The Guns of November

G-1: Background

2005-09-18T08:32:00.000-07:00

Originally broadcast November 1, 1983 (Approximately 140 minutes)

The first of the "Guns" programs sets forth the political and historical background of the focal point of the series, President Kennedy's assassination. As Kennedy was preparing to take office, elements of the national security establishment were circumventing presidential and constitutional authority. Beginning with discussion of the U-2 incident, this program presents abuses committed by elements of the intelligence community. Allegedly shot down by a Soviet missile, the CIA's U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers appears to have been deliberately sabotaged, in order to force the cancellation of a summit conference between Soviet Premier Khruschev and President Eisenhower. (The plane's downing accomplished just that.) Powers attributed the plane's downing to information allegedly supplied to the Soviets by Lee Harvey Oswald. Another Cold War incident of the early 1960's was the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion. Right-wing elements have faulted President Kennedy for failing to provide the invasion force with air cover. In this program, we find indications that the invasion's air support was deliberately sabotaged by elements within the Agency command structure for the invasion! One of the people involved with that sabotage was apparently General Charles P. Cabell, Deputy Director of CIA. Cabell also helped arrange the Mob assassination attempts on Castro, believed by many to be connected to the Kennedy assassination. The official version of Kennedy's murder contends that Jack Ruby was a "lone nut" murderer, moved to eliminate Oswald by grief over Kennedy's killing and sympathy for Jackie. In fact, Ruby was a major Dallas-area organized crime operative. In the days leading up to the assassination, Ruby was in close touch with organized crime elements bitterly opposed to Kennedy. Prior to Kennedy's killing, Mafia dons Santos Trafficante and Carlos Marcello foreshadowed the killing. Presented as a "lone nut" leftist motivated by his sympathy for Fidel Castro, Oswald was shepherded around the New Orleans area by fascist elements and figures directly connected to the CIA's anti-Castro forces. The broadcast analyzes the intelligence community elements around Oswald and presents evidence that he was being set up as a patsy. Particular emphasis is placed on the information developed by the unfairly-maligned Jim Garrison, the heroic D.A. of New Orleans, who investigated the assassination and correctly identified many of the participants. Among the highlights of the program is an actual broadcast interview with Oswald in which he states that, while in the Soviet Union, he was ". . . at all times under the protection . . ." of the U.S. government. (See also: G2, G3, G4; RFA #'s 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 37; Miscellaneous Archive Shows M3, M20, M22, M25, M29, M37, M38, M56, M59, M60, as well as FTR#'s 8, 19, 46, 47, 54, 62, 63, 71, 72, 76, 104, 110, 111, 115, 116, 120, 158.)

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G-2: The Assassination

2005-09-17T15:11:00.000-07:00

Recorded November 8, 1983 (Approximately 140 minutes)

In dealing with the actual event of President Kennedy's assassination, Mr. Emory chose to deal primarily with the cover-up of the killing, a crime more damaging to our national institutions than the actual killing itself. The perversion and/or degredation of our judicial, journalistic, military, economic and intelligence establishments that arose out of Kennedy's assassination continue to haunt this country. The program begins with the single bullet theory, or "magic bullet theory," as critics have termed it. Midwived by Arlen Specter (then a Warren Commission Counsel, now a Republican Senator from Pennsylvania), this thesis maintains that all the numerous non-fatal wounds in Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally were made by one bullet. Central to the "lone-nut Oswald" finding of the Warren Commission, this is not only wrong, but physically impossible. The program presents testimony from numerous eye witnesses describing a shot from the famous "grassy knoll" and suspicious people operating in that area. The broadcast presents accounts from Parkland Hospital doctors and medical personnel which contrast markedly with the official finding. The Warren Commission's contention that Oswald shot Dallas Policeman J.D. Tippit falls apart under scrutiny. Eyewitness accounts differ with the finding of the Commission, and there are discrepancies in the ballistic evidence, as well. Next, the program focuses on the disturbing number of suspicious deaths of people important to the investigation of Kennedy's murder. The program highlights the role of then California Governor Ronald Reagan in covering up Kennedy's assassination. The final section of the broadcast highlights the complicity of major media voices in disseminating the official lie concerning the assassination. (See also: G1, G3, G4, RFA #'s 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 37, Miscellaneous Archive Shows M3, M20, M22, M25, M29, M37, M38, M56, M59, M60, as well as FTR#'s 8, 19, 46, 47, 54, 62, 63, 71, 72, 76, 104, 110, 111, 115, 116, 120, 158.)

