[…] H. Byrd, the Texas oilman, friend and supporter of Lyndon Johnson. Byrd owned the Texas School Depository Building from which Lee – ‘I’m just the patsy’ – Oswald is supposed to have fired on JFK’s motorcade. The first essay, by Russ Baker,1 points out that Byrd established an elaborate alibi for himself, big game […]
[PDF file]: […] with some country boys doing the shooting’. He claims he was told about the details by Cliff Carter and it is as the buffs always presumed: frame Oswald, kill Oswald while arresting him, use local law enforcement – interestingly the Sheriff’s Department, not the Dallas Police Department – to control things. ‘The plan was […]
[…] the McCarthy period. So far so unexceptional. But when we start moving through the sixties towards the present day, it all goes off the rails. Once again Oswald, Sirhan and Ray are presented as the assassins of the Kennedys and King. None of the more substantial research which suggests they were innocent is even […]
[PDF file]: […] made public until years after his death, Thomas told supervisors such information from Mexico could undermine the findings of the presidential panel that determined in 1964 that Oswald acted alone.’ 15 The general thrust of the article was that this might finally be an opportunity to debunk the Warren Commission! There was a conspiracy, […]
[…] the McCarthy period. So far so unexceptional. But when we start moving through the sixties towards the present day, it all goes off the rails. Once again Oswald, Sirhan and Ray are presented as the assassins of the Kennedys and King. None of the more substantial research which suggests they were innocent is even […]
[PDF file]: […] Congressman Lyndon Johnson…..Stone reveals that Nick Ruwe (a former top aide to Nixon) said that when Nixon saw Jack Ruby on TV after he 2 See murdered Oswald, Nixon exclaimed, “I know that man!”’ This is new and significant. ‘Stone reveals, in yet another eye-opening addition to the historical record, that Texas Attorney General […]
[PDF file]: […] nobbling Garrison’s inquiry would be top of the Agency’s agenda. The general case against the Cubans/CIA is, of course, quite persuasive: yes, the Cubans were associated with Oswald and were involved in creating one of the Oswald personae, the gung-ho exMarine. But we don’t know what this meant. It may have had nothing to […]
[PDF file]: […] I hadn’t, and in this case my memory was wrong. That isn’t all we know for sure. In fact there were three sections of the CIA monitoring Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.40 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The […]
[PDF file]: […] he provides a history of the British Far Right through the biographies of no less than six failures. This starts with Arnold Leese and then continues through Oswald Mosley, A. K. Chesterton, Colin Jordan, John Tyndall, and finishing up with Nick Griffin. In reality what the reader is given is six short books for […]
[PDF file]: […] he told them which suggested he was on the periphery of an assassination plot against President Kennedy. These included the claim that he had trained Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s supposed assassin, in rifle marksmanship.6 The Report’s version of the 12 June raid had simply erased Morales from the story. Perhaps the editorial staff figured […]
