William Kelly

Hi Harry, Good to see you here. Hope all is well. I'll have my mother say a rosary for Rich. Bill Kelly bkjfk3@yahoo.com

Hi Harry, Good to see you here. Hope all's well with you. I'll have my mother say a rosary for Rich. Bill Kelly bkjfk3@yahoo.com

One story you won't see in the TV show or in Tom Braden's book is what it was like to live in house with eight kids and a Nazi Gestapo assassin. When Braden and his wife married their large family was friends and neighbors with Bobby and Ethel Kennedy, who also had a large family. Braden was one of Alan Dulles' deputies, and as a favor to Dulles Braden took in one Hans Bernd Gisevius, a Gestapo-OSS double-agent run by Dulles out of Berne, Swiss., and participant in the failed assassination attempt on Hitler at the Wolf's Lair. Gisevius, in Berlin, believed Hitler was killed and put the coup d'etat into motion. While many involved were rounded up and executed, Gisevius escaped with the help of Dulles and his assistant, Mary Banacroft. When Gisevius came to the USA, he lived with Braden's family and received a salary from the CIA. As pointed out elsewhere, the guy who took over Tom Braden's CIA operations, Cord Meyer, Jr. was the founder of the World Federalists, whose Philadelphia fundraising banquets were organized by Michael Paine's mom, Ruth Forbes Paine. Cord Meyer's neighbor, Priscilla Johnson McMillan and Walter Cronkite are also active World Federalists, and I suspect, part of Mockingbird as well. I imagine it must have been pretty interesting conversations sitting around the Braden's dinner table with all those kids and a Gestapo Colonel. Bill Kelly bkjfk3@yahoo.com

Ron, are you familiar with this story it seems to provide a dimension to Oswalds Mexico City sojournings heretofore undisclosed. If you study the FBI's Cointelpro documents, one of the groups targeted was the Friends, because of their anti-nuclear stance. I once tried to find Ruth Paine's name in the Cointelpro documents coming out of Pennsylvania, but didn't find any. Steve Thomas Steve, A lot of Cointelpro docs were stollen from the Media, Pa. (Suburb of Philly) FBI office in the 1970s and published by a group of radicals. Tink Thompson was teaching Philosophy at one of the local colleges there and knew the group who did this, and I think Vince Salandria represented them in court when they got busted. Cynthis McKinney also hosted a seminar on the Cointelpro operations at the Congressional Black Caucus in DC last month. Ruth Paine's student "pen pal" correspondence with Russian students was most certainly monitored though there's not many docs. But I don't think it's Ruth Hyde Paine - Michael Paine's wife who is the real key, but Ruth Forbes Paine Young, Michael Paine's mother. She was Mary Bancroft's close friend and international traveling companion and wife of Arthur Young, inventor of the Bell Helicopter. They were Michael and Ruth Paine's mentors and financial benefactors, Philadelphia Quakers and possible targets of Cointelpro. Also, as Robert mentioned, there is more to the Philadelphia Quaker in Mexico City story and other aspects to this angle that I'll try to update when I have the time. Bill Kelly bkjfk3@yahoo.com

William E. Kelly, Jr. was born in 1951, the son of a Camden, New Jersey, USA homicide detective. He followed the news reports and read the articles and books on the assassination of President Kennedy and majored in history at the University of Dayton, Ohio, School of Education, where he did his thesis on the Bay of Pigs. After graduation he taught history and became a freelance journalist and author of regional history books "300 Years at the Point" and "Birth of the Birdie," a history of golf. Kelly became personally involved in original JFK assassination research in 1977 after publication of Peter Noyes' book "Legacy of Doubt," which reported on the activities of Jim Braden, a suspect taken into custody at the scene of the crime. Reading that Braden had been arrested in mob related activities in Camden, N.J. in 1948, but the Camden PD refused to released the arrest record, he obtained the file and shared it with other researchers and investigators, including former Philadelphia prosecutor and then chief counsel of the House Select Committe on Assassination Richard Sprague. When the HSCA records were locked away, Kelly formed the Committee for an Open Archives (COA) with his college associate John Judge, lobbying extensively for the JFK Assassination Records Act, which was passed in 1992. With Judge, Peter Dale Scott, John Newman, Jim Lesar, Bill Turner, Jerry Rose, Jim DiEugenio and others, he was an original founder of the Coaliton on Political Assassinations (COPA), and made presentations at COPA conferences on the Collins Radio Connections, the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) and the NORAD stand down on 9/11. With Judge, he also assisted the 9/11 Citizen's Watch, which monitored the work of the 9/11 Commission. Kelly is currently attempting to petition federal prosecutors in Texas, Louisiana and DC to convein a special federal grand jury to review the evidence and determine if any individuals can be indicted for crimes related to the assassination of President Kennedy.