Lbj the Dallas Incident: Kennedy's Assasination

By Dr. John Chandler Griffin

The Kennedy Incident

November 22, 2013 will mark the 50th anniversary of the greatest crime ever committed in this great nation, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the president of the United States. Then, two days later the man accused of having committed that crime, Lee Harvey Oswald, was also murdered, shot down in the Dallas Police Headquarters by mob thug Jack Ruby.

The nation was aghast. How could such things happen in 20th century America?

Ah, but not to worry. President Lyndon Baines Johnson immediately announced the appointment of a blue-ribbon committee, chaired by none other than the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren, to discover just how such murders could have happened in Dallas, Texas in I963. Known as the Warren Commission, it was a committee whose judgment could not be questioned. But then a year later the WC issued its report (known as the Warren Commission Report) and almost immediately citizens from one end of the country to the other were yelling questions-chard questions that insulted both the WC's judgment and its objectivity. As though that were not bad enough, A few months later a New York attorney, Mark Lane, hired by Oswald's mother to vindicate her son, published his myth-shattering book, Rush To Judgment. The Warren Commission was blown out of the water.

But still no satisfactory answers were forthcoming. Lyndon Baines Johnson and his political sycophants were very happy to blame Oswald for the entire tragedy. Anyone but themselves.

Then in New Orleans rose a new challenge. District Attorney Jim Garrison began his investigation into the murders. But again the Federal Government reared its ugly head. State governors across the nation were advised to ignore subpoenas to testify in Garrison's trial. And in almost every instance those governors obeyed their orders. Other essential witnesses simply "committed suicide."

Garrison himself was pilloried and held up to ridicule by the
national news media. Still he persisted.

In the end, with no witnesses [0 testify, Garrison's trial ended in not guilty verdicts. Still. after 50 years he remains the only person ever to bring anyone to trial for the murders that occurred in Dallas some fifty years ago.

In this book, based on the evidence and testimony associated with the murders of Kennedy and Oswald, I have tried to present events as they actually occurred and show who was truly behind them. And I do so with no apologies to anyone.

I will say that my heart goes out to Marina Oswald and her two daughters June Lee and Rachel. May God be with them.

• Language: English
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Dr. John Chandler Griffin

Dr. John Chandler Griffin recently retired as an English Professor with the University of South Carolina. Upon his retirement the Trustees of the University granted him the honorary title Distinguished Professor Emeritus (for an outstanding academic performance). Two years later the Governor of S. C. named his to The Order of the Silver Cresceent, the state's highest award (for service to his state and its citizens). He has now published twenty works of non-fiction, plus one mystery novel. His 2004 biography of Thomas Wolfe won the History Book of the Year from the North Carolina Historical Society, and his 2005 biography of Jean Toomer won the Adele Mellen Award. He has now published three biographies of Abraham Lincoln, the only author ever to publish three biographies of Lincoln. He and his family make their home in Lancaster, S. C. His family consists of wife Betty, daughter Alexis Ballard, and granddaughters Kori, Emmalee Grace and Serrah Roxanne Ballard.

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Contents

1. Introduction

2. The Warren Commission Report: The Greates Hoax

3. A Brief Biography Of Lee Harvey Oswald

4. A Most Bizarre Warning

5. The Kennedys In Fort Worth And Dallas

6. Kennedy At Parkland Hospital

7. A Few Problems With Calling Oswald The Trigger Man

8. The Bethesda Naval Hospital And Jfk’s Phoney Autopsy

9. Oswald’s Movements Following The Murder

10. An Alternate Version Of The Assassinations

11. Jack Ruby, Mafia Thug

12. Oswald’d Disturbing Second Autopsy Of 1981

13. The Mafia

14. The Cia

15 .Possible Shooters

16. Jim Garrison’s Courageous Investigation

17. Where Was Nixon When The Lights Went Out?

18. George H. W. Bush And Kennedy’s Assassination

19. Lbj: The Man Who Would Be King

20. Selected Bibliography

On November 22, 1963, the

United States had a Coup d’Etat. It’s

that simple. The government of this country

was overthrown by a handful of

guys who did their jobs damned well.

Sam Giancana,

Chicago Mafia Boss

1. INTRODUCTION

For nearly half a century now, since November 22, 1963, citizens throughout the Western World have puzzled over the cold blooded execution of President John F. Kennedy, easily the most intriguing mystery of the 20th century unless one is naive enough to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone-nut killer. Certainly there were no lack of suspects. And therein lies the problem, the number of organizations and individuals who had the motive, the opportunity and the means of carrying out such a crime.

