1: the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence
2: the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection ; also : any of these occurrences
For the past several years, my passion has been to study the Kennedy assassination. The amount of coincidences that I've uncovered are staggering. Many coincidences are probably just that: coincidences. The sheer volume and magnitude gives even the skeptic in me pause. Below are some of the more juicy ones.
1. The Strange Tale of Jerry Owen, the Walking Bible
Jerry Owen went to the LAPD on 5 June 1968 to tell the police he had met Sirhan Sirhan. Sirhan had asked him to meet him at the Ambassador Hotel (the place where Sirhan shot RFK) on 4 June 1968 (the night Sirhan shot RFK). The LAPD balked at Owen's story because Owen had a long rap sheet.
Owen had knowledge of the case that was not available to the public. He said he was going to sell Sirhan a horse for $300. Sirhan was arrested with $300 on him. Sirhan also had worked as a stable hand was an aspiring jockey. And Adir Sirhan, his brother, told the police, Sirhan had $300 on him to buy a horse.
The LAPD disregarded Owen's story that he had picked up a hitchhiker (Sirhan) who wanted to buy a horse. The story Owen gave the police was hardly convincing. It stands to reason, Owen was lying about how he met Sirhan but was genuinely scared. Thus, Owen was hiding something.
Credible witnesses gave testimony that they saw Sirhan and Owen together in the weeks leading up to the assassination. Owen knew Sirhan better than he let on.
Owen claimed he had all 31,173 verses of the Bible memorized. He, therefore, gave himself the immodest title, "Walking Bible". He had a televion show on which he carried out his Christian ministry. Shortly after starting this show (in 1969), he was arrested for shoplifting. The television station decided to break their contract with Owen and cancel his show. He sued them for breach of contract and damages.
At the trial (in 1976), Owen brought a character witness: a woman named Gail Aiken. Aiken was with Owen when he was caught shoplifting and was a member of his congregation.
And she was the sister of Arthur Bremer, the man who shot George Wallace.
Owen was friendly with Sirhan and with Bremer's sister??????? That's quite the coincidence! One man is the friend of Robert Kennedy's killer and the minister of George Wallace's assassin's sister. Could just be a coincidence, right?
Enter: Edgar Eugene Bradley. According to "Who's Who in the JFK Assassination" by Michael Benson, Bradley was identified as a man pretending to be a Secret Service officer on the grassy knoll when JFK was killed. He was indicted for his complicity in the JFK assassination by New Orleans DA Jim Garrison but Governor Reagan didn't honor the extradition request. Witnesses put Bradley with David Ferrie (Lee Oswald's associate). By 1969, Bradley was working for the rightwing preacher Rev. Carl McIntire.
And on 2 July 1968, Jerry Owen gave the following sworn statement:
Question: Jerry, you say you know Edgar Eugene Bradley of North Hollywood, that you met Dr. Carl McIntyre's company?
Answer: Yes, I met him. I know that he was affiliated with Dr. McIntyre.
Owen is connected to Sirhan, Bremer's sister and to man indicted for conspiracy to kill JFK. It's a small world.
2. George Herbert Walker Bush's bedfellows
The first Presidential election I can really remember is Carter versus Reagan in 1980. I was watching television with my mom when a campaign ad came on. A gentleman was being interviewed about his feelings towards Ronald Reagan. The gentleman was eulogizing Reagan, telling the world how great Reagan would be. He told the interviewer he was definitely supporting Reagan and that Reagan was the man for the job.
Then my mom turned to the tv and said, "Of course you're voting for Reagan. If he wins, you'll be Vice President." I looked. Sure enough, the man in question was VP hopeful George Bush.
It always struck me as odd that Bush would eulogize Reagan in this fashion. I mean, Mondale never professed his love of Carter. It wasn't until I was an adult and I had researched this matter that I understood.
