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<p>From "CROSSFIRE" by Jim Marrs
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ISBN 0-88184-524-8
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Copyright (c) 1989 by Jim Marrs
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First published by Carroll & Graf 1989</p>
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<p>Reprinted without permission</p>
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<p> CONVENIENT DEATHS</p>
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<p> In the three-year period which followed the murder of President
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Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, 18 material witnesses died - six by
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gunfire, three in motor accidents, two by suicide, one from a cut
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throat, one from a karate chop to the neck, five from natural causes.
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An actuary, engaged by the London Sunday Times, concluded that on
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November 22, 1963m the odds against these witnesses being dead by
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February 1967, were one hundred thousand trillion to one.</p>
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<p> The above comment on the deaths of assassination witnesses was published in
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a tabloid companion piece to the movie _Execution Action_, released in 1973.
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By that time, part of the mythology of the Kennedy assassination included the
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mysterious deaths of people who were connected with it.
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By the mid-1960s, people in Dallas already were whispering about the
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number of persons who died under strange or questionable circumstances. Well
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into the 1980s, witnesses and others were hesitant to come forward with
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information because of the stories of strange and sudden death that seemed to
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visit some people with information about the assassination.
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Finally, in the late 1970s, the House Select Committee on Assassinations
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felt compelled to look into the matter.
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But aside from discrediting the London Sunday Times actuarial study, the
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Committee was unable to come to any conclusions regarding the growing number
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of deaths. The Committee said it could not make a valid actuarial study due
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to the broad number and types of persons that had to be included in such a
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study.
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In response to a letter from the Committee, London Sunday Times legal
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manager Anthony Whitaker stated:</p>
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<p> Our piece about the odds against the deaths of the Kennedy witnesses
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was, I regret to say, based on a careless journalistic mistake and
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should not have been published. This was realized by The Sunday Times
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editorial staff after the first edition - the one which goes to the
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United States... - had gone out, and later editions were amended.
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There was no question of our actuary having got his answer wrong: it
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was simply that we asked him the wrong question. He was asked what
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were the odds against 15 named people out of the population of the
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United States dying within a short period of time, to which he replied
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- correctly - that they were very high. However, if one asks what are
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the odds against 15 of those included in the Warren Commission Index
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dying within a given period, the answer is, of course, that they are
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much lower. Our mistake was to treat the reply to the former question
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as if it dealt with the latter - hence the fundamental error in our
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first edition report, for which we apologize.</p>
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<p> This settled the matter for the House Committee, which apparently made
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little or no attempt to seriously study the number of deaths that followed
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the JFK assassination.
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Jacqueline Hess, the Committee's chief of research for the JFK
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investigation, reported:</p>
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<p> Our final conclusion on the issue is that the available evidence does
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not establish anything about the nature of these deaths which would
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indicate that the deaths were in some manner, either direct or
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peripheral, caused by the assassination of President Kennedy or by
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any aspect of the subsequent investigation.</p>
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<p> However, an objective look at both the number and the causes of death
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balanced against the importance of the person's connection to the case, still
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causes raised eyebrows among those who study such a list.
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In this section, people who were connected - no matter how tenuously -
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with the assassination and who are now dead are listed according to date of
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death.
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This is dealing only with deaths, not with the numerous persons - such as
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Warren <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Reynolds</span>, Roger Craig, and Richard Carr - who claim to have been shot
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at or attacked.
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This chapter has been entitled "Convenient Deaths" because these deaths
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certainly would have been convenient for anyone not wishing the truth of the
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JFK assassination to become public.
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The <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> has gone to some lengths to discredit the idea of mysterious
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deaths plaguing assassination witnesses.
