Posted on 11/18/2003 10:38:05 PM PST by Swordmaker
There's an explosive new book that lays out a very detailed – and persuasive – case for the probability that the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson was responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
I say persuasive because the author, Barr McClellan, was one of LBJ's top lawyers, and he provides a lot of information hitherto unknown to the general public – much more of which he says is buried in secret documents long withheld from the American people.
"The American public has waited forty years to hear the truth about the JFK assassination," McClellan says. "For government agencies to withhold critical evidence and not cooperate with the [1998 investigation conducted by the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB)] is a form of obstruction of justice. Under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, the public should be granted access to these documents."
According to McClellan and Doug Horne, a former ARRB investigator, hundreds of relevant documents were withheld from the 1998 investigation into the JFK assassination. They believe that these materials are now in the possession of the National Archives, relocated from sealed files previously controlled by the CIA and FBI.
McClellan also asked for a formal review of the evidence in his book, "Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.," which establishes a direct connection between LBJ and an individual involved with the assassination and cover-up.
"At this time we need to see what else is missing and what else would be helpful to presenting the entire truth," McClellan continued. "The Senate Judiciary Committee and the Department of Justice could make the request of the National Archives and should do so."
Now, in normal circumstance I would tend to view this latest explanation of who was behind the killing of JFK as exactly that – just another theory among dozens. But the circumstances are not normal. Poll after poll establishes that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the official verdict of the Warren Commission is simply not borne out by what little is known publicly about the case.
McClellan's new book adds to those facts and names a second suspect he says was a longtime assassin for Lyndon Johnson, whom he portrays as ... well, as being homicidal whenever he or his many concealed interests were threatened.
Add to that the incredible inconsistencies in the FBI and Secret Service investigations, which reek with the stench of cover-up, and one can't escape the conclusion that if LBJ did nothing else in dealing with the aftermath of the assassination, he sure as hell clamped a lid on any evidence that contradicted the official finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman acting solely on his own initiative.
I report all of this as a prelude to revealing what I know about the matter but have never before written about – in the beginning, because I had a wife and seven children to protect, and since, because I had no reason to revisit the matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
No one is disputing that shots were fired from the sixth floor. The point in question is WHO fired them. If Oswald was the man standing in the entry at that moment, it could not have been him.
Of course, that may bring up another question... If Oswald WAS standing in the entry and witnessed the President of the United States just being assassinated, WHY would he have gone back into the building to buy a coke????
The actual doctors who treated him in the ER would not forget such things. This is far from the realm of possibility. Not even over time would someone who had cared for such a high profile victim forget this. I'll never believe that. His doctors were not "charlatans".
Even if this is true, I have always wondered why the bullet that hit the president's head exploded, while the "magic" one went through two human bodies and several bones, and was only slightly deformed.
As tpaine has pointed out, one of the bullets, from a different shooter in the front, was probably a fragmenting bullet. One man doing some research on this believes that he has determined the shot from the front came from a manhole along the street in front of the grassy knoll, which would fit with the upward explosion of the head.
And yes, tpaine, it's all very easily understood if people would just open their minds to other possibilities. At this point, my mind is open to everything but the Warren Commission.
I hope others are able to watch all the episodes of the History Channel series running this week. Another 3 parts tonight, which were not ones I had seen earlier in the week, so 9 hours so far, which I think was all of it. The 3 hours tonight repeat again in a few minutes.
As for believing the Zapruder film is the ultimate truth, I don't know what to think now. I see there's a new book out that claims this film itself was altered during the 8 or 10 years or whatever it was that it was withheld from the public.
It looks like we'll never know the truth about any of this. Though I'm happy that so many people are working in their own areas of expertise to try to solve bits and pieces of it.
There were so many different factions that wanted to do JFK harm that it's a toss-up who's ultimately responsible for his death. I hope the crime is solved someday.
If he was in the advanced stages of the disease, and knew that fact, could he have wanted to commit suicide? His catholic faith would not allow that, but an assasination would. This is only a speculation, and a round about one at that. Even if he wanted to die a hero I doubt seriously that he would have left the nation to Lyndon Johnson, a well known political crook and socialist. Jack, for all his faults, was a pretty good American. He sure as the devil wasn't a Clinton. Sure, he flandered but he didn't give up our freedom and the job he had to do. He did a job that was expected of a President, and he did it to the best of his ability. I'll give Jack that much. He, by no means, was the best President we ever had, he was the guy that died in office being a most popular President. His tax cuts were good, the Bay of Pigs was bad, the missle crisis was good (but if he had not wimped in the Bay of Pigs there wouldn't have been a Cuban Missle Crisis in the first place). All things considered he was a decent President. He did want equal rights for blacks, but he didn't fight very hard for it (his southern democrats intimidated him too much). He was ....alright, I guess.
I'm going to quit rambling here, it's late and I must go hit the sack. My message is this: there are a thousand theories, I'm adding one more, any of them could be true, or a combination could be true. I'd love to know the truth but we are the people, the powerful will never let us know. Sometimes though, we get dangerously close to the truth.
Sure, and Teddy, Bobby, and the whole Kennedy clan allowed LBJ to sit at JFK's desk and never a peep out of them for 40 years?
The comment was on the fact that the fingerprint from Wallace was identified with 34 matching points of congruence. European courts accept as absolute proof of identity 16 matching points... some courts require a couple more.
The following quotation is from a qualified expert source material:
A single unexplained difference between the two prints is enough to guarantee that they come from difference sources. But how many agreeing points must we have before we can guarantee that the prints come from the same source? This has been the subject of some debate. Most European courts require 16 minutiae, a few countries require more. In America, the testimony of a fingerprint expert is sufficient to legally establish a match, regardless of the number of matching minutiae, although defense lawyers will often hammer away at an expert who introduces evidence with fewer than 10 matching points.
Keogh, E. An Overview of the Science of Fingerprints. Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, 2001; Vol. 2, No. 1 (January-June 2001): http://anil299.tripod.com/vol_002_no_001/papers/paper005.html; Published January 8, 2001.
The fingerprint expert examined the fingerprints of Mac Wallace and the latent fingerprint found in the sniper's nest without knowing anything about the source of either sample. His conclusion was that the latent print had 34 points of congruence with the left pinky finger of the sample on the card... Mac Wallace's fingerprint.
That, my friend, is a "slam dunk!"
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
No, but you can tell a buttoned up, vertically wide-striped shirt from an unbuttoned plaid shirt with an undershirt showing.
This parenthetical aside is a little confusing to me. What do you mean by "colored"? The original Zapruder film was photographed in color... specifically 8mm Kodachrome II color film.
Motive? If you believe Oswald acted alone, you must believe Jack Ruby acted alone despite evidence that he, too, was part of a conspiracy.
Actually Bobby was also murdered less than five years later just after a victory in the California primary that might have propelled him to the Presidency. From there he could have re-opened the investigation without interference from Lyndon. Having two brothers murdered in less than five years may have been enough to silence Teddy and the rest of the clan.
Possible lack of incontravertible evidence...
Anyone who rises to the level that Ford did in American politics does so only through the sale of his soul to the devil, regardless of party.
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