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Bloody Treason: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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One of the early victims of the JFK conspiracy of silence, better yet "silencing" in the [Image: kilgal.jpg]aftermath of JFK'S murder, was the noted reporter, columnist and television celebrity, Dorothy Kilgallen. I had watched her for years on "What's My Line?", not realizing that she had any involvement with the JFK story. Years later, I learned that she had broken the convention of silence in the press and written openly in her column about discrepancies in the official story. Suddenly she was dead.

On November 8, 1965, Dorothy Kilgallen, was found dead in her apartment shortly after returning from Dallas where she had interviewed Jack Ruby and had conducted her own investigation of the JFK murder during several trips to cover the Ruby trial.
She had revealed secret transcripts of Ruby's testimony in her column. Kilgallen had met with Ruby. She had learned of a meeting three weeks before the assassination at Ruby's "Carousel", the Dallas underworld's merry-go-round where the "Big D" mobsters wheeled around.


Present at the meeting were Ruby, Officer J.D. Tippit, Bernard Weismann and, she would later learn, a fourth party. Lee Israel, author of "Kilgallen", reports that that Ruby, himself a TV fan of Dorothy Kilgallen, had taken a liking to her during the trial. According to Israel, he respected her more than any other reporter. She had gained his confidence and had several conversations with him in the courtroom. She was given a five minute session alone with Ruby. Some writers have stretched this to a half-hour, others deny it.
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Regardless, it is a fact that when Dorothy returned to New York, she told friends that she had discovered that Ruby and the slain Officer J.D. Tippit had been friends. They had been seen together in Ruby's Carousel Club at a meeting 2 weeks before the assassination in the company of Bernard Weissman, who had placed the "JFK-Wanted for Treason" newspaper ad in Dallas newspapers on November 22nd, 1963. Studying the Warren Commission Report, Killgallen deduced that the meeting had also been reported to Chief Justice Warren AND that the identity of "the fourth man",which she had been unable to ascertain, had been reported to Warren as "a rich Texas oil man", as Earl Warren described him in the official transcript.


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She told Israel that she had discovered something that was going to break the whole JFK assassination mystery wide open. She told the same story to her next door neighbor, her hairdresser, her agent, her publisher, and the producer and host of "Nightlife".


Kilgallen had told Israel about a very mysterious and sinister player in the JFK assassination to whom she gave the code name "ferret man". From the description of the individual, it is clear that "ferret man" was none other than David Ferrie, another known associate of Jack Ruby involved in gun running, the Marcello mob and other anti-Castro operations from Florida to Texas. At one time, Ruby and Ferrie were co-owners of an airplane.


Nightlife's producer, Nick Vanoff, pleaded with her not to broach the subject on the air. She had arrived at the studio with a folder full of pertinent and explosive notes documents. She kept the folder closed throughout the interview. Vanoff, asked her agent, Bob Bach, to send her "a dozen long-stemmed roses."


On Sunday November 8, Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead, sitting fully dressed, upright in bed, early in the morning. The New York City Police investigated and the coroner found that Dorothy Kilgallen had died from ingestion of a lethal combination of alchohol and barbituates. All her notes and the article on which she had been working to "blow the JFK assassination wide open" also disappeared.


What did Kilgallen know? The convention of silence continued. The New York Times noted the coroner's report. The Daily News noted it as well. Of course, the Journal American took note but nowhere did you read any reference to her Dallas trips nor her investigation into the murder of JFK at the high point of her own career. Every nostalgic memory of her in the Press was a fond one of "What's My Line?".
They all abandoned her, no one asked a question publicly. Not John Daly, not Bennett Cerf. No one in the press could be bothered about someone, even someone famous, who had died nearly by her own hand. Indeterminate causes can mean many things and "causes" is plural.


It was only the year before the murder of JFK that no one had [Image: deadgals.jpg] questioned the death of Marilyn Monroe on the other side of the continent, who had also died of a barbiturate overdose, by her own hand. Neither her diary, nor her notes for her press conference, nor her "suicide note" were ever found. Only Joe D. cared, courageous enough to say, "Those bastards, they killed her."


