Review of Lone Nutter Michel Jacques Gagne's "Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination" - I give it a One Star

Yet another academic is trafficking in one of the the Greatest Lies ever told in World History - that a lone nut commie killed JFK

Web link to Michel Jacques Gagne's Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination:

Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination (Conspiracy Theories): Gagné, Michel Jacques: 9781032114477: Amazon.com: Books 

Let's give Professor Gagne the benefit of the doubt. I think he truly believes what he writes although he has been fooled into believing one of the most fantastic whoppers ever told in world history: that a lone nut commie killed JFK and that Lyndon Johnson and elements of the CIA had absolutely no role in the murder of John Kennedy.

The truth is that Lyndon Johnson orchestrated the assassination of JFK because the Kennedys were within days of utterly destroying Lyndon Johnson both with massive and Kennedy-coordinated media exposes into LBJ's spectacular corruption and an RFK-fomented Senate Rules Committee investigation into LBJ's aforementioned corruption. Robert Caro found out from Ed Clark that in 1964, Lyndon Johnson's net worth was $25 million, which in 2022 dollars is an astounding $200 million dollars that LBJ had made off of 30 years of public service. Lyndon Johnson was not merely taking envelopes full of cash, he was taking suitcases full of cash and Billie Sol Estes was his biggest cash cow - a man who kick back $10 million in cash to LBJ over the years - something like $84 million today.

Professor Gagne may be the only person in world history who believed in a conspiracy in the JFK assassination and then one day sat down in a bath tub and read the Warren Report summary book and had a lightbulb over his head moment with the revelation that a lone nut killed JFK and weirdly a communist in Kennedy-hating right wing Dallas on top of all that. That is what the professor tells he did in this book.

I wrote a letter to the professor and it will serve as a review of this book. For those who want to know who murdered JFK and why: it was Lyndon Johnson and his Texas powerbroker pals Ed Clark and D.H. Byrd who used elements of military intelligence (Gen. Edward Lansdale, I am 99% sure) and elements of the CIA (people like David Atlee Phillips and E. Howard Hunt) to murder JFK. Oswald was a pre-selected CIA patsy and was in no way a real "pro Castro Marxist" or a "communist" - this I am 100% sure just as I am 100% Lyndon Johnson orchestrated the JFK assassination. LBJ was at the peak of the pyramid.

LBJ then used his former longtime neighbor of 19 years and fellow front row seat Kennedy-hater FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and a resentful, fired CIA director Allen Dulles to cover up the murder of JFK and to posthumously slander and defame a patriotic, USA-loving, Marine ring wearing man Lee Harvey Oswald who had absolutely nothing do to with the JFK assassination except in his role as a posthumously framed and murdered patsy for the CIA. I bet LBJ knew exactly who Oswald was before the JFK assassination, that is how carefully LBJ planned his various crimes over the decades.

Gen. Edward Lansdale, David Atlee Phillips and E. Howard Hunt were all CIA men and all were proteges of Allen Dulles (who said just before he died "That little Kennedy ... he thought he was a God."

Hoover hated the Kennedys - no serious historian would ever dispute that.

LBJ hated the Kennedys - no serious historian would ever dispute that. In fact LBJ's attitude toward the Kennedys often involved him telling people that he would slit Robert Kennedy's throat if it was the last thing he did in life. He murdered his brother instead because the the Kennedy's "destroy LBJ" program in fall of 1963 was coming to a head. The Kennedys were not merely going to drop LBJ from the ticket in the fall of 1963, they were in the process of completely destroying Johnson to such a degree that he might very well have gone to jail for his life of political crimes and kickbacks.

Lyndon Johnson's attitude toward the Kennedys would more accurately be described that he would have liked to have have taken a long, satisfying piss on their corpses. Both of them.

The Kennedys had their knives out for LBJ, and LBJ brought guns to the battle and it was settled in Dallas, TX at on November 22, 1963 at 12:30PM CST.

Both Col. Fletcher Prouty and Gen. Victor Krulak identified their peer the infamous Gen. Edward Lansdale at Dealey Plaza. Lansdale's motive for murdering JFK would have been his extreme rage over the murder of his pal Diem of Vietnam three weeks previous in a CIA coup that JFK supported (although he was chagrined at the death of Diem). Lansdale, fired by the Kennedys, would have his career resurrected by LBJ who attempted to make Lansdale the Vietnam guru again.

Ed Clark's and D.H. Byrd's motive to murder JFK was because both men were fully aware that the Kennedys were out to destroy their cash cow, the extremely corrupt and bought off Lyndon Johnson. LBJ was very close personal friends with both men and both men made a lot of money off of Johnson. D.H. Bryd's LTV defense contracting company did fabulously well during the Vietnam War. As for Ed Clark, his law firm regularly got millions in retainer fees for doing nothing simply because he was so close to Lyndon Johnson.

I am sure that Gen. Edward Lansdale, whose top congressional sponsor was yet another front row seat Kennedy-hater & personal friend of LBJ Sen. Thomas Dodd (D-CA), was a part of the JFK assassination. Dodd was a hawkish, right wing CIA Democrat who like Lyndon Johnson was both an alcoholic and corrupt. Unlike LBJ, Dodd later paid the price for his corruption. LBJ seriously thought about making Sen. Thomas Dodd his vice presidential candidate in 1964 and floated this to the media before selecting his controlled liberal sycophant Hubert H. Humphrey as his vice president.

The odds are extremely high that Gen. Edward Lansdale, who ran Operation Mongoose for the Kennedys and no doubt hated the supervision of the ruthless jackass Robert Kennedy, roped in some CIA-connected anti-Castro Cubans to help with the JFK assassination (see "Dark Complected Man" as a spotter for the snipers on the Grassy Knoll). This is why Richard Nixon, who was acutely aware that LBJ had murdered JFK, would refer to the JFK assassination as the "whole Bay of Pigs thing." And Nixon knew that E. Howard Hunt was involved as well- this is why Nixon wanted to use the CIA to tell the FBI not to investigate Watergate because it would open up the "whole Bay of Pigs thing."

