Jeff Morely wrote: There is much to agree on:
*The
president was killed by his enemies.
*This
view was widely shared in private by men and women of power including Jackie
Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Fidel Castro, and Charles de Gaulle,
not to mention insiders such as Joe Califano, Win Scott, and John Kerry. They
didn't all agree on the causes of JFK's murder but they all agreed the Warren
Report is not a credible account of the crime.
* The
perpetrators were persons capable of constructing plausible deniabilty
around their actions, which means at least some of them belonged to the US
intelligence community.
* Our
methodology is empirical, based on the preponderance of available evidence. If
and when the government declassifies the last of the JFK files we will be able
to fill out the JFK fact pattern, as ably summarized in John's review of David
Talbot's Brothers.
* In a
legal perspective, we cannot (at least I cannot) identify any one witting
perpetrator who is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of conspiring to kill the
president. Those who say this is proof that there was no conspiracy resemble no
one much as those legal savants who said the acquittal of OJ
Simpson confirmed his innocence.
* The
government continues to keep JFK secrets in 2021.
* The
still-redacted JFK files document the activities of three categories of CIA
officers of continuing interest; 1) those who knew Oswald's biography before
11/22 (and were thus in a position to possibly manipulate him into the role of
"patsy" that he claimed); those involved in CIA assassination
operations; and those who implicated themselves in the crime.
* We
say, without fear of contradiction, that Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and
George Joannides criminally obstructed the investigation of the president’s
murder by withholding material evidence from investigators.
* Our
conclusions are based on the sturdy foundation laid down by first generation
researchers such as Sylvia Meagher and Mary Ferrell; on the groundbreaking
reporting of second-generation reporters such as Anthony Summers, Dick Russell,
David Lifton, and Gaeton Fonzi; and on the conclusions of the HSCA.
* Our
perspective is corroborated by the forensic analysis of Tink Thompson, Cyril
Wecht, and Doug Horne, and confirmed by statements of US intelligence
operatives themselves: Howard Hunt, Fletcher Prouty and most recently by Rolf
Mowatt-Larssen. Artists such as Oliver Stone, Eryka Badu, Don DeLillo and
Bob Dylan have endowed the historical record with resonance of
truth-telling.
* We
hope President Biden will do the right thing and orders all the JFK records
released without exception in October 2021. This would vindicate the rule of
law over the agenda of secret agencies. It would also be popular across
partisan lines.
Of course, the crime has to be seen in the context of the Cold War but understanding it does not require any unanimity about contemporary politics.
Jeff and Rex Bradford wrote an update on the looming deadlines for release of the remaining records:
https://www.justsecurity.org/
I will be adding my two cents soon - BK
any unanimity about contemporary
politics.
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