The Cracks of a Fake
Reality
Umbrella
Man, Clint Hill’s run and the Zapruder Film
By Staffan H Westerberg &
Pete Engwall
The
true story of the killing of John F. Kennedy is really the story of the
creation of a false reality. However, to plan and create something fake of that
magnitude requires huge efforts to ensure it holds together. From an outside
view the case looks perhaps solid and trustworthy, but any JFK researcher who gets
up close with the “facts” will at first encounter small errors and things that
are out of sync. Pretty soon the amount of man-made deviations will occur in
clusters all over the place.
The peculiar tale of the Umbrella Man is a good example of how a serious matter was allowed
to glide between pure silliness and virtual insanity without a reaction from
any authority. It starts with this unknown man who stood at attention on the
pavement on Elm Street, right beside the President when he was killed. This man
pumped his black umbrella ferociously up and down on a sunny day and nobody
understood why – at least not until 1978 when a man called Louie Steven Witt
was called to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations,
HSCA. He explained that pumping the umbrella up and down was essentially a
protest aimed at JFK’s father Joseph Kennedy - who had been the U.S. Ambassador
to the Court of St James - for supporting the British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain’s appeasement to Hitler in 1938. Because Chamberlain often had carried
an umbrella, that way Witt wanted to demonstrate that he (as a 15-year-old kid)
had not liked what the President’s father had done some 25 years earlier. And
this Witt did at a moment when someone was trying to shoot Kennedy to pieces.
Louie Steven Witt’s explanation was strangely
enough not questioned by the HSCA, instead it became sort of a laughing matter
amongst the committee members about whether the umbrella could have been used
as a weapon or not. In November of 2011 JFK researcher Josiah “Tink” Thompson
underscored the Umbrella Man’s story
with this explanation:
“If you put any event under a microscope, you will find a whole
dimension of completely weird incredible things going on. /… The only person
under any umbrella in all of Dallas standing right at the location of where the
shots came into the limousine… Can anyone come up with a non-sinister
explanation for this? (Thompson smiles.) I asked the Umbrella Man to explain this, and so he did. He explained why he
had opened the umbrella and was standing there that day. The open umbrella was
a visual protest. It wasn’t a protest of any of John Kennedy’s policies as
president. It was a protest at the appeasement policies of Joseph P. Kennedy
when he was the ambassador to the Court of St James in 1938-39. It was a
reference to Neville Chamberlain’s umbrella. (Thompson laughs and shakes his
head) I read that, and it is wacky enough, it has to be true! And I take it to
be true.”
Any knowledgeable researcher would know that
Josiah Thompson left out several important facts that would undermine the image
of this conclusion: Thompson said nothing about the nearly 60 witnesses that
saw the limo come to a near or a complete stop just at that spot where the Umbrella Man were standing. Thompson
totally forgot to mention that the man next to the Umbrella Man, the so-called Dark
Complected Man, pumped his fist in the air, at the same time the Umbrella Man pumped his umbrella. A fist
in the air could be interpreted as a sign for stop, which is the sign for halt in
the Infantry. Neither did Thompson mention the three newly painted yellow
markings on the curb.
So you had a man with an umbrella that appeared
to be together with another man (that had a radio tucked inside his pants) who
both pumped something in the air, something that could be taken as a signal for
the driver to stop the vehicle. Subsequently the car stopped and the President
was shot deadly in the head – right at that spot. You could argue that the Umbrella Man’s explanation is just a
freaky and wacky thing that could happen in real life, but that doesn’t explain
why so many witnesses claimed to have seen the limo come to a near or a
complete stop, or why someone recently had painted these three yellow markings
that could be seen as a killing zone for shooters, or why a man was giving a
stop sign in the middle of the road, or why that man was carrying a radio and
communicating with someone afterwards?
When you add these additional facts to
Thompson’s picture then you have gone passed the possibility of a “wacky”
explanation with so many miles of logic and probability that the chance of it
being true is not even mathematically possible. And this is also why it is
virtually impossible to create a false reality.
Yellow Markings
A normal criminal case (if there is such a
thing) doesn’t have thousands upon thousands of strange anomalies, weird
circumstances and unbelievable explanations that we find within and around the
Kennedy assassination and the subsequent cover-up. The Kennedy case is also
followed by people like Mr. Thompson, who seem to be more than willing to single
out very suspicious facts with the purpose of one way or another place them in
an explainable framework – and in the process leave out other facts that will contradict
the end result. This is the story of the whole case, which looks to be
contaminated with disinformation en masse and over populated with debaters with
ill intent. One way to get passed this, is to start with the result and work
backwards all the way to the intent. If someone initially wants something to be
done, and that something actually happens, and you know there is so much
disinformation in between the intent and the end result, then you have to root
out what is false information and staged events and finally analyze what is
left. Some things we know happened, and those are important to hang on to when
you navigate through what seems to be a sea of disinformation.
