Friday, January 24, 2014

From The Saturday Evening Post, 1967



The Kennedy Assassination.  An article by Richard J. Whalen of the Saturday Evening Post published in the January 14, 1967 issue.

As Whalen remarked in the piece, “Without surrendering to fantasy, there is still room for some doubt about the essential finding.”  Imagine any mainstream journalist making such a comment now.

A candid article discussing the controversies of the case and whether there should be a new investigation.  PDF of the article linked below.

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/9670114_kennedy_assassination.pdf

Props For Researcher Pat Speer

Why?  Because Pat Speer has the patience and fortitude to examine and review just about everything said about the Kennedy assassination leading up to, and during, the 50th Anniversary of the event in 2013.  This includes it all: print, web, and TV.  I really didn’t have the wherewithal to sit thru it thinking I would be so angry I would not be able to sleep at night.  I’m so glad somebody did this work as it needed to be done.  

His review, entitled, The Onslaught: the Media's Response to the 50th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination, is a master clinic in media machinations involving presenting the case to the American, where most television commentators on the major networks, or journalists, have little or no understanding of the event.  After reading two very long pages of Speer’s analysis, it’s really quite amazing to see such a divergent group of people, from the web, print media, PBS, and cable news news networks, people of different backgrounds from seasoned print journalists to new media writers, can all come to the same conclusion:  The Warren Commission got it right.

The conclusion being that there is no conspiracy, that conspiracy is just a bunch of made-up stories, that Lee Oswald is guilty of not only killing President Kennedy, but Officer Tippet, and attempted to assassinate General Walker as well.  It’s amazing to see them all walk in unison together like this.  It’s a hive-mind in operation.  Just one big collective of dead thinkers from all over the place. 

The stumbling block for all of these people is the single bullet theory.  SBT as we call it.  Two ballistic experts, Luke and Michael Haag (father and son), are tasked with replicating it.  They will make the rounds to a host of documentaries on various networks.  Their tests are all supposed to be scientific and feature stunts that have been done before.  As Speer shows, much is flawed in their demonstrations--wrong distances, angles, still targets, not shooting at bone, and so on.  How ironic to have experts trying to prove a theory that comes from non-ballistic experts, i.e., lawyers.  How convoluted is that?  Very!  The staff attorney’s created the SBT for purely political reasons once the FBI came up with an errant bullet striking the curb on Commerce wounding James Tague.  In the end, the Haag’s come off as a pair of fakers to those of us who have studied the case.  At no point in these demonstrations, is it ever revealed that the Warren Commission in 1964 tasked ballistic experts doctors Dolce and Light to conduct tests on cadavers using Oswald’s rifle at the U. S. Army Edgewood Arsenal.  As Dr. Dolce stated in an interview in 1986, each of the ten test fired bullets were in his words, “markably deformed.”  Dr. Dolce was not called to give testimony to Warren Commission and his findings were buried in a report, published in March of 1965, that was classified “confidential” for 8 years before being placed in the NARA.  You’ll never see this mentioned in any of these programs.

And this thread of fakery runs through just about every show and article on JFK’s assassination.  I think what it shows more than anything is how co-opted the American media is when it comes to the controversy surrounding the case.  It should be a time honored American tradition to question and test what the government tells us.  

I don’t know what the are more bothered with...conspiracy or controversy.  

Here is the quote, by Pulitzer prize-winner David Horsey, in the LA Times that most aggravates me:

“In the real world, though, conspiracies tend to unravel. Somebody squeals, somebody leaks, somebody betrays. We always find out – and usually because a conspiring collective of humans is bound to screw up.”

Does this learned man understand anything about history at all?  It’s rife with conspiracy.  To suggest that conspiracies unravel due to human frailty is ludicrous.  Plots can unravel but they mainly unravel after the deed is carried out.  And some, such as the JFK conspiracy can last seemingly forever by having jack legs such as Horsey who would rather pontificate on a national medium rather than conduct a proper investigation.  In many ways people like this are unwittingly government shills, if not on the payroll.  And we know what former CIA director William Colby said about that in front of Congress; that all major media figures are under their control.

Conspiracies are real.  Conspiracy is not a theory, it's a crime.  The one involving JFK’s death is ongoing for 50 years.  It does happen.  About a dozen people were involved with the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.  Who talked there? Nobody.  Dozens of men were involved in the plot to a assassinate Adolf Hitler.  Who talked there? Nobody.  The nineteen hijackers on 9/11.  Did any of them talk?  Of course not.

I think Pat Speer sums it up when commenting on the early journalists that looked into the assassination.  As he put it, “..they basically accept whatever evidence is put on the plate before them.”  
To be fair, that was a time when most people believed their government.  However, a host of revelations were to follow over the next decade to dispel that.  A whole lot of lying was uncovered from Vietnam, Watergate, and the CIA/FBI revelations. The disappointing thing is that people in the media today still believe what is presented to them with minimal examination. 

