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    JFK's Vietnam Policy as a Major Motive of the Plotters

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    21 hours ago, Michael Griffith said:

    That scenario strikes me as unlikely and unrealistic. If the plotters were Cold War hawks and therefore viewed Vietnam as a vital issue, I seriously doubt that any of them wanted a war in Vietnam merely to make money and did not care if South Vietnam fell to the Communists. That sounds far-fetched and out of character for Cold War hawks. 

    If the argument is that the majority of the plotters were not Cold War hawks, then we're back to my point that that is not what I am talking about. I am talking about the common assumption among most conspiracy theorists that the plotters viewed JFK's Vietnam policy as a major reason to kill him because they were Cold War warriors who were determined to keep South Vietnam free. 

     

    The scenario is realistic. Why? Because some of the plotters were involved in drug trafficking in Vietnam.

    Were Dallas Police officers involved in the murder of President Kennedy ?

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    On 7/30/2021 at 7:26 AM, Gil Jesus said:

    BLUE DEATH :
    Were Dallas Police officers involved in the murder of President Kennedy ?
    By Gil Jesus (2021)
    (Author's Note: This is newer version of an old post of mine from 2007 )

     

    There are many reasons to suspect that the Dallas Police were in some way involved in the assassination of President Kennedy. Not only were they responsible for the safety of the President, they were responsible for collecting and processing the evidence from the scene of the murder. They were also responsible for the safety of the accused assassin.
    When it was over, the President was dead, his assassin was dead and there remained questions regarding the evidence to this day, almost 60 years later that have not been answered.
    Could any major metropolitan law enforcement agency have been so inept, so careless and so unprofessional as to allow this tragedy of errors to occur, or was this a well-planned plot to remove suspicion from those responsible and direct it to a "patsy" who would never see his day in court ?

    Power on the Right
    Of all people, General Edwin Walker may have given us a clue to who was responsible for the mysterious deaths of witnesses after the assassination, when he told the Warren Commission, "You can anticipate that there are people that would like to shut up anybody who knows anything about this case. People right here in Dallas." (0)
     

    Who would know what witnesses had information that needed to be kept under wraps ?  Where they lived or their contact info ?
    The ones who took their statements and filed the reports.
     

    Membership in right-wing organizations such as the John Birch Society or the Ku Klux Klan was a prerequisite for acceptance on the Dallas Police force. Jack Ruby hinted at right-wing involvement by attempting to direct Earl Warren towards the JBS. (1) Had the Commission looked at the JBS in Dallas, it would have led to, among others, General Walker, H.L.Hunt and members of the Dallas police. Ruby was also fearful to speak in Dallas. 
     

    Consider this: The only ones Ruby wasn't safe from while he was in jail were the cops.
     

    A Dallas County Deputy Sheriff named Hiram Ingram stated that he had knowledge of a police conspiracy. He fell and broke his hip on April 1, 1968 and died of cancer three days later. (2)
     

    The Dallas police controlled security along the motorcade route, the manpower allotments, the crime scenes, the evidence, the media, the interrogation of the suspect, the release of all other suspects, the custody and safety of the prisoner, the prisoner's immediate family and all phases of the preliminary investigation.
    To say they did a poor job is a gross understatement.

    Motorcade Security
    In his testimony before the Warren Commission, Roy Kellerman, the agent on the White House detail who was the on-the-scene agent in charge of the Dallas trip, indicated the motorcade route was in the hands of Secret Service advance agent Winston Lawson and the Dallas Police. (3)
     

    Dallas Secret Service agent Forrest Sorrels told the WC that the police officials agreed that the route taken was the best. (4) Chief Curry drove Sorrels and Lawson through the motorcade route up to Main and Houston then pointed and said that the highway was "over there."
    Because a large number of Dallas police who were on vacation or had the day off refused to work security for the President's visit, the police were forced to use reserve officers. The captain of the Dallas police reserves, Charles Arnett, told the Warren Commission, " if there was a threat of bodily harm (to the President), they (the reserves) were to report their concerns to the nearest "regular officer". (5) So if a reserve officer saw someone pull a pistol and point it at President Kennedy, he was under orders to run a couple of blocks and return with a regular officer.
     

