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<p>Path: uuwest!spies!mips!spool.mu.edu!olivea!sgigate!odin!ratmandu.esd.sgi.com!dave
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From: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
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Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism
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Subject: "The Guns of Dallas" by L. Fletcher Prouty
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Keywords: conspiracy is only effective as long as the trick is a secret
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<span class="info" title="Message-ID"> 1992Mar27.161114.26346@odin.corp.sgi.com</span>
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Date: 27 Mar 92 16:11:14 GMT
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Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News)
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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Article-I.D.: odin.1992Mar27.161114.26346
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<p> the reason for the assassination was to control the power of the presidency.</p>
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<p> The following appeared in the October, 1975 issue of "Gallery," a porno
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magazine which billed Fletcher Prouty as the "National Affairs Editor."
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Some people feel there is no credible way to justify associating oneself
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with such exploitative and demeaning media. Fletcher Prouty has told me
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that since the Ballentine paperback edition of "The Secret Team" was
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"disappeared" soon after it came out in February of 1974, it was very
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difficult for him to find publishers who would print his writings (from
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9/74 to 7/75 he was able to get 7 articles published in "Genesis" (another
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porno magazine), and from 9/75 to 6/78 he got 14 articles printed in
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"Gallery)". Up until the Ballentine paperback was squelched, he had been
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published in the likes of "The Nation," "The New Republic," (including
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cover-story features), and "Air Force Magazine." It is a telling
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indictment of the reality of the lack of public access to the mainstream
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corporate press, that a man like Fletcher Prouty--who served in the Air
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Force for 23 years, rose to the rank of Colonel, was a briefing officer in
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the Pentagon from 1955 thru 12/31/63, serving also as Focal Point Officer
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(liason) between the DOD and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>, first in the Headquarters of the Air
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Force (1955 to 1960), where he set up and then ran the structures that
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supplied Air Force logistical (military hardware) support for <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
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clandestine operations world-wide, then in the Office of the Secretary of
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Defense (1960 into 1961), and then in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of
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Staff (1961 thru 12/31/63) where he ran the same support for all branches
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of the military--that a man possessing such critical first-hand experience
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and knowledge of the mechanisms, methodogy and factual history of <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
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covert operations in this seminal period, would find his writings and
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analysis of these important issues essentially barred from the most
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generally accessible publications. As long as the conglomerate press in
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this country continues to increasingly restrict the range and variety of
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points of view being published, writers will resort to certain types of
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publishers they would not choose to go to if they had a better alternative.</p>
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<p> _______________________________________________________________________</p>
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<p> THE GUNS OF DALLAS
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(c) 1975 by L. Fletcher Prouty
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Reprinted here this one time only with permission by of the author</p>
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<p> The shocking nature of what you are about to read in this article
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makes it imperative that you be aware of some of the credentials
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and experience of the author.
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From 1955 to December 31, 1963, Col. L. Fletcher Prouty was the
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Focal Point (liason) officer between the Pentagon and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>.
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During 1962 and 1963 he was Director of Special Plans (clandestine
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operations) in the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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In 1971 he was the president of the Financial Marketing Council,
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Washington, D.C.
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He is the author of numerous articles and of "The Secret Team,"
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published by Prentice Hall (1973) and Ballantine Books (1974).
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</p>
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<p> This article included a great deal of photograhic evidence of the events
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in Dealey Plaza. The photographic research was by Richard E. Sprague.
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Unfortunately, I will only be able to include the text in this post.
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However, the captions are included in square braces, and an asterisk
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character, '*', delimits pictures not seen by Warren Commission.
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--ratitor</p>
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<p> ________________________________________________</p>
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<p> How was the Warren Commission kept
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from investigating and seeing evidence?
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This is the real issue.
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This is a crime to top the crime.
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________________________________________________</p>
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<p> As we prepare now to celebrate the beginning of the third century
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of the founding of this country, we wonder if we live in the land
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of the free. We wonder if at least we still have a government of
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the people and by the people. Certainly, it is no longer a
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government for the people. The sound throughout the land is ugly:
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there is frustration, hate, and fear. We must act while there may
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still be time.
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There is a grave conspiracy over the land. The people have come
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alive because of Vietnam and Watergate; but they have scarcely
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scratched the surface. A President and a Vice-President have been
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forced to resign. A President has been shot to death. Two
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Presidential candidates have been shot, one of them killed. Many
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of the President's men have been forced to leave, some have gone to
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jail; others are still under indictment.
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Yes, history has been made by a series of murders, but not
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enough has been done to solve them. The trial of Watergate was the
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trial of the cover-up. There has been no trial about the real
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crime of Watergate. There has been no trial of the big power
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behind Watergate. The Hunts, Liddys, McCords, and the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span> were
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not drawn into that drama solely for their own interests. They
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were working for someone much higher up. They were all pawns, just
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like Nixon was. This is a game for the biggest stake of all--
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absolute control of the government of the United States of America;
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and, with control of this government, control of the world. And
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yet the real crime underlying all of this has not even been
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identified, stated, and charged. The real criminals still walk the
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streets, run their corporations, control their banks, and pull
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strings throughout their political and financial machines.</p>
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<p> This control mechanism did not start in 1972 with Watergate. It
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began, in a tentative way, in the Korean War era, when the military
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and the executive branch found out how easy it was to fool the
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Congress and the American public. And with that recognition,
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power-hungry and money-mad industrialists began to usurp more and
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more power. And when those rifles crackled over Dealey Plaza, in
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Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 and John F. Kennedy's brain was
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splattered across the road, they had made their move into the big
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time. They took over control of the President and of the
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Presidency. The man they had killed was no longer a problem and
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they had made certain that his successor, Lyndon Johnson, heard and
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remembered the sound of those guns. It is the sound of those guns
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in Dallas, and their ever-present threat, which is the real
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mechanism of control over the American government.
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It is possible now to reconstruct the scenario of that day, and,
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with new information, to show why the murder of JFK may properly be
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called the "Crime of the Century." If we the people of the United
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States do not demand its resolution this year, it will stand in the
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way of a free election in 1976. It will doom a third century of
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democratic government in this country.
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Almost everyone who has taken the time to do any reading and
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thinking about that crime knows by now that John Kennedy was killed
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not by a lone assassin, but by a group of hired "mechanics." Let's
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look at some of the hard facts of this murder and put to rest once
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and for all the "cover-up" report of the Warren Commission.
