Alex Jones on the Kennedy Murder:
A Painful Case
By Seamus Coogan
Alex Jones' appalling understanding of the Kennedy
assassination led him to endorse the dubious documentary JFK 2 and
the equally specious Family of Secrets. As Jim DiEugenio and
myself have shown elsewhere on this site, both of these works are
very questionable on the relation of George Bush to the Kennedy case.
Therefore, it was decided a piece on Jones himself, would be a fitting
end to CTKA's journey to the outer limits of rhyme, reason and research.
And to show the difference between Jonestown and what Len Osanic
has termed the Legion of Reason.
This is not a review of Jones upcoming assassination
documentary on the JFK case. Actually, it's more a warning about
it. While I worked on it, it was interesting to note that the majority
of the general criticism directed at Jones seems to come from individuals
either jealous of his prominent status, felt they had been burned
by him in some way, or from paranoid anti-Semitic individuals who
are more unhinged than he is (often a combination of all three).
Jones is so polarizing within his own crank territory, that it was
hard to find any credible voices in critique of him. I hope this
fills that gap.
The Ministry of Rev. Jones
In 1996, Jones began his inauspicious rise from
community TV in Austin, Texas on a show called Final Edition. From
there, the privileged son of a successful dentist (and alleged John
Birch society member) from the wealthy city of Rockwell has become
the Internet conspiracy king. His company has spewed forth a number
of websites: Prison Planet.com, Prison Planet.tv, Infowars.com,
Infowars.Net and the Jones Report (to avoid confusion
herein Jones sites will be referred to as Prison-Planet).
Jones' organization also runs the Ron Paul War Room.
Prison Planet.com seems to serve more or
less as Jones' promotional vehicle for his radio shows. While Infowars.net contains
a number of news stories on things like FEMA concentration camps,
heroic Teabaggers, illegal migrants and so on, it is really more
or less a link site which tends to feature bullion as its top story
(there's a reason for this). Prisonplanet.tv is primarily
multimedia based. The Jones Report is the least updated of
the sites and seems to be a collection of Jones' 'best of' stories
and, it seems, longer essays.
Jones' web page Assault, provided an interesting
dilemma for study. As it was often hard to know whether or not he
had omitted anything, or if a particular article, link or interview
about any given topic was buried at some other location. Thus, any
critic is bound to have stated at some point that Jones has not covered
an issue when he may well have. This is no victory for Jones however.
It's a big problem. His accumulation of articles is a calculated
move to dominate search engines and lasso much contemporary dissent
under his own rubric. His reason for doing so appears to be a combination
of control and large sums of money. The more hits he has, the more
advertising revenue and merchandise he and his close friend Ted 'Goldfinger'
Anderson, the owner of the Genesis media network, and a gold
speculator, make.
Thus, like any mainstream news network Jones criticizes,
he casts a wide net: not for truth, but for profit (http://www.gcnlive.com/contact.php).
Hence Jones is more or less akin to a televangelist. Like many televangelists,
Jones worships at an altar of religion and hypocrisy. His religion
is that of conspiracy, and like many evangelicals (some of whom probably
watch his shows) he has taken the teachings of his faith far too
literally and melded a unique outlook one could call either 'conspirahypocrisy'
or 'conspiravangelism'
In true Ministry of God fashion, he exhorts his
supporters to help fund his ministry to the tune of some $275,000
with his infamous 'money bombs' to help him expand and fight the
New World Order (http://www.prisonplanet.com/infowars-moneybomb-exceeds-expectations.html).
He also receives massive donations from Christian businessmen who
pay $50,000 dollars, for Jones' bullhorn he auctions to expand his
studio facilities.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV-JORJXCww). Unsurprisingly,
Jones has become quite wealthy. How wealthy? That is uncertain. Jones
keeps extremely quiet about his personal fortune. But most bloggers
put it in the millions (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1795044/posts).
Let us digress from religion and return to Jones'
accumulation of information. The problem with using a wide net, is
that one scoops up things good like say John Pilger, Lisa Pease and
Greg Palast with the wild eyed kookery of Kathy O'Brien, Robert Gaylon
Ross, David Icke, and others mentioned later. Jones then minces it
all together in cans ready for sale with no regard for how awful
the taste or destruction to the environment. Furthermore, there is
very little quality control, which means cross contamination (factually
incorrect and contradictory positions) become commonplace. This results
in, as we shall see, a wild, goofy, circus-type atmosphere in which
almost anything can be said without fear of reprimand.
Conspirahypocrisy in Action.
