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There are many questions about Lee Harvey Oswald and
his associations with various persons, organizations
and locations. Naval Air Facility Atsugi located in
Japan may be one of the most interesting.
Oswald enlisted in the Marines on October 24, 1956,
six days after his 17th birthday. The Marine Corps
gave Oswald radar training, security clearance and
an assignment at Atsugi Air Base in Japan, the CIA's
main station of operation in the Far East. The base
was home to top secret U2 aerial surveillance spy
missions over Russia.
On February 25, 1959, Oswald was given a Russian language test by the Marines. Seven months later, he was on his way to "defect" to the Soviet Union. After AP and UPI wire service news stories appeared about her son's "defection," Lee's mother became convinced that he was working undercover as a U.S. agent. Was he? Jack Swike is a graduate of Marine Corp OCS,
Infantry Officers School, Naval Intelligence
School, Marine Corps Amphibious Intelligence School
and Army Counterintelligence Agent School. Jack was
assigned to Atsugi in 1956 and performed duties as
Marine Security and Intelligence Officer.
Swike will be presenting background information
on Atsuki and addressing a number of issues relating
to that facility and to Lee Oswald's assignments and
activities.
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John Kennedy embodied the hopes and dreams of a
nation and his policies spoke of much needed
optimism. The United States had a world
leader with
charm, grace and an oratorical nature meant to
engage the world listener.
People around the globe – not just Americans –
remember exactly where they were the moment they
heard the news that Kennedy had been shot. President
Kennedy was the first world figure to be
assassinated in the age of television. Photographs
and interviews were instantly sent worldwide as this
tragic event unfolded. It was an unforgettable
moment for all of us.
One witness
traveled to Dallas with the Presidential party and
returned to the White House on the plane that
carried Kennedy's remains. This witness has never
been interviewed before and the presentation is
proving to be a ground breaker and one you can't
afford to miss.
William Law has located and interviewed a
previously unknown witness to this historical event.
The White House Witness is the focus of Law's
November in Dallas conference presentation.
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Someone Would Have Talked if they had privileged
information concerning the most infamous murder in
modern history; talked with an unintentional slip,
in a furtive intimate exchange, or perhaps with a
boastful remark about their personal knowledge of a
conspiracy in the murder of a President.
And someone did. What’s new in the hardcover edition:
Three years of additional research have been devoted to exploring the leads and directions developed in the first edition. This research has provided additional detail on a number of incidents. These range from the pre-assassination visit by Lee Oswald and others to Dallas resident Sylvia Odio, through new details of word in the underworld about an attack on JFK, to further confirmation on remarks by a Cuban pilot at Red Bird Airport in Dallas - immediately prior to November 22, 1963. Beyond that entirely new incidents have become known, including an international wire intercept of discussions about a conspiracy and disclosures to the ARRB about gossip heard after the fact from former CIA employees. At the Someone Would Have Talked website ten new appendices and hundreds of pages of related exhibits are provided to document this new information. In addition, the book incorporates the newest research published by a number of respected JFK researchers in 2005. Well worth the wait, Someone Would Have Talked is a
major publication addressing the political climate
surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Author Larry
Hancock will be presenting information from his book
at the JFK November in Dallas Conference.
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The new trade paperback edition of Ultimate
Sacrifice finally reveals that Juan
Almeida--Commander of the Cuban Army in November
1963--was secretly working with JFK at that time to
stage a "palace coup" against Fidel Castro. The
CIA's website currently lists Almeida as the number 3
official in Cuba today, just below Raul Castro. The
new edition explains that because JFK died on the
eve of the coup - and Almeida's secret work for JFK
remained unknown to Fidel for decades - key US
officials felt they had to cover up important
information about JFK's death in order to protect
Almeida.
Lamar Waldron's groundbreaking JFK book "Ultimate
Sacrifice" has been featured by hundreds of
newspapers and radio stations, won praise from
publications ranging from the San Francisco
Chronicle to Publishers Weekly. It even caught the
attention of Congress, who made a report by Waldron
part of their official record for their March 14,
2006 Hearing on the Reclassification of Secret
Documents.
Waldron will be showing the most important of the
files cited in the new trade paperback during his
presentation at the upcoming JFK Lancer conference.
He'll also be showing declassified files obtained
in recent weeks that provide further support for the
book's revelations, including new files about the
confessions of Carlos Marcello.