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The Warren Commission categorically stated that Lee Harvey
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Oswald was the killer of JFK and that he acted alone. The Warren
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Commission says that Oswald fired three shots, only three shots,
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from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building
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and that his lair was at a window, number one from the right
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(eastern-most on the south side) on that sixth floor. (See photo
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1. [NUMBER 1. The Texas School Book Depository Building. Arrow
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points to window from which Oswald supposedly shot Kennedy. (photo
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by Willis.)])</p>
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<p> If one breaks this contrived Warren Commission story, then the
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fundament of the "lone assassin" theory is undermined. Break this
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weak theory and you are confronted immediately with an awareness of
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the existence of a massive conspiracy. And we are equally
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convinced that this group hired at least four expert "mechanics"
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(assassins). This group wielded control over elements of the
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Dallas police, the Sheriff's office, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span>, the Secret Service,
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and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>. This great cabal had control high enough in
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government, or at least in the councils of government, to be able
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to influence the travel plans of the President, the Vice-President
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and a Presidential candidate (Nixon), and all members of the
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Kennedy cabinet. They were powerful enough to have orders issued
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to the Army, and they were able to mount a massive campaign to
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control the media during and after the assassination. They were
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able to have Jack Ruby kill Oswald and to transfer jurisdiction of
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the murder from Texas and then to effectively control the outcome
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of the Warren Commission review.
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Then as soon as JFK was dead, they began an even larger campaign
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to cover up that crime forever. Penn Jones, the tenacious editor
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of the Midlothian, Texas, "Mirror," has devoted his life to
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"researching the hell" out of this conspiracy. He has a list of
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some eighty-five people who, because they knew too much or got too
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close, have died sudden and unnatural deaths since the JFK murder.
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This great cabal had seen to it that Vice-President Lyndon
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Johnson was in the Kennedy procession, and they saw to it that he
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heard those hired guns, that he saw Kennedy die, and that he lived
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through that terrible nightmare of the trip back to Washington on
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Air Force One. From that day on, LBJ never again was that self-confident, swash-buckling, free-wheeling Texan. Before he died,
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LBJ told his old friend Tom Janos that he knew Oswald had not
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killed JFK alone.
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The American public is now ready enough to have the cloak torn
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from the lies about the Kennedy murder and the cover-up; but the
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American public has not had the guts to face the fact of the
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massive conspiracy that arranged for that murder and which to this
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day perpetuates its cover-up.</p>
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<p> Many of us have been convinced, as a result of careful and
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detailed study that the first of these glass barricades, the Warren
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Commission report, is a lie. And, we are equally convinced that
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the cover-up of the murder can be smashed and the conspiracy
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exposed. But if we don't act now, there will be consequences.
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These will begin with either the cancellation of elections in 1976
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or with elections that will be a total sham. For who will dare run
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against the candidate of the conspiracy? Will it be Wallace with
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his wounds and from his wheelchair, or another Kennedy, or Ed
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Muskie, who was badly roughed up in 1972, or George <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">McGovern</span>, who
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was twice scheduled for assassination in 1972?
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Who, unless he sells his soul to the cabal, can face those hired
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guns?
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Today, our country is being run by a President and a Vice-President who have not been elected to office. This is merely a
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process to condition the American public.
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Let's begin here by breaking apart the whole fabric of the
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lone-killer thesis. On November 28, 1963, less than one week after
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Kennedy's death, the Secret Service, the agency closest to the
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scene, reported that three shots were fired. The Secret Service
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said that the first hit the President, the second hit Governor John
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Connally of Texas, and the third struck the President. There were
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no other shots according to the Secret Service. *The Secret
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Service was wrong*!
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On December 9, 1963, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> reported that three shots had been
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fired and that two hit the President and that one hit John
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Connally. The <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> says there were no other shots. The <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> was
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less specific than the Secret Service. *The <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> was wrong*.
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Then, much later, on September 27, 1964 (ten months after the
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crime), the Warren Commission issued its report along with twenty-six huge volumes of random data. This report states that there
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were three shots. *The Warren Commission was wrong*.</p>
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<p> According to the Warren Commission, the first shot, the "miracle
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bullet" designed and dreamed up by one of its lawyers (Arlen
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Specter), is one of the most fascinating contrivances of our
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generation. Forced to account for a series of unrelated events,
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Arlen Specter came up with a weird solution. He says the first
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bullet hit JFK, passed through the muscle of his upper back exited
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from his lower throat, traveled a few feet in the air, changed
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course, and entered Connally's back, plunged through his body,
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broke about five inches of one of his right rib bones, came out
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again, and then slammed into his right wrist, where it broke two
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more bones, exited again, and then pierced his thigh and ended its
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strange journey embedded in his thigh bone.
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An interpretation of this thesis, based on photographic and
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medical evidence, means the bullet would have had to have made a
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right and upward turn upon leaving JFK's throat, paused in midair
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for more than two seconds, made a left and steep downward turn as
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it entered Connally's back, made a right and upward turn as it left
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Connally's chest, passed through Connally's wrist in the direction
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backward from the way his wrist was facing, made another left and
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downward turn, then wound up in Connally's left thigh.
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Right here we see the brazen, "To Hell with the Public"
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character of the Commission report. Can you imagine some lawyer,
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even the persuasive and imaginative Specter, selling that bullet
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and its bumble-bee flight to any jury of intelligent Americans?
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The Commission was stuck with a "three bullet" crime because the
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Secret Service and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> had both reported three bullets, because
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there were only 6.8 seconds of shooting[1], as proven precisely by
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a film of the event made by Abraham <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span>, and because the
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character who planted the shells at the "Oswald lair" had only put
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three there. Furthermore, if they were going to stick with the
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"lone assassin" solution, they were faced with the hard task of
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making it appear feasible that Oswald alone could have gotten off
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just three bullets in 6.8 seconds, let alone four, five, or six.
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The <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> movie film, which shows the entire scene from
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beginning to end, became invaluable as a master clock of the whole
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affair. It established a foolproof chronology of the crime. It is
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not too difficult to determine precisely when (what frame of the
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movie film) the first shot was fired; and it is equally simple to
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determine exactly the elapsed time until the last shot was fired.
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So, unless the Commission could accept that there might have been
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other gunmen who fired during the same 6.8 seconds--and this the
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Commission categorically denied--it was going to have to show that
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Oswald could have fired three bullets from that sixth-floor window,
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and that he performed this feat in super-marksmanship time of 6.8
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seconds. It is significant to stress here that the supposed murder
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weapon was a cheap Italian Mannlicher-Carcano mail-order rifle, a
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single-shot, bolt-action antique.
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Another complication crept into the Commission's connivance.
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One of the bystanders at Dealey Plaza that day was a man named
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James Tague. He was hit by a fragment of concrete knocked off the
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curb by a bullet that had hit a curbstone near where he stood.
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(See photo 2. [NUMBER 2.* James Tague, on the far right, with cut
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on face after he was hit by a fragment of concrete that was knocked
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off the curb by errant bullet. (photo by Allen.)] ) He reported
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his injury to a hospital. So there was another man on record as
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having been hit during these same 6.8 seconds. This forced the
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Commission to accept that one bullet, the second by their count,
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missed both JFK and Connally. This complicated their task.
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Remember, neither the Secret Service nor the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> has accounted for
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that "missed" bullet and there were only three shell cases and no
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clips at Oswald's window. They both had said that three shots were
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fired and that two hit JFK and one hit Connally. The <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> later
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found the nick in the curbstone, took a section of it back to their
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labs in Washington, analyzed it, and decided that a bullet had
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indeed hit the curb.
