HSCA Volume XII: the Assassination of President John
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Warren Panel, Under Attacks, Stands Firm on Its Findings in Kennedy Death 3 Years Ago
1"ra NYTimes 22 Nov. 1966 Warren Panel, Under Attacks, Stands Firm on Its Findings in Kennedy Death 3 Years Ago new evidence to justify any re-+ chapter written for a French any portion thereof prior. to By PETER KIHSS consideration or any change in translation to be published by Nov. 22, 1968." On the third anniversary of the conclusions of the commis- !Editions Arthaud this week. A spokesman for Robert Ken- sion." In this Mr. Lane offered a President John F. Kennedy's, nedy, now Senator from New Another commissioner, Son- five-shot hypothesis. This would York, said yesterday -that Mr. assassination today, the two-' ateor John Sherman Cooper, Re- have a bul]gt strike President! Kennedy had no comment on year-old Warren Commission re publican of Kentucky, was on Kennedy in the back, and a the Kilduff charge. Mr. Man- port on his death is the subject his way home from Madrid to second bullet hit him in the chester was reported by The of intensive attacks. But com- Washington. But an associate throat from the front.' A third 'Associated- Press to be. travel- said the senator had been say- bullet would hit Governor Con- ling with his family in Europe mission members uphold their ing that everything brought up nally. A fourth would miss the findings that a 'lone assassin, and "unavailable for comment" in recent books and articles had President's limousine, but shat- Look magazine said, "we Lee Harvey Oswald, was guilty. been pursued and deliberated ter off a sideWalk curb to graze have received no request from Malcolm Kilduff, acting White over by the commission and tha a spectator, James R. -
Chapter 7 the Assassination
Chapter 7: November 22, 1963 Chapter 7 The assassination 1 Introduction Our interest in reviewing the information that is today available to us regarding the events of November 22, 1963, quite naturally focuses on the question as to whether President Kennedy was killed by a lone assassin or by a conspiracy. Other questions pale by comparison to this first and most important question. As we review the eyewitness testimony, we see that the conclusion is not difficult to reach -- that indeed, the President was shot both from the front and the rear. This conclusion can be reached by a consideration of several kinds of evidence: v where the eyewitnesses heard the shots coming from; v eyewitness accounts of the spacing of the shots, which came too close together for the lone assassin hypothesis to be maintained; v the total number of shots was too large for the lone assassin hypothesis to be maintained; v the early shot hitting the President was not the same as the shot hitting Governor Connally, invalidating the lone assassin hypothesis. 1 The route through Dallas The final decision for the President's route in Dallas was determined by Secret Service agent Winston Lawson, on Thursday, November 14.1 The WCR states that "Lawson was not specifi- cally instructed [on Nov. 8] to select the parade route, but he understood that this was one of his functions. Even before the Trade Mart had been definitely selected, Lawson and Sorrels began to consider the best motorcade route from Love Field to the Trade Mart. On November 14, Law- son and Sorrels attended a meeting at Love Field and on their return to Dallas drove over the route which Sorrels believed best suited for the proposed motorcade."2 The route was reviewed and approved by Chief of Police Jesse Curry, Asst. -
The JFK Assassination and the Politics and Culture of Conspiracy Theory
A Paranoid Style? : The JFK Assassination and the Politics and Culture of Conspiracy Theory Joseph Broadbent Degree of Masters of Arts by Research University of East Anglia School of American Studies January 2014 This copy of the thesis has been supplied on condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with the author and that use of any information derived there from must be in accordance with current UK Copyright Law. In addition, any quotation or extract must include full attribution. 2 Abstract This thesis analyses the phenomenon of conspiracy theory, using the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as a case study. Doubt is the root cause of conspiracy theory, stemming from both the innate biases all humans exhibit, and a traumatic experience – in this case the assassination of JFK. This thesis argues that conspiracy theories are created and take hold because of a predisposition toward conspiracy theory, a misinterpretation of a central piece of evidence, such as the Zapruder film, and agency panic, where dispossession causes one to feel as if their agency is under threat. Conspiracy theory can provide believers with many emotions which appear to the individual to not be available elsewhere, namely closure, comfort, control, and a sense of leisure. Using the assassination of JFK, this thesis examines the role of conspiracy theory in modern American society. It weighs up the benefits of conspiracy theory, such as it is an example of free speech and it can aid transparency, with the negatives: that it can possibly cause harm to its adherents and their dependants because of a belief in ends justifying the means. -
