Everything you have just seen and read is old news, and has been theorized up the proverbial wazoo.

But … what I hope I’ve done, is to present a clearer picture of the events, the pertinent evidence that is available, dismiss the majority of the hear-say, and bring forward a more conclusive theory of how things probably happened based on witness testimonies, known facts and data, and clear up some questions and doubts in the process.

I’ve purposely steered away from most of the political theories that are very difficult to prove, the half-assed theory that half of the Texas business world and half of the Washington Intelligence community conspired together to assassinate their Commander-In-Chief, without anyone else finding out. That corporate America teamed up to kill the one man who was about to change things.

Whether or not there was CIA involvement will and can never be fully proven, just like Hoover’s involvement will also remain unfounded.

Yes, he hated the Kennedy brothers, yes he was open to blackmail due to his assumed homosexuality and crossdressing, but would a man of his intregrity and stature in Washington, a well-respected FBI Director, stoop so low? What could he possibly gain from John Kennedy’s death, besides the dismissal of mandatory retirement, as pointed out to him by JFK himself. Is that really enough motive?

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And that’s really what it comes down to: why? Why kill him? Who benefits the most from Kennedy’s death?

Well of course the first one who directly benefitted was Lyndon Baines Johnson.

But should we really expect him to be stupid enough to be involved?

Unless of course he was blackmailed, as I pointed out in the Malcom Wallace paragraph.

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An excerpt from a telephone conversation between Lyndon Johnson and Richard Russell, September 18, 1964:

Richard Russell - “No, no. They're trying to prove that the same bullet that hit Kennedy first was the one that hit Connally, went through him and through his hand, his bone, and into his leg... I couldn't hear all the evidence and cross examine all of them. But I did read the record.... I was the only fellow there that ... suggested any change whatever in what the staff got up.' This staff business always scares me. I like to put my own views down. But we got you a pretty good report.”

Lyndon B. Johnson - “Well, what difference does it make which bullet got Connally?”

Richard Russell - “Well, it don't make much difference. But they said that... the commission believes that the same bullet that hit Kennedy hit Connally. Well, I don't believe it.”

Lyndon B. Johnson - “I don't either.”

Richard Russell - “And so I couldn't sign it. And I said that Governor Connally testified directly to the contrary and I'm not gonna approve of that. So I finally made them say there was a difference in the commission, in that part of them believed that that wasn't so. And of course if a fellow was accurate enough to hit Kennedy right in the neck on one shot and knock his head off in the next one - and he's leaning up against his wife's head - and not even wound her - why, he didn't miss completely with that third shot. But according to their theory, he not only missed the whole automobile, but he missed the street! Well, a man that's a good enough shot to put two bullets right into Kennedy, he didn't miss that whole automobile... But anyhow, that's just a little thing.”

Lyndon B. Johnson: “What's the net of the whole thing? What's it say? Oswald did it? And he did it for any reason?”

Richard Russell - “Well just that he was a general misanthropic fellow, that he had never been satisfied anywhere he was on earth - in Russia or here. And that he had a desire to get his name in history.... I don't think you'll be displeased with the report. It's too long.... Four volumes.”

Lyndon B. Johnson - “Unanimous?”

Richard Russell - “Yes, sir. I tried my best to get in a dissent, but they'd come round and trade me out of it by giving me a little old threat.” 

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The Mafia

Well think of this: now that we know for a fact that the motorcade route wasn’t changed to bring the limousine into a triangulated crossfire, as it was so beautifully called in the movie, it’s still possible that the mafia provided at least one shooter and perhaps a few spotters. 

Because the mafia, yes … they hated the Kennedy brothers and would do whatever they had to do to make them pay for their betrayal.

This goes back to JFK’s electoral campaign.

What in later years became public knowledge, was that the White House was ready to receive Richard Nixon and his staff.

The stationary was already made, telephone numbers were assigned to certain staff members, and so forth.

Nixon's election was won somewhere.

And suddenly Kennedy knocks on the front door.

This was all thanks to his dad, Joe Kennedy. It was no secret the brothers had no love for the mafia, but their dad on the other hand had a working relationship with some of them. And by making promises to them that his sons would look the other way, allowing the mafia a bit more breathing space to work in, he managed to get their votes and endorsements.

However, John and Bobby had no intention of keeping such promises, and publically spoke out about their dismay regarding the mafia, and how they would put them out of business.

