Posted on 05/13/2007 11:34:05 AM PDT by tpaine
Who really did kill Kennedy?
BROTHERS THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE KENNEDY YEARS BY DAVID TALBOT
Reviewed by Dan Cornford
THE AUTHOR WILL CONVINCE MANY NOT WEDDED TO THE WARREN COMMISSION FINDINGS THAT THE LIKELIHOOD OF A CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE JFK (AND MAYBE RFK) IS SIGNIFICANT.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE DEFICIENCIES OF SOME SOURCES, TALBOT'S HIGHLY READABLE, AT TIMES GRIPPING BOOK MAKES THE CASE FOR RELEASING THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE JFK ASSASSINATION.
TALBOT SUMMARIZES MORE COMPELLING AND TROUBLING EVIDENCE. IN PARTICULAR, QUESTIONS REMAIN ABOUT THE ROLE CIA AGENT GEORGE JOANNIDES MAY HAVE PLAYED.
DECLASSIFIED JFK FILES REVEAL THAT IN 1963, JOANNIDES WAS THE AGENT IN CHARGE OF ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL CUBAN ANTI-CASTRO ORGANIZATIONS IN MIAMI, THE REVOLUTIONARY STUDENTS DIRECTORATE, OR DRE. A FEW MONTHS BEFORE JFK'S ASSASSINATION, THE DRE HAD SIGNIFICANT CONTACT WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD, AND OSWALD ATTEMPTED TO INFILTRATE THE NEW ORLEANS BRANCH OF THE DRE.
IN THE COURSE OF FOUR INTENSIVE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION, HOWEVER, THE CIA FAILED TO DIVULGE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CONNECTION, OR EVEN THAT JOANNIDES WAS THE CIA OFFICER ASSIGNED TO MANAGE THE DRE, AND REFUSED TO RELEASE IMPORTANT PARTS OF JOANNIDES' PERSONNEL FILE.
AMONG OTHER THINGS, TALBOT'S BOOK IS AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO A RECENT AND GROWING CHORUS OF KENNEDY AUTHORS AND RESEARCHERS, INCLUDING GERALD POSNER, THE MOST OFT-CITED AUTHORITY FOR THE "ONE GUNMAN/NO CONSPIRACY" THESIS, CALLING FOR A REOPENING OF INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE JFK ASSASSINATION OR, AT MINIMUM, FOR THE CIA TO RELEASE PERTINENT, IDENTIFIED DOCUMENTS THAT MIGHT SHED LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT.
IN SEPTEMBER, ON GROUNDS OF NATIONAL SECURITY, THE CIA SUCCESSFULLY THWARTED A REQUEST FOR SUCH INFORMATION.
UNTIL IT IS RELEASED, MANY AUTHORS OR CITIZENS WITH AN INTEREST IN THE ISSUE WILL REASONABLY SPECULATE THAT CRUCIAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE JFK ASSASSINATION IS BEING CONCEALED.
(Excerpt) Read more at SFGATE.COM ...
The printer version of the article came out in all caps. Sorry bout that..
Who really did kill Kennedy?
Talbot’s got his own ideas, seen through RFK’s eyes
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/13/RVG5FPLIMF1.DTL&type=books
Reminds me of the posts from Judicial Watch. Every time they filed a legal paper, it was breaking news.
JUDICIAL WATCH FILES REQUEST FOR HILLARY DOCUMENTS!!!
NEW WHITEWATER RECORDS DISPUTED BY JUDICIAL WATCH!!!
LARRY KLAMAN NAMES CRAIG LIVINGSTONE AS MATERIAL WITNESS!!!
Well I was thirteen when John Kennedy died. After I heard Oswald had spent time in Russia, I thought that Kruschev had ordered it because Kennedy had embarrassed him during the Cuban missle crisis.
Well why not? Do conspiricies end at the border of the US?
Why wouldn't he? If he believes the evidence will support his hypothesis, why not bring all the evidence to light? Silence just breeds rumors.
Evidence that the CIA was involved will hardly support a 'case closed' lone gunman theory.
This seems too organized a diversion for there not to be a conspiracy.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828428/posts?page=374#374
Shooter 2.5 has done a good job in various postings focusing on the actual facts which demonstrate there were not multiple shooters who struck Kennedy.
I have yet to see anyone offer a sensible, persuasive counter-response to this evidence. All of the “multiple shooter” theories appear to be based on misrepresentations, like the claim that the force of the bullet in the head shot forced Kennedy’s head backwards, when the film evidence shows that his head went forwards at the moment of impact, and that the backward jerk of the head happened after, not at the moment of impact.
Or the misrepresentation than JFK and Connolly were seated at the same height in the limo, and therefore only an impossible “magic” bullet could have shifted upwards in midair to strike both men.
Or, that just because the Warren Report was slipshod, that in and of itself proves that Oswald was not the one who killed JFK, rather than simply proving the fact that the staff was sloppy.
There is certainly ground for speculation that others may have encouraged Oswald in the killing and that Jack Ruby protected other unknown people by killing Oswald, but the physical evidence clearly demonstrates that Oswald fired the shots that struck the limo and its occupants from the school book depository. His guilt in this matter is further supported by the fact that Oswald shortly afterwards killed Officer Tippett.
That is only relevant if such evidence exists.
I HAVE THE HONOR TO BE KAREEM MASSOOOK GAMBAASAH, FORMER SECRETARY TO NIGERIAN BANK MANAGER WHADA DUNCEE YHOUIIZ WHO LEFT IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE KENNEDY ASSINATION ALONG WITH 23,000,000,99 UNITED STATES DOLLARS IN A SAFE DEPOSIT BOX....
The mafia. I like Sam Giancana’s book Double Cross.
"Just Because" Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!
Geraldo Rivera. He wanted something to base future shows on.
Cheers!
Rule #1 of political rhetoric: Anything with more than one exclamation point can be safely ignored. Anything with one exclamation point can likely be ignored. The bang only serves to emphasize something that couldn’t stand without emphasis.
If the unadorned facts can’t stand on their own, it ain’t worth the time of day.
Check the posts on all of the claims that the Mafia, Lyndon, the government or space aliens did it. Not one of these knuckleheads can explain how it was done.
It’s so much easier to a lazy person just to claim someone did something than offer hard evidence on how it was done.
Mr. Robinson,
When did Free Republic turn into the National Inquirer?
Respectfully Your’s,
Shooter 2.5
So where are all of your disappearing, magic bullets?
Was this a secret? How many people knew about it?
Liking it is one thing, believing it another.
The word "coincidence" wasn't invented yesterday.
But even if that pings your radar, why would an alleged conspiracy give half a flip if the Cabinet were out of town? Dead president, VP steps in. The Cabinet doesn't get a vote in that. Whether the Secretary of Agriculture is in Dubuque or Timbuktu. It's utterly irrelevant. Assuming your account is true, which I don't.
One nut, one rifle, three shots. It fits the available evidence, and is the Occam's razor explanation. You're as likely to find a second shooter's nest in Dealy Plaza as you are at Ford's Theater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3-lZNR_yAc
Mrs. Connelly heard all three shots. Governor Connelly heard one, was hit and then another shot. The two men on the fifth floor heard three shots and heard three cartridge cases hit the floor. Oswald’s rifle was found with a fourth unfired cartridge still in the chamber. Three bullets were accounted for with the second missing.
Three shots.
Case closed.
Correction.
.... with the first missing. [It was the one which hit the curb near the railroad overpass.]
Sorry.
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