Bill Simpich

Schweikert's bill is important. It eliminates the exceptions. It gets those records out there now. We will work with his office on amendments and more. We still need to create effective archives for our own materials and others. We still need to push NARA, NBC and elsewhere for new records. Let's figure out how to get the Justice for Kennedy Act through Congress in 2023. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/637/text

Bill, that seems about right, the video indicates Ruby was only hiding behind Croy for a minute or so.

A reasonable proof is hard in this situation without an identifying witness. A way to begin would be to identify the circumstances in which the photograph came into your possession and to work backwards to try to obtain its provenance - the history of the custody of the photo. I get the feeling this photo has been floating around the internet for awhile. I tried using google lens on it, and it took me to that other picture of Westbrook you posted on Tangodown63.com. Impressive. Of course, it also took me to a picture of John Wayne! LOL. Another way is to analyze the photo - who else might be in it? After that, the best way would be to approach Westbrook's family, friends, and colleagues. Or Morales'? It would be a fair question. It sure looks like both men are in the photo. The interviewees might appreciate receiving a copy of the photo.

Let me join Stuart in requesting a way to prove Westbrook is with Morales! That would be a golden find. I completely agree with John and David that Croy covered for Ruby and got him into position - and that information comes straight from the questioning conducted by one of the Warren Commission attorneys to Croy and others - you can find it for yourselves in Croy's testimony. Dale Myers attacks me whenever he can - I welcome his insults - it shows how weak his argument really is and how insecure he is. With that said, his book on Tippit has very well-researched material and I think it is important to cite his research when it stands up. Let's all avoid character attacks and focus on this rich material. We are doing good work here.

Dan Rather claimed he only saw the Zapruder film once - on Nov 25 - and as we know he reported JFK's head as going forwards - instead of backwards. (See 2:07 of this video) Just this week - Dan Rather said how central the JFK story is to our nation's history. My question - Has he ever tried to get his own story right? Has anybody got the Rather story right? And did Wikipedia do a good job with it - as far as it goes, of course? ...Here's Wikipedia on Dan Rather: ...In 1959, Rather began his television career as a reporter for KTRK-TV, the ABC affiliate in Houston. He was subsequently promoted to the director of news for KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston. ...On February 28, 1962, Rather left Houston for New York City for a six-month trial initiation at CBS. Rather did not fit in easily on the East Coast. His first reports for CBS included coverage of the crash of American Airlines Flight 1 in Jamaica Bay, and a report on the suffocation of children at a hospital in Binghamton, New York. Shortly after, Rather was made chief of CBS's Southwest bureau in Dallas. In August 1963, he was appointed chief of the Southern bureau in New Orleans, responsible for coverage of news events in the South, Southwest, Mexico and Central America. In his autobiography, Rather noted that he was in Dallas in November 1963 to return film from an interview in Uvalde at the ranch of former Vice President John Nance Garner, who celebrated his 95th birthday on November 22. He happened to be "on the other side of the railroad tracks, beyond the triple underpass, thirty yards from a grassy knoll that would later figure in so many conspiracy theories." His job was to fetch a film drop from a camera truck at that location, and take it to the station for editing. (Note: He said when the presidential limo sped by him too quickly, he knew something was wrong.) He did not witness the shooting of Kennedy, and knew nothing of the events until he reached KRLD, having run through Dealey Plaza. (Note: To my knowledge, no one ever filmed Dan Rather in Dealey Plaza). He later wrote: “The moment I cleared the railroad tracks I saw a scene I will never forget. Some people were lying on the grass, some screaming, some running, some pointing. Policemen swarmed everywhere and distinctly above the din, I heard one shout, 'DON'T ANYBODY PANIC.' And of course, there was nothing but panic wherever you looked.” In his autobiography, Rather said he was one of the first to view the Zapruder film showing the assassination, and the first to describe it on television. Rather reported the fatal headshot as forcing Kennedy's head forward, but it was thrown backward. Later, he reported that some Dallas schoolchildren had applauded when they were notified of the president's death. Administrators said they had announced that school was to be dismissed early, and did not mention the assassination. However, teacher Joanna Morgan confirmed that students had cheered at the news that Kennedy was shot. This story infuriated local journalists at then-CBS affiliate KRLD-TV (now Fox-owned-and-operated KDFW-TV). Rather's reporting during the national mourning period following the Kennedy assassination and subsequent events impressed CBS News management. In 1964, they selected him for the network's White House correspondent position. Let me move on from Wikipedia - In this Daily Mail article, Rather says that with CBS help, he was the first reporter to speak with Zapruder, although LIFE outbid them for the film. You can see Rather's reports here as well. CBS producer Don Hewitt is quoted in the same article as saying that he gave Rather orders to sock Zapruder in the jaw and steal the film. Rather was ready to do it, before Hewitt had second thoughts and called him back! (The original quote is here - Hewitt was one of the founders of 60 Minutes). At 9:59 of this youtube interview about the Zapruder film - Rather says Don Hewitt's story is not true. Again, how accurate is this accounting I have provided here?

We have what is called a Case Management Conference on Jan 13 - not a substantive hearing, it is a discussion & scheduling event where future hearing dates are set. I would tell Lori and others to calendar 1/13, 5 pm to find out those future dates.

