Jim Hargrove Wrote:Yo, Cliff....
Last time we compared notes, we were debating whether the Pentagon or the FBI first declared "Case Closed" on "Oswald," which, if memory serves, was approaching a few minutes after "Oswald's" arrest. Any updates from your MIC side?
I'm thinking that... with a little more research... one or both of us can prove that either the MIC or the CIA/FBI/ONI closed the case SEVERAL SECONDS BEFORE the President was killed!
Call it a hunch! All the best....
Hi Jim,
Looks to me like the Oswald-as-Lone-Nut was first promoted by McGeorge Bundy calling both AF1 and the cabinet plane to report that the lone assassin was in custody.
From
The President Has Been Shot, by Charles Roberts (p. 141), who saw Bundy at Andrews when the plane arrived:
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"I remember looking at (McGeorge) Bundy because I was wondering if he had any word of what had happened in the world while we were in transit, whether this assassination was part of a plot. And he told me later that what he reported to the president during that flight back was that the whole world was stunned, but there was no evidence of a conspiracy at all." <quote off>
From
A Tale Told by Two Tapes, by Vincent Salandria:
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index....entry31073
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In November of 1966, I read Theodore H. White's The Making of the President, 1964...
[O]n page 33 I read the following about the flight back to Washington, D.C. from Dallas:
On the flight the party learned that there was no conspiracy, learned of the
identity of Oswald and his arrest; and the President's mind turned to the
duties of consoling the stricken and guiding the quick.
...* The Situation Room of the White House first fingered Oswald as the
lone assassin when an innocent government, with so much evidence
in Dealey Plaza of conspiracy, would have been keeping all options open.
Therefore this premature birth of the single-assassin myth points to the
highest institutional structure of our warfare state as guilty of the crime
of killing Kennedy. Such a source does not take orders from the Mafia
nor from renegade elements. But such a source is routinely given to
using the Mafia and supposedly out-of-control renegade sources to do
its bidding.
* McGeorge Bundy was in charge of the Situation Room and was spending
that fateful afternoon receiving phone calls from President Johnson, who
was calling from Air Force One when the lone-assassin myth was
prematurely given birth. (Bishop, Jim, The Day Kennedy Was Shot,
New York & Funk Wagnalls, 1968), p. 154) McGeorge Bundy as the
quintessential WASP establishmentarian did not take his orders from the
Mafia and/or renegade elements.
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The rush to judgement wasn't restricted to Bundy, apparently.
Max Holland's
The Assassination Tapes, pg 57:
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At 6:55 p.m. Johnson has a ten minute meeting with Senator J. William Fulbright
and diplomat W. Averell Harriman to discuss possible foreign involvement in the
assassination, especially in light of the two-and-a-half-year sojourn of Lee Harvey
Oswald [in Russia]...Harriman, a U.S. ambassador to Moscow during WWII, is an
experienced interpreter of Soviet machinations and offers the president the
unanimous view of the U.S. government's top Kremlinologists. None of them
believe the Soviets have a hand in the assassination, despite the Oswald association.
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The problem here is that there was no meeting of the USG's top Kremlinologists.
Other than Harriman, the USG's top Soviet hands were Charles Bohlen and George Kennan.
Bohlen, Amb. to France, was traveling that day; Kennan spent the day quietly mourning at Princeton.
McGeorge Bundy -- Skull & Bones 1940.
W. Averell Harriman -- Skull & Bones 1913.