Recent reports indicate that whoever sent "those bastards" apparently killed Marilyn by mistake. Many believe she was going to reveal the government's Castro assassination attempts (divulged to her by RFK) or the Kennedy mob connections or her love affair with JFK, when, according to recent reports (Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1996), she was actually going to announce her remarriage to Joe DiMaggio.


The press continued its pseudo-patriotic posture, in today's parlance, "politically correct" posture, benign neglect by design. Things were getting eerie for the Fourth Estate. The Fourth Estate had been transported to "The Twilight Zone". Both reporters and witnesses were dying. The Press hardly noticed.


Things were getting bad. Penn Jones wrote "Forgive My Grief" to chronicle the continuing string of strange deaths which followed the freight train of the Warren Commission Report, which railroaded Oswald, with its strong box of secrets sealed till the year 2039.


We could still watch "What's My Line?" but there was something strange about the show. John Daly was stiff, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis and others were just as wooden and flat. Forced mirth is not worth watching. [B]It's painful living in fear, says Leon to Deckker in "Blade Runner." [/B]


A dark cloud, a shadow, if you will, hung over the show.There was a Void: hollow, empty, voiceless. TV fans missed her. Things got yet worse! Penn Jones had to write "Forgive My Grief II". Witnesses were still dropping like flies as Jones recorded No. 5, No. 56...No.67, No. 68. Some of us didn't believe The Official Story, even without knowing of her trips to Dallas for another 20 years. It was too incongruous to believe that the person I had seen just the night before and again that very afternoon, so alive, so intelligent, so bright with life, could have died so pitifully, so quickly.


I beg to differ with the disinformed current opinion of those today who never saw her, but to my TV eyes, Dorothy Kilgallen was not some stupified, alcoholic lush addicted to barbiturates. In all those years on television, I never saw her manifest any signs of slurred speech, sluggishness, lethargy, or uncoordinated speech or movement, though others may differ on this. She always spoke with the utmost courtesy, composure and graciousness. She had a way of asking one question which could extract three pieces of information.


[Image: myline.jpg]The Media's Convention of Silence
"On a need to know basis" came into our vocabulary and an apparently craven press was caving in to "higher powers". The press now written with a little "p", neutered and rechristined "The Media", really didn't "need" to know, it was learning how not to ask the right questions.


Broad and broader flowed a whole brook of Warren Commission "white lies" and unanswered questions, which soon wound its way to another bend, then a twist of the facts, finally, widening into a whole river allowed to flow unimpeded and unquestioned.


Things got still worse! Penn Jones had to write "Forgive My Grief - Part III."...No.77, No. 78... As more and more people died or disappeared, a bridge of silence was erected over the river of questions which proceeded from the brook of the Warren Commision's "white lies". The press, politically correct as always, developed a polite disinclination to know. The press preferred to take the long way around.


The press, under duress after Dorothy's death, had learned ("been taught" may be more apt) to avoid even approaching The Bridge of Silence for, as Dorothy Kilgallen had shown, the toll for crossing it was very high.


And so, ...my fellow Americans...Ask not......For whom the bell tolls...it tolls for us.
Not a murmur was heard much less a dissenting word from the myrmidons of political correctness. They had all abandoned Dorothy. In 1964, CBS had televised "The Wizard of Oz."
"Ignore the man behind the curtain! The Great and Powerful Oz has spoken" screamed the Wizard of Oz, and the press obeyed.


The Great and Powerful Oz and his henchmen had hoodwinked the whole country. Viet Nam was hard core reality. The Viet Cong had a tete-a-tete with the Johnson Administration. If things were bad before, consider the consternation of the nation when Penn Jones published "Forgive My Grief IV." People finally started to notice but the press continued to ignore "the man behind the curtain".


