Sen. Stennis Shot in DC (1973 AFVN Radio transcript)

American Forces Vietnam Network (archive) ^ | January 73 | SP5 Jerry Elliott

[Deb]

Umm, okay. I just saw his name in the first thread on this subject.

[PhilDragoo]

Regarding Weberman's reference to Hunt and Wallace, Gore Vidal in New York Review of Books December 13, 1973 "The Art and Arts of E. Howard Hunt" implies Hunt was responsible for forging the scrawlings of Oswald, Sirhan, and Bremer, the latter being Wallace's shooter. Weberman coauthored Coup d'Etat in America with the central thesis that Hunt was one of the three tramps in Dealey Plaza.

Why Weberman would believe Hunt would want to end the Vietnam War and all that "CIA drug money" [see also Redford, "Three Days of the Condor"] is beyond rationalizing.

The Kansas City meeting of VVAW discussing assassination was November 17-21, 1971, and Stennis was shot January, 1973 by two African-Americans.

Kerry's Senate testimony claimed they were overrepresented in Vietnam, hence would find their action justified.

But of course he quit VVAW before attending the Kansas City meeting.

[victoryatallcosts]

So they said, but that can't be true. Jesse Helms was first elected to the Senate in 1972.

Who else would have been there?

Well, thinking on the Senate in 1971, perhaps:
John Tower, Strom Thurmond, John Stennis (All Known) and, perhaps, Richard Russell (he stayed in the Senate until 1972, didn't he?), Henry Jackson? James Buckley?

Those are totally wild guesses, of course.

[Sabertooth]

Yeah, I think it's nutty to suggest Hunt was involved. I only included that link as a possible jumping off point to confirming convictions for the Stennis shooters.

[nunya bidness]

Time to look in to that houseboat, and don't plan on keeping it at Castaic.

Think open water.

[Southack]

"HUNT categorically denied...any participation or involvement whatever in the attempted assassination of Governor Wallace, the disappearance of Congressman Hale Boggs or the shooting of Senator Stennis."

Three powerful Southern Democrats. In three neighboring Southern states. All were anti-Communist.

Wallace and Stennis were pro-war. Boggs may have been the father of Cokie Roberts, can't really remember. His aircraft was presumed to have gone down in Alaska, I think. He's famous for reading the announcement that the Soviets had invaded Czeckoslavakia back in 1968.

"On August 22, 1968, during a Democratic Party hearing on Vietnam, Representative Hale Boggs was handed a press wire disclosing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Following Boggs's announcement, Secretary of State Dean Rusk excused himself from the proceedings, explaining "I think I'll go and see what all of this is about."

Warren Commission member Boggs also called for the removal from office of his fellow Democrat J Edgar Hoover.

"On May 2nd, 1972, J. Edgar Hoover's chauffeur found his dead body sprawled on the floor of his home, ending a spectacularly colorful and controversial career. A little over a year ago, House Majority Leader T. Hale Boggs called for his removal as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (See April 22, 1971) For some time, Boggs had begun to feel more and more uncomfortable with Hoover's investigative methods. It all began with the WARREN COMMISSION: "Despite the Warren Commission's criticism of the FBI, the director had a vested interest in defending its conclusion that Oswald had acted ALONE. By the fall of 1966, dozens of books and articles had challenged the commission's findings. Hoping to find derogatory information that could be used to discredit these efforts, Hoover, at the president's request, investigated the authors of seven books critical of the Warren Report, turning up the information that one writer had been discharged from the military for mental problems while several others had belonged to leftist organizations."

By hook or crook political power shifted in a brief amount of time after "events" occurred to all three.

[Southack]

Of course it is obvious, but JFK's assasination was in yet *another* neighboring Southern state, Texas. Of course, that's a pretty weak connection since it was 10 years earlier *and* the other events did not occur in the Southern states themselves, but rather, to Southern Democrats (conservative ones, or at least all anti-Communists) from those neighboring Southern states.

[Robert_Paulson2]

was VVAW possibly involved in the Senator Stennis incident in 1973?

indeed that is the million vote question...
and that is an implication that could be investigated.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Anybody suggesting that kerry's boys might have been implicated in this plot to kill stennis... yet?

[BykrBayb]

Kerry was arrested with other war protestors of the VVAW, but strangely even though he was photographed in an arrest lineup, his arrest record seems to be non existant.

That's the 1st I've heard of that. Can you point me toward some more info on it?

[Defender2]

I for one agree that it needs to be looked at.

[kayak]

ping

[Sabertooth]

Boggs may have been the father of Cokie Roberts, can't really remember. His aircraft was presumed to have gone down in Alaska, I think.

He is Cokie's father, and his plane went down over Alaska October 16th, 1972, never found.

I don't have a handle on his Vietnam War position. He was a member of the Waren Commission.

[Robert_Paulson2]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1065081/posts

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Good information! Is there a statute of limitation for conspriracy to commit murder?

[Robert_Paulson2]

[Travis McGee]

The plot thickens....

[teletech]

This is gettin' downright creepy.

[philetus]

I think you found a link. Whether it could ever be proved.................

[Robert_Paulson2]

hillary can probably prove it JUST in time to rush in at the last minute and save the convention... and expose Kerry...

the witch is out there.
YOu can almost smell her crustiness...
and I wanna puke.