JFK assassination

Evidence for conspiracy

Oswald's connections

Main article: Lee Harvey Oswald

Ruby and organized crime

Main article: Jack Ruby

Outline of the plot

[A lot of non-physical evidence of conspiracy exists, particularly what was uncovered in Jim Garrison's investigation. That included:

• The discovery that Clay Shaw was the man who called Dean Andrews to defend Oswald in Dallas
• Rose Cherami's story, connecting Jack Ruby and Cuban exiles to an arms/drugs/human trafficking network as well as an assassination plot
• Evidence that Oswald's alleged trip to Mexico City was a setup
• The Bethesda autopsy being controlled by upper-level military officers.

]

Perpetrators

Sponsors

[Suspected, but not proven, to be powerful corporate interests: Wall Street bankers, defense contractor executives, oilmen (including those in Dallas like H.L. Hunt), and the like. Allen Dulles, with a longtime background in both Wall Street and the intelligence community, might have served as the liaison between these corporate interests and the plot organizers. Despite being fired by Kennedy in 1961, he maintained a "parallel government" in which he continued running the CIA through his loyalists like Richard Helms and James Angleton.]

Plot organizers

• CIA leadership
  • Richard Helms
  • James Angleton
  • David Atlee Phillips
  • E. Howard Hunt?
• New Orleans CIA network
  • Clay Shaw
  • David Ferrie

Gunmen

[Most likely Cuban exiles working for the CIA (perhaps Operation 40 members?), possibly Mafia hitmen as well]

Suspicious deaths

• Lee Harvey Oswald
• David Ferrie
• Jack Ruby?
• Sam Giancana?
• George de Mohrenschildt
• ...

See also

• MLK assassination
• RFK assassination
• Watergate scandal

External links

Overviews

• Jim DiEugenio's critical review of Reclaiming History: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5b, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Martin Hay's critical review of Mel Ayton and David Von Pein's Beyond Reasonable Doubt
• Martin Hay's critical review of Robert A. Wagner's The Assassination of JFK: Perspectives Half A Century Later
• VISUP series on the JFK assassination: parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
• Paul Bleau, "JFK and the Unforgivable: How the historians’ version of the JFK assassination dishonors the historical record", 2016/07/27: parts 1, 2

Useful books

• Accessories After the Fact by Sylvia Meagher (1967)
• Six Seconds in Dallas by Josiah Thompson (1967)
• When They Kill A President by Roger Craig (1971) - unpublished manuscript
• Reasonable Doubt by Henry Hurt (1985)
• On The Trail Of The Assassins by Jim Garrison (1989) - excerpts from Mae Brussell; chapter summaries parts 1, 2
• The People V. Lee Harvey Oswald by Walt Brown (1992)
• Murder in Dealey Plaza by James Fetzer (2000)
• JFK and the Unspeakable by Jim Douglass (2008)
• Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case by Jim DiEugenio (2012)
• JFK: The Evidence Today by Jim DiEugenio (2018)

Prior plots

• Chicago plot
  • Chicago Independent, "THE PLOT TO KILL JFK IN CHICAGO" by Edwin Black (Scribd link) - article about the earlier Chicago plot to assassinate JFK on November 2, 1963
  • 2001/02/28 alt.assassination.jfk discussion on the Chicago plot
  • ABC, "44 Years After JFK's Death, New Assassination Plot Revealed", 2007/11/22
  • ABC7 (Chicago), "JFK murder plots planned in Chicago before Dallas assassination", 2013/11/05
  • Deep Politics Forum thread about how Thomas Arthur Vallee was investigated in December 1963: pages 1, 2
  • Deep Politics Forum thread saying that Thomas Arthur Vallee drove a car registered to Lee Harvey Oswald
• Paul Bleau, "The Three Failed Plots to Kill JFK: The Historians' Guide on how to Research his Assassination – with an addendum", 2016/11/18 - article on the pre-Dallas assassination plots and their respective patsies
• Paul Bleau, "The Three Failed Plots to Kill JFK, Part 2", 2018/09/24

Outline of the plot

New Orleans milieu

• Jim Garrison files
  • Clay Shaw documents uploaded by John Barbour
• Video of interviews with Jackson barber Edwin McGahee and Louisiana state representative Reeves Morgan recounting their meetings with Oswald
• p.143 of HSCA Final Assassinations Report - says Louisiana witnesses established "an association of an undetermined nature between Ferrie, Shaw and Oswald less than three months before the assassination"; mentions Ferrie working with Banister at 544 Camp Street; has a footnote about Ferrie flying Carlos Marcello back into the country following his deportation (ed. note: also mentioned by Daniel Hopsicker in his documentary)
• Rose Cherami story
  • Eunice Today, "Plot tip from a fallen Rose forever links Eunice & JFK assassination", 2012/11/21
• HSCA allegedly had film of McLaney training camp for Cuban exiles showing CIA operatives
  • Probe interview with Bob Tanenbaum
  • Dave Reitzes mentioning the film
  • Daniel Hopsicker also talks about this in Barry and the Boys
  • Gayle Nix-Jackson, "The Lake Pontchartrain Training Facility and The McLaney Brothers", 2015/06/28
• NARA #104-10428-10181
  • "[Melvin] BELLI was reportedly involved in illicit drug traffic with Morris ELOWITZ in 1958. ELOWITZ was a suspected contact of Lucky LUCIANO."

