Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

As Stephen Requa requested, I put up the link to John Hankey's excellent film "The Assassination of John F. Kennedy Jr." in the previous post, and I'll post it again here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vehk03v23y4


And here's why it is so upsetting: 

Coast Guard Petty Officer Todd Bergun informed local television that Kennedy's plane contacted the tower at 9:39 PM when he had descended to 2500 feet on his approach to Martha's Vineyard.

And that is exactly what JFK Jr. was required to do. When you are descending your plane, when you get to 2500 feet, you have to stop descending and contact the tower and wait for permission to land. That is exactly what JFK Jr. did.

    
You see where it says Petty Officer Todd Burgun, right? Here is what he said: 

"All I really know is that his last communication was at 9:39 PM with the Air Traffic Control Tower when he was on his final approach to Martha's Vineyard."

And after JFK Jr. made contact at 9:39, if he didn't land within 5 minutes, it should have automatically set off alarms and started an investigation.  

But, Burgun's report disappeared after that, and the story became that JFK Jr. never contacted the tower. Multiple spokesmen, of high military rank, stated that there was no contact with the Tower. Burgun's report got buried. It was like he never said it. 

After that, the Pentagon took over communication. They brought out Colonel Steven Roark who said that Kennedy's plane never made contact with the tower. His exact words were: "They never made contact with the tower at Martha's Vineyard." In fact, Colonel Roark said that JFK Jr. failed to contact any of the radar centers along the route. He also claimed that John failed to file a flight plan, which is something that John always did. Always. Every single previous trip. 

Colonel Roark was the head of the National Search and Rescue Center and the former director of the Air Force's Rescue Coordination Center. So, he was very high up. And other high-ranking officials said the same thing: that Kennedy's plane never made contact with the tower.

And what happened to Todd Burgun? He disappeared. I don't say they killed him, and I don't know that he lost his job either. But, he disappeared from public view. We never heard a word from him again. It was as though he never spoke. 

And it wasn't just Todd Burgun. There must have been individuals at the Martha's Vineyard Tower- air traffic controllers- who received the actual contact that JFK Jr. made with the tower on his final approach to land. How haunted must those people be today knowing, as they do, the ugly truth?

But, what enabled someone like Colonel Roark to lie the way he did? Where does it come from? Undoubtedly, he was told to do it, to say what he did, but why did he actually do it? Why didn't he say no? Why didn't he go ballistic? Why didn't he blow the case wide open?  Why did he submit to such evil? Why didn't he resist?