A classic example of Jones' conspirahipocrisy is
that he will stop at nothing to make figures like the Bush family
the ultimate evil of the age. A July 24th 2009 Huffington Post press
release discussing Oliver Stone's praise of Jim Douglass' book JFK
and the Unspeakable was placed on Prison Planet. Yet Prison
Planet's good work in mentioning this fine book was scuttled
because a search or so later one comes across a glowing article citing
the credentials of Lamar Waldron's ridiculous Legacy of Secrecy which
can be found from May of 2009 on the Infowars website. (http://www.infowars.com/cheney-and-rumsfeld-pressured-cia-to-mislead-congress-in-the-1970s-too/).
Why Lamar Waldron? Well, Waldron (as per his schtick)
has tried to cash in on making Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld key
figures in undermining senate investigations like the Church Committee
in the mid seventies, when any number of Republicans were guilty
of crimes. As if being sucked in by Waldron wasn't bad enough,
Jones showed his peculiar form of amnesia by having Vince Bugliosi
on his show discussing his book on the Iraq War in May of 2008. The
problem is that he obviously hadn't seen Bugliosi's 2007 appearance
on the Colbert Report or his numerous talks on You Tube promoting
his Reclaiming History book, a 2,700 page panegyric for the
Warren Commission.
Feminisim & Rockefellers
Despite many of his guests being to the right and
no doubt bigoted, in fairness, it has to be said Prison Planet seems
to be a more or less non-racist organization. But Jones is definitely
something of a sexist. In one broadcast Jones took it upon himself
to lecture women about their being targeted by advertising (as if
women haven't understood this for years) and being mislead by environmental
groups.
To top it off, Jones once stole a line from the
ever sexist Henry Makow, about how sitcoms have modeled negative
and subservient male behaviors. (http://www.henrymakow.com/women_interpret_male_power_in.html).
And it gets worse. Women who consider themselves
feminists are by far the most manipulated members of their gender.
That's according to the late (but not great) Aaron Russo. In his
last ever interview, (conducted by Jones) Russo, discussed the cold
dark truth that the world's elites are socialists and that feminism
was created by the Rockefellers. Jones enthusiastically mentioned
that Gloria Steinem, the leader of the U.S feminist movement, had
been exposed as a long term CIA informant.
Jones and Russo had no idea that it was a socialist
feminist group 'Red Stockings' that actually exposed her. He also
displayed no knowledge that the CIA and FBI had infiltrated numerous
progressive movements, not just the feminist one. This is highly
ironic in light of the next area of discussion.
The Grandstanding Orwellian Orwell fan.
In 2008, at a peaceful rally in which protestors
attempted to recreate the 1967 "levitation of the Pentagon" at the
Denver Mint, an uninvited Jones crashed the party and harangued neo-conservative,
quasi-fascist Michelle Malkin. (This ugly incident can be seen on
You Tube.) How anybody could usurp someone else's event and then
have some of the left-leaning protestors stick up for a woman dubbed "The
Asian Ann Coulter" shows a certain talent for the inept, and an extreme
need for headline grabbing.
But Jones' grandstanding, knows no limits. There
is a cleverly edited clip on You Tube titled "Alex Jones Using Cointelpro
Tactics?" in which Jones discusses the FBI's COINTELPRO operation.
Yet the clip also reveals him as a self-aggrandizing egomaniac ruining
a pro-gun rally in Austin that, once again, he did not organize (http://www.fontcraft.com/fbs/?p=417).
In fact, as one can see from clicking through to the article, it
was Jones who came in and disrupted the rally, essentially hijacking
it for his own purposes, making it into a circus. In that regard,
he is the P. T. Barnum of conspiracy politics and activism. It is
this unique blend of conspirahypocrisy which turns Jones into 'The
Orwellian Orwell Fan.'
Jones often uses the term 'Orwellian' to describe
seemingly any event. In fact Jones has made a major presentation
about Orwell. (And his many inaccuracies there are worthy of another
critique.). The fact that Jones and the lunatic fringe utilize the
works of a known Democratic Socialist and other decidedly left leaning
individuals like Aldous Huxley and Phillip K. Dick (whom, if living,
would likely shun Jones) is a classic example of how little analysis
pervades his unique blend of rightwing pseudo- libertarian ideology.
At its core, the Jones network believes that the left and right argument
is a convenient government con job. How would Eric Arthur Blair (Orwell)
respond to this gibberish that Jones spewed at the reopening of the
Branch Davidian Church at Waco on September 19th 1999?
"Victory is ours against the New World Order,
against the Communists, Socialists and the Bankers that run the
whole filthy show!"
As seen in the "The Dark Legacy of John Hankey", Hankey,
has a bad habit of claiming things he never achieved. So does Jones.