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The <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> film makes it abundantly clear that the top of the
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President's head was blown off and the skull and brain spattered as
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far as thirty-seven yards away by a third shot. Thus the
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Commission gives the "official" version: three shots. The third
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shot, the missed second shot, and none other than the contrived
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"Specter Miracle Bullet"--the first shot. (See photos 345.
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[NUMBER 3. Z-313, showing impact and explosion of third shot, which
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killed Kennedy. NUMBER 4. "The Miracle bullet." Commission
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exhibit 399: a portion was sliced from for <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> spectrographic
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comparison with other bullet fragments. The results were never
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released. NUMBER 5.* X-ray of fragment of the "miracle bullet"
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still in John Connally's thigh. This fragment is larger than any
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piece missing from the "miracle bullet."])
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As if this were not fantasy enough, and as if this were not
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carrying their "To Hell with the Public" role far enough, the
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Commission reports that this same miracle bullet was found forty-five minutes later in the Parkland Hospital more than three hectic
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miles from the scene of the murder. It was on a stretcher which
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"somebody" presumed Connally had been lying on.
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This is the stuff of the Commission solution and this is what we
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have been asked and forced to believe for the past eleven years.
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Any ballistics expert worth his gunpowder would shrink from the
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task of developing the theory of that bullet. Pictures of that
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undamaged bullet show it as clean as a brand-new slug. It looks as
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though it had hardly been fired at all, let alone having traveled
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through two men, broken three bones, and lodged in a fourth. [3]</p>
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<p> ____________________________________________________________________
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How the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> Film Created a Time Clock
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for the Assassination in Dealey Plaza
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| Abraham <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span>'s camera was running at a determinable
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speed: 18.3 frames per second. The camera had a
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governor control, so its speed was constant. Each frame
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of the film was 1/18th of a second apart. Since John
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Kennedy appeared in every frame of the relevant sequence
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of the film, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> was able to plot on a surveyor's map
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of Dealey Plaza, Kennedy's exact position at each frame
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number. This "map" perfectly coordinated two functions:
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time and place--where Kennedy was at each moment, within
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1/18th of a second accuracy, and a distance error of no
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more than 7.3 inches. The <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> film was used to
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determine the speed of the President's car, the elapsed
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time between events, especially between the first and last
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shots (6.8 seconds), and the timing of events in the
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background. --Richard E. Sprague
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| Z denotes <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> film and frame number.
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|___________________________________________________________________|</p>
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<p> I have worked with the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> and military officials in testing
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special rifles. I have seen countless bullets fired into gelatin
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and paraffin to simulate body hits on humans. I have seen goats
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shot under controlled conditions to show what impact will do. In
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my own experience, admittedly limited, I have never seen an
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undamaged slug, no matter what substance it had been fired into,
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except when fired carefully into cotton.[4] But even then there
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are scars, lines, and even deformity. The "Specter Miracle Bullet"
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does not even show that much damage.
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There is no point in dwelling on this in more detail here except
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for the most important fact that, if any of the major Commission
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conclusions are shattered, then the whole house of cards comes down
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and the whole Commission solution is exploded. And because this
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solution is wrong, then Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone
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assassin, and because he was not the lone assassin, there was a
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conspiracy.
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This incredulous miracle bullet, then, is the key to opening the
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whole can of worms. Let's look at bullet Number Two, the one which
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hit a curb and injured bystander James Tague. The Secret Service
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and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> ignored it and the Commission passed over it lightly.
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Now, if you were told that the assassin missed the President and
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that the bullet hit a curb; and if you were told that the assassin
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fired from high above from the sixth floor, you would not have been
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wrong to have concluded that this errant bullet hit the curb on the
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far side of the street beside the President's car. *Wrong*!
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This bullet hit the curb on the far side of the next street and
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more than twice as far away as the car was from the sixth-floor
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window. The President's car was traveling down Elm Street, and
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Tague was standing on Main Street. If that bullet was fired by
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Oswald in the first window, then he missed JFK by twenty-one feet
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on the right and thirty-three feet overhead and the shot went 260
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feet rather than ninety feet. This is a fantastic and unbelievable
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miss for a man who was supposedly able to fire the "Specter Miracle
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Bullet" on his first try and then to knock the entire right side of
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the President's head off with his third shot after pumping two
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bullets into that ancient single-shot rifle in 6.8 seconds!
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It is much more plausible to believe that this missed shot was
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fired from a point much lower down and on a line with the nick on
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the curbstone and the President's head. In other words, a near
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miss. This would have placed the gunman's lair somewhere in the
|
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adjacent Dal Tex Building, perhaps under the second-floor fire
|
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escape. This establishes a second lair, a second gun, and a second
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"mechanic." (See photo 6. [NUMBER 6. (Commission's Shaneyfelt
|
|
Exhibit.) Lyndal Shaneyfelt, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span>'s ballistics and photographic
|
|
expert, took this picture from the spot where the shot that missed
|
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hit the curb. By sighting back to the sixth floor window, the
|
|
degree of miss can be seen. By sighting directly over JFK's
|
|
position, the top of the white car in the center lane, anyone can
|
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see where the shot came from: the second floor window of the Dal
|
|
Tex building. See Altgen's photo, number 8.])
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It is not hard to find another shot that Oswald could not have
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made. The <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> film clearly fixes the time of the first shot
|
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at frame Z-189. Also, the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> film clearly fixes the location
|
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of the car--and thus the President--at Z-189. (See photo 7.
|
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[NUMBER 7. This is Z-189. JFK was slowly waving his right hand to
|
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the crowd.]) There were broken white lines on the road and it can
|
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be shown exactly where the car was at the time of each shot by its
|
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position relative to these lines. Knowing this, it is possible to
|
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draw a line from the precise position of the President at Z-189 up
|
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to the Oswald "lair." In this process, another unexplained
|
|
oversight of the Commission is discovered. There is a huge oak
|
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tree in front of the Book Depository building. In November 1963
|
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that tree was so large that it made it impossible for anyone to
|
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have lined up a shot from the Oswald window at the President at
|
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Z-189.[5] (See photos 89. [NUMBER 8. The Altgens photo. The
|
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building in the rear with a fire escape is the Dal Tex building.
|
|
NUMBER 9. The Secret Service reenactment photo from the sixth floor
|
|
window taken two weeks after the assassination through Oswald's
|
|
actual telescopic lens on his rifle. This would have been his
|
|
exact view of the limousene and JFK's head in the crosshairs at
|
|
Z-189.]) The earliest time a shot could line up with the President
|
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was at Z-210. At that time the tree was no longer in the way.
