50 Years Since JFK Assassination Retrospective:
From a New Left Counterculture Perspective
Bob Feldman
BOB FELDMAN 68
MONDAY, MARCH 18,
2013
PBS's Lehrer And JFK Assassination News Coverage
From a New Left Counterculture Perspective
Bob Feldman
BOB FELDMAN 68
ALTERNATIVE HISTORICAL INFORMATION AND
ALTERNATIVE NEWS ABOUT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND OTHER U.S.
Before being named by Washington Post Company
board member Lee Bollinger to be the new Dean of Columbia University’s “Washington
Post Journalism School
Coincidentally, when Columbia University School of Journalism Dean-Designate Coll was the New America Foundation president, the New America Foundation apparently hired formerCIA Counterterrorist
Center Deputy Director and former FBI Senior Intelligence Adviser Philip Mudd
as a New America Foundation “Senior Research Fellow, Counterterrorism Strategy
Initiative.” As the New America Foundation’s own website notes:
“…Philip Mudd studies issues of counterterrorism…with the Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative.
“Mr. Mudd joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1985 as an analyst specializing inSouth Asia and then the Middle
East . He began work in the CIA ’s
Counterterrorist Center South Asia
(1995-98). After a tour as an executive assistant in the front office of the
Agency’s analytic arm, Mr. Mudd went on to manage Iraq analysis at the CIA
(1999-2001).
“He began a policy assignment at the White House in early 2001, detailed fromCIA
to serve as the Director for Gulf Affairs on the White House National Security Council. He left
after...September 11...for a short assignment as the CIA
member of the small diplomatic team that helped piece together a new government
for Afghanistan CIA in early 2002 to
become second-in-charge of counterterrorism analysis in the Counterterrorist
Center
“At the establishment of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Security Branch in 2005, FBI Director Robert Mueller appointed Mr. Mudd to serve as the Branch’s first-ever deputy director. He received a Presidential nomination to become Undersecretary of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department ofHomeland Security in early 2009 but later withdrew his nomination, returning to the FBI as its Senior Intelligence Adviser. Mr. Mudd resigned from government service in March 2010.
“Mr. Mudd is the recipient of numerousCIA
awards and commendations, including the Director’s Award; the George H.W. Bush
Award for excellence in counterterrorism; [and] the CIA ’s
Distinguished Intelligence Medal…”
So don’t expect the new Dean of Columbia University’s School of Journalism to encourage journalism students at Columbia University to write many muckraking articles about either theWashington Post Company’s historic relationship with theCIA or the way that the CIA ,
the FBI, the New American Foundation and the Washington
Post Company board of directors attempt to use the U.S. mainstream
corporate media to manipulate public opinion at home and abroad in the
21st-century.
Coincidentally, when Columbia University School of Journalism Dean-Designate Coll was the New America Foundation president, the New America Foundation apparently hired former
“…Philip Mudd studies issues of counterterrorism…with the Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative.
“Mr. Mudd joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1985 as an analyst specializing in
“He began a policy assignment at the White House in early 2001, detailed from
“At the establishment of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Security Branch in 2005, FBI Director Robert Mueller appointed Mr. Mudd to serve as the Branch’s first-ever deputy director. He received a Presidential nomination to become Undersecretary of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department ofHomeland Security in early 2009 but later withdrew his nomination, returning to the FBI as its Senior Intelligence Adviser. Mr. Mudd resigned from government service in March 2010.
“Mr. Mudd is the recipient of numerous
So don’t expect the new Dean of Columbia University’s School of Journalism to encourage journalism students at Columbia University to write many muckraking articles about either theWashington Post Company’s historic relationship with the
PBS's Lehrer And JFK Assassination News Coverage
PBS's longtime evening news show anchorman Jim Lehrer
(who--like Lee Harvey Oswald--was an ex-Marine) just happened to be in Dallas November 22, 1963 . But
unlike former CBS Evening News Anchor Dan Rather (who just happened
to be stationed near the grassy knoll in Dallas on November 22, 1963) and
Lehrer's former PBS evening news show co-anchorman Robert MacNeil (who just
happened to bump into Lee Harvey Oswald by the Texas School Book
Depository a few moments after JFK was shot), Lehrer, evidently, was not
stationed near the ambush site.
But in his early 1990s book A Bus Of My Own, Lehrer admitted that at theDallas Fort Worth November 22, 1963 , the
following happened:
"...I put the phone down and walked over to a small ramp where the motorcade limousines were being held in waiting. I spotted Forres Sorrels, the agent in charge of the Dallas Secret Service office. I knew Mr. Sorrels fairly well, because I was then the regular federal beat reporter. After he had found out that I had been a Marine, he had even tried to recruit me as a Secret Service agent...
"I looked down the ramp. The bubble top was on the president's car.
"`Rewrite wants to know if the bubble top's going to stay on,' I said to Mr. Sorrels...
"Mr. Sorrels yelled back at the agents standing by the car: `Take off the bubble top!'"
Coincidentally, former Dallas Times-Herald reporter Lehrer evidently felt very threatened psychologically by Oliver Stone's early 1990s JFK movie. In his early 1990s book, for example, ex-Marine Lehrer wrote the following in reference to the JFK movie:
"It was only the elitist labeling of a whole class of Americans, my own class, by the Stone fiction that brought real heat and red to my face and soul. That movie, directly or indirectly, alleges that hundreds, thousands of workingCIA , FBI and other federal agents; police
officers, deputy sheriffs, Warren Commission staffers and congressional
investigators; and reporters from news organizations of all sizes, persuasions
and recourse were not interested in finding out who killed Kennedy, or worse,
were either involved in the assassination and/or cover-up or manipulated by
evil higher-ups who were. It is an absurdity beyond all honest imagination to
claim people of such independent minds and spirits could be so involved or so
used in killing a president of the United States...Only in a never-never land
of the ignorant and the careless would such an idiotic conspiracy idea be taken
seriously. It is a blood libel to repeat it in public, particularly in a
large-screen $40 million movie..."
Mysteriously, Lehrer failed to mention in his early 1990s book's discussion of his involvement in the November 1963 events inDallas Dallas
Coincidentally, in his fiction writing, PBS's Lehrer NewsHour anchor Lehrer has written aboutCIA agents who
overthrow governments and CIA agents
"who shared a special secret assignment after John F. Kennedy's
assassination and now have a conflict about revealing their secret many years
later," according to Lehrer's A Bus Of My Own book. In the same
book, Lehrer also revealed that during the late 1950s he served in the Third
Marine Division of Okinawa "as an S-1, adjutant and personnel officer with
additional responsibility for classified documents and morale" who
"was supposed to keep the classified documents locked up..."