This wasn't of course something men like Sam Giancana, Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante, and Vito Genevese wanted to hear.

But they didn’t have the power to cover things up or fumble around in the investigation. That’s for sure.

So the how, who, why in the background … that’s all highly speculative.

 

So that was the foreground, based on facts, which I have tied together here and there with some possible theories.

(hell, if Oliver Stone can get away with it, so can I)

But I can assure you that all of the previous information is just a fragment of the research I have spent the last 20+ years on. The rest might be released some day, when I can determine whether or not any of it is relevant at all, or all just hopeless theories brought forth by lunatics who have spent too much time watching Jesse Ventura’s “Conspiracy Theory”.

JFK's murder might be a cold case, but my research won't stop.

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Col. L. Fletcher Prouty

Eventhough Oliver Stone’s movie “JFK” got me started, and was for a fair amount of years my guidance through it all, as well as my first and primary source of information, it is only loosely based on facts.

Stone and his team have let loose some of their own theories and passed them off as fact, so that's where I had to be careful.

It was based on Jim Garrison’s trial against Clay Shaw, and focused on Arlen Specter’s single bullet theory.

But the involvement of Clay Shaw could never be fully proven, despite what the movie shows you in highly suggestive and speculative scenes with Guy Bannister, David Ferrie, Lee Oswald, and Willy O’Keefe.

Garrison had a weak case, and in later years during the mock trial of People vs. Lee Harvey Oswald, so did Gerry Spence.

Jim Garrison was partially driven by L. Fletcher Prouty, who certainly came across as a credible person.

When he recognized his superior officer, Gen. Edward Lansdale, in the picture of the three tramps being marched off by the two police officers, it was certainly a nice eye-opener. But something Prouty said didn't quite compute.

 

In his own words; "I was a Colonel in the Air Force in charge of CIA Black-Ops. One of my duties on November 22, 1963 would have been to overlook the security of Dallas and to be in charge of the Secret Service detail."
Really?

The CIA is in charge of Intelligence, Counter-Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Operations (like Black-Ops).
The CIA has nothing to do with security details, much less Presidential Security.
That's what the Secret Service, FBI and local law enforcement are for.

The only thing the CIA would be charged with would be to use their assassination tactics to determine which positions along a motorcade route, or any other place the President might visit, would give anyone oppertunity to assassinate the President.

And if that is indeed the case, the reason for sending Prouty to the other side of the world is clear. In which case his superior, or whomever else gave the order to send Prouty away, was involved with the assassination. 

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From Wikipedia:
"The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the U.S. Government, tasked with gathering, processing and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT). As one of the principal members of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the President and his Cabinet. Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic collection."

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The 'Babushka Lady'

Beverly Oliver, a 17 year old student at the time, had, some time in the 1980’s, stated to be the mysterious 'Babushka Lady'.

This 'Babushka Lady' was photographed on Dealey Plaza, and was believed to have taken pictures of the assassination.

The FBI wanted those pictures. The identity of this woman was never revealed. Until Beverly Oliver, a young woman looking to boost her singing career by finding a spotlight, came forward saying that she had known Jack Ruby personally, and that he had introduced her to Lee Harvey Oswald, David Ferrie and Jack Lawrence. Oliver’s testimonies became hard to believe since the woman called 'Babushka Lady' looks nothing like her, especially when one takes the age difference into consideration.

The 'Babushka Lady' was described to be a brunette woman in her late 30’s, while Beverly was not only very light blond, but also just 17 years old at the time.

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                        The 'Babushka Lady' in 1963                                  Beverly (age 17) with Larry Ronco                            and age 37 in 1983

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In my opinion, the rest of her testimony becomes useless, especially since she never said anything about the number or origin of the shots.

But Oliver Stone literally bought her crap story, presumably after seeing her in the 1983 tv-documentary "The Men Who Killed Kennedy", and added some of what she said into his movie, “JFK”.

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Jack Lawrence

I, however, decided to look more into Jack Lawrence, whom I felt might be a bit more important.

He had been working as a salesman at the Lincoln-Mercury dealership at 118 East Commerce Street for a month prior to the assassination, and despite not being a very good salesman, he was already allowed to borrow a car the day before the assassination. He didn’t show up to work his shift at 12:30 pm on the 22nd, but around 30 minutes after the assassination he ran into the showroom of his place of work.

