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Building Myths, Burying Mistakes by Steve Perry City Pages 11/20/91 ii & LIGHT Building myths, burying mistakes by Steve Perry n November 21, 1903, three days after John Kennedy's essasaination and a Oday after Lee Harvey Oswald's mur- der, acting attorney general Nicholas Katzen- bieft sat down to draft a memo for Lyndon Johnson. The investigation had scarcely begun, but on that Monday morning when it was clear that the case would never go to trial. Karzen- bath wrote to Johnson aide Bill Moyers: "The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who art gill at large: and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at mill." That document is arse of many thousands in the film of Harold Weisberg. a former reporter and Senate investigator whom Esquire has called "the dean of assassination re- searchers." In Weisberg's view, the Kamen- barth memo became the blueprint for of policy: Make the anaurnation look like the work of an unstable loner to forestall ember- rinsing questions about why intellnenee agen- cies failed to uncover a plus. Working out of his home in Frederick. Maryland, the 78- year-old Weisberg has written several books Harold Weisberg, "the on the CM and amassed more than a qua, dean of assassination researchers," says well never know who conspired to kill Kennedy because the ter.million papa of prey iously secret files government never wanted to know. obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Hardly anyone ever comes to look at involving (pick two or three) Russums. Cuban reason is very simple. The government never going to tire himself, no he fired Batley. what he's got. "The people who write con- exiles, the CIA, nee-Nazis, the Dallas police, investigated the case, and never intended to_ And in firing him. he said that Baxley had spiracy theories aren't Interested," he says. the US. military. and a banoseaual nng- That may seem impossible to believe, but been infiltrated onto the staff by the CIA to "They're only interested in what they can Weisberg got n bootlegged copy of the script That gets to tome of the many records I got wreck the investigation. Well, nobody infil- torture into seeming to support preconcep- and dispatched it to Washington Post reporter under the Freedom of Information Act_ With trated Bexley. Everybody on the staff had liens of their own invention. For the most George Lamina. A story lambasting the proj- the crime not actually investigated, private objected to him, and Garrison hired him any- pan these records have not been looked at. ect followed, and it proved the fast of many. investigators have nothing on which to pro- And I make them available to everybody. I Medved Weisberg on the phone last week ceed. We don't have any real leads. There Do you think Garrison's investigation was The most recent and egregious case is that for an hour-long talk on Kennedy, Stone, and are too many theories that ought be reason- onto anything of merit? of Oliver Stoma" the dim prospects for our ever knowing any able. and you can't begin to eliminate from No. He made it all up is he went And It was Weisberg who started the avalanche more than we "mow now. them. It is and in ell probability will remain he never proved whin he mode up because of bad pre-release publicity for Stone's JFK. an unsolved crime. he couldn't. I can't remember a single thing which to set to open the week before Chnsb City Page,: Then hats, been a number of in the 1960, you played a role In trying that is factual and has any relevance that he mar When he heard that Stone planned to sew bIN0b On the GLEIVIII001.1017 014.r the past to convince Jim Carman his investigation brought to light. base his movie on a book by former New 10 or /J years. theoridng various conspir- was on the wrong track Could you tell me You've objected to the nay Ohl, Smite Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison—a man octet. Are any of them worthwhile? about your dealings with hint. and when yew wen/ about putting together and promoting whose rambling investigation of the Kennedy Weisberg: There hasn't been a book thet knew he was otrbose? his movie case led him to speculate about conspiracies I can remember that hasn't been ii.twed The It was right slier the election in 1968. I Stone has been propagandizing. saying that was in Dallas, and he insisted I come back all of the evidence is withheld at least wad to New Orleans. While I was there, I found 2039, and some of it may be withheld longer. • The 25SaliSlaliS) Were really !booting at Plaza—behind the- fence umtha grassy out be was going to mark the fifth suasive, What about the quaver-million pages 1 have! Connally (there's even an evidence-bite to knell, in buildings behind the president, in racy of the anassMation by charging two peo- And others have more. Mark Allen, for exam- go with IN' one' Oswald mistakenly wrote the sewers---end they were all killed later - ple with being grassy knoll assassins. One *, has continued along the same lines a letter to Connally after he'd stepped dawn that night when a plena carrying them away was Edger Eugene Bradley, who was then have with the same lawyer I used, and he's as Secretary of the Navy. complaining of exploited over the Gulf of Mexico; the West Ceast representative of the right- gotten a lot of information. Some of it pret- • the dishonorable discharge from the Mm Ferries its the executive branch had wing New Jersey preacher Carl McIntire, and ty significant. But nobody given a damn. They rineS Oswald got after he defected to Rus- Kennedy killed bac-attic he was going to the other was a mart named Robert Parin want theories only. Conspiracy sells, and that's sia); pull us out of Vietnam Gook Sir this te fig- well, t knew Perrin had killed himself in '62. all they care about. • The assassin(s) were really sliming to ure in the Oliver Stone movie); Garrison's staff had tried to talk him out At the same lime that Oliva says these miss; • The SoViets decided as a manor of Cold of this, and they couldn't. And they asked records are being suppressed he knows damn • The astaSSMS(9) were really shooting War policy that it just made good sense ro me to do the work that would make it Impos- well I have them and that I make them avail- nn the orders of Lyndon Johnson. out to wipe OM the president of the UnIten States; sible for him to proceed. Among the things able to everybody. Including him. Yet he wreak vengeance oe the much-loathed • Riabt.vatng oil millionaires opposed to .0 found were dla morgue book that showed Says everything is suppressed by the gov- Kennedy': Kennedy's tied stains sympathies had him the day In 1962 when Perrin died, and the ernment. panicularly the CIA. If he says that, • A papier-mache thee was placed in killed; hospital records that show his admission alter how can you trust anything he says? And Des/dyne:In to provide a sniper's nest, and • it was a'llomosexual plot to =dime a taking poison_ I put together an investigative frankly I don't_ Except one. He said he was is was removed after the shouting; notoriously heterosexual icon; report that said [Garrison investigator] 13111 scared to The New York Times. and he ought • There were between seven and nine • Kennedy hart 't 7.1IF dead Bosley was going out and fending back to to be. different shooters Katmai) around Dealey Garrison what Garrison wanted—what Gam- 11 there any way to generalice about chat inn himself had made up. Garrison wasn't Weisberg to page 14 Weisberg from page 1I print some of the things that were true. Do you think the material you have holds you've found in that quarter-million pages of any clues about who else was involved? material? No. They didn't want that information, so It's very simple. The government knew beyond question that there had been a con- if they heard of it they didn't use it. Let spiracy, and it lied. The government's own . me give you an example. This is one of the records disclose that it was a crime beyond records that was secret until I obtained it. the capabilities of any one man. There are There was an engineer named Bronson in other factors—for instance, that Oswald's rifle Dallas who had both a Leica and a very didn't have the capability of firing that many good quality 8mm camera with him. He shots within the time period. This alone is called the Dallas office of Eastman-Kodak enough to tell you they knew better. But and he called the FBI on Monday morning, they lied. You could understand that for the three days after the crime. An agent named Newsom went there and came back and filed first few days, when people in Washington on a higher level had to be concerned with a report. He said the pictures didn't show whether there were gonna be other evil events the building where the shots were fired. Actu- —was there going to be an effort to over- ally there were 87 different pictures of that throw the government, from within or with- one window.
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