(Downtown11/18/92 )
But in his early 1990s book A Bus Of My Own, Lehrer admitted that at the
"...I put the phone down and walked over to a small ramp where the motorcade limousines were being held in waiting. I spotted Forres Sorrels, the agent in charge of the Dallas Secret Service office. I knew Mr. Sorrels fairly well, because I was then the regular federal beat reporter. After he had found out that I had been a Marine, he had even tried to recruit me as a Secret Service agent...
"I looked down the ramp. The bubble top was on the president's car.
"`Rewrite wants to know if the bubble top's going to stay on,' I said to Mr. Sorrels...
"Mr. Sorrels yelled back at the agents standing by the car: `Take off the bubble top!'"
Coincidentally, former Dallas Times-Herald reporter Lehrer evidently felt very threatened psychologically by Oliver Stone's early 1990s JFK movie. In his early 1990s book, for example, ex-Marine Lehrer wrote the following in reference to the JFK movie:
"It was only the elitist labeling of a whole class of Americans, my own class, by the Stone fiction that brought real heat and red to my face and soul. That movie, directly or indirectly, alleges that hundreds, thousands of working
Mysteriously, Lehrer failed to mention in his early 1990s book's discussion of his involvement in the November 1963 events in
Coincidentally, in his fiction writing, PBS's Lehrer NewsHour anchor Lehrer has written about
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50
Years Since JFK Assassination Retrospective: Who Ordered Press Photographers
Away From JFK's Car?
Although "the press car was loaded with photographers
and journalists and was supposed to follow directly behind the car carrying the
President's bodyguards, which followed the Presidential limousine,"
according to The Texas Connection by Craig Zirbel, on November 22,
1963 in Dallas "shortly before the start of the motorcade" the press
car "was deliberately bumped to a rear position for no stated
reason." The same book also noted that "this resulting strange
line-up change prevented professional journalists and photographers from
witnessing and photographing the slaying" of President Kennedy.
(Downtown2/3/93 )
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Posted by b.f.
A number of U.S. CIA
operative and convicted Watergate Affair participant E. Howard
"Eduardo" Hunt was also involved in a conspiracy that eliminated JFK
in Dallas
"A handwritten note, proven by experts to be clearly in Oswald's handwriting, has recently surfaced. The note was datedNovember 8, 1963 and was directed to `Mr.
Hunt.'...Just two weeks before the murder Oswald wrote to Mr. Hunt:
"`Dear Mr. Hunt:
"`I would like information concerning my position.
"`I am asking only for information.
"`I am suggesting that we discuss the matter fully before any steps are taken by me or anyone else.
"`Lee Harvey Oswald.'"
SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2013
"A handwritten note, proven by experts to be clearly in Oswald's handwriting, has recently surfaced. The note was dated
"`Dear Mr. Hunt:
"`I would like information concerning my position.
"`I am asking only for information.
"`I am suggesting that we discuss the matter fully before any steps are taken by me or anyone else.
"`Lee Harvey Oswald.'"
In his book The Texas Connection, Craig Zirbel asserted
that according to former President Johnson's "girlfriend of over 20 years,
Madeline Brown, Lyndon Baines Johnson told her prior to President Kennedy's
assassination that Kennedy was going to be killed in Dallas
Coincidentally, in her book JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness, Jean Hill also recalled that a Dallas motorcycle cop who escorted President Kennedy's car on November 22, 1963--J.B. Marshall--told her the following, after President Johnson was inaugurated:
"According to the guys who were escorting his car in the motorcade, our new president is either one jumpy sonofabitch or he knows something he's not telling about the Kennedy thing...
"They say he started ducking down in the car a good 30 or 40 seconds before the first shots were fired...I'd say that's just a little peculiar, wouldn't you?...
"One of them told McGuire he saw Johnson duck down even before the car turned ontoHouston Street
"...This guy said it sure looked like he was expecting bullets to be flying."
Coincidentally, in her book JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness, Jean Hill also recalled that a Dallas motorcycle cop who escorted President Kennedy's car on November 22, 1963--J.B. Marshall--told her the following, after President Johnson was inaugurated:
"According to the guys who were escorting his car in the motorcade, our new president is either one jumpy sonofabitch or he knows something he's not telling about the Kennedy thing...
"They say he started ducking down in the car a good 30 or 40 seconds before the first shots were fired...I'd say that's just a little peculiar, wouldn't you?...
"One of them told McGuire he saw Johnson duck down even before the car turned onto
"...This guy said it sure looked like he was expecting bullets to be flying."
In his book High Treason 2: The Great Cover-Up,
Harrison Edward Livingstone noted that a member of JFK's White House staff on
November 22, 1963 named General Godfrey McHugh "was from a
wealthy family and had close ties with some of the rich Texas oilmen" and
"In fact, the night before Kennedy's assassination, General
McHugh was at the home of two brothers, Robert N. and E.J. McCurdy, both
oilmen in Fort Worth" who "both intensely disliked
Kennedy." High Treason 2 also asserted that
"McHugh just happened to be with JFK when he was shot, and on Air
Force 1, where the body was" and "Godfrey McHugh was listed
in Who's Who In The CIA , a book
confirmed in the Pentagon Papers as being accurate." High Treason
2 also argued that "if the body was stolen from Air Force 1 in Dallas
General McHugh also was apparently close to JFK's alleged body around the time a controversial autopsy was performed on it. According to Warren Commission Exhibit 1024, on November 30, 1963 Secret Service Special Agent Clinton Hill stated that after JFK's body was flown back to Washington and taken by ambulance to the U.S. Naval Hospital, "Mrs. Kennedy, the Attorney General [Bobby Kennedy], Special Agent Landis and I went immediately inside and via elevator to the 17th floor of the hospital, the location of the Presidential suite" while "The president's body was taken to the morgue..." Later, according to Secret Service Agent Hill "at approximately 2:45 a.m., November 23 [1963], I was requested by ASAIC Kellerman to come to the morgue to once again view the body" and "When I arrived the autopsy had been completed and ASAIC Kellerman, SA Greer, General McHugh and I viewed the wounds."
