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There is always one person that knows if a politician is involved in corrupt activities. Their personal secretary. Walter Jenkins played this role for LBJ. He took great care about appointing him. It is no surprise that he selected a secret homosexual for the task. This gave him complete power over Jenkins (along with his own involvement in corrupt activities).

Therefore, it is not surprising that the secretaries of Bobby Baker (Nancy Carole Tyler) and George Smathers (Mary Jo Kopechne) were killed in accidents.

I have always felt that JFK’s secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, would have important information on the assassination of JFK. She knew who he was meeting and how he was responding to those conversations. Maybe JFK told her directly what was going on in the months leading up to the assassination. After all, we all need to talk to someone. Who better than the person always by your side. Not that Lincoln would ever disclose any information that would knowingly hurt JFK. She was too loyal for that. However, she might have revealed information that would have hurt his enemies.

Lincoln also had access to the tapes of JFK telephone conversations. Immediately after the assassination these tapes were seized by RFK (with the help of Secret Service agent Robert L. Bouck). Afterwards RFK showed concern about Lincoln’s knowledge of JFK's activities. He suspected that she had taken papers that belonged to JFK. However, he was unable to prove it. He also seemed scared of Lincoln. Friends say that RFK was often highly critical of Lincoln behind her back but was unwilling to take her on in face to face situations. RFK was right to be suspicious of Lincoln. When she died in 1995, tapes of JFK’s conversations were found in her possession. These were of course handed over to the Kennedy family and it is not known what was on them.

I read Lincoln’s My Twelve Years With John F. Kennedy some time. Published in 1965, it provided no useful information for people researching the assassination. I was aware that she had written another book, Kennedy & Johnson (1968). However, after the disappointment of her first book, I decided not to bother to read this one.

Recently I became very interested in the reasons why JFK selected LBJ as his running mate. During this research I came across a reference that suggested this issue was discussed in Lincoln’s book, Kennedy and Johnson. Using Abe Books I managed to track down a copy of this book. It arrived yesterday. It indeed does contain a lot of information that relates to the assassination (although Lincoln never attempts to show these links and never discusses what took place in Dallas).

As the title suggests, the book discusses the relationship Kennedy had with Johnson. Lincoln, like all JFK’s other close associates, was shocked by JFK’s decision to select LBJ as his running mate. She claims that LBJ was never once considered in the months leading up to the decision as a possible vice presidential candidate. The main reason for this was that JFK hated LBJ. This isnot surprising considering LBJ’s attacks on JFK during the campaign. He was especially upset by LBJ’s dirty tricks campaign.

In the book Lincoln points out the role that Philip Graham played in these events (we know from Bobby Baker’s book Wheeling and Dealing that Graham had been having meetings with LBJ in an attempt to get him the VP job). Lincoln claims that Stuart Symington had been offered the job of VP (he accepted). The problem came when Graham’s newspaper Washington Post published a story on the day of his nomination that JFK had selected LBJ as VP. This story disturbed JFK. He thought that his announcement that Symington was his choice would humiliate LBJ. He knew LBJ was in a position to cause problems when he tried to introduce legislative measures. Therefore he decided to personally explain to LBJ why he had chosen Symington. The meeting took place at 10.00 the morning after the nomination. JFK returned from the meeting with the news that he had given the job to LBJ.

Lincoln points out that when Graham published his account of events he lied about some important aspects of the case. Graham was obviously involved in this plot to get LBJ as VP. Why? We will probably never know as he committed suicide, aged 48, a few weeks before JFK was assassinated.

Lincoln goes on to describe the relationship JFK had with LBJ. Lincoln recalls the first important meeting the two men had after the decision had been made. It took place in JFK’s home. She saw the meeting through the glass. She also had reason to enter the room several times. She was shocked by what went on. Lincoln claims that LBJ did almost all of the talking. He constantly wagged his finger at JFK as if he was telling him what to do. Lincoln reports that JFK was distressed after his meeting. In fact, LBJ nearly always had this impact on JFK. Especially in the early days of the presidency when LBJ played an active role in decision making.

Lincoln was surprised by the way LBJ was able to persuade JFK to appoint his friends to positions of power. Lincoln was particularly shocked by JFK willingness to appoint John Connally as Secretary of the Navy. She knew that JFK did not like or respect Connally. This was an important post as it made decisions about government arms contracts. When Connally left to become Governor of Texas, he was replaced by Fred Korth, another one of LBJ’s buddies. JFK in fact gave LBJ the right of veto to “all job appointments for Texans, in or out of the state”.

JFK’s major objective when becoming president was to deal with the power held by the important Congressional Committees. He was particularly concerned about the seniority rule. LBJ had used this rule to ensure that his men chaired all the important committees. In this way they were able to block all liberal legislation from being passed by Congress. JFK had come under considerable pressure from liberal senators in the North to tackle this problem.

JFK’s first task was to undermine the power of Howard W. Smith, the chairman of the House Rules Committee. In this post he held a stranglehold over all legislation. One possibility was to get rid of his right-hand man, William Colmer of Mississippi. LBJ and Sam Rayburn rejected this idea. Instead they suggested that the size of the committee should be increased from 12 to 15. This would enable them to get a committee that would allow more liberal legislation through. LBJ and Rayburn promised they would ensure that Democrats in the South would vote for this measure.

JFK agreed to this proposal but later discovered that LBJ and Rayburn were in fact lobbying against this plan. The only way JFK could get in through was to persuade Republicans to vote for this proposal. JFK won the vote by 217 to 212. All 64 democrats from the South and border states voted against the legislation. However, JFK won because he had persuaded 22 Republicans in the North to vote for the proposal.

JFK now knew that LBJ was unwilling to help him get his legislation passed. Therefore he isolated LBJ from decision making and made preparations to replace him in 1964.

Stories on JFK’s plans to dump LBJ emerged as early as 1962. At a press conference on 9th May, 1962, JFK was forced to deny this story. However, it was true. JFK had already selected his 1964 running mate. His choice was Terry Sanford. The two men had become very close during JFK election campaign. By 1963 they held similar views on all the major issues. JFK became convinced that Sandford was the one liberal from the South who could help him get progressive legislation through Congress.

The Bobby Baker scandal reinforced JFK’s plans to dump LBJ. JFK became aware that LBJ was blackmailing Republicans with threats that their G.O.P. tax returns would be audited. At a press conference on 14th November, 1963, JFK admitted that the Department of Justice had discovered a great deal about Bobby Baker and he promised that appropriate action would be taken against all those involved in this scandal. JFK of course knew that this involved LBJ and the chairman of all the important committees in Congress. What he did not know was that Bobby Baker had cleverly pulled JFK into this scandal (see my posting in the Suite 8F Group later today for information on this) and that the full truth would never emerge.

Lincoln is also very interesting about what she has to say about the trip to Texas. She says that JFK was very reluctant to go on this trip: “Advance reports from our own staff and from many other people gave us cause to worry about the tense climate in Texas – and, most especially, in Dallas. Dallas was removed and then put back on the planned itinerary several times. Our own advance man urged that the motorcade not take the route through the underpass and past the Book Depository, but he was overruled.”

Lincoln comments on a meeting that took place between JFK and Connally only three days before Bobby Baker resigned. The meeting was about Baker and the proposed trip to Texas. After Connally left JFK told Lincoln: “He sure seemed anxious for me to go to Texas”.

Yet another astounding thread. It looks like it, if believed, addresses the mysterious motorcade route change. It also makes Connelly look super suspicious, which begs the question "why the heck would he ride in the death car?"

And it raises good points about the value of secretaries in investigative matters.

Is there some reason that Evelyn Lincoln doesn't get more attention? Does she lack credibility? What John posted from her Kennedy & Johnson book are bombshells. It confirms so many suspicions.

So about that autopsy illustration--anyone know who did it and where it can be found?

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There is always one person that knows if a politician is involved in corrupt activities. Their personal secretary. Walter Jenkins played this role for LBJ. He took great care about appointing him. It is no surprise that he selected a secret homosexual for the task. This gave him complete power over Jenkins (along with his own involvement in corrupt activities).

Therefore, it is not surprising that the secretaries of Bobby Baker (Nancy Carole Tyler) and George Smathers (Mary Jo Kopechne) were killed in accidents.

I have always felt that JFK’s secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, would have important information on the assassination of JFK. She knew who he was meeting and how he was responding to those conversations. Maybe JFK told her directly what was going on in the months leading up to the assassination. After all, we all need to talk to someone. Who better than the person always by your side. Not that Lincoln would ever disclose any information that would knowingly hurt JFK. She was too loyal for that. However, she might have revealed information that would have hurt his enemies.

Lincoln also had access to the tapes of JFK telephone conversations. Immediately after the assassination these tapes were seized by RFK (with the help of Secret Service agent Robert L. Bouck). Afterwards RFK showed concern about Lincoln’s knowledge of JFK's activities. He suspected that she had taken papers that belonged to JFK. However, he was unable to prove it. He also seemed scared of Lincoln. Friends say that RFK was often highly critical of Lincoln behind her back but was unwilling to take her on in face to face situations. RFK was right to be suspicious of Lincoln. When she died in 1995, tapes of JFK’s conversations were found in her possession. These were of course handed over to the Kennedy family and it is not known what was on them.

I read Lincoln’s My Twelve Years With John F. Kennedy some time. Published in 1965, it provided no useful information for people researching the assassination. I was aware that she had written another book, Kennedy & Johnson (1968). However, after the disappointment of her first book, I decided not to bother to read this one.

Recently I became very interested in the reasons why JFK selected LBJ as his running mate. During this research I came across a reference that suggested this issue was discussed in Lincoln’s book, Kennedy and Johnson. Using Abe Books I managed to track down a copy of this book. It arrived yesterday. It indeed does contain a lot of information that relates to the assassination (although Lincoln never attempts to show these links and never discusses what took place in Dallas).

As the title suggests, the book discusses the relationship Kennedy had with Johnson. Lincoln, like all JFK’s other close associates, was shocked by JFK’s decision to select LBJ as his running mate. She claims that LBJ was never once considered in the months leading up to the decision as a possible vice presidential candidate. The main reason for this was that JFK hated LBJ. This isnot surprising considering LBJ’s attacks on JFK during the campaign. He was especially upset by LBJ’s dirty tricks campaign.

In the book Lincoln points out the role that Philip Graham played in these events (we know from Bobby Baker’s book Wheeling and Dealing that Graham had been having meetings with LBJ in an attempt to get him the VP job). Lincoln claims that Stuart Symington had been offered the job of VP (he accepted). The problem came when Graham’s newspaper Washington Post published a story on the day of his nomination that JFK had selected LBJ as VP. This story disturbed JFK. He thought that his announcement that Symington was his choice would humiliate LBJ. He knew LBJ was in a position to cause problems when he tried to introduce legislative measures. Therefore he decided to personally explain to LBJ why he had chosen Symington. The meeting took place at 10.00 the morning after the nomination. JFK returned from the meeting with the news that he had given the job to LBJ.

Lincoln points out that when Graham published his account of events he lied about some important aspects of the case. Graham was obviously involved in this plot to get LBJ as VP. Why? We will probably never know as he committed suicide, aged 48, a few weeks before JFK was assassinated.

Lincoln goes on to describe the relationship JFK had with LBJ. Lincoln recalls the first important meeting the two men had after the decision had been made. It took place in JFK’s home. She saw the meeting through the glass. She also had reason to enter the room several times. She was shocked by what went on. Lincoln claims that LBJ did almost all of the talking. He constantly wagged his finger at JFK as if he was telling him what to do. Lincoln reports that JFK was distressed after his meeting. In fact, LBJ nearly always had this impact on JFK. Especially in the early days of the presidency when LBJ played an active role in decision making.

Lincoln was surprised by the way LBJ was able to persuade JFK to appoint his friends to positions of power. Lincoln was particularly shocked by JFK willingness to appoint John Connally as Secretary of the Navy. She knew that JFK did not like or respect Connally. This was an important post as it made decisions about government arms contracts. When Connally left to become Governor of Texas, he was replaced by Fred Korth, another one of LBJ’s buddies. JFK in fact gave LBJ the right of veto to “all job appointments for Texans, in or out of the state”.

JFK’s major objective when becoming president was to deal with the power held by the important Congressional Committees. He was particularly concerned about the seniority rule. LBJ had used this rule to ensure that his men chaired all the important committees. In this way they were able to block all liberal legislation from being passed by Congress. JFK had come under considerable pressure from liberal senators in the North to tackle this problem.

JFK’s first task was to undermine the power of Howard W. Smith, the chairman of the House Rules Committee. In this post he held a stranglehold over all legislation. One possibility was to get rid of his right-hand man, William Colmer of Mississippi. LBJ and Sam Rayburn rejected this idea. Instead they suggested that the size of the committee should be increased from 12 to 15. This would enable them to get a committee that would allow more liberal legislation through. LBJ and Rayburn promised they would ensure that Democrats in the South would vote for this measure.

JFK agreed to this proposal but later discovered that LBJ and Rayburn were in fact lobbying against this plan. The only way JFK could get in through was to persuade Republicans to vote for this proposal. JFK won the vote by 217 to 212. All 64 democrats from the South and border states voted against the legislation. However, JFK won because he had persuaded 22 Republicans in the North to vote for the proposal.

