>From jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU Wed Sep 15 15:33:49 EDT 1993 Article: 31475 of alt.conspiracy Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.individualism,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa Path: murdoch!hopper!jad From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 1, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.conspiracy,alt.conspiracy.jfk Keywords: PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: U.Va. Internet Public Access Project Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 17:44:38 GMT Lines: 187 ____ ____ ____ ____---- ----____ ____---- ----____ ____ ---- ---- ---- T H E P E O P L E'S S P E L L B R E A K E R ____ ____ ____ ---- ----____ ____---- ----____ ____---- ---- ---- ---- DATE OF PRINTING PRICE: __ CENTS THE NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE OF [your territory; example:] SOUTHEAST ARIZONA * * * * * MORNING EDITION * * * * * EDITOR: John DiNardo PUBLISHER: [your name (optional)] ________________________________________ From the free airwaves of The People's Pacifica Radio Network station: WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 ________________________________________ Part 1, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GARY NULL: There is criticism on the part of the media to opening up the John F. Kennedy assassination to a new investigation. However, there are individuals who are willing to challenge this stance. They feel that there are more than enough reasons to open up the Warren Commission findings and to take another look; even to convene another impartial group of researchers and investigators who have subpoena power; even a special prosecutor, if necessary, to delve into this issue without the FBI and the CIA being the ones who are primarily responsible for giving the information, as some doubt has been raised concerning their objectivity in the original Warren Commission hearings and research-gathering. Our first guest on today's program is Harold Weisberg, the House Subcommitee on Assassinations investigator, the author of a book on Lee Harvey Oswald and the post-mortem, the whitewash and the frame-up. He has also written a book on the assassination of Martin Luther King. Welcome to our program, Mr. Weisberg. I would like you to give us your professional assessment of the House Select Committee on Assassinations -- since you were a primary investigator there -- on their findings, on the Warren Commission, and on .... HAROLD WEISBERG: I had no connection with the House Committee. I was the source for most of the stories that appeared that were critical of them. It was a synthetic duplication of the Warren Commission. It began with the intent (now, I'm not talking about each individual member. I'm talking about the staff who did it; especially Blakey, the general counsel and chief-of-staff) .... It began with the intent of putting down all the critics. Each hearing -- each public hearing -- began with what he called "the narration", and he picked out the critics whose work he was going to address, and then the hearing was dedicated to debunking them and proving them wrong. And I'm happy to say that there's only one critic he managed to avoid; and that's me. He wasn't going to pick a fight with me. All of their [the Committee's] work was faulted in varying degrees of ways, but they NEVER investigated the crime itself. In that, they did exactly what the FBI did, and exactly what the Warren Commission did. They did NOT -- any one of them -- investigate the crime itself. Now, I think you should know that, unlike the other books, there are no theories in my book. I'm a former investigative reporter, a Senate investigator, an intelligence analyst; and that's not my bag. And I don't think that that's what the people of the country need for the democratic system to work. They're factual. Now, I'm going to quote, accurately from memory, a record I got through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Perhaps it would help your audience to understand more about where I'm coming from to say that I filed about a dozen Freedom of Information Act lawsuits against the Government. Most of them are on the Kennedy assassination. And most of the records I got were from the FBI. In all, I have about a third of a million pages of records. These are the same ones that Oliver Stone has been promoting for himself in his movie by saying that they're suppressed. Now, from the Department of Justice and from the FBI I got a record of a memorandum. Nicholas Katzenabach -- who was then the Deputy Attorney-General of the United States and acting Attorney-General as of the time in question, because Bobby Kennedy was not there because of the crime and the tragedy. He [Katzenbach] wrote Lyndon Johnson, through his [Johnson's] channel, Bill Moyers, recommending to Lyndon Johnson that they had to convince the country that Oswald was alone, that Oswald was the assassin, that he had no confederates who were still at-large, and that the evidence was such that he would be convicted in trial. The typed copy is dated early Monday morning the first working day after the assassination, November 25, 1963. I also happen to have gotten Katzenbach's handwritten copy, which he wrote when he had no typist available on Sunday. And from the FBI I got a record which said that Katzenbach had discussed it with [FBI Director] Hoover on Sunday, as soon as Oswald was killed. So as soon as the Government knew that there would be no trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, they closed the books, the crime was solved, and that was it. So you see, when the crime itself was never investigated, there are no leads for other people to follow. And I address this so that your audience can understand that those people, who develop theories and advance them as solutions, do it without a factual basis. I don't know of any theory that is factually supportable by the known evidence. And now I'm talking about the official investigative reports of the FBI and things like that which do establish some fact. GARY NULL: Okay, we thank you very much, Mr. Weisberg, for sharing your views and for giving us this insight on this important piece of critical information. I appreciate your being on with us today. Let's go now to another guest who is standing by, who has a different point of view, and who has additional information. I would like to invite Jim Marrs [author of CROSSFIRE] onto our program again. Welcome to our program, Jim. I'd like to pick up where we left off yesterday. For those of you who were not here yesterday and who didn't hear the program, we did a careful assessment, going step-by-step through the events that led up to the actual shooting, showing that the American Public has never been made aware of the fact that earlier in the day, in Fort Worth, there was also a motorcade for President Kennedy, but that motorcade was substantially different. It was VERY very heavily guarded, on proper protocol, by the Secret Service. And the police were maintained, meaning that sharpshooters were stationed on rooftops, no window was allowed to be opened, there was adequate protection. But all of that was suspended at Dealey Plaza and for the trip through Dallas. WHY? WHO was responsible? Who caused the rescinding of these orders? Those are questions that have to be thoroughly analyzed. I would like just a brief summary of some of the points from yesterday -- an overview of some of the discrepancies between what we have been led to believe and what actually occurred. Then I would like to go into the area that our previous guest, Mr. Harold Weisberg has suggested -- that there is NO evidence to support any of the assassination theories. I would like you to give us YOUR information, your belief, and whatever documentation you have that could, in any way, directly or indirectly, tie in any of a number of proposed agendas such as the renegade CIA agents, the knowledge that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover could have known or may have known in advance that the assassination was imminent, certain right-wing extremists, certain members of the military, and also members of Organized Crime, and some anti-Castro Cubans. Now, all of these have been alleged -- depending upon the theorist -- to have participated. But you have some unique insights and and I would like you to share with us some of those insights at this time. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * For those readers who are concerned about the highly treasonous crimes routinely perpetrated by our government officials who are supposed to be public servants of the highest rectitude, please contact a public interest law group that has valiantly filed lawsuits charging the CIA with crimes of treason, narcotics trafficking, terrorism and murder. Please write or phone: William Davis The Christic Institute 8773 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034 (310)287-1556 John DiNardo P.S. Try calling directory assistance at (310)555-1212. See if you get the correct phone number. When I called, they gave me a number that was totally wrong. Even the area code was wrong.