Jack Ruby role

• Jim DiEugenio's critical reviews of JFK: The Ruby Connection by Gary Mack
• Education Forum thread on Ruby at the DPD press conference correcting the "Free Cuba Committee" remark: pages 1, 2, 3
• JFKFacts, "Ex-flame says Jack Ruby ‘had no choice’ but to kill Oswald", 2013/03/22
• JFKFacts, "The hit man and the mobster: Jack Ruby and Santos Trafficante", 2014/08/31
• 2018 Deep Politics Forum thread on FBI interviews immediately after Ruby killed Oswald to probe his links to the Dallas police and organized crime (cites NARA #124-10049-10005 / docid-32134794.pdf and another document involving J. R. Leavelle)

E. Howard Hunt role

• Sunday News Journal, "Was Howard Hunt in Dallas the day JFK died?", 1978/08/20 (CIA's response to the article one day later) - mentions a 1966 CIA memo saying that Hunt was in Dallas on the day of the assassination
• Plausible Denial by Mark Lane (1992)
• Roy Tuckman interview of Mark Lane on KPFK in 1992 - says that Ellis Rubin was the lawyer for Hunt; points out in relation to George H.W. Bush that the codename for the Bay of Pigs was Operation Zapata, and mentions the claim by Fletcher Prouty that he delivered two ships for the Bay of Pigs named Barbara and Houston; says that Bush lied about not investigating the JFK assassination as CIA director, having actually ordered a study into the CIA's vulnerabilities on the topic; one caller mentions Dan Rather giving a convoluted defense on February 4 for his inaccurate description of the Zapruder film; brings up the tape recording being made at George de Mohrenschildt's home, which has a security system alarm go off just before he is shot; has Lane mention saving Leo Ryan from a knife attack at Jonestown; one caller says Bush ally Fred Malek tried recruiting him to Georgetown University in 1972

Richard Case Nagell

• The Man Who Knew Too Much by Dick Russell
• Dick Russell, "How to Avoid Being Linked to the JFK Assassination: Get Yourself Locked Up, 2018/01/03

Controlled autopsy

• Argument for Curtis LeMay having been at the Bethesda autopsy

Oswald activities

• Donald Thomas refutes that Oswald was on the 6th floor during the shooting
• Pulling a gun at the Texas Theatre
  • Education Forum, "Oswald's pistol", 2004
  • Education Forum, "Lee at the theatre", 2005
  • Education Forum, "Nick McDonald: hero or villain?", 2006
  • The Lone Gunman Myth, "The filthy lies of Nick McDonald", 2013/01/23
• Gunshot residue tests
  • Education Forum, "Bugliosi pulls another switcheroo", 2007/06/10

Acoustics evidence

• Don Thomas's overview of the acoustics evidence: parts 1, 2, 3
• Thomas's debunking of Bugliosi's argument against the acoustics
• 2014 explanation by Thomas of why the acoustics were valid
• Synchronizing the DPD dictabelt and Zapruder film

Tippit shooting

• Joseph McBride's critical review of With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J. D. Tippit by Dale Myers
• Jim DiEugenio, "The Tippit Case in the New Millennium", 2018/04/28

Corrupt law enforcement

• Dallas police and DA
  • NPR, "Growing DNA Exonerations Lead to Action", 2007/05/01
  • New York Times, "For Dallas, New Prosecutor Means an End to the Old Ways", 2007/06/03 - cites the Dallas jury instruction in 1963: "Do not take Jews, Negroes, Dagos, Mexicans or members of any minority race on a jury, no matter how rich or well educated"
  • Associated Press, "After Dallas DA's death, 19 convictions are undone", 2008/07/29 (USA Today copy)
  • Harpers, "In Praise of a Prosecutor", 2008/11/15
  • D Magazine, "When Henry Wade Executed an Innocent Man", 2016/05
  • Rufus Shaw, dead along with his wife in a purported murder-suicide, was allegedly appointed by DA Craig Watkins to look into the JFK case