I did my presentation at Lancer this year largely on the whoppers of Mike Howard.

Roger Odisio is doing great things by letting people know many of the details about our lawsuit. Many of the aspects of the suit (and the suit itself) can also be reviewed by visiting the MFF website. He writes: "....much will be lost if you don't push for NARA to update the Collection using the full ARRB definition, besides cleaning up the Collection, and following what the JFK Act requires NARA and the President to do before allowing record disclosure to be postponed." I want to assure Roger and everyone that we are pushing for NARA to update the Collection on exactly that basis - and that we want documents added to the Collection from all relevant entities, public and private. As stated in the complaint, it is our position that NARA has the power to identify new assassination records and add them to the Collection: "53. Defendant NARA is the successor agency to the ARRB, and has assumed responsibility for ensuring compliance with the Act. (footnote 62) The ministerial non-discretionary duties include following up with agencies to complete outstanding ARRB search requests, to search for additional information and Assassination Records as well as to direct agencies to locate lost and missing records as their existence becomes known." Footnote 62 refers to 65 FR 39550 (June 27, 2000). This section states: "The Assassination Records Review Board was established by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 3443). At the termination of the Review Board on September 30, 1998, its records were transferred to the Archivist of the United States. NARA continues to maintain and supplement the collection under the provisions of the Act. NARA is, therefore, the successor in function to this defunct independent agency."

Bart Kamp - among many others - makes the case that the Darnell and Weigman films portray Oswald on the book depository steps at the time of the shooting of JFK. http://www.prayer-man.com/misc/prayer-man-in-a-nutshell/ NARA stands in the shoes of the ARRB since its dissolution. NARA has the power to demand the originals of these films from NBC and the Sixth Floor.

Mark Adamczyk and Patrick McCarthy have been incredible. Everyone in our group put many hours into this project for which they should be recognized. We all brought different strengths and perspectives. MFF's Rex Bradford, Jeff Morley, Larry Hancock and Debra Conway have also put in a great deal of time and effort. I hope everyone will consider donating to MFF. Rex has a great page breaking down the details of the lawsuit that can be seen here. You never know what the courts are going to do. We have to focus on what all of us can do. Getting the word out about hard facts on the history of the USA is worth the effort.

I'm late to the party here - but here is the memo saying that "John D. Whitten" called the FBI and advised on 12/3/63 that Oswald came to the Top Ten Record Store twice during 11/22/63, and that Tippit was inside during Oswald's second visit. John D. Whitten was the real name of the CIA chief of Western Hemisphere, Division 3, which included Mexico. Incidentally, Whitten was talking with an FBI clerk named Carl Walters - not an agent - and asked Walters not to use his name because it would be "bad for business". Walters' memo was written on 12/3/63, the day of Whitten's phone call. The reason this memo is not better known is because it's not on the internet or at MFF - you have to go to the Archives to get a copy - 124-10087-10197. It's from the Dallas FBI file - which is still not on the internet or at MFF - we need to get a copy and digitize it. We would have a lot more information from that file alone.

Ned Bennett of the Covert Action staff is revealed as the author, based on this note by Angleton’s aide Ray Rocca, who provided him much of the background. This version is “full” and totals 53 pages with attachments. Oswald 201 File (201-289248)/ NARA Record Number: 104-10009-10022. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=53510&relPageId=2 (Dooley’s note) http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=607550 (Rocca’s note) Bennett also participated in the debriefing of Robert Webster: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=16420&relPageId=5 Anyone who knew Webster knew the sensitivity of the Oswald case. The two men were closely linked. See chapter five ("The Double Dangle") of my book The Twelve Who Built the Oswald Legend.

Talk about tough love. According to NBC News, the last three administrations cited national security concerns in their reasoning to decline declassifying information. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1276138 Nearly 1,800 Americans directly affected by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are opposing President Joe Biden’s participation in any memorial events this year unless he upholds his pledge to declassify U.S. government evidence that they believe may show a link between Saudi Arabian leaders and the attacks. The victims’ family members, first responders and survivors will release a statement Friday calling on Biden to skip 20th-anniversary events in New York and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon unless he releases the documents, which they believe implicate Saudi officials in supporting the acts of terrorism. The group says that as a candidate Biden pledged to be more transparent and release as much information as possible but that his administration has since then ignored their letters and requests... ...A White House spokesperson said its Office of Public Engagement and the National Security Council staff have met with 9/11 victims’ family members to discuss their document requests and “hear their thoughts on policy priorities.” “Our hearts are with the families who lost loved ones on 9/11, especially in these days preceding the 20th anniversary of the attacks,” the spokesperson said in a Friday morning statement. The spokesperson noted that Biden has vowed to ask the Justice Department to resolve issues related to the former administration’s invocation of the state secrets privilege, specifically that it be “narrowly tailored” and not undertaken to “prevent embarrassment” to a person or organization. “We look forward to having more to share in the coming days about actions we are taking to ensure greater transparency under the law,” the spokesperson added. (Family member Brett) Eagleson said he believes the U.S. government will not release the documents because of deep diplomatic and military ties between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia... And they are finding some allies... Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) says it’s time to tell Americans the whole story about the 9/11 attacks. “The American people deserve the truth,” Blumenthal said. Blumenthal and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), introduced legislation to help families of 9/11 victims declassify secret government reports. “If information is power, then we must give the 9/11 families access to that information,” Menendez said. The September 11th Transparency Act would force government investigators to make public much of the still-secret findings about the 9/11 attacks. “Continued concealment of this evidence is inexcusable,” Blumenthal said. Lawmakers invited 9/11 families here to Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. and promised they will expose the truth, even if it embarrasses the Saudi government... https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/566669-9-11-families-ask-biden-to-not-attend-memorial-events-over

