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Opening the Gauze CurtainAfter proclaiming that a conspiracy existed in the killing of the Kennedy brothers and in the subsequent investigations into their deaths, it seems wise to prove one’s accusations before continuing. This is especially true in the light of the fact there are still a few people who believe that there was no conspiracy in either of their assassinations. They believe this because they believe the authenticity and credibility of the various committees formed to investigate the facts concerning both John’s assassination and Robert’s assassination. However, it is a statement of truth that not only was there a conspiracy in the killing of the Kennedy brothers but there was also a conspiracy in the assassinations of numerous other prominent American citizens, including the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. All these children of God were murdered by the same group of individuals and for the same reason — they opposed the Vietnam War and they stood in the way of the conspirators obtaining control of the presidency of the United States. On November 29, 1963, seven days after President John F. Kennedy was murdered, the new President, Lyndon B. Johnson, formed a committee, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination of John Kennedy. Also on the committee were: Senator Richard B. Russell, Chair for the Senate Armed Services Committee; Senator John Sherman Cooper, former advisor to the Secretary of State in the 1950 NATO meetings; Representative Hale Boggs, Majority Whip for the Democratic Party; Representative Gerald R. Ford, member of the Military Appropriations Committee; Allen W. Dulles, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under the Eisenhower/Nixon Administration; and John W. McCloy, former Assistant Secretary of War during WWII. One should note that all these individuals were either directly or indirectly connected to the military of the United States, and Allen W. Dulles, who was fired by John Kennedy for lying to the him about the CIA planned Bay of Pigs invasion, was, along with Vice President Nixon, primarily responsible for that fiasco in April 1961 — for which President Kennedy took the blame. One will remember that President Kennedy took the oath of office less than three months before the invasion took place and had no participation into its formation. Therefore, he could not have been responsible for its failure. One should also note that Nixon personally recommended to President Johnson that Gerald Ford, who was known as the CIA man in Congress, be on the assassination commission, and that Ford and Dulles each heard more testimony from witnesses than any other member. On September 24, 1964, the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known frequently as the Warren Commission, presented the summary and conclusions of its alleged investigation to President Johnson. This summary and conclusions report has since been known as the Warren Commission Report (WCR). The complete summary and conclusions were eventually put into 26 volumes of Commission Evidence and Exhibits (CE). Examining all the evidence of that investigation in this one small chapter is impossible. Besides, this has been comprehensively done already by numerous authors, significantly Jim Garrison, A Heritage of Stone and On the Trail of the Assassins; Mark Lane, Rush to Judgement and Plausible Denial; David Lifton, Best Evidence; J. Gary Shaw, Cover-Up; and many others. Each of these authors proposed a theory on who killed John Kennedy, how the assassination succeeded and why the president was killed. Each of these authors looked upon the assassination from a different point of view and each has some truth in their respective theories. Other authors, not mentioned here, offer different theories on how the assassination was carried out. But these authors are not united in their search for truth. Many authors, not all of them, do not answer how the conspirators controlled the Secret Service, the FBI and the CIA and thus succeeded in the following cover up. Nevertheless, those wishing to have a better understanding of the assassination should read their books. With a little humility and logic one should be able to separate truth from speculation and conjecture and come to a factual comprehension of what actually happened in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. As stated above, examining all the testimony of the twenty-six volumes of Commission Evidence and Exhibits in this one small chapter is impossible. There is neither the time nor the space for an extensive investigation here. Besides, much of the evidence contained in these 26 volumes is irrelevant — such as Jack Ruby’s mother’s 1938 dental records (CE XXII p.395). Indeed, more than that, the entire twenty-six volumes appear to be haphazard and disorganized. There is no index and, to quote David Lifton from his book Best Evidence, “the chaos seemed planned,” (p.12), as though “the government was deliberately hiding something.” Nevertheless, those wishing to read into these books should do so, as there is still much to be learned from them. The only evidence that will be considered here are some of the non-contradictory facts: the wounds to President Kennedy, the wounds to Governor Connally (who was also shot that day) and the medical reports from the doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where President Kennedy was treated and pronounced dead. This evidence has been chosen because it speaks for itself. It proves beyond a reasonable doubt that there was not only a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy but that there was also a conspiracy to cover-up the truth in the subsequent investigation of that murder, as Sylvia Meagher pointed out in her book Accessories After the Fact. This evidence is not open to ambiguous interpretation as is much of the other evidence and speculations. For example, Lee Harvey Oswald’s connections with the CIA as an undercover agent working in Russia, or that he was an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), or that he was just a victimized patsy who was framed for the killing, or his associations with police officer J.D. Tippit, who was also murdered that day, and his connections with Jack Ruby, who murdered Oswald on November 24. One should note that in 1947, Ruby had Congressman Richard Nixon intervene on his behalf so that he would not have to testify before the Congressional Committee on