         There were the anti-Castro Cubans, for example, who despised Kennedy for suddenly calling off American military support for the Cuban Freedom Fighters who hit the beaches of Cuba in the spring of 1961. Those poor Cuban soldiers who went ashore were quickly killed or captured thanks to Kennedy’s betrayal. (That venture was actually approved and encouraged by then Vice-President Richard Nixon in 1959-60, and then kept a secret from newly elected John F. Kennedy.) Their comrades, trained by the CIA, had long memories and swore revenge. No one doubts that they had the motive, the opportunity and the means to see that their death threats might one day become a reality. And no one doubts that these violent men would not think twice when it came to avenging a terrible wrong done to themselves or their comrades.

         It should also be pointed out that the Assistant Director of the CIA during the ill-fated Bay of Pigs operation was Charles P. Cabell. Kennedy immediately fired him once he learned of the Bay of Pigs venture. Charles P. Cabell’s brother was Earle Cabell, who was mayor of Dallas at the time of Kennedy’s murder. Does the mayor of Dallas have influence with the Dallas Police Department?

          You betcha!

         As for the American Mafia, they too despised Kennedy and for a number of reasons. In the first place, when Castro came to power he put their gambling casinos out of business. Indeed, it was truly a black day for the Mafia when Castro closed those casino doors. And the Mafia does not take black days lying down. Thus when Kennedy cancelled plans for American military intervention during the Freedom Fighters’ invasion, there went the mob’s illegal activities in Cuba and tens of millions in profits. To say they went bersert is putting it mildly. Would the Mafia seek revenge? And did they have the means of exacting that revenge?

         Too, it must be recalled that for months the mob and the CIA had collaborated on plans to assassinate Castro, working closely together under the direction of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. They then formed relationships that would last for years to come. The CIA was also furious when Kennedy called off sea and air support for the Cuban Freedom Fighters who had been trained by CIA operatives. And one does not toy with CIA agents, unless one wishes to wind up dead.

         To add to the mob’s discomfiture, Kennedy and especially his younger brother, the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy, once they took office in 1961, began pursuing and prosecuting mob figures in a big way. Indeed, New Orleans mob boss Santos Trafficante was literally picked up off the street by FBI agents and flown to Guatamala where he was uncerimoniously unloaded with hardly a cent in his pockets. Finally, he made his way back to New Orleans. He met with other mob leaders from around the country and they angrily swore revenge.

         And let us not neglect Jimmy Hoffa, the giant Union boss and Mob financier, who would become Robert Kennedy’s personal whipping boy. Hoffa was pals with America’s Mafia leaders, whom he frequently financed, and he was overheard to swear revenge against John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert on numerous occasions. When asked why John instead of Robert, he replied, Cut off the dog’s head and the tail will surely die.

         As for the role played in the assassination by Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a great many researchers now agree that if Johnson did not actually plan the murder, he at least had prior knowledge that the assassination would take place and applauded the idea. In fact, it was Johnson who planned the motorcade route through Dallas that fateful day. It was he who had the motorcade make a somewhat bizarre turn off the main route and detour down Elm Street at a very low rate of speed. Less than one minute following that turn at least five shots had been fired (and possibly more) and President Kennedy had been killed by a shot to the head and Governor John Connolly of Texas badly wounded.

         And the question has often been asked, Who had the most to gain from John F. Kennedy’s death? And the answer seems simple enough—Lyndon Baines Johnson. Indeed, LBJ’s personal secretary and best friend, Bobby Baker, was being prosecuted on rackerteering charges at that very time. And it was well known tht Baker did not make a move without Johnson’s knowledge and approval. Already there were rumors circulating through Congress that the Kennedys (both of whom despised Johnson) would use the same evidence they had used against Baker to dump LBJ from the ticket in ‘64 and very possibly send him to prison.   

         Johnson, unfortunately for the Kennedys, heard those same rumors. Thus during the summer of 1963 he was confronted with a choice. He could live on for another year as vice-president, then possibly be sent to prison for rackerteering, or he could in the blink of an eye become president of the United States.

         For the ambitious and unscrupulous Johnson it was not a tough decision to make.

