JFK Assassination: Is James Files telling the truth?
Why do I believe James Files is telling the truth? Here is a non-exhaustive list of reasons in random order:
When I first learned about James Files some three years ago, I was
rather amazed that I didn’t know his name. After all, I had been
studying the Kennedy assassination for over 12 years. I was more
astonished because Files had made his confession in 1994 and I was told
the website had been up since 1995. When I searched for the name "James
Files" on the Internet, I found that 9 out of 10 articles attempted to
completely discredit Files' story. I then set out to closely investigate
these criticisms and came to the conclusion they were all superficial
and didn't hold water.
For example, critics said that the weapon Files claimed to have used was
more a pistol than a rifle and would have had an enormous recoil. They
said it "kicks like a mule". Therefore, Files could never have seen what
he claimed he had witnessed through the scope of his weapon. I sent an
email to one of the gun shops I found on the Internet. I acted as a
potential customer and asked whether the Remington Fireball was a
pleasant weapon to fire. That man stated the weapon was one of the most
sophisticated guns ever made, etc. When I inquired about the recoil he
said it was nice and steady. Ultimately, I told him why I asked. He was
quite amused and said that the alleged murder weapon of Lee Harvey
Oswald had a lot more recoil than the Fireball. He added that whoever
said that the XP-100 had substantial recoil had a lot to learn about
firearms.
Files was also criticized with the allegation that the XP-100 was not
available in 1963 and that the rounds used for this weapon were not a
.222 caliber but rather .221. I found both accusations to be untrue. The
weapon was introduced in 1963 and prototypes were available as early as
1962. The weapon was originally chambered for .222 rounds. To learn
more about the Remington XP-100 Fireball click here.
Another statement was that Files would not have had the time to do all
the things he claimed to have done. He states that he bit the shell
casing after firing the shot and left it on the on the picket fence on
the grassy knoll. He then put the weapon back in his briefcase, turned
his jacket inside out, put it on and walked away. Critics shout he would
never had the time to do all of that because numerous bystanders rushed
to the knoll right after the shots, since that is where most bystanders
had heard the shots coming from.
It is true that many bystanders ran towards the grassy knoll, but not
immediately. Files says that everyone stood frozen and stunned and that
even the policemen acted uncertain, as if they were waiting for someone
to tell them what to do.
I was quickly able to determine that Files was right. One of the photos
of the knoll shows the press bus in front of it. There is not a soul on
the knoll yet. This was the last vehicle in the motorcade, so it must
have taken, at the minimum, 30 seconds for the bus to reach that point.
The president's limousine had almost come to a stop and the press bus
had to make the sharp turn of 120 degrees from Houston street onto Elm,
forcing it to a near-stop also. To see that Files was right click here.
The lead on James Files came from the FBI. Agent Zack Shelton (now
retired) served 28 years with the FBI. He has an impeccable record and
spent much of his career on organized crime task forces of Chicago and
Kansas City. He is the man who gave the information on James Files to
private investigator Joe West, because Zack Shelton had reason to
believe that James Files knew more about the Kennedy assassination. This
was based on a remark that James Files had made to an FBI informant.
Joe West subsequently located James Files in Stateville penitentiary,
which ultimately led to his confession of being the gunman on the grassy
knoll.
It is important to note that James Files had never volunteered to give
information on his role in the assassination. The tip from Zack was
given to Joe West, who was working on a lawsuit to exhume JFK’s body. He
wanted to prove that Kennedy was hit from the front and by multiple
gunmen and a new and independent autopsy would prove sure as hell that
the first was a total fraud.
But Joe West never heard a full confession from James Files. Files
didn’t want to talk. Only if Joe could arrange immunity for him, would
Files consider it. During that time Joe had to go into a hospital for
heart surgery. The operation itself was a success, but then out of
nowhere he went into a coma and never came out of it. With his death,
his exhumation suit also died. Files, and others, thinks Joe was
murdered by an overdose of wrong medication in order to silence him. He
was informed as such by one of his sources. Indeed there are some
strange details; the attending doctor is still to be found for example.
And just before he went into coma and could not talk anymore, he
scribbled a note for his family "Get me out of here, they are trying to
kill me!" The official cause of death was Acute Deficiency Respiratory
Syndrome. Bob Vernon was later told by a surgeon that this is more or
less a standard method to cover-up medical errors, such as an overdose
of drugs. Joe's death is one of the main reasons why James Files decided
to tell his story to Bob Vernon, who took over from Joe.
A second reason is that Files has turned religious. An element of
clearing his conscience also plays a role. In addition, he feels it was
not his idea to put his name before the public. He says it was the FBI
(Zack Shelton) and he was convinced the FBI would want the truth kept
covered-up. Indeed J. Edgar Hoover had done his best. To James Files,
the FBI is one big bad organization. What he does not understand, is
that mostly honorable people work for the FBI and the cover-up was
controlled from the top. Zack Shelton and his colleagues feel betrayed
their own former boss covered-up such a big crime, while they were
thinking they were doing the greatest thing in the world.
Another reason is that both Files and Bob Vernon had received clear
threats to stop with all of this. Those threats came from organized
crime as well as the government. To name just a few examples: Vernon
claims he was shot at from a car and Files received a message from a mob
lawyer to "keep quiet and lay down by your doggy bowl." Vernon’s
proposal to Files was then: "If they want to take us out, let’s leave
them something for history!" Files stared in silence through the window
for a minute, according to Vernon the longest minute of his life.
Finally Files turned around and said: "Ok, bring in the cameras
tomorrow!"
A final reason is that James Files is convinced he will never be tried
for the assassination of JFK. A trial would expose the government’s
involvement. He knows the powers behind it and they have too much to
lose. To learn more about how it all evolved, read or hear the interview
with Zack Shelton click here.