Nixon knew both LBJ and the CIA were involved in the JFK assassination, which is why LBJ was powerless to hold Nixon accountable for helping to sabotage the 1968 peace talks with Vietnam. LBJ did not want "peace" with Vietnam; he wanted to win.

Robert Kennedy did not step on the toes of older men who of power who resented and had no respect for this ultra aggressive arm of JFK. RFK *stomped* on people's toes and told them they had better fall in line - or else!

After Lyndon Johnson murdered JFK, the cover up went very smoothly because the murderer of JFK - Lyndon Johnson - was running the U.S. government and his JFK-hating blood brother FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover scooped in to run the government cover up. Fired CIA director and another JFK-hater Allen Dulles was placed on the Warren Commission where he was quite active in protecting his CIA minions from accountability for what they had done - which was murder the sitting president on behalf and in coordination with LBJ.

One of the most critical things to know about the JFK assassination is that Lyndon Johnson, Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, FBI in general, CIA in general all had personal ties and friendships with the ownership of the national media of 1963-1964. LBJ, Dulles and crew were personal friends with not merely the owners of CBS, ABC, NBC, Wash Post, NYT, Time-Life, Saturday Evening Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune - they were also friends with the executives and reporters at all those organizations.

It bears repeating: the murderers of JFK - LBJ and the CIA - were personal friends with the media from top to bottom. William Paley of CBS, Katherine Graham of Wash Post, Henry and Clare Luce at Time-Life - these people were all very LBJ and CIA friendly. Ditto friendly with Allen Dulles and Hoover's FBI public reations operation which was run by LBJ toady Deke DeLoach. The elite media - and LBJ was literally having sex with some of their reporters (CBS's Marianne Means for sure and possibly NBC's Nancy Dickerson) - allowed themselves to be easily coopted on the JFK assassination and printed whatever fantasy LBJ, Hoover and Dulles fed.

And one of the biggest fantasies that they promoted was that Lee Harvey Oswald was a "pro Castro Marxist" as sadly, he had publicly proclaimed in his service working undercover for the USA. The truth of Oswald as a low level CIA operative was absolutely forbidden to be printed or delved into by the elite media of 1963-1964. Oswald was not a Marxist or a communist. Oswald was a fake defector to the Russia and an operative of U.S. intelligence.

After the elite national MSM utterly blew the JFK assassination, academics in scores of universities and colleges picked up the Big Lie and have been spreading it for the last 59 years since the murder of JFK (I am writing this on 3/31/2022. The burning pile of hot garbage that the media went with regarding the JFK assassination became the "first draft of history" and now we have professors reading the Warren Report in their bathtubs, having Eureka moments and saying the U.S. Government and the national media were right with their ludicrous story that a lone nut killed JFK.

Here is the timeline: LBJ and his Texas elite cronies murder JFK using elements of military intelligence (Lansdale), elements of CIA and elements of CIA affiliated anti-Castro Cubans from Operation Mongoose and the Miami JM-Wave station.

LBJ, Hoover, Dulles tell everyone publicly that a lone nut Oswald killed JFK (while privately Lyndon Johnson is repeatedly telling many people in hushed tones that Fidel Castro killed JFK - this was as deflection).

The elite national MSM (mainstream, corporate media) allowed themselves to be coopted into this gargantuan lie.

Then for decades afterwards academia, who live in a very political environment and are completely dependent on the political elites for their jobs, money, and status, then rubberstamp this ludicrous fantasy over and over again. Ask any professor trying to get tenure if the process and academia in general are political. They will tell you it is the most political thing they have ever been involved with. Try telling the ugly truths about the Clintons, the Bushes, Lyndon Johnson down in Arkansas and Texas and see if you get tenure at a public or private institution of higher learning. Many of these professors are just hacks for the elites or are formerly controlled journalists or are people who have come from government and are willing to cover up God's knows what crime they were party to while in government.

In 2019 former football coach Urban Meyer was teaching a class on "character and leadership" at Ohio State University! Down in Austin at the University of Texas there is the "LBJ School of Public Affairs" which is the moral equivalent of naming a School for Sorority House Mothers after Ted Bundy. Hilariously, in Little Rock, AR there is the "Clinton School of Public Service." And let's not forget the scam operation known as Trump University.

Here we are today with Professor Michel Gagne's book which I give a One star and tell you if you are looking for broad truth and accuracy on the JFK assassination, this is not it.

Here is the email I sent Professor Gagne and it will give you an idea of the issues I have with his take on the JFK assassination.

3/31/2022

Professor Gagne,

     It's your lucky day! Here is my entire file on the JFK assassination: attached. I have studied the JFK assassination quite intensely from spring, 2008 to now which is March 31, 2022. LBJ Did It. Oswald was a completely innocent pre-selected CIA patsy who never shot anyone in his life, except himself in the Marines. I take it you have not read much about Lyndon Johnson?

    I have your new book on the JFK assassination and while I might agree with many minor points that you make, I obviously disagree with your headline opinion on the JFK assassination.

    I am personal friends with Barr McClellan. Two of Lyndon Johnson's longtime personal friends/cronies Ed Clark and Don Thomas told Barr that Ed Clark and by extension LBJ was involved in the JFK assassination. Ed Clark is not in your book and neither is LBJ ultra insider D.H. Byrd who literally owned the TSBD and made a mint off the Vietnam War. D.H. Byrd (surely you must know?) had the so-called sniper's window removed from the TSBD so he could keep it as a trophy.

    You really need to know the significance of James Wagenvoord and Burkett van Kirk - neither men are in your book. Ever read what Pamela Turnure told Eddie Fisher? You need to. The phantom 11-22-63 Murchison Party never happened, but LBJ's revelations to Madeleine Brown at the Driskill Hotel have been confirmed. Search for Driskill Hotel in my file.

    Do you know what Marina Oswald told Jesse Ventura in 2010? You need to.

    Do you know what time Helen Markham said she saw Officer Tippit being murdered? You need to.

