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Remembering
Jack Kennedy
From Stephen Lendman
11-21-13 |
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Killing Kennedy mattered. It changed America's
direction. Things might have been different had he lived.
November
22, 1963 remains a stain on America's legacy. It was Friday. A
light
rain fell.
Kennedy
spent the night at the Texas Hotel. A platform was set up
outside. He
came out. He made some brief remarks.
"There
are no faint hearts in Fort Worth," he said. "I appreciate
your being here this morning. Mrs. Kennedy is organizing
herself. It
takes longer, but, of course, she looks better than we do when
she
does it."
He
addressed "the willingness of citizens of the United States to
assume the burdens of leadership."
His
motorcade traveled to Carswell Air Force Base. He took a 13
minute
flight to Dallas. Rain ended.
The
plastic bubble atop his car was left off. Lyndon and Mrs.
Johnson
accompanied him in a separate car.
The
procession headed downtown. It wound through Dallas en route to
the
Trade Mart. Kennedy was scheduled to speak at a luncheon.
Crowds
along the route waved. His car turned off Main Street at Dealey
Plaza. It was around 12:30PM. The procession passed the Texas
School
Book Depository.
Gunfire
was heard. Kennedy was struck. His car sped to Parkland Memorial
Hospital. It was a few minutes away. It was too late. He was
given
his last rites. Around 1PM, he was pronounced dead.
The
New
York Times
headlined in bold type across the top of its front page:
"KENNEDY
IS KILLED BY SNIPER AS HE RIDES IN CAR TO DALLAS; JOHNSON SWOWN
IN ON
PLANE"
"Gov.
Connally Shot; Mrs. Kennedy Safe"
"President
is Struck Down by a Rifle Shot From Building on Motorcade Route
-
Johnson, Riding Behind, Is Unhurt"
Less
than an hour earlier, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald. He was
a
convenient patsy. He had nothing to do with killing Kennedy.
He
alone remains officially blamed. The Big Lie persists. Lots of
evidence refutes it.
Plato
once said:
"Strange
times are these in which we live when old and young are taught
falsehoods in school."
"And
the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a
lunatic
and fool."
On
November 29, 1963, Lyndon Johnson established the Warren
Commission.
On September 24, 1964, it delivered its 888-page report.
Three
days later, it released it publicly. It pronounced a bald-faced
lie.
It said Oswald acted alone.
It
later published 26 volumes of supporting documents. They
included
testimonies or depositions of 552 witnesses.
Its
distortions included over 3,100 exhibits. It went all out to
conceal
truth and full disclosure.
All
records are in the National Archives. Included are unpublished
reports. They're sealed until 2039.
They're
no longer applicable under the 1966 Freedom of Information Act
and
1992 JFK Records Act.
Nothing
released ahead will change the official story. The Big Lie
persists.
It remain etched in stone. It's for others to challenge it.
The
Commission's job was suppressing truth. It was coverup. It was
stacked with insiders. They included:
Chief Supreme Court Justice
Earl
Warren
Senator Richard Russell (D.
GA)
Senator John Sherman Cooper
(R.
KY)
Representative Hale Boggs
(D.
LA)
Representative Gerald Ford
(R.
MI)
former CIA director Allen
Dulles, and
former WW II Assistant
Secretary
of War/World Bank president/prominent presidential advisor John
J.
McCloy.
Testimonies
were taken in secret. Sanitized versions were published.
Peter
Dale Scott coined the phrase "deep politics." It means "in
every culture and society there are facts which tend to be
suppressed, because of the social and psychological costs of not
doing so."
Scott
noted "the ability of the government to establish a guilty party
or parties immediately, and the press and media consumption of
that
product to the exclusion of all other possibilities."
The
Warren Commission's mandate was "to validate what was already
decided by the FBI on the day in question."
"In
Oswald's case, FBI and CIA documents described him as five feet,
ten
inches, weighing 165 pounds."
"But
it contradicted the actual height and weight of the man picked
up and
charged being slightly shorter and weighing 140 pounds."
"It
appears someone had already decided who was going to be charged
before the police found Oswald in the Texas Theater."
