by Len Hart, The Existentialist CowboyAs Texas Sen Lloyd Bentsen famously told GOP V.P. candidate Dan Quayle in the Vice Presidential debate of October 5, 1988:
"I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy".
That exchange from the Vice-Presidential debates (1988) was a bitter reminder that the cold-blooded murder of JFK destroyed the 'America' that we had known and loved. Not only JFK died that day but our hopes and dreams for a better America, a world at peace.
I was not as fortunate as the late Senator Bentsen and did not know JFK. I was still in high school. But I knew George Bush Sr --sort of, if any one ever 'really' knew him or 'knows' him! We never hung out or shared a beer! George Bush Sr was
no friend of mine! And never will be! If my suspicions are true, Bush is no friend of anyone --rather an enemy of the American people, the Constitution, possibly the world!
I did know Bush Sr well enough to recognize him up close or from a distance. I could pick him out in a crowd from across the huge Grand Ballroom of the Houston Hyatt-Regency. I am convinced that it is Bush Sr who was photographed 'hanging around' just outside the Texas School Book Depository just moments before JFK was murdered.
Jim Marrs : During that time, during the time of the Bay of Pigs, while you were training and moving around in the Caribbean, No Name Key and all that, did you ever hear the name George Herbert Walker Bush?James Files: Oh Yeah!Jim Marrs: What was his role?James Files: George Herbert Walker Bush. I don't know if, I think a lot of people are not going to believe this, but he worked for the CIA back as early as 1961 that I know of.Jim Marrs : How did he work? What did he do?James Files : I don't know all he did, but he did a lot of recruiting work. I know he was there at the beginning for what we called Group 40, a special operations group, Group 40. If you wonder what Group 40 was, an assassination group.Operation 40 was a top secret CIA project to train selected cuban exiles in guerrilla warfare and assassinations, aimed against the Castro regime. Apart from Felix Rodriguez, other members were now infamous CIA agents and Anti Castro terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch, Guillermo and Ignacio Novo Sampoll and later Watergate plumbers Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez and E. Howard Hunt. Most of the operation 40 members were recruited from JM/Wave, a much larger clandestine operation to train a cuban exile army for the Bay of Pigs invasion. JM/Wave is headed by CIA official Theodore Shackley. James Files, the confessed gunman on the grassy knoll, was recruited for the CIA by David Atlee Phillips on a recommendation of Ted Shackley. Shackley becomes George Bush's deputy director for Covert Operations in 1976. The CIA controller of JFK's assassin is provably close to Shackley, Shackley is provably close to Bush. Not significant? --Behind the Bushes
The Warren Commission's official 'magic bullet' theory was cooked up to cover up the undeniable fact that the shot that killed JFK came from the front, the infamous grassy knoll where witnesses were photographed rushing up the knoll toward a leafy cover just behind the picket fence.
A cover-up of the murder began the day he died or even sooner.
Gerald Ford admitted to tampering with evidence while he was on the Warren Commission. In other words, Ford committed a federal crime the effect of which has kept the truth from the American people since 1963.
The initial draft of the report stated:"A bullet had entered his back at a point slightly above the shoulder to the right of the spine."
Ford wanted it to read:"A bullet had entered the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine."
--Gerald Ford's Terrible Fiction
Anyone lying about the JFK assassination is, as far as I am concerned, suspected of covering up the crimes of murder and high treason that were committed on November 22, 1963. Who lies about a crime but those who are guilty or profiting, in any way, from the cover up? Lying about and covering up a crime is probable cause to suspect the liar of having participated in whatever crime is lied about. Guilt is the most powerful motive to lie about a crime. Conversely, innocent people are powerfully motivated to tell and/or get at the truth.
Like 911, we were and remain targeted to receive a fusillade
of lies, the purposes of which are to distract and confuse. Those guilty of the crime are always those who benefit from the lies. Similarly, those who lie about the crime are almost always guilty of it.
Nothing silences a potential witness more effectively than death. The murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by known mobster Jack Ruby was entirely too timely, too convenient. It effectively shut Oswald up. Accused of murdering JFK, Oswald protested that he had been set up, that he had been 'a patsy'. Indeed,
Oswald had to die.
It was necessary to create a 'credible sounding' phony investigation before a real investigation could learn the truth. Thus was born the Warren Cover-Up Commission facilitating and promoting the government's official cover story.
