8 separate snipers firing 16 shots in 4 separate stages. ibid.
In the Zapruder film frames have been removed … The limousine … stops completely. ibid.
The chief coordination of the assassination plot: George Herbert Walker Bush. ibid.
The cover up now began in earnest with the summoning from the Restland funeral home of a CIA agent who was known for being the best in the business at reconstructive surgery on cadavers. ibid.
That surgery could only be performed aboard the aircraft. ibid.
The Men Who Killed Kennedy … is a double bluff. ibid.
The 2,800 documents … Not a lot of brilliant gems in there … 13,000 documents … Those sources and methods that they still need to protect … Chuck Ochelli, interview The Corbett Report: Sorting Through the JFK File Dump, 2017
They are putting it to paper not to put things to paper. ibid. James Corbett
I don’t think there’s any doubt that JFK was pulling out of Vietnam when he was killed. And I think because the most fundamental tenet of his policy was no combat troops – and we know Johnson put in combat troops – I feel it’s safe to say the assassination led directly to the escalation of the war. John M Newman, author JFK & Vietnam
Colleague: ‘Morning, Lee. What’s in the package?’
Lee Harvey Oswald: ‘Curtain rods.’ Killing Kennedy 2013 starring Rob Lowe & Will Rothhaar & Ginnifer Goodwin & Michelle Trachtenberg & Jack Noseworthy & Francis Guinan & Richard Flood & Natalie Gold & Jamie McShane & Brian Hutchison et al, director Nelson McCormick, opening scene
‘Mr Oswald, why have you chosen to come back to America?’ ibid. press conference
‘Something has to be done to protect Cuba.’ ibid. Oswald
In 1992 Congress passed a law requiring the release of all JFK assassination documents by 2017. At 7:30 pm ET, 2,891 secret files concerning the JFK assassination were declassified and released. Bob Baer, JFK: The New Files, captions, History 2018
One man can’t plan this without support. I always believed he had a network supporting him. ibid. Baer
Document #104-10079-10262; Source: CIA; From: James Angelton; Doc date 11/26/1963: British intelligence received a mysterious phone call warning of the assassination … made 25 minutes before the president was shot … Somebody else knew about the assassination in advance. ibid.
A Cuban assassin, double-agent and a follower of Fidel Castro links up with Oswald and goes to Mexico City to meet a professional Russian assassin. ibid.
Hoover says we need to convince the public that Oswald was a lone wolf. ibid.
An unknown number of top secret JFK files still remain classified. They are set to be released on April 26th 2018. ibid.
For eight years you’ve been a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. A loyal vice-president. Biding your time. Waiting your turn. You know the path to power. And you think you know the rules. But what happens when you discover you don’t even know how to play the game? Race for the White House s1e1: John F Kennedy & Richard Nixon
1960 America, land of the free, is terrified of the Red Menace. ibid.
Kennedy does have one advantage being a candidate: his father Joseph, rich, powerful and the former ambassador to Great Britain has always wanted a son as president. ibid.
Glamour, showbizzness and family – who can compete with that? ibid.
Kennedy’s illness is never mentioned again. It’s a victory for JFK’s team if not for truth. ibid.
Nixon In Hospital: Knee Infection Sidelines Vice President. ibid. Newsreel, commentary Peter Roberts
Nixon is exhausted, haggard, trailing in the polls, but then there is a ray of hope – the first ever television presidential debate. ibid.
Nixon has one last card to play – his old boss, ex-general and president Dwight D Eisenhower. ibid.
80% of the American people now believe that they have been denied the whole truth. The Fifth Estate: Who Killed JFK? CBC 1983
‘When we have to show up at a hearing on a Freedom of Information case there may be as many as eight government lawyers there.’ ibid. freelance investigator
Most of the people who were on the knoll that day dived for cover because they thought they heard shots from behind them. ibid.
Had someone tampered with the body? … In Dallas the bullet came from the front; in Bethesda from behind. ibid.
At Dallas: Small wound (35 sq cm); brain, ordinary sheets, ceremonial casket. At Bethesda: Large wound (120 sq cm); no brain, zippered body bag; shipping casket. ibid. casket
Dallas 1963: A vibrant president cut down. The only suspect silenced for ever. The government concludes one man was responsible. But 50 years later most Americans don’t believe the official story. JKF Assassination: The Definitive Guide, History 2021
The secret service breaks Texas law by removing Kennedy’s body. ibid.
Jack Ruby’s phone records reveal he was in contact with Mob figures. ibid.
At least 44 witnesses reported hearing shots coming from in front of the car. ibid.
At the end of my film [JFK] we alerted the public that almost thirty years after Kennedy’s assassination tens of thousands of documents were still being kept secret about his murder and his policies. JFK: Destiny Betrayed I, Oliver Stone reporting, Sky Documentaries 2021
‘My father [Robert Kennedy] at that time was not aware of the level of involvement between the CIA and the Mafia.’ ibid. Robert’s son
‘Allan Dulles’ appointment to the Warren Commission I think is one of the great frauds of American history.’ ibid. David Talbot, author The Devil’s Chessboard
‘The Commission classified tens of thousands of pages of documents’ ibid. dude
The Warren Commission concealed the Shroud document. Without the Review Board’s classification process, we would never have learned of the corroborating testimony of three witnesses [Vicki Adams, Sandra Styles, Dorothy Garner] that provide powerful evidence that Oswald was not on the sixth floor at the time of the shooting. ibid.
Trump keeps some JFK files secret for CIA, FBI. ibid. Associated press release Laurie Kellman & Deb Riechmann
The evening of the assassination the body of President Kennedy was returned to Washington. The autopsy was performed at Bethesda medical school, a Naval institution. JFK: Destiny Betrayed II
‘[What] Clark and Perry both revealed at that press conference would indicate an assassin from the front.’ ibid. critic re Parkland hospital doctors contrary evidence
‘The other problem is the lack of damage to the bullet after going through two men, smashing two bones and making seven wounds.’ ibid. critic
‘There’s a 4.2 inch difference between the one [gun] he [Oswald] ordered versus what they found in the book depository.’ ibid.
‘Without sectioning the brain, there was no way for them properly to trace the trajectory.’ JFK: Destiny Betrayed III, expert
This new X-ray evidence combined with the Review Board’s declassification of 40 witnesses who saw a hole in the back of Kennedy’s head constitutes powerful evidence of a shot from the front. ibid.
How does one account for the extensive damage to the limousine? ibid.
The wound in Kennedy’s back was not dissected because an army general ordered them not to. ibid.
The Warren Commission needed to raise the wound in the back so that it would align with the alleged exit in the front of Kennedy’s neck. ibid.
‘If we’d followed the Pentagon’s advise, nobody would be around the tell the generals they were wrong. ibid. Kennedy
‘Oswald was a figure of intense interest for four years before the assassination and a dozen senior CIA officers were very well acquainted with him.’ JFK: Destiny Betrayed IV, Jefferson Morley
In the spring of 1963 Oswald moved from Dallas back to his home town of New Orleans where he began associating with men who it would be revealed had clear connections with these government efforts: Clay Shaw, Guy Bannister and David Ferrie. ibid.