Gerry Simone

So that was the stated objective? (Sorry I can't check that now).

I agree with Jim Di Eugenio that the JFK Assassination wasn't just a mob hit. OTOH, I feel the mob had their small part in it (get Ruby to shoot Oswald). Maybe a little more (the Ultimate Sacrifice/Legacy of Secrecy website includes declassified files such as the bribery of a CIA liaison to the Mob for the AMWORLD secret plan which they claim was used to blackmail the U.S. government into covering up the assassination lest they reveal that plan to the Soviets - but Di Eugenio mentioned to me that it was just a plan, however it probably still had extortive leverage).

I don't think it was for the sole purpose of getting rid of Castro. Those guys believed that the USA could win in a nuclear exchange with the Soviets (if one can believe that anyone could win a nuclear world war).

Thanks. I"ll check that now.

I think Mr. Trejo was explaining his position in response to my point as to who was behind the assassination.

Correct. Born Calogero Minacori.

I don't know about Walker being more pissed off than Marcello who had to almost crawl back to the U.S. through a Central American jungle, but I can see how he would hate the Kennedy's even more after that humiliating experience. I also can't see Walker as being the major catalyst for Oswald's manipulation (or the President's assassination), due to Oswald's susceptibility (to manipulation) as a fake defector and agent-provocateur by a rogue cell within the CIA, working in concert with Mob elements and perhaps the Radical Right that you alluded to (business elites, John Birchers and even Walker). IOW, there were other parties that instigated the assassination more so than Walker. If there was a pre-arranged Cover-Up Team, I doubt they would be opposed to the JFK Kill Team. But if a cover-up apparatus or team was born out of the bungled murder conspiracy, then I'd prefer to say that they did not buy the Kill Team's propaganda, and came up with the Lone Nut scenario instead. This doesn't mean that certain key figures in the post-assassination cover-up team did not acquiesce to the murder of JFK.

Excellent Alistair! I'll buy that.

I do not recall, but I know I read it somewhere. I'll try to check this weekend and get back to you.

I think the picture was bigger than Cuba, but easier to use Cuba as an excuse for Oswald. The Cuban Missile Crisis resolved with a promise not to invade (unless provoked of course) and that was in the past, even though it probably didn't sit well with the Radical Right or military elite. Like Di Eugenio said, James Douglass does a good job of explaining the big picture, but Di Eugenio has talked about this too at Lancer (JFK's Foreign Policies as a motive for his murder). I thought VietNam became more of a concern for JFK's enemies (RR, MIC) AFTER the CMC or in 1963. Even nuclear proliferation was an issue in 1963. However, the assassination could've still been payback for the BOP, but there were other policies that might have been the proverbial last straws. So I guess it could've started off as a "Cuban thing", and other reasons added fuel to the conspiracy fire so to speak (VietNam, other foreign policy decisions, the war against the Mob).

You mean on his main or intro page? (i.e., not within a particular chapter)

Thank you for this too Ron. I've only read Doug Horne's account and YT interview of the casket arriving an hour - or hour and half before the start of the autopsy. This also reconciles with Horne's account of a casket arriving earlier.

Thanks David. You da man! You've got a lot of good stuff on your website too.

I agree with all of the above, except that the whole point of the JFK Assassination was not just about invading Cuba. Cuba could've been the so called "patsy" for an excuse. Cuba leads back to the Soviets. Oswald allegedly contacted a Soviet official in MC I believe (further incrimination). VietNam is also still important. There were a few reasons why hardliners (in intelligence, military and business circles as well as the Mob) wanted JFK to go away. In essence, the JFK Assassination may have started as a false flag operation to reverse JFK's policies of peace around the world, since there were many foes to deal with (not just Cubans). The WH was not about to declare war. Money had to be made in VietNam. LBJ and Hoover could go on with their careers on their own terms.

I never read this before. Thank you very much.

I thought Jackie had also something to do with the choice for Bethesda since JFK was in the navy.

All I can say with these photos above is that the BOH or occipital area looks unnaturally dark, like someone colored in the photo with a black marker. Guess that's a redaction too (lol).

You mean on his right side above and forward his right ear. Yes.

We can rest assured that Pat Speer will find the devil in the detail. I will check those video aides in due course. Thanks Paul.

They had to fake the sniper's nest to pin it on Oswald, who was ostensibly pro-Castro. That was the beginning of the charade. But Oswald lived long enough to force Plan B into action. As far as Hoover being a hero, my brain is reminding me that he was a rabid anti-Communist, so you'd think that he would want an invasion of Cuba. But calmer minds prevailed. LBJ and Hoover didn't want to risk being in a nuclear holocaust I guess, but what also motivated them was to survive and live happily in a world without John F. Kennedy, who they mutually despised if not hated. Ergo the LN lie.

Yes. Unbeknownst to the official entourage, which arrived after the shipping casket was first received by the morgue, the presidential casket was supposedly empty.

Wasn't it Robert Groden in High Treason who noted that one can discern the matte line in THAT autopsy photo?

As Paul Trejo said, the planners might not have cared about frontal shot evidence if it was their intention for Oswald to be the only guy caught out of a much larger conspiracy involving anti-Castroites. Those who covered it up could not let that conclusion be drawn for fear of WWIII (if not the fear of discovering complicity of their own nationals).

@David Lifton, Thank you for your responses and updated analyses. It was BE that got my friend and I hooked (there have been other influences but yours is notable). I think Horne added to your analyses. @Paul Trejo, I need to check out Pat's site for that video you mention. @Ollie Curme I always thought that the scalp with maybe a little loose bone was pulled over the back of the head to hide the avulsion we see in Z-335 to Z-337.

Frontal shooters were a contingency. Not suicide if you have someone posing as a secret service agent to shoo people or police away, if their location wasn't undetectable in the first place.