Speer finishes up with the following:  “I mean, have any of the old newsmen dragged out to tell their stories --MacNeil, Lehrer, Schieffer, Rather, Brokaw, Aynesworth, Allman, and Payne--expressed the slightest doubt about the most doubtful aspect of the Warren Commission's conclusions: the single-bullet theory? I don't believe so.” 

So the most common prevailers of the lone nut theory in all of these 50th Anniversary media presentations (print-web-TV) either have no working knowledge of the case, are government shills, money and fame seekers, habitual liars, or just a bunch of opinionated blowhards.  I imagine the next generation of stooges will be in place for the 100th Anniversary.  I’m glad I won’t be here to see it.


Sources

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Pat Speer debunks the debunkers!

Pat Speer on his excellent research site debunks the debunkers of conspiracy in the national media, print-web-TV, regarding the reporting on the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's killing.  This is why I didn't watch a lot of it.  I knew it would be so anti-conspiracy and fraudulent that it would not be worth wasting time on.  As Pat documents, indeed it was. It shows what lengths these media gate keepers do to keep the government myth of a lone assassin alive.  The amount of selective evidence sourcing to make sure Lee Oswald forever guilty boggles the mind.   

It's worth reading both pages:
http://www.patspeer.com/the-onslaught

And 

http://www.patspeer.com/the-onslaught-part2

Highly recommended.


Monday, January 20, 2014

Ruth Paine Speaks....

Ruth Paine has given a long interview with the Press Democrat entitled, Santa Rosa woman recalls John F. Kennedy's killer.  

Linked here:


A more detailed review of her statements in this article will be posted soon.

Monday, January 13, 2014

She Let Him Stay

Madam Yekaterina Furtseva the first woman to serve on the Soviet Politburo.


Many of you are familiar with the story of Lee Oswald’s entry into the USSR in 1959.  First by steamer and then plane.  He attempted his defection upon arrival, and as with many elements of his life that event is an odd mix of the amateurish and the mysterious. Rebuffed at his first attempt to defect he takes the extreme measure of attempting suicide by slashing his wrists.  After that, Soviet authorities allow him to stay.  He is never granted Soviet citizenship but is given a good quality apartment and a job at a television factory.  Soon after, he meets Marina Prusakova and they are soon married.  

However, what is commonly left out of the story is who exactly decided to allow Oswald to stay after his suicide attempt.  According to Joseph J. Trento in his book, The Secret History of the CIA, it was the most powerful woman in the Soviet Union, Yekaterina Furtseva.  The first female member of the Politburo, she took a personal interest in this hapless American defector and gave the order to let him stay.  According to Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko, it was Furtseva that ordered the KGB not to recruit Oswald as a possible KGB mole.  

Yekaterina Furtseva was an interesting character.  She started out in local party politics as a youth and slowly rose up the ranks.  She was the former lover of Nikita Khrushchev and with his aid, was assured her a top spot in the Soviet hierarchy.  She was elected to the the Politburo, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in 1956 and began serving in 1957.  She would later become the Soviet Minister of Culture and serve on the Presidium.  Over time she gained control over the KGB (Trento, p.230) and was allowed to handle case files.  From here, she took an interest in Lee Oswald.  

It’s probably the goal of many that support the Warren Report to try and portray Oswald as a loser, such a nobody, that important agencies would never take an interest in him. It is similar to the portrayal of his him as a loner.  What loner has a wife and kids? Notice the pictures of him in Minsk surrounded by friends.  As Jim Garrison once remarked, not only was Oswald was not the lone gunman, he was never alone either. But Oswald caught the interest of many.  Even his defection to the USSR launched a barrage of memos to almost every agency of the U.S. government and branches of the military.  A Marine defecting to the Other Side was a big deal in 1959.

Yekaterina Furtseva involvement is significant in that the Russians considered turning Oswald.  Defector Nosenko said Oswald was too much of an oddball for them to consider his use as an operative.  It is unknown what influenced Madam Furtseva’s decision to pass on Oswald’s possible operational use.  Evidently, letting him stay was enough for her, so long as the KGB kept close watch over him.
  
As stated earlier, many author’s ignore Oswald’s sudden good fortune  in being allowed to stay after the Soviet authorities were intent on deporting him.  Many never mention Yekaterina Furtseva’s intervention.  A recent book, The Interloper, Peter Savodnik's rather dull read regarding Oswald’s time in Russia, the author accounts for virtually nothing that was the final decision that allowed Oswald to stay.  Furtseva is never mentioned.  One would think this would be an important detail in the narrative! Savodnik is a cherry picker of the facts and omits other crucial details such as the false defector program to the Soviet Union ran out of Nag’s Head, North Carolina, and admitted to by Sen. Richard Schweiker.  Even Vince Bugliosi in his 1,600 page book, Reclaiming History says not a word about this.

In the end Lee Oswald was most likely an Agent Provocateur, playing many roles and fronting an identity of the misfit with delusions of grandeur.  Only by studying intelligence operations does one get a grasp of what is at hand here. Most of the purveyors of the Official Story never walk down that line of country.  After all, why would they want to complicate a nice, tight little story of theirs given to them by the government?


Sources

Book:  The Secret History of the CIA by Joseph J. Trento