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What did the Warren Commission think? Apparently, nothing. It
|
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ignored the tree. (See photos 1011. [NUMBERs 10, 11. Two pictures
|
|
confirming that a shot struck JFK at Z-189. Compare photo number 7
|
|
with number 10. Picture number 10 is Z-190. JFK's right hand
|
|
snaps slightly forward in 1/18 second. From here until he goes
|
|
behind sign (Z-204) JFK's right hand drops steadily and begins to
|
|
clench into a fist. This motion continues until Z-225, after he
|
|
comes out from behind the sign. Conclusion: a shot struck JFK at
|
|
Z-189.])
|
|
Who then fired at Z-189? Was it the mechanic who missed later,
|
|
and hit Tague? This is impossible. (See photo 12. [NUMBER 12.*
|
|
This is Phil Willis' fifth photo, showing JFK approaching sign;
|
|
<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> in background on grassy knoll pedestal, camera at eye.
|
|
Willis said he snapped photo in reaction to hearing first shot.
|
|
Photo was sanpped at Z-202, confirming Z-189 was time of first
|
|
shot. A similar photo taken by Hugh Betzner confirms the timing of
|
|
this shot.]) The trajectory of that first bullet did not
|
|
correspond to a line from the President to that lair. In fact, the
|
|
medical evidence, statements from the doctors at Parkland Hospital,
|
|
as well as other evidence indicates that the shot came from the
|
|
front. So there had to be a third mechanic.
|
|
At this point it is important to make certain that we have laid
|
|
all of this out with reasonable credibility. I have been working
|
|
on this problem since 1963. Many others have been working that
|
|
long doing very specialized and very detailed work. (See photos
|
|
13-16. [NUMBERs 13-16. This series of frames from the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span>
|
|
film show that JFK's right hand is still falling and clenched as he
|
|
emerges from behind the sign (up to frame Z-225). Note the drastic
|
|
change in his position: hands, head, elbows, shoulders, and arms
|
|
(between Z-225 and Z-227) in just 2/18 of a second. This indicates
|
|
a second shot striking him in the back at Z-225.]) One of the best
|
|
of these investigators is Richard Sprague, a most experienced
|
|
computer technician and photographic analyst. We know of at least
|
|
510 photographs taken either before, during, or after the shooting
|
|
--all within the space of one hour. Sprague has accounted for
|
|
seventy-five photographers on the scene, thirty of whom were
|
|
professionals from newspapers, television studios, and photographic
|
|
agencies. Other men, such as R.B. Cutler, Ray Marcus, Josiah
|
|
Thompson, David Lifton, Fred Newcomb, and Jones Harris, working
|
|
both independently and together with Sprague, have done the most
|
|
professional work on this case. Ed Berkeley[6] published much of
|
|
this work in his magazine "Computers and Automation," notably in
|
|
the May 1970 and October 1973 issues.
|
|
It is astounding to learn that in their entire work the
|
|
Commission was permitted to see only twenty-six of these pictures,
|
|
and that the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> limited its examination to some fifty of the 510.
|
|
The Commission principals interviewed only four of the thirty
|
|
professional photographers and saw only about a dozen of their
|
|
several hundred photographs. Here was evidence enough to arouse
|
|
the interest and curiosity of any investigator. How could all of
|
|
this vital, most essential evidence have been kept from the
|
|
Commission? Today, one of the members of this Commission is
|
|
President of the United States. He is an intelligent and
|
|
experienced man. How could it have been arranged so that men such
|
|
as Gerald Ford did not have the chance to see all of these
|
|
photographs? In all there were more than 25000 frames of pictures
|
|
exposed within that crucial hour at Dealey Plaza. (This includes
|
|
the frames of movie camera film, some of which have been so vitally
|
|
important when studied frame by frame.) (See photos 17-20.
|
|
[NUMBERs 17-20. This sequence of <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> frames shows that the
|
|
final and fatal shot striking JFK at Z-313, which caused an
|
|
enormous explosion, drove his head and upper body back and to his
|
|
left until he bounced off the rear seat cushion at Z-321. The
|
|
acceleration back to the left in the first two frames following
|
|
Z-313 have been calculated by Josiah Thompson in "Six Seconds in
|
|
Dallas" at more than 75 feet per second per second. The shot
|
|
came from the grassy knoll, right to front.])
|
|
Consider what real professionals can do with such evidence. It
|
|
is possible to build a time-phased chronological moving panorama of
|
|
all events on Dealey Plaza from five minutes before the murder to
|
|
ninety minutes after it. Sprague and his associates have done
|
|
this. It reveals some amazingly accurate sequences. For example,
|
|
there is the "umbrella" man. (See photos 21-23. [NUMBER 21. View
|
|
of umbrella. (Photo by Willis.) NUMBER 22.* View of umbrella,
|
|
Z-227. NUMBER 23.* Umbrella man. Note that umbrella is folded.
|
|
(Photo by Bond.)])
|
|
As the President's car rounds the corner from Houston Street
|
|
turning left onto the fatal Elm Street, pictures show a man near a
|
|
road sign, right next to where the President was killed. This man
|
|
is holding a closed umbrella in a walking-cane position. It was
|
|
high noon and no rain. No one else at Dealey Plaza had an
|
|
umbrella. As the shots are fired, this man is seen in several
|
|
pictures with his umbrella open and over his head (some sort of
|
|
signal). Then other pictures show him later with the umbrella
|
|
lowered to his side. Although everyone else runs from the scene
|
|
and races around in the excitement, the umbrella man stays there
|
|
calmly, looking around. He is one of the last to leave the scene.
|
|
This man shows up on a number of photographs. His actions
|
|
certainly do arouse suspicion, and yet the Commission did not see
|
|
these pictures, did not know about this strange man. He was never
|
|
queried or identified in any way. This is no ordinary oversight.
|
|
This is a strange and dangerous subversion of justice. Who did
|
|
this? How could such evidence have been withheld from the Chief
|
|
Justice of the Supreme Court and other singularly respected men who
|
|
were serving with him? It begs credulity to attribute such gross
|
|
errors to oversight. How was this Commission kept from
|
|
investigating and "seeing" such things? This is the real issue.
|
|
When you arrive at this question you are facing the issue of
|
|
conspiracy. A conspiracy that took over right from the beginning
|
|
and began to control action even within the chambers of the
|
|
Commission. It is ridiculous to say that all of the Commission
|
|
members were that dumb. They were not. It is ridiculous to say
|
|
that they did not have the authority to demand more assistance,
|
|
more facts, more investigation, and more results. For too long,
|
|
people have attributed such failings to the Commission. If you do,
|
|
then you make the Commission part of the conspiracy. It is much
|
|
more logical to recognize that the conspiracy controlled the
|
|
Commission, too.
|
|
The single-bullet theory is overly contrived, especially when
|
|
one is attempting to solve a major crime such as the murder of a
|
|
President. Consider the following:</p>
|
|
<p> * The fact that the Secret Service and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> both
|
|
state three bullets were fired, but account for no
|
|
miss.</p>
|
|
<p> * The fact that the Commission states that three
|
|
bullets were fired, including the near miss.</p>
|
|
<p> * The fact that the Warren Commission missed the
|
|
back-to-left motion of JFK's head (see photos).</p>
|
|
<p> * The fact that only three members of the Commission
|
|
ever saw the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> film in motion.</p>
|
|
<p> * The fact that the Warren Commission missed seeing
|
|
the evidence of three separate bullets hitting JFK
|
|
and a fourth hitting Connally; and then
|
|
disregarding the "umbrella man."</p>
|
|
<p> All of the discrepancies, one after the other, stagger the mind.