JFK now knew that LBJ was unwilling to help him get his legislation passed. Therefore he isolated LBJ from decision making and made preparations to replace him in 1964.

Stories on JFK’s plans to dump LBJ emerged as early as 1962. At a press conference on 9th May, 1962, JFK was forced to deny this story. However, it was true. JFK had already selected his 1964 running mate. His choice was Terry Sanford. The two men had become very close during JFK election campaign. By 1963 they held similar views on all the major issues. JFK became convinced that Sandford was the one liberal from the South who could help him get progressive legislation through Congress.

The Bobby Baker scandal reinforced JFK’s plans to dump LBJ. JFK became aware that LBJ was blackmailing Republicans with threats that their G.O.P. tax returns would be audited. At a press conference on 14th November, 1963, JFK admitted that the Department of Justice had discovered a great deal about Bobby Baker and he promised that appropriate action would be taken against all those involved in this scandal. JFK of course knew that this involved LBJ and the chairman of all the important committees in Congress. What he did not know was that Bobby Baker had cleverly pulled JFK into this scandal (see my posting in the Suite 8F Group later today for information on this) and that the full truth would never emerge.

Lincoln is also very interesting about what she has to say about the trip to Texas. She says that JFK was very reluctant to go on this trip: “Advance reports from our own staff and from many other people gave us cause to worry about the tense climate in Texas – and, most especially, in Dallas. Dallas was removed and then put back on the planned itinerary several times. Our own advance man urged that the motorcade not take the route through the underpass and past the Book Depository, but he was overruled.”

Lincoln comments on a meeting that took place between JFK and Connally only three days before Bobby Baker resigned. The meeting was about Baker and the proposed trip to Texas. After Connally left JFK told Lincoln: “He sure seemed anxious for me to go to Texas”.

Yet another astounding thread. It looks like it, if believed, addresses the mysterious motorcade route change. It also makes Connelly look super suspicious, which begs the question "why the heck would he ride in the death car?"

And it raises good points about the value of secretaries in investigative matters.

Is there some reason that Evelyn Lincoln doesn't get more attention? Does she lack credibility? What John posted from her Kennedy & Johnson book are bombshells. It confirms so many suspicions.

So about that autopsy illustration--anyone know who did it and where it can be found?

Ms. Lincoln seemed to be a super lady. A true and loyal confidant. Johnson on the other hand, was nothing more than a low down skunk! Even after the "break" Kennedy gave him, he was sticking him in the back. He was one of the most despicable politicians ever elected to ANY position. By what i have read, Connally wasnt far behind, concerning Kennedy. It was mentioned about Brunos prior trip to Dallas for security checks for the "murdercade". Reading "Survivors Guilt", it goes into quite a bit of detail about all of the checks made, and by who. The amazing part is that most of the people involved with that, all came back with a positive attitude about the Dallas trip, with no real threats present! This was not long after the Stevenson incident! Amazing, to say the least. FWIW, 'Survivors Guilt" so far has been a very good read.

thanks-smitty

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WHAT HAPPENED TO KENNEDY'S BRAIN?

The following is from Volume VII of the HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

ASSASSINATIONS.

---------------------------------------------------------------

PART III. SUBSEQUENT HISTORY OF MATERIALS

(114) On April 22, 1965, then Senator Robert F. Kennedy

sent a letter to Dr. Burkley directing him to transfer in person

the autopsy material being kept at the White House to Mrs. Evelyn

Lincoln, the personal secretary of President Kennedy, for

safekeeping at the National Archives. The letter also said that

Mrs. Lincoln was being instructed that the material was not to be

released to anyone without Robert Kennedy's written permission and

approval. This demonstrates Robert Kennedy's firm control over

the disposition of the materials.

(115) In response to this directive, Dr. Burkley notified

the Protective Research Division of Senator Kennedy's request.

Before transferring the material, Bouck, Burkley and other Secret

Service personnel carefully inventoried all the items present.

This was the first official inventory of these materials.

(116) On April 26, 1965, Burkley and Bouck transferred the

materials to Evelyn Lincoln. A letter from Burkley to Lincoln

documenting the exchange included the inventory, which documented

that a stainless steel container 7 by 8 inches in diameter,

containing gross material was transferred. On the last page of

the inventory, Lincoln wrote: "Received, April 26, 1965, in room

409, National Archives, Washington, D.C., from Dr. Burkley and

Robert Bouck." At the time of the transfer, the items now

missing, which are those enumerated under item No. 9 of the

inventory, were allegedly present.

(117) In his testimony before the committee, Bouck stated

that he is quite positive all the autopsy-related material that

came into his possession was given to Mrs. Lincoln at the time of

the 1965 transfer. He also stated that he was uncertain whether

Dr. Burkley had custody of the brain, but that if the brain was

part of the autopsy materials in the custody of the Secret

Service, it was transported to the National Archives.

(118) Dr. Burkley clarified this issue, saying that the

stainless steel container mentioned in the inventory held the

brain and that he saw the bucket in April 1965, when he and Bouck

transferred the autopsy materials to Lincoln. Since this transfer,

Dr. Burkley maintains that he has had no further knowledge of or

association with these materials.

(119) Mrs. Lincoln was not an employee of the National

Archives during this period; she was only assisting in the

transfer of the official papers and items of President Kennedy and

in this capacity occupied an office in the National Archives.

Consequently, although the autopsy materials were in the confines

of the building the National Archives did not have authority or

responsibility for them.

(120) The next documented transaction involving the

materials transferred to Mrs. Lincoln occurred on October 29,

1966, when Mr. Burke Marshall, on behalf of the executors of the

John F. Kennedy estate, sent a letter to Lawson B. Knott, the

Administrator of the General Services Administration, outlining

an agreement for formal transfer of materials related to the

autopsy to the U.S. Government.

(121) Pursuant to this agreement, which constituted a deed

of gift, Burke Marshall met with various representatives of the

Government on October 31, 1966, in room 6-W-3 of the National

Archives to transfer formally the materials related to the

autopsy. These materials were contained in a locked footlocker

for which Ms. Angela Novello, the personal secretary to Robert F.

Kennedy, produced a key. Others in attendance for the transfer

were William H. Brewster, special assistant to the general counsel

GSA, who unlocked and opened the footlocker; Harold F. Reis,

executive assistant to the Attorney General Robert H. Bahruer

Archivist of the United States; Herman Kahn, Assistant Archivist

for Presidential libraries and James Rhoads, the Deputy Archivist

of the United States. After Brewster opened the footlocker,

Marshall and Novello departed.

(122) Bahmer, Reis, Rhoads, Kahn, and Brewster then removed

all the material from the footlocker and inspected it. The

footlocker contained a carbon copy of the letter from Robert F.

Kennedy to Burkley on April 22, 1965, and the original letter from

Burkley to Lincoln on April 26, 1965, which also listed on the

itemized inventory list the materials present at that transfer.

(123) Upon inspection, the officials realized that the

footlocker did not contain any of the material listed under item

No. 9 of the inventory. This material included:

1 plastic box, 9 by 6 1/2 by 1 inches, paraffin blocks of

tissue sections.

1 plastic box containing paraffin blocks of tissue sections

plus 35 slides.

A third box containing 84 slides.

1 stainless steel container, 7 by 8 inches in diameter,

containing gross material.

3 wooden boxes, each 7 by 3 1/2 by 1 1/4 inches, containing

58 slides of blood smears taken at various times

during President Kennedy's lifetime.

(124) The last date these items were accounted for was the

April 26, 1965 transfer of the autopsy materials to Lincoln.

(125) The committee contacted Lincoln to determine what

happened to the materials in item No. 9, the missing materials,

following their documented transfer to her in April 1965. She

informed the committee of an interview and subsequent affidavit

that Burkley and Bouck brought her some materials in the spring

of 1965 that Dr. Burkley identified as being related to the

autopsy of the President. She recalled that these materials

arrived in a box or boxes, and that within 1 day she obtained a

flat trunk or footlocker from the Archives personnel to which she

transferred the materials. She added that these materials were

kept in a security room in her office in the National Archives.

(126) Mrs. Lincoln stated that within approximately 1

month, Robert F. Kennedy telephoned her and informed her that he

was sending Angela Novello, his personal secretary, to move the

footlocker that Dr. Burkley had transferred. She believed they

wanted the materials moved to another part of the Archives,

presumably where Robert F. Kennedy was storing other materials.

Angela Novello soon came to her office with Herman Kahn, Assistant

Archivist for Presidential Libraries, and one or more of his

deputies, to take the trunk. Lincoln believes she had Novello sign

a receipt for the materials, which was Lincoln's routine practice,

but she is uncertain where it would be today. Lincoln also said

that she gave Novello both keys to the trunk.. She added that the

trunk was never opened while it was in her office.

(127) Lincoln had no further direct contact with the

material, but did state that after the assassination of Robert

Kennedy, she began to wonder what happened to it. Consequently,

she contacted Kenneth O'Donnell, former aide to President Kennedy,

to make sure the family was aware of its existence. Mrs. Lincoln

said it was her understanding that Mr. O'Donnell then called

Senator Edward Kennedy, subsequently calling her back to tell her

everything was under control.

(128) Because of Lincoln's statement and other reports that

Novello produced the key to the footlocker in December 1966, the

committee interviewed Novello and also obtained an affidavit. She

informed the committee that she had no recollection of handling

a footlocker, of possessing a key or keys to such a footlocker,

or of handling any of the autopsy materials.

(129) The committee also contacted Burke Marshall and

Senator Edward Kennedy to determine their knowledge of the missing

materials. Senator Kennedy indicated that he did not know what

happened to the materials, or who last had custody of them.

(130) While Burke Marshall also maintained that he had no

actual knowledge of the disposition of the materials, he said it

was his speculative opinion that Robert Kennedy obtained and

disposed of these materials himself, without informing anyone

else. Marshall said Robert Kennedy was concerned that these

materials would be placed on public display in future years in an

institution such as the Smithsonian and wished to dispose of them

to eliminate such a possibility. Marshall emphasized that he does

not believe anyone other than Robert Kennedy would have known what

happened to the materials and is certain that obtaining or

locating these materials is no longer possible.

(131) Since Marshall offered the opinion without any

verification, the committee continued to search for the missing

materials and to examine any issue related to the autopsy

materials in general. The committee interviewed Harold F. Reis,

Executive Assistant to the Attorney General who attended the 1966

transfer of the autopsy materials to the National Archives, as

well as Ramsey Clark, the Attorney General in 1966, to determine

their knowledge of the missing materials. Clark stated that he

initiated the action to acquire the materials transferred in the

October 1966 deed of gift pursuant to Public Law 89-318, enacted

on November 2, 1965. This law provided that the acquisition by

the United States of certain items of evidence pertaining to the

assassination of President Kennedy had to be completed within the

year. When Clark learned the time limit for obtaining the

evidence was approaching, he contacted Robert Kennedy, who was not

sympathetic to the Government's need to acquire the autopsy

material. Rather heated negotiations ensued between Clark and

Burke Marshall, the Kennedy family representative, which resulted

in the October 29, 1966 agreement constituting the deed of gift.

Clark stated that he had only requested transfer of the autopsy

photographs and X-rays and did not recall any discussions with

Robert Kennedy about any other autopsy materials. Consequently,

the brain and the tissue segments were not an issue in the

procedures and negotiations during the October 1966 transfer. The

committee could not ascertain if the physical specimens were ever

discussed in the negotiations, what type of approval Robert

Kennedy gave for transforming the materials, or what procedure was

employed to separate the photographs and X-rays from the material

now missing.

(132) The next reference to the missing materials and the

other autopsy materials in the custody of the National Archives

occurred in 1968. Ramsey Clark, the Attorney. General, arranged

for an independent review of the autopsy evidence by a group of

pathologists-commonly referred to as the Clark panel--as a result

of growing skepticism concerning the assassination and Warren

Commission investigation. In a memorandum to the files on

February 13,1969, Thomas J. Kelley, the Assistant Director of the

Secret Service, reflected on the report of the Clark panel, in

which the physicians had commented that the materials they

reviewed were included on the inventory list that accompanied the

letter from Burkley to Lincoln on April 26, 1965. Kelley asserted

that this reference to the autopsy materials by the Clark panel

physicians was phrased in this manner because the doctors did not

have access to the materials listed as comprising item No. 9 on

the inventory list. The memorandum also noted that after

discovering in October 1966 that these items were missing,

Archives personnel conducted a careful search but could not

determine their location.

(133) After discussing the "missing" materials with Harry

R. Van Cleve, Jr., General Counsel to the General Services

Administration, and agreeing that they should attempt to ascertain

their disposition, Kelley said he would contact Dr. Burkley.

Kelley's memorandum related the following:

[T]hat after turning all of this material over

to Mrs. Lincoln [on April 26] [burkley] never saw nor

heard anything about its disposition, and that he was

surprised to hear that it was not with the remainder

of the material he turned over to Mrs. Lincoln. After

discussing the problem, Dr. Burkley offered to call

Mrs. Lincoln. He did this in my presence and Mrs.