         And there was also Johnson business and political partner, Billy Sol Estes. Upon his release from prion in 1978 on racketeering charges he swore to his attorney that he had reformed and was about to make a clean breast of his illegal dealings with Lyndon Johnson. Among those illegal dealings, Estes swore that Johnson had been behind Kennedy’s murder and that he and Johnson had arranged with Johnson’s long-time hit man, Mac Wallace, to execute that murder.

         Too, it should be pointed out that on his final day in Washington President Kennedy had ordered all American troops out of Vietnam by Christmas of 1963. Johnson’s first move as president, on November 25, 1963, was to cancel that order. Then he began an immediatel escalation of the war, a conflict in which the American industrial-military complex made billions of dollars and in which over 60,000 American soldiers died. Johnson could not turn his back on that kind of money. So what if 60,000 American soldiers died making it? It was worth it.

Was there a coverup?

         Only days following Kennedy’s murder President Lyndon Johnson appointed a blue ribbon committee whose alleged responsibility was to thoroughly investigate Kennedy’s murder and name the culprit(s) behind it. The chairman of that committee was none other than Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was joined by some of the highest ranking members of congress, and highly experienced attorneys from across the nation. The Warren Commission was composed of men whose judgement and honesty could not be questioned. They would derive answers to all the questons surrounding Kennedy’s murder so that the guilty parties (if such existed) might be punished and the nation could rest easy again.

          In fact, nothing could have been further from the truth. From the very beginning the Warren Commission had only one responsibility: to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone-nut gunman who murdered John F. Kennedy. Was there any sort of conspiracy, perhaps involving others? Absolutely not. Were there no organizations in this great nation, perhaps the Mafia, who might have wished Kennedy’s death? Well, absolutely not. Of course not. In fact, according to J. Edgar Hoover, there was no Mafia operating in the United States at that time.

         Dozens of witnesses were brought forward to testify before the Committee, and the Committee investigated dozens of pieces of evidence. Did none of those witnesses offer testimony that contradicted the theory that Oswald was the lone assassin? Well, yes, many did. But the Committee inevitably found the testimony of such people, no matter how reputable they might be, to be unreliable. On the other hand, any witness whose testimony tended to indict Oswald, no matter how suspect that witness might be, was found to be totally reliable.

         Basically, any experienced researcher will verify that the Warren Commission was guilty of a basic sin before a single witness was ever heard. The Commission, from the very moment they sat down around that big table, was already committed to a preconceived conclusion: thanks to orders from Lyndon Johnson: they must prove that there was no conspiracy, that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone-nut killer of John F. Kennedy. Testimony and evidence that supported that preconceived verdict was judged reliable; testimony and evidence that contradicted that preconceived verdict was judged unreliable. Even a cursory reading of the Report will easily verify the foregoing statements.

         Still, the Commission was still not out of the woods. To prove that Oswald was the lone killer of Kennedy, the Commission had to prove (1) that all the shots had been fired from the Texas Book Depository Building to the rear and to the right of Kennedy, and (2) that Oswald fired only three shots and they were all fired in less than five seconds with a bolt action rifle.

         In the first place, the majority of the witnesses testified that the fatal shot originated from the grassy knoll area to the right front of Kennedy, and that they saw his head snap backwards at the moment of empact. Still, the Commission poo-pooed that testimony as unreliable. How could Kennedy possibly have been shot from the front when Oswald was clearly located in a window in the building to the rear of Kennedy? How ridiculous!

         Plus there was the problem concerning the number of shots fired. One shot missed altogether, President Kennedy was hit by three and Governor Connolly by one—a total of at least five shots. How could that be possible? Indeed, Governor Connolly would testify that he was not wounded by the same bullet that exited Kennedy’s throat (in fact, no bullet exited Kennedy’s throat). Connolly was hit a moment later by another bullet. In fact, he said, he heard the shot that hit Kennedy, then half turned in his seat to look at Kennedy when another bullet hit him. The Comission merely smiled and declared that the governor was obviously suffering from shock. Of course they were struck by the same bullet. Otherwise, there must have been more than one shooter, and therefore a conspiracy. Which, according to the Commission, was preposterous, for Lyndon Johnson had already told them it was preposterous.

         Still, it must be remembered that the Commission, despite all its own sins, was being fed most of its information from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his CIA counterpart, Richard Helms. Hoover at that time hated the Kennedy’s almost as much as did Lyndon Johnson, for the Kennedys were also after Hoover’s scalp. The president had just fired Allen Dulles as Director of the CIA following the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and Hoover knew his own days were numbered. Yes, the presidnet had requested Hoover’s retirement, threatening to reveal his gay lifestyle if he refused to depart quietly. (As for Allen Dulles, he next appears as a member of the Warren Commission. In fact, he was the only member to attend over 50% of the meetings.)

