Paul Trejo

Terri, it seems fairly clear to me that Guy Banister traveled to Terry, Mississippi in 1963 to recruit paramilitary fighters to support his personal politics of race segregation. What better place than a county that was dominated by the KKK (and was only 3.5 hours away from his Lake Pontchartrain paramilitary training camp) than Terry, Mississippi? It makes further sense that Guy Banister would attend a KKK rally while in Terry, Mississippi in the summer of 1963. It makes further sense that Guy Banister would be a featured speaker there -- after all, Banister was a political candidate in New Orleans, running on the race segregation platform. Like nearly all US race segregationists in 1963, Guy Banister believed that Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren should be impeached (or worse) for his Brown ruling of 1954 that mandated the racial integration of all US public schools. JFK's enforcement of that law with thousands of Federal troops at Oxford, Mississippi in 1962 was the last straw for many. We have a handbill published by the KKK in the early 1960's that reads, "Wanted for Treason: Earl Warren". It reminds us eerily of a similar poster that circulated in Dallas on 24 October 1963 (during the Adlai Stevenson humilitation) and on 22 November 1963 when JFK was killed, namely, the "Wanted for Treason: JFK" handbill. The new ideological development inside the race segregation movement after the Brown decision was that race integration was a Communist plot. "Race mixing is Communist!" was the KKK slogan. This slogan united Racists and Anticommunists into one big blob. Here is the level of hatred that carefully organized the JFK assassination, IMHO. Therefore, it makes further sense that the topic of Guy Banister's speech in Terry, Mississippi in the summer of 1963 would be that JFK was "a communist puppet." That made JFK into a traitor. And the just reward of all traitors is the firing squad. I find it very easy to believe -- given all this evidence -- that the KKK rallies in Terry, Mississippi in the summer of 1963 were full of talk about killing JFK. (Harry Dean says that in California, inside the Minutemen organization training camps, although there was no talk about race segregation, nevertheless rumors about killing the Main Communist, JFK, were heard every hour.) Your eye-witness, Terri, of this historical period in Terry, Mississippi, could become a valuable part of resolving the case of the JFK assassination, which has remained open in the public mind for 50 years now. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

David, thanks for catching that typo. The sentence should have read: "As for Dulles' secrecy during the Warren Commission and the CIA secrecy during the HSCA -- since the Cold War was still raging hot, it makes sense (IMHO) that if there really was a National Security issue of revealing the truth about the JFK assassination during the Cold War, then Dulles would be perfectly justified." Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Continuing research into the career of ex-General Edwin Walker (the only US General to resign in the 20th century) further validates the historical plausibility of Harry Dean's Memoirs. Harry Dean makes a vital connection in JFK assassination research -- he links Edwin Walker to Lee Harvey Oswald before the JFK assassination. This is controversial, but it isn't unique. Dick Russell made two such connections in his well-known 1993 book, The Man Who Knew Too Much, namely: (1) Bradford P. Angers linked Walker's chauffer, Robbie Schmidt, directly with Lee Harvey Oswald in April 1963; and (2) the butler of H.L. Hunt told Russell that he once overheard H.L. Hunt and Edwin Walker talking about Lee Harvey Oswald before the JFK assassination. Also, The Jack Martin Film (a copy of which I continue to try to obtain) is a home movie that begins with the bullet holes in General Walker's house from the Oswald shooting in 10 April 1963, and ends with Lee Harvey Oswald getting arrested in New Orleans for his fight with Carlos Bringuier. This film is a material link between Walker and Oswald. Jack Martin has eluded every effort of mine to contact him. This leaves Harry Dean as the only living eye-witness willing to come forward to explain how ex-General Edwin Walker was connected with Lee Harvey Oswald before the JFK assassination. Harry Dean further makes the direct connection that Walker deliberately strove to make Lee Harvey Oswald into the patsy of a plot to kill JFK. There were many plots to kill JFK -- from rogue elements in the CIA, the FBI, ex-military, the Mafia -- from those who called JFK a traitor, like the John Birch Society, the Minutemen and the KKK -- to the Cuban Exiles who blamed JFK for losing their control of Cuba. However -- we can say with considerable certainty that the one and only JFK plot that actually succeeded was the plot that made Lee Harvey Oswald into its patsy. That was the plot of Edwin Walker. Harry Dean witnessed this with his own eyes -- indeed, Harry acted as a willing participant in the plot as it occurred (although he also kept the FBI informed about the details). This makes Harry Dean the most important living witness to the truth about the JFK assassination, IMHO. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Anyway, getting back to the topic of this thread. On 1 October 1962, JFK and RFK committed ex-General Edwin Walker to the Springfield, Illinois military hospital for the insane for his role in leading the race riots at Ole Miss the day before. On 7 October 1962, Edwin Walker was released from the insane asylum -- with a quasi-apology from Nicolas Katzenbach, because of the public outcry against the JFK White House for using psychiatry as a political weapon. It was one of the biggest blunders of JFK's White House. In January, 1963, Edwin Walker was acquitted by an all-white, Mississippi Grand Jury of all charges of insurrection and violence at Ole Miss university. He told the Grand Jury he was there to bring calm and peace to the rioters. To this very day, an Episcopalian minister named Duncan Gray, who was an eye-witness of those same riots, claims that Edwin Walker perjured himself before the Grand Jury. Far from bringing calm to the rioters, Walker encouraged the rioters, says Gray (who is still alive today, and is also a retired Bishop of the Episcopalian Church). Not only was he an eye-witness, Reverend Duncan Gray was also a victim of Walker's violence, as Walker directed the students around him to attack Gray for trying to bring calm and peace to the situation. "We have a right to protest!" shouted Walker, "and you make me ashamed to be an Episcopalian! The students pulled Gray down from the statue on which he stood, onto the ground, and began kicking him. Some religous students and Highway Patrol officers rescued Gray. The point is that Edwin Walker was so full of hatred toward the Federal Government, that at some point he became capable of lying under oath. We should bear that in mind when we consider ex-General Edwin Walker's testimony before the Warren Commission. Add to his ability of perjury, the fact that for nearly five years Walker had advertised in speeches and on his lawn that Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren should be impeached -- and that Warren was guilty of treason. (I note in passing that the literature of the KKK about Earl Warren used that exact same expression.) So consider -- Edwin Walker had no respect at all toward Earl Warren -- so would he avoid perjury in Warren's Commission? Consider, too, that Walker was capable of perjury before a Grand Jury. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Tom, it seems all you have to post these days is insult and invective. What a waste. Regards, --Paul Trejo

