Joe Canepa
Introduction from Denise
I received an e-mail contact from this gentleman, Joe Canepa, who struck me as both thoughtful and concerned. He just started reading my work--and realizes that the Donahue thesis (and my modified version of it) may not be consistent with his ideas--but he is looking for an outlet to share his notes and opinions based on his readings on the assassination to date. Please note that these are his thoughts and opinions, not mine. Whatever my personal leanings are, I cannot speak on the motives of the TSBD shooter (Oswald?) nor whether the military-industrial complex was behind him, but neither can I absolutely assert that there was no conspiracy behind him. Mr. Canepa and I agree, however, that the secrecy surrounding the Kennedy assassination (as well as in government matters since then) is too dangerous to let rest. So if I can offer this fellow truth-seeker a small forum on my website to let his voice be heard, I am happy to do so.
Please note that this is not a "service" that I am offering to every reader of every assassination book out there, but I felt that this particular gentleman was sincere, studious, and thoughtful--qualities that should be encouraged. So as long as he is willing to sign his name to these notes and opinions--a condition I insisted on before I would publish them on my website--I am happy to give him this small venue.
He is, of course, free to pursue other/additional outlets to express his thoughts and opinions, and I am free to remove his post should I ever change my mind.
Joe Canepa's Notes
These notes are mostly my opinion based upon readings over the past three decades or so. They are submitted without requiring anyone who read them to give me any credit. Since I will be 82 next year, credit for writing ideas is not a factor, but the truth is.
Setting the table
It's hard to find a starting point on history, as history is an on going process which cannot be judged accurately without reference to the past. The start here is the end of World War Two, about 70 years ago.
US and USSR were successful partners in WW2. The casualties each suffered were quite differently. The US lost 419,000 people or some 0.32% of its population. The USSR loses were 26,600,000 people, some 13.7% of its population.
The partnership soon dissolved. The USSR system of government, Communism, was feared by the West, not without some valid reasons: 1. One party political systems almost always tend to be tyrannies. 2. The official State policy was atheism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union
3. Private property became State property.
The post war motives of the US and the USSR was different. The US sought world leadership, while the USSR sought to buffer itself from possible future Western invasions. The US and Great Britain kept its partnership in tack. Russia's Stalin made a post war speech which concluded that capilalist countriues will eventually go to war with other countries. Winston Churchill coined the phrase the Iron Curtain. Just two weeks before Churchill's speech George Kennan wrote his long telegram in February 22, 1946. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm and background of the telegram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Kennan. Kennan was replying to Stalin's speech. Kennan was also concened the USSR refusal to join the IMF and the World Bank which left the USSR outside of the estbalished financial order.
The long telegram transmitted from the American Embassy in Moscow to the State Department and was very widely circulated within the United States government, becoming the basis of the United States policy towards the USSR for most of the following seven decades, except perhaps for the last 6 months of the JFK administration.
The telegram was classified Secret and not publically released until 1972.
The telegram itself has a curious omission. The USSR was called insecure and neurotic. No mention of the 26 million people killed as a result of being invaded. There was thus considerable reason behind Russian insecurity, This insecurity may have been compounded by the German invasion in World War One and the intervention of Great Britain and the United States in favor of the non Communists in the post World War One Russian civil war,.
No mention of the successful collaboration with the Soviets. The telegram was a document outling the policy of containment of Communism, without a direct shooting war against the USSR. The success of the policy is apparent as with the possible exception of North Korea and Cuba, there are no governments out that are Communist now and maybe actively seeking to change other countries govenments to Communism.
But there was high price paid in terms of human lives. As a direct result of the containmnet policy, we saw some 1+ million deaths in Korea, 2+ million deaths in Viet Nam and maybe 400,000 or so deaths in Central America, Chile and Argentina.
The policy of containment should have come an end after the breakup of the USSR.
