Fred J. Cook: The Truth is too Terrible

[James DiEugenio]

No comment.

[Paul Trejo]

In 1966, Fred Cook began to criticize the Warren Report. He was not alone. Mark Lane had preceded all critics. Sylvia Meagher was in the forefront with brilliant journalism, and Harold Weisberg was aggressive in his criticism.

But Fred Cook brought his special skills to the table -- he was a seasoned crime reporter.

Fred Cook was among the first to say that the Zapruder film flatly contradicts the "Lone Shooter" conclusions of the Warren Commission. Cook was among the first to count, frame by frame, each possible shot.

This was not unique, of course, since this Z-frame counting was already done inside the pages of the Warren Commission volumes. Also, it is one of the great controversies among the 488 witnesses of the WC, that Governor Connally and Mrs. Connally themselves insisted -- and some scientific experts also insisted -- that the bullet which allegedly emerged from JFK's throat could never have been the same bullet that entered Governor Connally's back.

Yet without that postulate, the "Lone Shooter" scenario falls apart instantly.

So, even though J. Edgar Hoover (probably) meant well with his "Lone Shooter" dogma, in the interest of National Security, it fell apart rather quickly. It could only be held together by the Dogmatism of the US Government -- which still lasts to this very day -- in rather shabby repair.

Everything will change on Thursday 26 October 2017, however, when the JFK Records Act is finally fulfilled, and all of the secret documents about the JFK assassination that are still withheld by the US Government will finally be released.

We will see -- without a doubt -- that Fred Cook was correct. There was certainly more than one shooter on 11/22/1963.

Regards,

--Paul Trejo

Edited October 17, 2016 by Paul Trejo

[Douglas Caddy]

"The murderers of John F. Kennedy killed more than a President. They killed something deep in the very soul of this country...the innocent, untarnished belief...naive perhaps, but gloriously, constantly self-fulfilling...that we are the free-willed possessors of our own destiny. The assassination of President Kennedy, produced cracks of historic implications in that bedrock of democracy." - Gaeton Fonzi, Dealey Plaza Candlelight Ceremony, November 22, 1993

[Paul Trejo]

"The murderers of John F. Kennedy killed more than a President. They killed something deep in the very soul of this country...the innocent, untarnished belief...naive perhaps, but gloriously, constantly self-fulfilling...that we are the free-willed possessors of our own destiny. The assassination of President Kennedy, produced cracks of historic implications in that bedrock of democracy." - Gaeton Fonzi, Dealey Plaza Candlelight Ceremony, November 22, 1993

Douglas,

Although these are noble sentiments, and I highly regard most of the work done by Gaeton Fonzi, there is still too much idealism in these words, IMHO.

In fact, the JFK assassination merely continued an existing legacy of American Politics that has extended from the days of the Civil War. The Civil Rights movement in the early 1960's -- of which JFK became an outspoken supporter -- was merely an extension of the Civil War of the 1860's.

The racial tensions of the 1960's had been re-ignited by the 1954 passage of Earl Warren's "Brown Decision" which enforced the racial integration of US Public Schools, to the outcry of many Americans, especially in the South.

There is little doubt what the JBS meant by their most famous slogan, "Impeach Earl Warren!"

President Eisenhower used Federal Troops to enforce this Law in 1957 in Little Rock Arkansas. General Walker supported Ike in that effort, but soon after joined the JBS. JFK used Federal Troops to enforce this Law in 1962 at Ole Miss University. General Walker opposed JFK in that effort.

In fact, the condemnation of US Government management of US Public Schools continues down to this very day, as we observe White Flight from our inner cities, and demands for Private School vouchers, and on and on.

The specific modus operandi of the JFK assassination, however, was Anticommunism. The framing of Lee Harvey Oswald as a Communist (when he was no such thing, as testified under oath by both J. Edgar Hoover and Alan Belmont of the FBI) was the tool that was supposed to push the USA back towards the extreme right -- hopefully into the arms of General Walker, but perhaps only into the hands of George Wallace in 1964.

Again, we must remember the famous slogan of 1963 -- Racial Integration is Communism!

There has been no radical change in US Politics, IMHO, but only a continuing struggle for the soul of the USA which started in the Civil War and continues down to this very decade, when banning the Confederate Flag in North Carolina is still being disputed by many.

The current state of USA politics is nothing new in the slightest -- nor did it begin with 1963. It is, IMHO, 150 years old.