Let's get back on track, people. Stick to the topic of JFK and the KKK. It is an interesting question on its own merits. Insofar as Guy Banister was in Terry, Mississippi, soliciting help in his cause from the KKK, that is important historical information. Terri Williams may be controversial, but if this turns out to be correct history, then she should be appropriately rewarded. We have written evidence from the New Orleans Times Picayune in February 1961 that Guy Banister ran for Councilman in New Orleans on the platform of "the segregation of races." This is a matter of record. This historical fact, all by itself, justifies research into Terri Williams' claim that Guy Banister went to towns where the KKK was strong and openly operating, to recruit members for his cause. Please stop attacking Terri Williams on the basis of her various theories on other topics, and help validate this single, important item in JFK assassination research -- namely -- that Guy Banister (who was amply identified by Jim Garrison in 1968 with complicity with Lee Harvey Oswald) also worked with the KKK to advance his racist politics. The KKK angle in JFK research is ugly -- no doubt. Violence and atrocity are the legacy of this underground, secret organization. It is dangerous, even today, for non-members to attempt to interview members of the KKK. It is difficult -- but this should not dissuade the historian from research. Validate or invalidate this single point, please. Did Guy Banister recruit the KKK in Terry Mississippi in 1963 ? Regards, --Paul Trejo

Thank you, Bernice. I'm glad because I believe that ex-General Edwin Walker presents an important clue to the JFK assassination. The bulk of my research strives to show that Walker was continually aware of Lee Harvey Oswald from 10 April 1963 until 24 November 1963 when Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby. The most important living witness I know of today is Harry Dean (born in Canada, and moved to Chicago in the 1940's) who tells us that he was in a John Birch Society meeting in Southern California in late August 1963, along with Congressman John Rousselot, war hero Guy Gabaldon, Interpen soldiers Loran Hall and Larry Howard, organizer David Robbins and himself. The special guest at this meeting was ex-General Edwin Walker. Yet this small, exclusive meeting wasn't about Edwin Walker's regular speech on the evils of the United Nations. Walker was present to take action. At this historical meeting -- one of the most important political meetings of the 20th century, IMHO -- ex-General Edwin Walker announced to those gathered that he had identified the perfect patsy for their plot to kill JFK -- his name was Lee Harvey Oswald, a Communist currently making noise in New Orleans. At this time in his life, Harry Dean had already led a complicated political life. While in Chicago circa 1958, at a time when the Eisenhower administration was somewhat tolerant of Fidel Castro, and the CIA was actually helping Castro with assets like Frank Sturgis, David Ferrie, Gerry Patrick Hemming, Interpen and many Cuban Exile organizations, Harry Dean became a supporter of the FPCC. Harry raised funds for the FPCC, trying to be a good American citizen. Harry was quite successful as a fund raiser, and he was promoted to be an officer of the FPCC and was invited to Cuba to meet briefly with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. All seemed fine until Eisenhower made a 180 degree about face, and declared Fidel Castro to be an enemy of the USA, and that anybody supporting Castro was now considered a security risk. Harry, the good citizen, contacted the FBI with his new dilemma. The FBI told Harry that he did the right thing in coming to them. They further instructed Harry to make no further changes in his life -- but continue as normal, and simply report his findings to the FBI. Harry complied. The about-face of US policy toward Cuba also changed the perception of Fidel Castro, who began persecuting USA citizens in his camp. Some were subjected to the firing squad. Harry himself came very close to being killed. To make a very long story very short, Harry finally changed his name and moved. Harry eventually wound up in Southern California and vowed to stay away from left-wing politics. To this end Harry joined the John Birch Society and made many social contacts there. He eventually moved so far to the right that he even joined the California Minutemen in 1962. Killing JFK was a common joke among the Minutemen, as it has been among the more aggressive Birchers. Around that time the FBI contacted Harry again. "We're also monitoring the Minutemen," they clarified, "so now we want you to report to us anything you learn about the Minutemen and their connections." Again, Harry complied. When that exclusive John Birch Society meeting with ex-General Edwin Walker took place, Harry, like all those present, had a good laugh over the notion that a Communist would be the patsy in a plot to kill a Communist. There was so much empty talk about killing JFK in those circles, however, that Harry didn't think very much about it at the time. Still, he had a duty to tell the FBI, so Harry reported the events of that meeting to the FBI in Los Angeles. The agent in charge that day dismissed the meeting as "wishful thinking." I corroborated vital parts of this story by contacting the only other living member of that meeting, namely, David Robbins. I told David that I was researching General Walker, and he was happy to be interviewed, because, as he told me, he had met General Walker. (I didn't mention Harry Dean at first). I let David tell me his life story -- and it was basically a repetition of what Harry Dean told me he would say -- where he worked -- his activities for the John Birch Society, and his friendship with war hero Guy Gabaldon. When I finally mentioned Harry Dean, however, David changed his tune. He didn't remember anybody named Harry Dean, and by the way, he never met General Walker, either, and he had nothing further to say on the subject. That was the end of the weeks-long interview. Hmm. So -- again -- Harry Dean's story is valuable to my theory. There are others who connected Edwin Walker and Lee Harvey Oswald in before the JFK assassination -- including the butler of H.L. Hunt (TMWKTM, 1993, Dick Russell) as well as Bradford J. Angers (TMWKTM) and various remarks by Gerry Patrick Hemming and Loran Hall. But all those witnesses are dead today. The final living person that I know about, who may be able to connect Lee Harvey Oswald to Edwin Walker between April and November 1963, is John (Jack) Martin, who was a young man in 1963, a former soldier in Germany under General Edwin Walker, and also a Minuteman. He made a home movie in 1963 now called, "The Jack Martin Film, in which the first part of the home movie shows the bullet holes in General Walker's home in Dallas, and the second part shows Lee Harvey Oswald being arrested in New Orleans for fighting with Carlos Bringuier. (John Martin was born again in 1968, as I understand it, so he handed his movie over to Harold Weisberg -- Weisberg, however, failed to see the connection that I believe is entirely obvious.) The Jack Martin Film is a material connection between Walker and Oswald in one short home movie. I still haven't obtained a copy of that film, after much effort. If I could somehow interview that young man -- John Martin -- who is around 75 today -- I would seize the opportunity. Best regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos>

