Paul Trejo

David, I agree that there are imperfections in the intentions of the producers, yet I find that the evidence speaks louder than the spin that Robert Blakey and Priscilla McMillan tried to place on it. For one thing, we get solid evidence here that Lee Harvey Oswald clearly used the sophisticated photographic equipment at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall. For another thing, we get solid evidence that Robert Blakey was afraid of the Backyard Photographs. He knew that they present obvious evidence of a Conspiracy if the evidence of any fakery was proven -- and it is easily proven (as far as I can see today, pending my own technical analysis to reproduce the experiments of Major John Pickard). Blakey obviously lacked the presence of mind to connect the dots -- Oswald at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall means that we can have faked Backyard Photographs and still maintain that Marina Oswald took the first (one and only one) Backyard Photograph. Blakey failed to see that. Now -- one might suggest that since I maintain that Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald made the Backyard Photographs, that I am agreeing with the Warren Commission's ridiculous conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the "lone nut" killer of JFK. On the contrary. I disagree sharply with both the Warren Commission and with Robert Blakey. Rather -- my theory has Oswald as well as George De Mohrenschildt, Volkmar Schmidt and Michael Paine all guilty (in different degrees) of plotting and attempting to kill General Walker. So, Lee Oswald was certainly not a "lone nut" even in this activity. He had accomplices. My theory also challenges tradition when I insist that just because Oswald tried to kill Walker, that is no proof at all that Oswald killed JFK. There is no direct connection. Walker was on the extreme right. JFK was more left-leaning. There were very different shooters shot at these very different leaders. I want to empasize this point as strongly as I can: JUST BECAUSE OSWALD SHOT AT WALKER, THAT IS NO PROOF THAT OSWALD SHOT AT JFK. In other words, JUST BECAUSE OSWALD SHOT AT WALKER, THAT IS NO PROOF THAT OSWALD SHOT AT JFK. As for Priscilla McMillan's faulty opinion that Lee Oswald kept a P.O. Box because he was ashamed of the Communist newspapers he was reading -- that makes no sense because Oswald had no problem getting in the newspaper, radio and even TV by handing out Communist FPCC flyers. It is far more likely that Oswald kept a PO Box in every city in which he lived because he was getting covert orders and secret payments from the FBI, ONI, CIA and other agencies that thew him a little money here and there for odd jobs. The evidence suggests to me that Oswald wanted to be a secret agent, and he worked diligently toward that end. If George De Mohrenschildt had not mocked Oswald by toying with his mind along with Volkmar Schmidt, it is possible that Oswald would have eventually become a capable secret agent. We cannot ignore the evidence from Marina, however, that Oswald began to beat her shortly after he took the job with Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall. The stress on Oswald was probably higher during this period than any other period -- he was pressured by George DM, Schmidt and Paine, probably, to murder ex-General Walker. I think that was the source of his stress. He couldn't take it. He snapped and tried to kill Walker -- in order to "please" De Mohrenschildt, Schmidt and Paine. When George De Mohrenschildt correctly guessed that Oswald was the shooter, he did tell somebody -- his friends the Voshinins. Mrs. Voshinin said she told the FBI right away. Thus ex-General Walker could have learned as early as Easter Sunday 14 April 1963, that Lee Harvey Oswald was his 10 April 1963 shooter. This is when Walker decided that Oswald was going to be his patsy, IMHO. As for your question about Volkmar Schmidt's confessions -- I believe that he might have first told William Kelly (who is on this FORUM) in a personal invterview back in the 1990's. Best regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos>

