THE KENNEDY PAPERS

LEGACYOFSECRECRACY

Waldron. L & T. Hartman (2008) Legacy of secrecy: the long shadow of the JFK assassination, Berkeley: Counterpoint Publishers. 848 pages.

This is a conspiracy book of encyclopedic length. It is not only large but printed in small type. The organization of the book and even on some pages, information is given too rapidly and overwhelmingly. In preparation for this perhaps around my 100^th published book reviews, I looked at how others described it. Websites dealing with conspiracies indicated that it was accurate, and mainstream sources generally dismissed it or down played it. I have the feeling that most did not completely read it.

Waldron is the researcher and Hartman the writer. There is a lengthy forward and introduction to explain the book and then multiples of chapters that total over 800 pages. If one uses this as an encyclopedia like Wikipedia, perhaps it can be a very valuable beginning to the whole controversy that has generated hundreds of books and is still  of interest to Americans now over 45 years ago.

The basic premise of the book is that the mob killed JFK and there were more than 2 shooters. The Dallas trip was the third attempt on his life. It was covered up because Americans would blame the then USSR in the midst of the Cold War. Others had a part to play, but it was the mob that was extremely angry with Kennedy. When Castro took over Cuba, a good deal of the country was owned by the mob.  Later, when Kennedy refused to provide air cover for a very flawed Bay of Pigs, the mob was in rage. Kennedy said “no” many times because air cover meant that the USA was preemptively attacking Cuba and it would break the cover that the USA had nothing to do with this citizen’s revolt.  If you are reading this and remember that time, he saved your life because Cuba had 40,000 trained Soviets ready to fight as well as numerous rockets and missiles.

However, a new source of information was that Kennedy was prepared to go to war with Cuba just after he was assassinated. This information was revealed in 2005. However, the quality of the material and its authenticity must be reviewed. Why would Kennedy go back to Cuba? The Cuban Missile Crisis really indicated that Robert Kennedy told the Soviets that JFK had lost control of the military, would give up the Jupiter’s in South East Europe, and generally had received high marks for keeping us out of Cuba.

The book then indicates that once JFK was successfully killed. It gave the “hidden government” of spooks and thieves permission to kill Dr. King and RFK.

In another new book by Talbot called THE BROTHERS. Kennedy was an artificial cold warrior. He talked the game, but didn’t like the thought of killing what is called “collateral damage.” That being the majority of a population that just wants to get on with their lives and that Castro felt that he was not going to be killed by Kennedy.

LEGACY gets mixed reviews and THE BROTHERS gets high praise. This reviewer favors the second book with its new interviews and professional writing and likes LEGACY as a source book to check various individuals by starting with the index. LEGACY is too long and covers too much material relative to RFK and KING for a complete read except for hard core readers on this subject.

LEGACY also has a web site to flesh out some of the thousands of sources listed in the back. It is a necessary book for the Kennedy collection and for those who want to have all the books on this subject. I have 20 or so and found LEGACY a good place to begin, but differ with their conclusions. In 2017, all the material will be released. I doubt that will

happen. President Clinton once in office asked an assistant to find out who killed Kennedy. He did not get any answer at all. You know the drill.

JFK’S CAR

JFK: INSIDE THE TARGET CAR (DISCOVERY)

2/9 (2009)9:00 -10.00PM

Nearly 600 people ran to the grassy knoll after the shots were fired. The president’s head exploded as Mrs. Kennedy cradle him and then reached for his skull parts on the back of the car. He was dead instantly. After the shots, the limo headed directly to Parkland Hospital. After Kennedy’s body was removed, the secret service immediately started to clean the interior of the car sullying the forensics and investigation. Eyewitness saw the interior before the car was cleaned. It had skull, blood, and brain matter on the right side and on the back seat.

Curator claims that there is an echo effect in Dealy Plaza but did not justify it. Was there more than Oswald? Simulations were described where the shots could have come from. They included Oswald’s position, the grassy knoll, the north side of the knoll, over bridge, and south knoll. The only other spot to be able to hit the president and not break the window of the limo front window shield would be the fence on the grassy knoll.

In the Zap ruder film, Frame 313 Kennedy’s head explodes. He dies instantly. Frame

312 he is hit for the first time. His goes both backward and forward. So did Oswald do the killing?

An Australia firm is able to replicate human target with a skull like frame around tissue and liquid to simulate brain matter. Further, the research team headed to the country here in the states. They simulated wind, incline in road, various actual shootings, as well as raised beams to the 6^th floor (Oswald’s position.) Thus, they could duplicate the building and the target car.

A sharp shooter was used and it appeared from the tests, that the over bridge and south knoll would spray blood on the interior of the car to the left side rather than the right. If shot came from the fence, Mrs. Kennedy would have been wounded. However, she was reaching back to gather his skull and brains or was she cradling him? This was not clear.

Two eyewitness accounts said the interior of the car as well in terms of the explosion of the brain matched the interior of the car before it was cleaned. Experts did an overlay of the pictures before the interior was completely cleaned and they appeared to match the hits on JFK. A shot from the fence of the grassy knoll could have been shot and missed.

Three things emerged that either I did not catch or that was not connected. First, is there an echo effect at Dealy Plaza? Second, could Mrs. Kennedy been shot from the fence if she was reaching for his skull parts on the back of the car. Three, all the dummies used had metal necks of which the human like skulls were attached. If you see the cadaver on

Google, Kennedy’s neck had a frontal bullet wound nearly 6 or 7 inches from the head.

The dummies had hard cylindrical necks that did not approximate the throat of the President.

It appears what the documentary did affirm is that there was at least one shooter and it appears to be Oswald. If there was more than one, that is still very possible. However, if there is a second were the two shooters related to each other in a conspiracy? That is still up for question.