The US policy after World War followed Kennan’s thesis and was amplifed by a board policy of promoting small wars. This policy was described by Lewis Levin in his book, Report from Iron Mountian
A suumary from an October 2010 Amazon book review by Brian follows:
“THE VALUE OF WAR
The premise of this document is that a special Cold War-era think tank (the "Special Study Group", or SSG) was tasked with evaluating what challenges the USA would face if a prolonged peace occurred. To assess the impact, the SSG outlines the role of war in society. As you might guess, war is a foreign policy device: a tool-of-last resort to enforce policies, advance national goals, protect/defend territories, etc. Somewhat less intuitive, however, are the "secondary benefits" of war (Section 5, beginning p.51):
1. Economic- the defense (war) sector of the economy is completely under the control of the government, and is relatively protected from the boom/bust cycles of the private sector. Thus, defense spending (via civilian contracting) is a powerful tool with which the government can stimulate or moderate the domestic economy.
2. Political- the threat of external enemies tends to unite the public, quell dissent and bolster support for the sitting regime. The widespread domestic support for George W. Bush in the days immediately following 9/11 seems to illustrate this point sufficiently.
3. Sociologic- service in a standing army provides a socially and legally sanctioned mechanism for people with violent tendencies (and even criminal records!) to channel their energies. Peacetime police forces also help serve this function.
4. Ecologic- cynically, RFIM designates war as the primary mechanism our species has of preventing global overpopulation.
5. a) Scientific and b) Cultural- a) War is a major impetus driving new research and development, in ALL areas of scientific inquiry. b) War-related propaganda (Tom Clancy novels and military-themed video games, I suppose) influences popular culture, helps set the moral tone, and promotes/sanctions certain values, which helps leaders of the war establishment steer development of society. Some of these also support the sociologic function(#3, above) by providing avenues for release of primal violent urges.
THE TAIL WAGS THE DOG
The SSG goes on to say that war is so critical to society that warmaking is not just a feature of all modern societies, but is actually the bedrock foundation upon which they are built. In fact, it contends that the needs of society do not dictate the circumstances of wars, rather the needs of the warmaking machine do... and the function of government (through the media) is merely to produce a believable and palatable pretext……..”
The combination of the Kennan policy of containment and the thoughts withon Lewsi Levins books were basically US policy from 1946 to the present day. The only exception was during the last year of the Kennedy presidency. The best read here might be James Douglass’s JFK and the Umspeakable and Why it Matters. Kennedy sought peace and may have been killed for it.
Motive
No one has ever come up with a plausible motive for Oswald to kill Kennedy. Without discovering any Oswald motive, the researcher has to look else where for the why of the JFK assassination. James Douglass did just that. His book, JFK and the Unspeakable and Why He Died and Why It Matters. His original publisher was Orbis Press. Orbis Press is an organization under the control of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. Orbis published the book in 2008 and Simon and Schuster published it again in 2012. The New York Times has yet to review or even mention the book or Douglass himself. For the background of the book see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_and_the_Unspeakable, which is factual but has significant omissions.
Douglass details JFK’s rather sudden quest for world peace. His speech at American University, to this day ignored by any major media outlets, was noted in Wikipedia:
Robert McNamara, Kennedy's Secretary of Defense, declared at a 2003 memorial event at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum that the speech was "one of the great documents of the 20th century." He later commented that it "laid out exactly what Kennedy's intentions were
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_University_speech#cite_note-FOOTNOTETalbot2009206-13
As part of the peace effort Kennedy back channeled The Vatican, Khrushchev and Castro and was about to change the policy of American military intervention in Viet Nam. Kennedy also sought a more peaceful world. This was too much for the believers in Kennan’s containment or Levin’s necessity of continuous war. With their core beliefs challenged those in and out of power reacted and JFK was assassinated, or so Douglas concludes. I leave to the reader to read the Douglass book and judge the scholarship behind it.