George H W Bush and Reagan hated each other--at least they did during the primaries. The Republican primary of 1980 was more acrimonious than the primary between George W Bush and John McCain. When Reagan won the nomination, he picked everyone but Bush to be his running mate. But Nelson Rockefeller was dead. And Gerald Ford gave Reagan conditions. This left only Bush. Reagan reluctantly accepted Bush's support.
Ronald Reagan took the oath of office on 20 January 1981. He was shot in the chest on 30 March 1981, only two months later. He survived the assassin's bullet, barely. The assassin was John Hinckley Jr.
John Hinckley Sr. was an oil businessman from Texas--like Bush. He was also Bush's neighbor in Houston for many years. He was also a partner of Bush's in some oil deals. And he openly endorsed Bush over Reagan during the primaries.
And his kid shot Reagan two months after Reagan took the oath of office.
Scott Hinckley, John Jr's brother, was a business partner of Neil Mallon Bush, George H W Bush's son (and George W Bush's brother). On the day of the assassination, Scott and Neil had dinner plans.
Now this could be a coincidence: Bush hates Reagan but assumes the role of running mate. The son of one of Bush's friends shoots Reagan a couple of months later. Like the "Jerry Owen knows Bremer's sister" story above, this could just be coincidence.
Enter: George De Mohrenschildt. De Mohrenschildt was an aristocratic White Russian who was an oil businessman. He had numerous dealings with Bush and those in Bush's orbit.
And he was Lee Harvey Oswald's best friend.
In 1962 and early 1963, De Mohrenschildt found Oswald a place to stay, a job and introduced him to lots of people. He even introduced him to the people who got him the job at the Texas School Book Depository.
In 1976, the House Select Committee on Assassinations was reopening the JFK case. De Mohrenschildt wrote a letter to CIA Director George Bush asking for help. Later on, Congress called De Mohrenschildt to testify. The day before he was supposed to testify, De Mohrenschildt was found dead of an apparant suicide. On his body was found an address book with Bush's phone and address information.
Bush was friendly with the Hinckleys and then John Hinckley shoots Reagan. Bush was business partners with De Mohrenschildt. And De Mohrenschildt was Oswald's best friend. This is quite the coincidence. It's a really small world.
3. E Howard Hunt: Master spy or modern day Benedict Arnold?
E Howard Hunt was a CIA man since the 1950's. President Truman appointed Averell Harriman to be US Ambassador to Mexico (Harriman was Prescott Bush's closest business partner). Harriman went to Mexico and brought Hunt with him to be his "press aide", i.e., "spy".
Howard Hunt and Bernard Barker founded the Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC), anti-Castro group that was an umbrella for all anti-Castro groups in America. Guy Banister, an ex-FBI man, headed up the Council's New Orleans chapter. The building where he held the CRC was the same building Lee Harvey Oswald used to distribute pro-Castro leaflets. Through this connection, DA Jim Garrison established his case (which would spawn the movie JFK).
E Howard was CIA station chief of Mexico City when Lee Harvey Oswald went to Mexico City in September 1963 (two months before JFK was shot).
Hunt was part of the preparation for the Bay of Pigs invasion. He trained Cubans for the invasion. When the invasion failed, Kennedy fired his boss, CIA Director Allen Dulles.
The planning for the Bay of Pigs invasion took place in Guatemala. Hunt supervised this training. George De Mohrenschildt, coincidentally, took a walking tour of Guatemala at this time.
Two weeks before Kennedy was assassinated, the President of South Vietnam Diem was assassinated. A cable was forged stating Kennedy was behind the Diem assassination. The person who forged this cable was E Howard Hunt.
On 15 May 1972, in Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shot George Wallace. One of Nixon's senior staffers (Charles Colson) ordered E Howard Hunt to go to Bremer's apartment and plant George McGovern's campaign literature there. Hunt said he refused. However, the FBI did find Bremer's diary. This diary, which would inspire the movie "Taxi Driver" and John Hinckely Jr.'s obsession with Jodie Foster, was too articulately written to be authored by Bremer. Howard Hunt, before he was in the CIA, was an English major. He was an author who had written several spy novels.
