It is true that former president George H.W. Bush was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. It is true that Bush became director of the CIA in 1976. And it is true that, as vice president in the 1980s, Bush was up to his eyebrows in the nexus of criminal activities known as the Iran-contra scandal.
But,rest assured, G H.W. Bush did not supervise gunmen in Dealey Plaza as
John Hankey’s popular anti-Romney video claims. (Hankey’s got a lot of viewers, 117K but a lot of thumbs downs too (79). (He’s got some imaginative 9/11 theories which I will discuss later.)
When it comes to JFK, Hankey has crafted a fine Hollywood scenario–the American Vice President is actually as secret assassin. This is spine tingling stuff for people who think Mission Impossible depicts the CIA accurately. It is emotionally satisfying because it links a modern liberal villain (the Bush family) with an ancient crime (JFK’s murder.)
Unfortunately, Hankey’s scenario is not based much knowledge about how CIA personnel actually carried out political assassinations in the 1960s. They didn’t rely on the up and coming oil man from Houston for gunplay. G. H.W. Bush is nowhere near expert enough in firearms to be entrusted with such a task. The elder Bush did other service to the agency.
G.H.W. Bush was in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963: UNPROVEN
G.H.W. Bush directed the assassins of JFK on November 22, 1963: NOT CREDIBLE.
For more on the many problems with the “Bush did it” theory, see Jim DiEugenio’s review of Russ Bakers’ Family of Secrets.
Common Question: What was the Iran-contra scandal? The highly reliable non-profit National Security Archive has the background story here.
Fun fact: When Bush became director of the CIA in 1976 the very first thing he asked for was the agency’s JFK files. He too wanted to know who killed 35th president.
My book has no connection with any video or any other reporting or theories that may exist, and to lump it in with any other is to do readers a major disservice by drawing connections and inferences where none should be drawn.
Second of all, to try and diminish my work by posting a link to a singularly awful and inadequate “review” that ignores the substance of the material, a “review” that has been almost unanimously rejected by other researchers, is another disservice. The book speaks for itself–five copious chapters of documented evidence on the JFK/Bush matter, more than a thousand footnotes, broad acclaim, bestseller status.
To try and distract people from a TON of documented, footnoted evidence on HW Bush’s covert work in Dallas with CIA circa 11/22 by falsely suggesting that I–or anyone–is stupid enough to believe that Bush would be an actual triggerman, well, that’s just beyond the pale. I see you want the comments to be “civil”– but there’s nothing civil about such tactics. They reek of a most uncivil agenda.
For a website that seeks to cast itself as a thoughtful place, as the ultimate arbiter of JFK assassination material, you’re off to a very, very bad start.
Points well taken. Since this reply has substantive merit, I have responded in the blog: See “Didn’t Do It: More on the Role of George H.W. Bush in the events of 1963″
I do think GHW Bush was involved in the JFK assassination for many reasons. #1 reason is he says he does not remember where he was on 11/22/63 – “somewhere down in Texas” Bush once said. I take that as an admission of participation in the JFK assassination.
I suggest googling “Did the Bushes help to kill JFK?” – http://jfkmurdersolved.com/bush.htm
GHW Bush has extremely close ties to anti-Castro Cuban radicals such as Felix Rodriguez. GHW Bush commuted the sentence of terrorist Orlando Bosch, another suspect in the JFK assassination.
Bush is mentioned in the McBride memo. Fletcher Prouty recalls delivering 3 ships to a Mr. George Bush of Houston for the Bay of Pigs invasion. Bush was deeply involved in the Bay of Pigs – and you will be hearing more about that in the upcoming years.
CIA-military rage over Cuba policy was a major factor in the JFK assassination.
There are many other points to make about GHW Bush, but I will stop at that.
I am astounded that George Herbert Walker Bush would actually admit/say/declare that he did not know where he was on November 22, 1963!!! It is no secret on Capitol Hill that GHW Bush ran the Reagan White House when it became clear that there were some symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease were already manifest. GHW Bush would have been thrown to the wolves if there was any mental or amnesiac problems with his mind and sense of time and space.
His answer to “WHERE WERE YOU ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963?” ENCOMPASSES A LOT OF ASTONISHING POSSIBILITY: EVERY SENTIENT HUMAN BEING IN THE USA KNEW EXACTLY WHERE THEY WERE WHEN THEY FIRST HEARD THE TRAGIC NEWS.
GHW BUSH CASTS HIMSELF IN A VERY UNCHARACTERISTIC, OUT-OF-CHARACTER, STATE OF BEING, ESPECIALLY FOR ONE WHO HAS HIS NAME ON THE “GEORGE H. W. BUSH INTELLIGENCE BUILDING” IN WASHINGTON,DC.
I AM LEFT WITH THE PERPETUAL STINGING QUESTION: “WHO’S HE KIDDING AND WHY????”
THERE WAS A STORY FIRST IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (3-20-99) AND THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (3-20-99…PAGE 15, LEFT COLUMN) ABOUT HIS 20 MINUTE SPEECH FOR $14.4 MILLION TO GLOBAL CROSSING, LTD. THAT WENT BELLY-UP AND ALL INVESTORS AND 401 K HOLDERS WENT BROKE EXCEPT THE MAN WHO FORGOT WHERE HE WAS ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963.
WHEN I REQUESTED A COPY OF THE STORY, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES SAID THE STORY “LOOKS LIKE IT WAS PULLED FROM THEIR MORGUE OF OLD COPIES OF STORIES!!!” IN A RECENT ABC INTERVIEW WITH SON GEORGE W. BUSH THE EX-PRESIDENT SUGGESTED BY SLIP[ OF TONGUE THAT IT “LOOKED LIKE ANOTHER CONSPIRACY” AND W WAS UNABLE TO CLIMB OUT OF HIS STATEMENT NO MATTER HOW HARD HE TRIED.
Father and son seem to have great lapses of serious memory malfunction. I still don’t get it but I continue looking, researching , cross referencing until I get answers that seem not to come from my respected government sources as hoped for.
I doubt this will be allowed to publish because of the uncertainty it promulgates!