by J. W Lateer
The problem is that with this Mannlicher-Carcano, after the final bullet enters the chamber, the clip is automatically ejected. But no empty clip was ever reported to be found.
There is a photograph which shows an officer holding up the rifle and it has no clip. However, there is another photo which shows the clip still attached. Apparently, the rifle as preserved in the evidence archives today has no clip.
Another problem with the story of the rifle is the assembly and dis-assembly process. The breaking down of the rifle required tools. No tools were found. At some point it was stated the Oswald used a dime for a screwdriver. There has never been any proof of whether this is even possible, or how long it would take to accomplish. We will leave the major questions relating to the purchase of Oswald’s weapons to a later chapter.
Some of the remaining facts of importance include the shooting of Officer Tippit. The type of revolver allegedly used by Oswald to kill the policeman has an enlarged barrel. This type of barrel makes it impossible to match the bullets which killed Tippit to the gun of Oswald. All the witnesses except one failed to identify Oswald as the killer of Tippit. That one witness had changed her story from her original version. One witness saw two men flee the scene. There were four bullets found at the scene of the shooting of Tippit. Two of the fourwere of one brand, the other two of another brand. And the shell casings were three of one brand and one of another.
Notes:
The book by Col. Prouty which will be cited many times is referenced as: JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, Col. Fletcher Prouty.
The following book by Scott is referenced in Chapter 4. It is cited as Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, by Peter Dale Scott at page 257. Scott is perhaps the leading author when it comes to exploring the true facts of such events as the JFK Assassination, the 9-11 attacks and similar subjects.
Since the reader may have difficulty in even believing that this intelligence memo actually exists, the following citation information can be used by the reader to confirm the information therein: In a Military Intelligence memo to M.I. headquartes in San Antonio, dated 11-27-63, [xxwww.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=62262&relPageId=83] FBI 62-109060 JFK HQ File, Section 12.”
Chapter 5
The Facts Surrounding The Prisoner Oswald
The Situation Immediately After The Shooting
After the shooting, President Kennedy was driven to Parkland Hospital where, after attempted futile treatment, he was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. His body was placed in a casket. There was a disagreement between the Secret Service and the Dallas Police as to where the autopsy would be conducted. By Texas law, the autopsy of any homicide victim must be done by the Coroner in Dallas.
The Secret Service, however, acting under orders from the new President and other federal officials, took the body to the airport. The body was placed aboard Air Force One and flown back to Washington along with President Johnson and the widow, Mrs. Kennedy.
The autopsy was conducted at Bethesda Naval Hospital by military doctors. There were discrepancies regarding the autopsy. First, there was a break in the chain of custody of the body. This resulted in uncertainty about the whereabouts of the body from the time of unloading from Air Force One to the time when the autopsy began. The caskets had been changed.
The description of the wounds differed between those observed by the doctors in Parkland Hospital in Dallas and those observed by the autopsy doctors. Although it is a universal practice with gunshot victims to trace the trajectory of the bullets through the body, this was not done. There was a dispute within the military team as to who was ordering particular steps in the autopsy due to rank and position. Finally, there was inconsistency between the autopsy photos and the diagrams and notes included in the evidence. If the autopsy was faked in any way, many believe this would have been done out of a concern for national security. There may have even been a plan for such a fake autopsy if circumstances required it due to a national emergency.
Oswald Arrested
Following his arrest, Oswald was taken to the Dallas Police department for processing and held in the jail for interrogation. The case was under the supervision of Detective Will Fritz of the Dallas Police.
As reported at “www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-5.html#interrogation,” the following took place:
During the period between 2:30 p.m. Friday (11-22-63) and 11:15 p.m. Sunday morning (11-24-63), Oswald was interrogated for a total of approximately 12 hours, 30 minutes. That broke down to seven hours on Friday, three hours on Saturday during three interrogation sessions and on Sunday less than two hours. All took place in the office of Captain Will Fritz.