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G-3: Vietnam & Watergate

2005-09-16T15:15:00.000-07:00

Recorded November 15, 1983. (Approx. 140 minutes)

One of the most important historical events of the century's second half, the Kennedy assassination both overlaps and overshadows many subsequent events. Neither the Vietnam War, nor the Watergate scandal can be fully analyzed without delving into how Kennedy's death helped to shape both events. Beginning with Professor Peter Dale Scott's skillful discussion (and excerpting) of relevant National Security Action Memoranda pertaining to Kennedy's Vietnam policy, the program details Kennedy's plans to phase out direct U.S. military participation in the conflict. Presiding over severe dissent from within his own administration, as well as from the military and intelligence establishments, Kennedy initiated this U.S. withdrawal seven weeks before his death. Two days after the assassination, Kennedy's Vietnam policy was reversed and the course of action was determined for what was to follow. In addition to canceling the troop withdrawal and providing for troop increases, the policy shift resumed the program of covert action against North Vietnam that was to lead to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. That alleged attack on U.S. destroyers (never independently verified and widely believed to be fraudulent) precipitated U.S. military escalation. Richard Nixon's political demise came through the Watergate scandal. Nixon initiated the Watergate cover-up because he feared that "the whole Bay of Pigs thing" would come out. In his political memoir The Ends of Power, Nixon aide H.R. Haldeman wrote that that phrase was a code-word within the Nixon White House for the Kennedy assassination. The program documents many of the areas of overlap between the Watergate and Kennedy investigations. Nixon himself was in Dallas on November 22, 1963, as a lawyer for Pepsico (the parent company of Pepsi Cola.) Flying out of Dallas roughly two hours before Kennedy was slain, Nixon told the FBI in February of 1964 that the only time he had been in Dallas in 1963 had been "two days prior to the assassination." This blatant lie is negated by a wire service interview Nixon gave in Dallas on November 21. Text of the interview ran in the New York Times, among other major newspapers. Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski was selected by Nixon to replace the illegally fired Archibald Cox. Jaworski had previously served as a Warren Commission Counsel, while at the same time serving as director of a CIA domestic funding conduit. Nixon named former Warren Commission member Gerald Ford to replace Vice President Agnew. Ford then replaced Nixon as President and pardoned him of all crimes he may have committed. The broadcast features portions of Jack Ruby's testimony before the Warren Commission, in which he appears to confess to being part of a conspiracy. This testimony is given in front of Warren (a protege of Nixon aide and former mob lawyer Murray Chotiner), Ford, Jaworski and Arlen Specter, among others. The program discusses evidentiary tributaries connecting numerous other figures to the both investigations, including Watergate Judge John Sirica and Watergate burgler Frank Sturgis . To attempt selective erasure of the all-important Watergate tapes, Nixon sought the assistance of Gordon Novel, a veteran intelligencer, electronics expert, anti-Castro veteran and a figure in Jim Garrison's investigation in New Orleans. At least one key tape was partially erased (the famous 18 1/2 minue gap), though no culprit was ever identified. (See also: G1, G2, G4; RFA #'s 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 37; Miscellaneous Archive Shows M3, M20, M22, M25, M29, M37, M38, M56, M59, M60, as well as FTR#'s 8, 19, 46, 47, 54, 62, 63, 71, 72, 76, 104, 110, 111, 115, 116, 120, 158.)

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G-4: The Nazi Connections & Connections to Other Assassinations

2005-09-15T16:29:00.000-07:00

Recorded November 22, 1983. (Approx. 200 min.)

Focusing on the role of foreign and domestic fascists in the assassination of JFK, the program sets forth the activities of elements of the Gehlen spy milieu and the closely-related Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations in connection with the killing. Deeply involved in trafficking the Oswalds around in the New Orleans and Dallas areas, this Nazi milieu was instrumental in setting up Lee Harvey Oswald as the patsy. The conclusion of the program highlights some of the many areas of overlap between the assassination of JFK and the assassinations of his brother Robert, Martin Luther King and the shooting of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Program Highlights Include: Spas T. Raikin's greeting of Oswald upon the latter's return from the Soviet Union (Raikin was very closely-connected to the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations); the use of a Gestapo memo to discredit Warren Commission critic Joachim Joesten; a CIA memo urging that all "assets" compare the Kennedy assassination to the Reichstag fire as examples of major acts performed by "lone nuts" (this in an attempt to discredit Warren Commission critics); alleged involvement of the Project Paperclip Nazi rocket scientists in the assassination; Oswald "handler" George De Mohrenschildt's apparent activities as a Nazi spy during World War II; the fascist connections of Clay Shaw (a defendant in Jim Garrison's investigation; the Nazi affiliations of Albert Alexander Osborne, a domestic fascist associated with Oswald and believed by some analysts to have been connected to the actual shooter's team; the statements of domestic fascist Joseph Adams Milteer (he describes the circumstances of Kennedy's assassination eleven days before it happened, states that the killing was the product of a conspiracy and links the crime to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King); Percy Foreman's representation of Jack Ruby (Foreman was a lawyer for James Earl Ray); numerous evidentiary tributaries running between the Garrison investigation of John Kennedy's assassination and that of Robert Kennedy; the role of two CIA-connected Los Angeles Police officers to head up the investigation of Robert Kennedy's assassination; connections between Arthur Bremer's sister and one of Sirhan's alleged handlers (Bremer the "lone nut" who allegedly shot George Wallace and Sirhan "the lone nut" who allegedly killed Robert Kennedy.) (See also: G1, G2, G3, RFA #'s 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 37, Miscellaneous Archive Shows M3, M20, M22, M25, M29, M37, M38, M56, M59, M60, as well as FTR#'s 8, 19, 46, 47, 54, 62, 63, 71, 72, 76, 104, 110, 111, 115, 116, 120, 158.)

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