Post by Rob Caprio on Nov 5, 2024 22:44:14 GMT -5
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IF Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) was a “lone assassin” as the Warren Commission (WC) said, why did others hear about the event before it happened? Was LHO sending out telegrams to let certain other people know of his plans? I doubt it.
There are simply too many "other people" who knew something was going to happen for it to be a coincidence too.
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Jack Zangretti was a Chicago mobster who worked as a manager of a modular motel complex near Lake Lugert, OK. He will tell friends of his that "three other men -- NOT Oswald -- killed the president." He also tells them that a "man named Ruby will kill Oswald tomorrow (11/24/63)."
Sounds pretty convincing to me, but of course WC defenders have said this is not the truth and they have tried to show he was off base. Two things make me believe him. Firstly, he also mentioned this tidbit: "...and in a few days a member of Frank Sinatra's family will be kidnapped just to take some of the attention away from the assassination." Now even Kreskin couldn't predict this wild stuff accurately, but it did happen. Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped and here is the story:
www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/frank-sinatra-jr-kidnapping
Frank Sinatra had as many mob ties as Ruby (maybe more) so this makes sense to me.
The second thing that makes me believe him is the fact he was found floating in a swimming pool with bullet holes in his chest a few weeks after saying these things. Witnesses will say it looked like he was "floating" for at least a week, but maybe two (meaning he could have been killed shortly after making these statements). Being killed has a way of validating what you say in my book.
At 6:30 p.m. on 11/21/63 Marty Underwood, Democratic National Committee Political Advance man, said "We were getting all sorts of rumors that the President was going to be assassinated in Dallas; there were no ifs, ands or buts about it." When Underwood told President John F. Kennedy (JFK) about these disturbing reports, the President merely said, "Marty, you worry about me too much." JFK would tell San Antonio Congressman Henry Gonzalez (the same Henry Gonzalez who headed the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) first), "Henry, the Secret Service told me they took care of everything. There's nothing to worry about.” It makes one wonder what they “took care of”, huh?
In the month of November 1963, there were many threats coming in regarding JFK's life. These events were compiled by Dave Perry. Here are the important ones.
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NOVEMBER 1963:
11/2: JFK's trip to Chicago, IL was cancelled at the last minute due to mortal threats against his life: apart from Thomas Arthur Vallee, Thomas Mosely, and Homer Echevarria, including a team of four Cuban gunman, 2 of whom eluded surveillance and escaped.
Joseph Noonan, a Chicago office agent, told the HSCA that he "participated directly in surveillance involving TOM MOSELY and HOMER ECHEVARRIA....he and [the] other agents were uneasy that the Cubans might have some ties to the CIA...a little later they received a call from Headquarters to DROP EVERYTHING ON MOSELY AND ECHEVARRIA AND SEND ALL MEMOS, FILES, AND THEIR NOTEBOOKS TO WASHINGTON AND NOT TO DISCUSS THE CASE WITH ANYONE"
(emphasis added).
11/8 to 11/9: Kennedy's first, low profile trip to New York City.
11/9: Miami, FL---FBI informant Willie Somersett tapes conversation with Joseph Milteer about plans to kill JFK (JFK to visit Miami on 11/18/63). This is known by the Secret Service BEFORE Dallas, as SAIC Bouck told me AND as Secret Service records reveal!
(My Addition: The tape revealed this: "[During Kennedy's impending visit to Miami] You can bet your bottom dollar he is going to have a lot to say about the Cubans, there are so many of them here...The more bodyguards he has, the easier it is to get him...From an office building with a high-powered rifle... He's knows he's a marked man." (Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, p. 265)
He would say that the President's murder was "in the working," told a police informant afterward that "Everything ran true to form. I guess you thought I was kidding you when I said he would be killed from a window with a high-powered rifle." Asked whether he was guessing when he made the original remark, Milteer replied, "I don't do any guessing." (Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, p. 624)
At 10:30 a.m. on 11/22/63 FBI informant, William Augustus Somersett receives a call in Miami from Joseph Milteer in Dallas stating that JFK will be there later that day and will not be visiting Miami again. He then supposedly joins the crowd on Elm St. and there is a photo many researchers believe show him standing there.
(John McAdams, WC defender – major domo, says: “If Milteer had any "foreknowledge" he had foreknowledge of a single shooter.”
Yeah, sure. And how does someone get “foreknowledge” on a LONE NUT?)
11/10: PRS agent Glen Bennett was "temporarily assigned to the White House Detail" on this date.
