BK NOTES - Besides being neighbor of Dr. Burkley and associate of Dr. Perry, Dr. Miller recently operated on former CIA officer Ed Wilson, who died during the operation.
AUTHOR Donald Miller is a cardiac surgeon and Professor of
Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle
Miller writes -
Everyone over the age of 60, and many over age 55 who were
in grade school at the time, remember where they were and what they were doing
when they heard what happened to President John F. Kennedy, on Friday, November 22, 1963 at 12:30 PM (CST). I was finishing lunch with
other students in the dining room at Harvard
Medical School
I began studying and collecting books on the Kennedy
assassination after reading Josiah Thompson's Six Seconds in Dallas, published in 1967. My interest in
the subject is heightened by having personally known two physicians involved in
President Kennedy’s care whose observations are pivotal to the case, Admiral
George G. Burkley (1902-1991) and Dr. Malcolm Perry (1929-2009). Admiral
Burkley was the President’s personal physician. He was the only physician who
was with Kennedy in Dallas Bethesda ,
MD.
My family lived next to Dr. Burkley and his family on the
grounds of the Newport Naval
Hospital Newport ,
Rhode Island Narragansett
Bay in his Snipe sailboat and camped out on an uninhabited island.
This adventure was cut short the next morning, however, when a Navy launch
arrived to tow us back home, sent by our fathers after a hurricane warning was
issued.)
Dr. Perry and I worked together at the University of
Washington (UW). He moved to Seattle Parkland
Hospital Seattle Parkland Hospital
The President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John
F. Kennedy chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren assured the American
public and the world that there was no conspiracy. It said a lone assassin shot
three bullets at the President from a window in the Texas School Book Depository,
above and behind the Presidential limousine as it proceeded down Elm
Street Dealey
Plaza
The Warren Commission concluded that one bullet hit Kennedy
in the back, exited out through his neck, and went on to inflict all the
injuries Governor Connally sustained sitting in a jump seat in front of the
President. This bullet, as postulated in the Commission’s "single bullet
theory," went through Connally’s chest, in-and-out of his wrist, and
landed in his thigh. A second bullet missed the limousine, ricocheted off a
curb and grazed a bystander. The third bullet the sniper shot hit the President
in the head, killing him. The Commission concluded that the evidence compiled
in its 888-page Report and 17,816 pages of Hearings and Exhibits (in 26
volumes) proves that a 24-year-old ex-Marine with Marxist sympathies, Lee
Harvey Oswald, was the assassin. Likewise, the Commission found that nightclub
owner Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald two days later.
At the first press conference after Kennedy died, a newsman
asked Malcolm Perry, "Where was the entrance wound?" Dr. Perry
informed the American public and the world that, "There was an entrance
wound in the neck…It [the bullet] appeared to be coming at him…," which on
repeated questioning he twice more affirmed and the world’s press duly
reported. This did not sit well with the Warren Commission’s view of the
matter. Testifying before the Commission several months later, however, Dr.
Perry supported its contention that the bullet shot into Kennedy’s back had
exited his neck, not entered it. Accepting the proposed one-bullet, two-victim
hypothesis as true, Dr. Perry agreed that the bullet wound he observed in the
neck "certainly would be consistent with an exit wound."
Fifteen years later Dr. Perry told me in a
surgeon-to-surgeon private conversation that the bullet wound in Kennedy’s neck
was, without question, a wound of entrance, irrespective of what he had told
the Warren Commission. This seasoned attending trauma surgeon had seen a lot of
gunshot wounds at Parkland Hospital and knew what he was talking about. Dr.
Perry also told this "off the record" truth to another physician, Dr.
Robert Artwohl, in 1986, who writes, "One of the biggest regrets in his
life was having to make the incision for the emergency tracheotomy through the
bullet wound, because he was certain that it was an entrance wound. He
remembered making a very good mental note of the wound since he was cutting
through it." (Reference in "Malcolm Perry, MD
Falls into the Kennedy Vortex" by Gary Aguilar, MD, here).