In fairness to both Hankey and Jones this sort of thing abounds in
the competitive world of conspiracy demagoguery. It's a world in
which all members are guilty of reinventing history at one time or
another: A very 'Ministry of Truth' like crime.
Here are but some shining examples.
Jones has made a big deal about his infiltration
of Bohemian Grove. While he was indeed the first to film the "cremation
of care ceremony", Jones barely acknowledges that it was made possible
by English journalist Jon Ronson. Ronson filmed Jones prior to his
foray into the grove, in the episode 'The Satanic shadowy elite'.
Ronson's measured viewpoint about the proceedings can be seen in
an excerpt from his notable book Them: Adventures with Extremists. (http://www.jonronson.com/them_bohemia.html)
Contrast this with Jones' summation of the event
and judge for oneself who is in charge of the facts. (http://www.infowars.com/bg_story_template.html)
A few years later, Jones propagated the myth that
he was the first radio commentator to announce 9/11 style attacks
on America. Except he was not. It was the equally kooky--and dependent
on whom you talk too 'spooky'--Bill Cooper. Cooper detested Jones
shtick and called him a liar and sensationalist. Cooper however was
another conspirahypocrite of ludicrous JFK assassination theories.
Namely, that Kennedy's limousine driver turned around and shot Kennedy
in the head. The footage Cooper used to sell this idea was an extremely
old 8th generation copy of the Zapruder film which has been soundly
debunked by Zapruder film expert Robert Groden (See Jim DiEugenio;
Black Op Radio, 15/04/10 # 450).
In Orwell's 1984, The Ministry of Truth had the
job of turning one time enemies into long time allies and vice versa.
Jones has done the same thing. He once denounced David Icke as a
potential disinformation agent, likening his 'reptilian lizard man'
theory to being a "Turd in the punch bowl." Yet Icke's patronage
enabled Jones to patch into the 'moon unit' market and the 'Lizard
man' is now something of a regular on his show. Jones is also a pretty
poor representative of free speech he claims for us all. Since there
are a number of websites devoted to individuals who he was had kicked
off his forums.
'Is There Life on Marrs?.....There's a little,
but Jones missed it'._
It's highly ironic, that Jones was born at Parkland
Hospital, the place where JFK died. Because with his and his cronies
like Jason Bermas and Paul Watson's limited knowledge of the assassination
and what actually occurred, you would think Kennedy had just checked
in for a sore throat, pulled back muscle and a headache.
Whilst interviewing author Jim Marrs on his radio
show, Jones showed a noticeable lack of knowledge about his book Crossfire which,
along with Jim Garrison's On the Trail of the Assassins, had
a huge influence on the direction of Oliver Stone's film JFK. Now,
considering the limitations of the day, both books were solid pieces
of work. But therein lies a problem. New books by the likes of Jim
Douglas, and Gerald McKnight have been able to capitalize on a plethora
of released documents unavailable to Marrs at the time. By comparison,
Garrison's work (for the most part) hasn't dated so badly because
of its singular focus on his case bought against Clay Shaw. Also,
many of Garrison's suspicions about Guy Banister, David Ferrie and
Clay Shaw have, in large part, been borne out. Many subjects in Marrs'
book, like LBJ, body alteration and Madeleine Brown, amongst others,
have not.
The film JFK has been able to update its
information via special editions with additional interviews, A-V
essays, and director commentaries. One wonders though, has anybody
out there in the Jones nexus actually bothered to sit down and listen
to any of them? Not likely. The problem is that many conspiravangelists,
have become stuck in something of an HSCA and JFK, time warp. It
is as if nothing happened before or after this period. The Men
Who Killed Kennedy and the first editions of JFK and Crossfire, these
earlier vehicles have become like bibles to many unwitting newcomers
who are little aware of their limitations. Jones falls into this
category, and that's without apparently even reading the Marrs book.
A Short Dissection!
Jones' June 27th, 2006 interview with Marrs began
to break into the bizarre shortly after the 9-minute mark. It is
here that Alex Jones shows who he is and what he knows about the
Kennedy case. (This can be seen by Googling "Alex Jones-Jim Marrs
JFK interview" at Google Video.)
9:19 Minutes: JFK, Blueblood Scion of The Eastern
Establishment: Jones kicked off proceedings by absurdly stating that
Kennedy "Came from 'Blue blood' elites". How on earth anyone could
think of JFK, a 2nd generation Irish Catholic as being a waspish
member of the Eastern establishment is beyond me.
9:36 Minutes: Johnson and Pussy Galore: Almost
on top of Jones 'blue blood' call, he then promotes Madeleine Brown.
