I now firmly believe that JFK’s assassination was in fact, a successful coup d’état.

Dallas, TX— Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, but I have finally accepted the notion that our own intelligence community killed JFK.

The single most important reason I was convinced Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone involved the rifle he allegedly used.  The bolt action, Italian 6.5×52mm Carcano Model 91/38 Rifle was a total piece of crap. 

It was clear to me that any reasonably financed group would never rely on that rifle for such an important task.  

Oswald was seemingly living in a state of poverty and bought the cheapest rifle he could find in the Klein’s Sporting Goods, mail order advertisement.  

Had he the money, Oswald could have spent a little more for a far superior rifle that he was familiar with as a Marine, the venerable M-1 Garand semi-automatic battle rifle. 

Oswald seemed to be an easily manipulated fellow who effortlessly traveled to and from the Soviet Union.  Was he really a Castro sympathizer?   This now seems like a manufactured profile cover.  

Oswald may have been working as an employee or more likely a disposable contract agent. 

I now believe that a single, "money shot" killing Kennedy came from a quality rifle fired by a superior marksman from the grassy knoll, wooden fence area.  He was someone acting at the direction of the Deep State. 

The American intelligence community had and still has a core concept that they, not the American voters are supremely qualified to pick our leaders.

The FBI, NSA and CIA went rogue long ago and are still lawless today.  We’ve learned that from COINTELPRO, Ruby Ridge, the Branch Davidian slaughter, along with the more recent revelations of Edward Snowden and Bradley “Chelsea” Manning.  

The same agencies today, have placed President Donald Trump in their coup d’état crosshairs! 

Our intelligence agencies are solidly above the law since their leaders and operatives have never once been brought to justice for any of their significant crimes! 

Never forget that the JFK assassination files have still never fully been released.  Time locks have been placed on the records to insure nothing damning would be released until long after the government’s culprits were dead and of course out of reach for criminal prosecution. 

Governments cannot be trusted, that’s why our wise founders gave us a Second Amendment! 

Why I’m convinced Oswald Acted Alone When He Assassinated JFK.

Oswald's crappy 6.5 Italian Carcano rifle

Dallas, TX—Lee Harvey Oswald was a former Marine.   He was trained on the eight round semi-automatic M-1 Garand rifle.  In 1963 he military was dumping those fine rifles on the surplus market when they switched to the 20 round M-14 rifle.

Klien’s Sporting Goods in Chicago was selling both the far superior M-1 Garand and the crappy 6.5 Carcano rifle that Oswald bought and used on Kennedy.  Of course Kline’s sold many other rifles by mail order back then.  Oswald selected the really cheap Carcano rifle.  He also bought a cheap 4X scope. 

Had there been any kind of conspiracy Oswald would have purchased a far superior rifle like the M-1 Garand he was trained to use.  Certainly had others been involved a better rifle would have been chosen.

The distance between Kennedy and the sixth floor window was just 81 meters.  Kennedy’s limo was traveling in a straight line away from Oswald’s position at less than 12 miles per hour.

This was what most experienced shooters would call a “cheap shot”.  No particular skill was needed to hit Kennedy even using the bolt-action rifle.  However the use of a semi-automatic rifle would maximize the success of that mad act. 

Conspiracy theories would exist no matter who killed Kennedy.  Conspiracies sell books and films. We know that the Kennedy assassination theories sold massive amounts of books, movie tickets and supermarket heckout line tabloids. .

The truth is that Oswald’s rifle with shipping cost him less than $22.00.  The really great M-1 Garand cost less that $100.00 at the time.

Every time I hear the words, Kennedy and Conspiracy, I cringe.  It’s all baseless, even though there were plenty of people that really wanted Kennedy out of the Whitehouse.

We all know Oswald, an avowed Communist that wanted to become important to Fidel Castro.  Kennedy tried to overthrow and kill the Cuban dictator.  Oswald had dreams of being a hero in the new Communist Utopia in Cuba.

One man murdered both Kennedy and Dallas cop J.D. Tippett.  That man was Lee Harvey Oswald.

As for Jack Ruby he was just another narcissist jackass who thought he’d be hailed as a hero for killing the most hated man in America.

I hope I’ve helped those people that still ask themselves nagging questions about that 22^nd day in November 1963.

As for me, I was in the ROTC Class at Chicago’s Senn High School when we got word the Kennedy was shot.  That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! 

