John Simkin

Marie Fonzi tells me that there is a new edition of Last Investigation being published by Skyhorse Publishing Co. "You can see the beautiful cover on Amazon.com. There are newly released photos of Gaet - my favorite is the one of him in front of the Capitol under the photo of Gonzales where the caption says Fonzi was never in Washington. I wrote the new Preface, which is filled with excerpts of Gaet's speeches and articles." http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Investigation-Insiders-about-Assassination/dp/1626360782/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377593892&sr=1-1&keywords=Gaeton+Fonzi

This article appeared in the UK national newspaper, The Daily Express, yesterday. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/424506/Was-Kennedy-murdered-by-his-own-vice-president The Daily Mail and the Daily Express appear to be both interested in the assassination. I suspect this is more of an online battle for readers.

I thought it might be worth reviving this thread considering the publication of the new edition.

Anthony Summers is quoted in this Las Vegas Sun article on the assassination. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/aug/22/us-jfk-files-still-sealed/

The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq. Something that they have been denying for 60 years. How long will it be before it admits to their role in the assassination of JFK. Maybe it will be in 2023? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/cia-admits-role-1953-iranian-coup

The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, in documents that also show how the British government tried to block the release of information about its own involvement in his overthrow. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/cia-admits-role-1953-iranian-coup

In 1869 Mikhail Bakunin and Sergi Nechayev, two of Russia’s most important anarchists, published Catechism of a Revolutionist. It included the famous passage: "The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose - to destroy it." http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbakunin.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSnechayev.htm The book had a tremendous influence on a group of young people in Russia who established the revolutionary organisation, the People’s Will. They planned to rescue Nechayev, who had been imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress since 1872, but first decided to assassinate Tsar Alexander II. The task was achieved on 1st March, 1881. All the conspirators were arrested and Sophia Perovskaya, Andrei Zhelyabov, Nikolai Kibalchich, Nikolai Rysakov and Timofei Mikhailov were all executed. The rest of the members were arrested and imprisoned and with no one to rescue Nechayev, he died of consumption and scurvy on 21st November, 1882. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSpw.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSperovskaya.htm Despite this repression, there were attempts by the People's Will to kill Tsar Alexander III. One plot was led by Alexander Ulyanov, who was a student at St. Petersburg University. The secret police soon discovered Ulyanov’s plot and he was caught and executed on 20th May, 1887. When he heard the news, his brother, Vladimir Illich Ulyanov (better known as Lenin), is reported as saying: "I'll make them pay for this! I swear it." http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSulyanov.htm Victor Kibalchich (he later took the name Victor Serge), was one of those who was deeply influenced by the ideas of Nechayev and Bukharin. His father was a member of the People’s Will and a close relative of Nikolai Kibalchich, one of those executed for the killing of Tsar Alexander II. The family fled to Brussels and Victor began associating with local anarchists. In 1910 Serge moved to Paris and wrote for the leading anarchist journal, l'Anarchie. Serge became involved with a group of militant anarchists who became known as the illegalists. Their views were expressed in an article that appeared in l'Anarchie: "The anarchist is in a state of legitimate defence against society. Hardly is he born than the latter crushes him under a weight of laws, which are not of his doing, having been made before him, without him, against him. Capital imposes on him two attitudes: to be a slave or to be a rebel; and when, after reflection, he chooses rebellion, preferring to die proudly, facing the enemy, instead of dying slowly of tuberculosis, deprivation and poverty, do you dare to repudiate him? If the workers have, logically, the right to take back, even by force, the wealth that is stolen from them, and to defend, even by crime, the life that some want to tear away from them, then the isolated individual must have the same rights." http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSserge.htm This group of illegalists established what became known as the Jules Bonnot gang. On 21st December, 1911 the gang robbed a messenger of the Société Générale Bank of 5,126 francs in broad daylight and then fled in a stolen Delaunay-Belleville car. It is claimed that they were the first to use a car to flee the scene of a crime. As Peter Sedgwick pointed out: "This was an astounding innovation when policemen were on foot or bicycle. Able to hide, thanks to the sympathies and traditional hospitality of other anarchists, they held off regiments of police, terrorized Paris, and grabbed headlines for half a year." http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ANA-Jules_Bonnot.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ANA-Raymond_Callemin.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ANA-Octave_Garnier.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ANA-Andre_Soudy.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ANA-Stephen_Monier.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ANA-Rene_Valet.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ANA-Edouard_Carouy.htm Most of the gang were killed in gun-battles and the rest of them were guillotined outside the gates of the prison on 21st April, 1913. The police took this opportunity to round up all the anarchists in France and Victor Serge, although he was opposed to the tactics of the Jules Bonnot gang, was sentenced to five years hard labour. Lenin, by this time the leader of the Bolsheviks in Russia, decided to adopt the tactics of the “illegalists” and gave permission for groups of revolutionaries to rob banks in order to increase party funds. Stalin played a significant role in this operation and one of these raids, an attack on the State Bank in Tbilisi raised three hundred and forty thousand kopeks. Victor Serge was released from prison in 1915. He went to live in Spain but soon after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II he attempted to return to Russia. However, he was arrested on the border by those opposed to the revolution and he was not released as part of a prisoner exchange in 1919. By the time he arrived in Russia he was a witness to the attempts by the Bolsheviks to suppress the anarchists. Over the next few years he spent his time trying to rescue left-wing critics of the Bolshevik government. In 1928 Stalin ordered Serge’s arrest. He was eventually released while suffering from severe abominable pain. Serge thought he was going to die. He told himself: "If I chance to survive, I must be quick and finish the books I have begun; I must write, write..." Serge's first book, Year One of the Russian Revolution, was finished in 1930. Adam Hochschild has pointed out: "In all his books, and particularly in this one, his masterpiece, his prose has a searing, vivid, telegraphic compactness. Serge's style comes not from endless refinement and rewriting, like Flaubert's, but from the urgency of being a man on the run. The police are at the door; his friends are being arrested; he must get the news out; every word must tell." The book was banned in the Soviet Union and Serge was rearrested. However, after international pressure, Serge was allowed to move to France in 1936. Later, he moved to Mexico but was unable to find a publisher for his masterpiece, Memoirs of a Revolutionary, until after his death in 1947.