On 17 June 1972, four Cubans and one American broke into the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. The Cubans were anti-Castro exiles who were veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion. One of the Cubans was Bernard Barker (see above). And the mastermind of this break-in was E Howard Hunt.
Woodward and Bernstein's investigation of the Watergate break-in would eventually lead to Nixon's resignation. They were able to tie the break-in to Nixon through E Howard Hunt. Hunt was still on the White House payroll at the time of the break-in.
In 1978, during the House Select Committe on Assassinations hearings, the CIA released a memo stating they were cutting their ties to Hunt because of Hunt's involvement in the Kennedy assassination.
So, to sum it up: E Howard Hunt is tied to Prescott Bush's closest ally Averell Harriman. He has several ties to Lee Harvey Oswald. He hated Kennedy so much he forged a cable implicating Kennedy for Diem's murder. He more than likely broke into Bremer's apartment to plant evidence. He masterminded the Watergate break-in. And the CIA decided to cut him loose because he was involved in the Kennedy assassination.
How does one have this many intriguing connections? Sheer coincidence...?
4. Nixon's Ascension to Power
Richard Milhous Nixon, our 37th President, will always be remembered as the man who resigned the Presidency. His connections to the Watergate burglary would eventually unravel his adminstration. While Watergate may have toppled Nixon, what enabled this son of a grocer to rise to our country's highest office?
There have been eight men who were President or who were running for President that have been shot.
1. Abe Lincoln
2. James Garfield
3. William McKinley
4. Teddy Roosevelt
5. John Kennedy
6. Robert Kennedy
7. George Wallace
8. Ronald Reagan
Of these eight men, four ran against Nixon! FOUR! And Nixon's ascension to higher office was a corollary of three of these assassinations. John Kennedy ran against Nixon in 1960. He was killed in 1963. Robert Kennedy ran against him in 1968. He was killed in 1968. George Wallace ran against him in 1972. He was shot and paralyzed in 1972. (Ronald Reagan ran against Nixon in 1968 and was shot in 1981. Unlike the other three, his shooting did not directly lead to Nixon taking office).
Perhaps the farm Nixon grew up on in Whittier, California produced pixie dust along with lemons. Most politicians are not the beneficiaries of such serendepity as to ascend to higher office through coincidental assassinations.
Is this a coincidence?
In 1947, Congressman Richard Nixon was in the Committe on un-American Activities. This Congressional Committe was part of the notorious Red Scare. Nixon's rise to power would be based upon his anti-Communist credentials. He cut his teeth here. Due to his tenacious performance at the Alger Hiss trial and on the Committee on un-American Activities, Nixon would be selected by Eisenhower to be Vice President.
Below is an FBI memo from 1947 (which was released to the public in 1975). The document says, "It is my sworn testimony that one Jack Rubenstein of Chicago noted as a potential witness for the hearings on UnAmerican Activities is performing information functions for the staff of Congressman Richard Nixon, Republican of California. It is requested Rubenstein not be called for open testimony in the aforementioned hearings."
According to the 1947 memo, Richard Nixon was using Jack Ruby as a contact. Then Ruby turns up in Dallas and kills Oswald, preventing a trial from ever taking place.
On 22 Novemeber 1963, the day Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Nixon was leaving Dallas. He spent the previous day in a meeting with some movers and shakers. In attendance were J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, Nixon aide Bebe Rebozo and Dallas oil baron Clint Murchison.
Dallas was a hostile town. In October 1963, US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson was accosted in Dallas. The mayor of Dallas at the time was Earle Cabell. Cabell's brother, Charles Cabell was in charge of the Bay of Pigs invasion; Kennedy fired him after that debacle. It is unclear what Hoover, Murchison and Nixon discussed at their Dallas meeting. Given Murchison's and Hoover's open hostility towards Kennedy, the conversation could have been political. Given the open hostility of Dallas towards Kennedy and his adminstration, the locale of this meeting is intriguing.