Coincidentally, a brigadier general who identified himself as "the president's air force aide" appeared to get extremely uptight at a November 22, 1963 Texas Hotel breakfast in Fort Worth just a few hours before JFK was to be shot, when his right of entry was challenged by Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce Sports Committee member Donald Bubar. According to Warren Commission Exhibit 1020, on December 3, 1963 Bubar wrote the following in a letter to U.S. Secret Service Chief James Rowley:
"I was one of 30 men chosen from the Chamber of Commerce Sports Committee in Fort Worth to assist the Secret Service at the Texas Hotel [on November 22, 1963]...The only untoward incident which I was involved in that morning was in the Ballroom when a Brigadier General walked in without either a ticket to the breakfast or any other credentials except his uniform and decorations...The woman taking the tickets told me that a general had walked in without any identification and walked over toward the next door...I was then told that someone in an officer's uniform had walked out the other door into the foyer.
"Shortly after that, the general came back in the door where I was stationed, and the woman taking the tickets turned to me to report that this was the general who had come in earlier unidentified. I told him to wait a moment; that I would get a member of the Secret Service to identify him, since he had no ticket and no badge which we were instructed to acknowledge. He was quite incensed that he should be stopped and told me that he was the President's Air Force Aide...
"The General...seemed to feel that he had been humiliated in some respect, and told me that in his three years' experience...no one had ever before challenged his right of entry...
"The General continued to press the point, telling me that it was strange that he would have to come back to his hometown to be treated in any such fashion. I reminded him that I could walk down to the Army store and buy a uniform, stars, and all the decorations he wore, and could very easily masquerade as a brigadier general. I was quite astonished that anyone in his position should have felt that he was above all security regulations."
General McHugh also was apparently close to JFK's alleged body around the time a controversial autopsy was performed on it. According to Warren Commission Exhibit 1024, on November 30, 1963 Secret Service Special Agent Clinton Hill stated that after JFK's body was flown back to Washington and taken by ambulance to the U.S. Naval Hospital, "Mrs. Kennedy, the Attorney General [Bobby Kennedy], Special Agent Landis and I went immediately inside and via elevator to the 17th floor of the hospital, the location of the Presidential suite" while "The president's body was taken to the morgue..." Later, according to Secret Service Agent Hill "at approximately 2:45 a.m., November 23 [1963], I was requested by ASAIC Kellerman to come to the morgue to once again view the body" and "When I arrived the autopsy had been completed and ASAIC Kellerman, SA Greer, General McHugh and I viewed the wounds."
Coincidentally, a brigadier general who identified himself as "the president's air force aide" appeared to get extremely uptight at a November 22, 1963 Texas Hotel breakfast in Fort Worth just a few hours before JFK was to be shot, when his right of entry was challenged by Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce Sports Committee member Donald Bubar. According to Warren Commission Exhibit 1020, on December 3, 1963 Bubar wrote the following in a letter to U.S. Secret Service Chief James Rowley:
"I was one of 30 men chosen from the Chamber of Commerce Sports Committee in Fort Worth to assist the Secret Service at the Texas Hotel [on November 22, 1963]...The only untoward incident which I was involved in that morning was in the Ballroom when a Brigadier General walked in without either a ticket to the breakfast or any other credentials except his uniform and decorations...The woman taking the tickets told me that a general had walked in without any identification and walked over toward the next door...I was then told that someone in an officer's uniform had walked out the other door into the foyer.
"Shortly after that, the general came back in the door where I was stationed, and the woman taking the tickets turned to me to report that this was the general who had come in earlier unidentified. I told him to wait a moment; that I would get a member of the Secret Service to identify him, since he had no ticket and no badge which we were instructed to acknowledge. He was quite incensed that he should be stopped and told me that he was the President's Air Force Aide...
"The General...seemed to feel that he had been humiliated in some respect, and told me that in his three years' experience...no one had ever before challenged his right of entry...
"The General continued to press the point, telling me that it was strange that he would have to come back to his hometown to be treated in any such fashion. I reminded him that I could walk down to the Army store and buy a uniform, stars, and all the decorations he wore, and could very easily masquerade as a brigadier general. I was quite astonished that anyone in his position should have felt that he was above all security regulations."
Although most U.S. Establishment presidents have been
sworn-in as president in Washington , D.C. CIA -linked
Hoblitzelle Foundation trustee named Sara Hughes in Dallas ,
Texas November 22, 1963 .
According to High Treason 2: The Great Cover-Up by Harrison Edward
Livingstone:
"The conspiracy that killed President Kennedy was at least to some extent hatched and operated out of Dallas/Fort Worth. The plotters controlled the police and the city government there. Numerous of their relatives and connections were in the military and in theCIA ...Some
of those, like General Charles Cabell of Dallas CIA
were from Dallas Fort
Worth
"General Edward Lansdale and Lucien Conein wore military uniforms but wereCIA ...There was long a rumor in the Washington CIA
killed President Kennedy, along with propaganda specialists and Bay
of Pigs operatives from the Western Hemisphere
division. They were also connected to Richard Nixon...
"Lansdale and Lucien Conein were prominent in the
Far Eastern Section, along with Desmond Fitzgerald."
"The conspiracy that killed President Kennedy was at least to some extent hatched and operated out of Dallas/Fort Worth. The plotters controlled the police and the city government there. Numerous of their relatives and connections were in the military and in the
"General Edward Lansdale and Lucien Conein wore military uniforms but were
"
PBS's longtime evening news show anchorman Jim Lehrer
(who--like Lee Harvey Oswald--was an ex-Marine) just happened to be in Dallas November 22, 1963 . But
unlike former CBS Evening News Anchor Dan Rather (who just happened
to be stationed near the grassy knoll in Dallas on November 22, 1963) and
Lehrer's former PBS evening news show co-anchorman Robert MacNeil (who just
happened to bump into Lee Harvey Oswald by the Texas School Book Depository a
few moments after JFK was shot), Lehrer, evidently, was not stationed near the
ambush site.
But in his early 1990s book A Bus Of My Own, Lehrer admitted that at theDallas Fort Worth November 22, 1963 , the
following happened:
"...I put the phone down and walked over to a small ramp where the motorcade limousines were being held in waiting. I spotted Forres Sorrels, the agent in charge of the Dallas Secret Service office. I knew Mr. Sorrels fairly well, because I was then the regular federal beat reporter. After he had found out that I had been a Marine, he had even tried to recruit me as a Secret Service agent...
