Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (123 page)

Wade: "Oswald's Prints Revealed On Rifle Killing Kennedy," Dallas
Times Herald, Nov. 25, 1963.

Drain: Hurt, p. 109.

445 Question over palm print: FBI memo, Rosen to Belmont, August 28,
1964 (FBI 105-82555-4814).

Day: XXVI.829.

446 Wecht: HSCA VII.200.

"no significant differences": Hurt, p. 80.

447 Hoover: HSCA 1.558.

Guinn: Hurt, p. 83.

Western Cartridge: XXVI.62.

448 Bag touching blanket: Curry, pp. 88-89.

450 Connally's clothing: Penn Jones, Jr., Forgive My Grief II (Midlothian:
The Midlothian Mirror, 1967), pp. 77-79.

451 Oswald to Fritz: WC Report, p.'608.

Committee: HSCA II.358-359.

452 Hester: "Dallas Man Claims FBI Had Oswald Film," Fort Worth StarTelegram, Sept. 20, 1978; author's interview with Patricia Hester, spring,
1986.

453 Pickard: Summers, p. 95.

Thompson: Ibid., p. 96.

White: author's interviews, 1978 and spring, 1988.

454 Blakey: HSCA II.319.

455 Breneman: author's interview, spring, 1978; "Surveyor: More Than 1
Man Shot Kennedy," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 14, 1978.

West: author's interview, spring, 1978.

459 Hoover: Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the Kennedy Assassination, p. 33.

Media leaks: "FBI Data Seen Spiking Reports of Conspiracy," Dallas
Morning News, Dec-A,_1963.

Katzanbach memo: HSCA 111.567.

461 Commission cut off inquiries: "President Names Board To Probe JFK's
Slaying," Dallas Morning News, Nov. 30, 1963.

Gallup poll: "52% Believe `Group' Tied to JFK Slaying," Dallas Morning News, Dec. 6, 1963.

462 Nixon badgered Eisenhower: Jack Harrison Pollack, Earl Warren-The
Judge Who Changed America, p. 6.

463 Kennedy letter: Ibid., p. 220.

464 Warren: Ibid., p. 228.

"Johnson treatment": Ibid., pp. 228-229.

Eisenberg: Fensterwald, p. 73.

469 WC transcripts: Tad Szulc, "The Warren Commission In Its Own
Words," The New Republic, Sept. 27, 1975.

470 "No more memorandums": Epstein, Inquest-The Warren Commission
and the Establishment of Truth, p. 119.

479 Bowers: Lane, Rush to Judgement documentary.

480 Powell: Warren Commission Document 1542 in files of researcher J.
Gary Shaw.

Holland: Thompson, Six Seconds (Berkley), p. 146; Holland's comment
to Lane is from Rush to Judgement documentary.

Fischer: "Witnesses Overlooked In JFK Probe," Dallas Morning News,
Dec. 19, 1978.

Belin changed testimony: Craig, p. 27.

481 Mercer: Shaw, p. 26; Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, p. 218.

Willis: "JFK Killing Witness Not Surprised Tests Indicate 2nd Gunman," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dec. 22, 1978.

Pipes: Ibid.

Breneman: author's interview, fall, 1978.

482 Yarborough: Shaw, p. 186; author's telephone interview, summer, 1986.

483 Hill: author's interviews, summer, 1986, and spring, 1988.

489 "reprehensible actions": Meagher (Vintage), p. xxiv.

Warren Report: Ibid., p. xxviii.

490 Questioning legitimate: Szulc, p. 9.

Senate Intelligence Committee: Report of Senate Select Committee to
Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities
Report, 1976, pp. 6-7.

491 Schweiker: "Warren Report Held Unbelievable," Fort Worth StarTelegram, June 24, 1976; NOTE: Senator Schweiker stated, "In short,
the non-disclosures and investigative failures-intentional and otherwise
(by the FBI and CIA)-documented in this (Senate Intelligence) report
establish that the Warren Commission was deprived of such vital pieces that there is no longer any reason to have faith in its picture of the
Kennedy assassination."

495 Martin: Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, pp. 29-32.

Impressed with FBI: Ibid., p. 10.

Ferrie: Ibid., p. 6.

496 Ferrie released: Eric Norden interview, Playboy, October, 1967, p. 74.
"43 years old": Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, p. 11.

Military engaged: Ibid., p. 12.-

497 Lofty credentials: Ibid., pp. 14-15.

"Banister apparatus": Ibid., p. 40.

498 Shaw background: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 8th edition,
Chicago, Marquis-Who's Who, 1963 p. 755.