Zack before losing his innocence
+ James Files implicates two accomplices in the murder: Johnny Roselli
and Charles Nicoletti, both known dual operatives for the CIA and Mafia
boss Sam Giancana of Chicago. Although James Files does not know how
Roselli and Nicoletti arrived in Dallas, two other independent witnesses
have furnished first-hand information as to how they transported
Roselli and Nicoletti into Dallas on the morning of November 22, 1963.
Tosh Plumlee, a CIA contract pilot, flew Roselli to Dallas on a
CIA-supported flight originating in Florida. Chauncey Marvin Holt,
deceased in 1997, was a CIA operative and a mob asset for crime-bosses
Meyer Lansky and Peter Licavoli. Chauncey Holt has testified that he was
one the infamous three tramps, but also that he drove with Charles
Nicolletti to Dallas from the Grace Ranch in Arizona, which was owned by
Peter Licavoli, the Mafia boss of Cleveland. Moreover, when the
Chauncey Holt story was published there was NO mention about Charles
Nicoletti. The reporter who wrote it didn't think it was important
enough to print it, although Chauncey Holt had told her. When Bob Vernon
contacted Chauncey Holt, he learned that Nicoletti had been one of his
passengers. This was AFTER Files had made his confession. This means
that Files could not have learned from the Chauncey Holt publication
that Nicoletti was in Dallas on november 22, 1963. It is clear that his
source is his own memory. And Chauncey Holt corroborates that, as does
Tosh Plumlee for Johnny Roselli. Chauncey Holt, Tosh Plumlee and James
Files did not know each other, yet they give the same and independent
information about the same people. This cannot be coincidence nor can it
be a scam.
+ James Files also claims to know the man who killed officer J.D.
Tippit, some 45 minutes after JFK was killed. A picture of this man is
available on this website. To view it click here.
Files has refused to disclose the identity of this man as the man is
still alive. However, it seems unlikely that the man or his friends and
family have not been made aware of the confession of James Files and
have completely missed the picture. Up to this date, they have not come
forward to deny the allegation, which would seem logical if the story
were not true. It should be noted that it was never Files' intention
that this picture would be publicized.
+ Some sceptics claim that if Files is telling the truth, he would have
been killed. This is baloney. First of all, three failed attempts have
been made on his life. They just weren't succesful. Read about it here.
But furthermore it is simply a myth that all those involved are dead or
have been killed. In fact, enough persons with involvement or knowledge
of the assassination are alive and could still be questioned. They are
just not being looked at by the authorities. Examples include Charles
Harreslon (another "tramp"), Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carrilles,
Guillermo Novo Sampol (Operation 40 members/CIA assets placed by
witnessess in Dallas on 11/22/1963), Gerald Ford (altered crucial
medical evidence), E. Howard Hunt and more. The lack of effort to
question these people is illustrative for the willingness to solve the
case.
+ All critics who attack James Files, at least agree that he is a "good
liar". But it is claimed there are too many implausibilities in his
account, for example the last-minute request to be the backup shooter
for Nicoletti, as well as biting the shell casing. My question is: Why
does a good liar invent a story with implausibilities? A liar inventing a
hoax story, wants to be believed. Why then make your story implausible?
And how did Files manage to have the shell casing found, seven years
before his involuntary confession? These critics also ignore that if
Files is a hoax, Tosh Plumlee, Joe Granata and Chauncey Holt are all
endorsing the hoax.
+ James Files says he left the shell casing from the bullet that he
fired at John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza. He put it on top of the picket
fence on the grassy knoll, after he had bitten down on the shell
casing, because he liked the taste of gun powder. This shell casing was
found in 1987 by garden service man John Rademacher at some distance
from the spot where Files said he left it. The casing was in the ground
some 5 inches deep, consistent with a deposit of 24 years ago. The local
press gave only very scant coverage on Rademacher's discovery and NO
mention was made of any marks on the shell casing. It is very unlikely
that James Files could have known of this discovery, but there is
certainly no way he could have known about the indents on the shell
casing. Even Rademacher was guessing what they could be, he thought they
were "ejection marks". No one had thought about dentmarks until James
Files came forward with this information. He said: "If the casing is
mine, you can recognize it for my teethmarks are on it. The end will be
oval, not round." It was then verified by a number of independent
dentists (among others, a professor in orthodontology Paul Stimpson)
that the marks were indeed made by human teeth. When Mr. Stimpson was
asked to examine the casing he was not aware of a connection with the
Kennedy assassination. All he was told was that is was used in a murder.
James Files could not have known these marks were dentmarks, unless he
put them there himself or heard it from someone that put them in the
casing. However, it is simply unlikely that any other assassin would
have been so unprofessional to leave this incriminating evidence on the
scene of the crime. James Files, at that time only 21 years of age, said
he felt "cocky" about his deed. He now recognizes that he should never
have done that. The shell casing is therefore a crucial piece of
physical evidence for his credibility. To learn more about the shell
casing click here.
+ Recently another person was found who corroborates James Files. Zack
Shelton was given a name by fellow FBI agent Jack O' Rourke. The name
was Joe Granata, a Mafia member, who used to run with Charles Nicoletti.
Granata has been a credible witness for the government. Apparently he
is so valuable that he was put in the witness protection program. His
testimony has helped send several people to prison. Joe Granata has
never given unreliable information. He told Zack that Nicoletti had told
him on two occasions that Nicoletti, Roselli, Marshall Caifano and
Jimmy Sutton, were the "hit team on Dealey Plaza." Although James Files
says he knows nothing about Marshall Caifano being on Dealey Plaza, his
name was James Sutton at the time. To learn more about Granata and his
reliability as a source click here.
