In the 1985 trial against
Spotlight
magazine , as written about in
detail in attorney Mark Lane's book Plausible Denial
(1992), defense witness Marita Lorenz (a one-time mistress of Fidel
Castro and sometime CIA operative), testified that she had witnessed E. Howard
Hunt payoff a team of assassins in Dallas the night before JFK"S murder. Ten
years later, a similar verdict was handed down in Marchetti's case. On his
deathbed in 2007, E. Howard Hunt admitted in a tape recorded statement to his
son St. John Hunt that he was part of the plot to kill
JFK.
The official opinions of two of our
three branches of government--the Legislative branch, represented by the House
Select Committee on Assassinations; and the Judicial branch, represented by two
Federal District Court decisions--say that the murder of President Kennedy was
the result of a conspiracy by two or more individuals. Only the Executive
branch--its investigation tainted by the active presence and manipulation of
possible conspirators, including LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover, Allen Dulles, and John
McCloy--has come to the conclusion that a single individual, Lee Harvey Oswald,
acting alone, was solely responsible for this crime. The preponderance of
evidence tells me that the conclusions of the Warren Commission are wrong, and
that photograph of the man, walking between the three tramps and the chain-link
fence, apparently waving them off, is emblematic of the entire Kennedy
assassination conspiracy.
J 'accuse! -- Emile
Zola , Headline of a
front page editorial against the
French Military in the Dreyfuss Affair
After three years of thought, and
careful consideration of the evidence, I am willing to say that I believe that
Edward Lansdale was the man in the picture. Lansdale was and is in my mind, by
preponderance of evidence, the primary planner, although not the originator, of
the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
Finding the individuals who actually put
into motion the plot to kill the Thirty-fifth President is more difficult. Not
even Franklin Roosevelt had collected such a large group of powerful adversaries
in such a short period of time as JFK. Segregationists, members of his own
military, the American Intelligence community (including then current and/or
former high-ranking officials in the FBI and CIA), bankers, oil barons,
industrialists, and right-wing extremists of every sort (including France's
terrorist OAS); all of them hated President Kennedy and the change that the
young President represented. Only the American people loved him, and President
Kennedy made the mistake in believing that was enough. But as we now know, it
was not.
Part of our problem in finding out who
is responsible is not a lack of evidence, but rather an overabundance of
evidence in general, and a dearth of evidence in particular areas, such as
possible Pentagon conspirators. This may be intentional on the part of the
conspirators and their successors: as any lawyer knows, one of the best ways to
hide the facts during discovery at a civil trial is to inundate your opposition
with meaningless paperwork, concealing the material that opposing counsel are
actually seeking in the flood of meaningless files. If any of what has been
requested is too damaging, it ends up misplaced, or accidentally destroyed,
making it impossible for anyone to make a case. John Grisham has made a career
of writing novels where the bad guys have gotten rid of all but one seemingly
innocuous file, which the protagonist proceeds to shove down their collective
throats. Great fiction, but far more difficult to accomplish in real
life.
The most probable originators of the
conspiracy are Lyndon Baines Johnson, Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, H.L. Hunt
and/or Clint Murchison, Sr., and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS),
with Air Force Chief of Staff General Curtis E. LeMay, who was George Wallace's
third party running mate in 1968, the number one suspect on my list. However,
anyone in the JCS is suspect, including the Chiefs and their immediate deputies,
with the exception of President Kennedy's friend, the Chairman, Army General
Maxwell D. Taylor.
I would remove LBJ from the list simply
because I believe he was smart enough to realize that once you remove a
President from office via assassination, it opens the door to every other
President being removed by the same method. I believe that Johnson, as
power-hungry as he was, would know better than to create such a precedent. I
would also remove Hoover: he was too much of a coward to originate such a risky
endeavor.