Lincoln told him that all of the material he turned

over to her was placed in a trunk or footlocker; that

it was locked, and that to her knowledge it was never

opened nor the contents disturbed by her. She said,

however, that sometime after its receipt all of the

material concerning the assassination, with which she

was working, was turned over to Angie Novello, Robert

Kennedy's secretary.

(134) The memorandum further related that Dr. Burkley told

Kelley that Henry Giordano, a former White House driver, was

working with Lincoln at the time of the transfer and was then

employed in Senator Kennedy's office.

(135) After contacting Van Cleve again and advising him of

the contact with Burkley, Kelley related the following:

I * * * further advised him that, in my opinion, we

should not contact Giordano. He agreed with this and

stated he felt that the inquiry would have to remain

as it now stands; that perhaps we were borrowing

trouble in exploring it any further, and assured me

that the Archivist had made a thorough search of all

of the material on hand to make sure that the

material in question had not been received by the

Archivist at another time or under other

circumstances.

(136) Thus, the General Services Administration, which

oversees the National Archives, decided not to pursue the search

for the missing materials any further. The officials involved were

apparently satisfied with knowing that the National Archives did

not have any responsibility in their disappearance and did not

wish to instigate trouble by pursuing any investigation.

(137) In 1971, a controversy, not directly involving the

missing materials, arose over the chain of custody of the autopsy

materials being stored in the National Archives and who should

have access to them. John Nichols, a pathologist, began court

proceedings in the Federal courts, challenging the agreement of

October 29, 1966, which contains several restrictions limiting

public access to the autopsy materials. An issue raised by the

suit was whether the Kennedy family ever had any legal right to

control the autopsy materials at any time and, consequently,

whether any deed of gift from the family which contained

restrictions limiting public access could be valid.

(138) Both the Federal District Court and the Tenth Circuit

Court of Appeals upheld the agreement. The Court of appeals

stated that the "letter of agreement of October 29, 1966 is a

valid, binding agreement and that the restrictions imposed thereby

are reasonable."

(139) The legal department of the Congressional Research

Service analyzed the Nichols case for the committee. The CRS noted

that while the "Nichols decision represents only the determination

of one circuit until the question is addressed elsewhere it would

seem to represent 'the state of the law?'" The CRS stated that

until the April 1965 transfer, the autopsy materials were "in

Government hands with no intervening transfer of like having

occurred." It then observed:

At this point, however, as suggested in the

November 4, 1966, Treasury Department memorandum * *

* the transfer to the Kennedy family may have been

interpreted by some as indication of U.S. recognition

of Kennedy family rights in the items so transferred.

At some point thereafter, either upon delivery to the

Archives in 1965 or upon acceptance of the letter of

gift of October 1966, the materials may be regarded

as having been either (1) returned to their rightful

owner, the United States Government, or (2) donated

by properly executed deed of gift to the United

States, thereby resulting in relinquishment of

Kennedy family rights in them.

(140) The CRS ended by saying that two conclusions are

irrefutable. First, the autopsy photographs and X-rays are now the

property of the United States; and second, the letter of agreement

between the Government and the Kennedy family remains enforceable.

(141) The committee also interviewed Archives personnel to

ascertain their present position regarding the missing materials.

In response to committee requests, Trudy H. Peterson, Assistant

to the Deputy Archivist of the United States, prepared a written

statement. In this document, Peterson noted that just prior to

the October 1966 transfer of the materials to the Archives, the

locked footlocker was brought to the National Archives building,

although she does not specify from where. This suggests that

after Novello allegedly took the material from the office of Mrs.

Lincoln, it may have been moved from the Archives building as

opposed to only being moved to another part of the building as

Mrs. Lincoln speculated.) Peterson also says that Robert Bahmer,

the Archivist of the United States in 1966, believed that sometime

before the transfer of the materials as a gift, Herman Kahn, the

Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries supervised the

acceptance of the footlocker, along with several other boxes of

Robert Kennedy's materials, for courtesy storage in vault 6-W-3.

Peterson further stated that Herman Kahn, now dead, may have been

the only Archives employee present for the transfer and that no

record of delivery is available.

(142) In response to a subsequent committee inquiry

concerning Herman Kahn, Peterson stated that Kahn dealt with

members and representatives of the Kennedy family during 1964-68

on numerous issues, including the courtesy storage of Robert

Kennedy materials. He was present for the October 1966 transfer

and, according to Marion Johnson of the National Archives, was one

of the original holders of the combination to the safe cabinet in

which the autopsy material was stored. Kahn also allegedly

accompanied Novello when Novello apparently removed the autopsy

materials from the office of Lincoln.

(143) In response to another committee request, the Office

of Presidential Libraries conducted a thorough but unsuccessful

search of the office files for 1965-66 for documentation regarding

the transfer of the autopsy materials to the physical custody of

the Archives. Additionally, two members of the Presidential

Libraries staff who worked under Herman Kahn at that time stated

in interviews and affidavits that they could not recall any

pertinent details concerning the autopsy materials. The staff of

the John F. Kennedy Library also reviewed their files, with

negative results. Further, one Archives employee, Marion Johnson,

Archivist, Office of the National Archives, National Archives and

Records Service, remembered that he became aware of the footlocker

containing the autopsy materials shortly before the October 31,

1966 transfer, but was not aware of its contents until after the

transfer. Additionally, at the request of the committee, on July

18, 1978, Clarence Lyons and Trudy Peterson conducted a thorough

but unsuccessful search of the security storage vault for the

tissue sections and the container of gross material.

(144) Given these efforts and findings, it appears that

Kahn and Novello removed the autopsy material from the office of

Mrs. Lincoln shortly after April 1965. The material was then

either kept in another part of the Archives, probably a Robert

Kennedy courtesy storage area, or removed from the building to a

location designated by Robert Kennedy. The circumstantial evidence

would seem to indicate that Robert Kennedy then decided to retain

possession of all physical specimen evidence and transferred only

the autopsy photographs and X-rays to the Government. The

committee has not been able to verify how or when the item No. 9

materials were removed from the other autopsy materials or what

subsequently happened to them.

PART IV. ADDITIONAL EFFORTS TO ACQUIRE THE MISSING MATERIALS

(145) After failing to determine the fate of the missing

materials by tracing that chain of custody, the committee

investigated the possibility that someone had placed the missing

autopsy items all of which were physical specimens taken from the

body of President Kennedy, in the final grave on reinterment, on

March 14, 1967. The persons contacted who were present for the

ceremony could not recall any additional package or material being

placed in the grave. The Superintendent of Arlington National

Cemetery from 1951 to 1972 John Metzler, informed the committee

that he attended the burial of the President and the reinterment.

At the time of burial, the coffin was placed in a "Wilbur" vault,

which has a lid and vault that operate on a tongue and groove

system. Tar is placed on the points of contact of the grooves to

insure a tight fit and permanent seal. Metzler witnessed the

lowering of the lid and the sealing of the vault, and believed

that the only method to open the vault subsequently would be to

break the lid on the main portion of the vault.

(146) Metzler supervised the reinterment in 1967 and was

present at all phases of the transfer: from the opening of the old

site through the transfer by crane of the vault to the closing of

the new site Metzler said there was no way anyone could have

placed anything in the coffin or vault during the transfer without

his seeing it. Metzler also said that nothing could have been

placed in the vault since 1963 because there was no indication of

damage to the vault indicating any disturbance. Metzler stated

further that no one placed anything in the new or old gravesite

besides the vault.

(147) In the course of its investigation the committee

contacted numerous other people in an unsuccessful attempt to

locate the missing materials. They included:

1. Dr. James J. Humes, autopsy pathologist;

2. George Dalton, former White House aide and assistant to

Mrs. Lincoln at the National Archives;

3. Edith Duncan, administrative assistant to Robert Bouck,

Protective Research Section, Secret Service;

4. Joseph D. Giordano, former White House aide and

assistant to Mrs. Lincoln at the National Archives;

5. Frank Mankiewicz, former assistant to Robert F. Kennedy;

6. Harry Van Cleve, former General Counsel of the General

Services Administration;

7. Lawrence O'Brien, former aide to President Kennedy;

8. David Powers, former aide to President Kennedy;

9. Ken Fienberg, aide to Senator Edward Kennedy;

10. P.J. Costanzo, Superintendent of Arlington National

Cemetery;

11. Dr. James Boswell, autopsy pathologist;

12. Dr. Pierre Finck, autopsy pathologist;

13. Adm. George Galloway, commanding officer of the

National Naval Medical Center in 1963;

14. Capt. John H. Stover, commanding officer of the U.S.

Naval Medical School in 1963;

15. Bruce Bromley, former Justice Department attorney who

was called briefly from private practice to serve as

counsel to the Clark panel;

16. Carl Eardley, former Justice Department official;

17. Harold Reis, former Justice Department official;

18. Sol Lindenbaum, former Justice Department official;

19. National Archives personnel; and

20. Thomas J. Kelley, Assistant Director of the U.S. Secret

Service.

PART V. CONCLUSIONS

(148) Despite these efforts, the committee was not able to

determine precisely what happened to the missing materials.. The

evidence indicates that the materials were not buried with the

body at reinterment. It seems apparent that Angela Novello did

remove the footlocker containing to the materials from the office

of Mrs. Lincoln at the direction of Robert Kennedy, and that

Herman Kahn had knowledge of this transaction. After the removal

from Lincoln's office, Robert Kennedy most likely acquired

possession of or at least personal control over these materials.

Burke Marshall's opinion that Robert Kennedy obtained and disposed

of these items himself to prevent any future public display

supports this theory.

(149) There are least two possible reasons why Robert

Kennedy would not have retained the autopsy photographs and

X-rays. First, the only materials retained were physical

specimens from the body of his brother: Tissue sections, blood

smear slides, and the container of gross material. He may have

understandably felt more strongly about preventing the misuse of

these physical materials than the photographs and X-rays. Second,

the Justice Department under Ramsey Clark pushed hard to acquire

the photographs and X-rays but did not request the physical

materials. Even if Robert Kennedy had wished to prevent the

release of all the autopsy materials, he was not in a position to

do so when confronted with Justice Department demands.

(150) Consequently, although the committee has not been

able to uncover any direct evidence of the fate of the missing

materials, circumstantial evidence tends to show that Robert

Kennedy either destroyed these materials or otherwise rendered

them inaccessible.

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MOTORCADE LINCOLN AND DR.Burkley

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The motorcade consisted of numerous cars, police motorcycles and press

buses :

The pilot car, a white Ford sedan: Dallas Police Deputy Chief George L.

Lumpkin, Dallas homicide detectives Billy L. Senkel and F.M. Turner, and

Lt. Col. George Whitmeyer, commander of the local Army Intelligence

reserve unit.[104]

Three two-wheel Dallas police motorcycle officers under the command of

Sgt. S. Q. Bellah.

Five two-wheel motorcycle officers.

The lead car, an unmarked white Ford police sedan: Dallas Police Chief

Jesse Curry (driver), Secret Service Agent Winston Lawson (right front),

Sheriff Bill Decker (left rear), Agent Forrest Sorrels (right rear).[105]

Two-wheel motorcycle officer Sgt. Stavis "Steve" Ellis.[106]

The presidential limousine, known to the Secret Service as SS-100-X (with

District of Columbia license plate GG 300), a dark blue 1961 Lincoln

Continental convertible: Agent Bill Greer (driver), Agent Roy Kellerman

(right front), Nellie Connally (left middle), Texas Governor John Connally

(right middle), First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (left rear), President

Kennedy (right rear).

Four Dallas Police motorcycle escorts, two on each side of the

presidential limousine, flanking the rear bumper: Billy Joe Martin and

Robert W. “Bobby” Hargis (left), and James M. Chaney and Douglas L.

Jackson (right).[107]

Halfback (a Secret Service code name), a black 1955 Cadillac convertible:

Agent Sam Kinney (driver), Agent Emory Roberts (right front), Agent Clint

Hill (left front running board), Agent Bill McIntyre (left rear running

board), Agent John D. Ready (right front running board), Agent Paul Landis

(right rear running board), Presidential aide Kenneth O'Donnell (left

middle), Presidential aide David Powers (right middle), Agent George

Hickey (left rear), Agent Glen Bennett (right rear).[108]

1961 light blue Lincoln four door convertible: Hurchel Jacks of the Texas

Highway Patrol (driver), Agent Rufus Youngblood (right front), Senator

Ralph Yarborough (left rear), Lady Bird Johnson (center rear),

Vice-President Lyndon Johnson (right rear).[109]

Varsity (Secret Service code name), a yellow 1963 Ford Mercury hardtop:

Joe H. Rich of the Texas Highway Patrol (driver), Vice Presidential aide

Cliff Carter (front middle), Secret Service agents Jerry Kivett (right

front), Warren W. "Woody" Taylor (left rear), and Thomas L. "Len" Johns

(right rear).[110]

White 1963 Ford Mercury Comet convertible: Texas Highway Patrolman

Milton T. Wright (driver), Dallas mayor

Earle Cabell and his wife Elizabeth, and Congressman Ray Roberts.