Almeida's revelation removes the last legitimate reason for keeping most of the remaining JFK assassination files secret until 2017. The authors recently posted an article about why it is important for those files to finally be released. |
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Of the cast of characters associated with the
assassination of President Kennedy, few are more
mysterious than David William Ferrie of New Orleans.
Ferrie's life is full of mystery and unusual
activities. Cuban exiles called this bizarre looking
man with the red toupee and false eyebrows the
"master of intrigue." Jim Garrison, New Orleans D.A.
during the sixties, called him "one of history's
most important individuals."
Ferrie was indeed a most unusual and interesting person.
Among other things he was an undercover operative
for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the
precursor to today’s CIA; a senior pilot for Eastern
Airlines;an aeronautics teacher at Cleveland’s
Benedictine High School; an Army veteran; an
instructor for the Civil Air Patrol; had a Doctorate
from Phoenix University in Bori, Italy; and spoke
fluent Italian and Greek.
Prosecutor Jim Garrison arrested Ferrie in
connection with the assassination as both a suspect
and a key witness and held him in protective
custody. Before Ferrie’s testimony was complete,
Garrison was ordered to release him from this
protective custody. He was released on February 21,
1967 and by February 22, he was dead.
Stephen Tyler, the New Orleans based film maker
of "He Must Have Something" about the Jim
Garrison/Clay Shaw
case, is presenting information concerning David
Ferrie in New Orleans at NID.
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At the time of the assassination of President
Kennedy the Dallas police recorded sounds from an
open microphone; these sounds have been previously
analyzed by two research groups at the request of
the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Both
groups concluded with 95% probability that the
recordings contained acoustic impulses which provide
evidence for the existence of a shot from the grassy
knoll area of Dealey Plaza. On the basis of these
results and since shots definitely were fired from
the Texas School Book Depository, the House
Committee concluded that "scientific acoustical
evidence establishes a high probability that two
gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy."
There have been many challenges to the acoustical
evidence since 2001, in particular, a recently
published rebuttal (2006) in Science & Justice by
the surviving members of the 1982 NRC panel.
Donald Thomas is a scientist with
the Federal
Government and the author of the article, “The
Acoustical Evidence in the Kennedy Assassination
Revisited” which appeared in the journal Science &
Justice in 2001.
Dr. Donald Thomas has done additional studies
validating and extending the House Select
Committee's work on this issue. His November in
Dallas presentation will demonstrate how the
challenges to the acoustical evidence have made it
stronger.
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The Warren Commission’s own documents and collected
testimony—as well as thousands of other items it
never saw, refused to see, or actively
suppressed—reveal two conspiracies: the still very
murky one surrounding the assassination itself and
the official one that covered it up. The Warren
Report itself, Gerald McKnight contends, was little
more than the capstone to a deceptive and shoddily
improvised exercise in public relations designed to
“prove” that Oswald had acted alone.
Gerald McKnight, author of critically acclaimed
Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed
the Nation and Why, is presenting at the November in
Dallas Conference. In an interview was provided by
his publisher, University Press of Kansas.
(9-30-05) McKnight states: The key to government
commissions is not the names of prominent members
who appear on the marquee for public consumption,
but in the chief counsels and executive
directors—these are the entities that run the
investigation. In the case of the WC it was the
Hoover-picked J. Lee Rankin, the director's friend.
Rankin was not the choice of [former Chief Justice
and Commission Chair] Earl Warren. He was forced on
Warren by Hoover, [then Assistant Attorney General
Nicholas] Katzenbach, and a like-minded majority of
the commissioners.
McKnight's NID
presentation will show why the commission was
"determined to submit a report that found Oswald the
sole assassin, with no conspiracy. In short, to
underwrite the “official truth” of the
assassination, which was settled upon over the
weekend after the assassination by Hoover, LBJ, and
Katzenbach."
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We are so excited about the conference! We will be
offering Larry's new book and several new CDs. With
Dealey Plaza
acoustical and trajectory evidence being presented
at the conference, the trip to Dealey Plaza will be a
very thought provoking and unique opportunity to
have the speakers there with you explaining their work.
Register
now so we can prepare your November in Dallas
packet and free gift. And, we will have several
representatives of the press there, so you just
might be in an interview!
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Sincerely,
Debra Conway and Sherry Gutierrez
JFK Lancer Productions & Publications
email:
jfknews@jfklancer.com
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