Regards,

--Paul Trejo

Edited October 20, 2016 by Paul Trejo

[Paul Trejo]

DUPLICATE

Edited October 20, 2016 by Paul Trejo

[James DiEugenio]

Anyone who can compare what Eisenhower and Nixon did to enforce Brown vs Board with what the Kennedys did is either hopelessly uninformed or has an agenda slightly larger than the nation of Canada.

Edited October 20, 2016 by James DiEugenio

[Paul Trejo]

Anyone who can compare what Eisenhower and Nixon did to enforce Brown vs Board with what the Kennedys did is either hopelessly uninformed or has an agenda slightly larger than the nation of Canada.

James,

I have no other agenda, and I am well-informed on the topic. President Eisenhower enforced "Brown" in Little Rock in 1957, and he used General Walker to lead Federal Troops in that small town to enforce it. At that time General Walker was a loyal and heroic soldier from World War Two.

Yet while General Walker was in Little Rock from 1957-1959, he was worked on daily by the Radical Right, including figures such as H.L. Hunt, the segregationist "Reverend" Billy James Hargis, Robert Welch himself, and many others.

At the end of 1958, Robert Welch with Revilo P. Oliver had started the John Birch Society. By late 1959, they openly accused Eisenhower of Communism. General Walker joined the JBS at that time, and submitted his first resignation to the US Army, forfeiting his US Army Pension. Walker didn't want to serve with Communists.

Eisenhower rejected that resignation and sent General Walker to Augsburg, Germany. The Overseas Weekly newspaper in Augsburg chewed up General Walker and spit him out. Then Walker resigned again in 1961, and JFK accepted it.

In 1962 the Ole Miss riots erupted when General Walker said over the radio, "I was on the wrong side in Little Rock, but I am on the right side in Mississippi!".

JFK sent Federal Troops this time to oppose General Walker. Hundreds were wounded and two were killed.

The JBS blamed JFK for the carnage. They still do, to this very day.

This American history is rarely perused -- yet this is exactly how it happened. One day this will become widely recognized.

Regards,

--Paul Trejo

[James DiEugenio]

Paul:

This is what you wrote:

"President Eisenhower used Federal Troops to enforce this Law in 1957 in Little Rock Arkansas. General Walker supported Ike in that effort, but soon after joined the JBS. JFK used Federal Troops to enforce this Law in 1962 at Ole Miss University. General Walker opposed JFK in that effort."

​You then said you were well informed on the subject of Kennedy's civil rights program. Yet you equate Ike with JFK on the basis of sending troops into the south.

As if that is all that JFK did. That may be about all that Ike did--he did do a little bit more--but that is not all that JFK did.

What are your sources for Kennedy's civil rights program? Outside of Walker.

[Paul Trejo]

Jim,

Within the context of the JFK assassination, the most overlooked person by historians (and CTers) from 1961-1963 is General Edwin Walker.

General Walker racially integrated Little Rock High School for President Eisenhower in 1957.

General Walker opposed the racial integration of Ole Miss University against JFK in 1962. James Meredith was the Black American who was attempting to register at Ole Miss against the wishes of Governor Ross Barnett. Meredith's NAACP backer was Medgar Evers.

General Walker was allegedly the target of Lee Harvey Oswald on April 10, 1963.

Shortly after midnight of JFK's Civil Rights Speech on June 11, 1963, Medgar Evers was shot in the back in his own driveway in Mississippi. The eventual convict of that murder was KKK member Byron De La Beckwith. As 1964 began, and Byron De La Beckwith was standing trial for that murder, he was kindly visited in prison by Governor Ross Barnett and General Edwin Walker.

General Walker eventually testified before the Warren Commission in June, 1964. Walker's name appears about 500 times in the Warren Commission volumes. Walker swore under oath that he never heard of Lee Harvey Oswald until 11/22/1963.

For years afterwards, however, General Walker would claim that he knew that Lee Harvey Oswald his shooter only a few days after the shooting, and that RFK had set Oswald free before midnight of April 10th.

We had first seen that story in print on November 29, 1963, in this German newspaper:

http://www.pet880.com/images/19631129_Deutsche_NZ.jpg

But even in 1975, we find General Walker telling the same story to Senator Frank Church:

http://www.pet880.com/images/19750623_EAW_to_Frank_Church.pdf

General Walker told that same story many times until the year he died:

http://www.pet880.com/images/19920119_EAW_Oswald_arrested.pdf

There are many, many more confirmations of this in Walker's personal papers at UT Austin.