"I looked down the ramp. The bubble top was on the president's car.
"`Rewrite wants to know if the bubble top's going to stay on,' I said to Mr. Sorrels...
"Mr. Sorrels yelled back at the agents standing by the car: `Take off the bubble top!'"
Coincidentally, former Dallas Times-Herald reporter Lehrer evidently felt very threatened psychologically by Oliver Stone's early 1990s JFK movie. In his early 1990s book, for example, ex-Marine Lehrer wrote the following in reference to the JFK movie:
"It was only the elitist labeling of a whole class of Americans, my own class, by the Stone fiction that brought real heat and red to my face and soul. That movie, directly or indirectly, alleges that hundreds, thousands of workingCIA , FBI and other federal agents; police
officers, deputy sheriffs, Warren Commission staffers and congressional
investigators; and reporters from news organizations of all sizes, persuasions
and recourse were not interested in finding out who killed Kennedy, or worse,
were either involved in the assassination and/or cover-up or manipulated by
evil higher-ups who were. It is an absurdity beyond all honest imagination to
claim people of such independent minds and spirits could be so involved or so used
in killing a president of the United States...Only in a never-never land of the
ignorant and the careless would such an idiotic conspiracy idea be taken
seriously. It is a blood libel to repeat it in public, particularly in a
large-screen $40 million movie..."
Mysteriously, Lehrer failed to mention in his early 1990s book's discussion of his involvement in the November 1963 events inDallas Dallas
Coincidentally, in his fiction writing, PBS's Lehrer NewsHour anchor Lehrer has written aboutCIA agents who
overthrow governments and CIA agents
"who shared a special secret assignment after John F. Kennedy's
assassination and now have a conflict about revealing their secret many years
later," according to Lehrer's A Bus Of My Own book. In the same
book, Lehrer also revealed that during the late 1950s he served in the Third
Marine Division of Okinawa "as an S-1, adjutant and personnel officer with
additional responsibility for classified documents and morale" who
"was supposed to keep the classified documents locked up..."
(Downtown11/18/92 )
But in his early 1990s book A Bus Of My Own, Lehrer admitted that at the
"...I put the phone down and walked over to a small ramp where the motorcade limousines were being held in waiting. I spotted Forres Sorrels, the agent in charge of the Dallas Secret Service office. I knew Mr. Sorrels fairly well, because I was then the regular federal beat reporter. After he had found out that I had been a Marine, he had even tried to recruit me as a Secret Service agent...
"I looked down the ramp. The bubble top was on the president's car.
"`Rewrite wants to know if the bubble top's going to stay on,' I said to Mr. Sorrels...
"Mr. Sorrels yelled back at the agents standing by the car: `Take off the bubble top!'"
Coincidentally, former Dallas Times-Herald reporter Lehrer evidently felt very threatened psychologically by Oliver Stone's early 1990s JFK movie. In his early 1990s book, for example, ex-Marine Lehrer wrote the following in reference to the JFK movie:
"It was only the elitist labeling of a whole class of Americans, my own class, by the Stone fiction that brought real heat and red to my face and soul. That movie, directly or indirectly, alleges that hundreds, thousands of working
Mysteriously, Lehrer failed to mention in his early 1990s book's discussion of his involvement in the November 1963 events in
Coincidentally, in his fiction writing, PBS's Lehrer NewsHour anchor Lehrer has written about
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Former CIA contract agent
Robert Morrow's book about RFK's elimination,The Senator Must Die, also stated
the following:
"Bobby Kennedy suspected that a conspiracy involvingCIA /Mafia-related
people killed his brother.
"...OnAugust 19, 1977 ,
I would seemingly have some confirmation of the Company's involvement in the
President's [JFK's] assassination. I received a mysterious phone call to meet
with the son of a former high-ranking member of the intelligence community.
"We met the following day for lunch. In our initial conversation, the young man claimed his father, an ex-Air Force colonel, and others working for the Central Intelligence Agency had prior knowledge that President Kennedy was going to be assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963...
"He also claimed that through his father, he learned that theCIA
hierarchy had done everything in their power to thwart the Warren Commission
investigation, including the suppression and destruction of evidence--evidence
that could prove that a conspiracy existed.
"The intelligence officer's son...asserted that his father had been tied into organized crime and had been a bagman for at least one of the payoffs relating to the presidential assassination [of JFK], transporting a large sum of money to Haiti for payoff purposes during the Summer of 1963..."
FormerCIA contract agent Morrow also
included in his book an affidavit signed by former Reagan White House staff
member Diane [Didi] Hess in September 1977 in which Hess stated that she
submitted to a taped interview with Morrow on September 27, 1977 in order
"to describe the circumstances surrounding the admissions" of a
former Air Force Colonel to her "of his personal participation in the
assassination conspiracy of President John F. Kennedy on November 22,
1963" and "to state the desire" of this Air Force intelligence
officer "to convey this information directly to the proper authorities
upon being granted immunity from prosecution."
According to Morrow, Hess "had lived with the intelligence officer's son over an extended period of time" and "she also told her story to the House Selected Committee On Assassinations [HSCA]" during the late 1970s.
"Bobby Kennedy suspected that a conspiracy involving
"...On
"We met the following day for lunch. In our initial conversation, the young man claimed his father, an ex-Air Force colonel, and others working for the Central Intelligence Agency had prior knowledge that President Kennedy was going to be assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963...
"He also claimed that through his father, he learned that the
"The intelligence officer's son...asserted that his father had been tied into organized crime and had been a bagman for at least one of the payoffs relating to the presidential assassination [of JFK], transporting a large sum of money to Haiti for payoff purposes during the Summer of 1963..."
Former
According to Morrow, Hess "had lived with the intelligence officer's son over an extended period of time" and "she also told her story to the House Selected Committee On Assassinations [HSCA]" during the late 1970s.
On October 13, 1964 the ex-wife of former CIA
Covert Action Head Cord Meyer--Mary Pinchot-Meyer--"was shot twice, once
in the head and once in the chest with no apparent motive" and she and
President Kennedy had been "involved at the time of the president's
assassination" on November 22, 1963, acording to The Encyclopedia of
American Scandal by George Kohn.