Consistent with what Douglass wrote, there is evidence that the JFK assassination was a planned event. One of his points here was that there was a foiled attempt to kill Kennedy in Chicago On November 2, 1963. An ex marine Thomas Arthur Vallee was arrested an arsenal of weapons and ammunition. The Chicago Secret Service may have advised Kennedy not to come to Chicago and Vallee had no chance to kill JFK. Valle had two men helping him, who were detained but were never charged or identified. See http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3902495&page=1 and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.assassination.jfk.uncensored/_i4osUjD_YU What is remarkable here is the failure to inform let alone publicize the Vallee attempted assassination. Surely someone in power should have been alerted and increases JFK’s security when he went to Texas 19 days later. The government paper trial is still hidden. Who was notified of the attempted assassination? Who knew and did nothing? Who should have known but was kept out of the loop? The fact that the Valle incident was not reported in the press, and not told to the Texas Secret Service personal or even mentioned to the Warren Commision indicates that there was tight control over the media and that elements of the Secret Service had no real regard for the safety of President Kennedy. A must read here is Vincent Palamara’s Survivor's Guilt.
Another aspect of the idea that there was much planning before the Kennedy assassination was the route which the JFK motorcade took. As noted by Palamara, the motorcade could have went straight down Main Street and made a right turn on Industrial Highway and go directly to the Trade Center. Another author, Joachim Joesten
Dubbed the chosen route The Double Detour. Joesten even took a taxi from Main to the expressway, without making what proved to be the fatal turn onto Elm Street. Joesten book. written in 1964, Oswald Assassin or Fall Guy was published in London, as it could not be published in the United States. He wrote another book in 1967, Oswald The Truth, but this book is not available on Amazon and is probably permanently suppressed. The reckless and unsafe motorcade route was an unassailable proof of malfeasance, if not conspiracy, by the Secret Service or those who directed the Secret Service. The omission here are curious. Big organizations such as the United States Government work within certain parameters. A major event such as a Presidential Visit should generate considerable paperwork as to the details of the route and the written approval of the appropriate officials. All the record shows is a call from the agent in charge to a person unknown in Washington. The conversation supposedly had the Washington person telling Winston Lawson to go from Main Street to Houston make a very sharp left turn on Elm and then go on the expressway. Governments do not work that way. The omission here is the paperwork, of which existence has never been admitted.
In sum the JFK looks like a well planned assassination probably brought on by those who favor war over peace.
The Shot
Maybe 20 plus years ago, I read a post from an anonymous server. The head shot that killed President Kennedy was the same as what the poster saw when he was part of the Phoenix Program. The Phoenix Program took place primarily in Viet Nam and reported resulted in the assassination of some 26,000 to 41,000 people by snipers. The snipers used ammunition designed to fragment and explode the victim's head.
There was no mention of this type of ammunition in the Warren Commission(WC) report. (Denise: note the initially suppressed HSCA ballistics gelatin M-16 test, though.) Bad enough, the WC, according researcher Walt Brown, had no evidence that Oswald ever bought any kind of ammunition. Just recently I read the Donahue’s comments on the assassination.
Lo and behold, Donahue says the Secret Services uses the fragmenting ammunition and do so to limit the damage to a particular individual (Denise: I actually think they used military NATO-type rounds rather than hollow-point. Still capable of fragmenting, but this round entered an already damaged skull and the tip was relatively intact when it lodged behind the right ear.)
The ammunition omission by the WC was a major lie. Another lie might be the lack of mention of the use of silencers, which could have explained reports of more bullets than sounds. (Denise: misperception of shots as "echoes" could also account for it. Note Jean Hill's "at least four, maybe five or six" so no silencers.)
The major lie advanced by the WC was the continuous movement of the Kennedy motorcade. This lie is backed up by the popular version of the Zapruder Film. (Denise: The extant version that the public has access to is a fabrication. Read The Great Zapruder Film Hoax and my chapter on "The Cut-N-Paste Zapruder Film.") Amazingly the driver of the car directly behind the JFK limo, Sam Kinney, was neither interviewed by government law enforcement or even called as witness before the WC. The only evidence presented was rather incomplete statement by Kinney. One report has Kinney talking on his deathbed, still bewildered that he was never called as a witness.https://www.intellihub.com/jfk-ss-agents-deathbed-confession/ One reason for this may have been the fact that Kinney insisted that the shoot killed Kennedy came from the Grassy Knoll. The other reason may have been that he saw the JFK limo brake lights go on just before the killing shot. It submitted that the critical cover up in the JFK assassination was the fact that his limo came to a stop or near stop just before the fatal shoot. There numerous witnesses who verify this. One was Mary Woodward, a Dallas Morning News reporter, standing with 15 ft of the JFK limo when the shots were fired. She wrote her eye witness report and it was published on the front page of the November 23 1963 edition of the Dallas Morning News. She was not called to testify before the WC.
