On October 10, 1963, a man named Lee Harvey Oswald came to the attention of a group of senior CIA officers in Langley, Virginia. Oswald had recently visited the Cuban consulate and Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. A CIA wiretap captured a man identifying himself as “Oswald.”
…Oct. 10, 1963: Six top CIA officers discuss Lee Harvey OswaldRead More »
I spoke about JFK’s assassination on SPAN’s Washington Journal program on Dec. 20, 2021.
ForTruman’s piece in the Washington Post on Dec. 22, 1963, see next page.
…What Harry Truman thought about JFK’s assassinationRead More »
With the FBI’s report on Kennedy’s assassination, the Commission undertook to select staffers and figure out how to approach its work.
Chief Justice Warren complained about the leaks of the FBI report: “I have read that report two or three times and I have not seen anything in there that has not been in the press.”
The Commissioners then held a wide-ranging discussion of JFK’s assasination, including:
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Dec. 16, 1963: Behind closed doors, the Warren Commission is baffledRead More »
Excerpted from Scorpions’ Dance: The President, the Spymaster and Watergate (St Martin’s Press, 2022
“Richard Helms disliked the term spymaster, but no other word captures his extraordinary—and invisible—position in the wake of Kennedy’s assassination. The deputy director had one hand-picked case officer in Miami, George Joannides, running the AMSPELL network, which was generating headlines across the country and around the world that Kennedy had been killed by a communist
…[Excerpted from Scorpions’ Dance: The President, the Spymaster and Watergate (St Martin’s Press, 2022)]
“At ten past six that evening, Miami station chief Ted Shackley sent a cable to Des Fitzgerald with a copy going to Helms’ office. The station had heard from Luis Fernandez Rocha, the secretary general of the Cuban Student Directorate, whom Helms had grilled in his office almost exactly one year before. The DRE boys said they knew all about the suspected assassin.
…The CIA’s favorite Cubans linked Oswald to CastroRead More »
President Kennedy’s speech to the graduating class of American University in Washington DC on June 10, 1963, represented the beginning of his “strategy for peace” to wind down the Cold War. His bold proposal for a joint U.S.-Soviet moon flight was part of this strategy.
Kennedy’s vigorous style and clear mind never had a more important goal — or more powerful enemies.
The reason James Angleton’s still-secret testimony to the Church Committee matters in 2017 is found in this Warren Commission document.
It states:
…19) Origins of the cover-up: ‘Jim [Angleton] would prefer to wait out the Commission’Read More »
John Whitten is a rare hero of the JFK story.
…18) Dec 24, 1963: CIA official investigating Oswald is ‘sandbagged’ by his bossesRead More »
“For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment,” wrote former president Harry Truman in the Washington Post on December 22, 1963. It was exactly one month after the assassination of President Kennedy.
…After JFK was killed, ex-president Harry Truman called for CIA abolitionRead More »
There were warnings in the fall of 1963 that President Kennedy’s life was in danger. JFK was hated by the political right for his increasingly forthright defense of peace and civil rights.
An undercover policer officer in Florida was canvassing his sources when he heard talk of a plot. And the details were specific.
…9) November 11, 1963: right-wing racist talked about how JFK would be shotRead More »
Was JFK going to make peace with Cuba?
On November 5, 1963, President Kennedy was exploring the idea. You can hear JFK talking about it with aides on this White House tape recording. (The substantive conversation starts at :25 in the recording.)
…8) Nov. 5, 1963: JFK considers secret talks with CastroRead More »
From JFK Lancer, a recording of radio program broadcast by WDSU radio in New Orleans on August 20, 1963.
▶ Lee H. Oswald debates the Cuba issue with anti-communist activist Ed Butler, and anti-Castro militant Carlos Bringuier of Cuban Student Directorate (DRE).
…5) ▶ Listen: Oswald talks about Cuba; CIA assets amplify his message.Read More »
Did you know that Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” was a response to JFK’s assassination? I didn’t.
What Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on November 23, 1963 about JFK’s assassination: …
‘Concerning the Facts and Consequences of the Tragic Death of President John F. Kennedy’Read More »
In a 2013 essay for Time magazine,the late Gary Mack wrote about this photo of Oswald’s. The photo is interesting but the editorial treatment is fascinating …
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