403 Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, 182.
404 Ibid.
405 “Jim Garrison’s Playboy Interview,” Playboy Magazine, October 1967, Vol. 14 No. 10: jfklancer.com/Garrison2.html
406 John McAdams’ The Kennedy Assassination Pages, “David Ferrie’s ‘Suicide Notes,’” retrieved 10 May 2013: mcadams.posc.mu.edu/death10.htm
407 Ibid.
408 Ibid.
409 Belzer & Wayne, Hit List, 177, citing McAdams, “David Ferrie’s ‘Suicide Notes.’”
410 John S. Craig, “The Mystery of David Ferrie,” July, 1995, Fair Play Magazine: spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/05th_issue/ferrie.html
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Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Dorothy Kilgallen
Here it is, short and not so sweet:
Dorothy Kilgallen, the nationally-famous reporter who interviewed Jack Ruby in prison, died of unexplained causes after hinting at an explosive breakthrough in the Kennedy story.411
Actually, the causes were explained; they just made absolutely no sense! In fact, the official version is more full of holes than Swiss cheese.
Kilgallen was a nightmare for the government because she said she was sure the assassination of JFK was a conspiracy and wouldn’t let the story die. She also vowed to stay on the case until she broke it and that she would indeed solve the case and prove the conspiracy as a result of the inside information she had acquired.
That claim had a foundation, as she was the only reporter in the country who was allowed to have a private interview with Jack Ruby and nobody knew what he had told her. So when Kilgallen said that she was going to “bust this case wide open,” everyone paid attention. And it’s easy to see how that probably disturbed a lot of people in white shirts around Washington.
Kilgallen said it would all be in her new book that exposed the conspiracy behind the assassination, but that book was never published the way she intended, because she was soon found dead.
Sound suspicious? Well, keep reading, because it’s so creepy it’ll knock your socks off.
Official Scenario: She was found in bed in her ritzy, multi-level Manhattan townhome, the victim of an overdose. Having combined sleeping pills with alcohol, she succumbed to their effects and died. Either Suicide or Accidental Overdose.
Big problems with the official scenario.
It was medically estimated that Dorothy had the equivalent of fifteen to twenty pills in her body, in a triple combination of Nembutal, Seconal, and Tuinol, combined with alcohol, which supercharged their effects.
Yet it has been established that she was observed in a fine, coherent state a short time before her death occurred. She could not have taken that many pills—accidentally or otherwise—and still been walking around in a coherent state. Whatever did happen must therefore have happened very quickly.
And an even larger issue is the sterility of the crime scene. There was no vomit or mess of any kind. That would simply not be possible if she had swallowed fifteen to twenty pills and combined them with alcohol.
A person doesn’t take that many pills accidentally. And she was happy that night; not the slightest bit suicidal. So that’s why some think she was slipped a fast-acting “Mickey Finn” cocktail because—a short time later—she was down.
Whoever staged the crime scene made some huge mistakes. Check out some of these things; it’s just like in a good thriller.
The bed that she was found in was actually the master bedroom, but all of her friends knew that the master bedroom was never used and contained a bed that she never would have gone to sleep in. It was just for show; it was off the living room, and when entertaining formally, was just used to maintain the false pretense that she and her husband were still a happy couple.412
She was found in bed with a book next to her, like she had been reading and then passed out. But the clothes she was wearing were something that friends and family knew she would never wear to bed: a blue bed jacket over a nightgown instead of her regular old pajamas.413
Even though she was supposedly ready for bed, she still had her makeup and false eyelashes on; two more things that friends and family knew she’d never wear to bed. Here’s how Kilgallen’s hairdresser, the one who discovered her body, explained it to a friend: “When I tell you the bed she was found in, and how I found her, you’re going to know she was murdered.”414
The book that was placed next to her on the bed was another mistake they made. It was a book that she had already read and had discussed it with friends.415 So they picked a book that she wouldn’t have been reading.