Given "marching orders from Washington Dallas Moore Seattle Moore
Dr. Burkley’s observations are equally damaging to the lone
gunman scenario. He filled out and signed President Kennedy’s Death Certificate
(see here). It describes a bullet wound in Kennedy’s back
adjacent to the third thoracic vertebra (T-3). This is 5½ inches below the
neck. Dr. Burkley places the wound in the back far too low for the bullet to
have exited through the throat at neck-tie level. The death certificate, alone,
renders the single bullet theory ballistically and anatomically impossible.
The lead autopsy pathologist at the JFK autopsy, Commander
James Humes, burned his notes and the first draft of the autopsy. A second
pathologist (of three performing it), Lt. Cmdr. J. Thornton Boswell, made a
diagram of the wounds and scars he observed on the body. It places the bullet
wound in the back at the same level, T-3, like the death certificate. Dr.
Burkley signs the diagram (on the lower left side) and above his signature
writes, "Verified." Having escaped the autopsy-record flames, the
original diagram containing Dr. Burkley’s signature was secreted in locked up
government files.
My teenage buddy George W. Burkley (both of us are now age
72) writes, "Dad never voiced much of an opinion about a conspiracy but
frequently questioned why the Warren Commission never asked him to testify. Dad
was [a] very close hold when it came to his professional life."
Drs. Burkley and Perry put the lie to the official truth of
President Kennedy’s murder. But their findings are only the tip of the iceberg.
Five books published in the last 10 years prove beyond a reasonable doubt that
the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a state execution, a
political murder carried out to achieve political-military ends. They are:
Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation
and Why (461 pages) by Gerald McKnight (2005).
Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S.
Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the
Assassination of JFK (1807 pages, in five volumes) by Douglas Horne
(2009).
Harvey and Lee: How the CIA framed Oswald (983 pages)
by John Armstrong (2003).
Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the
Case That Should Have Changed History (527 pages) by Joan Mellen
(2005).
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters (488
pages) by James Douglass (2010).
In Breach of Trust, Gerald McKnight shows how the
Warren Commission orchestrated its cover-up of JFK’s murder. He shows how the
Commission cherry picked evidence to support its prearranged conclusion that
Oswald was the lone assassin and how it discounted, suppressed, excluded, and
even altered eyewitness testimony and evidence pointing to a conspiracy. Truth
was not its goal.
The way it dealt with Dr. Boswell’s autopsy diagram
demonstrates the chicanery the Warren Commission practiced in its investigation
of the assassination. The Commission published Boswell’s diagram as Commission
Exhibit 397, but Admiral Burkley’s signature validating it is gone! It has been
erased. The bullet hole’s location as placed on CE 397 disproves the single
bullet theory, the lynchpin of the Commission’s case against Oswald. But like
with Dr. Perry, when Dr. Boswell came before the Commission he also had a
change of mind and testified that he had drawn the bullet hole in the back too
low, saying now that it was actually considerably higher than shown on the
diagram, high enough for the bullet to have come out and left an exit wound in
the neck. With his signature not there, the Commission would not need to
question Admiral Burkley about it.
Former CIA director Allen
Dulles largely ran and controlled the Warren Commission’s deliberations.
President Kennedy had fired Dulles as director of the CIA
in early 1962, after the Bay of Pigs invasion, letting
it be known that he intended to "to splinter the CIA
in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds." Three of the
Commission’s seven members, Senator Richard Russell, Senator John Copper, and
Representative Hale Boogs rejected the single bullet theory (see here),
but Dulles, with members John McCloy, former head of the OSS (Office of
Strategic Services), forerunner of the CIA ,
and Rep. (and future President) Gerald Ford persuaded them to sign the Report.
The Warren Commission did not include President Kennedy’s
Death Certificate in its Report or as an exhibit. Among the exhibits, one will
find instead a certificate of smallpox vaccination for Oswald’s daughter, June
(CE 73A); Jack Ruby’s income tax returns (CE 713-719) – but not Oswald’s tax
returns, said to be withheld for "national security;" a fragment of
an aria from Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades (CE 53); and the
condition of Marina Oswald’s teeth (CE 1403).