Brown may have met Democratic congressman, Lyndon Johnson at a party
in 1948 in Austin, and may have been one of his many female friends.
It's ironic that Johnson purportedly bestowed the name Pussy Galore on
her because miss Galore, like Brown, is a fiction. (Bennett Woods, LBJ
Architect of American Ambition, pg, 247). Brown's most way out
claim is that she was present at a secret party in Texas where Richard
Nixon, John McLoy, J Edgar Hoover, LBJ, , and oil baron Clint Murchison
Sr.-- or his son Junior, depending on whose concocted story you read--and
other luminaries planned Kennedy's assassination on the 21st of November
1963. (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/300806jfk.htm)
Firstly, Johnson himself was seen by a few thousand
people and filmed that night in the company of President Kennedy
at the Houston Coliseum. Johnson didn't arrive in Fort Worth until
11.05 pm on the night of the 21st of November, and it is roundly
reported that he wound up his day in the same hotel at a very late
hour with his advisors. (William Manchester, Death of a President, pgs.
135, 138).
The same goes for Dick Nixon who was in town that
night with Joan Crawford. This was widely reported in the Dallas
press and was still being reported until fairly late that evening.
(The Dallas Morning News, Friday, November 22, 1963, Section
1-19) Kai Bird's autobiography describes John McCloy hearing the
news of the assassination while having breakfast with former President
Eisenhower. (The Chairman, p. 544) As for Hoover. according
to Anthony Summers, it is highly likely (to the point of absolute
certainty) that J. Edgar Hoover, like McCloy, was nowhere near Texas
at the time. For instance, the next day he was calling Bobby Kennedy
from his Washington office at around 1:34 P.M EST with news of the
shooting. (Summers, Official and Confidential, p. 394). In
fact, in none of the standard biographies of Hoover-Powers, Theoharis,
Gentry, or Summers-does anyone note him being in Texas that evening.
A Dallas to Washington round trip is around 3-4
hours each way. Why would two very powerful and highly visible 68
year olds fly to Dallas Texas to meet with Johnson at some ungodly
hour, well after 11:00 P.M CST, compromising themselves in the process,
and then fly back from Dallas, arriving home anywhere between 3:00-5:00
AM the following morning? Why do all that when a sinister meeting
in Washington could have easily been arranged prior to events. And
anyway, as Jim DiEugenio has said, the idea of organizing the plot
just a night before is silly (Black Op Radio: Show 476).
Hoover, the supposed major conspirator, had believed
someone was impersonating Oswald in Russia. Furthermore, during Oswald's
absence on his way to the Soviet Union, it took the FBI and Swiss
authorities months to find the Albert Schweitzer College. Which Oswald
had supposedly planned to attend.
But it just keeps getting worse for those in the
Hoover 'plotter' scenario. Hoover once said to President Johnson
that the evidence was not strong enough against Oswald to get a conviction,
and like Nicholas Katzenbach, said that the public needed to be assured
Oswald was the lone assassin. We know some 14 minutes of tape were
removed from a conversation Hoover had with Johnson. (See "The Fourteen
Minute Gap" by Rex Bradford at the Mary Ferrell Foundation site.).
We also know that Hoover believed someone was impersonating Oswald
in Mexico City. (John Armstrong, Harvey and Lee, p. 651) Hoover
himself would go on to later describe how the United States government
would be rocked to the core by the real truth about the Kennedy murder,
and he would also call the case 'a mess, a lot of loose ends'. (Summers, Official
and Confidential, pgs. 413-414)
One of the only researchers I know of who has advocated
for Hoover's involvement is Peter Dale Scott, whom we shall touch
on later (Peter Dale Scott; Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, pgs.
242-267). Had Jones, or his researchers, ever bothered to look around
the Kennedy critical community, he would have found that potential "Johnson
did it" allies like Doug Weldon repeatedly tried to interview and
question Brown with legitimate questions; she constantly evaded him
(Doug Weldon: Spartacus Education Forum, post of 4/25/10).
But the hypocrisy and contradiction surrounding
Brown continues unabated. Jones' top researcher Paul Watson makes
a big deal about Johnson's highly improbable statement to Brown, "Those
SOB's Will Never Embarrass Me Again". What Watson doesn't tell anybody
is that Johnson had also told Brown that oilmen and the CIA had killed
Kennedy. The evidence clearly shows that Johnson had grave doubts
about the assassination, and was unconvinced, as was Hoover, with
the evidence days after the assassination. (Gerald McKnight, Breach
of Trust, p. 283) And at one point, according to Fletcher Prouty,
he even asked J Edgar Hoover if any shots had been fired at him.
