Transcript John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy
By Mr. Harnell
How I got interested….
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Symposium at
UMD on the
assassination
of JFK in 2003.
A Man Cut Down in His Prime
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Who did it?
Was it a lone
assassin?
Who could have
done it?
Who could have
gotten away with it?
Who stood the most to gain?
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LBJ spent a lot of time
with Texas Oilmen
And the likes of Richard
Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover,
Allen Dulles, and
H.L.Hunt
Kennedy was going to
propose a new tax on
oil.
He was going to dump
LBJ by 64, too.
Why was JFK in Dallas?
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He is concerned about
his re-election in 1964
Texas is not a sure
thing in 1964
Texas is worth a lot of
electoral votes in the
upcoming election
November 22, 1963
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Kennedy and Mrs.
Kennedy arrive at Love
Field in Dallas
He are going to give a
speech at the Trade
Mart in Downtown
Dallas
11:39 A.M. arrived at
Love field
They Leave Love Field
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The trip is about 10
Miles through
downtown Dallas
JFK wanted the top
down—See Jackie
The motorcade was
spread out for over a
half mile
Here’s the Limo
The Motorcade order
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Lead: 4 Motorcycles
Lead Car
Presidential Limo
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Lincoln Continental
Behind 4 motorcycles
ordered not to come closer
than the rear bumper
Secret Service Car next
Then the Vice President
The press vehicle (flat bed
truck)
Motorcade in wrong order
and all different makes of
cars
Motorcade Route
What’s weird?
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The motorcade in the published in the
newspaper was different than the one that
Kennedy took.
110 degree turn was in violation of secret
service protocol
Cars not to run slower than 40 M.P.H.
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Car was going an average of 11 MPH
Windows not sealed closed
Man hole covers not welded shut
Lee Harvey Oswald
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Let’s just go to a
detailed timeline of
Lee H.
Oswaldhttp://mcada
ms.posc.mu.edu/osw
ald.htm
Weird Things….
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7:10 AM LHO leaves for work. He tells
Marina he will buy a pair of shoes for their
daughter, June
He reportedly places his wallet in a dresser
drawer. He keeps $13.87 but leaves $170..
LHO is driven to work by Buell Frazier…He
has a package which LHO says is a curtain
rod
Curtain rod fits btwn armpit and cupped hand.
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No one sees him enter the TSBD with a package
Oswald’s Mannlicher-Carcano rifle broken
down
The Shots
Dealy Plaza
12:30 P.M. on Elm
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Shots are fired at the Motorcade
Frame 200 of Zapruder film Kennedy’s
movements suddenly freeze, his head moves
rapidly from right to his left in the direction of
his wife.
James T. Tague standing near the concrete
abutment of the triple underpass he is hit by a
piece of concrete blown off the street curb by
one of the bullets fired at the President.
James Tague
JFK is Wounded He clutches for his neck
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Governor Connally is also hit by a bullet
Clint Hill realizes that something is wrong and
jumps off of the Secret Service follow up car.
Some think shots are from Dal-Tex bldg or
Texas School Book Depository
President who is wearing a rigid back brace
does not slump, but is held erect.
William Greer (driver) Limo slows down
Umbrella Man & Dark Complected Man
The Umbrella
Most Famous 18 Second Movie in History
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Youtube Link to Zapruder Film
Kennedy disappears behind the Stemmons
Freeway sign
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Next to the Stemmons Freeway sign—Man
opens an umbrella, pumps it up and down
Dark Complected man shakes fist, possibly
holds up 2 fingers
Never questioned….don’t know who they
are…
59 witnesses said that the limo came to a
complete stop on Elm
The Harper Fragment
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Found a day after the
Kennedy assassination
Back and to the Left
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Kennedy is shot in the right side of the
head…
His head explodes in a shower of blood and
brain tissue in the Zapruder film
A piece of bone was found 25 feet behind
and to the left of the car’s position when the
President was hit
The Rifle
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The rifle was a catalog
order, WW II vintage
Mannlicher-Carcano
bolt action rifle with a
improperly adjusted
scope.
Mail ordered in March
of 1963
Famous Backyard
photograph
Many hear shots from the Grassy Noll
The Pick-up on Main Street
After the Assassination
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72-90 Seconds after the assassination
Oswald is spotted by a police man (Marion
Baker) and Oswald’s boss (Roy Truly)
drinking a coke in the second floor breakroom
Working in the Railway yard, Lee Bowers
orders a train to be stopped—3 Tramps taken
into custody—three tramps disappear
Who was in Dallas for the Assassination?
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It was a world of
fortune—all of the
assassins were there.
