Death in Dallas
Death in Dallas
by Morgan Reynolds
November 22, 2005
by Morgan Reynolds
November 22, 2005
It is of paramount importance to “show the world that
America is not a banana republic, where a government can be changed by
conspiracy.”
—Member John J. McCloy, at the first meeting of LBJ-appointed Warren Commission
Last November marked the 42d anniversary of the assassination of John
F. Kennedy and virtually everyone in America past the 50-year-old mark
remembers where he or she was that day. People were stunned. Former
Canadian diplomat and assassination researcher Peter Dale Scott wrote,
“[A]s a foreigner who lived through it, I could not but observe the
depth and centrality of everyone’s response to the assassination of the
President.” The assassination still resonates today.
The Warren Commission printed 10 million words in 26 volumes, with
yawning gaps between its report and the available testimony and
evidence, and there have been thousands of books written on JFK, so
things are complicated but, as usual, not that complicated.
To solve a crime, detectives look at cui bono, and more specifically
motive, means and opportunity. In his short time in office JFK managed
to provoke a swamp full of vicious and powerful enemies. Here are the
Big Eight:
MOTIVE
• Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, whose ambition, pride and
ruthlessness were unexcelled, was going to be dumped from the ticket
after three years of inside ridicule at the hands of the Kennedy crowd,
and further the Billy Sol Estes and Bobby Baker scandals were about to
end his powerful political career.
• The CIA hated JFK for his coitus interruptus of its (and Dick
Nixon’s) all-out Bay of Pigs scheme, his crack down on assassination
attempts against Castro, his hands-off-Cuba pact with the Soviets after
the missile crisis and his threat to scatter the criminal CIA into a
thousand pieces. JFK fired Director of Central Intelligence Allen W.
Dulles [future Warren Commission member!] and cronies after the Bay of
Pigs, and Dulles is suspect #1 for top supervisor of the JFK ambush. A
Fort Worth Press front page photo a few days before the assassination
showed Allen Dulles at the LBJ Ranch.
• J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI hated everything about the Kennedys,
including their boss, RFK, attorney general of the United States, and
Hoover knew that JFK planned to “retire” him after reelection in 1964.
• Texas independent oilmen like H.L. Hunt and Clint Murchison hated
JFK for many reasons, especially his promise to eliminate the 27.5% oil
depletion allowance, which would have raised their taxes by hundreds of
millions of dollars annually.
• The Pentagon and the military industrial complex were agitated
because JFK had already signed a National Security memorandum to begin a
phased withdrawal of American military “advisers” from Vietnam, had
rejected the Joint Chiefs proposal to stage a false-flag terrorist
Operation Northwoods to provide a pretext to invade Cuba, and more
generally, JFK’s drive for peace and perceived “softness” on communism.
• Wall Street and investment banking powers were threatened by JFK’s
intention to terminate the Federal Reserve under his silly theory (!)
that a privately-owned central bank served the interests of Wall Street
and bankers, not those of America, and it had no right to issue currency
under the Constitution. JFK further alienated the business community
with his confrontation over price increases by big steel.
• Organized crime, which had worked with the CIA since it began as
the OSS in World War II, wanted its lucrative casinos back in Havana,
plus its drug-and-gun-running and money laundering profits from Cuba.
The mob helped get Kennedy elected and showered him with molls to bed,
and for their troubles Bobby cracked down on them. Resentment can be
traced back to Joe Senior, who made his fortune running booze during
Prohibition, generating plenty of underworld enemies.
• The Israeli government’s determination to go nuclear was fiercely
opposed by JFK on the grounds that it would destabilize the middle east
and ignite an arms race. Ben Gurion and successors believed that JFK’s
resolve threatened Israel’s very existence. Prior to launching its 1981
attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear facility, the Israeli commander told his
pilots with unusual emotion, “The alternative is our destruction.”
After JFK’s demise, LBJ generously supported the Israeli war machine.
• Miscellaneous outsider groups like rednecks, Russians and Cubans,
both pro- and anti-Castro, do not make my Big Eight, even though
individual Cubans were involved.
Clint Murchison threw a party at his Dallas residence the night
before the assassination and his guest list included H.L. Hunt, Richard
Nixon, Texas Senator John Tower, John McCloy [‘head of the
establishment’ and future Warren Commission member], J. Edgar Hoover,
and Lyndon Johnson (pp. 109-10). They went into a private meeting and
Lyin’ Lyndon came out and told Madeleine Brown, one of his mistresses,
“Those damned Kennedys will not be poking fun at me after today.”
In contrast to this intense cauldron of hatred toward the charismatic
Irish Catholic, all the establishment offers us about Oswald’s motive
is the loose suggestion that he was a publicity-seeking, lone nut. Like
most propaganda about what happened to JFK, little evidence supports the
official theory. For example, upon arrest Oswald protested, “Now
everybody will know who I am!” This comports with the compelling
evidence that Oswald was a CIA and FBI asset.
OPPORTUNITY
• Key to opportunity in this case, as Air Force pilot Fletcher Prouty
said, is who had “the power to call off or reduce the usual security
precautions that are always in effect whenever a president travels?”
Only powerful insiders, not outsiders, have this power.
• The Secret Service violated rule after rule of presidential
protection, including an blatantly slow 110 degree left-hand turn from
Houston onto to Elm Street, no motorcycle escorts alongside the
presidential limo (instructed to stay behind the rear wheels), no shield
of Secret Service agents on limo running boards, people in the streets
and in open upper-story windows, the presidential limo braking during
the shooting and even coming to a complete halt as shooters finished
their work, secret service agents reacting slowly during and after the
shooting, and so on. It was a set up, beyond reasonable doubt.