         Hoover and Dulles fed the Commission only the information that they and Lyndon Johnson agreed should be fed to them. Was much of that information faulty? Was much of it totally false? Seen in retrospect, the answer is yes, a resounding yes. Hoover and Dulles totally agreed with Johnson that there was no conspiracy. Lee Harvey Oswald was obviously the lone-nut assassin of John F. Kennedy. Now let’s all get back to work and see how many men we can send to Vietnam to die for their country.

         Ah, but then came the fly in the ointment: the Abraham Zapruder film of the murder, released to the public in 1975. It shows in chilling detail Kennedy taking a head shot from the right front, from the area of the grassy knoll. Kennedy’s head was instantly slammed to the left rear and the right rear portion of his skull was blasted away.

         Oddly enough, CBS newscaster Dan Rather was able to secure a copy of the Zapruder film only minutes after the shooting. That evening Rather, who had apparently been brief on the government’s position on the murder, reported to the nation that the film clearly shows Kennedy’s head being snapped to the front, proving that the shot originated from Kennedy’s right rear, the area of the Texas Book Depository and Lee Harvey Oswald. In other words, only hours following Kennedy’s murder, the federal fix was already in. And Dan Rather and other newsmen had already been advised that if they wanted to get along, they’d best go along. And they did. Indeed, it would be several years before any of the fawning news media in America dared announce or report anything of a negative nature concerning the Warren Commission or its findings. There existed a complete blackout for anyone or anything contradicting the Federal Government and its Warren Commission.

          The Zapruder film was finally released to the public on Geraldo Rivera’s TV show Goodnight America on March 6, 1975. Protests of the Warren Commission’s findings swept the nation. The film clearly showed Kennedy’s head being snapped to the rear, not the front, therefore the shot must have originated from the grassy knoll area, as so many witnesses had testified. Ah, but do not underestimate the federal government when it comes to justifying their lies to the American public. The government simply paraded out several highly respected forensic medical experts who reported that, despite common beliefs, a shot to the right rear of the head would cause the head to snap backwards and not forward. Throughout the nation people scratched their heads and said What? But it did them no good. The government and its experts had answered the question. End of story. At least for the time being.

         But then some three years following Kennedy’s murder, a most enterprising attorney from New York, a most ambitious young man named Mark Lane, who had earlier managed John Kennedy’s presidential campaign in New York, had now been hired by Oswald’s mother, Marguerite Oswald. He was to defend her son against the charges against him, and he truly went after the Warren Commission with a vengence. He visited both New Orleans and Dallas and interviewed dozens of witnesses to the crime and its aftermath. Along the way he wrote numerous magazine and newspaper articles blasting the Warren Commission for its findings. The wimpy media, politically correct creatures that they are, refused to carry any of those.

         Ah, but then in 1966 he published his myth-shattering book, Rush To Judgement, which answered most of the questions skeptics had entertained since Kennedy’s murder in 1963. That work blew the Warren Commision Report right out of the water. As though that were not enough, Lane would later assist New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in his efforts to prove in court that Kennedy had been murdered by a right-wing group involving Guy Bannister, Clay Shaw and David Ferrie. (It should be pointed out that Garrison too was slandered and ridiculed by a fawning American news media, which seemed in a frenzy to protect Lyndon Johnson and the findings of the Warren Commission.)

         In 1991 Lane would published anothr work, Plausible Denial, outlining the role of CIA agents Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt in Kennedy’s murder. In 1993 he would publish Murder in Memphis, which exonerated James Earl Ray in the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But as usual no one in authority (and especially the national news media) would listen.

         As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle one wrote:

When you have eliminated all other possibilities, whatever is left, no matter how improbable, that is the answer to your mystery."

         In the case of John F. Kennedy and his murder on November 22, 1963, what is left is Lyndon Baines Johnson. This work will attempt to prove that it was Johnson who, more than anyone else, had the motive, the opportunity and the means to carry out Kennedy’s assassination and the subsequent cover up. Thus Johnson is the anwer to our mystery.

