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From dave@ratmandu.SGI.COM Tue Nov 22 09:08:26 1988
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Path: ratmandu!sgi!dave@ratmandu.SGI.COM
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>From: dave@ratmandu.SGI.COM (dave "who can do? RATmandu!" ratcliffe)
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Newsgroups: sgi.general,ba.politics,ca.politics,talk.politics.misc,sgi.engr.all
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Subject: Assassination: tool of the National Security State of America
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Keywords: Kennedy Watergate Iran-Contra Nazis conspiracy
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Date: 22 Nov 88 17:08:26 GMT
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Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM
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Distribution: sgi
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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"The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or
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emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open
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and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from
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that standard, it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in
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possession', and its days are numbered."
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- H.G. Wells
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25 years of on-going coverup, lies, deceit, and treason. Balance
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this against 41 years of treachery, and you will begin to appreciate
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the nature and extent of the most important constitutional crisis
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confronting us since the civil war. There have been three major
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"scandals" in post-WWII Amercia: President Kennedy's assassination,
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Watergate, and Iran-Contra. I argue they are all symptoms of the
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same problem: the ongoing growth and ever-expanding influence of the
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National Security State of America, which began in earnest when
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President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 which,
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among other things, formalized the structure of the U.S. intelligence
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community as we know it today.
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General Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's chief of intelligence for cen-
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tral and eastern Europe, "surrendered" himself to us in 1945. Allen
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Dulles, working for the O.S.S. in Berne, Switzerland since 1943, had
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been negotiating with high-ranking Nazis like SS General Karl Wolfe
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since 1943 for secret surrender plans that included enticing offers
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to the Western Allies like espionage information, as well as attempts
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to create alibis that downplayed the German officer's participation
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in war crimes and genocide. Soon after the war was over, Dulles was
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instrumental in illegally sneaking Gehlen into the U.S. wearing an
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American General's uniform, and then, along with industrialists like
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Herbert Hoover, Gehlen with his experience, "helped" us design and
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implement the structure of our own intelligence command organization.
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Such secret, illegal "appropriations" of high-level Nazis were by
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no means limited to Gehlen. Among the most treacherous and nefarious
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others were: SS officer Otto A. Von Bolschwing, Adolf Eichmann's tea-
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cher concerning Jewry and Zionism; Wernher Von Braun, and his mili-
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tary superior General Walter Dornberger, responsible for the deaths
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of more than 20,000 slave laborers who were worked to death at the
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Nordhausen concentration camp--the second rocket production facility;
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Klaus Barbie, the butcher of Lyons; German diplomat Gustav Hilger,
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who, among his other duties at the Nazi foreign office, coordinated
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the operations of the dreaded SS Einsatzgruppen murder squads that
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were responsible for the largest wholesale atrocities and genocide
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committed against people in Eastern Europe and Russia.
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These men and many others, had been our mortal enemies. But with
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the end of WWII, and the beginning of WWIII (some call this the Cold
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War), war became peace, enemies became valuable assets, and friends
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became faceless enemies bent on our annihilation. This was accom-
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plished in large part via our own budding invisible government of
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non-elected, behind-the-scenes manipulators, propagandists, spies,
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agent provacateurs, assassins, "defense intellectual careerists",
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powerful industrialists and financiers, and a host of good-meaning
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men like Truman who did not understand the long-term impilcations of
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what they were giving sanction and legality to.
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The three most famous scandals mentioned above are the overt sur-
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facing from time to time of this government-by-covert-means. But the
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primary one is unquestionably the Kennedy assassination as this was
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the first time the National Security State declared itself openly and
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wrested control of America's agenda away from a man who was attempt-
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ing to move beyond the Cold War, stop nuclear proliferation, ease
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tensions with our primary adversary, find a way out of the morass of
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Vietnam, and redirect the industrial might of our country away from a
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permanent warfare economy and toward a more globally co-existive
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footing.
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There has never been a trial for the President's murder. The
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murder of Oswald made it easy to avoid having to prove in a court of
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law that he had in fact pulled the trigger of the rifle that killed
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the president. The "evidence" the Warren Commission used to indict,
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convict, and posthumously sentence Oswald, centering around the
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fantastical and physically impossible scenario of the single bullet
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"theory", would never have stood up under cross-examination in a
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court of law.
