E. Howard Hunt's take on JFK assination-Comments welcome

Conspiracies...conspiracies...

As old as mankind itself.

Like many unknown events throughout history, the amount of disinformation et. al. would render any truth revealed to be unbelievable and dismissed.

All of the principle players in this have answered for their crimes to a higher authority than any court on this earth.

Do I believe there was a plan to eliminate Kennedy? Yes.
Do I believe that it was done by our own government? Yes.
Is JFK dead? Yes.

Anything else at this point is another mystery that will never be resolved to anyones satisfaction. History is full of such mysteries. JFK isn't the first and it won't be the last.
 
Maybe we could get Jack Bauer and the CTU to investigate and find the moles?

Randy
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All those those that really know are long ago dead.
 
I am no assassination conspiracy advocate and have no particular theories about who did what and when. But I have maintained an ongoing interest for two reasons. First, I was in Dallas when the assassination occurred, but on the opposite (east) end of downtown at the time. I had no idea that JFK was in town until after the fact. Second, during an earlier trip to Dallas I was once in Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club, and even saw him there. That gives me a little closer connection to the events than most.
 
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DWalt said:
I am no assassination conspiracy advocate and have no particular theories about who did what and when. But I have maintained an ongoing interest for two reasons. First, I was in Dallas when the assassination occurred, but on the opposite (east) end of downtown at the time. I had no idea that JFK was in town until after the act. Second, at an earlier date I was once in Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club, and even saw him there. That gives me a little closer connection to the events than most.
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Makes for good " bar talk " but I wouldn't call it a connection .. Now if Jack Ruby sat at your table and bought you a beer..
 
DWalt said:
I am no assassination conspiracy advocate and have no particular theories about who did what and when. But I have maintained an ongoing interest for two reasons. First, I was in Dallas when the assassination occurred, but on the opposite (east) end of downtown at the time. I had no idea that JFK was in town until after the act. Second, at an earlier date I was once in Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club, and even saw him there. That gives me a little closer connection to the events than most.
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Based on the crackpot speculations and the credentials of most of the plot & subterfuge people, that connection makes you not only closer to the events than most, it qualifies you as a true maestro of the real happenings.
 
Have followed this thread for several days. Without going into specific detail I want to share what my Uncle told me about 10 years ago. He was a retired supervisory agent with the FBI and retired after 30 years in 1971 (1941-1971). He was a Russian specialist in the counter espionage section. He had worked counter espionage from WWII through the Cold War. He worked closely on the JFK assasination investigation. Never spoke about it until a family reunion couple of years before his death and I asked him if there was a conspiracy or did Oswald act alone. He response was no conspiracy, Oswald acted alone and was a real kook.

My uncle was a very smart man and old school FBI. I trust what he said.
 
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I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I knew a talented artist and sculptor who once claimed to have been part of a US Army "hit squad" that killed JFK. Did I believe it? Umm . . . not for a second.

He was, though (unknown to me at the time) an organized crime hit man who spent time in prison, escaped from prison taking the warden's wife with him, lived in hiding for years, and was eventually recaptured before dying in prison. You can google him if you wish - Randolph Franklin Dial. I knew him as Randolph Franklin. I guess he thought using Franklin as his last name would throw off whoever was looking for him at the time.

One particularly horrific part of his story is that his "associates" killed his ex wife on Christmas Eve to send him a message and left her body beneath the Christmas tree for their little daughter to find on Christmas morning.
 
I am with Howard Donahue when it comes to who fired the fatal shot that killed JFK. But I still don't know what to believe when it comes to why he was assassinated in first place. There are too many variables out there and the people who knew for a fact are probably all dead by now.
 
djohns6 said:
Makes for good " bar talk " but I wouldn't call it a connection .. Now if Jack Ruby sat at your table and bought you a beer..
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I only saw him, he was circulating among the customers. No beer, no conversation. I did not know who he was until he later became world famous. Another slight connection I had forgotten about. I was staying at a hotel less than a block from the Dallas police station where Oswald was shot. But I had already left town when that happened. That is another story.
 
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God Bless Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit. May he rest in peace and remain in our memory.
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An excellent and very comprehensive book regarding J.D. Tippit and much more is "With Malice, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of J.D. Tippit" by Dale K. Myers. This book was published about twenty-five years ago and may be long out of print; I haven't checked.

