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Book Review

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Fuhrman views JFK's murder as 'a simple act'

A Simple Act of Murder

November 22, 1963

By Mark Fuhrman

Morrow. 232 pp. $25.95

Reviewed by Thomas Lipscomb

H. L. Mencken cautioned that "for every complex problem, there is a

solution that is simple, neat, and wrong," but that doesn't keep

detective turned talented criminal investigative writer Mark Fuhrman

from seeing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as "a

simple act of murder." Sometimes, fortunately, in seeking

that "simple solution," some real progress is made in defining how to

go about finding any solution. Mark Fuhrman's book is well worth

reading for its clarity and single-mindedness in taking on the

challenge of a much-muddled subject. It is also the most useful brief

summary to date of how the investigations into the assassination have

proceeded, officially and unofficially, from 1963 to the present.

Mark Fuhrman spent his professional life in the Los Angeles Police

Department, and shared the conclusion of many of his colleagues that

there had to be a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination. Despite

that, he set himself the task of solving the case in "an effort to

clear away some of the fog... so that we can see it for what it is -

a simple act of murder." He certainly succeeded in creating a brisk

read for armchair investigators.

Fuhrman correctly notes that most of the vast material commenting on

the assassination is peripheral to the evidence and begins at the

wrong end of the investigation by trying to decide on a suspect

first, and then cutting the evidence to fit. Fuhrman reviews the

evidence first. And his understanding of it provides both the

highlights and the failures of his book as he proves to be not above

cutting some of the evidence himself.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the book is Fuhrman's masterly

analysis of Arlen Specter's much-debated "magic bullet" theory.

Specter, as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission, came up with

an ingenious theory as to how one bullet caused extensive wounds to

President Kennedy, then to Texas Gov. John Connally, and then

conveniently rolled out - to be found, almost pristine, on Connally's

stretcher at Dallas' Parkland Hospital. The theory was so improbable

that three members of the commission objected to it. One, Georgia

Sen. Richard Russell, refused to sign the report unless his dissent

was published with it. It has since been the inspiration for dozens

of conspiracy theorists, who jump to wildly differing conclusions.

According to Fuhrman, Specter's difficulty was that the commission

had concluded that the first of the three bullets Oswald fired had

missed. That meant the second bullet had to do double damage since

the commission had also decided that the third bullet was the head

shot that hit only Kennedy.

Fuhrman's solution is simpler and obvious. According to the

commission, three shots were fired; the range of all three shots was

between 50 and 100 yards, the rifle had a four-power telescopic

sight, and the target was moving at less than 8 m.p.h. It was almost

impossible to miss with any shot. Why wasn't it more likely that the

first shot hadn't missed, but had indeed hit Kennedy in the upper

back and that the second shot had hit Connally (hence, the bullet

found on his stretcher)? Fuhrman's theory makes a lot more sense.

There is only one problem. No one has yet succeeded, under similar

conditions, in making those three shots with a comparable bolt-action

Mannlicher-Carcano in the 5.6 seconds allotted by the Zapruder film

timing, much less reload, aim, and fire another shot in the 1.8

seconds Fuhrman allots between the first shot striking Kennedy and

the shot striking Connally. Fuhrman and Specter both have a problem.

The "magic bullet" theory actually originated with a naval officer

nominally in charge of what is generally agreed was the badly botched

autopsy conducted at Bethesda Naval Hospital with 28 people crammed

into the room and the Kennedy family outside determining what would

and would not be allowed. The officer was Cmdr. James J. Humes.

The Kennedy autopsy was Humes' very first forensic autopsy and he was

as full of opinions as he was an amateur in forensic autopsy. Fuhrman

concludes that Specter should have known better than to buy into

Humes' theory, once he took the consistent - and directly

conflicting - testimony of Connally and his wife. But the commission

was under tremendous pressure from Lyndon B. Johnson's White House to

get its report out before the 1964 election, and it was certainly

easier to wind it up by August listening to Humes as if he actually

knew what he was talking about.

Unfortunately, despite calling the Humes autopsy "botched" himself,

Fuhrman goes along with its conclusions, ignoring forensic autopsy

expert Cyril Wecht, radiologist David Mantik, and others who have

offered important reconsiderations of the autopsy X-rays and

photographic evidence - all of it indicating that the autopsy was

part of a government smoke screen concealing just how the shots had

hit Kennedy. Fuhrman seems more inclined, like Gerald Posner of Case

Closed, to find a better basis for the Warren Report than to consider

new evidence. Available now, for example, are photographs collected

from the more than 30 photographers present in Dealey Plaza that

day.Some of these appear to challenge the Zapruder film, which the

commission put forward as the most important evidence.

A Simple Act of Murder is not entirely satisfying, but it is hard to

believe any solution ever will be, especially when one reads a recent

statement by Gary Cornwell, who served as deputy chief counsel for

the House Select Committee on Assassinations that investigated the

Kennedy assassination in the late 1970s. Looking back after all the

years he spent on the case with chief counsel Robert Blakey, Cornwell

concluded that "the honest truth is that we will probably

never 'solve' the case. The case should have been solved in 1963 and

1964, and because the government decided not to look for the real

answers when it had the chance, the opportunity was probably lost

forever."

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Good Day....

http://www.rcfp.org/news/2006/0720-foi-settle.html

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Settlement enough for FOIA requester to win attorney fees

An author who largely prevailed in an FOIA lawsuit against the CIA over documents about the Kennedy assassination is eligible for attorney fees, a federal appellate court ruled.

July 20, 2006 · A federal court order enforcing an agreement by the CIA to release documents under the Freedom of Information Act is enough of a victory to make the requester eligible for attorney fees, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., ruled last week.

A three-judge panel ruled July 11 that a 2001 U.S. District Court order memorializing the CIA's agreement to release documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to a Virginia historian means the author "substantially prevailed," meeting the standard for attorney fee eligibility under FOIA.

Court of Appeals Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel that the settlement in favor of access for requester William Davy Jr., met what is known as the Buckhannon standard after a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

"First the order changed the legal relationship between [the plaintiff] and the defendant, and, second, Davy was awarded some relief on the merits of his claim," wrote Henderson, partially quoting the high court ruling. Although the appellate court determined Davy to be "eligible" for fees based on the court-ordered agreement, the case was returned to the district court to determine whether Davy was entitled to attorney fees.

Dan Alcorn, the attorney who represented Davy, said although the current framework for recovering attorney fees is less than adequate, the Court of Appeals decision provides some relief.

"I think there's been a feeling that fees are almost impossible in FOIA cases," Alcorn said. "Although the case law is not perfect and not what we would like, it's not impossible under existing case law."

The decision also offers some relief from the practice of federal agencies dropping challenges to releasing records at the last minute to avoid paying FOIA requesters' attorney fees.

Davy's 1993 FOIA request sought certain CIA documents related to the Kennedy assassination.

