Q & A

It's safe to assume that even after reading, seeing, and hearing everything on this website, you might still have a couple of million questions that need to be answered. I know, I still have a couple of million questions myself.

I've compiled some of the more obvious ones below and will start off with the eight most asked questions:

Who would gain the most from JFK's death?

On the surface, LBJ. In the background – military contractors, Texas businessmen, the mob, and right-wingers.

Who has the power to cover it up?

Government intelligence agencies.

Who has the power to control the media?

Government intelligence agencies.

Who can put the teams in place?

Government (covert) intelligence agencies, law enforcement officials, and city & county officials.

Who has the finances for their payrolls?

High rollers who support the new president.

Who has the necessary planning skills?

The CIA and the military.

How deep did Oswald's FBI and CIA connections go?

See the chapter “The CIA link”.

What happened that prevented the plot in Dallas to be foiled like the Chicago plot was foiled by an FBI informant called ‘Lee’?

Although there’s no proof, I think Oswald was being watched, or his warning was stopped - hence the need to kill him afterwards.

T h e l e s s e r k n o w n J F K A s s a s s i n a t i o n a n g l e s

Lee Oswald

Did his attitude change during the weeks leading up to the assassination?

According to Marina he seemed a bit more positive. Their relationship was getting better and that made him happy.

Did Marina really buy/make him some curtains for their new home?

No, so Lee would have never had use for curtain rods.

Did Lee bring a lunch with him that morning?

According to her, he always packed a small lunch. (And Carolyn Arnold saw him eat a lunch that day in the 1st floor Domino Room)

Clinton, LA

Why was Oswald’s visit to Clinton, Louisiana so important?

Oswald was still living in New Orleans at this time (August 28, 1963), where he was possibly still associated with David Ferrie, who in turn might have been associated with Clay Shaw.

Jim Garrison linked Oswald to Shaw and Ferrie through eye-witnesses in Clinton that day, which made it possible for Garrison to link Shaw and Ferrie to the JFK assassination, but only if Oswald was involved also.

The three men were seen together in a black Caddilac in town, and apparently Shaw stood out because he was completely dressed in white. (so had he not been there, the presence of Oswald and Ferrie might not have been noticed).

Oswald had his hair cut on August 30 by barber Edwin Lea McGeehee in Jackson, LA. According to him, Oswald was asking him about job oppertunities in the area. So keeping this in mind, could Oswald have been looking around towns in Louisiana for work?

Clinton could have been one of those towns.

McGeehee told investigators he saw Oswald get into a battered old car driven by a woman.

This car was "either a Kaiser, a Frazer or an old Nash".

From the Garrison trial of 1969:

A - “Yes, the car was -- it was an old car, it was battered, it was a dark colored car -- it might have been dark green -- but the make of it I just couldn't remember, it was an old car, real old.”

A - “There was a woman sitting on the front seat -- this is after the man was getting a haircut I glanced at the car -- and in the back seat what I noticed was -- looked like a bassinet.”

Q - “A baby bassinet?”

A - “Right.”

Ferrie’s cancer

David Ferrie was supposedly working on a cure for his cancer. He had, apperently, been testing serums on mice in his apartment.

He was also working closely with Dr. Mary Sherman, who also conducted tests in her apartment.

According to Dr. Sherman, they were funded by Clay Shaw and worked together to create a cancer that was strong, fast, and invisible enough to kill Fidel Castro.

Ferrie and Sherman were both found dead within two weeks of each other, in 1967. Before they could be heard by D.A. Jim Garrison.

Ferrie also worked with Judyth Vary Baker, the supposed mistress of Lee Oswald, and she claims the following:

"On Thursday, August 28, the three men set out bright and early in a Caddy, and, after an unexpectedly long layover in Clinton, waiting for test subjects to make their way from Angola Prison to the hospital, proceeded to Jackson. The prisoners had been told falsely that they had cancer and were being given the opportunity of participating in an experimental treatment. And so that day, the guinea pigs were given cancer (with Ferrie administering the lethal dose), after which the three men returned to New Orleans.