+ James Files said that he was aiming for Kennedy's eye but missed and
"came in on the left side of the temple." He says this was because
Kennedy was hit in the back of his head by another bullet from behind at
almost the same time, and that bullet pushed the head forward. Even the
best Kennedy researchers have not noticed such a movement, yet this is
EXACTLY what we see on the Zapruder film. To learn more about the
simultaneous headshots click here.
Three frames of the Zapruder film show the head going forward first
+ How does the available evidence coincide with James Files? Well, there
is the testimony of Lee Bowers, who was the operator of the railroad
tower with a clear view behind the picket fence. James Files says he
wore a plaid poplin jacket. Lee Bowers described a young man with such a
coat:
Mr. BOWERS. Directly in line, towards the mouth of the underpass, there
were two men. One man, middle-aged, or slightly older, fairly heavy-set,
in a white shirt, fairly dark trousers. Another younger man, about
midtwenties, in either a plaid shirt or plaid coat or jacket.
Mr. BALL.. Were they standing together or standing separately?
Mr. BOWERS. They were standing within 10 or 15 feet of each other, and gave no appearance of being together, as far as I knew.
Lee Bowers also described three cars that drove into the parking lot
behind the picket fence. One of these cars fits the description of the
Oldsmobile stationwagon that Chauncey Holt and Charles Nicoletti had
driven from Arizona:
Mr. BALL. What was the description of that car?
Mr. BOWERS. The first car was a 1959 Oldsmobile, blue and white station wagon with out-of-State license.
Mr. BALL. Do you know what State?
Mr. BOWERS. No; I do not. I would know it, I could identify it, I think, if I looked at a list.
Mr. BALL. And, it had something else, some bumper stickers?
Mr. BOWERS. Had a bumper sticker, one of which was a Goldwater sticker,
and the other of which was of some scenic location, I think.
Note that Chauncey Holt and Charles Nicolletti had driven the car from
Arizona and that Barry Goldwater, a senator from that state, was
running for President. By the way, it is remarkable that Mr. Ball asks
that question about the bumber sticker since Mr. Ball was one of Holt's
CIA handlers.
Lee Bowers was also one of many witnesses that heard the last two shots
very close together or almost simultaneously. As did Seymour Weitzman:
Joe Ball: How many shots did you hear?
Seymour Weitzman: Three distinct shots.
Joe Ball: How were they spaced?
Seymour Weitzman: First one, then the second two seemed to be simultaneously.
This is exactly what Files said: His shot hit JFK in the head at the same time as a shot from the back.
James Files also said there were two men in business suits in his
vicinity, who later stopped bystanders by posing as Secret Service
agents.
The two businessmen that Files mentions were between him and the
motorcade and he was somewhat concerned about them. The photographical
evidence that is available at the time of the assassination, does not
show men in business suits on the grassy knoll. But it is of course very
likely that these men were there before the assassination took place
and that they sought a better place to stay out of sight at the time of
the shots. As the motorcade was arriving James Files was not paying
attention anymore to what happened around him as he was keeping Kennedy
in the scope of his weapon. Several witnesses, for example Gordon Arnold
and police officers Joe Smith and Seymour Weitzman, have testified they
were turned back by men on the grassy knoll, showing Secret Service
credentials. Official Secret Service records show that no agents were
assigned on Dealey Plaza or the grassy knoll.
A very unknown witness who did not appear for the Warren Commission, was
Charles Blankenship. His story was recently uncovered by researcher
Michael Parks:
Michael Parks recently came across evidence of even another witness to
the knoll agent. He relayed this to from Mrs. Charles Blankenship: Her
husband, Charles "Charlie" Blankenship was with the DPS office from
another county other than Dallas. She recalled him working out of the
Fort Worth office but was not sure. He was off duty on 11/22/63 but had
come to Dallas to see the president with other officers stationed in
Dallas. He was standing on the east side of Houston Street in front of
the Records Building. He heard the shooting and, like many other lawmen,
ran to where he felt the shots had originated, this being the knoll
area. He supposedly encountered two men in suits that stated they were Secret Service agents.
They told him he could go no further and he turned and left Dealey
Plaza. He was not interviewed by any agency and kept this story to his
immediate family until his death. It was known that he had a relative on
the Dallas Police force. Source: http://www.jfklancer.com/knollagent/knollagent.html
There is also evidence that seems to conflict with the account of James
Files. This is the story of Ed Hoffman, a deaf mute man, who was ignored
by the FBI, but claims to have seen a man in a suit firing a gun from
behind the picket fence. This man then tossed the gun to another man,
who disassembled the rifle and put it in a briefcase. This other man was
dressed as railroad worker and walked away with the briefcase in the
direction of the railroad yard. James Files says that he was alone
behind the picket fence. However, I tend to see Ed Hoffman as credible,
although he is a single and thus uncorroborated source. If we assume
Hoffman's account is true, and since there is evidence of more than one
shot from the front, for example the wound in Kennedy's throat, it is
not inconceivable that Files, concentrated as he was on the target, may
have missed another shooter behind the fence and closer to the
underpass. This man could have appeared at the last moment. He could
have been hiding behind or in one of the cars behind the picket fence.
It could well have been one of the men in suits, posing as Secret
Service agents.
+ The critics of James Files claim that he is just a convict with "too
much time on his hands" and that he must have read many books on the
assassination to invent his story, which would be designed to get fame
and attention. This claim can be discounted for many reasons:
1) Files has given his video confession only once in 1994. He had
vouched he would never do it again. Indeed, I have worked for almost a
year to get him to agree to a second and final interview. I had already
given up untill he finally consented for a specific reason that has
nothing to do with getting attention.