Steve and Paul and all interested - I posted "virtual handouts" at Project JFK - Events. If you go there, you can download highly analyzed chronologies with hundreds of links that I have put together; several power point presentations, and much more. I am sharing these key materials for free, and urge others to post their material at Project JFK or elsewhere. (We can't post it here, just not enough bandwidth.) My two JFK books can always be revised. From now on - I'm sharing my research online and encouraging others to do the same. We can build up a head of steam this year. I think we should all be seeking out filmmakers, screenplay writers, graphic artists, everyone in the visual arts. People need to see this material. Those of us on the Forum like to read - we are way in the minority! I get it, most people want to see it for themselves. I will start a new thread for these materials sometime next week, but wanted to get this out now. Again - if you want to see these key materials - download them at Project JFK - Events [Topic 1] - State Secret preface - (pdf) Download [Topic 2] - Summary of The 12 Who Built the Oswald Legend (pdf) Download [Topic 2a] mffpdf_145772 (Note: Enclosure to Allen Dulles "exonerating" Michael Paine, 12/2/63 - I believe the author is Mary Bancroft) (pdf) Download [Topic 2b] Powerpoint on Oswald, Connally, Hosty, Ruth Paine: appropriateaction2020now [Autosaved] [Autosaved] (pptx) Download [Topic 3] Cryptonyms and Pseudonyms at the Mary Ferrell Foundation - two samples (pdf) Download [Topic 4] 16 page chronology on the Deaths of Oswald and Tippit - with links on Lt. George Butler, FBI informant/Communist Party Dallas chief Bill Lowery, the Special Service Bureau_ Red Squad, &_Army Intelligence members within the Dallas Police (pdf) Download [Topic 4a] Powerpoint - Counter-Narrative on 11/22 - Focus on Westbrook's role re the Death of Tippit sept1114 (pptx) Download [Topic 4b] lumpkingannaway (10 bullet points on the role of Lumpkin, Gannaway, and colleagues) (pdf) Download [Topic 4c] oswalddeathbutler (10 page chrono/shorter version of Topic 4, above - focus is on Butler) (pdf) Download [Topic 4d] loweryrubycameraman (png) (clip of Detective Lowery, who believed Ruby posed as cameraman to enter basement) Download [Topic 5] How the Warren Commission Covered Up JFK's Murder (pdf) (my article refuting WC counsel David Belin's ten key arguments claiming LHO was guilty) Download [Topic5a] Powerpoint presentation supporting the article in Topic 5, above. (pptx) Download Topic #6 - Dallas Police Dept_Special Service Bureau_Red Squad,_Army Intelligence outline (pdf) Download [Topic 6a] lumpkingannaway (docx) (12 bullet points on Lumpkin, Gannaway, et al. - expanded version of 4b, above/ Download [Topic 6b] lumpkinsawyer (png) (1953 memo re Lumpkin as Special Services Bureau chief and Herbert Sawyer as his #2, chief of Vice) Download Three additional posts - you will see why I added all three (pdf) (One: The Tony Krome comparison photos of Ruby Friday and Sunday) Download [Extra a] Two: Color basement diagram of Ruby shooting Oswald (png) (Note:  The personnel key to this diagram is here.) Download [Extra b] Three: dallasbasementbroadangle (png) (Broad angle diagram that links the Western Union office with the Dallas police basement.) Download P.S. Steve Thomas, Great tip on CD 81! I credited you more than once in my talk Thursday night. I love that story about having to pay the Dallas Police Assn. $100 to get the documents on this. The 3 authors who wrote the report on the death of Oswald were Westbrook, OA Jones (forgery squad, also known as the bunko squad in many towns), and Herbert Sawyer (back in 1953, he was chief of the vice squad - and #2 at the Special Services Bureau right behind Lumpkin, who was chief till he got elevated to DPD deputy chief about that time)

Jim - Good call. I agree. I will raise it with Rex. He can fix anything. Tony Krome - that display of Ruby on Friday and Sunday with the blacked-out portion of his face - you have basically convinced me it's the same guy. I used it last night in my presentation and credited you - it made a big impression. Ron - I think what Tony displayed shows the power of the glare from the flashbulbs going off when Oswald and company entered the basement. That's why Ruby's face is distorted, the sideburn is distorted, etc. Thanks to you all, and John Armstrong as well. Bill

Thanks for the assist, David! When you use this chart - Look at this listing of the witnesses, the cameras, and their locations. You can also see the rails on the north side of the ramp that the newsmen (and Ruby) were supposed to be behind. The big TV cameras were stationed there. If they had stayed behind the rail, Ruby could have never got hsi shot off. And then this diagram provides a little more information about the numbers that aren't legible on the color version, plus the location of Western Union (to the north). Again, Croy is #21, Blackie Harrison is #45, Jack Ruby is #90, and was between these two officers in front of the rail that he was supposed to be behind. For LHO, x marks the spot, with Jim Leavelle #63 and LC Graves #40 on either side of him.