I really like this YouTube video that links together George De Mohrenschildt, Volkmar Schmidt, ex-General Edwin Walker and Lee Harvey Oswald's Backyard Photographs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_n1eNcLWtk Robert Blakey speaks out here, as does Priscilla Johnson McMillan -- both as biased as ever. But their negative spin cannot erase the clear connections between the major players. This is a great video, IMHO, and only 9 minutes long. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Yes, Bill, and the proof that George was intentionally withholding vital information from the Warren Commission -- and also the HSCA -- is found in his booklet, I'm A Patsy! I'm A Patsy!, because in that booklet he lies again. George De Mohrenschildt wrote that he could not remember exactly the name of the person who psychologically worked on Lee Harvery Oswald for so many hours -- but George was pretty sure he was Jewish. Jewish! Volkmar Schmidt was a proud member of the German bourgeoisie and George De Mohrenschildt knew this very well. George and Lee Harvey Oswald used to call Volkmar, "Messer Schmidt!" and laugh. Volkmar Schmidt himself declared that only weeks before George shot himself, George had begged Volkmar to allow him to move in with Volkmar and his family -- but Volkmar refused because George was clearly unstable after his own wife and children left him, and George was obviously suffering from depression. Volkmar opted to spare his family from that ordeal. So, George obviously remembered Volkmar's name, and he knew very well that Volkmar was German and not Jewish. Why did he continue to lie to the HSCA? The truth was simply too much for George De Mohrenschildt to bear -- so rather than testify before the HSCA, he committed suicide. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Robert, I agree with much of your assessment -- yet I still don't find enough hard evidence to accuse LBJ of participation in a plot to kill JFK. I'm glad you brought up Walter Reuther's 19 December 1961 memo to the Kennedy White House that stressed the right-wing problem. It was, and still is a problem, that the US right-wing undermines the USA by accusing its leaders of Communism. It started with Joe McCarthy in 1950, and it hit a high point with the John Birch Society in Augsburg, Germany under General Walker in 1961. Walker often referred to the Walter Reuther memo, which he took as a personal attack. For one thing -- Walker was a personal beneficiary of H.L. Hunt. As for Reuther's worry about the "radical right inside the Armed Services," there can be little doubt he was partly referring to ex-General Edwin Walker, who had resigned only six weeks before that memo, and was getting lots of press coverage at that time. The Kennedys were also worried about the enormous crowds and tremendous ovations that Walker received from the radical right, and the Kennedys offered to allow film-maker John Frankenheimer access to the White House itself so he could film Seven Days In May (released 1964). In this movie, actor Burt Lancaster portrayed a US military General who led a plot to overthrow the President -- and his character was modeled on the character of General Edwin Walker. The movie shows the General addressing huge crowds with simple speeches about patriotism, and receiving thunderous applause and standing ovations. JFK himself chose to take on the John Birch Society directly, a full month before the Walter Reuther memo. On 18 November 1961, JFK addressed the Democrats in Los Angeles. JFK said: ...They look suspiciously at their neighbors and their leaders. They call for "a man on horseback" because they do not trust the people. They find treason in our churches, in our highest court, in our treatment of water. They equate the Democratic Party with the welfare state, the welfare state with socialism, socialism with communism. They object quite rightly to politics intruding on the military - but they are very anxious for the military to engage in their kind of politics... I believe that most Americans -- LBJ included -- supported this moderate thinking that JFK expressed so well. I personally believe that although hot-heads among retired US military were supportive of ex-General Walker and the right-wing, we will not find proof of a plot by the US military, nor by the CIA, nor by LBJ to kill JFK. I do believe that people close to these agencies were involved. From the evidence I've read, seeing how closely Walker worked with H.L. Hunt over the years, I believe that H.L. Hunt was a prime mover in a Walker-led conspiracy. Also, Cuban Exiles were probably involved, as were members of the Dallas Police Department who were at the same time members of the Minutemen, the John Birch Society and the KKK, and