a propos...
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Justice Louis D. Brandeis
And a question for you: Based on your experience visiting and thoroughly inspecting the site, what is your gut feeling about what happened there 53 years ago?
Perry
Perry,
Excellent quote, thank you. It was actually 52 years ago.
I've been there 3 times. I've attended the assassination conference on the 50th and this time as well. Have met witnesses (one is dead now - James Tague, who was hit by a ricocheting bullet or concrete curb chip). At this conference, witnesses who appeared were Beverly Oliver (The Babushka Lady), Beull Wesley Frazier (the guy who drove Oswald to the Book Depository that morning), and four of the Dallas Doctors who were young interns at the time. I also bumped into Ernest Brandt again, a witness who was standing on the sidewalk during his lunch break (he must be over 80 now - met him in 2003 and he's aged quite a bit - he still sports the Fedora he wore on that fateful day for each anniversary). But kudos goes to the researchers who visit the archives and study this case's minutiae (Dr. David Mantik who examines the autopsy X-Rays to find anomalies, or Pat Speer who analyzes the folds in the bag or the initials of Dallas police detectives for incongruities), or those who analyze the forest (example, James DiEugenio's excellent examination of JFK's foreign policy as a motive for murder). Reasonable doubt is in the details. Motive is knowing the grand scheme of things or the larger picture.
Much has been uncovered since the movie JFK sparked an OUTRAGE for the release of the files which were to be locked up for 75 years from 1964. The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (or The JFK Records Act) was the impetus to the formation of the Assassination Records Review Board (the ARRB), which was the driving force behind the release of millions of pages of declassified files. http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/contents.htm
To make a very long story short, much information has been uncovered which suggests a cover-up by the government including its investigative and intelligence agencies, as well as Mob complicity (Carlos Marcello <=> Jack Ruby's silencing of Oswald) and potential CIA involvement (Dave Phillips as a handler of Oswald, and other CIA Spooks).
The JFK Records Act REQUIRES the release of the remaining 50,000 pages (~ 1,000 documents) still locked up that pertain to the JFK Assassination on OCTOBER 27TH, 2017. It includes 7 important files on the following CIA spooks => http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/top-6-jfk-files-the-cia-still-keeps-secret/
Here's an article as to why the CIA may not want these files released => http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/why-last-of-jfk-files-could-embarrass-cia-118233
My gut feeling based on my visits but more importantly on my readings or research is that: CIA rogues with help from the Mob (who silenced Oswald via Jack Ruby - who had "significant underworld connections" per the HSCA) and anti-Castro Cubans, murdered the President, but that the Military directed the Navy pathologists to cover it up as a lone assassin, not to mention a cover-up in the ensuing investigation by the Warren Commission which based its findings on the dubious assistance of Hoover's FBI, and CIA. Parts of the cover-up might have been benign and other non-disclosures being pure obstruction of justice by criminal accessories after-the-fact.
One more thing. I believe the Lee Harvey Oswald was possibly an informant for the FBI but more importantly, a low level CIA operative and an 'agent provocateur'. I will post a letter that includes a startling revelation next.
I wish you brought me! lol