A word here about the makeup of the Warren Commission. All , except Allen Dulles, the CIA Director who Kennedy fired, were Republicans or Conservative Democrats. The Commission was not a court nor was in any adversarial with people of opposing views. It was a stage show led by its counsels, who cherry picked witnesses for supported their agenda.
The stop or near stop of the JFK Limo proved fatal to JFK, It did not matter how many shot were fired or from what direction the killing shot came from. The near stationary car made the shot much easier. The driver told the WC that he maintained a constant speed of 15 to 18 miles per hour. This is consistent with altered Zapruder film, but contrary to the facts and the physics. People have no difficulty seeing a car stop or come to a near stop. A person cannot run from one car to another when the cars are traveling at 15+ miles per hour. A true film of the incident would have the JFK car, that Clint Hill ran to. going no more than a couple of miles per hour.
The JFK driver, William Greer, had interesting background. Born and raised in Northern Ireland at the time of the Troubles. Greer with only a two years of high school came to the United States and wound up as a chauffeur for two powerful extremely wealthy families, one the Lodges of Massachusetts. He served in the US Navy during World War 2. His duties were being a steward on the presidential yacht which sailed the Potomac River. From there he joined the Secret Service. In all probability, he had friends in high places enhancing his career. One could never find the truth here, but a good guess might be that Greer was a British Intelligence asset, not necessarily from his background and reckless and fatal mistaken driving, but from his actions after the shots were fired. He went to Parkland Hospital, even though he later claimed he did not know where the hospital was. He managed to take custody of JFK’s clothes and belongings. He was present at both the examination of JFK’s body at Parkland and at the Bethesda autopsy. He even had a role in finding the magic bullet at Parkland. His authority had to be rather limited as chauffeur, nevertheless he did an excellent job of being every important event after the assassination.
His softball questioning by WC lawyers kept him safe, even though of all the people responsible for the safety of president he stood out as the least competent.
Looking at the shot again, I can see some objections to the Donahue thesis that Hickey accidentialy discharged his machine gun. If the car he was in stopped suddenly, he would fall forward not backward. (Denise's note: Actually, facing the back of the car towards the Texas School Book Depository, he fell backwards but toward the front of the car.) If he did press the trigger when he fell chances are he would have fired more than one round of an automatic weapon. (Denise: The AR-15 had two settings: one was a single shot setting. The other was a burst of 3 rounds. Hickey's weapon was set for single shot.) If his weapon was fired surely it would be missing a round in its magazine, a fact easily discovered after the assassination. (Denise: As Howard Donahue noted, a "Shooting Incident" report should have been completed, but there is none in the record. There is, however, a memo by FBI agent Shanklin that put the gun that fired the bullet "that apparently killed the President" in the hands of the Secret Service immediately after the assassination--discussed in one of the Micro-Studies books. Also note the smell of gun smoke that clung to the motorcade "all the way to the hospital," as Senator Ralph Yarborough, in the car behind Hickey's, stated.) On the subjective side, there is no probability that a coverup that still exists today is based upon protecting George Hickey. (Denise: The cover-up has been to keep an embarrassing incident under wraps as much as to protect Hickey, and continued because rather than coming clean when they should have, the decision makers just kept piling more provable falsehoods on top of each other to try to support the lone gunman thesis.) On the contrary, the Donahue thesis lets the real criminals off the hook. Donahue’s work pinpoints the ammunition used and the weapon employed, and as such, makes Oswald innocent and all of the various books and articles claiming Oswald was a lone nut shooter fundamentally false. (Denise: when you finish reading my work, you'll realize that I disagree with Donahue on only two shots being fired from the TSBD. The first shot from the TSBD was a head shot, which ricocheted off the seat back to become the shallow back wound. The "throat grab"/"chest grab" was actually decorticate posture--not an instantaneous reaction, but a slightly delayed reaction--as the result of severe neurological trauma. The Zapruder film was altered to hide SS initial inaction.)
