Accountability in the murder of President Kennedy

This Web site is intended to stimulate public debate about the causes and consequences of the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy.  In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq to destroy non-existent weapons of mass destruction, the imperative of understanding catastrophic intelligence failures is greater than ever.

The purpose of this site is two-fold:  First is to facilitate understanding of the available evidence, with full respect for the range of opinion that the evidence generates. A second goal is to help forge consensus about the urgent and continuing necessity to enforce the JFK Assassination Records Act of 1992, and to insure the immediate release of assassination-related records now illicitly withheld from the public domain by U.S. government agencies.

The approach is to apply the standards of journalism, scholarship and forensic science to a subject which has suffered from the lack of consistent application of all three.

The posts here will examine some of the evidence and tell some of the more important stories, and provide pointers to other credible sources available online.

What is needed now is societal accountability. As some of the recent civil rights cases have shown, this is still possible even after more than 40 years.

- Jefferson Morley
- Rex Bradford

Comments

[Lori Harper]

My father was in the Marines with LHO and I was wondering what value his Platoon Yearbook might be worth historically and otherwise. There apears to be up to 4 previously unpublished photos of LHO in the book, and in one of them he may be servicing his M1 rifle.

[Paul Wolf]

Dear Lori - the yearbook would be valuable for the AARC's archives. Please contact Jim Lesar, jlesar@mindspring.com.

Also, anything you know about your father's work might shed light on what LHO's units were involved in. For example, that unit was involved in Operation Strongback, in which the 7th Fleet backed the overthrow of Sukarno in Indonesia, and was also at the Atsgui base in Japan which managed U2 overflights of the Soviet Union.

If you have not requested your father's military records, you can do so with his permission, or if he is deceased, then you can do it if you are next of kin. It's a very routine matter to request them from the records center in Missouri, and might be interesting to you if you want to learn about your father. Also, it might shed light on the activities of his unit, and who knows what you will find. If you want some help in obtaining them just let us know.

Best regards

Paul Wolf

[Captain Joe]

Over the years I have been puzzled about about a timing issue that I observed and I wonder how many other former soldiers observed on the day that JFK was assasinated. I was stationed in Germany with a nuclear missile unit near the Czech border. We were deployed on an alert at 6:30 PM on 11-22-63 right after the evening meal. After occupying our emergency firing position, perhaps 30 minutes after the alert was sounded, I went ahead and set up our perimeter defense with my squad,(I was the machine gun sergeant for the unit). After getting set up I wandered over to the communication truck to see what the heck was up. The communication truck had wireless teletype machines to monitor communications with our higher headquarters to receive orders etc. One of the machines was monitoring Associated Press, since the other one was monitoring headquarters. After a while, I heard a commotion, 5 dings in a row. The comm technicion hollared that there were shots fired in Dallas at the president. I believe that this flash message at the time, about 7:30 PM, was a contemporaneous report of the assasination, one hour after we were deployed to our emergency firing position with nuclear missiles. There is seven hour difference between Dallas and Germany. That means we were deployed one hour before the assasination. Someone in Washington was able to see the future. Any other reports of this early deployments?

[Rex Bradford]

Captain Joe, can you supply more identifying details about your unit, its location, names of any other officers, etc? Are you in touch with anyone else in the unit who could add more details to this story?

[PL]

The evidence you're looking for lies here. Follow it up aggressively.

NEW YORK POST
February 7, 2008 -- IS SEN. Ted Kennedy trying to prevent Vanity Fair from publishing a story about a man who claims to be the illegitimate son of Ted's brother, John F. Kennedy? Sources say the magazine's David Friend has been working on the article for a year and a half, and sent photographer Harry Benson to Vancouver to photograph the tall, handsome man in his late 40s - whose first name is Jack and who bears a strong resemblance to the 35th president assassinated in 1963. "The story was set to run, and they gave Ted Kennedy a courtesy call, and a few days later the story was killed," said a friend of the Vancouver man. "Ted must have strong-armed Graydon Carter." Vanity Fair spokeswoman Beth Kseniak said the story isn't dead. Other insiders said the man's mother - a Texan introduced to JFK by his vice president, Lyndon Johnson - slammed her door when the magazine came knocking. The monthly is said to be holding off until there is proof, such as a DNA match. Kennedy's office did not return our calls.

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