In his book The Senator Must Die, formerCIA
contract agent Robert Morrow stated that shortly before Mary Pinchot-Meyer was
eliminated, he met with a former Deputy Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury,
Marshall Diggs, at Paul Young's Restaurant in Washington, D.C. According to
Morrow, Diggs told him that Mary Pinchot-Meyer "claimed to my friend that
she positively knew that company-affiliated Cuban exiles and the Mafia were
responsible for killing John Kennedy." After speaking with Diggs, Morrow
"drove to New York and met with [Cuban Exile Leader] Kohly" and
"after I told him the story of Mary Meyer, he looked very concerned."
According to Morrow, Kohly then said "Just tell Diggs I'll take care of the matter" and "Then he told me to stay away from him and not tell anyone I had seen him or where he could be found." A week after Morrow's meeting with Kohly in New York, Mary Pinchot-Meyer was, coincidentally, eliminated.
Also, coincidentally, in his 1980 book, Conspiracy, Anthony Summers wrote:
"In 1978 I interviewed the son of the late Mario Kohly...The younger Kohly recalled opening a bottle of champagne at the news of President Kennedy's death and then calling his father. According to Kohly, `My father seemed elated and quite relieved; he seemed more pleased, I would say, than surprised. I am sure he had knowledge of what really happened in Dealey Plaza. But, if you recall, everyone that has had knowledge ended up dead.'"
The same book also observed that Kohly's son quoted the deceased Cuban Exile Leader as saying "John Kennedy was a traitor...He was a Communist."
In his book The Senator Must Die, former
According to Morrow, Kohly then said "Just tell Diggs I'll take care of the matter" and "Then he told me to stay away from him and not tell anyone I had seen him or where he could be found." A week after Morrow's meeting with Kohly in New York, Mary Pinchot-Meyer was, coincidentally, eliminated.
Also, coincidentally, in his 1980 book, Conspiracy, Anthony Summers wrote:
"In 1978 I interviewed the son of the late Mario Kohly...The younger Kohly recalled opening a bottle of champagne at the news of President Kennedy's death and then calling his father. According to Kohly, `My father seemed elated and quite relieved; he seemed more pleased, I would say, than surprised. I am sure he had knowledge of what really happened in Dealey Plaza. But, if you recall, everyone that has had knowledge ended up dead.'"
The same book also observed that Kohly's son quoted the deceased Cuban Exile Leader as saying "John Kennedy was a traitor...He was a Communist."
The mayor of Dallas on November 22, 1963 , Earle Cabell, was the brother of
former CIA Deputy Director Charles Cabell.
After being fired by President Kennedy following the failure of the CIA 's
1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, Dallas Mayor Cabell's brother was hired by
both Billionaire Howard Hughes and NASA as "a consultant." He also
was introduced by Clay Shaw at a Foreign Police Association meeting in New
Orleans which he addressed in May 1961. And prior to former CIA
Deputy Director Cabell's 1971 death, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison
was preparing to accuse him of conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy.
Around three years before President Kennedy was eliminated, Cabell was one of theCIA officials who "briefed Vice
President Nixon about the plans to assassinate Fidel Castro" and "In
October [1960], just a few weeks before the national elections, Nixon and CIA
Deputy Director Cabell meet secretly with [Cuban Exile Leader Mario Garcia]
Kohly on the golf links of the Burning Tree Club in suburban Washington
consummating a deal," according to former CIA
contract agent Robert Morrow's The Senator Must Die book. (Morrow was hired
by the CIA to work as Cuban Exile Leader
Kohly's technical advisor and consultant in the early 1960s). According to
Morrow, at the secret October 1960 meeting between Cabell, Nixon and Kohly,
Nixon "had agreed that Kohly could eliminate all of the prominent Cuban
leftist leaders after a successful invasion" and "the plot would
assure Kohly of being the new president of Cuba."
The Senator Must Die also revealed in 1988 that:
"In a Warren Commission document (WCD 279, still classified), Marion Cooper, a formerCIA operative, disclosed
that on January 1, 1955, he attended a meeting in Honduras with Vice President
Richard Nixon, at which the planned assassination of President Jose Antonio
Remon of Panama was discussed in detail. Among those present: the hit team
hired to kill the Panamanian leader.
"The following day, Remon was machine-gunned to death at a racetrack outsidePanama City
Around three years before President Kennedy was eliminated, Cabell was one of the
The Senator Must Die also revealed in 1988 that:
"In a Warren Commission document (WCD 279, still classified), Marion Cooper, a former
"The following day, Remon was machine-gunned to death at a racetrack outside
Around three weeks before President Kennedy was ambushed,
CBS News' then Bureau Chief in New Orleans November 22, 1963 motorcade through Dallas
Although Rather claims he heard no shots on November 22, 1963, after President Kennedy's limousine rushed past him Rather apparently ran as fast as he could to the TV station of CBS's local affiliate, telephoned Parkland Hospital and was the first U.S. journalist to be informed by an unidentified hospital doctor that President Kennedy was dead.
After the JFK ambush, according to Rather, "We ran our leads through the FBI and the Dallas Police" and "Finally, we had a name: Abraham Zapruder." Rather claimed that:
"When we reached him, Zapruder did not know what he had...We helped arrange for Eastman Kodak to process the film. This job had to be done by the best equipment. It had to be done fast. And it had to be kept confidential."
But after he viewed the Zapruder film of President Kennedy's elimination, CBS's "Man in Dallas," coincidentally, apparently described its contents to television viewers in an erroneous way that implied that President Kennedy was not killed by shots from the grassy knoll. AsBBC
investigative reporter Anthony Summers wrote in his 1980 book, Conspiracy:
"If the only comprehensive visual record of the Kennedy assassination had been shown on November 22, 1963, most people in the United States would have gone to bed that night certain that their President [JFK] had been shot from the front and only perhaps--by an earlier shot--from behind. Americans were of course not shown the full Zapruder film until more than a decade later. They were, within days, given a verbal description of the footage on CBS television. Dan Rather, a television correspondent who had been permitted to view the film, was the narrator. Rather said that at the fatal head shot the President [JFK] `fell forward with considerable violence.' He omitted to say what in fact is mercilessly obvious from any alert viewing of the film. It is manifestly clear that the President [JFK] jerked backward at the moment of the shot that visibly exploded his head."
Although Rather claims he heard no shots on November 22, 1963, after President Kennedy's limousine rushed past him Rather apparently ran as fast as he could to the TV station of CBS's local affiliate, telephoned Parkland Hospital and was the first U.S. journalist to be informed by an unidentified hospital doctor that President Kennedy was dead.
