There are so many iconic images from that day in
Dallas. Jackie in her pink suit and
pillbox hat, JFK waving from the car, Oswald handcuffed, Americans mourning. These conspiracy theorists shouldn’t be
shrugged off as loonies with too much time.
Everything that’s spoon fed to you shouldn’t just be accepted,
especially when there’s obviously something fishy going on.
Lesser known than the Warren Commission’s report are the
findings of the 1976 House Select Committee on Assassinations
investigation. They concluded that
scientific acoustal evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen
fired at President John F. Kennedy. They
also reported that on the basis of evidence available that President Kennedy
was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy, but they lacked
evidence to identify other gunmen or the extent of the conspiracy.[1]
When Prescott Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush’s father, was
at Yale he was a member of the shadowy Skull and Bones secret society, and it is accepted that his son and grandson were members as well. In 1942 Prescott Bush saw the federal
government seize several of his business interests under the Trading with the
Enemy Act. Along with fellow Skull and
Bones members Averell and Roland
Harriman, Prescott was said to have helped finance Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich
and supply them with materials.
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| The Bush family |
During the early 1960s George H.W. Bush was married to his
wife Barbara, running his oil company, Zapata Off Shore Co., and
living in Houston. According to former
Pentagon official Col. Fletcher Prouty,
the two ships used in the Bay of Pigs operation were named the “Barbara”
and the “Houston.”[2] The code name for the invasion was Operation
Zapata.
Over the years the Bush family has also done business with
some interesting people like Salem bin-Laden, Osama’s older brother. He was an
investor in Arbusto Energy, another of Lil George W.’s oil ventures. Arbusto means bush in Spanish. Salem died in a Texas plane crash in 1988.
George de Mohrenschildt was a Russian oilman living in Texas
who had ties to the Bush’s. de
Mohrenschildt also acted as a father or mentor figure to Lee Harvey Oswald upon
his return from Russia with his Russian wife and their baby in tow. He helped Oswald find an apartment and
employment and took him to social gatherings.
He had a lot of powerful connections and is believed by some to have
been on the CIA’s payroll, possibly as Oswald’s handler.
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| George de Mohrenschildt |
de Mohrenschildt’s son-in-law told the Warren Commission is
anyone had helped with the assassination it was de Mohrenschildt . Letters believed to have came through the
CIA have been uncovered in which de Mohrenschildt seems to be begging Bush to
intervene, believing he was being followed and his phone was bugged. A new doctor arrived in town some time after
the assassination and George de Mohrenschildt began seeing him and starting
showing signs of becoming mentally unstable.
His wife begged him to stop going.
The doctor left town, leaving a fake forwarding address and before de
Mohrenschildt was scheduled to testify before the House Select Committee he was
found dead from a gunshot wound. When
his personal address book was located investigators found written inside "Bush,
George H. W. (Poppy) 1412 W. Ohio also Zapata Petroleum Midland."
George H.W. Bush has repeatedly denied working for the CIA
before he became its director in 1976.
When he has been asked about his whereabouts on the day of the
assassination Bush has claimed to be in another city or has been unable to
recall. Aside from his earlier possible
links during the Bay of Pigs invasion further evidence points to Bush, Sr.
working within the CIA as early as 1961.
In the late 1970s the government released 100,000 pages relating to the
assassination. Among them were found
numerous memos referring to George Bush.
The CIA has claimed they refer to another George Bush, but other
evidence shows that the Bush in question had the same address as
George H.W. Bush.
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| George H.W. Bush, Director of the CIA |
Although George H.W. Bush claims to not have been in Dallas
that day, an uncovered CIA memo and possible photo seem to refute that. A photo showing what have came to be called
the “three tramps” standing outside the Texas School Book Depository shortly
after the assassination. The three were
arrested, and later information released identified the men as drunken bums
with criminal records. Some don’t buy
that explanation, and believe the Bush family’s money may have literally bought
such
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| Conclusive? |
Found years later among declassified documents was a memo
sent by George H.W. Bush to the FBI on the day of the assassination concerning a man named James Parrot whom he
reported he had overhead recently talking about killing the president when he
came to Houston. FBI agents were
dispatched to the Parrot home, arriving to follow up on the lead less than an
hour after the actual assassination.
Parrot’s mother informed the agents her son was not home. In fact, he had came across a painting job at
the local Republican headquarters after Kerney Reynolds, who happened to have
been Bush’s personal assistant at one time, had stopped by that morning. Conspiracy theorists contend that Bush, Sr.
was attempting to establish an alibi after he had been seen in Dallas, which
eventually backfired when it was discovered the people named were in effect all
covering one another’s ass. The memo states that Bush called from Tyler, Texas,
however there are no records to prove this.[3]
Prescott Bush and the Harrimans founded CBS in the
1950s. A young reporter got a big break
in 1963 when Dan Rather reported he had watched the Zapruder film, which wasn’t
released to the public for 14 years (during which time the rights to it were
owned by TIME magazine and some say tampered with) and saw the president’s head
move violently forward. Once the film
was released, that obviously wasn’t the case, but enough Americans had already
digested the story to not raise much of a ruckus.
Coincidentally perhaps, TIME was owned by Henry Luce at the time, also a
Skull and Bones member. Luce’s wife,
Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce, was a supporter of the anti-Castro movement and
believed to have CIA ties with high ranking operatives believed by some to have
planned Kennedy’s assassination. There’s
so many players, it’s easy to get tangled up in the mess and give up.
A name that pops up often is believed to have been one of Clare Booth Luce's close acquaintances and CIA operative David Atlee Phillips. Phillips was a case officer for the anti-Cuba movement. SOme believe he was Oswald's CIA handler or a contact.
Phillips worked closely with E. Howard Hunt, anther name
that is often mentioned in connection with a conspiracy. Hunt, the leader of
the Watergate burglar team, is believed by many to have been involved in the
assassination as well. Hunt’s sons say that
following a long a shadowy career with the CIA their father had recorded
statements claiming himself and several others, including Phillips, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Cord Meyer, and Frank Sturgis were involved in a conspiracy to
assassinate Kennedy. Of course to
counter and cause confusion Hunt’s widow told the LA Times that the sons had taken advantage of their father’s mental condition and coached him for financial
gain.
The world will never know exactly what happened on that
November day in Dallas. It’s probable
that those involved had little if any knowledge of others involved, provided that Oswald didn’t
act alone. As many as 60% of Americans today
do not believe Oswald carried out the assassination by himself. The country has mythologized the Kennedy
assassination and will continue to pursue a truth they will never find. That won’t stop some people from asking
questions and searching for answers though.
Trust no one…
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the
lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive
and unrealistic."
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our
ignorance unfolds."
- John F.
Kennedy
For a great selection of video, other than the Zapruder
film, of the assassination, click here.
Further suggested reading: Stephen King - 11/22/63
