THE
KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
(2018)
Kindle edition
By
JERRY KROTH
Rev.
by Hugh Murray
In
his latest book on the JFK assassination, Jerry Kroth tries to
include as much as possible of the most recent downloads of Kennedy
documents by the Trump Administration. Originally, they were to be
kept secret for 75 years, and then the law was changed so many
records could be released earlier. Some were, but each time various
agencies like the CIA urge continued secrecy. While the major media
has generally ignored the most recent opening of files in spring
2018, Kroth read as many as he could and includes some of the
surprising findings in his kindle book.
1.
Thanks to Kroth, we now know that there were 2 American servicemen
stationed in Europe in the fall of 1963 when they overheard
electronic chatter. In late October and early November, one
stationed in Metz, the other in Scotland, unknown to each other, both
heard encrypted chatter about the forthcoming assassination of Pres.
Kennedy. One heard that it would occur in Texas in late November,
and the accused murderer would be either a Negro or a communist. One
of the soldiers heard reference to Guy Banister, then in New Orleans,
with ties to the FBI, CIA, and other agencies. (In the summer of 1963
in New Orleans Oswald ran his Fair Play for Cuba outfit from
Banister's office.) The two soldiers did not know each other. When
both, in different ways, sought to warn higher-ups of what they had
heard, both were taken to mental hospitals where they remained for
the following 6 months.
2.
Kroth's detective work. A letter allegedly written by Oswald in
early November 1963 to a Mr. Hunt, asked Hunt about Oswald's role in
the operation. Some questioned the authenticity of the letter.
However, by finding Oswald's previous unusual misspelling of a word,
Kroth is convinced the letter is genuine, and later discusses who the
Mr. Hunt might be and Oswald's connection to him.
3.
Kroth notes that Oilman H. L.. Hunt's security chief had warned him
there might be some trouble along the presidential parade route in
Dallas. Kroth thinks that this would make little sense if Hunt were
involved in the assassination plot.
4.
Kroth believes the Oswald letter was sent to E. Howard Hunt, a man
later to be arrested in the Watergate operation.
5.
Kroth weaves the deathbed confession of E. Howard Hunt with that of
James Files, whom Kroth has often interviewed. Files maintains he
was the shooter on the grassy knoll. Kroth also presents a list of
the likely assassins in Dallas on the 22 November. Interestingly, he
does not include Malcolm Wallace, who some believe was a sniper on
the 6th floor of the Texas State School Depository
Building, and was a known henchman of Vice-President Lyndon B.
Johnson.
6.
In one long paragraph, Kroth indicates how Lyndon Johnson intervened
in planning the parade route and in disposing of the limousine
following the murder. I shall quote that paragraph near the
conclusion of the review.
7.
Important for us all in the days of Trump and the media – Kroth
indicates how NBC and Dan Rather (CBS), and major media worked to
bolster the official line on Oswald, the lone, nut, communist,
assassin. Rather, one of the few permitted to view the Zapruder film
of the assassination, told America how Kennedy's head was thrust
forward with Rather bringing his head down to his chin to illustrate
what he had “seen” (visually emphasizing how the shot had come
from behind). Years later, 1975, when the American public could see
the Zapruder film for themselves, they could also understand how
Rather had lied (if they would have remembered).
8.
It was not merely the media that may have been pressured to follow
the official line. LBJ wanted the special commission to be the final
authority on the investigation of the assassination. When he asked
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren to lead the
commission, Warren declined and wanted nothing to do with it. LBJ
demanded that they meet. Before that meeting, Johnson, from his
next-door neighbor FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, received a file on
Warren. When Warren arrived and again refused to head the
commission, LBJ reminded the Chief Justice of a little incident in
Mexico City, described in the file. Warren began to cry and
conceded, I will do whatever you want. The black-robed justice
yielded to Lyndon's black mail. Apparently Lyndon told this story to
Sen. Richard Russell on a taped telephone conversation. We still
refer to it as the Warren Commission. Kroth adds that the conclusion
of the Commission, while officially endorsed by most political
leaders of that time, was often questioned by them off-the-record,
such as Representative Hale Boggs (father of Cokie Roberts) and Sen.