IMPORTANT INTERLUDE REGARDING PRS AGENT GLEN BENNETT: Although Bennett told the HSCA that he "was not on the Florida trip [11/18/63]", the Secret Service shift reports for that trip AND the Survey Reports'" not only state he WAS indeed on this trip, but he RODE IN THE FOLLOW-UP CAR!
Miami WHD advance agent Bert DeFreese told the HSCA that "in 1963 it was rare for a PRS agent from Washington to accompany an advance agent in to the field, and that no PRS agent accompanied [him] on this trip"(RIF#180-10083-10419.), yet Bennett was with De Freese in Miami AND in Houston on 11/21/63 (!) Bennett further told the HSCA that he "was detailed from PRS to the White House Detail for the Dallas trip [11/22/63]. This was because there was a manpower pull for the Dallas trip", a statement NOT backed up by the recently released shift reports, courtesy of the ARRB. Furthermore, Sam Kinney told me that Bennett was making his FIRST trip on 11/22/63 which, while "corroborated" by Bennett's aforementioned statement to the HSCA, is ALSO obviously contradicted by the above-mentioned shift reports and Survey reports for the Florida trip of 11/18/63 AND, if that wasn't enough, Bennett was on the SECOND New York, NY trip JFK made (11/14-11/15/63)!
11/13: Army code breaker Eugene Dinkin, who had foreknowledge of a threat and attempted to warn officials, is taken into custody by Army officials and hospitalized (a Secret Service agent even interviews him.) (See Dick Russell's The Man Who Knew Too Much and Noel Twyman's Bloody Treason.)
11/14-11/15: the aforementioned SECOND NY, NY trip (shift leader Art Godfrey, the advance agent on BOTH NY trips---he actually stayed IN NY between both trips---did NOT know the reason why JFK made the FIRST NY trip or its purpose, although he was much aware of the second trip) [this is also the trip where much is made, after the fact, of so-called security lapses invoked by JFK].
11/18: JFK's Florida trip: Miami advance agent DeFreese admitted to the HSCA that "a threat did surface in connection with the Miami trip...there was an active threat against the President which the Secret Service was aware in November 1963 in the period immediately prior to JFK's trip to Miami made by a GROUP OF PEOPLE" (emphasis added). In addition to this threat info., and separate from the 11/9 Milteer threat, a CO2 PRS file, released to the HSCA on 5/3/78 and available only recently reveals yet another threat subject: John Warrington. Kinney told me of an unspecified "organized crime" threat related to this same trip. [this is also the trip where, despite numerous films, photos, and interviews to the contrary, JFK allegedly ordered the agents off the rear of his limo, cited as causing peril in Dallas on 11/22/63 from such diverse people as William Manchester and current Secret Service Director Lewis Merletti!]
11/21-11/22: Texas trip (U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and Senator William Fulbright warn JFK not to go to Dallas)---
11/21: DNC advance man Marty Underwood gets "all sorts of rumors", 18 hours before the assassination, that Kennedy was to be killed in Dallas. Marty even conveys this to JFK, who tells him, "Marty, you worry about me too much; Advance agent Winston Lawson wrote in his report that "Agent Bennett was REMINDED that he would work Presidential follow-up car on the movement."
11/22: While SA Bennett rides in the Secret Service follow-up car, scanning the people lining the streets, President Kennedy is brutally cut down right in front of him.
AFTER the assassination: Bennett's observations---via his allegedly contemporaneous handwritten notes from 11/22/63---were used by Chief Rowley to buttress the notion that Kennedy was struck in the back from the REAR, in spite of the films/ photos that appear to depict Bennett looking away from JFK, a point made by Lifton, Evica, Newcomb, and several others before me. But this is almost ancillary to the major point made herein:
WAS PRS AGENT GLEN BENNETT MONITORING MORTAL THREATS TO JFK'S LIFE, MADE IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, AND WAS THIS COVERED UP AFTERWARDS? IS THIS THE REASON FOR THE CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS--AND THE TIMING---OF BENNETT'S PARTICIPATION IN THE SECOND NY TRIP, THE FLORIDA TRIP, AND THE TEXAS TRIP? DID BENNETT RIDE IN THE FOLLOW-UP CAR ON THESE TRIPS FOR THIS PURPOSE? I BELIEVE SO. WHILE GLEN BENNETT IS STILL ALIVE, HE SHOULD BE GRANTED IMMUNITY AND GIVEN A CHANCE TO TELL THE TRUTH.