un-American Activities. In the conclusions of the first chapter the Warren Commission Report said that President John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald (WCR p.19) from above and behind (WCR p.18). It claimed that a bullet entered the back of Kennedy’s neck and exited through the lower front portion of his neck (WCR p.19) and that another bullet entered the right rear portion of his head (WCR p.19). The Warren Commission Report further stated that “the same bullet which pierced the President’s throat also caused Governor Connally’s wounds,” (WCR p.19). In the section titled The Bullet Wounds the Warren Commission Report says the same thing concerning President Kennedy’s head wounds (WCR p.86) and his neck wounds (WCR p.87-88). Finally, in the section titled The Trajectory the Warren Commission Report said again that the same bullet that pierced the President’s neck also hit the Governor (WCR p.105). However, there is evidence that indicates that President Kennedy was not shot in the back of the neck and that the wound in his upper back was not even caused by a bullet; it was put there before the autopsy began by the conspirators. There is evidence indicating that the President’s throat wound was an entrance wound, not an exit wound. Finally, there is evidence manifesting that the bullet that hit him in the head struck in the front and exited from the rear. Thus, John Connally’s wounds could not have been caused by some magic bullet (CE XVII #399). He was shot from behind by a second sniper. First of all, there are the motion pictures taken by amateur photographer Abraham Zapruder (CE XVIII #885, WCR p.49) on that fateful day. The Warren Commission determined that the film ran at a speed of 18.3 frames per second and that the president’s limousine was traveling at an average speed of 11.2 mph (WCR p.49). The Commission also determined that three shots were fired between picture frame number 210 through to frame number 313 (WCR p.110-117). One should note that each picture frame on the film was numbered by the FBI for use as evidence (WCR p.98). The Warren Commission Report states that the first bullet to strike the President could not have been earlier than frame 210, as the assassin did not have a clear view of the presidential limousine before then (WCR p.98). It also concluded that John Kennedy’s reaction to a bullet wound was barely apparent in frame 225 and clearly apparent in frame 226 (WCR p.98). This is approximately nine/tenths of a second discrepancy, which is a short enough time period in which a delayed reaction may be allowed. But there is a clear example of distorting the evidence when the Warren Commission Report discusses the injuries suffered by Governor Connally. According to the Warren Commission Report, the alleged weapon used in the assassination was a 6.5 mm Manlicher-Carcano Italian carbine (WCR p.19, 118-129). It needs a minimum of 2.3 seconds between successive shots (WCR p.97), giving a minimum of 42.1 frames between one shot and the next. Assuming that the first shot was fired at frame 210, not frame 225, the Governor could not have been struck in the back by a second bullet before frame 252 of the Zapruder film. The Warren Commission determined that Governor Connally was in a position to receive his injuries between frames 207 and 225. But he testified that he was struck between frames 231 and 234. He also said that he heard the first shot and saw President Kennedy reacting to being struck by that bullet. The FBI analysis concluded that he turned to his right between frames 235 and 240 and that after frame 240 he was turned too far to his right to receive all the injuries he sustained (WCR p.106). Thus, if the Governor were struck between frames 231 and 234, then there were either two assassins shooting at the presidential limousine that day or somehow both men were struck by the same bullet. The Warren Commission tried avoid the first conclusion by stating that there was a delayed reaction by the Governor between the time he was hit and the time he reacted to his injuries (WCR p.112). Thus, the Commission claimed that both the President and the Governor were struck by the first magic bullet (the bullet that the Commission claimed exited Kennedy’s throat) and that a second shot did not hit anyone. In either case, a third shot could have been fired at frame 313 of the Zapruder film when President Kennedy was clearly struck in the head. There is no dispute in this latter. However, the attending physician to the Governor, Dr. Robert Shaw, testified and wrote in his report that the bullet that hit Governor Connally “shattered approximately ten cm of the lateral and anterior portion of the right fifth rib” (CE VI p.86, XVII p.16-17). He further testified that it is possible for a man to be shot and have a delayed reaction “but in the case of a wound which strikes a bony substance, such as a rib, usually the reaction is quite prompt,” (CE IV p.115-116). It appears from Dr. Shaw’s testimony that Governor Connally could not have been struck by the same bullet that hit President Kennedy and then have had a delayed reaction to his injuries. There is more evidence supporting this fact. Consider first the wound in the front of the President’s neck. It was initially described by the attending surgeons as one of entrance, not one of exit. For example, Dr. Charles Carrico, the first doctor to administer aid to John Kennedy at the hospital, drafted and signed a report on the afternoon of November 22. In it he describes the throat wound as “a small penetrating wound of the anterior neck in the lower third,” (CE XVII p.4-5). Dr. Malcolm Perry, the physician who was in charge, also signed and dated a hospital report stating that the wound in front of the President’s neck had the appearance of one of entry. He wrote: “A small wound was noted in the midline of the neck, in the lower third anterior. It was excluding blood slowly,” (CE XVII p.6-7). Dr. Kemp Clark, the attending physician who pronounced John Kennedy dead, verified this when he gave testimony before the Warren Commission. He testified that at a press conference “Dr. Perry stated that there was a small wound in the President’s throat, that he made the incision for the tracheotomy through this wound. He discovered that the trachea was deviated so he felt that the missile had entered the President’s chest. He was asked if this wound in the throat was an entrance wound or an exit wound. He said it was small and clean so it could have been an