other members of these groups were involved. I believe, along with Jim Garrison, that Guy Banister (ex-FBI) and David Ferrie, working with Eladio Del Valle, Carlos Bringuier and Ed Butler, expertly framed Lee Harvey Oswald. I can accept the testimony of Gerry Patrick Hemming that there were underground arms deals that involved the CIA and FBI to funnel arms to raids against Cuba -- raids involving Loran Hall and Larry Howard (to name a few) as well as ex-General Walker as their supporterl. Yet I cannot find a plot in the CIA itself -- at most I find CIA contractor-gophers and wannabees, like Frank Sturgis. Although I'm impressed by E. Howard Hunt's deathbed confession, it is not as simple as it might sound. Just because E.H. Hunt named LBJ at the top of his list -- that might mean many things. For example, no patriot can act without perceived direct orders from a Commander in Chief. In order for any actual CIA officers (as opposed to their hired gunmen like Sturgis, Morales and Veciana) to turn on JFK, they would need to mock-up on their organization charts that LBJ was their "real" Commander-in-Chief. Thus Hunt could "blame" LBJ for killing JFK, when in fact Hunt further explains that rogue CIA agents -- not acting from orders but from personal revenge, beginning with CIA agent Cord Meyer, who hated JFK because JFK had an affair with his ex-wife -- were the top-planners that he could see. Insofar as David Atlee Philips, CIA agent and Bay of Pigs veteran, might have been involved, he, too, acted out of personal revenge for the Bay of Pigs, and not in response to official orders. The same can be said about William Harvey. Yet what role did they actually play? Did they actually go to Dallas and shoot? Did they dress up like Dallas Policemen? Or did they lend financial support and secret hide-outs, secret gun shipments and the like? Did they cooperate with one of the dozens of plots that was already under way? I agree that the US Government under LBJ did not pursue the conspirators, but pinned the full blame on Lee Harvey Oswald. Yet, until I receive new information, I will continue to maintain that there was a good reason for this -- National Security; to avoid Civil War -- and that LBJ ensured that the conspirators would not realize their principal purpose -- the invasion of Cuba. LBJ probably knew that H.L. Hunt was involved, yet H.L. Hunt would not be brought to justice in his lifetime. Still, this does not prove a collusion between LBJ and H.L. Hunt -- but rather the end of their close relationship -- and H.L. Hunt would not see his dream fulfilled -- the USA would not invade Cuba. I also disagree that LBJ made a special effort to "coopt the Left" after the JFK assassination. Before LBJ entered politics he was an elementary school teacher in a largely Hispanic Texas county. He spoke out for the poor and hard-pressed from his very first days as a supporter of FDR. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Thanks for these details, Terri. I'll see what I can do. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Whatever theories may arise about Michael Paine, I'm convinced that the closest he comes to the JFK assassination is in his association with Lee Harvey Oswald and the Dallas bourgeoisie in the 10 April 1963 shooting at ex-General Edwin Walker. I believe Paine did not disclose everything he knew about this episode in the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. Yet it was probably this episode that inspired Walker to move into action against the Kennedys. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Whatever theories arise about George De Mohrenschildt, I maintain that the Warren Commission made a proper start by connecting George to Lee Harvey Oswald through the 10 April 1963 shooting at ex-General Edwin Walker at his home in Dallas. George did not tell the Warren Commission about the Dallas party in February, 1963, in which Volkmar Schmidt put on an exhibition of converting Oswald from a Bay of Pigs fanatic into a hater of ex-General Edwin Walker. However, George did write of this incident in his 1977 booklet, I'm A Patsy! I'm A Patsy!, which he prepared for the House Select Committee on Assassinations before he committed suicide. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Aside from all the other evidence (e.g. from Silvia Odio and Harry Dean) that implicates Loran Hall and Lawrence Howard (Leopoldo and Angelo) in the assassination of JFK, it remains my opinion that their frequent interaction with ex-General Edwin Walker in 1963, as verified through interviews with the soldier of fortune, Gerry Patrick Hemming, is the most compelling argument for deeper research into these two characters. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