Seven years after his request, Davy sued the agency. Two years after filing suit, despite its earlier claim that the records were so security-sensitive it could "neither confirm nor deny" their existence, the CIA "voluntarily" released a batch of more than 100 documents without waiting for U.S. District Judge Richard Leon of Washington to rule on the merits of the case.

Although the CIA won a motion officially dismissing the case, Davy later asked the court to order the agency to pay the $27,000 in attorney fees he incurred during the legal battle to get the records. In February 2005, Judge Leon denied Davy's motion without explanation.

In reversing Leon, the appeals court relied heavily on Buckhannon Board and Care Home Inc. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, in which the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that a plaintiff must receive at least some relief in a court ruling on the merits of a case or in a court-sanctioned settlement agreement to meet the "prevailing party" standard required under FOIA to receive attorney fees.

First Amendment advocates support legislation that would change the law to award plaintiff attorney fees when an FOIA lawsuit leads to government compliance with the legal obligation to provide information.

In ruling for Davy, the court cited its 2005 decision in Edmonds v. FBI, marking the second time that a court-endorsed decree providing substantial relief -- though short of courtroom victory -- was sufficient to meet the standard for attorney fees.

"It's moving in the direction we would like to see," Alcorn said.

(Davy v. Central Intelligence Agency; Requester's counsel: Daniel S. Alcorn, Vienna, Va.) --

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Good Day.... Recently, I saw a small scan of an 11-22-63 "Birmingham Post Herald" newspaper that was printed pre-assassination and detailed events from 11-21-63.

The front page had an article entitled,

"Dallas Jury Wants RFK as Witness."

The scan is too small to read the accompanying article.

Can someone, please, provide the details?

Thank You in advance.

Good Day.... Has anyone ever heard about/read about/interviewed a man named DONALD BANKSTON claiming to be a DP witness?

Thank You in advance.

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"Drehm seemed to think the shots came from in FRONT OF or BESIDE the President." (my EMPHASIS)

----CHARLES F. BREHM, a very close Dealey Plaza witness who was also a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II and D-day veteran, quoted only minutes after the attack, and while he is still standing within Dealey Plaza ("Dallas Times Herald," 11-22-63, final edition)

Good Day.... A reminder to some attempting to revise history....

From the "Associated Press"....

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CIA Blamed for Bay of Pigs Debacle

February 22, 1998

NEW YORK (AP) -- One of the Cold War's most secret documents --- the CIA's scathing internal investigation into the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle --- is finally out, and there is little wonder why the spy agency has guarded it so jealously.

The 150-page report, released after sitting in the CIA director's safe for more than three decades, blamed the disastrous attempt to oust Fidel Castro not on President John F. Kennedy's failure to call in air strikes, but on the agency itself.

The CIA's ignorance, incompetence, as well at its arrogance toward the 1,400 Cuban exiles it trained and equipped to mount the invasion, was responsible for the fiasco, said the report.

"The choice was between retreat without honor and a gamble between ignominious defeat and dubious victory. The agency chose to gamble, at rapidly decreasing odds," the report said.

The document, released by the agency last week, criticized almost every aspect of the CIA's handling of the invasion: misinforming Kennedy administration officials, planning poorly, using faulty intelligence and conducting an overt military operation beyond "agency responsibility as well as agency capability."

Few of the CIA personnel helping train the exiles for the invasion spoke Spanish, yet "the agency reduced the exiled leaders to the status of puppets."

Despite U.S. news articles linking the United States with a plan to invade Cuba, the project went forward under the "pathetic illusion" of deniability, the report said.

Castro's forces easily turned back the April 1961 assault at the Bay of Pigs, killing 200 rebel soldiers and capturing 1,197 others, who were later turned over to U.S. authorities.

The fiasco at the swampy, mosquito-ridden inlet on Cuba's southern coast was a watershed for the CIA, puncturing the air of invincibility it had acquired with its successes in helping topple Iran's president in 1953 and Guatemala's leader in 1954.

It was also a major foreign policy disaster for the Kennedy administration, tarnishing its "Camelot" sheen and frustrating its young president. Yet it also hardened his determination to get rid of Castro, evident in subsequent assassination plots that became subject of congressional investigations.

CIA officials and Cuban exiles believed Kennedy's failure to approve air strikes to back up the seaborne invaders doomed the plan.

But the report, by CIA Inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick, placed the blame directly on CIA leaders, saying they had "failed to advise the president, at an appropriate time, that success had become dubious and to recommend that the operation therefore be canceled."

The report so outraged CIA officials that all but one of the 20 copies produced was destroyed.

CIA officials feared that if the document leaked, it could provoke crippling public criticism of the agency. "In unfriendly hands, it can become a weapon unjustifiably (used) to attack the entire mission, organization, and functioning of the agency," CIA deputy director C.P. Cabell wrote in a December 15, 1961, memorandum.

The sole remaining copy of the report remained in the CIA director's safe until last week, when it was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Security Archive, a non-profit group in Washington.

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"It is inconceivable that a secret intelligence arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government?"

- the C.I.A.'s JAMES J. ANGLETON in executive session testimony to the "Church Committee," as repeated to ANGLETON by Senator SCHWEIKER; Church Committee, Hearings, Vol. II

Good Day.... Exerpt from the BARBIE ZELIZER book, "Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, The Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory" (1992)....

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"Now in Breaking News, a blistering, behind-the-scenes novel about the savagely competitive world of television news, he writes about this world he knows best--a world where integrity is held hostage in the relentless pursuit of the bottom line."

- publisher's note about DP attack witness and reporter ROBERT MacNeil's 1998 book, "Breaking the News"

CONNALLY: LBJ "was being a real asshole about the whole thing and insisted."

Good Day....

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Is deception the best way to serve one's country?

by Doug Thompson

The handwritten note lay in the bottom drawer of my old rolltop desk, one I bought for $50 in a junk store in Richmond, VA, 39 years ago.

"Dear Doug & Amy," it read. "Thanks for dinner and for listening." The signature was a bold "John" and the letterhead on the note simply said "John B. Connally" and was dated July 14, 1982.

I met John Connally on a TWA flight from Kansas City to Albuquerque earlier that year. The former governor of Texas, the man who took one of the bullets from the assassination that killed President John F. Kenney, was headed to Santa Fe to buy a house.

The meeting wasn't an accident. The flight originated in Washington and I sat in the front row of the coach cabin. During a stop in Kansas City, I saw Connally get on the plane and settle into a first class seat so I walked off the plane and upgraded to a first class seat right ahead of the governor. I not only wanted to meet the man who was with Kennedy on that day in Dallas in 1963 but, as the communications director for the re-election campaign of Congressman Manuel Lujan of New Mexico, I thought he might be willing to help out on what was a tough campaign.

When the plane was in the air, I introduced myself and said I was working on Lujan's campaign. Connally's face lit up and he invited me to move to the empty seat next to him.

"How is Manuel? Is there anything I can do to help?"

By the time we landed in Albuquerque, Connally had agreed to do a fundraiser for Lujan. A month later, he flew back into New Mexico where Amy and I picked him up for the fundraiser. Afterwards, we took him to dinner.

