JFK: A Vision to the Slaughter

By andrew gordon frew

November 22nd has become a special day in the annals of history for being the day in full view of the eyes of the world the leader of the free world President John F Kennedy was assassinated executed mercilessly by an unknown assassin. In the opinion of the authorities that established the Warren Commission the man responsible for this tragic act was Lee Harvey Oswald. Who himself was murdered at the hands of an assassin Jack Ruby, a notorious local night club owner. This small volume looks at some common-sense facts, facts captured at the scene on that eventful day. The truth and this is what every reader fascinated by this case, wants to know. Every new generation that investigates this case becomes far removed from the events surrounding that era, and is necessarily handicapped by the passing of time, thus the puzzle becomes a riddle, an enigma within an enigma, and so the assassination can never be unravelled. But there are some facts held in motion, photographic evidence, that tell their own story, for the readers too make up their own minds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: andrew gordon frew
• Release date: May 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386907091

andrew gordon frew

Andrew G Frew (b. 1961-) writer, publisher and author. Lives in London.

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100th Anniversary

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Andrew Gordon Frew

CONTENTS

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NOTE FROM AUTHOR

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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BACKGROUND

THE UNDELIVERED SPEECH

CHAPTER ONE -    THE ASSASSINATION

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CHAPTER TWO   -   THE RUSH TO HOSPITAL

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CHAPTER THREE – THE DIRECTION OF THE SHOTS

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CHAPTER FOUR -     ALL DIRECTIONS LEAD TO THE  

TRIPLE UNDERPASS 

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CHAPTER FIVE -    THE WITNESSES

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CHAPTER SIX -   A VISION TO THE SLAUGHTER

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CHAPTER SEVEN -  THE US GOVERNMENT POSITION

(The Warren Commission report and its conclusion)

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Jackie Kennedy the wife of JFK

The funeral of JFK

Reception at Dallas (1)(2)(3)

Zapruder film (1)(2)(3)(4)

Jacky Kennedy climbing over Presidential car

Jim Altgens photo

Mel McIntire photo

Texas School Book Depositary

The Rush to Hospital

Autopsy of JFK. (1)(2)

Bullet hole in car window (1)(2)(3)(4)

Grassy Knoll

Elm St

The Triple Underpass

J.W. Foster

J.C. White and Marshall Nash

Triple Underpass

Mel McIntire photo (1)(2)

Stemmons Freeway

John Dolan and James Tague

Fosters position on Elm St

The new JFK File

J. D. Tippit

G.M. Tippit

Masonic symbols (1)(2)(3)

Commerce St (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)

The Stockade fence on the ‘Grassy Knoll.’ (1)

Gerald Ford

Warren Commission

Lee Harvey Oswald

The gun of Oswald

Jack Ruby

John Fitzgerald Kennedy 

(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)

NOTE FROM AUTHOR

November 22nd has become a special day in the annals of history for being the day in full view of the eyes of the world the leader of the free world President John F Kennedy was assassinated executed mercilessly by an unknown assassin. In the opinion of the authorities that established the Warren Commission the man responsible for this tragic act was Lee Harvey Oswald. Who himself was murdered at the hands of an assassin Jack Ruby, a notorious local night club owner. This small volume looks at some common-sense facts, facts captured at the scene on that eventful day. The truth and this is what every reader fascinated by this case, wants to know. Every new generation that investigates this case becomes far removed from the events surrounding that era, and is necessarily handicapped by the passing of time, thus the puzzle becomes a riddle, an enigma within an enigma, and so the assassination can never be unravelled. But there are some facts held in motion, photographic evidence, that tell their own story, for the readers too make up their own minds.  

London 2017

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

When Congress passed the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act in 1992 agencies throughout the Federal Government transferred assassination-related records to the National Archives which established the JFK Assassination Records Collection. The Collection consists of approximately 5 million pages of records. Approximately 88% of the records in the Collection are open in full. An addition 11% are released in part with sensitive portions removed. Approximately 1% of documents identified as assassination-related remain withheld in full. All documents withheld either in part or in full were authorized for withholding by the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), an independent temporary agency that was in existence from 1994 to 1998.

According to the Act, all records previously withheld either in part or in full should be released on October 26, 2017, unless authorized for further withholding by the President of the United States.

The 2017 date derives directly from the law that states:

Each assassination record shall be publicly disclosed in full, and available in the Collection no later than the date that is 25 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, unless the President certifies, as required by this Act, that –

(i) continued postponement is made necessary by an identifiable harm to military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or conduct of foreign relations; and

(ii) the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.

The Act was signed by President Bush on October 26, 1992, thus the final release date is October 26, 2017.

The National Archives of United States

BACKGROUND

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American statesman who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and much of his presidency focused on managing relations with the Soviet Union.

He was a member of the American Democratic Party who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate prior to becoming president.

Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy. A scion of the Kennedy family, he graduated from Harvard University in 1940 before joining the United States Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II, Kennedy commanded a series of PT boats in the Pacific theater and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his service. After the war, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate and served as the junior Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 until 1960. While serving in the Senate, he published Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. In the 1960 presidential election, Kennedy narrowly defeated Republican opponent Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent Vice President.

Kennedy's time in office was marked by high tensions with Communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In April 1961, he authorized a failed joint-CIA attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He subsequently rejected plans by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to orchestrate false-flag attacks on American soil in order to gain public approval for a war against Cuba. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered that Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba; the resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in the breakout of a global thermonuclear conflict. Domestically, Kennedy presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps and supported the Civil Rights Movement, but he was largely unsuccessful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies. Kennedy continues to rank highly in historians' polls of U.S. presidents and with the general public. His average approval rating of 70% is the highest of any president in Gallup's history of systematically measuring job approval.

Jackie Kennedy the wife of JFK

On a sunny afternoon on November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime, but he was never prosecuted due to his murder by Jack Ruby two days later. Pursuant to the Presidential Succession Act, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president later that day. The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin, but various groups believed that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy. After Kennedy's death, many of his proposals were enacted, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Revenue Act of 1964.

The funeral of JFK

THE UNDELIVERED SPEECH

Dallas TX, Trade Mart (Undelivered)

President John F. Kennedy

November 22, 1963

I am honored to have this invitation to address the annual meeting of the Dallas Citizens Council, joined by the members of the Dallas Assembly—and pleased to have this opportunity to salute the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest.

It is fitting that these two symbols of Dallas progress are united in the sponsorship of this meeting. For they represent the best qualities, I am told, of leadership and learning in this city—and leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. The advancement of learning depends on community leadership for financial and political support and the products of that learning, in turn, are essential to the leadership's hopes for continued progress and prosperity. It is not a coincidence that those communities possessing the best in research and graduate facilities—from MIT to Cal Tech—tend to attract the new and growing industries. I congratulate those of you here in Dallas who have recognized these basic facts through the creation of the unique and forward-looking Graduate Research Center.

This link between leadership and learning is not only essential at the community level. It is even more indispensable in world affairs. Ignorance and misinformation can handicap the progress of a city or a company, but they can, if allowed to prevail in foreign policy, handicap this country's security. In a world of complex and continuing problems, in a world full of frustrations and irritations, America's leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem.

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility. Those voices are inevitable.

But today other voices are heard in the land—voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality, wholly unsuited to the sixties, doctrines which apparently assume that words will suffice without weapons, that vituperation is as good as victory and that peace is a sign of weakness. At a time when the national debt is steadily being reduced in terms of its