EZEKIEL

 

and YHWH’s

 

 Judgment

 

 

for the

 

Good News

 

PEOPLE

 

 

 

VOLUME XXIII

 

 Politics and Murder

 

 

EZEKIEL and YHWH’s

 

 

Judgment for the

 

 

 Good News People

 

 

 

 

Volume XXIII--Politics and Murder

 

 

 

 

 

by

 

an unworthy servant

 

 

 

 

 

 

And you shall know the truth,

 

and the truth will make you free.

 

(John 8:32)

 

 

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Contents

 

 

 

Volume XXIII--Politics and Murder

 

 

CHAPTER                                                                              PAGE

 

 

      -                  Cover Page                                                                                                         1

 

      -                  Title Page                                                                                                             2

 

      -                  Contents                                                                                                              3

 

      -                  Publisher’s Preface                                                                                           5

 

 

Part RRR--Some History 

 

      346             The Murderers of YESHUA I                                                                            6

 

      347             The Murderers of YESHUA II                                                                         19

 

 

Part SSS--John F. Kennedy 

 

      348             The JFK Murder                                                                                                23

 

      349             More on the Actors                                                                                           38

 

      350             The Government Cover-Up I                                                                          47

 

      351             The Government Cover-Up II                                                                         60

 

      352             The Bankers Called the Shots                                                                       70

 

      353             More on the Intrigue                                                                                        86

 

      354             Lyndon Johnson I                                                                                            93

 

      355             Lyndon Johnson II                                                                                           99

 

      356             The Texas Meeting                                                                                        111

 

      357             Other Government Players                                                                           122

 

      358             The Kennedys and Marilyn Monroe                                                           136

 

 

Part TTT--The Mob and the US Presidency 

 

      359             Bankers, Gangsters and Politicians I                                                         139

 

      360             Bankers, Gangsters and Politicians II                                                        150

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Chapter 346--The Murderers of YESHUA I

 

 

The Death of YESHUA 

 

The actual physical death of YESHUA was described in a former chapter.  There is no need to repeat those findings. 

 

However, perhaps one of the most important facets of His death concerns the conspiracy of the people involved in His murder.  The following commentary will outline this conspiracy and the plotting going on behind the scenes to insure His death. 

 

The Charges Against Him 

 

Strangely enough, in regards to YESHUA’s death, there were several charges leveled against Him; and there seemed to be some confusion in their different presentations (Mk 14:59). 

 

For example, in His appearance before the High Priest, it would seem that the religious authorities produced two so-called witnesses who charged Him falsely of having said that He would destroy the Temple in Jerusalem and in three days build another (Matt 26:61). 

 

But not satisfied with these false reports, the High Priest pressured Him to say something far more damaging and something which would satisfy a death sentence because the rulers wanted Him dead. 

 

Certainly, He did say that He was The SON OF ADAM and that He would sit on the right hand of power and come in the clouds of heaven (Matt 26:64; Mk 14:62); which, alone, would have probably still been lacking (for a death sentence) because He also said “so you say” in respect to some statements (Lu 22:70).  However, in one of these appearances, He declared that He was “I AM” (Mk 14:62). 

 

Probably, this was one of the primary complaints that the religious leaders had against Him.  They all knew and understood Who “I AM” was and is.  YHWH was I AM (Ex 3:14).  When they heard this statement, they went into a frenzy and yelled “blasphemy.”  (Earlier, He had said a similar statement which also led the Jews to believe that He was holding Himself out to be The ELOHIM--Jo 10:33). 

 

A paradox was to quickly ensue in His trial because when the religious leaders took Him before the Roman Governor Pilate, they completely changed their tunes to (falsely) accuse Him of treason and sedition (Lu 23:2).  After all, they wanted Him dead.  Of course, with the more serious complaints of Him speaking against Rome and Caesar, their wishes would be more favorably considered by Pilate. 

 

This Pilate (though racially probably an Israelite himself, as established elsewhere herein) was himself extremely bad because he had at one time mingled the blood of some Galileans with their sacrifices (Lu 13:1). 

 

But under pressure from his wife, Pilate wanted to let YESHUA go.  So the Jewish leaders incited the crowd (mob) to cry out for YESHUA’s death.  And Pilate acceded to their demands. 

 

But why the enormous hatred from the Jewish leaders which prompted them to lie and falsely accuse an innocent MAN?  Surely, there must have been more to it than simply a few differences over theology.  And of course, there was more to it than just that. 

 

 

Real Motives of the Murderers 

 

In a previous presentation on the Jewish sects in Palestine in Second Temple days, mention was made of former Hebrew University Professor David Flusser’s suggestion that the Sadducean religious leadership hated YESHUA because they perceived Him to be a threat to them in their leadership roles in the Temple which provided them with power, money and position (Jo 11:48 would support this position). 

 

Flusser saw the “high priests” as the primary enemies of YESHUA and certainly in the first three so-called Gospels of the New Testament, although those writings do not explicitly indicate the cause of their hatred, as brought out otherwise by the Apostle Yohanan.  Surely, Yohanan’s remarks must be a part of it and particularly in the vein that some of the Sadducees were actually Amalekites, as discussed earlier. 

 

Additionally, there was the racial or ethnic component of some of the leading Pharisees and scribes which was brought out by The MESSIAH, Himself, when He charged them with the deaths of all of the righteous in history, to even include His Own coming execution (Matt 23:29-35).  This citation is fundamental to the whole question, although there is still more to it. 

 

Yes, the people (per their racial/ethnic classification) who have historically been responsible for the murder of all of the righteous (from Abel all the way to Second Temple days and on forward to modern times in the beginnings of the 21st century CE) bear the primary responsibility for YESHUA’s death.  

 

The Scriptures themselves elsewhere prove this connection beyond a doubt.  In Psalms 22:16, the Word lays out a prophecy of the involvement of the Edomite dogs in the murder of YESHUA.  Certainly, they must first carry much of the weight for this awful act. 

 

But in mentioning this condition (as pointed out by The MESSIAH in Matthew 23:35, discussed previously), it must be acknowledged that this gang of murderers did not act solely alone (though they were the obvious leaders and promoters of YESHUA’s murder).  The truth is that they incited the secular rulers and the collective people to participate in the murder in a conspiracy (Ps 2:2). 

 

 

The NT Environment 

 

To appreciate the catalyst or trigger which set these evil people off, one needs to recognize the presence and influence of the money power (operating from behind the scenes) that existed to exploit, oppress, harm and hurt much of the Jerusalem population. 

 

As pointed out earlier, the exchanging of moneys, lending at usury and other wicked banking practices were forbidden by Moshe (Ex 22:25).  According to the Word, the charging of usury/interest on loans is a capital crime invoking the death penalty (Ezek 18:13; 22:12).  It was a very serious criminal activity and seems to have had no acceptance in the early Israelite culture. 

 

But with the Babylonian captivity, some of the Jews (perhaps largely Canaanites, Kenites, Edomites and other non-Israelites illegally attached to Yehudah and posing as Jews) seemed to have learned and adopted these evil banking practices and brought them back to Palestine to use in acts of oppression against the returning Israelites (Neh 5:1-10). 

 

 

The Second Temple Bankers 

 

“Encyclopaedia Judaica” candidly admits the apparent absence of banking enterprises in ancient Yisrael before the Babylonian exile.  During the exile, some of the Jews (alleged Jews, but likely persons of the lineage of Kain) learned of this evil practice from the Chaldeans and brought it back to Palestine in the return. 

 

Judaica (v. 4, p. 166) makes the point that in Second Temple days the Jews organized a large banking operation at the Temple on the level of a national and/or central bank.  This large central bank at the Temple, probably the largest one of its kind in the Middle East, allowed the wealthy people, including tax agents and landowners, to speculate and deposit their gains and profits at the Temple bank. 

 

The previously mentioned Dr. Burton L. Mack mentions this Temple banking system and suggests that it was supported by synagogues throughout the Roman Empire (“Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth,” p. 29).  Per Mack’s comments, it would seem that synagogues throughout the Roman world deposited their funds in this Temple bank. 

 

In other words, this national bank at the Temple was more than just a simple, money exchange operation.  It included the practices of usury, loans, depositing and withdrawal of funds, probably the transfer of funds internationally, and gambling and speculating on money--to perhaps even include the beginnings of the derivities’ markets, as implied in the Talmud (“Encyclopaedia Judaica,” v. 4, p. 166).  

 

In short, the Temple’s national bank was a large, full service, international bank (perhaps also with a branch in Rome, to be detailed shortly herein)--apparently very comparable to the later ones set up by the Amalekite bankers in the Christian West (as described in prior chapters).  Moreover, the Temple bank also served as the central bank of the nation (which just added to its power and influence). 

 

In fact, it is plausible that this Temple bank operation was the forerunner or beginnings of the later Rothschild international bank, organized in Frankfurt, Germany in the 18th century.  

 

Certainly, the practice of the Amalekites to privately own a nation’s central bank probably started in Jerusalem.  No wonder this operation at YHWH’s Temple would upset and anger YESHUA so profoundly. 

 

 

Amalekites Were in Charge at the Temple 

 

As outlined in a former chapter, Clarence Wagner, editor of the “Dispatch from Jerusalem,” makes the case that the Herodians had infiltrated the Sadducean priesthood and actually controlled the Temple grounds and Temple services. 

 

Therefore, these Amalek-Edomites were the very people in charge of the physical facilities where the banking and commercial operations were on-going at the Temple. 

 

By the time of the New Testament, these evil, wicked, banking activities were firmly entrenched--particularly in the Jerusalem area and manifestly in the hands of the ruling Amalek-Edomites who had assumed positions of authority in Herod’s kingdom (Matt 21:12; Mk 11:15). 

 

Consequently, the point must be made that these evil bankers had been exploiting the people for many long years before YESHUA’s day. 

 

 

YESHUA Encounters the Bankers 

 

Early on, in His ministry, The Anointed ONE went into the very enclave of the super-rich bankers at the Temple and began to upset their money changing, robbing, stealing and exploiting operations (Jo 2:13-17).  At that time, this money changing was being carried on with the commercial sale of animals and birds for sacrifice which made the whole operation even more disgusting. 

 

While the bankers may not have been directly involved personally, in the sale of the sacrificial animals, one can bank on it that they were getting a commission or slice of the action someway (along with the Herodians, who were probably the people making the sales or, as a minimum, the people in charge of the Temple grounds who leased or rented out space to the bankers and merchants). 

 

This sickness going on at the Temple and YESHUA’s reaction to it probably set Him apart for death from the very beginning.  He was an enemy of the bankers from almost day one of His ministry.  Since the Temple operation was in the immediate hands of Amalekite Herodians, it is also clear that YESHUA quickly became an enemy of the overall Herodians and the Sadducean priesthood (Matt 22:16; Mk 3:6; 12:13). 

 

On at least two more occasions, just before His death (one before and one just after cursing the fig tree), YESHUA did the same thing again by attacking the banking and commercial operations at the Temple (Matt 21:12-13; Mk 11:12-17; Lu 19:45-46).  In these condemnations, He observed that the bankers and commercial sellers at the Temple constituted “a den of thieves” (Matt 21:13; Mk 11:17; Lu 19:46). 

 

The MESSIAH’s remarks bring to mind an earlier prophecy by Yirmeyahu that the Temple would become a den of robbers who would not obey YHWH (Jer 7:11, 28). 

 

To repeat a marvelous quotation from the Talmud, a former chapter noted that the Talmud says that gamblers and usurers were not thought to be trustworthy witnesses (Sanh. 3:3, “Encyclopaedia Judaica,” v. 4, p. 166).  Clearly, the intent of these remarks is a focus upon bankers who are both gamblers (speculators in money) and usurers. 

 

 

The Catalyst

 

Evidently, one or both of the last encounters YESHUA had with the bankers took place around the tenth day of the first month of Aviv, just some four days before His death on Passover of that year (c30 CE).  The importance of Aviv 10 is that this is the express day on which the Passover lambs were to be set aside and marked for sacrifice (Ex 12:3). 

 

As Mark wrote it, when the chief priests and scribes learned of what had happened to the bankers, they began plotting on how they would kill Him (Mk 11:18).  For the next two days, the plotting and scheming intensified (Matt 21:45-46; Mk 12:12; Lu 20:19). 

 

A question must now surface over why would the religious authorities take to heart and become so upset over an incident which seemed to just involve the local bankers? 

 

True, the bankers were angry over their losses, but why should the religious authorities become so violent that they became liars and frauds themselves in order to murder The SON OF ADAM? 

 

 

The Bankers Were in Charge 

 

Is it not abundantly clear that the bankers operating at the Temple were surely the real power brokers in Jerusalem at that time?  In other words, the bankers were in charge, just like they pretty well were in charge in Ezra and Nechemyah’s day and just as they have been generally in charge in the West for the last 2,500 years.  The Sadducees (both the Herodians and true Jews) must have been subordinate to the bankers. 

 

Manifestly, the bankers were really the people calling most of the shots over both religious and secular affairs in Judea in those days (and still today, in the Christian West).  The local politicians and religious authorities likely took orders from the money power and did as they were told to do in the generic sense (otherwise, they would have been in trouble). 

 

There is an old interpretation of the so-called golden rule which needs mention here.  It is that he who has the gold does the ruling.  Hence, the bankers had a sweet money scam in place; and they were not about to have it interfered with in anyway. 

 

The evidence seems clear enough that the ruling Sanhedrin (in the collective sense) was subservient to the behind the scenes ruling bankers.  Of course, they jumped when the bankers spoke.  But the evidence suggests that the power of the bankers was even greater than just over the local Jewish authorities.  Undoubtedly, Pilate and the ruling Roman authorities were somewhat subservient to the bankers as well. 

 

Like the NT account reads, Pilate and particularly his wife wanted to let YESHUA go.  But there was a force at work which effectively blocked Pilate’s will.  Many would accuse the incited mob for this pressure.  But would a gang of Judean rioters in Jerusalem been sufficient to cause the Roman Governor to back off from his own wishes?  It’s doubtful that Pilate would have given in to just a single mob.  

 

There had to be a bigger power involved than just an incited mob of local people.  Pilate was a big shot and he had a Roman army at his hand to arrest and execute the mob if it got out of hand.  Surely, he ruled the local people with a iron fist and would not have put up with any open rebellion from a wild mob (if he did so, he would have lost the control of Rome over the population). 

 

But if the international bank ran by the Amalekites in Jerusalem had a banking branch in Rome (as mentioned above and elsewhere herein), it’s extremely likely that some of the Roman leaders in Rome were subservient to the bankers as well. 

 

 

Banking Background 

 

As discussed above and in other comments herein, commerce, trade and banking operations were well established realities of the Babylonian empire (“Encyclopaedia Judaica,” v. 16, p. 1271).  From there, the returning Jews, Kenites, Canaanites and others brought the concepts of banking and commerce back to Palestine (Neh 5:1-10). 

 

Since the Amalekites were closely allied with the Babylonians, it is clear that they also learned about the same evil practices--probably directly from the Babylonians in Babylon or from the Kenites and others returning to Palestine after the release by Cyrus. 

 

These same practices quickly became the reality of the Greek empire from the time of Alexander the Great and thereafter (“Encyclopaedia Judaica,” v. 4, p. 166 & v. 16, p 1273). 

 

Certainly, the large, international bank in the Temple complex started early and clearly by the Greek era because Alexander and his successors encouraged exchanges and commerce between the different provinces (ibid, v. 16, p. 1272).  With the arrival of the Roman Empire in the first century BCE, international trade, commerce and banking operations were in place from the Greek era.  They continued on forward until today. 

 

Manifestly, there were banks throughout the Roman Empire.  The only question about them is whether they were owned and/or controlled by Amalek-Edomites or other non-Amalekite parties. 

 

 

Yes, Amalekite Banks Throughout the Empire 

 

Besides the Jerusalem Temple bank, it is clear from history that the Jews (likely Amalekites, by the first century CE) did have a number of banking operations on-going in the Roman Empire in the NT era.  For example, Alfred Edersheim mentions the great Jewish banking and shipping house of Saramalla in Antioch (“The Life and Times of Jesus The Messiah,” p. 43). 

 

Edersheim also describes a very famous and large Jewish banking operation in Alexandria, Egypt in Second Temple days (“Sketches of Jewish Social Life,” p. 191).  “Encyclopaedia Judaica” (v. 16, p. 1277) notes this Jewish banking operation in Alexandria and quotes an early papyrus of 41 CE (from an Alexandrian merchant to a friend) which said “to beware of the Jews,” in the context of their banking operations. 

 

“Encyclopaedia Judaica” (v. 16, p. 1277) discusses this Jewish Alexandrian bank in some detail (which was run by Alexander, a brother of the famous writer Philo).  Although some might try to argue that Philo and Alexander were not Edomites (surely, they were at least part Amalek-Edomite, Canaanite or Kenite), the very power of this bank suggests that it was essentially owned and managed by children of Satan. 

 

This Alexandrian bank loaned the Amalek-Edomite Agrippa I some 200,000 sesterces (about $30,000), much of which was to be paid out from the bank’s Italian branch office in Putoli-Dikaerchia--which must have been an area in the vicinity of Rome (quoting Josephus, Ant., 18:160). 

 

 

The Rome Tie

 

The banker Alexander was also the steward of Antonia, mother of the Emperor Claudius (ibid, v. 16, p. 1278).  Thus, apparent Amalekite, Canaanite or Kenite, Jewish bankers had their spurs or claws hooked into the Roman Emperor’s personal household and family at a very early time. 