|
|
Of course, the umbrella man could have been a perfectly innocent
|
|
guy, why not find out?
|
|
Then there was the "communications man." Photo Number 24
|
|
[NUMBER 24. Note first large figure on the right. He is the
|
|
"communications man."] shows a man across the street from the
|
|
umbrella man. This man was in the crowd near Houston and Elm
|
|
Streets at the time of the shots. The photo shows a two-way radio
|
|
in the man's left hip pocket with a wire dangling down. This wire
|
|
is an antenna. What did the Warren Commission say about this? Not
|
|
a word. They did not see the pictures. This man is known. He is
|
|
James Hicks, currently in an insane asylum. (See photo 25. [NUMBER
|
|
25.* James Hicks, the "communications man."])
|
|
There is no need to trace each error and oversight in the
|
|
twenty-six volume report which was thrown together by the staff of
|
|
the Commission. Once one sees the hand of the conspiracy and the
|
|
evidence that Oswald was made the patsy and then murdered to cover
|
|
his true role, it does not take too much deduction to see that the
|
|
whole thing was the work of a major conspiracy and that the cover-up has been an even more weighty threat to our freedom. (See
|
|
photos 2627. [NUMBER 26. Oswald holding rifle. Photos found in
|
|
Oswald's garage the day after the assassination. NUMER 27.* These
|
|
two photos are enlargements of the two photos found in the garage.
|
|
The line where Oswald's real head was glued onto the two photos of
|
|
another man's body at the chin line can be seen. A whole series
|
|
of mistakes was made by the team who did this work. One of the
|
|
most obvious is the way the shadow under Oswald's nose in the two
|
|
photos tilts with his head. This shows that the same head photo
|
|
was glued on at two different angles. These fake photos taken
|
|
with a camera that didn't belong to Oswald were accepted as totally
|
|
valid by the Warren Commission and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span>. Marina Oswald was
|
|
forced by the assassination team to testify that she took these two
|
|
photos.])
|
|
Why an assassination conspiracy in the first place? Once you
|
|
decide that it was not the work of a lone nut, then there is no
|
|
turning away from the next step. Why was the President killed and
|
|
who would want to do it? These questions must be faced, cost what
|
|
they may, and then having faced them, they must be resolved. This
|
|
is what we have a government for. Individuals cannot subpoena,
|
|
cross-examine, or pursue for the sake of justice. It is up to an
|
|
honest government to do this. But why has the government for all
|
|
of these long years avoided this essential work? This conspiracy
|
|
has the power--in the face of public apathy--to control
|
|
investigation and prosecution, or the lack thereof.
|
|
I said earlier that it is now possible to trace the scenario of
|
|
this master plot. I'll try as best one man can and I'll leave it
|
|
to you to see how far you can go along this road with me. I'll say
|
|
right now that the more we know about this, the more we begin to
|
|
think of *today's* problems and the *less* we think of the JFK
|
|
murder; but it takes an understanding of one to face squarely the
|
|
issue of the other.
|
|
Kennedy had been in Miami in September 1963. Prior to that, a
|
|
Miami police informer had uncovered the existence of a plot to kill
|
|
JFK either in Miami or in some other city. The Miami police, in
|
|
accordance with good practice, turned this information over to the
|
|
<span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> informed the Miami Police that they had turned that
|
|
information over to the Secret Service. When JFK went to Miami, he
|
|
was well protected to and from the airport because he traveled by
|
|
helicopter. This was the beginning of the plot and from that time
|
|
on the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> and the Secret Service should have been on maximum
|
|
alert. Why weren't they? Who pulled them off the job? Certainly
|
|
not Oswald. Certainly not Castro. Certainly not Khrushchev.
|
|
Before that time, plans were being made to have Kennedy visit
|
|
Texas "for political purposes." In accordance with this plan,
|
|
Eugene Zuchert, then Secretary of the Air Force, had suggested,
|
|
perhaps unwittingly, that JFK should visit San Antonio and make a
|
|
speech at the opening of an Air Force medical facility at Brooks
|
|
Air Force Base. With this first step planned, someone else
|
|
suggested that JFK should visit Fort Worth. A bitter multi-billion-dollar contest over the award of the TFX (F-111) airplane
|
|
had ended with the contract being given to the General Dynamics
|
|
Corporation's facility in that city. The idea was that it would
|
|
make good sense for Kennedy to make political hay out of the "good
|
|
will" that Fort Worth might have for the President. JFK went from
|
|
San Antonio to Fort Worth.
|
|
Considering Texas politics, it would not have been right for the
|
|
President to go to Fort Worth and not go to Dallas; so plans were
|
|
made for the President to mend fences there, too, and there were a
|
|
lot of anti-Kennedy fences in Dallas at that time. This was done
|
|
despite the warnings from Miami and the Miami police. Jerry Bruno,
|
|
Kennedy's advance man, went to Dallas. Kenneth O'Donnell, another
|
|
Kennedy aide, worked on the trip, too. But somehow, after their
|
|
initial work, the plans were changed. By whom? Who selected that
|
|
unusual and devious route around Dealey Plaza? It was not Bruno or
|
|
O'Donnell.
|
|
Then things began to get complicated. Someone decided that the
|
|
Vice-President, Texan Lyndon B. Johnson, should go to Dallas with
|
|
the President, and that he and his friend John Connally should be
|
|
in the procession with Kennedy and other Democratic bigwigs. Also,
|
|
someone else saw to it that another useful tool--Richard M. Nixon-
|
|
-should be in Dallas that day. Indoctrination and near-complicity
|
|
is an excellent form of discipline, spelled BLACKMAIL. Here we
|
|
must stop and begin another analysis.
|
|
The Secret Service was founded on June 23, 1860. It is an old,
|
|
proud, and highly professional organization. I have traveled to
|
|
foreign countries and have worked in support of the Secret Service.
|
|
I am familiar with its operating procedures. I am familiar with
|
|
what is called "Protection" in its most elaborate sense. I was at
|
|
the Cairo Conference and the Teheran Conference, both in 1943. I
|
|
participated in actions designed to safeguard the lives of the
|
|
chiefs of state who attended those conferences. I traveled to
|
|
Mexico City during the tenure of President Eisenhower as part of a
|
|
mission to prepare for the security of his visit there. I was in
|
|
Lima, Peru in 1964 while that city went through more than three
|
|
months of preparation for a de Gaulle visit by the famous
|
|
"gorillas" whose skilled work kept Charles de Gaulle alive in the
|
|
face of repeated attempts on his life.
|
|
Because of my familiarity with these highly skilled and
|
|
meticulous organizations, I have been doubly concerned over some of
|
|
the events that did not take place in San Antonio, Fort Worth, and
|
|
Dallas during and before the visit by Kennedy in 1963. This is of
|
|
extreme significance. It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
|
|
It is even harder to keep an old dog from doing his old tricks.