2) Files has met with Oliver Stone three times and he told us (Jim Marrs and me) this:
JF - We wasn't aware of the water situation untill Oliver Stone comes
along to make a movie here. And when he made his movie here, we see all
these people from the movie company running around carrying bottles of
water. Even the officers that worked here, they got suspicious and
that’s when we started finding out: this water is unhealthy.
Wim - Did you actually meet Oliver Stone?
JF - I met Oliver Stone three times. As a matter of fact I have a paper
that Joe West … no excuse me, not Joe West but Bob Vernon, had Oliver
Stone sign. Now Bob Vernon had come in after the Joe West deal. Bob
Vernon took over for Joe West. Bob Vernon met with Oliver Stone and he
had him sign an agreement where they wanted to get me on film, but I
refused to do that. I met with Oliver Stone three times.
Jim - And you never told him your story?
JF - No, I did not tell Oliver Stone my story. I refused to discuss it
with him and uh …like I say, I ‘ve got a copy, It’s got Oliver Stone’s
signature on it, Bob Vernon’s, the only signature that states what it’s
all about, the only thing missing is my signature because I would never
sign that paper for the agreement.
Jim - Why was that?
JF - I didn’t like the man!
Jim - Case closed!
JF - Case closed! And if you’d like I would be more than happy to send
you a copy of the document. And it has got Oliver Stone’s original
signature on it. And it has Bob Vernon’s signature on it.
Well, I guess that answers the critics who say that Files is just a
convict trying to get attention. I mean, if you want attention, you want
to talk to Oliver Stone, who was the director of the blockbuster movie
JFK.
3) Tony Godinez is the former warden of Stateville Correctional Center.
He has interviewed James Files more often than anyone else. He has
testified that he never saw a book about JFK in the cell of James Files.
4) I found out first hand that James Files is not well read on the JFK
assassination, just like he says. The day before the camera interview., I
talked with him on an extended visit for four hours. We covered many
subjects, one of them was Chauncey Holt and the three tramps. James
Files started telling me that in his view the three men were not
professionals. I asked him why? He then said that they did not know "how
to improvise", and that they were stupid to get themselves arrested by
the cops, because in a situation like that "you just have to shoot the
cops". I explained to him that this would have been difficult since they
were found in a closed boxcar and that they had been instructed by
their superiors to hide in that boxcar, which would make their exit. I
also told him that they were not arrested, because they identified
themselves as undercover agents, and they were escorted to the Sheriff's
office for a short hearing. Files then conceded and he said he did not
know that, adding that I knew lot more about the assassination than he
did.
+ It is clear to me that the short and sweet "investigation" of James
Files by the FBI was designed to discredit his information, rather than
to get to the bottom of it. James Files was interviewed by two FBI
agents eight months BEFORE his videotaped confession. The transcript of
this interview can be found by clicking here.
Note how the interview starts out:
Agents further told FILES that IRVIN had provided information to the FBI
that indicated he (FILES) had personal knowledge concerning the
assassination of JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK). Agents then told FILES that a
review of his (FILES') information as provided by IRVIN determined that
his (FILES') recollections were in significant contradiction to the
WARREN COMMISSION report. Agents told FILES That the findings of the
WARREN COMMISSION report had been accepted by the government as an
accurate factual account of the JFK assassination.
Agents then told FILES that Agents further understood from IRVIN that he
(FILES) was cognizant of his contradictions with the WARREN COMMISSION
findings and that he (FILES) wanted to make available the "true story"
of the JFK assassination out of respect to the deceased JOE WEST. Agents
told FILES that in view of his obvious conflicts with the WARREN
COMMISSION findings, he would unlikely be afforded subsequent
opportunities for interview by the FBI or the U.S. Attorney in regard to
the JFK assassination unless he established his credibility with the
government. FILES was told that credibility could sometimes be
established through corroboration of facts furnished by an individual
during an interview. Agents told FILES that the purpose of the interview
was to obtain additional information from him in an effort to establish
him as a credible person rather than to build a murder case on him.
FILES was told that the JFK assassination took place almost 30 years ago
and it would take extraordinary corroboration to make recollections
credible in view of the WARREN COMMISSION findings.
Basically, what the FBI agents say here to James Files: “We have a
problem with your story because it contradicts the Warren Commission“ !!
This is before they even begin discussing any substance of the
information ! Only an uninformed 10 % of the American people still
accept the clearly ludicrous and demonstrably false conclusions of the
Warren Report. Its conclusions were also easily refuted in a less
publicized government investigation in 1977/78. The House Select
Committee on Assassinations, DID conclude that JFK was killed as a
result of a conspiracy which included more than one gunman.
Further on in the transcript we read this:
Agents asked FILES to name persons who could verify his relationship
with NICOLETTI. FILES named JERRY ESPOSITO, COSMO IASCO, DOMINICK
CIMINO, RONNIE BELL, RUPI REGO, KENNY LARRY, STEVE ANSELMO, JOE BUA and
MARSHAL CAIFANO as some of the individuals who could verify his
relationship with NICOLETTI.
Please let us make sure we understand this: The agents ask Files for
corroboration of his association with Nicoletti. Files gives them a
flurry of names, almost a dozen. He could have named many more, like
Zack Shelton for one. Moreover, what the average reader does not know
is that at least half of these individuals were POLICE OFFICERS! In
addition, all of these people would confirm that Files was a mafia
hitman.
Why did the FBI not check with ANY of these persons named by James
Files? Some of them are still alive even now! Instead the FBI declared
him "non-credible".
As for the willingness to check evidence not pointing to Oswald, it
appears that little has changed within the FBI since Mr. Hoover "solved"
the case on the day of the assassination, when he wrote "Not necessary
to cover as true subject located". To see the document click here.