Steve - On this diagram, Croy is #21, Blackie Harrison is #45, Jack Ruby is #90, and was between these two officers in front of the rail that he was supposed to be behind. If you go thru Croy's multiple statements in late Nov-early Dec, you notice that he doesn't admit knowing Ruby in this first interviews, then he gradually admits it. Why didn't he make him at least go behind the rail, or kick him out altogether as not-a-member-of-the-media? That question, of course, is never asked. Croy, Harrison, and the other cops let a bunch of reporters get in front of the rail. That was part of the flanking maneuver that allowed Ruby to get right in front of Oswald and shoot him. When was the "all clear" signal given? When Ruby was in place. Not before. All of us need to get much more serious about this event and give it "the electron microscope" treatment John Newman talks about and many of us are good at when we are looking at Dealey Plaza. My version of the diagram gives the broader view going back to Ruby's possible footpaths after he leaves Western Union and walks into the police station. In John Armstrong's better-defined colorized diagram, you can see Ruby's alternate foot paths more clearly, the placement of the rails and how many people were improperly in front of them, and much more, Can someone help me figure out how to compress John's color diagram to below 200 KB so I can post it? I tried compressing it but didn't do it right.

There are new documents that no one I know has looked at yet - released in 2013 by the City of Dallas - the 800 page investigation of the "operational security" of the LHO transfer. For the first time that I know of, we have possession of the actual 100-plus exhibits and the investigative report in one place. I call it the Warren Report of the Dallas police. Look who signed it - instead of Allen Dulles and friends, it's Pinky Westbrook, forgery squad chief OA Jones, and the guy who failed to get the name of the witness who offered the phony LHO ID (5'10"/165) at 12:45 pm 11/22 - Herbert Sawyer. Look at this diagram - and John Armstrong sent me a better-defined copy in color, which I will share when I figure out how to get under the 200 KB limit. (How to compress it?) Look at the photos of Ruby hiding between Blackie Harrison and reserve officer Kenneth Croy that John sent me - contrary to Croy's story, he is not "running between them" - you can see them at... croydean.docx Look at this listing of the witnesses and their locations. It's going to take months, maybe years, to digest all this new information. I am going to present on this between 5:30-6 pm PDT tomorrow, August 4, on the free zoom conference at Project JFK - sign on here if you want to join us, the documents and the recording will be posted if you can't make it at that time. (I'm doing six segments total on different issues between 4-7 pm PDT).

The killing of Oswald is one of the most neglected stories of the assassination weekend. What is doubly tragic about it - it's the moment when most Americans said oh my god, this is some kind of a plot. But the research community has failed to focus on it. We need a new filing system to understand this evidence and keep it straight. There are new documents that no one has looked at yet - released in 2013 by the City of Dallas - the 800 page investigation of the "operational security" of the LHO transfer. For the first time that I know of, we have possession of the actual 100-plus exhibits and the investigative report in one place. I call it the Warren Report of the Dallas police. Look who signed it - instead of Allen Dulles and friends, it's Pinky Westbrook, forgery squad chief OA Jones, and the guy who failed to get the name of the witness who offered the phony LHO ID (5'10"/165) at 12:45 pm 11/22 - Herbert Sawyer. Look at this diagram - and John Armstrong sent me a better-defined copy in color, which I will share when I figure out how to get under the 200 KB limit. (How to compress it?) Also take a look at the photos John sent me on the thread about Jack Ruby I posted a few days ago - it's on the first page of this site's active contents. Look at this listing of the witnesses and their locations. It's going to take months, maybe years, to digest all this new information. I am going to present on this between 5:30-6 pm PDT tomorrow, August 4, on a free zoom conference at Project JFK - sign on here if you want to join us, the documents and the recording will be posted if you can't make it at that time. (I'm doing six segments total on different issues between 4-7 pm PDT).

It looks like this link works, you should be able to see John's photos comparing Dean and Croy. croydean.docx

