James Parrott

[John Simkin]

In Chapter 4 of "Family of Secrets" Russ Baker points out that George H. W. Bush phoned the FBI in Houston a few hours after JFK was assassinated to report that James Parrott had “been talking of killing the president”. He suggests on page 56 that the reason for this call to the FBI might have been to establish in “government investigative files” that at the time of the assassination he was in Tyler, Texas. If that is the case, why would he link it to the assassination of JFK? As much as I would like to blame Bush for the assassination, I think this FBI memo shows that he had no idea that JFK was going to die in Dallas. However, it does suggest that someone was trying to implicate Bush in the crime.