entrance wound,” (CE VI p.22). This was authenticated by a story printed in the New York Times the day after the assassination. The newspaper said that Drs. Perry and Clark gave details of the injuries saying that “Mr. Kennedy was hit by a bullet in the throat, just below the Adam’s Apple, they said. This wound had the appearance of a bullet’s entry,” (N.Y.Times p.2). Four days later the paper again stated that Dr. Clark said that the bullet struck the President “at about the necktie knot and ranged downward in his chest and did not exit,” (N.Y.Times p.20). However, the Warren Commission proposed a hypothetical medical and highly irregular question, that not only included much of the supposed evidence in the case against Lee Oswald but also presupposed that the President’s neck wound was one of exit (CE VI p.14). The Warren Commission asked the doctors whether their observations as to the nature of the throat wound could be consistent with this presupposed hypothetical situation (CE VI p.5). If one accepts the lie that there was an entrance wound to the back of the President’s neck and an exit wound in the front of his neck, then this hypothetical situation may be true and thus the doctors erred in their initial assumptions concerning the neck wound. But there was no bullet wound in the back of John Kennedy’s neck! Although there was a hole that appeared to be a bullet entrance wound in his upper back, this injury was not caused by a bullet. Hence, the hypothetical medical and highly irregular question was redundant. There is strong, concrete evidence defending this fact. Even if one assumes for a moment that the wound in President Kennedy’s upper back was caused by a bullet, there is evidence that it did not exit. In the National Archives there is a five-volume report of the FBI, dated December 9, 1963, that summarizes the results of their investigation. It states in part: “. . . one of the bullets had entered below his shoulder to the right of the spinal column at and angle of 45° to 60° downward, that there was no point of exit, and that the bullet was not in the body,” (Rush to Judgement, appendix IV). One should note that the FBI agents who wrote this report were going on the assumption that the deceased body of John Kennedy had not been tampered with before the autopsy and that all the wounds were caused by bullets. Also, the Warren Commission itself determined that the wound was in the President’s upper back, not his neck, when it gave the location of holes in the jacket and shirt worn by John Kennedy. It stated that an examination of the jacket worn by him “revealed a roughly circular hole approximately one/fourth of an inch in diameter on the rear of the coat, 5 3/8 inches below the top of the collar and 1 3/4 inches to the right of the center back seam,” (WCR p.92). It further stated that the “shirt worn by the President contained a hole on the backside 5 3/4 inches below the top of the collar and 1 1/8 inches to the right of the middle of the back,” (WCR p.92). This was supported by the testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill who testified that he saw John Kennedy’s body after the autopsy had been completed and “saw an opening in the back, about six inches below the neckline to the right hand side of the spinal column,” (CE II p.143). All this evidence puts the “wound” in President Kennedy’s upper back well below the wound in his throat. Thus, it is physically impossible for some magic bullet to enter John Kennedy’s upper back on a downward projection and then, without being deflected, exit his throat and strike Governor Connally in the back as the Warren Report claims. Governor Connally had to have been shot by a second sniper who was shooting from the opposite direction of the sniper who shot President Kennedy. The Warren Report also lied about the nature of President Kennedy’s head wound. It said that “the President was struck a second time by a bullet which entered the right rear portion of his head, causing a massive and fatal wound,” (WCR p.19). But here again there exists strong contradictory evidence. Dr. Clark testified that he “examined the wound in the back of the President’s head. This was a large, gaping wound in the right posterior part, with cerebral and cerebellar tissue being damaged and exposed,” (CE VI p.20). Dr. Perry also testified that he saw a wound in the rear of John Kennedy’s head “which was a large avulsive injury of the right occipitoparietal area,” (CE VI p.11). A third physician attending the wounded President, Dr. Ronald C. Jones, not only wrote a report noting that “a small hole in the anterior midline of the neck thought to be a bullet entrance wound,” (CE XX p.333), but also testified that he observed “what appeared to be an exit wound in the posterior portion of the skull,” (CE VI p.56). Finally, when one examines the Zapruder film of the assassination one can clearly see that President Kennedy’s head is hurled backward, following the path of the bullet as dictated by the laws of natural science, and thus indicating that the shot came from his front and exited from the rear of his head — leaving a large, gaping wound in the right occipitoparietal area (right posterior) of his head. The preceding is just a cursory look into a very small portion of the evidence in the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Nor is the above the best evidence that there was a conspiracy and cover-up in the assassination of President Kennedy. But even this minuscule amount should be enough to render a shadow of doubt in the Warren Commission’s case against Lee Harvey Oswald as a lone assassin. However, for those who still remain skeptical, there is more evidence that proves that Lee Harvey Oswald was framed for that murder and that he was not the lone, deranged assassin that the Warren Commission claimed him to be. One will now analyze the best evidence in proving that there was a conspiracy and cover-up in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. However, before doing so, one should note that the Warren Commission and numerous others who believe the lone assassin fabrication have already observed the above medical testimony and came to a different conclusion concerning the trajectory of the bullets and the wounds they caused. But everyone of these individuals ignored the gaping contradictions in the Warren Report and they ultimately based their conclusions on the autopsy report of President John F. Kennedy. |
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