At this point, there was not much enthusiasm on the part of the federal government to dig up evidence implicating the CIA in the assassination of the well-loved President. So, the chosen solution was to form a commission of ‘honorable’ men who would be reliable in diverting attention from the real truth.
On November 29th, 1963, seven days after the assassination of Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson established what was officially called ‘The President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.’ Informally called the ‘Warren Commission’ as it was headed by Earl Warren, the then Chief Justice of the United States.
At first, Warren refused to take the head of the commission because he stated the principle of law that a member of the judicial power could not be at the service of the executive power. It was only under pressure from President Lyndon Johnson, who hinted at international tensions and the risks of war resulting from the death of his predecessor, that he agreed to chair the commission.
He knew whatever conclusion they came to, it wouldn’t be the full truth.
Not one of the appointees was a Kennedy supporter. Many had been opposed by Kennedy, opposed him, or were outright fired by him. One of note was Allen Dulles, the former director of the CIA whom Kennedy fired. It is also worth noting that we now know that Dulles had a long record of assassination attempts in many different countries.
Dulles was lobbied by the CIA to be added to the Commission to make sure certain doors stayed closed. Dulles even went as far as to meet with and rehearse with CIA members before they were interviewed by the Commission to make sure they did not reveal any connections to Oswald, of which there were many.
Another such appointee was former World Bank chairman John J. McCloy, whose policies President Kennedy had publicly opposed.
Another point of note: Not only was President Kennedy’s foreign policy overturned overnight, but so was his domestic economic policy.
Earlier that year in June, President Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110. This order directed the Treasury to print money redeemable in silver. For five months, the Treasury complied. Had they continued, it would have, in essence, put the privately owned banking cartel, known today as the Federal Reserve, out of business.
Can’t have that — None of this was ever mentioned by the media.
These were the investigation hearings into the death of the President of the United States. There wasn’t an editorial in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or any other newspaper in America for nine months as the hearings went on.
While these ‘honorable men’ manufactured ‘proof’ that Oswald did it behind closed doors, they were assisted by CBS.
Bill Paley, head of CBS, had been involved with the CIA since it was the OSS. He had always been a loyalist. CBS staked their credibility on this from the very beginning. At the very moment of the report’s release, they aired a two-hour special endorsing it, before it had even been made public.
A recently released CBS memo reveals that the person helping craft their special was none other than John J. McCloy, a member of the commission that had yet to announce their conclusions. NBC went as far as literally telling the FBI they would publish nothing that contradicted the Warren Report. Great journalism right there.
Now let’s talk about the autopsy. That evening, America’s top forensic pathologists, medical professionals who perform autopsies in the D.C. area, were on standby by their phones, but they were never called. The reality had to be inverted, and an illusion created to make it appear as though Kennedy was shot from behind, the direction from which Oswald was supposedly positioned.
Just look at the Zapruder film. No competent person can watch President Kennedy get shot in the head and believe the bullet did not come from the front of the vehicle. One method they employed to create this illusion was to seize control of those conducting the autopsy. They accomplished this by having the autopsy, in its entirety, supervised by Generals and Admirals.
The President received an autopsy that would have been unacceptable for an average citizen, let alone a President. Interestingly, Oswald received an autopsy befitting a President. There were no questions about Oswald’s autopsy, and there were nothing but questions surrounding the President’s.
Had this case ever gone to trial, those ‘pathologists’ would have been decimated on cross-examination by any competent defense attorney. The bullet that struck President Kennedy from behind hit him just below the right shoulder blade, as verified by the holes in his jacket and shirt. The Commission had the opportunity to examine the X-rays and photographs but chose to review cartoon drawings instead, which depicted the supposed trajectory of the bullet.
The Commission’s next task, with the help of CBS, was to prove that Oswald was a remarkable marksman, capable of firing three accurate shots in less than 5.6 seconds, as indicated by the Zapruder film. Oswald’s former Marine roommate, despite FBI harassment, stood by his statement regarding Oswald’s mediocre marksmanship; he just wasn’t that good.