Connolly was both gracious and charming and told us many stories about Texas politics. As the evening wore on and the multiple bourbon and branch waters took their effect, he started talking about November 22, 1963, in Dallas.

"You know I was one of the ones who advised Kennedy to stay away from Texas," Connally said. "Lyndon (Johnson) was being a real asshole about the whole thing and insisted."

Connally's mood darkened as he talked about Dallas. When the bullet hit him, he said he felt like he had been kicked in the ribs and couldn't breathe. He spoke kindly of Jackie Kennedy and said he admired both her bravery and composure.

I had to ask. Did he think Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy?

"Absolutely not," Connally said. "I do not, for one second, believe the conclusions of the Warren Commission."

So why not speak out?

"Because I love this country and we needed closure at the time. I will never speak out publicly about what I believe."

We took him back to catch a late flight to Texas. He shook my hand, kissed Amy on the cheek and walked up the ramp to the plane.

We saw Connally and his wife a couple of more times when they came to New Mexico but he sold his house a few years later as part of a bankruptcy settlement. He died in 1993 and, I believe, never spoke publicly about how he doubted the findings of the Warren Commission.

Connnally's note serves as yet another reminder that in our Democratic Republic, or what's left of it, few things are seldom as they seem. Like him, I never accepted the findings of the Warren Commission. Too many illogical conclusions.

John Kennedy's death, and the doubts that surround it to this day, marked the beginning of the end of America's idealism. The cynicism grew with the lies of Vietnam and the senseless deaths of too many thousands of young Americans in a war that never should have been fought. Doubts about the integrity of those we elect as our leaders festers today as this country finds itself embroiled in another senseless war based on too many lies.

John Connally felt he served his country best by concealing his doubts about the Warren Commission's whitewash but his silence may have contributed to the growing perception that our elected leaders can rewrite history to fit their political agendas.

Had Connally spoken out, as a high-ranking political figure with doubts about the "official" version of what happened, it might have sent a signal that Americans deserve the truth from their government, even when that truth hurts.

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"Finance is the gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger."

----ENZO ROBUTTI as "Don Licio Luchesi," "The Godfather-Part III" (1990)

Good Day.... "Chicago Sun Times" 21MAR06 article....

http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-mob21.html

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Mob didn't turn out vote for Kennedy: UIC professor

March 21, 2006

BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Staff Reporter

No, the Mafia did not win the 1960 presidential election for John F. Kennedy, according to a study by a University of Illinois at Chicago professor.

After Kennedy's razor-thin victory over Richard Nixon in Illinois, which cemented Kennedy's lead in the electoral college, Nixon backers blamed Mayor Richard J. Daley's notorious precinct captains for election-night hijinks.

But years later, another argument emerged: Kennedy or his father made a deal with the mob to throw the election in Chicago -- and thus Illinois -- to Kennedy.

Author Seymour Hersh made the argument in a 1997 book. Frank Sinatra's daughter, Tina, and Judith Campbell Exner, reputed former mistress of the late president and of late Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana, also made versions of that argument.

To test the theory that the mob turned out the vote in Chicago's 1960 general election, John Binder, a finance professor at UIC, analyzed vote totals for five city wards where the mob reputedly had clout, as well as in Cicero and Chicago Heights.

Those areas performed no differently than the non-mob wards and suburbs, Binder found. "There's really no evidence to support that story," Binder said. "Some of the people telling these stories are nuts."

The Democratic votes in the 1st, 24th, 25th, 28th and 29th wards, as well as in Cicero and Chicago Heights, did not jump any more from Adlai Stevenson in 1956 to Kennedy in 1960 than other comparable wards and townships, he said.

Exner had also said she was sent to deliver money from the Kennedy family to Giancana to help fund union efforts on Kennedy's behalf in the West Virginia primary election in which Kennedy surprised Hubert Humphrey. Binder questions that as well.

"How in God's name is Sam Giancana going to get anything done in West Virginia?" he asked. "They don't have any influence there."

Could the mob's influence in the 1960 Chicago general election have been citywide through the unions as opposed to just the mob-controlled wards?

Binder calls that unlikely because Kennedy and his brother had antagonized union leaders during the McClellan hearings.

"There is evidence that unions voted the other way -- they couldn't stand the Kennedys," Binder said.

apallasch@suntimes.com

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"I'm not satisfied when I see men like Jimmy Hoffa--in charge of the largest union in the United States--still free."

----JOHN F. KENNEDY, Senator & Presidential candidate, during the first 1960 Presidential election tv-radio debate, Monday, September 26, 1960, Chicago, IL

JACK: The black and white photo of Beverly

was NOT enhanced. It is NOT intended to show PAINT on the shoes, but that

the shoes are identical to the ones she had packed away for forty years. I

saw the shoes. I saw the yellow paint. So did Dr. Fetzer and Dr. Mantik.

....Good Day Jack.... With your being a photographer, did any of the

three of you think to capture some color photo(s) of the shoes BEVERLY

showed to you? When did she show you the shoes?

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"If only I had reacted, I could have taken that shot....

....that would have been alright with me."

----CLINT EASTWOOD, as Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan in the film, "In the Line of Fire" (1992)

LEE: In the meanwhile, I will also ask Don Roberdeau the 2 questions

at hand, as relate to where the reference info came from on his plat - the

yellow marks, and the alleged 'curb strike' on Elm.

....Good Day Lee.... Please view the following ROBERT WEST

surveyed map (one of several different surveyed maps he did for the

warrenatti from 1963-64), in case it does not appear here. If I recall

correctly, I received and enlarged that ROBERT WEST surveyed map

and read where it was written "AREA OF BULLET SHOT ON CURB"

about 4 or 5 years before I started posting publicly on the internet in

1997-98....

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The first time I read "AREA OF BULLET SHOT ON CURB" that appears

on the ROBERT WEST map I first wondered--and still do--from where

and/or who WEST obtained the information(s) to document that on his

surveyed street contour map. Then I immediately recalled the often

overlooked warrenatti 1964 testimony of JEAN HILL, in which she

testified that she was told by an "agent" that another "agent"--WHO WAS

IN DEALEY PLAZA DURING THE ATTACK--had seen an attack bullet

strike and kick up debris near JEAN. (of course, there, "officially," was no

other "agents" stationed in Dealey Plaza, so, the warrenatti have

*forgotten* about JEAN testifying to any "agents" and a bullet striking

near her)

Recall also that in 1966 CHARLES BREHM is documented on film stating

to LANE that he watched something traject away leftward and behind President KENNEDY

and landed at the Elm Street south curb near BREHM.... As documented, the oval

"AREA OF BULLET SHOT ON CURB" spreads to BREHM's front left

and his right.... A bullet, barely tangentially striking President KENNEDY,

source-triggered from the HSCA determined GK picket fence assassin, or,

triggered from a north triple overpass vertical sewer assassin, could very well

have exited and, carrying with it observed head debris, trajected behind

and to the left of the president into the "AREA OF BULLET SHOT ON

CURB" zone, exactly as WWII U.S. Army Ranger, D-Day and battles

experienced BREHM was attracted to watch.