An Examination of the Presidency of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Christina Paige Jones East Tennessee State University
East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Works 5-2001 The ndE of Camelot: An Examination of the Presidency of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Christina Paige Jones East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Jones, Christina Paige, "The ndE of Camelot: An Examination of the Presidency of John F. Kennedy in 1963." (2001). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 114. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/114 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE END OF CAMELOT: AN EXAMINATION OF THE PRESIDENCY OF JOHN F. KENNEDY IN 1963 _______________ A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of History East Tennessee State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Arts in History _______________ by Christina Paige Jones May 2001 _______________ Dr. Elwood Watson, Chair Dr. Stephen Fritz Dr. Dale Schmitt Keywords: John F. Kennedy, Civil Rights, Vietnam War ABSTRACT THE END OF CAMELOT: AN EXAMINATION OF THE PRESIDENCY OF JOHN F. KENNEDY IN 1963 by Christina Paige Jones This thesis addresses events and issues that occurred in 1963, how President Kennedy responded to them, and what followed after Kennedy’s assassination. This thesis was created by using books published about Kennedy, articles from magazines, documents, telegrams, speeches, and Internet sources. -
Fifty Years After the Assassination of John F
FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, NOVA ASKS: COULD MODERN SCIENCE AND INVESTIGATORS DO BETTER? COLD CASE JFK Produced for PBS by the WGBH Science Unit Premieres Wednesday, November 13 at 9PM/8c on PBS www.pbs.org/nova www.facebook.com/novaonline Twitter: @novapbs [BOSTON] -- The 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has fueled dark rumors of conspiracies for decades. Now, 50 years later, what can mod- ern science tell us about the shooting in Dallas—and the investigations that followed? NOVA and a team of foremost experts employ exclusive tests and sophisticated new technology to reconstruct and review the evidence in COLD CASE JFK, premiering on Wednesday, November 13 at 9PM/8c on PBS (check local listings). COLD CASE JFK is part of a series of specials airing in November on PBS to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s death. This collection provides viewers with a comprehensive slate of programs that deliver fresh, unbiased perspectives on a defining historical moment of the 20th century. This programming is part of an ongoing collaboration among PBS documentary, science, news and public affairs programs to bring audiences trustworthy, factual content tied to relevant national conversations. National corporate funding for NOVA In COLD CASE JFK, NOVA follows a unique group of experts trying to is provided by The Boeing Company. unravel the lingering mysteries of the Kennedy assassination. What should Major funding for NOVA is provided by The David H. Koch Fund for Science, the have been a homicide investigator’s best-case scenario—a crime that occurred Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in broad daylight in front of hundreds of witnesses—instead became a foren- and PBS viewers. -
THE TAKING of AMERICA, 1-2-3 by Richard E
THE TAKING OF AMERICA, 1-2-3 by Richard E. Sprague Richard E. Sprague 1976 Limited First Edition 1976 Revised Second Edition 1979 Updated Third Edition 1985 About the Author 2 Publisher's Word 3 Introduction 4 1. The Overview and the 1976 Election 5 2. The Power Control Group 8 3. You Can Fool the People 10 4. How It All BeganÐThe U-2 and the Bay of Pigs 18 5. The Assassination of John Kennedy 22 6. The Assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King and Lyndon B. Johnson's Withdrawal in 1968 34 7. The Control of the KennedysÐThreats & Chappaquiddick 37 8. 1972ÐMuskie, Wallace and McGovern 41 9. Control of the MediaÐ1967 to 1976 44 10. Techniques and Weapons and 100 Dead Conspirators and Witnesses 72 11. The Pardon and the Tapes 77 12. The Second Line of Defense and Cover-Ups in 1975-1976 84 13. The 1976 Election and Conspiracy Fever 88 14. Congress and the People 90 15. The Select Committee on Assassinations, The Intelligence Community and The News Media 93 16. 1984 Here We ComeÐ 110 17. The Final Cover-Up: How The CIA Controlled The House Select Committee on Assassinations 122 Appendix 133 -2- About the Author Richard E. Sprague is a pioneer in the ®eld of electronic computers and a leading American authority on Electronic Funds Transfer Systems (EFTS). Receiving his BSEE degreee from Purdue University in 1942, his computing career began when he was employed as an engineer for the computer group at Northrup Aircraft. He co-founded the Computer Research Corporation of Hawthorne, California in 1950, and by 1953, serving as Vice President of Sales, the company had sold more computers than any competitor. -