Yow - you're right, that video was released before the HSCA finished its report. I myself didn't become interested in the JFK assassination literature until after Oliver Stone's movie came out in 1991. Even then, it took a while before I started collecting videos on the topic. Because of Oliver Stone's movie (which was inappropriately named, JFK, and is more appropriately named, The Jim Garrison Story), I started with the book that Oliver Stone used to make his movie, namely, Jim Garrison's 1988 book, On the Trail of the Assassins. That book is still a great starting off point that I'd recommend to newbies today -- even though Jim Garrison made a lot of mistakes. But the fact that Jim Garrison named Guy Banister as the ring-leader -- with David Ferrie reporting to him -- this makes Jim Garrison equal to Sherlock Holmes in my opinion. Nobody else pointed that out before Jim Garrison did. Guy Banister was at the address where Lee Harvey Oswald operated in New Orleans, and yet Guy Banister was not called to testify before the Warren Commission. Fishy. The question, Who Killed Kennedy, for those who are dissatisfied with the old, tired answer that Lee Oswald did it alone, must necessarily involve a second question, namely, Who Made Lee Harvey Oswald into a Patsy? To explore that question, we have no better starting point than Guy Banister, who had been trying to infiltrate the FPCC for years. His right-hand man, David Ferrie, co-pilot for Carlos Bringuier and fanatical right-winger, had a long-time relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald, sufficient to get Oswald's confidence. Therefore, no matter what else might emerge after a half-century of JFK research, the contribution made by Jim Garrison in the late 1960's continues to loom large in this literature. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

This is a great question, Terri. To help researchers, please tell everybody here the names of the top three newspapers in Terry, Mississippi, and specifically in your home town. This would be the first place I'd start. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

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Jim, I do appreciate your patience and objectivity. Fitzgerald is a strong source -- yet he also admits that raids did continue in 1963 -- far smaller than the Bay of Pigs, to be sure -- but raids nonetheless -- and these were sanctioned by JFK and RFK. I appreciate your source on RFK's interest in Jim Garrison -- but I can't make out what RFK exactly asked. It is fair to suggest that RFK was asking what trouble Jim Garrison was making for him. I say this because one of RFK's closest associates, Nicolas Katzenbach, held the opinion that Jim Garrison was a "complete nut." Is it possible that Katzenbach reflected the attitude of RFK? Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Jim, it's possible that with my continuing research into right-wing materials that my perspective is affected. Still, there are objective sources which say that JFK and RFK continued covert operations against Cuba, Operation Mongoose itself was driven by RFK himself -- and the right-wing is not the only source on this. One fairly good source is the 1999 video, The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History. Do you take exception to this video? Sure the operations against Castro were greatly reduced -- almost to nothing, but not quite to nothing. JFK made a deal with Khrushchev about Cuba -- yet JFK was not on principle against covert operations. That stands to reason. You sourced the Fitzgerald memos to LBJ on the topic of JFK de-escalating in Cuba -- yet is it certain that Fitzgerald knew every particular of every meeting? Also, regarding RFK and Sheridan -- surely there are conflicting stories about their relationship. Finally -- how did RFK express his "curiosity" about the Jim Garrison case? What did RFK actually say? Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Thanks for posting this, William. Yes, RFK was deeply and personally involved in projects to overthrow Fidel Castro. IMHO this is an important aspect of JFK assassination research. It has always amazed me that RFK contributed nothing to the Warren Commission effort. It has always amazed me that RFK contributed nothing to the Jim Garrison investigation. I was amazed when I read that RFK hired Walter Sheridan to stop Jim Garrison in his tracks. I was also surprised that Jim Garrison -- with all his personal magnetism -- never tried to elicit help from RFK. Nor did Jim Garrison seem to have a clue that so much of the opposition to his case was coming from RFK himself. If those reports are true, that suggests to me that RFK didn't want Jim Garrison to publicize something that RFK wanted to hide -- and my best guess for the hidden object would be RFK's role in trying to overthrow Fidel Castro. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