|
|
How could it have happened that the Secret Service, contrary to
|
|
all good sense and all professional "Protection" practice,
|
|
permitted the President and the Vice-President to be in close
|
|
proximity in the same city, in the same procession? This is
|
|
unheard of. The Secret Service dates back more than a century and
|
|
they had never permitted that to take place before. Why this time?
|
|
Here we must go back to our scientific and systematic perusal of
|
|
the thousands of pictures available about this incident. One of
|
|
the most remarkable and important pictures taken of the entire
|
|
25000 was one taken by James Altgens, a professional photographer
|
|
from the Associated Press. (See photo 8.) By cross-referencing
|
|
this remarkable photograph with the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> film chronology, it is
|
|
possible to determine that this picture was taken 3.6 seconds after
|
|
the first shot was fired and 3.2 seconds before the last shot.
|
|
This is very important. This picture clearly shows JFK
|
|
beginning to clench his fists. It shows Jackie's gloved hand
|
|
holding his left arm just above the wrist (she begins to sense
|
|
something is wrong). It shows Connally sitting directly in front
|
|
of JFK just beginning to turn to the rear as if to see what the
|
|
trouble was. Then it shows a carload of Secret Service men
|
|
immediately behind the Presidential car, and save for three of
|
|
those eight men, one would say that they were, at that moment,
|
|
unconcerned and more or less unaware that anything was happening.
|
|
The three men are looking to the rear either because they had been
|
|
looking to the rear, as they are supposed to do at all times, or
|
|
because they may have heard something from that direction.
|
|
But then events in the third car show something quite startling.
|
|
The third car was the Vice-President's automobile. The driver and
|
|
Lady Bird Johnson are smiling and unconcerned at 3.6 seconds into
|
|
the assassination; Lyndon and his bodyguard are sitting in their
|
|
seats in this photo, but are partially obscured by the edge of the
|
|
car on the left.
|
|
Then we look at the fourth car in the procession. This was the
|
|
Secret Service car following the Vice-President. Here we can see
|
|
that a Secret Service agent by the name of Jerry Kivett has already
|
|
opened the door of that car and that he is preparing to jump out--
|
|
all by 3.6 seconds.
|
|
This one indelible record of a fragment in history tells a truer
|
|
story than all twenty-six volumes of the Warren report. It is
|
|
possible to place the first shot at <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> film frame 189 and the
|
|
Altgens photograph at Z-255. It is interesting to note that nearly
|
|
one half of the background of the Altgens photo is filled with that
|
|
huge oak tree we mentioned earlier. It has keen carefully
|
|
researched that a rifleman in the Oswald window could not possibly
|
|
have shot at the President through that tree and thus could not
|
|
have fired at the President until at least Z-210. In fact, under
|
|
the prevailing physical conditions, no one could have fired from
|
|
that window. (See photos 2829. [NUMBERs 28, 29. Two photographs
|
|
showing that no one could have fired any shots from the sixth-floor
|
|
window and that the cartons in the window were arranged to look
|
|
like a sniper's nest three days after the assassination. Photo
|
|
number 28 is the official photo of the sniper's nest taken by
|
|
Dallas police photographer Robert Studebaker. It was probably
|
|
taken on November 25, three days later. Photo number 29* was taken
|
|
by "Dallas Morning News" photographer Jack Beers at 3:30 P.M. on
|
|
the day of the assassination. The most important thing the photos
|
|
show is that the real position of the boxes at the time of the
|
|
shots did not allow enough space for anyone to be in a firing
|
|
position.]) As important as this Altgens photograph is, it was
|
|
found that it had been severely cropped when it was tucked into the
|
|
Warren report. Why did someone go to that trouble? Here again is
|
|
the tricky hand of the conspiracy reaching into the Commission
|
|
chambers.
|
|
We have wandered a little because of the extreme importance of
|
|
that Altgens photo. Our objective was to show the seriousness of
|
|
the Secret Service oversight in permitting the President and Vice-President to be under the same guns.
|
|
These were not the only oversights. I have always been
|
|
concerned about the failure of the Secret Service to act in
|
|
accordance with their long-established and highly professional
|
|
standard operating procedures on Kennedy's Texas trip. We know
|
|
that the Secret Service does not have the numbers to permit it to
|
|
cover every possible avenue and angle of danger; but what we also
|
|
know is that over the years it has keen the practice of the Secret
|
|
Service to call upon trained elements of the Armed Forces and other
|
|
technical assistance to flesh out their strength in compliance with
|
|
"Protection" policy.
|
|
In 1963 there was in Washington, D.C. the 113th Army
|
|
Intelligence Unit, which was highly trained for this purpose. A
|
|
counterpart of this unit was the 112th at 4th Army Headquarters at
|
|
Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The 112th had a detachment, the 315th, in
|
|
San Antonio. Its commanding officer, among others, complained
|
|
bitterly that his unit was not used in protection along with the
|
|
Secret Service after he had keen told that the services of his unit
|
|
would not be needed. On more than one occasion he called his
|
|
headquarters and called Washington to correct this "oversight."
|
|
Like the old dog, he and his men had keen well trained and they
|
|
were ready to go into action. It takes strong and deft control
|
|
from the top to keep a unit out of the action for which it has been
|
|
trained.
|
|
After the assassination, some of the men of the 112th dug into
|
|
the unit's files and found that they had note cards on a Lee Harvey
|
|
Oswald in Dallas, Texas. I do not know what other records they
|
|
had; but failure to utilize this unit and its files was part of
|
|
the conspiracy and an indication of how far up the hand of the
|
|
conspirators went.
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Not only did the Secret Service disregard experienced and
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qualified assistance from the Armed Forces, but they did not act in
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accordance with their own time-tested regulations. I recall, when
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we walked down Avenida Reforma in Mexico City before Eisenhower's
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trip, being told that if we found a place where Eisenhower could
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not be properly protected, the Secret Service "manual" stated that
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the "President's car must maintain not less than 44 mph until clear
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of any danger zones." I joked with the Secret Service officer
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about the "44 mph." Why not "45 mph" or "50 mph." He answered
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that tests had determined that a car traveling 44 mph was going
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fast enough to guarantee all but 100 percent assurance that the
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President would be safe. It was Secret Service men working under
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the provisions of the same manual who let the President's car creep
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around that corner at Dealey Plaza at 8-9 mph. Why?</p>
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<p> ____________________________________________________________________
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Army Aid to Help Protect President Kennedy Was Refused
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| Trained U.S. Army Intelligence Units were told their
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assisstance was not needed in Dallas during the JFK visit.
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William McKinney, a former member of the crack 112th
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Military Intelligence Group at 4th Army Headquarters, Fort
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Sam Houston, Texas, has revealed that both Col.
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Maximillian Reich and his deputy, Lt. Col. Joel Cabaza,
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protested violently when they were told to "Stand Down"
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rather than to report with their units for duty in
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augmentation of the Secret Service in Dallas. McKinney
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said, "All the Secret Service had to do was nod and these
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units [which had been trained at the Army's top
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Intelligence school at Camp Holabird, Maryland] would have
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performed their normal function of Protection for the
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President in Dallas."