Kennedy Assassination, Where were you? My Reflections of a Dark Day…

Dallas, TX—It was 50 years ago today when a somewhat trusting U.S. president rode his last motorcade in an open top limousine.  We all think we know what happened.  However it seems the only thing we agree on is that a young president and war hero John F.  Kennedy was shot to death. 

Had that happened today with our present technology there would have been thousands of revealing and stunning camera images and videos.  Abraham Zupruder had his new Bell & Howell 8 MM film camera with color film and captured the somewhat grainy movie film.  Had he a modern consumer HD digital video camera the images would have been more revealing and much more difficult to watch.  That also would have answered many more questions for investigators. 

Those of us that were alive remember exactly where we were that day and how we learned about that “crime of the century.”

For me that day was ordinary.  I removed my cased Springfield .22 rifle from under my bed, put a box of 50 .22 long rifle rounds in my pocket and grabbed my books.  I traveled to Senn High School on two Chicago Transit Authority busses. 

I was proud to be on the rifle team of Junior ROTC and people around as usual were totally unconcerned that I obviously was carrying a rifle.  I walked from the bus stop to and through the front door of the school. 

The assistant principal greeted me as I entered.  I then went directly to the ROTC room where I handed the rifle to either Sergeant Ketzner or Mautner who placed it in the vault.  That vault contained about 50 M-1 Grand rifles, A BAR automatic rifle, a M-1 .30 caliber carbine and a dozen or so Springfield .22 rifles exactly like my own. 

We had a small-bore rifle range constructed within the ROTC classroom area.  This day was a regular rifle team meet day. 

I entered the ROTC after lunch and was told to sit down by a somber Sgt. Mautner.  He told us that President Kennedy was shot in Dallas but he did not know his condition.  Everyone in the room was shocked.  A radio or TV was connected to the intercom and we listened intently to the live news reports from Dallas.  Finally the report was broadcast that our president was dead.

There was no more class instruction.  There was a lot of conversation about this catastrophic event at the height of the Cold War and at the beginning of our involvement in the Viet Nam War.  We all speculated that Castro must have been involved because of the recent Cuban Missal Crisis.  After an hour or to we were all dismissed from classes.  There would be no rifle team shooting.  I retrieved my rifle from Sgt. Ketzner and took the CTA buses home.

I watched as the female students and teachers crying everywhere.  The same was true for female bus passengers.  Public emotion of sadness and anger was rampant everywhere.

Writers began shamelessly killing entire forests of trees as they filled millions of pages of conspiracy theories.  Some of the books seemed reasonable and others were extreme nonsense.  

I still believe in a single shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald.  Oswald was a committed Communist looking for recognition from Fidel Castro and I believe he wanted to become a hero in Cuba.  At least one earlier TV news interview showed Oswald passing out literature for a group know as, The Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

As an investigator I’ve kept my mind open to the idea of a conspiracy.  There are lots interesting motives and no shortage of suspects including the Vice President of the United States!

Secret Service agents violently snatched Kennedy’s body from Dallas authorities breaking Texas laws that required an autopsy by the Coroner’s office.  The post mortem examination was not conducted by experienced forensic pathologists but by politically connected Washing DC physicians.  Their failure to properly document the examination is still an embarrassment today.

Oswald had a young wife and two daughters.  He had very limited assets and was living at the poverty level.  He purchased a really second rate Italian military 6.5 MM surplus rifle under an assumed name from Klein’s Sporting Goods in Chicago.  The rifle had an inexpensive telescopic sight attached.   I believed had their been a conspiracy he’s have had a much better rifle like the M-1 Garand.  That superior rifle was offered in the same advertisement.  Instead of $20.00 the M-1 cost over $90.00. 

I personally have stood at that infamous sixth floor window at the Texas Book Depository window.   The sniper’s vantage point was excellent and facilitated an easy field of fire for anyone with minimal skill. Remember the target was moving away rather than from left to right eliminating the normal challenge of hitting a moving target.

This was a sad chapter of American history.   Kennedy did not deserve his fate.  History proves tyrants are always much better protected. 

It Looks Like I Made the Supermarket Tabloids Yet again!

Dallas, TX—On November 22, 1963 I was not on that grassy knoll with a firearm!  That’s my story and I’m stickin' to it!  Now that I got that out of the way you need to know that the Globe regarding issues with the late Lee Harvey Oswald interrogated me.  I gave them some answers. 

   Globe Magazine article Kennedy 1.pdf

   Globe Magazine Kennedy 2.pdf