On Friday, November 22nd 1963 at 12:30 P.M. the 35th
United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy
assassinated while he
rode in an open limousine though the streets of Dallas.
This event, which
abruptly and severely altered the course of history, it has
created more
controversy than any other single event. Some haunting
questions still
remain. "Who did it?" "Why did they do it?" "How was it
done?" "Was there
a cover up" The official answers complied by the Warren
Commission have
never satisfied the majority of the world's population. In
this following
essay I will try to show who was responsible for the
assassination of John
F. Kennedy. I believe the only way to prove that there was
a cover up, is
to firstly prove that Lee Harvey Oswald is not the killer.
The Warren Commission consisting of "various outstanding
citizens" was
created to "ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts
relating to the
assassination ... and the subsequent violent death of the
man charged with
the assassination Lee Harvey Oswald. The purpose of the
Commission was to
examine the evidence developed by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and
any additional evidence that may hereafter come to light
... to make such
further investigation, as the Commission finds desirable.
In less than one
week they found that a 'lone nut' killed JKF.
At no time did the Warren Commission seem to consider the
basic legal
rights of Oswald - innocence until proven guilty, the right
to legal
representation, or the right to cross-examine witnesses and
evidence
against him. There is no way that Lee Harvey Oswald was the
lone assassin.
Firstly the paraffin test of Oswald's hands and his right
cheek conducted
on November 23, 1963, has been positive for his hands but
negative for his
cheek. Generally, this is evidence in Oswald's favor, but
the Commission
asserted that the test "is completely unreliable in
determining either
whether a person has recently fired a weapon or whether he
has not."
Nobody saw Oswald on the 6th floor window after 11:55 on
November 22nd. 90
seconds after the assassination, Roy Truly and Police
officer M. L. Baker
saw Oswald on the second floor. Oswald had to take the
stairs down. But
he had just 90 seconds to hide the rifle in the opposite
corner of the
sixth floor, run downstairs 4 floors passing Victoria Adams
who never saw
him and reach the second floor where he was encountered to
be "calm and
collected". The Warren Commission claimed that Oswald
fired three shots
in 5.6 seconds from the sixth floor of the Texas Schoolbook
Depository.
The first shot was the 'magic bullet' which made a total of
seven wounds
on JFK and Connally . Which appeared later in the Parkland
Memorial
Hospital - you can see - in an almost pristine condition.
The second shot
missed JFK and hit a bystander in the cheek and the third
was the fatal
head. The Warren Commission said the third shot hit JFK
from behind,
however his head was pushed backwards and to the left. This
means the
bullet must of come from the grassy Knoll. Also many
witness thought they
heard shots from there. (See graph) Oswald rifle's had poor
capability
(experts tried to do the same what Oswald was claimed to
have done, but
only one was able to do that! because he got not familiar
with the rifle
and the inaccurate attached scope of the rifle. It was near
impossible for
him to make the shot in 5.6 seconds
"If I had to pick one man in the whole United States to
shoot me, I'd pick
Oswald. I saw that man shoot and there's no way he could
have ever learned
to shoot well enough to do what they accused him of. I'm
one of the best
shots around, and I couldn't have done it." --Sherman
Cooley (US Marine,
served with Oswald)
If Oswald was not the killer then who would have wanted to
see President
Kennedy dead?
Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)
The CIA
J. Edgar Hoover
The Mafia
Anti-Castro Cubans
Richard Nixon
I am convinced Lyndon Johnson may very well have been
involved in the plot
to murder President Kennedy. I believe Johnson probably
knew about the
plot ahead of time and either sanctioned it or actively
took part in it.
Another possibility, in my view, is that Johnson realized
soon after the
shooting that Kennedy had been killed by a conspiracy, and
that Johnson
had an idea as to whom had been behind it. In any case,
Johnson was a
driving force behind the cover-up that followed. However
there is only
circumstantial evidence, but there is a lot against LBJ.
The CIA in reference to its alleged involvement in the
assassination, are
referring primarily to the CIA's covert action personnel,
i.e., those
agents who deal in sabotage, propaganda, and assassination.
There is
evidence that suggests that some of the Agency's covert
operations
personnel have also taken part in drug trafficking. Most
CIA personnel are
not involved in such activities and would be appalled at
any attempt to
harm an elected official. The covert operations personnel
make up a large
portion of the CIA, and they, along with the Agency's top
officials, are
the most powerful group in the CIA. Some high-ranking CIA
officials have
attempted to frustrate presidential policies and have
initiated or
sanctioned illegal operations, to include working with
organized crime.