    Have you read Judyth Vary Baker's essay on Oswald's reading habits in summer, 1963? You need to. Oswald was reading commie hater Alexander Solzenhitsyn, four James Bond books, the Christian classic Ben Hur and JFK's profiles in courage.

    Herbert Philbrick is not in your book. Why not? He is critical to understanding Oswald, a man who was PRETENDING TO BE A "PRO CASTRO MARXIST."

    In regards to Lyndon Johnson, do you know anything about the murders of Sam Smithwick (1952), Henry Marshall (1961) and the USS Liberty murders (June 8, 1967)? You need to.   

    My JFK file has many extremely useful golden nuggets of information that you will find in there. You might want to use the CTRL-F "search function" and look for the phrases:

Ed Clark

D.H. Byrd

Victor Krulak

Driskill Hotel

Doyle Whitehead

Meg Azzoni

Burkett van Kirk

James Wagenvoord

Don Reynolds

Herbert Philbrick

Henry Marshall

Sam Smithwick

J. Walton Moore

USS Liberty

Courtenay Lynda Valenti

Edward Lansdale

Operation Northwoods

Frank Sturgis

David Atlee Phillips

Bernardo De Torres

Eddie Fisher

Pamela Turnure

Madeleine Brown

Allan Witwer

Whole Bay of Pigs Thing

Gail Raven

Jesse Ventura

"We don't know what kind of a communist conspiracy this might be"

"Walker contacted the HSCA"

Helen Markham

"Oswald's reading habits"

ADDITIONAL EMAIL TO PROFESSOR MICHEL JACQUES GAGNE FROM ROBERT MORROW (sent on 3-31-2022):

Professor Gagne,

 

    I have attached my entire file on the JFK assassination, a topic which I have studied intensely from spring 2008 until the present. I am not merely a "subject matter expert" on the JFK assassination, I am the World's Foremost Authority on the JFK Assassination. I have also reviewed your Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination at my blog: http://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2022/03/review-of-michel-jacques-gagnes.html 

 

    You are free to peruse or not peruse my attached file and you are free to share it with anyone who you wish. The best way to use this file is to SKIM it and use the CTRL-F search function. There are many golden nuggets in this file and I included the citations where they came from.

 

    I agree with many minor points in your book, but I take exception to your lone nutter thesis and even including Oswald as a perp in the crime.

 

    I don't think you have read deeply enough on Lyndon Johnson. This textbook psychopath, who reminds me a lot of Donald Trump psychologically, was murdering people long before he got to JFK: Sam Smithwick (1952) and Henry Marshall (1961). Later LBJ orchestrated the USS Liberty murders with Israel on June 8, 1967 - a crime which he intended to blame on Egypt so he would have a pretext to bomb, attack and remove Nasser of Egypt. Read Joan Mellen's book Blood in the Water for that topic.

 

    I don't think you are aware of the full-on war that was going on between the Kennedys and LBJ in the fall of 1963. I notice the names James Wagenvoord and Burkett van Kirk (in the Dark Side of Camelot) are not in your book. Do you know the significance of these men? How about Phil Brennan of NewsMax, do you know what he had to say? They all knew the Kennedys were in the processing of slitting LBJ's throat in the fall of 1963. 

 

    Both George Reedy and Horace Busby (both extremely close LBJ aides) say LBJ was completely aware of and utterly obsessed with what the Kennedys were doing to him. I wonder how LBJ would have reacted? Just sit there, do nothing and twiddle his thumbs and hope for the best? 

 

    Gen. Edward Lansdale? 99.9% sure he was involved in the JFK assassination. Gen. Victor Krulak - not just Prouty - also identified Lansdale in the photo that was taken about 2:30PM on 11-22-63 five feet west of the TSBD. After being dumped into the trash can by the Kennedys on 10-31-63, Lyndon Johnson immediately resurrected Lansdale's career. I wonder why he would do that? Lansdale's top congressional sponsor was a Kennedy-hating right wing Democrat named Sen. Thomas Dodd (D-CN) who was a close personal friend of LBJ.

    

    Side note: I know a JFK researcher who has 3 more close friends of Lansdale who have identified him in that photo: including a former wife of Lansdale (Lansdale's widow I believe - the mistress who he married late in life).

 

    Speaking of the TSBD, it was owned by D.H. Byrd, a Texas oil man and military contractor who, in addition to being the University of Texas' largest athletic donor, was extremely close to Lyndon Johnson. Byrd owned LTV and he made a gargantuan amount of money off the Vietnam War and his building was indeed used to house snipers (not Oswald) who shot JFK. Byrd also took out the so-called sniper's window at the TSBD and kept it as a memento just like he kept dead animals in his house from all his hunting expeditions: JFK was his largest big game catch! Byrd also was buying significant amounts of shares of LTV stock in the weeks before the JFK assassination. Peter Dale Scott proved that useful nugget back in 1970. Byrd, who also went by Col. D.H. Byrd, founded the Civil Air Patrol and of course had many deep and high level military connections, as did LBJ.

 

    Why is D.H. Byrd not even mentioned in your book?

 

    I am personal friends with Barr McClellan. Would like to speak with him? LBJ's 35 year blood brother and "secret political boss of Texas" (as described by Reader's Digest) Ed Clark admitted to Barr that he helped to murder JFK. Barr was good friends with Don Thomas, a tax attorney for LBJ who was one of LBJ's closest friends ever and I include Lady Bird in that inner circle. Don Thomas also told Barr that Ed Clark/LBJ killed JFK.

 

    Barr McClellan is not addressed in your book either. There are gross inaccuracies in his book because he was not conversant in JFK research. Barr's significance was that he knew very well two of LBJ's closest and longest serving partners in crime: Ed Clark and Don Thomas. Both men indicted LBJ for JFK's murder.

 

    Lyndon Johnson, D.H. Byrd, Gen. Edward Lansdale, Ed Clark - there sure is a lot of radiation around all of those men.