However, a few hundred scarecrows with hay for brains that said the "magic bullet" was "magic BS", tinmen with no hearts to give up JFK or the Truth so easily, and scores of cowardly lions who would give their lives, like Dorothy Kilgallen, in order to bring the truth about the heinous murders to the American people continued the arduous work of "reverse engineering" the Warren Commission Report in order to find the Truth about "Who struck John?". They were the progenitors of Posner's "buffs", who, even then, would have preferred to be called "JFK Buffs" than Warren Commission buffoons.


The people, God bless 'em, God forgive 'em, led along like sheep, just poor dumb mouths and extremely naive, were kept frightened, quickly forgetting Rober Kennedy's warnings of "The Enemy Within", like children in the dark, confused, unsure, malaised.


The "higher authorities", intelligence agencies decided the people "needed not to know" that there were real "spooks", real phantoms of a national opera lurking under their hoods and sheets. C.D. Jackson, upon seeing the uncut Zapruder film stated: "The American people must never see this film." They still haven't.


A benign-appearing but socially malignant step-father had taken over the reigns of government by the Longhorns. He sent the sons he never had to Viet Nam without a moment's hesitation. He only had daughters. "Everything's going to be alright, isn't it?" the "Volunteer" president-unelect asked Nellie Connally from Air Force One, shortly after the take-off on the day of the murder.


The silenced press of the Johnson-Nixon Era, promulgating the propaganda of the falsified statistics of Viet Nam War and the real statistics of the Moon Program, itself eventually evolved a "need not to know", a persistent "Company Policy" throughout the networks and the popular pulp news. The press asserted itself briefly during the Watergate Era. But one must admit that throughout the history of the JFK deception, with very few exceptions, Kilgallen being one of them, Penn Jones another, the remaining American press has remained patriotically chic and politically "apparatchik".


Through their collusion with the whitewash in the Kennedy murder and cover-up, "the Media" had been promoted and unwittingly became "an instrument of state". It became an information funnel and filter to the point today where it flaunts itself as "almost part of the government", words spoken by a White House reporter on CNN recently. The problem is that it was not made clear to this viewer which government he meant, the political government or the religious government now persecuting President Clinton, pursuing him and nibbling like voracious piranahs.


Presently, the net of nepotism in media and the press, screens out any insinuations of a myopic, monoscopic, or mendacious point of view in their predecessors. Television, in particular, keeps its present tunnel vision intact behind a large array of chromaque-blue contact lensed "poupees", focus locked on the Teleprompter.


The Teleprompter knows all. The intelligence of a teletype machine, required of every politically correct-apparatchik anchor, weighs heavily in our value system, as they daily sink "reality" in a quagmire of "miniviews" and "sound bites."


THE COURAGE AND CUNNING OF DOROTHY KILGALLEN

Dorothy Kilgallen, as you will see, did not die for nothing. She was just too bold, she dared to go where no one had dared to go: she crossed the Bridge of Silence. Her mind had cut through all the disinformation gone to the horse's mouth, Jack Ruby. She had discovered the crux of the matter, a cross within a circle. Ruby and Tippit were pals. Both of them, members of an underworldly police athletic league and a right-wing organization which on November 22nd, 1963 had really flexed its muscles and exercised to kill a President of a particular persuasion.


Why was Dorothy Kilgallen killed? Or was she driven to her death by the Horror she had discovered. As in de Maupassant's "Le Horla", it was as if, an invisible being from an invisible empire had clutched the nation by the throat and people were dying, strangely, mysteriously. The Press was scared. Always in the past, anytime a reporter was killed, all branches of Justice had coalesced in a unified effort to capture the criminal because it was taken for granted that if anyone could coerce the Press, then Democracy was threatened and all of us were in danger. The death of a reporter also testified to the discovery of something very significant, something "critical", important to us all.
Why was Dorothy Kilgallen killed? Why did "the little 'p'" take the long way around, refusing to cross the Bridge of Silence over the Potomac of unanswered questions, which proceeded from the babbling brook of the lily "white lies" of the Warren Commission Report?
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[size=12]Was Dorothy Kilgallen Killed?
Years later, the unrelenting efforts of Lee Israel brought to light the fact that Dr. Charles Umber of the New York Medical Examiner's Office had discovered the dregs three types of barbiturates in Dorothy's glass but had kept his findings secret due to the politics and internecine rivalry in the NYMEO. No vial was ever found or recorded by the NYPD. Seconal had been the only barbiturate prescribed for her according to the NYPD report.
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[size=12]Why was Dorothy Kilgallen killed?
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Twenty-nine years later, I would learn why, just in time for the end of the Third Decade of deception and the "Case Closed" sham, the last gasp of the dying lie of the WCR . Hopefully, I look forward in the Fourth Decade for Justice for JFK, Oswald, Kilgallen, Monroe, King, RFK, and the countless others who came home in bags from Viet Nam.