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A 1967 memo from <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> headquarters to station chiefs advised:</p>
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<p> Such vague accusations as that "more than 10 people have died
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mysteriously" can always be explained in some rational way: e.g., the
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individuals concerned have for the most part died of natural causes;
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the [Warren] Commission staff questioned 418 witnesses - the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span>
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interviewed far more people, conducting 25000 interviews and
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reinterviews - and in such a large group, a certain number of deaths
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are to be expected.</p>
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<p> Testifying before the Church Committee in 1975, <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> technicians told of a
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variety of TWEP technology - Terminate With Extreme Prejudice - that cannot
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be detected in a postmortem examination.
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One recently declassified <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> document, a letter from an Agency consultant
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to a <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> officer, states:</p>
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<p> You will recall that I mentioned that the local circumstances under
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which a given means might be used might suggest the technique to be
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used in that case. I think the gross divisions in presenting this
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subject might be:
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(1) bodies left with no hope of the cause of death being determined by
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the most complete autopsy and chemical examinations
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(2) bodies left in such circumstances as to simulate accidental death
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(3) bodies left in such circumstances as to simulate suicidal death
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(4) bodies left with residue that simulates those caused by natural
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diseases.</p>
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<p> The letter goes on to show that undetected murders do not have to be the
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result of sophisticated chemicals. It states:</p>
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<p> There are two techniques which I believe should be mentioned since
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they require no special equipment besides a strong arm and the will to
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do such a job. These would be either to smother the victim with a
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pillow or to strangle him with a wide piece of cloth such as a bath
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towel. In such cases, there are no specific anatomic changes to
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indicate the cause of death...</p>
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<p> While it is obvious that the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> - and hence the mob through operatives who
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work for both - has the capability of killing, it is less well known that the
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Agency has developed drugs to induce cancer.
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Recall that Jack Ruby died of sudden lung cancer just as he had been granted
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a new trial.
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A 1952 <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> memo reported on the cancer-causing effects of beryllium:
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"This is certainly the most toxic inorganic element and it produces a
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peculiar fibrotic tumor at the site of local application. The amount
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necessary to produce these tumors is a few micrograms."
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Local law-enforcement officers and coroners are not equipped, either by
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training or by inclination, to detect deaths induced by such sophisticated
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means. They look for signs of a struggle, evidence of a break-in, bruises,
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or marks on the victim.
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With no evidence to the contrary, many deaths are ruled suicide or accident.
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Others are ruled due to natural causes, such as heart attack.
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It is interesting to note how the deaths are grouped. Many of the
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earliest deaths came during the time of the Warren Commission investigation
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or just afterwards.
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More deaths took place in the late 1960s as New Orleans District Attorney
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Jim Garrison was launching his investigation. Other suspicious deaths
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occurred during the mid-1970s, as the Senate Intelligence Committee was
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looking into assassinations by U.S. intelligence agencies. And finally,
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another spate of deaths came around 1977, just as the House Select Committee
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on Assassinations was gearing up its investigation.
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These deaths are listed below in chronological order. An asterisk means
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the death is a particularly suspicious one. They are also grouped according
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to which investigation was being conducted at the time.
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The possibility of convenient deaths leads one into a well of paranoia, yet
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this long list cannot be summarily dismissed.
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Obviously, many of these deaths - particularly in recent years - can be
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ascribed to the passage of time. But others cannot - especially when viewed
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in the context of the assassination inquiries taking place at the time.
