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 ...
Here is an animated gif that show the moment of impact. Kennedy moves to the front after the round impacts his skull -- not "back and to the left" like Oliver Stone convinced so many people. It's is crystal clear that the bullet came from the rear.
Put your cursor on the door handle highlight, on Jackie's hat, or on the back of the seat. They are all still. Now put it on Kennedy's head. It is thrown forwards when the bullet hits.
...we know the big three networks were complicit in covering up...
...the Dallas police could say any thing under the sun...
Did his friends say "x" or is that the version the FBI presented. They are at this point quite different stories. If his friends did say it, were they coerced like so many others?
So, the FBI, the TV networks, and the Dallas Police at a minimum are all in on the conspiracy. How many people, roughly, do you think were in on it, and who was directing the show?
Hey, the documents proving it have been released in unredacted form. If you want to argue against it now, you're a little late to poke fun for lack of evidence. Had congress not released the unredacted documents, you might have some room to poke fun. But the absurd appearance of it is what the government counted on. Reality is screwier than fiction, friend.
Wish to change the nature of your approach to something more honest. Debate is a matter of dealing with facts. When you start trying to color your opponent, you've already lost.
Hey, the documents proving it have been released in unredacted form.
Wish to change the nature of your approach to something more honest. Debate is a matter of dealing with facts.
Please provide a link to the documents you claim proves that the TV networks are knowingly covering up a Kennedy assassination conspiracy.
Kennedy Assassination Home Page
Lee Harvey Oswald's Paper Bag
Guinn’s neutron-activation Analysis
Warren Report: Table of Contents
One Hundred Errors of Fact and Judgment in Oliver Stone's JFK
The Academic JFK Assassination Web Site
HSCA (House Select Committee on Assassinations) Final Assassinations Report
A Critique of The Warren Report
Attempted assassination of General Walker
Oswald interviews, Acoustic studies and other information relating to the assassination of JFK
Queen of Diamonds
Zapruder 313
Head Wound
Photos and Illustrations of the JFK Assassination
Zapruder Head Shot
A Conspiracy Too Big? Intellectual Dishonesty in the JFK Assassination
Oh, I see, so are we to presume dumping these makes you look like you have a clue? ;)
Here, you might note the tasty bit referencing a WDSU-TV reporter commenting to the new Orleans office of the FBI. The Memo discussing it is a teletype dispatch marked urgent and dated 5/18/67 to the Director [of the FBI](62-109060) and the Dallas office and From: New Orleans (89-69) Subject: "RE NEW ORLEANS TEL THIS DATE". The commentary specifically states:
"A local FBI agent reported that Richard Townley, WDSU-TV, New Orleans, remarked to a special agent of the New Orleans office last evening that he had received instructions from NBC, New York, to prepare a one hour TV special on Jim Garrison with the instruction 'shoot him down'."
An article mentioning this is here. Probe magazine, the link I provided earlier, has followed up on these documents and has published a great deal based on them since the latest round at declassifying and release of the UNredacted documents.
You might bother to read some of the evidence and while you're at it, resarch on Walter Sheridan of NBC, his intermediary, Herbert Miller, and Millers part in shuttling defense documents for Clay Shaw to the CIA. You might also check out the Phelan evidence recently released and unredacted showing that he was an informant for the FBI against Garrison. It's amazing what you can learn in 20 minutes if you open your eyes and pretend you don't know as much as you think you do.
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