The Splintering Frame

[Albert Rossi]

We are talking about professional shooters here who could do anything they were told to do. The fact they did not wound anyone else like Mrs. Kennedy shows how good they were IMO.

This is not correct, since Connally was almost certainly wounded by a separate bullet (maybe two), and then there's James Tague. A stray bullet certainly hit the pavement near him.

Having said that, I wouldn't totally dismiss the Freemason angle. I'm re-reading "In God's Name" by David Yallop and he describes how Pope John Paul I was virtually surrounded by Freemasons in the Vatican who belonged to the P2 lodge. John Paul I almost seemed to delight in flouting conventions and traditions (not wanting to be carried around in the chair, having the nerve to answer the phone himself or talk to the Swiss guards like a regular person). This really irritated the uptight reactionary clique around him. That irreverence plus his desire to clean up the Vatican Bank and legalize birth control probably led to his death.

Quite apart from the question of Freemasons (but remember the caveat that indices, if that is indeed what they are, can be fabricated to create yet another false lead/sponsorship), I would warn strongly against numerological arguments. They are not "falsifiable", not subject to rigorous methodological verification. Overextrapolation can lead one astray even in such obvious cases of numerological patterning as, for instance, in a literary work such as the Divina Commedia.

As for Pope Luciani, one must also remember that, while not a liberation theologist, he had much more sympathy for the plight of third-world communities as well, and his eyes were turned very much on socio-political issues there; he may also have represented a threat to certain interests in that domain; that, added to his shaking up the Curia (the night he was murdered he actually had handed to the Secretary of the Curia a list of people to be dismissed or fired) and the Vatican Bank, with its links to P2, all makes his death very suspicious. I read Yallop's book years ago, but after that happened to become friends with a second cousin of Luciani, who insists that the family never believed he died of a heart attack.