Mr. Kerry denies being present at the November 12-15, 1971, meeting in Kansas City of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and says he quit the group before the meeting. But according to the current head of Missouri Veterans for Kerry, Randy Barnes, Mr. Kerry,who was then 27,was at the meeting, voted against the plot, and then orally resigned from the organization. Mr. Barnes was present as part of the Kansas City host chapter for the 1971 meeting and recounted the incident in a phone interview with The New York Sun this week.
In addition to Mr. Barnes’s recollection placing Mr. Kerry at the Kansas City meeting, another Vietnam veteran who attended the meeting, Terry Du-Bose, said that Mr. Kerry was there.
Was he or wasn't he?
Only his hairdresser knows for sure.
"Scott Camil does stand by the assassination plan that evidently was his brainchild. Considering from the best perspective that he might just have been considered by the group as someone full of hot air..."
It is instructive to note that Camil became MORE influential within the VVAW from then on--not less.