Some interesting examples of political interviews on Fox News. http://www.salon.com/2013/07/30/10_worst_fox_news_interviews_of_the_decade/singleton/

Probably the best evidence against this theory is that Tim McIntyre, the Secret Service Agent standing next to Hickey at the time also confirmed there was no shot. Later, McIntyre also sued the publishers of the book. Hickey's lawyer, Mark S. Zaid, has told me by email that they sued Howard Donahue and St. Martin's Press and not Bonar Menninger in 1995: "We settled the case then but only if it included an apology from the publisher that would send the message to most reasonable people that the theory was flawed." The story got a lot of coverage in the Daily Mail yesterday. This follows a long article in the Huffington Post. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2380691/President-JFK-documentary-alleges-WAS-second-shooter-assassination--Secret-Service-agent.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/28/jfk-second-shooter-documentary_n_3667317.html

Jim Marrs has a new edition of Crossfire being published in November. It has been thoroughly revised and updated to take into account the latest evidence about the assassination. Jim has agreed to discuss the book on the Forum. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crossfire-Plot-That-Killed-Kennedy/dp/0465031803/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375116176&sr=1-9&keywords=Jim+Marrs

In April, 1995, George Hickey sued Bonar Menninger for what he said about him in his book, Mortal Error: The Shot that Killed JFK. However, the court judge in Baltimore said the suit by Hickey was filed too long after publication of the book. The reason this story has reemerged is that Hickey died two years ago. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhickey.htm

JJ Cale died a few days ago? He was a great guitar player. You can see his videos here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ACOWsMUGE4&list=RD02uGtUNelJf94

Allan Witwer, the manager of the Murchison's Del Charro Hotel, later recalled: "It came to the end of the summer and Hoover had made no attempt to pay his bill. So I went to Murchison and asked him what he wanted me to do." Murchison told him to put it on his bill. Witwer estimates that over the next 18 summers Murchison's hospitality was worth nearly $300,000. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmurchison.htm