Equally disturbing, as his son points out, the Commission
chose not to interview the President’s personal physician.
With regard to the Warren Report, Mark
Lane
Criticism of the Warren Report, published on September 27,
1964, was quick to come, beginning with Vincent Salandria’s "The Warren Report Analysis of Shots, Trajectories, and Wounds:
A Lawyer’s Dissenting View" in The Philadelphia Legal
Intelligencer five weeks later (see here) and Mark Lane’s "Oswald Innocent? A Lawyer’s Brief" in
the National Guardian less than three months later (see here). This prompted the government to carry out four
subsequent investigations into the JFK assassination: one by the Justice
Department (1966-67), the Clark Panel (1968), the Rockefeller Commission
(1975), and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA, 1976-78). All
agreed that the Warren Commission was correct in concluding that the
medical/autopsy evidence proved Oswald’s guilt. After the HSCA issued its
report the case seemed closed – that is, until Oliver Stone’s
film JFK was released in 1991. Accusing the CIA
of complicity in Kennedy’s death, the film created a furor and reopened the
case. With public pressure mounting, in 1992 Congress passed the JFK Records
Act, releasing more than 2 million CIA , FBI,
Secret Service, and other agency records related to the assassination.
An Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB, 1994-1998) was
established to catalogue and study these newly released records. Inside
the Assassination Records Review Board by Douglas Horne, its Chief Analyst
for Military Records, reveals what the Board found and throws new light on the
medical and autopsy evidence, among other things.
Some 26 medical personnel, including my future UW colleague
Dr. Carrico (on the second row, second from the left) at Parkland Hospital saw
a large gaping hole the size of a baseball in the back Kennedy’s head. The
Warren Commission discounted and ignored this eyewitness testimony because a
skull x-ray and autopsy photograph it had showed the back of JFK’s head –
skull, skin, and hair – to be intact. They are forgeries. The ARRB also found,
in documents released by the JFK Records Act that the autopsy personnel in Bethesda Dallas
Additional evidence supports this finding, which proves that
an assassin positioned in front of the President shot him. Two Secret Service
agents riding motorcycles to the rear and left of the Presidential limousine
were splattered with blood and brain tissue, and Jacqueline Kennedy is filmed
crawling out onto the trunk of the limo behind her husband reaching out to
retrieve pieces of bone and brain blown out by a bullet exiting the back of his
head.
One subject that Douglas ’ Inside
the Assassination Records Review Board explores, which I found of
particular interest is the Presidential limousine’s windshield (Vol. 5, pgs.
1439-1450). Six witnesses observed a bullet hole in the windshield, in Dallas Detroit
John Armstrong’s Harvey and Lee is a singularly important work, one
that, at first, seems unbelievable. Uncovering much new evidence, John
Armstrong makes a compelling case that there were two Lee Harvey Oswalds.
Likely part of a secret project known by its cryptonym MK-ULTRA, the CIA
found a boy born in New Orleans Eastern Europe
living in New York New York CIA
sent this Oswald, fluent in Russian (something not easily acquired by most
English-speaking Americans, particularly one, like Lee Oswald, with an IQ of
103 who dropped out of high school), to Moscow, to "defect." This is
the "Oswald" that Jack Ruby shot in Dallas
Using doubles in intelligence work is a centuries-old
practice. Mata Hari used a double to impersonate her on dancing tours
throughout Europe while she slipped away and spied for
the Germans. Working together, the public sees the double going about his or
her business innocently establishing an alibi while the "Mata Hari"
commits a covert act. The two Oswalds did not work together. Harvey Russia U.S. CIA
used the other Lee Oswald to help set-up Harvey
Having two Oswalds explains why Lee Harvey Oswald kept being
seen in two places at once. He, for example, visited Sylva Odio at her house in
Dallas (Harvey) when he was also in Mexico (Lee); Dallas Deputy Sheriff Roger
Craig observed him (Lee) getting into a Dodge Rambler on Elm street in Dealey
Plaza right after the shooting, while other eyewitnesses saw him (Harvey) on a bus;
and when (Lee) Oswald was stationed in Japan in the Marine Corps, from October
1957 to May 1958, the other (Harvey) Oswald was documented to be working at the
Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in New Orleans.