He looked pale, was sweating, and looked to have mud on his clothes.

He ran into the bathroom and apparently vomitted. His story was that he was sick that morning and, for strange reasons, had to leave the car behind. He said that he tried to return it that morning, but got stuck in traffic. Later some of his co-workers found the car parked behind the picket fence on top of the grassy knoll. This was the station wagon S.M. Holland and Lee Bowers had seen.

Lawrence later told the FBI that Oswald had been at his dealership early November to testdrive one of their cars, but on that particular day and time Oswald, his wife and kids, and Ruth Paine were on their way to get a diver’s test application for Oswald.

He wanted to learn how to drive so he could get a car and find jobs further away.

When the Dallas Police looked a bit deeper into Lawrence’s persona, they found he had been a marksman in the United States Air Force. When I read about this, I began to speculate about his dirty clothes and why he left the car behind.

Could he have possibly travelled on foot inside the sewer pipe to Trinity River directly after the shooting?

And … could he have been the grassy knoll shooter? Or one of two? Or just a spotter?

Beverly Oliver claims he was a regular at the Carousel Club, and a close friend of George Senator (who was close with Jack Ruby, and even shared his apartment with him for a while).

This immediately made me think of the testimony Julia Ann Mercer gave with regards to seeing Jack Ruby in a pickup truck and some other man taking a rifle case from the back of that truck and taking it up the steps of the grassy knoll.

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So from a failed attempt at a few moments in the spotlight, came some interesting information after all.

And after looking deeper into this Jack Lawrence fellow, I became aware of some more things:

 

(1) Despite only working there for a month, he was allowed to borrow a company car.

(2) He lied to his boss and co-workers about where he left the car and why.

(3) An Air Force marksman selling cars and a Marine Corps marksman working as an order filler so close to a 'kill zone'.

(4) Both Lawrence and Oswald took their respective jobs one month before the assassination.

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But what is most interesting about Jack Lawrence, is that there is so little known about him.

Almost like his files have been hidden, or information with regards to his persona is purposely being withheld.

He was never questioned by the Warren Commission, and the only statements to the FBI that are available are with regards to the so-called Oswald test drive in early November.

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The real 'Babushka Lady' never came forward, probably due to fear of falling victim to the perpetrators.

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Confessions

Lee Oswald supposedly expired en route to the Parkland Memorial Hospital, but wasn’t officially declared deceased upon arrival.

As soon as the gurney was wheeled into the hospital, ironically the same hospital where Kennedy and Connally were rushed to, police officers apparently tried to get a confession out of him.

“Did you kill the President?! Did you kill the President?!”

Supposedly this continued in the emergency room, while the doctors worked on him.

The doctors at Parkland tried to revive Oswald thinking he might still have a chance.

But it was no use.

 

Now, the police trying to get a last minute confession out of a dying (or already dead) Oswald would mean that they never had the proof they claimed they did.

However the claims of these ‘confessions’ has never been verified.

The claim that LBJ, or anyone else, calling the emergency room at Parkland and demanding a confession be extracted from Oswald (as Dr. Charles Crenshaw claims in his book), or to have him drowned in his own blood [ibid. ‘kill that son-of-a-bitch’] has been fully disproven.

 

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Dallas D.A. Henry Wade

During the midnight press conference on the day of the assassination, Dallas D.A. Henry Wade explained to the reporters the reasons for the scuffle inside the Texas Theater. He said that the scuffle occurred when Oswald pulled a pistol on the arresting police officers and one of the officers managed to stop it from firing.

One of the reporters asked “Sir, had that pistol been previously discharged?” to which Wade replied “Yes. Twice.”

The FBI and the Dallas Police concluded Tippit was shot 6 times, the witness statements varied between 3 and 4 shots (just like with the shots at Dealey Plaza), but Wade said the pistol was fired only twice.

By Wade’s account, they had no reason to hold Oswald.

“...beyond a reasonable doubt to a moral certainty” my ass!

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Stavis "Steve" Ellis 

He was the sergeant of the motorcycle patrol and in charge of the motorcycle patrol officers that day.

He rode second position, between the lead car and the Presidential limousine.

He was also married to the aunt of either Bill or Gayle Newman, to whom he waved as he rode by.