Regards,

--Paul Trejo

Edited October 20, 2016 by Paul Trejo

[James DiEugenio]

Ok Paul, the whole thing was a pretext for your Walker agenda.

You neither know nor care anything about Kennedy's civil rights program.

Which accomplished more for black Americans in three years, than the previous sixteen presidents did in nearly a century.

Over and out.

[Paul Trejo]

Jim,

My grasp of JFK's Civil Rights program is as solid as yours -- and furthermore, I've presented details of the history of JFK's program that you've overlooked -- and many historians have overlooked.

Also, because you've overlooked that specific history, you've also overlooked General Walker as a suspect in the JFK assassination. That's clear from your many writings.

Dr. Jeff Caufield's recent book, General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy: the Extensive New Evidence of a Radical Right Conspiracy (2015) presents a CT that will eventually overshadow all CIA-did-it CT's -- including your own, Jim. That's the news.

JFK's Civil Rights program was central to the JFK assassination. That's what Caufield says, and that's what I say. The CIA-did-it CT's, on the other hand, have failed to make this historical connection for the past 50 years.

Regards,

--Paul Trejo

Edited October 21, 2016 by Paul Trejo

[James DiEugenio]

That is what I said, an agenda the size of Canada.

You prove it every time you post here.

Again, as Broderick Crawford said so memorably, 10-4 over and out.

[Paul Brancato]

In what way does seeing JFK's civil rights program as central to his assassination absolve the CIA or FBI or anyone else? Absurd. Hoover? The guy made MLK the object of his racist hatred. And as you well know Paul, anti-communism was used to justify all manner of racism, it was the modus operandi of the white racist movement trying to hide their actual motivations. The notion that guys like Hoover and Dulles were not far right is absurd. There was no ideological difference between Edwin Walker and the Joint Chiefs. You miss the forest for the trees.

[Paul Trejo]

On ‎10‎/‎21‎/‎2016 at 10:07 AM, Paul Brancato said:

In what way does seeing JFK's civil rights program as central to his assassination absolve the CIA or FBI or anyone else? Absurd. Hoover? The guy made MLK the object of his racist hatred. And as you well know Paul, anti-communism was used to justify all manner of racism, it was the modus operandi of the white racist movement trying to hide their actual motivations. The notion that guys like Hoover and Dulles were not far right is absurd. There was no ideological difference between Edwin Walker and the Joint Chiefs. You miss the forest for the trees.

No, Paul B., but there are nuances -- shades of grey. Hoover was to the right, but he wasn't as far right as General Walker or the JBS. Hoover actually says the following in his WC testimony:

----- BEGIN EXTRACT OF J. EDGAR HOOVER TESTIMONY TO THE WC -- 5/15/1964 -------------

 

Representative BOGGS. On the other side of the spectrum some professor out at the University of Illinois wrote a piece in which he alleged the President was a Communist agent, President Kennedy, and Buchanan's allegations are that the extreme right assassinated the President and this fellow's allegations are that the Communists assassinated the President. Would you care to comment? Have you read that piece?

 

 

Mr. HOOVER. I have read that piece. My comment on it is this in general: I think the extreme right is just as much a danger to the freedom of this country as the extreme left. There are groups, organizations, and individuals on the extreme right who make these very violent statements, allegations that General Eisenhower was a Communist, disparaging references to the Chief Justice and at the other end of the spectrum you have these leftists who make wild statements charging almost anybody with being a Fascist or belonging to some of these so-called extreme right societies. Now, I have felt, and I have said publicly in speeches, that they are just as much a danger, at either end of the spectrum. They don't deal with facts. Anybody who will allege that General Eisenhower was a Communist agent, has something wrong with him.

 

----- END EXTRACT OF J. EDGAR HOOVER TESTIMONY TO THE WC -- 5/15/1964 -------------

 

 

Historians now know that this is a reference to Robert Welch's 1959 JBS "Black Book" in which he alleged that Ike was a Red. General Walker fell for that -- hook, line and sinker.

 

There are shades of the rightwing, Paul B. Some despised JFK, but others were willing to assassinate JFK. Hoover knew who they were.

 

Regards,

--Paul Trejo

Edited November 10, 2016 by Paul Trejo
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[Paul Brancato]

Duh