At a recent JFK conference I attended, disturbing news regarding Dealey Plaza was discovered.. The city is planning to “renovate” it – meaning removing the picket fence, the grassy knoll and who knows what else, and replacing these markers of the assassination with something more acceptable to the city. We were told that the Dallas newspaper and The Sixth Floor Museum are pushing this idea. We see this as a move to begin removing any and all references to the assassination. Students (such as the ones who attended) or people new to the details of the assassination would not be able to see the terrain exactly as it was in 1963 and be able to make their own judgments about what happened there.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” -- Carl Sagan
Now for my notes on the new “Killing Kennedy” by Jack Roth. Everything you read is like a storm drain. One thing leads to more that goes down the drain. Most excellent book and what I learned:
Ever heard anyone say I’m a patsy? No. Oswald did because he was. Jim Garrison said he is the only assassin who hopped on public transportation to get away. Oswald didn’t have money to travel as alluded.
Bullets over ballots could be a theme. The shots didn’t come from the grassy knoll. They came from the Pentagon. The assassination is not a stand-alone thing that happened on 11/22/63. Leaders didn’t suddenly become corrupt that day. It’s standard operating procedure. Governments are corrupt. Ninety percent believe there was a conspiracy. The other 10 percent work in the government and the media. Reporter Jim Koethe was killed with karate chop to the throat as he came out of the shower. It’s safe to say that is the only death of its kind. One of the chapters was from someone who examined backgrounds of politicians, celebs and business leaders and in almost every case the overwhelming majority of them were popular in high school. They played a sport. People who run things in high school go on to run society. That’s why they have a vested interest in social hierarchy because it has served them well.
Dave Morales, CIA--file has been sanitized. X-rays of JFK are copies.
Who controlled Texas? Some of the occupants of the TSBD included right-wingers like the Byrd family. They owned a lot of land in Dallas and were good friends with LBJ. You can see pictures of them at football games. Bill Shelley, Oswald’s supervisor at the TSBD was CIA. He had connections to anti-Communism groups. Dulles was fired but operated behind the scenes. LBJ put him on the Warren Commission so he is controlling the evidence after the assassination.
Josepha Johnson, LBJ’s sister, died mysteriously on Christmas Eve 1961. They had a party that night and Mac Wallace was there. She was found dead the next day. The coroner called it natural without examining over the phone. She was buried the next day. Wallace’s fingerprints were said to be found in the TSBD and he was said to be a good shot. And he practiced. Johnson was involved in murders back to 1951. The first was John Douglas Kinser. He took a liking to Josepha as well as Mac’s wife. Mac was at the Department of Ag in Washington as an economist. The job was arranged by LBJ. There was a menage a trois. Mac’s wife was said to be bisexual. Immediately after the first shot at Kinser, one golfer outside the clubhouse observed a man inside holding a revolver. Three golfers on the course observed the man running from the clubhouse and getting into his car, and one of them noted the car's make and license plate number. Three patrolmen with the Texas Highway Patrol stopped the car nine miles from Austin on the Burnet Highway. According to one of the patrolmen, the driver perfectly fit the description provided by the golfers and his shirt was torn and bloodied. The suspect and witness were taken to the headquarters of the Austin Police Department for questioning. Wallace was identified as the man leaving the scene with a snubnosed pistol, and three bullet shells were found near Kinser's body. Detectives revealed no motive in the killing as Wallace refused to answer their questions. He was charged the following day with murder and the justice of the peace set bail at $30,000. Two days after the killing, the district attorney accused the local sheriff of "obstructing the investigation" stating that he had refused to transport Wallace to the Texas Department of Public Safety for identification testing. According to the sheriff, Wallace protested the move and his defense attorney, Polk Shelton, had asked that Wallace not be moved. Wallace was represented at the trial by John Cofer, longtime lawyer to Johnson, who had also represented LBJ during his contested election to the United States Senate in 1948 that was tainted by allegations of voter fraud. A paraffin test on Wallace's hands tested positive for gunshot residue and that blood on his shirt matched blood found at the club house at the golf course. The prosecution did not attempt to establish a motive for the shooting, nor did it produce an eyewitness to it or the murder weapon. The following day, the prosecution and defense completed their closing arguments and the jury was charged that afternoon. After deliberating into the evening, the jury was sequestered. After listening to 29.5 hours of testimony from 23 different witnesses, on Feb. 27 the jury returned its verdict finding Wallace guilty of "murder with malice." He was sentenced to five years --suspended. Questioned as to why the prosecution did not attempt to provide a motive, Shelton stated that they were not required to establish a motive but it was "probably because they couldn't." On Jan. 7, 1971, Wallace died when his car ran off the road 3.5 miles south of Pittsburg, Texas, on U.S. Route 271. Noting that the highway was neither icy nor wet, the investigating patrolman stated that Wallace had struck a bridge abutment after apparently losing control of his car.
A number of authors claim Wallace was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy upon orders from then-VP Johnson.
LBJ was manic depressive. He would stay in bed for days. He described it as being in a Louisiana swamp, drowning with the gators and snakes.
There was a plane crash at LBJ’s ranch in 1961 or 62. The actual crash was three days earlier than announced. He wasn’t on the plane. Taxpayers had paid for a runway on his ranch before he was president. The plane’s ownership was a mystery.
Two of JFK’s closer aides Dave Powers and Kenneth O’Donnell reported what they witnessed including the shots from the grassy knoll. Decades later Tip O’Neill was told by them that the FBI said it couldn’t have happened that way, that they were imagining things. So they testified the way they wanted them to and didn’t want to add more pain and trouble for the Kennedy family. This was not learned until O’Neill’s memoirs. Imagine what non-close friends were twisted to do.
One lady’s father filmed something, got in his car, drove from the TSBD to the First National Bank where his cousin was president and left the film.
A cheap metal casket was taken out of Kennedy’s hearse into the morgue at 6:30 p.m. The honor guard took the Britannica casket (empty/bricks}? from the motorcade at 8 p.m. There was a body switheroo on the helicopter during the swearing in. And one in an ambulance. Kennedy meant nothing while he was alive, so dead either.
JFK’s cerebellum was said to be swinging in the breeze.
Oswald’s landlady received threats, so she closed the house to the press and other visitors. But you can see the boarding house where Oswald lived today for a $30 cost of admission. It includes a sit-down with the granddaughter of the landlord. She said people want to know the man. She says she can help them do that. She was at her grandmother’s house every day after school, she says, so she recalls frequent interactions with “Mr. Lee.” He helped her with schoolwork and played with her brothers, she says. She remembers him as a kind young man.
In September 1980, Charles Harrelson surrendered to police after a six-hour standoff in which he was reportedly high on cocaine. During the standoff, he threatened suicide, stating that he had killed both Judge Wood and Kennedy. In a television interview after his arrest, Harrelson said: "At the same time I said I had killed the judge, I said I had killed Kennedy, which might give you an idea to the state of my mind at the time." Joseph Chagra later testified during Harrelson's trial that Harrelson claimed to have shot Kennedy and drew maps to show where he was hiding during the assassination. Chagra said that he did not believe Harrelson's claim, and the AP reported that the FBI apparently discounted any involvement by Harrelson in the Kennedy assassination. In 1982, Harrelson told KDFW-TV, "Do you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy, alone, without any aid from a rogue agency of the US government or at least a portion of that agency? I believe you are very naïve if you do."
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