The relationship of ex-General Edwin Walker to the White Citizens' Councils of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia was extensive. Walker was a professional speaker after he resigned the Army (as the only US General in the 20th century to resign). He spoke for many right-wing organizations, but the evidence tends to show that he spoke most often for the White Citizens' Councils in the South. Walker made many rightist contacts in Louisiana, including many personal friends of Guy Banister. This would include Medford Evans (who accompanied Walker in his early 1962 hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on "Military Muzzling"). This would also include Leander Perez, the powerful, segregationist judge from Baton Rouge. This would also include Kent Courtney, who provided the ACA Voting Index used by Walker in Augsburg, Germany to attempt to control the voting of his troops (violating the Hatch Act, and ultimately costing him his command over the 24th Infantry Division in 1961). This would also include Louis P. Davis, attorney, board member of a half-dozen segregationist groups in Louisiana, and a money source for Guy Banister. Louis P. Davis pledged Walker 10,000 men to march with him at Ole Miss in late 1962. Walker was personally connected with each of these people involved in the segregationist movement to roll-back Earl Warren's Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Board of Education (1954) which ruled that all USA public schools must be racially integrated. The segregationist groups all claimed that the Supreme Court ruling was a Federal government violation of States Rights, guaranteed under the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. That is why so many of the segregationist groups of from 1955 to 1965 had names like, State Sovereignty Commission as well as the States Rights Party. Also, since the Supreme Court cited the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, demanding equal protection for all people born in the USA, as its justification for the Brown decision, the segregationists called their clash with the Supreme Court a "Constitutional" dispute. (This is what segregationist governor George Wallace meant in 1967 when he volunteered to run for US President, that his party was involved in a "Constitutional" dispute.) The double-slogan of the segregationist White Citizens' Council was "States Rights" and "Racial Integrity." They did not make quick progress until they changed their name to "Citizens' Council", as you can see in this 14-minute segment on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=ZeQKuJTJi48 (Watch for the end of that video, when the interviewer gives his audience a Sarah Palin wink at the very end.) In that video, taken in early 1962, we see and hear ex-General Edwin Walker as he tries to explain why he resigned from the US Army. He does not offer the real reason -- just as the White Citizens Council did not broadcast their real name (but called themselves the "Citizens' Council"). Walker's real reason for resigning was that the John Birch Society told him that President Eisenhower was a "committed Communist," and Walker believed them. That is the nature of the John Birch Society (which still exists today). President Eisenhower was a tolerant man, and he refused to accept Walker's resignation, and instead gave Walker a new duty in Augsburg, Germany. Walker took that opportunity to teach his 10,000 troops there that President Truman was also "Communist-influenced." That remark, plus the ACA Voting Index, got Walker pulled off his command post by JFK. Walker was not fired. He was given a better job in Hawaii -- until Walker resigned for the second time. This time JFK accepted his resignation. Harry Dean's memoirs do not contain any reference to racism inside the Minutemen in California. Nor was racism an open issue in the John Birch Society in Southern California where Harry Dean was a frequent visitor, along with David Robbins and Guy Gabaldon. Nor did the topic of race and public school segregation arise in a meeting in which Harry Dean met with ex-General Edwin Walker and several other key players in the sheep-dipping of Lee Harvey Oswald. The issue was not race -- it was the assassination of JFK. I once asked Harry if the KKK showed any presence among the Minutemen groups in which he associated -- and he said, no, that was never a topic of discussion. The key topic of discussion there, said Harry, was the necessity of killing JFK because of the liberal direction he was speeding the USA. Walker could speak one way to folks in Jackson, Mississippi, and another way to folks in Los Angeles, California. Like a politician, he kept both groups interested in his plans, and he had a significant portion of the USA population on his side. Harry tells us that Walker announced at a secret meeting of rightists (attended by Guy Gabaldon, Loran Hall, John Roussellot, Larry Howard, David Robbins, and Harry) that Lee Harvey Oswald was going to be the patsy for their plot. John Rousselot handed Guy Gabaldon a large sum of cash to use in the manipulation of Lee Harvey Oswald from New Orleans to Mexico and back to Dallas. The plan was set. To the best of Harry's knowledge, that was the only plot he saw with his own eyes. For this reason, he sympathizes with the inmate eye-witnesses in the Dallas jailhouse overlooking Dealey Plaza on 11/22/1963, who said they saw two men in the 6th floor window ot the TSDB buildlng -- a lighter skinned man (possibly Loran Hall) and a darker skinned man (possibly Larry Howard). Because Harry saw these two men at Edwin Walker's meeting, it could make sense that they were the shooters at JFK that day. Yet a close associate and battlefield buddy of both Loran Hall and Larry Howard (who was also a close associate of Edwin Walker) namely, Gerry Patrick Hemming, later admitted that he himself became part of the plot when he told Oswald that he would buy his Manlicher-Carcano rifle for double its price on the black market, if only Oswald would bring it to work the next day, and hide it on the sixth (or fifth) floor of the TSDB buliding. My guess is that there were many more members of the JFK plot in Dallas besides those at the meeting that Harry attended with Edwin Walker. Hemming was only one of many, IMHO, and so there were probably many more shooters in Dallas than Hall and Howard (e.g. Roscoe White and Eladio del Valle). Perhaps Hall and Howard were only backups. What we can be certain of is that the Dallas plot surely involved a New Orleans plot -- the plot uncovered by District Attorney Jim Garrison in 1967. Guy Banister, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw (by eye-witness accounts in Clinton, Louisiana), as well as Ed Butler and Carlos Bringuier (Cuban Exiles who appeared with Lee Harvey Oswald on radio and TV in New Orleans), were also part of the plot to make a patsy out of Lee Harvey Oswald. Given that theory, it is important to find more links that directly connect ex-General Edwin Walker with Guy Banister. I made some progress above, and I am continuing to make progress on this important aspect of the JFK assassination. Harry's eye-witness account of his meeting in Southern California with ex-General Edwin Walker is an important piece of evidence connecting Walker with Lee Harvey Oswald *after* the 10 April 1963 shooting at Walker, and *before* the 22 November 1963 shooting of JFK. There are other bits of evidence that link Walker with Oswald between those two dates -- one of them is the Jack Martin Film -- taken in 1963 by a young Minuteman who once served under General Walker in Augsburg, Germany. The first part of his home movie shows the bullet holes in the home of Edwin Walker where the sniper missed killing Walker. The second part of that same home movie shows Lee Harvey Oswald fighting with Carlos Bringuier and getting arrested by the New Orleans police. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