    This was Dallas' idea of "maximum protection" for the President. Vacations and days off were not cancelled. Officers whose normal day off was that Friday refused to work overtime and thus kept their day off. For example, in the Homicide Division alone, 60% of the detectives were not available to work on the day of the assassination.
     

    This in the city that had roughed up Adlai Stevenson just a month before. (6) As a result of this burden, Chief Curry took to the airwaves to warn the citizens to be on their best behavior.
     

    There was only "token" police protection along the motorcade route. There were 178 officers, including reserves, on the parade route for an estimated 250,000 people. That boils down to one officer for every 1,404 potential assailants. In addition, none of the officers either in the motorcade or on its route, were ever told to be concerned about the estimated 20,000 open windows along the motorcade route. (7)
     

    On November 20th, two Dallas officers saw "mock target practice" going on at the picket fence atop the grassy knoll. They arrived in time to see the participants depart in haste and only wrote a report on the matter AFTER November 22nd. The report was buried by the FBI and only came to light after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. (8)
     

    Marion Baker had been assigned to ride alongside the Presidential limousine, but was told by his sergeant five or ten minutes before leaving Love Field that no officers would be riding alongside the President's car. (9) Officer Bobby Hargis confirmed that "we were supposed to be beside the car". (10)

    Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry told the Warren Commission that Secret Service agent Winston Lawson cut the number of motorcycles from four on each side of the President's limousine to two on each side, then moved them back. (11) His testimony was supported by Captain Perdue W. Lawrence.(12)
     

    Officer Billy Joe Martin told the Commission that "they (Secret Service) instructed us that they didn't want anyone riding past the President's car and that we were to ride to the rear, to the rear of his car, about the rear bumper. (13)
     

    According to Martin, "they told us at Love Field right after Kennedy's plane landed...Well, while Kennedy was busy shaking hands with all the well-wishers at the airport, Johnson's Secret Service people came over to the motorcycle cops and gave us a bunch of instructions...They also ordered us into the damnedest escort formation I've ever seen. Ordinarily, you bracket the car with four motorcycles, one on each fender. But this time, they told the four of us assigned to the President's car there'd be no forward escorts. We were to stay well to the back and not let ourselves get ahead of the car's rear wheels under any circumstances. I'd never heard of a formation like that, much less ridden in one, but they said they wanted to let the crowds have an unrestricted view of the president. Well, I guess somebody got an 'unrestricted view' of him, all right." (14) Martin claimed that some of those instructions were that the four Presidential motorcycle officers were ordered that "under no circumstances were they to leave their positions regardless of what happened." (15)
     

    The re-deployment of the motorcycle escort to the rear of the rear wheels not only gave "everyone" an unrestricted view of the President, it made it easier for anybody to throw anything from an egg to a bomb at him. In a hostile city as Dallas, to configure the motorcade in the way it was done was more than incompetent.
     

    It was criminal.
     

    The redeployment of the motorcycle escort left Kennedy unprotected from the front and from the side. It allowed those close enough to him, the people on the curbs, to have an unrestricted and unobstructed opportunity to cause him physical harm.
     

    And although the Dallas police claimed that Lawson told them on the evening of the 21st that Kennedy didn't want any motorcycles alongside his car, Lawson was forced to admit under oath that he never heard Kennedy give that order. (16)
     

    The last-minute stripping of the President's protection by Lawson on the evening before his arrival is at the least, disturbing.
     

    It suggests that Lawson knew beforehand that shots were going to be fired and as a result, removed the police officers from the line of fire. He also removed the military man from the front seat of the limo on the morning of the assassination.
     