 

    Gen. Charles Cabell, fired by JFK, also knew Lansdale and LBJ and he thought very lowly of the Kennedys. And his CIA asset brother Mayor Earle Cabell, later became an LBJ flunky as a congressman. Cabell's son told me in an interview that his father was always very "close mouthed" on the topic of the JFK assassination. I wonder why?

 

     Kennedy-hating J. Edgar Hoover? Did you know he was LBJ's neighbor in Washington, D.C. from 1943-1961? And that he knew the Kennedys were going to force him to retire at the mandatory retirement age of 70 on January 1, 1965? Maybe that is why Hoover weirdly was immediately pushing that a lone nut killed JFK.

 

      E. Howard Hunt? Yet another protege of Allen Dulles and he said he was a "back bencher" in the JFK assassination and that LBJ was involved in it. Are you aware that E. Howard Hunt was spying for LBJ on the 1964 Goldwater campaign? Why would Hunt try to sabotage a fellow right winger? Maybe because Hunt was involved in the JFK assassination and he had to have LBJ in the White House to ensure the cover up?

 

    Those are the JFK perps I am most sure of with LBJ, Byrd, Lansdale and Ed Clark being in the 99% to 100% sure they were involved range. Hoover was an immediate accessory to murder after the fact at a bare minimum. At a bare minimum CIA proteges of Allen Dulles were involved in JFK's death.

 

    What do all these men have in common? The Kennedys had either fired them or were going to fire them!!

LBJ - in process of being destroyed, not merely fired. Allen Dulles and Gen. Lansdale - fired. Hoover - about to be fired. D.H. Byrd and Ed Clark were about to lose their cash cow LBJ, so their income flows were about to be "fired" as well. Notably, Ed Clark was also very unhappy when LBJ decided not to run in 1968 - his income depended on LBJ. Barr McClellan told me that.

 

    Oswald? - how can you mention him and not mention Herb Philbrick and the significance of Oswald's adulation of an FBI informer who PRETENDED TO BE A COMMUNIST? Oswald was an avid fan of both the radio and TV show of I Led Three Lives. 

 

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          The center of Lee’s fantasy world shifted from radio to television when Mother bought a television set in 1948. When it was new, all of us spent far too much time watching variety shows, dramas and old movies. Lee, particularly, was fascinated. One of his favorite programs was I Led Three Lives, the story of Herbert Philbrick, the FBI informant who posed as a Communist spy. In the early 1950’s, Lee watched that show every week without fail. When I left home to join the Marines, he was still watching the reruns.

UNQUOTE

[Robert Oswald, Lee: Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald by His Brother, p. 47]

(I Led Three Lives starring with Richard Carlson, ran on TV from 1953 to 1956. Before that there was a radio show.) 

    Are you aware of the books Oswald was reading in summer 1963 in New Orleans: commie hater Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 4 James Bond books, JFK's Profiles in Courage and the Christian classic Ben Hur? https://web.archive.org/web/20100928160857/http:/www.lee-harvey-oswald.com/images/Lee_Harvey_Oswald_and_His_Reading_Habits_in_New_Orleans.pdf 

   

     Are you aware that Oswald - unlike LBJ, Hoover, Dulles, Lansdale, Byrd, Clark, Hunt - was a huge fan of John Kennedy and his family? There are many sources for that, particularly Marina. In fact Oswald told Michael Paine that JFK was the best president in his lifetime: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8118362-181/michael-paine-debated-politics-with

 

    Do you know what Marina told Jesse Ventura in 2010 for his TV show? "Is the truth more important than your children?" Which was Marina's way of saying I was forced to tell many, many lies about her deceased husband Lee in 1963 and 1964.

 

      The key to understanding the JFK assassination is not David Ferrie and Clay Shaw. That is laughable. The key is understanding the sub rosa WAR that was going on in the fall of 1963 between the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson.

 

    The people who murdered JFK did it for personal reasons with a little bit of ideology added on top like whip cream and a cherry on a milkshake. The JFK assassination was the enactment of Operation Northwoods, which was probably written by Lansdale for the JCS. JFK turned it down in spring, 1962 but his enemies enacted it in November, 1963 with JFK as the victim and hopefully Castro would be the scapegoat.

 

     After the murder of Oswald on November 24, the U.S. public smelled a rat and there was no public appetite for a Cuban invasion. All LBJ wanted to do was escape the JFK assassination so he came out hard for civil rights as a way of co-opting the left wing of the Democratic party which deeply suspected him in the JFK assassination.

 Sincerely,

Robert Morrow          512-306-1510     Austin, TX

Presidential Historian and Distinguished Fellow at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Institute for the Study of Presidential Crime

The World’s Foremost Authority on the JFK Assassination

The Top Historian in the World on Lyndon Johnson (sorry Robert Caro, it is not you …)

The Greatest Presidential Historian in American History

One of the World’s leading public intellectuals due to my sparkling expertise in the JFK assassination

America’s Premier Living Historian

One of the top two of the Greatest JFK Assassination Researchers of all time, superceded only by Joachim Joesten who nailed the JFK assassination in real time.

Knows far more about the JFK assassination than Oliver Stone who can’t figure out that LBJ murdered JFK because “Vietnam” is Stone’s hammer and he thinks everything is a nail.

Nation’s #1 Opposition Researcher on the Clintons & the author of The Clintons’ War on Women (published 2015)

Knows more about the JFK assassination than all the professors of history and politics who have ever taught at Princeton University combined.

Up and Coming Scholar on the USS Liberty Murders which were orchestrated by Lyndon Johnson and the leaders of Israel and were to be blamed on Egypt to give the USA a pretext to enter the Six Day War

Smarter by a country-mile, generously better informed and significantly less egotistical than the New Yorker’s (lone nutter) Lawrence Wright.

Knows more about the JFK assassination than all the professors at Princeton, Harvard , Yale, Stanford, the University of Texas at Austin and SMU and anyone who has ever written for the New York Times or Washington Post combined.

Can out-debate 40 Ivy League professors of history and politics on the topic of the JFK assassination at one time.