Let’s start with a peculiar paint job. Some time
during the morning hours of the 22nd of November 1963 someone had
painted three broad yellow markings on the curb across Elm Street from the
Stemmons Freeway sign. These markings were unusual, over 45 feet apart and with
a white line to mark off the end on both sides. We know they had been painted
recently since a few spectators had caught paint on their shoes. The question becomes why had someone painted
these markings? What could possibly have been the reason to paint three yellow
markings on a Friday morning towards the end of November? And why was it done
in that particular spot, exactly where the President would meet his death only
hours later?
Someone have suggested that “yellow markings”
were common in the City of Dallas and were used to signal a curve in the road,
nothing sinister about it at all. However, the late Jack White didn’t believe
this explanation at all, since he lived in Fort Worth and traveled frequently
to Dallas and he had never seen yellow markings used in that capacity,
certainly not only three, especially not that far apart. As it were, these
yellow markings were conspicuous and could be seen clearly from the Dallas
Textile Building, the Texas School Book Depository and the Grassy Knoll – as
well as from a car passing by.
Who Were They?
Back to the Umbrella
Man and the Dark Complected Man
with the radio. Who were they and what significant role did they play? No one
seems to be sure of the first part of the question. At least there is no proof
of him really being Louie Steven Witt. So, could Witt somehow have been
recruited to falsely claim he was the man in question? Possibly, because in
1963 Witt was a salesman at the Rio Grande National Insurance Company, whose biggest
client was the Military Intelligence, lead by business man-politician-intelligence man Jack Crichton of the 488th
Military Intelligence Detachment. Jack Crichton also a CIA asset who worked
closely with George Bush (CIA) to raise funds for (and sponsor) the Cuban exile
commando group Operation 40. When
Louie Steven Witt went to work in Dallas, there was also a big chance he would
run in to Secret Service agent Forrest Sorrels - who was the one who allegedly took
care of the Zapruder film right after the murder of the President – since the
Dallas Secret Service branch was located in the same building as the insurance
company. This was also the building where Ruth Paine’s lawyer had an office –
for whatever reason a “housewife” would need a lawyer? Louie Steven Witt
certainly had connections with the intelligence close to him, at least in a
geographical sense.
Many have studied
photographs and films taken in Dealey Plaza that day with the intent of identifying
who were present. Some researchers seem to think that
the Umbrella Man was CIA man Gordon
Novel, while others believe him to be rogue agent Roy Hargraves. When it comes
to the Dark Complected Man he is
called that because some say he is a Cuban while others say he more looks like
an American black man. Over the years there are two anti Castro Cubans who have
been suggested: Orlando Bosch of Operation
40 and Felipe Vidal Santiago of Interpen
(Intercontinental Penetration Force).
Roy Hargraves was member of Interpen, which was an organization that was recruited by the CIA
to train anti Castro Cuban exiles in Louisiana and Florida. In 1963 Hargraves
lead a team of exiles in a successful raid on Cuba. The other individual
believed to be the Umbrella Man was
CIA agent Gordon Novel, who had association with Cuban exile Sergio Arcacha
Smith and Guy Banister in New Orleans. Novel, who allegedly had been recruited
to the CIA by Allen Dulles, was supposedly seen in a meeting with Jack Ruby in
October of 1963.
When it comes to the Dark Complected Man, some believe that was Felipe Vidal Santiago,
an ex Cuban Naval Officer who left Cuba when Castro came in to power in 1959.
Santiago is also a member of the CIA cohort Interpen
and worked closely with Roy Hargraves, as well as being an information conduit
for General Edwin Walker, the man who Oswald allegedly tried to kill in the
spring of 1963. The second choice of the man standing with the fist in the air
and radio tucked inside his pants was Orlando Bosch, a member of Operation 40 who hated Kennedy after the
Bay of Pigs. Alleged CIA rogue agent Chauncey Marvin Holt has claimed that he
saw Orlando Bosch in Dealey Plaza prior to the shooting. According to Cuban
authorities through the years Bosch has been involved in 78 terrorist attacks
around the world. Bosch was pardoned in July of 1990 by non other than
President George Bush.
Besides the obvious similarity in appearance, it
is understandable that these four men has been suggested as the Umbrella Man and Dark Complected Man, since they all have some kind of ties to what
is believed to be the forces behind the assassination. But who ever the two men
were, we can all sense what power lurks in the background – and it is of course
not Lee Harvey Oswald. About the amount of unexpected connections between
pivotal persons in the Kennedy case, if one didn’t know any better, one would
think that the USA only had a population of 5 000 - 50 of them living in
Dallas.
No Coincident
When you align all theses strange circumstances
side by side it looks convincingly suspicious: A man pumping an umbrella, a man
with a fist in the air and a walkie-talkie, newly painted yellow markings on
the curb - it all suggests something out of the ordinary was going on. Further
more, the Dallas Police had mysteriously tried to keep people off the lawn
across the street, as if they knew it would be a dangerous place for the public
to be standing. Some researchers will argue that the Umbrella Man’s task was to give a signal to the shooters that
Kennedy was not dead just yet. However, we fail to see the logic in that
assumption, since a shooter, keeping his focus on the target through the scope,
hardly could have that kind of split vision. A shooter only has a brief moment
to engage a target that moves away from him, and to also keep an eye on
something or someone way to the side of the target would most surely cause the
shooter to loose the aim. Couldn’t a spotter take care of that? Well, if the
shooters in Dealey Plaza really had spotters on their side, they too had to
focus on the target. But the most important factor as to why neither a shooter
nor a spotter would have had to keep an eye on the movement of a pumping
umbrella in order to verify when Kennedy was deadly hit - is of course it
simply wasn’t necessary. Who ever heard of the necessity of umbrella men in military sniper
operations?