[111]

National press pool car (on loan from the telephone company), a blue- gray

1960 Chevrolet Bel Air sedan: telephone company driver; assistant White

House press secretary Malcolm Kilduff (right front); Merriman Smith, UPI

(middle front); Jack Bell, AP; Robert Baskin, Dallas Morning News; Bob

Clark, ABC News (rear).

First camera car, a yellow 1964 Chevrolet Impala Convertible: a Texas

Ranger (driver); David Wiegman Jr., NBC; Thomas J. Craven Jr., CBS; Thomas

"Ollie" Atkins, White House photographer; John Hofan, an NBC sound

engineer; Cleveland Ryan, a lighting technician.

Second camera car: Frank Cancellare, UPI; Cecil Stoughton, White House

photographer; Henry Burroughs, AP; Art Rickerby, Life magazine; Donald C.

“Clint” Grant, Dallas Morning News. Dallas Police motorcycle escorts

H.B. McLain and Marion L.. Baker.

Third camera car, a Chevrolet convertible: driver from the Texas

Department of Public Safety; photographer Robert H. Jackson, The Dallas

Times Herald; photographer Tom Dillard, Dallas Morning News; Jimmy

Darnell, WBAP-TV, Fort Worth; Mal Couch, WFAA-TV/ABC [3]; James R..

Underwood, KRLD-TV.[112]

First car of Congressmen.

Second car of Congressmen.

Third car of Congressmen.

VIP staff car carrying a governor's aide and the military and Air Force

aides to the president.

Dallas Police motorcycle escorts J.W. Courson and C.A. Haygood.

First White House press bus: Mary Barelli Gallagher, Jacqueline Kennedy's

personal secretary; Pamela Turnure, Jacqueline Kennedy's press secretary;

Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, the Vice President's secretary; Liz Carpenter,

staff director for Lady Bird Johnson; Jack Valenti, in charge of press

relations during President Kennedy's visit to Texas; Robert MacNeil, NBC

News; and a few others.[113]

Local press car with four Dallas Morning News reporters.

Second White House press bus.

Dallas Police motorcycle escorts R. Smart and B.J. Dale.

Chevrolet sedan: Evelyn Lincoln, the President's personal secretary;

Dr. George Burkley, the President's personal physician.

1957 black Ford hardtop: Two representatives from Western Union.

1964 white Chevrolet Impala: White House Signal Corps officer Art

Bales; Army Warrant Officer Ira Gearhart.

1964 white-top, dark-body Chevrolet Impala.

Third White House press bus: staff and members of the Democratic

Party.

1963 black and white Ford police car.

Solo three-wheel Dallas Police motorcycle escort.

Keynotes :

[104]^ Warren Commission Testimony of F.M. Turner, April 3, 1964.

Detective Senkel's surname is misspelled as "Shekel" in Turner's

Warren Commission testimony.

[105]^ Statement of Winston G. Lawson, Dec. 1, 1963. Warren Commission

Testimony of Forrest V. Sorrels, May 7, 1964.

[106]^ Interview of Stavis Ellis by Larry A. Sneed, No More Silence:

An Oral History of the Assassination of President Kennedy, University

of North Texas Press, 2002, p. 144.

[107]^ Warren Commission Testimony of B.J. Martin, April 3, 1964.

Warren Commission Testimony of Bobby W. Hargis, April 8, 1964. Gary

Savage, JFK First Day Evidence, Shoppe Press, 1993, p. 363. ISBN

0-963-81165-7.

[108]^ Statement of Emory P. Roberts, Nov. 29, 1963. Statement of

Samuel A. Kinney, Nov. 30, 1963.

[109]^ [statement of Hurchel Jacks], Nov. 28, 1963. Statement of Rufus

W. Youngblood, Nov. 29, 1963.

[110]^ Statement of Joe Henry Rich, Nov. 28, 1963. Statement of Jerry

D. Kivett, Nov. 29, 1963. Statement of Thomas L. Johns, Nov. 29, 1963.

Report of Clifton C. Carter, May 20, 1964.

[111]^ Statement of Milton T. Wright, Nov. 28, 1963. Warren Commission

Testimony of Earle Cabell, July 13, 1964.

[112]^ Warren Commission Testimony of Robert Hill Jackson. Warren

Commission Testimony of Tom C. Dillard, April 1, 1964.

[113]^ Transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo Oral History Interview II,

August 16, 1972, by Joe B. Frantz, Internet Copy, Lyndon B. Johnson

Library.

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Medical & Autopsy Evidence _ Dr.Cyril Wecht N/A Aug.24/72

Posted by: Bernice Moore Mar 9 2006, 08:56 PM

Dr.Cyril Wecht

Information from…. “Tales From The Morgue”.

2005...Prometheus Books

In February 1965 Dr .Cyril Wecht was asked by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) to present a “critical view” of the Warren Commission Report (WC), in Chicago. The only access to the report was at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. No one could check out copies, so he spent each evening for two weeks reading the key portions of the 26 volumes. They were based largely on, three sources, the Zapruder film, the FBI investigations, and the autopsy.

The Film was of the uppermost importance as the report repeatedly pointed to the film being the decisive evidence, in that it determined the number of shots fired, the sequence of injuries to the President and the Governor, the trajectory of those bullets, and the number of gunmen.

It contained 486 frames, ran about 18.3 frames per second, meaning that the film caught the reactions every 1/8th of a second.

The WC created on Nov.29, 1963 by President L.B.Johnson, executive order #11130, reported that “Although it is not necessary to any essential findings of the Commission to determine just which shot hit Governor Connally, there is persuasive evidence from the experts to indicate that the same bullet which pierced the President’s throat also caused Governor Connally’s wounds.” The report also stated that the second bullet that struck President Kennedy came from the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD).

In 1965, Dr.Wecht had no reason to question the Zapruder film.

He had believed the WC findings …..After all it stated that the Zapruder film had proved its findings that Oswald had fired the shots, and acted alone, they were agreed to by the Chief Justice Earl Warren, and six other respected commission members, the FBI, and beside all that, the physical evidence that connected LHO to the killing was overwhelming. In other-wards it was a slam dunk. “Pretty damning evidence, or so it seemed at the time.”

“My intent was not to question the findings of the Warren Commission, but to review how the autopsy and other medicolegal aspects of the inquiry were conducted. In doing so, I became simply astonished.”

The first problem was that the Secret Service had removed the body, from Dallas to Washington.

At this point in time LHO was still alive, arrested, in the city jail, and if not murdered would have been put on trial in Dallas, because the 6th Amendment of the Constitution requires people to be tried where the crime takes place.

The authorities within that state retain all evidence, as that guarantees its authenticity. In removing the body from control of the Dallas County coroner, federal officials probably destroyed the admissibility of any evidence gained through the autopsy held in Washington.

At Bethesda, Dr.James Humes, and Dr.J.Thornton Boswell, not forensic pathologists and Dr.PierreFinck who was, but had not functioned in that position in any coroner’s office.

Neither the military officers nor any person in the autopsy room, in charge, had either the education, training, or experience for the task. Seemingly, Humes and Boswell started before Finck arrived, and they missed the fact that there was an entrance wound in the front of the President’s neck, the path of the wound was not traced, and they did not dissect nor trace the wound in his back, also Humes burnt his early autopsy notes.

Dr.Wecht found that the brain, which is soft and cannot be examined immediately, had been placed in a fixture of formalin, which then allows it to harden. But he discovered that two weeks later they had not performed an adequate examination by not serially sectioning that brain. This would have allowed them to trace the path of the bullet(s) that struck the President in the head. They said this was what killed him, yet they did not dissect the brain…He was needless to say, flabbergasted, and is as appalled today as he was then back 1965.

After researching the medical and autopsy findings, he was disturbed and critical, also of the police investigation .The crime scene was not protected, witnesses were allowed to leave, without being questioned .The limousine was not properly quarantined nor examined for forensic evidence; the Governor’s clothes were laundered before examination.

However at that time in 1965 he concluded his report without questioning the basic findings of the WC. That was not his charge, and neither did he have sufficient evidence or reason to believe they were wrong in deciding that Oswald was the lone assassin. He was though, quite critical of the autopsy and the forensic investigation. He did announce that had LHO not been murdered and put on trial for the murder of President Kennedy, the prosecutors would have lost.

“ The medical and forensic evidence was so screwed up, so incomplete, and so tainted that it would not have held up in a court of law.”..

After the lecture, at a breakfast meeting, Dr. Pierre Finck approached him and extended his congratulations on his report. Dr.Wecht could have told him he was wrong in his conclusions but did not. Dr.Finck instead stated to him, and he has never forgotten,

“You cannot believe what it was like, it was horrible. Horrible. I only wish I could tell you about it.” He regrets in not pushing Dr.Finck a little more for some details, but he did not and he thought at the time that would be all he would ever say publicly about the assassination of President J.F.Kennedy. As we know Dr.Cyril Wecht was so very wrong.

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On the morning of Aug.24, 1972, in Washington D.C, where Dr.Cyril Wecht had flown from Pittsburgh, the previous evening, he was ready and waiting at 8 am for a cab to be flagged, so he could begin his trip through the National Archives (N/A) having finally been given access to the Kennedy assassination materials.

In 1965 an unheard of event had taken place, the federal officials in their maddening wisdom, had chosen to turn over to Jacqueline Kennedy, all physical and autopsy materials ,and it is unacceptable to this day. This was evidence in a crime, plain and simple, the fact that it was evidence in an assassination of the President made it all the more horrific. In 1966 she turned it over to the National Archives, a request to the court being that the materials not be made public until after the death of her children. She did however say that recognized experts in the field of pathology would be allowed to apply to review the materials “for serious historical purpose.”

Dr.Wecht in 1971 was president of the American College of Legal Medicine, and he had applied for over a year to the N/A, and Burke Marshall, the executor of the Kennedy archive materials, seeking the access to review them. His letters and phone calls went unanswered. Then in 1971 when New York Times investigative reporter, Fred Graham, called him, having heard that he had applied to the N/A, he told him he was being stonewalled and so Graham made a few phone calls to find out why? Within a few days of Graham’s call, he was contacted by Burke Marshall and the wheels began to turn. He was given two days of exclusive access to all the physical evidence, autopsy materials and crime scene photographs.

When he arrived that morning and entered, he was still somewhat skeptical of the official version of the investigations into the assassination.

Dr C.Wecht: “What I saw during those two days convinced me that the truth still remains unknown. Those two days changed my view about the honesty of my government”..

Within the National Archives building he was directed to a Mr. Marion Johnson, an affable man who shook his hand, and told him he was there to help him in any way he could, and led him to a large private room, containing a table, chair, an x-ray viewing machine and a projector.

He had brought his own microscope, as none was available for him.

As he scanned the list of materials connected to the assassination he noticed the item, an original copy of the Zapruder film. Mr. Johnson had set up the projector to review the film, if he wished.

“He added that the film was only about thirty seconds long .He said that while more than five hundred photographs and pieces of film recorded portions of the assassination, only the Zapruder film captured the entire event on tape. When he informed me that the film was graphic, I reminded him that I’m a forensic pathologist and used to witnessing the result of violence and tragedy”..

What he did not tell Johnson was that he had seen the Zapruder film; in 1966 he had received a call from Dr.Josiah Thompson, who was working on an article for Life magazine, he had told him.

“that the editors at Life had purchased an original copy of the Zapruder film and that they wanted me to fly to New York to watch the eight-millimeter film with them”.

The film had not been shown publicly at that time, though some frames had been published in its magazine. He had read about the film seen the few photographs and studied the additional frames that had been printed in the WC. Report. He was acutely aware of how important the film was.

Wecht watched the film in N.Y with Thompson and the Life editors, Thompson explained to him that the film had been taken with a Bell & Howell Model 414D Zoomatic Director Series camera. The film 8mm Kodachrome color but recorded no sound, it consisted of 486 frames played at 18.3 frames a second. Taken approximately, by Abraham Zapruder, on a pedestal, assisted by Marilyn Sitzman, his receptionist some 70 feet from the middle of Elm St. where the Presidential limousine passed. He had sold a copy to Life for $150,000.

To better examine the timing and sequence, Life had printed each frame into 11 by 15 inch photographs.

He sat alone and watched the film, again, that morning at the N/A examining the still enlargements of each frame. As he watched it over and over, and reviewed the still photographs, he felt that the WC was right, that the Zapruder was the best documentary of the assassination, but that it contradicted some conclusions of the WC..

First: It called into question the timing of the bullet that supposedly hit both the President and Governor. If it struck JFK in frame 210 as the WC said, then more than a second elapses before the Governor is hit, and that is not consistent with a bullet that is traveling at speed of two thousand feet a second.

Second: Firearms experts had said that it would take 2.3 seconds for the Mannlicher-Carcano to be re-loaded and fired again, far too little time for the President and the Governor to have been shot with the same gun.

Third: It called into doubt the trajectory of the bullet.

If as the WC had concluded that one missile # 399, had entered the President’s back and coursed through the upper part of his back and neck, striking neither bone nor cartilage, then exited from the front of his neck, midline near the level of the knot of his tie.

Then entered the Governor’s back, breaking the right fifth rib, which destroyed four inches of that bone, then exited from the front of the Governor’s chest below his right nipple.