Two days later, Oswald and Baker went to the hospital, with two stops in the early evening, to McGehee and then Morgan. They drove an old car belonging to former Banister detective David Lewis and his wife Anna. The bassinette belonged to them. (Anna Lewis has stated and, in the face of harassment and threats, restated her direct knowledge that Judyth Baker was Lee Oswald’s “mistress.”) Baker tested the prisoners to see if the “treatment” had taken. Baker appears to have had the specialized medical training necessary to culture the cells and track their damage in the blood work. Baker is also adamant about the date. This was her last weekend in New Orleans. Within days she moved to Florida, never to lay eyes on Oswald again."

[ SOURCE: http://defending-me-and-lee.blogspot.nl/2012/11/the-clinton-jackson-link-to-lee-harvey.html ]

Jackie

Did Jackie Kennedy really know George de Mohrenschildt? If so, did she really call him “Uncle George”?

Yes, he was acquainted with the Bouvier family and became a close friend of Jackie’s aunt Edith. Jackie would often sit on his knee.

In June of 1963, George and his wife Jeanne moved to Haiti and never saw Lee Oswald again. They returned to Dallas in November of 1966.

So the statement made in Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" with regards to de Mohrenschildt being Oswald's handler is positively untrue.

Yellow marks

Are there any pictures of the yellow marks drawn on the road side? If so, do their distances relate accurately to the positions of either the limo and/or JFK at the time of the shooting?

The yellow marks can be seen in the Zapruder film, as well as on some photos (below is one), but they don’t line up with the shots.

Perhaps the shooters were hesitant for some reason. The marks aren't easy to spot, but look along the right curb.

It has also been argued that these marks existed before Kennedy was even elected, but that hasn’t been confirmed.

It’s also unknown if these marks can be found elsewhere in Dallas.

(click for original size picture)

JFK’s body

Are there any theories of just how JFK’s corpse was offloaded at Andrews without anyone seeing it?

Did no one notice the weight difference of the coffin?

This has never been publically exposed. No one has ever come forward with conclusive information on this.

Charles Givens

Where was Charles Givens at the time of the assassination?

According to Givens, who was part of a team of men laying a new plywood floor on the 6th, Oswald wore a greenish shirt and pants ("like he always did") and a grey jacket. Around 11:55am Givens takes the East elevator down from the 6th floor to the 1st floor, leaving Oswald up on the 6th with his clipboard in his hand. Givens then went outside and joined some friends on the corner of Elm & Record, then they later went to Main & Record. This is a strange thing to do, since Givens would have had a much better view from the 5th and 6th floors, but perhaps he just wanted to watch the motorcade with nearby friends who didn't have access to the book depository.

When he got back to the TSBD, the police officers there wouldn’t let him back in. Which is why it seemed he was missing like Oswald was.

Distances

How far was it between the rifle and Kennedy at the time of the headshot we see in Zapruder frame 313?

ZF-313 to the grassy knoll was around 65 feet, ZF-313 to TSBD was 264 feet at an 18° angle.

Very short distances for shooting. You don’t need to be an excellent marksman to make those shots successful.

The three tramps

Are there any theories on what their tasks could have been, aside from being shooters? Diversion maybe?

This is one of the more complicated stories that has come to life with conspiracy researchers. All we have are theories.

The list of suspects is quite impressive, but impossible to verify.

Some of us will always believe that the tall one was Charles Harrelson (Lois Gibson, who is a forensic artist, seems to back up that claim with certainty), while the first tramp was thought to be Charles Frederick “Frenchy” Rogers.

The debate regarding the oldest of the three tramps is the real hotbed. Many seem to think this was E. Howard Hunt.