Still, common sense tell us that there had to
have been someone who was informing the shooters the moment when the mission
was accomplished and they could stop firing. In this instance we would
speculate that the conveyor of that information could have been Secret Service
group leader Emory Roberts who perhaps gave the cease-fire to someone who
coordinated the shooting (possibly via the white laundry truck up the street)
what was also overheard by Roy Kellerman. We believe both of these men were
involved because they seemed to be glued to a radio during the entire
shooting.
So if pumping an umbrella and a fist in the air
had nothing to do whether Kennedy was dead or not, what other meaning could it
have had? We can imagine his role could have been getting the limo to stop. And
here are some major points as to why that could be the case: Number one;
according to nearly 60 witnesses the limo slowed down to a near or a complete
stop just before Kennedy was hit deadly in the head. Number two; according to
the Zapruder film the back of Kennedy’s head blew out before the car passed the
second yellow marking, which would indicate the limo stopped between two of the
three yellow markings. Number three; the evidence supporting an altered film,
or perhaps even more likely a totally fabricated film, is overwhelming, see
Doug Horne and John Costella’s work. Number four; Clint Hill’s description of
his actions doesn’t correlate with what can be seen in the Zapruder film.
Number five; neither Secret Service driver Bill Greer’s recollection of what he
did, and when he did it, is neither supported with what the Zapruder film
shows. Number six; the fact that the Dark
Complected Man pumped a fist in the air, which is a sign of stop in the
Infantry, and the fact that the limo actually stopped at that spot, simply
cannot be a coincidence, in our opinion.
About
the 60 witnesses that claimed to have seen the limousine come to a near or a
complete stop on Elm Street; the ones who saw the limo come to a “full stop” we
believe are more likely to be right than the ones who saw the limo come to a
“near stop” - the reason being the ones who saw the stop simply saw more and it is easier to distinguish
between a car in motion and a car standing still than a car driving five miles
per hour or one mile per hour. It is more likely that the witnesses that only
saw the car slow down to a near stop didn’t have a complete picture of what
actually took place. Therefore the witnesses that saw the limo come to a full
stop are likely to be more in the right than the ones who saw the car on the
way to a stop. Either way, the ones who saw a near stop supports the ones who
saw the car come to a full stop, because a full stop was the natural
consequence of a slowing down. If over twenty people saw the car stand still on
the street, we believe their perception triumph all the rest, because they are
too many to be mistaken.
Another plausible theory is that Umbrella Man was there mainly to steal
the attention from the Dark Complected
Man. It all became about the Umbrella
Man and not about the Dark Complected
Man, who perhaps was the one we all should point our searchlights at. You
don’t see “Tink” Thompson and others of his ilk talk about the Dark Complected Man, all focus seem to
be on the man with the umbrella. Consequently most of us are glued to this
awkward story. And when you think about it, what would witnesses in Dealey
Plaza remember – a guy holding a fist in the air, or what looked like a crazy
person pumping un umbrella? Perhaps the Umbrella
Man had a similar role as Seizure Man,
Jerry Belknap – a clever diversion?
Still, one aspect doesn’t rule out the other, we
believe that the role of both the Umbrella
Man and Dark Complected Man was
to stop the limo in the exact spot between the yellow markings where shooters
had zeroed in their weapons. Further more, we suspect that Bill Greer had order
to look for an umbrella in order to see where the man stood with the fist in
the air. The umbrella was perhaps just a precaution so that Greer wouldn’t miss
the Dark Complected Man’s sign among
the many spectators. Then when he saw these two fellows he would look to his
left to hone in on the yellow markings where he would stop the car.
Hill’s Run
There is much to gain from analyzing footage
taken in Dealey Plaza that day, either it be films or photographs. AP press
photographer James Altgens took one of the most famous photographs called
“Altgens 6”. In this photo we can see that Kennedy is reacting to something,
presumably a shot or two. We can also see Clint Hill standing on the left side
of the Secret Service car called Queen Mary. But what is he looking at? This is
what Clint Hill told the Warren Commission:
“I heard a noise from my right rear, which seemed to be a firecracker. I
immediately looked to my right and, in so doing, my eyes had to cross the
Presidential limousine and I saw President Kennedy grab at himself and lurch
forward and to the left.”
Representative Hale Boggs: “This was the first shot?”
Clint Hill: “This is the first shot I heard; yes, sir. I jumped from the
car, realizing that something was wrong, ran to the Presidential limousine.
Just about as I reached it, there was another sound…”
While Clint Hill attempted to explain his
actions with a nebulous and very short time span in the form of shot-danger-run-sequence, it is easy to
see why this is wrong and perhaps a case of a created false reality not holding
together. Some researchers have said that Clint Hill tells the truth while the
Zapruder film is not. We say that is right and wrong; actually both Hill and
the film are lying. Here is why we believe that:
Mr. SPECTER. Now, what is your best estimate on the
time-span between the first firecracker-type noise you heard and the second
shot which you have described?