Runs the best blog on the internet on the many crimes of Lyndon Johnson and the topic of the JFK assassination at “Robert Morrow Political Research” blog

 A lot smarter than anyone who has ever written for Texas Monthly, the Texas Tribune, the Dallas Morning News, The New Yorker, The Daily Beast or the Washington Post; or who has ever reported for WFAA Dallas or KLBJ radio Austin

Far more accurate and knowledgeable than the Sixth Floor Museum on the topic of the JFK assassination. Executive director hilarious Nicola Langford and curator Steve Fagin do not know a tenth of a thimble compared to what I know.

Knows more about the JFK assassination than all the 8,000 scholars and scientists combined who have been fellows at the Princeton, NJ Institute for Advanced Study in its 90-year history

Knows far more about the JFK assassination than Ken Jennings (lone nutter), who won 74 consecutive Jeopardy contests and is the highest earning American game show contestant of all time.

Knows more about the JFK assassination than all the people who have ever been members and subject matter experts at the Council on Foreign Relations combined except for those members who were involved in the murder of JFK from their roles in U.S. intelligence

Knows more about the JFK assassination that all the people who have received MacArthur Fellow “genius grants” combined since the program began in 1981.

Knows more about the JFK assassination than all the people who have ever received a Whiting Writers’ Award or a Guggenheim Fellowship combined.

Knows more about the JFK assassination than any single person alive since 1963 who has a tested IQ score of 175 and above.

Knows more about the JFK assassination than the entire lot of the living 4,500 Rhodes Scholars who are in over 100 countries around the world.

Knows more about the JFK assassination than all 250 members of the Texas Philosophical Society combined.

Knows more about the JFK assassination than the collective knowledge of all pathologists, medical examiners and ballistic experts who have ever practiced in the history of the USA.

Knows more about the JFK assassination than the combined knowledge of the current and past members of the American Historical Association, the Society of American Historians or Organization of American Historians.

Knows more about the JFK assassination than the combined knowledge of everyone who has won a Pulitzer Prize.

Will Ruha on the close ties of CBS & William Paley to the CIA, Allen Dulles and Lyndon Johnson

 

JFK assassination researcher Will Ruha Facebook post 6-7-2021 on CBS ties to CIA, Allen Dulles and Lyndon Johnson

Bill Paley of CBS was close personal friends with both Allen Dulles and Lyndon Johnson. CBS played a huge role in telling America that a “lone nut” killed JFK.

Will Ruha:

CBS chairman Bill Paley issued the 1953 Paley Commission Report on strategic mineral requirements for continued U.S. industrialization to the year 2,000, which, given to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA Director Allen Dulles, (who managed his financial portfolio at Wall Street’s #1 transnational corporate law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell), served as the blueprint for covert CIA operations for the next half century.

Paley’s television network was one of the leading participants in the CIA’s media-control “Operation Mockingbird” of feeding socially-engineering disinformation to Americans on all socio-political / economic newsworthy events in the world, foreign and domestic. Paley made CBS a major collaborator in CIA disinformation throughout the 1950s and 60s. Sig Mickelson, president of CBS News in the 1950's, confirmed, in 1977, that his organization had fully cooperated with the CIA since 1954, sharing information and employing CIA agents under the guise of news reporters, under instructions from William S. Paley, CBS chairman. Paley sycophant Walter Cronkite went on air to publicly refute Mickelson’s account, knowing that he was engaging in a bald-faced lie.

In the 1960s, Paley appointed as CBS News president, Wall Street attorney Richard Salant, who, along with CBS president Frank Stanton, were board members of Rand Corporation, a CIA-associated think tank founded in 1948 by future JFK arch-rival, General Curtis LeMay, whose chief strategist was Herman Kahn who first posited the idea of a "winnable" nuclear exchange, as well as members like Samuel Cohen: inventor of the neutron bomb in 1958, and Rockefeller servitor, Henry Kissinger.

As Daniel Schorr revealed in September of 1977, he was removed from CBS after quietly investigating Paley’s long-term ties with the CIA. Paley continued such close relations, not infrequently having lunch with CIA Director George Bush. Assigned to Sullivan & Cromwell Senior Counsel, Donald R. Osborn, Paley’s financial investments flourished. Osborn was thus rewarded by becoming a board director of CBS, a position from which he could intervene to influence its news content according to his client’s financial interests.

This is why Edward R. Murrow – the example who should be used in supporting media integrity – committed to truth in broadcasting, had such horrific internal battles with Paley and ultimately, being forced out, was rescued via JFK’s request that he serve as Director of the United States Information Bureau where he served with great distinction. As Arthur Schlesinger noted, “He revitalized the USIA, imbued it with his own bravery and honesty, and directed its efforts, especially to the developing nations.”

Murrow had seen the writing on the wall at CBS, recognizing when they brought Walter Cronkite in, how patently false CBS was willing to become, having promoted this petty, devious, ambitious and hence obsequious sycophant to power. Murrow had great difficulty working with the arrogant empowered young Cronkite. Fred Friendly recalls in his memoir Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control how the newscasters in 1960 ‘lacked personal rapport; on the air there was a heavy-handedness and lack of ease between the two correspondents.” This owed to Cronkite’s acute news bias in favor of Richard Nixon and thus perpetuation of the CIA’s hegemony over government that had undermined and supplanted the presidency under Dwight Eisenhower.

Cronkite was also soft on Lyndon Johnson owing to LBJ’s close friendship with CBS president, Frank Stanton and Johnson’s ownership (under his wife’s name) of a CBS affiliate in Austin. For too many years, Cronkite was disinclined to criticize Johnson’s Vietnam War policies because he, himself, was a Nixon Republican and jingoist who ardently supported military intervention in S.E. Asia. It took the Tet Offensive to set him straight. Murrow was The Man. Cronkite was a deceitful CIA suck-up whose hagiography is completely undeserved. He was one of the key Founding Fathers of "Fake News."