+ Everything that James Files has said and was checkable, proved to be
true. Even the smallest details that have nothing to do with JFK. I'll
give an example here. In the last interview on 11/19/2003 James Files
told me this:
"I’m not saying there is other shooters, what I am saying is this: I
have no need to know of everybody that is involved in an operation. What
purpose would that serve? That’s like me going into a communist country
on a covert operation and me knowing everybody, all the other agents
that are there in that field working. And if I get captured, they all
get executed! So the same thing goes when it comes down to crime. You
try to keep your people the least bit to know as possible. Because too
many times, maybe partners, and that’s like … I can use one deal, one
party back east out of Philadelphia, I did time with him in the federal
prison. His own brother gave him up. His brother knew that he was a big
time cocaine dealer, he was a dentist. They called him Dr. Snow. I don’t
remember his real name, but they called him Dr. Snow. His brother got
busted on a nickel bag of weed in New York. He gave his own brother up
because he couldn’t do a year in the jail. His brother told him:! I’ll
give you a million dollars a year. For every year they keep you in jail,
I give you a million dollars cash. Don’t testify against me! He put his
brother in jail."
Since James Files did not remember the name of "Dr Snow", I did a check
on Google for "dentist" and "Dr. Snow" and I quickly saw that Dr. Snow
is Larry Lavin. Two books have been written about the case. So I emailed
one of the authors Carol Saline wit the following results:
-----Original Message-----
From: info@jfkmurdersolved.com [mailto:info@jfkmurdersolved.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:47 AM
To: csaline@ ........
Subject: Larry Lavin aka Dr. Snow
Hello,
Do you know if Larry Lavin is
still alive? If so, can you
contact him? Is he in prison?
Is it true that he was given
up by his own brother?
Thanks for getting back,
Wim Dankbaar
(Netherlands)
From: "Carol Saline"
To: info@jfkmurdersolved.com
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:37 PM
Subject: RE: Larry Lavin aka Dr. Snow
Larry is very much alive. We speak and write regularly. He is still in
prison and will be released next January. Yes it's true that his brother
was instrumental in his capture. Have you read my book Dr. Snow. It's
all in there. You can buy it, including a update with larry's parole
hearing which I covered, from buybooksontheweb.com.
Another detail described by Files is about Nicoletti's car:
Jim Marrs – Okay, so now you got …. Describe the car!
James Files – The car was a ’63 Chevy two door Burgundy. Chevy Impala.
Jim Marrs – With the special compartment?
James Files - Oh yeah, we had a special compartment in the dash, we had
the backseat, you could take that off, pull the bottom part up, raise
the back up, snap it up little clams and take that out. We had the
springs removed behind the seat there by it and we had little racks
welded in there so we could mount weapons in there.
I found this fragment here from an article written by an organised crime expert:
"By the late 1950's, Nicoletti had a feared reputation as a hitman and
was one of the usual suspects brought in for questioning whenever cops
thought they had a gangland-style-slaying on their hands. In 1962, he
was arrested while driving a so-called "work" car, specially equipped with hidden compartments for guns, rear
lights that turned off, a souped up engine, special reinforcement on
both sides, bullet proof glass and a rotating rear license plate. It was
no surprise the next day when a mob associate was found slain near
where Nicoletti had been detained." Source: http://www.ganglandnews.com/column80.htm
+ James Files says that his CIA supervisor, who also recruited him, was
David Atlee Phillips.
David Atlee Phillips is a man whose name is well known to assassination
researchers. He was called to testify for the House Select Committee on
Assassinations in the 1970's. Several members of the committee wanted to
call him again for they believed he had not told the truth and
committed perjury.
Phillips was traced as a suspect as a result of the testimony of cuban
exile leader Antonio Veciana, a friend of Files, who knew his CIA case
officer only under the alias of "Maurice Bishop". A composite sketch,
based on the recollections of Veciana prompted US senator Schweiker to
recognize David Atlee Phillips. A confrontation between Veciana and
Phillips was arranged but Veciana, apparently fearing for his safety,
refused to identify Phillips as his former case officer, but later
acknowledged privately that Phillips was indeed his CIA controller.
The following is known of David Atlee Phillips by now: He was one of
the masterminds for the CIA staged coup by Pinochet in 1973, as well as
the overthrow in 1954 of the Guatemala regime headed by Jacobo Arbenz.
He was working closely with CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, another suspect
in the plot to kill JFK and the leader of the infamous Watergate burglar
team. In the 1950's and 1960's, Phillips was the CIA case officer for
the anti Castro Cubans in Havana and Mexico City. The star of David
Atlee Phillips rose to CIA director of Special Operations for the
Western Hemisphere.
David Atlee Phillips died of cancer on 7th July, 1988. He left behind an
unpublished manuscript. The novel is about a CIA officer who lived in
Mexico City. In the novel the character states: "I was one of those
officers who handled Lee Harvey Oswald... We gave him the mission of
killing Fidel Castro in Cuba... I don't know why he killed Kennedy. But I
do know he used precisely the plan we had devised against Castro. Thus
the CIA did not anticipate the president's assassination, but it was
responsible for it. I share that guilt."
According to his nephew Shawn Phillips, who is quite a famous musician,
David Atlee Phillips confirmed to his brother James Atlee Phillips that
he was in Dallas the day Kennedy died. To read Shawn's email: click here.
+ Last but not least, in 1995 a nationwide NBC program on the confession
of James Files, was cancelled after obvious CIA interference and this
was done with PROVABLE lies. To read the details on that story click here.
+ Recently another person was found who corroborates James Files. Zack
Shelton was given a name by fellow FBI agent Jack O' Rourke. The name
was Joe Granata, a Mafia member, who used to run with Charles Nicoletti.