The same bullet then re-entering the back of the Governor’s wrist , which caused a fragmented fracture, in what is called the distal end of the radius, that being…one of the two large bones that comes down from the elbow to the wrist….

Then finally exiting the front of the Governor’s right wrist and re-entering his left thigh..

But as he viewed the Zapruder film and the photographs, he realized something was wrong. If a bullet had been fired from the 6th floor of the TSBD towards the President in frame 210, as the WC concluded.. It would have been traveling at a downward angle, of about 17 degrees, from back to front, and from right to left as it entered his back…but a bullet travels in a straight line, unless it strikes an object on the way to alter its course..?

If the bullet was shot from the TSBD, it would travel from left to right, and if it did not hit any bones, within the president’s body, then JFK would have to have been sitting dramatically forward, his head almost on his knees, for that bullet to have exited through his neck, but the Zapruder film showed him sitting almost bolt upright. As we know for the bullet to have done what the WC stated, it would have had to emerge from the president’s neck, stop in midair, make an acute turn to the right about 18 to 20 inches ,stop again in midair ,turn downward and enter the governor’s back on the right side just behind his right armpit.

Because if you draw a straight line from the president’s back at the point of entrance and the front of the neck, at the site of the knot or a tie, as shown in the Zapruder film, the bullet would probably miss the governor,

completely or possibly it could have clipped him on the left back or left shoulder area instead of his right armpit. But fours years of medical school, six years of additional education and training, to become a forensic pathologist as well as three years of law school and nearly a decade of experience at the time, had led him to understand one basic principle and common sense as well, that bullets travel in straight lines, they do not change course in mid air, it was a “magic bullet”.

This bullet was very special, it was found on a stretcher by a maintenance man, so the story went, at Parkland Hospital after the President and the Governor had been wheeled in. The federal authorities said initially they did not know about the wound in JFK’s neck ?, so they decided that at Parkland this bullet must have come from his back when they were trying to save his life. When they did learn, (they said the next day), and decided that the bullet must have entered his back and exited his neck. (Without ever dissecting the throat wound at Bethesda.).Under their original theory, the bullet which traveled at a speed of two thousand feet per second, did not have the power to penetrate the President’s starched collar?

That was some heavy starch.

But then along came the Warren Report with a second theory..

They had to make the facts fit the story that LHO was the lone shooter, so they had to develop a scenario whereby only three bullets were fired, all from the 6th floor window of the TSBD…….and they also had to have it taken place within the time frame of the Zapruder film. So Arlen Specter a young brilliant lawyer serving as one of the junior counsel members on the W/C, came up with a scenario that fit. It required that all the nonfatal wounds from President Kennedy and Governor Connally were caused by the same bullet. (So it fell from Governor Connally’s thigh .If it was to work?.)

Dr.Cyril Wecht: “And then there is the business of the bullet just popping out of Governor’s Connally’s left thigh while he was lying on the stretcher at Parkland Hospital. This is a substantial piece of metal that was buried deep in the governor’s thigh near the femur. The entrance hole in the skin was small. There is no way that a bullet that went down that deep would just come back out. A bullet will on rare occasions plop out of an entrance wound, if the wound is a large gaping wound with extensively torn tissues. But in wounds such as the one suffered by Governor Connally in the left thigh, bullets become immediately entrapped in hemorrhagic tissue. The tissue swells and the skin, which stretches to accommodate the entry of the bullet, becomes elastic like within a few seconds, entrapping the bullet in the tissue”.

Mr. Johnson brought him CE 399, in a small case, it rested on a bed of cotton padding, he picked up the bullet and held it against the light. It is in nearly pristine condition, the bullet before it is shot weighs 161 grams….the bullet he held in his fingers weighed 158.6…Impossible.

Even the autopsy pathologists agreed with him on this point Dr.Pierre Fink had asked Arlen Specter during the WC if CE 199 “could have been the bullet which inflicted the wound on Governor Connally’s right wrist?”

“No, for the reason that there are too many fragments described in that wrist,” Dr.Finck responded. “There was practically no loss off this bullet.”

The federal government did try to duplicate with an experiment and replicate the magic bullet at US Army’s Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. They tried Mannlicher-Carcano bullets through goat carcasses and human cadavers, broke one rib in the goat’s chest and also finally they broke a distal end of the radius in the human cadavers to simulate the wounds in Connally.

They also fired MC bullets into cotton wadding. The bullets that broke the goats rib were significantly deformed. The bullets that broke the radius bone in the human cadaver were tremendously deformed .Some fragmented and all showed the mushrooming, umbrella-like appearance, seen in bullets that hit dense bones.

Keeping in mind that none of the bullets hit and broke both bones as the Magic Bullet did. The WC own experiments failed and proved that the single-bullet theory was physically impossible.

As Dr.Wecht looked at the CE 399 bullet, he realized that it was a “magic bullet”..Magic because it accommodated the WCs every wish and desire.

“There has never been a bullet like this one in the world”.

Among the many documents and such that he came upon was a verbatim transcript of a briefing at Parkland Hospital at 3.16pm., just two hours

After the President had been pronounced dead…

Dr. Malcolm Perry and neurosurgeon Dr.. Kemp Clark discuss what they witnessed.

“Reporters: Where was the entrance wound?

Dr. Perry: There was an entrance wound in the neck.

Reporter: Which way was the bullet coming on the neck wound?

Dr.Perry: It appeared to be coming at him.

Reporter: Doctor describe the entrance wound.

Dr.Perry: The wound appeared to be an entrance wound in the front of the throat.”

He scanned through some of the 500 photos taken that day in Dealey Plaza ..Some that showed the presidential limousine turning from Main onto Houston, directly in front of the shooter? Why didn’t he shoot at the President then? Unobstructed by trees or foliage, a clear shot. Instead the WC claimed that he waited until it was partially hidden and at a more difficult angle to hit the moving target?? It didn’t make sense…

He examined the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and the spent three shells. He is not a gun expert, but can tell us that it is not a very sophisticated weapon; it is weighty, bulky, and not easy to fire or to reload. It is considered by to be a most inferior weapon of it’s genre in existence at that time.

He then was allowed also to examine the President’s clothes.

“His shirt, pants and jacket, were neatly folded and separated from each by a thin soft paper.” He held up his suit jacket and examined the bullet hole, it is approximately five and three-quarter inches down from the base of the back.

This raised another interesting issue to him, where was the entrance wound in the President’s back?

The doctors handling the autopsy placed the bullet wound further down on the President’s back initially. About five and three quarter inches from the base of the neck?.

The Secret Service agents who had the first contact with the President immediately after the shooting, two Secret Service Agents Glenn Bennett and Clint Hill, who had first contact with the President immediately after the shooting, had told the WC that the bullet hole was four to six inches below the neckline on the right of the spinal column, which is exactly where the autopsy notes indicated it was. Even the FBI agents who had witnessed the autopsy had reported a back wound that “was below the shoulders”. In their report (Sibert and O’Neill), which was sealed till a few years ago, stated they doubted the same bullet that entered the back could have exited the neck, because the bullet entrance was too low on the back. The WC and the Government claimed it was actually four inches higher. That made their theory that the same bullet that entered, and somehow exited his neck, though that was highly unlikely. Also by moving Governor Connelly’s seating farther and farther to the left. It made it all the more feasible to them.

Even though in the Zapruder film and in eyewitness confirmation that he was sitting directly in front of the President, if they had edged him over any closer he would have been sitting in Mrs. Connally’s lap.

His attention returned to studying frames 312 and 313 of the Zapruder film, he saw that President Kennedy’s head is in a slight chin-downward position as the fatal bullet strikes his head, they showed him that blood and brain matter sprayed on Mrs. Kennedy and the back of the presidential limousine and the Dallas motorcyclists who followed their car.

He wondered why, if the bullet was fired from behind, why did the president’s head lurched backwards, instead of forward with the momentum of the bullet, and why did nearly all the blood spray and matter go towards the back of the of the limousine if the bullet was fired from behind? It made no sense.

Indeed the size and location of that fatal head wound, which was instrumental in determining the position of the assassin was in dispute.

“The truth is, very little about the evidence in this case is not in dispute.”

The emergency room Physicians at Parkland and the three autopsy pathologists (at Bethesda) agreed the President died of a massive fatal head wound toward the back right of the skull.

The size and location of the head wound, officially changed in 1968. The Attorney General, Ramsey Clark (The Clark Panel) re-examined the autopsy records and determined that President Kennedy’s wound was actually 4 inches higher on his head that either the emergency doctors or the autopsy pathologists had indicated. They said it was a simply and easy mistake and that the higher head wound proved that the fatal shot came from the TSBD. They based their findings exclusively on a review of the autopsy photographs and x-Rays.

The problem of course, was that the head wound the Clark Panel saw is so significantly different from the wound described by Parkland and the autopsy pathologists (at Bethesda). The emergency doctors saw cerebellar tissue when they examined the president’s head, (this is a part of the brain from the lower portion of the head, no where near where this new entry site was located.)This intrigued Dr.Wecht.

He then turned his attention to the autopsy materials and started with the original autopsy report and photographs. The original autopsy described an entrance point as “just above the external occipital protuberance” which is the bony knob at the bottom rear of the skull, while they did not say how far above, it is certain they were not saying four inches.. The blow out wound was on the back right side of the president’s head, also known as the “parietal-temporal area.”

While he was critical of the three autopsy pathologists lack of forensic pathology expertise, he did not believe they could have mistaken the back of his head for the top of the president’s head..

As he examined the autopsy photographs and x-Rays he also found a couple of previously unreported items…the x-Rays showed a very dense 6.5 millimeter object at the base of the skull. It was 9 centimeters above the external occipital protuberance (bony knob at the bottom rear of the skull)

And one centimeter below a crack in the parietal bone in the skull.( above the occipital bone right hand side). It was a large fragment seen in the x-Ray that was not mentioned in the autopsy?? Equally as baffling was the fact, that it was so large as fragments go, and why the pathologists had not retrieved it as they had smaller fragments? And in addition why had a small flap on the back of the president’s head, slightly above his neckline, that appeared to be loose tissue, and was it an entrance wound or an exit wound?.. Had also not been reported…?

If it was an entrance wound, it would prove the lone assassin theory wrong,

and obsolete, because it would mean an additional bullet had been fired at the president, and recall the Zapruder film confines the shooting to six seconds. If it was an exit wound then that would disprove the lone assassin because it shows a bullet from the front. Meaning an accomplice and a conspiracy.

Unfortunately the only way to know for sure is to exhume the body, and conduct a second autopsy, but Dr.Wecht knew neither the Kennedy family nor the federal government will allow such within his life time..

Something else seemed odd to him, in the autopsy photographs, there was very short thick hair covering the back spot where the Parkland doctors saw the open gaping wound , the hair is less than an inch long though in an area where the hair would have been much longer. Instead, this was the length of hair normally found at the bottom of the scalp. It made him wonder if the president’s head in the autopsy photos had been tampered with to cover the actual wound.

He also examined a roll of film that had been improperly exposed and ruined, he learned that an autopsy photographer (Floyd Riebe )

took a series of pictures at Bethesda as they were starting the autopsy.

A military officer seized the camera, and stripped the film from such claiming he was not authorized to take the photographs, it was overexposed. This roll reminded Dr.Wecht of Dr.Finck’s remark regarding how horrible the conditions were that night at the autopsy.

Spending time with and reviewing Governor Connally’s X-Rays taken at Parkland that showed bone injuries and fractures to his right fifth rib and right radius above the wrist ,and also showing small fragments embedded in his chest, right wrist, and left thigh...They were never removed, (even after his death ) and could have proven or disproven whether they came from the magic bullet..(Another deliberate gaffe.)

As his time was running out he asked for three additional items..

(1: The President’s brain.

(2: The Autopsy photographs of the President’s chest wounds.

(3: The microscopic tissue slides of the wounds.

The brain was removed the evening of the autopsy. It was placed in a container of formalin to preserve it, it is a soft tissue, and the formalin causes it to harden and then the doctors are able to dissect and determine the trajectories of the bullets. However the president’s brain had not been dissected. But he thought it had been preserved for future examination.

The microscopic slides included sections of the actual wounds; he would have been able to tell if they were entrance or exit wounds. They would reveal the outer layer of skin called the epidermis, if it was pushed in then it would be an entrance, if out it would be an exit. There are also other differentiating features between exit and entrance wounds.

But that is when Mr. Johnson told Dr.Wecht the shocker

President Kennedy’s brain.

Some X-rays of the chest.

The microscopic slides.

Were all missing.

Gone.

Taken.

The Warren Report states that the brain was, “removed and preserved for further study”.The brain, x-Rays and microscopic slides were placed in a small metal container for storage amongst other Kennedy assassination materials presented to Mrs. Kennedy ,though there is no evidence she ever received them. Instead they were stored for about a year, by the president’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln, and his brother Robert.

Mr. Johnson told Dr.Wecht that when the family decided to turn all materials over the National Archives as a gift, the brain, chest X-rays, and microscopic slides were mysteriously not included. He also said he had no idea whatever happened to them, who had them, nor when they disappeared.

These three missing items are the key pieces of the hard physical evidence.

So as a result much of the case is based upon subjective interpretation or circumstantial, it is physical evidence that cannot be replaced nor duplicated.