However, I do believe
that J. Edgar Hoover and Texas Democratic Party leader Cliff Carter were
Lansdale's primary lieutenants in the overall planning of this operation:
Hoover, with the help of Clyde Tolson, coordinated the pre- and post
assassination activities in Washington, including subverting Secret Service
agents, the "mishandling" of autopsy evidence (certainly the misplacing, as well
as the probable substitution of autopsy x-rays and photos, and the pre-autopsy
surgery on JFK's corpse that David Lifton first wrote of in his book
Best Evidence ), as well as whatever
official information that was given to the Warren Commission as well as the
public. I believe that Mr. Carter coordinated the activities in Texas, with the
help of Jack Ruby, Dallas Sheriff Bill Decker, and convicted murderer Mac
Wallace, although the actual mechanics of the ambush of JFK was plotted by
someone like CIA operative Lucien Conein, whose picture may have been taken in
Dealey Plaza that day by AP photographer James W. Altgens
( See The Great Zapruder Film Hoax:
Deceit and Deception in the Death of
JFK ; James H. Fetzer,
PhD., editor, 2003; "Mysteries of the JFK Assassination: The Photographic
Evidence from A to Z," by Jack White; p.
65).
I do not think LBJ or
John Connally knew exactly what was going to happen until the night before the
assassination. I base this on two pieces of information: 1) what Madeline Brown
stated LBJ told her immediately after the closed door meeting at Clint
Murchison's home; and 2) what Connally exclaimed during the assassination, "Oh
my God, They're going to kill us all!" LBJ's statement to Ms. Brown that I wrote
of in Part
Two of this article, is that of someone who just found out
something, not someone who was an integral part of the planning and execution of
the event. Governor Connally's statement is that of a man who has been reassured
of his safety, and then felt betrayed by circumstance. That circumstance was the
sudden braking of the Presidential limousine by Secret Service Agent William
Greer, probably throwing off one of the three snipers' aims, resulting in the
wounding of Connally. (See my OpEdNews articles " The
Great Enemy
of the Truth ," and
" A Festering
Wound ," for more on the sequence and circumstances of events
by the three snipers I believe were responsible for the crossfire that killed
President Kennedy in Dealey Plaza that November day in Dallas.) It is of course
possible that the shooting of Connally was intentional, that the loss of
Connally--a close political ally of LBJ--to cover LBJ's complicity in the matter,
may have been considered a small price to pay to take suspicion off of LBJ.
(Paranoia is such a lovely game, and so easy to play when you are dealing with
groups of men who hold human life as having no intrinsic value, unless of course
you are speaking of their lives.)
I believe that Secret
Service Agent William Greer--who drove the Presidential Limousine that Friday
afternoon, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Floyd Boring (who was in
Washington, not doing his job in Dallas on what was the first Presidential trip
of which he was fully in charge, not following the orders of Special Agent in
Charge Gerald Behn), and Assistant To the Special Agent in Charge Emory Roberts,
were part of the plot to kill President Kennedy. There is a film of
Secret Service Agents Henry
Rybka and Don Lawton being ordered off of the back of JFK's limousine by Agent Emory Roberts as it was leaving Love Field
in Dallas. Two agents had ridden the special platforms on the rear bumper of the
Presidential Limousine at every stop in Texas with a motorcade except
Dallas . [Emphasis added.]
This was later claimed to be at the request of President Kennedy, but neither
Presidential aides Dave Powers, Kenny O'Donnell, nor First Lady Jacqueline
Kennedy ever heard JFK give this order, nor has any documentation confirming
this order ever been discovered.
In my August 22, 2010
OpEdNews article " A Terrible
History ," I gave the following
figures for the number of individuals who would be required to know the whole
plan, or major portions of it, to carry out the assassination of President
Kennedy:
"...it could be done with a small number of individuals who were fully
aware of what was going on: two or three Secret Service agents in the White
House detail, six to eight people in the Pentagon and CIA (I've reduced my
numbers here because someone like General Lansdale would have reduced the
required numbers), two people at the FBI, two or three Mob bosses to provide
some of the trigger men and insure local support from people like Jack Ruby and
the Dallas PD, plus two or three Texas plutocrats to underwrite the whole
plot."
Look at the numbers
that I gave in " A
Terrible History ," and compare them to the list of guests who were
supposedly at Murchison's dinner party, Lansdale with his Pentagon and CIA
connections, and the Secret Service.
Secret
Service--Three Secret agents: Boring, Roberts, Greer; Boring was in charge of
setting up the schedule for which agent was where on November 22; Roberts was in
charge of the motorcade, and able to order two agents, Rybka and Lawson, off of
the back of the Presidential Limousine, where they would have made shots from
the rear much more difficult; Greer, JFK's driver, who could insure that the
President was a sitting duck if circumstances warranted, which they
were.
Six
people in the Pentagon or CIA:
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