US Army Major General Edwin Anderson Walker (1909-1993) graduated from West Point in 1931 at the bottom 10% of his class. Walker was apparently loyal throughout World War Two and the Korean War, and he returned to the USA in 1954. This was the same year that the Southern USA initiated a massive resistance against the Supreme Court Brown v. The Board of Education decision to racially integrate all US public schools. In 1957, because of massive riots in Arkansas over the issue, President Eisenhower selected General Walker to keep the peace and racially integrate Little Rock High School. Walker obeyed because he was a soldier, but he also spoke his protest -- forcing people to racially integrate under military force is a bizarre interpretation of Liberty. Still, he obeyed, and he successfully integrated Little Rock with armed troops and a moving speech. From 1957 to 1959, Walker remained in Arkansas, overseeing the troops and suppressing race violence in Little Rock and adjoining towns. Yet during this same time, Walker's politics visibly changed farther to the right. The White Citizens' Councils in the South had 250,000 members, consisting not of typical KKK thugs, but of doctors, bankers, lawyers, Congressmen and Governors. It's my theory that from 1957 to 1959, the White Citizens' Councils directly targeted General Walker with an intensive conversion campaign. At the forefront of this campaign, IMHO, were three key individuals: H.L. Hunt, Billy James Hargis, and Robert Welch. H.L. Hunt (1889-1974) had a right-wing radio program called Life Line, in which he railed against Communism on a continual basis. He might be considered the Rush Limbaugh of his day. In time he handed his program over to Dan Smoot for a long while. Part of the Southern version of Anticommunism was its claim that the Civil Rights movement was Communist -- that is, equal rights for Black Americans must be denied on the basis that Russia would benefit from this somehow. This gambit was an extremely widespread and successful argument in the Southern States. Robert Welch (1899-1985) worked for his brother's candy factory, and retired a wealthy man in 1956. He had supported Senator Joseph McCarthy for US President, and was devastated when McCarthy died young. After he retired, he built upon McCarthy's ideas and founded the John Birch Society in 1958 with eleven members using his so-called Black Book, which charged President Eisenhower of being a Communist. (This was well before the appearance of his famous Blue Book.) Billy James Hargis (1925-2004) was a teen-age evangelist prodigy who started his own radio program at a young age and found that Anticommunist sermons made his ratings go up. At a young age he joined Reverend Carl McIntire and his "American Council of Churches" which he set up in opposition to the official "National Council of Churches" which had argued that Black people are equal in God's eyes. McIntire was a zealous racist who worked ceaselessly to keep the Churches segregated. (McIntire and Hargis made headlines in 1953 when they launched a million hydrogen ballons bearing biblical passages over East Germany and the Soviet bloc. Hargis then started the Christian Crusade and became a self-made millionaire as a zealous supporter of the White Citizens' Council call for race segregation in all aspects of life. I believe three men convinced General Walker to resign from the US Army -- and even forfeit his US Army pension -- on the following grounds: (1) that President Eisenhower and his cabinet were all Communists, so Walker should not work for them; and (2) Walker could follow their footsteps and become a successful public speaker, and earn far more money as an Anticommunist public speaker than he could ever receive from his pitiful Army pension. Evidence suggests that General Walker listened to Life Line on a regular basis. Also, his mother listened to the Christian Crusade on a regular basis, and she wrote to Walker on a frequent basis. Finally, we have written correspondence between Walker and Robert Welch in late 1959. In 1959, then, General Edwin Walker submitted his first resignation to the Eisenhower administration. Eisenhower rejected that resignation, and offered General Walker a command in Augsburg, Germany. Walker then withdrew his resignation and accepted Eisenhower's offer with the secret goal of promoting the John Birch Society to his troops. General Walker wanted to be on the front lines of the Anticommunist movement, yet his limited education evidently stunted his perception so that he believed the propaganda of subversive rightist Robert Welch, who claimed that Communists had overtaken Washington, DC. General Walker moved conspicuously closer to the neo-Nazi movement in the USA and in Germany from 12/1959 to 4/1961 when he commanded the 24th Infantry Division in Augsburg, Germany. In 1960 Walker made friends with former Nazi journalist Dr. Gerhard Frey and his subordinate journalists of the of the Deutsche Nationalzeitung. On the same day as the Bay of Pigs invasion, 17 April 1961, Overseas Weekly reporters attacked Walker for his massive push of John Birch Society propaganda to US troops in Germany, and for dictating who they should vote for. This caused a scandal, and the JFK administration immediately transferred Walker to a non-commanding post. Walker submitted his resignation on 1 November 1961 -- again forfeiting his pension -- and JFK accepted his resignation. Without a pension -- and without any visible means of support -- General Walker moved into a large house in the Oak Lawn neighborhood in Dallas. He took a free office in an oil company skyscraper, and began writing his first copyrighted speech. In mid-December, 1961, citizen Edwin Walker gave his first speech to the NIC (National Indignation Convention) in Dallas. The auditorium was packed, and Walker received several standing ovations. He could speak effectively to the choir. In early 1962, as a matter of record, H.L. Hunt financed Walker's campaign for Texas Governor. Walker continued to write and deliver speeches in the South to thunderous applause and rightist acclaim. He always promised his audiences that his name would be vindicated in the forthcoming Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Military Preparedness organized by Senator Strom Thurmond, the famous Dixiecrat candidate. When those meetings came and went however, Walker had proved that although he could preach to the choir, he could not speak effectively when he was being challenged or questioned in any way. He appeared clumsy, and even paranoid at times. When the Texas gubernatorial elections came, Walker finished in last place. H.L. Hunt said, "Of course he finished last -- he refused to listen to me." In the summer of 1962 the USA faced the Cuban Missile Crisis. This was also coupled by a racial crisis at Ole Miss University, as James Meredith, Air Force veteran, inspired by Medgar Evers, NAACP officer, insisted on being the first black student at Ole Miss. Governor Ross Barnett insisted that this would never happen -- ever. Walker -- badly bruised by his recent losses, pushed himself into the headlines again, and went on the radio to call for "ten thousand strong from every State in the Union" to join him in Jackson, Mississippi for a protest rally in Oxford, Mississippi. Just as Eisenhower thought it was correct to send armed troops to Arkansas in 1957 to enforce the Law of racial equality, so did JFK choose to send armed troops to Oxford in 1962. Edwin Walker was the star of the show in both of these national cases. There was a bloody riot in which hundreds were wounded and two were killed. JFK and RFK had Walker arrested and sent to an insane asylum. But in five days Walker emerged, more ferocious than ever. In November, 1962, Walker began his hearings in a Grand Jury in Mississippi for "insurrection". By January 1963, Walker was fully acquitted. In February, 1963. Walker went on a coast-to-coast speaking tour with Billy James Hargis, preaching the evils of Communism, of the UN, of the Kennedy administration, of the Supreme Court, and of racial integration. Walker said of Ole Miss, "I am not sorry and I would do it again." One day after Walker returned from his long speaking tour in early April, 1963, he was surprised when somebody tried to shoot him in his own living room using a high-powered rifle from the alley behind his house on 4011 Turtle Creek Blvd in Dallas. That somebody, said Marina Oswald in early December, 1963, to the surprise of the world, was Lee Harvey Oswald. Oddly, several days before Marina's confession; actually only 18 hours after the assassination of JFK, ex-General Edwin Walker would call the Deutsche Nationalzeitung and boast that the same man who killed JFK just the afternoon before, was also the same man who tried to kill Walker back in April. (One wonders how Walker might have known this.) Evidence for all these events can be found on my website at www.pet880.com which contains over a thousand artifacts from Edwin Walker's personal papers, obtained from the Briscoe Center for American History. Best regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos>