Mr. HILL. Approximately 5 seconds.
Mr. SPECTER. Now, did the impact on the President's
head occur simultaneously, before, or after the second noise, which you have
described?
Mr. HILL. Almost simultaneously.
Representative FORD. Did you see the President put his
hands to his throat and chest while you were still on the follow-up car, or
after you had left it?
Mr. HILL. As I was leaving. And that is one of the
reasons I jumped, because I saw him grab himself and pitch forward and to the
left. I knew something was wrong.
Representative FORD. It was 5 seconds from the
firecracker noise that you think you got to the automobile?
Mr. HILL. Until I reached the
handhold, had placed my foot on the left rear step.
Mr. SPECTER. How far back of the President's
automobile was the Presidential follow-up car when the President's follow-up
car had just straightened out on Elm Street?
Mr. HILL. Approximately 5 feet.
As you can see, in these two statements Clint
Hill says that after hearing the first noise he looked back attempting to
locate where it came from. In doing so he saw Kennedy grab something at his
throat. This would mean that some time elapsed between the “noise” (shot or
bomb) and the actual time when he leaped off the Queen Mary - and not as he
says: “as I was leaving”.
Next Hill claimed it took him five seconds to
run from the Secret Service car to Kennedy’s car. And a little later in his
testimony he says the distance between the two cars were only five feet. Illuminating
this scenario with some kind of logic it would mean that Clint Hill started his
run approximately one second after the first shot, only to reach the
President’s limo some five (actually 6) seconds
later, “almost simultaneously” as the fatal head shot occurred. Now, if the
Secret Service car was trailing Kennedy’s car by only five feet, as Hill told
the Commission, then it would mean that it took him between five and six
seconds to run five feet.
Hill’s claim of at what moment he arrived to the
limo is neither correct. If you watch the Zapruder film you can see that Hill
arrives 1,6 seconds after the fatal head shot. In Marie Muchmore’s film we can
actually see the entire run, which takes approximately 0,5 seconds. This could
mean that Clint Hill didn’t start running until he had seen that Kennedy was
deadly wounded, right after the “third shot” (which in reality could have been
the 9th, 10th or 11th shot).
According to the Warren Commissions version and
the Zapruder film, the shooting went on for six seconds while the Presidential
limousine was going at an alleged speed of 12-15 miles per hour. The Zapruder
film actually shows that the average speed of the limo down on Elm Street was
five miles per hour, which if it was true were insanely slow. The Muchmore film
also suggests that Clint Hill arrived to a limo that stood still, simply
because when he jumped up on to the car, the force of his own speed made his
upper body continue forward.
If we then listen to the Secret Service driver
Bill Greer, who told the Commission that he floored the gas pedal right after
the second shot or close to the third shot. That also has to be a wrongful
statement if the films are supposed to be believed. Based on what can be seen
in the Zapruder film as well as in the Nix and Muchmore films, neither Clint
Hill nor Bill Greer were telling the truth. Another question is why did Clint Hill run to the limo at
all? Did he run with the intention of protecting the President or to protect
the First Lady? If the limo stood still, then Clint Hill’s time of reaction
becomes even more questionable, perhaps beyond what can be acceptable. As it
seems, Hill didn’t start to run until after
the so-called third shot, when the shooting had stopped and the President was
dead. And let’s not kid ourselves - it was not like the Secret Service agents
behind in the Queen Mary were unsure of the outcome after the fatal head shot,
since a large part in the back of Kennedy’s head blasted out with skull pieces,
brain matter and blood that sprayed all over the motorcycle cops and landed
everywhere. It is not likely they had not taken notice of that when it happened
right in front of their eyes.
To sum it up: Hill told the Warren Commission that
he ran right after the first shot and it took him five seconds to reach the
limo. The Zapruder film shows he didn’t reach the car until more than one
second after the third shot, which indicates his run took him six seconds. What
Clint Hill really says is that he jogged on the spot for six seconds. Secondly,
Bill Greer couldn’t have floored the gas pedal after the second shot or before
the third, since Hill didn’t get on to the car until one second after the third
shot. Instead it looks like Bill Greer waited for Clint Hill to get on to the
car before he floored the pedal. It is just another case of cracks in a created
false reality.
Consequences of a Limo Stop
Again, let us focus on the Umbrella Man and Dark
Complected Man. If they had the task of stopping the vehicle, then that in
it self would have other consequences. First and foremost, they were likely
part of a plan. In the other end of the spectrum we have the Zapruder film; the
likelihood of the film not being
planned in advance would be very slim, in our opinion. John Costella, among
other experts, has proven that the Zapruder film is not only a fake film, his
research also make us sense that a large effort must have gone into the plot,
which leads us to believe that the film cannot have been a last-minute-idea and
a hastily-put-together-operation going on only that weekend. It is
inconceivable that all the strange actions surrounding the film only were the
result of a coincident and not part of a plan. There is simply too much
evidence pointing to a planned limo
stop - and who can believe that the coup-planners would send several shooters
to firing positions around Dealey Plaza without comprehend the ramifications of
such a decision? They knew Kennedy would be hit from different directions and a
film would most probably show that. Both the planning of several shooters and a
planned limo stop are therefore very strong suggestions that the Zapruder film
was no coincident – common sense tell us that it had to have been planned in
advance.
