Pat Shannan's MUSINGS
Assassinations and the News Media Cover-up
"The truth must be repeated again and again because error is constantly being preached around us, and not only by isolated individuals but by the majority! In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in the schools and universities, everywhere error is dominant, securely and comfortably ensconced in public opinion which is on its side." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1828 Aha, what else is new?
After reading Who Killed Kennedy by Thomas Buchanan in 1964, I became passively interested in the government's dubious story of the public execution of President Kennedy. Lots of questions, few answers. Soon thereafter the Warren Commission released its gigantic fraud, and private investigators countered with a flurry of books challenging this fiction with logic, laws of physics, and previously ignored facts. I was quickly hooked and, over the nearly forty subsequent years, my thirst for more and more led me to the accumulation of what now must be one of the largest private collections in the world of books, magazines, audio and video tapes, and research reports from the experts on the subject.
When New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison uncovered his case against Clay Shaw - weak as it finally appeared - he met with a vicious attack by the press and solid roadblocks by the federal judiciary. United States Attorneys, as well as the Attorney General himself - all of whom should have been on Garrison's side - refused to honor his subpoenas for witnesses or cooperate with his investigation in any way. Even Texas Governor John Connally disallowed the extradition papers of two key witnesses. While a million of us wondered, Why would this be? Jim Garrison was already beginning to realize who the real enemy was.
The following year, 1968, Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy were murdered only two months apart. The railroading of James Earl Ray became blatant in the first case, and further investigation showed that somebody in addition to Sirhan Sirhan had been firing a weapon at the New York senator who was about to get the Democratic nomination for president. Either that or Sirhan fired his 8-shot revolver 11 times without reloading.
It didn't take a seasoned investigator to spot the obvious disparity in the attempt on the life of presidential candidate and Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1972. Wallace was hit four times and, amazingly, three other people were wounded - all from Arthur Bremer's five-shot revolver, according to the official spin. Anyone could spot this discrepancy by simply reading the next day's newspaper, but not one peep was ever seen or heard on the national news. If any reporter ever did question this, it apparently was nipped in the bud, and nothing was ever seen in print.
How illuminating it was to learn from a Playboy interview that Sara Jane Moore, who took a shot a President Gerald Ford in 1975 and was serving a life sentence for the dastardly deed, had been a paid FBI informant! Why could the establishment press not discover this? Or had they? Yes, it was true. Ms. Moore even named her FBI Control Officer in San Francisco, Bert Worthington. The FBI, true to form, refused comment.
This pattern of FBI intimidation of witnesses in high profile cases, double-talk, and general cover-up of federal crimes becomes obvious when one does the historic research. It all came home to me with the systematic hunting down and murder by federal agents of Gordon Kahl in Arkansas on June 3, 1983. It was the first case that I investigated on my own and later wrote about in I Rode with Tupper. My involvement had finally moved from passive to active. I had no choice. It was either begin writing and speaking about it publicly or swell up and burst into flames from the withholding of too much explosive information.
Study of the JFK murder, with the benefit of hindsight and facts of other political assassinations both before and since, reflects an interesting pattern. We find this pattern to be either a cleverly designed arrangement - prior to the fact - by those in charge or, in every single case, a mutual thread of stupidity shared by each "lone nut" assassin, which was so incompatible with their otherwise shrewd and clever planning.
Five and a half months prior to the Kennedy murder in 1963, we are to believe that Byron De La Beckwith lurked in the woods for several hours before blasting, with his own deer rifle, the heart out of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers. Then, before jumping in his car to beat a hasty retreat for his home 90 miles north, Beckwith stashed the gun under some brush just a few feet away. Nobody will find it there, he surely must have thought.
On November 22nd that year -the Spinmeisters tell us - Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old Marxist, fired three shots from a sixth floor warehouse window with a cheap rifle mounted with an off-centered scope, and killed the President of the United States. Then he ran across the room and stashed it behind some book boxes (Nobody will find it there!) before rushing out of the building toward his escape. But forty minutes later he killed a cop (they say) and got caught. Even though the Paraffin Test, administered by the Dallas Police that afternoon, showed that Oswald had not fired a weapon, the FBI never sought anyone else.
Five years later, escaped convict James Earl Ray, who had never fired a rifle in his life, is said to have killed Martin Luther King with a single shot from the rear, second-floor, bathroom window of a cheap hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. Then Ray, who must have been the stupidest of all (if we are to believe the FBI), ran down the hall to his room, stuffed the rifle back into its box, and crammed the container into a duffel bag. The bag was already filled with James Earl Ray's clothes, a beer can with his fingerprints thereon, and a prison radio from the Missouri State Penitentiary. This radio just happened to have Ray's prison I.D. number engraved into the back of it.
"Ray" then ran down the stairs to the street and turned left toward his car, parked only a few yards away. However, before leaving, he dumped the bag of incriminating evidence in the doorway of nearby business establishment from which several people were peering out the window in witness. (Nobody will find it there!) Then he leaped into the Mustang and squealed the tires up Third Street, drawing more attention to himself. Once the I.D. was made, the FBI never sought anyone else.