Perhaps one of the reasons (or the very reason) that specific ROBERT

WEST surveyed map was originally re-printed small enough to make it

hard to read the annotated "AREA OF BULLET SHOT ON CURB" was

BECAUSE it does detail the oval with "AREA OF BULLET SHOT ON CURB,"

and the warrenatti, again, deliberately, tried (but failed, yet again) to

conceal even more information from We, The People.

The eight (8) Elm Street south curb yellow painted strips are all visible--some

easier to see than others--within the ZAPRUDER film, and, they are also

visible in post-attack aerial and ground sourced films and photos captured

within weeks of 22NOV63. I was told the reason for the yellow strips was

to provide them on a car driver side of the road so the car driver would be

alerted to Elm Street curving to the right before reaching the cement

vertical supports of the triple overpass, and being so alerted a driver (and

a driver who had never driven down the street and/or a drunk driver) would

not drive straight into the cement supports, as had actually occured prior

to 22NOV63. The reason the yellow strips were closer together the closer

a driver approached the vertical cement supports was to alert the driver

more frequently.... which makes sense, especially if the yellow strips

reflected car lights at night to a driver/drunk driver.... A driver located on

the east end of Elm Street (e.g. viewed from adjacent to the warrenatti-posnerian-"magic-limbed-ricochet-tree" )

could/would have been attracted to see the yellow strips from that

distance and line of sight, as appearing very close together.

If I can ever help, Please feel free to contact me directly, Anytime.

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"It's exactly as it was. Part of the irony is it's just a

beautiful place, and for it to happen here — that sort of

fracture between beauty and terror,"

----DAVID HEATH, 22NOV63, standing in Dealey Plaza

D.P.D. GUS ROSE About the "Minox" Camera

Good Day.... Comments from D.P.D. detective GUS ROSE about OSWALD's "Minox" camera taped during ROSE's deposition to the HSCA....

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We found this camera and of course, we brought it and a whole lot of other property in, as possible evidence in the case. And, uh, while we were marking the evidence for later identification by us to be used in evidence we did, Stowall and I, did take a close look at this Minox miniature camera and it did have a roll of film in it. As time passed and after the Warren Commission was appointed, uh, a couple of F.B.I. agents made three different trips to our office to talk to me about this camera. They said that after they had received all the property they found that I had made a mistake, and that really wasn't a camera, it was a Minox light meter. However, as I told them at the time, I was sure that I had not made a mistake, it definitely was a camera and definitely did have film in it. However, they wanted me to change that in our property invoice to read Minox light meter and not read Minox camera. We never did change it. Uh, Captain Fritz instructed me if I was sure I was right not to make any changes in any reports, to stay with what was right.

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"The appearance of the term 'micro dots' on page 44 of Lee Oswald's address book aroused our suspicions, particularly in that it was associated with the address of the photographic firm where he was once employed."

----MEREDITH GARDNER,

U.S. National Security Agency,

Soviet-Codebreaker

Good Day.... From the following article concurrent with the release of longtime LBJ crony HORACE BUSBY's book of memoirs, it sounds like even more affirmations and (hopefully) details that the KENNEDY's (and others) did not want LBJ on the 1964 Democratic presidential ticket....

....from the "Scripps Howard News Service"....

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Horace Busby was LBJ's right-hand man

By PERRY FLIPPIN

Scripps Howard News Service

02-MAR-06

As a 24-year-old news reporter in Austin, Texas, Horace Busby was recruited in 1948 to become the "idea man" for then-U.S. Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson.

During the next 20 years, Busby was a confidant, speechwriter, quasi-therapist and friend to the man who would become the 36th president and Texas' foremost political figure in the 20th century.

Now, six years since Busby's death, his son, Scott, has published Busby's memoirs, "The Thirty-First of March," which portrays in vivid detail LBJ's final days in office.

The Washington Post has called it "the best and most-honest book we have about LBJ."

The Houston Chronicle praised it as "a brief and brilliant memoir."

Nobody except Lady Bird was better acquainted with Johnson than Busby, who was born in Fort Worth and became editor of The Daily Texan while a student at the University of Texas at Austin.

His father, an old-school Church of Christ evangelist, hoped young Horace would become a minister. Journalism, he counseled, "is the shortest road to hell."

The elder Busby was appalled that his son would consider a job with the Hill Country congressman, whom he knew drank whiskey, danced, played forty-two and "whooped it up at parties sometimes."

In an eight-page letter, the old man cautioned, "Lyndon, you know, is a Digressive" meaning he had fallen away from the Church of Christ and thrown in with the Disciples of Christ, who use instrumental music in worship.

The younger Busby accepted LBJ's offer sight-unseen and set out to "put some Churchill" in the congressman's public utterances. Although Johnson could rage unmercifully at his employees and drive them to exhaustion, he pushed himself even harder.

Johnson wanted electricity and telephones for people living in the country, affordable health care, good schools, safe highways and comfortable retirement improvements for ordinary people. He was the last of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Dealers," who were loathed by people of wealth.

Busby, who coined the term "The Great Society," describes LBJ's controversial victory over former Texas Gov. Coke Stevenson in 1948, his disappointing loss to John F. Kennedy in 1960, the devastating assassination in 1963 and the decision delivered via national television on Sunday night, March 31, 1968 to quit politics.

For Busby, his ringside seat with LBJ's meteoric rise is mingled with the grand and the mundane.

He applauded his employer's determination to make civil rights a hallmark of his legacy. He deplored efforts by White House insiders in 1963 to dump LBJ from the ticket.

He fumed at Johnson's churlish behavior toward friends and associates intent on helping advance his career.

Johnson singled out Busby to write his unforgettable valedictory: "I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president."

Early in 1968, Johnson told Busby, "I have made up my mind. I can't get peace in Vietnam and be president, too."

Busby writes with warmth and insight about the man who could be endearing and infuriating, ebullient and morose, insecure, paranoid, devious, coarse, brooding and brilliant.

In his book "The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson," author Eric Goldman wrote, "More than any other member of his staff, Lyndon Johnson believed Horace Busby thought and felt like him."

Reading Busby's inviting prose makes it clear why he was Johnson's favorite. Unfortunately, none of LBJ's Senate years are included, lost from Busby's writings.

In the end, the president asked Busby to help him achieve one last ambition: "I tell you what we'll do," LBJ told his aide, "We'll go back down to Texas, and I'll buy us a newspaper.

"You can be the editor, and I'll be the publisher.

"I guess I've always wanted to be a big ... publisher someday.

"We'll turn that state upside-down," he continued, clapping his hands.

"We'll take on the oil crowd, and the utilities and all the fat cats.

"We'll run 'em out of Austin, and we'll keep (them) running across the Red River all the way to Kansas."