John, on your advice I dug deeper into the activities of the Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission, and in particular FBI reports about it, and more specifically, articles from the New Orleans Times Picayune (NO-TP) about its members (with thanks to the Jerry P. Shinley archives). It's quite a lot but I'll summarize it as concisely as I can, in chronological order. 1954 First, everything becomes clear when we begin with Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and his landmark Brown v. The Board of Education ruling on 17 May 1954, which mandated the racial integration of US public schools. Two months later, the first White Citizens' Councils (WCC's) were founded in Mississippi, having only one objective – to reverse Earl Warren’s ruling. To do this, insisted Patterson, the methods of the KKK must be shunned – non-violence was the only solution. Instead, the WCC would use civilized, economic reprisals against the NAACP members; like getting their members fired from their jobs; denying them bank loans; calling in their loans; and boycotting anybody doing business with NAACP members. When the White Citizens' Councils renamed themselves, Citizens' Councils, their numbers expanded. When they linked the US Civil Rights movement to Communism, their membership shot up to 250,000 and chapters sprang up in most States in the Union. 1955 In 1955 Medford Evans, a Professor at Louisiana’s Northwestern State College, energetically advocated the segregation of American schools through the Louisiana Citizens’ Council. 1956 In 1956 Louis P. Davis, Jr. was one of the founders of the Greater New Orleans Citizens’ Council (GNOCC) according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune (NO-TP) of January 27, 1956 (p 13). When some members of the GNOCC spun off a new group, the Citizens’ Council of Gentilly (also called the Gentilly Council), Louis P. Davis became a board member of that new group (NO-TP; March 19, 1961; s 1, p 21). Another member of the Gentilly Council was George L. Singelmann, noted assistant to the uncompromising segregationist and District Judge, Leander Perez (NO-TP; March 4, 1956; p 28). Leander Perez spoke at an early meeting of the Gentilly Council in 1956, on the topic of segregation and the “menace of the Supreme Court” (NO-TP; March 10, 1956; p 2). Louis P. Davis made his own views clear to the public: “A small group of Russian Jews with known Communist ties is procuring the vast amounts of money being poured into NAACP activities” (NO-TP; August 5, 1956; p 2). 1957-1959 In the fall of 1957, the Brown ruling was enforced by President Eisenhower within the home town of General Douglas MacArthur, namely, Little Rock, Arkansas. Eisenhower had assigned Major General Edwin Walker to stop the rioting and allow nine Black children to attend high school there. General Walker effectively followed his orders, although he was struck by how many of his troops declared they would rather join the community and protest the integration of this high school. In 1958, in Louisiana, attorney Lawrence Hennessey, Jr. became the active president of Louisiana’s White Educational Association (WEA) which was one of ninety US groups organized to resist the Brown ruling with the mission to keep Louisiana schools racially segregated. One of his clients in 1958 was Guy Banister. Another client was George Singelmann. Meanwhile, in Little Rock, Arkansas, General Walker became increasingly intrigued with the Citizens’ Councils and other segregationist organizations targeting him for conversion. Particularly intriguing to Walker was the John Birch Society (JBS), with its nationwide slogan, “Impeach Earl Warren.” In 1959, Edwin Walker met JBS founder Robert Welch, and joined the JBS as a true believer. Robert Welch’s 1959 edition of, The Politician, charged that President Eisenhower was in reality “a committed communist,” and in response, Major General Edwin A. Walker, after 28 years of stellar military service, promptly submitted his resignation to the Eisenhower administration, deliberately forfeiting his Army pension, and citing a “fifth column conspiracy.” Eisenhower promptly rejected Walker’s emotional, hasty resignation, and instead assigned General Walker to a command over the 10,000 troops of the 24th Infantry Division in Augsburg, Germany. 1960 A libel case against Guy Banister came to trial in March of 1960 and Lawrence Hennessey won Banister an acquittal (NO-TP; February 25, 1960; s4, p9; March 29, 1960; s1, p17). Details of the case incidentally named one Dr. Frederick Doughty-Beck as a personal acquaintance of Guy Banister, active segregationist Kent Courtney, and George Lincoln Rockell, founder of the American Nazi Party. (Kent Courtney was named by the HSCA [10:130] as a Banister acquaintance). In August 1960 Lawrence Hennessey addressed the WEA to “discuss possible action to be taken to keep the New Orleans Public Schools open and segregated” (NO-TP; August 10, 1960; s1, p9). Also in 1960 Medford Evans became a regular contributor to the official publication of the John Birch Society, namely, American Opinion. Medford Evans moved in Guy Banister's circles in Louisiana, and was named as secretary of the Louisiana States Rights Party, while Kent Courtney became the party’s candidate for governor (NO-TP; January 6, 1960; s1, p11). 1961 In 1961 Guy Banister ran for New Orleans Councilman of the First District – allegedly controlled by Judge Leander Perez (cf. Glen Jeansonne, 1977). As part of his platform, Banister offered the following statement to the press: "I take a positive stand in favor of segregation of the races. There are fifteen active organizations in New Orleans promoting integration of the races. Ten of these organizations are Communist fronts or have submitted to Communist influence and direction…As Councilman at large, I can be helpful in nullifying the machinations of these Communist agents and help in maintaining peace and harmony in the city" (Guy Banister, NO-TP; February 26, 1961; s 1, p 25). Also on the ballot was a referendum to allow Mayor Morrison to run for a fifth term, which Guy Banister together with Leander Perez opposed in Baton Rouge. While he was in Baton Rouge, Guy Banister was reportedly also seen “attending a meeting of the [Louisiana Joint Legislative] House Un-American Activities Committee” (NO-TP, March 16, 1961; s 1, p 10). Guy Banister’s political activity now attracted the financial support of the chairman of the Citizens’ Council of Gentilly, Louis P. Davis (NO-TP; March 19, 1961; s 1, p 21). After meetings with Guy Banister, Louis P. Davis and George Singelmann published their official opinion about the civil rights advocacy group, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE): "No less than thirteen members of [CORE’s] national advisory board belong to numerous organizations that have been cited for their Communist front activities …The avowed purpose of this organization is to create incidents and excite people to violence. If their objective is successful, the South and the nation will be a seething mass of racial strife and violence" (Louis P. Davis, NO-TP; June 3, 1961; S 3, p 20). On the 4th of July, 1961 Banister and his secretary Delphine Roberts organized a rally on behalf of the National Confederation for Conservative Government. They invited Leander Perez to be a keynote speaker and they presented him with a patriotism award. Banister and Perez were photographed along with State Supreme Court Justice Walter B. Hamlin (NO-TP; July 2, 1961; s 1, p 14; July 5, 1961; s 1, p 3). In November 1961, prevented from indoctrinating his 10,000 troops in Germany with JBS ideas and tampering with their votes using Kent Courtney's ACA Voting Index, General Walker submitted his second resignation to the US Army. This time the President accepted it. 1962 In early 1962, Medford Evans became managing editor of The Citizen, official publication of the Citizens’ Councils of America in Jackson, Mississippi. Around the same time, ex-General Edwin Walker addressed the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, warning them that their Federal government was in collusion with atheist Communists through the United Nations. Walker advised Mississippi citizens to resist the Federal government as they would resist the Communist enemy. In April of 1962, Medford Evans appeared with ex-General Walker at the Senate Subcommittee Hearings organized by Strom Thurmond and John Stennis (Military Cold War Education and Speech Review Policies; Hearings before the Special Preparedness Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate, 87th Congress, 2nd Session, p 1389). Thurmond and Stennis hoped that Walker would show how JFK had wrongly dismissed Walker from his command in Germany, and so embarrass JFK and possibly restore Walker to his command. Instead, Walker appeared to perhaps most observers to be a confused figure with a persecution complex, feebly imitating Senator Joseph McCarthy as well as General Douglas MacArthur. Perhaps most conservatives, including William F. Buckley, Jr., dropped Edwin Walker from their list of interesting political candidates at this point. In August 1962, Jim Garrison’s “Bourbon Street Cleanup” became news, and Garrison received support from Louis P. Davis, who scolded the NOPD for failing to supply the necessary police in support of “Jim Garrison in his good work in cleaning up crime in the city of New Orleans, especially in the French Quarter.” Louis P. Davis further complained that the NOPD police had been diverted to enforce the racial integraiton of New Orleans public schools (NO-TP; August 30, 1962; s1, p2). (To be fair to Garrison, the South Louisiana Citizens’ Council, another splinter from the GNOCC, would later criticize Garrison for refusing to prefer obscenity charges against James Baldwin for his books (NO-TP; June 20, 1963; s1, p30)). During the Ole Miss crisis in September 1962, ex-General Edwin Walker broadcast a request on radio and television for protesters, “10,000 strong from every State in the Union,” to join him in Jackson for a protest march on Oxford, Mississippi, where Black student James Meredith was attempting to register. In response, Louis P. Davis sent the following telegram to ex-General Walker: “You called for 10,000 volunteers nationwide for Mississippi’s fight against Federal tyranny. We will pledge 10,000 from Louisiana alone under your command” (NO-TP; September 28, 1962; S 3, p 2). In the wee morning hours of 1 October 1962, Walker’s protest at Ole Miss turned into a bloody riot in which hundreds were wounded and two were killed, and Walker was arrested for insurrection and then remanded to an insane asylum in Springfield, Illinois. The rightists missed no beat in that melee. Walker was the victim of Federal brutality, they claimed in their film, Oxford, USA, along with all the innocent students there, upon whom the allegedly brutal Federal marshals fired tear gas, allegedly without any provocation. In the fall of 1962, two GNOCC-backed school board candidates, Rayon A. Stevens and James L. Earhart, claimed that junior high school teacher Clifford Huete required his students to purchase a history text written by Max Lerner, who had been “cited several times before the [HUAC].” Stevens called for an investigation by Jim Garrison’s office, under authority of State Anti-subversion laws. One witness summoned to the hearing was Mary H. Brengel, a mother of a student at the school where Huete taught (NO-TP; November 6, 1962; s1, p2). Mary Brengel will have more to say below. 1963 After Garrison was convicted of criminal defamation in his struggle with the criminal judges in NO, in January 1963, Louis P. Davis defended Garrison firmly: "The people of New Orleans wisely chose a man with no alliance as district attorney, who can act freely in the interest of the people and not be suppressed by commitments to a political organization." Louis P. Davis, as chairman of the Conservative Committee for Constitutional Government, tried to raise $1,000 to pay Garrison’s fine (NO-TP; March 1, 1963; s3, p20). Also in January, 1963, ex-General Edwin Walker was fully acquitted by a Mississippi Grand Jury of all charges of insurrection at Ole Miss University and immediately began making plans with segregationist preacher, Billy James Hargis, for a coast to coast speaking tour from Miami to Los Angeles, called, Operation Midnight Ride, to warn Americans that the Communists already had firm control over Washington DC, the UN, the Supreme Court, the mass media, the NAACP and the National Council of Churches. When Hargis and Walker returned home after their ten week speaking tour, Walker was stunned to escape death at the hands of a sniper at his Dallas home on 10 April 1963. In May of 1963, two hundred persons from throughout Louisiana met in Baton Rouge to establish the Louisiana Commitee for Free Electors, as proposed by Leander Perez. Guy Banister was selected to represent the First District (NO-TP; May 12, 1963; s 1, p 11). On 12 June 1963, only hours after JFK's Civil Rights speech, NAACP leader Medford Evers was fatally shot in the back at his home in Mississippi by a member of the KKK. On 15 September 1963, a bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama killed four young Black girls -- this clearly reveals the stress of the Civil Rights era in the USA in 1963 -- and clearly the non-violent goals of the WCC were finally compromised. In his later investigation, Jim Garrison discovered that Mary Helen Brengel, a supporter of the GNOCC, worked as a secretary for Guy Banister from October 15 to December 10, 1963. Of interest is her account of the day of the assassination: "...[Mary Brengel] and Delphine Roberts were in Banister’s office. Banister did not come in at all that day. Delphine received a call that the President was assassinated and to turn on the TV. When Delphine Roberts turned on the TV, she jumped with joy and said “I am so glad.” Brengel added that Kent Courtney later purchased “most” of Guy Banister’s files. Jerry Rose (The Third Decade; May, 1990; Volume 6, Number 4; pp 1-5) transcribes a report from the Louisiana State Police (courtesy NARA) about ex-General Walker in New Orleans on 20 Nov 1963. Walker met privately with Leander Perez at his office in the National American Bank Building and later met with 35 conservative leaders at the Jung Hotel. The next day, Walker held another meeting with 90 people. Walker’s presence at a meeting in New Orleans on the 20th was also documented by the NO-TP in an account of a fierce anti-Castro public speech given by Harold Lloyd Varney at the Roosevelt Hotel (NO-TP; Nov 21, 1963; S1, P14). Best regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos>