Larry, what was your view of Madeleine Brown as a witness? I have no idea if she was LBJ's mistress but I find the idea of Murchison's party very difficult to believe. Also, what are your thoughts on Jane Wolfe's book, The Murchisons: The Rise and Fall of a Texas Dynasty (1989)? In the book she accepts that Murchison had a corrupt relationship with LBJ. However, she argues that Murchison's relationship with LBJ came to an end when he accepted the offer to be the running-mate of John F. Kennedy: "Many of Texas's richest oilmen had supported Johnson for years with large contributions, but when he accepted the vice presidency under Kennedy, they felt betrayed. Johnson had enormous clout in the Senate, and much of this power was due to these Texas oilmen. During the fifties LBJ breakfasts at Clint's Preston Road home were commonplace. The Texas senator and ten or twelve of the state's richest oilmen would gather for coffee on the front porch, while Johnson gave an overview of what might happen in Congress affecting the oil industry and of the coming election. Johnson would announce which senators needed money and just how much they needed to defeat their opponents. Then Clint Murchison would assign the fund-raising job to one of the men gathered at the breakfast... In return, Johnson was expected to deliver the vote on the depletion allowance, and all other legislation of interest of the oilman." Wolfe argues that even after LBJ became president, Murchison refused offers to get together again. I find that difficult to believe. Have you seen any evidence that is the case. One area where Wolfe is wrong concerns the purchasing of the publishers, Henry Holt and Company in 1958. Wolfe claims that he never used it to push his political ideas. However, he told the New York Post: "Before I got them, they published some books that were badly pro-Communist. They had some bad people there.... We just cleared them all out and put some good men in. Sure there were casualties but now we've got a good operation." One of the first book's he published was by his old friend, J. Edgar Hoover. The book, Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America (1958), was an account of the Communist menace and sold over 250,000 copies in hardcover and over 2,000,000 in paperback. It was on the best-seller lists for thirty-one weeks, three of them as the number one non-fiction choice. William Sullivan was ordered to oversee the project, claimed that as many as eight agents worked full-time on the book for nearly six months. Curt Gentry, the author of J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (1991) points out Hoover claimed that he intended to give all royalties to the FBI Recreational Association (FBIRA). However, he claims that the "FBIRA was a slush fund, maintained for the use of Hoover, Tolson, and their key aides. It was also a money-laundering operation, so the director would not have to pay taxes on his book royalties." Gentry quotes Sullivan as saying that Hoover "put many thousands of dollars of that book.... into his own pocket, and so did Tolson."

Leonard Garment, Nixon's Counsel to the President, who accused John Sears of being Deep Throat, has died. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKgarment.htm

I visited Russia a few weeks ago. After speaking to local people I would advise Edward Snowden not to criticise Putin. Most of his critics seem to end up being charged with corruption. The media is more under the control of the power elite than even the UK and the USA.

I recently acquired a copy of Jane Wolfe's book, The Murchisons: The Rise and Fall of a Texas Dynasty (1989). In the book she accepts that Murchison had a corrupt relationship with LBJ. However, she argues that Murchison's relationship with LBJ came to an end when he accepted the offer to be the running-mate of John F. Kennedy: "Many of Texas's richest oilmen had supported Johnson for years with large contributions, but when he accepted the vice presidency under Kennedy, they felt betrayed. Johnson had enormous clout in the Senate, and much of this power was due to these Texas oilmen. During the fifties LBJ breakfasts at Clint's Preston Road home were commonplace. The Texas senator and ten or twelve of the state's richest oilmen would gather for coffee on the front porch, while Johnson gave an overview of what might happen in Congress affecting the oil industry and of the coming election. Johnson would announce which senators needed money and just how much they needed to defeat their opponents. Then Clint Murchison would assign the fund-raising job to one of the men gathered at the breakfast... In return, Johnson was expected to deliver the vote on the depletion allowance, and all other legislation of interest of the oilman." Wolfe argues that even after LBJ became president, Murchison refused offers to get together again.