Dr.Cyril Wecht left the National Archives late that Friday afternoon, after spending two full days examining the evidence in the President’s assassination. He was met by Fred Graham of the New York Times; he was pleased to discuss his findings with him as he had been so helpful in his being able to gain access to the materials. What he told him about the missing brain and all, as well as his general observations and opinions, in regard to the physical and medical evidence. Was published on the front page of the New York Times on the Sunday Aug 27th,1972 by Mr. Graham in which he detailed the doctor’s findings.

His interest did not cease in the assassination then or in the future..

In 1975 amid the strong public dissatisfaction of the outcome of the investigation of their President’s murder, President Gerald Ford, who was an original member of the WC, created the Rockefeller Commission, headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.

One of the panel’s senior lawyers interviewed Dr.Wecht as to his scientific opinion, and for five hours he walked him through his critique of the autopsy, his analysis of the medical and physical evidence. He testified that the evidence made it clear that the Single Bullet was nonsense, that all bullets were not fired from behind, and that more than three shots were fired at the President and the Governor. That the autopsy was a sham, that he was convinced there was a second gunman, and the case should be reopened and reinvestigated.

Imagine his surprise when he read the Rockefeller’s Commission’s Report stating that he agreed with their opinion that all shots came from behind and most likely the TSBD. The report made clear that this was all the evidence that Dr. Wecht had provided to the commission.

He demanded to see a transcript of his testimony, and was told it was confidential, and that by releasing it in full, it would be a breach of national security.

He was stunned and dumbfounded .His statement was a matter of national security, he had never realized he was that important.

To a reporter from the Associated Press he stated:

“It that transcript shows in any way that I have withdrawn or revised my thoughts on the Warren Commission Report, I’ll eat the transcript on the steps of the White House.”

Twenty years later the government finally released the transcript of his entire five hour interview. It showed exactly what he had said..

Two years later the Government created the House Select Committee on Assassinations in1977 they were charged with reopening investigations into the assassinations of President John F Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King. To help it acquire, organize and analyze the medical and physical evidence in the Kennedy case, they appointed a 9 member pathology panel, and Dr.Wecht was surprised when he was asked to be a member on the panel. He learned later from personal friends that pressure had been applied to have him not appointed.

So for several months they discussed and reviewed the evidence. All agreed that the autopsy was woefully substandard, and all nine agreed the forensic investigation was equally tragic. The other 8 pathologists were well qualified and very experienced. He simply believes that they had made up their minds long ago that the WC was probably correct, and as a result their eyes were closed to accepting any different explanations. He challenged them to show him another bullet that could match the condition and weight of the so-called magic bullet. “Go back to your respective cities and search through the thousands and thousands of bullets and show me one bullet that has done what you say this bullet and has and looks like this bullet looks,” He implored the panel.

Twenty seven years later, he is still waiting.

His gut feeling was that the HSCA would only whitewash this investigation as well. He was somewhat surprised when they found in their finally report that there was a high degree of probability that the President’s death was a result of a conspiracy and that there was a second gunman involved. The committee also pointed to the Mafia and that they had motive and means to organize an assassination plot.

They also stated that the senior government officials were determined that any investigation would be a finding of a single assassin, Oswald.

“It must be said that the FBI generally exhausted its resources in confirming the case against Oswald as the lone assassin, a case that Director J.Edgar Hoover, at least, seemed determined to make within twenty-four hours of the assassination.”

The committee’s report, turned over all of its findings to the FBI and the US Dept. of Justice for further investigation.

Unfortunately, the Justice Dept. was never interested and or willing to continue the inquiry.

“So what did happen? Was there a conspiracy? How many gunmen were there? How many shots were fired?”

Dr..Cyril Wecht believes there are two elements to consider. He believes that there was a conspiracy, and also that the physical, medical and scientific evidence clearly points to at least two shooters. That under the law if there were two shooters, then there was a “conspiracy”, that there were at least four shots fired, perhaps five. Three were probably fired from behind and probably two from the front.

He has never believed that the murder was a result of an official FBI or CIA planned assassination, but that it was a domestic plot, and that there was no foreign power involved. While some members of organized crime may have had a hand and a contributing role, they were not the principals who did orchestrate the overthrow of the government in 1963.

CBS anchor Dan Rather asked Dr.Wecht in 1979 if he believed there was a postassassination conspiracy cover-up by government officials or the Warren Commission to hide the truth regarding the assassination, or were the numerous missteps the result of sheer incompetence?.

“I think it was both. I think the autopsy and original investigation was sheer incompetence that was in no way meant to be part of a cover-up I have never suggested that these pathologists or even some members of the Warren Commission knowingly engaged in any kind of conspiracy. However I think as things developed, when they began to realize that there were tremendous defects and gaps in their overall investigation and forensic scientific aspects of the case, they felt that they simply had to put it together in some seemingly plausible scenario. I think it started off as incompetence but that it has become an organized effort to ensure that the truth would never be exposed.”

“In 1992 Congress did pass the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act, which required the establishment of an Assassination Records and Review Board to review and declassify millions of documents related to the president’s slaying. Approximately five million such records were made public. It was a huge step forward in discovering what happened.”

While there have been no” smoking guns” found among the documents such as the CIA admitting that they were behind the shooting, some of the records did contain big surprises. For instances there is a previously confidential memo from the lawyer of Dr. George Burkley, who as President Kennedy’s personal physician was in the motorcade that day when he was shot. Also was present in Parkland and in Bethesda during the autopsy. In 1977, in a letter to the HSCA, Burkley’s lawyer stated “Although he, Burkley, signed the death certificate of President Kennedy in Dallas, he had never been interviewed and he has information

in the Kennedy assassination indicating that others besides Oswald may have participated”. Despite the letter to them, Burkley was never called nor officially interviewed by any government agency, nor the HSCA.

The ARRB also exposed another secret problem: the legitimacy of the autopsy photos of the brain. During Wecht’s visit to the NA, he noticed that the brain had appeared in the photographs to be completely intact, which was impossible. The Zapruder film shows that the skull is exploding and spraying copious amounts of brain matter.

( On the back of the limo, towards the motorcycle policemen, and Governor Connally mentions the fact that brain matter flew all over the back of the limo…including himself and Nellie).

As well as witnesses to the shooting, who were standing extremely close.

Mrs. Kennedy handed a part of the brain to the chief of anesthesia at Parkland, Floyd Riebe a photographer at Bethesda, testified,

“Less than half the brain was there”. on and on, many related the information that the President’s brain had been blown out and that there was much missing. FBI agent Francis O’Neill, who was present at Bethesda, for the autopsy was shown the photographs and testified, that they were inaccurate.

“This looks almost like a complete brain.” he stated.

(Though at Parkland there seems to have been more of the brain present within the skull than when the body finally was given the autopsy at Bethesda?)

The official autopsy report documents the weight of the President’s brain to be fifteen hundred grams, which is heavier than the average, complete human brain. In 1998 John Stringer, the lead autopsy photographer also examined the photograph.

“He told the Washington Post that the current pictures are not his, and do not resemble anything he saw the night of the autopsy.”

This is very important because it shows that the Presidents assassination

evidence has been tampered with.

“Someone does not want the truth to be told. Who that person or persons are and what their motives may have been, I have no idea”.

“When I was a young man I believed that the Kennedy assassination would one day be solved and that the truth would be revealed. As I enter my seventh decade on this Earth, I now have serious doubts. The only way this case will ever be solved is through re-examination of the physical and medical evidence. Every day that goes by, the evidence deteriorates. If the brain does exist I doubt it still has any evidentiary value. And I am willing to bet every dollar that I possess that the Kennedy family and the federal government will never allow the body of President Kennedy to be exhumed for a second autopsy”.

When Governor Connally died there was a slight window of opportunity to gain new evidence, and Dr.Wecht along with a group of forensic experts and physicians petitioned US attorney general Janet Reno, to have the bullet fragments removed from his body and tested, they then would have been able to tell if they were from CE 399. Surprising to them Mrs. Reno did write to the Connally family and asked permission. However the family refused, and the bullet fragments along with possibly our last opportunity for finding the truth were buried..

Despite his doubts that he will learn the entire truth in his lifetime.

“There are legitimate efforts underway that are utilizing advances in science and technology to shed light on the mystery.”

Dr.D.Thomas who is an expert in the study of acoustical evidence,

made a dramatic presentation in, Pittsburgh in 2003 at a JFK Symposium,

hosted by Dr.Wecht.

Using photographs, the Zapruder film, and the Dallas Police audio recording his research and analysis showed that there were 5 shots fired in less than 9 seconds. At least two from the grassy knoll area, he explained to the panel. Stating that the evidence indicates, the bullets that were fired probably came from a .30 caliber weapon. At that time, the most popular weapon available was a .30 caliber Winchester.30-30 rifle.

His findings are quite ironic as a Dallas police officer radioed an alert at 12.45 pm stating “The wanted person in this, is a slender white male, about thirty five feet ten, one sixty five, carrying what looked like to be a .30-30 or some type of Winchester.”

The evidence, at every turn, does not add up in the Kennedy assassination,

to a lone assassin. Everywhere Dr.Wecht looks the evidence does point to an effort to keep the American public from knowing the truth.

Evidence missing, witnesses asked to and falsifying affidavits, testimony dramatically altered and documents manipulated.

“What happened in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, was an effort by two or more people to kill the President of the United States. What has happened since has been a conspiracy to hide the truth.

The result of the two was nothing short of a coup d’e’tet”.

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Posted by: Dennis Bartholomew Mar 10 2006, 12:40 PM

Thanks Bernice, very interesting.

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JFK: Truth of a conspiracy

Madeleine Brown is barely 23 when she falls for Lyndon Johnson’s

charm. This Texan romance, filled with improvised meetings, unkept

promises and quick but intense embrace, spanned more than two decades.

But Madeleine was more than just one of the 36th president’s many

conquests. In fact, on December 27, 1950, she gives birth to Steven:

one more career secret for this ambitious politician. Johnson’s son

died in 1990. Since, Madeleine Brown, liberated from her imposed

discretion, decided to share her memories of her time spent with the

president. Without anger or need for revenge, still deeply in love

with her Lyndon but very aware of historical accuracy, she proves her

relationship by presenting passionate love notes written by Johnson as

well as the letter from a Texas lawyer confirming the continuing

financial support for Steven’s education after Lyndon’s death..

But a powerful man’s intimate portrait becomes a loaded

testimonial when she refers to the relationship between LBJ and JFK

and describes Johnson’s role in the November 1963 Kennedy

Assassination.

Madeleine Brown - It’s very moving for me to meet you here at the

Adolphus Hotel in Dallas. It’s here that, about 50 years ago, I met

Lyndon for the first time.

Figaro Magazine - I imagine that this evening is forever engraved

in you.

MB - Oh yes I was 23 and still had my baby face. At the time I

was working for the Glenn advertising agency a few steps away from the

Adolphus. At the end of September 1948, Jesse Kallen, director of KTNC

Radio in Austin, a close friend of Lyndon Johnson, invited me to a

party given in honor of all those who had contributed to his electoral

campaign. He was running for senator against Coke Stevenson.

FM - It’s the ballot 13 election, right? The one that was rigged?

MB - Yes that was the one. Ballot 13 gave Lyndon victory. It was

rapidly noticed that even the dead had voted, but it was to late.

Lyndon was already in Washington. It’s funny that Johnson made it to

Washington thanks to election fraud.

FM - So you met Lyndon that night for the first time?

MB - Yes. When LBJ walked in the room it was so intense. He was

so charismatic. The whole room gravitated towards him. I noticed him

right away and I was seduced. He was a typical Texan-both feet on the

ground, smiling, warm and terribly sexy. Jesse introduced us and I

danced with Lyndon. It was so overwhelming to be in his arms. There

was so much in the way we looked at each other. He invited me to

another party at the Driskill Hotel in Austin.

FM - Do you remember the date?

MB - Of course.. It was October 29, 1948. After two dances, he

asked me to go up and wait for him in his suite. He met up with me an

hour later and it’s that night that I became his mistress for the next

21 years.

FM - This illicit relationship with a married man must have been

hard to deal with.

MB - Our relationship was hidden, no one was to know. Jesse

Kellan, one of the advertising firm’s clients, was our cover-up. At a

moment’s notice, he would warn me of Lyndon’s arrival and of the hotel

room number where I was to meet him. I waited there to share these

short moments with the man I loved. I knew always that he would never

be mine. But these moments are not only nostalgic - our meetings were

essentially sexual. We both enjoyed it. He was a wonderful lover.

FM - What was his reaction like when he found out that you were

expecting a child?

MB - He was worried. He was so terribly ambitious and wanted to

accede to the country’s top position. He was afraid the Mafia or

someone else would find out that he was the father of my child and

that this would be used against him. He asked me to keep this a

secret. Even my own parents could never find out. He promised me that

he would give my child whatever he needed.

FM - Steven was born on December 27, 1950. For 40 years you kept

silent. Why do you choose to speak now?

MB - Lyndon is no longer alive and I lost my son in 1990. The

circumstances of his death, the rampant cancer, caused me to speak up.

I had to talk of Dallas and the power of Texas on Washington politics.