2. The Warren Commission Report:

The Greates Hoax Ever Perpetrated On The

American People--Richard Nixon

On December 29, 1963, only a few weeks following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the American people were delighted to learn that President Lyndon Baines Johnson, in hopes of getting to the bottom of what really happened in Dallas, had just appointed a blue-ribbon committee to investigate that assassination and publish the facts as they found them. Chairing that committee would be no less an individual than that great and honorable American, Earl Warren, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

         Assisting Earl Warren would be such fine American statesmen as Rep. Geriald Ford, R-Michigan; Rep. Hale Boggs, D-Louisiana; Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-G.eorgia; Sen. John Sherman Cooper, R-Kentucky; John J. McCloy, New York banker; AllenW. Dulles, former Director of the CIA; and General Council J. Lee Rankin of New York.

         Also of great importance would be the 14 Assistant Council members who would actually examine evidence and question witnesses. These men were among the finest attorneys in America, it was said. Certainly they had the confidence of the White House and the American people. They were:

         Francis W. H. Adams                  Albert E. Jenner, Jr.

         Joseph A. Ball                           Wesley J.Liebeler

         David W. Belin                           Norman Redlich

         Wm. T. Coleman, Jr.                  W. David Slawson

         Melvin Aron Eisenbert                  Arlen Specter

         Burt W. Griffin                           Samuel A. Stern

         Leon D. Hubert, Jr.                  Howard P. Willens

         Yet, there emerges numerous examples of disturbing instances when these Assistant Council members failed to examine evidence as they should have and failed to question witnesses as they should have. For example, on the very first day of the hearings, Burt Griffin greeted his fellow Assistant Council members with a disturbing bit of news. They were all gathered around a long table when Griffin entered the meeting room. Without preamble, he informed them: Gentlemen, I’ve just received a most disturbing phone call from Wagoner Carr, the Attorney General of Texas. He says he has irrefutable evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was an FBI informant and that he was assigned ID number 172.

         At that, an angry Arlen Specter slammed his files to the table and said, Mr. Griffin, may I remind you that we are here to close doors, not to open them."

         And that was the end of the matter. No one ever mentioned The Attorney General of Texas again.

         In addition to these 14 fine upstanding Assistant Council members, the Warren Commission would be furnished information on a daily basis from the world’s finest intelligence agencies: The FBI, the CIA and the Secret Service. Never before, probably, in the history of the world had such an outstanding committee been formed to investigate such a dastardly crime. And not a stone would be left unturned as they went about their daily business of answering all the questions surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy (as long as it did not involve the Attorney General of Texas).

         In reality, as most researchers now agree, the Warren Commission should have been called the Allen Dulles Commission, because Allen Dulles, with all his friends in the CIA and FBI, truly controlled it and determined the directions it should take. It was he, primarily, who determined what the Commission would hear and what they would not hear.

         As for support from the President of the United States and the Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, and the new Director of the CIA, John McCone,the WC had their unstinting support. Indeed, Johnson reported to the news media that he knelt by his bed every night and prayed that the Kennedy matter would be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction in a totally legal and Christian manner.

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Hoover and Johnson take time out from their bedside prayers to decide what misinformation they can feed the WC next. Hoover, in addition to his many other sins, was a homosexual cross-dresser, as was known to most Washington insiders. But he played ball with Johnson and that was all that mattered. He occasionally confronted Kenndy with his knowledge of Kennedy’s marital sins. That knowledge kept him from being fired.

The Warren Commission chaired by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren, was appointed by Lyndon Johnson ostensibly to investigate the murder of John F. Kennedy. In the end, fed nothing but misinformation by J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI, as well as the CIA and the Secret Service, their report would be dominated by subterfuge, lies and distortion of facts. Truly, the greatest crime of the century would soon become the greatest coverup of the century.

   From left: Rep. Gerald Ford, Rep. Hale Boggs, Sen. Richard Russell, Chief Justice Warren, Sen. John Sherman Cooper, former World Bank president John J. McCloy, former CIA Director Allen Dulles, and J. Lee Rankin, council for the commission.

   (Oddly enough, Kennedy had fired CIA Director Allen Dulles following the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Now here he is a sitting member of the Warren Commission! In fact, he was the only member of the WC to attend over 40% of the meetings!)

   *Note: In 1978 a congressional committee named the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) criticized both the Warren Commission and the FBI for failing to investigate whether others had conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald to murder President Kennedy. If fact, if read carefully, the Warren Commission Report itself contains data which proves that Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with Kennedy’s assassination.

         But the people of the United States were unaware that the case had already been resolved and all the questions