Oddly enough the arrest of these three men was never put on record, but the arrest record of three other tramps (John Forrester Gedney, Harold Doyle, and Gus W. Abrams) was discovered in the early 90’s by Mary La Fontaine in documents released in 1989.

To this day, no one knows why the tramps were so important. Perhaps they were indeed just there as a diversion. We’ll probably never know.

But in case anyone ever came asking about the three tramps, the Dallas Police could alaways show them the arrest records of Doyle, Abrams and Gedney.

Carcano bullet

It was a hard bullet with a copper jacket; it went in JFK’s back, came out his chest and then began to topple end over end and as it traveled towards Connally, creating an elongated wound when it entered. A bullet like that could never cause a huge explosive exit to one part of the anatomy, but not the other. Therefore the head wound was created by a different bullet than the other wounds in Kennedy and Connally, which is evidence of a second rifle, and therefor a second shooter, and therefore, by definition, a conspiracy.

If the Carcano bullet had the energy AND explosive power to cause that kind of spray coming from behind, then the spray would have shot upward and forward, covering the Connallys and possibly Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman also.

The damage to his head was so extensive, that researchers, and some pathologists, tend to think JFK was hit by two bullets simultaneously.

Kennedy’s face was completely intact, which would be impossible if that spray was caused by blood and brainmatter exploding from his face.

Limo braking

Gerald Blaine claimed in an interview on C-Span in 2010 that the limousine didn’t slow down, as is seen in the Zapruder film, however this can clearly be seen in the Orville Nix film. Even if it was only to let Clint Hill on. Was the driver, Bill Greer, involved with the assassination?

No, but he did slow down the limo for whatever reason. Perhaps it was just a reflex as he turned toward the President.

Grassy Knoll

How many shooters where there on the grassy knoll, and what were their positions?

That’s the big question, isn’t it? Sam Holland and Richard Dodd were adament they saw puffs of smoke appear around the Ft. Worth Turnpike sign, which is up-wind from Zapruder. Pretty much directly after the shooting, police officers, and several dozen excited witnesses, ran up the embankment along Elm until reaching the top of the overpass, as if they were sure a shot had come from there.

So that, by itself, would be indicative of a shooter up there.

However, when one looks at the Orville Nix film [see screenshot below], we can clearly see a figure in the top left corner wearing a white shirt, in an ominous looking position, with a clear view, and apparently leaning against a white car. He appears to be holding something.

It’s impossible to know for sure whether or not this person fired a shot, but the position couldn’t be any better for a sniper.

However, I doubt any sniper in that particular spot would be dressed in white leaning up against a white car.

Perhaps this man was a spotter with a walkie-talkie.

screenshot from the Orville Nix film (click to enlarge)

Lee Bowers

Saw three cars come into the parking lot atop the grassy knoll between noon and the time of the shooting.

The first car, a 1959 blue and white Oldsmobile station wagon with out of state plates and a Goldwater sticker, came into the lot around 12:10pm, circled slowly, and drove out again.

The second car, a 1957 black Ford with Texas plates, came into the lot around 12:20. The driver seemed to have a mike or a telephone close to his mouth. This car left after 3 or 4 minutes.

The third car, a white 1961 or 1962 four-door Chevrolet Impala, a Goldwater sticker, muddy up to the windows and one white male driver, came into the lot around the same time as the FORD.

Bowers lost track of this last car after a while when he had to turn his attention back to his duties.

Connally letter

It was always assumed that Oswald never got a reply from Connally after he wrote him.

But in 1978, before the HSCA, Marina explained what she knew about Oswald’s view on Connally:

Mrs. PORTER – “Not very much. I just learned from him when we were in Russia that he did write Governor Connally for some legal matter. I think about his coming back to the United States or have something to do with the service, I do not recall what it was. But then he received a letter from Governor Connally. Lee pointed out the envelope with, instead of a stamp, it was Mr. Connally's picture on it and he explained to me that is how people who want to be elected, it is a form of advertisement before an election or something like that.”