Busby declined the offer, staying in Washington, D.C., to edit his own business newsletter until his health failed in the 1990s.

It was no accident that LBJ held such esteem for Houston Harte, the San Angelo Standard-Times publisher at the time, even attending the newspaper mogul's funeral in 1972. Johnson died 10 months later.

Just hours before boarding Air Force One for the last time, LBJ told Busby: "When I get back down to that ranch, I'm going to get up every morning and do just exactly what I've always wanted to do for 40 years _ nothing."

In his boyhood, LBJ had been told by his father that he had "a lazy streak." He had lived out his career fearful that people would think he did not "work hard enough."

Busby accurately foresaw the rise of the Republican Party in the Old South and the powerful partnership created by the media, Hollywood and academia.

As TIME magazine's Hugh Sidey observed: Busby "viewed it all as another chapter in the great and wonderful political drama in which he had taken part."

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**some notes.... HORACE BUSBY (born 1924, died 2000)

**On 24NOV63 the USSR's DOBRYNIN showed up at the WH and popped a thick file about OSWALD while-in-Russia on BUSBY's desk and declared "Oswald's not one of ours."

**on some date before 11-29-63 (before WC formed) LBJ tasked BUSBY with making WAGGONER CARR head-up command of the investigation

**longtime advisor to LBJ since 1948; was in his UPI office on 11-22-63 when teletype flashed assassination news (in a 2005 article it says his wife was in LBJ's home)

**BUSBY coined the term "The Great Society" that LBJ used in speeches

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"From a moral standpoint, Johnson had no use for religion except for the political benefits that it bestowed upon him. He had no use for the sanctity of marriage except for the voting benefits it offered to him as a 'married man.' And, his desire for alcohol, just like with sex, was excessive. In short, moral rules relating to his personal conduct had no effect on stopping him from getting what he wanted."

----CRAIG ZIRBEL, summarizing LBJ's amoral characteristics that may have contributed, along with 4 on-going criminal investigations implicating LBJ, to LBJ's motivations for wanting President KENNEDY assassinated, "The Texas Connection" (pg.108)

Good Day.... Does anyone have a copy or transcript of a June 18, 1986 letter from PROUTY to GARRISON?

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"To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all."

----Senator JOHN F. KENNEDY, "Profiles in Courage" (1955

HARTMAN's Touch History; a Grass Raised Bullet Track & Curb Nick

Good Day All.... For those who have not viewed it yet, I was recently watching MARK OAKES on-camera interview of EDNA HARTMAN. (the OAKES video is copyrighted 1992)

I was struck by her solid credibility and several very interesting and important observations that EDNA has detailed for us....

Prior to the attack, the HARTMAN's had been attending a court trial and the judge had stopped the proceedings early because the judge was going to the Trade Mart for the luncheon with President KENNEDY (could this have been the same judge whose "County Courts" building second floor courtroom windows that GADDY, MOONEYHAM, and others watched and heard the attack from?). Apparently after the trial was stopped, the HARTMAN's went just down Main Street to get something to eat, and watch President KENNEDY drive by.

During the attack they each remembered hearing 2 or more shots from a couple blocks away while near "Mullendore's Cafeteria," located on the Record & Main Streets intersection northeast corner.

They immediately ran west to Houston Street where they first encountered a dazed red-haired woman wearing a rose-color dress who EDNA asked what had happened? The dazed woman told the HARTMAN's that JFK had just been shot. (this rose-color-dress woman may be visible in the WILLIS #5 photo slide)

They also were attracted to see a woman laying atop a boy on some grass (probably the NEWMAN's).

They then spoke with a DPD-uniformed policeman who was standing with a boy (EUINS?) who also confirmed the president had been shot

EDNA told OAKES that they

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saw a policeman going up over the grassy knoll by the picket fence

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so they moved down into the north infield grass and ended up standing near the Elm Street south curb sewer. EDNA was looking down and around in the grass surrounding the cement apron of what EDNA called the "manhole sewer," and she was immediately attracted to notice a small hole opening in the nearby grass, where, around this hole opening, the grass was raised up noticeably around the hole opening, and a raised furrow track extended in a straight line from the hole opening.

EDNA said of the bullet track that they looked at, and, also, physically explored with their hands and fingers, that the bullet track was

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a piece of dirt raised up like a ground mole would, but it didn't go down, it went in the--across the ground, under it, and I bent over and I traced it for several feet back, and a policeman appeared ((JOE FOSTER?)) and traced it with me, and I said

'What in the world is this? It's like a ground mole hole, but I've never seen one so long'

and he (the DPD policeman) said

'That's where a bullet went through'

and it traveled quite a ways back, but it did not come out of the ground. I said

'Well, it did not come out?'

and he said

'No. It's still in there'

and as we turned around to go back to the curb to see where it had come from--there was a nick there in the curb--and just then all the motorcycles came at one time underneath...underneath 183.

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(((( THERE WAS A NICK THERE--not 157' further away southwest where the "Tague curb impact" was--IN THE CURB !! ))))

The FBI did not take their statement until July 1964 (warrenatti CD1518). EDNA said the FBI acted like when the HARTMAN's went to the FBI to volunteer their detailed observations that their detailed observations were not important to the FBI nor the investigation, and it did not matter to the FBI whether the HARTMAN's made a statement or not.

EDNA said the FBI told them that the bullet track was caused by "pieces of bone from the skull of the president," but EDNA said "I told them I did not believe a bone could do all of that."

EDNA told OAKES,

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The angle it (the bullet track) was, it could not have been from the president's skull

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When OAKES asked EDNA if the HARTMAN's ever told the FBI that--based on the direction the raised-grass bullet track furrow was pointing at--if the HARTMAN's had ever told the FBI that they thought the bullet track furrow pointed at the depository?, EDNA said no, they did not tell the FBI that.

Geographically speaking, the bullet track was approximately 112' forward of President KENNEDY's Zf-313 position, very slightly left of limousine-forward, and to the right of the president's Zf-313 facing direction, with the limousine front glass windshield frame, windshield glass, and pushed-up left and right undamaged (but blood-splattered) sun visors directly in between the President KENNEDY at Zf-313 and the bullet track in the grass that the HARTMAN's and the DPD-uniformed policeman observed and explored....

An additional crucial consideration is that with President KENNEDY's headtop 4' above (422.6' HASL) his Zf-313 street point (418.6' HASL), the point of HARTMAN's grass bullet track (413.3' HASL) was 9.3' below the top of President KENNEDY's headtop, again, keeping in mind the higher-than-JFK limousine windshield & sunvisors were in between the president and the grass bullet track.

In 1982 EARL GOLZ (who is currently working on completing his book based on his interviews and research since the early 1970's) wrote that WAYNE HARTMAN said he could--and did--fit 3 fingers into the bullet track hole. GOLZ wrote that the HARTMAN's saw the bullet track in grass about 5' south of the Elm Street south curb sewer "manhole cover," and that the HARTMAN's said that the bullet track was 1.5" wide, extending horizontally just under the grass roots for a length of 18" to 24". GOLZ also wrote that the HARTMAN's said the bullet track was

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not in line with the shots fired from the depository building

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aligned in the direction of the grassy knoll across the street and to the right front of the limousine.

