Who Killed President Kennedy And Why? EDITORIAL
Written by ORIENTAL REVIEW on 10/11/2017
In late October President Trump ordered that
“the veil be lifted” from the investigation into the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy in 1963. More than 3,000 new, previously classified FBI,
CIA, and Congressional documents were released to the public.
A quick overview of the material shows that the bulk
of it pertains either to the CIA’s covert operations against Cuba (one of the
most popular theories about JFK’s assassination focuses on the ties between Lee
Harvey Oswald and anti-Castro paramilitary groups that were upset about Kennedy’s
“soft” policy toward the island). Or the
CIA’s search for a “Soviet fingerprint” in the crime – as can be seen in
Langley’s fruitless but determined attempts to turn the defector Yuri
Nosenko into a key source of information (although, truth be told, he
adamantly refused to give the required “testimony” and was for this reason long
suspected of being a KGB double agent).
We cannot avoid the impression that these huge
document dumps – along with the scores of “investigations” conducted over the
last 54 years, in addition to the books and movies about this cryptic murder –
have one goal: to keep whoever really ordered the JFK assassination from being
brought to justice.
All of these materials focus in one way or another
on the figure of the unhappy “psychopath,” known as Lee Harvey Oswald, the lone
gunman who shot the 35th US president on Nov. 22, 1963, from the sixth floor of
the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, using a 6.5mm
Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle with telescopic sight. Each new batch of
released documents (and there have been three just this year: on July 24, Oct.
26, and Nov. 3) triggers another round of furious debate, all over the
world, about his motives, connections, and the facts of the crime.
The narrative of the murder would seem quite
straightforward. Just a few minutes after the fatal shots were fired, the
security services were already combing through the depository building. On the
6th floor, they discovered an open window, three shell casings, and a rifle
bearing Oswald’s fingerprints. Forty minutes after Kennedy’s death, the cops
already had a name, physical description, and address for his alleged killer.
The crime of the century was easily solved. The police surrounded the Texas
Theatre building where Mr. Oswald was hiding, and he was arrested barely an
hour after the president was assassinated.
But not everything was quite so simple. A 26-second
movie, made that day by Abraham Zapruder, shows the exact moment of the murder,
which has made it possible to dissect the instant of
Kennedy’s death, frame by frame.
According to the official story, three shots were
fired (the first missed, the second passed through the president’s neck and
ricocheted into the chest, wrist, and thigh of Texas Governor John Connally,
and the third bullet struck Kennedy in the head). But the film clearly shows
that the second bullet (frame 225) and third bullet (frame 313) are of
completely different types: the second passed through the president’s neck
without serious tissue damage, while the third was obviously an expanding
bullet, the impact of which shattered the American leader’s skull! A mix of
different types of bullets within a single clip of a semi-automatic
gun would be a game-changer for shooters. But the most likely explanation
is that there were at least two snipers involved.
A number of recognized probe inconsistencies (missing
bullets, improper autopsy procedure, faked autopsy photos & notes, to point
out a few) that led to repeated official and unofficial attempts to reconsider
the case for the past decades, eventually resulted in the fact that today
only 24% of Americans believe that LHO had acted alone.
An analysis of the Zapruder film prompts even more
awkward questions. It turns out that the killer took about five seconds to fire
all the shots. That seems quite unlikely for this model of rifle with a
telescopic sight, because the bolt has to be cycled with each firing. If you
look at the video below, a professional is taking a few shots using the same
type of rifle, but without the telescopic sight.
If you time the video carefully, you can see that
this expert rifleman takes just about five seconds to get off three shots, but
you’ll notice that he’s making no attempt to aim! Is it possible to
believe that a second-rate marksman like Lee Harvey Oswald could have performed
with robot-like precision in such an extreme situation?
And so Oswald was arrested. “I did not kill
President Kennedy … I didn’t kill anybody … I don’t know anything about what
you are accusing me,” he said. Nor for that matter was he allowed to call a
lawyer. He never admitted to murdering Kennedy. And two days after the
president’s death, while Oswald was being transferred between jails, he was
shot at close range by a Texas underworld figure named Jack Ruby (Jacob
Rubenstein), who was also, according to the Warren Commission, “a lone
gunman.” You don’t have to dig too deeply into the man’s background to realize
that he had very deep ties to the police and American security agencies.