Neither the Commission nor the CBS experts were able to replicate three remotely accurate shots in the allotted time, so they simply pretended that ‘the assassin had more time.’
Nearly 60 eyewitnesses and ear witnesses reported hearing three or more shots from the grassy knoll. The Commission dismissed this, claiming it was probably an echo. Yeah, sure.
Motorcycle Officer Marion Baker encountered a composed Oswald in the lunchroom less than two minutes after the last shot was fired. The Commission had to prove that Oswald could fire that last shot, hide the rifle, and scurry down the stairs to the lunchroom within those two minutes. They couldn’t. So, they just ignored it.
In fact, there was a witness who worked with Oswald at the Depository named Vicki Adams who gave her testimony to the Commission. It was destroyed, of course. Why? Because when interviewed later, she said that in that testimony she claimed that she ran down the same steps Oswald supposedly did as soon as the shots went off. She never saw him.
One witness isn’t enough? She was with another coworker of hers, Sandra Styles, who ran down the stairs with her. The Commission said that Vicki’s testimony was enough and then proceeded to destroy the evidence. Then in the final report they just shrugged Vicki off as another confused witness.
Once more documents were declassified, it was revealed that there was a third corroboration for Vicki’s testimony that, again, was buried and not considered. Three witnesses that contradict the Warren Report and prove that Oswald was not even on the 6th floor during the shooting? Not good.
Not wanting to wait nine months for the conclusions of these “honorable men,” Mark Lane, who worked on Kennedy’s election campaign, flew to Dallas and did what the Commission did not: interviewed actual witnesses.
Since the Commission’s hearings were secret, Mark aimed to publish an article about what many witnesses told him. Nearly no publication in America that he contacted wanted anything to do with it. Finally, he found the National Guardian, and they published it.
Oswald’s mother saw the article and asked Mark to represent her deceased son before the Commission. They said no.
The American public did not even have to wait for the Commission’s conclusion. Henry Luce, the Mockingbird participant we talked about before, proclaimed Oswald the killer on the cover of his Life Magazine publication. This is the first time in major American journalism that an unconvicted suspect was not referred to as “alleged.”
The Commission claimed that only three shots were fired. Since records show that one of the shots had missed, they further claimed that the first bullet, the pristine one found on the stretcher, struck President Kennedy in the back of the neck, passed through his throat, then went completely through Governor Connally’s upper body and wrist. The bullet that missed straight up missed the entire vehicle and struck on the other side of the street. Someone as professional as they claimed Oswald to be, it does not make sense he would hit two perfect shots and then miss the street entirely with another.
Governor Connally’s persistent assertion that he was not hit by the first shot should have dismantled the Commission’s claims completely. They had to prove that one bullet created all seven wounds. Good luck with that.
The magic bullet, they literally called it that, had fewer grains missing than were found in the Governor’s body. But don’t worry. They had a “magic” solution for the magic bullet called “The Magic Bullet Theory,” which the Commission accepted, of course.
It states, “The bullet went through President Kennedy’s neck, without hitting bone, deflected magically into Connally’s back, shattering four inches of his right rib, exited under his right nipple, deflected downward, destroying a large bone in his right wrist, and then veered left into his thigh. It remained embedded in his thigh until he arrived at Parkland Hospital, where it fell onto a stretcher. Not Connally’s or President Kennedy’s stretcher, mind you. Just a random stretcher.
Are you serious?
The number of liberal foreign policy ‘experts’, like Noam Chomsky, who questioned the magic bullet theory: zero.
‘Who knows and who cares? Plenty of people get killed all the time. Why does it matter if one of them happens to be John F. Kennedy?’ – Chomsky
Fun fact: The chain of custody on this magic bullet is completely broken and contradictory. There is no clear evidence that the bullet found on the stretcher is the same bullet that found itself in the lab for testing, and that would ultimately be put into evidence.
The commission’s findings and conclusion are completely contingent on this magic bullet and they can’t even get the record straight.