John, these are all questions that I still cannot answer. I'm still digging as fast as I can. I will say this, however. Walker was very chummy with Nazi types in Germany during his command in Augsburg (11/1959 to 11/1961). He made good friends with the editor of the Deutsche Nationalzeitung newspaper, formerly a Nazi newspaper and still a right-wing journal in 1963, That editor, Dr. Gerhard Frey, was connected with Joseph Goebbels during the Nazi era. I will give ex-General Edwin Walker the benefit of the doubt -- until actual facts are presented. My current theory (always evolving) is that Walker was a conformist all his life -- but the Cold War was confusing to him. He led the racial integration of Little Rock High School in Arkansas in 1957, but by late 1959 he tendered his first resignation from the Army to President Eisenhower, citing a "conspiracy". In late 1959 Walker personally met Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society (JBS) and came to believe that President Eisenhower was a Communist (as Robert Welch taught). When Eisenhower rejected Walker's resignation, but instead gave him a command over thousands of troops in Augsburg, Germany, Walker accepted the position -- his biggest promotion ever -- on the secret condition that he would promote JBS literature to his troops. Along with Major Archibald E. Roberts, Walker began his Pro-Blue program the very first day that he arrived in Germany. He spent most of his time on this project, and he influenced thousands of young soldiers with the JBS doctrine -- similar to the doctrine of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy -- that the US Government was filled with Communists. This treasonous talk, laughingly called Anticommunism, was really Anti-American. This is what Robert Welch and his followers had always wanted. They objected to WW2, because as they said, the USA joined the Communists to defeat Germany, while they should have supported Germany to defeat Communism. While in Germany, Walker evidently increased his communication with the new German Anticommunists like Dr. Gerhard Frey, Hasso Thorsten and others, and they evidently impressed him very much. For example, only 18 hours after the JFK assassination, Walker called the Deutsche Nationalzeitung to boast that the same shooter who killed JFK (Lee Harvey Oswald) was the same shooter who shot at him on 10 April 1963. This was several days before Marina Oswald announced this allegation to the FBI and the world. There is plenty of smoke there, I say. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Terri, although you'd previously named your childhood neighbor, Albert Lee Lewis (d. 2007), I know of no way to independently research his biography. Your claim that A.L. Lewis was the man who killed JFK from the grassy knoll must now stand in line along with Lee Harvey Oswald, Roscoe White, Eladio del Valle, James Earl Files, Charles Nicoletti, Johnny Rosselli and others as possible suspects. Klan rallies are virtually unknown to Yankees -- we must use our imaginations to reconstruct a gathering of thousands of KKK members at a rally in Terry or Byram Mississippi in the summer of 1963. Furthermore, the KKK is a secret society that does not publicize its membership list. Yet it helps the researcher enormously, Terri, when you say that Guy Banister -- a central character in Jim Garrison's investigations -- was a featured speaker at KKK rallies in your neighborhood. Your fascinating historical claim, that your high school principal, R.W. McDaniel, along with many of the high school teachers and many students "congratulated his son right afterwards" on that same afternoon, helps us to envision a culture that is like a dream-world to the average American. Whatever the actual situation, these allegations suggest that the JFK killing might have been a well-known plot in Terry, Mississippi, that is, many people talked about it for a long time beforehand. To illustrate this I will quote from a flyer that I recently found while searching remotely for Guy Banister in the Lousiana Department of Archives and History, dated during the Kennedy administration 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 our records we believe that 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..." The peaceful "co-existence gift" of Cuba to Nikita Krushchev by the new frontier Kennedy dynasty...at a time when Kennedy's Federal Government is 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 -------------------------- I think it should be clear to the casual observer that this is the level of self-righteous hatred that actually killed JFK. It was a great misfortune that JFK himself underestimated the mood of the Southern States. Mrs. Long, your seventh grade civics teacher (niece of Huey Long, who was also allegedly assassinated by the KKK) told you that there was no one to tell and that nothing would ever be done about it. It appears that she may have been right. It is difficult for Yankees to further imagine that in the 21st century, in the year 2013, that the KKK still exists in Terry, Mississippi to this day. By the way, Terri, your reference to another neighbor of yours, "Doc," the nickname of Dr. Joel Garrett Brunsen, inspired me to find his book in our University Library -- it is a 1,134 page volume named, "Concepts of Disease," and it is an academic research textbook. You claim that he was sympathetic to the KKK and that he "participated in the autopsy of RFK, maybe even JFK," and that is something I can research. After reading the principle writings of the WCC, I must agree with you that they were not angels trying to make life easier for Black Americans. They only wanted to maintain segregation at any cost -- although they knew that publicity of atrocities against Black Americans would weaken their cause, rather than strengthen it, so they put on a civil face to the world, and they used economic means -- like getting NAACP members fired from their jobs -- to get their point across. However, in counties where the Black population was over 50%, the WCC would often hand over control to the KKK. That is a matter of documented history. Insofar as your account is more than rumor and heresay, Terri, you have carried a tremendous burden all of your life. I, for one, encourage you to continue to share your story and seek justice -- which may still be decades away. Best regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos>