(http://www.prouty.org/johnson.html)
In 1967 Johnson remarked to aide Marvin Watson
that the "CIA had something to do with this plot." (Summers, Official
and Confidential, p. 414.) Leo Janos' Atlantic Monthly article "The
Last Days of The President: LBJ in Retirement", which was printed
in July of 1973 two years after Johnson's death, provides us with
perhaps the starkest appraisal of Johnson's mindset in later life:
"During coffee, the talk turned to President
Kennedy, and Johnson expressed his belief that the assassination
in Dallas had been part of a conspiracy". A little later Johnson
said "I never believed that Oswald acted alone, although I can
accept that he pulled the trigger." Johnson said that when he had
taken office he found that "we had been operating a damned Murder
Inc. in the Caribbean."
(Atlantic Monthly, July 1973)
Recently released documents citing Godfrey McHugh's
observations of Johnson's paranoid behavior on Air Force One have
cast further doubt on the Johnson did it angle. Yet in an odd piece
of face-saving for the dwindling Johnson lobby, Paul Joseph Watson,
one of the brains behind Prison Planet's internet information
apparatus, believes Johnson on Air Force One to be play acting to
draw suspicion from himself. In doing so Watson ignored all of Johnson's
previous comments. He utilized Saint John Hunt and Madeleine Brown
(arguably two of the least inspiring witnesses the research community
has come across) to prove his case that Johnson was likely hamming
it up. (See his article at Propaganda Matrix, 11/4/2009)
Had Watson bothered to read David Talbot's Brothers, he
would have seen that Johnson panicked at Parkland and told Mac Kilduff
that he wanted the announcement of JFK's death to be delayed till
he was safely on the plane, stating his belief in a potential 'world
wide conspiracy'. Johnson's performance at Parkland Hospital
and on Air Force One were certainly not mugging. (Talbot, pgs 282-285).
It would be interesting to see how Jones, Watson (or anyone else
for that matter) would explain away the fact that within hours of
Oswald's death Johnson's Cabinet and Justice Department were convinced
by Eastern Establishment figures Eugene Rostow and Joe Alsop to take
the investigation out of Texas and back to Washington. Whereupon
Allen Dulles, not Johnson, would become ringmaster of the investigation.
(Donald Gibson, The Assassinations, pgs 3-17).
9:38 Minutes: Below 'Par' McLellan: Sure enough,
Jones soon spits out the name of Barr McLellan. And in deference
to the imagined strength of the Brown and McLellan stories utters
a pure Jones/Barnum piece of oversized hyperbole: "It seems to
be an Ironclad case." Like Brown's tome Texas in the Morning, McLellan's
very bad book Blood, Money and Power, pinning the crime on
Johnson, is regularly touted around the Jones Internet nexus. In
fact, when it came out, Jones had him on his show for a solid hour
and after the show, pronounced that LBJ had killed Kennedy. One of
its main selling points was the disputed Mac Wallace fingerprint
supposedly found in the TSBD (Texas School Book Depository). However
John Kelin found that different groups of Johnson did it advocates
at the time disagreed on its validity. (http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/23rd_Issue/breakthru.html)
But the rest of the McClellan book was so bad that
even researchers like Walt Brown--a generally well-known non-kook
advocate of the 'Johnson did it' club and no relation to Madeleine
Brown--eventually distanced himself from the dubious work of McClellan's
he had once supported. This is what Brown was quoted as saying in
public on various Internet forums after the book was issued:
"I have no reason to think that his (McClellan's)
work is in any way an attempt at deceit, but at the same time,
I have no answers to the 'why?' of how it went from a solid, stand-on-its-own-legs
work in July to an almost fictionalized account in October."
Alex Constantine is one of the few individuals
within the rabid conspiracy circuit who doesn't try and make out
that every man and his dog were involved in the case. In a post at
his web site of 7/6/2008 he wrote that McClellan's son Scott had
strong links to Jones' Great Satan, the Bush clan. How Jones and
his crew didn't pick up on this and run with it is quite puzzling.
11:00 Minutes: Operation Northwoods.
(The full details of what Northwoods was about
can be seen at the "Operation Northwoods" page at the Mary Ferrell
Foundation. And an interesting twist to the Northwoods tale can be
read in the addendum to this essay).
As if, what had transpired earlier on in the interview
was not bad enough, Jones made another alarming faux pas: That the
Operation Northwoods proposal in 1962 led Kennedy to sack a number
of high ranking officials in the CIA and military. In so doing Jones
clearly implied that the Kennedys' refusal of the Northwoods proposal
was part of what got him killed. Jim Marrs thankfully corrected Jones.
