying
that jfk was killed by a conspiracy and that he had been maneuvered into
killing Oswald who was a fall guy.  He claimed to have been injected with
cancer cells when treated with shots for a cold.  He died just before he
was to testify in Congress.  He had told congressional investigators that
he wanted to talk but he needed protection.
 This list does not include the names of the many people who claimed that
their lives were threatened physically and verbally, as well as the many 
people questioned by the FBI who were intimidated and forced to change their 
testimony to agree with the official lone-gunman version. 
 This list is not meant to be proof of a conspiracy.  I believe a conspiracy
took place based on a plethora of circumstantial evidence, many involving
questions that are very strange if we are to believe the lone-gunman theory.
Many of the points I have raised can be rationally explained, but it is the
confluence of many aspects of the case which make me doubt the official 
version of events more than anything else.
 </p>

<p>The Warren Commission</p>

<p>date  name    connection with case    cause of death
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>

<p>11/63 karyn kupcinet* tv host's daughter overheard  murdered
telling of jfk's death prior
to 11/22/63</p>

<p>12/63 jack zangretti* expressed foreknowlege of gunshot victim
ruby shooting oswald</p>

<p>2/64  eddy benavides* look-alike brother to   gunshot to head
tippit shooting witness,
domingo benavides</p>

<p>2/64  betty mcdonald* former ruby employee who  suicide by hanging 
alibied warren reynolds   in dallas jail
shooting suspect</p>

<p>3/64  bill chesher  thought to have information   heart attack
linking oswald and ruby</p>

<p>3/64  hank killam*  husband of ruby employee, throat cut
knew oswald acquaintance</p>

<p>4/64  bill hunter*  reporter who was in ruby's  accidental shooting
apartment on 11/24/63   by policeman</p>

<p>5/64  gary underhill* cia agent who claimed agency  gunshot in head ruled
was involved    suicide</p>

<p>5/64  hugh ward*  private investigator working  plane crash in mexico
with guy bannister and david
ferrie</p>

<p>5/64  delesseps *   new orleans mayor   passenger in ward's 
morrison      plane</p>

<p>8/64  teresa norton*  ruby employee   fatally shot</p>

<p>6/64  guy banister* ex-fbi agent in new orleans   heart attack
connected to ferrie, cia,
carlos marcello, oswald</p>

<p>9/64  jim koethe*   reporter who was in ruby's  blow to neck
apartment on 11/24/63</p>

<p>9/64  c.d.jackson   life mag senior vp who  unknown
bought zapruder film and
locked it away</p>

<p>10/64 mary pinchot* jfk mistress whose  diary murdered
meyer   was taken by cia chief
james angleton after her
death</p>

<p>1/65  paul mandal   life writer who told of jfk   cancer
turning to rear when shot in
throat</p>

<p>3/65  tom howard*   ruby's first lawyer, was in   heart attack
ruby's apartment on 11/24/63</p>

<p>5/65  maurice gatlin* pilot for guy banister  fatal fall</p>

<p>8/65  mona b. saenz*  texas employment clerk who  hit by dallas bus
interviewed oswald</p>

<p>?/65  david goldstein dallasite who helped fbi trace  natural causes
oswald's pistol</p>

<p>9/65  rose cheramie*  knew of assassination in  hit/run victim
advance, told of riding to 
dallas with cubans</p>

<p>11/65 dorothy * columnist who had private drug overdose
kilgallen interview with ruby,  pledged
to "break jfk case"</p>

<p>11/65 mrs earl smith* close friend to dorothy kil-  unknown
gallen, died two days after
columnist, may have kept notes</p>

<p>12/65 william whaley* cab driver who reportedly drove motor collision (the
oswald to oak cliff   only dallas taxi driver
to die on duty</p>

<p>1966  judge joe brown presided over ruby's trial  heart attack</p>

<p>1966  karen "littleruby employee who last talkedgunshot victim
lynn" carlin*with ruby before oswald 
shooting</p>

<p>1/66  earline roberts oswald's landlady   heart attack</p>

<p>2/66  albert bogard*  car salesman who said oswald  suicide
test drove new car</p>

<p>6/66  capt. frank   dallas police captain who cancer
martin  witnessed oswald slaying, told
warren commission, "there's 
alot to be said but probably 
be better if i don't say it."</p>