I am going public with some new findings on the JFK case on Wed - August 4, 4-7 pm PDT at Project JFK, on a live zoom - I hope you will join us. The materials will be posted on Project JFK by tomorrow so you can review them in advance - my presentation will be in 20-minute segments on six different topics so you can pick and choose - and the sessions will be videotaped so you can view them at your discretion if you can't be there live. I am puzzled with one point that I want to discuss here - I asked John Armstrong about his note asking researchers to review these photos that depict Jack Ruby and DPD reserve officer Kenneth Croy and Ruby. I am unsure about either one. Below, I post a post-arrest photo of Ruby at the bottom that just doesn't seem to match. Your thoughts on Ruby? I asked John about Ruby and Croy (Croy is much tougher to ID), and here is our correspondence to date: (In the photo at the top of this post - we can see Ruby's prominent nose but no 2 o'clock sideburn.) John wrote: This YouTube/CNN video, less than a minute long, shows Kenneth Croy in a white hat and police uniform standing next to Ruby in police headquarters just a second or two before Oswald appears. Croy is the rightmost figure in the shot immediately below, which was taken at the 12-second mark of the video. Note how Croy seems to stand back from the action as Ruby shoots Oswald. Ruby can be seen in the video standing next to reporters in the middle image. It is clear that Ruby did not "run by me [Croy] at a pretty good clip." Ruby did not run through the reporters "like a fullback went through a line." (John Armstrong makes these IDs - I am unsure about Croy, and the Ruby figure has a fedora and a prominent nose but an oddly-cut sideburn pointing to 2 o'clock.) John continues: On December 1, 1963, Croy gave an affidavit in which he said, "I saw a man running into the crowd in a crouch. At that moment I reached for this individual and touched his coat tail attempting to stop him. I saw him run right up to Oswald ...." I asked John "How did you determine this man was Croy, who I agree was nearby and not a good actor? Is it possible he was Patrick Dean, who was also nearby? Photo evidence is really tricky." I also sent John the picture above, with this note: "Denis Morissette id's this man as Patrick Dean, who was also standing near Ruby. Re Ruby - I do agree that it seems unlikely for two men to be wearing the same fedora." John's response: Dean, according to his WC testimony, was not standing near Ruby.......... Mr. GRIFFIN - Now, as I understand from your statement, and interrupt me if I am incorrect, when you saw Ruby shoot Oswald, you moved toward the struggle and then Ruby was taken into the jail office, and did you follow them on in? Mr. DEAN - Yes, sir. I ran immediately, jumped over these cars, or one of them, jumped over the hood of it, over the top of it, and they were dragging--Ruby and several detectives that were subduing him were about at the door, or [-indicating]- Mr. GRIFFIN - I had just as soon not have you mark at this point. Look at the attachment that I sent to you (see above). Easy to see that the man standing next to Ruby in the video was Croy (according to Croy's WC testimony) and not Dean (who said he had to jump over a car as officers were subduing Ruby). When I reviewed many of the videos taken of the Ruby shooting, I seem to remember watching Croy as he hurriedly left the area. The one fact that distinguished Croy (as a reserve officer) from other DPD officers is that reserve officers were not allowed to carry/wear a gun. Croy's WC testimony pretty much convinced me that he was "most likely" either accompanied Ruby into the basement or allowed him to enter the basement. It is also worth noting that Croy was not listed among the officers present when Ruby shot LHO. Why? (Note: John sent me some more interesting pictures of the officer he believes is Croy - they are pretty persuasive - too big for me to post on this note, I will figure out how to shrink it down.) Still curious about the man he believes is Ruby - I will follow up with him, and would appreciate any comments.

KENNEDY - The mystery relaunches The new film - Oliver Stone accuses the CIA; & The Truth That America Refuses by Marc Gugain Dallas, November 22, 1963. An hour before his assassination. Paris Match Paris Match devotes its front page to the assassination of JFK on the occasion of the presentation in Cannes of a formidable documentary by American director Oliver Stone. These images are almost sixty years old, but the shock they cause has not aged a bit. In 1991, in "JFK", director Oliver Stone tackled the Dallas conundrum. Today, he relies on declassified documents to revive the thesis of the CIA-led operation. For “JFK revisited. Through the Looking Glass, "which he just presented at Cannes, he couldn't find funding in America. As he tells Paris Match about his fight to transmit this appetite for truth to young people, writer Marc Dugain delivers his analysis.