He then reminded him that Kennedy's sacking rampage had occurred
a year earlier in 1961. And it was actually caused by the culmination
of the investigations into the planning and ill execution of the
CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion. As a result, it's prime organizers--Allen
Dulles, Dick Bissell and Charles Cabell-were terminated. As for Northwoods,
Kennedy did not react to it in any way except in rejecting it. There
is also no evidence that Lyman Lemnitzer, chair of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff was fired as a result. Lemnitzer had long been an obstacle
to the Kennedys and his contract as head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
was simply not renewed. Had he not proposed Northwoods, he would
not have been kept on anyhow, as the Kennedys had long wanted Maxwell
Taylor in the position. Lemnitzer moved on to be the head of NATO
(Talbot, pgs. 106-108). __
Thanks but no thanks for the Assist.
Now some might say that my using a 2006 interview
with Marrs is unfair. Jones could probably have learned from his
mistakes about Northwoods and the like. After all, Jim had corrected
some of them. And Jones must care about accuracy because the precise
historical record is what he is supposed to be about. I mean, that
is what he is selling: an alternative view of history that is much
more close to the facts than the MSM's version. Well, what I am about
to say brings this all into question. Because two years later Jones
got worse, not better. And this is an important point, not just about
Jones and his business empire, but also about his respect for history.
The JFK murder is clearly the event that ripped open the guts of
the so-called American Century of Henry Luce. Jim Hougan and Don
DeLillo have both described the JFK case as the event that tore open
the dark underside of the American political system, one that had
been previously hidden from the public. And it was this exposure
which gave birth to serious alternative thinking and explanations
about large historical events. It would later give birth to a whole
new literature of revisionist history.
Well, by any standard, Jones flunked his test;
in two years, he didn't learn anything. His defense of Jesse Ventura
in his Howard Stern interview on the 21st of May of 2008 was embarrassing.
Jones makes sensible observers, like his friend Ventura, look as
bad as himself. Ventura, needs the likes of Jones and Jason Bermas
like he needs Dan Rather. The errors the two made concerning the
deaths of JFK and RFK are shocking, as was their labeling others
as exaggerating kooks. (This show can be seen at You Tube under the
title "Alex Jones Jason Bermas Howard Stern Jesse Ventura").
At 6:46 into Jones' spiel, he says that 90% of
Americans believe the government killed Kennedy. Every anniversary
there are polls. For Kennedy's 40th anniversary in 2003 an ABC poll
showed 78% believed in a conspiracy. (ABC News press release of 11/16/2003)
In 1998, a CBS poll said the figure was 77%. The Discovery Channel
polled 79% belief in a conspiracy and the History Channel chalked
up 83% (http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/kennedy-assassination-theories/).
The ABC poll showed a third believed there was government involvement,
nowhere the mystical 90% mark Jones conjured up out of thin air.
He then mangles further Shane O'Sullivan's already
dubious and orphaned claims about who was at the Ambassador Hotel
the night RFK was killed.. Read this carefully for it is shocking.
"They've now come out on BBC, NBC, showing the
film footage of the Ambassador hotel. Three CIA section chiefs
from Asia, the famous guys involved with Kennedy-JFK as well; its
admitted the guy who shot RFK behind him ahhh who the coroner said
shot him-from behind, Mr. Cesar was CIA. We have the footage of
all these guys there directing Cesar and others right before it
happens."
Jones was obviously unaware that Paul Watson's
team (in a rare moment of research competence) actually had the foresight
to publish Lisa Pease's November 2006 misgivings about Shane O'Sullivan's
appearance on BBC2's NewsNight Programme on November the 20th
2006 This was not posted on the Infowars website until March
23rd 2008. Jones' clueless dialogue with an equally clueless Jason
Bermas about Shane O'Sullivan's mistake about the RFK case, occurred
almost two months later, to the day, on May the 22nd of 2008. Thus
once again, in true Prison Planet style, Jones exposes himself
as a dilettante who, far from elucidating and leading and empowering
his listeners, actually confuses, misleads, and marginalizes them
as ill-informed kooks.
Three CIA section chiefs from Asia? (Asia? Where
on earth did he get that from?) For most of the period of 1962-68
all were around the JM WAVE station in Miami. They were, according
to O'Sullivan, Gordon Campbell, George Johannides and Dave Morales.
Campbell, who was never a figure of significance in the Kennedy assassination,
and never a high-ranking CIA official, died in 1962. (Talbot, p.
397) Which is significant, since that is six years before RFK's assassination.
Johannides was a leader of psychological operations at the JM Wave
Station, not a "section chief". Furthermore the photo shows slight
resemblance, bar glasses, between O'Sullivan's suspect and Johannides..
