Category: News Items
Current items culled from external sources and which are of interest to the topics treated on this site.
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Secret Service Agent Paul Landis May Finally Negate the Single Bullet Theory
Paul Landis was one of two Secret Service agents tasked with guarding first lady Jacqueline Kennedy on November 22, 1963—the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In a new book, The Final Witness, to be published in October, Landis claims to have seen something that afternoon that he had never publicly admitted before. His secret, coming to light only now, will certainly reorient how historians and laymen perceive that grave and harrowing event. His account also raises questions about whether there might have been a second gunman in Dallas that day.
Read the rest of the article here. (Vanity Fair)
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Orleans Parish Grand Jury | Special Investigation
DA Harry Connick wanted them destroyed but they were saved by investigator Gary Raymond. See here.
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Retrospective Approval of JFK Rises to 90%; Trump at 46%
John F. Kennedy remains the most highly rated former president when Gallup asks Americans whether, in retrospect, they approve or disapprove of the job each did as president. Ninety percent of U.S. adults now approve of the job Kennedy did, 21 percentage points higher than second-place Ronald Reagan’s rating.
Read the rest of the article here. (Gallup)
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Biden’s ‘Final’ Order on Kennedy Files Leaves Some Still Wanting More
On June 22, 1962, an intelligence official drafted a memo summarizing a letter intercepted between Lee Harvey Oswald and his mother. The memo was made public long ago. But for 60 years, the name of the letter opener was kept secret.
Now it can finally be told: According to an unredacted copy of the memo released recently by the government, the official who intercepted Oswald’s mail for the CIA in the months before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated was named Reuben Efron.
Read the rest of the article here. (Yahoo! News)
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Attacks on RFK Jr. as a “Conspiracy Theorist” Show All the Hallmarks of CIA Disinformation
In January 1967, the CIA sent a memo (marked “SECRET,” “RESTRICTED,” and “DESTROY WHEN NO LONGER NEEDED”) to its army of media “assets” secretly embedded in virtually every area of U.S. communications. This army of covert operatives (exposed as “Operation Mockingbird” in a historic 1977 Rolling Stone article by Carl Bernstein) extended all the way up to world famous columnists, bureau chiefs, managing editors, newspaper publishers and CEOs of major radio and television broadcasting networks.
What did the CIA’s secret memo instruct its media assets to do? Entitled “Countering Criticism of the Warren Report,” the memo provided guidance for countering “conspiracy theorists” who challenged the Warren Report’s false conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy. It recommended the strategy of smearing critics of the Warren Report by describing them as being financially motivated; or having “anti-American, far-left or communist sympathies,” or being hasty, inaccurate or ego-driven in their research.
Sound familiar? Although five decades old, the tactics recommended by the memo seem chillingly current, a virtual operating manual for how the present-day CIA tries to smear and discredit anyone who dares to question official government propaganda.
Read the rest of the article here. (CovertAction Magazine)
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RFK Jr.: ‘It’s Very Disturbing’ That Biden Refused to Release More JFK Assasination Docs
President Joe Biden is keeping thousands of JFK assassination secret as part of a “Transparency Plan,” drawing fire from historians, researchers as well as his Democratic primary opponent—a nephew of the president murdered nearly 60 years ago today.
“It’s very disturbing,” Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., told The Messenger in an interview. “They’re pouring the concrete on 60-year-old secrets so that they’re permanently interred. Why?”
Read the rest of the article here. (The Messenger News)
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President Biden Delays the Release of the Remaining JFK Assassination Records
Biden and his DOJ have put an axe through sections 6 and section 9(1)(d) of the Act, which will effectively kill the JFK Assassination Records Act of 1992 and all of the work accomplished by Oliver Stone to get the Act passed in the first place.
Here is a news story on this topic.
Download the memorandum issued by the White House here. (PDF)