The book is completely factual; nothing for the conspiracy fiends. It contains a good bit of information and photos you won't find elsewhere. Certainly worth reading if you can find a copy.
 
I assume that the Sixth Floor assassination museum in the Texas Schoolbook Depository building is still operating. I was there only once, about 20 years ago. Anyway, within the museum was a gift/souvenir shop that had what I imagine was every book about the assassination ever published up to that time for sale. There are probably even more for sale there today.

Regarding the Tippitt book, what does it say about the mismatched cartridge cases and bullets, if anything?
 
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I assume that the Fifth Floor assassination museum in the Texas Schoolbook Depository building is still operating. I was there only once, about 20 years ago. Anyway, within the museum was a gift/souvenir shop that had what I imagine was every book about the assassination ever published up to that time for sale. There are probably even more for sale there today.

Regarding the Tippitt book, what does it say about the mismatched cartridge cases and bullets, if anything?
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Probably a good question, but I don't remember. It's been a long time since I read the book.
 
The 6th Floor Museum is in fact still open and does well.

I enjoy hanging around Dealy Plaza and talking to the kooks that shuffle about trying to sell their side of the tale.

We will probably never know the truth. Even if they told us the truth, we probably would not believe it.

But, it was LBJ...via the CIA, utilizing the mafia.

Just my theory...

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Probably a good question, but I don't remember. It's been a long time since I read the book.
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There were some messy inconsistencies regarding the revolver ammunition that could never be resolved and were never completely investigated or explained. There is mention of it in the WCR, and some other problems not in the WCR concerning where the cases were recovered, somewhere they shouldn’t have been. I don’t remember the details, and was thinking that the book might clarify things. As I remember, the revolver could not be definitely established as being the one used to kill Tippit.

I also remember that some of the conspiracy theories even had Tippit as being involved in the assassination plan, something like his job was to kill Oswald before he could be captured so he couldn’t talk, but Oswald beat him to the draw. Screwy stuff.
 
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Some Australian TV show did the whole thing using a Carcano Short Rifle and the proper surplus ammo and it seemed hard to miss. Much of the "Carcanos are inaccurate" myth comes from US owners using US sized 6.5 ammo made with incorrect assumptions as to how the barrel is rifled. The Italians designed the Carcano differently, with much deeper rifling.
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Regarding the ammunition, Italian-made WWII military ammunition was widely available and dirt cheap at that time. It was very unreliable through my own personal experience. I even have several 18-round boxes of it (three clips of six rounds). The real issue was that Oswald allegedly used ammunition made in the USA by the Western Cartridge Co. in 1954 (under a somewhat mysterious US military contract, allegedly for shipment to Greece), which thereby creates another puzzle involving both the purpose of its manufacture and its availability. That ammunition made by Western was not sold on the US civilian market for sporting purposes. It definitely did not come from Klein’s along with the rifle, and exactly how and where Oswald (or whoever) obtained it remains unknown. I have not found any reports made of the discovery of the source of the Western-made 6.5mm ammunition, rather I found only one brief mention, which was not in the WCR, that indicated an FBI search was conducted to find where Oswald (or whoever) obtained the Western 6.5mm ammunition, and that it was “unsuccessful.” I was already aware of that from another completely independent source. It is surprising that so little has been made of this omission. All that is known is that three fired 6.5mm cartridge cases and one unfired cartridge (which was in the chamber of the rifle) were located in the “Sniper’s Nest” on the sixth floor. If Oswald (or whoever) possessed any additional ammunition beyond those four rounds, it has not been discovered anywhere. That in itself is highly suspicious.

Indeed there are some very puzzling unanswered ammunition-related questions remaining. Not the least of which being why an assassin would go out with only four rounds of ammunition. Logically it would be at least six rounds, one full clip.
 
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My opinion is the last kill shot came from the grassy knoll out of a Remington XP-100 bolt action pistol fired by James Files who was in his 20's at the time and worked for the Chicago mob. He came a week ahead of time and stayed at the Lamplighter Inn in Mesquite. I've seen his long in-depth interview and nobody could make up what he said and answer questions so quickly and expound on them as he did without first hand knowledge.
 
I am convinced that one of the most evil and deranged men to ever live in the White House had a hand in it, LBJ. Counting JFK, LBJ had at least 5 people killed to further his political career.

Nixon was nothing compared to Johnson, heck, Johnson never even really considered Nixon a threat. Johnson was just plain ole mean.
 
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