John Simkin

Thank you Lee, Ron and Peter for this information. I will add it to my page on Grayston Lynch: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKlynchG.htm

Sander Hicks is an independent publisher, community organizer, and writer. He founded Soft Skull Press in 1992, and won awards for his work there. In 1999 by republishing Jim Hatfield's controversial Bush bio Fortunate Son. In 2002 he started Vox Pop/DKMC, New York City's only community-empowering bookstore, cafe, and media machine. As a publisher, Vox Pop publishes investigative non-fiction. He is the author of Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up (2005). (1) Could you explain the reasons why you decided to become an investigative journalist and historian? (2) Is there any real difference between the role of an investigative journalist and a historian? (3) How do you decide about what to write about? (4) Do you ever consider the possibility that your research will get you into trouble with those who have power and influence? (5) You tend to write about controversial subjects. Do you think this has harmed your career in any way? Have you ever come under pressure to leave these subjects alone? (6) The House Select Committee on Assassinations reported that the "committee believes, on the basis of the available evidence, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy". However, very few historians have been willing to explore this area of American history. Lawrence E. Walsh's Iran-Contra Report suggests that senior politicians were involved in and covered-up serious crimes. Yet very few historians have written about this case in any detail? Why do you think that historians and journalists appear to be so unwilling to investigate political conspiracies? (7) What is your basic approach to writing about what I would call "secret history"? (8) How do you decide what sources to believe? (9) How do you manage to get hold of documents that prove that illegal behaviour has taken place?

Gerald D. McKnight is professor of history at Hood College, where he is chair of the History and Political Science Department. He is the author of the books, The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI and the Poor People's Campaign (1998) and Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why (2005). (1) Could you explain the reasons why you decided to become an historian? (2) Is there any real difference between the role of an investigative journalist and a historian? (3) How do you decide about what to write about? (4) Do you ever consider the possibility that your research will get you into trouble with those who have power and influence? (5) Did you have any problems having The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI and the Poor People's Campaign (1998) and Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation (2005) published? (6) You tend to write about controversial subjects. Do you think this has harmed your career in any way? Have you ever come under pressure to leave these subjects alone? (7) The House Select Committee on Assassinations reported that the “committee believes, on the basis of the available evidence, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy”. However, very few historians have been willing to explore this area of American history. Lawrence E. Walsh’s Iran-Contra Report suggests that senior politicians were involved in, and covered-up, serious crimes. Yet very few historians have written about this case in any detail? Why do you think that historians and journalists appear to be so unwilling to investigate political conspiracies? (8) What is your basic approach to writing about what I would call “secret history”? How do you decide what sources to believe? How do you manage to get hold of documents that prove that illegal behaviour has taken place? (9) Why is it that most books written about political conspiracies: assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, etc. are written by journalists rather than historians? Is it because of fear or is it something to do with the nature of being a historian?

Sander Hicks is an independent publisher, community organizer, and writer. He founded Soft Skull Press in 1992, and won awards for his work there. In 1999 by republishing Jim Hatfield's controversial Bush bio Fortunate Son. In 2002 he started Vox Pop/DKMC, New York City's only community-empowering bookstore, cafe, and media machine. As a publisher, Vox Pop publishes investigative non-fiction. He is the author of Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up (2005). (1) Could you explain the reasons why you decided to become an investigative journalist and historian? (2) Is there any real difference between the role of an investigative journalist and a historian? (3) How do you decide about what to write about? (4) Do you ever consider the possibility that your research will get you into trouble with those who have power and influence? (5) You tend to write about controversial subjects. Do you think this has harmed your career in any way? Have you ever come under pressure to leave these subjects alone? (6) The House Select Committee on Assassinations reported that the "committee believes, on the basis of the available evidence, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy". However, very few historians have been willing to explore this area of American history. Lawrence E. Walsh's Iran-Contra Report suggests that senior politicians were involved in and covered-up serious crimes. Yet very few historians have written about this case in any detail? Why do you think that historians and journalists appear to be so unwilling to investigate political conspiracies? (7) What is your basic approach to writing about what I would call "secret history"? (8) How do you decide what sources to believe? (9) How do you manage to get hold of documents that prove that illegal behaviour has taken place?