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The location that the HARTMAN's described for the bullet furrow in the grass is detailed on my "DP.jpg" professionally surveyed Dealey Plaza map, linkable to below, after my signature.

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"Brehm seemed to think the shots came from in FRONT OF or BESIDE the President." (my EMPHASIS)

----CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II and D-day veteran, quoted only minutes after the attack, and while he is still standing within Dealey Plaza ("Dallas Times Herald," 11-22-63, final edition)

"He was coming down the street and my five-year-old boy and myself were by ourselves on the grass there on Commerce Street, and I asked Joe to wave to him and Joe waved, and I waved--and the ma--the man----As he--as he was waving back he was--he was----the shot rang out and he slumped down in his seat and his wife reached up toward him and he was slumping down and the second shot went off and it just--just knocked him down in the seat. ... Two shots. ... No sir, I did not see the man who did it. I--I----All I--all I did was look in the mans' face when he was shot there and saw that expression on his face and he grabbed himself and slide, and the second one whenever it went----I'm positive it hit him--I hope it didn't--but I'm positive it hit him and he went all the way down in the car, then they speeded up and I didn't know what was going on so I just grabbed the boy and fell on him and hoped that there wasn't a maniac around.

----CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II and D-day veteran, recorded within an hour after the attack for tv and radio

(BREHM's 22NOV63 written affidavit statements to the Dallas police have "disappeared" from the Dallas police file)

"When the President's automobile was very close to him and he could see the President's face very well, the President was seated, but was leaning forward when he stiffened perceptibly at the same instant what appeared to be a rifle shot sounded. According to BREHM, the President seemed to stiffen and come to a pause when another shot sounded and the President appeared to be badly hit in the head. Brehm said when the President was hit by the second shot, he could notice the President's hair fly up, and then roll over to his side, as Mrs. KENNEDY was apparently pulling him in that direction.

BREHM said that a third shot followed and that all three shots were relatively close together. BREHM stated that he was in military service and he has had experience with bolt-action rifles, and he expressed his opinion that the three shots were fired just about as quickly as an individual can maneuver a bolt-action rifle, take aim, and fire three shots.

BREHM stated he definitely knew that the President had been shot and he recalled having seen blood on the President's face. He also stated that it seemed quite apparent to him that the shots came from one of two buildings back at the corner of Elm and Houston Streets."

----CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II and D-day veteran, statement to the FBI, 24NOV63

"I saw a piece fly over in the area of the curb where I was standing. .... It seemed to have come left, and back. .... Sir, whatever it was that I saw did fall, both, in that direction, and, over into the curb there."

CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II and D-day veteran, statements during the 1966 assassination documentary film, "Rush to Judgment"

"After the car passed the building coming toward us, I heard a . . . surprising noise, and [the President] reached with both hands up to the side of his throat and kind of stiffened out . . . And when he got down in the area just past me, the second shot hit which damaged, considerably damaged, the top of his head. . . . That car took off in an evasive motion . . . and was just beyond me when a third shot went off. The third shot really frightened me! It had a completely different sound to it because it had really passed me as anybody knows who has been in down under targets in the Army or been shot at like I had been many times. You know when a bullet passes over you, the cracking sound it makes, and that bullet had an absolute crack to it. I do believe that that shot was wild. It didn't hit anybody. I don't think it could have hit anybody. But it was a frightening thing to me because here was one shot that hit him, obviously; here was another shot that destroyed his head, and what was the reason for that third shot? That third shot frightened me more than the other two, and I grabbed the boy and threw him on the ground because I didn't know if we were going to have a 'shoot-'em-up' in this area." ... "I was telling them that there were rifle shots and that they came from up in the corner of the School Book Depository or up in the corner of the building across from it."

----CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II and D-day veteran, to Larry Sneed, "No More Silence" (1988)

Good Day.... Interestingly, an AOL poll that accompanies the AOL posting of the Reuters article reveals that 89% of respondents support that there was a conspiracy (27,091 votes so far)

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Cuba Paid Oswald to Kill Kennedy, New Film Says

By Mark Trevelyan, Reuters

BERLIN (Jan. 4) - Cuba lay behind the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald and its agents provided the gunman with money and support, an award-winning German director says in a new documentary film.

Wilfried Huismann spent three years researching "Rendezvous with Death," based on interviews with former Cuban secret agents, U.S. officials and a Russian intelligence source, and on research in Mexican security archives.

The film, shown to journalists in Berlin on Wednesday, says Oswald traveled to Mexico City by bus in September 1963, seven weeks before the Kennedy shooting, and met agents at the Cuban embassy there who paid him $6,500.

Oscar Marino, a former Cuban agent and a key source for the documentary, told Huismann that Oswald himself had volunteered for the assassination mission and Havana had exploited him.

"Oswald was a dissident. He hated his country...Oswald offered to kill Kennedy," Marino said in the film.

"He was so full of hate, he had the idea. We used him...He was a tool."

He said he knew with certainty that the assassination was an operation of the Cuban secret service G-2, but would not say if it was ordered by President Fidel Castro.

Oswald was shot dead by Jack Ruby two days after killing Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

The film argues Cuba wanted to eliminate Kennedy as the chief enemy of its Communist revolution, and portrays him and Castro as dueling opponents each trying to assassinate the other first.

Former CIA official Sam Halpern told Huismann: "He (Castro) beat us. He bested us. He came out on top, and we lost."

FBI PROBE ABORTED

Laurence Keenan, an officer of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who was sent to Mexico City immediately after Kennedy's death to investigate a possible Cuban connection, said he was recalled after just three days and the probe was aborted.

"This was perhaps the worst investigation the FBI was ever involved in," Keenan said. "I realized that I was used. I felt ashamed. We missed a moment in history."

Keenan, 81, said he was convinced Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, blocked further investigation because proof of a Cuban link would put him under irresistible pressure to invade the island, a year after the Cuban missile crisis had brought the United States and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.

"Most likely there would have been an invasion of Cuba which could have had unknown consequences for the whole world," he told journalists at the screening, saying that was why Johnson preferred to accept Oswald was "a crazed lone Marxist assassin."

Interviewed for the film, Alexander Haig, then a U.S. military adviser and later secretary of state, quoted Johnson as saying "we simply must not allow the American people to believe that Fidel Castro could have killed our president."

"And the reason was that there would be a right-wing uprising in America, which would keep the Democratic party out of power for two generations," Haig said.

He added that Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the assassinated president and attorney general in his administration, had personally ordered eight attempts on the life of Castro, who is still in power to this day.

Cuban and Russian sources interviewed in the film say the KGB alerted the Cubans to Oswald in mid-1962 after he left the Soviet Union, where he had lived for three years, and returned to the United States with his Soviet wife and their daughter.