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6:30 p.m. on 11/22/63
At some point during this early evening, CIA agent (and former editor at LIFE magazine) Gary Underhill drives out of Washington D.C. and heads for New York -- and the home of Robert Fitzsimmons on Long Island. (Fitzsimmons and his wife Charlene, are longtime friends whom Underhill feels he can trust.) Bob is sleeping; Charlene is awake.
Underhill tells Charlene that he fears for his life and plans on leaving the country. "I've got to get on a boat... I'm really afraid for my life." Upon questioning by Charlene, Underhill goes on to explain that he has information about the Kennedy assassination and that "Oswald is a patsy. They set him up. It's too much. The [curse] have done something outrageous. They've killed the President! I've been listening and hearing things. I couldn't believe they'd get away with it, but they did!" Underhill, emotionally distraught, continues to explain, "They've gone mad! They are a bunch of gun runners and drug runners -- a real violence group. God, the CIA is under enough pressure already without that bunch in SE Asia.... I know who they are. That's the problem. They know I know. That's why I'm here."
Underhill begs Charlene to help hide him, and she consents to let him stay for a few hours until Bob awakens -- then possibly Bob will leave Gary a key while the couple vacations in Spain, a trip they have previously planned on taking with departure, ironically, taking place this very day. "No, that is alright" Underhill says, "Maybe I shouldn't leave the country." Underhill turns towards the door. "I'll be back in a couple of hours." He does not return. Underhill returns quietly to Washington and begins investigating JFK's assassination on his own. He mentions his efforts to another friend, Asher Brynes, of the New Republic, but probably no one else.
In six months, Underhill will be dead -- "suicide." He will be shot behind his left ear. Yet, Underhill is right-handed.
Notice how Underhill was a CIA AGENT and a former EDITOR of LIFE magazine! This same magazine would pretty much convince many that LHO was guilty by putting one of the BYP’s on it its February 1964 cover. Many agents work for the media as this began after WWII with “Operation Mockingbird.”
Around 11:30 a.m. on 11/22/63 while at his home in Miami Beach, Florida John Martino and his wife Robyn are talking about going to the Americana for lunch. When an announcement comes over the radio mentioning JFK's visit to Dallas, Robyn says John tells her "They're going to kill him. They're going to kill him when he gets to Dallas." (John is a CIA-Mafia operative)
As the clock turned on JFK’s last day (12:00 a.m. 11/22/63) of life this occurred.
Madrid, Spain - the CIA reports hearing from a Cuban journalist who claims to have received a letter stating that GPIDEAL (President Kennedy) will be killed today.
At 10:00 on 11/22/63 our future president, George H.W. Bush calls the FBI to report that a man by the name of James Parrott has been talking of killing JFK when he comes to Houston. Bush is the chairman of the Harris County Republican Organization and a supporter of Goldwater. How and why he had this information is a mystery, but shows others were talking of killing JFK too. The odd thing here is Parrot would wind up being a SPEECHWRITER for Bush later on!
Also, George “Poppy” Bush’s name, address and phone number will be found in George De Mohrenschildt’s address book.
At 10:30 a.m. on 11/22/63 The 112th Military Intelligence Group at the 4th Army headquarters at Fort Sam Houston is told to "stand down" rather than report for duty in Dallas, over the protest of the unit commander, Col. Maximillian Reich. Nevertheless, Lt. Col. George Whitmeyer, the commander of the local Army intelligence reserve, will be in the police pilot car which will proceed the motorcade in Dallas, and an Army intelligence man is with FBI man Hosty 45 minutes before the parade, on Main St. It will later be revealed that the 112th MI Group, headquartered in Dallas, had possessed a file on a man called "Harvey Lee Oswald," and they are apparently swift in giving Dallas Police Department (DPD) information on Oswald. They also knew about his A.J. Hidell alias despite him having only used it twice (allegedly) to purchase the rifle and pistol. They never passed on their records to the WC for review.
Two important Secret Service reports regarding possible assassination attempts on JFK have now been transmitted to other field offices. The only field office NOT to receive these two reports is the office in Dallas, Texas.
Also around this time the CIA turns over a picture to the FBI which reports to show LHO leaving a suspect embassy in Mexico City (CIA asserts one time it is the Cuban embassy and another time that it is the Soviet embassy.) The photo, as since proved, is not LHO. Was the CIA preparing the “lamb” for slaughter?
A very interesting note to show INSIDER knowledge of the assassination is this one. At 11:17 a.m. Air Force one (code name "Angel") takes off from Ft. Worth. During the flight to Dallas, JFK goes over the morning's Intelligence Checklist. A CIA analyst has included in this report a "copy" of the bullfighter's verse that JFK had recited at State on October 16, 1962, just after he was told about the missiles in Cuba:
"Bullfight critics ranked in rows
Crowd the enormous Plaza full;
But only One is there who knows,
And he is the man who fights the bull."