Subsequently, if the film was a planned event,
it couldn’t have been left to chance that Abraham Zapruder had to drive home to
get his camera. This also means that we do not trust Marilyn Sitzman’s
testimony.
But why would they want a film of the event? For
one thing, a car stop would definitely throw suspicion on the Secret Service.
Another thing is of course that shots from different directions revealed there
was a conspiracy. Because of this, a film would triumph over what any witness
would claim to have seen. No matter where you enter this circle of logic, it
will bring you to the realization that the film must have been planned in advance. Just like the autopsy. Actually,
the Z-film and the autopsy are the best evidence – and they were both
pre-planned falsifications.
Alteration Or Fabrication
Today there are many researchers that believe
all films taken in Dealey Plaza were tampered with – altered - one way or
another. Orville Nix film as well as and Maria Muchmore’s film should most
likely have shown motorcycle policeman James Chaney passing the Presidential
car on the far side of the limousine and MC patrolman, Douglas Jackson, driving
up the grassy slope towards the picket fence, but it doesn’t. Neither does the
film expose the limo standing still and nor can we see the Grassy Knoll shooter.
There is also a suspicious circumstance that Maria Muchmore started and stopped
filming when she allegedly did: This short and strange film sequence simply
cannot be a fluke of destiny because it misses too many important key moments
in the beginning as well as in the end with only fractions of a second; besides
the obvious limo stop someone must have cut the film to prevent the possibility
to compare with the movements in the Nix film as well as the Zapruder film. The
mere fact that Abraham Zapruder’s alleged
film were developed in Dallas and thereafter sent to Hawkeye Works in New York
and NPIC in Washington makes very little sense – unless of course someone were
going to work the film over in some way. However, there are still those within
the research community that believe these three films are genuine and have not
been tampered with, which is a very hard conclusion to comprehend, considering
all obvious evidence of multiple fraud. Then there are those within the
community that seem to think the film was altered that same weekend in November
of 1963 and others that are convinced it was a fabrication planned weeks or
months before.
When former ARRB Military Records Archivist
Douglas Horne believe the Zapruder film was altered as the result of a rush job
during the weekend after the assassination and already a “done deal” the day
Kennedy was buried, Australian researcher and PhD John Costella seems to hold
another view. Costella’s research has led him to believe that the film must
have been fabricated and made up of perhaps several films and footage, and thus
planned well before the event. As we have touched on already, the so-called Plan of Operations must have included
several shooters that would target Kennedy from different directions, as well
as a planned limo stop. Most JFK researchers agree that this was a coup d’état,
an assassination of a president in a military style ambush, in a town square,
at noon and in front of 400 spectators. Practically all researchers with an
honest intent believe this is a correct description of what happened in Dallas.
However, like everyone else, we can only speculate how big the plan was to kill
and cover up the murder of John F. Kennedy. Besides the Umbrella Man and Dark Complected
Man, apparent secret radio communications and the yellow markings as well
as the Seizure Man, what other signs
of a big plan do we have? Well, among many indications of foul play we have the
apparent lack of Secret Service protection along the motorcade route and on the
Presidential limousine, as Vince Palamara’s more than adequate research shows.
Another fact is the strange formation of the eight motorcycle patrolmen as well
as the critical and super-slow detour around Dealey Plaza. The order of the
cars in the motorcade were also very unusual, where the Presidential limousine
came first (after the pilot car and lead car) and the Press Bus was canceled
and men from the Press could hitch a ride way in the back of the motorcade with
no opportunity to take photographs of the President on his reelection campaign.
Besides Costella and Horne’s important contribution to unfold a big scale
operation, the mere fact that people shooting from different directions would
turn into one man shooting from behind
is of course also a sign of a rather large operation. Or the surveillance job
to keep control over all films and photographs taken by the public. Then of
course, “the stealing of the body” from Parkland Hospital is no small matter
either. Not to mention all the effort that had gone into framing Oswald most of
the year (1963) and make sure he would look guilty in the eyes of the world.
Also, all the effort and energy they put into changing many witness testimonies
and pressuring witnesses after the fact.
It had to have been one helluva big plan.
For those reasons (there are many more) we believe
that the film had to have been a planned event. We know Colonel L. Fletcher
Prouty and General Victor Krulak identified Air Force General Ed Lansdale (CIA)
as the man who walked by the “three tramps” in front of the Book Depository
some time after Kennedy was killed. Why was he there? Some researchers seem to
think that Lansdale had something to do with the sniping teams on site, that he
somehow was the man in charge. We fail to see that this could have been the
case. For that Edward Lansdale had the wrong background. He came from
advertising and would after World War II become an expert in creating covert
scenarios - The Expert. We doubt that he knew much of setting up ambushes and
leading mechanics. If there were any people like that present at all in Dealey
Plaza, they would probably more have a profile similar to perhaps Bill Harvey,
or better yet David Sanches Morales.