The Warren Report had a report from the FBI saying that the individuals who found the bullet later identified it as the bullet they had seen. However, the internal record did not show that at all. The internal records said the opposite! It said “This bullet didn’t look like that bullet at all.”
They just straight up lied.
One can only surmise that, somewhere in the FBI, they realized they had to close the loop on Oswald’s guilt, and so they just switched it out. None of the four people, either of the people at Parkland, or the two Secret Service agents who were the supposed chain of custody, could identify the bullet.
Jack Ruby begged to be taken to Washington to tell his story to the Commission. They declined.
After nine months of futile deliberation, the Commission presented their findings to President Johnson. Three days later, they published 26 volumes.
One man on the Commission planned to reveal a dissenting opinion for the presentation at the final Commission meeting, Senator Richard Russell. He just could not bring himself to accept the magic bullet theory or that Oswald was a lone shooter.
In fact, he did not even want to serve on the Commission to begin with. He smelled something fishy right away when he found out they were only going to consider Oswald as a suspect. He described this as an “untenable position”.
Russell was pissed when he found out that there was no transcript of the final meeting in which he had given his dissenting opinion. How convenient.
These ‘findings’ were a joke.
Pictures aren’t presented in their entirety. Individuals aren’t questioned at length. We were left with a heap of garbage. What possible evidence could these men have stuffed into 26 volumes?
To illustrate how comically irrelevant these ‘findings’ were, consider this example classified in the front as ‘a study of the teeth of Jack Ruby’s mother.’ Even if Jack Ruby had intended to bite Oswald to death, his mother’s dental records would still be irrelevant.
A piece of testimony that went on for 20 PAGES was from a babysitter for Oswald when he was three years old.
In response to this pile of nonsense, remember Mark Lane? The man who worked on Kennedy’s campaign and interviewed those witnesses? He read the report and, two years later, published a book titled ‘Rush to Judgment.’
Like his first article in Dallas, it too was refused publication in America. He had to publish it in Europe. Despite significant backlash from mainstream media, it was a bestseller for two years.
Before Mark, a German journalist named Joachim Joesten wrote a book proving Oswald’s innocence. It also had to be published in Europe. It was completely ignored by the American media. But not by the FBI and the CIA.
Memos prove that both men were under surveillance.
Those two books opened doors for many citizen journalists to conduct their own research and publish books on the subject. I encourage anyone reading this to check them out.
Harold Weisberg wrote a series called ‘Whitewash.’
Robert Penn Jones wrote ‘Forgive My Grief.’
The only person to sift through and catalog every tidbit of information in the deliberately unreadable 26 volumes, Sylvia Meagher, wrote ‘Accessories After the Fact.’
Mae Brussell took to public radio and became the second most listened to voice in America on the assassination, after Mark Lane.
With the proliferation of books and critics, the government and the CIA needed to act. Thus, CIA Memo 1035-960 states, ‘The aim is to provide material discrediting the conspiracy theorists… Use of friendly politicians and editors… pointing out communist propagandists… explain ten or more deaths naturally…’ “Explain ten or more deaths naturally…” LOL
The CIA began a propaganda campaign, with the help of politicians and media contacts from Mockingbird, to label any opposition ‘Conspiracy Theorists.’ Did you notice? The CIA actually coined the term ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ here.
One of the first to adhere to this CIA memo was, of course, their own William F. Buckley. Week by week, he spread his superiors’ lies.
Arguably the most significant figure in all this was former FBI officer, Air Force veteran, and politically independent District Attorney, Judge Jim Garrison. Jim initially accepted the Commission’s conclusions until a chance meeting with Senator Hale Boggs in Washington. Jim inquired about a potential government cover-up. Boggs’ response, according to Jim, was, ‘That’s putting it mildly.’ Boggs was a dissenting member of the Commission whose dissent was, of course, never published. He later disappeared on a flight over Alaska, never to be found.