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Read for yourself and consider... When does coincidence end and conspiracy
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begin?</p>
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<p> List of Deaths</p>
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<p>Date Name Connection with Case Cause of Death</p>
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<p>11/63 Karyn Kupcinet* TV host's daughter who was Murdered
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overheard telling of JFK's
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death prior to 11/22/63</p>
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<p> The Warren Commission Investigation</p>
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<p>12/63 Jack Zangretti* Expressed foreknowledge of Gunshot victim
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Ruby shooting Oswald</p>
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<p>2/64 Eddy Benavides* Look-alike brother to Tippit Gunshot to head
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shooting witness, Domingo
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Benavides</p>
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<p>3/64 Betty <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">McDonald</span>* Former Ruby employee who Suicide by hanging
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alibied Warren <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Reynolds</span> in Dallas jail
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shooting suspect</p>
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<p>3/64 Bill Chesher Thought to have information Heart attack
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linking Oswald and Ruby</p>
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<p>3/64 Hank Killam* Husband of Ruby employee, Throat cut
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knew Oswald acquaintance</p>
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<p>4/64 Bill Hunter* Reporter who was in Ruby's Accidental shooting
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apartment on 11/24/63 by policeman</p>
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<p>5/64 Gary Underhill* <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> agent who claimed Gunshot in head,
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Agency was involved Ruled suicide</p>
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<p>5/64 Hugh Ward* Private investigator working Plane crash in
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with Guy Banister and David Mexico
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Ferrie</p>
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<p>5/64 DeLesseps Morrison* New Orleans mayor Passenger in Ward's
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plane</p>
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<p>8/64 Teresa Norton* Ruby employee Fatally shot</p>
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<p>6/64 Guy Banister* Ex-<span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> agent in New Orleans Heart attack
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connected to Ferrie, <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>,
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Carlos Marcello and Oswald</p>
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<p>9/64 Jim Koethe* Reporter who was in Ruby's Blow to neck
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apartment on 11/24/63</p>
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<p>9/64 C.D. Jackson Life Magazine senior vice Unknown
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president who bought <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span>
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film and locked it away</p>
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<p>10/64 Mary Pinchot Meyer* JFK mistress whose diary was Murdered
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taken by <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> chief James
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Angleton after her death</p>
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<p>1/65 Paul Mandal Life writer who told of JFK Cancer
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turning to rear when shot in
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throat</p>
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<p>3/65 Tom Howard* Ruby's first lawyer, was in Heart attack
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Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63</p>
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<p>5/65 Maurice Gatlin* Pilot for Guy Banister Fatal Fall</p>
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<p>8/65 Mona B. Saenz* Texas Employment clerk who Hit by Dallas bus
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interviewed Oswald</p>
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<p>?/65 David Goldstein Dallasite who helped <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> Natural causes
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trace Oswald's pistol</p>
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<p>9/65 Rose Cheramie* Knew of assassination in Hit/run victim
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advance, told of riding to
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Dallas with <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span>
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</p>
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<p>11/65 Dorothy Kilgallen* Columnist who had private Drug overdose
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interview with Ruby, pledged
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to "break" JFK case</p>
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<p>11/65 Mrs. Earl Smith* Close friend to Dorothy Unknown
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Kilgallen, died two days
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after columnist, may have
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kept Kilgallen's notes</p>
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<p>12/65 William Whaley* Cabdriver who reportedly Motor Collision
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drove Oswald to Oak Cliff (the only Dallas
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taxi driver to
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die on duty)</p>
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<p>1966 Judge Joe Brown Presided over Ruby's trial Heart attack</p>
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<p>1966 Karen "Little Lynn" Ruby employee who last talked Gunshot victim
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Carlin* with Ruby before Oswald shooting</p>
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<p>1/66 Earline Roberts Oswald's landlady Heart attack</p>
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<p>2/66 Albert Bogard* Car salesman who said Oswald Suicide
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test drove new car</p>
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<p>6/66 Capt. Frank Martin Dallas police captain who Cancer
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witnessed Oswald slaying,
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told Warren Commission,
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"There's a lot to be said,
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but probably be better if I
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don't say it."</p>