She also used reading glasses when she read, and there were no reading glasses near her. See what I mean about all the mistakes that the killers would have had no way of knowing?416
Another thing was that the air conditioning was left on, which was something she never did at night.417
When they ran lab tests on the drinking glass that was near the bed, it only showed traces of one barbiturate, but the autopsy showed that she was killed by a “cocktail” of small doses of three different barbiturates, which formed a lethal combination with alcohol.418
So somebody obviously tried to make it look like she had taken some pills, gone to bed, and quietly passed away. But then how did the other two barbiturates get into her body?
And get a load of this little gem: All of Dorothy’s notes on JFK for her upcoming book totally disappeared.
And if that’s not bizarre enough for you, then get this: Dorothy was one smart cookie. She was aware that two other reporters who had been investigating JFK’s murder had recently died very sudden and strange deaths.419 So she usually carried her JFK notes with her. And she also even gave a backup copy of those notes to someone she knew she could trust: fellow journalist Flo Pritchett.
Well, guess what Charlie Brown? Her friend was dead two days later. And in case that’s not crazy enough for you, the backup copy of the notes also vanished.
People have pointed out that her friend had a long-term illness, which was true. But what happened to the notes? Nobody has ever been able to explain that.
Kilgallen’s book was published posthumously—without the chapter on JFK.
411 Heiner, Without Smoking Gun, 113.
412 Sara Jordan, “Who Killed Dorothy Kilgallen?,” October 21, 2007, Midwest Today: midtod.com/new/articles/7_14_07_Dorothy.html
413 Ibid.
414 Ibid.
415 Ibid.
416 Ibid.
417 Ibid.
418 Cassie Parnau, “Archive/Medical Reports,” The Kilgallen Files, retrieved 11 May 2013: kilgallenfiles.wordpress.com/category/official-reports/medical-reports/
419 Belzer & Wayne, Hit List (see Jim Koethe, Bill Hunter, Dorothy Kilgallen, Flo Pritchett).
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Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Lee Bowers
Lee Bowers was the best witness to multiple shooters in Dallas, as he had a bird’s eye view of Dealey Plaza from a high spot looking down toward the grassy knoll. He was a solid citizen and witness and was sure about what he saw.
One witness was in a better position than anyone else to observe suspicious activity by the fence at the top of the grassy knoll. This was railway worker Lee Bowers, perched in a signal box which commanded a unique view of the area behind the fence. Bowers said that, shortly before the shots were fired, he noticed two men standing near the fence.420
Here’s how Bowers described the men he saw:
One was ‘middle-aged’ and ‘fairly heavyset,’ wearing a white shirt and dark trousers. The other was ‘mid-twenties in either a plaid shirt or plaid coat . . . these men were the only two strangers in the area. The others were workers that I knew.’ Bowers also said that when the shots were fired at the President ‘in the vicinity of where the two men I have described were, there was a flash of light, something I could not identify, but there was something which occurred which caught my eye in this immediate area on the embankment . . . a flash of light or smoke or someth
ing which caused me to feel that something out of the ordinary had occurred there.’421
So I know you’re probably saying to yourself, Wow, what an incredibly valuable witness, and I’m sure the Warren Commission thought so, too. Well, before you get too excited, here’s what they did:
Lee Bowers was questioned by the Warren Commission but was cut off in mid-sentence when he began describing the ‘something out of the ordinary’ he had seen. The interrogating lawyer changed the subject.422
Friends of Bowers said he hadn’t told the whole story of everything he had seen that day.
One of them, Walter Rischel, told reporters that his friend had been afraid to talk about everything he had witnessed during the JFK assassination. Rischel said that Bowers feared to ‘go public’ with the additional information, and for some very good reasons. Bowers had also reportedly confided the same thing in his minister.423
And then he was killed in what was, at first, reported as a one-car accident on a long, open lonely stretch of road near Midlothian, Texas.
