A mosaic of information was
presented at the Oswald Conference held in October in Kenner just months before
the 100th birthday of President John Kennedy to pique interest in the lone
shooter theory being incorrect.
Featured over two and a half days
were authors and researchers with a collective knowledge of hundreds of years,
one going as far to say that we were all shot that day. Attendees came from the
United Kingdom, Scotland, Washington and Florida.
George Noory, two-time Emmy
winner and radio host, said we lost America that day. "It was taken away
from us."
Barr McClellan, author of ,
says not a day goes by when he doesn't research. The assassination is still an
open case in Dallas because it never went to trial, he said.
Gary Fannin, author of The Innocence of Oswald–50+ Years of Lies,
Deception & Deceit in the Murders of President John F. Kennedy &
Officer J.D. Tippit, said whoever ascends to power is what historians should
study. And who had something to lose if Kennedy lived?
David Denton, a social science
instructor at a college in Illinois, said while teaching the assassination, in
about 20 minutes, "You're going to figure out something's wrong" with
the Warren Commission outcome.
Edgar Tatro, professor and
author, said the media lied, spun or hid truth, obliterating the understanding
of history. "The bamboozle captures you," he said. He said the
assassination is the huge dam behind which all other lies lie.
While the Mafia, CIA, Russians,
Cubans and any number of groups could have killed Kennedy, Tatro said, they
could not have gotten Kennedy's car to drive only 11 m.p.h. without a bubbletop
through Dealey Plaza. That came from Lyndon Johnson's inner circle, he said.
It was brought up that it seemed
mysterious that Tom Shipman, Kennedy's regular driver, died at age 51 at Camp
David six weeks before the assassination. Replacement William Greer did not
accelerate once Kennedy was shot and brake lights were shown in a photo. In Killing Kennedy, he turns around.
Panelists
said 28
suspicious deaths have an alleged connection to the Kennedy assassination.
Also
mentioned was the diary of Roscoe White, a former Marine and Dallas police
officer, found by his son 11 years after the assassination, which indicates his
involvement. Roscoe's wife was employed by Jack Ruby for several weeks and she apparently
overheard her husband and Ruby discussing plans for the assassination.
Judyth Baker, who worked in a
coffee shop with Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans in 1963 and claimed to be his
mistress, was a prodigy in cancer research who shortly thereafter worked with Dr.
Mary Sherman who was murdered (still unsolved), and a cast of assassination
characters with such familiar names as David Ferrie, a central figure in District
Attorney Jim Garrison's investigation of the assassination that brought Clay
Shaw to trial. Baker had a key to Sherman's home.
When Baker worked with Oswald, he
had conversations with her about operations being conducted against Fidel Castro
possibly involving biological weapons. They visited Ferrie's home where he
apparently kept mice.
Panelist Victoria Hawes said she
was neighbors to Sherman and Juan Valdes and heard constant toilet flushing, which
she later believed to be mice cancer carcasses. She knew Oswald from junior
high school and he knocked on her door once, mistaking it for the apartment of
Valdes.
Baker has a medical anthropology
degree. She said Oswald was not dumb, saying he used the word vestibule instead of atrium as an
example. Baker said Let It Be Me by
the Everly Brothers was "their song."
She spoke of the famous photo of
the Oswald shooting by Ruby with the law enforcement escort wearing what she
called a "don't shoot at me suit," a light color. She said Oswald was
not given oxygen in the ambulance.
She said she met Rafael Cruz at
the Trade Mart. Ted Cruz's father was brought up when Donald Trump implied he
was linked to the assassination.
In fear of what might happen to
her, Baker lives overseas and did not go to her sister's wedding or
grandparents' funerals.
Gary Severson spoke of a conservation tour that Kennedy was
on from Sept. 24 through Oct. 3, weeks before the assassination. He attended
one in Grand Forks, N.D., at age 16 and got through five sets of doors in the
arena, breaching security. Yet there were snipers on the roof. Later in life,
he researched how he could have had such access and was told the head of
security, Dr. John Penn, professor, gave the keys to the building to the Secret
Service.
H.L. Hunt spent time in North Dakota and money in an
anti-Kennedy campaign because Kennedy
was interested in revoking the oil depletion allowance, a decision that would have meant
steep losses for Texas oilmen, Severson said.
In his research, Severson heard
ranting about killing Kennedy and people sending letters to LBJ claiming they
saw Oswald in North Dakota in the late 1950s
"to leave a paper trail."
Roger Stone, author of , worked for nine Presidents
(Nixon and Reagan). He said LBJ had motive, means and opportunity. Who
controlled the Dallas Police Department and the D.A.?, he asked. Murder of a
President was not a federal crime at the time Kennedy was assassinated. The
police chief never left LBJ's sight, even on the plane, Stone said. Protocols used
in Miami and Chicago Kennedy visits were not observed in Dallas. The number of
motorcycle police patrolmen was not as high and plainclothesmen were not in the
crowd, Stone said.
In a forensics panel that
included Dennis David, a corpsman at Bethesda Naval Hospital, he said there
were two caskets brought there. He said his mentor William Pitzer's alleged
possession of autopsy-related film and photographs appeared to contradict the
official findings of the autopsy. Pitzer was found with a single gunshot wound
to the head the same day the Kennedy family agreed to release to the National
Archives several items related to the autopsy. The Naval investigation into
Pitzer's death reported no evidence of foul play, but David disagrees.
James Jenkins, one of two
Navy corpsmen who served as an autopsy technician, said he believes the President's
brain was removed and replaced, possibly substituted, between Dallas and
Bethesda.
Other testimony of various
speakers included mention of Ike Altgens of the Associated Press having a photo
of LBJ already ducking before the bullets were fired and the Dallas funeral
home saying Kennedy had glass fragments in him from a bullet through the
windshield, defying the shot from behind theory.
Russ Baker, author of Family of Secrets, said George H.W. Bush
oddly doesn't remember where he was when Kennedy was assassinated. He covers
five chapters on the assassination in the book. He believes in a penumbra of
covert CIA operations. Baker founded www.whowhatwhy.org.
Books and movies mentioned during
the conference for more information:
Six Seconds in Dallas by
Josiah Thompson
The Man Who Knew Too Much by
Dick Russell
Harvey and Lee by John
Armstrong
Survivor's Guilt: The Secret
Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy by Vincent Palamara
Betrayal by Hugh Clark and
William Law
In the Eye of History:
Disclosures in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence by William Law
A Secret Order: Investigating
the High Strangeness and Synchronicity in the JFK Assassination:
by H. P. Albarelli Jr.
The JFK Conspiracy by David
Miller
Executive Action--movie