 

Surely, the Emperors, Senators and other Roman leaders needed, sought and borrowed Amalekite/Satanic money for a long period of time (just as rulers have routinely done so throughout the civilized, Christian West for the last 2,000 years). 

 

Consequently, the evidence is massive that Amalekite/Satanic, Jewish bankers had banking operations on-going in Rome, as well as throughout the Roman Empire in the first century CE.  Likely, they were everywhere (just like today)! 

 

The possibility of one or more Amalekite/Satanic banks and branches in Rome, which were fully locked in with the ruling Roman elite, is entirely logical and makes total sense.  Maybe Pilate (and other Roman dignitaries in the other provinces) had his marching orders from Rome to march to the tune piped by the Amalekite bankers.  So he did! 

 

As suggested above, the evidence is persuasive that full service banking (commercial and international) was an established reality throughout the Roman Empire by the first century CE.  The only question is one of trying to determine how many of these banks were in the hands of Amalekite Jews.  Certainly, many or perhaps even most of them were! 

 

 

The Amalekite Herods, Revisited 

 

Inevitably, one must always wonder how it was and why it happened that the Roman government gave up so much power in Palestine to the Amalekites--starting to some extent from the time of Antipater (c48 BCE) and especially on forward with his son, Herod the Great (during the years 46-4 BCE). 

 

With the assumption of power, old Herod and his ruling descendants were given the right to plunder the people through taxation (which they did!).  This was one of the reasons why the people hated the tax collectors so much.  The question must always be asked why particularly that the Amalekite Herod was allowed so much control over Judea and Palestine in the generic sense. 

 

After all, Herod certainly was no racial or true ethnic Jew.  At best, he was a half-Jew (religiously).  Though he pretended to be of the Jewish religion (like other Amalekites), surely no one would honestly try to contend that he was a genuine religious Jew.  With his diabolical evil and wretchedness, it must be concluded that he was an absolute son of Satan--both physically and religiously.  There is no other option on him. 

 

Herod’s rule has to be one of the great paradoxes of history and especially in view of the fact that Rome would have wanted peace and harmony in the province. 

 

The very imposition of an alien Amalekite master over Judea opened the door to trouble down the road.  This transfer of power to the Amalekite Herod makes no sense at all, unless it is placed in the vein of Amalekite bankers/masters calling the shots in Rome and probably throughout much of the empire (as is true in the American empire today). 

 

Of course, there was ensuing trouble over the years (although Herod usually sustained his office and power by utter brutality, oppression and murder).  The people were literally afraid of him.  Too, he perceptively undertook a massive rebuilding of the Temple which certainly satisfied some of them.  However, the feelings of the people did ultimately explode in the Jewish Roman War of 66-73 CE. 

 

 

The Environment in Judea 

 

Just as Amalekite bankers and masters operate from behind the scenes today and use prostitute politicians and other leaders out front, the same thing must have existed in the first century CE.  On this theme, there was at least one event in the Roman war which really spelled out the reality of who was secretly calling the shots in Palestine for all those years that the Amalekite Herods were around (c46 BCE to 73 CE).

 

In “Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian” (p. 416), Lester L. Grabbe described this event in his discussion on the environment in the 60s CE. 

 

Although there was some wealth in Judea, there was a problem in the distribution of wealth in that there were very few rich people and most everyone else was poor.  It was the poor who bore the blunt of taxation (which was regressive and excessive).  It is no wonder that tax collectors were so hated and despised. 

 

The situation in Judea in the first century CE was much like it is today in modern America.  The rich get richer and the poor get poorer under oppressive taxation.  Just like tax collectors were hated in those days, the same is true today with the Internal Revenue Service. 

 

In order to pay the taxes and try to live, the people became heavily in debt to the bankers who were a part of the wealthy few.  As Grabbe indicates, one of the first things some of the common people did (once anarchy and rebellion took over in Jerusalem in 66 CE) was to burn the debt records (“Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian,” p. 416). 

 

As a minimum, the people invaded the Temple’s bank and burned the records there.  Grabbe didn’t give the details on this rebellion against the banking creditors, but it is possible to go to other sources and put together the big picture.  In any case, this event proved the power of the bankers over the people and the hatred that the common man had for them and their operations (much like in the 1930s). 

 

Obviously, by the first century BCE, the Amalekite bankers were certainly moving in the circles of power in Jerusalem and Alexandria and likely in Rome as well (especially, if they had a banking branch there).  Being Amalekites, they undoubtedly helped the Amalekite Herod in some way in his take-over of parts of Palestine.  Certainly, he and his cousins in the Herodian sect were linked in with the Amalekite bankers. 

 

 

A Religious Take-Over as Well 

 

The Amalekites were bleeding the people dry through excessive taxation and oppression.  They took over (at least, with direct or indirect control and management) the whole Jerusalem structure to include the Sanhedrin, the priesthood, the Kenite scribes, the Shammai Pharisee leadership and on and on.  These Amalekites were getting richer and richer as the people got poorer and poorer (much like today). 

 

Even when Rome ostensibly took back control of Judea in the early first century CE (following the death of old Herod the Great), the truth was that Herod’s sons were ever in the background and still calling many of the shots in the context of the Sanhedrin and Jewish power circles (as discussed previously herein).  No wonder the Jewish authorities pushed the Nazarene Jews out of the synagogues (as discussed earlier). 

 

It was this ever present, secret, Amalekite, power structure which allowed the Herods to pack the religious hierarchy with Amalekite, Kenite and Canaanite persons or supporters.  In other words, the true Jews had completely lost control of their entire situation. 

 

When YESHUA came to the headquarters of this Amalekite power operation (at the bank at the Temple) and began upsetting tables and declaring a vocal war of words against the Amalekites (as the NT repeatedly proves when He so often called them sons of Satan, vipers, dogs, swine, hypocrites and workers of evil), they quickly marked Him for death.  Since they were the people in charge, He was to die! 

 

 

Josephus, Revisited 

 

The probability that the Amalekite bankers had a branch operation in Rome (besides the one at Putoli-Dikaerchia) in the first century CE gains much support from the great Jewish historian Josephus--not because of what Josephus said; but rather, because of what he carefully did not say. 

 

Josephus was a cohen and an educated man who was also descended from the once ruling Hasmonean family.  The evidence is persuasive that he was a true, genuine, racial Israelite who knew much about what all was going on in the Roman Empire. 

 

Being born in Judea in 37 CE, he grew up in and certainly understood much about the conflict between the true Jews versus the Amalekite pretenders.  During his life in Palestine (before he went to Rome, after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE), he must have known and understood the situation with the Amalekites. 

 

Certainly, he was educated about their great evil, as readily discussed and known among the Jews of those days (as demonstrated in other chapters heretofore on the enormous citations and comments about the Amalekites in the Talmud, Pesikta De-Rab Kahana’s work on synagogue discussions on Sabbaths and festivals, the Qumran theology, the Targums and remarks found in the NT). 

 

 

A Strange Response 

 

The Scriptures (OT and NT) and early Jewish literature are pregnant with condemnations of the evils of the Amalekites.  Yet, when historian Josephus goes to Rome and starts writing his history about the Jews, he says little or nothing about them (except in a matter of fact style of reporting history). 

 

He writes a little more on the generic Idumeans, but really nothing in the way of condemnation, as should be true based upon the then contemporary Jewish hatred for the Edomites generally and Amalekites particularly (as evident in the early Jewish writings). 

 

Therefore, the question must be asked as to why Josephus would write his history of the Jews and seemingly go out of the way to avoid criticizing and condemning the great evil of the Amalekites who had completely infiltrated and taken over the Jewish society in the first century CE? 

 

There is only one plausible reason that a person of the caliber and background of Josephus would seemingly go out of his way to be good to the Amalekite pretenders and bankers in Palestine, who were the epitome of evil (as outlined in the Scriptures and early Jewish writings). 

 

The reason for this silence is obvious.  The Amalekite bankers were running the show in Rome, just as they were in Alexandria and Jerusalem.  The population (including Josephus) was afraid of them.  Josephus knew what he had to do to survive.  He knew that he would have to bite his lip and keep his mouth shut in order to avoid enormous personal trouble and perhaps death. 

 

He toed the line--just like most modern historians will do today.  All of them know that they can be destroyed if they are not very careful in what they say about the ruling Amalekite Jew bankers/masters.  The same situation obviously prevailed in Rome in the first century CE. 

 

 

The Obvious 

 

It is extremely plausible (in fact, almost a certainty) that when YESHUA upset the wicked activities of the Amalekite bankers that they immediately contacted the local “prostitute” politicians and preachers (many of whom were Amalekite Herodian priests and Kenite scribes) with a demand that something be done to protect their property and interests. 

 

Even for the non-Herodian Yehudahites (most of whom were janissaries), money talks (as will be later proven).  It does today in Christendom--just as it has done so for the last 2,500 years.  Therefore, it wasn’t just the Herodian Sadducean leadership that wanted YESHUA dead.  As the NT Scriptures put it, it was the “chief priests, scribes and chief of the people” who sought to slay Him (Lu 19:47). 

 

Please note that this indictment included both religious leaders and secular leaders (the chief of the people). 

 

In other words, almost everybody in authority wanted Him dead.  Since the Amalekite money power was well established and since this force assuredly called the shots in Judea, it is certain that even the non-Edomite religious leaders (chief priests and scribes) also took orders and marched to the tune that the bankers piped. 

 

It must be noted that the money power was surely synonymous with or very close to the Herodians, discussed previously (which were largely or totally Amalekites).  Racially, the Herodians, the Amalekite bankers and the main leaders in Judea were all clannish Amalekites.  They were the people in real charge in late Second Temple days, just as they have been in charge in America in the 20th and early 21st centuries. 

 

 

The Evil Herodians 

 

Thus, not only did YESHUA have constant problems with certain Judean Pharisees (apparently Shammai and Haverim) and the scribes (the Kenites), but the Herodians were also His arch enemies (Mk 3:6). 

 

In fact, just before His death, it was some of the Pharisees (surely Shammai and/or Haverim) and certain Herodians who tried to entrap Him and set Him up to be killed (Matt 22:15-16; Mk 12:13). 

 

So the Amalek-Herodians had taken over the Sadducean priesthood (as Clarence Wagner allows, discussed earlier) and were in league with the influential and powerful Shammai and/or Haverim Pharisees and the chiefs of the people.  They were jointly the arch enemies of YESHUA and His work and commission.  Most of this crowd were Amalekites.  Even many of the non-Amalekites were janissaries. 

 

Despite this extreme hatred that the bankers and their evil supporters had for The MESSIAH, He generally had a lot of support among the common Jewish people--manifestly the persons of the Hillel Pharisee persuasion (Matt 21:45-46; 26:1-5; Mk 11:18; 12:12; 14:1; Lu 22:1).  He was one of them and they were generally His friends. 

 

However, when the chips were down, the Amalekite bankers and Amalekite Herodians and their prostitute lackeys among the true Jews (janissary robots) were able to incite the democratic mob into a rage to demand His death (Matt 27:20-24; Mk 15:11-15). 

 

While the racial makeup of the mob is not totally clear, it is certain that they were essentially Judeans for sure (and not racial or religious Jews, as described in former chapters). 

 

Being Judeans, they probably were Amalekites (in the form of the Herodians), Kenites and other nokri/nekar aliens.  It is very possible that there were no true racial or religious Jews in the crowd at all (though there may have been some Amalekite Herodians in the mob, who were posing as and pretending to be Shammai Pharisees or Sadducees).  Correctly, this mob was a Judean mob and not a Jewish one. 

 

The Edomite character in the murderers of YESHUA was amply brought out in Psalms 22:15-20, as was briefly cited above and in previous chapters.  This famous Psalm by David clearly brings out the role of dogs (which the Book defines as Edomites, per a previous discussion) in the execution of The MESSIAH. 

 

In Psalms 22:16, the song specifically ties the Edomite dogs to the assembly of the wicked who had encompassed YESHUA.  While Roman soldiers may have done the actual execution, the clear truth is manifest that Edomite dogs were really the people behind it.  And yes, these dogs did exercise power over the situation (Ps 22:20). 

 

 

Qumran, Revisited 

 

Incidentally, earlier chapters focused on the believed Essene sect at Qumran and their strong opposition to the Judean Jews in control of the Temple and power structure in Jerusalem.  Because of the racial/ethnic people in charge in Jerusalem, the Qumran people would not go there to worship, nor would they offer any support for them at all. 

 

It appears that the problem which the Essenes had with the Jerusalem Jews may be the same as that which YESHUA had with them.  The Jewish power structure in Jerusalem was in the hands of Amalek-Edomite bankers and fat cats (the sons of darkness and/or children of the Devil) who ruled over Jewish secular and religious affairs (similar to the US situation in the early 21st century, to be later proven). 

 

Positively, the believed Essene community at Qumran was absolutely opposed to the power structure in control of the Jerusalem Temple.  The Essenes referred to these leaders as the sons of darkness--surely, from the perspective that they were non-Israelite peoples who had been illegally converted to Judaism in contradiction of the Scriptures. 

 

As noted previously, these Qumran remarks on the sons of darkness were clearly suggestive of the Amalek-Edomites.  An ancient Jewish Midrash from Qumran went on to affirm that the Jerusalem Temple was polluted (“Judaism and the Origins of Christianity,” p. 102).  Is it not very plausible that this Essene attitude was predicated upon the Amalek-Edomite bankers and their operations at the Temple? 

 

Earlier, Zechariah 14:21 was quoted in saying that there shall be no more the Canaanite in the future Millennial Temple.  Assuredly, mixed Edomite-Hittite (Canaanite) peoples are addressed in this text in the apparent context that Canaanites had illegally been in the First and/or Second Temples--either as worshippers or more likely as Temple officials, priests, bankers, etc. 

 

Interestingly, this remark connects with a significant Jewish Midrash from Qumran which focused on II Samuel 7:6-16 with an interpretation on the sons of wickedness in the context of a future cleansed Temple (“Judaism and the Origins of Christianity,” p. 101). 

 

An English translation of this Midrash reads “The future Temple is the House where there shall not enter any one in whose flesh there is a permanent blemish and an Ammonite and a Moabite and a bastard (evidently, from the Hebrew mamzer, previously described) and an alien (perhaps from the Hebrew nokri, commented upon earlier) for ever and ever for His holy ones...” 

 

This phrase on the sons or children of wickedness in II Samuel 7:10 was discussed in a prior chapter heretofore in the context of the evil Amalekites who rule over and oppress and persecute the people of the House of Yisrael in the age end.  YHWH has granted this power to the Amalekites in the age end because the people of Yisrael are evil themselves.  It is a type of judgment upon them. 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 347--The Murderers of YESHUA II

 

 

Real Reasons For YESHUA’s Death 

 

The most important issue in the prior presentations on the New Covenant and reconciliation concerns the question of why YESHUA The MESSIAH really had to die or why His death was preordained or allowed to take place?  Beyond what has been said so far, what situations or conditions existed in Palestine 2,000 years ago or subsequently to have precipitated His death? 

 

Well, there seems to be some obviously clear answers to that issue.  Of course, there was the reality that the Temple sacrificial system was inadequate to really forgive the multitudes of sins among the people.  As noted earlier, the Israelites, in the flesh, were gross sinners of the worst kind back then--just as they are today. 

 

Almost all people live life with multitudes of sins being committed (literally, in the hundreds of thousands or millions).  Simply stated, there were not enough sheep and goats, practically speaking, to be sacrificed to pay for this multitude of sins for the typical one person--even if the sins were of the caliber to allow a Temple sacrifice. 

 

Of course, most of us commit sins which could not be covered by the Temple sacrifice system anyway.  Hence, the Temple sacrificial operation was actually quite inadequate to grant forgiveness to gross sinners and this would be especially true today where the prevailing Christian culture operates in total rebellion and contempt towards YHWH’s Torah. 

 

Therefore, the people have historically lived and thrived upon rebellion.  So the Old Covenant couldn’t hack it without some fundamental changes being made among the people.  Again, the problem was not with the covenant.  It rested with the people (who were sinners, just as people are sinners today). 

 

YESHUA’s death to forgive all past sins and the actions of The Spirit of EL to grant repentance, faith, reconciliation and conversion appear to be the methods chosen to provide a basic clean up of the Israelite sinners.  However, there was still more problems. 

 

 

Results of the Divorce 

 

Under the Old Covenant, YHWH was married to Yisrael.  But Yisrael turned to harlotry.  So YHWH divorced her.  And here was a dilemma.  YAH’s law says that a divorced woman (who goes to another man, perhaps in a new and different marriage or possibly even without marriage, but just in a state of adultery) can “never” return to her divorcing husband (Deut 24:1-4; Matt 5:32; 19:9). 

 

Some students of the Book interpret this text to demand that an unclean woman be divorced automatically with no option for reconciliation.  David probably had some cognizance of this law when he refused to go back into sexual relations with his ten concubines after they were violated by Absalom (II Sam 15:16; 16:21-22; 20:3). 

 

Also, being aware of the law, Yirmeyahu wrote some similar remarks and directly linked them to the situation between YHWH and Yisrael (Jer 3:1).  Can fornicating Yisrael ever return to YHWH after He divorced her?  Well, the answer is no! 