People who saw the wrong Oswald at the wrong time or had the
wrong kind of dealings with him at the wrong time put their lives in jeopardy.
Sheriff Roger Craig was unwavering in his testimony that he saw Oswald get in a
Rambler on Elm Street
In his book (pgs. 438-481), published in 2003, John
Armstrong proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Oswald did not purchase the
Mannlicher-Carcano rifle that he is alleged to have used to kill
Kennedy. Harvey and Lee lives up to its subtitle and shows clearly
"how the CIA framed Oswald." The
book was published in China
(A striking synchronicity: When researching this article and
writing about what the CIA did to Oswald, I
performed heart surgery on 84-year-old Edwin Wilson. Wilson CIA officer who ran CIA
front companies that supplied funds for its covert operations.
He had a 2,000-acre ranch in Virginia CIA and curb its covert activities.
Turner cashiered Wilson’s close friend Ted Shackley, the Deputy Director of
Covert Operations, who was slated to become DCI
instead of Turner had President Ford won the election and remained in office.
And the government, with the tacit approval of the next Reagan administration,
accused Wilson Libya CIA ’s
third-ranking officer, Executive Director Charles Briggs, declared that the CIA
had no contact with Wilson
The CIA ’s "Brother
Wilson," at the time considered to be "the regime’s top political prisoner,"
spent 22 years in prison, 10 of them in solitary confinement. In 2003, Federal
District Court Judge Lynn Hughes threw out Wilson CIA had lied and
framed him. In her brief [p. 11, here],
Judge Hughes asserts, "Honesty comes hard to the government." Both
Oswald and Wilson were CIA pawns.)
Oswald never had his
day in court. Jack Ruby saw to that. Following the government’s lead, the print
and television media right away started referring to Oswald as the
"assassin," inappropriately withholding the word "alleged"
when saying he was the assassin. This inconsequential ex-Marine, who was a FBI
informant and undercover agent for the CIA ,
who had checked out JFK’s Profiles in Courage from the public library, was set
up to take the blame for the President’s murder. Kennedy had cancelled a trip
to Chicago Dallas Chicago Chicago
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison was the only U.S. New Orleans New Orleans Dallas
Garrison explained: "It’s impossible for anyone
possessed of reasonable objectivity and a fair degree of intelligence to read
those 26 volumes and not reach the conclusion the Warren Commission was wrong
in every one of its major conclusions pertaining to the assassination." As
he and his team investigated the matter, "We interviewed people the Warren
Commission had never questioned, and a whole new world began opening up."
Joan Mellen shows in Farewell to Justice that the
Clay Shaw trial is the case that should have changed history, as the
subtitle of her book states. Garrison charged Shaw with being a CIA
operative who helped ready Oswald to take the blame for a crime he did not
commit and thus was one of the conspirators in the case. Witnesses testified
that they saw Clay Shaw with Oswald, but the jury acquitted him for a lack of
sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he worked for the CIA .
Garrison commented, "When we arrested [Clay] Shaw, the United
States CIA .
In a postscript to the 1973 film Executive Action, a fictionalized treatment of the JFK
assassination, 18 photographs appear on the screen. They are photos of the
faces of actual witnesses to JFK’s murder who died between November 1963 and
February 1967, many of them under mysterious circumstances. A text scrolled
over the photos and narrated says, "In the three years after the murders
of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, eighteen material witnesses died,
six by gunfire, three in motor accidents, two by suicide, one from a cut
throat, one from a karate chop to the neck, and three from heart attacks, and
two from natural causes. An actuary, engaged by the London Times,
concluded that on November 22, 1963 ,
the odds against these witnesses being dead by February 1967 were one hundred
thousand trillion to one." (A YouTube video of the movie’s final scene
with this postscript is here.)
