George Herbert Walker Bush at Dealey Plaza
Now that President Bush is in the ground, I will
comment on some of his connections and associations with the assassination of
President Kennedy.
For starters, that is not Bush in a suit and tie
standing next to the TSBD in the wake of the assassination. While it does look
like him, photos can be funny, and that person has been identified and its not
G.H.W. Bush.
But – and that’s a BIG BUT – he was in Dallas that
day.
We know from government records released under the
JFK Act that Bush stayed the night at the Dallas Sheraton Hotel with his wife,
and he then traveled to Tyler, Texas to give a political talk while his wife
had her hair done.
After Bush learned about the assassination, he
dropped a dime on James Parrott, a Republican political operative who Bush said
should be considered a suspect in his murder.
Bush told the government he intended to return to
the Sheraton, which was itself a hotbed of conspiratorial activities.
The Secret Service agents from out of town stayed at
the Sheraton while the White House Communications Agency (WHCA), set up a
remote radio shack in one of the Sheraton rooms and monitored both the Secret
Service motorcade channel as well as the Air Force One radio transmissions.
Also among the records released under the JFK Act is
a report of “George Bush of the CIA” being given special information, though
Bush was not officially associated with the CIA at that time, and it was
alleged that the “George Bush of the CIA” was a reference to another man in the
CIA by the same name. But when that George Bush was located and interviewed he
claimed to be a minor level functionary who would not be given such information.
Lee Harvey Oswald was also familiar with the Dallas
Sheraton, as it was part of The Southland Center, a major building complex that
included offices – including those of a friend of George deMohrenschildt (Marty
Balan), who interviewed Oswald for a job that he didn’t get.
The Southland Center office building also includes
the Mexican Consulate, the private Chaparral Club where the rich and powerful
met and socialized, as well as the law offices of the attorneys who represented
Oswald’s brother Robert and his wife Marina when they testified before the
Warren Commission. The same law firm also represented Clint Murchison and the
Dallas Cowboys.
On the roof of the building is a sky tower that
overlooks the city, and is a popular tourist attraction, where two young high
school kids were walking through the lobby on their way to one Saturday in
September. Wynn Johnson and his girl friend were stopped by three men who asked them directions to
a coffee shop. They later recognized one of the men as Lee Harvey Oswald, and
the other two have been identified as CIA spy master David Atlee Phillips and
anti-Castro Cuban terrorist Antonio Veciana.
Then there was the ostensible reporter who checked
out of the Sheraton leaving behind his notes that a cleaning lady thought
suspicious and reported, which created a document that remains classified
today.
Sheraton
– Suspicious notes – 104-10006-10026
ORIGINATOR:
FBI
DATE:
11/27/64
TITLE:
INVESTIGATION CONCERNING NOTEBOOK FOUND IN ROOM 2422, SHERATON HOTEL, DALLAS,
TEXAS, CONTAINING HANDWRITTEN NOTES IN ENGLISH REGARDING OSWALD AND
ASSASSINATION OF JFK
Postponed
in Part Reason for Board Action: The text is redacted because it reveals the
identity of an intelligence agent that might be withheld under Section 6(1)(A)
of the JFK Act. The Board is awaiting additional evidence from the CIA, at
which time it will reconsider the postponement Substitute Language: CIA Employee
As for Bush’s connections to the assassination, he
had a business partner Thomas Devine. As Russ Baker details in his book “Bush Family of Secrets,” Thomas J. Devine
was a former CIA staff employee, worked with Bush on his Zapata Oil company business
before moving to New York to work for the CIA with another CIA official – John
Train. Train handled the business interests of a number of CIA propriety
companies.
When Oswald’s good friend George deMonrenschildt
took a job in Haiti in April, 1963, he stopped by the Oswald’s apartment to say
goodbye. As it was a few days after the Walker shooting, when deMohrenschhildt
saw the rifle in a closet, he asked Oswald “How did you miss?”
Oswald also gave deMohrenschildt a copy of the
Backyard photo of him with the rifle, pistol and two communist publications –
that Marina inscribed “Hunter of Fascists! Ha Ha.”
When deMohrenschildt left Texas for Haiti, he
stopped in New York City and met with both Devine at John Train’s office, then
went to Washington D.C. and met with Dorothie Matlack and Col. Sam Kail. Both worked
for the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ASCI), whose office in the
Pentagon also controlled Col. Jack Crichton’s Dallas 488th Army
Reserve Intelligence unit, as well as Col. Frank “Brandy” Brandstetter, the
manager of the Havana Hilton where Castro stayed when he first assumed power.
In any case, while George H.W. Bush may not have
been at Dealey Plaza at the time of the assassination, he was in Dallas, stayed
at the Sheraton, and was distinctly involved in various conspiratorial shennagans
that we are still trying to figure out.
And it was supposed to be a “Kennedy Dynasty,” with
RFK assuming power after JFK’s second term, and Teddy down the line, but
instead, it became a Bush Dynisty after the assassinations of JFK and RFK.
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