Who Really Killed Kennedy?: 50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations About the JFK Assassination
Authors: Jerome Corsi
WHO
REALLY
KILLED
KENNEDY
?
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PH.D.
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FOUR
OSWALD, THE KGB, AND THE PLOTS TO ASSASSINATE JFK IN CHICAGO AND TAMPA
FIVE
ROOTS OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION—A BANANA REPUBLIC, THE CIA, AND THE MOB
SEVEN
VIETNAM, DIEM, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, AND LBJ
CONCLUSION
THE JFK ASSASSINATION AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
THE END OF CAMELOT
J. Lee Rankin, Chief Counsel, Warren Commission
: … They [the FBI] have decided that it is Oswald who committed the assassination, they have decided that no one else was involved, they have decided …
Sen. Richard Russell
: They [the FBI] have tried the case and reached a verdict.
Rep. Hale Boggs
: You have put your finger on it.
—Warren Commission Executive session, Jan. 27, 1964
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T
HE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
in Dallas on November 22, 1963, is easily the greatest whodunit murder mystery of the twentieth century.
JFK, a young and beloved president, was cruelly and brutally gunned down at half-past noon at his wife’s side. The images of his murder, captured that day in Dealey Plaza by dozens of amateur photographers, were so horrific that many, including the Zapruder film—the most important of all the movies taken that day—were suppressed from full public viewing for more than a decade.
The assassination had all the elements of classic Greek tragedy. Camelot, the magic of the JFK administration, was destroyed in the span of less than ten seconds. The presumed assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was identified in the first hour after the shooting. At approximately 1:51 p.m., less than an hour and a half later, he was found by Dallas Police hiding in a dark movie theater, sitting alone, with his .38 snub-nose revolver in his belt. But Oswald did not surrender without a struggle. Seeing Dallas patrolman M. N. “Nick” McDonald approach him in the theater, he jumped up, threw his hands in the air as if to surrender, and shouted, “Well, it’s over now.” Then, when McDonald reached for Oswald’s right wrist, Oswald punched McDonald between the eyes with his left fist. McDonald hit him back, and in the ensuing scuffle, Oswald drew the .38 out of his belt. McDonald managed to grab the gun as Oswald pulled the trigger. The gun misfired, and in the course of grappling with Oswald, McDonald suffered a pronounced four-inch scratch, from the corner of his eye down to the corner of his mouth. But fortunately McDonald’s life was spared.
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No giant, Oswald turned out to be a loner who moved to Russia intending to give up his US citizenship. In Russia, he acquired a Russian bride and became a self-professed Marxist. When he returned from Russia, Oswald brought back his Russian wife, Marina, and their first child, a daughter named June Lee. Even with his family in the United States, Oswald had a history of living alone. At the time of the assassination, Oswald was living in a rooming house, while his wife and daughter were rooming with a Russian speaking acquaintance, Ruth Paine. Back in the United States, Oswald had a difficult time holding a job. At the time of the assassination, he was still living in the rooming house, when he began working as a book clerk in the Texas School Book Depository on October 16, 1963. Four days later, on October 20, 1963, Marina gave birth to their second daughter, Audrey Marina Rachel Oswald, approximately one month before the JFK assassination.
So how was it possible that such an insignificant misfit could bring down the most powerful man in the world at the height of his power and popularity?
Truly, the JFK assassination was a watershed event in United States history. The instant rifle fire broke out on that sunny November day in Dallas, the innocence of the postwar prosperity and optimism of the
Eisenhower years died for good. President Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn into office before Air Force One departed Dallas that day for Washington. After JFK’s death Johnson led the nation into the dark days of Vietnam, proclaiming the necessity of a war JFK had already decided to abandon. The 1960s, after JFK’s death, was marked by antiwar protests, urban racial riots, the feminist revolution and the rise of a new sexuality, and an upheaval in economics and politics that questioned whether the United States could and would provide social and economic justice for all US citizens, let alone for peoples of other nations striving to achieve their own freedom in their homelands.
