Article 17313 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa Path: cbnewsl!cbnewsk!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!Turing.ORG!jad From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 21, PACIFICA RADIO Investigates the Murder of President Kennedy Message-ID: <1992Nov12.125856.14188@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Keywords: researchers' revelations about the assassination of President Kennedy Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia. Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:58:56 GMT Lines: 151 The following transcript was made from a tape recording of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) JIM MARRS [author of CROSSFIRE]: In fact, they used motorcycle officers, who were to flank Kennedy's car, who were given orders by the Secret Service not to proceed past the rear bumper. That left him hanging out there, unprotected. Dallas police Captain Fritz had requested of the Secret Service that he be allowed to ride a car or two back from the President with some of his sharpshooters and to watch the windows and watch for problems on the rooftops. He was told: No, you can ride at the rear of the motorcade. So, in disgust, he just went on to the trademart. None of the normal precautions were taken that day. And, in fact, there were direct violations of Secret Service regulations, the most blatant of which was that the men who were actually in charge of protecting the President -- in direct violation of Secret Service regulations -- were out drinking until four and five in the morning over in Fort Worth. And they were not just drinking beer. They were drinking Everclear. This was a direct violation, punishable by dismissal from the Secret Service, and yet, all of this was hushed up and covered up. The next big security breach was that Secret Service regulations stated that you would not make a turn greater than ninety degrees. And if you had to make a ninety degree turn, you'd station security people at the intersection. Well, the one hundred and twenty degree turn in front of the Texas School Book Depository was a direct violation. And no security people were stationed there. Only one policeman, Joe Smith, was stationed there. And what was his experience? He said that he heard shots down near the triple underpass by the little concrete monument, ran down there, and could still smell gunpowder hanging in the bushes. So you could see that there was something really wrong going on with the motorcade. GARY NULL: So Secret Service elements would have to have been involved. Isn't it also true that the right-flanking motorcycle cop leaves the motorcade when everyone turns onto Elm Street, and that cop continues straight down Houston Street? JIM MARRS: Well, that is true, but I think I have an explanation for that. In one of Mary Moorman's five Polaroid snapshots, we see a picture of this motorcycle officer, by himself, rushing down Elm Street. I think what happened there was kind of a normal police motorcade procedure, like in a funeral or something. One runs up ahead, checks the intersection and holds traffic while everybody goes through -- and then he races ahead -- leap-frogs up ahead. I think that this motorcycle officer simply roared up Houston Street a little ways to make sure that everything was secured and that nobody was coming through there; and then he turned around, rode back and rejoined his companions further down in the plaza. I don't necessarily see anything suspicious in that one particular incident. GARY NULL: Jim, what you're telling us is very new and very important for this audience. And that is that there were extraordinarily tight and professional safety precautions earlier that same day in Fort Worth, and all of that was undone. All of that was dismissed in Dallas. That is completely atypical, and that is something that the media should have picked up on. That story ALONE would have been enough, if I were the city editor, for me to send out a reporter -- to say: Hold on a second. Dallas and Fort Worth are side-by-side. They're only about thirty miles apart. You have, in one case, tight, complete, total security. And in another case you have no security ? JIM MARRS: That's true. Well let me tell you something -- then and now. First off ..... Well, I don't want to use any names, but a good friend of mine, a peer, who was a news reporter at that time, and who knew Dallas quite familiarly .....and that was part of the problem: all the news media poured into Dallas, but they didn't really know Dallas. They didn't know how to get around. They didn't know how to talk to the people. But this fellow did. And he was beginning to kind of investigate on his own because he smelled a rat. Okay? And he became convinced that his phone was tapped, and that people were following him around. He had a wife and a family, and he just told me, quite frankly, that it scared him, and he backed off. Now that was back at the time [soon after the assassination]. Today, just two years ago, a senior editor for one of the Dallas-Fort Worth major dailies told me -- he said: "Jim, I know you're right, but I can't print the truth because it could mean my life." Okay? And the guy was dead-serious. Now I, for one, do not believe for a minute that some hit-team is going to come to Dallas-Fort Worth and kill some newspaper editor just because of some story he runs in the newspaper. The point is, this fellow does. This fellow really believes it. So we've got absolute fear still being used as a very, very powerful weapon down here to keep people who should know otherwise ..... to keep them silent. JERRY POLICOFF: Can I interject something here? You know, when you're talking about security in Dallas, of all of the places where there should have been a greater measure of security than anywhere else, it should have been Dallas where [liberal Democrat who ran against Eisenhower in `56] Adlai Stevenson had been attacked and spat on by a crowd. Lyndon Johnson had been [too]. There were legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of the President in Dallas, of all places. GARY NULL: Alright. We're going to take a break here to summarize everything. Then I want to go into the means, the motives and the opportunities to assassinate the President, and try to give as much new information as possible, and at that time, also bring in what the media has done or not done. I even want to get to the information that was NOT reviewed, or not given credibility by the investigators. In particular, when one good investigator was doing a good job, he was fired, and a person who supported the "single gunman theory" was brought in to take his place. So, at every level, damage control was maintained. The only way that could have been done is for people who were in a position to control it from the very first day knew that no matter how long it took -- no matter who came into the picture, no one in the major media, or in any Governmental agency was going to uncover anything that would be that damaging. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards, and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes ever more striking. John DiNardo ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ If we seriously listen to this "God within us" ["conscience", if you will], we usually find ourselves being urged to take the more difficult path, the path of more effort rather than less. .... Each and every one of us, more or less frequently, will hold back from this work. .... Like every one of our ancestors before us, we are all lazy. So original sin does exist; it is our laziness. M. Scott Peck THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~