Here's a Paris Match follow-up to the Stone interview. The Kennedys' fate was sealed by a community of interest between the Mafia and the CIA Paris Match | Posted on 08/01/2021 at 6:55 a.m. | Updated 08/01/2021 at 9:37 a.m. By Marc Dugain The author of "They will kill Robert Kennedy" delivers his analysis on the assassination of JFK. The great dramas of history have their genealogy. The story of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and then of his brother, Robert, has its roots in the poor Ireland of the 19th century. Colonized by the Protestant English, the island emptied in waves of successive immigration. Boston is a favorite destination for families driven by the Great Mid-Century Famine. The man who turns emigration defeat into a stunning victory is Joe Kennedy. He has anchored in him the spirit of the Irish Catholics' revenge and his horizon is nothing less than the presidency of the United States. He first got immeasurably rich during Prohibition where he fought to the point of spilling blood against the Jewish and Italian mafias, suggesting that he himself was the boss of the Irish mafia. Then, he becomes a master at laundering that dirty money into respectable fortune, until he owns the largest studio in Hollywood. As everything progresses perfectly, a character stands in the way of his wildest dream: Roosevelt blocks his way to the presidential election. Pacifist, pro-poopoo, anti-Semite, Kennedy made the wrong ideological choices and only gets political jump seats. Now he has just one thing in mind, to place his eldest son, Joseph, in the White House. But he died in action in Europe. When the Second World War ended, Joe's hopes were focused on the second of the siblings, John. To get him elected, he was prepared to do anything, including buying votes in key states in the 1960 presidential election. He did so through the Italian mafia, with considerable sums of money. But Sam Giancana, the boss, expected John to get rid of Fidel Castro, once in the White House, whose revolution has wiped out Mafia interests in Cuba. Elected, JFK is reluctant to act directly and leaves paramilitary troops stationed in Guatemala to prepare the invasion of the island. The Bay of Pigs landing would not have been such a fiasco if Kennedy had provided US air force support. He lets the illegals sink into a failure that produced victims, and a grudge steeped in hatred. The conspiracy was organized among all those who would rather see JFK die than serve a second term The mafia noted that the commitment was not kept, but that in addition Kennedy appointed his young brother, Robert, Minister of Justice. This one, not wanting to recognize anything of the compromises of his father, harasses the mafia. The fate of the two traitors is sealed because the gangsters are at the ankle with the department of black operations of the CIA, which reproached the Kennedys for their softness in the face of communist pressure. When John was elected in 1960, Admiral Burke, Chief of Staff, advised him to attack the USSR to wipe it out before it was too late. Not only did he refuse but, three years later, despite evidence that the Soviets installed long-range missiles in Cuba, he still discredited himself in the eyes of the military by agreeing to withdraw American missiles based in Turkey against the promise of withdrawal from the United States. Russian missiles from Cuba. With one year left before his re-election - polls credit him with 65% of the intended voters - the conspiracy is organized among those who would rather see him die than serve a second term. By killing him, they also hope to neutralize his brother, more royalist than the king and who refused their father's inheritance. The idea and preparation of the plot emerge in conversations overheard by the FBI. But J. Edgar Hoover, its very anti-Communist director, hates the Kennedys. Bob, who is his direct boss, insults him with his arrogance and appears to him as a leftist, who supports black people in the fight for civil rights. Members of the Warren Commission, charged with investigating the circumstances of JFK's assassination, in September 1964. Its 888-page report identifies Oswald as the sole culprit. Members of the Warren Commission, charged with investigating the circumstances of JFK's assassination in September 1964. His 888-page report identifies Oswald as the sole culprit. Hoover does not give the alert. Behind the scenes, a decoy is being prepared: Lee Harvey Oswald, who could play the role of the pro-Soviet lunatic at the appropriate time by killing the president. In Dallas, although he ordered a rifle that was delivered to him in the mail (as if he wasn't afraid to leave marks), Oswald is quietly at the movies when JFK is shot. The procession is targeted from a depository of books and a fence where shooters were posted. The CIA's black operations department and the Mafia, making common cause, provided men disguised as tramps. The shots will eventually hit Kennedy in the head. How could Oswald, considered a poor army marksman, have executed so many shots in such a short period of time with such a bad rifle? In a plot of this magnitude, the evidence does not have the strength to lie or to manipulate. Oswald is arrested in the cinema - it is claimed that he killed a policeman who came to arrest him. Aware of having been instrumentalized, he is about to speak when he is assassinated in the middle of the police station by Jack Ruby: a manager of a striptease club in Dallas, a mobster himself and penniless, who does the job. in exchange for forgiveness of his debts and the promise of quick release - didn't he avenge the president? Nothing holds, but everything fits together wonderfully because everyone has an interest in it. If you have to unbox it, no one will get over it. No more American democracy than Kennedy's detractors, accused of having assassinated him, nor his unconditional supporters who would be sullied by the unveiling of the reality of a myth built on fraudulent arrangements. Everyone has something to lose. Even the brother of the late president, who later sought his succession; Perfectly aware of the plot and its protagonists, he would rather keep the image of the handsome kid struck down in full glory rather than that of the somewhat nonchalant thug's son who gave in to his father's ambitions by accepting his corruption. These Kennedys, some do not want it anymore and, coincidentally, they are the most determined. When Robert, five years later, is on his way to winning the Democratic primaries, he in turn is assassinated by another decoy, an American Palestinian. For some, denying the plot against JFK is like claiming that no Jews died at Auschwitz. For others, it is a conspiratorial thesis, one of those delusions fueled by paranoiacs whose numbers have been measured since they have emerged en masse on social media. Experts are still battling the trajectory of the bullets to determine if a single killer was present on November 22, 1963. But how could Oswald, considered a poor army shooter, have been able to execute so many shots in such a short period of time with such a bad gun, on the best protected man on the planet? The first statesman to doubt the lone killer theory and to express it in a small circle was General de Gaulle The debate continues to heat up on the basis of Johnson's commissioned report to the Warren Commission - on which CIA director Allen Dulles, who is now known to have covered the operation, was sitting. Its conclusions are full of inaccuracies and false allegations brandished in the face of the world as a label of truth. But this debate is intended only for the general public; behind the scenes, we know that this stain of history still paralyzes those who would be tempted to unveil the truth, because the political price would be too heavy. Donald Trump, in delicacy with the CIA, thought of letting go but he retracted in extremis, aware of the consequences of such a truth for a democracy formed in part on myths that do not suffer that their setbacks are exposed. What we can say today is that the strongest probability is that the assassination of JFK results from a plot fomented by an opaque fringe of the CIA with the approval of its director, allied to Mafiosi sharing the same objectives for the control of Cuba - some for political reasons, others for financial interests. This community of interests armed with certain troubled CIA agents and veterans of the failed Bay of Pigs landing, under the complacent gaze of a military-industrial complex that feared a second Kennedy term during the Cold War. The first statesman to have doubted the theory of the isolated killer and to have expressed it in a small circle was General de Gaulle, who saw a fairly broad similarity between this plot and those mounted against him by the OAS for having let go of Algeria, as Kennedy had let go of Cuba. There is a legend circulating about this: the shooter whose bullet was fatal for JFK was said to have been a Corsican linked to the OAS, recruited for his speed of execution in the tense shots, because he was one-eyed. We would have found the trace of his retribution in Montreal in the form of heroin - but he said so many things... Author of "They will kill Robert Kennedy", ed. Gallimard, 2017, and "La malédiction d´Edgar", ed. Gallimard, 2005, also adapted for cinema in 2013.