No, we believe Lansdale had another reason to be
there. We know he had used films for propaganda purposes as part of his Psy-Ops
in the Philippines as well as in Vietnam in the 1950s. For example, on the way
to install Magsaysay as the Pilipino President Lansdale created a faked
scenario with a dressed up rebel force that raided a small village in the
countryside, trailed by Ramon Magsaysay’s friendly force, which rushed to the
villagers rescue. All this was filmed and later shown as propaganda in every
small village around the Philippines. Subsequently, faked films were one
important aspect of how Lansdale made the CIA puppet Magsaysay popular among
the population. And if propaganda films was a winning concept for the old CIA
spook, is it then a crazy stretch of our imagination to think that a film of the
event in Dallas could have been part of a plan to counter what any witness
would have to say? A fake film could definitely help cover up anything beyond
the three-shots-from-behind-scenario. A film could also be created so that it
would not show that the Secret Service stopped the car in the middle of the
street and consequently implicated JFK’s own bodyguards of having a role in the
murder.
Could Ed Lansdale’s presence in Dealey Plaza have had
something to do with an alleged rogue film crew on site? Was he simply the
architect and coordinator of this part of the operation? Maybe a true Nix or
Muchmore film would have shown individuals with film cameras on the embankment
below the picket fence, before they were edited out just like motorcycle
patrolmen Chaney and Jackson?
Even if Doug Horne’s opinion has a lot of weight and credibility, it is
not clear why he seems to believe that the Plotters would make such an
intricate and overwhelming plan in every other aspect of the case but “the
film”, which instead was something that they only would come to think of as the
event unfolded? Could altering
Abraham Zapruder’s film really have been something they decided upon that same
afternoon? Considering the vast amount of indicators pointing to a well-planned
event, this thought is not easy to digest – especially when it mean they also
had to deal with other films in a similar manner.
Instead, we believe almost everything points to “the film” being made up
of lots of film footage and/or still photographs. If the grass on the other
side of Elm Street is from another film than the part of the Presidential
limousine, then that is most likely a sign of a fabricated film. If the
spectators didn’t wave or move, or showed any kind of reaction at the time when
the President and Mrs. Kennedy passed by - and the shooting was going on at the
same time - if they showed no reaction when there was chaos around them, then
we have to suspect that the film is a fabrication, just as John Costella
advocates. As we have pointed out in this article: “they” tried to create a
false reality by presenting falsified testimonies and altered statements, by
creating fabricated films and doctored photographs. The problem is – while they
managed to come off as vague, non specific and general in all oral statements
and testimonies, the films and photographs have the uncomfortable habit of
locking their new reality in an exact
position – which is where we all can see the cracks. In the Altgens 6 photo
Clint Hill shouldn’t be standing and only watching the President get hit with
bullets, by now he should already had ran to protect Kennedy with his body. But
we don’t see that happening in this picture, nor do we see it in the Zapruder
film.
John Costella has proven that some physical parts of the Zapruder film
are impossible and shows severe manipulation: The Sign Mistake;
when
scientists removed the pincushion effect from the film, the Stemmons Freeway
sign gave them a surprise: it bent and twisted as it traveled across the bottom
of the film. When the pincushion effect is removed, a real sign would just sit
there, and line up with the background. The
Blur Mistake; Zapruder frame 232 is sharp in the foreground as well as in the
background, which means that it probably was created by cutting and pasting
together real photographs and film frames of the assassination. The Fast Forward Mistake; all four people in front of the Kennedy’s lurch
forward when the car is speeding up, which would be physical impossible. These three
examples show that the extant film is not genuine.
Doug Horne on the other hand has proven that the
chain of custody and the chain of events concerning the film are based on lies.
His research show without a doubt that the Secret Service brought the original
film to Hawkeye Works in Rochester, New York, followed by NPIC in Washington,
where they worked on producing two sets of briefing boards. Horne has also
conducted interviews with people closely connected to the film that crucial
weekend, people that could have seen the camera original and would report that
it was not compatible with the extant film.
Either way you look at it, together both
Costella and Horne’s masterful work has proven that the extant film most
definitely is a fraud and would not be admissible in a U.S. Court of Law.
No Question is Off Limits
Now, if a fabricated film really was planned,
then we have to wrap our minds around a whole other way of thinking, because
now all of a sudden everything is
believable and nothing is knowable. The only thing we can trust from the
extant film is perhaps that is was filmed on the day Kennedy was killed, that
it truly was Kennedy’s limousine that was attacked and that the sun was shining
that day. Beyond that (and what witnesses have told the world afterwards), it’s
anybody’s guess. We also have to dare ask the hard questions such as what made
Jacqueline Kennedy climb back on the trunk of the car? Not many witnesses, if
any, ever said they saw her on the back of the trunk. Why is that?