Cuban intelligence first made contact with Oswald in November 1962, according to the film.

Huismann also unearthed a U.S. intelligence report shown to Johnson which said Cuban secret service chief Fabian Escalante flew via Mexico City to Dallas on the day of Kennedy's assassination, and back again the same day.

Tracked down by the film maker, Escalante denied he had been in Dallas and evaded questions about Cuba's alleged role. "What is truth, what are lies?" he said, smiling.

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"Brehm seemed to think the shots came from in FRONT OF or BESIDE the President." (my EMPHASIS)

----CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II and D-day veteran, quoted only minutes after the attack, and while he is still standing within Dealey Plaza ("Dallas Times Herald," 11-22-63, final edition)

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"We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge--and more."

---- President JOHN F. KENNEDY, 20JAN61 inaugural address

Good Day.... An interesting quote of FINCK by ROBERT CHEEKS in his book review of "Tales From the Morgue" (2005) written by Dr. CYRIL WECHT....

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Wecht was the first nongovernmental forensic pathologist to review the physical evidence of the November 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Prior to that Wecht had delivered a paper, in February 1965, to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences critiquing the Warren Commission findings concerning the autopsy and the handling of evidence. A doctor in the audience was greatly impressed with Wecht's findings; he was Dr. Pierre Finck, the only forensic pathologist among the three doctors who performed the "autopsy" on the murdered president. Finck later met with Wecht and congratulated him on his speech, he then added a rather cryptic comment, "You cannot believe what it was like…it was horrible. Horrible. I only wish I could tell you more." Indeed.

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"A red-brown to black area of skin surrounds the wound, forming what is called an abrasion collar. It was caused by the bullet's scraping the margins of the skin on penetration and is characteristic of a gunshot wound of entrance. The abrasion collar is larger at the lower margin of the wound, evidence that the bullet's trajectory at the instant of penetration was slightly upward in relation to the body."

- 07HSCA175 describing President KENNEDY's, theorized, not-completely-probed, neck and back wounds

Good Day.... According to this article with information about the US National Archives, "Ladybird" recorded an audio recollection on 22NOV63 only "hours after she became first lady."

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Has anyone heard her tape, and/or read its transcript?

Among other considerations, I am curious if her 22NOV63 audio-recorded memories include and distinctly match what she wrote in her 1970 book about the last 2 audible muzzle blasts and/or mechanically-suppress-fired bullet bow shockwaves she remembered hearing during the attack?....

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It sounded like a shot. The sound seemed to me to come from a building on the right above my shoulder. A moment passed, and then two more shots rang out in rapid succession.

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("A White House Diary" by "Lady Bird" JOHNSON, 1970)

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"How did it happen they ("they"?!!) hit Connally?"

- LBJ, despite the multitude of "lone nut" statements the previous 7 days, during a 29NOV63 phone conversation with his longtime crony/friend, longtime neighbor, & soon-to-be-appointed-by-LBJ-"for-life" F.B.I. Director, JOHN EDGAR "Edna" HOOVER

Good Day.... Quotes from an article about MIKE WALLACE's new book that also gives an excerpt of chapter one....

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4992445

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Clint Hill

The flap over the Pearson interview [by WALLACE in 1957, where DREW PEARSON claimed that "Profiles in Courage" was ghostwritten] was my only contact with the illustrious politician who had been my boyhood neighbor. During the years when Kennedy was in the White House and leading us across the New Frontier, I had various assignments that took me to cities at home and abroad, but Washington was seldom one of them. Fact is, I was going through a series of twists and turns as I jumped around from one job to another, and I didn't settle down until March 1963, when I went to work for CBS News, which has been my professional home ever since. In September of that year, CBS launched a new midmorning news show, and I was assigned to anchor it; that's what I was doing on November 22, the day the shots rang out in Dallas.

Many of us who lived through the shock and the grief of that day were inclined to view the Kennedy assassination as a ghastly aberration, the kind of horrific deed that simply did not happen in a civilized society and would never occur again in our lifetime. That naive assumption was shattered by subsequent events, for instead of being an isolated tragedy, Kennedy's murder was the first in a wave of comparable assaults on political leaders that persisted over the next decade and beyond. The two most charismatic black leaders of the civil rights era were gunned down by assassins, Malcolm X in 1965 and Martin Luther King, Jr., three years later. And just two months after King was killed, a second Kennedy was slain in the midst of his own campaign for president. In 1972, at another campaign stop in another presidential race, Alabama governor George Wallace was shot. He survived that attack, but the wounds he suffered left him paralyzed for life. And in September 1975, President Gerald Ford was the target in California of two assassination attempts that took place within seventeen days of each other.

Every fresh act of violence rekindled memories of the first Kennedy assassination, and not long after the attempts on President Ford's life, I interviewed the Secret Service agent who had been assigned to Kennedy's car on that dreadful day in November 1963. His name was Clint Hill, and over the years he'd refused to talk in public about what had happened in Dallas, or about any other aspect of his work with the Secret Service. But Hill had been granted early retirement in the summer of 1975, and now that he was no longer on active duty, he agreed to appear on 60 Minutes to answer questions—for the first time—about the assassination he had witnessed from such close range.

In preparing for that interview, I learned that the shooting in Dallas had left Hill deeply troubled and stricken with guilt. Nonetheless, I was caught off guard by the raw, visceral anguish he displayed when I brought up the subject.

WALLACE: Can I take you back to November twenty-second in 1963? You were on the fender of the Secret Service car right behind President Kennedy's car. At the first shot, you ran forward and jumped on the back of the president's car—in less than two seconds—pulling Mrs. Kennedy down into her seat, protecting her. First of all, she was out on the trunk of that car—

HILL: She was out of the backseat of that car, not on the trunk of that car.

WALLACE: Well, she was— She had climbed out of the back, and she was on the way back, right?

HILL: And because of the fact that her husband's—part of his—her husband's head had been shot off and gone off to the street.

WALLACE: She wasn't— She wasn't trying to climb out of the car? She was—

HILL: No, she was simply trying to reach that head, part of the head.

WALLACE: To bring it back?

HILL: That's the only thing—

At that point, Hill broke down; tears streamed down his face. I sat in silence for a moment or two and then gently asked if he would prefer to move away from this painful memory and talk about something else. But he made it clear that he wanted to go on, and so, after he'd regained his composure, I continued to question him about that day.

WALLACE: Was there any way— Was there anything that the Secret Service or Clint Hill could have done to keep that from happening?

HILL: Clint Hill, yes.

WALLACE: "Clint Hill, yes"? What do you mean?

HILL: If he had acted about five-tenths of a second faster, or maybe a second faster, I wouldn't be here today.

WALLACE: You mean you would have gotten there and you would have taken the shot?

HILL: The third shot, yes, sir.

WALLACE: And that would have been all right with you?

HILL: That would have been fine with me.

WALLACE: But you couldn't. You got there in less than two seconds, Clint. You couldn't have gotten there. You don't—you surely don't have any sense of guilt about that?