But there were eyewitness reports that another car ran Bowers off the road.424 That claim was investigated by a former member of the Texas Highway Patrol, Charles Good, who concluded that another car had indeed forced Bowers’ car off the road.425
Bowers didn’t die right away and apparently told emergency personnel that he thought he was drugged somehow when he had stopped for coffee a
few miles back.426
So it’s one of those cases where we just don’t know. It’s difficult to prove he was murdered. But a lot of things about the case just didn’t add up and something sure didn’t seem right.
420 Summers, The Kennedy Conspiracy.
421 Ibid.
422 Ibid.
423 Geraldo Rivera, “The Curse of JFK,” May 6, 1992, Now It Can Be Told: youtube.com/watch?v=mcXJJsZs7LE
424 Robert J. Groden & Harrison Edward Livingstone, High Treason: The Assassination of JFK and the Case for Conspiracy (Carroll & Graf: 1998).
425 John Simkin, “Lee E. Bowers: Biography,” Spartacus Educational, citing Charles Good, 1991, retrieved 11 May 2013: spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbowers.htm
426 Ibid.
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Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Mary Pinchot Meyer
Another new book you have to read is Peter Janney’s Mary’s Mosaic, which is a great study of the Mary Pinchot Meyer case and what it all meant from a historical standpoint. As the book shows, her murder was an assassination so professional that one CIA insider said it “had all the markings of an in-house rubout.”427
Mary was an extremely intelligent, very attractive woman who—as fate would have it—was having a serious romantic affair with President Kennedy. As opposed to his many sexual “liaisons” with other women, this was apparently one of JFK’s most serious relationships. And most of the people in Washington circles knew it.
After JFK’s murder, Mary was one of the people who—like Dorothy Kilgallen—was sure that it was a conspiracy and was determined to prove it. She told friends she knew people at the CIA and that Agency people were involved:
Meyer claimed to my friend that she positively knew that Agency-affiliated Cuban exiles and the Mafia were responsible for killing John Kennedy.428
Then one day, she was out for her regular morning run and was murdered; two shots from a .38 at point blank range.
Police jumped all over the case, and against proper procedure, immediately said it was solved: random murder, possible sex crime. They came up with a great story that a middle-class black man who was found near the crime scene with his zipper undone was being held for the crime. That’s exactly the type of thing that makes most people jump to conclusions, isn’t it? Well, it almost worked.
Except that—in this particular case—the middle-class black man with the zipper undone actually managed to get a decent lawyer to come to his defense, and she totally demolished the case against him, right in open court for all to see. They found him not guilty, which left the case still unsolved.
Then other evidence started to materialize, a whole lot of “funny business” seeping into the light of day.
Janney even uncovered direct evidence about the CIA’s internal decision to ‘terminate’ Mary Meyer. Former killers who had been in the ‘cleaning business’ for the CIA have openly talked about it and revealed that it was done exactly how it looks like it was done; that they ‘Had one of our cleaning men nail her down by the towpath while she was out for her daily jog.’
‘She was eliminated because she knew too much.’429
They even figured out the assassin’s operational code name, which was William L. Mitchell.
There’s tons more on her case; way too much to go into here. But there’s ample evidence that she was killed as a “national security assassination” to prevent her from divulging “highly sensitive information,” like the truth.
427 Janney, Marys Mosaic, 346–347.
428 Ibid, 314.
429 Belzer & Wayne, Hit List, 151, citing Janney, Mary’s Mosaic, 355, 384.
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Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Sam Giancana
Sam Giancana was a top-level mobster linked to the CIA’s anti-Castro assassination program. It was documented by Senator Frank Church’s investigation that the CIA had gone to mobster Johnny Roselli to get the cooperation of Giancana and Santo Trafficante, another top Mafia leader, in their covert efforts to eliminate Castro once and for all.
