Preparations & Ideas for the 50th

[Peter Lemkin]

Good points BK but how can anyone get a Grand Jury in Dallas? I know the DA was initially receptive to looking into this entire case . I made it a point to talk with him at a legal class a few years back, I had also come with some JFK assassination bullett points. But he looked like he was going to faint when he learned why I wanted to speak with him. He said he'd contact me but never did and more recent efforts to contact him personally in writing have been unresponded to. I think someone got to him back then. Not a bribe but a threat. He's a great guy but I don't see him getting involved in any of the Dallas 63 affair, be it Tippit or JFK.

I certainly would love to be proven wrong.

Also agree that the arguments need to end.
Dawn

Good for you, Dawn...but not surprised someone has read him the 'riot act'. They weren't going to let Dallas pursue a case in '63, and they won't 50 years later. The truth, they believe, must still be suppressed.

That was a mistake me putting that in there - that is not a public effort being undertaken but private.

In any case, Dallas County, though the cooperation of the current DA, has let off more innocent people than any other county in the country, which means that the criminals who actually committed those crimes are still running free. They do have a process for investigating such cold cases, and we are trying to determine if it will be possible to run the Tippit murder through that process, which will include only one or two county investigators who are also investigating other such crimes. It will also include the presentation of new evidence and witnesses to special grand jury convened just for that one case.

It is more likely that a special federal grand jury will be convened in DC but it will be limited.

Before there can be any talk of grand jury investigations, the other six items above it must be completed successfully and that is unlikely to happen anytime soon, though they certainly can be.

BK
JFKcountercoup

Bill, the last thing I'd want to do is upset some delicate backchannel efforts - and I wish you all the luck in the World on all of them. But, the cat being out of the bag on this one, the ONLY way I could see he'd feel comfortable doing something in the Big D would be if someone with a LOT of political clout [or a group of such persons] were to 'watch his back' and 'give him political cover'. Now, as to who and how to approach such persons you're probably as clever as anyone. A few names come to my mind as a distant maybe - this is not one most want to stick their neck out for - unless THEY in turn have the PEOPLE 'watching their back' and 'giving them political cover'. Politicians may often be corrupt or working for their own aggrandizement - or that of the Oligarchy, but they are not so stupid as to not know that there has long been a cover-up and it continues. i.e. one can expect a reaction to any such grand jury - both above board and sub rosa. Visibility and backing by others and mostly by the Public is the only thing that can make them feel safe enough to attempt it. There are all too few 'Garrisons' around to have the moral fortitude to do it because it is the right and legal thing to do.....most want some assurance they are not 'walking the plank' alone and have a safety net of numbers, support and back-up politically and in public opinion. That is the place to start. IMHO. Of course, you'll also be making the right thing to do for all the right reasons arguments; but trust me, sadly, it is their own mortal security that will have greater sway. That they can survive it and be a hero! Garrison, by the way is IMO a good selling point...how his attempts were subverted and need to be completed, if in some different directions than before - both because of new information and some false leads/blind alleys he was tricked into pursuing. His narrow regional focus also would not apply today as the best tactic....but that would not be the case in Big D, as long as a wider outlook and net were also cast.