 

[ Ellis said upon hearing the first shot ]

 

"... but I could see where the shot came down into the south side of the curb. It looked like it hit the concrete or grass there in just a flash, and a bunch of junk flew up like a white or gray color dust or smoke coming out of the concrete."

 

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"After the assassination, the FBI did their investigative work on the curb where I had seen the shot and cut off the section to analyze. However, they cut off the wrong section. We later found the place where it hit. Sergeant Harkness knows. He was a three-wheel sergeant who worked traffic downtown."

 

[ regarding seeing people react to that first shot, dropping down to the ground as they did ]

 

"As soon as I saw that, I turned around and rode up beside the chief’s car and BANG!…BANG!, two more shots went off: three shots in all! The sounds were all clear and loud and sounded about the same. From where I was, they sounded like they were coming from around where the tall tree was in front of that building. Of course, I’m forming an opinion based on where I saw that stuff hit the street, so I knew that it had to come from up that way, and I assumed that all the others came from the same place."

 

So he never heard the ‘backfire’? He also admits in ASSUMING the other shots came from the same position, because that's the easiest conclusion to make.

 

"Some of the jockeys around the car were saying, “Looky here!” What they were looking at was the windshield. To the right of where the driver was, just above the metal near the bottom of the glass there appeared to be a bullet hole. I talked to a Secret Service man about it, and he said, “Aw, that’s just a fragment!” It looked like a clean hole in the windshield to me. In fact, one of the motor jockeys, Harry Freeman, put a pencil through it, or said he could."

 

The response from the Secret Service agent is disgusting.

 

"Chief Curry told me later that evening, “I want you and one jockey to come down here, and we’re going to move Oswald to the county jail at two o’clock and nobody will know about it.” Then what happened? Elgin Crull, the city manager, and Earle Cabell, the mayor, eventually gave Chief Curry direct orders, “No, you will not do that!  You will notify the news media and the press so that they can be in the basement with their lights and cameras set up before you move him.” That’s what got him killed!  But we took the blame for it, and all of us were called a bunch of dummies.

It eventually cost Curry his job because somebody else laid it on him and it wasn’t him at all. But he wouldn’t speak up!"

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"We had a similar case with another officer named McLain. We had a guy come to Dallas several years ago with a sound device listening to some noise on one of the police radios. He said that he counted seven shots. McLain told them it was his radio making the noise, so he was taken to Washington and questioned."

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Clyde Haygood                                                     vol. VI, p. 296

 

Mr. BELIN - "How many shots did you hear?"

Mr. HAYGOOD - "Three."

Mr. BELIN - "Were the three spaced equally distant?"

Mr. HAYGOOD - "No."

Mr. BELIN - "Go ahead."

Mr. HAYGOOD - "No."

Mr. BELIN - "Was one more close than the other one?"

Mr. HAYGOOD - "The last two were closer than the first. In other words, it was the first, and then a pause, and then the other two were real close."

Mr. BELIN - "What did you do after you heard the sounds?"

Mr. HAYGOOD - "I made the shift down to lower gear and went on to the scene of the shooting."

 

[ note – no question about the direction the shots came from ]

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David Harkness                                                    vol. VI, p. 308

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Mr. BELIN - "Where did the shots sound like they came from?"

Mr. HARKNESS - "I couldn't tell. They were bouncing off the buildings down there. I couldn't tell."

Mr. BELIN - "You mean the reverberations?"

Mr. HARKNESS - "Yes."

Mr. BELIN - "Then what did you do?"

Mr. HARKNESS - "I went west on Main to observe the area between the railroad tracks and Industrial."

Mr. BELIN - "Why did you go down there?"

Mr. HARKNESS - "By the way the people, when I went into this area, everybody was hitting the ground, and someone led us to indicate that the shots were coming into the cars."

Mr. BELIN - "You mean from some point in front of the cars?"

Mr. HARKNESS - "Yes."

 

As of yet, I’ve not been able to find any statements made by David Harkness claiming to have witnessed a bullet impacting the curb.

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“Deputy Sheriff Buddy Walthers, who sees the mark soon after the shooting, agrees that it has been caused by a bullet. Patrolman Clyde Haygood, who radioes in the incident at around 12:40, will be under the same impression.”

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[ SOURCE: http://www.blackopradio.com/pdf/JFK_Chronology.pdf ]

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