    The "man with the football", the nuclear codes, was removed from the front seat of the limo where he usually sat between the Secret Service agents and placed in a car further back in the motorcade, presumably to get him out of the line of fire.
     

    In Tampa, agents rode on the back of the limo despite the President's alleged aversion to having them there.
     

    In Dallas there were no agents on the rear of the car except for agent Clinton Hill, who got on and off of the rear bumper four times during the motorcade. If any of the agents in the White House detail believed that JFK didn't want anyone on the back bumper, they never told Agent Hill.

     

    The Press Vehicles
    Usually the President's motorcades were filmed from the front by cameramen riding on a flat bed truck in front of the President's limousine. Not in Dallas. In the "Big D" those were convertibles they were riding in and they were six or seven cars in BACK of the President. The remainder of the Press rode in two Busses at the END of the motorcade! The entire configuration of the motorcade was changed on the morning of the 22nd.

    Police Deficiencies
    Julia Ann Mercer gave a deposition claiming to have seen a rifle being unloaded from a truck at the base of the knoll on Elm St. on the morning of the assassination. In that deposition, she said that "there were three policemen standing talking near a motorcycle on the bridge just west of me" when the rifle was unloaded. (17)
     

    Dallas officers disregarded any orders to keep the overpasses clear. Sheriff Bill Decker ordered his men not to participate in the protection of the motorcade. Decker also displayed an unwillingness to transfer Oswald. (18)
     

    In a letter to Jean Hill, "JB" wrote:
    "I get the distinct feeling that the feds think somebody in the Dallas Police had something to do with the hit on Kennedy....so many Dallas cops knew Jack Ruby, the fact that somebody let him in to the basement right before he shot Oswald, the fact that some of the cops were heard cussing Kennedy for being a flaky liberal." (19)
     

    Certain witnesses were totally ignored. They didn't seal off the building right away (20) and as a result, some people who were in the building at the time of the shooting were allowed to leave. When they did finally seal off the building, those still inside were escorted to the County Records Building to give their statements in the office of the Dallas County Sheriff's Department. When this happened, the police had the building to themselves with only Roy Truly present.
    ( Note: this is when I believe the "gunsack" was made by police )
     

    No impediments were placed in the way of fleeing assassins and although they claimed to have known that Oswald ( by name ) was missing from the Texas School Book Depository Building, no-all-points-bulletin was ever broadcast for him.
     

    Evidence was faked, altered or suppressed. 
     

    Police officers perjured themselves in testimony.
     

    Ridiculously biased lineups were held at which witnesses, after seeing Oswald's picture on TV and in the newspapers were asked to identify him standing alongside police detectives, a police clerk, teenagers and an overweight Mexican. 
     

    Photographic evidence and video evidence taken by witnesses was seized, never to be seen again.
     

    At Parkland Hospital, the police tried to enforce Texas criminal law that required the autopsy to be done by the civilian medical examiner of Dallas County, Dr. Earl Rose. There was shouting and shoving and in the end, they were forced to yield at gunpoint to the Secret Service and forfeited custody of the body to them. Was there a struggle for possession of the body because that was the law, or were there bullets in that body that both sides wanted ?
     

    In recent years, evidence has surfaced that the Dallas Police may have been involved in the assassination, if not directly, then at least as an enabler.
    There's the whole "badgeman" thing, the discovery by Gary Mack and Jack White of a figure in the Moorman photo of a man in a police uniform firing from behind the picket fence.  And the claim of Al Navis that Lee Bowers once wrote him a letter saying that he saw a Dallas Policeman fire a rifle from the behind the picket fence. And then there's the account of Gordon Arnold and his encounter with a Dallas policeman who had dirty hands on the Grassy Knoll when no policeman was officially there. Whether these were actual policemen or killers dressed up as policemen, no one really knows.
    It was never investigated.
     

    And while there was a killer on the loose where was the Police Chief ?
    While his men wrestled an alleged cop-killer in the Texas Theater, Chief Jesse Curry drove Lyndon Johnson to the airport, then stayed on board Air Force 1 for a photo-op during the swearing-in ceremony.