Lane Hits CIA with `Denial'
publisher and told them not to do 'Rush to Judgment,' " Lane said here yesterday. "Finally, one did fHolt, Reinhart and Winston]. I re- ceived death threats as well." Lane's latest book on the assas- sination, "Plausible Denial," met a similiar fate with major publishers, The small Thunder's Mouth Press agreed to do the book, offering Lane "the worst book contract I ever signed. I told my wife, 'I don't care, I don't care if they only print Mark Lane 5,000 copies. As long as it's pub- lished.' Well, it's now in its eighth printing. The first printing of 45,000 copies was sold out before there Lane hits was any advertising or reviews of the book." "Plausible Denial" was No. 3 on the Publisher's Weekly best-seller CIA with list last week and No. 5' on The New York Times list. However, the newspaper has declined to review `Denial' the book, Lane said, because "they say there's nothing new in it." Lane By Bob Hoover said. Post-Gazelle Stall Wrier Lane's contention in his new book is that the CIA killed Kennedy id you know Jack Ruby because the president had plans to worked for Richard Nix- abolish it in favor of a new intelli- on in 1947? Mark Lane gence agency headed by Robert D does and he has a gov- Kennedy. ernment document to prove it "The CIA is the most powerful Lane shows the document with a organization in the world today, sense of fresh incredulity, a youth- now that there's no KGB around. -
Zapruder Film
Zapruder film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Frame 150 from the Zapruder Film The Zapruder film is a silent, 8 mm color home movie shot by Abraham Zapruder in Dallas, Texas, in Dealey Plaza while standing near "the grassy knoll" during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. It is the definitive, most authoritative footage of the assassination. Contents [hide] • 1 Background • 2 History • 3 Use in "JFK" • 4 External links [edit] Background Zapruder filmed the scene with a Model 414 PD Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series Camera that operated via a spring-wound mechanism at an average tested speed of 18.3 frames-per-second. The entire Dealey Plaza exposed film frames lasts 26.6 seconds, with the presidential assassination sequence occupying 19.3 seconds. There are 486 frames altogether. The sequence is recorded on Kodak Kodachrome II 8 mm movie safety film. Zapruder, who suffered from vertigo, made the film while being steadied by his receptionist, Marilyn Sitzman, standing on the most western of two concrete pedestals which extend from the John Neely Bryan north pergola cement structure, overlooking Elm street in Dealey Plaza. President Kennedy's automobile was below and almost exactly in front of Zapruder on Elm Street, at the time of his fatal wound to the head. The film has been used by the Warren Commission and all subsequent investigations of the assassination. The Zapruder frames used by the Commission consist of exhibits 889–899 plus exhibits 901 and 902 (totaling less than 1 second of the actual 26.6 second film), published in the commission supporting volume XVIII. -
Was Connally the Real Target? Yes, Says a Forthcoming Book, Because Oswald Blamed the Texan for Stripping Him of the Only Thing He Ever Really Valued
The Assassination • COVER STORIES Was Connally the Real Target? Yes, says a forthcoming book, because Oswald blamed the Texan for stripping him of the only thing he ever really valued BY JAMES RESTON JR. On the 25th anniversary of the Navy. The former was a case of assassination of President John treason, however: FORT WORTH F Kennedy. fascination remains DEFECTOR CONFIRMS RED intense with the many loose ends BELIEFS. of the mystery. New theories about Oswald had dropped out of the crime are regularly proposed, high school after his freshman and old ones gain new adherents. year to join the Marine Corps. Was just one person responsible His three-year hitch in the corps for the murder? Or was a wider included electronics and radar conspiracy involved? And if so, training and concluded with a who was behind it, and what was tour in Atsugi, Japan, at a base the motive? What follows is an ex- from which U-2 aircraft took off cerpt from a forthcoming book for Russia. The Fort Worth about John B. Connally suggest- Star-Telegram reported in 1959 ing that Lee Harvey Oswald was that the turncoat had read Das not gunning for J.F.K. but for the MARINA OSWALD'S PHOTO OF HER "HuNrEs. FOR FASCISTS" Kapital as he defended freedom Governor of Texas. in Japan, had saved all his mon- ey—S1,600—to travel to the So- THE ASSASSIN viet Union, and had thought of nothing besides defection. Through his campaign in the fall of 1962, with his victory and his Once on Soviet soil, Oswald told his Intourist agent, a stolid accession to the governorship in January 1963, and with his first woman named Rimma, that he wished to apply for Soviet citi- bold speeches as the chief executive of Texas, John Connally zenship. -
Pu Rsuitof Re Cordsand in Form At