Along with CBS associate Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite was one of mass media's most effective agents of disinformation. He disliked JFK intensely, was the first to broadcast news of his shooting, and rendered a touching “choked up” news reporter's persona performance upon receiving news of the president’s death, and then knowingly and unhesitatingly lied about his assassination, participating in the Deep State's cover-up, and lied in his memoirs about all these matters. Knowing full well that a conspiracy existed in the JFK assassination, and armed with photographic proof, he willingly suppressed it and hosted a CBS special that reinforced the hideous canards of the government's Lone Nut assertion.

Dan Rather, a part-time CBS reporter in the Dallas/Fort Wort area, was selected by the CIA to view the Zapruder film and report to the American people on what it showed. As JFK's head snaps backward to the left at 110 mph, Rather offers the false narrative, "The president's head moves FORWARD with considerable violence." After that weekend, he was whisked away to Washington where he became CBS White House correspondent, and then. Cronkite's replacement.

1968: the Political insiders believed that Robert Kennedy was on track to beat LBJ for the Democratic nomination for President

      Here is a March, 1968 memo from White House aide Harry McPherson telling Lyndon Johnson that Robert Kennedy is on track to beat you for the Democratic presidential nomination.

       I agree. I am in the camp that after Robert Kennedy won the California Democratic primary, he would very probably have gotten the political endorsement of Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago and this would have brought along a critical mass of other big city mayors endorsing RFK for president. That combined with RFK's grassroots support would have given him the Democratic nomination and I think he would have beaten Nixon in the 1968 presidential election.

       Although I am 100% sure that Lyndon Johnson murdered JFK, I do not think that he or anyone else engaged in a conspiracy to murder RFK although LBJ was euphorically happy at the death of his mortal enemy Robert Kennedy.  I think that a Sirhan Sirhan alone murdered RFK and he did it because he was an enraged Palestinian who did like like Robert Kennedy's support for sending fighter jets to Israel. In Sirhan's mind, that was an epic act of betrayal to the Palestinian people.

Robert Kennedy was on the road to the 1968 Democratic nomination when he was assassination. 

LBJ aide Harry McPherson believed it.

Richard Nixon believed it.

Hubert Humphrey believed it.

Mayor Richard Daley was a 70% chance to endorse RFK according to Daley’s son Bill Daley: that would have brought along other big city mayors into Kennedy’s camp.

RFK aide Paul Schrade was there when the Daley endorsement call to RFK came in (see March 2022 interview below with Robert Morrow)

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/09/02/sirhan-sirhan-robert-kennedy-assassination-508476

[“How Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassination Derailed American Politics,” Larry Tye, Politico, 9-2-2021]

Sirhan Sirhan’s shooting rampage in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen half a century ago did far more than end the life of Robert Francis Kennedy. It extinguished a romantic vision for America and beyond that made Bobby the rare optimist in an age of political cynicism, and would later inspire Barack Obama’s spirited run for the White House. “Each time a man stands up for an ideal,” RFK reminded us, “he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

No wonder his audiences swooned. And no surprise that most of Bobby’s children are outraged by California’s recent recommendation to parole his assassin.

Sirhan Sirhan may seem like a character plucked from the confounding chaos of the 1960s, one with little relevance to our current moment. But revisiting the campaign he upended, it’s clear not just why his potential freedom is generating such furor, but also why his is a story of today.

To understand that resonance, the best starting point is June 4, 1968, when California was staging a bare-knuckled presidential primary that Bobby knew would decide whether he had a political future. With the polls staying open until 8, election results came in slowly and differently on each network. CBS had Kennedy ahead. NBC was less sure. But buoyed by unprecedented turnouts and majorities in Black and Mexican American districts, Bobby scored a clear-cut victory with 46.3 percent of the vote, compared to 41.8 for Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy and 12 percent for unpledged delegates. That was enough for Bobby to go on TV and quietly claim victory, and for journalists and friends gathered across the hall to start the party.

For the first time since he’d jumped in late to the race, Bobby believed he could do it. The dream — “make room for the next leader of the free world,” he’d tease as he sprinted from hotel showers wrapped in a towel — seemed less distant following the win in California and another that day in South Dakota. Battle plans were being charted that very night for the campaign ahead. There’d be a single-minded press in his adopted state of New York. A full-page ad in The New York Times would feature photos of AFL-CIO boss George Meany and segregationist Governor Lester Maddox of Georgia — both staunchly anti-Bobby — asking rhetorically whether insiders like them should be allowed to pick the next president. The candidate would head overseas next, showing his gravitas by meeting with the Pope and foreign leaders. Nobody, least of all Bobby, minimized the obstacles remaining. But he knew the threat was over from McCarthy, whose defining and sole issue was opposing the Vietnam War. The only one who could deny him the nomination was Vice President Hubert Humphrey, or, as the comedian and mock presidential candidate Pat Paulsen had dubbed him earlier that evening, Herbert Humphrey. “I’m going to chase Herbert’s ass all over the country,” Bobby vowed.

Before he went anywhere, Bobby took a quiet moment. Sitting on the floor of his hotel room, arms around his knees, he lit a victory cigar and contemplated. At the start he hadn’t been sure whether he was running as Joe Kennedy’s son, Jack’s brother, or President Lyndon Johnson’s avowed enemy. He still was all of those, but had found a voice and two uncomplicated motivations of his own: to end the war and end poverty. Both were doable, he told himself, as aides pressed him to head down to the ballroom. Legions of restless believers were there singing “This Land Is Your Land,” the Woody Guthrie ballad that Bobby had promised to make America’s anthem.

His valedictory speech began with a nod to Don Drysdale, the Los Angeles Dodgers ace “who pitched his sixth straight shutout tonight, and I hope that we have as good fortune in our campaign.” (Bobby was one of the few men in America who actually didn’t know who the future Hall of Famer was.) Then he got serious: “I think we can end the divisions within the United States . . . whether it’s between Blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups, or over the war in Vietnam.” The crowd loved it, shouting “Bobby Power!” He ended on another light note, saying that “Mayor Yorty has just sent me a message that we’ve been here too long already. So my thanks to all of you, and on to Chicago, and let’s win there.” Giving a thumbs-up, then flashing the V-for-victory sign, he turned to leave for a reception on a lower level followed by a press conference.