Clint Murchison Sr. had oil businesses all over the Caribbean. He was also an avid horse racing fan. As such he owned some race tracks in California. By strange coincidence, Murchinson's employees included George Demohrenschildt and Sirhan Sirhan. De Mohrenschildt was Oswald's best friend; Sirhan Sirhan was a stable boy at Murchinson's Del Mar Race Track before he fired three bullets into Robert Kennedy.
In 1968, Nixon barely defeated Vice President Hubert Humphries in the Presidential election. While Humphries was wounded by the failures of LBJ, Nixon only beat him by a small margin. The reason: Alabama Governor George Wallace had run as a dark horse. Wallace carried several states in the South, sniping voters from Nixon. Nixon feared a Wallace candidacy in 1972 because it compromised his Southern strategy. On 15 May 1972, Arthur Bremer fired a fusilade of bullets into a crowd, leaving Wallace paralyzed for life. Wallace could not longer campaign for President.
In the weeks leading up to the Wallace shooting, Bremer, a Milwaukee native, was stalking Wallace. These stalking included a trip on the Lake Michigan Ferry from Milwaukee to Ludington. Witnesses put a man with a striking resemblance to G Gordon Liddy with Bremer on the ferry. Newsreels of the Wallace shooting show a man with Liddy's appearance in the background. Liddy was a part of Nixon's Committe to REElect the President (Creep). He was also a long time associate of E Howard Hunt.
After the Wallace shooting, Nixon's senior staffer Chuck Colson order Hunt to plant George McGovern's campaign literature in Bremer's Milwaukee apartment. Hunt claims he refused the assignment. However, the FBI did find McGovern's campaign literature in Bremer's apartment. Also, the "assassin's diary" was found--a book purportedly written by Arthur Bremer detailing his obsession with killing a political figure. This book would later inspire the movie "Taxi Driver" which in turn would inspire John Hinckley Jr's obsession with Jodie Foster. Bremer's scholastic achievements would suggest this assassin's diary was beyond his capabilities. E Howard Hunt, however, had authored several books and had majored in English in college.
To sum up:
- In 1947, Nixon used Jack Ruby as an information source; in 1963 Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald
- Nixon held a meeting in Dallas the day before Kennedy was killed in Dallas. In attendance was Clint Murchison, a strong Nixon supporter and anti-Kennedy oil man.
- Murchison's employees included Oswald's best friend (De Mohrenschildt) and Robert Kennedy's assassin (Sirhan Sirhan).
- Nixon had ties to Arthur Bremer, the man who shot George Wallace
- Nixon's rise to power was only possible because JFK and RFK were dead and because Wallace was paralyzed. No other person in American history has been so fortunate as to rise to power over the bodies of their slain enemies as Richard Milhous Nixon.
5. What happens when you question the Warren Commission's findings?
On 22 November 1963, John Kennedy was killed. On 24 November 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was dead. No trial would take place because the prime suspect was already dead. The American people would not tolerate the murder of their President without a trial. Thus, Lyndon Johnson formed a blue ribbon committee to investigate JFK's murder. This committee, known as the Warren Commission, would write 27 volumes on the subject. Their conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK without political motive; the assassination was not part of a conspiracy; Jack Ruby shot Oswald without political motive; his murder was not part of a conspiracy.This ponderous encyclopedia is composed of 19,141 pages! To read this body of work would intimidate the typical American. Perhaps that was by design.
There were seven senior members of the Warren Commission.
Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Hale Boggs, US Representative (D), Louisana
John Sherman Cooper, Senator (R), Kentucky
Allen W Dulles, former director of the CIA
Gerald R Ford, US Representative (R), Michigan
John McCloy, President of the World Bank
Richard Russell, Senator (D), Georgia
LBJ asked Earl Warren to head this commission. Warren refused twice. Then Hoover gave Johnson some information about a trip Warren took to Mexico. When LBJ gave Warren these details, Warren began to cry. He said, "I'll do it. I'll do whatever you ask." So it seems Johnson had to blackmail Warren to get him to agree to be a part of this commission.
