27-10-2013, 06:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 27-10-2013, 06:59 PM by Jim Hargrove.)
This brief Orlando Sentinel article posted a few minutes ago. Not too hard to contain some enthusiasm here, but at least this is more interesting than the normal mainstream pablum:
JFK assassination could have been prevented, author says
By Hal BoedekerStaff writer11:48 a.m. EDT, October 27, 2013
The John F. Kennedy assassination could been prevented if the FBI and CIA had taken the threat of Lee Harvey Oswald seriously, says Philip Shenon, author of "A Cruel and Shocking Act."
"There's tremendous amount of material, much of it has only been released in recent years, that shows that both the FBI and the CIA were very aware of the threat that Lee Harvey Oswald posed," Shenon said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation With Bob Schieffer."
Former FBI Director Clarence Kelley was "perplexed" that no one had connected the dots before JFK's arrival in Dallas and prevented the assassination 50 years ago, Shenon said.
Tom Johnson, press secretary for former President Lyndon Johnson, said in 1975 he discovered that Oswald had left a threatening note at the Dallas office of the FBI several days before the assassination -- and the note was later destroyed. Johnson was a Dallas newspaper publisher in 1975 and went to see FBI Director Kelley, who confirmed the information.
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"If the commission had seen this document it would have raised a million questions," Shenon said.
Shenon said one theme of his book is how much vital evidence disappeared about the assassination and Oswald. Chief Justice Earl Warren, who led the commission, was more interested in protecting Kennedy's legacy than in investigating the murder, Shenon said.
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Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal called Shenon's book "a heckuva story." She wondered if the country was lucky not to know at the time about the dysfunction in the government.
Schieffer said it was clear that the CIA and FBI did not come clean with the Warren Commission. The young investigators for the Warren Commission had little experience and didn't know what they were up against in dealing with the FBI and CIA, Shenon said.
Schieffer said that Shenon's book revealed that the Warren Commission was "one step away from being totally dysfunctional."
Bob Woodward of The Washington Post saw a "rat's nest of concealment" in the secret world of the CIA and FBI, then and now. He, of course, knows all about secrecy from covering Watergate.
Complete post here:
[URL="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/blogs/tv-guy/os-jfk-assassination-could-have-been-prevented-author-says-20131027,0,3413104.post"]http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/blogs/tv-guy/os-jfk-assassination-could-have-been-prevented-author-says-20131027,0,3413104.post
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Jim
JFK assassination could have been prevented, author says
By Hal BoedekerStaff writer11:48 a.m. EDT, October 27, 2013
The John F. Kennedy assassination could been prevented if the FBI and CIA had taken the threat of Lee Harvey Oswald seriously, says Philip Shenon, author of "A Cruel and Shocking Act."
"There's tremendous amount of material, much of it has only been released in recent years, that shows that both the FBI and the CIA were very aware of the threat that Lee Harvey Oswald posed," Shenon said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation With Bob Schieffer."
Former FBI Director Clarence Kelley was "perplexed" that no one had connected the dots before JFK's arrival in Dallas and prevented the assassination 50 years ago, Shenon said.
Tom Johnson, press secretary for former President Lyndon Johnson, said in 1975 he discovered that Oswald had left a threatening note at the Dallas office of the FBI several days before the assassination -- and the note was later destroyed. Johnson was a Dallas newspaper publisher in 1975 and went to see FBI Director Kelley, who confirmed the information.
[....]
"If the commission had seen this document it would have raised a million questions," Shenon said.
Shenon said one theme of his book is how much vital evidence disappeared about the assassination and Oswald. Chief Justice Earl Warren, who led the commission, was more interested in protecting Kennedy's legacy than in investigating the murder, Shenon said.
[....]
Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal called Shenon's book "a heckuva story." She wondered if the country was lucky not to know at the time about the dysfunction in the government.
Schieffer said it was clear that the CIA and FBI did not come clean with the Warren Commission. The young investigators for the Warren Commission had little experience and didn't know what they were up against in dealing with the FBI and CIA, Shenon said.
Schieffer said that Shenon's book revealed that the Warren Commission was "one step away from being totally dysfunctional."
Bob Woodward of The Washington Post saw a "rat's nest of concealment" in the secret world of the CIA and FBI, then and now. He, of course, knows all about secrecy from covering Watergate.
Complete post here:
[URL="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/blogs/tv-guy/os-jfk-assassination-could-have-been-prevented-author-says-20131027,0,3413104.post"]http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/blogs/tv-guy/os-jfk-assassination-could-have-been-prevented-author-says-20131027,0,3413104.post
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Jim