 

 

How Yisrael Can Return to Her Husband 

 

So the Apostle Shaul came along several hundred years later and clarified an interesting little point about YAH’s laws.  He correctly observed that a woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as her husband “lives.”  If the husband should “die,” then the woman is loosed from that law (Rom 7:1-3). 

 

Perhaps this law of marriage can be over-ridden by a divorce, although Shaul’s remarks may not be clear on this question and particularly as they relate to Deuteronomy 24:1-4.  Nevertheless, the point is well made that death for certain seems to sever all links between the man and his wife. 

 

Thus, Yisrael was divorced, cut off and out in the world having illegitimate children.  By YHWH’s Word, it was His purpose to be married to Yisrael and to raise up His children through her.  Now, how can that be accomplished with the outstanding bill of divorcement against her and the mitzwah (Deut 24:1-4) that prevents her from returning to Him? 

 

 

The Answer is Death 

 

Well, YHWH had to die.  Therefore, He came to earth as YHWH YESHUA The MESSIAH and died so that Yisrael could be free of that outstanding note.  Once Yisrael was free and the old link between her and her husband had been severed, she can then be reconciled back to her former husband and married again. 

 

And that’s precisely what will happen in the millennium (Rev 21:2).  YHWH YESHUA has blotted out that outstanding bill of divorcement through His death.  With that note removed, He is now free to marry (or remarry) Yisrael and adopt as His Own, all of her illegitimate children born while she was in adultery.  These adopted children will be made His heirs and granted true sonship--just as if they were His Own. 

 

In this coming new covenant or marriage, things will be a little different.  YAH is not going to abolish His laws that define righteousness, nor is He going to change them to accommodate sinners.  In truth, He will write His laws into the minds and hearts of the people of the House of Yisrael so that they will start obeying them in the new marriage. 

 

 

Jeremiah 31:22 Revisited 

 

Perhaps it is this environment (of Yisrael learning to stop sinning) which precipitates the situation discussed in an earlier chapter where the female Yisrael shall actually compass (woo, win back and deserve the love of) her Husband YHWH YESHUA (Jer 31:22, per “The Amplified Bible”). 

 

Obviously, such a predicament is totally out of the question as long as Yisrael is wallowing in sin, as she has done so for the past 2,700 years.  But there is a coming day when Yisrael will learn to stop sinning.  Perhaps the catalyst for such a wonderful eventuality is the coming time of Yakov’s Trouble and the great tribulation.  Truly, Yisrael will ultimately stop sinning--obviously, after much trial, chastisement and punishment.  

 

 

The Responsible Killers 

 

Another profound note on this death of YESHUA needs mention.  In an earlier chapter, reference was made to Acts 2 and 4 and some remarks made by Kefa suggesting that persons of the House of Yisrael were involved in the impalement of The MESSIAH.  As noted in those previous comments, a reader of Acts must find it curious and interesting that that revelation materialized. 

 

On the day of Shavuot, Kefa said that “you men of Yisrael” are responsible for the death of The SON OF ADAM (Acts 2:22-23) and continued with a more precise statement suggesting that the collective House of Yisrael (as stupid blind followers of the money power) carried out that execution, as propelled by the bankers (Acts 2:36). 

 

In still one more statement soon thereafter, Kefa was once again quite explicit in charging that Herod and Pilate and the ethnesi, kai (even, namely) the people of Yisrael, were gathered together against The ANOINTED ONE (Acts 4:27)--yes, as dumb sheep following (obeying) the apparent Amalek-Edomite and/or Kenite bankers. 

 

Significantly, this presentation by Kefa included some preparatory remarks in the context which identified the men of Judea (true Jews from the just listed places [Acts 2:9-11] in the Roman Empire?) and those persons living in Jerusalem (Edomite Jews?) in a separate context (Acts 2:14).  In other words, Kefa evidently differentiated between the collective Yehudim, the people of Jerusalem and the House of Yisrael. 

 

Elsewhere, the New Testament abundantly established the guilt of the Jews (at least the Judeans in Jerusalem) in agitating and calling for the execution of YESHUA (Matt 27:20-23).  In that context, the Jewish leadership (mainly Edomites and/or Kenites?) was the brains and principle antagonists while the rest of the Judean lynch mob seemed to have joined in after some inflammatory prodding by the leaders. 

 

But the actual death sentence was, of course, carried out by Pilate (probably an Israelite of the lost tribes, as outlined earlier in this work) and the Roman soldiers (also probably Israelites of the lost tribes, as discussed previously, in an interpretation of Romans 4:1 and 9:3-7). 

 

The point of this finding is that it seems highly probable that the actual persons carrying out the killing of YESHUA were Israelites of the House of Yisrael. 

 

This whole scenario appears absolutely incredible.  YHWH came to earth as The Man YESHUA with the Good News message in order to redeem lost Yisrael, provide a substitute sacrifice for those Israelites, and adopt them as His Own children and heirs, despite the fact that they were born illegitimately from an adulterous, harlot mother. 

 

 

How the House of Yisrael Reacted 

 

What was the reaction of those individuals of the House of Yisrael? He came for them, and they killed Him.  They joined in with the true Jews and Amalek-Edomites in executing Him by impalement on a cruel stake of death.  Not only did those people join together to kill Him, but Kefa made it clear that “all” of the House of Yisrael was responsible (Acts 2:36; 4:24-27). 

 

The “all” used by Kefa here includes all of the people of the House of Yisrael of all ages and times for the past 2,700 years (since the divorce). 

 

In truth, His death was necessitated and prompted by the whole House of Yisrael (who He came to and for in order to grant them repentance and reconciliation, per His original commission) and not just the few persons directly involved in the actual impalement (Ps 2:2; I Cor 15:3; Rev 1:5).  Can all of these participants ultimately be forgiven?  Assuredly yes, because of the reality of ignorance! 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 348--The JFK Murder

 

 

John F. Kennedy 

 

This writer was no fan of John F Kennedy.  He was a very bad president and brought much harm to this nation.  He was much like Bill Clinton, except he had substantially more brains and was far more subtle and discrete in his dishonesty and immorality.  Despite his great evil and wickedness, the United States was grossly hurt by his death on Nov 22, 1963.  Lyndon Johnson was far worse. 

 

While there have been many different adjectives, phrases and descriptions which have characterized the historic Jack Kennedy, perhaps the most relevant word or concept of all has to be “deception” and his extraordinary success and ability at deceiving people for ages (tragically, even in death).  Admittedly, Slick Clinton is a master at deception as well.  But Jack was better. 

 

During WWII, Kennedy was commanding a PT boat (#109) for the US Navy in 1943 in the South Pacific.  One night, while in a combat zone in the Solomon Islands, he was sound asleep in his boat.  All of his crew were likewise asleep, drunk or otherwise out.  His boat collided with a Japanese ship.  PT 109 sank.  Two of his 12 man crew were killed.  The survivors made it to a nearby island and were eventually rescued. 

 

Kennedy was cited for gallantry and awarded the Navy-Marine Corps medal for heroism.  Soon, the story was out that he courageously rammed the Japanese ship to sink it.  He quickly gained a reputation for bravery which gave him his first big lift into American politics after the war.  Once Hollywood had made a movie of his alleged gallantry in action, Jack looked invincible. 

 

 

The Murder 

 

With JFK’s death, the world was immediately told that a lone Communist drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald committed the act.  One of the most fantastic and far reaching cover-ups in American history then occurred with the incredible farce of the Warren Commission--which did little or nothing except to lie, deceive and cover-up one of the most manifest conspiracies since the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank. 

 

No public official was much interested in any other explanation or option, beyond blaming Oswald--save New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who believed that a New Orleans based conspiracy planned and executed the murder.  Garrison ended up trying one person in 1969 (Clay Shaw, alias Clay Bertrand, to be shortly profiled), but he was acquitted. 

 

However, it is important to note that not only did Garrison’s grand jury believe that there was a conspiracy, but the actual trial jury members who acquitted Shaw expressed their opinion in a poll that Kennedy’s death did involve a conspiracy of people. 

 

By 1979, the US House Select Committee on the JFK Assassination also concluded that the shooting involved at least two gunmen in a conspiracy.  But the House made no effort to follow up or investigate leads.  So the issue quickly died out. 

 

To really appreciate what precipitated this collusion, it is necessary to take a careful look at the evil and wretched Kennedy (an apparent Edomite, from his Irish Phoenician genealogy).  Jack’s family made its fortune in illegal gangland operations back in the days of prohibition.  John Kennedy, like his father Joe, was closely allied to the Mob (the Mafia, Syndicate or National Commission). 

 

The evidence is overwhelming that Kennedy used his links to Sam Giancana, Mafia boss in Chicago, to win his election in 1960 (allegedly, with the help and influence of Frank Sinatra). 

 

Reportedly, Giancana fixed the Chicago vote which gave Kennedy the Illinois electoral vote, and with alleged fraud in San Antonio, the election.  Recent revelations now indicate that when Kennedy got one of his mistresses pregnant, he called upon his friend and colleague Giancana to arrange for an abortion. 

 

The balance of this presentation on the Kennedy killing has been largely ascertained and compiled from the following home video sources-- “JFK” in 1991; “The JFK Assassination” (the Jim Garrison Tapes) in 1992; “The JFK Conspiracy” in 1992; “JFK, Hoffa and the Mob” in 1993; “Executive Action” in 1973; “The Men Who Killed Kennedy” in 1995; and “Lee Oswald, JFK & Me” in 1995. 

 

Also, these books were consulted-- “Assignment:  Oswald” by James P. Hosty Jr; “Best Evidence” by David S. Lifton; “Contract on America” by David E. Scheim; “The Dark Side of Camelot” by Seymour M. Hersh; “The Day Kennedy Was Shot by Jim Bishop; “Oswald’s Tale” by Norman Mailer; “Flashback” by Ron Lewis; “It Didn’t Start With Watergate” by Victor Lasky; “Kill Zone” by Craig Roberts; “On the Trail of the Assassin” by Jim Garrison. “Final Judgment” by Michael Collins Piper; “The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK,” by Robert Gaylon Ross Sr; “The Texas Connection,” by Craig I. Zirbel; and “The Official Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.” 

 

 

Operation 40 and Operation Mongoose 

 

Starting in the Eisenhower administration, ruling plutocrats (especially Amalekite bankers) seem to have had “some” concern over the takeover of Cuba by Fidel Castro and the establishment of Communism this close to America’s shore in 1959.  FIdel’s closure of the Mob’s crime operations and casinos in Cuba (owned by the two Lansky brothers--Meyer and Jake, mentioned earlier) surely concerned them. 

 

Though the Amalekite plutocrats historically had financed Communism and had had enormous power over the Soviet Union, Fidel was a little unpredictable and may not have willingly jumped when they spoke. 

 

Consequently, planning commenced in about 1959-1960 on a CIA “Operation 40” scheme to oppose and hurt Castro and Cuba (as supervised by the CIA’s 5412 Committee).  This operation included a propaganda project (evidently called JM/WAVE) and a planned Cuban exile invasion of the island to bring Castro down (code-named ZAPATA).  In time, a plan developed to kill Castro. 

 

Liberal writers and analysts, who have been totally obsessed with the glory and greatness of the Kennedys, cannot allow the possibility to enter their minds that it was JFK who commenced the first organized efforts to assassinate Castro.  But this appears to be the truth. 

 

These liberals insist on arguing that this murder project started under Richard Nixon and the Eisenhower administration in the late summer and fall of 1960 as a part of Operation 40.  But there are no proofs to support this allegation at all--even by the famous Church Senate Intelligence Committee hearings in the 1970s (“It didn’t Start With Watergate,” p. 100-102). 

 

 

Murder Incorporated 

 

Although the first CIA labors to assassinate Castro may have (but very doubtfully) commenced under Operation 40 in 1960, it was John F. Kennedy in 1961 who clearly set up the first formal CIA executive action organization in the form of the ZR/Rifle Program (meaning murder and assassination). 

 

Upon becoming president in Jan 1961, Kennedy appointed a CIA official named William K. Harvey to manage the ZR/Rifle Program in Washington (per Hersh, in “Dark Side of Camelot,” p. 186-188).  Harvey was initially tasked to assassinate Raphael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic and Patrice Lumumba of the Congo and in time President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam and Castro. 

 

While the better view is that Kennedy established ZR/Rifle in early 1961, Victor Lasky seems to date it later, at least in the context of Castro.  But Lasky could have the date wrong.  He gives the details on the decision to kill Castro as happening when Robert Kennedy contacted Major General Edward Lansdale about such an effort--presumably, in the summer of 1962 (“It Didn’t Start With Watergate,” p. 86). 

 

Lansdale was supposed to be an Assistant to the Secretary of Defense.  But he apparently worked on black projects for the CIA.  If Lasky’s 1962 date is correct, it might be that the Castro effort was not originally a part of the 1961 ZR/Rifle Program. 

 

Perhaps Kennedy established Murder Incorporated in early 1961 with its initial focus on Trujillo and Lumumba.  Maybe the decision to add Castro did occur in mid 1962, as suggested by Lasky.  In any case, Lansdale contacted Harvey in 1961 or 1962 and the effort on Castro commenced. 

 

Operation ZAPATA collapsed on the beaches of Cuba in the context of the Bay of Pigs fiasco on April 17, 1961, when President Kennedy canceled needed air support.  Thereupon, Kennedy terminated Operation 40 and launched at least three new initiatives--two involving the CIA and the third one focusing on the US military. 

 

Much of the two new CIA efforts were directly focused upon an undeclared war on Cuba.  This JFK war on Cuba was to soon to be enormous in scope and cost the US taxpayers $100 million annually (“It Didn’t Start With Watergate,” p. 85). 

 

 

Operation Mongoose

 

First, JFK set up a new, US based, CIA operation called “Operation Mongoose” by early January 1962 with tentacles in New Orleans, Louisiana; Miami, Florida; and Guatemala. 

 

The goal of Mongoose was to undercut and hurt Cuba--to include another para-military invasion to succeed the failed Bay of Pigs.  The Washington manager of Mongoose was the above mentioned General Edward Geary Lansdale (“Camelot,” p. 283). 

 

Apparently, ZR/Rifle and Operation Mongoose (as well as its predecessor, Operation 40) were largely different CIA programs, although they had clear connections (and evidently most or all of them were managed initially by the CIA’s 5412 Committee).  In terms of Castro and Cuba, ZR/Rifle was probably closely linked to Operation Mongoose. 

 

The US government boss of Mongoose in New Orleans was probably the above mentioned Clay Shaw, the alleged CIA station chief or senior contract agent.  He apparently supervised a government run operation on Lafayette Street in New Orleans under Guy Banister who operated a private detective agency there as a front.  Banister had been the former FBI Bureau Chief in Chicago. 

 

Banister seems to have directed a two prong operation out of his Lafayette Street offices.  On the one hand, he supervised an anti-Castro apparatus involving David Ferrie, a former Eastern Airlines pilot, and a gang of Cuban exiles. 

 

On the other hand, Banister later simultaneously managed or coordinated Lee Harvey Oswald in a pro-Castro operation which fronted on Camp Street (but actually, out of Banister’s same offices, which were accessible from both streets of the corner building allegedly owned by CIA supervisor E. Howard Hunt, to be later addressed). 

 

The connections between Oswald and the Banister operation were well established by the Garrison investigation.  Apparently, Oswald joined the Banister team when he came to New Orleans in April 1963. 

 

Ferrie was to acknowledge to Garrison investigator Lou Ivon that he, Shaw, Oswald, Banister and the Cubans were all working for the CIA at the Banister offices on Camp and Lafayette Streets.  Certainly, the CIA paid the rent on Hunt’s Camp Street facilities. 

 

Later chapters herein will also outline a possible French connection to the actual JFK assassins.  It is interesting that Banister’s operation also seems to have had a French connection which still seems unclear to this writer (as mentioned by Ron Lewis and in “Final Judgment,” p. 299). 

 

 

The Homosexual Connections 

 

At least two witnesses (one named Perry Russo and another one--reportedly named Willy O’Keefe, per the “JFK” movie, or evidently more correctly William Morris, per “On the Trail of the Assassin,” p. 86) saw Oswald at homosexual parties with Shaw and Ferrie in the summer of 1963 where the assassination of Kennedy was allegedly discussed. 

 

A later photograph surfaced with Shaw, Ferrie and Oswald together with other people.  Manifestly, Oswald had clear ties to both Shaw and Ferrie. 

 

Oswald, as a fifteen year old boy, was a member of the Civil Air Patrol unit in New Orleans in about 1954-55.  Ferrie had been the head of the unit through 1954.  But there was some dispute about his Captain’s role with the organization in 1955. 

 

The FBI was to question Ferrie on Nov 27, 1963, about his Civil Air Patrol connections with Oswald (at the request of Jim Garrison), but Ferrie denied even knowing Oswald.  Evidently, the FBI accepted Ferrie’s words and did no follow up work on the lead (although a witness said that Ferrie wanted to search Oswald’s former New Orleans apartment after Lee was arrested in Dallas, but was not allowed to do so). 

 

Later photographs, reviewed on the TV program “Frontline” in 1993, showed both Ferrie and Oswald present with other Civil Air Patrol cadets in 1955.  So it is evident that Ferrie lied to the FBI about his patrol connections with Oswald.  There is no question but that Ferrie knew Oswald--in New Orleans (as early as 1954-1955), in Dallas (in 1962-1963), and again, in New Orleans in the Banister operation (in 1963). 