HILL: Yes, I certainly do. I have a great deal of guilt about that. Had I turned in a different direction, I'd have made it. It's my fault.

WALLACE: Oh, no one has ever suggested that for an instant! What you did was show great bravery and great presence of mind. What was on the citation that was given you for your work on November twenty-second, 1963?

HILL: I don't care about that, Mike.

WALLACE: "Extraordinary courage and heroic effort in the face of maximum danger."

HILL: Mike, I don't care about that. If I had reacted just a little bit quicker, and I could have, I guess. And I'll live with that to my grave.

I've never interviewed a more tormented man. Hill's agony was so deep, so poignant, that I couldn't resist getting swept up by it, and there were times during our conversation when I could feel my own tears welling up. Many of our viewers were no less affected, as we learned from the letters that flooded into our office in the days following that broadcast.

In our interview, Hill said that a "neurological problem caused by what happened in the past" had prompted his doctors to urge him to accept retirement from the Secret Service at the still-youthful age of forty-three. When the camera wasn't rolling, he was even more candid. What our audience wasn't told was that he was suffering from severe depression.

In the years since our 1975 interview, I've inquired about Hill from time to time to see how he was doing and to pass along my best wishes. But I didn't have any direct contact with him again until the fall of 2003, when all the media were turning their attention to the fortieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. I wanted to know if Clint would be willing to revisit the subject in another interview with me. When I called him at his Virginia home just outside Washington, he greeted me warmly, and although he made it clear he did not want to talk any more about that day in Dallas, he assured me he was fine and that the misery he'd gone through was now behind him. He had finally managed to put his demons to rest, and he no longer blamed himself for the death of John F. Kennedy.

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"Because of the photograph taken by AP photographer James Altgens seeming to show a rifle shaped object protruding from the second floor window of the Dal-Tex building, several Warren report critics (including myself) felt that was a probably a firing point for one or two shots. The committee has made available to me the original Altgens negative. Using my technique of vario-density eynexing, I was able to enhance the image in the window to the point of clarity where window is now identifiable as a black man leaning the window sill with both hands, and with no gun in view."

---- ROBERT GRODEN, his HSCA-documented comments about the panels report, 1979 http://jfkassassination.net/russ/infojfk/jfk6/grodn.htm

Good Day.... President Kennedy's 1963 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art.../511240308/1036

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One of John F. Kennedy's last presidential proclamations was for Thanksgiving Day in 1963. He died six days before that day arrived. On this Thanksgiving day, 42 years later, his proclamation deserves another reading:

By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation:

Over three centuries ago, our forefathers in Virginia and Massachusetts, far from home in a lonely wilderness, set aside a time of thanksgiving. On the appointed day, they gave reverent thanks for their safety, for the health of their children, for the fertility of their fields, for the love which bound them together and for the faith which united them with their God.

So, too, when the colonies achieved their independence, our first President in the first year of his Administration proclaimed November 26, 1789, as "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God" and called upon the people of the new republic to "beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions . . . to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue . . . and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best."

And so too, in the midst of America's tragic civil war, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day to renew our gratitude for America's "fruitful fields," for our "national strength and vigor," and for all our "singular deliverances and blessings."

Much time has passed since the first colonists came to rocky shores and dark forests of an unknown continent, much time since President Washington led a young people into the experience of nationhood, much time since President Lincoln saw the American nation through the ordeal of fraternal war . . . and in these years our population, our plenty and our power have all grown apace. Today, we are a nation of nearly two hundred million souls, stretching from coast to coast, on into the Pacific and north toward the Arctic, a nation enjoying the fruits of an ever-expanding agriculture and industry and achieving standards of living unknown in previous history. We give our humble thanks for this.

Yet, as our power has grown, so has our peril. Today, we give our thanks, most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers -- for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings -- let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals -- and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, in consonance with the joint resolution of the Congress approved December 26, 1941, 55 Stat. 862 (5 U.S.C. 87b) designating the fourth Thursday of November in each year as Thanksgiving Day, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 28, 1963, as a day of national thanksgiving.

On that day let us gather in sanctuaries dedicated to worship and in homes blessed by family affection to express our gratitude for the glorious gifts of God, and let us earnestly and humbly pray that He will continue to guide and sustain us in the great unfinished tasks of achieving peace, justice and understanding among all men and nations and of ending misery and suffering wherever they exist.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and eighty-eighth.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President:

DEAN RUSK

Secretary of State

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"We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge--and more."

---- President JOHN F. KENNEDY, 20JAN61 inaugural address

Good Day.... A military service member friend of mine sent me the link to an ebay auction showing photos of OSWALD during his USMC recruit training. I have never seen these photos. The photos (FWIW, 2 of which do seem to show OSWALD handling his rifle) are from his recruit training yearbook....

http://cgi.ebay.com/JFK-Kennedy-Assassinat...1QQcmdZViewItem

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Dealey Plaza Professionally-surveyed Map, Witnesses, Evidence, Info, etc.

ROSEMARY WILLIS Headsnap Westward Towards "Grassy Knoll" Discovery

BOND Photos Do Not Support GORDON ARNOLD's Presence

ANTHONY SUMMERS 2001-updated, "The Ghosts of November"

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"Because of the photograph taken by AP photographer James Altgens seeming to show a rifle shaped object protruding from the second floor window of the Dal-Tex building, several Warren report critics (including myself) felt that was a probably a firing point for one or two shots. The committee has made available to me the original Altgens negative. Using my technique of vario-density eynexing, I was able to enhance the image in the window to the point of clarity where window is now identifiable as a black man leaning the window sill with both hands, and with no gun in view."

---- ROBERT GRODEN, his HSCA-documented comments about the panels report, 1979 http://jfkassassination.net/russ/infojfk/jfk6/grodn.htm

Good Day.... In November of 2003, the Dallas radio station "WBAP" made available on its website (and played one on-air daily) a daily JFK assassination witness interview for 40 days. Each interview was about 2 to 5 minutes.

If anyone recorded and/or transcribed any/all of the individual interviews, could you, please, contact me via email or private message?

Thank You.

Don Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, "Big John" Plank Walker

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"Because of the photograph taken by AP photographer James Altgens seeming to show a rifle shaped object protruding from the second floor window of the Dal-Tex building, several Warren report critics (including myself) felt that was a probably a firing point for one or two shots. The committee has made available to me the original Altgens negative. Using my technique of vario-density eynexing, I was able to enhance the image in the window to the point of clarity where window is now identifiable as a black man leaning the window sill with both hands, and with no gun in view."

---- ROBERT GRODEN, his HSCA-documented comments about the panels report, 1979 http://jfkassassination.net/russ/infojfk/jfk6/grodn.htm

Hi Larry.... Thank You.

GMTA.

The third action I completed after posting here was to email JOAN about FRUGE and obtaining an autographed copy of her new book.

Does JOAN reference the 20NOV63 Assistant Coroner of St. Landry Parish, Doctor F. J. DeROUEN?