Granata has been a credible witness for the government. Apparently he
is so valuable that he was put in the witness protection program. His
testimony has helped send several people to prison. Joe Granata has
never given unreliable information. He told Zack that Nicoletti had told
him on two occasions that Nicoletti, Roselli, Marshall Caifano and
Jimmy Sutton, were the "hit team on Dealey Plaza." Although James Files
says he knows nothing about Marshall Caifano being on Dealey Plaza, his
name was James Sutton at the time. To learn more about Granata and his
reliability as a source click here.
+ James Files said that he was aiming for Kennedy's eye but missed and
"came in on the left side of the temple." He says this was because
Kennedy was hit in the back of his head by another bullet from behind at
almost the same time, and that bullet pushed the head forward. Even the
best Kennedy researchers have not noticed such a movement, yet this is
EXACTLY what we see on the Zapruder film. To learn more about the
simultaneous headshots click here.
Three frames of the Zapruder film show the head going forward first
+ How does the available evidence coincide with James Files? Well, there
is the testimony of Lee Bowers, who was the operator of the railroad
tower with a clear view behind the picket fence. James Files says he
wore a plaid poplin jacket. Lee Bowers described a young man with such a
coat:
Mr. BOWERS. Directly in line, towards the mouth of the underpass, there
were two men. One man, middle-aged, or slightly older, fairly heavy-set,
in a white shirt, fairly dark trousers. Another younger man, about
midtwenties, in either a plaid shirt or plaid coat or jacket.
Mr. BALL.. Were they standing together or standing separately?
Mr. BOWERS. They were standing within 10 or 15 feet of each other, and gave no appearance of being together, as far as I knew.
Lee Bowers also described three cars that drove into the parking lot
behind the picket fence. One of these cars fits the description of the
Oldsmobile stationwagon that Chauncey Holt and Charles Nicoletti had
driven from Arizona:
Mr. BALL. What was the description of that car?
Mr. BOWERS. The first car was a 1959 Oldsmobile, blue and white station wagon with out-of-State license.
Mr. BALL. Do you know what State?
Mr. BOWERS. No; I do not. I would know it, I could identify it, I think, if I looked at a list.
Mr. BALL. And, it had something else, some bumper stickers?
Mr. BOWERS. Had a bumper sticker, one of which was a Goldwater sticker,
and the other of which was of some scenic location, I think.
Note that Chauncey Holt and Charles Nicolletti had driven the car from
Arizona and that Barry Goldwater, a senator from that state, was
running for President. By the way, it is remarkable that Mr. Ball asks
that question about the bumber sticker since Mr. Ball was one of Holt's
CIA handlers.
Lee Bowers was also one of many witnesses that heard the last two shots
very close together or almost simultaneously. As did Seymour Weitzman:
Joe Ball: How many shots did you hear?
Seymour Weitzman: Three distinct shots.
Joe Ball: How were they spaced?
Seymour Weitzman: First one, then the second two seemed to be simultaneously.
This is exactly what Files said: His shot hit JFK in the head at the same time as a shot from the back.
James Files also said there were two men in business suits in his
vicinity, who later stopped bystanders by posing as Secret Service
agents.
The two businessmen that Files mentions were between him and the
motorcade and he was somewhat concerned about them. The photographical
evidence that is available at the time of the assassination, does not
show men in business suits on the grassy knoll. But it is of course very
likely that these men were there before the assassination took place
and that they sought a better place to stay out of sight at the time of
the shots. As the motorcade was arriving James Files was not paying
attention anymore to what happened around him as he was keeping Kennedy
in the scope of his weapon. Several witnesses, for example Gordon Arnold
and police officers Joe Smith and Seymour Weitzman, have testified they
were turned back by men on the grassy knoll, showing Secret Service
credentials. Official Secret Service records show that no agents were
assigned on Dealey Plaza or the grassy knoll.
A very unknown witness who did not appear for the Warren Commission, was
Charles Blankenship. His story was recently uncovered by researcher
Michael Parks:
Michael Parks recently came across evidence of even another witness to
the knoll agent. He relayed this to from Mrs. Charles Blankenship: Her
husband, Charles "Charlie" Blankenship was with the DPS office from
another county other than Dallas. She recalled him working out of the
Fort Worth office but was not sure. He was off duty on 11/22/63 but had
come to Dallas to see the president with other officers stationed in
Dallas. He was standing on the east side of Houston Street in front of
the Records Building. He heard the shooting and, like many other lawmen,
ran to where he felt the shots had originated, this being the knoll
area. He supposedly encountered two men in suits that stated they were Secret Service agents.
They told him he could go no further and he turned and left Dealey
Plaza. He was not interviewed by any agency and kept this story to his
immediate family until his death. It was known that he had a relative on
the Dallas Police force. Source: http://www.jfklancer.com/knollagent/knollagent.html
There is also evidence that seems to conflict with the account of James
Files. This is the story of Ed Hoffman, a deaf mute man, who was ignored
by the FBI, but claims to have seen a man in a suit firing a gun from
behind the picket fence. This man then tossed the gun to another man,
who disassembled the rifle and put it in a briefcase. This other man was
dressed as railroad worker and walked away with the briefcase in the
direction of the railroad yard. James Files says that he was alone
behind the picket fence. However, I tend to see Ed Hoffman as credible,
although he is a single and thus uncorroborated source. If we assume
Hoffman's account is true, and since there is evidence of more than one
shot from the front, for example the wound in Kennedy's throat, it is
not inconceivable that Files, concentrated as he was on the target, may
have missed another shooter behind the fence and closer to the
underpass. This man could have appeared at the last moment. He could
have been hiding behind or in one of the cars behind the picket fence.
It could well have been one of the men in suits, posing as Secret
Service agents.
