Who Really Killed Kennedy?: 50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations About the JFK Assassination (51 page)

After fifty years of abuse, those who have suspected JFK’s assassination was a conspiracy are about to be proven right. History will need to be rewritten to condemn those responsible as traitorous criminals. While prosecutions may no longer be possible simply because so many of the involved parties have already died, justice can be served by setting the historical record straight. At this late date, any attempt by the US government to withhold from the public documents pertaining to the JFK assassination should be deemed by Congress to be a continuation of the traitorous acts that killed JFK.

If we do not want to see this history repeated, all Americans have a responsibility to demand the full truth from the US government now. To do less would be to further dishonor the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.

1
Warren Commission Executive Session, Jan. 27, 1964, page 171,
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=1328&relPageId=47
.

2
Testimony of M.N. McDonald, Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. III, March 25, 1964, pages 295–304, at 300–301.

3
“Warren Commission,” Mary Ferrell Foundation,
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Warren_Commission
. See also: “Warren Commission Executive Session Transcripts,” History Matters,
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/contents/wc/contents_wcexec.htm
.

4
Donald E. Wilkes Jr., “Russell Disagreed with JFK Death Report,” Popular Media, Georgia Law, Paper 132, Nov. 9, 1989,
http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1136&context=fac_pm
.

5
Ibid.

6
“Americans: Kennedy Assassination a Conspiracy,” Gallup, Nov. 21, 2003,
http://www.gallup.com/poll/9751/Americans-Kennedy-Assassination-Conspiracy.aspx
.

7
Josiah Thompson,
Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assassination Proving that Three Gunmen Murdered the President
(Published by Bernard Geis Associates, Distributed by Random House, New York, 1967), page 9.

8
LBJ Tapes, Recorded conversation with J. Edgar Hoover, Nov. 29, 1963. Shirley Jahad, “JFK assassination anniversary: A Private conversation between LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover,” Southern California Public Radio, Nov. 22, 2011,
http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/11/22/30001/jfk-assassination-anniversary-private-conversation/
. The tapes can be heard at: “LBJ Tapes: Kennedy Assassination, J. Edgar Hoover,”
YouTube.com
, Part 1 at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4ZWERQevzms
, and Part 2 at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwmwSEZmgPg
.

9
Paul Mandel, “End to Nagging Rumors: The Six Critical Seconds,”
Life
, Dec. 6, 1963, page 52F.

10
“The Assassination of President Kennedy,”
Life
, Memorial Issue, Nov. 29, 1963, pages 22-32c, with still photographs from the Zapruder film published in a sub-section of this article entitled, “Split-Second Horror as the Sniper’s Bullets Struck.”

11
Mandel, “End to Nagging Rumors.”

12
Testimony of James Thomas Tague, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, July 23, 1964, Vol. VII, pages 552–558, at page 553.

13
Testimony of Eddy Raymond Walthers, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, July 23, 1964, Vol. VII, pages 544–552, at page 546.

14
Warren Commission,
Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
(Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1964), page 117.

15
Richard H. Popkin, “The Second Oswald: The Case for a Conspiracy Theory,”
New York Review of Books
, July 28, 1966, pages 11–22.

16
Testimony of Darrell C. Tomlinson, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, March 20, 1964, Vol. VI, pages 128–134, at page 131.

17
Ibid., page 132.

18
Ibid., page 134.

19
Commission Exhibit 1024, no title, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XVIII, page 800.

20
Commission Exhibit 2011, FBI report dated July 7, 1963, Dallas, Texas, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XXIV, pages 410–428, at page 412.

21
Gary Aguilar and Josiah Thompson, “The Magic Bullet: Even More Magical Than We Knew,” archived on
MaryFerrell.org
,
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=367
.

22
Ibid.

23
Thompson,
Six Seconds in Dallas
, page 175.

24
Ibid., pages 158–159.

25
Warren Commission, page 81.

26
Jerry McKnight, “Tracking CE 399: The ‘Stretcher Bullet’ and the Case for a Dallas Conspiracy,” Kennedy Assassination Chronicles, Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2001, pages 22–26, at page 24.

27
Special Agent Andrew E. Berger, White House Detail, Memorandum, “Activities of this Special Agent in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963, Commission Exhibit 1024, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XVIII, pages 795–796, at page 795.

28
Thompson,
Six Seconds in Dallas
, page 166.

29
Testimony of Seth Kantor, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, June 2, 1964, Vol. XV, pages 71–96, at page 80.

30
FBI Memo to the File, June 27, 1964, Commission Exhibit 2290, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol. XXV, pages 216–218, at pages 216–217.

31
Thompson,
Six Seconds in Dallas
, page 166.

32
Testimony of Dr. Robert Roeder Shaw, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, April 21, 1964, Vol. IV, pages 101–117, at page 114.

33
Dr. Milton Helpern, formerly Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, quoted in: Anthony Summers,
Conspiracy: The Definitive Book on the J.F.K. Assassination—Dramatic New Evidence
(New York: Paragon House, Updated and expanded edition, 1989), pages 35–36.

34
Testimony of Dr. Robert Roeder Shaw, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, page 113.

35
Testimony of Comdr. James J. Humes, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, March 16, 1964, Vol. II, pages 348–376, at pages 374–375.

36
Ibid., page 376.

37
Testimony of Lt. Col. Pierre A. Finck, Physician, U.S. Army, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, March 16, 1964, Vol. II, pages 377–384, at page 382.