My Fellow Americans, Ask not for whom the bells toll...they toll for thee and me and JFK and what might have been. However, there still remains some hope for Justice but first we must destroy the current state of Media, my motto: "Not back to the future but back to reality".
(©1994, R. D. Morningstar)
GO_SECURE

monk


"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."

James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)
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#52
Magda Hassan Wrote:
Mark Stapleton Wrote:
Magda Hassan Wrote:
Mark Stapleton Wrote:Some of your 'facts' are highly questionable.

And who said anything about Italy being a sponsor? That's ridiculous.
Yes, just as ridiculous as Israel being the sponsor.

Hardly.

Israel were big winners from JFK's assassination.

Nothing ridiculous about the fact they were involved. And Ruby is a clear tie in. He shipped arms to Israel, he visited Israel and he was passionate about Israel.
For which you have offered no proof. At all.

Garbage.

There's heaps of evidence. It's common knowledge Ruby boasted about sending shipments of weapons to Israel. Gary Wean saw him with Mickey Cohen in LA in the late 1940's. Ruby even introduced himself. His friend Lewis McWillie accompanied him on a trip to Cuba in 1959, when McWillie worked for Lansky. I'm waiting for a couple of books to arrive which will hopefully contain a fair bit more.

You can't categorize Ruby as a Mafioso. It's a round peg in a square hole.
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Mark Stapleton Wrote:You can't categorize Ruby as a Mafioso. It's a round peg in a square hole.
I am not. Don't put words in people's mouths. Ruby wasn't a made man. Impossible for him. Just another hustler which did business and worked for the mob. Or who ever was paying.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx

"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.

“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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Magda Hassan Wrote:
Mark Stapleton Wrote:You can't categorize Ruby as a Mafioso. It's a round peg in a square hole.
I am not. Don't put words in people's mouths. Ruby wasn't a made man. Impossible for him. Just another hustler which did business and worked for the mob. Or who ever was paying.

Totally correct and your analogy before about the mob being involved...yet oddly the Italian government was not. Is for my money a great take. Stapleton is deluded.
"In the Kennedy assassination we must be careful of running off into the ether of our own imaginations." Carl Ogelsby circa 1992
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Very moving account by Robert Morningstar at your 51, Greg.

Also recommended, http://www.midtod.com/new/articles/7_14_07_Dorothy.html

Mark Lane in Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK notes Dorothy Kilgallen's suspicious death made it personal for him.
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Magda Hassan Wrote:
Mark Stapleton Wrote:You can't categorize Ruby as a Mafioso. It's a round peg in a square hole.
I am not. Don't put words in people's mouths. Ruby wasn't a made man. Impossible for him. Just another hustler which did business and worked for the mob. Or who ever was paying.

I wasn't referring to you personally but rather the research community generally. Apologies for the clumsy wording.

My issue is with the commonly seen habit of researchers and authors to assume the generic term 'mob' places all connected to it under the umbrella of La Cosa Nostra.

Ruby was part of the Lansky/Cohen Jewish underworld--not La Cosa Nostra. He answered to them, not to Hoffa or Trafficante.