After the JFK ambush, according to Rather, "We ran our leads through the FBI and the Dallas Police" and "Finally, we had a name: Abraham Zapruder." Rather claimed that:
"When we reached him, Zapruder did not know what he had...We helped arrange for Eastman Kodak to process the film. This job had to be done by the best equipment. It had to be done fast. And it had to be kept confidential."
But after he viewed the Zapruder film of President Kennedy's elimination, CBS's "Man in Dallas," coincidentally, apparently described its contents to television viewers in an erroneous way that implied that President Kennedy was not killed by shots from the grassy knoll. As
"If the only comprehensive visual record of the Kennedy assassination had been shown on November 22, 1963, most people in the United States would have gone to bed that night certain that their President [JFK] had been shot from the front and only perhaps--by an earlier shot--from behind. Americans were of course not shown the full Zapruder film until more than a decade later. They were, within days, given a verbal description of the footage on CBS television. Dan Rather, a television correspondent who had been permitted to view the film, was the narrator. Rather said that at the fatal head shot the President [JFK] `fell forward with considerable violence.' He omitted to say what in fact is mercilessly obvious from any alert viewing of the film. It is manifestly clear that the President [JFK] jerked backward at the moment of the shot that visibly exploded his head."
Coincidentally, a few days after JFK was ambushed on November 22, 1963 , FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover sent a memorandum to the U.S. State Department regarding the JFK
assassination. According to an article, "`George Bush' C.I.A.
Operative" by Joseph McBride, which appeared in the July 16/23, 1988 issue
of The Nation magazine, this November 29, 1963 FBI memorandum was
"subject headed `Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Nov. 22,
1963" and "In it, Hoover reports that the bureau had briefed `Mr.
George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency' shortly after the
assassination..."
The same Nation article also revealed that "a source with close connections to the intelligence community confirms that Bush started working for the agency in 1960 or 1961, using his oil business as a cover for clandestine activities." The Nation's intelligence community source had "worked with the agency in the late 1950s and through the 1960s" and he stated that Bush "was involved in theCaribbean "
and "I know he was involved in the suppression of things after the Kennedy
assassination.'"
Plausible Denial: Was TheCIA Involved In
The Assassination of JFK?by Mark Lane
"There is evidence suggesting that [George] de Mohrenschildt served as aCIA
control officer who directed Oswald's actions. De Mohrenschildt died from a gun
shot just as he was about to be questioned by the House Select Committee on
Assassinations. After his death, his personal telephone book was located. It
contained this entry: `Bush, George H.W. (Poppy) 1412 W. Ohio
The same Nation article also revealed that "a source with close connections to the intelligence community confirms that Bush started working for the agency in 1960 or 1961, using his oil business as a cover for clandestine activities." The Nation's intelligence community source had "worked with the agency in the late 1950s and through the 1960s" and he stated that Bush "was involved in the
Plausible Denial: Was The
"There is evidence suggesting that [George] de Mohrenschildt served as a
In his best-selling book, Plausible
Denial: Was The CIA Involved In The Assassination Of JFK?, Mark
Lane noted that after the failure of the CIA 's
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, Marita Lorenz was apparently recruited to be a
decoy for an operation in Dallas by a CIA
operative named Frank Sturgis, who was later convicted for his role in the
Watergate Affair. According to Lane, "Marita Lorenz spent hours talking
with me" and "she told me in some detail of her knowledge of the plan
to assassinate President Kennedy and of the role played by Sturgis and [E.
Howard `Eduardo'] Hunt," another CIA
operative who was later convicted for his role in the Watergate Affair.
Evidently, according to Lorenz, sometime in November 1963 prior to the JFK ambush, a caravan of two cars brought weapons fromMiami Dallas Dallas Dallas Miami
According to Plausible Denial, in response to a question from Hunt's lawyer during Hunt's lawsuit against Spotlight magazine, Lorenz stated that--after JFK was eliminated--when "Sturgis sought to recruit her for yet anotherCIA project he told her that
she had missed `the really big one' in Dallas" and he stated to her:
"We killed the president that day. You could have been a part of it--you know, part of history. You should have stayed. Everything was covered up in advance. No arrests, no real newspaper investigation. It was all covered, very professional."
In response to further questioning by Hunt's attorney during Hunt's lawsuit, Lorenz apparently also named others who were part of the caravan that carried weapons toDallas November 22, 1963 and also indicated
that she had told government authorities in New York November
21, 1963 in Dallas
Coincidentally, at least one published book on JFK's death asserted that "According to an internalCIA
memorandum allegedly written in 1966 by Tom Karamessines, an assistant to
Richard Helms, E. Howard Hunt...was in Dallas" on November 22, 1963.
Evidently, according to Lorenz, sometime in November 1963 prior to the JFK ambush, a caravan of two cars brought weapons from
According to Plausible Denial, in response to a question from Hunt's lawyer during Hunt's lawsuit against Spotlight magazine, Lorenz stated that--after JFK was eliminated--when "Sturgis sought to recruit her for yet another
"We killed the president that day. You could have been a part of it--you know, part of history. You should have stayed. Everything was covered up in advance. No arrests, no real newspaper investigation. It was all covered, very professional."
In response to further questioning by Hunt's attorney during Hunt's lawsuit, Lorenz apparently also named others who were part of the caravan that carried weapons to
Coincidentally, at least one published book on JFK's death asserted that "According to an internal
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Years Since JFK Assassination Retrospective: Oswald's FBI Monitor Met With Army
Intelligence Agent Prior To JFK Assassination
Coincidentally, the same Dallas FBI agent who visited the
Paine-Oswald residence twice and made a pretext call to the personnel
department of the Texas School Book Depository inquiring about Oswald a few
weeks before JFK was ambushed, met with an Army intelligence agent just prior
to JFK's assassination on November 22, 1963.
During FBI agent James Hosty's May 5, 1964 testimony before the Warren Commission, the following exchange took place between Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Samuel Stern and FBI agent Hosty:
MR. STERN: "What next occurred on the 22nd, Mr. Hosty?"
MR. HOSTY: "After the conference that lasted until about9 a.m. I then left the office and joined an Army
Intelligence agent...We had a conference...This conference lasted most of the
morning until about 11:45 . At 11:45 the Army Intelligence agent and myself
left, and walked over towards Main Street Main Street noon ..."