According to another publication, this verse is included in the first intelligence report given to LBJ by the CIA after he became President. Was the CIA giving JFK a “heads up” as what to expect in Dallas?
Here are some more in chronological order that should raise your eyebrows.
12:05 p.m.
In London (6:05 p.m. Greenwich Time) a newspaper reporter in Cambridge, England, receives an anonymous telephone call. The male caller tells the reporter to contact the American Embassy in London as they will have some big news to give the reporter.
12:10 p.m.
(California) A telephone company executive says that a woman caller is overheard whispering: "The President is going to be killed." Ray Sheehan, manager of the Oxnard division of the General Telephone Co., says the caller "stumbled into our operator's circuits," perhaps by misdialing. Sheehan says the woman "seemed a little bit disturbed." Besides predicting the President's death, he says, "she mumbled several incoherent things." Sheehan said the call was reported to the LA FBI division, but not until after the President had been shot.
Sheehan said until the President had been shot it was assumed to be a crank call, and it was untraceable. All he could say was it originated in Oxford-Camarillo area, some 50 miles north of LA. Sheehan was called into the call by a telephone supervisor to verify what she was hearing. Both of them heard the caller say the President will be shot.
12:29 p.m.
Lyndon Johnson's SS detail is already "on the alert." Photographic evidence reveals that the left rear side door to Johnson's SS back-up car is already being held open. This fact, in and of itself, may not be unusual since there are reports that the car door was held open for the ENTIRE motorcade.
Local Dallas newspaper reporters have been joking all day about when and where "the shooting will start."
Geneva Hine, the only employee in the Depository's second floor offices, observes the electrical power and telephone go dead. The WC will not question a single employee, including building manager Roy Truly, about the mysterious interruption of electric or telephone service, nor will they ask the location of the electric and telephone panels. Moments after the shooting Ms. Hine knocks on the door of Southwestern Publishing (Room 203 in the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD)). She sees a woman through the opaque glass, hears her talking on the phone, and continues knocking on the door, but the woman never answers.
Researcher John Armstrong has questioned why a phone worked in one office when electrical service and telephone service went dead everywhere else in the TSBD. The woman using the phone, Mrs. John L (Carol) Hughes, was NOT questioned by the WC.
12:30 p.m.
It should be noted that all of H.L. Hunt's offices are on Elm St. These include: the Dallas headquarters of Placid Oil are located at 2500 First National Bank Building. H.L.H. Products are located at 700 Mercantile Bank Building, but most of Hunt's businesses are grouped at 1401 Elm Street: Hunt Oil Co., Hunt Petroleum Corp., Hunt Caroline Trust Estate, Hunt H.L., Jr., Hunt Hassie Trust, Hunt International Petroleum Company, Hunt Lamar, Hunt Lamar Trust Estate, Hunt Margaret Trust Estate, Hunt N.B., Hunt Nelson Bunker, Hunt W.H., Hunt William Herbert Trust Estate, etc.
He should be noted that at 12:23 p.m. the motorcade passed the offices of H.L. Hunt. He was on the 7th floor of the Mercantile Building and he watched JFK ride towards Dealey Plaza. Moments later he is escorted by six men in two cars, Hunt leaves the center of Dallas without even stopping by his house. He eventually flies to Mexico (Pat Kirkwood maybe?) where he will stay for a month. He will eventually be joined by General Edwin Walker. He will not return until Christmas. (There is also the "Torbitt" Document which says Hunt and his family were flown to New York City on orders from Hoover. Five FBI agents keep Hunt and his family at a hotel for three weeks until it is determined that Hunt's alleged part in the assassination will not be made public. Other reports place him in Washington D.C. following the assassination.)
Altgen's famous photo shows a man who appears to be a "dead ringer" for Lou Conein - famed for his CIA exploits in Southeast Asia. In the Altgen's photo the man stands at the corner of Main and Houston, smiling as he watches the motorcade passes.
Rose Cheramie, now convalescing at a hospital in Jackson, Louisiana, is watching television with several nurses when a spot report about JFK's motorcade comes on. She says, "This is when it is going to happen!" The nurses dismiss her remarks - until moments later. Cheramie has also told one of the hospital's interns "...that one of the men involved in the plot was named Jack Rubinstein."
Can all these be just coincidences? I doubt it. There is NO way all these people, and others, would hear about this IF LHO was the sole assassin as claimed by the WC.