Introduction from Denise
I received an e-mail contact from this gentleman, Joe Canepa, who struck me as both thoughtful and concerned. He just started reading my work--and realizes that the Donahue thesis (and my modified version of it) may not be consistent with his ideas--but he is looking for an outlet to share his notes and opinions based on his readings on the assassination to date. Please note that these are his thoughts and opinions, not mine. Whatever my personal leanings are, I cannot speak on the motives of the TSBD shooter (Oswald?) nor whether the military-industrial complex was behind him, but neither can I absolutely assert that there was no conspiracy behind him. Mr. Canepa and I agree, however, that the secrecy surrounding the Kennedy assassination (as well as in government matters since then) is too dangerous to let rest. So if I can offer this fellow truth-seeker a small forum on my website to let his voice be heard, I am happy to do so.
Please note that this is not a "service" that I am offering to every reader of every assassination book out there, but I felt that this particular gentleman was sincere, studious, and thoughtful--qualities that should be encouraged. So as long as he is willing to sign his name to these notes and opinions--a condition I insisted on before I would publish them on my website--I am happy to give him this small venue.
He is, of course, free to pursue other/additional outlets to express his thoughts and opinions, and I am free to remove his post should I ever change my mind.
Joe Canepa's Notes
These notes are mostly my opinion based upon readings over the past three decades or so. They are submitted without requiring anyone who read them to give me any credit. Since I will be 82 next year, credit for writing ideas is not a factor, but the truth is.
Setting the table
It's hard to find a starting point on history, as history is an on going process which cannot be judged accurately without reference to the past. The start here is the end of World War Two, about 70 years ago.
US and USSR were successful partners in WW2. The casualties each suffered were quite differently. The US lost 419,000 people or some 0.32% of its population. The USSR loses were 26,600,000 people, some 13.7% of its population.
The partnership soon dissolved. The USSR system of government, Communism, was feared by the West, not without some valid reasons: 1. One party political systems almost always tend to be tyrannies. 2. The official State policy was atheism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union
3. Private property became State property.
The post war motives of the US and the USSR was different. The US sought world leadership, while the USSR sought to buffer itself from possible future Western invasions. The US and Great Britain kept its partnership in tack. Russia's Stalin made a post war speech which concluded that capilalist countriues will eventually go to war with other countries. Winston Churchill coined the phrase the Iron Curtain. Just two weeks before Churchill's speech George Kennan wrote his long telegram in February 22, 1946. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm and background of the telegram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Kennan. Kennan was replying to Stalin's speech. Kennan was also concened the USSR refusal to join the IMF and the World Bank which left the USSR outside of the estbalished financial order.
The long telegram transmitted from the American Embassy in Moscow to the State Department and was very widely circulated within the United States government, becoming the basis of the United States policy towards the USSR for most of the following seven decades, except perhaps for the last 6 months of the JFK administration.
The telegram was classified Secret and not publically released until 1972.
The telegram itself has a curious omission. The USSR was called insecure and neurotic. No mention of the 26 million people killed as a result of being invaded. There was thus considerable reason behind Russian insecurity, This insecurity may have been compounded by the German invasion in World War One and the intervention of Great Britain and the United States in favor of the non Communists in the post World War One Russian civil war,.
No mention of the successful collaboration with the Soviets. The telegram was a document outling the policy of containment of Communism, without a direct shooting war against the USSR. The success of the policy is apparent as with the possible exception of North Korea and Cuba, there are no governments out that are Communist now and maybe actively seeking to change other countries govenments to Communism.
But there was high price paid in terms of human lives. As a direct result of the containmnet policy, we saw some 1+ million deaths in Korea, 2+ million deaths in Viet Nam and maybe 400,000 or so deaths in Central America, Chile and Argentina.
The policy of containment should have come an end after the breakup of the USSR.