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<p>8/66 Lee Bowers, Jr.* Witnessed men behind picket Motor accident
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fence on Grassy Knoll</p>
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<p>9/66 Marilyn "Delilah" Ruby dancer Shot by husband
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Walle* after one month
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of marriage</p>
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<p>10/66 William Pitzer* JFK autopsy photographer Gunshot, ruled
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who described his duty as suicide
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"horrifying experience"</p>
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<p>11/66 Jimmy Levens Fort Worth nightclub owner Natural causes
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who hired Ruby employee</p>
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<p>11/66 James Worrell, Jr.* Saw man flee rear of Texas Motor accident
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School Book Depository</p>
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<p>1966 Clarence Oliver D.A. investigator who Unknown
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worked Ruby case</p>
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<p>12/66 Hank Suydam Life magazine official in Heart attack
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charge of JFK stories</p>
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<p> The Garrison Inquiry</p>
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<p>Date Name Connection with Case Cause of Death</p>
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<p>1967 Leonard Pullin Civilian Navy employee who One-car crash
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helped film _Last Two Days_
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about assassination</p>
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<p>1/67 Jack Ruby Oswald's slayer Lung cancer (He
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told family he
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was injected with
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cancer cells.)</p>
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<p>2/67 Harold Russell* Saw escape of Tippit killer Killed by cop in
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bar brawl</p>
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<p>2/67 David Ferrie* Acquaintance of Oswald, Blow to neck,
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Garrison suspect, and ruled accidental
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employee of Guy Banister</p>
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<p>2/67 Eladio Del Valle* Anti-Castro <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cuban</span> associate Gunshot wound,
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of David Ferrie being sought ax wound to head
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by Garrison</p>
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<p>3/67 Dr. Mary Sherman* Ferrie associate working on Died in fire
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cancer research (possibly shot)</p>
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<p>1/68 A.D. Bowie Assistant Dallas D.A. Cancer
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prosecuting Ruby</p>
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<p>4/68 Hiram Ingram Dallas deputy sheriff, close Cancer
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friend to Roger Craig</p>
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<p>5/68 Dr. Nicholas Chetta New Orleans coroner who ruled Heart attack
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on death of Ferrie</p>
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<p>8/68 Phillip Geraci* Friend of Perry Russo, told of Electrocution
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Oswald/Shaw connection</p>
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<p>1/69 Henry Delaune* Brother-in-law to coroner Murdered
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Chetta</p>
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<p>1/69 E.R. Walthers* Dallas deputy sheriff who Shot by felon
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was involved in Depository
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search, claimed to have found
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.45-cal slug</p>
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<p>1969 Charles Mentesana Filmed rifle other than Heart attack
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Mannlicher-Carcano being taken
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from Depository</p>
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<p>4/69 Mary Bledsoe neighbor to Oswald, also Natural causes
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knew David Ferrie</p>
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<p>4/69 John Crawford* Close friend to both Ruby and Crash of private
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Wesley Frazier, who gave ride plane
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to Oswald on 11/22/63</p>
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<p>7/69 Rev. Clyde Johnson* Scheduled to testify about Fatally shot
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Clay Shaw/Oswald connection</p>
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<p>1970 George McGann* Underworld figure, connected Murdered
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to Ruby friends; wife, Beverly,
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took film in Dealey Plaza</p>
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<p>1/70 Darrell W. Garner Arrested for shooting Warren Drug overdose
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<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Reynolds</span>, released after
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alibi from Betty <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">McDonald</span>
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</p>
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<p>8/70 Bill Decker Dallas sheriff who saw bullet Natural causes
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hit street in front of JFK</p>
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<p>8/70 Abraham <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> Took famous film of JFK Natural causes
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assassination</p>
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<p>12/70 Salvatore Granello* Mobster linked to Hoffa, Murdered
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Trafficante, and Castro
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assassination plots</p>
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<p>1971 James Plumeri* Mobster tied to mob-<span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> Murdered
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assassination plots</p>
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<p>3/71 Clayton Fowler Ruby's chief defense attorney Unknown</p>
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<p>4/71 Gen. Charles Cabell* <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> deputy director connected Collapsed and
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to anti-Castro <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span> died after
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physical at Ft.