In their book JFK: The Dead Witnesses (1995), Craig Roberts and John
Armstrong identify 10 more deaths of witnesses that occurred between November
1963 and February 1967, for a total of 28 witnesses who died during this time
period, most of them violently or under suspicious circumstances, like Dorothy
Kilgallen and Mrs. Earl Smith. (Dorothy Kilgallen, a newspaper columnist and
panelist on the TV show What’s My Line?, was found dead in her apartment
after letting it be known that she had discovered information that would blow
the government’s JFK assassination story "wide open," her death
deemed a "heart seizure due to drugs," age 52. Mrs. Smith was
Kilgallen’s confidant. She died three days later, also at home, from a
"fatal cerebral hemorrhage," age 45.) Other important witnesses died
in the 1970s before they were scheduled to testify before the House Select
Committee on Assassinations, like George DeMorenschildt, Oswald’s CIA
handler when he returned from Russia
Jim Garrison is a modern-day Paul Revere. He warns Americans
that their lives and freedoms are threatened by a force more malicious than
what our forebears faced in 1775 against British troops. Garrison prophetically
tells us, "Fascism will come to America
He warns, "We are in great danger of slowly evolving
into a proto-fascist state… based on power and the inability to put human goals
and human conscience above the dictates of the state" (see here).
With regard to truth and its pursuit, Garrison notes,
"In our incipient super state it really doesn’t matter what happened.
Truth is what the government chooses to tell you." Jim Garrison deals with
this subject in A Heritage of Stone (1970). He dedicates the book:
To the Younger Generation.
May its members have the insight to see the deceptions of
the warfare state. May they have the courage to stand on the side of humanity.
Labeling Jim Garrison a "publicity seeker," like
Robert Caro does in his biography of Lyndon Johnson, is the same as calling
Paul Revere an "alarmist."
It is now clear, a half a century later, that the CIA
choreographed the assassination of President Kennedy, making it look like a
lone-nut Marxist was solely responsible for the act. But the specific
"powers that be" in the U.S. CIA
hit remains unknown. Nevertheless, in JFK and the Unspeakable, Jim
Douglass masterfully explains why Kennedy was killed.
Elements in the military-industrial-intelligence complex
wanted Kennedy killed because he was threatening to put them out of business!
The Cuban Missile Crisis, the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war,
spurred him to do this. A decorated World War II veteran, JFK worked to end the
Cold War. He sought reconciliation with the USSR Cuba U.S. Vietnam
The red flag of JFK’s foreign policy intentions flew high in
his signal June 10, 1963 American University Commencement Address promoting
nuclear disarmament and peaceful co-existence with communist nations. He said,
"Let us reexamine our attitude toward the Soviet Union …
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe
for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that
we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. And we are all
mortal." (The text and video of this speech is here and here.) John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963 , at age 46, was a
state execution designed to keep the military-industrial-intelligence complex
in business, unabated.
The same thing happened to Robert Kennedy. Assassins shot
RFK and killed him on June 5, 1968, fifteen minutes following a victory speech
he gave after winning the California Democratic primary, which made him the
Democratic nominee and thus, in all probability, the next President. In addition
to following a peace-seeking foreign policy path like his brother, he told the
people that "I would like to reopen the Warren Commission."
The "lone assassin" in this case was said to be
Sirhan Sirhan, who fired a pistol at Robert Kennedy standing several feet in
front of him. The autopsy, however, showed that a bullet fired from a pistol
placed 1 to 2 inches behind Kennedy’s head is what killed him, not any of the
bullets coming from Sirhan Sirhan’s gun in front of him. RFK was 42 years old.
After Robert Kennedy was killed, Jacqueline Kennedy is
reported to have said, "If they’re killing Kennedys, then my children are
targets." John F. Kennedy, Jr. died when a Piper Saratoga private plane he
was piloting crashed, on July 16, 1999 ,
one week after it was leaked that he planned to run in the 2000 Presidental
election, which he most likely would have won. Jacqueline Kennedy was spared
the anguish of losing a second son. She died in 1994, from cancer.