So, John, NARA finally replied to me and invited me to purchase high quality reproductions of CE-133B and CE-133C for $20 each. That's expensive but I do want to repeat Major John Pickard's experiment. I'll post them to my web site at www.pet880.com soon after they arrive. Best regards, --Paul

If there's any mystery, John, it's because my exploration into the history of General Walker continues to evolve. He was a great hero of World War Two. I refuse to take that away from him. Yet he became a zealous gadfly to the JFK Civil Rights movement, and he began to associate with Cuban Exiles of the most desperate sort -- and their wealthy supporters. He was the only US General to resign in the 20th century. Where there's smoke there's fire. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

I agree, John; let everybody decide for themselves. I just wanted to clarify that even though we agree that the extreme right-wing was behind the JFK assassination, we can still disagree on the role of the extreme left-wing. I avoid both extremes and remain in the center. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Well, John, you seem to see Walker as 'crazy like a fox,' and perhaps you're right. I'm still undecided. Walker seems to me to resist being pulled into a value system that was so contrary to the US Army in which he had just recently spent most of his life. He wanted to fight Communism -- and he was dim-witted enough to believe Robert Welch's tripe that every US President since FDR was a raving Communist. When Walker taught that crap to his troops in Germany in 1961 -- it caused a scandal. But he remained unphased. Perhaps Walker was simply unintelligent -- he continued to believe that he was dismissed from his command in Germany because of a Communist conspiracy -- he really thought he was that important. This fed his paranoia -- the Communists were after him, personally. All this became crystal clear in his 1962 testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Military Preparedness (aka. Military Muzzling). He thought people were after him. Although H.L. Hunt was funding Walker's run for Governor of Texas in early 1962, Walker's pitiful performance before the Senate Subcommittee ruined any chance he ever had in politics. He was trounced. Therefore -- the only people who looked up to Walker after May, 1962, were in the radical right wing and the White Citizens' Councils. These are the people that Walker would try to impress from that moment on. They were Walker's bread and butter. Robert Allen Surrey, leader of the Dallas Nazi underground, attached himself to Walker in May, 1962, and accompanied Walker to the race riots at Ole Miss in September 1962. Best regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos>

Well, John, I won't use the Forum to split hairs for fine distinctions between this and that variety of Communism. I would emphasize, however, that although I'm unsympathetic with Communism, this has nothing to do with the Anticommunist extremists that appeared in the 20th century -- like Adolf Hitler or George Lincoln Rockwell, or Robert Allen Surrey. We might include in this number their fellow travelers like Guy Banister and ex-General Edwin Walker. It is a rule of thumb for Americans that although they despise the Communist, they despise the Nazi even more. So it cannot be a question of Either/Or -- it's a question of a middle ground, a moderate approach. Although you and I may disagree sharply on the status of Communism, I think we can still agree that the evidence in the JFK assassination tends to suggest a conspiracy of the American right-wing, which would include the KKK, the American Nazi Party, the White Citizens' Councils, the State Sovereignty Commissions and their many offshoots. The John Birch Society, for example, which was so white-collar and professional sounding, yet placed the proposal to Impeach Earl Warren at the top of its agenda as late as 1969 -- ten years after its founding. That was nothing less than a racist position. The State Sovereignty Commissions deliberately scrambled the politics of the era by conflating Civil Rights with Communism. Their motive was entirely racist. While it served the Communists of 1963 to claim to be leaders of the Civil Rights movement, it harmed the Civil RIghts movement whenever that was claimed. Martin Luther King, Jr. worked hard to distance himself from the Communist movement. It was important to him, and it should be important to us today. MLK disavowed Communism. There is a world of difference between demanding justice regardless of race, creed or religion (i.e. Civil Rights) and demanding the abolition of religion, marriage and private property (i.e. Communist Manifesto). Best regards, --Paul Trejo