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As long as we as a nation continue to attempt to live by the lies
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of our collective past, we will continue to see the certain slide
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into darkness that looms larger each year. The it-can't-happen-here
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school of thought is the most blinding of all diversions. If you
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are concerned about our National Security State's growing influence,
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and would like more information about it, please contact the
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Mae Brussell Research Center, P.O. Box 8431, Santa Cruz, CA, 95061.
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Some people will complain that this lament is too long. Sadly, it
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is much too short. The subject matter discussed is massive and this
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is one of the main reasons people are still misinformed about the
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events of 25 years ago.
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What follows are exerpts from two different manuscripts. The
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authors are L. Fletcher Prouty, and Roger Craig.
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L. Fletcher Prouty worked closely with the CIA and other intelli-
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gence services for more than 30 years. A pilot during WWII, he per-
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sonally flew Roosevelt to the Cairo and Tehran conferences, as well
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as flying dozens of high-level Nazis out of eastern europe at the
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close of the war. After the war Mr Prouty rose through the Defense
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Department chain of command to a point where all of the CIA's mili-
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tary activities were channeled through him.
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Between 1955 and 1963, Mr Prouty served as chief of special opera-
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tions for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in a similar capacity with
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the Office of Special Operations of the Office of the Secretary of
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Defense. He also headed the Special Operations Office of the U.S.
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Air Force. Each of these positions was charged with military support
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of the clandestine operations of the CIA.
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In 1973, Mr. Prouty's book, "The Secret Team, The CIA and Its
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Allies in Control of the United States and the World", was published.
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Book critics called it a "a blockbuster" and said that it "reveals
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more of the CIA's history, its clandestine operations and adroit
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cover-up tactics than any previously published book on the subject."
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Not being a CIA man, Mr. Prouty was exempt from taking the
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agency's oath of secrecy. His privileged position gave him far more
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knowledge of CIA activities than almost all members of that
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organization.
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Roger Craig was a police officer in the Dallas Police Department.
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He was in Dealey plaza On November 22 and among other things, saw a
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man he is certain was Oswald at about 12:41, running down the grass
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from the Book Depository to a slow-moving Rambler station wagon com-
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ing down Elm Street driven by a husky looking Latin. He describes
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reporting this pick-up soon after to a man on the steps of the Book
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Depository building identifying himself as a Secret Service agent.
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There was at least one other police officer who describes confronting
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a man up behind the stockade fence at the top of the grassy knoll
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immediately after the assassination who also flashed credentials
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identifying himself as a Secret Service man. Footprints of the con-
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spiracy that murdered President Kennedy and then covered it up are
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visible here when the facts show that there were no Secret Service
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personnel of any kind who were stationed in Dealey Plaza that day.
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The first exerpts are from Mr. Prouty. They come from a manu-
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script yet to be published as a book. They were originally published
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in the April/May 1987 issue of Freedom magazine.
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The second exerpts of Mr Craig come from a manuscript written in
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1971 titled, "When They Kill A President".
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...the swing through Texas by the president and the vice president
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directly contradicted a long-standing Secret Service taboo on events
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that brought both men together in public appearances.
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[Once in Dallas,] we begin to notice that many things which ought
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to have been done, as a matter of standard security procedure, were
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not done. These omissions cannot do otherwise than to show the hand
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of the plotters and the undeniable fact that they were operating
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among the highest levels of government in order to be able to use the
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channels necessary to arrange such things covertly.
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By 1963, the Secret Service had many decades of experience in the
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task of protecting presidents. There were many ironclad procedures
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and policies which had been established ever since the Secret Service
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was given protection of the president and his family as its main re-
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sponsibility by Congress, following the assassination of President
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William McKinley in 1901.
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Because the Secret Service is a relatively small organization, it
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has been customary for it to call upon local police, the local
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sheriff's office, state police, the National Guard and the regular
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military establishment for assistance as necessary.
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There is even a special course called "protection" for the
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personnel of selected military units to familiarize them with this
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responsibility. In this day of high technology it has become a pro-
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fession of great precision and expertise.
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In the bureaucracy, it is more difficult to arrange for some
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office not to perform its duties than to let them do it. Such duties
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are automatic and built into the system. Therefore, when some re-
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sponsible unit does not perform its duties, it is a signal that some-
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thing highly unusual has occurred. In the case of the killing of
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President Kennedy, certain key people had been told they would not be
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needed in Dallas. Some were told not to do certain things, while
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others were simply left out.