"According to the Warren Report the missile hit JFK in the posterior neck, then without striking any hard object passed through the neck to exit at the front of his throat. It then entered Texas Governor John B. Connally's back at the right arm pit, sliding along his fifth rib, demolishing four inches of the rib before it exited his chest below the right nipple. The bullet then allegedly struck and shattered the radius of the right wrist on the dorsal side, then exited at the base of his palm and hit his left thigh just about the knee.The Report then asserts that CE 399 traveled about three inches beneath the surface of the skin, hit the femur and deposited a lead fragment on the bone. Then, sometime later, with a spasm of reverse kinetic energy it spontaneously exited the hole in Connally's thigh and neatly tucked itself under the mattress of a stretcher parked in a hallway of the Parkland Memorial Hospital that the Report asserted was linked to the wounded governor. There it rested calmly under the mattress waiting for its rendezvous with history."--Gerald McKnight, Researcher
The "chain of evidence" on Commission Exhibit 399 --known as the 'Magic Bullet' --had been broken. The government could not have convicted Oswald with a 'magic bullet'. Because the 'chain of evidence' had been broken, the 'magic bullet' would not have been admitted as evidence. Oswald would have walked.
A trial of Oswald would have exposed the fraudulent nature of both the Warren Commission and the government's position. That's motive enough to order the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald who had maintained from the get go that he was a 'patsy'. Oswald, I am sure, would have had much more to say in his own defense had his case gone to trial. Oswald knew too much.
Among the many flaws in the composition and mandate of the Warren Commission, the most glaring is that the committee lacked investigative powers. It was at the mercy of the CIA and the FBI to conduct its investigation, and both organizations had a lot to hide. The CIA, for example, refused to reveal the extent to which it had collaborated with organized crime to try to assassinate Castro. Nor did it reveal the files it had on contacts with Lee Oswald, dating to his time in the Soviet Union. Likewise, the FBI had similar interests and files on Oswald’s bizarre movements and affiliations.Talbot writes: “In the days following the assassination, [CIA Director John] McCone would conclude that there had been two shooters in Dallas, in striking contrast to the official version of the crime of a lone gunman, which was being ardently promoted by Hoover and the FBI.” In their own ways, for their own institutional reasons, both agencies preferred cover-up over truth in answering the question that National Book Award novelist, Don DeLillo, raises in Libra: “Who arranged the life of Lee Harvey Oswald?”Despite being “one of the first—and among the staunchest—believers in a conspiracy,” Robert Kennedy did little to encourage those challenging the lone-gunman orthodoxy. He had little time for New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who was, according to Talbot, “shining light on a crucial corner of the conspiracy—a world of zealous CIA plotters, Cuban expatriates, far-right militants, and mercenaries, where President Kennedy was considered a traitor.” Bobby’s gumshoe, Walt Sheridan, did not trust or like Garrison, who placed Oswald, during the summer of 1963, in the company of such Camp Street lowlifes as Guy Banister and David Ferrie. Bobby may also have resented Garrison for disrupting Kennedy’s grand plan, to go public with his conspiracy conclusions only after he had become president. In turn, Garrison could never understand Bobby’s reluctance to join forces and track down the assassins. “If they killed my brother,” Garrison said, “I’d be in the alley waiting for them with a steak knife, not sitting at the Kennedy Center watching a ballet with them.”--"Bobby Kennedy died believing his brother's killers had not been found", A review of Chasing Assassins by Guest Columnist to The Existentialist Cowboy, Matthew Stevenson
Like Dan Quayle, Bush Sr was expert at saying nothing while moving his lips. In his presence, one was always in danger of death by boredom! Nevertheless, he was a Bonesman, the son of a traitor, a CIA 'operative'. He was and probably still is a very dangerous man! As Caesar said of Cassius, he had 'a lean and hungry look'!
A body of leads has been assembled which suggests that George Bush may have been associated with the CIA at some time before the autumn of 1963. According to Joseph McBride of The Nation, “a source with close connections to the intelligence community confirms that Bush started working for the agency in 1960 or 1961, using his oil business as a cover for clandestine activities.” 1By the time of the Kennedy assassination, we have an official FBI document which refers to “Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency,” and despite official disclaimers there is every reason to think that this is indeed the man in the White House today. The mystery of George Bush as a possible covert operator hinges on four points, each one of which represents one of the great political and espionage scandals of postwar American history. These four cardinal points are: - The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, launched on April 16-17, 1961, prepared with the assistance of the CIA’s “Miami Station” (also known under the code name JM/WAVE). After the failure of the amphibious landings of Brigade 2506, Miami station, under the leadership of Theodore Shackley, became the focus for Operation Mongoose, a series of covert operations directed against Castro, Cuba, and possibly other targets.