The US policy after World War followed Kennan’s thesis and was amplifed by a board policy of promoting small wars. This policy was described by Lewis Levin in his book, Report from Iron Mountian
A suumary from an October 2010 Amazon book review by Brian follows:
“THE VALUE OF WAR
The premise of this document is that a special Cold War-era think tank (the "Special Study Group", or SSG) was tasked with evaluating what challenges the USA would face if a prolonged peace occurred. To assess the impact, the SSG outlines the role of war in society. As you might guess, war is a foreign policy device: a tool-of-last resort to enforce policies, advance national goals, protect/defend territories, etc. Somewhat less intuitive, however, are the "secondary benefits" of war (Section 5, beginning p.51):
1. Economic- the defense (war) sector of the economy is completely under the control of the government, and is relatively protected from the boom/bust cycles of the private sector. Thus, defense spending (via civilian contracting) is a powerful tool with which the government can stimulate or moderate the domestic economy.
2. Political- the threat of external enemies tends to unite the public, quell dissent and bolster support for the sitting regime. The widespread domestic support for George W. Bush in the days immediately following 9/11 seems to illustrate this point sufficiently.
3. Sociologic- service in a standing army provides a socially and legally sanctioned mechanism for people with violent tendencies (and even criminal records!) to channel their energies. Peacetime police forces also help serve this function.
4. Ecologic- cynically, RFIM designates war as the primary mechanism our species has of preventing global overpopulation.
5. a) Scientific and b) Cultural- a) War is a major impetus driving new research and development, in ALL areas of scientific inquiry. b) War-related propaganda (Tom Clancy novels and military-themed video games, I suppose) influences popular culture, helps set the moral tone, and promotes/sanctions certain values, which helps leaders of the war establishment steer development of society. Some of these also support the sociologic function(#3, above) by providing avenues for release of primal violent urges.
THE TAIL WAGS THE DOG
The SSG goes on to say that war is so critical to society that warmaking is not just a feature of all modern societies, but is actually the bedrock foundation upon which they are built. In fact, it contends that the needs of society do not dictate the circumstances of wars, rather the needs of the warmaking machine do... and the function of government (through the media) is merely to produce a believable and palatable pretext……..”
The combination of the Kennan policy of containment and the thoughts withon Lewsi Levins books were basically US policy from 1946 to the present day. The only exception was during the last year of the Kennedy presidency. The best read here might be James Douglass’s JFK and the Umspeakable and Why it Matters. Kennedy sought peace and may have been killed for it.
Motive
No one has ever come up with a plausible motive for Oswald to kill Kennedy. Without discovering any Oswald motive, the researcher has to look else where for the why of the JFK assassination. James Douglass did just that. His book, JFK and the Unspeakable and Why He Died and Why It Matters. His original publisher was Orbis Press. Orbis Press is an organization under the control of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. Orbis published the book in 2008 and Simon and Schuster published it again in 2012. The New York Times has yet to review or even mention the book or Douglass himself. For the background of the book see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_and_the_Unspeakable, which is factual but has significant omissions.
Douglass details JFK’s rather sudden quest for world peace. His speech at American University, to this day ignored by any major media outlets, was noted in Wikipedia:
Robert McNamara, Kennedy's Secretary of Defense, declared at a 2003 memorial event at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum that the speech was "one of the great documents of the 20th century." He later commented that it "laid out exactly what Kennedy's intentions were
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_University_speech#cite_note-FOOTNOTETalbot2009206-13
As part of the peace effort Kennedy back channeled The Vatican, Khrushchev and Castro and was about to change the policy of American military intervention in Viet Nam. Kennedy also sought a more peaceful world. This was too much for the believers in Kennan’s containment or Levin’s necessity of continuous war. With their core beliefs challenged those in and out of power reacted and JFK was assassinated, or so Douglas concludes. I leave to the reader to read the Douglass book and judge the scholarship behind it.
Consistent with what Douglass wrote, there is evidence that the JFK assassination was a planned event. One of his points here was that there was a foiled attempt to kill Kennedy in Chicago On November 2, 1963. An ex marine Thomas Arthur Vallee was arrested an arsenal of weapons and ammunition. The Chicago Secret Service may have advised Kennedy not to come to Chicago and Vallee had no chance to kill JFK. Valle had two men helping him, who were detained but were never charged or identified. See http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3902495&page=1 and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.assassination.jfk.uncensored/_i4osUjD_YU What is remarkable here is the failure to inform let alone publicize the Vallee attempted assassination. Surely someone in power should have been alerted and increases JFK’s security when he went to Texas 19 days later. The government paper trial is still hidden. Who was notified of the attempted assassination? Who knew and did nothing? Who should have known but was kept out of the loop? The fact that the Valle incident was not reported in the press, and not told to the Texas Secret Service personal or even mentioned to the Warren Commision indicates that there was tight control over the media and that elements of the Secret Service had no real regard for the safety of President Kennedy. A must read here is Vincent Palamara’s Survivor's Guilt.