Lyndon was created by two millionaires from here, H.L.Hunt and Sid

Murchinson.

FM - You know them?

MB - Yes. You know, in the 50’s and 60’s Dallas was a small city.

You just had to be part of the right crowd. I was lucky enough to be

at the right place at the right time. For example, I saw Hunt every

morning. We parked our cars side by side in the lot.

FM - What kind of man was he?

MB - Sure of himself. He knew the power of money. He believed in

Lyndon even if he was himself an ultraconservative. The funniest thing

is that he didn’t look like a millionaire. People who didn’t know him

thought he was this poor old man.

FM - What did he think of Kennedy?

MB - He hated him. After Lyndon’s defeat in 1960 at the

democratic convention and the choice of JFK as candidate, he said that

he had lost a battle but that he was going to win the war. A few days

before JFK was to come to Dallas, Hunt put up posters against the

president in his car. He was proud of that and was afraid of no one.

FM - Did you also know Jack Ruby?

MB - Like everyone else here. It was impossible not to know him.

If you met him on the street and you didn’t know him, he would come up

to you and give you his club card. Often after work we would meet

friends there to play cards.

FM - Did Hunt go to Ruby’s club?

MB - Sometimes. Hunt was an avid poker player and Jack would set

up these great games for him. At the time, Jack could organize

anything as long as it was illegal. He was everywhere. He knew

everyone in the Dallas Police Department. He too hated Kennedy.

FM - Before November 22, 1963, did he speak of Kennedy’s visit to

Dallas?

MB - About 10 days before it was announced in the papers, Jack

came to our table. He was proud to have a map of the President’s route

through Dallas. All the while, we weren’t aware that Kennedy was even

coming to Dallas. He was always the first to know everything.

FM - What was your reaction when Ruby killed Oswald?

MB - I thought right away that he was there because someone had

asked him to and he had no choice but to do it.

FM - Coming back to Lyndon Johnson. What was his reaction like

when he was defeated in 1960?

MB - He was so disappointed. He wanted so much to become

president, not to mention that he hated the Kennedy’s with a passion.

It was a terrible set back.. Every time he spoke of John or of his

brother Bobby it was with such vehemence, calling them Irish bastards

and even worse! But honestly, the Kennedy’s made his life difficult

and hated Lyndon just as much.

FM - What was Lyndon like in 1963?

MB - He was anxious, very worried. He was involved in all kinds

of business and was convinced that Kennedy would not keep him on the

presidential ticket in 1964. He was afraid everything would stop. I

felt that every time we met, he could escape all that for a few hours.

FM - You told me you saw Lyndon on November 21, 1963. Is that

right?

MB - Perfectly. It was a surprise. I was invited to a party at

Murchison’s Dallas residence. The party was given in honor of Edgar

Hoover, the FBI’s chief. Richard Nixon was there. John McCloy, a

future member of the Warren Commission was there also. Lyndon arrived

late. I didn’t even know he was there. He, Hunt and others immediately

locked themselves in a room for a ten minute conference. When Lyndon

came out he spotted me. He seemed so angry and had a dreadful look on

his face. He came up to me and whispered: "After tomorrow, those damn

Kennedy’s will never stand in my way again. That’s not a threat, it’s

a promise". I’ve never forgotten that.

FM - What was your reaction?

MB - I didn’t really react. I couldn’t imagine that his words

would ever ring true. Lyndon was extremely angry with JFK. It was just

one more time. The next morning, four hours before the assassination,

I spoke to Lyndon on the phone at the hotel where he stayed with

Kennedy. He told me the same thing again and I told him we’d see each

other again and I would make him forget whatever plagued him.

FM - I hope you realize the impact of what you are implying.

You’re implicating the vice-president in the crime of the century..

MB - I don’t know if Lyndon was the instigator of this crime. It

could be. All I know is what he told me on the 21st and repeated on

the 22nd. About a month after, I had wanted to know for sure so I

asked him if he was involved in the Kennedy murder. He got so angry

that I regretted ever bringing it up. Then he told me (You know my

friends - they killed him.) He was talking of those millionaires.

FM - He didn’t say anything else?

MB - No and I never brought it up again. But I would like to tell

you this about Hunt. A few minutes after the assassination, he went to

Washington to give Lyndon a hand. When he came back a little before

Christmas, he was a totally different man. Like an incredible weight

was lifted off his shoulders. One day, he told me, smiling, (We’ve won

the war) I’m sure he was referring to Kennedy.

JFK: The Coup. 7 pieces of evidence to prove it.

The Kennedy assassination could well be a conspiracy. At least seven

pieces of evidence bring light today on the complicity between certain

parties in the highest echelons of American politics. For William

Reymond, thirty-five years after the murder, it is more than evident

that Washington and the vice-president, LBJ, were directly involved in

the plot that caused JFK’s death.

(Captions of pictures plus descriptions)

1 - Lee Bowers, the eyewitness from his footbridge, rail employee

notices on the morning of the murder, three men’s strange presence in

a restricted access parking lot. He notifies the police after hearing

gun shots but curiously the suspects are released.

On the morning of November 22, Lee Bowers, a railway employee, at work

in the switch tower overlooking the parking lot behind the Dealey

Plaza. At as early as 10 A.M, the employee notices the comings and

goings of cars in a restricted zone where the circulation is usually

not allowed. He also realizes that all three of the cars’ plates are

covered in mud and indecipherable, and that the drivers seem to be

using walky-talkies to communicate. At about 12:15 P.M, Bowers sees

three men, one with a gun, standing behind the wood fence looking on

the presidential route. He imagines that these are Secret Service men,

responsible for Kennedy’s security. At 12:30 P.M, shots coming from

the trees startle him. This witness never says much more than this. In

August 1966, he mysteriously dies in a car accident.

2 - The three tramps. Max, a French mercenary, is one of the three

clean-shaven and shoe shined hobos called in and released by the

police after the assassination.

Because of Lee Bowers, the three hobos are arrested less than 40

minutes after the shooting. In fact, none of these men are vagrants.

In reality, they are part of a group of paid killers lead by a French

mercenary known as Max. The first clue that may lead to believe that

they are not vagrants is their tidy appearance - they are clean and

well groomed. Secondly, they are surprisingly released less than two

hours after their arrest and extradited to Canada following an order

from Washington. And at last, a photograph taken of Lee Harvey Oswald

in July 1963, in the streets of New Orleans. Distributing pro-Castro

pamphlets, Oswald is alongside a man that could well be Max, the

French mercenary. This man had in fact left France illegally through

Spain and had landed in Louisiana in June of 1963 to join the training

camp at Lake Pontchartrain. JFK’s assassins will be recruited at that

same camp.

3 - The uniformed sniper. Noticeable in a series of amateur

photographs, a uniformed sniper behind the trees in front of the

presidential car discredits the conclusions of the Warren Commission.

For the last 35 years, Jack White has collected all the pictures and

films that have to do with the assassination. Through his findings, we

have discovered that photographs of Oswald with the firearm used in

the assassination were fake. His intense examination of the Polaroid

taken by Mary Moorman at the exact moment when Kennedy was being shot

has led him to discover what he believes may be one of Kennedy’s

assassins. In fact, after enlargement, White has discovered, hidden in

the foliage, a man in a police uniform, ready to shoot. This finding

confirms two essential testimonies. A few days before his death, Lee

Bowers had confided in writing to a Canadian researcher that the men

behind the wooden fence were wearing the Dallas Police Department

uniform. Also, Mary Moorman contends that she saw, a few seconds after

the gun shots, a man moving away from the wooden fence. She is

convinced that the man she saw was Roscoe White, a two week old member

of the DPD. White is a key player in this deal. An acquaintance of

Oswald during his military service, a sharpshooter and a member of a

right-wing army, the man is married to Geneva, a strip-teaser at Jack

Ruby’s club. A little before his death in a mysterious explosion,

Roscoe White would confess later to his involvement in the

assassination of public figures.

4 - The umbrella man. Found on amateur film, a man shaking and

umbrella over his head and his companion with a camera activates the

second group of snipers. After the shots, the two men silently

disappear.

A precise analysis of the pictures taken a little after the first

series of shots lets us see the behavior of the two men obviously

posted to supervise the shooting. One of them, dressed in black,

shakes an umbrella high over his head precisely as JFK’s Lincoln goes

by. At that moment, the car stops and Kennedy is shot in the head.

Next to umbrella man is a southern looking chap is the radio contact.

After two shots, both men, extremely calm despite the panic around

them, wait until the confusion is at its highest before leaving the

scene separately. In the enlarged photograph, one can see the

transistor box under his arm as he walks towards the freeway, a

surprising destination for a pedestrian.

5 - The Harper fragment. Found by a student the next day, a piece of

JFK’s cranium supports the thesis of a frontal shot.

On November 23, 1963, Billy Harper, student, came to pay his respects

at the scene of the crime, discovers on the lawn a piece of bone

covered in blood. It was to the left and behind the limousine’s

location at the time of crime. The fragment is photographed and

analyzed by a Dallas forensic doctor. The bone fragment is part of

JFK’s rear cranial box. This proves a frontal shot. The piece of

evidence is sent to the White House, after which it disappears. This

too is an essential element of this slight of hand. It not only

confirms the existence of a second sniper but also proves that the

Kennedy x-rays were falsified. These were taken in the early hours of

November 23, present is the bone fragment, found hours later at Dealey

Plaza.

6 - The windshield. This important piece of evidence that could have

been studied for bullet impact was put under the watchful eye of the

Secret Service. Despite this, the windshield was replaced three days

after the assassination.

The unstudied impact of the bullets on the Lincoln’s windshield proves

also this power conspiracy. Doug Weldon, an independent researcher,

has been able to collect a testimonial from one of the heads of the

Ford shop in Michigan, responsible for the replacement of the

windshield. The destruction of a piece of evidence despite the fact

that the Secret Service and the Whitehouse were to keep a watchful eye

only proves more strongly how far Johnson and his cohorts will go to

hide the truth. A drawing done by the FBI, for the Warren Commission,

but never presented as evidence, shows bullet marks that indicate a

shot coming from the front.

7 - The lost bullet. Even if it was found by the police after the

shooting, the forth bullet, destroying the official story, was never

found later.

Pictures taken minutes after the shooting show the discovery by the

police of a bullet on Dealy Plaza. This proves at least the presence

of a second sniper. The Warren Commission has always contended that

Oswald shot three times: the first shot missed the mark, the second,

called the magic bullet, caused 6 injuries and the third hit the

president. This fourth bullet would have discredited this theory. It

is probably why, despite the photographs, it has never been found.

AUTOPSY OF A CRIME

Because JFK’s fiscal policy the interests of oilmen, the Texas

magnate, Haroldson L. Hunt, promises the president’s defeat. The

financing is up to him and his powerful friends. It’s up to Johnson,

his ally, and his buddies, to execute the plan..

To understand the shooting at Dealey Plaza, one has to look at the

military operations of this type. One rule is undeniable - the 3C’s -

collusion - control - cash. The presidential assassination demanded

collusion in the secret service, the Dallas police and incredible

control over the investigation that would ultimately follow such an

act. For this, enormous financial backing was needed.

Even discounting Madeleine Brown’s testimony, Johnson’s presence is

felt throughout the events surrounding Kennedy’s death. We feel it as

early as June 5, 1963 does. That day, JFK is at El Cortic Hotel in El

Paso where he participates in secret meeting with Johnson and

Governor Connally. The two Texans made the president promise that he

would visit Dallas that fall. Five months before the shooting, they

were the only ones who knew of Kennedy’s plan.

In July, Clay Shaw, a businessman from New Orleans, a former CIA

agent, recruits a team of mercenaries at Pochartrain. Shaw worked for

Hunt, the man who was financing Johnson’s political career..

Another element that needed to be controlled was the president’s

itinerary through the streets of Dallas. Overstepping his boundaries,

Connally went over Jerry Bruno’s head, imposing the route to follow

despite Bruno’s role as official responsible for the president’s

visits.

Better yet the first draft did not include the turn on Elm Street, a

key turn that facilitated the snipers’ job. It was Connally’s

assistant, Jake Puterbaugh that imposed the change on November 20th.

In 1963, Connally was nicknamed Little Boy Johnson. As Madeleine Brown

recounts, following JFK’s assassination, Johnson was deadly afraid of

Connally talking.

On November 22, as the procession was about to start, members of the

Secret Service made last minute changes to the plan. Not only is the

fleet of escorts reduced by half, but the press car that usually

precedes the presidential limousine is placed at the end of the

procession for the first time since 1960. That was there were no

reporters or cameras on Dealey Plaza as the shooting took place. As

vice-president, Lyndon Johnson controlled half of the Secret Service

men on site. As future president, he promised immunity to those who

took part in the crime.

CONTROL

Another important detail, evident on an amateur film, is the behavior

of Johnson’s bodyguards a few seconds before the shooting. The doors

of the car escorting LBJ opens so to protect the vice-president, Also,

according to Senator Yarborough who was riding with LBJ, he would have

used the portable car radio to find out how the president’s ride was

going just as they were turning on to Dealey Plaza.