Terri, in my humble opinion, a public forum is hardly the place to place oneself at any bodily risk. The public appetite for information is insatiable, so no matter how much one deposits, it will never be enough. Be safe and well. Some of us appreciate what you already share. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Ken, it seems clear to me that the KKK can be deeply involved in the JFK assassination without being the leader of the assassination. For me, what is intriguing about Terri Williams' claim is not so much her confidence that Albert Lee Lewis was the final shooter of JFK -- but rather her claim that Guy Banister was in Terry, Mississippi in the summer of 1963, recruiting members of the KKK to participate in his own adventures. This would have included Banister's adventures at Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. Everybody who was involved at Lake Pontchartrain is a suspect in the JFK killing, IMHO. This includes Gerry Patrick Hemming (who actually confessed his role in the JFK assassination as the guy who convinced Lee Harvey Oswald to bring his rifle to the TSBD building on 11/22/1963, to sell it on the black market). This also includes, at one time or another, ex-General Edwin Walker, David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald, Roscoe White, Loran Hall, Larry Howard and Eladio del Valle -- to name only a few. Now Terri Williams suggests the possibility that Albert Lee Lewis was also among Guy Banister's recruits at Lake Pontchartrain -- along with sundry other KKK members. Does anybody find that implausible? It is profoundly plausible -- Cuban Exiles, paramilitary Minutemen and KKK sharpshooters -- all conspiring to launch a new assault on Castro's Cuba. Then, suddenly, in July 1963, in the wake of JFK's Civil Rights speech, the FBI descended upon Lake Pontchartrain and confiscated their weapons. Terri Williams offered her eye-witness account -- the KKK citizens of Terry, Mississippi (only 3.5 hours from Lake Pontchartrain) were livid about JFK's latest "gun control." Nothing makes the extreme right-wing more raging angry than any hint of a violation of the Second Amendment. This is what Terri reports -- this was more of a provocation than JFK sending thousands of troops to Oxford, Mississippi on 30 September 1962 to allow James Meredith to be the first Black American to attend Ole Miss university. The KKK, following Guy Banister, added their political motivation as raw energy to the leadership of Guy Banister (and quite obviously to ex-General Edwin Walker, too). We will always have Jim Garrison to thank for bringing Guy Banister to the awareness of JFK research. Finding data on Guy Banister is not easy. Yet if we can identify other people in the orbit of Guy Banister -- for example, Lee Harvey Oswald (as Jim Garrison claimed) or ex-General Edwin Walker (as Jerry P. Shinley claimed, along with Ron Lewis) -- then I am interested. Now, you might wish to call the JFK assassination a coup d'etat, but IMHO, a genuine coup d'etat implies a group that immediately takes credit for the assassination and forces its way into government with its agenda. IMHO, the group that killed JFK wanted to invade Cuba first, second and third. Although they succeeded in killing JFK, they failed in their ultimate objective -- to liberate Cuba from Communism. So, IMHO, their coup d'etat fizzled out. Surely, rogue elements of the CIA who had been directly involved in the Bay of Pigs (like William K. Harvey, David Atlee Philips and James Jesus Angelton) could have recruited some of their street-crew (like Frank Sturgis and David Ferrie) and would have had been highly motivated to kill JFK for Cuba's sake. Yet without loyal, dependable ground-level soldiers, even they would have lacked the resources. Where was the dependable street-crew to be found? Surely not among mercenaries (like the mafia) but only among true-believers in the cause. That is why the KKK remains a plausible option for JFK research. That is why Lake Pontchartrain is such a magnet for suspects. That is why Guy Banister is a major suspect here. And that is why Guy Banister's interest in KKK sharpshooters in Terry, Mississippi is interesting to me. Best regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos>