Woody Harrelson’s
Father, Charles
(center), Chauncey Holt
(right), and Charles
Rogers (left).
All had ties to
organized crime and
CIA
Kennedy arrives at Parkland
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Kennedy arrives at Parkland Memorial
Hospital at 12:43 P.M.
He is taken into trauma room #1
Kennedy’s Limo
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Was immediately washed by Secret Service
agent Greer?
12:44 Secret Service begin to clean the car
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Warren Report states that the President was
killed by wounds inflicted by high velocity
missiles, but the Mannlicher-Carcano is not a
high-velocity weapon
Bullet Hole in
Windshield?
Bent Crome?
1:00 P.M. JFK is pronounced dead of a
gunshot wound to the head
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All of the doctors at Parkland Hospital
thought that the throat wound was a wound of
entry and not one of exit.
Exhibit 399
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The bullet is designed not to explode. It is
designed to pass through the body. It could
not have caused the damage to the
President’s head
Autopsy Photos
Pristine Bullet
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This is the bullet found
on the stretcher in
Parkland Hospital
Created two wounds in
the President and 5
wounds in Connally
J.D. Tippet
Police officer who was allegedly shot by Lee H. Oswald
Autopsy done at Bethesda Naval Hospital
8:15 pm Nov. 22
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Neither pathologist had worked on gun shot
wounds
Humes and Boswell (name of forensic
pathologists)
Not a real professional job
Warren Commission
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Seven Members
Appointed by LBJ
5 Republicans, 2 Democrats
Only Earl Warren (Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court got to see the actual photos
of Kennedy—otherwise only sketches)
Allen Dulles (Head of the CIA—fired by
Kennedy after Bay of Pigs)
Gerald Ford (future President of U.S.)
Medical Evidence or Body Alteration
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Was the body altered after leaving Love field?
Was the evidence tampered with or Fake?
Mary Moorman Photo
Officer J.D.Tippit
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Dallas Police Man
J.D. Tippit sees a man walking EAST along 10th
street who hits the description of the suspected
assailant in Dealy Plaza.
Calls the man over to the car, leans down, and
speaks to Tippit through the window.
Tippit gets out of the car and is shot several times
and then shot in the head execution style
Of the four bullets extracted from Tippit’s body, three
are from Winchester and one is a Remington. Of
the four shells found at the scene of the crime, two
are Winchester and Two are Remmington
Rifle Found
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Rifle found on the sixth floor of the Texas
School Book Depository
Lee Harvey Oswald’s “I’m just a Patsy”
12:00 A.M. November 23, 1963
Sunday, November 24, 1963…Jack Ruby
Kills “The Lone Assassin”
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The proceedings began on December 3, 1963. During its investigation the
Commission heard from 552 witnesses and ten Federal agencies. The hearings were
closed to the public unless the person giving testimony requested otherwise; only two
witnesses made that request. The Commission submitted its final report on
September 24, 1964, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Who was responsible? Who was mad at
JFK?
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Integration—Equal Rights
Raising Oil Tax
Opposed Monopolies
Test Ban Treaty w/ USSR
Refused to support an
attack on Cuba
Fired CIA director and 2
deputies after Bay of Pigs
Threatened to dismantle the
CIA
Withdrawal of advisors from
Vietnam
Aggressive assault on
organized crime
Plan to drop LBJ from the
ticket
Retire FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover after 64
Looking unbeatable in 1964
Who could have done it?
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CIA
Mob Hit
Military
Oil Men
KGB (USSR)
Cubans
LBJ
His wife
Coup D etat
Secret Service Involvement
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No military presence in
Dallas
Man hole covers
Windows
No Snipers
All buildings in Dealy
Plaza were Gov’t type
buildings
No Secret Service on
the Limo
Greer Slows down
Against SS protocol on
turn
Route
Greer washes car
Evidence compromised
Car stripped down to bare
metal immediately
LBJ never used the car
Bubble put on the car
What do I believe?
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There were at least 3 shooters
One in the Texas School Book Depository
One in the Dal-Tex Building
One in the Grassy Knoll
Oswald was only a fringe player
It was a Coup D etat—Secret Service, CIA,
LBJ, FBI, and Mafia
What are they worried About?
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John Kennedy would
be re-elected in 64
Bobby Kennedy from
68-76
Edward Kennedy for 8
years after that!
House Select Committee on
Assassinations (HSCA)
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“On the basis of disputed acoustical evidence
which it never adequately explored—it
concluded that a fourth shot had been fired
from the “Grassy knoll”.
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1979 reinvestigation of the assassination