On November 22, 1963, President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
Over the years, I've researched the JFK
assassination and have formulated my own conspiracy theory about this nefarious
tragedy, far beyond a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald, based upon a bizarre
sequence of collateral events.
The two biggest conspiracies in our
lifetimes, if true, are the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the
cover-up of the presence of extraterrestrial beings on earth.
Kenn Thomas, author of a book titled MAURY ISLAND UFO: THE CRISMAN CONSPIRACY,
points out a remarkable string of coincidences that may actually tie the two
conspiracies together. According to Thomas, a man named Fred Crisman played a
central role in these seemingly unrelated events.
On June 21, 1947, an airplane pilot
named Kenneth Arnold spotted what he described as “flying saucers” over Mt.
Rainier in the State of Washington, launching the modern UFO era. The term
“flying saucer” soon became part of the UFO lexicon. There were many UFO
sightings later in 1947, including the famous Roswell crash incident.
Four people, including Harold Dahl and
his son, also witnessed the UFOs from a salvage boat in a nearby bay. They
reported seeing six doughnut-shaped craft, about 20 feet in diameter, hovering
high above. Five of the craft formed a circle surrounding a craft in the middle
that was wobbling badly. The seemingly damaged craft suddenly dropped down
about 700 feet, spewing two substances – one was a paper-like metal that
floated in the bay and the other was a hot, steaming, black sludge that rained
down, striking Dahl’s son and killing his dog.
Dahl reported these events to Fred
Crisman, a man he believed to have some connections in the intelligence
community. Crisman subsequently went to Maury Island to investigate the
incident whereby he found a great deal of both materials on the shore and
recovered some for himself.
Crisman shared his experience with Ray
Palmer, a magazine publisher, who then hired Kenneth Arnold (the original
pilot) to investigate further.
Three days later, Arnold had more
sightings, culminating with a woman who had recovered some unusual material in
the same vicinity and subsequently turned the material over to FBI agent Guy
Banister.
Capt. Lee Davidson and Lt. Frank Brown,
U.S. Air Force investigators under the command of Gen. Nathan Twining, soon
joined Arnold in retrieving debris on Maury Island. Ultimately, Crisman was
compelled to turn over his own samples to the two Air Force investigators.
Classified documents, eventually
discovered under the freedom of information act, also indicate that Crisman
turned additional samples he had held back over to CIA agent Clay Shaw.
In his 1968 investigation of the JFK assassination,
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison claimed that Guy Banister and Claw
Shaw were involved in the plot to kill JFK, and that Fred Crisman may have been
one of the gunmen.
In 1969, Fred Crisman was subpoenaed by Jim Garrison
to testify in the case against Clay Shaw in the JFK assassination. According to many JFK assassination researchers, Fred
Crisman was one of the three so-called "hobos" or "tramps" who
were picked up in the nearby railroad yard near the grassy knoll immediately
following the JFK shooting, then released shortly thereafter.
Some interesting coincidences occurred
between the JFK assassination and the 1947 UFO cover-up. Both included Guy
Banister and Clay Shaw.
In 1943-1952, Guy Banister was FBI
“Special Agent in Charge” in the Pacific Northwest, later transferred to
Chicago. Upon retirement, he opened a private investigative office in New
Orleans where he occasionally hired Lee Harvey Oswald in a variety of
capacities.
In 1963, former CIA agent Clay Shaw was
the director of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans, a CIA front
organization. He later went to trial as one of the co-conspirators in JFK’s
death but was found not guilty by a jury. Key evidence linking Shaw to the
assassination was not permitted by the trial judge.
The world is full of strange
coincidences and possible conspiracies in high places.
In September of 1964, the Warren
Commission Report declared that Kennedy was killed by a lone-gunman named Lee
Harvey Oswald.
Fifteen years later, the House
Selection Committee on Assassinations concluded that Kennedy “was probably
killed as the result of a conspiracy” but “was unable to identify the other
gunmen or the extent of the conspiracy.”
Based on the information detailed in CROSSFIRE by Jim Marrs and FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE by Robert D. Morrow,
it seems likely that the conspiracy involved organized crime.
Carlos Marcello was the mob boss of New
Orleans. In the spring of 1961, the new U.S. Attorney General, Robert Kennedy,
had Marcello handcuffed and put onto a plane to Guatemala City with no luggage
and very little cash, based on an immigration violation claiming that Marcello
had obtained a false Guatemalan birth certificate.