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John, I don't know about Roger Craig's claim, but I know that William Turner's 1973 book, Power on the Right, claims that no candidate was accepted as a member of the Dallas Police Force in the early 1960's unless he had military training and was also a member one of the following: (i) KKK; (ii) Minutemen; or (iii) John Birch Society. A person who was a member of all three organizations was preferred, said Turner. Thus, Roscoe White, the actual shooter of JFK according to his son, Ricky White, was a perfect candidate for the Dallas Police Department. Roscoe White joined the DPD in October, 1963, and though in training, was already on the beat complete with firearms. The possibility that KKK member Roscoe White was the shooter (or one of the shooters) of JFK on 11/22/1963 was also proposed by Ron Lewis in his self-published book, Flashback: The Unknown Story of Lee Harvey Oswald (1993). (BTW, Oliver Stone included Ron among his advisors for the movie, JFK.) Ron Lewis, a dishonorably discharged Marine whose story I also find interesting (despite some hyperbole and conjecture by Ron), claims that he knew Lee Harvey Oswald personally in New Orleans in the summer of 1963, and that Oswald would open up to few people -- but he would open up to Ron because of the factors they had in common. Among the things Ron claims that Oswald told him were: (i) that Guy Banister became furiious with Oswald when Oswald confessed to him that he shot at ex-General Edwin Walker; and (ii) that Oswald had to find some way into Cuba, even if it meant hi-jacking an airplane; and (iii) after Oswald's failed mission to get into Cuba through Mexico, Oswald told Ron that Roscoe White was selected to shoot JFK, and Oswald would provide support as needed. I can accept vital aspects of Ron Lewis' claims -- even without accepting everything that he wrote. IMHO, Jim Garrison adequately showed that Guy Banister was involved in the JFK assassination, and it is plausible that Roscoe White was involved with Guy Banister because of their common right-wing extremism. It is plausible that Oswald tried to pose as an FPCC officer to trick his way into Cuba, and its plausible that failing that task (as ordered by Guy Banister) and that Oswald was demoted to support Roscoe White, as penance for trying to kill Walker. It is most interesting to me that Guy Banister was an extreme right-wing fanatic. Like you, John, I've found evidence in the Mississippi State Soverignty Commission website that Guy Banister and Edwin Walker (along with Medford Evans) were intimately associated with the White Citizens' Councils throughout the South.. It is only one short step from the White Citizens' Councils to the KKK. Because Terri Williams proposes to link Guy Banister with the KKK in her home town in 1963, I'm willing to take quite a bit of flack to validate the historical plausibility of her account. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