By the way, I still find very little about ex-General Edwin Walker in the MSC files. What I find shows he made speeches to their groups, and the speeches seem to be variations on his six copyrighted speeches (late 1961 to early 1962). He never makes direct racist remarks. Walker tries to bend everything to the cause of Anticommunism -- and he seems clueless than in the context which he speaks, his audience is twisting every sentence about Anticommunism into a sentence against Civil Rights for Blacks. One is therefore not surprised to learn that Walker graduated in the bottom 10% of his class at West Point. (He was not a scholar like General Douglas MacArthur.) So, Walker can be relied upon to make rousing speeches and rally the paramilitary troops. But he does little beyond this, evidently. This would tend to make Guy Bannister appear to be the brains of the outfit. Bannister is more official, more like the FBI, and attends to his paperwork. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

John, as I understand this, you're referring to "the files" of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission files (online). I am finding that to be a superior source of information about the JFK era. Many thanks, --Paul Trejo

Yes, John, that was it. Thanks for the citation. Here's the memorandum: http://mdah.state.ms...|89|1|1|1|56199 Best regards, --Paul Trejo

John, it is mildly interesting to me that there are sociological parallels between Lee Harvey Oswald and John Patler, the killer of Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell. After all, Patler was a member of the Nazi party himself. However, I find it very interesting that Guy Banister was recommended for an office appointment in the MSC (Mississippi Sovereignty Commission) by the LSSC (Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission). I would be keen to find the source documents for this recommendation. I am less interested in the fact that Guy Banister died shortly after this nomination -- and shortly after the publication of the Warren Report. I'd only wish to track Banister's death if we had any smidgen of evidence that Banister threatened to turn on his fellow conspirators. However, since Guy Banister was a raving racist lunatic, and was obsessed by his hatred of JFK, I strongly doubt any suggestion that he was about to turn on his fellow conspirators. Rather, I'm content to conclude that Guy Banister died of natural causes related to his high-blood pressure and old age. That is, for my theory, Guy Banister's life is more important than his death. If you're willing to recollect exactly where you saw this LSSC recommendation for Banister's appointment to the MSC, I would appreciate it. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Well, John, I just realized that this is John Simkin's thread on the KKK, but you've dominated it for years now, so I called it your thread. I fully agree that JFK researchers seem to have a dim perception of the Civil Rights period - its blood and murders -- that escalated so intensely during the JFK years. The racial riots at Ole Miss in 1962 is one of the great, underestimated events of the period. Ex-General Edwin Walker was in the thick of it. The Kennedys actively encouraged the Hollywood film producers of, Seven Days in May (1964, starring Burt Lancaster), which was patterned after the clash between Edwin Walker and the Kennedy White House. However, I don't agree with your conclusion, "ultimately it's all about money." Surely money plays a leading role in many historical events, but to reduce the Civil Right era to nothing else but money is to think abstractly. I also disagree that Communism "always has a place in those struggles" and that Communism is "always the most dangerous idea to the Status Quo." In my view, Communism's radical extremism and abstract approach has done far more harm than good to the interests of the Working Class. The moderate aims of the American Working Class was undermined by Communist catcalls for the abolition of religion, abolition of marriage and the abolition of private property. The abject failure of Communism in the USSR in the 20th century should be enough evidence of its inner contradictions. The race question runs far deeper than questions of the Industrial Bourgeoisie or the Industrial Proletariat, because those are not ancient movements, but racism is one of the most ancient historical movements of humanity. Racism must be approached on its own merits, rather than through the middleman of modern politics. Finally, if we are talking about the JFK assassination, then I would be happy to place Guy Banister near to the center of things -- perhaps equally as near as ex-General Edwin Walker. They cooperated, IMHO, between New Orleans and Dallas, from the weekend of Easter Sunday, 1963, all the way through 22 November 1963. As for Roscoe White, his profile fits most snugly with all the angles I've explored so far. He was known to Guy Banister -- he was known to the Minutemen, of whom Edwin Walker was the Dallas leader. He was known to the KKK, to the John Birch Society and he was a new member of the Dallas Police Department in October, 1963. He knew Lee Harvey Oswald from the old Marine days. He had been a professional sniper. He had a copy of Oswald's Backyard Photograph in his personal possessions. Roscoe White is as suspicious as they come, IMHO. Best regards, --Paul Trejo <edit typos>