Joseph Trento is a journalist who has published several books on history including Windows: Four American Spies, the Wives They Left Behind, and the KGB'S Crippling of American Intelligence (1989), Renegade CIA: Inside the Covert Intelligence Operations of George Bush (1993) The Secret History of the CIA, 1946-1989 (2001) and Prelude to Terror: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty, the Rogue CIA, and the Comprising of American Intelligence (2005). (1) Could you explain the reasons why you decided to become an investigative journalist and historian? (2) Is there any real difference between the role of an investigative journalist and a historian? (3) How do you decide about what to write about? (4) Do you ever consider the possibility that your research will get you into trouble with those who have power and influence? (5) You tend to write about controversial subjects. Do you think this has harmed your career in any way? Have you ever come under pressure to leave these subjects alone? (6) The House Select Committee on Assassinations reported that the "committee believes, on the basis of the available evidence, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy". However, very few historians have been willing to explore this area of American history. Lawrence E. Walsh's Iran-Contra Report suggests that senior politicians were involved in and covered-up serious crimes. Yet very few historians have written about this case in any detail? Why do you think that historians and journalists appear to be so unwilling to investigate political conspiracies? (7) What is your basic approach to writing about what I would call "secret history"? How do you decide what sources to believe? How do you manage to get hold of documents that prove that illegal behaviour has taken place?

Sherman H. Skolnick, a paraplegic invalid, was a campaigning author and journalist. In 1963 he established Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, a public interest group researching and disclosing certain instances of judicial bribery and political murders. Skolnick has run Hotline News since 1971. He was also the producer of Broadsides, a one hour weekly taped public access Cable TV Show in Chicago. In 1973 Skolnick published The Secret History of Airplane Sabotage, a book dealing, among other things, the plane crash that killed Dorothy Hunt and Michelle Clark on 8th December, 1972. Skolnick also revealled corruption at the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). In a 1991 article in Spotlight he claimed that the BCCI bribed 25 per cent of both Houses of Congress, 108 Congressmen and 28 U.S. Senators. In 2003 Skolnick published Ahead of the Parade, a collection of articles that include: The Murder of John F. Kennedy, The Murder of Martin Luther King and The Jesse Jackson Affair. Sherman Skolnick died at his home on 21st May, 2006. The investigative journalist, D'Anne Burley, has sent me this message: I knew Sherman for nearly 20 years and I came to know him more as a friend from then and knew more than many, he was a man with a incredible mind and the ability to know more about the law than many attorney's and judges he taught me much and I am not going to stand by without a word and not state what I witness within the hospital is was placed in nor the fact that I am alleging he was murdered within the same game I am spelling out here and within the recent reports I have placed into the international media because I was nearly made a victim of this too, we were outside reporters who saw and knew too much and those within once seeing us in a place where you are rendered ill and or helpless due to a illness use this as a measure to murder you and also countless others in a Medical Fraud Insurance Scam setup within hospitals, tied into hidden court hearing whereby the patients and the family are not involved and the legal rights of the patient is stripped and evoked whereby the family has no rights to medical treatment intervention, nor rights to the patients estate because all is turned over to a court appointed administrator, who is involved in the alleged overseeing of the estate which is never turned over to the hands of the family. Before Sherman's death I had written articles about this and have had many of the victims of my radio programs nationwide because this issue is huge many have complained of unsolved medical nightmares all without legal rights and many who have sought and were denied investigation by the Office of the Attorney General of Illinois Lisa Madigan. I called her office and spoke to her media department administrator telling of these cases whereby the parties in and outside of Illinois spoke of non-investigations of the cases of nursing home fraud theft of property and the possibility of murder of they're elder mother and or father's I was given the run around whereby I was told to fax in information of cases they all ready have on they books all which are allegedly going uninvestigated now there is a new one.