John, I agree that we make more progress when we return to the first few moments after the JFK assassination, before Lee Harvey Oswald was named as the 'lone nut' assassin by J. Edgar Hoover. The plausibility of a KKK involvement (or leadership) in the JFK assassination increases when we examine the modus operandi. For example, a flyer that I recently found while searching remotely for Guy Banister in the Lousiana Department of Archives and History, dated during the JFK years, that begins as follows: ------------------ Begin Extract from Kennedy-era KKK flyer ------------------------ Louisiana's Ku Klux Klan hereby calls upon the white christian manhood of the South to follow our leadership, without fear of death or persecution, to save our white race from annihilation, slavery, mongrelism and Communism. Death stalks our land with "Black Congo" anarchy and revolution inspired, promoted and financed by the Kennedy dynasty and the Communist party. ...According to Article III, Section III of the Constitution of the United States, the President and his Kennedy dynasty are guilty of treason...While federal troops are used to invade Southern States and persecute, harass and intimidate southern governors and destroy the white race, Kennedy's new frontier federal dynasty promotes the black anarchist, Communist branded, Martin Luther King as well as "peaceful co-existence with the Godless conspiracy of Communism..." ...Kennedy's Federal Government...using all its power and resources to give the lowly, prideless, immoral, parasitical and worthless black race, "Supreme Civil Rights" --- causes us to believe that this is a betrayal of the white race, our Creator and our country... ------------------- End Extract from Kennedy-era KKK flyer -------------------------- The keyword that jumps out at me is the word "Treason", which must remind us of the "Wanted for Treason: JFK" handbills that circulated through Dallas on 11/22/1963. According to Chris Cravens, that same handbill was also distributed in Dallas the previous month, on 10/23/1963, during the so-called US Day rally, which was a planning session to disrupt Adlai Stevenson's UN Day rally, held in the same auditorium on 10/24/1963, when that same handbill appeared yet again. Ex-General Edwin Walker, a leader of the Dallas Minutemen, and a regular speaker at gatherings of the White Citizens' Councils and the State Sovereignty Commissions in the South, also led the US Day rally. As at Ole Miss in 1962, Walker was accompanied by Robert Allen Surrey, leader of the Dallas chapter of the American Nazi Party. Although the KKK did not have a major presence above-ground in Dallas, their support of other white supremacy movements in the South is well-known. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

John, I want to revisit your initial comments about the KKK Klaverns and the White Camelias in 1963. I am in full agreement with your long-time emphasis on the KKK, Minutemen, armed wings of the White Citizens' Council, and the John BIrch Society (which preached to millions that every US President since FDR was effectively a card-carrying member of the Communist Party) as plausible participants, and plausible leaders, of a plot to kill JFK. These right-wing extremists reached a fever pitch of activity during the JFK administration. Their collective ire peaked with JFK's Civil Rights speech, whereupon after the midnight hour of that same speech NAACP leader Medgar Evers was shot in the back and killed (probably for his role in supporting James Meredith in his successful registration at Ole Miss university only ten months prior). I hope that everybody can keep an open mind about conjectures, hyperbole and inaccuracies that can enter in any dimension of JFK research, and make extra efforts to focus on the empirical facts. Best regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos>

Michael, you're mistaken about how much I have invested in any story. I find the eye-witness account of Terri Williams about the JFK assassination (and I'm only interested the JFK assassination here) to be worthy of serious review because there are elements of her story that are profoundly believable. It is plausible that the KKK dominated Terri Willams' home town in Terry, Mississippi. It is plausible that the KKK in Terri's home town had a celebration when JFK was killed. It is plausible that the son of the well-known KKK marskman in that town was congratulated by many people in that town for killing JFK. It is plausible that Guy Banister visited Terri Williams' home town (and this is something can be tested). It is plausible that Guy Banister sought out this well-known KKK marksman to take part in clandestine activities involving Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. All these nuances of Terri's story are plausible on an objective basis. I'm not introducing any subjectivity in this analysis. As for the idea that the KKK (which has been responsible for countless atrocities in the USA from the late 19th through the late 20th century) might have had an interest in the JFK assassination -- anybody who doubts that should be regarded as ostrich-like, IMHO. The plausibility of KKK involvement in the JFK assassination is logical and fairly obvious, IMHO. Regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos>

Lindsay, it seems to me that Terri's credibility (about the JFK assassination) is often discounted because she tends to jump to conclusions to make her points. Yet that is something that researchers must always evaluate with every eye-witness or ear-witness. One must use discernment to distinguish between empirical evidence, conjecture and hyperbole. The common person will always combine these three, especially when excited (as in the wake of a crime). I don't object to taking a grain of salt when hearing witnesses -- but I myself also add discernment and some linguistic nuance when hearing a witness. Take for example Harry Dean's testimony that he was in a meeting with ex-General Edwin Walker (who was deeply connected with the White Citizens Councils in the South, and with Medford Evans who was a friend of Guy Banister) along with Loran Hall, Larry Howard, Guy Gabaldon, David Robbins and John Rousselot in the late fall of 1963, in which Lee Harvey Oswald was named as the patsy in their plot. I can take that as empirical evidence, even though I don't have to take Harry's personal opinions about the LDS involvement in the plot. I can take that as conjecture based on the number of Mormons that Harry met while in the Minutemen in California, and how anti-JFK they were, and how strongly they tried to convert him, and a number of factors. I don't have to accept every conjecture that Harry made, although I highly value his eye-witness account, and I believe it will eventually become widely accepted as part of the solution to the JFK assassination plot. As for Terri's eye-witness account -- we should be willing to hunt for Guy Banister in Terry, Mississippi in 1963. That is worthwhile. Terri's conjecture that the best KKK marksman in her county was the *final* JFK shooter, can be seen as her opinion, based on other factors she personally witnessed, for example, the KKK celebration over the death of JFK in her town, along with schoolmates congratulating the son of that KKK marksman. It takes a bit of discernment -- but not so much that it's overwhelming. Keeping an open mind and mining nuggets of gold in a running river -- this takes patience and skill. Best regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos>

Don, I think this is a completely correct approach to the data that is evolving in threads like these. For one thing, it affirms the theory that those who killed JFK were different (and even opposed) to those who covered-up the JFK murder plot. This new slant in JFK research is just what is needed at the half-century mark, given the obvious disarray of JFK research. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Lee, if only your skill in research was as nimble as your skill in stand-up comedy... In fact, the plausibility of the involvement of the KKK in many of the major crimes of the 20th century is a sociological reality. This fact alone gives some weight to the perspective offered by Terri Williams. Add to this the JFK research done on the extremist right-wing in the USA (which includes the KKK) and an objective researcher (who is interested in more than a career in comedy) ought to be willing to take a deeper look into reports from the KKK perspective -- reports which are rare and hard-to-find because the KKK is a secret society. Terri Williams brings eye-witness, anecdotal evidence to the table, Lee, rather than a professorship from Oxford. Yet some people can only respect the high and mighty -- oh, well. Lots of people bring only their eye-witness and anecdotal (and valuable) evidence to the JFK research table; like Terri Williams, Harry Dean and Ron Lewis -- to name just a few. They aren't Oxford professors, but they have a piece of the truth that we seek. Using discernment to evaluate the precise measure of that truth is a task for the outstanding researcher -- and stand up comedy is a task for class clowns. Regards, --Paul Trejo