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  THEY KILLED OUR

  PRESIDENT

  THEY KILLED OUR

  PRESIDENT

  63 Reasons to Believe

  There Was a Conspiracy

  to Assassinate JFK

  Jesse Ventura

  WITH DICK RUSSELL AND DAVID WAYNE

  Skyhorse Publishing

  Copyright © 2013 by Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell and David Wayne

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Ventura, Jesse.

  They killed our president : 63 reasons to believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate JFK/Jesse

  Ventura with Dick Russell and David Wayne.

  pages cm

  ISBN 978-1-62636-139-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963—Assassination. 2. Conspiracies—United States—History—20th century. I. Russell, Dick. II. Wayne, David, 1963-III. Title.

  E842.9.V44 2013

  973.922092—dc23

  2013024922

  Printed in the United States of America

  Back when I was a little kid, there used to be an old TV show that we’d watch every Saturday morning called Superman. That show always started out by announcing that he “fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way.”

  These days I think you’d almost have to actually be Superman to break through the gridlock of lies and cover-ups surrounding the JFK assassination.

  But I’m “old school” and I still believe. So this book is dedicated to (you guessed it):

  Truth, Justice, and the American way.

  Also:

  Gerald Posner

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Bill O’Reilly

  (they need to read this)

  Table of Contents

  Katzenbach Memo

  Introduction

  SECTION ONE

  THE EVIDENCE

  1. Frontal Gunshots

  2. Zapruder Film

  3. U.S. Secret Service Agents

  4. Grassy Knoll

  5. Previous Plots against President Kennedy

  6. Last-Minute Change of Motorcycle Formation

  7. Secret Service Agents Ordered Off Limousine

  8. Motorcade Route Changed

  9. Too Many Bullets

  10. Acoustic Evidence at Dealey Plaza

  11. Three Rifle Shots in Six Seconds

  12. Shots That Were Too Close Together With a Rifle that Was Not Even “Sighted In”

  13. Oswald Couldn’t Have Carried in the Murder Weapon

  14. No Eyewitnesses

  15. Logistically Impossible That Oswald Fired Shot

  16. Mauser Rifle Was Found

  17. No Fingerprints

  18. Oswald Was a U.S. Intelligence Operative

  19. Oswald Had a Look-Alike Intelligence Double

  20. Oswald Had No Motive for Murder

  21. Paper Trail on the Rifle Was Intentional

  22. The “Backyard Photo” Of Oswald Was Deemed a Forgery

  23. Oswald Denied Shooting the President and Modern Voice Technologies Determined He Was Telling the Truth

  24. “Umbrella Man” and “Radio Man” in Dealey Plaza Appeared To Be Acting Operationally

  25. The “Three Tramps” Photographed in Dealey Plaza After the Assassination Were Not Actually Tramps

  26. Oswald Could Not Have Murdered Officer Tippit

  27. The Murder of Oswald Was Obvious Witness-Silencing

  28. Jack Ruby Knew Lee Harvey Oswald

  SECTION TWO

  THE COVER-UP

  29. The Smoking Gun of the Cover-Up

  30. The Presidential Limousine Was Crucial Crime Scene Evidence

  31. The Illegal Removal of the President’s Body

  32. Hoover and the FBI Assisted the Cover-Up

  33. The X-rays Showed That the Bullet Particles Were From Exploding Ammunition

  34. The Official Autopsy Photos and X-Rays Were Altered

  35. Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Navy Lieutenant Commander William Bruce Pitzer

  36. The Zapruder Film Was Apparently Altered

  37. The “Magic Bullet” Theory Has Been Proven False

  38. The U.S. Government Subverted the Investigation of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison

  39. Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: David Ferrie

  40. Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Dorothy Kilgallen

  41. Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Lee Bowers

  42. Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Mary Pinchot Meyer

  43. Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Sam Giancana

  44. Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Johnny Roselli

  45. Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: George de Mohrenschildt

  46. The Warren Commission Structured The Evidence To Fit Its Pre-Formed Conclusions

  47. The CIA Also Participated in the Cover-Up

  48. Mainstream Media Reinforced the False Conclusions of the Warren Commission

  SECTION THREE

  THE WITNESSES

  49. A Special Team From Military Intelligence Was Sent to Dallas

  50. Conclusions of U.S. Intelligence Agents

  51. Testimony and Wiretapped Conversations of Mobsters

  52. Other Witnesses

  53. Fabian Escalante and Conclusions of Cuban Intelligence Study

  SECTION FOUR

  THE WHY, WHO, AND HOW

  54. The “Military-Industrial Complex,” JFK’s Foreign Policy & the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  55. The Kennedy Administration’s War on Organized Crime & Big Oil