- The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and the cover-up of those responsible for this crime.
- The Watergate scandal, beginning with an April, 1971 visit to Miami, Florida by E. Howard Hunt on the tenth anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion to recruit operatives for the White House Special Investigations Unit (the “Plumbers” and later Watergate burglars) from among Cuban-American Bay of Pigs veterans.
- The Iran-contra affair, which became a public scandal during October-November 1986, several of whose central figures, such as Felix Rodriguez, were also veterans of the Bay of Pigs.
George Bush’s role in both Watergate and the October surprise/Iran-contra complex will be treated in detail at later points in this book. Right now it is important to see that thirty years of covert operations, in many respects, form a single continuous whole. This is especially true in regard to the dramatis personae. Georgie Anne Geyer points to the obvious in a recent book: “…an entire new Cuban cadre now emerged from the Bay of Pigs.The names Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker, Rolando Martinez, Felix Rodriguez and Eugenio Martinez would, in the next quarter century, pop up, often decisively, over and over again in the most dangerous American foreign policy crises. There were Cubans flying missions for the CIA in the Congo and even for the Portuguese in Africa; Cubans were the burglars of Watergate; Cubans played key roles in Nicaragua, in Irangate, in the American move into the Persian Gulf.” 2 Felix Rodriguez tells us that he was infiltrated into Cuba with the other members of the “Grey Team” in conjunction with the Bay of Pigs landings; this is the same man we will find directing the contra supply effort in central American during the 1980’s, working under the direct supervision of Don Gregg and George Bush. 3 Theodore Shackley, the JM/WAVE station chief, will later show up in Bush’s 1979-80 presidential campaign.--Webster Tarpley, , George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, Chapter 8b – The Bay of Pigs and The Kennedy Assassination
Was the assassination of JFK a textbook example of the
The Modus Operandi of the CIA? In this source insider Ralph McGehee, chronicles the work he performed for the CIA from 1952 through 1977. Another book --
Deadly Deceits --is sub-titled:
My 25 years in the CIA (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1983). In this source is compiled a computer data base of CIA activities. Persons interested may write to him at: 422 Arkansas Ave., Herndon, VA 22070. (See
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIA_SOP.html .)
“...it is essential to provide background on the scope and nature of its worldwide operations. Between 1961 and 1975 the Agency conducted 900 major or sensitive operations, and thousands of lesser covert actions. The majority of its operations were propaganda, election or paramilitary. Countries of major concern, such as Indonesia in the early 1960s, were usually subjected to the CIA's most concerted attention. Critics of the CIA have aptly described the mainstays of such attention: "discrediting political groups... by forged documents that may be attributed to them. . . ." faking "communist weapon shipments,'' capturing communist documents and then inserting forgeries prepared by the Agency's Technical Services Division. --Ralph McGehee
Americans may be less informed about the CIA than residents of almost every other country. Americans are routinely, deliberately kept in the dark and lied to by a 'mainstream' media that often seems complicit. The MSM dare not tell the truth about the CIA. It is the rare media outlet that will risk alienating its advertising base. See:
The Origins of the Overclass, Steve Kangas
Like the fatal flaws in the official conspiracy theory of 911, the holes in the government's JFK story are fatal.
- No competent or sane sniper/hit man would choose to shoot anyone from the TSBD. The 'view to a kill' was and remains at least partially obscured by branches and leaves as photos taken that day prove! It was and remains the worst of several possible locations! CBS News tried to simulate a shot from the TSBD window. Every attempt failed. None of have succeeded since then. Conclusion: the chances that JFK was shot an killed by a sniper in the TSBD are slim and none!
- Zapruder frame 313 proves conclusively that the fatal shot came from the front, the so-called Grassy Knoll. My conclusion is based upon large, high-rez digital files of each framein the Zapruder film.
- No sniper in his right mind would choose a kill spot providing no possibility of egress or escape! Were Oswald the shooter, he would have had to ditch his rifle and run down some six flights into the waiting arms of the cops and/or secret service! No 'hit man' would have tried it! Nor did Oswald!
