Reason and Rationality in Public Debate: The Case of JFK

by Jim Fetzer and Douglas Horne Photo published in LIFE incriminating Oswald As an illustration of the depravity of the main stream media in this country today, I have been struck by the astute observations of Douglas Horne, who was the Chief Analyst for Military Records for the Assassination Records Review Board, a five-member civilian board entrusted with the responsibility for declassifying documents and records held by the CIA, the NSA, the FBI and the Secret Service, among other agencies of the government, created by an act of Congress in the wake…

Tampering with the JFK Limo in the Altgens6

by Dennis Cimino and Jim Fetzer A significant amount of speculation has taken place over the years, regarding the photograph known to the world as the Altgens6, taken by AP photographer James “Ike “Altgens in Dealey Plaza, with his camera, on the day that President John F. Kennedy was brutally murdered by the CIA and other elements of the US Government, including the Secret Service and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff of our own American armed services. In the following work, some layers of the onion will be peeled back…

The James “Ike” Altgens JFK photo timeline

By Larry Rivera and Roy Schaeffer The chronology of one of the most famous photographs in history has been deliberately obscured Much has been written and speculated as to the authenticity and timing of the photographs taken by James “Ike” Altgens, an Associated Press photographer, on November 22, 1963. This article brings forward some unknown facts and dispels some of the myths that prevail in the research community to this day. The movements of James Altgens In May 1964, two key articles were published which brought national attention to 42…

The second JFK limo stop / Holding back the Altgens6

by Larry Rivera and Ralph Cinque with Jim Fetzer “Ironically, Billy Lovelady really was in the doorway, but he was standing to the left of a far more interesting figure, the alleged assassin of our 35th president”–Jim Fetzer The Saturday Evening Post (14 December 1963) As we approach the 51st observance of the death of JFK, more and more mysteries surrounding the assassination are succumbing to the research efforts of a new generation of students and scholars. Larry Rivera continues to astonish even those of us who have decades of research on…

The “grassy knoll” rider and JFK limo back seat

 by Larry Rivera with Jim Fetzer During the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) meetings reinvestigating JFK’s assassination (1977-78), it was very odd that Secret Service personnel were required to read from their notes what transpired. Anonymous writes, “I lived next door to Adrian G. (Mr. Pete) Vial, and he confided to me that after the assassination they (SS) were ordered to turn over all of their records, including their field notes, to the FBI.  He was very bitter about this. [It means that] if their testimony to HSCA was from any…

JFK en route to Parkland: Unpacking the Miller photograph

By Larry Rivera with Jim Fetzer “After that shooting incident, of course, pandemonium broke out. The Secret Service men, well trained in their jobs, immediately began fanning out into the crowd, looking for the assassin”–Walter Cronkite (22 November 1963) Walter Cronkite One of the most striking of more than 15 indications of Secret Service complicity in setting JFK up for the hit is that the motorcycle escort was cut down to four and instructed not to ride forward the rear wheels. One of the officers observed that it was the damnedest…

JFK Escort Officers Speak: The Fred Newcomb Interviews

by Larry Rivera and Jim Fetzer Clint Hill in sunglasses Among the most disputed issues in JFK research is whether or not the presidential limousine came to a halt after bullets began to be fired. New information about what happened during this crucial interval has now been made available in “The JFK Horsemen”, an article included in a new CD-ROM, “The Man with the Mona Lisa Smile”, by Richard Hooke and Larry Rivera (with special contributions by Jim Fetzer). As Jim has explained in many places, including several presentations on the assassination that…

Nix film contradicts Zapruder: More Proof of Fakery

by Jim Fetzer (with James Norwood) “The second she jumped up was the second that everyone there knew something horrible had happened,” Dr. Glover said. “This was the most sophisticated woman in the world, and she was climbing out of the back seat in a skirt and she was sliding across the trunk. You couldn’t say, ‘OK, he’s dead,’ but you knew it was horrible. It was beyond unimaginable.”–Toni Glover, Ph.D. Toni Glover, Ph.D., JFK witness The alteration of the home movies of the assassination of JFK is among the most powerful…

Did Zapruder film “the Zapruder film”?

by Jim Fetzer (with Mike Pincher)  At first consideration, the question sounds very odd on its face. How could Zapruder have not taken “the Zapruder film”? So here is some background. As many readers may be aware, I organized a JFK research group in 1992 of the most highly-qualified persons to ever study the case, including a world authority on the human brain, who was also an expert on wound ballistics; a Ph.D. in physics who was also an M.D. and board-qualified in radiation oncology; another M.D. who had been…

Two NPIC Zapruder Film Events: Analysis and Implications

by Douglas Horne (with Jim Fetzer) The authenticity of the Zapruder film and of the other home movies purportedly taken of the assassination in Dealey Plaza has been hotly contested since I (Jim Fetzer) first organized and moderated the first Zapruder Film Symposium during the JFK Lancer Conference in 1996.  We have accumulated an enormous quantity of confirming evidence since that time, where those who want to know what actually happened are better off reading the compilation of witness reports from those who were present, which John P. Costella, Ph.D.,…