• One particularly telling fact is that the press photographers’ flat
bed truck which usually traveled in front of the presidential limo was
cancelled in favor of a station wagon far back in the motorcade,
thwarting a major media photo and film record of the assassination.
Fall guy Oswald was in the Texas School Book Depository at the time
of the assassination, so he superficially had opportunity. The trouble
is that within ninety seconds of the shooting TSBD superintendent Roy
Truly and Dallas policeman Marrion Baker found Oswald standing in the
lunch room on the second floor calmly drinking a coke, despite
(allegedly) committing the “crime of the century.” He did not have
enough time to fire on the president, run to the opposite corner of the
sixth floor where the weapon was discovered, hide it, race down four
flights of stairs without being seen (the elevators were locked in the
wrong position for descent), get a coke and show no sign of exertion or
emotion. Other TSBD employees concurred that they heard no footsteps and
did not see Oswald racing down the stairs for his encounter with Truly
and Baker.
MEANS
• The assassination required money, expert planning, coordination and skilled shooters to insure success.
• Accused clandestine services like the CIA, Mossad, and the French
SDECE had money and plenty of experience in assassination. Likewise the
FBI and military. The mob had it too, although the military-style
triangulation that killed JFK was not their style, favoring instead
up-close-and-personal techniques like garroting and 38 caliber slugs.
LBJ and Texas independent oilmen were quite familiar with employing
professional killers. The list of possible and self-confessed killers is
long (E. Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis, Charles Harrelson, Bernard Barker,
Mac Wallace, etc.) yet the key is that the professional killers
depended on powerful insiders, especially in terms of supplying
compensation, a patsy and the cover up that continues four decades
later.
Oswald, by contrast, had military experience but was a poor marksman
by all accounts. No expert marksman has ever been able to reproduce the
Warren Commission script on the first attempt that the lone assassin
fired three deadly shots within six seconds from behind a moving limo
with a bolt-action Mannlicher-Carcano rifle. The absurdities of the
Warren theory are countless, but one is that a real lone gunman on the
6th floor of the TSBD would have shot the president as his limo
approached the TSBD on Houston Street rather than waiting until it
turned onto Elm Street and went away from the sniper. A leafy tree
obstructed half the good shots along Elm Street. Further, the rifle in
the fabricated backyard photos used by the Warren Commission to link
Oswald to the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle found in the TSBD is not the same
weapon! And Oswald’s assassination? The conspirators could not allow
Oswald to stand trial since he could easily prove his innocence and
implicate insiders as well. Oswald eluded his own scheduled murder on
the streets of Dallas following the assassination, so mob figure Jack
Ruby was given an order he could not refuse.
COVER UP
The final area proving that JFK’s death was an inside job is the
systematic destruction of evidence, fabricated evidence, omissions in
gathering evidence and dead witnesses and potential squealers. The
medical data—body, autopsy, and X-rays—were criminally tampered with and
forged in the case of X-rays, primarily to hide the evidence of the
frontal shots and the huge hole shot out the back of the president’s
head with the attendant brain loss. He was shot in the head at least
twice. The limousine was immediately sent to Michigan for a makeover,
covering up the multiple shots and especially to replace the windshield
with its bullet hole from the front, likely a fatal headshot.
Eyewitnesses were intimidated and their testimony distorted and inverted
beyond recognition. The federal government stonewalled New Orleans
prosecutor Jim Garrison, governors refused to extradite witnesses and
dozens of witnesses and insiders were murdered. Garrison’s chief
suspect, David Ferrie, was found dead less than a week after the
newspapers broke the story of Garrison’s investigation.
CONCLUSION
It is not difficult to disprove the lame lone assassin theory in
favor of multiple gunmen. Try this out: Oswald could not drive a car,
yet he pulled off the crime of the century without help. Then supposedly
a second lone nut with no known connections to organized crime
according to the Warren Commission, a complete lie, but plenty of cop
connections, whacked Oswald in the cops’ stronghold because he said he
wanted to prove Jews were not weak, and later that he was worried about
Jackie’s health. Who makes this stuff up? We are supposed to believe
that these are real motives for murdering a president and his accused
assassin?
Shortly after the assassination, national polls showed that 52%
doubted Oswald did it alone and this skepticism reached 90% in
intervening years. The evidence is overwhelming that multiple gunmen did
JFK in at the behest of powerful interests.
Why care today? Surely most of the perpetrators are dead. Yet that
rogue network inside and outside the national government remains. It was
never rooted out. It would sound familiar to a Roman citizen who
experienced the transformation of the Roman Republic into despotic
empire and then eventual dissolution to barbarism. Rome shriveled from
the first city to attain perhaps 1 million people to a local trading
center of about 5,000-10,000.
The network concealed in deep politics has grown more audacious since
the Kennedy triumph, with individual assassination still popular (e.g.,
Senator Paul Wellstone) but escalating to mass murders like the
Oklahoma City bombing and the World Trade Center. Do we need CNN to
televise the federal government slaughtering Americans in a
Tianneman-square-style massacre, more open and visible than the FBI’s
massacre of women and children at Waco, before people understand the
constitutional crisis? I fail to see how America’s current
head-in-the-sand approach can succeed.
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