- Based on my own visits to Dealy Plaza, I concluded that the picket fence afforded cover, egress and a clear unobstructed shot of the 'target' from a distance about one third that of a 'sniper's nest' anywhere in TSBD. The area between the picket fence and the railroad tracks were most certainly secured by the 'company' that murdered JFK. I have found no official mention that the area had been secured by the secret service in advance of the Kennedy visit.
- From TSBD, the motorcade is moving laterally and then away; from the picket fence, the target's lateral motion relative to the 'shooter' is minimal. A non-expert could have made the shot but, in fact, it was an expert who did!
I interviewed a witness to the JFK murder many years after the fact. Rosemary Willis was but a child on that fateful day and her story has been ignored by the mainstream media. When we met, she produced several boxes of color slides that had been taken by her father that fateful day in Dealy Plaza.
Referred to in the literature of the assassination as the "little girl in the red dress", she is seen in the Zapruder film running along the south side of Elm Street. Her father, Phillip Willis, taking 35mm color slides, can also be seen in the Zapruder film, looking forward at his daughter, perhaps calling to her. She stops suddenly just as the Presidential limousine is partially blocked by a sign between the motorcade and Abraham Zapruder's camera.
The FBI seized the Phillips photos but returned them years later. I looked at them on a light table with a loupe, immediately recognizing Dealy Plaza, the limousine, the motorcade, the Texas School Book Depository, the Pergola, the Grassy Knoll, the Triple Underpass, place names now burned into the consciousness of a scarred nation.
One Phillip Willis took a series of 12 photos of Dealy Plaza, where Kennedy was shot, in the minutes before and after the assassination. Mr. Willis' photos and testimony before the Commission appear in the report.He was not questioned about the eighth photo, a shot of the Book Depository entrance shortly after the shooting. As Willis later pointed out, one of the men in the photo "looks so much like (Jack Ruby), it's pitiful". FBI agents questioning Willis agreed with him that the man bore a powerful resemblance to Ruby. When Willis mentioned this to the Commission, no interest was shown. When the photo was published in the Warren Report, a considerable part of the face of the Ruby look-alike had been cropped away. - JFK Conspiracy Theories
At last, Rosemary Willis pointed out some especially interesting slides. One of them was a shot of the Pergola, above the grassy knoll, taken from her father's position on the south side of Elm Street. Through the columns, all was clear. Then Rosemary produced an old copy of
Look Magazine and turned to a double page spread of the same photo published before the FBI had seized the original slide. Reproduced over facing pages, her father's photograph clearly depicted the limousine and the Pergola beyond.
"Do you notice anything unusual?" she asked.
I had noticed something. In the magazine spread, a train locomotive on the tracks was clearly visible between the columns. It was in that rail yard that
three "tramps" had been arrested prior to the Kennedy assassination. [See:
JFK Conspirator Wanted Every Kennedy Dead ]
But why was there a locomotive in the published picture but
no locomotive in the "slide"? Rosemary explained that following Look's publication of her father's photos, FBI agents came calling, taking all her father's slides. The FBI kept the slides for
years. When they were returned at last, every slide depicting the train had been doctored. The train was gone. Only the FBI could have 'removed' the depicted train --but why?
The answer to that question might well have solved the JFK murder case! Had the train not been a threat, the FBI would not have removed every trace of it. Cover-ups, of course, are intended to protect the guilty. Something about the train --where earlier well-dressed tramps had been arrested --is germane to the plot to murder JFK. Tampering with evidence is always intended to protect the guilty. By removing the evidence, the FBI was not merely obstructing justice, it was protecting the identity/identities of murderers and traitors! Why would the FBI protect an assassin's get-away? It is reasonable to conclude that the FBI was and remains a part of the plot. See more at:
Exposing Lies About the FED, the CIA, the Murder of JFKThe death of Lee Harvey Oswald relieved the government of having to get a conviction. Had Oswald gone to trial, he would have walked. The government 'case' against him would never have convinced a jury. The Warren Commission was, I believe, hijacked, intimidated and/or bought.
The most obvious failure among many remains Arlen Specter's convenient and physics-defying 'Magic Bullet'. The 'Magic Bullet', found on a gurney at Parkland, perhaps the wrong gurney, cannot be placed at the scene of the crime. It would be dismissed by any competent judge for lacking
bona fides.