+ The critics of James Files claim that he is just a convict with "too
much time on his hands" and that he must have read many books on the
assassination to invent his story, which would be designed to get fame
and attention. This claim can be discounted for many reasons:
1) Files has given his video confession only once in 1994. He had
vouched he would never do it again. Indeed, I have worked for almost a
year to get him to agree to a second and final interview. I had already
given up untill he finally consented for a specific reason that has
nothing to do with getting attention.
2) Files has met with Oliver Stone three times and he told us (Jim Marrs and me) this:
JF - We wasn't aware of the water situation untill Oliver Stone comes
along to make a movie here. And when he made his movie here, we see all
these people from the movie company running around carrying bottles of
water. Even the officers that worked here, they got suspicious and
that’s when we started finding out: this water is unhealthy.
Wim - Did you actually meet Oliver Stone?
JF - I met Oliver Stone three times. As a matter of fact I have a paper
that Joe West … no excuse me, not Joe West but Bob Vernon, had Oliver
Stone sign. Now Bob Vernon had come in after the Joe West deal. Bob
Vernon took over for Joe West. Bob Vernon met with Oliver Stone and he
had him sign an agreement where they wanted to get me on film, but I
refused to do that. I met with Oliver Stone three times.
Jim - And you never told him your story?
JF - No, I did not tell Oliver Stone my story. I refused to discuss it
with him and uh …like I say, I ‘ve got a copy, It’s got Oliver Stone’s
signature on it, Bob Vernon’s, the only signature that states what it’s
all about, the only thing missing is my signature because I would never
sign that paper for the agreement.
Jim - Why was that?
JF - I didn’t like the man!
Jim - Case closed!
JF - Case closed! And if you’d like I would be more than happy to send
you a copy of the document. And it has got Oliver Stone’s original
signature on it. And it has Bob Vernon’s signature on it.
Well, I guess that answers the critics who say that Files is just a
convict trying to get attention. I mean, if you want attention, you want
to talk to Oliver Stone, who was the director of the blockbuster movie
JFK.
3) Tony Godinez is the former warden of Stateville Correctional Center.
He has interviewed James Files more often than anyone else. He has
testified that he never saw a book about JFK in the cell of James Files.
4) I found out first hand that James Files is not well read on the JFK
assassination, just like he says. The day before the camera interview., I
talked with him on an extended visit for four hours. We covered many
subjects, one of them was Chauncey Holt and the three tramps. James
Files started telling me that in his view the three men were not
professionals. I asked him why? He then said that they did not know "how
to improvise", and that they were stupid to get themselves arrested by
the cops, because in a situation like that "you just have to shoot the
cops". I explained to him that this would have been difficult since they
were found in a closed boxcar and that they had been instructed by
their superiors to hide in that boxcar, which would make their exit. I
also told him that they were not arrested, because they identified
themselves as undercover agents, and they were escorted to the Sheriff's
office for a short hearing. Files then conceded and he said he did not
know that, adding that I knew lot more about the assassination than he
did.
+ It is clear to me that the short and sweet "investigation" of James
Files by the FBI was designed to discredit his information, rather than
to get to the bottom of it. James Files was interviewed by two FBI
agents eight months BEFORE his videotaped confession. The transcript of
this interview can be found by clicking here.
Note how the interview starts out:
Agents further told FILES that IRVIN had provided information to the FBI
that indicated he (FILES) had personal knowledge concerning the
assassination of JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK). Agents then told FILES that a
review of his (FILES') information as provided by IRVIN determined that
his (FILES') recollections were in significant contradiction to the
WARREN COMMISSION report. Agents told FILES That the findings of the
WARREN COMMISSION report had been accepted by the government as an
accurate factual account of the JFK assassination.
Agents then told FILES that Agents further understood from IRVIN that he
(FILES) was cognizant of his contradictions with the WARREN COMMISSION
findings and that he (FILES) wanted to make available the "true story"
of the JFK assassination out of respect to the deceased JOE WEST. Agents
told FILES that in view of his obvious conflicts with the WARREN
COMMISSION findings, he would unlikely be afforded subsequent
opportunities for interview by the FBI or the U.S. Attorney in regard to
the JFK assassination unless he established his credibility with the
government. FILES was told that credibility could sometimes be
established through corroboration of facts furnished by an individual
during an interview. Agents told FILES that the purpose of the interview
was to obtain additional information from him in an effort to establish
him as a credible person rather than to build a murder case on him.
FILES was told that the JFK assassination took place almost 30 years ago
and it would take extraordinary corroboration to make recollections
credible in view of the WARREN COMMISSION findings.
Basically, what the FBI agents say here to James Files: “We have a
problem with your story because it contradicts the Warren Commission“ !!
This is before they even begin discussing any substance of the
information ! Only an uninformed 10 % of the American people still
accept the clearly ludicrous and demonstrably false conclusions of the
Warren Report. Its conclusions were also easily refuted in a less
publicized government investigation in 1977/78. The House Select
Committee on Assassinations, DID conclude that JFK was killed as a
result of a conspiracy which included more than one gunman.
Further on in the transcript we read this:
Agents asked FILES to name persons who could verify his relationship
with NICOLETTI. FILES named JERRY ESPOSITO, COSMO IASCO, DOMINICK
CIMINO, RONNIE BELL, RUPI REGO, KENNY LARRY, STEVE ANSELMO, JOE BUA and
MARSHAL CAIFANO as some of the individuals who could verify his
relationship with NICOLETTI.
Please let us make sure we understand this: The agents ask Files for
corroboration of his association with Nicoletti. Files gives them a
flurry of names, almost a dozen. He could have named many more, like
Zack Shelton for one. Moreover, what the average reader does not know
is that at least half of these individuals were POLICE OFFICERS! In
addition, all of these people would confirm that Files was a mafia
hitman.
Why did the FBI not check with ANY of these persons named by James
Files? Some of them are still alive even now! Instead the FBI declared
him "non-credible".