He
was named within 15 minutes from when Kennedy was shot. It was
impossible to know that soon. The official story was bogus.
Jim
Marrs book titled, "Crossfire:
The
Plot That Killed Kennedy"
discussed a Cartha DeLoach memo. He was FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover's close aide.
He
said then Congressman Gerald Ford may have been the bureau's
Warren
Commission informant. He had close CIA ties.
It
was later learned he reported to Hoover. He did so secretly. He
admitted instructing the Commission to move Kennedy's back wound
up
several inches. A lower location disproved the single gunman
theory.
It
said the investigation put "certain classified and potentially
damaging operations in danger of being exposed."
The
CIA hid or "destroy(ed) some information, which can easily be
misinterpreted as collusion in JFK's assassination."
Family
spokeswoman, Penny Circle, said Ford approved the text. Before
his
death, he publicly said the CIA destroyed or hid critical
secrets
related to the killing.
He
suggested a "conspiracy." He barely stopped short of
admitting one. Commission conclusions were rubbish. They hid
dirty
truths. They were too disturbing to reveal.
Jim
Fetzer
has done extensive research on Kennedy's assassination. He said
the
following:
"The
weapon Oswald is alleged to have used cannot have fired the
bullets
that killed JFK."
"The
'magic bullet' theory is provably untrue and was not even
anatomically possible."
"JFK
was hit four times - in the throat from in front, in the back
from
behind, and in the head from in front and behind."
"X-rays
were altered. A brain was substituted, and photos and films were
faked to conceal the true causes of his death."
Fetzer
cited "more than 15 indications of Secret Service complicity in
setting JFK up for the hit."
"Two
agents assigned to the limousine were left behind at Love Field.
The
flat-bed truck for reporters that should have preceded the limo
was
cancelled."
"The
motorcycle escort was cut down to four and was instructed not to
ride
ahead of the rear wheels."
"Open
windows were not covered. The manhole covers were not welded,
and the
crowd was allowed to spill into the street."
"...Vehicles
were in the wrong order, with (Kennedy's) Lincoln first, when it
should have been in the middle."
"This
was such a blatant violation of protocol that any security
expert
would have detected it."
The
Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) destroyed the
Presidential
Protection Records. It did so to eliminate important evidence.
Kennedy's
route was changed days before he arrived. Included was a
strictly
prohibited 90 degree turn.
After
gunfire struck him, driver William Greer pulled to the left. He
stopped the vehicle.
"At
Parkland Hospital, (Secret Service) agents got a bucket of water
and
a sponge, and washed brains and blood from the crime scene."
Kennedy's
"limousine was taken back to Ford. (It) was stripped to bare
metal and rebuilt."
Doing
so destroyed important evidence. It included the windshield. It
had
"a through-and-through bullet hole."
Kennedy
was shot from in front and behind. He was struck four times.
The
Warren Commission claimed he was hit twice. The Commission
claimed
the bullet striking Kennedy in the back passed through his neck,
then
exited from his throat.
It
struck Governor Connally. It shattered a rib. It damaged his
right
wrist. It embedded itself in his left thigh.
Fetzer
called this explanation "a most unlikely scenario that is known
as the 'magic bullet' theory."
To
make it remotely plausible, Commission member (then Congressman)
Gerald Ford "had the description of the wound to the back
changed from 'his uppermost back.' "
The
weapon Oswald was accused of firing couldn't have killed
Kennedy. His
death certificate and autopsy said high-velocity bullets above
2,600
fps killed him.
Oswald's
Mannlicher-Carcano rifle had a muzzle velocity of 2,000 fps.
Even
with a more powerful weapon, "the shots themselves were highly
improbable," said Fetzer.
"(T)he
simple expedient of locating where the bullet hit JFK’s back is
enough to establish the existence of a conspiracy has not
inhibited
those who want to obfuscate the facts."
Pseudo-documentaries
air on TV. They obscure what happened. They hide vital truths.
They
stick to the long ago discredited lone gunman explanation.
"Authentic
evidence, once separated from (fabrications), refutes it," said
Fetzer.