(Ted Kennedy’s automobile accident at Chappaquiddick in 1969
shielded him from assassination. When his companion Mary Jo Kopechne drowned in
the accident and her death was not immediately reported, this eliminated any
chance that he would ever be elected President. Ted Kennedy died in 2009, age
77, from a brain tumor.)
There is evidence that an instructor accompanied JFK Jr. on
the flight, along with his wife and sister-in-law, who all perished in the
crash. An instructor had been with him all previous eight times he had flown
this newly purchased aircraft. He had broken his ankle and was using crutches
when he made this flight. Kennedy had communicated with the Martha’s
Vineyard Airport Martha's
Vineyard communication, there was nevertheless a 15 hour delay in
"finding" the plane. When authorities finally announced that the
plane had been located and retrieved, the copilot’s seat was gone, a fourth
(flight instructor’s) body was not found, and the flight log listing the
persons on board the aircraft was missing. The media reported and the National
Transportation Safety Board concluded that the crash occurred because JFK, Jr.
was a "reckless pilot" who wanted to "do it alone," without
a flight instructor (see here).
John F. Kennedy, Jr. was 38 years old.
Next year will be the 50th anniversary of the first
Kennedy assassination. Warren Commission loyalists and the national TV and
print media will be out in force trumpeting the imperial state’s
Oswald-did-it-alone narrative. Loyalists take comfort in two books written by
attorneys defending the Commission’s findings, Case Closed by Gerald Posner (1993) and the more
recent 2,600-page (with its CD) Reclaiming History (2007) by Vincent Bugliosi. These
lawyers cite evidence that supports their client’s case and discount or ignore
culpatory evidence of a conspiracy. Posner and especially prosecutor Bugliosi
employ ad hominem attacks to dismiss assassination researchers who do not
adhere to the government line, labeling them "conspiracy theorists,"
and worse, "conspiracy buffs." Bugliosi writes, "Most of them
are as kooky as a $3 bill." Researcher Mark Lane
One blogger puts it this way: "Having been tossed a
lone assassin and presented with an acceptable fable, the press will not go
farther and try to digest the indigestible, to think the unthinkable and to
question Brutus about the removal of Caesar."
The Oswald-centered
Sixth-Floor Museum Dealey Plaza
The year 2013 will be the 100th Anniversary of the
Federal Reserve and the Income Tax. A progressive personal income tax and a
central bank – the (non-federal, non-reserve) Federal Reserve – that prints unlimited
amounts of legal tender currency, touted as money, has provided the funds
necessary to run a warfare state. As Ron Paul points out, "It is no
coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central
banking."
With President Kennedy killed and, for good measure,
eliminating any possibility of a peace-pursuing Kennedy dynasty with RFK’s
assassination and JFK Jr.’s airplane crash, the military-industrial
establishment was free to pursue its interventionist, pro-war goals unencumbered.
There were less than 17,000 U.S. Vietnam
Americans are entering "a new Orwellian world where the
citizen exists for the state and where raw power justifies any and every
immoral act," our modern-day Paul Revere, Jim Garrison, warns us.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the Cold
War, originally directed against communism and the "Soviet threat"
has morphed into Cold War 2.0, focusing on terrorism and the "Muslim
threat." This keeps money flowing into the U.S.
Following Ron Paul’s lead, the best thing Americans can do
in John Kennedy’s memory on the 50th anniversary of his death, and to
restore the fiscal health and sanity of the nation, is end the Fed, repeal the
income tax, radically reduce military spending, and seek peace between nations,
a peace President Kennedy envisioned in his American University speech half a
century ago.
Recommended Reading
In addition to Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation
and Why by Gerald McKnight (2005), three noteworthy books on this
subject written after the Commission issued its findings are: Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965) by
Harold Weisberg, Rush to Judgment (1966) by Mark Lane, and Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the
Authorities & the Report (1967) by Sylvia Meagher.