Is it possible that Clint Murchison helped to fund the JFK assassination? Murchison was a close friend of both Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover. His relationship with LBJ dates back to the 1948 Senate election. Murchison was one of his largest financial backers. Texas oil millionaires such as Murchison, fought hard to maintain its tax concessions. The most important of these was the oil depletion allowance. It allowed producers to use the depletion allowed to deduct just 5 per cent of their income and the deduction was limited to the original cost of their property. However, in 1926 the depletion allowance was increased to 27.5 per cent. As Robert Bryce pointed out in his book, Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate: "Johnson's 1948 race was reportedly the most expensive political campaign ever wages in Texas. The money flowed to Johnson like an inexhaustible river. By befriending Richardson, Murchison, Hunt, and other oilmen like Amon Carter of Fort Worth, Wesley West of Austin, and R. J. Parten of Houston, Johnson assured himself of nearly unlimited funding." Philip F. Nelson, the author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination (2011) has pointed out that the oil depletion allowance, "allowed them to retain 27.5 percent of their oil revenue tax-tree; its loss, according to World Petroleum magazine, stood to cost the industry as much as $280 million in annual profits. The original rationale for such an allowance was that the product that their investments yielded yeas a finite resource that would require continual investments in exploration and recovery in order to extend the flow of raw material; the more the companies produced, the less was available. Recognition of this depletion of the asset was intended as an incentive for finding and recovering more oil fields. (How this particular commodity was materially different from other forms of mining, or commercial ocean fishing, or even farming, was never fully explained, other than perhaps the oilmen having better lobbyists than the others.)" Murchison also became friends with J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was the start of a long friendship. According to Anthony Summers, the author of The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (1993): "Recognizing Edgar's influence as a national figure, the oilmen had started cultivating him in the late forties-inviting him to Texas as a houseguest, taking him on hunting expeditions. Edgar's relations with them were to go far beyond what was proper for a Director of the FBI." Hoover and his boyfriend, Clyde Tolson, were regular visitors to Murchison's Del Charro Hotel in La Jolla, California. The three men would visit the local racetrack, Del Mar. Allan Witwer, the manager of the hotel at the time, later recalled: "It came to the end of the summer and Hoover had made no attempt to pay his bill. So I went to Murchison and asked him what he wanted me to do." Murchison told him to put it on his bill. Witwer estimates that over the next 18 summers Murchison's hospitality was worth nearly $300,000. Other visitors to the hotel included Richard Nixon, John Connally, Lyndon B. Johnson, Meyer Lansky, Santos Trafficante, Johnny Rosselli, Sam Giancana and Carlos Marcello. Clint Murchison was also closely liked to the Mafia. In 1955 a Senate committee discovered that 20 per cent of the Murchison Oil Lease Company was owned by Vito Genovese and his family. The committee also discovered Murchison had close financial ties with Carlos Marcello. Later, Bobby Baker claimed that. "Murchison owned a piece of Hoover. Rich people always try to put their money with the sheriff, because they're looking for protection. Hoover was the personification of law and order and officially against gangsters and everything, so it was a plus for a rich man to be identified with him. That's why men like Murchison made it their business to let everyone know Hoover was their friend. You can do a lot of illegal things if the head lawman is your buddy." In 1958 Murchison purchased the publishers, Henry Holt and Company. He told the New York Post: "Before I got them, they published some books that were badly pro-Communist. They had some bad people there.... We just cleared them all out and put some good men in. Sure there were casualties but now we've got a good operation." One of the first book's he published was by his old friend, J. Edgar Hoover. The book, Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America (1958), was an account of the Communist menace and sold over 250,000 copies in hardcover and over 2,000,000 in paperback. It was on the best-seller lists for thirty-one weeks, three of them as the number one non-fiction choice. William Sullivan was ordered to oversee the project, claimed that as many as eight agents worked full-time on the book for nearly six months. Curt Gentry, the author of J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (1991) points out Hoover claimed that he intended to give all royalties to the FBI Recreational Association (FBIRA). However, he claims that the "FBIRA was a slush fund, maintained for the use of Hoover, Tolson, and their key aides. It was also a money-laundering operation, so the director would not have to9 pay taxes on his book royalties." Gentry quotes Sullivan as saying that Hoover "put many thousands of dollars of that book.... into his own pocket, and so did Tolson." In 1955 Lyndon B. Johnson became majority leader of the Senate. Johnson and Richard Russell now had complete control over all the important Senate committees. This was proving to be an expensive business. The money used to bribe these politicians came from Russell’s network of businessmen. These were men