 

Much evidence has surfaced through the years establishing that Ferrie, Shaw and a number of the key players were homosexuals.  As noted earlier, the Amalekite Jack Ruby of Dallas was a homosexual, pimp and distributor of porno literature, besides his other illegal activities (“The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK,” p. 137).   Thus, most of the key players in the murder were acknowledged faggots. 

 

Ferrie, a hypnotist, was known to prey upon and take advantage of young boys for homosexual purposes in his Civil Air Patrol unit (“Oswald’s Tale,” p. 618-619).  He was also known to encourage his cadets to enter the US military. 

 

Oswald’s lack of a father and proper parental supervision would have made him a very vulnerable candidate for Ferrie’s attentions and particularly while he was a member of the Civil Air Patrol.  It is plausible that Ferrie and Oswald had some very sick contacts as early as 1954-55. 

 

The later Warren Commission and writers like Norman Mailer would raise questions about Oswald’s homosexuality (“Oswald’s Tale,” p. 379).  Both Ferrie and Shaw (usually using his Bertrand alias) had homosexual parties in which they frolicked with young boys.  Since Oswald attended perhaps two or more of those parties, it does not speak well for him. 

 

For whatever the reason, Shaw, using his Bertrand alias, twice contacted New Orleans attorney Dean Andrews to represent Oswald in legal matters.  The first time, Andrews worked on a legal issue for the Oswalds and the second time came on Nov 23, 1963, when Bertrand contacted Andrews about representing Oswald in Dallas, after he was arrested. 

 

Shaw also tried to get Oswald a job in Clinton, LA with a state hospital there--perhaps following the shut down of Operation Mongoose, to be shortly discussed. 

 

The biographies and surveys of Oswald (like Norman Mailer’s “Oswald Tale”) generally convey the image of a person who was largely turned off on sex.  Unlike his Marine buddies, Oswald was evidently not sexually active in the service and even in Japan where the temptations were great.  Perhaps Oswald was a bisexual of sorts, who was largely disinterested and inactive in sex with but very few encounters. 

 

 

Federal Agent Oswald? 

 

Lee Oswald supposedly had been a Marxist who defected to Russia.  But he most likely was a federal undercover agent (a “dangle”) working for the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) for a stipend of $200 monthly (per Oswald’s mother and former CIA official Victor Marchetti, in the “JFK Conspiracy” video). 

 

Oswald’s CIA contact and handler in Louisiana, who seems to have given him his assignments and coordinated his activities, was apparently the previously mentioned E. Howard Hunt of later fame with the Watergate plumbers--which brought Nixon down. 

 

Hunt’s primary work was seemingly done elsewhere.  But when he was in New Orleans, he appears to have often shared the Camp Street offices with Oswald and Banister. 

 

In New Orleans, Oswald was also an informer for the FBI and worked through an FBI agent named Regis Kennedy (per Lou Ivon of the Garrison Task Force).  When Oswald was arrested for disturbing the peace in a confrontation with a Cuban dissident, FBI agent John Quigley visited Oswald during his confinement in jail (“On the Trail of the Assassin,” p. 25). 

 

While in the Marine Corps, Oswald had known a man named Roscoe White, who showed up in New Orleans in 1963 as a mobster with some connections to the Mongoose effort (per Ron Lewis).  Craig Roberts suggests that White was actually a CIA operative and a reported member of the ZR/Rifle Castro assassination unit (“Kill Zone,” p. 53). 

 

Oswald had at least two other connections to the New Orleans Mafia.  Lee’s uncle, friend and guardian of sorts was Charles “Dutch” Murret, a small time bookie and hood working under the Carlos Marcello Mob umbrella (to be later described).  Also, Lee’s mother Marguerite was a close friend of Sam Termine, a Marcello colleague  (“Contract on America,” p. 41-45). 

 

 

Further JFK Initiatives 

 

Another apparent later JFK initiative was to revise his ZR/Rifle Program.  By late 1961, Lumumba and Trujillo were both dead--because of direct or indirect CIA efforts to kill them.  That left Diem and Castro as the primary targets, although they may not have been formerly added by Kennedy to the murder list until 1962.  In terms of Diem, he was not successfully murdered until Nov 1, 1963. 

 

To deal with future planned assassinations, Kennedy established, in the fall of 1961, a Task Force W within the CIA and named Harvey to head it (“Dark Side of Camelot,” p. 192, 272).  The status of the former ZR/Rifle Program is unclear after the establishment of Task Force W. 

 

Probably, ZR/Rifle was a program which was continued and administered (along with other black projects) by the CIA organization called Task Force W.  It appears that Kennedy placed Task Force W under or directly linked it to Operation Mongoose at some point in time.

 

By December of 1962, Harvey left Task Force W.  He was replaced by Desmond FitzGerald of the CIA.  Though FitzGerald was with the CIA, he reported directly to Bobby Kennedy in the Justice Dept (“Dark Side of Camelot,” p. 377).  But he must have coordinated his work with the CIA’s Operation Mongoose. 

 

 

The US-Mob Links 

 

While there may have been some contacts between the CIA and the Mob during the Eisenhower years (especially, in late 1960 for the alleged assassination of Castro), the better view seems to be that most of the CIA-Syndicate agreements and work on Cuba commenced in Jan 1961 with the John F. Kennedy presidency (although there were earlier US-Mob connections under Roosevelt, to be discussed in a later chapter). 

 

For certain, Kennedy entered into an agreement with the Mafia for a joint CIA-Mob effort against Castro and Cuba as a part of Mongoose and ZR/Rifle.  Moreover, Michael Collins Piper makes the case that the Israeli Mossad was also closely connected to the Mob and CIA and seemingly participated in some joint operations (as will be discussed in a later chapter). 

 

Reportedly, the joint Mob-CIA effort against Cuba involved gun running to Cuba, dope smuggling, spying, sabotage, subversion and an assassination unit of at least 15 men set up to kill Castro (with perhaps more than one team--that apparently made most of the 26 attempts on Castro’s life, all of which failed, as outlined in a prior chapter). 

 

The essence of these operations was that they were financed by US taxpayer funds through the CIA--but involving people from the Mob, the CIA and various Cuban exile groups.  This operation may have included some personnel who floated back and forth between the CIA (as contract agents) and the Mafia, depending on work opportunities. 

 

Apparently, the CIA and the Syndicate willingly shared and switched the same employees around, based upon their particular needs at any given moment of time.  It is extremely plausible that some persons were simultaneously employees of both the Mob and the CIA (plus the Mossad) in the same time frame.  Sometimes, it might have been hard to determine exactly who they did work for. 

 

It appears that this joint US-Mob action against Cuba involved not only New Orleans Syndicate boss Carlos Marcello; but also, other key Mafia figures like Sam Giancana in Chicago, Santos Trafficante in Florida and Johnny Roselli in Las Vegas (“Contract on America,” p. 193; “Dark Side of Camelot,” p. 165). 

 

The Mob and CIA used at least two different people for liaison, contact and coordination.  They were Robert A. Maheu and Francisco Fiorini, better known in Watergate days under his alias Frank Sturgis (“Dark Side of Camelot,” p. 212; “Contract on America,” p. 189).  Fiorini’s background was with the Mob while Maheu’s links were to the CIA and FBI. 

 

Maheu, possibly in late 1960 or more likely in early 1961, set the whole CIA-Mob operation rolling by contacting Roselli initially; who, in turn, contacted his Mafia colleagues Giancana and Trafficante (“Kill Zone,” p. 44).  At some point in time, the effort was surely cleared or coordinated with Meyer Lansky and Syndicate headquarters in New York. 

 

 

The Mob’s Goals 

 

The initial ZR/Rifle organization (of Cuban gangsters) to kill Castro was established in Miami by Trafficante (“Kill Zone,” p. 45).  Most analysts believe that this organizational task occurred in 1961.  But in view of Victor Lasky’s summer 1962 date for the Robert Kennedy contact with General Lansdale, Trafficante’s Castro hit team may not have surfaced until 1962. 

 

Organized crime figures were actively participating in Mongoose because they wanted to get back into Cuba and this alternative seemed plausible and particularly if a successful invasion could be launched.  Too, they probably were raking off some of the taxpayer’s money in a government run scheme such as this one. 

 

E. Howard Hunt, mentioned above, may have been a senior CIA official who coordinated Mongoose and did leg work between officials in Washington and local New Orleans CIA people like Shaw.  Apparently, Hunt did have some role in the supervision of the Castro assassination unit, apparently then stationed in Miami, New Orleans and/or Mexico. 

 

 

David Ferrie, Revisited 

 

One of the key players with both the CIA and the Mob was the previously mentioned David Ferrie.  As pointed out earlier, Ferrie was known to be on the CIA payroll while he was in New Orleans working for Banister. 

 

The Jun 4, 2001, “Spotlight” (p. 10-11) had a report on an interview with author Daniel Hopsicker which was primarily focused upon the famous drug runner Barry Seal and his ties to the CIA (for awhile, Seal was an undercover operative for the US government), George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and the Mob.  Significantly, Barry Seal had some strange links to the JFK killing and with David Ferrie. 

 

Hopsicker saw a photo in the possession of Barry Seal’s widow, Debbie Seal.  The picture was made on Jan 21, 1963, at a Mexico City nightclub.  Ten men were in it--including Barry Seal, CIA agents Francisco Fiorini (alias Frank Sturgis) and William Houston Seymore (one of the alleged doubles for Lee Oswald, to be later discussed) and the infamous CIA assassin Felix Rodriguez (killer of Che Guevera). 

 

Not only because of this photo, but Barry Seal is important to the JFK killing because David Ferrie was the person who recruited Barry Seal to work for the CIA in its drug running program.  Since both Ferrie and Seal were pilots, they had some common ties.  And just as Ferrie was involved in the anti-Castro program, Seal likewise was a part of this effort (or at least, he was a pilot in the Bay of Pigs fiasco). 

 

Ferrie’s ties to the “spook” effort went back to WWII days when Ferrie became a member of the old OSS.  After the war, Ferrie continued his ties to the new CIA and worked with Mob boss Carlos Marcello (as will be covered in a later chapter). 

 

In any case, Hopsicker seems to build a case linking the CIA, the Mob and people like Ferrie, Seal and various CIA-Mob assets together in one enormous combine in running drugs into the US. 

 

Also, per the report, payoff money was made to Attorney General Edwin Meese, then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, Representative Tony Coehlo (later an aide to both Clinton and Gore), Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards and possibly George H. W. Bush. 

 

It appears that the CIA-Mob links went back many years and involved the anti-Castro efforts, drug running and who knows what all else.  Clearly, a number of prominent politicians and government officials shared in the drug money.  In view of Robert Kennedy’s attack upon the Mob, maybe this whole story is just one more reason for the assassination of JFK. 

 

 

The Green Berets 

 

Another major new initiative by JFK involved the US military in the establishment of the guerrilla warfare and counter-insurgency school at Fort Bragg, NC.  The resulting US Army Special Forces would thereafter be available not only for Vietnam action, but also, around the world for subversion (as needed by the Kennedy brothers or their behind the scenes ruling plutocrats). 

 

Outside the United States, the Special Forces were to be accessible for use by the CIA in their conduct of terrorism, assassinations, sabotage, espionage, coups and black operations in general.  Inside the US, the CIA would supposedly continue to use the Mob for assassinations and domestic subversion. 

 

 

Project Freedom 

 

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in late Oct 1962.  As a result of this confrontation, Kennedy made an agreement with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that if Moscow would remove her missiles from Cuba, the US would remove its Jupiter missiles from Turkey (“Camelot,” p. 365-374) and discontinue all efforts to invade Cuba and undercut or terminate the Castro government. 

 

While this agreement was made, Jack Kennedy had no plans at all to completely honor it.  He still wished to continue the on-going efforts to kill Castro and destabilize or invade Cuba, as opportunities would allow.  The problem was how to continue the scheme of subversion against Cuba without the Russians and Cubans finding out about his lying and double-crossing maneuvers. 

 

Also, by the late fall of 1962, it was obvious that Operation Mongoose had failed--just as Operation 40 failed earlier.  So this called for a new approach and new thinking. 

 

Kennedy had to hide his deceit from the American media and public, as well, in order to avoid a political confrontation with his Republican enemies.  He wanted to continue the Cuban subversion (for political objectives in the upcoming 1964 elections). 

 

But he wanted it to be so totally secret, clandestine and low profiled that almost no one would know about the project; and especially, if it failed again, in whole or in part, as with Operations 40 and Mongoose. 

 

Therefore, Jack started closing down Mongoose in the spring of 1963 and set up a brand new Cuban operation by September 1963.  Its exact name remains unclear.  But researchers, in the “Men Who Killed Kennedy,” referred to it as “Project Freedom.”  It was placed directly in the Office of the US Attorney General, under the personal supervision of brother Robert Kennedy. 

 

A former Bay of Pigs operator named Harry Williams reported to Bobby and directly ran the Cuban work out of the Attorney General’s office.  Evidently, the coordinating CIA official on Freedom was Charles Ford--but the effort was being run by the Justice Dept and not the CIA.  By 1963, Jack just didn’t trust the CIA. 

 

The essence of Project Freedom was not an abandonment of the former Mongoose subversion efforts; but rather, a sense of new secrecy, coupled with enormous compartmentalization, whereby the project was divided and compartmentalized so that the different players knew nothing about the other participants.  Different code names were likely used for the different activities. 

 

The new push probably had more complexities beyond just the CIA and the Mob.  Bobby’s work obviously encompassed the entire US Dept of Justice, the Pentagon and who knows what else in the United States government.  With the compartmentalization, no one knew for sure what all was involved--save the Kennedy brothers and perhaps Harry Williams.  

 

It appears that at some time in the summer of 1963, JFK began dismantling and phasing out the Mongoose activities in the US--based on his earlier decision, discussed above (this act will be shortly assessed in terms of New Orleans). 

 

In the context of preparing for a new invasion of Cuba, Kennedy evidently began establishing new Cuban exile training bases in Latin America and prepared for the next invasion from the Caribbean area (the Dominican Republic). 

 

 

A Reorganization 

 

However, JFK retained the Task Force W, Castro assassination unit of Cubans, mobsters and CIA agents.  But he renamed the organization the Special Activities Staff or “SAS” (“Camelot,” p. 381).  Apparently, it was also known as Special Group Augmented (“It Didn’t Start With Watergate,” p. 87).  As was probably true with Task Force W, the ZR/Rifle Program was evidently one of several black projects under SAS. 

 

By the time of the JFK murder, the actual assassination effort, focusing on Castro, took a new twist when a Castro intimate named Rolando Cubela (a possible double agent) was recruited by the CIA (evidently Desmond FitzGerald) to kill Castro as an inside effort.  The Cubela labor went under the code name of “AMLASH” (“It Didn’t Start With Watergate,” p. 89; “Contract on America,” p. 192, 210). 

 

While the CIA had formerly run the executive action, assassination program (though reporting to the Attorney General), it appears that JFK placed the whole command structure of the new Murder Incorporated organization directly under the supervision of brother Bobby in the Justice Dept. 

 

Within Justice, it likely fell under the staff supervision of Harry Williams and his people.  Whether all or only part of the assassination organization thereafter resided in LA, FL or Mexico is unclear. 

 

Otherwise, it seems plausible that Bobby Kennedy and Harry Williams probably continued to use CIA officials in some capacity for coordination and liaison purposes between Washington and the unit, wherever it existed.  Surely, they would have continued to work through established agents like E. Howard Hunt and Clay Shaw and mobsters like Carlos Marcello, crime boss in New Orleans. 

 

 

Oswald’s Role 

 

After his earlier return from Russia in 1962, Oswald had lived initially in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.  In 1962 and early 1963, he had extensive contacts there with a Baron George DeMohrenschildt, an impressive 51 year-old man of East European origin--who just happened to be a member of the Dallas Petroleum Club where the local fat cats hung out. 

 

Since George and Lee were totally different personalities, the evidence suggests that Mohrenschildt was a CIA agent, handling Oswald.  The Baron was to allegedly commit suicide in the 1970s, as he was preparing to testify before Congress about the JFK assassination.  Later comments herein will focus more on George’s death. 

 

Several different witnesses would subsequently suggest that on one or more occasions in 1962 and early 1963, Oswald was seen in the presence of both David Ferrie and Jack Ruby at Jack’s Carousel Club in Dallas.  Oswald’s contacts with Ruby and/or Ferrie may have opened the door for him to move on to New Orleans and become a part of Mongoose in April 1963. 

 

It is important to note that Oswald’s overall status was probably not directly affected by the Kennedy initiated Mongoose changes, described above, because Lee was evidently an undercover agent working for the ONI.  Likely, he continued to receive his monthly federal stipend uninterrupted. 

 

 

Complications 

 

Following his work in New Orleans, Oswald may have been ordered back to Dallas in Oct 1963 or he just willfully chose to relocate to Dallas at the urging of Ruby or someone else--after he had supposedly made his famous trip to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City, in between New Orleans and Dallas. 

 

The situation with Oswald is complicated in this transitional stage because there is some evidence of a possible Oswald double.  For years now, students analyzing the films and tape recordings made by the CIA of him allegedly in Mexico City (visiting the Soviet embassy) have raised questions about whether the pictures and voices were of him or a double.  For sure, the pictures were of an Oswald double. 