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Speaking generally, it is not always easy to obtain positive proof
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of a conspiracy, even when many facts point to its existence. The
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power of the conspirators may be such that they can squelch usual
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legal procedures. Thus the public, if it is to know the truth, must
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discover what happened from details and circumstantial material that
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supports the case. Then, from whatever valid evidence becomes avail-
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able, the public can eventually determine the nature of the conspir-
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acy and the identity of the cabal.
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More than 120 years ago, Special Judge Advocate John A. Bingham
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observed that "A conspiracy is rarely, if ever, proved by positive
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testimony.... Unless one of the original conspirators betrays his
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companions and gives evidence against them, their guilt can be proved
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only by circumstantial evidence. It is said by some writers on evi-
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dence that such circumstances are stronger than positive proof. A
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witness swearing positively may misrepresent the facts or swear
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falsely, but the circumstances cannot lie." (Special Judge Advocate
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John A Bingham, "The Trial of the Conspirators", Washington, D.C.,
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1865, cited in "The Pope and the new Apocalypse, S.D. Mumford, 1986)
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In something as routine as the providing of protection for the
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president during a parade through a major U.S. city such as Dallas,
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the fact of variations in the routine can reveal the presence and the
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skill of the plotters. Let us review certain facts concerning the
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events surrounding President Kennedy's death.
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The Warren Report contains testimony by Forest Sorrels of the
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Secret Service. Sorrels says that he and a Mr. Lawson of the Dallas
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Police Department selected "the best route ... to take him [the
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president] to the Trade Mart from Love Field." This is a legitimate
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task. But was the route Sorrels chose truly the "best route" from a
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security standpoint? Why was that specific route chosen?
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The route chosen by Sorrels and the Dallas police involved a
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90-degree turn from Main Street to Houston Street, and an even
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sharper [120-degree] turn from Houston to Elm Street.
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These turns required that the president's car be brought to a very
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slow speed in a part of town where high buildings dominated the
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route. That was an extremely dangerous area. Yet Sorrels told the
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Warren Commission this "was the most direct route from there and the
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most rapid route to the Trade Mart." What Sorrels did not say was
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that such sharp turns and high buildings made the route unsafe. Why
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did he and the police accept that hazardous route?
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President Kennedy was shot on Elm Street just after his car made
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that slow turn from Houston. This has been considered by many to be
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a crucial piece of evidence that there was a plot to murder the
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president. It is considered crucial because the route was selected
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by the Secret Service contrary to policy and because this obvious
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discrepancy has been covered up by the Warren Report and all other
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investigations since then. The conclusion that has been made is that
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it was part of the plot devised by the murderers, that they had to
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create an ideal ambush site. The Elm Street corner was it.
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Furthermore, no matter what route was selected for the presiden-
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tial motorcade, the Secret Service and its trained augmentation
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should have provided airtight protection all the way. This they did
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not even attempt to do, and this serious omission tends to provide
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strong evidence of the work of the conspirators.
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According to the Secret Service's own guidelines, when a presiden-
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tial motorcade can be kept moving at 40 miles an hour or faster (in
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most locales), it is not necessary to provide additional protection
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along the way. However, when the motorcade must travel at slow
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speeds, it is essential that there be protection personnel on the
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ground, in buildings, and on top of buildings. They provide essen-
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tial surveillance. Protection personnel can order all the windows
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sealed and can station men to ensure they stay closed.
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None of these things were done in Dallas. Incredibly, there were
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no Secret Service men or other protection personnel at all in the
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area of the Elm Street slowdown zone.
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How could this have happened? It is documented that the Secret
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Service men in Fort Worth were told they would not be needed in
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Dallas. The commander of an Army unit, specially trained in protec-
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tion and based in nearby San Antonio, Texas, had been told he and his
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men would not be needed in Dallas. "Another Army unit will cover
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that city," the commander was told. There were no Secret Service men
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on the roofs of any buildings in the area. There had been no precau-
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tions taken to see that all the windows overlooking the parade route
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in this slowdown zone had been closed, and kept closed.
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The man alleged to have killed the president is said to have fired
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three shots from an open window on the sixth floor of the building
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directly above the sharp corner of Houston Street and Elm Street.
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The availability of that "gunman's lair", if it was occupied at
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all, violated basic rules of protection. It overlooked the spot
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where the car was going slow. It had open windows. No Secret
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Service men were covering that big building, and no Secret Service
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men were on the roofs of adjacent buildings to observe such lairs.
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Why did the Secret Service do everything wrong, or omit doing
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things that were normal and were required for protection? Had they
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actually been told they were not needed? If so, who had the power to
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tell the Secret Service such a thing? Obviously, that authority had
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to have come from a very high level.