First and foremost, one has to question whether
the closest witnesses to the Presidential car really had the nerve to focus on
anything else but where the shots were coming from. When the shots occurred and
the pandemonium broke out, the closest witnesses field of vision presumably
narrowed down. It was only at the moment when the first shots occurred that
they could be considered good witnesses. But when they realized what was going
on, they must have become totally consumed with their own safety and tried to
get cover for themselves and their loved ones. At that point they also stopped
noticing what was happening in and around the Presidential car. In addition,
several witnesses noticed that Secret Service agents got out of the Queen Mary
with weapons drawn; automatic rifles and/or submachine guns. Nothing of this
Secret Service action can be seen in the Zapruder film. Could it be that
witnesses never saw Jackie climbing back on the car because there were several
agents crowding the view – if they ever had the courage to look that way?
Again Clint Hill. Did he act spontaneous when he
ran towards the limo, or did he react to a sudden order - or did he act on a
planned script? The three films would show absolutely no action whatsoever from
Secret Service agents - had Clint Hill not ran. That fact alone would be
suspicious of Secret Service complicity, in our opinion. So let us speculate
that Hill knew beforehand that he had to run to the limo with the purpose of
covering up the otherwise non-actions of the President’s team of bodyguards,
which would be seen in the Zapruder film. We know we are way out on a limb
here, but just for arguments sake let us massage the idea a bit. What would
that mean? Well, it would have several ramifications, one being whether Hill
and the other agents really were out boozing the night before? Could the Party Story have been a diversion, sort
of a backwards alibi? If Hill knew about his role the day before, would he
really go out drinking all night, risking not being alert the next day, not to
mention risking his life? If “the Zapruder film” was a planned operation, why
wouldn’t Hill’s role be equally planned beforehand?
We know agents like Clint Hill, John Ready and
others allegedly went out drinking at
the nightclub the Cellar Door in Fort
Worth until the wee hours in the morning; some of them stayed out until after
5am. It is also “known” that the Secret Service knew the threats were piling up
against JFK, they also knew they were going to visit perhaps the most dangerous
city in the whole country, which meant there was definitely a risk of someone
taking a shot at JFK, since he had received several death threats from Dallas.
A motorcade through Dallas also meant that the President’s bodyguards were
equally at risk. Further more, agents of the White House Detail didn’t usually
go out and boozing the night before they had to be on alert. This whole thing
seems staged in some weird way. We know they – allegedly - went out, and we
know that their boss James Rowley pardoned them afterwards, even if he should
have fired them all, which was common practice. We also know the Warren
Commission almost gave them a 10+ (on a scale from one to ten) considering the
protection work they did that day. It all seems very upside-down and clearly
propaganda.
Did the Secret Service agents go out drinking on
purpose, just to get an alibi for poor reaction the next day, or what? It is a
valid question. Was this whole thing just to create some sort of a “human
blunder” that they could blame on after the fact?
“The
President is dead, they were out drinking and it is all very shameful, they all
feel bad about it, perhaps they could have reacted faster had they not gone out
drinking, but don’t blame them, they are only human, they feel bad enough as it
is…”
If Clint Hill knew what was about to happen the
day after, he would most likely never go out and get drunk - unless of course
if he was ordered out and it was part of a plan that he and the other agents
were engaged in a make-believe operation?
If Clint Hill were kept in the dark about the
event, would he still go out and drinking the day before the President and the
First Lady would go through a hostile town like Dallas?
Also, if Clint Hill didn’t know what was about
to take place in Dealey Plaza the next day, wouldn’t he act faster and run much
earlier than until after Kennedy’s head were blasted out?
If Clint Hill was not part of the plot to kill
President Kennedy, why would he lie about the running, the limo stop and why
would he first say the hole was in the back of JFK’s head and then later on say
it was on the side, like he did for Swedish TV in 2014?
We believe that most of the so-called party at the Cellar
Door never happened the way the story has been told. We don’t believe any
of Kennedy’s guards got even remotely drunk the night before. Perhaps the party
story was created just as a precaution to have something to fall back on, sort
of a safety valve, in case the Secret Service as an organization would receive
large amounts of criticism after the murder of the President? In that case the
blame could be placed upon those that had attended the party. There is a big
difference between getting fired from the job and put to death in the electric
chair.
Returning to Mrs. Kennedy’s actions. Motorcycle
patrolman Bobby Hargis told a reporter in the early 1970s that the Presidential
limousine was at a stand still on Elm Street and it looked to him as Jackie
Kennedy tried to get away from the bullets. Hargis also felt that that’s why
Clint Hill ran to the limo – to keep her from getting off!
The vast majority of the research community
seems to believe that she climbed back there to retrieve a piece of her
husband’s skull. This “fact” has become one of those sacred cows. But if the
car had stopped cold on the street and bullet after bullet hit her husband,
wouldn’t the most logical scenario be that her instinct told her to get out?
When asked by the Warren Commission she didn’t remember ever being on the trunk
of the car, let alone why she had climbed up there. Perhaps, she first tried to
get out of the passenger door but the jump seat was in the way?
If the limo stood still this scenario is of
course very plausible; who wouldn’t want to avoid getting killed? Had the limo
really gone at the speed the Zapruder film will have you believe it did, then
it is less likely Mrs. Kennedy would have thought about getting off.