Richard Russell (the Senate Bldg. Is named for him). Kroth adds that
the American public, when polled, also reject the official version of
the Oswald, lone-nut, communist assassin. Indeed, he notes that the
public usually rejects the Warren Commission version by wide margins.
9.
When New Orleans District Atty. Jim Garrison sought to reopen the
case and prosecute conspirators involved in the assassination, the
FBI sent agents to trail Garrison and his detectives, while the CIA
sought to infiltrate Garrison's investigation and sabotage it. On
his YouTube discussion, Kroth asserts that many of Garrison's files
have still NOT been released by Trump.
10.
Kroth provides examples of the media colluding with the federal
government to discredit Garrison and even to bribe and turn his
witnesses. He could have added that GOP Governors Ronald Reagan of
California and James Rhodes of Ohio refused to extradite witnesses
Garrison sought for his trial against the conspirators in Louisiana.
11.
I am 20th century and had never before used a kindle.
Buying a devise and then borrowing a library book on how to read a
book, I found frustrating and expensive. I also felt like a 3rd
grader. Buying a book to learn how to read at my age and such a
price! This book should be in paperback.
12.
There are numerous errors of grammar where a word or 2 is missing.
On 2 occasions, Kroth identifies George de Mohrenschildt as Oswald's
friend in New Orleans. The successful, white Russian had befriended
the poor Oswald in Texas, not New Orleans. Because this is an
electronic book, there are no page numbers to cite. I also feel that
it was rushed to publication, perhaps because of the importance of
the newly revealed documents. But is this book that much more
informative than Kroth's YouTube discussion of the same material?
Bottom
line, this would be an essential book for all interested in the
assassination of President John Kennedy, showing how the US
government has manipulated the media to cover up questions and accept
the official line of the Warren Commission, the FBI, and the CIA.
This should be a paperback. As a kindle, its impact is restricted.
Kroth's
interesting long paragraph on Lyndon Johnson's activities around the
case, can be found at 62%.
“There
are still a few academics that believe Johnson should be held above
suspicion, but it is hard to develop empathy for their position.
When we have such a long history of redacted, censored, and destroyed
documents which began in earnest under his watch; when we recall the
unsolved execution style murder of Mary Meyer ten months after the
assassination – who was about to go public, or Dorothy Kilgallen
who planned to do the same; when we learn attempts were made to bribe
individuals so they would testify they saw Oswald in Mexico City;
when we think of the plethora of witnesses (n=61) who said the shots
came from the grassy knoll whom the Warren Commission generally
ignored;61 when we recall the suspicious motorcade route which forced
the presidential limousine to enter a triangulated killing zone and
slow to an almost complete stop; when we reflect on the instantaneous
removal of the limousine to Detroit and destruction of evidence of
the crime scene, and when we review abject paranoia – every last
soul who might have dissented from the Warren Commission conclusions,
like Jim Garrison or Mark Lane, it is impossible to see the man who
presided over all these events – and who gained so much from them-
should be held blameless.”
In
his YouTube discussion, Kroth criticizes various mainstream
historians. Thus Arthur Schlesinger wrote hundreds of pages about
“John Kennedy's Thousand Days” in the White House, and never
discussed the President's many trysts with women. Schlesinger
contended, they were not important. Kroth retorted that when JFK was
bedding a woman who at the same time was mistress to a powerful Mafia
boss, that is important. (And J. Edgar Hoover thought it important
that Kennedy had a fling with a woman thought to be an East German
spy.) Helen Kearns Goodwin, another “court” historian who used
to frequent PBS and other television newscasts, may have been too
close to some of the subjects of her biographies to be objective.
Indeed, like most popular historians, they treat presidents with
great respect if not awe.