usually involved in the oil and armaments industries. According to John Connally, large sums of money was given to Johnson throughout the 1950s for distribution to his political friends. “I handled inordinate amounts of cash”. A great deal of this came from oilmen like Murchison. In 1956 there was another attempt to end all federal price control over natural gas. Sam Rayburn played an important role in getting it through the House of Representatives. This is not surprising as according to Connally, he alone had been responsible for a million and a half dollars of lobbying. Paul Douglas and William Langer led the fight against the bill. Their campaigned was helped by an amazing speech by Francis Case of South Dakota. Up until this time Case had been a supporter of the bill. However, he announced that he had been offered a $25,000 bribe by the Superior Oil Company to guarantee his vote. As a man of principal, he thought he should announce this fact to the Senate. Johnson responded by claiming that Case had himself come under pressure to make this statement by people who wanted to retain federal price controls. Johnson argued: “In all my twenty-five years in Washington I have never seen a campaign of intimidation equal to the campaign put on by the opponents of this bill.” Johnson pushed on with the bill and it was eventually passed by 53 votes to 38. However, three days later, Dwight D. Eisenhower, vetoed the bill on grounds of immoral lobbying. Eisenhower confided in his diary that this had been “the most flagrant kind of lobbying that has been brought to my attention”. He added that there was a “great stench around the passing of this bill” and the people involved were “so arrogant and so much in defiance of acceptable standards of propriety as to risk creating doubt among the American people concerning the integrity of governmental processes”. Murchison and Sid Richardson began negotiations with President Eisenhower. In June, 1957, Eisenhower agreed to appoint their man, Robert Anderson, as his Secretary of the Treasury. According to Robert Sherrill in his book, The Accidental President: "A few weeks later Anderson was appointed to a cabinet committee to "study" the oil import situation; out of this study came the present-day program which benefits the major oil companies, the international oil giants primarily, by about one billion dollars a year." During the 1960 presidential election John F. Kennedy gave his support for the oil depletion allowance. In October, 1960, he said that he appreciated "the value and importance of the oil-depletion allowance. I realize its purpose and value... The oil-depletion allowance has served us well." However, two years later, Kennedy decided to take on the oil industry. On 16th October, 1962, Kennedy was able to persuade Congress to pass an act that removed the distinction between repatriated profits and profits reinvested abroad. While this law applied to industry as a whole, it especially affected the oil companies. It was estimated that as a result of this legislation, wealthy oilmen saw a fall in their earnings on foreign investment from 30 per cent to 15 per cent. On 17th January, 1963, President Kennedy presented his proposals for tax reform. This included relieving the tax burdens of low-income and elderly citizens. Kennedy also claimed he wanted to remove special privileges and loopholes. He even said he wanted to do away with the oil depletion allowance. It is estimated that the proposed removal of the oil depletion allowance would result in a loss of around $300 million a year to Texas oilmen. Rumours began to circulate that Murchison might have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A friend of Murchison, Madeleine Brown, claimed in an interview on the television show, A Current Affair that on the 21st November, 1963, she was at his home in Dallas. Others at the meeting included Haroldson L. Hunt, J. Edgar Hoover, Clyde Tolson, John J. McCloy and Richard Nixon. At the end of the evening Lyndon B. Johnson arrived. Brown said in this interview: "Tension filled the room upon his arrival. The group immediately went behind closed doors. A short time later Lyndon, anxious and red-faced, reappeared. I knew how secretly Lyndon operated. Therefore I said nothing... not even that I was happy to see him. Squeezing my hand so hard, it felt crushed from the pressure, he spoke with a grating whisper, a quiet growl, into my ear, not a love message, but one I'll always remember: "After tomorrow those goddamn Kennedys will never embarrass me again - that's no threat - that's a promise." Gary Mack has argued that this party never took place: "Could LBJ have been at a Murchison party? No. LBJ was seen and photographed in the Houston Coliseum with JFK at a dinner and speech. They flew out around 10pm and arrived at Carswell (Air Force Base in northwest Fort Worth) at 11:07 Thursday night. Their motorcade to the Hotel Texas arrived about 11:50 and LBJ was again photographed. He stayed in the Will Rogers suite on the 13th floor and Manchester (William Manchester - author of The Death of a President) says he was up late. Could Nixon have been at Murchison’s party? No. Tony Zoppi (Entertainment Editor of The Dallas Morning News) and Don Safran (Entertainment Editor of the Dallas Times Herald) saw Nixon at the Empire Room at the Statler-Hilton. He walked in with Joan Crawford (Movie actress). Robert Clary (of Hogan’s Heroes fame) stopped his show to point them out, saying “. . . either you like him or you don’t.” Zoppi thought that was in poor taste, but Safran said Nixon laughed. Zoppi’s deadline was 11pm, so he stayed until 10:30 or 10:45 and Nixon was still there." http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmurchison.htm