Terri, whether you name him or not, you are still providing valuable clues to the assassination of JFK, in my opinion. For example, I find that few people get the fact that within the USA itself, there is a subculture of Americans that celebrated when JFK was killed. I mean, they had parties. These were the people of the Deep South who were in the KKK, surely, but even beyond the thugs of the KKK, there were many more Southerner who were deeply involved in the White Citizens' Councils and in the State Sovereignty Commissions, including Congressmen, Governors, Bankers, Civic Leaders, Military Leaders and Society Ladies. For millions of people in the South, the Supreme Court decision to racially integrate public schools (Brown v. The Board of Education) was an Unconstitutional act -- and they were prepared to defy Washington D.C. to the bitter end. These people went beyond the KKK at the ground level -- yet as you said, they always reverted to the KKK when they returned to the ground level in the South. I think that is an insight that is worth historical exploration. You said that the day JFK was killed, in your home town of Terry, Mississippi, the kids in your high school joined the general celebration, and congratulated your relative whom they assumed was the expert marksman who killed JFK. They also exclaimed to you that "the KKK will not stop until there's a K-K-K", which meant that they would keep killing until they killed JFK, MLK and RFK (Kennedy-King-Kennedy). When history played out exactly in that way in the coming years, you concluded that you had lived close to the center of the cyclone. I would think exactly the same thing if I had been in your shoes. Furthermore, you shared with us that Guy Banister -- a man who was so close to the events at Lake Pontchartrain, Cuban Exiles, and the address Lee Harvey Oswald stamped on his fake-FPCC handbills, often visited your home town, and even had dinner at your grandmother's house, along with other relatives. So, whether or not you decide to share that name with anybody, Terri, you are still filling in many blanks in US History with your personal recollections of growing up in your home town in Terry, Mississippi, which has been dominated by the KKK for so long. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

John, your thread on the KKK resonates with the more recent thread on the KKK and JFK by Terri Williams. She says she knows who killed JFK -- although she can't tell anybody the name (even though he's dead) because his friends are still living. But she is willing to say that he was first and foremost a member of the KKK. Well -- we can't verify a name that we don't have -- but if we give Terri Williams the benefit of the doubt, we can still check out the secondary characteristics of her story. For one thing, she said that Guy Banister came to her home town to recruit KKK members to train at the Lake Pontchartrain paramilitary training grounds to invade Cuba in 1963. Cuban Exiles were training there, along with Minutemen, and Guy Banister wanted some young KKK supporters there, too. All these groups operated with the philosophy of the John BIrch Society (a variation on the philosophy of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, i.e. that Communists had infiltrated Washington DC). For the John Birch Society and their followers, the Communists had already taken over Washington DC and the State Department -- and FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and JFK had all been Communists. For this reason, JFK was supporting race-mixing in Mississippi's Ole Miss University (30 September 1962) -- because for the South, race-mixing was Communist. Also, JFK had banned all underground paramilitary training camps preparing for another raid on Cuba -- because for the South, JFK was a Communist who secretly supported the USSR and Cuba. Because JFK angered the extreme rightists in the USA so much -- the rightists became so united that they could hold their noses and draft boys from the KKK to get involved in the struggle. Now this became a grass-roots movement -- well funded from many sources. Once this occurred, the underground element of the rightists -- guided by Guy Banister -- would take all these threats against JFK to the next level -- In Dallas. The one person that makes all these pieces fit together is Roscoe White -- he was a Minuteman, a John BIrcher, a member of the KKK, a supporter of the White Citizens' Council, and was also a policeman with the Dallas Police Department. He was in Dallas on 22 November 1962. His son, Ricky, says his father confessed to killing JFK on his deathbed. His wife also admitted this. Finally, Ron Lewis, author of the 1993 book, Flashback: The Untold Story of Lee Harvey Oswald, relates that in the summer of 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald told him personally that Roscoe White was going to kill JFK in Dallas in November. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Let me try to guess your interest here, John. With the working theory that JFK was killed over his stand on Civil Rights, given the fact that Dallas was in sync with the White Citizens' Councils and the State Sovereignty Commissions of the Deep South, let's try to assemble some personnel. We find ex-General Edwin Walker, a paranoid resident of Dallas who thought RFK was after him. Walker was a professional speaker, and often spoke for the White Citizens' Councils. Walker also had a publisher who practically lived at his home at 4011 Turtle Creek Boulevard, namely, Robert Allen Surrey, who was also the Dallas leader of the American Nazi Party. This suggests the possibility that the American Nazi Party, working with the KKK, the White Citizens' Councils, the State Sovereignty Commissions, the John BIrch Society, the Texas Minutemen (led by General Walker) and any rogue policemen in Dallas who belonged to one or more of these groups (e.g. Roscoe White), also had a hand in killing JFK. I also find that to be a distinct possibility. Therefore, since the man who killed American Nazi leader, George Lincoln Rockwell, namely, John Patler, leads us to a copy of the ANP magazine, Stormtrooper, which had some pages missing that could hide a time of his life that could be of interest to the JFK assassination, it would be interesting to find those pages. If I have that right, then I agree with you fully, John. I would also like to see those missing pages. Best regards, --Paul Trejo

Lee, I take it that you doubt parts of Michael Paine's sworn testimony to the WC. I personally believe that Michael Paine minced words like a French chef. I have long held that Michael Paine withheld far more than he told the WC. We might disagree on many things, but on this point we're likely to find some common ground. Regards, --Paul Trejo