  56. Complicity of the CIA

  57. Complicity of Military-Industrial Complex

  58. Complicity of the Mafia

  59. Complicity of Anti-Castro Cubans

  60. Complicity of Lyndon Johnson

  61. Complicity of H.L. Hunt and “Texas Oil”

  62. A CIA Plot Against Castro was Apparently “Hijacked” and Used Against JFK, which Explains the Perceived Need for a National Security Cover-Up

  63. The True Facts Concerning the Conspiracy and Cover-Up Have Still Not Been Revealed to the American Public

  Conclusion

  The Katzenbach Memo

  We’re going to begin with the “Smoking Gun” related to the tragedy of November 22, 1963.

  What you’re about to read is a verbatim copy of a Justice Department memo from the then-acting Attorney General of the United States, Nicholas Katzenbach, to new President Lyndon Johnson’s aide, Bill Moyers. It was written shortly after Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby and is the clearest documentation that exists, to this day, of our government’s intent to cover up the truth—for whatever reason—behind the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

  November 25,
1963 MEMORANDUM FOR MR. MOYERS

  It is important that all of the facts surrounding President Kennedy’s Assassination be made public in a way which will satisfy people in the United States and abroad that all the facts have been told and that a statement to this effect be made now.

  1. The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial.

  2. Speculation about Oswald’s motivation ought to be cut off, and we should have some basis for rebutting thought that this was a Communist conspiracy or (as the Iron Curtain press is saying) a right-wing conspiracy to blame it on the Communists. Unfortunately the facts on Oswald seem about too pat—too obvious (Marxist, Cuba, Russian wife, etc.). The Dallas police have put out statements on the Communist conspiracy theory, and it was they who were in charge when he was shot and thus silenced.

  3. The matter has been handled thus far with neither dignity nor conviction. Facts have been mixed with rumor and speculation. We can scarcely let the world see us totally in the image of the Dallas police when our President is murdered.

  I think this objective may be satisfied by making public as soon as possible a complete and thorough FBI report on Oswald and the assassination. This may run into the difficulty of pointing to inconsistencies between this report and statements by Dallas police officials. But the reputation of the Bureau is such that it may do the whole job. The only other step would be the appointment of a Presidential Commission of unimpeachable personnel to review and examine the evidence and announce its conclusions. This has both advantages and disadvantages. I think it can await publication of the FBI report and public reaction to it here and abroad.

  I think, however, that a statement that all the facts will be made public property in an orderly and responsible way should be made now. We need something to head off public speculation or Congressional hearings of the wrong sort.

  Nicholas deB. Katzenbach

  Deputy Attorney General

  (R) – ITEM IS RESTRICTED

  To see the entire document, please visit the following website:

  maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?absPageId=756877

  Introduction

  AUTHOR’S NOTE: There are many video clips I will be referring to, which will convey some fascinating information. To make it easier for you to WATCH ALONG AS YOU READ, I’ve put all the links online at “Jesse Ventura—The Official Facebook Page”: facebook.com/OfficialJesseVentura.

  This case has so much blatant evidence that totally blows the doors off the official version of the tragedy that took place fifty years ago in Dallas that it’s ridiculous. I’ve listed 63 solid reasons in this book which— from a standpoint of criminal law—is 62 more than I really need to prove reasonable doubt. One solid point is all it takes to convince a jury; and you’re about to see dozens of them. This proves a conspiracy to assassinate the 35th President of the United States—period.

  That’s really how I looked at this case—like an attorney taking it to court. And I can tell you straight up that there is no way they would convict my client in this case; with the knowledge and the witness testimony that now exists, Lee Harvey Oswald would have been found innocent of doing this crime.

  In fact, since Bill O’Reilly apparently thinks he knows so much about the JFK assassination, I’d like to publicly challenge him to answer my 63 points. Or—if Mr. O’Reilly is “too busy” to come up with so many responses—how about a public debate? Let’s do it. Let’s set it up! I’ll be there, Bill.

  This book even comes with a guarantee. I don’t just say it was a conspiracy— I show the evidence, and far beyond any reasonable standards of proof. I guarantee you that there is more than sufficient evidence and that, after examining it, any reasonable person will be convinced of that fact.

  I’ve also decided to break with convention and begin this book with some conclusions because I know that’s what people want and—especially in this case—truly deserve. So bear in mind that proof for these conclusions resides in the pages that follow.