In a letter sent to John R. Tunheim in 1994, Bradley Ayers claimed that he believed that the following " have intimate operational knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the assassination" of John F. Kennedy: Theodore Shackley, Grayston Lynch, Felix Rodriguez, Thomas Clines, Gordon Campbell, David Morales, Rip Robertson, Edward Roderick and Tony Sforza. I would be grateful for any information anyone has on Tony Sforza. http://www.namebase.org/xsen/Anthony-J-Sforza.html The namebase entry for Sforza: Cuba 1959-1962 Chile 1970 Mexico 1970-1971 Assn. Former Intelligence Officers. Membership Directory. 1983 Atlantic Monthly 1982-12 (45-6, 55-6) Corn,D. Blond Ghost. 1994 (261-2, 302) Fonzi,G. The Last Investigation. 1993 (384)

In a letter sent to John R. Tunheim in 1994, Bradley Ayers claimed that he believed that the following " have intimate operational knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the assassination" of John F. Kennedy: Theodore Shackley, Grayston Lynch, Felix Rodriguez, Thomas Clines, Gordon Campbell, David Morales, Rip Robertson, Edward Roderick and Tony Sforza. I would be grateful for any information anyone has on Gordon Campbell. The namebase entry for Gordon Campbell: http://www.namebase.org/main2/Gordon-_28cia_29-Campbell.html Cuba 1962-1963 Escalante,F. The Secret War. 1995 (136) Furiati,C. ZR Rifle. 1994 (41) Hinckle,W. Turner,W. The Fish is Red. 1981 (114-5, 137, 193-4) Turner,W. Rearview Mirror. 2001 (186-7, 206, 212)

In a letter sent to John R. Tunheim in 1994, Bradley Ayers claimed that he believed that the following " have intimate operational knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the assassination" of John F. Kennedy: Theodore Shackley, Grayston Lynch, Felix Rodriguez, Thomas Clines, Gordon Campbell, David Morales, Rip Robertson, Edward Roderick and Tony Sforza. I would be grateful for any information anyone has on Lynch. The namebase entry for Lynch: http://www.namebase.org/main2/Grayston-L-Lynch.html Laos 1950 Cuba 1961-1964 Corn,D. Blond Ghost. 1994 (76, 82, 84, 111-2, 117) CounterSpy 1976-12 (11-2) Covert Action Information Bulletin 1978-#1 (8, 11-2) Dinges,J. Landau,S. Assassination on Embassy Row. 1981 (286) Escalante,F. The Secret War. 1995 (64, 137) Freed,D. Death in Washington. 1980 (195) Hersh,S. The Dark Side of Camelot. 1997 (172, 275) Hinckle,W. Turner,W. The Fish is Red. 1981 (vii, 61, 88, 99, 121-2, 341-2) Livingstone,N. The Cult of Counterterrorism. 1990 (362) NameBase NewsLine 1997-01 (10) New York Times 1996-04-29 (A10) Prados,J. Presidents' Secret Wars. 1988 (185, 204, 265) Russell,D. The Man Who Knew Too Much. 1992 (518) Scott,P.D. Marshall,J. Cocaine Politics. 1991 (27, 29) Turner,W. Rearview Mirror. 2001 (191, 193, 203) Wyden,P. Bay of Pigs. 1979 (83-6, 301)

I have just received a fresh batch of documents on Bradley Ayers. It includes a memorandum written by Jeremy Gunn of the Assassination Records Review Board (18th May, 1995). After an interview with Bradley Ayers he reports: “Ayers claims to have found in the course of his private investigative work, a credible witness who can put David Morales inside the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the night of June 5, 1968 (RFK’s assassination). Ayers offered to put me (and the Board) in touch with the unnamed person, who he feels would be willing to work with the Board."