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The 315th, the Texas unit which would have been involved
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if its support had not been turned down, had records in
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its files, according to McKinney, on Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The 315th had a Dallas office and its records were up to
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date.
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McKinney added that, "Highly specialized classes were
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given at Camp Holabird on the subject of Protection. This
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included training designed to prepare this army unit to
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assist the Secret Service. If our support had not been
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refused, we would have been in Dallas." --L.F.P.
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|___________________________________________________________________|</p>
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<p> Also, as we looked up at the high buildings on Mexico City's
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main street, he told me that agents would check and secure each
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floor and each window of each building. This is not as big a job
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as it may seem. The Secret Service knows the exact timing of the
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movements of the President and they see to it, using radios and men
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on rooftops, that his progress is covered all the way. This is
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their business and they are good at it.
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But in Dallas, for some strange reason, someone picked a
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dangerous turn in the road. The procession passed slowly to the
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right, and then it turned slowly to the left, and all of the time
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the President's car was right under hostile windows. How simple
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and how correct it would have keen for Secret Service men, aided by
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all of the Armed Forces required, to have checked those buildings,
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to have sealed any unused floors (such as that famous deserted
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sixth floor), and then to have shut all of the front windows.
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Then, by placing a radio-equipped man in the Plaza, all he would
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have had to do was to watch if a single window opened. If it did,
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he would call to the man on the roof and have someone dispatched to
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check that window, and with that same call he would have alerted
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the whole force, especially those with the President's party.
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This chronology and theme need not be pursued further here.
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What is important is to point out that trained and experienced
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organizations such as the Secret Service and the Army were somehow
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given instructions not to take part. In bureaucratic terms alone
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this is hard to do. Each organization fights for its prerogatives
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and for its role. Yet someone ordered them to stand down. The
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power to keep units from operating automatically would have to have
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been extreme and must have originated close to the top. Someone
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had to put out the word to the Secret Service and through them to
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the Army; and then that same power was able to rebuff repeated
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attempts to right that wrong.
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Recognition of this fact leads to the delineation of the origin
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and source of the conspiracy, which was strong enough to directly
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influence the role of major government organizations even before
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the President was shot. I have spoken with men of these units.
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Many had keen trained at Fort Holabird, the Army's top intelligence
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school. There can be no interpretation of this suppression of the
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forces created to protect the President other than that it was a
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part of the whole conspiracy.
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Turning once more to the infallible evidence of press
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photographs, we find an excellent picture of the Texas Book
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Depository Building taken by Thomas C. Dillard. ( See photos
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30, 31. [NUMBER 30.* Photo by Dillard shows black men on floor
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beneath the one from where Oswald supposedly fired. NUMBER 31.
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This enlargement of the Dillard photo was used by the Warren
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Commission in connection with the testimony of the black men in the
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fifth-floor windows. However, the Warren Commission did not
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realize that the photo was taken within 3.5 seconds after the fatal
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head shot and therefore showed that the witnesses--who said they
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saw a rifle sticking out of that window after the fatal shot--were
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imagining things. Nor does the original Dillard photo show any
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rifle or anyone holding a rifle in any window of the building 3
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|
seconds after the last shot.]) In the procession, he was in camera
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car number three. He took the picture only three seconds after the
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shooting, about ten seconds after the first shot. In this one
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picture one can see which windows were open and which were closed
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at that time. Actually, the Commission severely cropped this
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picture before it went into the report; however, Richard Sprague
|
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was able to obtain a copy of the full original. Again, why did the
|
|
Commission see a cropped photo rather than the full original?
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The importance of this picture is that it shows how easily and
|
|
how effectively the role of the Secret Service can be performed
|
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when it is done correctly and in accordance with "Protection"
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doctrine. An agent or an Army man placed properly in the Plaza
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could have observed all of the buildings around the Plaza and all
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of their windows.
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Further evidence of the hand of the conspiracy is found
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immediately after the shooting. Security on the scene was almost
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|
nonexistent. Photographic evidence, including the famous "tramp"
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|
photographs, show that ten men were "arrested" at Dealey Plaza. No
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|
record of these arrests exists and there is none in the Warren
|
|
report.
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In the case of the "tramps," those three men who were rounded up
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on orders of Police inspector J. Herbert Sawyer (the man in charge
|
|
of security activity at Dealey Plaza), we find a sequence of
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|
astounding actions. A Sergeant D.V. Harkness was ordered to stop a
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freight train and remove the men. Harkness arrested the three men
|
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and turned them over to policemen Marvin Wise and Billy Bass, who
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marched them all the way from the west side of the Book building,
|
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around the north side of the Plaza, and into the vehicle entrance
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of the Sheriff's office. Few people realize this entire procedure
|
|
took place almost on the steps of the Sheriff's office. While Wise
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and Bass were marching these men to the Sheriff's office, William
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|
Allen, George Smith, and Jack Beers of the "Dallas Times Herald,"
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the Fort Worth "Star Telegram," and the "Dallas Morning News," took
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several pictures of them. Their remarkable pictures show clearly
|
|
that Wise and Bass took them to the Sheriff's office. Yet Harkness
|
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and Sheriff Harold Elkins couldn't remember that there were any
|
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other policemen with Harkness. This is utterly ridiculous in the
|
|
face of so many clear pictures. Why was this done? And why
|
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weren't these amazing pictures shown to the Commission so that it
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could order the men before them. And worse still, there is
|
|
absolutely no record anywhere that these men were booked that day.
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There are no "blotter" records at all. The men have simply
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|
vanished. (See photos 32-35 [NUMBERs 32-35.* Policeman with
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"tramps." None of these pictures were seen by the Warren
|
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Commission.]).
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I have been given a list of the names of these men. Also, the
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pictures show three policemen. Did the Sheriff, or someone in that
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office, spirit them away? And why did the Sheriff, who had all of
|
|
these men in his custody, permit them to get away within minutes of
|
|
the time that the President of the United States had been shot and
|
|
killed on his doorstep? These are tough questions, but let's go a
|
|
bit further. Why didn't the all-powerful Warren Commission--which
|
|
included the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the former
|
|
Director of Central Intelligence, the man who is now our President,
|
|
etc.--why didn't they have an opportunity to see these pictures?
|
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The photos would have led them to ask these questions and then to
|
|
demand answers.
|
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It is this type of grossly irrational action that leads any
|
|
concerned and level-headed person to conclude that a massive
|
|
conspiracy had taken over and was strong enough during 1964 to
|
|
control the Warren Commission. No one can buy the idea that the
|
|
Warren Commission was that incurious, that inexperienced, and that
|
|
stupid. Having gone this far, it is not a long step to realize
|
|
that this same cabal has been able to control these things for the
|
|
past eleven years. This is the greater crime.