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The commission never really considered the possibility that anyone
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other than Oswald, by himself, had committed the crime.
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The president was murdered in Dallas, Texas. By law, the crime of
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murder must be tried in the state where it was committed. It remains
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to be tried today. There is no statute of limitations on the crime
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of murder.
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Why wasn't this done? Oswald is dead, but that does not preclude
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a trial. He is as innocent of that crime as anyone else until a
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court of law has found him guilty. Given the available evidence, no
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court could convict him.
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These experienced men on the Warren Commission, particularly the
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chief justice of the Supreme Court, had to know that.
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Why did the Texas authorities permit the removal of Kennedy's body
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from Texas? Why did they not hold an official autopsy? Why did
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Dr. James Humes, the man who did an autopsy at Parkland Memorial
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Hospital in Dallas, burn his original notes?
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For those in far-off Christchurch, New Zealand, ...the Kennedy
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Assassination took place at 7:30 on the morning of Saturday,
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November 23, 1963.
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As soon as possible, "The Christchurch Star" hit the streets with
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an "Extra" edition. One quarter of the front page was devoted to a
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picture of President Kennedy. The remainder of the page was, for the
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most part, dedicated to the assassination story, from various sour-
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ces. Who were those sources, and how could such intimate and detail-
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ed information about Oswald have been obtained instantaneously? It
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wasn't. Like everything else, it had been pre-packaged by the secret
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cabal.
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This "instant" news is important. Experienced on-the-spot report-
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ers in Dallas said the president was hit with a "burst of gunfire".
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A few lines below, it said, "Three bursts of gunfire, apparently from
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automatic weapons" were heard.
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NBC-TV had reported that "the police had taken possession of a
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British .303-inch rifle...with a telescopic sight." That was not the
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rifle of the Warren Report.
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Another account stated that "the getaway car was seized in Fort
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Worth." Whose getaway car? Oswald never left Dallas.
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This type of sudden, quite random reporting is most important, be-
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cause one can usually find the truth of what occurred in these early
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news reports. Later, the "news" will be doctored and coordinated,
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and will bear no resemblance to the original, true accounts.
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Experienced reporters travel in the presidential party. They know
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gunfire when they hear it, and they reported "bursts" of gunfire.
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They reported "automatic weapons". They reported what they heard and
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saw. They did not yet have propaganda handouts.
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Neither the FBI nor the Secret Service reported such action.
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Since automatic weapons were never found, it becomes apparent that
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these reporters on the scene had heard simultaneous gunfire from
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several skilled "mechanics" or professional killers, and that this
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simultaneous gunfire sounded like "bursts" of "automatic weapons".
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Nowhere does the Warren Report mention the precision control of
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several guns, yet it is hard to discount the first, eyewitness re-
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ports from experienced men.
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On the other hand, almost one-quarter of that front page in
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Christchurch was taken up with detailed news items about Lee Harvey
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Oswald. An excellent photograph of Oswald in a business suit and tie
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was included on page 3.
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At the time this early "Extra" of the Star had gone to press, the
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police of Dallas had just taken a young man into custody and had
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charged him with the death of a Dallas policeman named Tippit. They
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had not accused Oswald of the murder of the president and did not
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charge him with that crime until early the next morning. Yet a long
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article put on the wires by the British United Press and America's
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Associated Press had been assembled out of nowhere, even before
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Oswald had been charged with the crime. It was pure propaganda.
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Where did those wire services get it?
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Nowadays, Oswald is a household name throughout the world, but in
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Dallas at 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, he was a nondescript 24-
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year-old ex-Marine who was unknown to almost everyone. There is no
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way one can believe that these press agencies had all of the detailed
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information that was so quickly poured out in their files, ready and
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on call, in those first hours after the assassination.
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In the long account in the "Christchurch Star" about Lee Harvey
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Oswald, which included a fine studio portrait, these press services
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said, and the "Star" published, some very interesting information.
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According to the account, Lee Harvey Oswald:
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a. "defected to the Soviet Union in 1959"
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b. "returned to the United States in 1962"
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c. "has a [Russian] wife and child"
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d. "worked in Minsk in a factory"
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e. "went to the U.S.S.R. following discharge from the Marine
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Corps"
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f. "became disillusioned with life there [in the U.S.S.R.]"
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g. "Soviet authorities had given him permission to return with
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his wife and child"
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h. "had been chairman of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee"
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...and much more.