And then within the next two years, an astonishing
number of people (more than 50!) who possessed some kind of information about
the Kennedy assassination died under mysterious circumstances. The Navy
officer Lt. William Pitzer, who managed the closed-circuit camera in the
autopsy room at the at Bethesda Naval Hospital and filmed the proceeding,
was later discovered to have “shot himself”, and the tape of the film had
vanished. A week later, the taxi driver who drove Oswald home from the book
depository on the day of the president’s assassination, William Whaley, was
killed in a car crash. The same fate befell one of the witnesses to the Kennedy
assassination, Lee Bowers who saw “two men shooting from behind
the fence.” Three of the five people who were present in Jack Ruby’s house
on the evening of Nov. 24, 1963 were shot to death (the lawyer Tom Howard and
reporters Bill Hunter and Jim Koethe) … And on Nov. 8, 1965, Dorothy Kilgallen,
who was the only journalist granted a private interview with Jack Ruby after
Oswald’s assassination, died of a “drug overdose,” although she had never taken
drugs. There are dozens of such examples, and the names involved have
never been a secret, but is it even worth pointing out once again that these
people are never mentioned in the declassified files from the US National
Archives?
On Nov. 29, 1963, Lyndon Johnson, the former vice
president who had automatically risen to head of state upon JFK’s death,
ordered a special commission to be established to investigate the assassination
of President Kennedy. The chief justice of the US Supreme Court, Earl Warren,
was asked to head the seven-man panel, which also included two senators, two
members of the House of Representatives, the former director of the CIA Allen
Dulles, and the banker John McCloy. The commission listened to testimony from
552 witnesses and obtained more than 3,000 reports from courts and
law-enforcement agencies, which, in turn, had conducted approximately 26,000
interviews, collected in 26 volumes of documentation.
However, the final
report, which was intended to shed light on the mysterious details of the
“crime of the century,” merely offered withering criticism of the CIA, the FBI,
and the Dallas police for not being able to prevent the death of the president,
who had been shot by a deranged lone gunman… Hale Boggs, a Democratic
Representative from Louisiana, was the only member of the Warren Commission who
did not buckle to Earl Warren and his disciples and disagreed with the
conclusion. In October 1972 he was killed in a plane crash over frozen Alaska …
One of the last photos of Rep. Hale Boggs
The findings of the investigation, which ignored a
whole slew of facts and the death of almost all the witnesses, were so
obviously bizarre that in 1976 the US Congress created a new special
commission on the Kennedy case. In 1979 it issued its verdict: “Kennedy
was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.” The HSCA determined,
based on available evidence, that the probable conspiracy did not involve the
governments of the Soviet Union or Cuba. The committee also added that no
organized crime group, anti-Castro group, or the FBI, CIA, or Secret Service
was mixed up in that conspiracy. Is it any wonder that following this report, the
FBI and the US Department of Justice“raised numerous concerns regarding
perceived inadequacies in the Committee’s experts’ methodology, which led to
the conclusion of a conspiracy”?
So, who ordered the murder of President Kennedy
and then covered up the tracks? Obviously the masterminds were not merely
some group of conspirators or Mafiosi, but rather individuals who wield immense
and very real power in the American government. So immense that they
could force the entire US law-enforcement system to do everything
necessary to keep this crime from being solved and to compel the Kennedy family
to obediently close their eyes to it!
Who would have been capable of doing this? The
Mafia? Cuban emigrants? Anyone could pull the trigger, but not just anyone
could force the investigation to overlook obvious facts and turn a blind eye to
what any of us can see in the films and photos. Nor did the CIA or FBI command
such power. If it were simply a matter of liquidating an undesirable foreign
political figure or an out-of-control drug baron, then either of these agencies
could contain the scandal on its own. But even they would be in over their
heads in any attempt to assassinate a US president in his own country.
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