But plans had changed. Aides decided to skip the reception and go directly to the press conference, where reporters were eager to file their stories. The shortest route was the way he’d come in, through the waiters’ swinging doors and into the kitchen and pantry. In the pushing of the crowd, Bobby got separated from ex-FBI agent Bill Barry, his devoted and solitary bodyguard, who was helping Kennedy’s pregnant wife Ethel off the podium. Nobody worried, since the candidate was among friends, with a busboy reaching for his hand as a cluster of reporters, photographers, and aides trailed behind. Past the rusty ice machine, 30 feet from the media room, a curly-haired young man wearing a pale blue sweatshirt was standing unnoticed on a low tray stacker, waiting for his opening. It was shortly after midnight and Andrew West, a reporter for the Mutual Radio Network, was asking Bobby his plans for catching up to Humphrey’s delegate lead. Bobby: “It just goes back to the struggle for it . . .”

That was as far as he got. The shooter stepped from his hiding place, reached straight ahead with his right arm, and started firing a .22-caliber revolver. A single shot was followed by a volley – pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. Just how many shots were fired, at what range and angle, would become grist for another assassination conspiracy mill. Bobby lurched against the ice machine, then sagged to the ground, lying face-up on the grimy concrete floor. He was conscious, eyes wide open, as blood oozed behind his right ear. “Is everybody okay?” he whispered. The busboy, Juan Romero, placed rosary beads in Bobby’s hand and tried to cushion his head as Ethel pleaded with the pressing crowd to “give him room to breathe.” Then she turned to her husband and said softly, “I’m with you, my baby.” The scene was bedlam. “Get the gun,” pleaded West, the radio man. “You monster! You’ll die for this!” a kitchen worker yelled from his perch atop the steam table. The only one who seemed serene was Bobby himself — “a kind of sweet accepting smile on his face,” recalled the journalist and Kennedy friend Pete Hamill, “as if he knew it would all end this way.”

Medics finally arrived, and as the ambulance drove away, campaign volunteers sobbed and prayed as a large man pounded a hotel pillar with his bloody right fist, shouting the questions being echoed across America: “Why, God, why? Why again? Why another Kennedy?”

The next 25 hours were a hellish whirlwind. Police, who showed up at the hotel about fifteen minutes after the shooting, quickly assembled evidence that the gunman was a 24-year-old Palestinian with the improbable name Sirhan Sirhan who hated Israel and hated the Kennedys for supporting Israel. His shooting spree wounded five others along with Bobby, whose wounds were recognized from the first to be life-threatening. Friends rounded up the children. 12-year-old son David, who’d always been scared to death that his father would be shot like Uncle Jack, learned by watching the election-night proceedings on TV that his nightmare had come true. Kerry, who was just 8, woke early the following morning to watch Bugs Bunny; “a news flash interrupted the cartoon,” she recalled. “That’s how I learned my father had been shot.”

At two o’clock the following morning campaign press secretary Frank Mankiewicz appeared in the media room across from the hospital with the announcement everyone dreaded. “Senator Robert Francis Kennedy died at 1:44 a.m. today, June 6, 1968 … He was 42 years old.” Back at the Ambassador Hotel, a red rose marked the spot on the blood-stained pantry floor where the senator was felled. On the wall above was a hand-lettered cardboard sign that might have been up for weeks but seemed especially appropriate now: “The Once and Future King.”

53 years later, the question still haunts: While Bobby never was the king, could he have been? Research I did for my biography of this iconic Kennedy convinces me the answer is a resounding yes.

That evidence begins with what Bobby really meant that night when he uttered “on to Chicago.” Journalists and most everyone else assumed he was referring to that summer’s Democratic Convention in the Windy City, but this last progressive icon was a master political maestro, and he wasn’t about to wait until August. What he actually was signaling is that he intended to stop in Chicago on his way from Los Angeles back East, and to meet quietly with Mayor Richard J. Daley, who’d help Jack Kennedy win the White House eight years before. “I would say there was a 70 percent chance he was going to endorse him,” says Bill Daley, son of the legendary mayor and chief of staff to President Obama, who was privy to and told me about the planned rendezvous. “Then the momentum would have shifted to where other people like my dad who were still left would have been hard pressed not to go there.”

Bobby knew that Humphrey was counting not on primary voters but on kingmakers like Daley to anoint him the nominee. I think RFK was right about the way to upend the vice president’s plans and nail down the nomination for himself. Daley would woo other Democratic leaders into the Kennedy camp, justifying the move by pointing to Bobby’s wide margin over Humphrey among actual voters. The party would then unite behind a Kennedy-Humphrey ticket much as it had four years before behind former adversaries JFK and LBJ. And the Chicago convention would have had none of the angry left-wing riots that ended up dooming Humphrey’s campaign and leading to a bitter third-party bid by George Wallace, who captured 13.5 percent of the vote in an election where Nixon edged Humphrey by just 0.7 percent.

That’s not history’s conventional version of what would have come next, but it is the read of crucial insiders from back then. “Had Bobby lived,” said Humphrey, “I think there’d have been a Democrat in the White House.” And on that night of the California primary, Nixon told his family, “It sure looks like we’ll be going against Bobby.” Nixon knew that it was Bobby even more than Jack, who’d orchestrated the Kennedy win over him in 1960, and that nobody was better situated than Bobby to answer Nixon and Wallace on fighting crime and restitching the social safety net into a trampoline.

Michael Harrington was contemplating that and more as he looked out the window of the 21-car train that carried Robert F. Kennedy’s corpse from his funeral in New York to his burial in Washington that sticky Saturday afternoon in June 1968. Girl Scouts lined the Penn Central tracks next to Little Leaguers. Factory workers stood alongside rag pickers and nuns, stretching on tiptoes to see. Husbands embraced sobbing wives. They arrived in yellow pick-up trucks and flotillas of boats, wearing Bermuda shorts and hair curlers, tossing roses. Outside Newark, three firemen saluted from the deck of their vessel, The John F. Kennedy. There were brass bands, police bands, school bands, and Catholic bands. Hands were cupped in prayer or held over hearts, hats off.