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IF Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) was a “lone assassin” as the Warren Commission (WC) said, why did others hear about the event before it happened? Was LHO sending out telegrams to let certain other people know of his plans? I doubt it.
There are simply too many "other people" who knew something was going to happen for it to be a coincidence too.
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Jack Zangretti was a Chicago mobster who worked as a manager of a modular motel complex near Lake Lugert, OK. He will tell friends of his that "three other men -- NOT Oswald -- killed the president." He also tells them that a "man named Ruby will kill Oswald tomorrow (11/24/63)."
Sounds pretty convincing to me, but of course WC defenders have said this is not the truth and they have tried to show he was off base. Two things make me believe him. Firstly, he also mentioned this tidbit: "...and in a few days a member of Frank Sinatra's family will be kidnapped just to take some of the attention away from the assassination." Now even Kreskin couldn't predict this wild stuff accurately, but it did happen. Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped and here is the story:
www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/frank-sinatra-jr-kidnapping
Frank Sinatra had as many mob ties as Ruby (maybe more) so this makes sense to me.
The second thing that makes me believe him is the fact he was found floating in a swimming pool with bullet holes in his chest a few weeks after saying these things. Witnesses will say it looked like he was "floating" for at least a week, but maybe two (meaning he could have been killed shortly after making these statements). Being killed has a way of validating what you say in my book.
At 6:30 p.m. on 11/21/63 Marty Underwood, Democratic National Committee Political Advance man, said "We were getting all sorts of rumors that the President was going to be assassinated in Dallas; there were no ifs, ands or buts about it." When Underwood told President John F. Kennedy (JFK) about these disturbing reports, the President merely said, "Marty, you worry about me too much." JFK would tell San Antonio Congressman Henry Gonzalez (the same Henry Gonzalez who headed the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) first), "Henry, the Secret Service told me they took care of everything. There's nothing to worry about.” It makes one wonder what they “took care of”, huh?
In the month of November 1963, there were many threats coming in regarding JFK's life. These events were compiled by Dave Perry. Here are the important ones.
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NOVEMBER 1963:
11/2: JFK's trip to Chicago, IL was cancelled at the last minute due to mortal threats against his life: apart from Thomas Arthur Vallee, Thomas Mosely, and Homer Echevarria, including a team of four Cuban gunman, 2 of whom eluded surveillance and escaped.
Joseph Noonan, a Chicago office agent, told the HSCA that he "participated directly in surveillance involving TOM MOSELY and HOMER ECHEVARRIA....he and [the] other agents were uneasy that the Cubans might have some ties to the CIA...a little later they received a call from Headquarters to DROP EVERYTHING ON MOSELY AND ECHEVARRIA AND SEND ALL MEMOS, FILES, AND THEIR NOTEBOOKS TO WASHINGTON AND NOT TO DISCUSS THE CASE WITH ANYONE"
(emphasis added).
11/8 to 11/9: Kennedy's first, low profile trip to New York City.
11/9: Miami, FL---FBI informant Willie Somersett tapes conversation with Joseph Milteer about plans to kill JFK (JFK to visit Miami on 11/18/63). This is known by the Secret Service BEFORE Dallas, as SAIC Bouck told me AND as Secret Service records reveal!
(My Addition: The tape revealed this: "[During Kennedy's impending visit to Miami] You can bet your bottom dollar he is going to have a lot to say about the Cubans, there are so many of them here...The more bodyguards he has, the easier it is to get him...From an office building with a high-powered rifle... He's knows he's a marked man." (Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, p. 265)
He would say that the President's murder was "in the working," told a police informant afterward that "Everything ran true to form. I guess you thought I was kidding you when I said he would be killed from a window with a high-powered rifle." Asked whether he was guessing when he made the original remark, Milteer replied, "I don't do any guessing." (Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, p. 624)
At 10:30 a.m. on 11/22/63 FBI informant, William Augustus Somersett receives a call in Miami from Joseph Milteer in Dallas stating that JFK will be there later that day and will not be visiting Miami again. He then supposedly joins the crowd on Elm St. and there is a photo many researchers believe show him standing there.
(John McAdams, WC defender – major domo, says: “If Milteer had any "foreknowledge" he had foreknowledge of a single shooter.”
Yeah, sure. And how does someone get “foreknowledge” on a LONE NUT?)
11/10: PRS agent Glen Bennett was "temporarily assigned to the White House Detail" on this date.
