- Researcher and author Jim Marrs and Douglas Horne, former
staff member of the Assassination Records and Review Board (ARRB) were
guests on the Jeff Rense radio program December 29th for two hours of discussion
on Horne's new book Inside the Assassination Records and Review Board:
The U.S.Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical
Evidence in the Death of JFK.
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- The ARRB was created by an act of Congress in 1992 to
gather and release all U.S. Government documents and records related to
the assassination of President John F Kennedy. The Act was passed as a
result of the controversy created by the 1991 release of the Oliver Stone
movie JFK which alleged that Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy which involved
high level U.S. Government officials.
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- Horne was a staff researcher for the ARRB from August
of 1995 to September of 1998. While the ARRB was mandated by Congress to
gather and release all Governenment documents related to the assassination
it did not draw any conclusions with regard to the JFK murder. Horne has
however reached the conclusion, based upon his three years on the Board,
that Kennedy was murdered as the result of a conspiracy. Horne is the first
U.S. government official with first hand knowledge of the medical evidence
to conclude that the Kennedy autopsy and X-rays documents were altered
to make it appear that Kennedy was shot by a lone gunman from behind. Horne
presents the case that the JFK murder was an "inside job" and
the cover-up was carried out by high level U.S. government insiders.
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- A short history of the JFK assassination investigations
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- The Warren Commission, set up by President Johnson, concluded
in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin of President Kennedy.
Despite Kennedy's vow to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces
and scatter it into the winds." Johnson named former CIA director
Allen Dulles to the Commission. In 1961 Kennedy fired Dulles as CIA director
after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. In Chairman Earl Warren's
absence Dulles often chaired the Commission and guided it's investigation
to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed the President.
- New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began an investigation
into the Kennedy death in the fall of 1966. In March of 1967 Garrison arrested
Clay Shaw and charged that Shaw, a group of right wing elements including
David Ferree and Guy Banister and rouge elements of the CIA were involved
in a plot to assassinate President Kennedy. On March 1st 1969 Shaw was
acquitted of all charges brought by Garrison. Garrison did however subpoena
a copy of the Zappruder film and showed the Shaw jury the famous footage
showing in gory detail the President's brains getting blown out. The jury
in the Shaw case said that they believed a conspiracy had killed President
Kennedy but that Garrison had not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that
Clay Shaw was a part of the conspiracy.
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- In 1975 Senator Frank Church was named Chairman of the
Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence
Operations. The Church Committee investigated reports of abuse of power
by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
The Church committee issued a final report in April of 1976 and conluded
that U.S.Government intelligence operations threatened and undermined the
Constitutional rights of American citizens. The Church Committee also concluded
that the CIA withheld from the Warren Commission information on plots by
the Agency to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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- George Herbert Walker Bush was appointed Director of
the CIA by former Warren Commission member and 38th President of the United
States Gerald Ford. Bush served as CIA director from January of 1976 until
January of 1977. Interest in the JFK assassination increased as a result
of the Church Committee hearings and findings. Bush was brought into the
CIA ostensibly to restore the Agency's moral after the revelations that
the CIA had been involved in illegal and unauthorized activities in the
1960's.
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- In 1976 Congressman Thomas Downing began a campaign for
a new investigation into the Kennedy assassination. Some polls at the time,
partially as a result of the Church Committee findings , showed that over
80 percent of the American people believed that Kennedy was killed as a
result of a conspiracy. After considerable infighting and opposition from
certain members in Congress the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations(HSCA)
was established in 1976 to investigate the assassinations of President
Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. After much stonewalling
by the CIA the HSCA issued it's final report in 1979 concluding that Kennedy
was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald with the help of other unknown and
unnamed conspirators. The HSCA referred the matter to the U.S. Justice
Department which did not pursue the case.
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- Douglas Horne's new revelations on JFK's death
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- Based upon his three years of investigation with the
ARRB Horne started putting his finding into book form in 1998. Horne has
completed a five volume series of books, the first of which was just published
in December of 2009. Based upon his research here are a few of Horne's
findings:
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- 1. Bobby Kennedy was responsible for stealing certain
autopsy material including x-rays, tissue samples and JFK's brain. The
government in 1965 gave the autopsy material to the Kennedy family and
the material then came into Bobby Kennedy's possession. In 1966 the Kennedy
family returned the material to the National Archives minus certain autopsy
material and JFK's brain. In 1968 the Justice Department asked RFK for
the missing autopsy material. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June of
1968 and the missing material has never been accounted for. Horne said
his findings lead him to conclude that Bobby, with the help of then Secretary
of Defense Robert McNaMara, dumped the 1963 bronze JFK shipping casket
into the Atlantic ocean. Horne speculates that the missing autopsy material
and perhaps Kennedy's brain are also at the bottom of the Atlantic with
the bronze casket.
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- 2. The Abraham Zapruder film was altered by the CIA the
weekend after the assassination. The Zapruder film, a 26 second long moving
picture of the asassination, long a bedrock for JFK researchers, fell into
the hands of CIA employees and was taken to a secret laboratory in New
York shortly after the assassination. Horne said that a group of Hollywood
film producers has examined the individual frames of the Zapruder and have
found many alterations to the film. Horne said that the wound to the back
of Kennedy's head had been blacked out and the infamous headshot had been
fabricated to look as if the right front portion of Kennedy's forehead
was blown out. Horne said that next year the film researchers plan to release
a high definition copy of the Zapruder film with the CIA alterations taken
out.
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- 3. The U.S. National Security establishment was responsible
for the murder of President Kennedy. Volume 5 of Horne's investigation
deals with the question of who was behind the assassination of our 35th
President.
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- Horne points out that Robert McNamara quoted Kennedy
as saying that he wanted to pull all U.S. troups out of VietNam. Horne
says that 98 per cent of the National Security establishment in 1963 was
opposed to President Kennedy's foreign policy objectives. Horne said that
the assassination was a coup and that the same forces that killed President
Kennedy control the National Security establishment today.
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- According to Horne the United States Government has spent
almost 20 trillion dollars since 1963 to support the foreign policy objectives
of the traitors who killed President Kennedy.
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