Right after Kennedy’s death Johnson became the country’s 36th.

president. He could then control the investigation and preserve his

own immunity as well as that of his accomplices.

According to Doug Weldon the two witnesses, Johnson would have given

the order to clean the presidential car when JFK was still in

intensive care.

Then, Johnson would have asked his right hand man, Cliff Carter, to

retrieve Connally’s blood stained clothing from the Parkland hospital

and to get them cleaned thus destroying important evidence in the

process.

The autopsy performed on JFK is also questionable. The existing

pictures and x-rays were rigged. First brought to the national

archives in Washington, JFK’s brain later disappears, making it

impossible to discount the autopsy findings.

Under strict military control, those who performed the procedure are

bound by silence. One of them, Doctor Humes, will later admit

destroying his first report as well as the notes taken while examining

the body.

On Monday November 25th. the Lincoln’s windshield is replaced while

under the Whitehouse’s responsibility.

Who but Johnson had the power to give such orders and to cover up

these facts?

Whitehouse telephone recordings in the days following the shooting

show Johnson enticing prominent figures to join the Warren Commission.

Though he knew that the Soviets were not behind the assassination,

Johnson used the threat of nuclear war to dissuade Earl Warren from

looking for a conspiracy..

According to Evelyn Lincoln, JFK’s faithful secretary, he has wanted

to cut clean from Johnson because of his involvement in dubious

affairs. "Johnson will not be part of the ticket" he told his

secretary before leaving for Texas. During a press conference three

weeks earlier, JFK would have told reporter from Washington Post that

he was willing to get to the bottom of things "despite the

consequences" or "whatever they would find at the end of the trail"

when asked about the Bobby Baker case, an acquaintance of LBJ, accused

of corruption.

All criminal proceedings somehow related to LBJ were stopped after

November 11, 1963.

CASH

From humble beginnings, Johnson became rich because of politics. Texas

millionaires like Clint Murchinson but especially Haroldson Lafayette

Hunt financed his career. Johnson’s mistress, Madeleine Brown,

confirms that Hunt was present at the November 21st party where the

attack was planned. In November 1963, Hunt, considered the richest man

on earth, had his share of reasons to finance JFK’s disappearance.

This man would set aside 2 million every year to finance anti-Kennedy

propaganda. His immense fortune was related to the oil industry. But

in October 1963, Kennedy announced that he would consider the fiscal

policies surrounding oil revenues. Hunt contended that "Kennedy laws

were dangerous for the American economy". If Johnson, as president,

had taken up where JFK had left more than 280 million a year would

have left the pockets of the Texas oil kings.

END

All the photographs are not new they have been available to the

research community for a long time.

I have not had time to study this article closely but one thing

appears to be clear the Oswald letter to a Mr. Hunt was to Haroldson

L. Hunt.

Jim Davies

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By SUSANNAH CAHALAN

December 12, 2010

John F. Kennedy's closest aide was the queen of conspiracy theorists.

Evelyn Lincoln, his personal secretary, wrote down a list of suspects in her beloved boss' assassination -- and it included

both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

The never-before-seen personal note, scribbled by Lincoln as she sat aboard Air Force One return ing to Washington on the day

of JFK's death, lists those she thought might be behind the president's murder.

The note, estimated to be worth $30,000, is now on the auction block.

Lincoln was Kennedy's per sonal secretary from 1953 until his death on Nov. 22, 1963, and was riding in the Dallas motorcade that

fateful day. She died in 1995 at age 85.

Her note listed "Lyndon, KKK, Dixiecrats, [Teamsters boss Jimmy] Hoffa, [the] John Birch Society, Nixon, [south Vietnam President Ngo Dinh]

Diem, Rightist, CIA in Cuban fiasco, Dictators [and] Communists."

On the back of the list is another note, written more than 20 years later when she passed on her letters to Kennedy collector Robert White.

"There is no end to the list of suspected conspirators to Pres. Kennedy murder. Many factions had their reasons for wanting the young president dead.

That fact alone illustrates how the world suffers from a congenital proclivity to violence," it reads.

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By SUSANNAH CAHALAN

December 12, 2010

<B>

John F. Kennedy's closest aide was the queen of conspiracy theorists.

Evelyn Lincoln, his personal secretary, wrote down a list of suspects in her beloved boss' assassination -- and it included

both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

The never-before-seen personal note, scribbled by Lincoln as she sat aboard Air Force One return ing to Washington on the day

of JFK's death, lists those she thought might be behind the president's murder.

The note, estimated to be worth $30,000, is now on the auction block.

Lincoln was Kennedy's per sonal secretary from 1953 until his death on Nov. 22, 1963, and was riding in the Dallas motorcade that

fateful day. She died in 1995 at age 85.

Her note listed "Lyndon, KKK, Dixiecrats, [Teamsters boss Jimmy] Hoffa, [the] John Birch Society, Nixon, [south Vietnam President Ngo Dinh]

Diem, Rightist, CIA in Cuban fiasco, Dictators [and] Communists."

On the back of the list is another note, written more than 20 years later when she passed on her letters to Kennedy collector Robert White.

"There is no end to the list of suspected conspirators to Pres. Kennedy murder. Many factions had their reasons for wanting the young president dead.

That fact alone illustrates how the world suffers from a congenital proclivity to violence," it reads.

</B>

Full story: http://www.nypost.co...M8ynCmDHRJQn2OO

She also abscombed with many personal items and official records that belonged to the Kennedy family and/or the American people.

Certainly some were gifts from Kennedy to her, but not all the stuff she had kept, which she passed on to Robert White, who took it on the road like a circus side-show,

and when he died, it was auctioned off as a garage sale.

I wonder if JFK's brain was among the items?

The real hero in my book was LBJ's secretary who was responsible for the Oval Office tapes, and when LBJ ordered her to destroy them, didn't, and she was right, because

they were paid for by the taxpapers and were the property, not of Lyndon Johnson, but the people of the USA.

BK

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Certainly some were gifts from Kennedy to her, but not all the stuff she had kept, which she passed on to Robert White, who took it on the road like a circus side-show, and when he died, it was auctioned off as a garage sale.

From alexautographs.com:

Sale 43 Lot 240

JOHN F. KENNEDY'S PERSONAL SECRETARY LISTS SUSPECTS IN HIS MURDER

EVELYN LINCOLN (1909 - 1995) Personal secretary to John F. Kennedy from his election to the U.S. Senate in 1953 until his 1963 assassination in Dallas. Mrs. Lincoln was privy to all of Kennedy's notes, letters and meeting, and was undoubtedly his closest aide. She was present in the motorcade when Kennedy was assassinated, and flew in Air Force One when it carried the late president's body back to Washington. We offer an astounding, most revealing set of notes entirely in Mrs. Lincoln's hand, what she described as a list of potential suspects in the murder of John F. Kennedy, composed by her during the return flight to Washington on the day of the assassination, November 22, 1963. The list, on an otherwise plain octavo sheet of paper, reads in order: "Lyndon [Johnson] KKK Dixiecrats [Teamster leader Jimmy] Hoffa John Birch Society Nixon [President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh] Diem Rightist CIA in Cuban fiasco Dictators Communists". When the paper is inverted, jumbled notes appear: "Denny See mag of WH sq Over 68102" which we believe were written prior to Mrs. Lincoln's list. Much later, Mrs. Lincoln noted on the verso: "There is no end to the list of suspected conspirators to Pres. Kennedy murder. Many factions had their reasons for wanting the young president dead. That fact alone illustrates how the world suffers from a congenital proclivity to violence". Fine condition. This item was given by Mrs. Lincoln to her close friend and noted Kennedy collector Robert White, who over the years accumulated a vast collection of Kennedy letters and memorabilia from Mrs. Lincoln. She related to him how she had penned this list aboard Air Force One, and White in turn related her recollection to the consignor of this item at the time of its sale. Interestingly, common knowledge is that Lee Harvey Oswald was an ardent communist, the last suspect on Mrs. Lincoln's list, but the majority of conspiracy theorists believe that Lyndon Johnson or the Mob, with Kennedy-hater Jimmy Hoffa's complete support, ordered Kennedy's execution. An incredible relevatory piece of political history, never before offered for public sale.

Estimate $ 20,000-30,000

http://auctions.alexautographs.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=43+++++++240+&refno=+++68450

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Does she provide evidence that all these guys killed JFK?

That's all she said about it.

A search on Internet provided me this photo when I used keyword Bethesda. Was she present at the autopsy? And who is the man with her?

It certainly looks like her. I don't know who the man is.

Who did the illustration of the autopsy? The pathologist holding up the arm looks like John Liggett, based on the one photo I've seen of him. It's interesting to see that Nixon and George H.W. Bush also were there.

Ron

WHAT??? Nixon and George HW Bush at the autopsy of JFK?????

I have never heard this before.

Just when it cannot get any stranger.

Dawn

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Guest James H. Fetzer

I published the letter by Evelyn Lincoln to "Richard" dated October 7, 1994,

in ASSASSINATION SCIENCE (1998), page 372. Preserving the puncutation, the

spacing of lines (including hyphens and such), that letter reads as follows:

Evelyn Lincoln

4701 Willard Avenue

Chevy Chase, Maryland 20816

(301) 664-3670

October 7, 1974

Dear Richard,

It was a pleasure to receive your kind letter concerning your

desire to obtain my assessment of President Kennedy's administration

and assassination to pass along to your students.

I am sending along to you and article which was written by

Muriel Ressman for the "Lady's Circle" October 1964, and was recent-

ly reprinted in a current issue of that magazine, which will give you

an insight into my impression of the man.

As for the assassination is concerned, it is my belief that there

was a conspiracy because there were those that disliked him and felt

the only way to get rid of him was to assassinate him. These five con-

spirators, in my opinion, were Lyndon B. Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, the

Mafia, the CIA and the Cubans in Florida. The House Intelligence

Committee investigation, also, came to the conclusions that there was

a conspiracy.

My very best wishes to you and your students.

Sincerely,

s/

Evelyn Lincoln

NOTE: The first few words of the third paragraph, "As for the . . .",

indicates that she began to write, "As far as the . . .", but did not.

Lincoln wrote a letter dated October 7, 1994, to Richard Duncan, a teacher at Northside Middle School in Roanoke, VA, in which she stated:

"As for (sic) the assassination is concerned it is my belief that there was a conspiracy because there were those that disliked him and felt the only way to get rid of him was to assassinate him. These five conspirators, in my opinion, were Lyndon B. Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, the Mafia, the CIA, and the Cubans in Florida." (Full letter quoted in Twyman's Bloody Treason, p. 831)

Ron

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Guest Robert Morrow

Evelyn Lincoln, the longtime secretary to John Kennedy and Madeleine Duncan Brown, the beloved longtime mistress to Lyndon Johnson, are 2 of the most important witnesses to truth in the JFK assassination, aka the 1963 Coup d'Etat.

Two of the women CLOSEST to both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, both believe that Lyndon Johnson and the CIA murdered John Kennedy. And for good reason. Both were extremely aware of the sub rosa war that was being waged between the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson. Evelyn Lincoln, ON THE DAY OF THE ASSASSINATION, listed CIA anger over the Bay of Pigs fiasco as a possible key factor in the 1963 Coup d'Etat.

On 12/31/63 at the Driskell Hotel in Austin, TX, Lyndon Johnson directly told his fave mistress Madeleine Duncan Brown that is was Texas oil barons and the CIA who murdered John Kennedy.

Evelyn Lincoln and Madeleine Duncan Brown are absolute goldmines for truth in the JFK assassination. And Evelyn Lincoln was very aware of how Lyndon Johnson BLACKMAILED his way on the 1960 Democratic ticket.

Evelyn Lincoln, JFKs secretary, reports that Johnson, with J. Edgar Hoovers dark help, got on the 1960 Democratic ticket by using BLACKMAIL on the Kennedys

During the 1960 campaign, according to Mrs. Lincoln, Kennedy discovered how vulnerable his womanizing had made him. Sexual blackmail, she said, had long been part of Lyndon Johnson's modus operandiabetted by Edgar. "J. Edgar Hoover," Lincoln said, "gave Johnson the information about various congressmen and senators so that Johnson could go to X senator and say, `How about this little deal you have with this woman?' and so forth. That's how he kept them in line. He used his IOUs with them as what he hoped was his road to the presidency. He had this trivia to use, because he had Hoover in his corner. And he thought that the members of Congress would go out there and put him over at the Convention. But then Kennedy beat him at the Convention. And well, after that Hoover and Johnson and their group were able to push Johnson on Kennedy.

"LBJ," said Lincoln, "had been using all the information Hoover could find on Kennedyduring the campaign, even before the Convention. And Hoover was in on the pressure on Kennedy at the Convention." (Summers, Official and Confidential, p. 272).

According to Lincoln, Kennedy had definite plans to drop Johnson for the Vice Presidency in 1964, and replace him with Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina. In 1964, new President Lyndon Johnson gave FBI director J. Edgar Hoover a lifetime waiver from the mandatory retirement age of 70 that Hoover would hit on 1/1/65! In other words, Hoover could live to age 120 and still be head of the FBI. In my opinion, both LBJ and Hoover were conspirators, along with the CIA, in the JFK assassination. LBJs and Hoovers jobs were to cover up the murder.

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