IMPORTANT INTERLUDE REGARDING PRS AGENT GLEN BENNETT: Although Bennett told the HSCA that he "was not on the Florida trip [11/18/63]", the Secret Service shift reports for that trip AND the Survey Reports'" not only state he WAS indeed on this trip, but he RODE IN THE FOLLOW-UP CAR!
Miami WHD advance agent Bert DeFreese told the HSCA that "in 1963 it was rare for a PRS agent from Washington to accompany an advance agent in to the field, and that no PRS agent accompanied [him] on this trip"(RIF#180-10083-10419.), yet Bennett was with De Freese in Miami AND in Houston on 11/21/63 (!) Bennett further told the HSCA that he "was detailed from PRS to the White House Detail for the Dallas trip [11/22/63]. This was because there was a manpower pull for the Dallas trip", a statement NOT backed up by the recently released shift reports, courtesy of the ARRB. Furthermore, Sam Kinney told me that Bennett was making his FIRST trip on 11/22/63 which, while "corroborated" by Bennett's aforementioned statement to the HSCA, is ALSO obviously contradicted by the above-mentioned shift reports and Survey reports for the Florida trip of 11/18/63 AND, if that wasn't enough, Bennett was on the SECOND New York, NY trip JFK made (11/14-11/15/63)!
11/13: Army code breaker Eugene Dinkin, who had foreknowledge of a threat and attempted to warn officials, is taken into custody by Army officials and hospitalized (a Secret Service agent even interviews him.) (See Dick Russell's The Man Who Knew Too Much and Noel Twyman's Bloody Treason.)
11/14-11/15: the aforementioned SECOND NY, NY trip (shift leader Art Godfrey, the advance agent on BOTH NY trips---he actually stayed IN NY between both trips---did NOT know the reason why JFK made the FIRST NY trip or its purpose, although he was much aware of the second trip) [this is also the trip where much is made, after the fact, of so-called security lapses invoked by JFK].
11/18: JFK's Florida trip: Miami advance agent DeFreese admitted to the HSCA that "a threat did surface in connection with the Miami trip...there was an active threat against the President which the Secret Service was aware in November 1963 in the period immediately prior to JFK's trip to Miami made by a GROUP OF PEOPLE" (emphasis added). In addition to this threat info., and separate from the 11/9 Milteer threat, a CO2 PRS file, released to the HSCA on 5/3/78 and available only recently reveals yet another threat subject: John Warrington. Kinney told me of an unspecified "organized crime" threat related to this same trip. [this is also the trip where, despite numerous films, photos, and interviews to the contrary, JFK allegedly ordered the agents off the rear of his limo, cited as causing peril in Dallas on 11/22/63 from such diverse people as William Manchester and current Secret Service Director Lewis Merletti!]
11/21-11/22: Texas trip (U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and Senator William Fulbright warn JFK not to go to Dallas)---
11/21: DNC advance man Marty Underwood gets "all sorts of rumors", 18 hours before the assassination, that Kennedy was to be killed in Dallas. Marty even conveys this to JFK, who tells him, "Marty, you worry about me too much; Advance agent Winston Lawson wrote in his report that "Agent Bennett was REMINDED that he would work Presidential follow-up car on the movement."
11/22: While SA Bennett rides in the Secret Service follow-up car, scanning the people lining the streets, President Kennedy is brutally cut down right in front of him.
AFTER the assassination: Bennett's observations---via his allegedly contemporaneous handwritten notes from 11/22/63---were used by Chief Rowley to buttress the notion that Kennedy was struck in the back from the REAR, in spite of the films/ photos that appear to depict Bennett looking away from JFK, a point made by Lifton, Evica, Newcomb, and several others before me. But this is almost ancillary to the major point made herein:
WAS PRS AGENT GLEN BENNETT MONITORING MORTAL THREATS TO JFK'S LIFE, MADE IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, AND WAS THIS COVERED UP AFTERWARDS? IS THIS THE REASON FOR THE CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS--AND THE TIMING---OF BENNETT'S PARTICIPATION IN THE SECOND NY TRIP, THE FLORIDA TRIP, AND THE TEXAS TRIP? DID BENNETT RIDE IN THE FOLLOW-UP CAR ON THESE TRIPS FOR THIS PURPOSE? I BELIEVE SO. WHILE GLEN BENNETT IS STILL ALIVE, HE SHOULD BE GRANTED IMMUNITY AND GIVEN A CHANCE TO TELL THE TRUTH.