 

In November 1999, federal authorities acknowledged that an analysis of a telephone call, allegedly made by Oswald to the Soviet embassy, just hours after the death of JFK, was not the actual voice of Oswald.  It was someone else using Oswald’s name.  Clearly, someone went to some trouble to stage this event--which must have had a purpose for deception. 

 

The December 20, 1999, “Spotlight” (p. 2) had a news report on this Oswald telephone call.  Apparently, some researchers now claim that probably this phone call was made by the CIA in an effort to get information on Oswald’s trip to Mexico City or on his possible link to the KGB assassination unit.

 

The same question of a likely double was raised about Oswald in Dallas while he allegedly was looking at a car at a used car lot, shooting on a firing range and doing other things.  Supposedly, Oswald drove a car at a used car lot.  But in fact, Oswald could not drive.  So maybe, someone else was using his name. 

 

 

The JFK Assassination 

 

Though the established murder group was unsuccessful with Castro over the years, some events were to transpire in the summer of 1963 which apparently made the assassination group turn its sights on Kennedy himself.  In other words, the chickens came home to roost.  Kennedy suffered the very fate that he planned for Castro. 

 

Although it seemed that everybody was quick to accuse Oswald of the murder, years of after-sight and analysis by independent investigators have changed some opinions, beyond the previously mentioned Jim Garrison.  Today, almost all analysts of the murder have supported at least a triangulation of fire, involving three or more separate gunmen. 

 

The “JFK Conspiracy” documentary went on to specify six shots from three separate gunman (four hitting JFK) and with no involvement from Oswald at all.  While there certainly were a minimum of six shots, it is even possible that there could have been up to eight shots fired from three or more different guns at different locations. 

 

The best evidence suggests that Kennedy was struck four times--twice from the rear into his back and head and twice from the front--once likely from the grassy knoll-picket fence area to the front of the motorcade (into his neck) and a second time also from the front into a different location of the head (with the final fatal blow, perhaps using a hollow point or frangible bullet which exploded in JFK’s head). 

 

 

The Zapruder Film 

 

The Abraham Zapruder film possibly shows the two back shots and certainly the two frontal shots hitting Kennedy.  One of the points of confusion is that one shot from the back into JFK’s head happened about a second before the fatal head shot from the front hit the right temple area of his head.  Thus, there was a slight motion forward of Kennedy’s head--just before the frontal shot threw his head strongly back. 

 

The frontal shot was also so powerful that it blew the back part of JFK’s skull and brain out to the rear of the Cadillac sedan.  The Zapruder film even shows Mrs. Kennedy climbing to the rear of the sedan over the trunk to retrieve this blown away portion of Jack’s head.  Jackie Kennedy’s action should be proof alone that the fatal shot came from the front and not from the back. 

 

A Dallas police recording (on a dictabelt) from one of the motorcycle cops accompanying the Kennedy limousine clearly reflects at least four distinct shots which forever destroys the conclusions of the Warren Commission.  Acoustics experts found that these four shots came from at least two different directions--front and back. 

 

There were something like 90 witnesses present at Dealey Plaza who saw the killing.  Some 64 of them said the bullets came from the front (“Best Evidence,” p. 14).  Only a very few people would link the shots to the sixth floor of the book depository.  These few reports could have been promoted in the crowd by a plant. 

 

It seems that almost no one, beyond the Warren Commission, was happy to settle with the lone gunman theory. 

 

In “Kill Zone” (cover), Craig Roberts suggests that there were actually four teams involved.  He says that there was a “diversionary team” in the Texas School Book Depository and three hit teams--one behind the picket fence to the front; one from the rear on top of the Dallas County Records Building; and the third also from the rear from the fire escape of the nearby Dal-Tex Building. 

 

In “The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK,” previously quoted, Gaylon Ross also opts for four shooting teams of assassins.  The views of Ross will be detailed in a subsequent chapter.  

 

 

Other Factors 

 

Over the years, many investigators have assumed that the final head shot from the front also came from the grassy knoll-picket fence area.  But new computer evidence has come forth in 1995 from a computer scientist named Tom Wilson (as Tom describes in “The Men Who Killed Kennedy”). 

 

Mr. Wilson prepared a computer enhancement of the interior of Kennedy’s head from the Zapruder film and various autopsy photos.  This computer profile outlined the path of the front entrance wound and how the bullet shattered and exited in two directions (to the back and more toward the top, near the crown). 

 

But strangely, this front wound suggested that it actually came from a lower level, instead of being directly horizontal (like at the picket fence) to strike Kennedy’s head. 

 

Wilson’s work indicated that the last shot came from a street level opening of the underground storm sewer system on Elm Street--in front of and down the road from the grassy knoll-picket fence area (with the fatal shot into the right front temple side of JFK’s head, which literally blew some of his brain and skull out to the back and into the air and which Mrs Kennedy recovered, as noted above). 

 

This storm sewer opening on the street was easily accessible from a nearby manhole.  It provided an escape exit underground to the Trinity River, about 20 to 30 minutes away from Dealey Plaza by foot. 

 

 

The Dishonest Warren Commission 

 

Despite all of the evidence supporting several shooters in several different positions, the “fixed” Warren Commission ruled that Lee Harvey Oswald singularly fired three shots from an Italian Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, found at the book depository (a bolt action rifle with defective sights which were so bad that professional shooters couldn’t hit much of anything with it-- “The Texas Connection,” p. 38). 

 

This inaccurate and very slow-using gun was supposedly linked by the Warren people to Oswald. 

 

For certain, there had to be more than one gunman and more than the alleged three shots from the book depository behind the motorcade, as allowed by the Warren Commission--with two hitting Kennedy from behind (including the magic bullet which supposedly gyrated in the air in several different directions to allegedly hit Kennedy twice and Texas Governor John Connally three times). 

 

This “magic” bullet was mysteriously found by Darrell Tomlinson, a Parkland Hospital maintenance worker in Dallas, on a stretcher, which he later claimed was not used for either Kennedy or Connally after the shooting.  When found, the bullet was in its almost original pristine condition, with no evidence of blood or tissue matter on it from any source. 

 

The question must be asked--was the bullet deliberately placed on the stretcher by someone (like Jack Ruby who was at the hospital that afternoon, sometime before the bullet was found)?  If it was a fraudulent plant, another question must be asked about a couple of bullet fragments reportedly found in the Kennedy limousine which also were allegedly fired by the same Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.  Were they plants as well? 

 

Also, as will be mentioned later herein, there are questions about a bullet fragment which hit a man at the overpass area.  No explanation has been forthcoming on where this fragment came from. 

 

Finally, there remains one more question about a stray bullet which struck a roadside traffic sign (at its back but which came from the front) during the shooting of Kennedy and Connally (per Gaylon Ross, “The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK”). 

 

 

Fingerprints

 

Another strange thing occurred with a question of fingerprints on the Carcano. 

 

This rifle was quickly sent to the FBI laboratory for the checking of prints, ballistics, etc.  They found no prints.  The gun was returned to Dallas.  Sometime later, a mysterious Oswald palm print surfaced on the barrel.  Was this a plant from Oswald’s dead body onto the gun?  If not, how could the FBI have missed it? 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 349--More on the Actors

 

 

The Cover-Up Autopsy 

 

Although a US Navy autopsy in Washington was a joke which served to help the Warren Commission cover-up (to be assessed in subsequent commentary), an honest Dr Charles Crenshaw of Dallas worked on Kennedy in the emergency room at Parkland Hospital in 1963. 

 

He has publicly confirmed that JFK was shot at least two times from the front, once into his neck and the last fatal shot into the right front temple of his head--plus being shot from behind.  The doctor published his first hand report on what happened in a 1992 book “JFK:  Conspiracy of Silence.” 

 

Crenshaw died in late November 2001.  “Time” magazine for Dec 3, 2001 (p. 23), had a short report on the death of Crenshaw and his long contention that Kennedy was shot from both the front and back.  There were two entrance wounds at the front.  The doctor, who was an emergency room eye witness, plainly indicated an involvement of two or more gunmen. 

 

As “Time” suggested, Crenshaw’s eye witness report and his book were “controversial.”  Is this not a peculiar reaction from the controlled media in assessing the remarks of the emergency room doctor who worked on Kennedy at Parkland Hospital just after the shooting?  But Crenshaw’s words had confirmation from other informed people at Parkland, as will be shown next. 

 

 

The Same From the Other Doctors at Parkland 

 

Actually, the other doctors present at Parkland all saw the same thing.  There was never any conflict between the Parkland Hospital doctors and personnel on what happened.  The only point of confusion surfaced when the Navy autopsy doctors (working under military orders) and the ridiculous Warren Commission addressed the subject. 

 

The admission record at Parkland Hospital was signed by Dr Robert McClelland.  It described the cause of death as a massive head and brain injury from a gunshot wound of the right temple (“On the Trail of the Assassin,” p. 92). 

 

White House Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff gave a press briefing at the hospital at 1:30 PM in which he said that the fatal bullet entered the President’s right temple and then he pointed it out with his hand and finger. 

 

Other witnesses at Parkland--William Newman, Marilyn Sitzman and Highway Patrolman Hurchal Jacks--were on the newscasts that day and all three of them described the front right temple entrance wound (“Best Evidence,” p. 330).  

 

The fatal bullet was a wound to the right front temple and a large exit from the back of the head.  In terms of the throat wound, Dr Malcolm Perry, who did the emergency tracheotomy on Kennedy, said at a Parkland press conference at about 2:20 PM that the front throat wound was also an entry wound (“Best Evidence,” p. 702). 

 

 

Robert Kennedy Knew the Truth!   

 

When the JFK shooting took place, close associates of Robert Kennedy have subsequently confirmed that he had some ideas on the Cuban connection almost at once.  In “Final Judgment” (FJ), Michael Collins Piper shares this belief (of RFK) and goes further to say that the Kennedy family has known for years precisely who killed JFK (although they publicly are not about to say anything about it). 

 

The family’s motive for silence on this issue is incomprehensible--though they obviously have had some compelling reasons to have hushed up the matter and helped to silence all persons who would dare try to expose the murderers.  This issue will be assessed in subsequent comments herein, in the vein of Robert F. Kennedy and his strange death. 

 

 

More on Bobby’s Knowledge 

 

Once the Dallas Police announced the arrest of Oswald (or once federal agents on the spot learned of it from the police and could notify higher authorities by a phone call or whatever), it would have been a simple check in Washington to quickly ascertain Oswald’s status.  Either Bobby Kennedy recognized Oswald’s name or an immediate FBI check was made to reveal Oswald’s link to Mongoose-Freedom-SAS.

 

On November 22, 1963, just after JFK’s death, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and columnist Haynes Johnson was in the Attorney General’s Office talking to one of the managers of the Cuban project (whom Haynes did not identify). 

 

In Johnson’s presence, the man received a phone call from Robert Kennedy.  The upset RK told him-- “one of your guys did it.”  Johnson overheard the comment and later quoted it in his column. 

 

The well known columnist Jack Anderson reported in Jan 1971 that Bobby Kennedy was emotionally devastated by the possibility that the efforts against Cuba (which he personally managed) could have led to the death of his beloved brother (“It Didn’t Start With Watergate,” p. 89). 

 

Seymour M. Hersh says that within several hours of JFK’s death, Bobby Kennedy also called JFK friend and confidante Julius Draznin in Chicago (“Camelot,” p. 9, 450).  Draznin was involved in the American labor movement and closely allied to the Kennedys.  Bobby acknowledged to him privately that he thought that there was a conspiracy involving the Mob in the killing of his brother. 

 

The subsequent murder of Oswald on Nov 24th and the arrest of Ruby must have allowed Robert Kennedy to finally put two and two together and conclude what all had occurred.  Obviously, Bobby knew that the assassination group set up and operating under his own personal supervision was the agency that pulled the triggers on Jack. 

 

G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, was to later say “I am now firmly of the opinion that the Mob did it.  It is historical fact” (cover, “Contract on America”). 

 

 

The Other Actors 

 

Reportedly, New Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello (a Sicilian, whose real name was Calogero Miniacore) was probably the man who directly over-saw Kennedy’s assassination.  He appears to have been the local Mob boss calling the Mafia shots in New Orleans (plus the Dallas/Houston territories) and working with Shaw and Banister in Operation Mongoose and later in the Washington run Project Freedom and SAS. 

 

But Marcello was like the other local crime bosses (Trafficante in Florida, Giancana in Chicago, etc).  All of them were a part of the bigger organized crime syndicate run by powerful, Amalekite gangsters in New York.  So while Kennedy may have believed that Carlos reported to him, the truth was that Marcello’s loyalties lay with New York Mafia bosses. 

 

Per Norman Mailer, Marcello had once said “Who will remove this stone from my shoe,” in a reference to the Kennedy problem and in the context of murdering Jack (“Oswald’s Tale,” p. 741). 

 

In the summer of 1963, both Marcello and Trafficante expressed the need for Kennedy to be killed and their desire to see it done.  Reportedly, Marcello told Trafficante that he had issued a contract order to have Kennedy killed (“The Elite Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK,” p.137). 

 

A Sicilian lawyer named Frank Ragano was a Syndicate lawyer for years.  He specifically served Santos Trafficante and had close contact with any number of the big names in the Mafia. 

 

In recent years, Ragano wrote a book (“Mob Lawyer”) and acknowledged that Marcello made it clear to Jimmy Hoffa (JFK’s enemy) that he had ordered the murder of JFK and was due appropriate enumeration in Teamster funds (“Oswald’s Tale,” p. 741). 

 

The faggot Jack Ruby (1911-1967) was a gangster and nightclub operator in Dallas, TX with former connections to the Chicago Mob of AL Capone and the pre-Castro gangs in Cuba when the Syndicate ruled supreme in Havana (before Castro ran them out).  He had visited Mafia don Santos Trafficante, while he was detained in Cuba in 1959. 

 

As mentioned in a former remark herein, Ruby’s original name was Jacob Rubenstein (“Encyclopaedia Judaica,” v. 14, p. 378).  It is an almost certainty that the gangster Jacob Rubenstein was a racial Amalekite since so many Amalekites flock to crime for a vocation, as noted earlier.  Being an Amalekite, Ruby had connections with the Amalekite fat cats (Jack was even on the Bronfman payroll-- “Final Judgment,” p. 172). 

 

Specifically, Jacob had close contacts with gangster Irwin S. Weiner (another likely Amalekite and a Marcello colleague, who worked out of both New Orleans and Chicago).  Weiner was directly involved in the plot to kill Castro.  Jack was also a close associate of Dallas gangster Lewis McWillie and Dallas Mob boss Joseph Civello, who worked for Carlos Marcello (since Dallas was in the New Orleans Mafia territory). 

 

Surely, Civello must have been involved in the Kennedy hit, although likely in a high level management or supervisory role.  It has to be significant that the Warren Commission went out of its way to fraudulently alter documents that detailed Ruby’s connections to Civello. 

 

The FBI produced a statement by one Bobby Gene Moore on Nov 27, 1963, which discussed several things and particularly the Ruby-Civello connections.  When the document appeared in the Warren report, the three paragraphs discussing Ruby-Civello were conveniently deleted to sanitize the report (“Contract on America,” p. 174-175). 

 

Rubenstein was intimately involved in the New Orleans operation because of his Cuban links and gun running expertise.  With his participation in Mongoose, it appears that he made frequent trips back and forth from Dallas to New Orleans and even to Cuba on occasion.  He knew Oswald well and was perhaps linked with Oswald in an assassination attempt upon retired General Edwin Walker (“Final Judgment,” p. 173). 

 

It is interesting that after Jack Ruby murdered the “patsy” Oswald, Jack tried to convey the image that he was a great admirer and lover of the evil John F. Kennedy.  His story was that he murdered Oswald in an act of revenge.  The truth is that before November 23, 1963, Ruby was known as a hater of Kennedy (among his friends and colleagues at his nightclub). 

 

 

A New York Hit Contract? 

 

There is evidence that the Syndicate order of death for JFK probably came down from higher authorities in New York and probably involved part or all of the 15 man ZR/Rifle-SAS assassination group or some other configuration of assassins (as will be discussed later).  Author Gaylon Ross, in “The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK,” also suggests the participation of some Texas thugs associated with LBJ. 

 

While Marcello may have issued the local murder contract, the conclusion is obvious that he did so on behalf of the New York Mob bosses who ran things.  Actually, since Texas was in the territory managed by Marcello (in New Orleans) and since the hit was to take place in Texas, Marcello would have been a logical man to issue the actual kill order and oversee its implementation. 

 

One of the primary hitmen was supposedly the previously mentioned Roscoe White, who had both CIA and Mob links and who worked as a Dallas policeman after Nov 5, 1963 (per Ron Lewis, to be later profiled).  Subsequent evidence materialized suggesting that a man called “Frenchie” was also one of the gunmen who fired on Kennedy that day in Dallas (per Richard E. Sprague in “The JFK Conspiracy”). 

 

It appears that David Ferrie, a close associate and personal pilot of Carlos Marcello, was participating in the plot to the extent that he went to Houston, TX on the afternoon of the assassination with an alleged purpose of flying the actual assassination team out of the United States.  Per Garrison, Ferrie put $7,000 in cash in his bank account a few weeks before the assassination (“On the Trail of the Assassin,” p. 115). 