I have just received a fresh batch of documents on Bradley Ayers. It includes a memorandum written by Jeremy Gunn of the Assassination Records Review Board (18th May, 1995). After an interview with Bradley Ayers he reports: “Ayers claims to have found in the course of his private investigative work, a credible witness who can put David Morales inside the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the night of June 5, 1968 (RFK’s assassination). Ayers offered to put me (and the Board) in touch with the unnamed person, who he feels would be willing to work with the Board."

Robert Parry has worked as a journalist for The Associated Press, Newsweek and PBS Frontline and has reported from Grenada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Israel and Haiti. In the 1980s Robert Parry broke many of the stories that later became known as the Iran-Contra affair. Those stories included the first story about the White House network led by Oliver North. He also co-authored the first story about Nicaraguan contra-cocaine trafficking. In 1984 Robert Parry won the George Polk Award for National Reporting. Robert Parry, who has also taught at the New York University Graduate School of Journalism, is the author of Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, The Press & Project Truth (1992), The October Surprise X-Files: The Hidden Origins of the Reagan-Bush Era ( 1996) and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq (2004). He also runs the Consortium News website. (1) Could you explain the reasons why you decided to become an investigative journalist? (2) Is there any real difference between the role of an investigative journalist and a historian? (3) How do you decide about what to write about? (4) Do you ever consider the possibility that your research into controversial issues will get you into trouble with those who have power and influence? (5) Did the publication of Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & "Project Truth." (1999) and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq (2004) cause you any problems? (6) Did you have any problems having your books published? Would it have been easier and better for your career if you wrote a book saying that George Bush and Ronald Reagan were telling the truth about the Iran-Contra scandal? (7) On page 3 of Lost History you argue that America’s secret history “is in danger of being lost, possibly forever”. You add that this is because that the “national news media is absorbed by tabloid journalism and disinterested in serious research.” I agree that this was the case before the emergence of the web. Are you more optimistic about the exposure of the “secret history” in 2006? (8) In Lost History you argue that the 1970s journalists had some notable successes such as Watergate and the publication of Pentagon Papers. However, is it possible that these were examples of a “limited hangout”. According to Victor Marchetti, a top CIA agent: “A limited hangout is spy jargon for a favourite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phoney cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting - sometimes even volunteering some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further.” The two editors who take the credit for Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, Ben Bradlee (Washington Post) and Abe Rosenthal (New York Times) have a long record of covering up important political scandals and were very much under the influence of “Operation Mockingbird”. Is it possible that the truth about Watergate and the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK was never revealed during the 1960s and 1970s?

Robert Parry has worked as a journalist for The Associated Press, Newsweek and PBS Frontline and has reported from Grenada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Israel and Haiti. In the 1980s Robert Parry broke many of the stories that later became known as the Iran-Contra affair. Those stories included the first story about the White House network led by Oliver North. He also co-authored the first story about Nicaraguan contra-cocaine trafficking. In 1984 Robert Parry won the George Polk Award for National Reporting. Robert Parry, who has also taught at the New York University Graduate School of Journalism, is the author of Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, The Press & Project Truth (1992), The October Surprise X-Files: The Hidden Origins of the Reagan-Bush Era ( 1996) and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq (2004). He also runs the Consortium News website. (1) Could you explain the reasons why you decided to become an investigative journalist? (2) Is there any real difference between the role of an investigative journalist and a historian? (3) How do you decide about what to write about? (4) Do you ever consider the possibility that your research into controversial issues will get you into trouble with those who have power and influence? (5) Did the publication of Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & "Project Truth." (1999) and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq (2004) cause you any problems? (6) Did you have any problems having your books published? Would it have been easier and better for your career if you wrote a book saying that George Bush and Ronald Reagan were telling the truth about the Iran-Contra scandal? (7) On page 3 of Lost History you argue that America’s secret history “is in danger of being lost, possibly forever”. You add that this is because that the “national news media is absorbed by tabloid journalism and disinterested in serious research.” I agree that this was the case before the emergence of the web. Are you more optimistic about the exposure of the “secret history” in 2006? (8) In Lost History you argue that the 1970s journalists had some notable successes such as Watergate and the publication of Pentagon Papers. However, is it possible that these were examples of a “limited hangout”. According to Victor Marchetti, a top CIA agent: “A limited hangout is spy jargon for a favourite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phoney cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting - sometimes even volunteering some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further.” The two editors who take the credit for Watergate and the Pentagon Papers, Ben Bradlee (Washington Post) and Abe Rosenthal (New York Times) have a long record of covering up important political scandals and were very much under the influence of “Operation Mockingbird”. Is it possible that the truth about Watergate and the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK was never revealed during the 1960s and 1970s?