And the evidence says he was in Athens circa 1968. (See
"The BBC's Flawed RFK Story" by Jeff Morley and Talbot at Mary Ferrell
Foundation.) However Johannides is a genuine figure of interest in
the John Kennedy (not RFK) assassination as Talbot mentions in his
book. (p. 397) As for Morales he is supposed to be the individual supposedly
waving people into position, yet he is a grainy figure that can barely
be distinguished. Further, the photo comparisons never actually matched.
(See Morley and Talbot.)
But actually, it's even worse than that for Jones.
Because in 2007, in his film RFK Must Die, and his book Who
Killed Bobby? O'Sullivan found LAPD documents showing that the
two men who he once took for Johannides and Campbell were actually
Bulova watch company employees. And this had been certified by family
members. (O'Sullivan, pgs. 469-70)
Obviously, if the men are not who Jones says they
are-and they are not-they cannot be, as he says, "directing Cesar
and others right before it happens."
Remember, this show was broadcast in 2008. All
this material correcting the record was published a year previous.
With all the millions Jones rakes in, how much does he spend on quality
control and fact-checking? His listeners, if they want accurate information-or
at least an attempt at it-- have a right to ask him this question.
Jones does get something right. Thomas Noguchi,
the Los Angeles coroner did believe that Kennedy was shot from behind
(Lisa Pease and James DiEugenio editors, The Assassinations, pgs.
616-618). But he never said, at least in public, that Cesar did it.
The evidence surrounding Cesar as one of the shooters is compelling.
But we must note, it is compelling, not proven. For instance it has
not been 'admitted' by anyone that Cesar was CIA. He seems to
come from a complex cabal within the Bob Maheu, Richard Helms and
Howard Hughes nexus. Whether or not the companies he worked for prior
to the assassination were all CIA fronts, or proprietaries, is another
question altogether (Ibid, pgs. 602-606).
"We now have the son releasing the video, we
have the audio, the guy who was photographed at being at the scene
by the Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald and that of
course is E Howard Hunt. I mean Jason when does it end?"
Yes Alex, when does it end? Saint John, like his
father is a character of curious moral fiber. If one wants to see
just how curious, I advise they skip ahead and read the following
section 'Alex Jones and the Saint'. How Jones can continually refer
to Hunt as a credible source is, as you will see, the epitome of
bombast. As for the rest of Jones' rant, he seems to be implying
that the contested images of the three tramps in Dealey Plaza taken
by William Allen of the Dallas Times Herald, Jack Beers of
the Dallas Morning News and George Smith of the Fort Worth
Star Telegram on 11/22/63, show one of them as Howard Hunt. The
problem is that when Mark Lane successfully litigated the Liberty
Lobby case he refused to use those pictures in evidence, as he believed
they weakened his case. A case which, despite using the testimony
of Marita Lorenz, he prevailed in. (Lane, Plausible Denial, pgs.
133-134) Furthermore the likely identities of the tramps has supposedly
since been discovered, though much conjecture and debate about their
identity persist.
Now Jason Bermas leaps into the fray (Bermas, like
Hunt, is examined in greater depth later).
"But just go to the video tape of the Secret
Service by Kennedy that day. As they're turning the corner at Dealey
Plaza one of the Secret Service agents at the back of his car actually
gets called off. And he's not happy about it Alex."
This is what I mean about the issue of quality
control and the ethical question of what a host and his guest owe
to their listeners. Listeners do not deserve to be misled-whether
it's by Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite or Bermas and Jones. Neither
the Bronson, Zapruder, or Altgens films captured what Bermas is describing,
nor did any of the other escorts, nor did the two hundred or so people
in the vicinity. What Bermas was referring to were the actions between
the dubious Emory Roberts, who was in charge of the follow up car,
and agent Henry Rybka, who was ordered off of Kennedy's. This incident
did not take place on the corner of Houston and Main Streets, but
quite clearly at Love Field. (And you can see this at You Tube, under
the title, "JFK Assassination: Secret Service Stand down".)
I really, really wish Bermas had not said this.
Because his announcement now sets his master off on a goofy rant
for the ages. Again, read the following carefully. You will completely
understand why Jones distributes John Hankey's film and interviews
Russ Baker for hours.
"You got LBJ on the radio behind' em calling
in the assault, 'get ready we're going on to sniper position 1'.
Cos, they had kill zones all the way down to the airport. They
were gonna keep, keep, you know. And they were ready with hand
grenade attacks, bazooka attacks. If they had to they were going
to have military kill em and go to full martial law. They had riot
troops in the air from the army flying above Dallas."