Almost from the first hour after the Warren Commission delivered its final report to President Johnson on September 24, 1964, critics began to raise serious considerations that the Commission was a whitewash. Contrary to the impression given the public, the Warren Commission was not unanimous in its conclusion Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. US Senator Richard Russell Jr., a Democrat and member of the Warren Commission, in the final session of the Commission on September 18, 1964, led a group of three dissenting members that included himself, Sen. John Sherman Cooper, a Republican from Kentucky with a reputation for his independent views, and Rep. Hale Boggs, a Democrat from Louisiana who was then serving as majority whip of the U.S. House of Representatives. Russell, Cooper, and Boggs wanted to file a separate dissenting opinion stating that the available evidence was incomplete and did not rule out Lee Harvey Oswald being part of a conspiracy to assassinate JFK. Ultimately, the dissenters accepted the final report with minor changes, but only after Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren insisted the final report needed to be unanimous. Later, Russell was shocked to find out that of the thirteen executive sessions held by the Warren Commission, the one where the objections were made was the only session that had not been transcribed. Instead, all that was published were brief minutes of the meeting that left out any mention of the disagreement.
3
On November 20, 1966, in an interview published in
The Atlanta Constitution
, Russell made clear he could not agree with certainty that Oswald had acted alone.
4
In a television interview given on January 19, 1970, less than a year before his death, Russell again proclaimed his doubts about the Warren Commission’s conclusion. While conceding he did not have “the slightest doubt” that
Oswald fired the fatal shots, Russell made clear that he “never believed that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy without at least some encouragement from others.” To this, Russell added, “I think someone else worked with him.”
5
Was it possible the Warren Commission was designed from the beginning not to solve the crime, but to cover up a malignant conspiracy that reached the topmost levels of government, possibly involving even LBJ himself? In a 2003 Gallup poll three-quarters of Americans, fully 75 percent, responded that they believed Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone.
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Was it possible JFK’s assassination was not the psychologically disturbed act of a lone gunman, but a sophisticated coup d’état callously orchestrated and professionally accomplished to advance political ambition, changing forever the destiny of the nation?
Now, fifty years after the assassination, despite repeated efforts by the US Congress to force full disclosure, the CIA and other US agencies continue to lock away hundreds of thousands of documents in secret files.
To maintain the shroud of secrecy over the JFK assassination a half-century after the event is a disgrace for a nation that proclaims values of truth and justice. In 2013 the government continues to suppress key documents regarding the JFK assassination, which reinforces the suspicion that there remains some deep, dark, disturbing truth that would be more than the American people could handle. The impression of a cover-up is reinforced even today when critics of the Warren Commission are demonized as “conspiracy theorists.”
Truthfully, the innocence of accepting government at face value died along with JFK in the streets of Dallas on November 22, 1963. A nation committed to a robust First Amendment would welcome the challenge of contesting competing versions of history, especially when evidence abounds that Lee Harvey Oswald was not a lone-nut assassin, but a highly complicated young man with tentacles that reached into the KGB, as well as the CIA, the FBI, and Navy Intelligence.
The JFK assassination, as is the case with the Lincoln assassination, may endure as a perpetual mystery of American politics. Each generation sees the trauma through the lens of their particular experience with politics and each remains ever fascinated with the enigma.
This book begins where all good murder investigations should begin,
namely, with an investigation of the ballistics evidence. The point of the first chapter is that a careful examination of the ballistics evidence makes clear a lone-assassin cannot account for all the bullet damage that occurred that day.
If there were more than one shooter, then Lee Harvey Oswald, at most, only played a part in the assassination, so the question remains: “Who really killed JFK?”
So who was involved? The KGB or the CIA? The mob? Cuba? Possibly even LBJ himself? Each had a motive; each had the opportunity to be involved.
After fifty years of continuing controversy, no book could possibly cover every aspect of an event as complicated as the JFK assassination. And this book is not different. Instead it seeks to communicate that the investigation of the JFK assassination is more than an attempt to find the shooters. It is an attempt to plumb the motivation of the guilty parties, regardless of how high up the suspicion goes. While finding out who pulled the trigger or triggers involved in shooting JFK is important, the key to the puzzle requires deciphering the motivations of those who wanted JFK dead so LBJ could be placed in the White House. To be successful the inquiry must probe who were the forces higher up that organized the conspiracy and why did they want JFK murdered. The goal of this book is to answer one question: “Who
really
killed JFK?”