by Jim Fetzer Josiah Thompson represents an especially stunning example of disinformation dissemination within the JFK research community, which appears to date from the publication of Six Seconds in Dallas (1967), for which he was lionized and even received coverage in the then-prominent Saturday Evening Post (2 December 1967), with a cover story about three assassins having fired four shots, one from the top of the County Records Building, two from the alleged “sniper’s nest” in the Book Depository, and one from the grassy knoll. On his account, the first shot (from the Book Depository)…
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The JFK War: An Insider’s Guide to Assassination Research II
by Jim Fetzer Perhaps the most important trait of the human mind turns out to be the capacity to adjust your beliefs to the available evidence. When the available evidence changes, then our own subjective beliefs should follow suit, assuming that we are rational with respect to our beliefs. Rationality of belief, however, is not the only form of human rationality, which also concerns adopting actions that are appropriate, effective or reliable to accomplish our objectives, aims or goals. When we intend to deceive, mislead or otherwise misrepresent, we may pretend, feign…
The JFK War: An Insider’s Guide to Assassination Research
by Jim Fetzer As we approach the 50th observance of the death of our 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the disinformation campaign is reaching a fever pitch. The ops appear to believe that, if they can only manage public opinion past that historical landmark, then it will be “all downhill” because no one is going to care about a 50-year old crime! Some involve key figures and websites are familiar to those of us who have been engaged in serious research on the assassination, as I have been since 1992, when…
JFK at 50: The Assassination of America
by Jim Fetzer 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…
Jim Garrison, The Warren Report and the End of the “Magic Bullet” Absurdity
by Jim Fetzerwith Larry Rivera The crux of The Warren Commission Report (1964) is the claim that the same bullet that hit JFK in the back also hit Gov. John Connally, which the report itself downplays the “magic bullet” theory as “not necessary to any essential findings of the Commission”. That is complete rubbish, however, since if the same bullet did not both exit JFK’s throat and enter John Connally’s back, then those wounds have to be accounted for on the basis of separate shots and separate shooters, which implies a conspiracy to…
The Missing Bullet chicanery of Joseph Ball, Attorney at Law
by Larry Rivera with Jim Fetzer “As with Watergate, numerous lawyers were involved with the Warren Commission; in neither case did these lawyers act as lawyers. Rather, they participated in a cover-up and acted as accessories in serious crimes.”–Howard Roffman, Presumed Guilty (1976) “If it is not an act of God, it is a conspiracy.” Jim Marrs (“The Real Deal”, 5/28/13) Joseph Ball spanned most of the 20th century as one of the top lawyers in the country. He cut his teeth in the oil and gas industry in the 1920’s and was…
JFK, the CIA and The New York Times
by Jim Fetzer “The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” — William Colby, former CIA Director In 1977, Carl Bernstein, who would subsequently co-author All the President’s Men (1994) with Bob Woodward, one of the most celebrated books in American political history, published “The CIA and the Media”, Rolling Stone (October 20, 1977), reporting that, with respect to its infiltration of the American media, “By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc.” Those who lent their cooperation…
Did George H.W. Bush coordinate a JFK hit team?
by Richard Hooke George H.W. Bush, a Houston oil man, at the Texas School Book Depository, 22 November 1963 George H.W. Bush was working for the CIA at least as early as 1961; more than likely he was recruited in his college days, at Yale, when he was in the Skull and Bones Society. He and his wife Barbara moved to Houston where he ran an offshore oil drilling business, Zapata Offshore Co., which was a CIA front company with rigs located all over the world, making it very convenient…
JFK Conspiracy: The Bullet Hole in the Windshield
by Jim Fetzer Among the most controversial issues in JFK research has been the existence or not of a through-and-through hole in the windshield of the Lincoln limousine in which JFK was riding when he was assassinated in Dallas on 22 November 1963. As a long-time student of this question, I published an exceptional study by Douglas Weldon, “The Kennedy Limousine: Dallas 1963”, in Murder in Dealey Plaza (2000), in which he made the case for a shot from the above-ground sewer opening half-way between the roadway and the top of the…
What happened to JFK’s body? A cover-up “on the fly”
by Jim Fetzer with Douglas Horne EDITOR’S NOTE: For this study, I interviewed Douglas Horne , who served as the Chief Analyst for Military Records for theAssassination Records Review Board (ARRB), a five-member civilian panel established by Congress to declassify documents and records held by the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Service, and other agencies related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Its creation was motivated by the resurgence of interest in the case that was brought about by Oliver Stone’s “JFK”. George H.W. Bush, who was president at the time, adamantly opposed this legislation and, when it passed…
