JFK at 50: The Assassination of America

The evidence substantiating the scenario of the assassination as a national security event is extensive and compelling.  It has generated enormous resistance even within the JFK community, where several of those who presented their findings in Santa Barbara were banned in a massive effort to suppress the truth and preserve the illusion that it was an event of a different kind. The view that “the Mafia did it” or “the Cubans did it” or “the KGB did it” are frequently advanced, but none of them could possibly have affected the cover-up that was indispensable to deceiving the American public for so long.

The experts who assembled for this unique conference–which explained how it was done, who was responsible and why, and how it was covered up–have invested decades upon decades of their lives to research on crucial aspects of the case, including the medical, the ballistic, and the film and photographic evidence. They include the leading authorities on the role of Lyndon Baines Johnson, on the involvement of George H.W. Bush, on the management of the cover-up, on the death of key witnesses intimately related to JFK and by others who personally knew the man accused of killing him.  If you were there, you understand what went down. Here’s a chance for those who were not with us in Santa Barbara for the 50th to “catch up”.

Phillip F. Nelson is the author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination (2nd revised edition, 2011), in which he explains that Lyndon Baines Johnson was the cardinal instigator of the plot to kill JFK. LBJ forced his way onto the ticket as the Vice Presidential nominee in Los Angeles in 1960, telling reporters that he had studied history and had discovered that 1/4 of US Presidents had not survived their terms. He said he was “a gambling man”, but LBJ only bet on sure things. Phillip explains how Lyndon Johnson was uniquely positioned to assemble the key men–from the financiers to the operational planners and the cover-up experts–to complete the job. And it was all done at the expense of a “patsy” named Lee Harvey Oswald.

John Hankey, an expert on the role of George H.W. Bush in the assassination of JFK, has produced and directed “JFK II: The Bush Connection” (2003), which is also known as “Dark Legacy: George Bush and the Murder of John Kennedy”.  He also authored “Was George H.W. Bush involved in the assassination of JFK?” (2011).  John has been teaching history and English in the Los Angeles City school system for nearly three decades, including exploring alternative approaches that suggest revisions to what passes for “history” in the courses and texts that are used for instruction in American history.

Peter Janney grew up in Washington D.C. during the Cold War era of the 1950s and 1960s. His father Wistar was a senior career CIA official. The Janney family was intimately involved with many of the Washington political elite that included the family of Mary and Cord Meyer, as well as other high-ranking CIA officials such as Richard Helms, James Jesus Angleton, Tracy Barnes, Desmond FitzGerald, and William Colby. In his gripping book, Mary’s Mosaic (2012), Peter illuminates the magnitude of real-life evil perpetrated by the CIA far beyond that which most of us could never imagine. A graduate of Princeton, Peter is a clinical psychologist who lives by the sea in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Larry Rivera, the son of a career military man who served as CID officer in the Army, was residing in Germany on 22 November  1963 and, at age 6, will never forget his father’s reaction upon hearing of JFK’s murder: “Johnson!” Larry is a Certified Network Engineer, who also owns an automotive wholesale parts business. He has made a lifelong study of the JFK assassination.  He first visited Dealey Plaza in 1991 and  subsequently attended The ASK Symposium in 1993 for the 30th observance. He has done extensive work on Billy Lovelady and on Joe Molina and recently published on Buell Wesley Frazier and the Altgens6.

Ralph C. Cinque has worked in the health field as a chiropractor and health spa operator, and he is the former president of an international physicians’ group. Ralph has also been an avid student of the JFK assassination for many years, and he has had a series of articles on the assassination published on Veterans Today and on LewRockwell.com. It was his observation that the clothing that Doorman was wearing rather than his facial features was the key to his identification, which has proven to be exactly right.  He has been the moving force behind and the founder of the Oswald Innocence Campaign.

James H. Fetzer, Ph.D., a former Marine Corps officer and McKnight University Professor Emeritus on the Duluth Campus of the University of Minnesota, has chaired or co-chaired four national conferences on the death of JFK. He produced the 4.5-hour long documentary JFK: The Assassination, the Cover-Up, and Beyond (1994), as well as edited Assassination Science (1998), Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000) and The Great Zapruder Film Hoax (2003). Jim co-edits assassinationresearch.com, an on-line journal for the advanced study of the death of JFK, with John P. Costella, Ph.D. His columns on Veterans Today, including on JFK, are widely read.

Our stand is unequivocal: the hit was ordered by the highest levels of government, including key figures in the CIA, the FBI, the US military and from within Kennedy’s own administration, including his own Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson. Precisely as he claimed, Oswald was “a patsy”: he was framed to distract attention from those who were responsible. He was even captured in a famous photograph standing in the doorway at the time of the shooting, which is the critical fact about the assassination that the Americn government has sought to suppress for the past 50 years. And Judyth Vary Baker has now confirmed that crucial proposition beyond any reasonable doubt. Follow the evidence, as we explain it here, and you will understand why the death of JFK was in effect the assassination of America.

Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, is McKnight Professor Emeritus at  the University of Minnesota Duluth. [NOTE: This is one in a series of articles being republished since veterans today.com deleted them in a dispute with its Senior Editor, Gordon Duff, about which I have since written several articles.]