Who Killed Kennedy? Thomas Buchanan

[Peter Lemkin]

Marian, Thanks for joining the Forum and for setting the record straight on your father and his laudable clear and perceptive thinking and writing on what actually happened in Dallas at so early a point in time after the events. He obviously had the type of mind that could sift through the information and disinformation at hand and clearly see the likely scenario, despite it being totally at odds with the 'official version'. Kudos to him for that!

As for the timeline of events, as you put on your own webpage: [ http://thomasgbuchanan.com/setting-the-record-straight/ ]

I also have the book my father wrote about his FBI files, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, published in 1984 and titled Big BrotherMa vie revue et corrigée par le F.B.I. (Big BrotherMy life reviewed and revised by the F.B.I.). The latter describes the sequence of events to be as follows:

• My father first started writing about the assassination about a month after the event, on his own, as a freelancer, without being commissioned to do so. He wanted to put down in written form an analysis of all the inconsistencies being reported by the media at the time.
  
• He showed his report to friends who were able to bring it to the attention of the editors atl'Express.
  
• L'Express published extracts of what he had so far, as a series of 6 articles.
  
• L'Express then assigned my father to go to Dallas to cover the Ruby trial in real time.
  
• The editor at l'Express also arranged for my father to have an interview with Edward Kennedy during that visit to the States.
  
• Edward Kennedy arranged for him to meet instead with Katzenbach.
  
• Katzenbach spoke with him for around an hour and then, in my father's presence, called Howard Willens (liaison to the Warren Commission) to request that the latter speak with my father as well.
  
• Willens had a similarly long discussion with my father and then invited him to submit his report to the Warren Commission.
  

It is interesting and sad that the FBI (and other anti-communists) watched and harassed your father - as they did many others. It is fortunate that he convinced L'express to run the articles. His book really started the ever-growing list of books questioning the 'official version' and proposing instead what really happened - or approximating it as best as was possible without the details we know now. My hat is off to your father for his clear thinking, detective work and having shared that with the World Public.
Do I understand that your father and family moved to France after he was blacklisted in the USA? Did he move back to the USA at the end of his life or remain in France?
Again, thanks for your input on your father. I for one hope his seminal book can be reprinted with a new introduction explaining some of what you mention. In e-book format might be good too. I have a copy of his book, and it was one of the first books on the case I read long ago. It still holds up very well after all this time.