Two books worth reading along with Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S.
Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the
Assassination of JFK by Douglas Horne (2009) are Assassination Science: Experts speak out on the death of JFK (1998)
and Murder in Dealey Plaza: What we know now that we didn’t know
then about the death of JFK (2000), both edited by James Fetzer.
Two essays that nicely summarize the medical and autopsy
evidence in the case available online are "How Five Investigations into JFK’s Medical/Autopsy
Evidence got it Wrong" by Gary Aguilar, MD and Kathy Cunningham
and "The JFK Autopsy Materials: Twenty Conclusions after Nine
Visits"by David W. Mantik, MD, PhD.
Harvey and Lee: How the CIA framed Oswald by John
Armstrong (2003) stands alone.
Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the
Case That Should Have Changed History by Joan Mellen (2005) is a
thoroughly researched and riveting account of how a New
Orleans CIA
and the Federal government in attempting to bring the real murderers of
President Kennedy to justice.
Read also Joan Mellen’s more recent companion volume
to Farewell to Justice titled Jim Garrison: His Life and Times, the Early Years (2008).
One is also well rewarded by reading the two books Jim Garrison wrote, A Heritage of Stone (1970) and On the Trail of the Assassins: My investigation and prosecution
of the murder of President Kennedy (1988). Two other noteworthy books
on this subject are Let Justice Be Done by William Davy (1999) and Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case by
James DiEugenio (1992). A revised and updated version of Destiny
Betrayed will be published in November, 2012.
Along with reading JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters by
James Douglass (2010), I recommend History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian control, public denial,
and the murder of President Kennedy by E. Martin Schotz (1996).
Other Books
Cover-up by Stewart Galanor (1998). A succinct, well
written 107-page summary of the JFK assassination, along with 63 pages of
photos, documents, diagrams, and a witness list.Especially recommended for
readers new to the case. Dr. Aguilar writes, "Stewart Galanor’s eloquent
spare volume is a treasure for novice and expert alike. With understated prose
and well-chosen images, Galanor dissects the core issues that hobble the single
assassin thesis."
At the other end of the spectrum, read, if you can obtain a
copy, the 1,771 page Assassination of America: The Kennedy Coups d’Etat, having
this subtitle: The End of an Era, an Examination of the Jim Garrison
Investigations, and the Effects of the Growing Totalitarianism in the Expanding
Hegemonic American Empire. It is divided to three books, separately
titled The Deaths in Dallas, The Masques of New Orleans,
and Barren Harvest(all published in 2006). A fourth volume contains
miscellaneous material and an index (2007). Regarding the Warren Commission
Flammonde writes, "The only thing rarer than honesty in the investigation
was competence." A captivating read. This book is out of print and
available copies are scarce and, like with Harvey and Lee, expensive.
The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK, and
Malcolm X edited by James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease (2003). A classic
work edited by two leading assassination researchers, which contains material
written by various authors that appeared in their Probemagazine.
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy,
Mary Pinchot Meyer, and their vision for world peace by Peter Janney
(2012). Described (by Timothy Leary) as "good looking, [with] flamboyant
eyebrows, piercing green-blue eyes, fine-boned face. Amused, arrogant,
aristrocratic," Mary Meyer was a free spirit whose former husband was a
high-level CIA officer. Lisa Pease and James DiEugenio trash this book.
Nevertheless, I am convinced that Peter Janney is largely
right: JFK did have an affair with Mary Meyer and the CIA
killed her. See Janney’s response to these researchers’ criticism here.
Mary Meyer was with JFK at his American University Commencement Address
(Jacqueline was not). This book is worth reading.
Brothers: the hidden history of the Kennedy years by
David Talbot (2007). Well written and informative. Scratch the surface of the
Kennedy murders and you’ll find the CIA .
Two books on the RFK Assassination: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: the conspiracy and
coverup by William Turner and Jonn Christian (1978) and The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: New revelations on the
conspiracy and cover-up by Philip Melanson (1994).