It
is unlikely that the mainstream historians will recognize that in
1963 America experienced a coup d'etat, killing President John
Kennedy and covering up the crime with the patsy of Oswald. A Deep
State – intelligence officials, high military figures, the Mafia,
and Vice-President Lyndon Johnson, with varied motivations, were all
in on the plot.
A
counter-coup occurred beginning in June 1972 with the arrest of the
Watergate burglars at the offices of the Democratic National
Committee. The robbery, in itself, meant little. However, those
arrested included some linked to the White House and some whose names
had already been heard in connection to Dallas. Soon the Deep State was on
the defensive; was its lawlessness indicative of utter contempt for
law. Democrats began investigating this, probing that. Now, the
media took the side of the counter-coup. It seemed that the
President was involved in the cover up. Support for Nixon, who had
been reelected with an overwhelming majority in 1972, plummeted.
Finally, Republican Senators informed him, they did not have enough
votes in the Senate to stave off an impeachment vote to remove him
from office. In August 1974 Nixon resigned. The counter-coup had partially succeeded. Nixon was removed, but he was replaced by Gerald Ford, a former member of the Warren Commission.
In
the 21st century there were changes – in the world, in
America, and in the Deep State. In 1990 the Soviet Union unraveled,
defeated by Pres. Reagan's hard-line policies against “the evil
empire.” While one academic proclaimed “the end of history,”
Pres. George H. W. Bush had a chance to restart history with
unrivaled power. The Bush family had CIA connections going back
decades. He would lead America into a new global era, the New World
Order, making alliances of an expanded NATO in both western and
eastern Europe, and, following an alliance against the Soviets in
Afghanistan with the Muslim Mujaheddin, new possibilities opened.
But some of those Muslims also saw new opportunities; they defeated
the Soviet Communists in Afghanistan, and beyond. Now they would
attack the decadent West. Several illegal aliens flew passenger
planes into the World Trade Center, demolishing them, and into the
Pentagon, destroying part of it. Another target was spared when
passengers fought with the hijackers, leading to the death of all on
that plane. But Pres. George W. Bush did not blame Islam. He even
walked, hand-in-hand (meaning friendship) with a Saudi prince. On
the other hand, Bush led the US into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
With
the election of Pres. Barack Hussein Obama, the pro-Muslim aspects of
the new era continued. An Arab Spring led to changes in governments,
which brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt. The Obama
Administration overthrew Libya's government, had subrosa intervention
in Syria, helped overthrow Ukraine's pro-Russian leadership, and
sought rapprochement with Iran. Obama also tried to defeat Israel's
Netanyahu at the polls. Obama had been a boy in a Muslim country, in
Hawaii had been mentored by a Black who was a member of the Communist
Party, USA, and when he resided in Chicago, was befriended by former
terrorists from the Weather Underground. It is not so surprising
that under Obama, John Brennan, was promoted to CIA chief, even
though (or because) he had voted in 1976 for Gus Hall, candidate of
the CPUSA. Indeed, by the close of the Obama Administration, the new
Deep State was composed of the old Left, Brennan, anti-Vietnam War
veteran John Kerry, and other high officials in the State Dept., FBI,
and military.
This
Deep State is the enemy of Donald Trump. They went after his
advisor, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, to destroy someone who would
contribute to dismantling their New World Order. They would use a
story of Trump hiring prostitutes to piss on the bed where the Obamas
had slept in Moscow to promote media reaction against Trump and
stories of Russian collusion. I need not go on, as it is a
continuing story. The new Deep State is determined to sabotage the
nationalist, populist administration of Pres. Trump. The question
is, how far will they go to prevent him from changing course, from
withdrawing from global warming treaties, from opposing Iran, the
Muslim Brotherhood and such groups while supporting Israel and other
Muslim groups. From closing the borders to invaders. Will the new
Left Deep State and its media minions merely obstruct, merely
“resist?” Or will it redefine resist?