Bear in mind that the guy who we’re talking about here was a ruling king of the mob. Giancana—nicknamed “Sam the Man”—was not just a big name in Chicago where he was headquartered, but with big casinos in Nevada, giant hotels in Miami Beach, and a lot of major business interests in Hollywood and even Mexico, his name carried a lot of heat. His house was like a fortress, he knew everything about everybody because he knew that’s what kept him alive, and you can bet he knew how to protect himself and what was his. His house had also been placed under twenty-four-hour FBI surveillance by the government and that came from a direct order from the Attorney General’s office of Robert Kennedy.430 Giancana was even followed by the Feds when he was on the golf course and bullied back at them about the harassment of the constant surveillance.
And even though he was extremely well-protected and under constant surveillance, they got him anyway. Here’s how they did it:
That night, while cooking in the kitchen of his Chicago home—which was described by many as a “fortress” or “bunker”—Giancana came under the gun. According to both his daughter and the police, who stated that Giancana was invulnerable in his own home due to the security systems and impregnability of the structure, only someone he knew or trusted could have gotten to him. Giancana would have to have let them in, gone back to cooking, and then been surprised when the assailant—or assailants—pulled a .22 pistol.431
Here’s another description of that murder, and note the particular point that what Congress was specifically investigating was the CIA’s use of the Mob for its anti-Castro black ops in Cuba:
Giancana was next called to testify before a United States Senate committee investigating Mafia involvement in a failed CIA plot to assassinate Castro. Before he was scheduled to testify, Giancana flew to Houston, Texas, and underwent gall bladder surgery. He returned to his Oak Park home on June 17, 1975. Two days later, Sam Giancana was shot once in the back of the head and several more times up through the chin with a .22-caliber pistol while cooking in his basement. Though theories abounded as to who killed him [rival Mafiosi, CIA operatives nervous about his future testimony, one of many former girlfriends], no one was ever arrested in connection with the murder.432
A better question, actually, would be how the hell did somebody even get close enough to kill him without being picked off first by a Mafia bodyguard or a Federal agent?
This is exactly what happened—and when:
June 19, 1975 Members of the U.S. Senate’s Church Committee arrive in Chicago
for the purpose of escorting Sam Giancana to Washington for his appearance before the committee.
June 19, 1975, 9:00 p.m. Two “law enforcement officers” are observed outside Sam Giancana’s home by his neighbors in Oak Park, a wealthy suburb of Chicago.
June 19, 1975, 11:15 p.m. Three surveillance cars reportedly leave the area of Sam Giancana’s home.
June 19, 1975, 11:30 p.m. Sam Giancana is murdered inside his home.
June 20, 1975 The Chicago Tribune reports the murder of Sam Giancana. Allegations are made that the murder was sanctioned by the CIA.
June 21, 1975 The Chicago Tribune reports that Giancana’s house was under surveillance on the night that he was killed. 433
The murder of Sam Giancana right before he was to testify was big stuff and everyone knew it. And that was the elimination that set the stage for a major congressional investigation. But there were a few more “convenient witness deaths” of high-profile people, even while that investigation was being formed.
430 “Sam Giancana: Biography,” retrieved 12 May 2013, bio. True Story: biography.com/people/sam-giancana-9542088?page=2
431 Craig Roberts & John Armstrong, JFK: The Dead Witnesses (Cumberland Press International: 1994), 105.
432 “Giancana: Biography,” bio. True Story, A+E Networks.
433 Belzer & Wayne, Hit List, 218, citing Antoinette Giancana, John R. Hughes, DM OXON, MD, Ph.D. & Thomas H. Jobe, MD, JFK and Sam: The Connection Between the Giancana and Kennedy Assassinations, (Cumberland House: 2005).
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Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Johnny Roselli
After that high-profile witness elimination—Sam Giancana murdered the night before he was supposed to go to Washington to testify—it was pretty freaking obvious that it wasn’t a coincidence.
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