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…
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…