|
|
I happened to be far away in New Zealand at the time of JFK's
|
|
murder. I was on my way to breakfast (the crime occured at
|
|
6:30A.M. on the 23rd of November there) with a member of Congress
|
|
from Ohio. As soon as possible, we purchased the first newspaper
|
|
available--the "Christchurch Star." It is amazing to re-read the
|
|
front page of that paper today and find all of the detail, the
|
|
remarkable detail, about Lee Harvey Oswald, about his service in
|
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the Marine Corps, about his living in Russia, about his <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Russian</span>
|
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wife, and then the full scenario of the crime.[7]
|
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Then one begins to wonder--understanding full well the
|
|
capability of modern-day communications and reporting--who it was
|
|
that was able in so short a time to come up with such a life
|
|
history of so obscure a twenty-four-year-old "loner." Even the
|
|
Dallas police had not charged him with any crime by the time that
|
|
paper had hit the streets. In the crime scenario it states that
|
|
two Dallas cops, J.D. Tippit and M.N. <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">McDonald</span>, had chased Oswald
|
|
into a theater and that Tippit was shot dead "as he ran into the
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cinema." Who fabricated all of that news? Who was at the right
|
|
place at that moment to flood the whole world with all of this news
|
|
about Lee Harvey Oswald, when even the Dallas police weren't too
|
|
sure of their man, they said, because he carried two identities
|
|
(Oswald and Alek Hidell) in his pocket. (See photo 36. [NUMBER
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|
36.* Oswald is arrested.]) Actually fifteen policemen, one of them
|
|
the Chief of Police for Personnel (a man who had never made an
|
|
arrest before), and an <span class="ORG" title="ORG">FBI</span> man stormed the theater in that strange
|
|
episode, and Tippit did not. He was dead outside.
|
|
All of this proves that the American people, in their desire to
|
|
be "loyal," can be had. For eleven years we have been fed this
|
|
pap. The Warren Commission report is trash. Because it is trash,
|
|
the Warren Commission either was part of the conspiracy, and as
|
|
part of the conspiracy they used their report to cover and
|
|
obfuscate the crime, or they, too, had been put under the control
|
|
of that powerful cabal.
|
|
I prefer to believe the latter. I have known some of the men of
|
|
that Commission and I have known about many others. There was not
|
|
an ignorant or stupid man on that Commission. So they may have
|
|
been persuaded that the better part of discretion was to put out
|
|
the report "to soothe the public." But is that the way to solve a
|
|
crime or to prevent others? Did that Commission agree, nobly, to
|
|
let a whole team of criminals walk the streets? This is a big
|
|
question.
|
|
By the end of 1964, LBJ was President and he was being carried
|
|
along on the crest of a surging wave called Vietnam. Few people
|
|
have ever been able to understand our involvement in Vietnam. It
|
|
may be that clearing up the mystery of Dealey Plaza will help to
|
|
clear up the mystery of Vietnam. By 1968, Lyndon Johnson had had
|
|
all that one man could take of his ordeal. Uncharacteristically,
|
|
he announced that he was through and that he would "devote his time
|
|
to ending the war."
|
|
Then the guns rang out again. Martin Luther King was shot dead
|
|
on a motel balcony in Memphis and again we have had doubtful
|
|
treatment about that crime. Hardly had the dust, the flames, and
|
|
the seething anger settled over the country when Bobby Kennedy was
|
|
ambushed in Los Angeles. It was becoming harder and harder to get
|
|
good men to run for President. Then out of the wreckage of 1968
|
|
came Richard M. Nixon, the man who had been kicked around but who
|
|
was ready when called. He became President because his real
|
|
opposition had recently been buried in Arlington.
|
|
After a defeat in the mid-term elections during that winter of
|
|
our discontent in 1970-71, Nixon faced a panel of reporters on an
|
|
<span class="ORG" title="ORG">ABC</span> broadcast in January 1971. When asked why he had been unable
|
|
to bring the country "the lift of a driving dream" he had promised
|
|
during the New Hampshire primaries, Nixon--in one of his rare human
|
|
moments--looked at the reporters and then mumbled, "When you have
|
|
inherited nightmares you are unable to bring the country the lift
|
|
of a driving dream." A few years later that lonely, abused and--
|
|
quite properly so--captive man won one of the strangest elections
|
|
this country has ever seen, and then was driven from the White
|
|
House by a nightmare of tapes spun by someone with the power to
|
|
plant tape recorders in the White House without giving the
|
|
President a switch that would at least enable him to turn them off
|
|
when he swore at his brood of worldbeaters.
|
|
It is fitting to note that Nixon's own prosecutors were from
|
|
among the old gang who worked with the Warren Commission, and that
|
|
he was replaced as President by a man who was the most vociferous
|
|
member of the Warren Commission and who had the best attendance
|
|
record at the Commission's meetings. All of these things are not
|
|
random. All of these things did not just happen accidentally. We
|
|
are caught up in this maelstrom and we must rise and rend this
|
|
cloak. Like the great magician, conspiracy is only effective as
|
|
long as the trick is a secret. We have the knowledge, we have the
|
|
facts, we have the desire, and we have the power. It is now up to
|
|
the American people to throw off this dreaded bondage. We have
|
|
work to do. We want free elections in 1976 and we want to begin a
|
|
glorious new century of the free.</p>
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<p> [1] Even the tests which "prove" it could have been done in 5.7 seconds are
|
|
faulty. The shots in Dallas were not fired evenly; this is proved by
|
|
the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> film and by the Commission's own figures--<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> film
|
|
frames 186-215-313. Tests were made with a "clip" of three bullets.
|
|
No clip was found in the Book Depository Building.</p>
|
|
<p> [2] The Warren Commission allowed even less time; according to their
|
|
report, the elapsed time was 5.7 seconds.</p>
|
|
<p> [3] X-rays show a piece of the bullet is still in Connally's thigh bone,
|
|
yet there is no fragment that size missing from that bullet.</p>
|
|
<p> [4] It is entirely possible that some technician did fire that bullet in
|
|
this manner from that gun in order to obtain a "laboratory perfect"
|
|
ballistics specimen. Then, when some eager conspirators' accomplice
|
|
got it, he "planted" it as the "Miracle" bullet.</p>
|
|
<p> [5] This is a highly technical point. Strangely, in its manipulations,
|
|
the Commission "notes" that a "gap occurred in the leaves of the tree
|
|
at Z-186," then says nothing. If there was this split-second gap,
|
|
then the gun would have had to have been aimed and fired in that
|
|
split second (about 1/20th of a second), and the <span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Zapruder</span> film tree
|
|
would have to confirm that possibility. It does not!</p>
|
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<p> [6] Edmund C. Berkeley is the publisher of the magazine "People and the
|
|
Pursuit of Truth," Newtonville, Mass.</p>
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<p> [7] First news reports that day said, "There were three bursts of gunfire
|
|
from automatic weapons." These reports were nearly correct.</p>
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<p>--
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daveus rattus </p>
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<p> yer friendly neighborhood ratman</p>
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<p> KOYAANISQATSI
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ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life
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in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating.
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5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
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