Above Top Secret by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: deu
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Published: 2008-12-31T06:22:14+00:00

They simply did not believe enough evidence was presented to convict Shaw. Sev-

eral persons testified they knew of a “Clay Bertrand,” who was overheard plotting

against Kennedy. Garrison failed to convince the jury that Shaw and Bertrand were

the same man.

It was later determined that Shaw had indeed lied about his relationship

to both Ferrie and Oswald, and was, in fact, aided in his defense by the CIA. Shaw’s

jail admittance card on which he gave the alias “Clay Bertrand” was not allowed

into evidence.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, while the public remained skeptical of

the lone-assassin theory, it was not considered a suitable topic for polite discussion

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and the mass media offered precious little contradictory material.

The official story held—Oswald did it all alone, he did not know Jack Ruby,

iLLED JFK?

Ruby was not connected to organized crime, Oswald was not connected to David

Ferrie, Oswald was an expert shot, and Oswald had no connection to the U.S. govern-

ment as his mother claimed.

In the years following the Garrison prosecution, a large number of books

and magazine articles were published calling the Warren Commission’s conclusions

into question. One by one, the official facts concerning Oswald and the assassination

fell away. According to more than a dozen witnesses, Oswald did know Jack Ruby,

he was pictured in a Civil Air Patrol photograph with David Ferrie, he only made

the minimum shooting rating by two points, and a wealth of information indicated

Oswald’s intelligence work for the government, including a 201 (employment) file

with the CIA.

By the late 1970s, a Gallup Poll showed 80 percent of the American public

believed Kennedy died at the hands of a conspiracy.

So much evidence was made public that a congressional committee was es-

tablished to reinvestigate the assassination. Based on two separate sets of acoustical

studies of a Dallas Police dictabelt recording of the assassination and “other scientific

evidence,” the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979 “established a high

probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy.”

This conclusion of conspiracy was downplayed by the corporate media as

typified by the statement of New York Times Associate Editor Tom Wicker, who wrote

in a foreword to the Select Committee’s report, “The most avid public attention,

however, will inevitably be centered on the House committee’s startling contention

that a second gunman was in Dealey Plaza, indicating a conspiracy to kill President

Kennedy. In the absence of any explanation whatever of his or her supposed pres-

ence and actions, or of what the committee majority believes happened in Dallas …

I decline to accept this latest of so many conspiracy theories.”

Once again, the truth of the Kennedy assassination became simply a matter

of trust—did one trust the government and media or the witnesses and evidence?

In 1991, the mass of new evidence was presented to the American public

in the Oliver Stone film JFK, which was assailed by the corporate mass media as

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“fantasy” even before it opened in theaters. Stone led a demand for a new in-

quiry citing the fact that so many JFK assassination files were still locked away

by the government.

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