<p>8/66  lee bowers,jr.* witnessed man behind picket   motor accident
fence on grassy knoll</p>

<p>9/66  marilyn   ruby dancer   shot by husband 
"delilah"*    after one month 
walle     of marriage</p>

<p>10/66 william pitzer* jfk autopsy photographer who  gunshot, ruled
described his duty as a   suicide
"horrifying experience"</p>

<p>11/66 jimmy levens  fort worth nightclub owner  natural causes
who hired ruby employees</p>

<p>11/66 james worrell*  saw man flee rear of texas  motor accident
schoolbook depository</p>

<p>1966  clarence oliver d.a. investigator who worked  unknown
ruby case.</p>

<p>12/66 hank suydam   life mag official in charge   heart attack
of jfk stories</p>

<p>The Garrison Inquiry</p>

<p>date  name    connection with case    cause of death
------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>

<p>1967  Leonard Pullin  civilian navy employee who  one-car crash
helped film "last two days"
about assassination</p>

<p>1/67  jack ruby*  oswald's slayer   lung cancer (he told 
family he was injected
with cancer cells)</p>

<p>2/67  harold russell* saw escape of tippit killer   killed by cop in 
barroom brawl</p>

<p>2/67  david ferrie* acquaintance of oswald,   blow to neck, ruled
garrison suspect, employee  accidental
of guy bannister</p>

<p>2/67  eladio del  anti-castro cuban associate   gunshot wound, ax wound
valle * of david ferrie being sought  to head
by garrison</p>

<p>3/67  dr. mary  ferrie associate working on   died in fire, possibly
sherman * cancer research   shot</p>

<p>1/68  a.d. bowie  asst dallas d.a. prosecuting  cancer
ruby</p>

<p>4/68  hiram ingram  dallas deputy sheriff, close  cancer
friend to roger craig</p>

<p>5/68  dr. nicholas  new orleans coroner who ruled heart attack
chetta  on death of ferrie</p>

<p>8/68  philip geraci*  friend of perry russo, told   electrocution
of oswald/shaw conversation</p>

<p>1/69  henry delaune*  brother-in-law to coroner chetta  murdered</p>

<p>1/69  e.r. walthers*  dallas deputy sheriff who was shot by felon
involved in depository search,
claimed to have found .45
caliber slug</p>

<p>1969  charles   filmed rifle other than   heart attack
mantesana mannlicher-carcano being taken
from depository</p>

<p>4/69  mary bledsoe  neighbor to oswald, also new  natural causes
ferrie</p>

<p>4/69  john crawford*  close friend to both ruby and crash of private plane
wesley frazier, who gave ride
to oswald on 11/22/63</p>

<p>7/69  rev. clyde  scheduled to testify about clay fatally shot
johnson * shaw oswald connection</p>

<p>1970  george mcmann*  underworld figure connected   murdered
to ruby's friends; wife took
film in dealey plaza</p>

<p>1/70  darrel garner arrested for shooting warren  drug overdose
reynolds, released after
alibi from betty mcdonald</p>

<p>8/70  bill decker   dallas sheriff who saw bullet natural causes
hit street in front of jfk</p>

<p>8/70  abraham   took famous film of jfk assass, natural causes
zapruder</p>

<p>12/70 salvatore mobster linked to hoffa,  murdered
granello* trafficante,castro assassination
plots</p>

<p>1971  james plumeri*  mobster tied to mob-cia   murdered
assassination plots</p>

<p>3/71  clayton fowler  ruby's chief defense atty.  unknown</p>

<p>4/71  gen. charles  cia deputy director connected collapsed and died
cabell  * to anti-castro cubans   after physical at
fort myers</p>

<p>The Church Committee Investigation</p>

<p>date  name    connection to case  cause of death
---------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>

<p>1972  hale boggs*   house majority leader, member disappeared on alaskan
of warren commission who began  plane flight
to publicly express doubts
about findings</p>

<p>5/72  j edgar hoover* fbi director who pushed "loneheart attack (no 
assassin" theoryautopsy)</p>

<p>9/73  thomas davis* gun runner connected to both  electrocuted trying
ruby and cia    to steal wire</p>

<p>2/74  j.a. milteer* miami right-winger who  heater explosion
predicted jfk's death  and
capture of scapegoat to a 
police informant</p>