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6:30 p.m. on 11/22/63
At some point during this early evening, CIA agent (and former editor at LIFE magazine) Gary Underhill drives out of Washington D.C. and heads for New York -- and the home of Robert Fitzsimmons on Long Island. (Fitzsimmons and his wife Charlene, are longtime friends whom Underhill feels he can trust.) Bob is sleeping; Charlene is awake.
Underhill tells Charlene that he fears for his life and plans on leaving the country. "I've got to get on a boat... I'm really afraid for my life." Upon questioning by Charlene, Underhill goes on to explain that he has information about the Kennedy assassination and that "Oswald is a patsy. They set him up. It's too much. The [curse] have done something outrageous. They've killed the President! I've been listening and hearing things. I couldn't believe they'd get away with it, but they did!" Underhill, emotionally distraught, continues to explain, "They've gone mad! They are a bunch of gun runners and drug runners -- a real violence group. God, the CIA is under enough pressure already without that bunch in SE Asia.... I know who they are. That's the problem. They know I know. That's why I'm here."
Underhill begs Charlene to help hide him, and she consents to let him stay for a few hours until Bob awakens -- then possibly Bob will leave Gary a key while the couple vacations in Spain, a trip they have previously planned on taking with departure, ironically, taking place this very day. "No, that is alright" Underhill says, "Maybe I shouldn't leave the country." Underhill turns towards the door. "I'll be back in a couple of hours." He does not return. Underhill returns quietly to Washington and begins investigating JFK's assassination on his own. He mentions his efforts to another friend, Asher Brynes, of the New Republic, but probably no one else.
In six months, Underhill will be dead -- "suicide." He will be shot behind his left ear. Yet, Underhill is right-handed.
Notice how Underhill was a CIA AGENT and a former EDITOR of LIFE magazine! This same magazine would pretty much convince many that LHO was guilty by putting one of the BYP’s on it its February 1964 cover. Many agents work for the media as this began after WWII with “Operation Mockingbird.”
Around 11:30 a.m. on 11/22/63 while at his home in Miami Beach, Florida John Martino and his wife Robyn are talking about going to the Americana for lunch. When an announcement comes over the radio mentioning JFK's visit to Dallas, Robyn says John tells her "They're going to kill him. They're going to kill him when he gets to Dallas." (John is a CIA-Mafia operative)
As the clock turned on JFK’s last day (12:00 a.m. 11/22/63) of life this occurred.
Madrid, Spain - the CIA reports hearing from a Cuban journalist who claims to have received a letter stating that GPIDEAL (President Kennedy) will be killed today.
At 10:00 on 11/22/63 our future president, George H.W. Bush calls the FBI to report that a man by the name of James Parrott has been talking of killing JFK when he comes to Houston. Bush is the chairman of the Harris County Republican Organization and a supporter of Goldwater. How and why he had this information is a mystery, but shows others were talking of killing JFK too. The odd thing here is Parrot would wind up being a SPEECHWRITER for Bush later on!
Also, George “Poppy” Bush’s name, address and phone number will be found in George De Mohrenschildt’s address book.
At 10:30 a.m. on 11/22/63 The 112th Military Intelligence Group at the 4th Army headquarters at Fort Sam Houston is told to "stand down" rather than report for duty in Dallas, over the protest of the unit commander, Col. Maximillian Reich. Nevertheless, Lt. Col. George Whitmeyer, the commander of the local Army intelligence reserve, will be in the police pilot car which will proceed the motorcade in Dallas, and an Army intelligence man is with FBI man Hosty 45 minutes before the parade, on Main St. It will later be revealed that the 112th MI Group, headquartered in Dallas, had possessed a file on a man called "Harvey Lee Oswald," and they are apparently swift in giving Dallas Police Department (DPD) information on Oswald. They also knew about his A.J. Hidell alias despite him having only used it twice (allegedly) to purchase the rifle and pistol. They never passed on their records to the WC for review.
Two important Secret Service reports regarding possible assassination attempts on JFK have now been transmitted to other field offices. The only field office NOT to receive these two reports is the office in Dallas, Texas.
Also around this time the CIA turns over a picture to the FBI which reports to show LHO leaving a suspect embassy in Mexico City (CIA asserts one time it is the Cuban embassy and another time that it is the Soviet embassy.) The photo, as since proved, is not LHO. Was the CIA preparing the “lamb” for slaughter?
A very interesting note to show INSIDER knowledge of the assassination is this one. At 11:17 a.m. Air Force one (code name "Angel") takes off from Ft. Worth. During the flight to Dallas, JFK goes over the morning's Intelligence Checklist. A CIA analyst has included in this report a "copy" of the bullfighter's verse that JFK had recited at State on October 16, 1962, just after he was told about the missiles in Cuba:
"Bullfight critics ranked in rows
Crowd the enormous Plaza full;
But only One is there who knows,
And he is the man who fights the bull."