 

Just before the killing in Dallas, Jack Ruby arranged jobs for at least Roscoe White with the Dallas Police Dept and for Oswald at the Texas School Book Depository (per Ron Lewis).  In mid Oct 1963, Jack was in New Orleans for a meeting with Frank Caracci, a close aide to Marcello (“Contract on America,” p. 239). 

 

It might be that Ruby was the local gangster coordinating the Kennedy killing in Dallas for Syndicate bosses Civello, Marcello and Lansky.  Rubenstein was reportedly seen driving a pickup truck which unloaded a man with a rifle (in a long case) on the morning of Nov 22d in the Dealey Plaza area (at the JFK death site). 

 

A woman witness (Julia Ann Mercer) told Dallas police on Nov 23d about this incident and identified Jack Ruby as the driver after seeing him on TV in police headquarters the night before.  Manifestly, later surfacing photographs showed Ruby in the crowd at Dealey Plaza when the fatal shots were fired. 

 

 

More Players 

 

A well known mobster named Eugene Hale Brading (alias Jim Bradon), with New Orleans connections, was arrested at the Dal-Tex building in the Dealey Plaza area shortly after the assassination.  But he was quickly released after being interviewed by the FBI. 

 

One must wonder if Brading was involved in some way, and especially since some witnesses heard shots from the Dal-Tex Bldg?  Actually, Gaylon Ross suggests that indeed Brading was one of the shooters (“The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK,” p, 105-106, 117).  Thus, he probably was involved in the killing.  Ross also adds that Brading had connections with David Ferrie in New Orleans (ibid, p. 106). 

 

The previously mentioned CIA official E. Howard Hunt was also mysteriously in Dallas that day of November 22d for whatever reason (Feb 14, 2000, “Spotlight,” p. 21).  With Hunt’s connections to Operations 40, Mongoose and the other New Orleans operations, this is a most fascinating connection. 

 

Gaylon Ross indicates that Richard Nixon was in Dallas to address a Pepsi Cola conference on November 21st, and following his speech, he had a private meeting on the evening of November 21st with Hunt, Jack Ruby and some other former Operations 40 people at the Cabana Hotel, either early in the evening and/or around midnight (“The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK,” p, 120-125). 

 

Ross alleges that this Operations 40 group met to discuss the coming murder of JFK.  Nixon also attended another important meeting with LBJ that same night, for whatever reason (as will be discussed in a later chapter).

 

 

The Busy Ruby 

 

The day before the JFK murder, Ruby went to Houston to reportedly examine the Kennedy motorcade on its visit to Houston (“Contract on America,” p. 269).  He returned to Dallas that day and met with several people.  Early in the evening, he attended a session with LBJ (to be later discussed) and met with a Marcello Mob associate named Joseph Campisi at the Egyptian Lounge at about 10 PM. 

 

Also, sometime on the evening of the 21st, Ruby met with Lawrence V. Meyers of Chicago and his traveling companion Jean Aase (alias Jean West) at the Carousel Club (per Jim Garrison, “On the Trail of the Assassin,” p. 110). 

 

Apparently, Ruby saw Meyers again at the Dallas Cabana Hotel at about midnight on the 21st (where he may have met with Nixon, Hunt, etc--either then or much earlier in the evening, “The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK,” p. 120-125).  Eugene Brading also stayed at the Cabana that night and may have met with Ruby, Hunt, etc. 

 

Meyers and Aase had come to Dallas on the 20th where they initially lodged at the Ramada Inn.  The next day, they checked into the Cabana and met with Hunt and others (Aase, while in Chicago, had a telephone call on September 24, 1963, from David Ferrie in New Orleans). 

 

Later, the night of Nov 21st-22d, at about 1:30 AM, Ruby met an unidentified man who looked like Oswald in Dallas at the B&B Restaurant (“Contract on America,” p. 263-264).  Assuredly, Oswald had known Ruby, both at his Carousel Club in Dallas (discussed earlier) and in New Orleans (per Ron Lewis, to be later profiled). 

 

On the early afternoon of Nov 22d, Ruby was at Parkland (where he may have dropped off the pristine Carcano bullet, mentioned previously).  The evening and night of Nov 22d saw Rubenstein present at Dallas Police headquarters, while Oswald was being questioned.  At a press briefing, Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade incorrectly referred to Oswald as being connected to the “Free Cuba Committee.” 

 

Ruby corrected him publicly on live TV, by noting that the connection was to the “Fair Play for Cuba Committee.”  Obviously, Ruby knew the truth.  This TV remark allowed the Mercer woman witness, mentioned above, to identify Ruby.  On both Nov 23d and 24th, Ruby was again seen hanging around Dallas Police headquarters.  Later, on the night of the 24th, he found an opportunity to carry out the Mob orders and kill the patsy. 

 

One of Ruby’s employees at his nightclub, Karen Carlin, was interviewed by the Secret Service on the evening of Nov 22d.  She was hysterical and in fear, but acknowledged that she knew or knew of Oswald and that he, Ruby and others were involved in the plot to murder JFK (she evidently did not or could not name the others).  Several months later, she was murdered in Houston (“Contract on America.” p. 268). 

 

West Coast Mob boss Johnny Roselli was to tell columnist Jack Anderson in the mid 1970s that Ruby was “one of our boys” and that the Syndicate had ordered him to kill Oswald so that Lee couldn’t talk (“Contract on America,” p. 103, 173). 

 

Roselli subsequently testified about the murder at a secret hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee.  Soon, Roselli was also murdered.  His dismembered body was found in August 1976 in an oil drum floating in the Biscayne Bay of Miami, Florida. 

 

Sam Giancana was also called to testify before the same Senate Intelligence Committee.  Before he had a chance to talk, he, too, was savagely murdered in his home. 

 

 

Kill Zone 

 

Craig Roberts’ excellent book “Kill Zone” (p. 51-70) relied on the investigatory work of Los Angeles reporter and writer Steve J. Rivele and other sources to construct a plausible scenario of precisely who killed Kennedy and how they came together that fateful day in Dallas.  Rivele’s information came mainly from Christian David, a mobster and former CIA contract agent. 

 

Roberts says that Marcello contacted Trafficante and that Santos made arrangements to import three primary gunmen from the Corsican Brotherhood (Mafia) in Marseille, France to merge with the prevailing ZR/Rifle assassination unit.  Trafficante’s contact in Marseille turned to a gangster named Antoine for the assassins.  Alternatively, there is a possibility that the Mossad laid the actual gunmen on (to be broached later herein). 

 

Three killers were recruited--Sauveur Pironti, Lucien Sarti and Jorge Bocognini.  In the fall of 1963, these mobsters flew to a safe house (ranch) in Mexico, owned by the CIA for training and housing the ZR/Rifle or SAS people involved in trying to kill Castro.  After three or four weeks there, they were taken to the US with forged passports, a few days before Nov 22d, and met by some of Giancana’s people. 

 

They were then taken to Dallas where they were introduced to Roscoe White.  White’s CIA code name was MANDARIN.  He was a joint CIA operative and mobster who was reportedly a member of the ZR/Rifle-SAS hit unit to kill Castro.  The French gangsters stayed at a safe-house, apparently set up by White for them in Dallas. 

 

Roberts quoted Kennedy murder investigator Mark Lane who reported that six Cuban members of the Miami ZR/Rifle or SAS murder unit (and possibly members of the former Operations 40 entity) also came to Dallas before Nov 22d and registered at a Dallas motel. 

 

This group included Francisco Fiorini (alias Frank Sturgis), two brothers named Novo (Guillermo and Ignacio, who were later accused of complicity in the murder of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier-- “Final Judgment,” p. 367), a Cuban woman named Marita Lorenz, a Cuban pilot named Diaz Lanz and one more. 

 

On Nov 21st, the Cubans met with E. Howard Hunt, Jack Rubenstein and perhaps others at the Cabana Hotel (“The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK,” p. 120-125).  Lorenz, a former girl friend of Castro, was supposed to be a decoy or lookout.  But she became afraid and left by plane for Miami on the morning of Nov 22d. 

 

 

Four Hit Teams? 

 

Roberts suggests that four hit teams were used, of perhaps three or four people each (to include one or two gunmen per team). 

 

As a minimum, this entourage included the five remaining Cubans from Miami, the three Frenchmen (evidently racial Italian Edomites or Amalekites) from Marseille, Roscoe White and probably a few others from the SAS assassination unit in Mexico or New Orleans or local Dallas mobsters (as allowed by Gaylon Ross--to be later identified and discussed). 

 

Besides the shooters, there is reason to believe that each team had one or more spotters, lookouts and assistants, as necessary, to maintain radio communications, to help remove any spent shell casings at the scene and to help disassemble the weapons and remove them from the area. 

 

Craig Roberts indicates that as a part of their cover, some members of the assassination unit had appropriately forged credentials, showing them to be federal agents (FBI, Secret Service etc).  Besides White, some of them could have been wearing uniforms of the local Dallas Police Department. 

 

Early on the morning of Nov 22d, the teams surveyed Elm Street and their designated shooting positions and began their wait for the Kennedy motorcade.  Reportedly, per Roberts, Roscoe White and Lucien Sarti took shooting positions behind the picket fence, while the other assassins took their positions. 

 

 

After the Shootings 

 

A witness named Gordon Arnold was standing in front of the picket fence with a movie camera.  Before the motorcade arrived, a man approached him and showed him CIA credentials and directed him to move away from that particular spot.  Arnold complied and moved several feet away. 

 

With the approaching motorcade, Arnold heard two shots from the picket fence area and immediately hit the ground.  A man wearing a police uniform came from behind the fence and menaced him to give him the film that he had just taken of Kennedy.  Arnold complied.  But Arnold was so scared that within three days he left for an 18 months stay in Alaska. 

 

Another witness, a deaf mute named Ed Hoffman, saw a puff of smoke and a man with a rifle at the picket fence.  The man walked rapidly down the fence and pitched the rifle to another man who was dressed like a railroad worker.  This man then disassembled the gun and put the parts in a tool box or bag of some sort and walked away. 

 

When the shooting took place, a couple of Dallas patrolman (perhaps J. M. Smith and another officer) rushed quickly to the parking lot behind the picket fence. 

 

One of them ran into a man who produced credentials showing him to be a Secret Service agent (but the Secret Service later denied having any agents there).  The patrolman accepted his explanation, but was to subsequently mention that the man’s fingers and hands were dirty--like he was an auto mechanic. 

 

Roberts’ book does not seem to mention New Orleans gangster Eugene Brading, discussed previously.  As noted, Brading was arrested and questioned in the Dealey Plaza area right after the shooting.  He could have been a part of one of the teams as well (as suggested by Gaylon Ross). 

 

After the murder, the three Frenchmen-Italians (Edomites) were flown to Montreal (possibly by David Ferrie or the Cuban pilot, Diaz Lanz) and the Cubans went to a CIA operated safe house (ranch) at Oaxaca, Mexico. Whether this ranch is the same as the one used earlier by the Italians is unclear. 

 

This ranch safe-house was run by a man named Albert Alexander Osborne (alias John Howard Bowen) who was posing as a Christian missionary for the American Council of Churches (“Kill Zone,” p. 69). 

 

Soon after the JFK hit, Osborne vanished and was never heard of again.  The three Frenchmen-Italians (Edomites) were later paid in heroin by the US Mafia from supplies obtained from the CIA and their drug operations in Southeast Asia. 

 

Sarti was subsequently murdered in Mexico City in the 1970s.  Roscoe White was killed in a fire in Arkansas in 1975.  Guy Banister died of an alleged heart attack in 1964, even before the Warren Commission report came out.  And most of Banister’s files, held in his offices in New Orleans, were seized by the FBI (“Kill Zone,” p. 88). 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 350--The Government Cover-Up I

 

 

The Players 

 

Over the years, a number of theories have been advanced on why Kennedy was assassinated.  Regardless of what the actual cause could be, the remaining reality is that the act almost certainly involved the Mob and likely some CIA participants. 

 

The assassination plus the subsequent murders and mysterious deaths of at least 177 people connected with the crime all spell out a very professional organization--such as the Mafia. 

 

To whatever extent government officials may have been implicated, they were probably renegades or dupes or in a rogue element, as the case may be (Lyndon Johnson would be the most likely exception on this.  His situation will be described in subsequent remarks).  Guy Banister perhaps had some ideas on what was going on.  But he may not have been directly involved. 

 

It is plausible that E. Howard Hunt was connected in some way.  It is more likely that Clay Shaw participated in the plot (or at least knew of it) since he apparently was the highest ranking CIA official working out of New Orleans and was closely connected to Marcello, Ruby and some of the other participating mobsters.

 

Since Shaw (or Clay Bertrand, as he was known in the New Orleans queer community) was a very warped fag (into ceiling hooks, beams, leather straps for tying, chains, whips with apparent dried blood on them, a black cape and hood, etc, as found in his house when he was arrested by Garrison), the Mob could have easily controlled him for whatever purposes that they may have chosen. 

 

He would have been a logical target to blackmail.  So the Mafia would have had no problem with him and what he knew. 

 

 

Dan Marvin 

 

Some persons in the CIA appear to have had a role in the murder or its later cover-up.  In August 1965, a US Army Captain named Dan Marvin had just completed or was attending the Special Forces course on assassinations at Fort Bragg, NC (run by the CIA). 

 

Marvin and a Regular Army Special Forces Captain named David H. Vanek were separately interviewed one day by a CIA agent (per LTC Marvin, USA Ret, in “The Men Who Killed Kennedy”). 

 

Captain Marvin was asked if he would be willing to undertake an assassination assignment.  Believing that it was outside the US and under the Special Forces mandate, he said yes.  To his surprise, the target was a US Navy Lieutenant Commander named William Bruce Pitzer, who was then stationed at Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington. 

 

Since the target was a person in the US (which would have called for a Mob hit), Marvin changed his mind and declined the assignment.  He left the building while Vanek was being interviewed.  The next day, Vanek was no longer present with his Special Forces colleagues at Fort Bragg. 

 

In later years, Marvin tried to locate Vanek through the Pentagon’s referral services.  But the Army consistently denied his existence, despite the fact that Marvin had Vanek’s name, rank and RA serial number (O86836) on a Fort Bragg Special Warfare School administrative order and list of his Special Forces classmates. 

 

Dan Marvin put the issue behind him and thought no more about it until after his retirement.  Then, in Sep 1993, the topic came back to him while he was watching a film on the many people involved with the Kennedy killing who subsequently died mysteriously (i.e. the 177 mentioned before).  This film showed a list of some 42 names.  Marvin immediately recognized the name of William Bruce Pitzer of Bethesda. 

 

 

More on Commander Pitzer   

 

Pitzer, a US Navy Lieutenant Commander, was an important witness and threat to someone because he had been Chief of the Audio Visual Lab at Bethesda when the Kennedy autopsy was done. 

 

His staff had taken some 16 mm films and still photographs of the body and the wounds which apparently somehow showed the frontal, right-temple, entrance wound and the blow out in the back and top of Kennedy’s head before the official autopsy work commenced. 

 

US Navy Petty Officer Dennis David, now retired, was stationed in Bethesda in 1963.  He says that he personally saw some of these photos in Pitzer’s possession which showed a small front entrance wound to Kennedy’s right front temple area (per video, “The Men Who Killed Kennedy”). 

 

Commander Pitzer must have violated orders and personally kept back some of these pictures and carelessly showed them later to other people at Bethesda--while the rest of them, plus the x-rays taken, were all turned over to Rear Admiral George Burkley, White House Physician, who reportedly gave them to the Secret Service.  In time, they were given to the Kennedys. 

 

 

The Photos 

 

The whole process of moving Kennedy’s body and its late night autopsy at Bethesda on November 22d has to invite much suspicion over whether an enormous and extensive cover-up commenced almost immediately, as outlined in David S Lifton’s “Best Evidence” work published in 1980.  Lifton’s work will be assessed shortly. 

 

Suffice to say, the best estimate is that the body was altered by one or more parties on one or more occasions. 

 

Beyond the alteration of the cadaver, the previously mentioned Tom Wilson makes the case that the “official” autopsy photos taken at Bethesda (or at least, those that survived) were also altered and manipulated to avoid showing the actual wounds as well (“The Men Who Killed Kennedy”). 

 

Wilson says that the back head wound was partially painted over (in the photos) to alter its appearance.  He adds that the front, temple, entrance wound is also detectable in his computer enhancement technology--though the wound in the photos has been obviously covered over and obscured by mortician’s wax and other alterations (“The Men Who Killed Kennedy”). 

 

Additionally, one roll of film made by a Navy corpsman that night was seized and deliberately exposed to the light by a Secret Service agent (“Best Evidence,” p. 513).  Manifestly, this photographer had taken some pictures which the Secret Service did not want released. 

 

Evidently, the so-called autopsy photos and x-rays were never made available to the Warren Commission (which worked off of artists’ sketches of the alleged wounds). 

 

In October 1966, Bobby Kennedy and the Kennedy family turned most of the pictures (not all--they either didn’t have all of them or held some of them back) over to the National Archives with a stipulation that they were not to be shown to the public for something like five more years. 

 

In any case, the several surviving pictures (some of which were altered, per Tom Wilson) became the official autopsy photos.  The only problem was that most or all of those that survived and reached the National Archives were altered photos of an altered cadaver. 

 

These photos were supposed to be pre-autopsy.  But they evidently were made following preliminary alterations and surgery to the cadaver.  In the meantime, Pitzer still had some of the earlier and more revealing photos which were not released.  But Pitzer was retiring in late 1966 (which would have ostensibly freed him from military oversight). 