JFK and the CIA were in a virtual state of war from the
moment of the Bay
of Pigs disaster until the day he died. JFK did not trust
the CIA and he
reportedly intended to dismantle it after the 1964
election. In Vietnam,
the CIA refused to carry out instructions from the ranking
American
official in the country. The CIA ignored President
Kennedy's directive
that it not initiate operations requiring greater firepower
than a
handgun. It also ignored JFK's orders to stop working with
the Mafia. When
Kennedy heard the news that South Vietnam's dictator Ngo
Diem had been
murdered by a CIA-backed coup, against his express wishes,
he was
outraged. Kennedy was no fan of Diem's, but he did not
want to see him
murdered. General Maxwell Taylor wrote that upon learning
of Diem's death
JFK "leaped to his feet and rushed from the room with a
look of shock and
dismay on his face". Kennedy blamed the CIA for Diem's
murder. Kennedy
said he had to "do something about" the CIA and that the
Agency should be
stripped of its exorbitant power. On another occasion,
Kennedy reportedly
said he would scatter the CIA "into a thousand pieces." One
of the more
troubling cases of CIA disobedience to presidential
authority was its
behavior in relation to Cuba. In September 1963, long after
President
Kennedy had ordered a halt to the covert campaign against
Castro, senior
CIA staffers, including the deputy director, Richard Helms,
and Desmond
Fitzgerald, the head of the Agency's Cuba unit, approved
plans to kill
Castro, without seeking presidential authorization. They
also continued
other covert operations against Cuba in violation of the
President's
instructions. Needless to say, these CIA officers did not
inform the
President of their activities; nor did they inform Congress
or the
Attorney General, Robert Kennedy. They didn't even tell
then-CIA director
John McCone, probably because he was appointed by President
Kennedy
following the Bay of Pigs disaster. In short, as Anthony
Summers has
observed, "in September and October 1963--a crucial moment
politically--CIA officers were acting in a way that gravely
endangered
White House policy". A key figure linking the Agency to the
assassination
was CIA man David Atlee Phillips, who was seen with Oswald
a few months
before the shooting. Among many other things, Phillips was
the propaganda
chief for the Bay of Pigs operation and later rose to
become the chief of
the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division. In 1954 Phillips
worked with E.
Howard Hunt and others to overthrow the Arbenz government
in Guatemala.
Based on his extensive investigation of Phillips for the
Church Committee
and then for the Select Committee, Gaeton Fonzi believes
that "David Atlee
Phillips played a key role in the conspiracy to assassinate
President
Kennedy". Phillips was in charge of the CIA's Cuban
operations in Mexico
City at the time of the assassination, so he was
strategically positioned
to frame Oswald, and it is quite possible, if not probable,
that he was
involved in the phony Oswald visits to the Cuban embassy.
Another former
CIA agent who has come under suspicion is E. Howard Hunt.
Hunt, a former
high-ranking covert operator and a propaganda specialist,
was a key figure
in the Bay of Pigs invasion. As mentioned, Hunt and David
Atlee Phillips
helped to overthrow the Arbenz government in Guatemala.
According to
former (and now deceased) CIA operative Frank Sturgis, who
knew Hunt well,
Hunt was involved in CIA assassination operations. Hunt has
made no secret
of his intense dislike for John Kennedy. To this day, Hunt
blames JFK for
the failure at the Bay of Pigs. When Watergate
whistleblower John Dean
opened Hunt's private safe, he found bogus telegrams that
falsely linked
JFK with the assassination of South Vietnam's corrupt
dictator Ngo Dinh
Diem. Where was E. Howard Hunt on November 22, 1963? Hunt
has given
conflicting accounts of where he was at the time of the
shooting. In his
1985 libel trial in Miami, Florida, the jury concluded Hunt
was not being
truthful about his whereabouts on the day of the
assassination. Hunt was
believed to be the small "tramp" in the famous "tramp
photos." The tramp
photos show three supposed tramps, which were arrested in
the railroad
yard behind the grassy knoll shortly after the
assassination. The tramps
were found in a freight train that had pulled out from
behind the TSBD
without authorization. The railroad tower controller
stopped the train
because he knew it did not have permission to depart. The
police then
searched the train and found the tramps. In the tramp
photos the tramps
are being escorted by some Dallas police officers who are
holding
shotguns, presumably on route to the police station. In
1988, 3M's Comtal
Corporation analyzed photos of Hunt and of the third tramp
and found a
noticeable resemblance between them. All of this does NOT
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