Another aspect of the idea that there was much planning before the Kennedy assassination was the route which the JFK motorcade took. As noted by Palamara, the motorcade could have went straight down Main Street and made a right turn on Industrial Highway and go directly to the Trade Center. Another author, Joachim Joesten
Dubbed the chosen route The Double Detour. Joesten even took a taxi from Main to the expressway, without making what proved to be the fatal turn onto Elm Street. Joesten book. written in 1964, Oswald Assassin or Fall Guy was published in London, as it could not be published in the United States. He wrote another book in 1967, Oswald The Truth, but this book is not available on Amazon and is probably permanently suppressed. The reckless and unsafe motorcade route was an unassailable proof of malfeasance, if not conspiracy, by the Secret Service or those who directed the Secret Service. The omission here are curious. Big organizations such as the United States Government work within certain parameters. A major event such as a Presidential Visit should generate considerable paperwork as to the details of the route and the written approval of the appropriate officials. All the record shows is a call from the agent in charge to a person unknown in Washington. The conversation supposedly had the Washington person telling Winston Lawson to go from Main Street to Houston make a very sharp left turn on Elm and then go on the expressway. Governments do not work that way. The omission here is the paperwork, of which existence has never been admitted.
In sum the JFK looks like a well planned assassination probably brought on by those who favor war over peace.
The Shot
Maybe 20 plus years ago, I read a post from an anonymous server. The head shot that killed President Kennedy was the same as what the poster saw when he was part of the Phoenix Program. The Phoenix Program took place primarily in Viet Nam and reported resulted in the assassination of some 26,000 to 41,000 people by snipers. The snipers used ammunition designed to fragment and explode the victim's head.
There was no mention of this type of ammunition in the Warren Commission(WC) report. (Denise: note the initially suppressed HSCA ballistics gelatin M-16 test, though.) Bad enough, the WC, according researcher Walt Brown, had no evidence that Oswald ever bought any kind of ammunition. Just recently I read the Donahue’s comments on the assassination.
Lo and behold, Donahue says the Secret Services uses the fragmenting ammunition and do so to limit the damage to a particular individual (Denise: I actually think they used military NATO-type rounds rather than hollow-point. Still capable of fragmenting, but this round entered an already damaged skull and the tip was relatively intact when it lodged behind the right ear.)
The ammunition omission by the WC was a major lie. Another lie might be the lack of mention of the use of silencers, which could have explained reports of more bullets than sounds. (Denise: misperception of shots as "echoes" could also account for it. Note Jean Hill's "at least four, maybe five or six" so no silencers.)
The major lie advanced by the WC was the continuous movement of the Kennedy motorcade. This lie is backed up by the popular version of the Zapruder Film. (Denise: The extant version that the public has access to is a fabrication. Read The Great Zapruder Film Hoax and my chapter on "The Cut-N-Paste Zapruder Film.") Amazingly the driver of the car directly behind the JFK limo, Sam Kinney, was neither interviewed by government law enforcement or even called as witness before the WC. The only evidence presented was rather incomplete statement by Kinney. One report has Kinney talking on his deathbed, still bewildered that he was never called as a witness.https://www.intellihub.com/jfk-ss-agents-deathbed-confession/ One reason for this may have been the fact that Kinney insisted that the shoot killed Kennedy came from the Grassy Knoll. The other reason may have been that he saw the JFK limo brake lights go on just before the killing shot. It submitted that the critical cover up in the JFK assassination was the fact that his limo came to a stop or near stop just before the fatal shoot. There numerous witnesses who verify this. One was Mary Woodward, a Dallas Morning News reporter, standing with 15 ft of the JFK limo when the shots were fired. She wrote her eye witness report and it was published on the front page of the November 23 1963 edition of the Dallas Morning News. She was not called to testify before the WC.