Those present included Dallas detectives, investigators from the FBI and Secret Service and occasionally other officials, particularly a post office inspector and a U.S. Marshall.
In all more than 25 different persons participated in or were present at some time during the interrogations. There was no tape recording, although there was a room next door entirely outfitted with tape recording equipment used to interrogate suspects. The was no stenographer or court reporter. The only records are the notes kept by the participants.
During 8 hours on Friday and up to 8 hours on Saturday, Oswald was being stalked inside the crowded corridors of the 3rd floor where he was being held and interrogated. Jack Ruby, a local strip club operator was there during those periods. He was carrying a gun and was twice in the same room as Oswald. Once he even tried to force his way into Fritz’s office where Oswald was being interrogated.
On Sunday morning, 11-24-63, Oswald was brought to the basement parking garage in the police station where a car was waiting to transfer him to the County Jail. Although the time of the transfer was first announced as 10:00 a.m., it was delayed until 11:20 a.m. At exactly 11:20, Jack Ruby walked into the parking garage, approached Oswald who was manacled, and shot him in the abdomen. It appears that the transport of Oswald was delayed from 10:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m. because the police were coordinating with Ruby. Oswald was held until Ruby was present at 11:20 a.m. to kill him.
The FBI, the Dallas Sheriff’s Department as well as the Dallas Police all received anonymous telephone calls prior to the transport warning that Oswald would be killed that day.
Chapter 6
Baron George DeMohrenschildt, The Parasite Pretender
Next to Lee Oswald, Baron George de Mohrenschildt is the most widely acknowledged obvious participant in the plot to assassination John F. Kennedy.
Most of the basic facts about de Mohrenschildt are widely known, in part because of the intense interest in him raised by the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Background on George
de Mohrenschildt
There have been at least three serious books on George de Mohrenschildt just in the past two or three years. One is de Mohrenschildt’s own brief autobiography edited by Michael Rinella. Rinella is one the nation’s leading experts on de Mohrenschildt. Another is a detailed biography by Nancy Wertz Weiford which is 786 pages full of details on de Mohrenschildt. Both books display impeccable scholarship on this very crucial subject. A third biography of George de Mohrenschildt is by author Joan Mellen who, as has been mentioned, has also written about the Jim Garrison investigation.
Most dedicated assassination buffs could almost recite the biography of George de Mohrenschildt off the top of their heads. One could say that there has been overkill on the subject of de Mohrenschildt. Yet he pops up in these pages as one of our three Barons.
De Mohrenschildt sometimes called himself a Baron, but technically, in the world of Baronies, only the eldest brother inherits the right to the title. (This whole topic sounds outdated, but for our purposes, it must be taken seriously). George was not the eldest brother. Therefore he was not a Baron. Case closed.
But it takes some patience to analyze this. For many people walking this planet, even at the late
date of this writing, this stuff matters (and God knows why). For JFK, these theories of Barons, Counts, Princesses and all the rest produced a fatal result. One could easily argue that JFK literally got his brains blown out based on outdated theories that belong in Grimm Fairy Tales.
George de Mohrenschildt was born on April 17, 1911 in Mozyr, which is near Minsk; both cities today lie in the nation of Belarus. The de Mohrenschildt family had a hodge-podge of ethnicities. His father was of German, Swedish and Russian descent. His mother was of Polish, Russian and Hungarian descent. Of course, then, as now, the boundaries of all those countries were in a state of flux, depending on the vagaries of wars and treaties. Back in Europe, prior to his immigration to the U.S., George and the rest of his family were known as von Mohrenschildt, not de Mohrenschildt. When George arrived in the U.S. in 1938, he made the change from “von” to the French “de.” Per biographer Weiford, it was the case that, technically, only George’s older brother Dimitri could use the prefix “von” because that signified Baron. But what did the others in the family use? Nothing? This does not seem clear and there are many, many people in the U.S. and elsewhere whose names include “von” and they can’t all be Barons. So what are the real facts on this question? To this writer, it is still an unknown and probably irrelevant. We will next sharpen our perspective on George de Mohrenschildt by applying the scissors of analysis to the de Mohrenschildt biography, Faux Baron by Nancy Wertz Weiford.
