http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/confession2.htm
James E Files was the guy. This is from an FBI agent. I believe he is correct.
bad excerpt
Oswald was a dedicated communist who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 out of disgust with American capitalism. After becoming disillusioned with Soviet life, he returned to the U.S. in 1962. In early 1963, he bought a scoped rifle through the mail and soon used it to fire a shot (which missed) at retired general Edwin Walker, the head of the John Birch Society in Dallas. In the summer of 1963, Oswald was active in street demonstrations in support of Castro. In September 1963, he visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City seeking a travel visa that would allow him to travel to Cuba.
Oswald was among the radicals of the time who saw Third World revolutionaries like Castro as the wave of the communist future. He was well aware of Kennedy's efforts to overthrow Castro's regime. As a Senate investigative committee suggested in 1975, Oswald shot Kennedy to interrupt his administration's plans to assassinate Castro or to overthrow his regime in Cuba.
Ignoring Oswald's communist links, journalists and political leaders quickly claimed the president was a martyr to civil rights. Earl Warren said that Kennedy had "suffered martyrdom as a result of the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots." Martin Luther King said the assassination had to be viewed against the backdrop of violence against civil rights marchers in the South. James Reston wrote in the New York Times that "something in the nation itself, some strain of madness and violence, had destroyed the highest symbol of law and order."
The consensus opinion was that Kennedy was a victim of hate and bigotry, a casualty of his support for civil rights. The Cold War and Kennedy's ongoing feud with Castro were rarely mentioned as factors behind the assassination. The reasons? Mrs. Kennedy wanted her husband remembered as a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. Lyndon Johnson feared complicating relations with the Soviet Union. Liberals feared a replay of the McCarthy period, when the Wisconsin senator inflamed public opinion about fears of domestic communism.
Governor Jessie Ventura did something on it too just recently. Here it is..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgqMuUV9hc8
Ok. Forget my first post. It is an audio report. No text.
Apologies for being a little short.
Cheers,
Mike
Shows what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do.
For anyone interested Lew Rockwell has a podcast MP3 interview with Don Adams, an FBI agent assigned to investigate threats to JFK and later assigned to the investigation of his assassination. It's episode #170 at the following link:
keep for later
I have no idea of *who* killed JFK, if the killing was ordered by someone directing the assassin(s). However, I have an interesting twist on the motivation of *why* JFK was assassinated.
Here is a logical chain of information, all of which is established fact.
1) Among his many medical conditions, JFK suffered from Addison’s Disease. It is an insufficiency of the adrenal gland and can be very serious. It can also cause a distinct change in the appearance of the skin which can be seen at a distance and is unique to that disease. This can even be seen today in pictures and movies made of JFK, and would be familiar to physicians familiar with Addison’s, who could diagnose his condition solely by his appearance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison’s_disease
2) For many years, the only effective treatment for Addison’s Disease was large doses of cortisone, which for years had been prohibitively expensive except for the wealthy. Kennedy retainers had placed quantities of this and other drugs in safe deposit boxes around the country, in case JFK traveled somewhere without a convenient supply available. However, in the decade or so before his death, a drug company had finally managed to synthesize an inexpensive version of cortisone, so it was now widely available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisone
3) Due to its availability, cortisone was soon accepted as a “wonder drug”, useful for treating many medical conditions. As such, it became known to the public, and was widely advertised. However, at the time, there was a *mistaken* belief in the medical community that large doses of cortisone could cause serious psychiatric side effects.
4) Then, in 1956, James Mason, one of Hollywood’s top actors, then at the peak of his career, made a terrifying movie called “Bigger Than Life”.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049010/
In it, he played a gentleman schoolteacher who becomes gravely ill, and is prescribed cortisone pills for his ailment. It helps his illness, but as he takes more of the pills, it turns him into a raving and murderous paranoid. Mason was a superb actor, and his portrayal was “electrifying”. Even today it is a frightening movie.
5) Based on the deployment of US nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey in 1961, the Soviet Union responded by placing missiles in Cuba in 1962, resulting in a US blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of that year. This made America intensely aware that even a slight miscalculation could result in nuclear war at any time. That JFK had his “finger on the trigger” to start World War III.
6) So, add these elements together:
JFK’s skin condition is noted, and when asked, a physician informs *someone* that JFK has Addison’s Disease, for which the treatment is large amounts of cortisone. Further, it is volunteered that large doses of cortisone *may* cause mental imbalance (again, this is not true, but was believed by doctors at the time.)
Cortisone is known to the public as a drug, but the only thing known to the public about the “possible” side effects of cortisone are shown in the movie Bigger Than Life, in a very dramatic and frightening fashion.
And the public has recently been terrified by the Cuban Missile Crisis, and are very aware that JFK has his “finger on the trigger.”
A man who may be stark raving paranoid insane. A president who could start World War III for any, or no, reason.
It is not hard to imagine that someone of the time, fearing this scenario, would consider it better if Lyndon Johnson was president.
I can’t listen right now. Does he say that it was the Soviets? Doesn’t surprise me at all.
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Piece of cake, really. I looked out the window of the book depository and could have hit the limo with a rock it was so close. A guy with a handgun could have made that shot.
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Sam Giancana winks.