Disinformation authors

• Vincent Bugliosi a.k.a. Vince Bugliosi background
  • Was the prosecutor in the Manson Family murders, and portrayed them as a hippie commune motivated by a race war ideology instead of pursuing leads indicating that Manson was part of a criminal underworld linked to murder-for-hire, drugs, pedophilia, and Satanic cults
  • Black Op Radio interview on 2018/05/10 with Jim DiEugenio - mentions his analysis that the Manson killings were related to drug dealing
• Gerald Posner
  • Lisa Pease, "Gerald Posner has private cell number of Afghanistan's leader's brother - accused of CIA ties", 2009/10/29
• Left-wing authors
  • Jim DiEugenio, "The Deceptions and Disguises of Noam Chomsky", 2017/06/22
  • Jim DiEugenio, "Ken Silverstein and Jeffrey St. Clair Get Counterpunched", 2018/08/14
• Edward Curtin, "The Notable Silence of Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill", 2019/02/14 - note that Jimmy Breslin was part of the cover-up in the Son of Sam murders, helping to make it appear as if David Berkowitz was the sole perpetrator

Various peculiarities

• Dallas mayor Earle Cabell was CIA (from NARA #104-10215-10213)
• Jim Braden (linked to H.L. Hunt)
  • Spartacus Educational wiki page
  • Dallas County arrest record
• Mike Robinson overhearing Dallas police officers discussing a plan to kill Oswald
• Jack Ruby asked an FBI informant if he wanted to "watch the fireworks" on the morning of the JFK assassination (from NARA #124-10087-10143)
• Mind control of Jack Ruby
  • "Was Jack Ruby A Manchurian Candidate?" by Michael J. Levy
  • Right around the time Oswald is murdered, two car horns can be heard to go off. The first is right when Oswald steps into the corridor, and the second is immediately before Ruby lunges forward to shoot Oswald. These car horns might be some kind of hypnotic signal.
• Ron Ecker, "Our Man in Powder Springs: Mitch WerBell", 2004/11/24
• NZ Herald, "JFK files: What we have learned so far", 2017/10/27: "A British newspaper reporter received an anonymous call 25 minutes before the JFK assassination tipping him to call the US Embassy "for some big news", it has been revealed. The strange call to the Cambridge News on November 22, 1963 was recounted in a memo from the CIA to the FBI, made public in the Thursday release of files related to the John F. Kennedy assassination. The memo is based on a CIA Station London cable just the morning after the assassination. The senior reporter at the newspaper in Cambridge, England said he received an anonymous telephone call at 6.05pm GMT on November 22, urging him to "call the American Embassy in London for some big news". The newsman reported the strange call to authorities, and MI-5, the UK's domestic security service, determined that the call had taken place 25 minutes before the US president was shot an ocean away in Dallas. MI-5 advised their CIA counterparts that the reporter was "known to them as a sound and loyal person with no security record". The British security service noted that the coincidental timing of the call fit the pattern of similar calls made across the UK in connection with the "case of Dr. Ward". This is an apparent reference to Stephen Ward, an osteopath at the centre of the 1963 Profumo affair, a British political scandal. CIA Deputy Director James Angleton sent the memo to the FBI Director on November 26, 1963."
• Bill Simpich, "Analyzing the New JFK Revelations", 2018/07/26
• Luis Angel Castillo as a mind controlled assassin
  • Bill Kelly, "Luis Angel Castillo", 2008/01/01 - alleges that in 1966 (before Castillo's arrest and interrogation in the Philippines), an NSA clerk arrested for being a Soviet spy said the NSA had documents revealing the real assassin was Luis Angel Castillo
  • Spartacus Education Forum thread from 2004 on Luis Angel Castillo - mentions he claimed to be on the second floor on the Dal-Tex building; alleges he was the brother-in-law of Eddie Bayo
• Phil Ochs - suggested by Dave McGowan to be a Manchurian candidate with a leftist personality and a CIA agent personality
  • Bill Kelly, "Jim Glover on Phil Ochs", 2013/04/27
  • Bill Kelly, "Phil Ochs at Dealey Plaza?", 2013/05/11
• Pedophile ring connections (TODO: expand this list)
  • David Ferrie being a pedophile who was possibly associated with a network of Cuban exiles in New Orleans that trafficked boys
  • It appears quite plausible that Lee Harvey Oswald himself was a rape victim of Ferrie; from p.80 of A Secret Order by H.P. Albarelli Jr. (2013): "Continued the former resident: "The Oswald kid, when he was young, was in Ferrie's [CAP] group for only a few months or so and then quit. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know why. Everyone knew one or two kids who quit Ferrie's group because of his coming on to kids. A lot of people, parents, pulled their kids out when they found out he was molesting kids...""
  • The involvement of Jack Ruby in a prostitution ring which may have trafficked children as well
  • Harry Connick Sr., Jim Garrison's corrupt successor as New Orleans DA who destroyed his JFK files, refusing to prosecute Father Dino Cinel