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...By what process could the wire services have acquired, collat-
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ed, evaluated, written and then transmitted all that material within
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the first moments, even the first hours, following that tragic and
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"unexpected" event--even before the police had charged him?
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There can be but one answer: those in charge of the murder had
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prepared the patsy and all of that intimate information beforehand.
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Strangely, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Warren Commission, and
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the Dallas police force instantly declared Oswald to be the killer.
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They never considered any other possibilities. The evidence was
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never examined. In newspapers around the world, even as far away as
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Christchurch, New Zealand, the headlines blared that Oswald was the
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president's murderer.
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Lt. Day inspected the rifle briefly, then handed it to Capt. Fritz
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who had a puzzled look on his face. Seymour Weitzman, a deputy con-
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stable, was standing beside me at the time. Weitzman was an expert
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on weapons. He had been in the sporting goods business for many
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years and was familiar with all domestic and foreign weapons. Capt.
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Fritz asked if anyone knew what what kind of rifle it was. Weitzman
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asked to see it. After a close examination (much longer than Fritz
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or Day's examination) Weitzman declared that it was a 7.65 German
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Mauser. Fritz agreed with him.
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[the Warren Commission claimed an Italian Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5
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Caliber was the rifle owned by Oswald.]
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...Later that afternoon I received word of the suspect' arrest and
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fact that he was suspected of being involved in the President's
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death. I immediately thought of the man running down the grassy
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knoll. I made a telephone call to Capt. Will Fritz and gave him the
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description of the man I had seen and Fritz said, "that sounds like
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the suspect we have. Can you some up and take a look at him?"
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I arrived at Capt. Fritz office shortly after 4:30 p.m. I was met
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by Agent Bookhout from the F.B.I., who took my name and place of em-
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ployment. The door to Capt. Fritz' personal office was open and the
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blinds on the windows were closed, so that one had to look through
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the doorway in order to see into the room. I looked through the open
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door at the request of Capt. Fritz and identified the man who I saw
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running down the grassy knoll and enter the Rambler station wagon--
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and it WAS Lee Harvey Oswald. Fritz and I entered his private office
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together. He told Oswald, "This man (pointing to me) saw you leave."
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At which time the suspect replied, "I told you people I did." Fritz,
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apparently trying to console Oswald, said, "Take it easy, son--we're
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just trying to find out what happened." Fritz then said, "What about
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the CAR?" Oswald replied, leaning forward on Fritz' desk, "That
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STATION WAGON belongs to MRS. PAINE--don't try to drag her into
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this." Sitting back in his chair, Oswald said very disgustedly and
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very low, "Everybody will know who I am now." At this time Capt.
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Fritz ushered me from his office, thanking me...
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I was convinced on November 22, 1963, and I am still sure, that
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the man entering the Rambler station wagon was Lee Harvey Oswald.
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After entering the Rambler, Oswald and his companion would only have
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had to drive six blocks west on Elm Street and they would have been
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on Beckley Avenue and a straight shot to Oswald's rooming house.
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The Warren Commission could not accept this this even though it
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might have given Oswald time to kill Tippit for having two men
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involved would have made it a CONSPIRACY!
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...Combine the foregoing with the run-in I had with Dave Belin,
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junior counsel for the Warren Commission, who questioned me in April
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of 1964 and who changed my testimony fourteen times when he sent it
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to Washington, and you will have some idea of the pressure brought
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to bear.
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David Belin told me who he was as I entered the interrogation
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room (April 1964). He had me sit at the head of a long table. To
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my left was a female with a pencil and pen. Belin sat to my right.
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Between the girl and Belin was a tape recorder, which was turned
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off. Belin instructed the girl not to take notes until he (Belin)
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said to do so. He then told me that the investigation was being
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conducted to determine the truth as the evidence indicates. Well, I
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could take that several ways but I said nothing. Then Belin said,
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"For instance, I will ask you where you were at a certain time.
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This will establish your physical location." It was at this point
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that I began to feel that I was being led into something but still I
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said nothing. Then Belin said, "I will ask you about what you
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thought you heard or saw in regard." Well, this was too much. I
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interrupted him and said, "Counselor, just ask me the questions and
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if I can answer them, I will." This seemed to irritate Belin and he
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told the girl to start taking notes with the next question. At this
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point Belin turned the recorder on. The first questions were
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typical. Where were you born? Where did you go to school? When
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Belin would get to certain questions he would turn off the recorder
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and stop the girl from writing. The he would ask me, for example,
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"Did you see anything unusual when you were behind the picket
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fence?" I said, "Yes" and he said, "Fine - just a minute." He
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would then tell the girl to start writing with the next question and
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would again start the recorder. What was the next question? "Mr.