Great post. This last passage needs to be read by every American.

According to a posting made by Gerry on 27th August 2005, he was at "Little Joe's" on the day JFK died: "The day of the JFK assassination, Jim Lewis was [as usual] playing Chess at "Little Joe's" apartment by the Miami River - together with Eddy Collins, "Skinny", Dick Whatley, Bobby Willis, and Bill Dempsey. When Garman started dancing in the street soon after hearing the news from Dallas, Jim chastised him severely (along with Cuban pissed-off neighbors); He reminded him that just four days before; he had been a member of our security detail for JFK at MIA (Monday, 18th Nov.), and that he had been prepared to "take-a-bullet" for the President!!"

I am not that old but I have to admit that I sometimes listen to Radio 2. However, that is less likely since the arrival of Chris Evans.

Maybe this point should be added to this debate: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6849

I believe that Doug Horne’s presentation includes some of the most important evidence that has come out on the case in recent years. As someone has said, it should be headline news, but it isn’t. I have send this presentation to all the journalists I know. I hope other members will do the same. The presentation raises important questions. Who else knows about alteration of the head wounds? Who was the photographer who took the second batch of pictures? Was it William Pitzer and could that experience be linked with his death? As Allan Eaglesham has pointed out: “He (Pitzer) is reported to have been in uniform on the afternoon of his death. An important meeting? A meeting linked with transfer of JFK-autopsy-related materials to the National Archives early the following week?”

It is true that in some areas of history writing, documents are far more important than interviews. However, in some areas, such as writing about the activities of the intelligence services, documents have to be treated with extreme caution. For a start, documents can be destroyed, doctored or withheld. Senior CIA officials have gone on record as saying that details of some actions, for example, illegal ones, do not appear in documents. If they do, code names are used to make it extremely difficult for researchers to discover “who was doing what”. CIA agents also create documents with false information (disinformation is an important aspect of the work of a CIA agent). There is an interesting passage in Felix I. Rodriguez’s book, Shadow Warrior. He explains how in 1976 he was asked to carry out CIA work in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. This included the organization of using B-26K bombers and helicopters against insurgents in these countries. The problem was that Rodriguez was known to be working for the CIA and if he got caught it would have caused the government political embarrassment. Therefore he was asked by Ted Shackley to make a very public retirement from the CIA. This included being awarded the Intelligence Star for Valor (page 254). Of course, Rodriguez, only revealed this information after he had been exposed by the Iran-Contra investigations. If certain investigative journalists had not had the courage to write about these matters, historians would not be able to write about the involvement of the CIA in illegal activities. It seems to me that historians should be more willing to question the official account that appears in government documents. For example, the brave work of Alfred W. McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the author of The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972) and A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (2006). These are books that could not have been written if McCoy had only used official documents.

It is true that in some areas of history writing, documents are far more important than interviews. However, in some areas, such as writing about the activities of the intelligence services, documents have to be treated with extreme caution. For a start, documents can be destroyed, doctored or withheld. Senior CIA officials have gone on record as saying that details of some actions, for example, illegal ones, do not appear in documents. If they do, code names are used to make it extremely difficult for researchers to discover “who was doing what”. CIA agents also create documents with false information (disinformation is an important aspect of the work of a CIA agent). There is an interesting passage in Felix I. Rodriguez’s book, Shadow Warrior. He explains how in 1976 he was asked to carry out CIA work in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. This included the organization of using B-26K bombers and helicopters against insurgents in these countries. The problem was that Rodriguez was known to be working for the CIA and if he got caught it would have caused the government political embarrassment. Therefore he was asked by Ted Shackley to make a very public retirement from the CIA. This included being awarded the Intelligence Star for Valor (page 254). Of course, Rodriguez, only revealed this information after he had been exposed by the Iran-Contra investigations. If certain investigative journalists had not had the courage to write about these matters, historians would not be able to write about the involvement of the CIA in illegal activities. It seems to me that historians should be more willing to question the official account that appears in government documents. For example, the brave work of Alfred W. McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the author of The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972) and A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (2006). These are books that could not have been written if McCoy had only used official documents.