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Myers</p>
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<p> The Church Committee Investigation</p>
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<p>Date Name Connection with Case Cause of Death</p>
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<p>1972 Hale Boggs* House majority leader, member Disappeared on
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of Warren Commission who began Alaskan plane
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to publicly express doubts flight
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doubts about findings</p>
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<p>5/72 J. Edgar Hoover* <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> director who pushed "Lone Heart attack (no
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assassin" theory in JFK autopsy)
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assassination</p>
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<p>9/73 Thomas E. Davis* Gun runner connected to both Electrocuted
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Ruby and <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> trying to steal
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wire</p>
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<p>2/74 J.A. Milteer* Miami right-winger who Heater explosion
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predicted JFK's death and
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capture of scapegoat</p>
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<p>1974 Dave Yaras* Close friend to both Hoffa Murdered
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and Jack Ruby</p>
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<p>7/74 Earl Warren Chief justice who reluctantly Heart failure
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chaired Warren Commission</p>
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<p>8/74 Clay Shaw* Prime suspect in Garrison Possible cancer
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case, reportedly a <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
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contact with Ferrie and E.
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Howard Hunt</p>
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<p>1974 Earle Cabell Mayor of Dallas on 11/22/63, Natural causes
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whose brother, Gen. Charles
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Cabell, was fired from <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> by
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JFK</p>
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<p>6/75 Sam Giancana* Chicago Mafia boss slated to Murdered
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tell about <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>-mob death plots
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to Senate Committee</p>
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<p>1975 Clyde Tolson J. Edgar Hoover's assistant Natural causes
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and roommate</p>
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<p>7/75 Allan Sweatt Dallas deputy sheriff involved Natural causes
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in investigation</p>
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<p>12/75 Gen. Earl Wheeler Contact between JFK and <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> Unknown</p>
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<p>1976 Ralph Paul Ruby's business partner Heart attack
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connected with crime figures</p>
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<p>4/76 James Chaney Dallas motorcycle officer Heart attack
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to JFK's right rear who said
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JFK "struck in the face" with
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bullet</p>
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<p>4/76 Dr. Charles Gregory Governor John Connally's Heart attack
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physician</p>
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<p>6/76 William Harvey* <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> coordinator for <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>-mob Complications of
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assassination plans against heart surgery
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Castro</p>
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<p>7/76 John Roselli* Mobster who testified to Stabbed and
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Senate committee, was to stuffed in metal
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appear again drum</p>
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<p> 1977 - A Terrible Year for Many</p>
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<p> The year 1977 produced a bumper crop of candidates for listing under
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convenient deaths connected with the JFK assassination - including the deaths
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of six top <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> officials all of whom were scheduled to testify before the
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House Select Committee on Assassinations.
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Topping this list was former number-three man in the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span>, William C.
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Sullivan, who had already had a preliminary meeting with the investigators
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for the House Committee. Sullivan was shot with a high-powered rifle near
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his New Hampshire home by a man who claimed to have mistaken him for a deer.
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The man was charged with a misdemeanor - "shooting a human being by
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accident" - and released to the custody of his father, a state policeman.
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There was no further investigation of Sullivan's death.
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Louis Nichols was a special assistant to J. Edgar Hoover as well as
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Hoover's liaison with the Warren Commission. Alan H. Belmont also was a
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special assistant to Hoover. James Cadigan was a document expert with access
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to many classified assassination documents, while J.M. English headed the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span>
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laboratory where Oswald's rifle and pistol were tested. Donald Kaylor was
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the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> fingerprint expert who examined prints found at the assassination
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scene. None of these six Bureau officials lived to tell what they knew to
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the House Committee.
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Other key assassination witnesses, such as George DeMohrenschildt and
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former <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cuban</span> president Carlos Prio Soccaras, died within weeks of each other
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in 1977, just as they, too, were being sought by the House Committee.
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The ranks of both organized crime and U.S. intelligence agencies were
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thinned by deaths beginning in 1975, the time of the Senate Intelligence
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Hearings, and 1978, the closing months of the House Committee.
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Charles Nicoletti, a mobster connected with the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>-Mafia assassination
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plots, was murdered in Chicago, while William Pawley, a former diplomat
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connected with both organized crime and <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> figures, reportedly committed
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suicide.