Marcello was eventually flown back to
the USA by his personal pilot David Ferrie, vowing to get even with the Kennedys.
Allegedly, Marcello and David Ferrie
(a,k,a, "The Professor") devised a plan that included placing blame
on a “nut” for the assassination of the U.S. President, Robert Kennedy's
brother.
David Ferrie, Marcello's private pilot,
had been Lee Harvey Oswald’s Civil Air Patrol leader.
The thrust of the plan was to make it
look as though Fidel Castro was behind the killing of the American President,
thereby inciting the U.S. government to attack Cuba, eliminating Castro who had
forced the mob casinos in Havana to close.
Santos Trafficante, the south Florida
mob boss, a close associate of Marcello, had been in the casino business in
Cuba and even jailed by Castro for a period of time. Mobsters Johnny Roselli of
Miami and Sam Giancana of Chicago were also involved in the plot.
Trafficante set up two men who thought
they were working for the CIA to assassinate Castro and had them sent to Cuba.
Through Johnny Roselli, Castro was tipped off that the CIA was sending these
two men to kill him. The two men were then captured in Cuba and forced to
reveal they were CIA operatives.
On September 7, 1963, Castro told
Associated Press reporters that he was being targeted for assassination by U.S.
government leaders who “could find their own lives in jeopardy.”
During this entire period, Lee Harvey
Oswald was being manipulated by associates of Ferrie in New Orleans to appear
to be a pro-Castro wacko.
The trap had been set.
Manipulated into the role of a patsy,
Lee Harvey Oswald had been covertly utilized to shift the blame of the Kennedy
assassination to Castro. Plus, Castro had recently made statements to the press
that he was being targeted by the Kennedy Administration, further fanning the
flames.
Thus, according to mob plans, when JFK
was killed, Castro (through Oswald) would be targeted for invasion by the USA
whereupon the mob would get their Cuban casinos back and get the Justice
Department (headed by Robert Kennedy) off their backs.
However, when JFK was assassinated in
Dallas several things went awry. Oswald was to have been killed in the
confusion but managed to escape.
Oswald was later killed by Jack Ruby to
silence him and close the case.
The FBI and the CIA both wanted the
case closed as quickly as possible to avoid embarrassing entanglements.
The new President, Lyndon Johnson,
wanted it closed quickly to avoid a possible catastrophic confrontation with
Cuba and their cold war ally, the USSR.
Thus, the lone gunman nutcase became
the quick official remedy.
Jack Ruby, the Dallas mob connection,
was the key lynchpin to the conspiracy.
In its investigation of the assassination of JFK, the House Select Committee on
Assassinations declared that Jack Ruby's
murder of Lee Harvey Oswald as a primary reason to
suspect organized crime as possibly having involvement in the assassination and
that Jack Ruby was connected to Sam Giancana, head of the Chicago Mob. In its investigation,
the House Select Committee on Assassinations also noted the presence of
"credible associations relating both Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby to
figures having a relationship with Marcello's crime family or
organization."
Just prior to the JFK assassination on November 22, 1963, Jack Ruby made contact
with Marcello, and another Mafia leader, Santos Trafficante,
about a problem he was having with the American Guild of Variety Artists concerning
the female performers in Ruby's nightclub. Jack Ruby also visited New Orleans
that summer-- Lee Harvey Oswald
also was in New Orleans during that same time frame.
Jack Ruby made more long distance phone
calls to known mobsters (Trafficante, Marcello, etc.) during the two months
prior to the assassination than he had made the entire previous year. In
addition, Johnny Roselli met with Jack Ruby twice just prior to the
assassination.
When the Dallas police chief was
answering questions at a press conference shortly after Oswald was arrested, Jack
Ruby (from the back of the room) loudly corrected him (captured on audio and
video) as to which Cuba freedom organization Oswald had belonged. According to
the mob plan, it was imperative that Oswald be portrayed as Pro-Castro, thereby
placing ultimate blame on Castro as being behind the assassination.
Jack Ruby then killed Oswald to end any
further investigation.
Scheduled to testify before Congress, Johnny
Roselli was found dead in an oil drum floating in Biscayne Bay near Miami.
Sam Giancana had helped JFK get elected
President, later to be subjected to Robert Kennedy’s organized crime taskforce.
Five days before Giancana was to testify before a senate committee on CIA-mob
assassination plots, he was shot in the back of the head.