The programme was called The Guilty Men and looked at the possibility that Lyndon B. Johnson, Malcolm Wallace and Edward A. Clark were involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The programme used evidence from the book Blood, Money and Power: How LBJ Killed JFK by Barr McClellan. It also used other sources such as the testimony of Madeleine Brown and Billie Sol Estes and the research of Walt Brown, Ed Tatro, Glen Sample, and Gregory Burnham (one of our members). You can see a clip from here: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKturnerN.htm Cliff Carter, one of those mentioned in the film, needs further research: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKcarter.htm I am not convinced this party took place the night before the assassination. That sort of thing only happens in films. I think research has shown that J. Edgar Hoover could not have been at the party. I suspect May Newman is mistaken on the date of the party. Hoover was definitely a friend of Murchinson and he was definitely pleased by the death of JFK because of the proposed end to the Oil Depletion Allowance: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKoildepletion.htm

I agree. You could also include his friend and fellow agent, Carl Elmer Jenkins. People like George Bush don't get their hands dirty by being involved in assassinations. They might order them through third-parties but you will never get the evidence of it. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKjenkinsC.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmorales.htm

Gerald McKnight, the author of Breach of Trust, has sent me this message: "I have written a new preface to a pb copy of "Breach of Trust" (out in September) and what I focused on in this preface was material (much of it originating w/ the FBI and SS) that exonerated Oswald as the Dealey Plaza shooter. It might benefit McBride to know that the Dallas Police had Oswald as the assassin of JFK and Tippit and the assailant of Connally by 1:40 P.M. CST. If McBride would like this citation I'd be glad to send it forward. I have no argument with McBride's assertion that Tippit was "detailed" to find Oswald and kill him when, in fact, he was like Oswald, a dupe in a much bigger operation. I could add here all the business of the Dallas cops climbing all over Oswald in the Texas Theatre grappling for his revolver. A Dallas Police forensic report on the alleged Oswald revolver indicated that not a single DP cop's finger prints were lifted from the weapon."

I know too much about education to be offered that job.

"We think that the purpose of the child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purposes of all life is death." Alexander Herzen http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSherzen.htm

In his book, Man of a Million Fragments: The True Story of Clay Shaw (2013) Donald H. Carpenter argues that during his research he discovered a letter from Shaw to Guy Banister in 1962.

Historians have in recent years looked at government archives produced during in 1917. It seems that the claims made against Lenin are based on the inconclusive and untrustworthy testimony of obscure and unreliable individuals. This information was given to trusted journalists who then ran a smear campaign against Lenin. He was never a paid agent but his presence in Russia was no doubt of immense value to the German Imperial Government. The campaign was so successful that Lenin handed over the leadership of the Bolsheviks to Trotsky and went into hiding in Finland. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSlenin.htm