In September of 1975, President Gerald Ford had a bad month in California. On the 5th, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, of Charles Manson "family" notoriety, clicked a .45 automatic at him in Sacramento at point blank range. However, the 100-pound would-be-assassin didn't know that, even though the magazine was full, a cartridge must be chambered before the gun can fire. She had never fired such a weapon before and probably would not have been strong enough to pull back the mechanism on the hefty .45 anyway. Who put this moron up to this maniacal act?
On the 22nd, as President Ford emerged from his limo to enter his San Francisco hotel in a large crowd, Sara Jane Moore fired a single round from a .38 revolver from across the street. Fat chance of scoring that one. Were both of these airheads really this stupid?
If the attacks on Ford are considered to be serious ones, then the reader must remember who the waiting-in-the-wings vice president was. Even Moore herself said from behind the prison walls, ". . . It would have elevated Nelson Rockefeller to the Presidency, and then people would see who the actual leaders of the country are."
While the attempts on Ford seem to have involved some type of mind control and/or manipulation of the would-be assassins, the cases of Wallace, King and the two Kennedys are textbook CIA, and always with the designated patsy being but a fringe player at best. These suckers learn their real stage parts too late and are defined to the public as the latest "lone nut." The fringe player is led around by his handler, usually on a money leash, until which time he/she can be cleverly placed in the incriminating position of no return. (We believe we can safely add Tim McVeigh of Oklahoma City notoriety to this list.) With the passing of time, the lie becomes historical "fact", and we have the perfect crime.
There are many ongoing perfect crimes such as with the daily operations inside the conglomerate of Federal Reserve Banks, Internal Revenue, and the medical establishment. Usually the perfect crime is so big that nobody questions its legitimacy.
The Federal Reserve Bank creates credit from thin air and foists on the people counterfeit currency and slug coins with no intrinsic value. Its crime is protected by a regulatory agency called the IRS, which also continually operates outside of its written statutes.
Astute researcher Bob Livingston reminds us that the legalized drug industry operates under the pretense of medicine. This deception is so enormous that thousands of "educated" professionals support the system with no suspicion of its true nature whatsoever.
A huge number of diseases are drug induced because these medical witchdoctors believe in the myth of cure rather than remedy. Yet this is the theory that underlies modern medical practice. Their practice is to induce a drug disease to "cure" a primary illness. Drugs are poisons that destroy the natural immune system. We defy any advocate of the drug system to sign his name to an essay advancing logical reasoning why poisonous substances should be administered to the sick. We are certain he/she would come off looking as foolish as the creators of the ridiculous "magic bullet" theory in Dallas and the "power of ANFO" in Oklahoma City.
The recipe for the Perfect Crime may be laced with a variety of spices as long as it includes four prime ingredients: 1) The Perfect Crime is justified by government legislation. 2) The force of law and police power of the state protect the Perfect Crime. 3) The people are inundated with continual propaganda by the controlled media and public education systems which "justify" the Perfect Crime(s). 4) Politicians, bureaucrats, and newsmen - honest at heart and patriotic in their speech - are corrupted with financial reward and promotion for protecting the system.
Over the next several issues, our Musings will become a series of detailed review of these old murder cases and reflect many of the obscured facts in evidence, little known to the public at large. We will begin with a party held at the home of the wealthy oil baron and longtime Lyndon Johnson financier, Clint Murchinson, on the night before the John Kennedy assassination. In attendance for an hour-long parlay in a smoke-filled room - in addition to Johnson and at least two of his future appointees to the Warren Commission - were Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, George Bush, Henry Kissinger, H. L. Hunt, George Brown, and R. L. Thornton, among many others unaligned with the Kennedy Administration. Our information was derived from personal interviews with two sources, unknown to each other, who were guests at the party. The report will include the most damning evidence of all - from his own mouth - that Lyndon Johnson had foreknowledge of the next day's rubout.
The FBI, whose watchwords have long been "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity," destroyed, altered, and withheld evidence from the Warren Commission; carried on a vicious vendetta against Martin Luther King; and illegally conducted its own counter-intelligence program ("Cointelpro") which included break-ins and domestic spying. The CIA, we would learn, worked glove-in-hand with the Mafia in trying to kill Fidel Castro; planned and carried out assassination plots against other foreign leaders; experimented with drugs and behavior control, using unwitting human guinea pigs; and conducted its own massive and illegal domestic spy programs. These shocking and disgusting revelations match perfectly with ingredient #2 from the recipe above.
Deborah Davis wrote that Katherine Graham, the Washington Post publisher and subject of Katherine the Great, is said to have stated in a 1988 speech given at CIA headquarters: "We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."
Indeed, the democracy does flourish, while the republic disintegrates.
By the time you read this, you will have a new president-elect. And while at press-time, still three weeks away from election day, we cannot predict the winner, we do know the loser - the American people - as once again it is Tweedle-Dee over Tweedle-Dum by a nose.