There has always been deception when experts discuss George de Mohrenschildt. There is deception regarding his politics. There is deception regarding his alleged connection to the CIA. There is deception about the reasons for his famed “walking tour” through Mexico and Central America. There is deception about his role in Haiti.
Author Weiford begins her explanation of the politics of de Mohrenschildt by describing the politics of his wealthy father, Sergius de Mohrenschildt. At the time of the last Czars of Russia, the de Mohrenschildt family was in St. Petersburg Russia where George’s uncle Petro Ludwig von Mohrenschildt was appointed Charge’ d’affairs for the eastern one-quarter of the city of St. Petersburg. This was a lofty position which was granted under the reign of Czar Nicholas II.
George’s father Sergius was made Governor of the Province of Minsk under a commission also granted by Czar Nicholas II. In his position as Governor, Sergius also served as an elected representative of landholders of the region. Author Weiford writes: “[Sergius] von Mohrenschildt was torn between the desires for personal freedoms [of the peasants] and the benefit of being a part of the court hierarchy.”
This seems to be a questionable statement. Even in the U.S., when voting was done by landowners as such, the voting is typically weighted by acreage, not per capita. Real estate taxes are levied by the value of the holdings, not per capita. Even if Sergius were elected, it is unlikely that the large landowners and the small landowners had an equal vote. The picture painted by Weiford is of George’s father leading a mob of peasants with pitchforks, demanding their rights from the Czar. Not!
George’s father Sergius came into possession of a very large estate of about 6000 acres in Poliese which is now in Belarus. This estate had been both in Poland at times, and in Belarus at other times, depending on the results of war and treaties. But even before the Communists took charge, the 6000-acre estate had been divided up among landless peasants. The central quest for the de Mohrenschildt family, for the rest of the lives of Sergius and George, was to try and reacquire that 6000-acre estate. And, failing that, to have day dreams about it when they should have been working at a regular job.
The importance of this quest to the JFK case can’t be overemphasized. If you own such an estate, and it is farmed by hundreds of serfs or peasants: You don”t have to work. The peasants do the work. The landowners can just go to parties, collect artwork, and eat bon-bons.
To American sensibilities, this concept is the very picture of a degenerate, parasitic lifestyle. In the U.S. (in the antebellum South), there were the plantations and slaveholders. But the slaveholders had to work hard. It is not easy to spend your days whipping slaves, I’m sure. And then sometimes, you have to chop off their foot so they can’t run away. That’s work, too. But for the de Mohrenschildt family, as estate holders, this author understands the situation of the de Mohrenschildt estate as being somewhat different for them when compared to Southern slave-owners on their plantations in the U.S.
The first difference was that all the European landowners had titles. George de Mohrenschildt considered himself a Baron, even though technically he was not. Even if he lost the estate, which he did, that title of Baron was like a little card in his pocket which he could carry with him. This portable card entitled him to either get back his estate, or a similar estate or some other equivalent special perk should the Czar or Kaiser or some similar regime ever be re-established in his homeland.
If one wishes to understand the JFK assassination, one cannot spend too much time on grasping this reality. This system of titled nobility was thankfully destroyed in the U.S. in 1776. But in Dallas, Texas, in 1963, it was alive and well in the minds of parasites like de Mohrenschildt and other “White Russians” who had settled there. According to the theory of the divine right of kings, God picked the Czar and the Czar picked the de Mohrenschildts. Simple as that. God really liked the Czar and he also, obviously, liked the de Mohrenschildt’s because the Czar liked them. As for the rest of us, not so much. To us, God was indifferent.