Let's break this last speech down. Like John Hankey,
it's the only way one can fully comprehend the complete nonsense
that conspirahypocrites spout.
"You got LBJ on the radio behind em calling
in the assault, 'get ready we're going on to sniper position 1'."
Really Alex? What happened is that Johnson asked
Herschel Jacks (not an agent), to turn the radio on so he could hear
reportage of the motorcade on a local radio station. (William Manchester, The
Death of a President, p. 203) Occasionally, he would ask how
much further they had to go. Then, Rufus Youngblood, Johnson's assigned
agent would radio back to his follow up car "And ask them how
many more miles and so forth." (Youngblood Testimony, Warren
Commission, Vol. II, p. 151) The closest Johnson ever got to a walkie-talkie
was when Youngblood eventually managed to get over the seat and protect
him. From there, Youngblood was barking orders to the other agents.
(Manchester, pgs. 244-245, Youngblood Testimony, p. 149).
If this evidence isn't enough for you, how does
logic sound? For Johnson to have coordinated the strike, it meant
that he would have had to have undertaken a truly Hankeyian sleight
of hand. Because he was sitting next to his wife Ladybird and a few
feet away from his arch foe, Senator Ralph Yarbrough. Now, Yarbrough
never said anything about Johnson talking into a radio in his Warren
Commission affidavit. (Warren Commission, Vol. VII pgs. 439-440)
Nor did he say anything about Johnson being in continual radio contact
with others to William Manchester in the Death of the President (Manchester,
pgs. 244-245).
H.B. McClain, the motorcycle policeman whose job
it was to shadow Johnson's car, like other patrolmen, didn't much
like Johnson's attitude towards him and his fellow officers either.
He never saw Johnson do anything of the sort. (Larry Sneed, No
More Silence, pgs. 162-169). McLain has also voiced his belief
in a conspiracy to the author and intimated to myself off camera
that a number of his fellow patrolman had privately felt the same
way. (See front page of CTKA web site for my videotaped interview).
Thousands of people lined the streets that day and no one saw Johnson
speaking into a radio; just like they never saw Secret Service agents
being ordered off of cars at the corner of Houston and Elm Street.
They were gonna keep, keep you know, and they
were ready with hand grenade attacks, bazooka attacks.
It was hard to pick up where all of this came
from. There were plenty of lunatics out there making all kinds of
threats against Kennedy. Jones, however seems to have melded every
hare-brained anti-Castro Cuban assassination scheme into a kind of
assassins potpourri. If Jones and others seriously think that a trained
and professional squad of killers would use this kind of cumbersome
equipment, they clearly have no idea of what an assassination entails,
nor read the transcript of a certain Joseph Milteer. Which one can
do at the Mary Ferrell site. Also Alex, how could one pin such an
attempt on any patsy?
Furthermore, there is not a shred of credible evidence
that there were assassination teams dotted all the way through the
motorcade. If there were, why then did they wait until Dealey Plaza?
Did Jones realize that his ludicrous scenario resembles something
from a Warner Brothers cartoon? Has he ever realized that one of
his more frequent guests, Colonel Craig Roberts, thought of Dealey
Plaza, in particular the knoll, as a good ambush spot. In fact, it
could not have gotten any better. You had a car slowed down to about
10 MPH. You had high buildings behind the target so an assassin could
get a good elevated shot off. You had a picket fence in front of
the target at an elevation also. Then you had parking lots in between
for a getaway. With a set up like that, why on earth would anyone
need to call in an assault with bazookas and hand grenades? Do Jones
and Bermas even study covert and clandestine operations? And what
the words 'clandestine' and 'covert' mean?
"If they had to they were going to have military
kill em and go to full martial law. They had riot troops in the
air from the army flying above Dallas".
There is no documented evidence that has come
out either before or after the assassination that the US was going
to 'go to full martial law'. This is another of Jones' Orwellian
fantasies. But it gets worse. Jones flagrantly steals from JFK the
film and then gets it totally wrong. Donald Sutherland (not 'Peter'
as Jones called him in the Marrs interview) who played the X/Fletcher
Prouty character, actually said this about the aircraft.
"We had a third of a combat division returning
from Germany in the air above the United States at the time of
the shooting. The troops were in the air for possible riot control." (Oliver
Stone and Zachary Sklar, in JFK: The Book of the Film, p.
110.)
While there was a combat division returning from
Germany at the time, it was part of a long-term process of repatriation.
But it is crucial that in no way, shape or form did X say anything
about their flying above Dallas. Furthermore, does Jones really think
that one third of a combat division would be enough to enforce martial
law upon the United States? This would be, at the most, 5,000 troops!
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