I have read the Warren Report.. It’s simply a mis-mash of data and interviews cherry-picked to fit a preconceived story. What the Commission chose NOT to look Into RE: the assassination would take up more space than the voluminous 20 volume report. Witnesses who didn’t bolster the rear shooter idea were not interviewed or were declared incorrect. At least two subsequent Congressional inquireries have determined there was a conspiracy. One simple fact proves a conspiracy. The Zapruder Film. Watch the reaction of JFK’s head and body to the fatal shot and tell me it came from the rear. Quack ideas like a “geyser effect” or muscle reaction do not account for the VIOLENT, instantaneous movement of the President’s head and body toward the rear-left of the car. Brain/blood were in a fan shape on the trunk of the car starting where Kennedy’s head had been. A piece of his skull was found in the grass at the left rear of the car. The motorcycle cop af the left rear of the limo had himself and his windshield sprayed with blood and brain. All of this would be in the flight path of the bullet. It would be impossible for a shot from the rear to have caused this reaction and distribution of gore. I have personally talked with several of the doctors who saw JFK at Parkland that day (I live 40 miles from Dallas and was in the medical field for years), and they ALL say that the blown out wound at the rear of the President’s head was an EXIT wound. An exit wound there means a shot from the front, which means LHO could not have fired that shot.
The day after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion my neighbor across the street exclaimed, "Kennedy is a [deleted] traitor!" a sentiment shared by the Warren Commission liason to the Secret Service Elmer Moore who badgered Malcolm Perry all Friday night by phone to recant his description of the throat wound as one of entry.Dallas Parkland and its doctors treated hundreds of gsw's per annum and knew their profession--but Moore, Specter, Dulles and Liebeler had to pile on Perry--the cover was in place; there could be no deviation.
David Mantik has published results from viewing the best x-rays at the Archives and analyzed them with radiation densitometry, a tool of his profession as radiologist. His work appears six times in Douglas Horne's five-volume Inside the Assassination Record Review Board a compendium of its results from securing millions of pages of hitherto sealed documents in its four-year history.
An excellent, concise deconstruction of the Warren kabuki is Gerald D. McKnight, Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why. Also shedding light on the bias and omissions are Mark Lane, Rush to Judgment, Sylvia Meagher, Accessories After the Fact, and a half dozen books by Harold Weisberg.
Vincent Bugliosi worked in two court proceedings in the RFK assassination (father of the author of the thread's essay) and was on the side of conspiracy, was the first choice (before William Turner and Jonn Christian) to do The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Bugliosi declares if Oswald didn't kill Kennedy, Kennedy wasn't killed. Specious, as the first premise is true, the second not so much.
James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, 2008, in four hundred pages of footnoted text with one hundred pages of end notes, addresses the problem Kennedy posed.
In Donald Gibson, Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency, and Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil, the policies of Kennedy ran counter to the prevailing Dulles-Rockefeller MIC business model.
LBJ has been presented as a prominent false sponsor by Craig I. Zirbel, Barr McClelland, Phil Nelson and others, while the late E. Howard Hunt through his son Saint John said as much in Bond of Secrecy. In Hunt's deathbed deflection might be seen a final act of loyalty by an OSS/CIA professional.
When Kennedy was shot I was with Young Americans for Freedom and under the urging of our organizer later national security figure Dick Allen went to their New York City convention the following year to draft Goldwater; thereafter to work door-to-door for him.
Kennedy's NSAM 263 of October 1963 would have withdrawn our 16,000 advisors from Vietnam. LBJ's Tonkin Gulf resolution began a decade of enormous effort, a proud warrior tradition betrayed by politicians.
Oswald enlisted 1956, learned Russian in government language training, was used as an agent by the ONI in California and Japan, sent as a false defector in 1959 and retrieved in 1962 after George DeMohrenschildt was tasked by CIA Domestic Contacts officer J. Walton Moore to guide the operative.
An operation was run on the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, employment was arranged in the "nest" building by the sister of a CIA agent whose husband's mother was best friends with Dulles' mistress, and Dulles himself bragged he'd visited this person the month of the assassination.
Lee Oswald's last call Saturday night was to John Hurt in North Carolina his ONI handler cutout.
He played a role as an operative for ONI, FBI, CIA and was killed by a relocated Chicago thug who'd been in telephone contact with associates of Marcello, Trafficante, Roselli, Hoffa, Civello and others. Patrick Dean was responsible for security; Ruby walked into the building, down the stairs, was alerted by two horn honks, and enabled by Will Fritz fleeing point leaving a clear path for silencing the patsy.
Had Nixon been able to take Cook County back from its graveyards, Castro would be pushing up tobacco.
As it is Posner writes a fawning regurgiation of the Dulles Commission, then defends Ahmed Walid Karzai in the New York Times against charges of being a CIA tool and a drug lord, until the brother of the Afghan ruler is deemed too hot and assassinated.