During FBI agent James Hosty's May 5, 1964 testimony before the Warren Commission, the following exchange took place between Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Samuel Stern and FBI agent Hosty:
MR. STERN: "What next occurred on the 22nd, Mr. Hosty?"
MR. HOSTY: "After the conference that lasted until about
Coincidentally, according to The Espionage
Establishment by David Wise and Thomas Ross, "Sarah T. Hughes, the
federal judge who administered the oath of office" in Dallas November 22, 1963 , "was a trustee of the
Hoblitzelle Foundation, which handled CIA
money." The Espionage Establishmental so noted that the CIA 's
Hoblitzelle Foundation "was a major financial angel for the Congress for
Cultural Freedom, which in turn backedEncounter, an intellectual political
journal published in London
The Israeli government's intelligence agency--The
Mossad--apparently produced "a movie called A President On The
Crosshairs, a detailed study of the November 22, 1963 assassination of John F.
Kennedy," which it screened during its training course for newly hired
Mossad agents, according to former Mossad Case Officer Victor Ostrovsky's
book, By Way of Deception. Ostrovsky worked for the Israeli intelligence
agency for four years before concluding that it was engaged in immoral activities,
resigning and moving to Canada
"The Mossad believed that the official version of the assassination was pure, unadulterated hokum. To test their theory, they did a simulation exercise of the presidential cavalcade to see if expert marksmen with far better equipment than Oswald could hit a moving target from the recorded distance of 88 years. They couldn't...
"The Mossad had every film taken of theDallas
"It was just an exercise. But it showed that it was impossible to do what Oswald was supposed to have done...The official version just isn't believable..."
It's not too likely, however, that the U.S. Establishment's CBS, NBC, ABC, Murdoch-Fox Television, CNN or PBS plans to televise The Mossad's A President On The Crosshairs movie for an audience ofU.S.
"The Mossad believed that the official version of the assassination was pure, unadulterated hokum. To test their theory, they did a simulation exercise of the presidential cavalcade to see if expert marksmen with far better equipment than Oswald could hit a moving target from the recorded distance of 88 years. They couldn't...
"The Mossad had every film taken of the
"It was just an exercise. But it showed that it was impossible to do what Oswald was supposed to have done...The official version just isn't believable..."
It's not too likely, however, that the U.S. Establishment's CBS, NBC, ABC, Murdoch-Fox Television, CNN or PBS plans to televise The Mossad's A President On The Crosshairs movie for an audience of
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Years Since JFK Assassination Retrospective: Why Was A CIA Agent In Dallas's
Parkland Hospital On Nov. 22, 1963?
In Warren Commission Exhibit 1024 is contained a Nov. 30, 1963 statement from U.S.
Secret Service Special Agent Andrew Berger. According to Special Agent Berger,
after he heard JFK had been shot on November 22, 1963, he went to
Parkland Hospital and "assumed a post in the entrance of the emergency
room" prior to going "to the outside of the hospital" to bring
two Catholic priests to the emergency room to administer the Last Rites. Berger
then resumed his post at the emergency room entrance and then the following
happened:
"Shortly thereafter FBI agent Vincent E. Drain, commission book No. 5067, Dallas Office arrived at the room entrance. He showed me his credentials and said he had received a telephone call from Director Hoover telling him to make himself available to us...When I inquired of Agent Drain who the unidentified male was who accompanied him, he replied that he was a doctor friend of his. The agent and unidentified male then proceeded to the end of the hall. Approximately five minutes subsequent to the visit of Agent Drain, a unidentifiedCIA agent, after showing his
credentials said that he would be available."
"Shortly thereafter FBI agent Vincent E. Drain, commission book No. 5067, Dallas Office arrived at the room entrance. He showed me his credentials and said he had received a telephone call from Director Hoover telling him to make himself available to us...When I inquired of Agent Drain who the unidentified male was who accompanied him, he replied that he was a doctor friend of his. The agent and unidentified male then proceeded to the end of the hall. Approximately five minutes subsequent to the visit of Agent Drain, a unidentified
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Years Since JFK Assassination Retrospective: Former CIA Deputy Director Cabell
Wrote Autobiography
In his 1979 book, Bay of Pigs :
The Untold Story, Peter Wyden noted that the brother of the mayor of Dallas November 22, 1963 --former
CIA Deputy Director Charles Cabell--wrote an
autobiography prior to his death in 1971. And in its September 16, 1973 issue, the Washington
Post reported that "New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, as
late as March 1971, was preparing to accuse former Dallas Mayor Cabell's
brother of `conspiring to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.'"
In a 1992 telephone interview,Bay of Pigs author
Wyden told Downtown that he was only shown by Cabell's sons the portion of
Cabell's then-unpublished autobiography which dealt with the Bay of
Pigs events and he did not know why Cabell's autobiography was not
published as of 1979. He also stated in 1992 that there is a
possibility that Cabell's autobiography was published in the 1980s.
Wyden did not recall anything in the tone or content of the portion of Cabell's autobiography which he read, however, which indicated that Cabell felt any special rage towards JFK after theBay of Pigs fiasco.
Wyden thought that although Cabell was a "great conservative guy" in
his politics, he was too "routine-minded" to be capable of being
involved in some kind of plot to assassinate JFK. In Wyden's view, Cabell was
"the kind of guy who could only follow S.O.P.--standard operating procedure."
Wyden noted that he had neither attempted to investigate the JFK assassination, himself, or read any recent books about the JFK assassination, but his impression is that Oliver Stone's JFK film was "a propaganda hoax" which was wrong to "glorify" New Orleans D.A. Garrison. Wyden felt that Stone's film was "an effort to capitalize on this conspiracy paranoia," and he "was offended" by Stone's JFK movie. One possible explanation for the popoularity of recently published books on the JFK assassination, in Wyden's view, was that this mass sentiment still represents "part of the mourning" process for JFK.
When he wrote in the late 1970s about Charles Cabell in Bay of Pigs, Wyden was not aware that Cabell's brother, Earle Cabell, was the Mayor of Dallas on the day JFK was assassinated. But he felt that this fact was of "peripheral" importance to the subject of hisBay of
Pigs book.