 

So, in November 1966, just before his retirement, he mysteriously committed “suicide” at Bethesda with a 38 revolver shot to his right temple.  Interestingly, Pitzer was a lefty and his left hand was badly and strangely mangled so that his wedding band could not even be removed (question--was this torture to get him to tell where the photos were kept?). 

 

 

More on the Autopsy 

 

The Bethesda autopsy was most interesting for other reasons. 

 

First, it appears that some US government official (probably Lyndon Johnson or more likely LBJ in coordination with Bobby Kennedy and perhaps even with some consultation with Mrs Kennedy) insisted that the body be illegally taken away from Texas authorities and moved to Washington--ultimately Bethesda for a Navy autopsy by Navy doctors (and one Army doctor) who were both inexperienced and manifestly unqualified in forensic work. 

 

Bobby and/or Jackie Kennedy also insisted that Bethesda do the embalming as well.  As it turned out, a team of private morticians from the Joseph Gawler’s Funeral Home was called in to do the embalming and preparation of the body for burial.  This team involved four morticians headed by Joseph E. Hagan (“The Day Kennedy Was Shot,” p. 605-665). 

 

The morticians did their work at Bethesda around 2 AM or later on the 23d.  It must be pointed out that the autopsy was finished at about midnight and no further Navy photographs or x-rays were made after completion of the autopsy. 

 

The military autopsy doctors were people who took orders.  And they did as they were told.  They were grossly unqualified as forensic pathologists (none of the three had ever worked on a gunshot death).  Whereas, if a qualified forensic scientist would have done the work, something different could have surely resulted. 

 

Consequently, the military doctors were reliable and willing participants in the cover-up--to do as ordered and keep their mouths shut. 

 

Supposedly, the body was wrapped in Dallas in a sheet and placed in an expensive, ornate, 400 pound casket (which cost the US $4,000) at Parkland Hospital and taken by a hearse to Love Field where it was put aboard JFK’s Air Force One.  Most of the time it was reportedly accompanied by Mrs Kennedy, Air Force Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh (a JFK military aide) and/or certain Secret Service agents. 

 

After some delay for the swearing in of LBJ, the plane was airborne at 2:47 PM (CST) for Washington and Andrews Air Force Base.  It arrived at about 6 PM (EST) and was met by Bobby Kennedy.  An Army helicopter arrived immediately to unload “certain” cargo on one side of the plane, while the expensive casket was unloaded on the other side and put aboard a Navy ambulance for removal to Bethesda. 

 

A decoy ambulance was also on hand to apparently try to deceive and mislead the crowd present, as to how the body was actually being moved.  The ambulance, casket and occupants ultimately arrived at Bethesda. 

 

The Kennedys went inside and the ornate casket was eventually taken to the rear to reach the morgue at about 8 PM.  Besides the presence of Bobby and Jackie Kennedy, a whole host of other people were there, as well, when the body was “allegedly” brought to Bethesda--including much military brass, many civilian officials and reportedly 26 Secret Service agents (“Best Evidence,” p. 636). 

 

 

The Body’s Alterations? 

 

Writer David Lifton was induced to make a detailed analysis over some years of what all happened to the body (in the context that it was the best evidence on what had taken place in Dallas) in order to eventually write his book “Best Evidence.”  Lifton was at once challenged in comparing the comments of the doctors who saw Kennedy in Dallas, as opposed to what the autopsy doctors would say in their official reports. 

 

The doctors at Parkland addressed a small entrance wound in the front neck, another small entrance wound in the front right temple and one large exit wound in the back of the head measuring about 2 x 2 3/4 inches while the autopsy doctors said there were no frontal entrance wounds and the back wound was a large hole in the back and top of the head measuring 3.9 by 6.7 inches (“Best Evidence,” p. 310). 

 

The Parkland doctors did “no” work on the head beyond making a small incision for the previously mentioned tracheotomy over the frontal neck wound in order to run a tracheotomy tube down the throat.  Dr Perry of Parkland made this incision in a clean, smooth cut of about 2-3 cm (slightly over one inch) across the 5 mm entrance wound. 

 

Yet, Dr James Humes, the chief Naval doctor doing the autopsy, testified that the incision was 7-8 cm or 3 inches across (although his written report said 6.5 cm wide) with widely gapping irregular edges (“Best Evidence,” p. 238-239, 271-275).  Sensing that something was wrong, David Lifton began interviewing all of the people possible that were present that night at the autopsy or near by. 

 

To his surprise, he learned that a black hearse arrived at the back door leading to the Bethesda morgue at around 6:45 PM or so with a gray, metal, plain, shipping casket and accompanied by seven or eight men in civilian clothes.  They were met by Rear Admiral Edward Kenney, Surgeon General of the Navy. 

 

 

More That Night 

 

The men and some Navy people on hand took the casket into the morgue.  In the presence of the two Navy autopsy doctors (Commanders James Humes and J. Thornton Boswell) and their enlisted Naval assistants (Paul O’Connor and James Jenkins), the casket was opened and Kennedy was inside in a rubber body bag. 

 

The bag was zipped open and the naked body was removed by the Naval assistants.  Certain work and photographs were made.  O’Connor, in particular, said that the wound to the top and back of the head was massive; that the throat had a wide wound; that there was no other evidence of frontal entrance wounds; and that the brain was totally missing. 

 

Even the House Select Committee on the assassination was to later note that the body showed physical evidence of rough handling (abrasions, discolorations, marks, etc).  In any case, Lifton could find no evidence on how this gray shipping casket arrived at Bethesda.  If it came from Dallas, it obviously came by aircraft, but which one was unclear. 

 

Yet, the official expensive casket carried in the Navy ambulance (and accompanied by the Kennedys) did not reach the morgue until about 8 PM.  Whether Kennedy’s body was then placed into the expensive casket, to be later removed again in the presence of official autopsy witnesses, is unclear. 

 

But by 10:30 PM, the official autopsy commenced in the front of a number of witnesses--numerous military officials, Secret Service people and FBI agents, etc.  It was concluded about midnight. 

 

 

Pre-Autopsy Work on the Cadaver 

 

The FBI report by agents Sibert and O’Neill mentioned that “a tracheotomy had been performed (earlier) as well as surgery of the head area, namely, in the top of the skull” (“Best Evidence,” p. 172). 

 

At this point in time, it was evident that a pre-autopsy examination and apparent exploratory surgery had been made on Kennedy’s head, sometime between the emergency room tracheotomy in Dallas and the beginning of the official autopsy at Bethesda. 

 

Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman, who was present for the autopsy, was to later testify to the Warren Commission that part of the skull was “removed,” in reference to the missing portions of the skull in the top and back, before the official autopsy commenced (“Best Evidence,” p. 204). 

 

When questioned by the Commission attorney Arlen Specter about this “removed” reference, Kellerman would only say that it was not present when he saw the cadaver in the autopsy room. 

 

David Lifton did not establish precisely what happened.  But he did build an extraordinary case that the body had been altered sometime before it reached the point of the official autopsy in Bethesda. 

 

In “Kill Zone” (p. 73-85), Craig Roberts suggests that while Mrs. Kennedy was present for the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson, somebody removed JFK’s body from the expensive casket and transferred it via a nearby trap door to the cargo compartment of the airplane.  Whether the body was wrapped in something, placed in a body bag or stored in some type of a container in the cargo hold is unclear. 

 

Upon arrival at Andrews, the media focus was upon Mrs Kennedy and the removal of the expensive casket on one side of the plane; while the body, however transported, was secretly removed on the other side, as a part of the alleged cargo. 

 

Per Roberts, the body was placed on an Army helicopter and taken to Walter Reed for exploratory surgery, before taking it on by chopper to the Bethesda helipad.  It was then taken by the black hearse to the Bethesda back door.  David Lifton also considered several of these conclusions, mentioned later by Roberts. 

 

Lifton (p. 683) established the presence of the helicopter from certain television network programs.  He went on to note that this chopper left Air Force One at Andrews some 90 seconds after the plane’s doors were opened.  Walter Reed Army Medical Center was only five minutes away by chopper.  So there was plenty of time for alterations. 

 

 

More Support 

 

The well known forensic pathologist, Dr Cyril Wecht of Pittsburgh, would also later make similar conclusions on the alterations of the body--although he seemed to focus on the alterations as occurring during the autopsy (“The JFK Conspiracy”).  For sure, there was massive reconstruction and rebuilding of the skull (“Best Evidence,” p. 431). 

 

Tom Wilson’s fascinating work raised some like questions (“Men Who Killed Kennedy”).  But Tom was more specific by charging that someone (presumably the autopsy people) apparently used mortician’s wax to cover up and obscure the frontal wounds and alter the appearance of other parts of Kennedy’s head. 

 

Lifton earlier had said that the head cavity was filled with plaster paris, during the autopsy (“Best Evidence,” p. 603). 

 

While such alterations might have been justified by the later morticians for the funeral and burial, they were manifestly out of the question for people involved in performing an autopsy in an effort to fraudulently obscure and hide the real cause of death.  No!  It’s not the work of personnel doing an autopsy to alter the appearance of a cadaver. 

 

After these cosmetic changes (which were made in advance of the official autopsy and certainly not by the later embalmers, because no more photos were made after the official autopsy), more photos were taken of the altered cadaver and manipulated so that truth could no longer be visually determined (but was revealed by later computer analysis, by the just mentioned, Tom Wilson). 

 

Apparently, all of the “official” autopsy photos were made after the use of the mortician’s wax which concealed the fatal frontal wound. 

 

 

Alterations to Hide the Alterations 

 

David Lifton suggested that the chief pathologist, Dr Humes, tried to tell the Warren Commission that something was wrong in the autopsy without using clear language (“Best Evidence,” p. 474-474).  Often Humes would refer to some of the wounds as “presumably of entrance or exit,” in the context that there could be some question over them (ibid, p. 204). 

 

Also, there were at least “two” official autopsy reports.  The first one and notes made by the doctors were all conveniently destroyed.  The second one apparently changed the conclusions of the first one (ibid, p. 104, 163). 

 

Lifton went on to suggest that the body when received at Bethesda was an imperfect medical forgery.  But as reconstructed for the photos and x-rays, it was a perfect medical forgery--even before the official autopsy commenced (ibid, p. 668). 

 

The essence of the above is that there is much evidence suggesting that before the official autopsy started, there had been exploratory surgery on Kennedy’s head for some reason--probably in search of bullets and/or fragments. 

 

It also appears evident that whoever did this pre-autopsy examination and surgery were perhaps the same people who altered the throat wounds and used mortician’s wax to hide the front temple entrance wound. 

 

If someone had set Oswald up, using the Carcano, and if the real autopsy turned up some other bullets or fragments, it would destroy the patsy selection.  Exploratory surgery and alterations to the wounds were essential.  Also, no frontal entrance wounds could be allowed to be seen, since the patsy had fired his alleged three rounds from the rear. 

 

Whether these alterations were done by the conspiratorial killers in their cover-up or by the government in its cover-up is unclear. 

 

Since the body (and the Kennedy limousine, as well, which showed signs of alterations--its windshield, hit by a bullet/fragments from the front and back, was apparently replaced) was “theoretically” always in the custody of Secret Service agents, some collusion with them would have been necessary if the Mafia did the surgery.  This option is not far fetched at all.  

 

 

The Body Arrives at Bethesda 

 

As noted above, the altered body arrived at Bethesda by helicopter and the black hearse probably about 6:45 PM on November 22d in a body bag inside the gray shipping casket.  Exactly where this body bag and shipping container came from is unclear.  One or both could have been on board JFK’s Air Force One and used at that time or they could have been on board the helicopter. 

 

Or Kennedy’s body could have been secured in something else and taken to Walter Reed or some other place which provided the body bag and gray casket.  On the surface, it would appear that body bags and shipping caskets were common items of use within the US military.  So they could have been readily available at a number of places that night. 

 

The Bethesda autopsy team was apparently tasked to initially reconstruct and rebuild the head wounds which were by then extremely large (because of the exploratory surgery).  Probably, they also had to come up with a brain for insertion into the rebuilt head cavity. 

 

Whether the real JFK brain arrived later for reinsertion into the cadaver or Bethesda had to obtain a different one remains unclear.  As a matter of information, there was another cadaver in the Bethesda morgue that night.  So it would have been easy to come up with a brain to take the place of Kennedy’s missing brain. 

 

Beginning pictures were taken of JFK which must have been the ones kept back by Commander Pitzer.  There seems to be a point of confusion here because the body arrived with the front entrance wound at the right temple hid from a visual examination. 

 

Yet, Pitzer apparently had some photos which showed it--perhaps as a shadow or in some manner.  Did he get these from Walter Reed or did his people take them?  Probably, his people took them. 

 

Could the autopsy doctors have inadvertently discovered the wax and removed it to determine why it was present.  Or perhaps, the wax had sunk into the cavity to allow a shadow and outline of the wound.  Evidently, something happened with the wax to permit the wound to be visible in some of the early photos. 

 

X-ray technicians Edward Reed and Jerrol Custer were also present making x-rays, during the early stages of the Bethesda work.  Both of them were to maintain their impression that the large head wound was caused by an entrance wound to the front, although they may not have seen it (“Best Evidence,” p. 619). 

 

If the wax fillings were temporarily removed or depressed into the wound, for whatever reason, someone in authority evidently chose to take some measures, while the body underwent its first examination at Bethesda, to restore or smooth over the wax--because the front right temple wound was never seen again by personnel present.  

 

Thus, some alterations and probing examinations were done in the hour or so before the Navy ambulance arrived with the expensive empty casket.  Apparently, the reconstructed body was secretly transferred by the military autopsy people back to the expensive casket--which was later opened in the sight of the variously assembled witnesses. 

 

 

The Photos 

 

The previously mentioned Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, Kennedy’s Air Force aide, was to later remark to Lifton that photos were taken of the body from the time the Navy autopsy people “got the body...until it was put into the new casket” (“Best Evidence,” p. 664). 

 

While this remark might be interpreted in different ways (like in reference to the completion of the embalming and the final repository), it certainly could also be taken in the context of the pre-autopsy examination made before the Kennedy party arrived with the expensive casket and the beginning of the official autopsy. 

 

In any case, official pre-autopsy photos were made after 8 PM and the official autopsy commenced around 10:30 PM in the presence of the assembled witnesses.  The only problem was that the body had already underwent two separate pre-autopsy alterations and/or examinations. 

 

As a minimum, and as noted above, the body clearly had undergone exploratory surgery (probably looking for bullets) and alterations (to try to hide the two frontal wounds), as a part of a cover-up by someone at some point in time. 

 

Also, it is manifest that there was evidence of gross incompetence and confusion on the part of many of the later participating people, which probably helped to facilitate the success of the cover-up. 

 

According to Lifton, the White House issued secrecy orders to the Navy people present.  All of them individually were required to sign an agreement of the secrecy of the operation and their pledge to not discuss it (“Best Evidence,” p. 639).  It seems certain that similar secrecy orders were issued to all other government personnel present that night at Bethesda. 

 

 

Bobby’s Role 

 

After the ambulance arrived at Bethesda, Bobby Kennedy was present and intervened to do some portion of the supervision of the “official” autopsy from behind the scenes (after 10:30 PM).  He may have even used Admiral Burkley (the White House physician), the two FBI agents and/or the two Secret Service agents present in the autopsy room for some role. 

 

This is most fascinating that RFK would personally be involved in this manifest cover-up effort (although the obvious conclusion is that he did participate in the cover-up unwittingly and without an understanding of the full ramifications of the conspiracy--which will be detailed herein in the following chapters). 

 

At a first glance, one would assume that the crafty and deceitful Lyndon Johnson would have acted to lie and cover-up JFK’s murder.  But why Bobby?  Again, the explanation “appears” to be that Bobby was not only distraught with the death of Jack, but he was personally devastated because people under his own supervision apparently did the deed. 

 

Perhaps while in a dazed state of confusion and a desire to hide the Kennedy roles in Murder Incorporated, Bobby was easily persuaded by LBJ to go along with the cover-up operations, unknowingly, unsuspectingly and unwittingly on his part.   

 

If it became public knowledge that people employed and directed by the US Justice Department and under Bobby’s personal supervision killed JFK, the results could have been catastrophic in terms of his own, future, political career.  Assuredly, Robert had had presidential ambitions for ages and he was not about to allow something to ruin them.  He could have gullibly and stupidly fallen into LBJ’s trap. 

 

From a hindsight perspective, it appears that Bobby’s own supervision and involvement with the assassination led him to personally participate in the later cover-up operation.  It might be that if news of his role leaked out, it would be an enormous embarrassment and ruin the Kennedy name in the US forever. 

 

This is most fascinating because Scripturally, the next of kin has a moral duty to see justice and the demise of a killer.  This was the situation which provided for the cities of refuge where people accused of manslaughter could flee, to avoid the certain punishment from the next of kin of a killed individual. 

 

Obviously, RK’s Edomite genes were so depraved that he had no compulsion at all to see justice done with his own brother’s death. 

 

 

Jack’s Hidden History 

 

Apparently, it wasn’t only that RK was interested in protecting himself for future political options, but he manifestly was concerned about the JFK image, if the truth was ever known about Jack and what all had actually happened during his public career.  Seymour Hersh in “The Dark Side of Camelot” lays out the incredible corruption and dishonesty of the two brothers over many years. 