"The
demise of the 'magic bullet' (theory) alone establishes
conspiracy."
"Creating
a false photographic record of the assassination was crucial to
the
cover-up."
"As
much thought was given to concealing the truth from the public
as was
given to executing the assassination itself."
"By
removing some events and adding others, the home movie known as
the
Zapruder film became the backbone of the cover-up."
"As
long as it was taken to be authentic, it would be impossible to
reconstruct the crime."
Much
has been written about Kennedy. James Douglas contributed some
of the
best. His book titled "JFK
and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters"
debunked mainstream myths and much more.
He
showed how Kennedy threatened the military-industrial complex.
He had
to go. "(T)he CIA's fiingerprints (were) all over the crime and
the events leading up to it," said Douglas.
The
lone gunman theory long ago lost credibility. A state-sponsored
coup
eliminated Kennedy. He changed during his time in office. He
evolved
from cold warrior to peacemaker.
The
Bay of Pigs fiasco chastened him. He refused authorizing another
attempt to remove Castro.
He
supported Palestinian rights. He opposed Israel's nuclear
weapons
program. He offended energy giants. He wanted the oil depletion
allowance cut or eliminated.
RFK
waged war on organized crime. JFK's first executive order
expanded
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). He was a
gradualist on civil rights. He believed integration was morally
right.
He
favored Federal Reserve reform. His Executive Order 11110
authorized
replacing Federal Reserve notes with silver certificates if the
occasion arose to do so.
It's
believed he ordered Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon to
begin
issuing United States notes. Perhaps he had in mind replacing
Federal
Reserve ones altogether. He was assassinated to soon to know.
He
deplored the CIA. He fired director Allen Dulles and his deputy
General Charles Cabell.
He
once said he wanted to "splinter the (agency) into a thousand
pieces and scatter it to the winds." It was reason enough to
kill him.
He
increasingly opposed imperial wars. Initially, he sent troops
and
advisors to Southeast Asia. He opposed sending more to Laos.
He
told his Geneva Conference representative, Averell Harriman:
"Do
you understand? I want a negotiated settlement in Laos. I don't
want
to put troops in."
He
opposed deploying nuclear weapons in Berlin. He was against
using
them in Southeast Asia.
He
once called Pentagon generals "crazy" for suggesting it. He
refused to attack or invade Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis.
He
said he "never had the slightest intension of doing so."
He
urged abolishing all nuclear weapons. He knew using them is
lunacy.
He favored general and complete disarmament.
He
opposed Pax Americana enforced dominance. He signed the Limited
Test
Ban Treaty with Soviet Russia.
Weeks
before his assassination, he signed National Security Memorandum
263.
It called for removing 1,000 US forces from Vietnam by yearend.
He
wanted them all out by December 1965.
He
underwent a spiritual transformation. It bears repeating. He
switched
from cold warrior to peacemaker.
He
was at odds with Pentagon commanders, CIA, most congressional
members, and nearly all his advisors.
He
understood his vulnerability. He paid with his life. He was
favored
to win reelection. Imagine if he had two full terms.
Imagine
a new direction. Imagine deploring war. Imagine turning swords
into
plowshares.
Imagine
a world at peace. Imagine nuclear disarmament. Imagine ending
the
Cold War a generation earlier.
In
June 1956, he addressed Harvard's commencement. He was
Massachusetts
junior senator at the time.
He
ended by quoting an English mother. She wrote the Provost of
Harrow
saying: "Don't teach my boy poetry. He is going to stand for
Parliament."
"Well,
perhaps she was right," said Kennedy. "But if more
politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am
convinced
the world would be a better place in which to live on this
commencement day of 1956."
Killing
JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcom X "decapitat(ed) America's left,"
said Fetzer. In the 1970s, the nation began shifting right.
Progressive charismatic leaders were gone.
None
exist today. Their absence is sorely missed. It lets America get
away
with murder and then some.
Dark
forces run things. War on humanity persists. Peacemakers aren't
around to stop it. Survival hangs in the balance.
Stephen
Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His
new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on
Humanity."
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanII.html
Visit
his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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