After speaking with Boggs, Jim purchased three sets of the 26 volumes. After thoroughly studying them and committing them to memory, Jim decided to conduct his own investigation. Oswald had lived in his jurisdiction, so it made sense. His budget was only $8,000. When a reporter uncovered this expense and published it, the city cut off his funding. But in response, he received more than enough citizen donations to cover it!
One of Jim’s main supporters flew to Miami to be on Larry King’s show to spread the word. They raised $50,000! Unfortunately, Larry King embezzled the money, and Jim never saw a penny.
The only media support Jim received was from two magazines: Playboy and Ramparts magazine. While investigating Oswald’s CIA connections, Jim encountered David Ferrie, a CIA pilot. During the investigation, Ferrie conveniently committed ‘suicide,’ leaving two typed ‘suicide’ notes. You can’t get a dead man to write a note, now can you?
Wanting to stay ahead this time, Jim swiftly arrested a man named Clay Shaw for having participated in the conspiracy to kill Kennedy, a man that was later proven to have strong CIA connections. His team had good reason to believe Shaw supervised Oswald secretly. It was later revealed that Shaw was, in fact, both a highly valued contract agent and had a security clearance.
In fact, Oswald was an intense person of interest to the CIA for four years before the assassination. He was even added to essentially a no-fly list at the CIA, but on the 8th of October, he was removed from that list at the exact same time as he was removed from the same list at the FBI! If he had been kept on that list he would have not been allowed to be in the area the day of the assassination for security reasons. How convenient!
To millions of Americans craving answers, Jim’s arrest announcement of Clay Shaw was excellent news! But not to the Government and the media! The first to attack was Attorney General Ramsey Clark. He claimed that Shaw had been cleared by the Warren Report. Actually, Shaw was never mentioned in the report. No problem, though. Clark simply had an aide apologize.
Their next tactic was to reveal Shaw’s homosexuality. At that time, that could completely discredit a person’s character and prevent people from believing anything they said. Jim couldn’t allow this and did everything possible to keep that quiet. He needed Shaw to reveal the truth and for people to believe it.
After Shaw’s indictment, his lawyer introduced the 26 volumes of the Warren Report to a three-judge panel to prove Shaw’s innocence. The judges ruled the 26 volumes INADMISSIBLE. They were not considered an investigation and were only hearsay. Wow. Had the media reported on this legal ruling, the government’s report, and possibly the government itself, may have justifiably collapsed. But no. Silence.
The attacks on Jim intensified. He could no longer travel safely. They desperately wanted to suppress any information. A leaked CIA memo revealed that the CIA had to assist Shaw because they believed Jim might secure a conviction. With the public largely ignoring the media fabrications, a bribe followed. They offered Jim a federal judgeship to drop the case. He refused.
Then he discovered infiltrators in his office, one of whom successfully turned over documents to the agency and Shaw’s attorneys.
They aimed not just to discredit Jim Garrison, but to destroy him. Aside from many witnesses who saw Oswald with Shaw, Garrison’s best witness was a young salesman named Perry Russo. Upon hearing of Shaw’s arrest and not wanting to be implicated, Russo stepped forward, swearing under oath that he had been at Ferrie’s house, where Oswald, Shaw, and Ferrie discussed triangulation and shooting President Kennedy.
The media onslaught continued. NBC even offered a job to Perry Russo in California to get him away from the investigation. But, during that meeting, Garrison had Russo wired and recorded everything. Garrison indicted them for tampering and obstruction of justice. Of course, that indictment was dismissed by a federal court and never went to trial.
In response to Jim’s charges against NBC and the FCC, the FCC granted him equal airtime. His appearance was so powerful it forever changed American media. It moved the government to abolish equal time and fair play.
Jim Garrison, by popular demand, was able to secure a spot on Johnny Carson’s show, where he proclaimed to America, “There is no question, as a result of our investigation, that an element of the CIA of our country killed John Kennedy, and the present administration is concealing the facts. There is no question about it at all. The executive order, which forbids every person in this audience and every person listening to this program from looking at this evidence until September 2039, was issued by the President of the United States.”
