27-11-2012, 11:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 27-11-2012, 11:47 AM by Adele Edisen.)
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Good piece by Baker. Sad but true. Some of my favorite fiction books on JFK...hmmm.....Pozner, Bugliosi, Russo and their ilk - of which there are all too many, past and present. It is clear the forces of cover-up, denial and business as usual [in all senses of that term] are making their major push for the 50th! I still say a record-breaking Occupation [multi-day, but focused on the 22nd] next year in and around Dealey Plaza is the best we can do - along with a 'teach-in' which shoujld be the conventions - but next year broadcast to all the alternative media we can get and not just our Utube channel! Its war- for the truth of history!
Peter,
One, well actually two, of the saddest items in Russ Baker's article are the two professors teaching courses on the JFK assassination and misleading their students. The film by Oliver Stone was well researched and based on information from Col. Fletcher Prouty and Jim Garrison. Len Osanic and a filmmaker are planning to debunk the Warren Commission in their contribution to the 50th year.
Lately I've been thnking that in comparison to the amount of work done on Lee Harvey Oswald and his "twins", not very much has gone into studies on the actual shooters, their aides, and the involved people of the CIA and of Wall Street, the Industral/Banking-Military-Intellience Complex, the same ones/types who tried to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933-34.
For example, Jean Hill was, in my estimation, a reliable witness who actually saw the source of the headshot to Kennedy coming from the Grassy Knoll, and she said that there were 6 or 7 shots fired. Obviously, more than one shooter was involved. Yet, I don't recall anyone trying very hard to figure out who they were or who the 'lucky' shooter was on the knoll. Or if they did, others would dismiss their informatiion because the official view was that Oswald fired the fatal shot from behind. Yet, there were clues from a number of witnesses.
My personal understanding is as follows. Right after that fatal shot, bystanders ran up the Grassy Knoll and one of these was Beverly Oliver who had been across Elm Street filming the motorcade and the President. She has said that she saw Geneva White's husband there, dressed in a Dallas policeman's uniform, but without a holstered pistol and a hat. Geneva White worked for Jack Ruby at the Carousel Club. Her husband was Roscoe White, a former US Marine who was not a Dallas police officer, but who had been hired by the Police Department in October of 1963 as a clerk and photgrapher. He was in training to become a police officer, which he completed in 1964, but in November of 1963, he was only in training and was not allowed to wear a policeman's uniform.
Before the arrival of the motorcade at Dealey Plaza people were gathering there to watch it. Mary Moorman and Jean Hill had come together and were searching for a viewing spot. They noticed a large station wagon with its windows covered by cardboard and the printing on its side "Honest Joe's Pawn Shop" driving up and down on the streets of Dealey Plaza and even onto the spur of Elm Street in front of the Texas School Book Depository Building which curled around the back of the northen pergola and led to the parking area behind the wooden fence at the top of the Grassy Knoll. That vehicle eventually was parked past the western end of the pergola in front of the wooden fence and behind the short concrete fence at the top of the Grassy Knoll. It can be seen there in the Nix film.
The vehicle, an Edsel station wagon, belonged to Rubin Goldstein (nicknamed Ruby) who owned "Honest Joe's Pawn Shop," and who did keep used policemen's uniforms in a back room of his shop. This vehicle was driven around Dallas for advertising purposes, and citizens of Dallas had seen it so often that they generally dismissed it from their memories. It had a machine gun mounted on its roof to indicate that "Honest Joe" bought and sold guns.
It may be assumed that the gunman (Roscoe White?) was driven in this vehicle with its covered windows to the top of the Grassy Knoll, and while the attention of the motorcade viewers was focused on the President and his car, the shooter emerged from the vehicle, took aim and shot, threw his gun into the vehicle and stepped out into the milling crowd along with other policemen and phony Secret Service agents, while the driver took off. In the excitement of the moment, few would have noticed.
There was one witness who perhaps could have had sight of all this, the young man in the railroad tower, Lee Bowers, who may have seen the vehicle leaving its parked position and go off onto Elm Street in front of the Texas School Book Depository Building. He was killed in a strange single-car "accident" in August of 1966, one of the early witnesses to die.
Perhaps you and others would have more information to add to this account.
Adele