 

Per Hersh, Jack had had a first marriage with a woman named Durie Malcolm in 1947 in Palm Beach, FL, with no record of a subsequent divorce or annulment (“Camelot,” p. 2).  The marriage didn’t take.  So JFK quickly ended it.  In 1960, his friend Charles Spalding took action to hide, cover-up and destroy all records about it--so that it would not adversely affect Kennedy’s run for president. 

 

Jack had long standing medical problems.  He had Addison’s Disease and had a series of venereal disease infections and re-infections over the years which frequently gave him problems. 

 

As elsewhere discussed, JFK was closely tied to the Mob and particularly Sam Giancana in Chicago.  He shared one of Sam’s girlfriends named Judith Exner and used her as his liaison with Giancana.  She carried messages, sealed packages, etc, back and forth between JFK and the Mob (“Camelot,” p. 296). 

 

Then there was the formal organization of Murder Incorporated, plus all the illegal actions against Cuba in absolute defiance of his own agreement with Soviet leader Khrushchev.  As Hersh noted, the Kennedys were just one news story away from absolute political suicide (“Camelot,” p. 6).  Obviously, a lot of cover-up and deceitful operations were needed at once with the death of JFK. 

 

 

Bobby Went to Work 

 

Upon learning of the murder, Robert Kennedy went to work within a few hours to effect the cover-up of all of the Kennedys’ dirty laundry.  Per Hersh, RK called McGeorge Bundy and other Kennedy officials and friends and issued orders and requests for specific cover-up actions (“Camelot,” p. 1-34).  Bobby simply did not want LBJ or the world to have access to Kennedy secrets. 

 

The Attorney General ordered all of Jack’s papers and files in the White House seized and taken to the Executive Office building and placed under guard at the National Security Agency.  Besides the papers documenting the Kennedy skullduggery, JFK used to make audio tape recordings of selected conversations in secret in the White House.  These were all confiscated by Bobby. 

 

Under JFK, an “Usher’s log” was maintained of all Kennedy visitors, both public and private (to include his vast encounters with a huge assortment of women).  These logs were also all taken from the White House. 

 

In later years, the ostensible Kennedy files were turned over to the Kennedy Library, after many of them were sanitized, deleted and destroyed.  The Usher logs were never heard of again, after their delivery to RK.  By the morning of Nov 23, the Kennedy secrets were under Bobby’s control. 

 

It is clear from Robert Kennedy’s actions, as described by Seymour Hersh, that the Kennedy image and legacy was far more important than the prosecution of the JFK murderers (which would have necessitated the revelations of vast Kennedy secrets, which had to be kept from the public at all cost). 

 

Bobby was a clear and certain participant in the government led cover-up of the JFK assassination.  It’s ludicrous to believe otherwise! 

 

 

A Cover-Up From the Top Down 

 

Beyond Bobby, it is clear that Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover and other officials who may have known what was going on all shared a supposed common desire to see the truth about Mongoose, Freedom, ZR/Rifle, W, SAS and AMLASH hid from media scrutiny--lest the Soviets and Cubans find out about how Jack had double crossed them. 

 

Certainly, the work of SAS continued under Lyndon Johnson (with the later CIA assassination of Che Guevara in 1967, mentioned previously).  For sure, LBJ knew the truth because he privately admitted the JFK murder conspiracy to a reporter, before his own death in 1973. 

 

Likely, Johnson would not have wanted the effort compromised at all in 1963, although this was surely not a sufficient reason for the government wide cover-up.  For certain, it’s questionable to what extent Johnson would have been willing to go to in order to hide Jack Kennedy’s dirty laundry (if LBJ’s own hands were clean).  More will be said shortly about subsequent CIA involvement. 

 

Finally, if the voting public found out, it could have been disastrous for the Democrats at the polls--perhaps affecting both Lyndon, as well as Bobby.  While this may have motivated LBJ to proceed with the cover-up, one has to wonder whether this would have been sufficient alone to induce the rest of the US leadership to participate in the cover-up. 

 

As a minimum, RK conspired with Lyndon Johnson to accomplish the cover-up.  There is no other explanation on this option.  Probably, they entered into the beginnings of the cover-up conspiracy during telephone conversations on the afternoon of Nov 22d.  What all was said between them has not been revealed.  But LBJ did claim that Bobby suggested that he take the oath of office in Dallas (“Best Evidence,” p. 677). 

 

Hoover was an employee under Bobby’s supervision and could argue that he was only taking orders.  Assuredly, other people who knew in the CIA, Pentagon, Justice Dept, Secret Service and FBI all merely took orders from the top to facilitate the cover-up.  The decision to effect the cover-up was obviously made very quickly by Lyndon Johnson--clearly, in consultation with Robert Kennedy. 

 

The illegal seizure of Jack’s dead body from Dallas authorities was outlined in previous comments.  Beyond this illegal effort, Lyndon Johnson ordered the FBI to completely take over the investigation into the killing and report their findings to him personally (“Assignment:  Oswald,” p. 64). 

 

The killing of Kennedy was properly a matter for the state of Texas, under the US Constitution.  Yet, per Johnson’s order, the FBI displaced Texas authorities and illegally took possession of whatever evidence that the Texas people had collected.  Once the FBI was involved, they began an effort to destroy and hide accumulated evidence, as will be assessed in later chapters. 

 

 

Immediate Cover-up Action 

 

The 1976 Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that the Johnson Administration acted “Almost immediately after the assassination” to make the FBI “issue a factual report supporting the conclusion that Oswald was the lone assassin” (“Contract on America,” p. 19).

 

Thus, on Nov 22d, FBI Director Hoover and Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach (Bobby’s right hand man) made known the need to convince the public that Oswald was the real assassin (Katzenbach’s possible motivation for this action will be addressed in a later chapter).  On Nov 24th, Hoover repeated this concern. 

 

Within a few days, Katzenbach prepared an official memo in which he said that the public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin, that there were no other confederates, and at a trial, Oswald would have been convicted (“Contract on America,” p. 209). 

 

Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover were residential neighbors for 19 years.  They were close friends.  Since Hoover was approaching mandatory retirement age, he was under pressure to appease Johnson in an effort to stay on as Director of the FBI.  He was a trustworthy lieutenant to do as ordered. 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 351--The Government Cover-Up II

 

 

The Warren Cover-up 

 

One of President Johnson’s major, cover-up motions was the establishment of the deceitful, dishonest and controlled Warren Commission (discussed previously)--made up of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, Allen W. Dulles (former head of the CIA), John J. McCloy, US Senators Richard Russell and John Sherman Cooper, and Congressmen Gerald Ford and Hale Boggs. 

 

As will be addressed in the following comments, the appointment of this so-called “independent” Commission was a classic con maneuver.  Most importantly, the appointment of this Commission took Bobby Kennedy and the Justice Department completely out of the investigation of the murder.  Admittedly, the FBI (under Justice) was involved, but Hoover commenced reporting directly to Johnson. 

 

Consequently, from the very beginnings of the investigation, Lyndon Johnson took over personal oversight of all aspects of the case.  Bobby Kennedy was completely shut out. 

 

In order to be sure that he had one of the nation’s biggest crooks in control of the Commission, the foxy Lyndon chose Chief Justice Earl Warren to head the Commission--which would be tasked to forever hide and cover-up the truth in the John F. Kennedy killing. 

 

Certainly, LBJ knew and understood what a colossal crook Earl Warren was.  He could be totally counted upon to lie and deceive, as he was an expert at it. 

 

Warren had a reputation in FBI files and records of much deceit and dishonesty over many years (per FBI records-- “Assignment: Oswald,” p. 137-139).  At the Barnes Review of the Second International Conference on Authentic History and the First Amendment, held on June 15-17, 2001, at Washington, DC, the respected Eustace Mullins spoke about the former Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. 

 

Mullins spoke about two strange deaths (one definitely a murder)--which propelled Earl Warren into the post of Chief Justice of the US (Jul 2, 2001, “Spotlight,” p. 9).  It seems that murder has had a peculiar presence in the rise to power of a number of prominent US politicians--like not only Warren, but also, leaders like LBJ and Bill Clinton, to be addressed in subsequent chapters. 

 

 

LBJ’s Personal Oversight

 

However, it was not just Warren that received the personal attention of Lyndon Johnson.  Other selected Commission members were likewise specifically chosen because of their personal attributes or connections. 

 

Johnson often described Ford as “playing football too long without a helmet.”  Certainly, Johnson believed that Ford was too stupid to be a threat to the government wide cover-up.  Johnson evidently looked upon Russell, Cooper and Boggs as being harmless choices as well (“Kill Zone,” p. 82)--although Boggs did prove later to have some intelligence and honesty (to be described in subsequent comments). 

 

Both Dulles and McCloy had strong connections to Wall Street and the super rich ruling the US.  McCloy will be further commented upon in the succeeding chapters. 

 

Dulles had years of contacts with the intelligence community and the fat cat internationalists ruling the US.  Beyond the link Dulles had with the plutocrats, he was also no friend of Kennedy (JFK fired him earlier, as head of the CIA).  For sure, Dulles and McCloy must have been chosen for the Warren Commission to be sure that the cover-up would proceed as planned (by the people calling the shots). 

 

Finally, in terms of the Warren Commission staff, there was a significant Amalekite presence.  Some nine of the 22 attorneys were Jewish (“Final Judgment,” p. 301, 333). 

 

With this heavy Amalekite presence, it is a certainty that any information or leads developed would be cleared with the Amalekite bankers/masters calling the shots in the US and operating from behind the scenes to protect the actual killers (as will be later described). 

 

 

Tears From Earl? 

 

With the appointment of Chief Justice Earl Warren, Johnson ushered him into his office for a preliminary, private meeting.  When Warren left, he was seen in tears. 

 

Later reports of this private meeting said that Johnson told him that he must handle information developed “responsibly” or there could be a war with the Soviets and Cubans (“Assignment:  Oswald,” p. 138).  Perhaps LBJ’s words were predicated upon the truth about Operation Mongoose-Freedom-SAS which would have certainly upset the Soviets and Cubans in view of JFK’s pledges to them. 

 

In any case, Warren heeded Johnson’s words and proceeded to effect one of the greatest government led cover-ups in history.  Since crafty Lyndon Johnson wanted a liar and a crook whom he could trust with the cover-up operation, he wisely chose Chief Justice Earl Warren.  History says that he made the right choice for lying and deceit. 

 

After the Warren Commission’s report came out and numbers of critics began surfacing to claim that it was a cover-up, Johnson contacted the Assistant FBI Director Cartha DeLoach in Nov 1966 and asked or directed that the FBI make a statement that Lee Harvey Oswald acted in a singular capacity without any plot involved (“Best Evidence,” p. 306).  And the FBI obeyed! 

 

Johnson was so paranoid over the possibility that the public might be motivated to doubt or reject the Warren Commission’s findings that he commenced a most unusual process with surfacing dissidents.  LBJ ordered the FBI to commence investigations of the Warren critics (“It Didn’t Start With Watergate,” p. 209-211). 

 

While details are now lacking, it is clear that Lyndon turned the IRS loose on the critics as well--to include New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, mentioned previously. 

 

 

But Bobby Too 

 

Many naive, political liberals in the US cannot and will not entertain the idea that the Kennedy brothers could have ever done anything wrong.  They want to believe that Jack and Bobby were lily-white and perfectionists in morality, honor and character.  For sure, they were both skunks of the worst kind. 

 

Jack manifestly set up most of the actions against Cuba and not an out-of-control CIA.  And while some of the actions against Cuba and Castro may have started during the Eisenhower years, there is no justification to blame them on Richard Nixon, after Kennedy came to power in Jan 1961 (or before Jan 1969). 

 

Succeeding subversion efforts against Cuba and assassination attempts on Castro happened because JFK ordered them. 

 

Lyndon Johnson was a liar and a crook.  There is no question that he used the Office of President to cover-up the JFK killing and that the cover-up benefited him personally. 

 

But as sorry, corrupt and evil as Lyndon Johnson was, he could never have successfully carried the cover-up caper off without Bobby Kennedy’s personal approval and participation (even though Bobby may have given that approval unwittingly and without a full comprehension of what all was involved), as well as the acquiesce and/or concurrence of numbers of other important government officials. 

 

 

Other Players 

 

One might try to make a case that J. Edgar Hoover would go off half cocked or by acting simply on the basis of orders from Johnson to make the statements which he did on Nov 22-24, 1963, for the cover-up operation.  But certainly, no one could accuse Bobby’s deputy (Nicholas Katzenbach) of being a loose cannon with his remarks (as outlined earlier). 

 

It seems highly likely that Katzenbach cleared his words with Bobby, although revelations about Katzenbach in later comments open the door to allow that Katzenbach could have acted independently and RFK simply failed to take any contrary action (because of his stupid participation in the Johnson led cover-up). 

 

Another outstanding illustration of the joint conspiratorial efforts of Johnson and Bobby to cover-up Jack’s murder also happened almost at once.  The primary CIA officials in Washington were appointed by JFK and were manifestly Kennedy loyalists.  With Jack’s assassination, they commenced a CIA investigation to determine if the murder could have had a Castro or Cuban link. 

 

Johnson found out about their investigation and ordered it stopped immediately.  Being Kennedy people, they must have grumbled some and expressed their dissatisfaction. 

 

Bobby Kennedy learned of their concern and he contacted them and reiterated Johnson’s order to stop their investigation-inquiry at once (“Assignment: Oswald,” p. 209, 221-222).  By the way, this is a good clue that the top CIA people had no participation in Jack’s death. 

 

The slightest hint of any Kennedy dissatisfaction or opposition to the cover-up would have immediately brought about a change in Johnson’s tactics.  Robert Kennedy was in obvious cahoots with LBJ on the cover-up almost from the beginning.  In fact, it appears that the placing of much of the blame for the cover-up must logically rest with Bobby, who was the Attorney General of the United States until 1964. 

 

 

A Major Effort 

 

Moreover, it is positively true that a cover-up of this magnitude could never have taken place without the personal participation and involvement of the US President and the Attorney General.  No one else in the US government had the power to completely over-ride the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI, all executive branch departments, the Warren Commission, the Courts, etc to effect this cover-up. 

 

Whatever else might be said about both Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy, no one would dare argue that they were weak or lazy bosses who did not take active roles in the management of their subordinate personnel and agencies.  With foreknowledge, neither of them would have sat back and allowed things to happen under their authority, outside the purview of their personal direction and/or approval. 

 

 

Some of the Reasons 

 

As noted above, it’s highly doubtful that any top government (Kennedy) appointees (heading the various government agencies and activities, like the CIA) would have ordered the hit themselves (although they participated in the later cover-up).  The most logical and plausible explanation of what occurred surfaces when one takes a careful look at organized crime and what all took place after JFK became President. 

 

Although Jack owed his presidency to organized crime leaders, he double-crossed them when he allowed his Attorney General, brother Bobby, to begin investigating and indicting not only some organized crime figures; but also, the Teamsters (Jimmy Hoffa)--where the Syndicate was getting a lot of money. 

 

There was also talk that Kennedy had made his mind up to withdraw US troops from Vietnam.  This move would have upset the Military-Industrial complex, mentioned by President Eisenhower.  However, it must be noted that most of the US defense production companies were and are controlled by the super rich bankers on Wall Street, described in prior chapters, and not by the US military. 

 

Consequently, any hard feelings on the part of the Military-Industrial complex would have most likely existed with the ruling plutocrats who benefited from the complex (to the tune of $500 billion to support the Vietnam conflict) and not from subordinates and lackeys in the US military or defense industry establishments (who had little to gain personally, whether the US was in Vietnam or not). 

 

In another matter, Kennedy was one of the key people in Washington who was pushing for a reduction or an elimination of the oil depletion allowance--which the oil industry was vitally opposed to.  As will be discussed later herein, the oil depletion allowance allowed investors to take deductions on their tax returns which they otherwise were not entitled to, based upon their actual cash investments. 

 

The importance of the bankers’ control of the US Military-Industrial complex (and the oil industry as well) must not be overlooked.  The bankers’ linkage to the JFK murder will be broached again in detail in the succeeding chapters.  Suffice to say, the fat cats stood to make a gob of money in a Vietnam war.  So the Kennedy plans must have upset them. 

 

A fourth reason seems to be the reported decision and preparation of an executive order by JFK to break up or reduce the CIA and apportion out its functions elsewhere--like placing covert operations in the Pentagon with the Joint Chiefs.  Clearly, prostitute politicians work for the plutocrats in using the CIA (and the US military) to further the profit goals of the controlling plutocrats (as noted in former remarks). 

 

The JFK thinking about breaking up the CIA must have concerned the plutocrats greatly.  After all, the CIA was organized and historically had functioned as a tax paid entity designed to instigate rebellions, coups, assassinations, espionage, sabotage, etc worldwide to benefit the ruling fat cats. 

 

Obviously, any effort to change the status quo on the CIA, on the so-called “Cold War,” on US involvement in Vietnam, or any other presidential action impacting on fat cat, internationalist bankers and plutocrats would have generated much interest at the governing towers on Wall Street and elsewhere in New York, London and Europe. 

 

Incidentally, when Lyndon Johnson was sworn in, one of his first acts some two days later was to cancel JFK’s plans for pulling out of Vietnam and evidently also immediately changing the CIA plans as well.  This rapid response by Johnson could be significant.  Maybe the foxy Johnson understood how close those bullets came to him. 

 

After all,