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Garrison’S the Middle East Watergate Chappaquiddick Quest for Justice Issue 001 • April / May 2019 • Inaugural Edition g arrison. THE JOURNAL OF HISTORY & DEEP POLITICS WHY THE CIA KILLED RFK by Lisa Pease Jim DiEugenio Jim Hougan Joseph Green William Davy John F. Kennedy Hougan, Liddy, Ted Kennedy, The Eleventh Hour: Faces The Post, & Richard Nixon, & Jim Garrison’s The Middle East Watergate Chappaquiddick Quest for Justice Caitlin Johnstone • Walt Brown • Randolph Benson • Richard Bartholomew Keith Harmon Snow • David Denton • Emma Best • Donald Jeffries • Nicholas Levis GARRISON | VOLUME 01 ISSUE 01 | i Featuring a newly released Kenn Thomas interview with John Judge discussing 9/11 ii | GARRISON | APR / MAY 2019 | [email protected] “We choose to... do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” President John F. Kennedy Rice University, Houston, Texas September 12, 1962 GARRISON | VOLUME 01 ISSUE 01 | 1 CHALLENGING THE HISTORICAL ESTABLISHMENT AND TEXTBOOK CONGLOMERATES garrison. A JOURNAL OF HISTORY & DEEP POLITICS APRIL / MAY 2019 • ISSUE 001 Fighting the Establishment’s Narratives Why the CIA Killed RFK BY CAITLIN JOHNSTONE BY LISA PEASE How can alternative communities When Senator Robert F. Kennedy 5 positively and genuinely challenge 58 was murdered in 1968, gone was the establishment’s narratives, first and the hope that a more honest investigation foremost, by getting clear on their own into the assassination of his brother mental narratives? In a mainstream would ever be opened. Who was most media-driven world, how do we all get responsible for RFK’s assassination? Lisa to a place of clarity that allows us to Pease, the author of A Lie Too Big to Fail, understand who we are and what we are looks at the central reason why the CIA even fighting for? killed RFK? John Judge: The 9/11 Interview Kennedy, Nixon & Chappaquiddick BY KENN THOMAS BY JOSEPH E. GREEN In 2005, three-and-a-half years On July 18, 1969, Ted Kennedy’s 22 after 9/11, Kenn Thomas of 68 car was driven off a bridge and Steamshovel Press visited John Judge into Poucha Pond on Chappaquiddick in Washington, D.C. to discuss the events Island. Mary Jo Kopechne died inside the of September 11th. This is part one of car when help did not arrive for hours. that interview that covers responsibility Ted Kennedy has taken the brunt of the for 9/11, hijacker identities, the Unocal blame, but Joseph Green wonders if the pipeline, and the Pakistani ISI. real answers to Chappaquiddick may be found within the mysteries of the Nixon Hougan, Liddy, the Post & Watergate tapes. BY JIM HOUGAN The Eleventh Hour: Former Democratic National Jim Garrison’s Quest for Justice, Part II Committee (DNC) secretary Ida 35 BY WILLIAM DAVY “Maxie” Wells sued G. Gordon Liddy for daring to present an alternative After the trial of Clay Shaw ended explanation to The Washington Post 74 in 1969, Jim Garrison could have narrative of the Watergate break-ins. essentially given up, a defeated man. Liddy’s version of events centered But he didn’t. He kept writing, he kept around what Det. Carl Shoffler found speaking, and when the HSCA convened, inside the mouth of one of the burglars. some of its talented investigators had That one item alone casts doubt on the a keen interest in what he knew. Jim Larry O’ Brien myth and led Liddy and Garrison was also a prolific writer, and Wells to court. in this article William Davy looks at one of his unpublished works, as well as the Kennedy Faces the Middle East work that carried him through the end of his life. BY JAMES DIEUGENIO When John F. Kennedy entered Genocide in Rwanda 47 the oval office in January 1961, BY KEITH HARMON SNOW he faced many tense situations within and outside of the U.S. One situation Rwanda, Central Africa, 1994. In he inherited was the strife between 92 a mere 100 days, over a million Egypt’s Gamal Nasser and Israel’s David Rwandans were slaughtered in what Ben-Gurion. Kennedy was as open was one of the worst cases of genocide in as any president has been in regard the history of mankind. It was the RPA/F to forging positive relationships with forces of U.S.-trained Paul Kagame the nonaligned world. But how would that stopped the brutality and brought he balance his admiration for Nasser Rwanda to order. Or was it? Keith with the Eisenhower administration’s Harmon Snow explores what really precedent for supporting Israel fully? happened in Rwanda. 