According to another publication, this verse is included in the first intelligence report given to LBJ by the CIA after he became President. Was the CIA giving JFK a “heads up” as what to expect in Dallas?
Here are some more in chronological order that should raise your eyebrows.
12:05 p.m.
In London (6:05 p.m. Greenwich Time) a newspaper reporter in Cambridge, England, receives an anonymous telephone call. The male caller tells the reporter to contact the American Embassy in London as they will have some big news to give the reporter.
12:10 p.m.
(California) A telephone company executive says that a woman caller is overheard whispering: "The President is going to be killed." Ray Sheehan, manager of the Oxnard division of the General Telephone Co., says the caller "stumbled into our operator's circuits," perhaps by misdialing. Sheehan says the woman "seemed a little bit disturbed." Besides predicting the President's death, he says, "she mumbled several incoherent things." Sheehan said the call was reported to the LA FBI division, but not until after the President had been shot.
Sheehan said until the President had been shot it was assumed to be a crank call, and it was untraceable. All he could say was it originated in Oxford-Camarillo area, some 50 miles north of LA. Sheehan was called into the call by a telephone supervisor to verify what she was hearing. Both of them heard the caller say the President will be shot.
12:29 p.m.
Lyndon Johnson's SS detail is already "on the alert." Photographic evidence reveals that the left rear side door to Johnson's SS back-up car is already being held open. This fact, in and of itself, may not be unusual since there are reports that the car door was held open for the ENTIRE motorcade.
Local Dallas newspaper reporters have been joking all day about when and where "the shooting will start."
Geneva Hine, the only employee in the Depository's second floor offices, observes the electrical power and telephone go dead. The WC will not question a single employee, including building manager Roy Truly, about the mysterious interruption of electric or telephone service, nor will they ask the location of the electric and telephone panels. Moments after the shooting Ms. Hine knocks on the door of Southwestern Publishing (Room 203 in the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD)). She sees a woman through the opaque glass, hears her talking on the phone, and continues knocking on the door, but the woman never answers.
Researcher John Armstrong has questioned why a phone worked in one office when electrical service and telephone service went dead everywhere else in the TSBD. The woman using the phone, Mrs. John L (Carol) Hughes, was NOT questioned by the WC.
12:30 p.m.
It should be noted that all of H.L. Hunt's offices are on Elm St. These include: the Dallas headquarters of Placid Oil are located at 2500 First National Bank Building. H.L.H. Products are located at 700 Mercantile Bank Building, but most of Hunt's businesses are grouped at 1401 Elm Street: Hunt Oil Co., Hunt Petroleum Corp., Hunt Caroline Trust Estate, Hunt H.L., Jr., Hunt Hassie Trust, Hunt International Petroleum Company, Hunt Lamar, Hunt Lamar Trust Estate, Hunt Margaret Trust Estate, Hunt N.B., Hunt Nelson Bunker, Hunt W.H., Hunt William Herbert Trust Estate, etc.
He should be noted that at 12:23 p.m. the motorcade passed the offices of H.L. Hunt. He was on the 7th floor of the Mercantile Building and he watched JFK ride towards Dealey Plaza. Moments later he is escorted by six men in two cars, Hunt leaves the center of Dallas without even stopping by his house. He eventually flies to Mexico (Pat Kirkwood maybe?) where he will stay for a month. He will eventually be joined by General Edwin Walker. He will not return until Christmas. (There is also the "Torbitt" Document which says Hunt and his family were flown to New York City on orders from Hoover. Five FBI agents keep Hunt and his family at a hotel for three weeks until it is determined that Hunt's alleged part in the assassination will not be made public. Other reports place him in Washington D.C. following the assassination.)
Altgen's famous photo shows a man who appears to be a "dead ringer" for Lou Conein - famed for his CIA exploits in Southeast Asia. In the Altgen's photo the man stands at the corner of Main and Houston, smiling as he watches the motorcade passes.
Rose Cheramie, now convalescing at a hospital in Jackson, Louisiana, is watching television with several nurses when a spot report about JFK's motorcade comes on. She says, "This is when it is going to happen!" The nurses dismiss her remarks - until moments later. Cheramie has also told one of the hospital's interns "...that one of the men involved in the plot was named Jack Rubinstein."
Can all these be just coincidences? I doubt it. There is NO way all these people, and others, would hear about this IF LHO was the sole assassin as claimed by the WC.