As for the willingness to check evidence not pointing to Oswald, it
appears that little has changed within the FBI since Mr. Hoover "solved"
the case on the day of the assassination, when he wrote "Not necessary
to cover as true subject located". To see the document click here.
+ Everything that James Files has said and was checkable, proved to be
true. Even the smallest details that have nothing to do with JFK. I'll
give an example here. In the last interview on 11/19/2003 James Files
told me this:
"I’m not saying there is other shooters, what I am saying is this: I
have no need to know of everybody that is involved in an operation. What
purpose would that serve? That’s like me going into a communist country
on a covert operation and me knowing everybody, all the other agents
that are there in that field working. And if I get captured, they all
get executed! So the same thing goes when it comes down to crime. You
try to keep your people the least bit to know as possible. Because too
many times, maybe partners, and that’s like … I can use one deal, one
party back east out of Philadelphia, I did time with him in the federal
prison. His own brother gave him up. His brother knew that he was a big
time cocaine dealer, he was a dentist. They called him Dr. Snow. I don’t
remember his real name, but they called him Dr. Snow. His brother got
busted on a nickel bag of weed in New York. He gave his own brother up
because he couldn’t do a year in the jail. His brother told him:! I’ll
give you a million dollars a year. For every year they keep you in jail,
I give you a million dollars cash. Don’t testify against me! He put his
brother in jail."
Since James Files did not remember the name of "Dr Snow", I did a check
on Google for "dentist" and "Dr. Snow" and I quickly saw that Dr. Snow
is Larry Lavin. Two books have been written about the case. So I emailed
one of the authors Carol Saline wit the following results:
-----Original Message-----
From: info@jfkmurdersolved.com [mailto:info@jfkmurdersolved.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:47 AM
To: csaline@ ........
Subject: Larry Lavin aka Dr. Snow
Hello,
Do you know if Larry Lavin is
still alive? If so, can you
contact him? Is he in prison?
Is it true that he was given
up by his own brother?
Thanks for getting back,
Wim Dankbaar
(Netherlands)
From: "Carol Saline"
To: info@jfkmurdersolved.com
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:37 PM
Subject: RE: Larry Lavin aka Dr. Snow
Larry is very much alive. We speak and write regularly. He is still in
prison and will be released next January. Yes it's true that his brother
was instrumental in his capture. Have you read my book Dr. Snow. It's
all in there. You can buy it, including a update with larry's parole
hearing which I covered, from buybooksontheweb.com.
Another detail described by Files is about Nicoletti's car:
Jim Marrs – Okay, so now you got …. Describe the car!
James Files – The car was a ’63 Chevy two door Burgundy. Chevy Impala.
Jim Marrs – With the special compartment?
James Files - Oh yeah, we had a special compartment in the dash, we had
the backseat, you could take that off, pull the bottom part up, raise
the back up, snap it up little clams and take that out. We had the
springs removed behind the seat there by it and we had little racks
welded in there so we could mount weapons in there.
I found this fragment here from an article written by an organised crime expert:
"By the late 1950's, Nicoletti had a feared reputation as a hitman and
was one of the usual suspects brought in for questioning whenever cops
thought they had a gangland-style-slaying on their hands. In 1962, he
was arrested while driving a so-called "work" car, specially equipped with hidden compartments for guns, rear
lights that turned off, a souped up engine, special reinforcement on
both sides, bullet proof glass and a rotating rear license plate. It was
no surprise the next day when a mob associate was found slain near
where Nicoletti had been detained." Source: http://www.ganglandnews.com/column80.htm
+ James Files says that his CIA supervisor, who also recruited him, was
David Atlee Phillips.
David Atlee Phillips is a man whose name is well known to assassination
researchers. He was called to testify for the House Select Committee on
Assassinations in the 1970's. Several members of the committee wanted to
call him again for they believed he had not told the truth and
committed perjury.
Phillips was traced as a suspect as a result of the testimony of cuban
exile leader Antonio Veciana, a friend of Files, who knew his CIA case
officer only under the alias of "Maurice Bishop". A composite sketch,
based on the recollections of Veciana prompted US senator Schweiker to
recognize David Atlee Phillips. A confrontation between Veciana and
Phillips was arranged but Veciana, apparently fearing for his safety,
refused to identify Phillips as his former case officer, but later
acknowledged privately that Phillips was indeed his CIA controller.
The following is known of David Atlee Phillips by now: He was one of
the masterminds for the CIA staged coup by Pinochet in 1973, as well as
the overthrow in 1954 of the Guatemala regime headed by Jacobo Arbenz.
He was working closely with CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, another suspect
in the plot to kill JFK and the leader of the infamous Watergate burglar
team. In the 1950's and 1960's, Phillips was the CIA case officer for
the anti Castro Cubans in Havana and Mexico City. The star of David
Atlee Phillips rose to CIA director of Special Operations for the
Western Hemisphere.
David Atlee Phillips died of cancer on 7th July, 1988. He left behind an
unpublished manuscript. The novel is about a CIA officer who lived in
Mexico City. In the novel the character states: "I was one of those
officers who handled Lee Harvey Oswald... We gave him the mission of
killing Fidel Castro in Cuba... I don't know why he killed Kennedy. But I
do know he used precisely the plan we had devised against Castro. Thus
the CIA did not anticipate the president's assassination, but it was
responsible for it. I share that guilt."
According to his nephew Shawn Phillips, who is quite a famous musician,
David Atlee Phillips confirmed to his brother James Atlee Phillips that
he was in Dallas the day Kennedy died. To read Shawn's email: click here.
+ Last but not least, in 1995 a nationwide NBC program on the confession
of James Files, was cancelled after obvious CIA interference and this
was done with PROVABLE lies. To read the details on that story click here.
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