Permindex: Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, pp. 87-90;
Konstandinos Kalimtgis, David Goldman and Jeffery Steinberg, Dope,
Inc.: Britain's Opium War Against the U.S., New York, The New
Benjamin Franklin House Publishing Co., 1978, pp. 301-320 and 321-329;
"Permindex: Britain's International Assassination Bureau," Executive
Intelligence Review, Nov. 14, 1981, pp. 5-23.

500 Shaw and CIA: Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, p. 90.

502 Operated secretly: Ibid., p. 130.

"I'm a dead man": Ibid., p. 138.

505 Free press reappraised: Ibid., p. 161.

"Unusual steps": Norden, p. 62.

506 Roselli meeting denied: Garrison letter to John Judge, Feb. 25, 1986;

Garrison reiterated this denial to author in fall, 1989.

CBS interview: Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, p. 172.

507 Propaganda blitzkrieg: Norden, p. 62.

Cardinal Cushing, Fensterwald, p. 461.

Hoffa: Ibid., p. 464.

Robert Kennedy: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His
Times, New York, Ballantine Books, 1979, p. 665.

508 Novel note: Fensterwald, p. 456; Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins,
p. 181.

Jurors agree on conspiracy: Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, p. 251.

510 "dramatic finale": "Garrison Seeks High Court Help," Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, Feb. 20, 1969.

Garrison charges perjury: Garrison, pp. 252-253.

511 Federal judical system: Ibid., p. 253.

Shaw's death: Ibid., p. 274.

512 Garrison acquitted: "Jury Acquits DA Garrison in Bribe Case," Fort
Worth Star-Telegram, Sept. 28, 1973. Upon his acquittal, Garrison commented, "(The jury) recognized a government attempt to accomplish
retribution against an individual who has frequently criticized the federal
government. "

Garrison case "a fraud": Blakey and Billings, p. 46.

Blakey and agencies: Ibid., p. 401.

513 "extravagant charges": Schiem, p. 57.

Garrison's "purpose": Ibid., p. 59.

CIA disinformation: Garrison letter to researcher John P. Judge, Feb. 25,
1986.

514 "ambitious man": Norden, p. 68.

Garrison's outline of assassination: Norden, p. 74, 156-159.

515 Garrison on "right track": Blakey, p. 170.

518 Gonzalez: "Proceedings and Debates of the 94th Congress, First Session,"
Congressional Record, Vol. 121, No. 24 (Washington: 1975).

Criticism: Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, "Assassinations and Lingering
Doubts," Witan, Vol. 2, No. 8 (St. Mary's of Texas School of Law:
1975), pp. 7-8.

519 Downing: Remarks to U.S. House of Representatives, March 18, 1976.

520 Fensterwald: "Assassination Inquiry Stumbling-Is Fensterwald a CIA
Plant?," Washington Star, Oct. 4, 1976.

521 Sprague and Specter: Groden and Livingston, p. 315.

Sprague and Gonzalez: Ibid., p. 317.

"strong investigation": Gaeton Fonzi, "Who Killed JFK?," The Washingtonian, November, 1980, 197.

Proposed budget: Ibid., p. 200.

Sprague: Ibid., p. 197.

522 Gonzalez: Ibid., p. 200.

Fonzi: Ibid.

523 "Gonzalez went beserk": Ibid.

Gonzalez: Ibid., p. 201.

524 Fonzi: Ibid., p. 203.

"no more news conferences": "JFK-King Panel Seeks Seclusion," Fort
Worth Star-Telegram, June 21, 1977.

525 Blakey's contacts: Jerry Policoff and William Scott Malone, "A Great
Show, A Lousy Investigation," New Times, Sept. 4,-1.978,.p. 6.-

Secrecy agreement: author is grateful to researcher Richard E. Sprague
for providing a copy of his secrecy agreement with the HSCA.

526 Blakey: "The Final Assassinations Report," p. xxxii.

527 Sprague: Policoff and Malone, p. 8.

Blakey: Jerry Policoff, "Investigations That Were Bound to Fail," Gallery,
Special Report, July, 1979, p. 62-6.

528 Policoff and Malone, p. 12.

529 Blakey: "The Final Assasinations Report," pp. xxxvi-xxxvii.

AIB comment: "The JFK Hearings: A Preliminary Critique," Clandestine America, Newsletter of the Assassination Information Bureau, Vol.
2, No. 4, p. 1.

530 O'Reilly: Notes from interview with Dallas Morning News Reporter Earl
Golz, January, 1982.

Fonzi: Ibid.

Fenton: Ibid.