Subsequently, if the film had been planned in advance, what would it mean if
the First Lady suddenly got out of the car and started wandering around in the
street? That, we think would be hard
to cover up and conceal no matter how many films they had to work with. Maybe
Clint Hill received an order from Emory Roberts not to move, but when Jackie
decided to get out Hill was given the order to stop her? Maybe Hill’s run to
the SS100X just was something lucky they could use in the film as “Secret
Service action”?
A Super Long Limo Stop
Listening to Doug Horne in a recent radio
interview, he talked about the three autopsy reports as the possible result of
a three-way scenario of which any one of the three reports could be used
depending upon which scenario was finally decided on. Even if that wild idea
shouldn’t surprise any of us – because we have gotten used to the fact that the
whole case is full of unexpected revelations - it has a chilling effect on
other aspects of the case that we all think we know something about. Following
Larry Rivera’s research on JFK’s MC protection, called “JFK Horsemen”, there is
a possibility that the limo stop could have lasted as long as 10 seconds –
perhaps even up to 30 seconds! If witnesses that claimed that several Secret
Service Agents in the Queen Mary jumped off with their weapons drawn it had to
have consumed time. One would assume the agents formed a sort of a defense
position around the car or panned out to the sides, just as Walter Cronkite
reported minutes after the assassination. In the process of rushing out amongst
the spectators one of the agents took a piece of Kennedy’s skull that a boy
(perhaps Charles Brehm’s son) had picked up from the street. The agent “threw”
it into the backseat of Kennedy’s car. According to motorcycle patrolman Douglas
Jackson “the Secret Service men ‘passed’ the President’s limousine” after
having jumped into the street. This whole episode had to have taken a number of
seconds. And then motorcycle cop James Chaney reported that officer Bobby
Hargis “parked his motorcycle in the left lane on Elm Street and then ran between
the SS100X and the Queen Mary”. All this allegedly happened after the final headshot and had to have
taken more than ten seconds, perhaps twenty or more. Witness Beverly Oliver
remembered the scene after the shots as “frozen”.
If this is all true, then all the people that
has seen “another film” of the event, a film that shows a limo stop that takes
2-4 seconds, cannot have seen a film that showed the true event of what
happened. What if – like in the case of the autopsy reports – there were
several films with different content of the event? What if there was one
version with a sequence with a limo stop that lasted ten seconds or more – a Trophy Film - and another version with
the car only at a stand still for two to four seconds and then the extant film
where the car drives in five miles per hour through Dealey Plaza? What if they
had several films with different scenarios? As long as there are “several
truths” this case will surely never ever go anywhere – which seems to be a
known pattern in every aspect of the case. Maybe “Zapruder” and Altgens sole
task were to record a particular angle of events that would remove any trace of
conspiracy?
The Stage is Ready
Everywhere
in the JFK case one can see where forced realities are crammed into the same
space. For instance: It was a long drive from Love Field to Dealey Plaza - is
it not peculiar that the majority of film footage and still photography’s were
taken at the very spot where the president would be killed? An assassination in
any other intersection along the motorcade route – would there even had been
ONE photo? Granted, some footage from the motorcade route has surfaced in the
51 years that has passed, but it is not even close to the vast amount of film
taken at the murder scene. That is really a strange circumstance. Another thing
is that the Dallas Police and the Dallas Sheriffs Department were not involved
in any security functions as the president passed through Dallas that day.
However, they had orders to keep people off the grass between Main and Elm
Street - precisely the spot where the assassination would take place. That
cannot be easily explained. Also, why weren’t people like Gordon Arnold allowed
to film the president from the Grassy Knoll? Are there any valid reasons? We know
the Press bus was canceled – something almost unique - and reporters and
photographers had to travel way behind the president where they would be
totally in the dark of the unfolding event. Still, alleged press photographer
James Altgens had curiously enough chosen the ultimate spot to photograph the
president as he was being killed. Of all places to pick from, why was Mr.
Altgens standing in front of the limousine as Kennedy was being hit with bullet
after bullet? Coincidence? Were there equally many other “press photographers”
stationed along the parade route through Dallas? We don’t believe so – at least
we haven’t seen any evidence of that. Somehow, one cannot help feeling that
they were all assembled in Dealey Plaza, sort of like a Coliseum where the
president’s limousine had to pass through, an arena that would turn into a
horrifying killing zone. What are the odds of that? Anyone who started filming
up on Houston Street, only to keep filming from the lawn, people like Maria
Muchmore and Orville Nix, were most likely not part of an assassination plot.
Zapruder, on the other hand, was stationary at a spot, on top of a pedestal, that
seemed off limits to other members of the public – not for a second do we
believe he was just another spectator with a camera. In the Zapruder film it is
also clear that someone had decided how far down on Elm Street people were
allowed to stand and observe the president; the line was just after the
Stemmons Freeway sign, it seems. Is it not strange that there were so many
amateur photographs taken from the murder scene, footage that immediately came
under the control of the authorities, but hardly any photos from professional
photographers (besides Altgens)? Consequently, the films, and photos that were
returned showed damage at just about the same time and place. Stains, creases
and damage all occurred with precision and certainly not in a random pattern. In
the end, the fake reality they tried to create wouldn’t manage to hide the
traces of a well-planned Coup d’état.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.