CBS, again, joined the attack. Reporting, along with various news organizations, that there were many serious charges against Jim Garrison and his staff alleging bribery, intimidation, and efforts to plant evidence on Shaw. For two years, the government and their Mockingbirds erected barricades against Garrison and his case.
But finally, he got his day in court. The resistance from the government was total. It was more than just resistance; they outright refused to honor subpoenas. While everyone was focusing on the first charge against Shaw, conspiracy, Garrison maintained that his strongest case was the second charge, perjury. He knew that Shaw would commit perjury because he knew that Shaw would lie about his associations with Oswald and Ferrie.
Shaw’s lawyers thought that their best witness was Dr. Pierre Fink, the only forensic pathologist at Kennedy’s autopsy. He testified that the fatal bullet struck Kennedy from behind, but when cross-examined, he admitted that there was no real autopsy. He said he was not allowed to examine the back wounds, X-rays, photographs, or to perform his duties at all. He recounted how the room was swarming with generals, admirals, and FBI agents. He even recalled a moment when Dr. Humes yelled out, ‘Who’s in charge here!?’ General Curtis LeMay was in charge. And what do you know, he was a known Kennedy hater.
Fink also claimed that his notes disappeared! He was so upset because he had to go home and reconstruct all of his notes from memory. What a mess! All of Dr. Fink’s testimony was, of course, censored by the press.
The photographs of the ‘autopsy’ are a different story. The photos of Kennedy’s head were severely altered to enforce the claim that the bullet came from the back. Not the photos themselves, but in later interviews, the men who were there during the autopsy claimed that the head itself must have been reconstructed before the photos were taken because that is not what they remembered. They remembered his head being essentially blown off with an exit wound in the back.
Something else of note, the official brain autopsy report claims that the weight of the brain was 1,500 grams. This is actually an above average weight for an adult male brain. How could this be? We can see half of his brain fly out of his head on video. Many witnesses say the same as well. Even if it is exaggerated, the official story still claims that a bullet hit head. Some tissue would have fallen out either way. Like I said earlier, Jackie picked up a piece of his brain off the back of the car, it was all over the seats, people were picking it off their clothes. How big was this guy’s brain!?
The photographs of the brain in the National Archives show a fully intact brain that is slightly distorted, and upon investigation, it is clear that these photographs were taken well after Kennedy’s brain was examined. It is not his brain. In fact, JFK’s brain has been missing since 1966. How convenient. Nobody knows where it is. Seriously, it is just straight up missing.
Gerald Ford, in the report, moved the entrance wound on JFK’s back closer to his neck to make the neck exit trajectory work. Everything surrounding the autopsy is an absolute mess. In fact, none of the men who worked on President Kennedy’s poor excuse for an autopsy were asked to testify in front of the Warren Commission. Seriously? A nine month long, 26 volume report didn’t think to include the testimonies of the ones who saw and investigated his body immediately after the attack?
The one physician present at both Parkland Hospital and the Bethesda Morgue, was Kennedy’s personal Doctor, George Berkley. He, of course, didn’t get to give his testimony to the Commission, but he did get interviewed by the JFK Library where he refused to give an opinion about if there was a conspiracy or not.
Then in 1977, through his lawyer, he wrote a letter to Richard Sprague, the HSCA chair, saying he had information indicating that others besides Oswald participated in the assassination and was willing to talk about it now.
But then Sprague was fired just weeks later.
But then in 1982, he told a JFK researcher that he knew there was more than one gunman. But then when he tried to contact Berkley for more details he cut him off at the knees. Why?
Then the next year he talked to another researcher a year later and told him the same thing. That he recalled an exit wound on the back of JFK’s head. The only doctor present during both medical examinations said something completely contrary to the official story.
But then again he cut the researcher off at the knees.
Then he died.
So his daughter was contacted and asked to give a statement about if there were any documents that she could provide that showed what her father wanted to reveal.
She accepted.
But then she completely changed her mind and refused.
What did the CIA have on these people? Holy cow.
By Dylan Allman