For the White Russians of Dallas, beloved by God and the Czar, these theories and this lust for the idle, parasitic lifestyle justified complicity in the murder of a President. After all, John F. Kennedy was elected by the American people, but he wasn’t picked by God. Only the Czar, Kaiser Wilhelm and the others were picked by God. So believed both Baron Charles A. Willoughby and Baron George de Mohrenschildt. As for Baron Wernher von Braun, he was too busy working and sending the first man to the moon to think about it.
Dimitri, the older brother of George de Mohrenschildt, immigrated to the U.S. in 1922, having landed first in Vancouver, British Columbia. Upon arriving in American, Dimitri for some unknown reason was able to rocket to the top of U.S. society. In the same year he arrived, 1922, he was able to enter Yale as a freshman. He was then able to join the Yale Elizabethan Club and the Yale Literary Magazine. This was pretty incredible for a young man who just gotten off the boat. He had no family in the U.S. who would have been able to make an arrangement like this which allowed him to waltz into Yale. Again, this is a hint of the sinister, under-the-table network at play for these Czarist pretenders in the U.S. Apparently, Dimitri went straight to Skull and Bones, (did not pass go, did not pay $200).
Both George and his father Sergius, because they had lived in Poland for the necessary ten years, had become Polish citizens. George had become part of the Polish Cavalry to fulfill his duty of military service as a citizen of Poland. His father Sergius had been jailed by the Bolsheviks (bad luck for a liberal like him). George attended school in Poland, graduating from the Gymnasium in 1929 and the Polish Cavalry academy in 1931.
George went on to get a degree from the University of Liege in Belgium, writing a thesis on the influence of the U.S. in Latin America. Conceivably, he could have studied this subject anticipating entry to the U.S. as a spy. As things turned out, from the 1940’s to the 1960’s, he bounced between the U.S. and Latin America. Many people believe he did this in the role of a spy, working for German interests, Nazis or their close associates.
After completing his studies, he traveled around Europe. While traveling, he filed journalistic pieces about, among other things, the Spanish Civil War (which lasted from 1936 to 1939). According to Weiford, he had contacts for those stories who were fighting on the side of Franco.Franco was the eventual winner of the Spanish Civil War. He was a fascist dictator and a close ally of Hitler and Mussolini during that time.
George arrived in the U.S. in May 1938. British Intelligence informed the U.S. authoriti
es that George was working for German (Nazi) Intelligence. To summarize these allegations of spying, one only needs to know that he was repeatedly stopped, searched, investigated many times by the FBI, the INS and other assorted law enforcement agencies during the wartime period. Every single person in every agency came to the same conclusion: George was, at best, a Nazi sympathizer, or more likely a German spy.
Author Weiford attempts to blame this fact on the idea that J. Edgar Hoover was a prejudiced person, and he was persecuting George because of his German-sounding accent. A suggested reading for anyone interested in this question would be two books on the subject of the FBI during World War II by former FBI agent Raymond J. Batvinis: Hoover’s Secret War Against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage During World War II and The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence. These scholarly books, published by the University Press of Kansas, leave no doubt whatever that J. Edgar Hoover was an excellent law enforcement official, conscientious to a fault, at least during this period. It is unclear why Weiford would want to cover for George by dismissing an opinion voiced by J. Edgar Hoover without justification. Personally, it seems obvious to your author that George was a German spy at some level or other.
A lot of biographical details about George de Mohrenschildt can be skipped because almost all of them are a distraction from the basic issues. Those basic issues are: first, George’s personality; second, his loyalties and third, his motivations. If those are discovered, all the rest falls right into place.
It is well known by JFK buffs that George and his brother Dimitri were connected to the Bouvier family, JFK’s in-laws. Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis knew George de Mohrenschildt as “Uncle George” while she was still a grade-school girl. Also, Dimitri de Mohrenschildt had a roommate relationship with a connection to George H.W. Bush. Dimitri also married into an indirect relationship to the Rockefeller family through in-law relatives called the Hookers.