In a 1992 telephone interview,
Wyden did not recall anything in the tone or content of the portion of Cabell's autobiography which he read, however, which indicated that Cabell felt any special rage towards JFK after the
Wyden noted that he had neither attempted to investigate the JFK assassination, himself, or read any recent books about the JFK assassination, but his impression is that Oliver Stone's JFK film was "a propaganda hoax" which was wrong to "glorify" New Orleans D.A. Garrison. Wyden felt that Stone's film was "an effort to capitalize on this conspiracy paranoia," and he "was offended" by Stone's JFK movie. One possible explanation for the popoularity of recently published books on the JFK assassination, in Wyden's view, was that this mass sentiment still represents "part of the mourning" process for JFK.
When he wrote in the late 1970s about Charles Cabell in Bay of Pigs, Wyden was not aware that Cabell's brother, Earle Cabell, was the Mayor of Dallas on the day JFK was assassinated. But he felt that this fact was of "peripheral" importance to the subject of his
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Years Since JFK Assassination Retrospective: Who Authorized George De
Mohrenschildt and George Bouhe To Help The Oswalds?
Prior to the JFK ambush, Oswald and his wife had received
some financial assistance from George De Mohrenschildt. In his April 23, 1964
testimony before Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Albert Jenner Jr., De
Mohrenschildt noted that he and George Bouhe had checked with their FBI or CIA
contacts prior to helping the Oswalds survive between Sept. 1962 and November
22, 1963:
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT: May I say a few things here that I remember. As I told you before, we met the Oswalds through Bouhe, and then we talked about them to Max Clark, and again to Bouhe. And I asked Mr. Bouhe `Do you think it is safe for us to help Oswald?...'
MR. JENNER:...Why did you raise that question?
MR. DE MOHRENSCHILDT: I raised the question because he had been to Soviet Russia. He could be anything, you see. And he could be right there watched day and night by the FBI. I did not want to get involved, you see. And I distinctly remember, No. 1, that George Bouhe said that he had checked with the FBI...I have the impression to have talked--to have asked about Lee Oswald also Mr. Moore, Walter Moore.
MR. JENNER: Who is Walter Moore?
MR. DE MOHRENSCHILDT: Walter Moore is the man who interviewed me on behalf of the Government after I came back fromYugoslavia Dallas
Mr. DE MOHRENSCHILDT: May I say a few things here that I remember. As I told you before, we met the Oswalds through Bouhe, and then we talked about them to Max Clark, and again to Bouhe. And I asked Mr. Bouhe `Do you think it is safe for us to help Oswald?...'
MR. JENNER:...Why did you raise that question?
MR. DE MOHRENSCHILDT: I raised the question because he had been to Soviet Russia. He could be anything, you see. And he could be right there watched day and night by the FBI. I did not want to get involved, you see. And I distinctly remember, No. 1, that George Bouhe said that he had checked with the FBI...I have the impression to have talked--to have asked about Lee Oswald also Mr. Moore, Walter Moore.
MR. JENNER: Who is Walter Moore?
MR. DE MOHRENSCHILDT: Walter Moore is the man who interviewed me on behalf of the Government after I came back from
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Years Since JFK Assassination Retrospective: Colonel J.D. Wilmeth's Pre-JFK
Assassination Visit To Paine-Oswald Residence
Coincidentally, just three days before JFK was ambushed on November 22, 1963 , Colonel J.D.
Wilmeth just happened to visit the house in which the wife of Texas School Book
Depository temp worker Lee Oswald lived with Mrs. Ruth Paine, as revealed in
Ruth Paine's testimony before the Warren Commission.
During Ruth Paine's March 21, 1964 testimony before Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Albert Jenner Jr., the following exchange took place:
MR. JENNER: Do you recall an incident in which there was a telephone call by Col. J. D. Wilmeth to your home, in which he spoke with Marina?
MRS . PAINE: Yes; I do...I would say this was
a week or less before the assassination. He called and asked--he called from
Arlington, Tex., which is between Fort Worth and Dallas, and asked if he could
come over some time...To talk with Marina, that he had heard she was
living at my house...My best judgement is that he actually came then on
the 19th of November.
MR. JENNER: All right. And how long did he stay?
MRS . PAINE: Oh, perhaps an hour..."
During Ruth Paine's March 21, 1964 testimony before Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Albert Jenner Jr., the following exchange took place:
MR. JENNER: Do you recall an incident in which there was a telephone call by Col. J. D. Wilmeth to your home, in which he spoke with Marina?
MR. JENNER: All right. And how long did he stay?
Some peoople claim that former FBI Director Hoover met with
Richard Nixon at Clint Murchison's house in Dallas Hoover
Coincidentally, former FBI Director Hoover was also a close friend of Lyndon Johnson at the time JFK was ambushed. In a March 6, 1964 memo to Hoover, former Assistant FBI Director Cartha De Loach reminded Hoover that the newly installed President Johnson "for 19 years was an across-the-street neighbor of yours, had had you down to his ranch in Texas, and had been a close personal friend."
The FBI's Nov. 5, 1963 Visit To The Paine-Oswald Residence
In addition to, coincidentally, informing an FBI agent of Oswald's place of temporary employment at the Texas School Book Depository when the FBI agent visited the Paine-Oswald residence on November 1, 1963, Ruth Paine also evidently spoke with FBI agents again on November 5, 1963, according to her March 23, 1964 testimony before Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Albert Jenner Jr. When Jenner asked Mrs. Paine "On the 5th day of November did an agent of the FBI come for a second time to interview you?," Mrs. Paine replied: "I didn't recall the day, but I have been told it was that day--yes."
Coincidentally, former FBI Director Hoover was also a close friend of Lyndon Johnson at the time JFK was ambushed. In a March 6, 1964 memo to Hoover, former Assistant FBI Director Cartha De Loach reminded Hoover that the newly installed President Johnson "for 19 years was an across-the-street neighbor of yours, had had you down to his ranch in Texas, and had been a close personal friend."
The FBI's Nov. 5, 1963 Visit To The Paine-Oswald Residence
In addition to, coincidentally, informing an FBI agent of Oswald's place of temporary employment at the Texas School Book Depository when the FBI agent visited the Paine-Oswald residence on November 1, 1963, Ruth Paine also evidently spoke with FBI agents again on November 5, 1963, according to her March 23, 1964 testimony before Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Albert Jenner Jr. When Jenner asked Mrs. Paine "On the 5th day of November did an agent of the FBI come for a second time to interview you?," Mrs. Paine replied: "I didn't recall the day, but I have been told it was that day--yes."
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