It was Bobby’s America, and Harrington couldn’t keep from staring. “Every time I did, I began to cry. The sorrowing faces along the way were a mirror of my own feelings,” said the author whose writings helped launch the War on Poverty and who saw Bobby as “the man who actually could have changed the course of American history.” As for those with him inside the rail cars — politicians of the old school and new, intellectuals and trade unionists, Black, Irish, Chicano, and Jewish citizens — they were, said Harrington, “the administration of Robert Kennedy that was never going to be.”

POSTSCRIPT REPLY FROM JOSEPH PALERMO in an email dated 3/10/2022 to Robert Morrow:

Joseph Palermo:

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Yes, in my 2001 book about RFK I found that Daley was going to support him for the nomination as early as February 8, 1968 (when RFK visited Chicago and appeared with Daley at an event where he voiced his interpretation of the Tet Offensive) - there are many reasons why Daley was going to support RFK (I'd say there was a 100 percent chance Daley would endorse RFK)- Joseph

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Robert F. Kennedy And the Death of American Idealism by Joseph Palermo:

Amazon web link for Palermo's book: https://www.amazon.com/Kennedy-American-Idealism-Library-Biography/dp/0321386108/ref=sr_1_3?crid=584Q7YFDBT7F&keywords=JOSEPH+PALERMO+BOOK+ON+ROBERT+kENNEDY&qid=1646953524&sprefix=joseph+palermo+book+on+robert+kennedy%2Caps%2C108&sr=8-3-spell 

Paul Schrade, age 97 in 2022, email on 3/10/22 to Robert Morrow:

 

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ROBERT…Daley was 100% for RFK…I was with Bob when the call came in that night…in solidarity… PAUL

 

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Robert Morrow interview with Paul Shrade, 3/10/22 at 5:30PM CST: Paul Shrade told me he was at the Ambassador Hotel and WITH Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles on the night of RFK’s win in the California primary when the call came in from Mayor Richard Daley saying he was going to support Robert Kennedy for the Democratic nomination.

 

97-year-old Paul Schrade’s 3-12-2022 email to Robert Morrow on how he knew that Mayor Richard Daley was going to support Robert Kennedy for President.

 

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I remember tracking Mayor Daley prior to RFK entering the race as he reported to LBJ on Bob’s scouting for support. The night of Bob’s victory Ken O’Donnell called Bob and reported Daley was in. Later Bob said Daley had called and would support him at the Chicago Convention.

 

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Paul Schrade bio: https://www.huffpost.com/author/paul-schrade

 

Paul Schrade

Friend to Robert F. Kennedy

Paul Schrade may be better known in American history because he was severely wounded when his friend Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 in Los Angeles. Why he was with Kennedy that night is much more important to him than what happened to him there.

He was there because in the sixties their agendas merged in civil rights, the farm workers struggle, building community unions in the inner cities and the effort to end the war against the people of Viet Nam. They were both activists. Robert Kennedy was his hope for a better and more peaceful world. He served as Labor Chair and was elected as a convention delegate in Kennedy’s California campaign,

A college dropout in 1948, Schrade found the excitement of re-organizing the new post-war factory workforce at North American Aviation in Los Angeles most fulfilling. He was president of United Auto Workers Local 887 during the strike of 16,000 workers in 1953. Major gains in wages and benefits were won for the first time for all aerospace workers paid far less than autoworkers in the same union. He then served four years as United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther’s administrative assistant in Detroit.

As the UAW’s elected Western states director in the 1960’s traditional organizing and bargaining were high priorities as the union grew to 90,000 members in California but social movements were supported too.

In 1965 he joined with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the farm workers struggle. He helped arrange for Robert Kennedy’s two visits to Delano to support the farm workers, who became his winning margin in his 1968 campaign for the presidency

He initiated the formation of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) and the East Los Angeles Community Union (TELACU in 1965. Robert Kennedy, when Senator visited Watts and used the WLCAC as a model for the Bedford Restoration Project.

He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King in Selma and Los Angeles and with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. He joined the anti-war movement and the UAW provided draft counseling for union members and their sons.

In 1975, as one of the shooting victims, he filed lawsuits with a team of lawyers and Kennedy supporters to re-open the investigation of the fatal shooting of Robert Kennedy in the Ambassador Hotel. They confirmed that a second gunman was involved. Their work continues with new forensic evidence discovered in FBI files in 2005.

In 1987 LAUSD President Jackie Goldberg proposed building a school on the abandoned Ambassador Hotel site owned by Donald Trump. She agreed that the school curriculum would be one that would carry on the peace and social legacy of Robert Kennedy.

He coordinated the RFK-12 Community Task Force based at CARECEN with parents, students and community organizations. MALDEF became the primary organizer of legal and political strategy and support. Big supporters were the Dolores Huerta Foundation, the Chavez Foundation and the AFL-CIO.

In 2011 the RFK Community Schools were opened to 4000 children from the neighborhood now able to walk to their own schools freed from forced bussing and overcrowded schools. This new school campus has five high schools, three middle schools and three elementary schools with six different curricula and a peace and social justice component. Several members of the Robert Kennedy family attended the opening. For his work his name is on the RFK school library.

He is a charter member of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and the WLCAC and received the Chavez Legacy Award on behalf of the United Auto Workers union’s support of the farm workers struggle starting in 1965.

Paul is married to Monica Weil formerly an attorney and mediator. For many years Monica also worked in opera production and recently as president of the LA Opera League. She also partners with him on peace and social justice actions and on the strategy to solve the Robert Kennedy case.

His love of good food has sent him to cooking school with Guliano Bugialli, and home-test breads for Nancy Silverton’s BREADS of LA BREA BAKERY. He supports growers at local farmers markets and cultivates his own vegetable and herb garden at their home. This was the work of his ancestors who were farmers and bakers not into progressive political and social action.

“Remembering Robert Kennedy” by Paul Schrade, 11-20-2013:”

 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-f-kennedy-birthday_b_4306016