    That's some great leadership.
     

    And despite telephone threats against the life of Oswald, the Dallas police took no supplemental precautions to ensure his safety. 
    Once wounded, the hospital personnel administered no anesthesia to Oswald.

    NOTES
    (0) 11H 417, 419
    (1) 5H 198; Marrs, Crossfire, p.1
    (2) Penn Jones, Forgive My Grief III, p. 15
    (3) 2H 111
    (4) 7H 338
    (5) 12H 132
    (6) 24H 259
    (7) King ex. 4, 20H454
    (8) cited in Davis, Mafia Kingfish, pp. 175-176
    (9) 3H 244
    (10) Mark Oakes interview with Hargis 6-26-95
    (11) 4H 171
    (12) 7H 580-581
    (13) 6H 293
    (14) Jean Hill, Last Dissenting Witness, pp 112-114
    (15) Newcomb & Adams, Murder from Within, P.33
    (16) 4H 338
    (17) 19H 483
    (18) 9H 530
    (19) Sloan and Hill, Last Dissenting Witness, p.75
    (20) 23H 847, 916

    I initially thought it was Dillon that gave order for Secret Service not to protect. After reading the post on Globalization, I now know it was the Department of Treasury General Counsel responsible for giving orders to Secret Service

    Rose Cherami: Gathering Fallen Petals

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    2 hours ago, Pete Mellor said:

    Calvin, If you are referring to revelations in the JFK case then I don't think you will find anything that we don't know already from the Garrison probe, nor does Dr. Marcades bring any evidence of who finally killed his mother, and that killing may not relate to the JFK case.

    The book does contain much detail of the Cheramie biography i.e. the many institutions/prisons/hospitals etc where Rose was sent.

    What was the most telling and shocking moments of the book

    Rose Cherami: Gathering Fallen Petals

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    16 minutes ago, Pete Mellor said:

    Glimpses of Rose Cherami, real name Melba Christine Youngblood Marcades first appeared to me in the opening scenes of Oliver Stone's movie 'JFK' in the early 1990's. I was provided with further details of this case at JFK Lancer's November in Dallas conference in 2003 by Bob Dorff and Jim Olivier. Although I was aware of the publication of the first edition in 2016, it was the authors Skype link to Dealey Plaza U.K. in 2020 that really drew me to obtain a signed copy of his second edition direct from Dr. Michael Marcades.
    Although this is a real life biography of his mother, a work that has involved decades long research, 'Rose Cherami: Gathering Fallen Petals' contains fictional dialog to assist the flow of this harrowing life story, but with a solid factual base. In that respect, this book is somewhat unique in comparison to other books in the JFK assassination canon, unless we include the Warren Report.
    Joan Mellen's back cover review warns readers to 'expect nightmares'. 'Crit' had a short life spent with alcoholism, prostitution, heroin addiction, multiple police arrests, imprisonment, hospitalisations and involvements with organised criminal enterprises, as well as her inability to look after her son Michael.
    I think that it is the way this story has been starkly written that makes it hard to lose sympathy and understanding with the character of 'Rose Cheramie'.
    As regards the JFK assassination involvement she can be included along with Joseph Milteer, who seemed to possess fore knowledge of JFK's killing. Her knowledge of Ruby and Oswald (or possibly an Oswald double) similar to Beverley Oliver, stands on solid foundations. A further revelation is her final demise, a far more frightening scenario than the opening scene in Stone's movie.
    However, leaving the JFK aspect to one side, this book stands testimony to a woman who just had to keep on keeping on throughout her long and crazy escapades. The result is a compulsive page turner!

    Did the book produce revelations or evidence

    Who was Jack Ruby?

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    23 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

    Ruby was not a buffoon.  He orchestrated football bets for Harrison Lafayette Hunt in the 1950's.  The richest man in the world at the time.  Yes the H L Hunt Oswald supposedly wrote the letter to questioning his role.  And the one whose office building Ruby visited the day before the assassination.