A word here about the makeup of the Warren Commission. All , except Allen Dulles, the CIA Director who Kennedy fired, were Republicans or Conservative Democrats. The Commission was not a court nor was in any adversarial with people of opposing views. It was a stage show led by its counsels, who cherry picked witnesses for supported their agenda.
The stop or near stop of the JFK Limo proved fatal to JFK, It did not matter how many shot were fired or from what direction the killing shot came from. The near stationary car made the shot much easier. The driver told the WC that he maintained a constant speed of 15 to 18 miles per hour. This is consistent with altered Zapruder film, but contrary to the facts and the physics. People have no difficulty seeing a car stop or come to a near stop. A person cannot run from one car to another when the cars are traveling at 15+ miles per hour. A true film of the incident would have the JFK car, that Clint Hill ran to. going no more than a couple of miles per hour.
The JFK driver, William Greer, had interesting background. Born and raised in Northern Ireland at the time of the Troubles. Greer with only a two years of high school came to the United States and wound up as a chauffeur for two powerful extremely wealthy families, one the Lodges of Massachusetts. He served in the US Navy during World War 2. His duties were being a steward on the presidential yacht which sailed the Potomac River. From there he joined the Secret Service. In all probability, he had friends in high places enhancing his career. One could never find the truth here, but a good guess might be that Greer was a British Intelligence asset, not necessarily from his background and reckless and fatal mistaken driving, but from his actions after the shots were fired. He went to Parkland Hospital, even though he later claimed he did not know where the hospital was. He managed to take custody of JFK’s clothes and belongings. He was present at both the examination of JFK’s body at Parkland and at the Bethesda autopsy. He even had a role in finding the magic bullet at Parkland. His authority had to be rather limited as chauffeur, nevertheless he did an excellent job of being every important event after the assassination.
His softball questioning by WC lawyers kept him safe, even though of all the people responsible for the safety of president he stood out as the least competent.
Looking at the shot again, I can see some objections to the Donahue thesis that Hickey accidentialy discharged his machine gun. If the car he was in stopped suddenly, he would fall forward not backward. (Denise's note: Actually, facing the back of the car towards the Texas School Book Depository, he fell backwards but toward the front of the car.) If he did press the trigger when he fell chances are he would have fired more than one round of an automatic weapon. (Denise: The AR-15 had two settings: one was a single shot setting. The other was a burst of 3 rounds. Hickey's weapon was set for single shot.) If his weapon was fired surely it would be missing a round in its magazine, a fact easily discovered after the assassination. (Denise: As Howard Donahue noted, a "Shooting Incident" report should have been completed, but there is none in the record. There is, however, a memo by FBI agent Shanklin that put the gun that fired the bullet "that apparently killed the President" in the hands of the Secret Service immediately after the assassination--discussed in one of the Micro-Studies books. Also note the smell of gun smoke that clung to the motorcade "all the way to the hospital," as Senator Ralph Yarborough, in the car behind Hickey's, stated.) On the subjective side, there is no probability that a coverup that still exists today is based upon protecting George Hickey. (Denise: The cover-up has been to keep an embarrassing incident under wraps as much as to protect Hickey, and continued because rather than coming clean when they should have, the decision makers just kept piling more provable falsehoods on top of each other to try to support the lone gunman thesis.) On the contrary, the Donahue thesis lets the real criminals off the hook. Donahue’s work pinpoints the ammunition used and the weapon employed, and as such, makes Oswald innocent and all of the various books and articles claiming Oswald was a lone nut shooter fundamentally false. (Denise: when you finish reading my work, you'll realize that I disagree with Donahue on only two shots being fired from the TSBD. The first shot from the TSBD was a head shot, which ricocheted off the seat back to become the shallow back wound. The "throat grab"/"chest grab" was actually decorticate posture--not an instantaneous reaction, but a slightly delayed reaction--as the result of severe neurological trauma. The Zapruder film was altered to hide SS initial inaction.)