2 | GARRISON | APR / MAY 2019 | [email protected] garrison. Thanks for the Road Our Mission Statement That Led Us Here he mission of garrison is to gather a talented We do not pretend to exist in a vacuum, nor do we team of writers, researchers, illustrators, feign a secret origin that stems from a moment of Tphotographers, and editors to produce a vast wisdom and clarity. We weren’t even bitten by magazine that will challenge the mainstream a radioactive spider. We are the linear result of those media, historical establishment, and textbook publications that have come before us. We are both conglomerates that control information today. grateful and thankful to be the next step in a long line We will ultimately tackle controversial topics of publishers who have created challenging, important in unique ways and with a variety of political, work over the last 60 years. philosophical, and ideological perspectives. We This journal is an extension of Jonathan Marshall’s are a non-partisan magazine that seeks not to Parapolitics, Robin Ramsay’s Lobster, Jim DiEugenio disparage any race, religion, culture, creed, gender and Lisa Pease’s Probe Magazine, Kenn Thomas’s or ideology. Steamshovel Press, Edward Keating’s Ramparts, Paul When individuals need taken to task, we will do Krassner’s The Realist, Max Scherr’s Berkeley Barb, that. When an ideology fails historical truth, we will Bill Schaap’s CovertAction Quarterly, and Paranoia challenge it. When corporatist politicians and the magazine. mainstream media begin to push against the first We would also lke to thank Walt Brown for the amendment freedoms of the people, we will push JFKDPQ and Jerry Rose for The Third (and Fourth) back. When there is research to be done on some Decade publications. of the most consequential events and personalities A vital thank you must be given to the thousands in history, we will present it to you. of individuals who have created zines in their own Currently, the identity politics of both the Left homes, schools, and dorm rooms. They wrote what and the Right have left many of us wondering was not being written and wrapped it in their own if the major American political parties are two creative veils. These spirited creators left a legacy for sides of the same coin. Their strategy of divide us that is as crucial as that of the funded publications. and conquer is working. The Deep State, the assassinocracy, and the corruptors have no party. They know only entrenched power and inhumane levels of gain. Within the pages of garrison, we will offer explanations stemming from vast research and collaborative thought. In the end, this is something we will do together: the garrison team and our garrison. readers. A JOURNAL OF HISTORY & DEEP POLITICS Published, Edited, Designed, and Financed Also Featuring: by S.T. Patrick This journal, garrison, is published, edited, • From a Discreet Home Office. .4 designed, and financed by S.T. Patrick. • JFK in Springfield. 8 For address changes, status of orders, and • Bartholoviews by Richard Bartholomew. .12 bulk distribution inquiries, please e-mail us at [email protected]. All • A Blast from Benson by Randolph Benson. .20 rights reserved, except that educators may • William Harvey by David Denton. 32 make copies of articles for classroom or • The Warren Omission by Walt Brown, PhD. 80 homeschool use only. Article suggestions • FBI vs. Ramparts Magazine by Emma Best. 82 and manuscripts may be sent to the e-mail • Rice-Zelikow Connection by Nicholas Levis. 84 address above. The editor of garrison does not guarantee that all work submitted by • Inside the Hilo Herald Warning. 89 e-mail will be published. • Commentary by Douglas Horne. 90 Advertising: [email protected] • U.S. Gov’t Uses Humans by Donald Jeffries. .107 Facebook: @TheGarrisonJournal • Letters to the Editor. .114 Twitter: @GarrisonJournal GARRISON | VOLUME 01 ISSUE 01 | 3 FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK From a Discreet Home Office With a High-Powered Laptop Welcome to garrison. great writer is publishing a book now. Writers I want garrison to serve a series of unique are sharing important research in columns, on purposes within the various “-truth communities.” message boards, in blogs, and on podcasts of Through our choices of writers, content, and art, various kinds. I would like to bring that deserving we naturally serve to challenge the historical work to print. establishment that dominates academia today. I will be seeking submissions from writers who It’s an elitist, closed society where the price of not only challenge the mainstream narratives, entry is often years of expensive, rigid adherence but also the alternative ones. As Caitlin Johnstone to the masters of the historical universe. describes in our opening article, quite often Much like Hollywood, mainstream journalism, alternative movements get just as rigid as the and government education, it is a field that likes mainstream media in their own beliefs.
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