As I mentioned earlier, Peter Dale Scott described the House Committee's obsessive focus on La Cosa Nostra as bureaucratically distorted to the point of falsehood.
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Magda Hassan Wrote:So some shonky Jewish investors have money for making political changes they and the Cuban exiles want to make in Cuba and the investment will be recouped from the re-establishment of the casino and sex trade businesses. Just looks like business as usual to me.



Which ignores the greater motives tied to the Mediterranean underground Piper illustrates in detail. You can't ignore Israel's greater interests in this in my opinion. As Piper clearly and credibly shows, this went way beyond Cuba to the Angleton liaison level.


I probably want to break off of this mainly because fair treatment of this would require my cracking open Piper and quoting. I just do not have time for that with my current serious other research. Also, Mark has praised Rago, said Fetzer had argued to a draw, and backs Israeli sponsorship. I can't in good conscience continue to side with such a person because of the appearance of agreeing with this even though I do not. This is bad because it deters discussion of what is of value in Piper.

However, what Piper is good for is showing the cabal was so deep that no "shonky Jewish investors" could exist outside the domain and control of Meyer Lansky and his CIA/Zionist interests. I don't get it. Deep Politics advocates are usually the first to question such pat cover stories as jewish investors being only interested in the casinos but in this case not only accept it without question but then push it against the obvious greater facts when shown. Since when, with all that is known about zionist behavior, has any jewish group forsaken "The future existence of our nation" in order to keep the tables running?

Piper's flaw, that Mark fails to see, is his anti-zionist zeal has kept him from doing the greater deep political research to show that Israel was not the initiating sponsor. His dislike for Israel has led him to overstate the sponsorship issue and ignore that which disproves it. But that doesn't mean his serious facilitator evidence is not spot-on. Something that has gone totally undiscussed by his detractors.

Magda, you're ignoring how Israel and CIA had a direct interest in the re-establishment of Cuban casino money into the Tibor Rosenbaum Swiss bank money laundry nexus and how vitally important that was to Israeli interests. This is why Piper is important to those seriously fathoming the deep politics associated with the assassination.
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Mark Stapleton Wrote:Ruby was part of the Lansky/Cohen Jewish underworld--not La Cosa Nostra. He answered to them, not to Hoffa or Trafficante.

Anyone attempting to surgically sever the connective tissue linking Italian and Jewish elements of LCN must use a scalpel far sharper than the dull, rusty instrument in the trembling hands of Mark Stapleton, JH (Jew Hunter).
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Magda Hassan Wrote:
Albert Doyle Wrote:Some people are forgetting that all this is seriously qualified by Homer Echevarria saying we have new jew backers. He didn't say we had new Italian backers. Also, a profile analysis of suicide attacks would show them to be mostly committed by those motivated by religious-type ideological reasons. It was Ruby's own words which said he did it because he wanted to show the world that jews have guts. I posted that Ruby's personal profile showed he leaked serious information on the backers while in custody. There's a video showing him pointing a finger at Johnson. The arguments of these persons show no recognition of this.
He also said it was because he wanted to spare Jacky the trauma of the trial. Ruby was full it.

Exactly. Ruby was spouting total bullshit until it occurred to him that he too would be sacrificed. He did and said what he was told in the early days. I strongly doubt he actually knew who the sponsers were. Perhaps he was told it was LBJ. But this is all total speculation. I am no fan of Israel but regarding the assassination you and Mark have not come close to convincing me that Piper got it correct.
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Magda Hassan Wrote:
Albert Doyle Wrote:
Magda Hassan Wrote:He also said it was because he wanted to spare Jacky the trauma of the trial. Ruby was full it.



Probably the cover story Magda.


They didn't kill Dorothy Kilgallen because Ruby was full of it.
I agree. A cover story. And I agree that they didn't kill DK because JR was full of it. But once again he was just a low level grunt following orders. He would have known there was a conspiracy unfolding and that he was part of it but he was far from any inner circle and far from any one resembling sponsors. A mushroom in the dark and fed bs.

I had not seen this when I posted above. Basically the same thing Magda has said here. I think this is what most students of the JFK assassination believe.

Piper was discredited at the EF years ago.
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