Recommendations – Actionable Legal Venues - What Needs to be Done
There are many legal options, but they must take place in a very
specific order to succeed.43)
And they are:
1) A Congressional Briefing
held in a briefing room in Congress. Any Congressman can request a briefing
room reservation at any time, but we need a friendly Congressman to reserve
such a room. I arranged for my Congressman William Hughes (D. 2 NJ) to arrange
for such a room for a Press Conference announcing the formation of COPA –the
Coalition on Political Assassination, and Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D. Ga.)
arranged for a large hearing room to be utilized for a Congressional Briefing
on the 911, so we have done this before. This Congressional Briefing in
Congress must feature the top JFK assassination lawyers, researchers and
investigators who could call attention to the most serious issues and convince
Congress to hold public JFK Act oversight hearings. We must get the STAFF of
the Congressional Oversight Committee to want to do this, as well as the
chairman – Rep. Elijah Cummings (D. Md.) who should meet with a small select
group of our key people. The Congressional Briefing is a preliminary step for a
full House Oversight Committee hearing, in which each Congressman on the
Committee gets a set time to question special expert witnesses and those
responsible for the destroyed, missing and still withheld records. This
Congressional Briefing must be held before Congress recesses for the summer.
2) The Congress of the United
States must, by law, eventually conduct meaningful oversight of the JFK Act of
1992 by holding public hearings that would be televised live on CSPAN focusing
on illegally destroyed, missing and wrongfully withheld records on the assassination
of President Kennedy. This hearing should be held in early September after
Congress resumes.
3) All of the remaining
withheld records must be released in full as the law requires, but only
Congress can make that happen.
4) Congress should appoint a
new – permanent Review Board that will oversee the JFK Act but also the
recently enacted Cold Case Civil Rights Records Act, that requires a new Review
Board.
5) All of the living witnesses
should be questioned and properly interviewed on the record, officially
subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee or its sub-committee on NARA if
necessary, and the witnesses should be required to testify under oath.
6) The Mainstream Media must be
convinced to cover these briefings and hearings and detail how JFK
assassination records were illegally destroyed, illegally went missing, and are
still being wrongfully withheld, which should spark the justice department to
take action.
7) The Justice Department
should appoint a special prosecutor and convene a DC Federal Grand Jury to
investigate the crimes related to the assassination – including the destruction
of records, the illegal theft of and the wrongfully withholding of specific
records that we identify.
8) CAPA attorney Bill Simpich
has proposed convincing a Texas Municipal Judge convene a Court of Inquiry, a
legal venue unique to Texas that could legally exonerate Lee Harvey Oswald for
the assassination of President and require a new official inquiry. Any
Municipal Judge in Texas could order such an Inquiry and the positive aspect of
this is he is not required to conduct the inquiry, which another judge would be
appointed to do. The Innocence Project, which has exonerated hundreds of
falsely convicted victims, could cooperate in this endeavor.
9) The newly elected Democratic
District Attorney of Dallas County John Creazot should be briefed privately on
the cold case homicides in his jurisdiction that requires further investigation
– including the assassination of President Kennedy and the murders of J.D.
Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald. He should respond by convening a local Special
Dallas Grand Jury to conduct an investigation into these crimes to see if any
new evidence and records and compel witnesses to testify. While this local
Dallas Grand Jury would only require one assistant – District Attorney to
conduct such a Grand Jury, most of the leg work, research, investigative leads
and targeted records and witnesses could be provided by independent researchers
who have been working on this case for decades.
10) Both the DC based Federal Grand Jury and the Dallas
based local County Grand Jury have the power to order an exhumation of the
remains of the victims (JFK, John Connally, J.D. Tippit, Lee Harvey Oswald and
Jack Ruby) for proper FORENSIC autopsies using the most up to date scientific
equipment (X-Ray, MRI, photo, etc.) that will provide an enormous amount of new
evidence that would be admissible in a court of law. A regular autopsy only
determines the cause of death while a forensic autopsy creates evidence that
can be introduced in a court of law.
For any of these legal proceedings to take place – they must begin
with a Congressional Briefing and a Congressional Oversight Hearing on the JFK
Act. All of the others then follow.
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