<p>1974  dave yaras*   close friend to both Hoffa  murdered
and jack ruby</p>

<p>7/74  earl warren   chief justice who reluctantly heart failure
chaired warren commission</p>

<p>8/74  clay shaw*  prime suspect in garrison possible cancer
case, reportedly a cia 
contact with ferrie and 
e. howard hunt</p>

<p>1974  earle cabell  mayor of dallas on 11/22/63   natural causes
whose brother, gen charles
cabell, was fired from cia
by jfk</p>

<p>6/75  sam giancana* chicago mafia boss slated to  murdered
tell about cia-mob death
plots to senate committee</p>

<p>1975  clyde tolson  j edgar hoovers asst and  natural causes
roommate</p>

<p>7/75  allan sweatt  dallas deputy sheriff involved  natural causes
in investigation</p>

<p>12/75 gen. earl contact between cia and jfk   unknown
wheeler </p>

<p>1976  ralph paul  ruby's business partner   heart attack
connected with crime figures</p>

<p>4/76  dr. charles   gov john connally's physician heart attack
gregory</p>

<p>6/76  william harvey* cia coordinator for cia-mob   complications of
assassination plans against   heart surgery
castro</p>

<p>7/76  john roselli* mobster who testified to  stabbed and stuffed
senate, was to appear again   in metal drum</p>

<p>House Select Committee on Assassinations</p>

<p>date  name    connection with case    cause of death
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>

<p>1/77  william pawley* former brazilian embassador   gunshot, ruled suicide
connected to anti-castro cubans
and crime figures</p>

<p>3/77  george  * close friend to both oswald and gunshot wound, ruled
demohrenschildt bouvier family (jackie kennedy's  suicide
parents), cia contract agent</p>

<p>3/77  carlos prio*  formerly cuban president, gunshot wound, ruled
soccaras  money man for anti-castro cubans  suicide</p>

<p>3/77  paul raigorodsky  business friend of george   natural causes
demohrenschildt and wealthy
oilman</p>

<p>5/77  lou staples*  dallas radio talk show host   gunshot wound to head
who told friends he would ruled suicide
break assassination case</p>

<p>6/77  louis nichols former number-3 man in fbi  heart attack
worked on jfk assassination</p>

<p>8/77  alan belmont  fbi official who testified to "long illness"
warren commission</p>

<p>8/77  james cadigan fbi document expert who   fall in home
testified to warren commission</p>

<p>8/77  joseph ayres* chief steward on jfk's air  shooting accident
force one</p>

<p>8/77  francis powers* u-2 pilot downed in russia in helicopter crash (he
1960    reportedly ran out
of fuel</p>

<p>9/77  kenneth   jfk's closest aide  natural causes
o'donnell</p>

<p>10/77 donald kaylor fbi fingerprint chemist   heart attack</p>

<p>10/77 j.m. english  former head of fbi forensic   heart attack
sciences laboratory</p>

<p>11/77 william   former number-3 man in fbi,   hunting accident
sullivan *  headed division 5, counter-
espionage and domestic intelligence</p>

<p>1978  c.l. "lummie" dallas deputy sheriff who natural causes
lewis   arrested mafia man braden in
dealey plaza</p>

<p>9/78  garland slack man who said oswald fired at  unknown
his target at rifle range</p>

<p>1/79  bill lovelady depository employee said to   complications from
be man in doorway in ap   heart attack
photo</p>

<p>6/80  jesse curry   dallas police chief at time of  heart attack
assassination </p>

<p>6/80  dr. john  psychiatrist who testified ruby heart attack, but pills
holbrook  was not insane    and notes found</p>

<p>1/81  marguerite  mother of accused assassin  cancer
oswald</p>

<p>10/81 frank watts   chief felony prosecutor for   natural causes
dallas d.a.</p>

<p>1/82  peter gregory original translator for marina  natural causess 
oswald and secret service</p>

<p>5/82  dr. james pathologist allowed to see jfk  died while jogging,
weston  autopsy material for hsca ruled natural causes</p>

<p>8/82  will griffin  fbi agent who said oswald cancer
"definitely an informant"</p>

<p>10/82 w. marvin fbi official who helped   natural causes
gheesling supervise jfk investigation</p>

<p>3/84  roy kellerman secret service agent in charge  unknown
of jfk limousine</p>

<p>Source:  "Crossfire", Jim Marrs, Carroll and Graf, 1989.
--

Steve Feinstein
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