Article: "Reasoning about Assassinations: Critical Thinking in
Political Contexts" by James Fetzer (2006). An excellent 10-page
analysis of the JFK case by a philosopher of science and leading assassination
researcher and, published in the International Journal of the Humanities.
Interview: Don’t miss Jim
Garrison's January 31, 1968, appearance on Johnny Carson's "Tonight
Show" on NBC-TV (audio only, available here). As
one can hear, Garrison outshines Carson Carson Carson
Video: The Men Who Killed Kennedy by Nigel Turner (Parts 1
and 2, 1988; 3-5, 1991; part 6, 1995; and parts 7-9, 2003).
Parts 1 and 2 of this series were first shown in England U.S.
Banned segments:
Part 7, "The
Smoking Guns," discusses Secret Service complicity in the
assassination, the integrity of the medical evidence, and the bullet hole in
the windshield. The bullet hole is not visible on the low resolution YouTube
video, but Douglas Horne says that one can see it on a high-quality DVD
of this segment (which I do not have). One witness, Dr. Evalea Glanges, tells
an interviewer that, as a medical student, shortly after the assassination she
saw a well-defined round, through-and-through bullet hole in the windshield of
the Presidential limousine parked at the hospital.
Part 8, "The
Love Affair"features Judyth Baker talking about her relationship with
Lee Harvey Oswald and their connection with Dr. Alton Oschner, David Ferrie,
and Guy Banister. In her book Me and Lee: How I came to know, love, and lose Lee Harvey
Oswald (2010), Judyth Vary Baker tells how they worked together at the
Reily Coffee Company in New Orleans CIA project to develop a
cancer-causing virus, to be used to kill Castro in what would be a seemingly
natural way and not arouse suspicion. Baker’s account becomes more fanciful
when she says that (her) Lee Harvey Oswald went to Mexico Mexico Mexico
Part 9, "The
Guilty Men," indicts Lyndon Johnson on questionable evidence for
allegedly conspiring to kill President Kennedy. It is generally thought that
these last three segments were banned because Part 9 accuses President Johnson
of playing a role in the crime. But seeing a bullet hole in the Presidential
limousine’s windshield in Part 7 is perhaps the main reason why the History
Channel was persuaded to ban these three 2003 segments and not make a
high-quality DVD for commercial release.
Films
The Plot to Kill JFK: Rush to Judgment (1967) by Emile
de Antonio and Mark Lane Mark Lane
Executive Action (1973) with Burt Lancaster (DVD
and Amazon Instant Video) is based on Mark Lane
The Parallax View (1974) with Warren DVD and Amazon Instant Video). A
chilling account of what happens to people who witness a political
assassination and see too much.
JFK: Director’s Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition, 1991)
Oliver Stone, Director; with actors Kevin Costner (playing Jim Garrison), Gary
Oldman, Sissy Spacek, Donald Sutherland, Jack Lemmon, Joe Pesci, Walter
Matthau, Tommy Lee Jones, and Kevin Bacon. Be sure to watch the 207-minute
Director’s Special Edition, with its extra footage of "X" (Donald
Sutherland playing Colonel Fletcher Prouty) talking to Garrison and telling him
why the powers that be in the military-industrial-intelligence complex ordered
Kennedy’s assassination and an uncut version of Garrison’s courtroom summation
of the CIA ’s complicity in the case. This
film is a crucial historical document. Scorned by the establishment media
and government, it identifies the true murderers of President Kennedy. As
Oliver Stone makes clear in JFK, President Kennedy’s death was a state
execution.
JFK: The book of the film contains the screenplay by
Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar, reactions and commentaries, and research notes
used for the film.
Websites
Two sites focus on the JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King
assassinations: www.ctka.net,
CTKA: Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination and www.maryferrell.org, The
Mary Ferrell Foundation: Preserving the Legacy.
And then there is www.blackopradio.com, where every Thursday night for a
couple of hours Len Osanic, in Vancouver
Donald Miller (send him mail) is a cardiac surgeon and Professor of
Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle
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