  John F. Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy involving disgruntled CIA agents, anti-Castro Cubans, and members of the Mafia, all of whom were extremely angry at what they viewed as Kennedy’s appeasement policies toward Communist Cuba and the Soviet Union. President Kennedy sought peace and was viewed by these groups as a cowardly traitor by not giving in to their overwhelming call for war. Those groups—it should be clearly noted— are precisely the same groups that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy concluded were responsible for his brother’s death, after conducting his own private investigation.1

  Please note, by the way, that these are not just my opinions or conclusions:

  • The U.S. House of Representatives investigated the assassination and concluded that JFK “was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy.”2

  • Robert Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy sent word to Moscow via special envoy right after the assassination that JFK was killed by “a large political conspiracy” and that he was “the victim of a right-wing conspiracy . . . by domestic opponents.”3

  • The head of the U.S. Secret Service confirmed that on the evening of the assassination he briefed Robert Kennedy that his brother had been killed by three to four shooters and that the Secret Service believed that JFK was the “victim of a powerful organization.”4

  • Senior members of the United States Senate who investigated the case concluded that the CIA and FBI played troubling roles in the JFK assassination cover-up, that “the fingerprints of intelligence” were all over Lee Harvey Oswald, and that the “accused assassin was the product of a fake defector program run by the CIA.”5

  • Senator Richard Schweiker concluded that “the CIA was involved in the murder of the president.”6

  And if you haven’t heard about the above facts from your mainstream media source of news, I would submit that right now you should be asking yourself, why not?

  The political imperatives at the time of the assassination were obvious to all concerned. “The point was to stabilize the country after the assassination—let’s get on with the ship of state. . . . It would become clear that if one wanted to remain a member in good standing in Washington political and social circles, it was wise not to say anything intemperate about the assassination.”7 So, quite predictably, officials supported the official government version.

  To make matters worse, mainstream media immediately backed up the official government version, even if it took a reporter like Dan Rather lying about the backward movement of President Kennedy’s body after the shots. He told a national TV audience that the fatal shot drove his head “violently forward” even though the film footage that Mr. Rather was referring to had shown exactly the opposite to be the case.8 Mainstream media continues their endorsement of the original official version by their overwhelmingly ardent support of books that support that version—like Reclaiming History and Case Closed—and their tendency to dismissively label as “conspiracy theories” any scholarly-researched efforts that point out the numerous inconsistencies in the government’s case.

  Members of the U.S. military were also involved in the conspiracy, specifically in feeding false information on Lee Harvey Oswald, the “patsy” who was set up to take the blame for the President’s assassination.9 Their purpose was to instigate an invasion of Cuba, their arch enemy since it had gone communist under Castro, and to militarily engage communism openly in Vietnam and around the world—even including our nuclear-armed superpower enemy of that era, the Soviet Union—in stark contrast to President Kennedy’s clearly enunciated policy shift toward détente with our enemies.10

  Kennedy’s shifting policies toward peaceful solutions completely alienated the Military-Industrial Complex from Kennedy. JFK was at war with his own national security structure, and no one knew that fact more clearly than he and his trusted inner circle who have documented those facts in the h
istorical record.11

  If you want to get a real feel for what Jack Kennedy was up against, watch three movies that vividly portray it:

  The Manchurian Candidate, a book that President Kennedy helped get made into a film because it documented the dangers about brainwashing, right-wing extremists, and the real possibility that they could be combined to assassinate a president; Dr. Strangelove, in which the character of the crazy nuclear-warhungry general was actually based on General Curtis LeMay, the Chief of Staff for the U.S. Air Force who was in charge of the nation’s huge fleet of bombers armed with nuclear weapons at the time and was savagely anti-Kennedy in meetings of the National Security Council; and Seven Days In May, a film about a military takeover of the government that was made because President Kennedy convinced Hollywood producers that if it was made it might actually prevent a coup from taking place. And to give you an idea of how important it was to him to get that last film made, JFK told his Hollywood friends that he and his family would even abandon the White House whenever they needed to film there.12

  The opinion of General Tommy Power—the man who assisted and then followed General LeMay as chief of our Strategic Air Command—provides us with a glowing example of the men who were “advising” President Kennedy:

  Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. Look. At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win!13

  So the Military-Industrial Complex was clearly at war with President Kennedy over the direction of U.S. foreign policy.14 In his farewell address to the nation just prior to President Kennedy taking office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation of the rising and threatening power of the vast U.S. war machine which he called the “Military-Industrial Complex.” Eisenhower stated that it was a serious threat to our Democracy and sorely needed addressing. His warning was straight and bold—and bear in mind that he was speaking not only as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, but as a highly successful five-star General in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe. He was no stranger to war or why wars should be fought.