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Adding to rumors that "hit teams" may have been at work, a Time magazine
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article reported that federal agents had initiated a nationwide investigation
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into more than 20 gangland assassinations constituting what agents believed
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was an "open underworld challenge to governmental infiltration of Mafia
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activities."
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One <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> source was quoted as saying: "Our main concern is that we may be
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facing a revival of the old 'Murder, Inc.' days."
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A <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span> News story concerning this official fear of roving
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assassination squads even mentions the death of Sam Giancana, who was killed
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one day before he was scheduled to testify about mob-<span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> connections and
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while under government protection.
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Prior to the House Committee investigation into the JFK assassination,
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the news media reported the following deaths:</p>
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<p>Date Name Connection with Case Cause of Death</p>
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<p>1/77 William Pawley* Former Brazilian ambassador Gunshot, ruled
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connected to anti-Castro suicide
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<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span>, crime figures</p>
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<p>3/77 George Close friend to both Oswald Gunshot wound,
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DeMohrenschildt* and Bouvier family (Jackie ruled suicide
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Kennedy's parents), <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
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contract agent</p>
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<p>3/77 Carlos Prio Former <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cuban</span> president, Gunshot wound,
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Soccaras* money man for anti-Castro ruled suicide
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<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span>
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</p>
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<p>3/77 Paul Raigorodsky Business friend of George Natural causes
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DeMohrenschildt and wealthy
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oilmen</p>
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<p>5/77 Lou Staples* Dallas radio talk show host Gunshot to head,
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who told friends he would ruled suicide
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break case</p>
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<p>6/77 Louis Nichols Former number-three man in Heart attack
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<span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span>, worked on JFK
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investigation</p>
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<p>8/77 Alan Belmont <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> official who testified to "Long illness"
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Warren Commission</p>
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<p>8/77 James Cadigan <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> document expert who Fall in home
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testified to Warren Commission</p>
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<p>8/77 Joseph C. Ayres* Chief steward on JFK's Shooting accident
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Air Force One</p>
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<p>8/77 Francis G. Powers* U-2 pilot downed over Russia Helicopter crash
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in 1960 (he reportedly
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ran out of fuel)</p>
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<p>9/77 Kenneth O'Donnell JFK's closest aide Natural causes</p>
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<p>10/77 Donald Kaylor <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> fingerprint chemist Heart attack</p>
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<p>10/77 J.M. English Former head of <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> Forensic Heart attack
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|
Sciences Laboratory</p>
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<p>11/77 William Sullivan* Former number-three man in Hunting accident
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<span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span>, headed Division 5,
|
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counterespionage and
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domestic intelligence</p>
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<p>1978 C.L. "Lummie" Lewis Dallas deputy sheriff who Natural causes
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arrested Mafia man Braden in
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Dealey Plaza</p>
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<p>9/78 Garland Slack Man who said his target was Unknown
|
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fired at by Oswald at rifle
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range</p>
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<p>1/79 Billy Lovelady Depository employee said to be Complications
|
|
the man in the doorway in AP from heart attack
|
|
photograph</p>
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<p>6/80 Dr. John Holbrook Psychiatrist who testified Heart attack, but
|
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Ruby was not insane pills, notes found</p>
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<p>1/81 Marguerite Oswald Mother of accused assassin Cancer</p>
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<p>10/81 Frank Watts Chief felony prosecutor for Natural causes
|
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Dallas D.A.</p>
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<p>1/82 Peter Gregory original translator for Natural causes
|
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Marina Oswald and Secret
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|
Service</p>
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<p>5/82 Dr. James Weston Pathologist allowed to see Died while
|
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JFK autopsy material for jogging, ruled
|
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HSCA natural causes</p>
|
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<p>8/82 Will H. Griffin <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> agent who reportedly Cancer
|
|
said Oswald was "definitely"
|
|
an <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> informant</p>
|
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<p>10/82 W. Marvin Gheesling <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> official who helped Natural causes
|
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supervise JFK investigation</p>
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<p>3/84 Roy Kellerman Secret Service agent in charge Unknown
|
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if JFK limousine
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