The commission members were all busy, powerful men with one exception: Allen Dulles. Dulles was a powerful man until Kenendy fired him after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Kennedy told his advisors he felt like the CIA had lied to him about the whole operation. He demanded Dulles's resignation. Dulles had a lot of time on his hands when the commission was doing its investigation. Therefore, the brunt of the investigation was performed by Dulles and those close to him. Because Kennedy fired Dulles, the choice of Dulles as a senior member of the Warren Commission is a curious one. Dulles had an axe to grind--no one disputes this.
In the 1970's, Congress would investigate CIA abuses (the Rockefeller Commission and the Church Committee). The CIA's involvement in foreign assassinations and their ties to organized crime were made known. As a Warren Commission member, Dulles was in a position to stave off these investigations in the 1960's--at least postponing them for a decade. Also, if the CIA was involved in domestic assassinations (like JFK's), certainly Dulles would not allow the investigation to pursue these leads.
The other members of the Warren Commission are mostly Congressman (Cooper, Boggs, Ford and Russell). McCloy was a cabinet member for LBJ and Kennedy. Of these, Hale Boggs was the last member to official endorse the magic bullet theory (the theory that one bullet caused seven wounds in Kennedy and Connally). Once he finally accepted the magic bullet theory, the Commission's conclusions could be made public.
Hale Boggs was a Democrat from Louisana, like DA Jim Garrison. Garrison was the only person to bring a trial to court for the assassination of John Kennedy. Garrison opened his investigation after having a conversation with Russell Long, Senator from Louisana. Certainly Senator Long, Representative Boggs and DA Garrison knew each other since they were all prominent Democrats from Louisana.
During the 1970's, Congress would reopen the JFK assassination in what was called the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). This committe along with the Rockefeller Commission and the Church Committee, were born out of American concerns over their government. With JFK, RFK and MLK dead and with American involvement in Vietnam reaching dizzying heights, Americans were distrustful of their government. This, along with Garrison's trial (1968-1969), would make Americans demand more accountability from their representatives.
Representative Boggs was on his way to being Speaker of the House in 1972. As a former member of the Warren Commission, his input would have been the spear tip of these investigations. And because Boggs was a Louisana Democrat like Garrison, perhaps Boggs could be convinced the Warren Commission had gotten in wrong.
Then Hale Boggs disappeared. No one has seen him since 16 October 1972. His body has never turned up.
George De Mohrenschildt, Lee Oswald's best friend, was called to testify before the HSCA. In the years between his Warren Commission testimony and the hearings for the HSCA, De Mohrenschildt implied there was a conspiracy and/or a cover up. The day before he was to testify, he committed suicide.
When Jim Garrison opened his investigation into the JFK assassination, two names kept popping up: Guy Banister and David Ferrie. Many witnesses testified they saw Oswald with these men and that Oswald worked out of Banister's New Orleans office in 1963. In 1964, right before the Warren Commission's report was released, Banister died of natural causes. Before Garrison's case went to court, David Ferrie committed suicide. (Coincidentally, the Warren Commission mentions Guy Banister and David Ferrie exactly zero times--despite being 19,141 pages long).
Police Officer Roger Craig, who was on the scene in Dallas on 22 November 1963, gave testimony completely contrary to that of the Warren Commission's conclusions. He committed suicide in 1975.
Shortly after Kennedy had been shot, a Dallas Police officer by the name of J D Tippit was killed in the Dallas suburbs. The Warren Commission concluded this killing was by Oswald who was attempting to escape. One witness to the Tippit killing was Warren Reynolds. He refused to identify Oswald as the killer. He was shot in the head but survived.
Another witness to the Tippit killing was Domingo Benavides. He had a brother who looked like him considerably. His brother, Eddy Benavides, was murdered. The crime remains unsolved. Benavides' father-in-law, J W Jackson, was not satisfied with the police effort into this crime--the Benavides family has always believed the killing was a result of mistaken identity. A man broke into Jackson's house and shot him.