. . .

POSIT: If there was ever going to be a trial, anything Oswald said to anyone without a lawyer present would have been inadmissble in a court of law.

THEORY: Maybe some of the involved law enforcement officers knew there was never going to be a trial.

FACT: There was never a trial.

. . .

POSIT: In order to draw attention to Oswald, he had to be really ‘visible’, behave like he normally wouldn’t behave or dress like he would normally not dress.

THEORY: What if (and this is a big IF) Billy Seymour, or someone else, had been forced (through threats / blackmail) to undergo plastic surgery in order to look like Lee Oswald?

FACT: Oswald was seen in two places at once, and witnesses to all occurances were 100% certain they had seen Lee Harvey Oswald after seeing him on tv and in the newspapers.

M O R E Q U E S T I O N S

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Who saw Billy Seymour (and at what time) run inside the Texas Theater, and then leave through the rear exit to the alley?

THEORY: What if the police car in that alley was unit #207?!

No one positively identified Seymour there, but Bernard J. Haire witnessed someone being escorted out the back (to the alley) by a police officer. Haire owned a store two buildings down from the Theater and had apparently not heard about the shooting at Dealey Plaza.

He was in the alley when he noticed the police car.

Apparently Butch Burroughs also witnessed the arrest of this imposter, but he saw it from inside the Theater, as he told author Jim Douglass in “JFK and The Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters”:

“Butch Burroughs, who witnessed Oswald’s arrest, startled me in his interview by saying he saw a second arrest occur in the Texas Theater only “three or four minutes later.”He said the Dallas Police then arrested “an Oswald lookalike.” Burroughs said the second man “looked almost like Oswald, like he was his brother or something.” When I questioned the comparison by asking, “Could you see the second man as well as you could see Oswald?” he said, “Yes, I could see both of them. They looked alike.” After the officers half-carried and half-dragged Oswald to the police car in front of the theater, within a space of three or four minutes, Burroughs saw the second Oswald placed under arrest and handcuffed. The Oswald look-alike, however, was taken by police not out the front but out the back of the theater.”

What happened next we can learn from another neglected witness, Bernard Haire.

Bernard J. Haire was the owner of Bernie’s Hobby House, just two doors east of the Texas Theater. Haire went outside his store when he saw police cars congregating in front of the theater. When he couldn’t see what was happening because of the crowd, he went back through his store into the alley out back. It, too, was full of police cars, but there were fewer spectators. Haire walked up the alley. When he stopped opposite the rear door of the theater, he witnessed what he would think for decades was the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald.

“Police brought a young white man out,” Haire told an interviewer. “The man was dressed in a pullover shirt and slacks. He seemed to be flushed, as if he’d been in a struggle. Police put the man in a police car and drove off.”

When Haire was told in 1987 that Lee Harvey Oswald had been brought out the front of the theater by police, he was shocked.

“I don’t know who I saw arrested,” he said in bewilderment.

[SOURCE: https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/TwoLHOs.html#BH ]

So if squad car unit #207 was parked in the midst of those other police cars, and meant to ‘haul off’ the imposter, it was done to perfection and without other police officers noticing anything wrong, or suspecting anything whatsoever.

It would be standard procedure, I suppose, for both the front and the rear of the building to be ‘covered’. The real officers would have no reason to doubt the arrest wasn’t genuine, and in the commotion those officers would have probably not noticed the ‘arresting officers’ were imposters. The assumption that Seymour went in the front and immediately escaped out the back was wrong, since we now know the arrest happened a few minutes after Oswald's arrest. So he went in, took a seat in the balcony and waited to make his next move.

How many (chest) wounds did JFK have?

Apparently just one (the exit wound), but Tom Wilson (download PDF here) seems to think he had two chest wounds and four back wounds!

I’d love to know if there were bullet holes in JFK’s brace.

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