Jim - congratulations to you, Oliver, and everyone who is getting these two films out. I translated this story and the succeeding story in a matter of minutes. Google Translate is a great tool - even if it is made by Google! Oliver Stone: "It was the CIA that shot Kennedy" Paris Match | Posted on 07/31/2021 at 5:25 a.m. | Updated 07/31/2021 at 7:08 p.m. From our correspondent in New York Olivier O'Mahony In 1991, in "JFK", director Oliver Stone tackled the Dallas conundrum. Today, he relies on declassified documents to revive the thesis of the CIA-led operation. For “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass", which he just presented at Cannes, he couldn't find funding in America. He tells Paris Match about his fight to transmit this appetite for truth to young people. Paris Match. Why go back to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, almost thirty years after the release, in January 1992, of your film "JFK"? Oliver Stone. Because what happened in November 1963 was a monstrosity that changed America forever. It wasn't until the late 1980s, reading the book by Jim Garrison, the prosecutor who inspired my film, that I got involved in this investigation. The immense success of "JFK" subsequently led to the declassification of a number of documents. With this new documentary, I do not pretend to achieve the same result, but I hope to inspire the younger generation - to which it is dedicated - to take up the torch. What more do we learn from this new documentary? I rely on documents declassified after the release of "JFK", and on interviews with members of the latest Commission of Inquiry [Assassination Records Review Board, ARRB] charged with revisiting the tragedy. Forty people are reported to have seen JFK's corpse at Parkland Hospital immediately after the assassination that the official photos shown do not match him, which means they have been tampered with. Forty people! All claim to have seen a gaping wound in the back of the skull, caused by a bullet coming from the front and not from the back. This calls into question the thesis of the lone killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, posted on top of a book depot behind the president's car ... You say Lee Harvey Oswald may not even have fired a bullet ... Yes. According to the official thesis, he used a sniper rifle he had just bought at the Klein's store. Except that the one found on the spot, in the deposit of school books, does not correspond to the model in question. Oswald's footprints should have been found there as well, but there were none. What was Oswald’s role in this case? The documentary sheds light on his personality and behavior on November 22. Lee Harvey Oswald was actually a patriot and admirer of John F. Kennedy. He made contact with pro and anti-Castro circles; he was both on the side of the Communists and on the side of troubled far-right figures like Guy Banister, a CIA agent. A double agent? Rather a provocateur, whom the CIA hired in the demonstrations to distribute leaflets ... According to the official thesis, he fled immediately after the assassination. Except that we found witnesses who said the opposite. Three of his female colleagues, who feature in the documentary, say they were on the stairs right after the drama. However, they did not meet him there. And Oswald always claimed he was on the second floor, not the sixth. Before being killed by Jack Ruby, two days after the assassination, Oswald denied everything. He pretended to be the gogo of the case, the one who was going to be blamed. Do you believe in this version? Yes. He was not alone. There were several “Oswalds” scattered all over the United States. We tell that, before Dallas, John F. Kennedy was targeted by at least two failed assassination attempts [one in Chicago, the other in Tampa, Florida] and quite similar from an “operative” point of view, each time with a galore with a profile strangely resembling that of Oswald. In the case of the Chicago attempt, the person in question was Thomas Arthur Vallee. In Tampa, it was a Cuban exile, Gilberto Policarpo Lopez. There is also the infamous "magic bullet" which is said to have first hit JFK before hitting John Connally, the governor of Texas, who was also in the limo. Are you questioning this assumption? This bullet is in direct contradiction with the results of the autopsy, which show that JFK was hit in the third vertebra from the neck. In the Warren Commission report, that same bullet suddenly "shot up" at the back of the neck to match the path you want it to take, through the throat. At the autopsy, it is mentioned that Kennedy was hit at this point by a "sticking" bullet. In reality, it was an “in” ball, coming from the front. The Warren report holds that three bullets were fired. I think there were at least five, some coming from the front. You maintain that JFK's doctors were asked to be silent after his death... Yes. I found the testimony of JFK's personal physician, Dr. George Burkley, who said he was ready to testify, before retracting ... How did you come across him? After investigating the autopsy. It was the members of the ARRB commission who raised the hare, in particular one of them, Douglas Horne, who testifies with exemplary precision in the documentary. He explains that the autopsy was "made up" and that John Stringer, the official photographer, supposed to have taken the photos of JFK's brain which are in the file, did not recognize the images that were shown to him, nor even the type of film used ... From there, the investigators, intrigued, sought to approach Doctor Burkley, who had seen it all and signed the death certificate. He agreed to cooperate at first, before changing his mind. After his death, his daughter did exactly the same. And this doctor is not the only one. We also bring to mind Dr Perry, who years after the tragedy told a friend of his that he was “absolutely convinced” that the wound in his throat was from a bullet coming in, and therefore coming from the front. He began by testifying in this sense before saying the opposite ... JFK's nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom you interview, doesn't believe in the lone killer thesis either. Yes, just like his father, JFK's justice minister who lost all power in the aftermath of the assassination. The first thing Lyndon Baines Johnson, the new president, does is appoint the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination. Among its members, Allen Dulles, ex-director of the CIA. Fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, he had every reason to hate him. Remember that John F. Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs disaster, decided to bring the CIA to heel. In your opinion, Gerald Ford, a member of the Warren Commission before becoming President of the United States, also did not believe in the Oswald trail. Indeed, he opened up to Valéry Giscard d´Estaing, which was revealed in 2013. “We were sure it was a set-up,” he said. But we didn’t find out who rode him. ” You're clearly pointing the finger at the CIA. On what basis? It should be remembered that John F. Kennedy, after the disaster at the Bay of Pigs, had decided to bring the CIA in line with, in particular, frank cuts in its budget. All of his foreign policy was against the interests of the CIA. What do you mean? JFK was a man of peace. He is the last American president to have sincerely acted in this direction. In this case, we are focusing too much on one question: how could all this be possible? My documentary reveals why it happened. JFK, this veteran, decorated for his acts of bravery during the Second World War, was going to change the world. He had seen the horrors of war, the disastrous role of the CIA in action at the Bay of Pigs, and then that of the US military during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was not impressed by the generals who advised him to attack the Soviet Union or Laos in 1961 or Cuba in October 1962. Not only did he resist their wartime spirit, but he signed, in 1963, an unprecedented agreement with the Soviets. John F. Kennedy did not want a "pax americana" imposed on the rest of the world. He wanted genuine peace. A bit like General de Gaulle who preferred to see France leave Algeria rather than endless conflict, which earned him an assassination attempt by the OAS, possibly supported by the CIA ... Everyone claims that JFK started the war in Vietnam; This is not true, he wanted to repatriate the "military advisers". You give the CIA a lot of influence! I note that Lyndon Johnson did the opposite of JFK. He bolstered the CIA and increased American engagement in Vietnam. He did nothing to fight colonialism, which Kennedy opposed. It is also this truth that I wanted to reestablish: everyone claims that JFK started the war in Vietnam; This is not true, he wanted to repatriate the "military advisers". How do you explain that your documentary was refused by Netflix? The country has become very conservative. I had to look for funding abroad, in Great Britain. Already, my film about Edward Snowden, a hero in my opinion, could only be made with money from France and Germany. So I came to the Cannes Film Festival to promote this documentary in a Europe more open to such projects. But I am convinced that I will eventually find an independent platform that will allow me to broadcast it in the United States. Is this lack of interest due to weariness over an over-rehashed subject or, rather, a truth America does not want to see? There is no weariness. Simply put, America is a country on the decline and on the defensive. George W. Bush was probably our worst president. Obama was just a transitional president: he did nothing to turn the tide, and Joe Biden is in his wake. Censorship has imposed itself. I'm shocked by the way that social media has silenced Trump. Kennedy was killed by forces which exceeded him and which, since, frightens all his successors. You have been accused of pro-Russian sympathies for asking soothing questions of Putin in one of your films. Your answer? I don't need to hate anyone: I'm a director, I have my own signature. No one scares me. Neither Putin, nor Castro, nor Chavez. In my films, I transcribe what they feel and think. I had no reason to tell Putin, who confided in me his views on Syria, Bush or Iran, among others, that he was wrong. Especially since nothing was wrong ... Do you think the truth about the JFK assassination will ever be known? But we already know the truth! It was a conspiracy. He was killed by forces which exceeded him and which, since, frightens all his successors. The culprit was a Communist, a typical scenario of a "black op" set up from scratch by the CIA. Trump had promised to declassify the archives but did not. Are you going to ask Biden to do it? I should, but it's a waste of time. If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes the letter for me, it might have more impact. What is certain is that there is nothing more that can be done for the people who still believe in Oswald's One-Killer Thesis. They live in Disneyland!

Greg Parker has put forth the idea that Oswald was tailing Joe Molina (who worked at the Book Depository), after Dallas Communist Party chief Bill Lowery - who had been keeping an eye on Molina for eight years and reporting to Jim Hosty and his colleagues for $200 a month - came out as an FBI informant in September 1963. Oswald was lurking around the first floor that last hour - it was like he was waiting for a phone to ring. Molina's office was on the second floor, and was out on the steps at the time of the motorcade. Gannaway and the Red Squad crowd came to Molina's home that night with a search warrant. Molina gave them permission to search, he talked to them that night and the next day - he was "detained" but they never arrested him. It is food for thought - David, do you have any thoughts on that?