Although Pravda writes about political assassinations in the United States they are reluctant to publish stories about it happening in Russia. Dmitry Kholodov is just one of a dozen investigative journalists murdered in Russia over the last few years. The case of a young Russian journalist murdered while investigating alleged military corruption is to go to the European court of human rights after his parents insisted Russian authorities had botched the investigation. Dmitry Kholodov, a 27-year-old reporter for the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, was killed in October 1994 while investigating alleged corruption involving high-ranking military leaders, including then-defence minister Pavel Grachev. Kholodov died in an explosion after accepting a booby-trapped briefcase he was reportedly told contained secret documents exposing top-level corruption. The official investigation into his death progressed slowly and drew extensive criticism from the media and the Russian public. The first arrests came four years after the murder, and the subsequent court proceedings were marred by alleged irregularities. Six defendants, four of them military officers, were finally tried in Russian courts for the murder but all were acquitted. Kholodov's parents, who have been campaigning for justice for his murder for more than a decade, were told this year they could no longer appeal the case as the statute of limitations has expired. But now the European court of human rights has agreed to hear charges that Russian authorities failed to properly investigate the murder.

Here is the report that appeared in Pravda: http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/19...80596-Kennedy-0 Did the U.S. government cover up the details pertaining to the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy? An answer to this question will be much sought after by participants of a conference that kicked off on Monday, May 15th, in Washington, D.C. According to the report of the Warren Commission, President Kennedy fell victim to “Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.” However, the “alternative” versions of the tragedy argue that two or more people shot at JFK in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22nd, 1963. The above versions allege that U.S. government covered up the truth behind Kennedy’s death. Douglas Horn, the former chief analyst of U.S. Congress on the Kennedy case, took part in the conference. He was among other experts calling the official version of the tragedy into question. The participants will include the historian from Minnesota James Fetzer, and the specialist in radioactive oncology David Mantic. Thomas Lipscomb, a well-known U.S. author, is expected to unveil more data indicating discrepancies in evidence used by the Warren Commission, which was set up by President Johnson to investigate Kennedy’s murder. In particular, Lipscomb is reported to have found evidence showing that the famous amateur footage (by Abraham Zapruder who happened to witness the assassination) was obviously cropped away by some unknown party. Some of the participants of the conference have information showing that the 26-second footage filmed by Zapruder on 8 mm camera is just one of eight existing amateur documentaries on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. However, with the help of some interested party, Zapruder’s short film became the main piece of material evidence for the Warren Commission. Experts are trying to locate other documentaries. The participants will reportedly present new data to support the version about the “CIA conspiracy.” According to the theory, CIA agents might have replaced Kennedy’s brain with that of another person during the president’s autopsy. By a strange twist of fate, the plane carrying Senator Ted Kennady, the brother of the late President John F. Kennedy, was struck by lightning right on the day when the conference kicked off in the U.S. capital. No one was harmed during the incident yet the news seemed to serve as yet another reminder of grim fate controlling the Kennedys. You can discuss this story on the Pravda Forum: http://engforum.pravda.ru/

I have now added an interview with Robin Ramsay: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6878

Is this common knowledge in the United States? How do the Republicans defend this massive budget deficit?

I have been to the United States several times to do research. I have always found that Americans I came into contact with to be very friendly and hospitable. It is only by email and Forums (see the debate on the Washington conference) that a small minority of Americans come across as aggressive and unfriendly.