Gary Underhill was a CIA man who claimed he knew who killed JFK. He committed suicide in 1964.
Delila Walle was an employee of Jack Ruby's. She told people she was working on a book of what she knew about the assassination. Her husband of 24 days killed her.
Albert Bogard was a car salesman. He testified before the Warren Commission that Oswald came to his dealership and test drove a car on 9 November 1963. Since the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald was not able to drive a car, Bogard's testimony was troubling. After giving his testimony, Bogard was hospitalized following a brutal beating. In 1966, Bogard committed suicide. (Coincidentally, Bogard's coworker, Jack Lawrence, borrowed a car on 21 November 1963. The car was found on the Grassy Knoll. He was arrested but released 24 hours later. He quit his job at the Downtown Lincoln-Mercury dealership the next day).
It seems to me that if you disagree with the Warren Commission you usually die of murder or suicide. Could just be a coincidence, though.
6. Where were you when Kennedy was killed?
"I suppose really the only two dates that most people remember where they were was Pearl Harbor and the death of president Franklin Roosevelt." --John F. Kennedy
It has become a cliche. If you were alive when Kennedy was killed, you remember where you were on 22 November 1963.
Unless you happen to be Richard Nixon, George H W Bush or E Howard Hunt.
http://mtracy9.tripod.com/kennedy.htmlNixon had spent 21 November 1963 and the morning of the 22nd in Dallas. In addition to his business duties (the bottler's convention), he met with some rightwing groups. The discussions that took place are not known but all the players (J Edgar Hoover, Clint Murchison, et al) were rabid critics of Kennedy.
Nixon's long time friend at Pepsi was a man named Donald Kendall. Kendall was running Pepsi's foreign operations when he received the following correspondence from Nixon in June 1963:
Dear Don
In veiw of our discussion yesterday morning with regard to Cuba. I thought you might like to see a opy of the speech I made before the American Society of Newspaper Editions in which I direted remarks toward this problem.
When I return from Europe I am looking forward to having a chance to get a further fill-in with regard to your experiences on the Bay of Pigs incident.
Dick
Donald Kendall had no experiences in the Bay of Pig incident. And Nixon and Kendall were quite close. Why would they be discussing the Bay of Pigs in 1963 when it took place two years earlier? Wouldn't they have discussed it in the days and weeks following the failed invasion? And what insight could Kendall, a Pepsi executive, offer Nixon, the former Vice President, about the Bay of Pigs?
On 20 June 1972, three days after the Watergate break-in, Nixon told his chief of staff Bob Haldeman to cover up the break-in. Specifically, he told him to have the CIA assuage the FBI to stop its investigation because the break-in was a CIA operation that will "open the whole Bay of Pigs thing". Haldeman claims in his book The Ends of Power that the Bay of Pigs references were about the Kennedy assassination.
It is in this light, that Nixon's note to Kendall makes sense. Kendall was in charge of Pepsi's foreign operations. The sugar used in Pepsi's products had come from Cuba until Castro nationalized the industries. Was Kendall part of a group that wanted Castro gone so he could reinstate Cuba's pre-Castro plantations?
Nixon's appearance in Dallas on the day of Kennedy's murder is also suspicious. The bottler's convention took the largest venue (the Market Hall). This venue was rented well in advance so that JFK would have to use the second largest venue in Dallas: the Trade Mart. There are only two paths from Love Airfield to the Trade Mart that go through downtown Dallas; and one goes past the Texas School Book Depository.
Considering Nixon was in Dallas on business and considering the references to the Bay of Pigs, it seems strange that Nixon would give two different stories about where he was when Kennedy was assassinated.
Bush
Like Nixon, George H W Bush was in Dallas on 22 November 1963. And like Nixon, he can't seem to get his story straight.