38
Testimony of Robert A. Frazier, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, May 13, 1964, Vol. V, pages 58–74, at page 72.

39
Harrison Edward Livingstone,
High Treason 2. The Great Cover-Up: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1992), page 304.

40
Charles A. Crenshaw, with Jens Hensen and Gary Shaw,
JFK: Conspiracy of Silence
(New York: Penguin Books, 1992), page 123.

41
Russell Kent, “The Wounding of John Connally—Burying the Single-bullet theory,” 2005, reprinted at Spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk, at
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/KENT-connally.htm
.

42
“Connally Buried, Bullet Pieces Intact,”
Washington Post
, June 18, 1993.

43
Summers,
Conspiracy
, 1989 edition, page 34.

44
Ronald F. White, “Postscript: Apologists and Critics of the Lone Gunman Theory: Assassination Science and Experts in Post-Modern America,” in James H. Fetzer, Ph.D., editor,
Assassination Science: Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK
, pages 377–412, at pages 391–393.

45
Thompson,
Six Seconds in Dallas
, page 151.

46
Ibid.

47
Ibid., page 152.

48
Ibid., pages 152–153.

49
Ibid., page 153.

50
Testimony of Dr. Vincent P. Guinn, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Sept. 8, 1978, Vol. I, pages 491–567, at page 494.

51
Kent, “The Wounding of John Connally.”

52
Appendix B, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Vol. II, page 538.

53
Ronald F. White, “Postscript: Apologists and Critics of the Lone Gunman Theory: Assassination Science and Experts in Post-Modern America.”

54
Sylvia Meagher,
Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report
(New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1967), pages 112–113.

55
Warren Commission, page 646.

56
Gerald Posner,
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
(New York: Random House, 1993), pages 335–342, and especially 335–339; and Vincent Bugliosi,
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
, (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007), pages 805–815, and especially 809–811.

57
Ronald F. White, “Postscript: Apologists and Critics of the Lone Gunman Theory: Assassination Science and Experts in Post-Modern America,” loc.cit, page 394. Bracketed parentheses inserted for clarity; rounded parentheses in original.

58
Gary L. Agilar, MD and Kathy Cunningham, “How Five Investigations Into JFK’s Medical/Autopsy Evidence Got It Wrong,” May 2003,
http://www.history-matters.com/essays/jfkmed/How5Investigations/How5InvestigationsGotItWrong_1b.htm
; verbatim transcript of press conference interviews with Drs. Malcolm Perry and Kemp Clark, from LBJ Library, obtained by Kathy Cunningham; also, reproduced in Assassination Records Review Board, Master Set of Medical Exhibits,
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/md41/html/Image0.htm
.

59
Tom Wicker, “Kennedy Is Killed By Sniper As He Rides In Car In Dallas; Johnson Sworn In On Plane,”
New York Times
, Nov. 23, 1963,
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/04/12/specials/johnson-kennedy.html
. Parentheses added for clarity.

60
Meagher,
Accessories After the Fact
, page 134.

61
Testimony of Dr. Charles James Carrico, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol III, pages 357–366, at page 361.

62
Letter from James J. Rowley, U.S. Secret Service, to J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel, Warren Commission, May 14, 1964, plus notes written by Secret Service Special Agent Glen A. Bennett, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol XXIV, Commission Exhibit 2112, pages 541–542.

63
Testimony of Roy H. Kellerman, Special Agent, Secret Service, Resumed, Warren Commission: Hearings Before the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Vol II, March 9, 1964, pages 101–112, at page 103.

64
Thompson,
Six Seconds in Dallas
, page 167.

65
Report by FBI Special Agents Francis X. O’Neill, Jr. and James W. Sibert, “Autopsy of Body of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy,” Bethesda, Md., dated Nov. 26, 1963, “Gemberling Version,” Assassination Records Review Board, Medical Exhibits, MD 44, also known as “Warren Commission Document No. 7,”
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=625
.

66
Testimony of Lt. Col. Pierre A. Finck, Physician, U.S. Army, Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. II, March 16, 1964, pages 377-384.

67
State of Louisiana vs. Clay L. Shaw
, Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, 198–059 1426(30), Testimony of Dr. Finck, Feb. 25, 1969, part 1, pages 51-52,
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=1299
.

68
State of Louisiana vs. Clay L. Shaw
, Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, 198–059 1426(30), Testimony of Dr. Finck, Feb. 25, 1969, part 2, pages 114-118,
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=1300
.

69
Testimony of Dr. J. Thornton Boswell to the Assassination Records Review Board, Feb. 26, 1996, pages 208-211,
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=786
.

70
Silbert and O’Neill’s FBI report is quoted in Meagher,
Accessories After the Fact
, pages 145–146.

71
Jerry McKnight, “Tracking CE 399: The ‘Stretcher Bullet’ and the Case for a Dallas Conspiracy,” page 23.

72
Meagher,
Accessories After the Fact
, page 146.

73
Transcript available at: “Connally Interview with Martin Agronsky, November 27, 1963,” Texas State Library and Archives Commission,”
https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/governors/modern/connally-agronsky-1.html
. A video of the Agronsky interview with Connally can be seen at: “John Connally’s first interview after 11/22/63,”
YouTube.com
, posted Dec. 27, 2007,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP04_lGjkO0
.