    James Tague stated in his book that Ruby was handling and placing the big wagers for Suite 8F Group. HL Hunt was member of Suite 8F Group

    Who was Jack Ruby?

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    11 minutes ago, Joe Bauer said:

    What other reasons could there possibly be for any of the Dallas wealthy elite and power people to have any association with 2nd rate strip joint owning Jack "brass knuckle" Ruby other than gambling, pimp, bag man and deli sandwiches?

    And not knowing how intimate Ruby's friendship was with McClendon, but wouldn't JFK and Jackie loving Ruby have been put off by McClendon's apparently open vitriolic hatred of JFK?

     

    Ruby was probably an government asset

    Who was Jack Ruby?

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    On 8/10/2020 at 5:24 AM, Pete Mellor said:

    Alleged plans of Secret Army Organization in Portugal for post deGaulle takeover in France.  Report #DB-3/655,207. 25th June 1963.  This document ends with comment on Souetre.  "Information from both press and official French sources indicate that the Souetre is the name of a former French army captain who escaped from a detention camp in 1961.  Subsequently to his escape he was alleged to have been involved in an assassination attempt against deGaulle.  Souetre was born 15 October 1930 in the Gironde Department of France.

    But....it's a tangled web of course.  Souetre aka Michael Mertz aka Michael Roux.  Possible candidate for QJ/WIN or WI/ROGUE/1?   Who knows?  As you say Steve, solid evidence is absent.

    Michael Collins Piper claims that SDECE Colonel DeLannurien was with Angleton in Langley on 22nd Nov. '63.  Is that really true?  

    An article written by Louis Assemat-Tessandier, published in the paper Cote-Basque Soir of Bayonne.  In the article Louis states that he was in Montreal in January 1964 and met another Frenchman who had recently been to Texas, gone to Mexico, and then came to Montreal.  The Frenchman according to Louis was a young officer from Algeria who wandered back and forth between the three OAS centres in the Western Hemisphere, i.e. Montreal, Mexico City and Rio.  Louis would not reveal the Frenchman's name, but he introduced himself as a former paratroop officer in Algeria and said that he had arrived that morning by plane from Mexico City.  He said that he had been in Dallas at the time of Kennedy's murder but had been expelled by the American Police 18 hours later.

    How credible is an assassin arriving in Montreal and spilling beans to a news hound?  Lots of smoke though, just need to touch the flames! :offtopic

    https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/44l1B7dAZuEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=souetre

    Who was Jack Ruby?

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    2 hours ago, Chuck Schwartz said:

    No, but John Simkin posted this about Mclendon,"

    interesting post. It was indeed Gordon McLendon. In 1963 rumours began to circulate that McLendon might have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In their book, Deadly Secrets, Warren Hinckle and William Turner claim that Gerry P. Hemming obtained money from McLendon to help fund Interpen.

    McLendon was also an associate of Jack Ruby as well as being friendly with several other suspects including Clint Murchison, Bobby Baker and David Atlee Phillips. Peter Dale Scott claims that McLendon made a secret trip to Mexico City just before the assassination.

    According to Seth Kantor when Ruby was arrested he "shouted out for Gordon McLendon". The KLIF disc-jockey, Weird Beard, later told Kantor that Ruby "greatly admired McLendon".

    Does this mean that they shared the same political views? A member of the Democratic Party, McLendon attempted to unseat Ralph Yarborough in 1964. He later left the party saying he could no longer support the policies of Lyndon B. Johnson.

    McLendon sold KLIF for $10.5m in 1971. Over the next eight years he sold the rest of his radio stations for approximately $100m. Later it was estimated that McLendon was worth around $200m.

    In 1975 McLendon and David Atlee Phillips formed the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO).