Bush was the head of the Harris County Republican party at this time. He was also campaigning for Congress. Within an hour of the JFK assassination, Bush called a friend of his at the FBI. He told the FBI a volunteer at the Harris County Republican office (James Parrot) had made threats on Kennedy's life. Bush also told his FBI contact that he himself was in Tyler, Texas at the time and was on his way to Dallas.
However, James Parrot had an air tight alibi for the Kennedy killing: he was with one of Bush's employees at the time! In fact, Bush had told his employee, Kearney Reynolds, to go look on Parrot just before the assassination occured! Why would Bush waste the FBI's time with a bogus tip?
The reason: to establish an alibi for himself. Parrot's alibi was Bush's employee Kearney Reynolds; and Bush's alibi was the Parrot tip. An FBI report was created stating Bush was in Tyler, Texas. However, the evidence of Bush being in Dallas is irrefutable.
In fact, it's even possible Bush was at the Texas School Book Depository!
(for a clearer image see this link: http://home.att.net/~south.tower/KCBushIalibi1_files/BushJfkBookDepo2.jpg)
In all his memoirs, Bush barely makes any mention of his whereabouts on that day. His wife's memoirs for 22 November 1963 are intriguing.
Barbara Bush claims she was writing a letter "home" when she got the news of Kennedy's assassination. Included in her memoirs are excerpts from the letter. There are several things wrong with this picture.
1. She signed the letter "Bar". Certainly her children would not call her Bar.
2. She and George were only on the road for a few days. They would be home before the letter arrived.
3. The letter seems to be written for adults to read. Except for George W who wasn't even home (he was at boarding school), all of her kids were 10 years old or younger. Why would she have mundane small talk to her young children?
The letter seems to be providing cover. Along with the FBI report that says George Bush was in Tyler, Texas (simply because he said he was), the Bushes have cover for 22 November 1963.
One intersting coincidence to go along with the above mentioned items: Lyndon Johnson was also in Dallas that day. Since he was the Vice President, he was in the motorcade. Thus, Lyndon Johnson, George Bush and Richard Nixon, three future Presidents, were all in Dallas the day Kennedy was killed in Dallas.
E Howard Hunt
The mastermind of Watergate, the man who forged the cable implicating Kennedy in the assassination of Diem and the man who probably wrote Bremer's diary, E Howard Hunt, was in Dallas on 22 November 1963.
And, like Nixon and Bush, he could never keep his story straight about where he was at that day.
During the House Select Committee on Assassinations, a CIA memo was released stating that the CIA was cutting its ties to Hunt because Hunt was involved in the JFK assassination. A small rightwing paper called Spotlight published the story. Hunt sued for libel.
When Hunt took the stand, he told contradictory stories about where he was at on that day. He said the article in Spotlight had done damage to his family--his kids were asking if he was in fact involved in the assassination. When asked where he was at on 22 November 1963, he said he was home in Virginia watching the news with his kids. Then why would his kids think he was guilty of the assassination if he was with them at the time?
7. The General Walker Story
General Edwin Anderson Walker was a radical rightwing Army general. He got into hot water with Kennedy when it was reported that Walker was indoctrinating his troops with propaganda from the John Birch Society. Walker would eventually retire to Dallas where he was active in right wing circles during 1963.
On 10 April 1963, Walker was in his home completing his tax return when a bullet was fired into his house. The bullet missed him but only narrowly. Walker was not injured by the shot.
The Dallas Police investigated the shooting but no arrests were made. After Lee Harvey Oswald was dead, evidence was turned up that Oswald was Walker's would-be assassin.
The case against Oswald was two-fold: his wife's testimony and a scrapbook Oswald kept. Marina Oswald told the authorities that Oswald confessed the shooting to her. She gave other supporting details about how Oswald went to Walker's house at least one time before the shooting in order to case the place. She said Oswald wanted to wait until Wednesday night (10 April) because the church next to Walker's house held services on Wednesday nights; Oswald believed a full church parking lot would be a cover for him. She supplied the authorities with Oswald's scrapbook--which was nothing short of an orgy of incriminating evidence. Oswald's scrapbook had photos of Walker's house, thus proving that Oswald was obsessed with Walker. With Marina's testimony, the Dallas Police closed the file on the Walker shooting.
