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Article: 382 of sgi.talk.ratical
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From: dave@ratmandu.corp.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
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Subject: Book Review: "On The Trial Of The Assassins"
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Keywords: this book provided basic inspiration to Stone for "JFK"
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1991 16:19:58 GMT
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When They Murder Our President. Factual Conspiracy--It Did Happen Here
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by dave ratcliffe
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ON THE TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS; My Investigation and Prosecution
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of the Murder of President Kennedy
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by Jim Garrison
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As singularly important an event as the assassination of
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President Kennedy was in the context of post-WWII American
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history, the paramount tragedy that remains with us more than 25
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years later is that collectively, as a nation, we still have been
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so misinformed about what actually occurred. Not only about the
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bursts of gunfire which, in six seconds, ended the administration
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of the 35th President of the United States, but integral events
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both before and after the murder itself, that successfully hid the
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real facts from the public during the initial days and weeks after
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that awful Friday, when the different news and government agencies
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were getting their story line "straightened out".
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Consider these facts:
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* Lee Oswald was given a nitrate test, which reveals deposits
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of nitrate on a person's cheek when she or he has recently
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fired a rifle, on the evening of the assassination. The
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nitrate test results indicated that Oswald had not fired a
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rifle on November 22, 1963. This fact was kept secret for
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ten months, only to be revealed in the Warren Commission
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Report.
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* Oswald was questioned on Friday night while in the custody
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of Captain Will Fritz, head of the Dallas Police Homocide
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Division. Recording of such questioning is routine even in
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minor felony cases. Yet, according to the Warren Commission
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hearings, the alleged murderer of the President of the
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United States was questioned for a total of 12 hours without
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any taping or shorthand notes by a stenographer. Nor was an
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attorney present.
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* Although at least twelve individuals were taken into custody
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by Dallas Police on November 22, there are no records of any
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arrests made that day within the confines of the Dallas
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Police Department.
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* The Dallas parade route, published on the right five-sixths
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of the front page of "The Dallas Morning News" for Friday,
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November 22, 1963, showed the motorcade running down Main
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Street straight through and beyond Dealey Plaza. As the
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chief city administrator, the Mayor of Dallas--who in 1963
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was a Mr. Earle Cabell--would have to know and officially
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approve any such eleventh hour change. Earle Cabell had a
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brother named General Charles Cabell who had been the deputy
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director of the CIA--the number two man--under Allen Dulles
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for nine years, until he was fired by President Kennedy
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after the Bay of Pigs fiasco of which General Cabell had
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been the Agency's man in charge. General Cabell's subsequent
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hatred of John Kennedy became an open secret in Washington.
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However he was never even called as a witness before the
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Warren Commission.
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* Julia Ann Mercer, while stopped in traffic on Elm Street
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about an hour before the assassination, saw a young man get
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out of a pickup truck on her right, carrying a not very well
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concealed rifle, and then walk up the grassy hill which forms
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part of the overpass. At the local FBI office, on Saturday,
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November 23, she identified the driver of the pickup truck
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whos face she got a good look at, from a number of mug shots,
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as that of Jack Ruby.
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* For more than five years, the Zapruder film of the
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assassination was concealed from the public and locked in a
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vault by Life magazine. This moving picture showed Kennedy
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being slammed violently backwards--clear evidence of his
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being struck by a rifle shot from the front.
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The above are just a few of the striking assemblage of facts
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laid out in this new book by Jim Garrison, ex-District Attorney
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and now a Judge of the Court of Appeal in New Orleans. Not only
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is it an immensely engrossing story written by an eloquent man, it
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is also essential reading for all of us both who remember living
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through that seminal time, as well as a whole new generation of
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people who were not alive then, and for who the assassination
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remains a murky, unmeasured abyss.
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Jim Garrison describes what he believes happened at Dealey
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Plaza in Dallas as a coup d'etat. He defines a coup d'etat as "a
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sudden action by which an individual or group, usually employing
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limited violence, captures positions of governmental authority
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without conforming to the formal requirements for changing
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officeholders, as prescribed by the laws of constitution". He
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goes on to ennumerate the necessary elements for a successful
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coup: "extensive planning and preparation by the sponsors; the
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collaboration of the Praetorian Guard (officials whose job is to
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protect the government); a diversionary cover-up afterwards; the
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ratification of the assassination by the new government inheriting
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power; and the the dissemination of disinformation by major
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elements of the news media."
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Garrison believes the sponsors had instigated and planned this
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coup long in advance and that this group consisted of "fanatical
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anticommunists in the United States intelligence community; that
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it was carried out, most likely without official approval, by
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individuals in the C.I.A.'s covert operations apparatus and other
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extra-governmental collaborators, and covered up by like-minded
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individuals in the F.B.I., the Secret Service, and Dallas police
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department, and the military; and that its purpose was to stop
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Kennedy from seeking detente with the Soviet Union and Cuba and
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ending the Cold War."
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At one point, reflecting on the media's absolutely static
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rejection of even the idea of conspiracy, Garrison writes: "Then,
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perhaps for the first time, I realized what it was that petrified
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these people... To acknowledge that an organized conspiracy had
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occurred was to recognize that it had been done for a purpose--to
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change government policy. Having told the world for so many years
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how wonderful we all were, here in the greatest country in the
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world, the media people were not willing to admit that our
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national leader could be removed in such a brutal fashion in order
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to change government policy. That would put the lie to American
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democracy. That just could not be. Therefore, in their minds,
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the assassination had to be a random event, the work of a deranged
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loner."
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The final paragraph of the book, after suggesting that it may
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be too late for an honest investigation, states:
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However, it is not too late for us to learn the lessons of
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history, to understand where we are now and who runs this
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country. If my book can help illuminate this for a younger
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generation who never knew John Kennedy, then it will have
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served its purpose.
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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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