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Craig, did you go into the Texas School Book Depository?" It was
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clear to me that he wanted only to record part of the interrogation,
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as this happened many times. I finally managed to get in at least
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most of what I had seen and heard by ignoring his advanced questions
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and giving a step by step picture, which further seemed to irritate
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him. At the end of our session Belin dismissed me but when I start-
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ed to leave the room, he called me back. At this time I identified
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the clothing wore by the suspect (the 26 volumes refer to a box of
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clothing - not boxes. There were two boxes.)...
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I first saw my testimony in January of 1968 when I looked at the
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26 volumes which belonged to Penn Jones. My alleged statement was
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included. The following are some of the changes in my testimony:
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Arnold Rowland told me that he saw two men on the sixth floor of the
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Texas School Book Depository 15 minutes before the President arriv-
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ed: one was a Negro, who was pacing back and forth by the southwest
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window. The other was a white man in the southeast corner, with a
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rifle equipped with a scope, and that a few minutes later he looked
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back and only the white man was there. In the Warren Commission:
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Both were white, both were pacing in front of the southwest corner
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and when Rowland looked back, both were gone; I said the Rambler
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station wagon was light green. The Warren Commission: Changed to a
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white station wagon; I said the driver of the Station Wagon had on
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a tan jacket. The Warren Commission: A white jacket; I said the
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license plates on the Rambler were not the same color as Texas
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plates. The Warren Commission: Omitted the not - omitted but one
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word, an important one, so that it appeared that the license plates
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were the same color as Texas plates; I said that I got a good look
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at the driver of the Rambler. The Warren Commission: I did not get
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a good look at the Rambler. (In Captain Fritz's office) I had said
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that Fritz had said to Oswald, "This man saw you leave" (indicating
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me). Oswald said, "I told you people I did." Fritz then said,
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"Now take it easy, son, we're just trying to find out what happen-
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ed", and then (to Oswald), "What about the car?" to which Oswald
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replied, "That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine. Don't try to
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drag her into this." Fritz said car (station wagon was not mention-
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ed by anyone but Oswald) (I had told Fritz over the telephone
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that I saw a man get into a station wagon, before I went to the
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Dallas Police Department and I had also described the man. This is
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when Fritz asked me to come there.) Oswald then said, "Everybody
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will know who I am now;" the Warren Commission: Stated that the
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last statement by Oswald was made in a dramatic tone. This was not
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so. The Warren Commission also printed, "NOW everybody will know
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who I am", transposing the now. Oswald's tone and attitude was one
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of disappointment. (If someone were attempting to conceal his iden-
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tity as Deputy and he was found out, exposed -- his cover blown,
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his reaction would be dismay and disappointment). This was Oswald's
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tone and attitude--disappointment at being exposed!
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I told him I knew of twelve arrests, one in particular made by
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R.E. Vaughn of the Dallas Police Department. The man Vaughn arrest-
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ed was coming from the Dal-Tex Building across from the Texas School
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Book Depository. The only thing which Vaughn knew about him was
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that he was an independent oil operator from Houston,Texas. The
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prisoner was taken from Vaughn by Dallas Police detectives and that
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was the last that he saw or heard of the suspect. Incidentally,
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there are no records of any arrests, either by the Dallas Police
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Department or the Sheriff's Office, in Dealey Plaza on November 22,
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1963. Very strange! Any and all arrests made during my eight years
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as an officer were recorded. It may not have been entered as a re-
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cord with the Identification Bureau but a report was always typed
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and a permanent record kept--if only in our case files. A report on
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any questioning shows a reason for your action and protects you
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against false arrest. I am saying that there is absolutely no
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record in the case files or any place else.
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--
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daveus rattus
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yer friendly neighborhood ratman
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Dan Quayle's legislative aide was Rob Owen, who was intro-
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duced to John Hull in Quayle's senate office in 1983.
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"There are two governments. There is the National Security Governement
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which was put in place by the National Security Act of 1947. That is
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the real government of our country. Then there is the cosmetic govern-
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ment--the government for show. The ongoing presidential government and
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congress, which is totally meaningless now." -Gore Vidal
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--
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daveus rattus
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yer friendly neighborhood ratman
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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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