A few days before David Ferrie was
scheduled to meet with the New Orleans district attorney to discuss the JFK
assassination, he was found dead (unsolved murder) in his apartment. Just a
couple of hours later, Eladio del Valle, a known Ferrie collaborator, was
brutally murdered in Miami.
Dead men tell no tales.
On October 26, 2017, many of the John
F. Kennedy assassination files that had been kept secret for many decades were
released to the public, with more files to be released later pending review by
various federal agencies. This will undoubtedly lead to a renewed interest in
various conspiracy theories about what really happened on November 22, 1963, in
Dallas.
There have been many conspiracy
theories, involving numerous diverse plots and various participants, including
the CIA, Cuban exiles, rich oil barons, Lyndon Johnson, the Illuminati, Russia,
Vietnam War mongers, UFO researchers, Knights of Malta, Club of Rome, radical
Muslims, John Birch Society, Freemasons, the Federal Reserve, Bilderbergers, right
wing zealots, inter-dimensional demons, Pindar, the ghost of John Wilkes Booth,
etc., etc.
It all started in New Orleans. Carlos
Marcello was livid after being humiliated by Robert Kennedy abruptly shipping
him off to Guatemala on an immigration violation. Other mob bosses were upset
about losing their Cuban casinos and being targeted by U.S. Attorney General,
Bobby Kennedy, who had declared war against organized crime. Plus, members of
organized crime had backed JFK as president through their influence with labor
unions. Key members of organized crime decided to fight back, by eliminating President
Kennedy, which would also rid them of Bobby Kennedy.
According to FBI wiretaps, Carlos
Marcello confessed to the assassination. Marcello in New Orleans and Jack Ruby
in Dallas had a tight connection. Some of the dancers in Ruby's strip club were
brought up to Dallas through Marcello's organization. Ruby was a hot-tempered,
emotional, egomaniac who had an allegiance to organized crime, from his early
days in Chicago and later to Dallas.
Jack Ruby had a gun running operation
in the Florida Keys to Cuba. George Faraldo, the manager of the Key West
International Airport, told investigators of the Senate Select Subcommittee on
Intelligence that he had witnessed Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald together at
the Key West airport, waiting in a plane boarding area for a flight to Cuba, in
the summer of 1963. The arriving plane had been delayed for several hours --
Oswald and Ruby had been seen briefly chatting with each other on occasion. Faraldo
saw Lee Harvey Oswald board the plane but did not see Ruby get on the plane and
did not know if he had boarded.
Also, Lee Harvey Oswald and police
officer J.D. Tippit (supposedly shot by Oswald shortly after the assassination)
had been seen together with Jack Ruby, just one week prior to the
assassination, at Ruby's strip club.
If you closely examine the sequence of
when Oswald was being escorted out of the basement of the Dallas Police
building on November 24, he appears to recognize Jack Ruby (obvious eye contact
and body language) for a brief moment, then quickly turns away -- a couple of
seconds later, Ruby steps forward and shoots Oswald.
Some of witnesses to the killing of Dallas
police officer J.D. Tippit claimed that two men were involved in the shooting
and neither one of them was Oswald.
The Parkland Hospital staff in Dallas
believed the white flecks visible on the X-rays of JFK's head suggested that
the shooter of the fatal head shot (which forced JFK's head to the left and
backward) used a mercury-tipped, frangible round, which disintegrates into tiny
pieces upon impact -- perhaps a professional assassin's bullet fired from the
grassy knoll.
Craig Roberts, former U.S. Marine
sniper and author of KILL ZONE; A SNIPER
LOOKS AT DEALY PLAZA, declared the following at a conference in Dallas in
1997 -- "I'll tell you what I saw, as a sniper. I saw a guy hit from the
right front, with a frangible mercury bullet."
Carlos Marcello had an office on the
Airline Road in New Orleans. On the wall of the office was a sign that read
"Three can keep a secret if two are dead." If you're going to
organize an operation to assassinate the President of the United States, you
need to also eliminate any middle men who could be linked to the organizer(s).
Much, much more to go into here, but
sometimes less is more.
Plus, additional items will come out
now that the documents have been released.
But it's a conundrum that may never be resolved.
In November of 1963, I was a sophomore
at the University of Minnesota at the time. I heard about it on my car radio,
on the way home from college classes. It was a very sad day in American history
and the nation still yearns for answers.
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
and it stinks to high heaven.
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Quote for the Day – “A man may die, but
an idea lives on." John F. Kennedy
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Bret Burquest is the author of 12 books. He lives in the Ozark
Mountains with a few dogs and the ghost of Jim Marrs.
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