    You can find out more here:

    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmclendon.htm

    Chuck, that link doesn't work. Here is the active link: https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmclendon.htm

    An account of a conversation with John and Nellie Connally about the JFK assassination

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    On 6/15/2021 at 4:12 AM, Benjamin Cole said:

    Joe B- Jack Ruby did get in DPD building somehow, on the other hand he was familiar with the premises. 

    Ruby refused to say how he got into the DPD, which does suggest collusion, but is not proof. 

    Ben, I suggest you read Ruby's trial transcripts to get a clear understanding on how he got into the DPD's basement

    https://markshawbooks.com/assets/images/Jack-Ruby-Trial-Transcript-Excerpts-Exposed-2.pdf

    Who was Jack Ruby?

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    On 6/21/2019 at 6:13 AM, Jim Hargrove said:

    That’s reasonable speculation, but the evidence shows that, on the day of the assassination, Jack Ruby called KLIF radio founder Gordon McClendon’s unlisted private phone number.  McLendon was a former Naval Intelligence officer who was a close friend and confidant of CIA officer David Atlee Phillips. McClendon and Phillips had been friends since both attended school in Fort Worth and in 1975 McClendon joined Phillips in forming the Association of Former Intelligence Agents.

    The night of the assassination, Ruby accompanied KLIF announcer Russ Knight in Dallas Police headquarters where the men talked to D.A. Henry Wade and Dallas Police Lieutenant James Gilmore.  Ruby told Gilmore that he was going to McClendon’s radio station, KLIF, to pass out sandwiches.  He arrived there about 1:30am on 11/23.

    This is a likely a connection between Ruby and Phillips, with McClendon as the cut-out.  

    Jim,  I suggest you read Ruby's trial transcripts for complete information about Ruby's whereabouts on the day Kennedy died. https://markshawbooks.com/assets/images/Jack-Ruby-Trial-Transcript-Excerpts-Exposed-2.pdf

    Suite 8F Group

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    Pete Brewton stated in his book that George HW Bush was member of a small circle of powerful Texas businessmen who have done business with the Mafia and enjoyed the covert assistance of the CIA. It is obvious that this small circle of powerful Texas businessmen is actually Suite 8F group

    Bill Tyree's Affidavit

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    On 6/12/2021 at 5:34 PM, Denny Zartman said:

    What misinformation do you think it contains and what makes you believe it is misinformation?

    Here is list of the claims that affidavit stated:

    1. Claim: "Operation Sunrise 1942-44." This is misinformation because Operation Sunrise began and end in 1945

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sunrise_(World_War_II)

    2. Claim: "The Rat Line is created by the OSS helping the fascists SS escape to Africa-Latin America." This is misinformation because the Rat Line was created by the Vatican at the time

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II_aftermath)#U.S._intelligence_involvement

    3. Claim: "SS Troops was assigned to SF and the source for this claim is the book Inside Special Forces: The First 30 Years." However, I read the book and the book only mentioned that the 10th Special Forces Group was assigned to Germany and recruited ordinary native-speaking Germans citizens to the group and married German women and the book never mentioned any SS Troops at all.

    4. Claim: "Due to the McCarthy Hearings in the 1950s, Senator Joe McCarthy accidentally stumbled unto Armadeus by conversation with Allen Dulles. McCarthy in turn put one of his best people onto this Armadeus matter, and told that, (Richard M. Nixon, then a U.S. Attorney assigned to the U.S. Justice Department), to find out the deal with Armadeus."  I find this to be misinformation because Nixon was already vice president by the time McCarthy Hearings occur.

     

     

     

     

    Bill Tyree's Affidavit

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    2 hours ago, Adam Johnson said:

    Calvin, i enjoy reading your posts and this is another interesting one...but..where is it leading regarding LHO? Do you believe he was in the TSBD 6th floor window at 12:30 firing a rifle? Or was just manipulated to be onsite and available to be used as a scapegoat?

    I believe that LHO was manipulated to be onsite and used as a scapegoat

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