CHAPTER 7 PU R S U I T O F RE C O R D S A N D I N F O R M AT I O N F R O M NO N- FE D E R A L S O U R C E S I firmly believe that the Board has an obligation to seek out assassination records from all sources; public and private. The goal of Congress in passing S. 3006 was to ensure broadest possible disclosure of the records relating to the assassination. The fact that a document exists only in private hands should not deter the Board in any way from seeking to compel its transmission to the National Archives.—Judge Tunheim at the Review Board nomination hearings. Through fair and impartial application of the criteria developed by the Review Board and keeping in mind always the express purposes of the enabling legis- lation, I believe that the Review Board should be as aggressive as it needs to be to achieve disclosure of relevant records. That also applies to records held by private citizens...—William Joyce at the Review Board nomination hearings. A. PURSUIT OF RECORDS AND PAPERS FROM A P news reports of President Kennedy’s PRIVATE CITIZENS AND ORGANIZATIONS assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald’s arrest, Jack Ruby’s shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, The Review Board actively encouraged pri- and President Kennedy’s funeral. Barnes, a vate citizens and organizations who pos- San Francisco-based A P reporter in 1963, sessed assassination records to donate them obtained permission from his editor to keep to the JFK Collection to make the collection the wire copy, which would otherwise have as historically rich as possible. -
November 22 1963 the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy A
November 22 1963 The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy A Lincoln City Libraries Booklist compiled on the 50th Anniversary of the Historic Events At 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, while traveling in an open-air motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America, was assassinated by gunfire from the Texas School Book Depository, alongside the presidential motorcade route. Arrested later that day was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union and then returned to the U.S. in 1962. Arraigned for the murder of Kennedy and Dallas police office J.D. Tippit, Oswald himself was killed by Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby while he was being transferred between jails. An official governmental investigation into the assassination – the President’s Commission on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, chaired by Earl Warren (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States) – concluded in an 889-page report, released in September 1964, that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy, as did Ruby in later killing Oswald. Conspiracy theories have abounded in the decades following the Warren Commission’s findings, and numerous other investigations of the assassination have resulted in a variety of other “official” opinions. The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, formed in 1976, released a report in 1979 that concluded that although Oswald was, indeed the “lone shooter”, there may very well have been a conspiracy behind his actions to assassinate Kennedy. -
The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Serious Wounding of Governor John B
741 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Congressional Research Service WASMNGTON, D.C. mss THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F . KENNEDY : A CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Suzanne Cavanagh Analyst in American National Government Government Division and Sherry Shapiro Bibliographer in Government and American Law Library Services Division March 28, 1979 742 FOREWORD This comprehensive bibliography consists of every relevant book citation that could be found in the Library's card catalog and Books in Print . Periodical literature was identified (and selectivelyin cluded from the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature ; Public Affairs Information Service P .A .I .S . ; International Social Science and Humani- Indexties , Ameiica : History and Life ; Social Science Citation Index ; Magazine Index ; Psychology Abstracts ; Sociological Abstracts ; Comprehen- sive Dissertation Abstracts ; and the CBS's Bibliographic CitationFile . Some of the noted periodical sources are from computerized, on-line data bases external to the Library of Congress . Other sources referred to in compiling the bibliography were : The Kennedy Assassination and the Warren Report ; Selected References, by Richard Malow which is a CRS multilith report, GGR-119, published Sept . 23, 1966 (6 p .) ; American Political Assassinations ; A Bibliography of Works Pub- lished 1963-1970 related to the Assassination of John F . Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert F . Kennedy, [in pamphlet form] compiled by the Committee to Investigate Assassinations, with a forward by Bernard Fensterwald, Jr ., 927 15th St ., N .W ., Washington, D .C . ; 1973, 28 p . John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1917-1963 ; A Chronological List of References, [in pamphlet form] by the Bibliography and Reference Correspondence Section of the Library of Con- gress, Washington, D .C ., 1964, 68 p .