531 Mack: "7 Shots Believed Fired at Kennedy," Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Sept. 1, 1977.

533 McLain: "Officer Says JFK Tape Not His," Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Jan. 5, 1979.

534 Ramsey: "Study To Belittle Assassination Data," Dallas Morning News,
July 9, 1981.

HSCA reactions: "House Panel Claims Plots Likely in JFK, King
Slayings," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dec. 31, 1978.

535 Groden: "JFK Panel Photo Expert Alleges Cover-Up," Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, May 16, 1979.

Medical testimony: Harrison E. Livingstone, "Parkland Doctors' Testimony Shows Autopsy Photos Forged," The Baltimore Chronicle, July
30, 1979. (Reprinted in Penn Jones' The Continuing Inquiry, Oct. 22,
1980, pp. 5-6); "Dispute on JFK Assassination Evidence Persists,"
Boston Sunday Globe, June 21, 1981.

536 Groden: Star-Telegram, May 16, 1979, op. cit.

Kantor: author's interview, October, 1978.

Groden: author's interview, summer, 1986.

Blakey: "The Final Assassinations Report," p. XXXVIII.

537 Justice Dept. memo: "Papers Reveal Justice Ended Kennedy, King Death
Probes," Dallas Times Herald, Sept. 4, 1988.

539 Passport Office message: HSCA 111. 573.

July 11, 1961, message: XVIII.374.

540 Deslatte: Summers, pp. 407-408.

541 Intelligence Committee: Fensterwald, pp. 404-405.

Dannelly: Fensterwald, pp. 393-394.

Hutchinson: WC Report, PP. 308-309.

542 Bogard: X.353.

WC conclusion: WC Report, p. 321.

Wilson: "Salesman Insists FBI Discounted Facts on Oswald," Dallas
Morning News, May 8, 1977.

543 Hamblen: WC Report, pp. 309-310; Summers, p. 402; XI.312.

Fenley: XI.318.

544 Morgan's Gunshop: XXIV.704.

British reporter: Summers, pp. 403-404.

Ryder: WC Report, pp. 315-316; XXIV.328-329.

545 Sports Drome Rifle Range: WC Report, pp. 318-319.

WC conclusion: Ibid.,- p. 319.

Penn: Summers, pp. 405-406.

546 "no substantial basis": WC Report, p. 318.

547 Oswald's letter: XVI.33; (handwritten draft) XVI.443.

548 Norton: "Oswald Grave Now Battle Site," Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Oct. 19, 1979.

Slawson: "Author Not the First to Ask Exhumation," Fort Worth StarTelegram, Jan. 11, 1979.

Groody: author's interview, November, 1988.

Marguerite Oswald: "Oswald's Mother Asks Exhumation," Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, Nov. 17, 1967.

549 Robert Oswald: 1.330.

Pic: XI.56.

551 Groody: author's interview, 1988.

552 "saw cut": Linda E. Norton, James A. Cottone, Irvin M. Sopher, and
Vincent J. M. DiMaio, "The Exhumation and Identification of Lee
Harvey Oswald," Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 29, No. 1, January,
1984, p. 25.

555 Whitaker: HSCA IV.464-465.

556 Hess: HSCA IV.467.

CIA memo: CIA Memo to "Chiefs, Certain Stations and Bases" entitled,
"Countering Criticism of the Warren Report, April 1, 1967," Document
No. 1035-960.

557 Disguised murders: Philip H. Melanson, "High Tech Mysterious Deaths,"
Critique, Vol. IV, No. 3, 4, Fall/Winter 1984-85, p. 214.

Beryllium: Ibid., p.215.

564 Sullivan: Jeff Goldberg and Harvey Yazijian, "The Death of `Crazy
Billy' Sullivan," New Times, July 24, 1978, pp. 4-8.

FBI deaths: "Ex-Agent 6th to Die in Six-month Span," Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, Nov. 10, 1977.

576 Kearns: Jerry Policoff, "The Media and the Murder of John Kennedy,"
New Times, August 8, 1975, p. 31.

"unaided assassin": "Ruby Murder Trial Postponed," Dallas Times
Herald, Dec. 3, 1963.

577 "slanted propaganda": Policoff, p. 30.

"biased offerings": Meagher, p. 459.

Donovan: Policoff, pp. 35-36.

578 "mob of reporters": Robert Oswald, Lee, p. 23.

579 Press choices: Policoff, p. 36.

582 "No one has to direct an assassination": L. Fletcher Prouty, "An
Introduction to the Assassination Business," Gallery, September, 1975,
pp.-86-87.

589 RFK quote: Davis, The Kennedys, p. 603.

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