David Andrews Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 (edited) Story in The Guardian today about new documentary on the Dag Hammarskjold plane crash. Bullets involved: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/12/raf-veteran-admitted-killing-un-secretary-general-dag-hammarskjold-in-1961 Edited January 13, 2019 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Brancato Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Doesn’t say who gave him orders. Hope the film does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 If you click through to an earlier story you well see something that I had no idea about. Kennedy's ambassador to Congo, the visionary Edmund Gullion, suspected that Hammarskjold was shot down the night it happened! And he suspected it was this guy. We had to wait fifty years to learn that. Its enough to give me a headache. This makes my cover article for the first issue of Deep Truth Journal look pretty prophetic. It was titled, "JFK and the Congo Crisis". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 (edited) There are several worthwhile Guardian articles on the crash, if one pursues all the click-throughs. It seems that Europeans care about assassination of their leaders, even on the eve of Brexit. Book on the incident: https://guardianbookshop.com/who-killed-hammarskjold-503078.html And this just in: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/new-clues-to-1961-death-of-hammarskjold/ Edited January 13, 2019 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela Brown Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 4 hours ago, David Andrews said: Story in The Guardian today about new documentary on the Dag Hammarskjold plane crash. Bullets involved: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/12/raf-veteran-admitted-killing-un-secretary-general-dag-hammarskjold-in-1961 Nice researching. Thank you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Wexler Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Someone needs to get Guillon's private papers post-JFK assassination. And Truman's. Would love to know their private thoughts on Nov 22. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 (edited) There's lots more DH material kicking around the net since this issue last came up on EF a couple years ago. Here's an older documentary that cites a different Bad Guy pilot, who of course hit the DH plane by accident. Very much worth seeing for its other charms: Edited January 13, 2019 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 Moïse Tshombe's amusing career highlights, under Western eyes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moïse_Tshombe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 The Williams book you linked to actually had a strong role in igniting all of this. But who would have thought that it would have gotten to this point, with documentary films coming up at Sundance. Kennedy called Hammarskjold the greatest statesman of the 20th century. And he was. To put it all on the line for Congo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Hopefully, this will give some exposure to the whole Congo crisis and the murder of Lumumba. IMO, the best part of Newman's Countdown to Darkness is his research and analysis on that affair. Ike and Dulles ordered the assassination of Lumumba and then tried to cover it up. https://jfkjmn.com/new-page-1/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Thibeault Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 The assassination of Lumumba has been criminally ignored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 I agree Derek. I have been saying this for a long time. From about 1997. At that time Lisa Pease and myself wrote a two part essay in Probe Magazine about JFK and the Congo and the murders of Hammarskjold and Lumumba. Ever since that I have tried to stress how important Congo was in both the history of Africa, as a Third World struggle and what huge stakes were on the table. Three central actors had to be murdered for the imperial powers to win out: Lumumba, Hammarskjold and Kennedy. And that is what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Card Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 I've heard, and it's been my belief that the Nutwork gives someone a warning to knock-it-off before they take someone out. Maybe several warnings, but I don't have any proof of that. Strong willed men like Hammarskjold, JFK, RFK, King, etc., had to have been given warnings. Don't mess with the Nutwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said: I agree Derek. I have been saying this for a long time. From about 1997. At that time Lisa Pease and myself wrote a two part essay in Probe Magazine about JFK and the Congo and the murders of Hammarskjold and Lumumba. Ever since that I have tried to stress how important Congo was in both the history of Africa, as a Third World struggle and what huge stakes were on the table. Three central actors had to be murdered for the imperial powers to win out: Lumumba, Hammarskjold and Kennedy. And that is what happened. It was enough to draw attention to the subject to create a country song about it before the assassination actually happened. Uranium and Diamonds are valuable. https://playback.fm/charts/country/video/1957/hank-thompson-rockin-in-the-congo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 7 hours ago, Robert Card said: I've heard, and it's been my belief that the Nutwork gives someone a warning to knock-it-off before they take someone out. Maybe several warnings, but I don't have any proof of that. Strong willed men like Hammarskjold, JFK, RFK, King, etc., had to have been given warnings. Don't mess with the Nutwork. If you watch that documentary I posted above, Hammarskjold's last writings express fear of assassination, and he wrote a will of sorts before flying to Ndola. Perhaps the cameras documenting his airfield departure on the so-called "midnight flight" were intended as an insurance policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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