The above summary is more or less what all the official books say about the Walker shooting. Even Vincent Bugliosi's 1,600 page magna opus Reclaiming History doesn't go into much greater detail than what you see above. Sure, Bugliosi spends three or four pages discussing Oswald's itenerary with Walker's itenerary so the reader will see their timelines side-by-side. Anyone reading his book would simply slam the case shut on Oswald as if there was no other pertinent evidence.
But this is not the case.
On 8 April 1963, two days before the Walker shooting, Robert Surrey (an associate of Walker's) saw two men walking around Walker's house "peeking in the house". Surrey knew Walker was not at home so he immediately recognized this as a suspicious situation. Surrey snuck around to the car in the driveway, presumably belonging to one of the two prowlers. Surrey told the police that the car (a 1963 Ford) didn't have a license plate. He went into the glove compartment to see the registration. There was no registration. Surrey decided to follow the car after the men left since he was not able to identify the car or the driver in any way.
He followed the car into downtown Dallas when he lost them. The unregistered, unlicensed driver suspected he was being followed, said Surrey, and the mystery driver was able to elude him.
On the night of the shooting, Walter Coleman (a neighbor of Walker's) heard the gunshot. He immediately looked over the fence and saw two men fleeing the scene. The men ran into two separate cars that were parked in the church parking lot. Walker told the police that he too saw two cars fleeing the church parking lot in the moments following the shooting. Recall that Marina said Oswald wanted to use the church as a cover for his activities.
Surrey reported he saw two men prowling around Walker's house two nights before the shooting. This incident must be related to the Walker shooting! It's inconceivable that two men would case a house then two nights later an unrelated shooting took place at that house. In addition, Coleman reported seeing two men fleeing the scene the night of the shooting. The conclusion is inescapable: there were two men involved in the Walker shooting. And the implications of this are staggering.
There are two possibilities: a) Oswald had an accomplice in the shooting of a political figure in Dallas in April of 1963; b) two men other than Oswald were involved in the Walker shooting. These two implications are mutually exclusive and exhaustive. Either Oswald had an accomplice or he was framed. The entire case against a conspiracy is fractured by the Walker shooting. Is it any wonder that Bugliosi doesn't cover any of these details in his 1,600 book, instead relegating and then dismissing these details in the end notes (which are on a CD)?
And what about the scrapbook? The authorities uncovered Oswald's scrapbook which had a surveilliance photo of Walker's house. This is what tipped off the authorities that Oswald was involved in the Walker shooting in the first place. The photograph is depicted below.
Notice anything strange about this picture? Take a closer look at the back of the car.
The area where the license plate should be has been ripped out!
When the Warren Commission asked Marina about this picture, she stated firmly that the photo had no such hole in it at the time Oswald showed it to her. Yet the FBI stated the hole was definitely present when they confiscated the photograph. Bugliosi concludes that Marina must be mistaken. Here are some excerpts of what Bugliosi says.
"The hole in the photograph is not confined to the small license plate area. It is a very large hole, encompassing almost one-third of the rear trunk area."
"It is likely that the hole was accidentally torn out by someone, perhaps even Oswald."
Bugliosi tries to minimize the impact of this doctored photo by suggesting the rip accidental and not confined to the license plate area. Am I crazy? When I see this photograph I see a doctored photograph--someone's attempt to not have their vehicle linked to a photograph in Oswald's possession.
The 1947 Jack Rubenstein was not the one who shot Oswald.
ReplyDeleteNixon's movements and location on 11/22/63 have been confirmed adequately by various witnesses. Among them, Julie Nixon, who was 15 years old, remembers him entering their NYC apartment at a particular time. I don't remember the details of that particular observation, but I think you can find them in Julie's biography of Pat Nixon.
About Nixon on 11/22/63, see
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