Nevertheless, we are expected to believe that a single bullet fired from the Mannlicher-Carcano was responsible for numerous wounds --a fatal one to JFK and serious wounds to Texas Governor John Connally. None of this would have gotten by a competent defense. The plotters concluded that it was better to destroy the evidence and kill all the witnesses.
The murder of JFK may not have been the classic
coup d'etat announced amid great chest beating and displays of arms and/or militia. This was, rather, a cowardly covert
coup d'etat designed to hide-away the beneficiaries throughout the CIA and the Military/Industrial complex.
JFK could have, might have made the Faustian bargain with the Bush crime family that even then, via the Sr Bush, directed the CIA effort against Cuba. Instead, JFK refused to provide air cover for the abortive 'Bay of Pigs', a CIA operation. He promised to 'smash the CIA into a thousand pieces'. He denounced
secret societies (Skull and Bones), threatened to break up the FED and rescind the oil depletion allowance. In reaction, powerful, ruthless 'interests' aligned against him. It was a matter of their life --his death!
Those benefiting most from the murder of JFK are surely guilty of it. Those benefiting are the CIA, the oil industry (primarily Texas), the FED. A pivotal character, Bush Sr was involved with both the CIA and the Texas Oil Industry. With some effort and the rejection of obvious cover stories, JFKs killers would most certainly have been brought to justice. The guilty are always most motivated to lie about a crime and the most pernicious lie about the JFK assassination is the
magic bullet theory.
RFK threatened the same axis. Just recently, a BBC documentary established that RFKs 'killers' were most certainly CIA. Martin Luther King, of course, represented the 'black' revolution that would have rocked the establishment. He too was a threat to the CIA. Many years later, a little known self-professed 'liberal', Steve Kangas, would publish to his website, 'Liberal Resurgent' an article exposing a sordid history of of CIA crimes and interventions from Guatamala to Cuba, from Iran-Contra to Watergate. The article is entitled:
The Origin of the Overclass. Kangas would be found dead in a men's room in the Pittsburgh office building owned and occupied by Richard Mellon Scaife, the spider behind the effort to impeach Bill Clinton. Kangas, it is said, committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the mouth! It is a story that one must accept upon
bad faith.
All of this 'odd' history is explained too easily: coincidence. The word 'conspiracy' is denied though the body of 'conspiracy case law' would fill a library. But in a world of
newspeak, 'conspiracies' are 'kooky' though they are confirmed by almost every criminal law on the books, a huge body of case law, and the words of a saint --Thomas More --who said: "I can perceive of noting but a conspiracy of rich men to procure their commodities in the name and title of the commonwealth."
Saints are silent on the subject of 'coincidence'; neither is there any case law on the subject. Reasonable people will deny such improbabilities as 'happy coincidences', especially those 'coincidences' from which only a tiny few will benefit.
It is only coincidence, we are told, that the dead Kennedys had been a threat to the CIA. It is only coincidence that activist Steve Kangas had zeroed in on conservative crimes and BS just as Scaife was bankrolling a jihad against Clinton. It was only coincidence that Bush Sr was photographed hanging around the front entrance to the Texas School Book depository just minutes prior to the murder of JFK. It was only coincidence that tramps looking like E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis et al were arrested for just hanging around the rail road tracks that run north and south just behind the grassy knoll. It was just coincidence that Martin Luther King Jr seemed to have prophesied his own death with his 'I Have a Dream' speech.
"The thing I am concerned about, and so is [Deputy Attorney General Nicholas] Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin." --FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, speaking on the telephone to Johnson aide Walter Jenkins two hours after Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby, HSCA Report, vol. III, pp. 471-73. (The Warren Commission -charged with determining the truth in the JFK assassination --relied upon Hoover's FBI as its primary investigative arm.)"We have not been told the truth about Oswald." ----Senator Richard Russell, former Warren Commission member, conversation with researcher Harold Weisberg in 1970, Whitewash IV
We have not been told the truth about the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. But we know who the liars are and we know what it is they are lying about. We also know a great deal about why they lied as well as who is protected by the lies and why. It has also been my experience that
only the guilty are sufficiently motivated to lie about a crime. Those who cover up a crime do so
because they are guilty. By contrast, the innocent are motivated to tell the truth or to get at the truth. The innocent must insist that truth be told if they are to remain free. It was Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes who said:
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth!"
