The File
on Richard Case Nagell CTKA has assembled the latest in newly released material on "The Man Who Knew Too Much". This contains, material from CIA, FBI, and the Garrison investigation. It also has revealing letters by Nagell himself, including his own long suit for a new trial exposing the plot to silence him in prison. Make up your own mind if Nagell is, as some have said, the most important "ground level" witness to the conspiracy. (85 pages) $12.95
Peter Vea
IndexFinally, CTKA makes available the first index to the files of Jim Garrison. Peter Vea has assembled a day by day chronicle of the Garrison investigation with lengthy descriptions of memos, reports by the staff. Even includes clippings about the probe. With this tool you can order the actual memos themselves, knowing what's in them, from either the AARC or NARA. Invaluable for anyone looking for raw data instead of "spin" about JG and New Orleans. (58 pages) $12.95
Files
of Anna-Marie Kuhns-Walko When the JFK Act was contemplated and passed in 1992, Anna Marie Kuhns-Walko was living in Washington D. C area. When some of the government agencies began to release hundreds of thousands of documents in advance of the Review Board being appointed, she began to make daily pilgrimages to the National Archives in downtown D. C. to begin pouring through these new releases. On many days, she was there when the doors opened until they closed. By the time she moved to New Mexico in 1995, she had accumulated 6 full file cabinets full of materials. She has furnished these documents to many prominent researchers for their work, too many to be named here. She was a speaker at the COPA conference in 1994, and Probe did a profile of her in its July 22, 1995 issue. Anna was kind enough to donate some of her discoveries to CTKA to distribute to interested readers and researchers. In this, the first volume of that work (there will be more to follow), we highlight 25 of her most interesting discoveries divided up into 7 categories:
This collection is possibly the most compelling short argument for openness in government around today. We all owe thanks to the woman who produced it.
Price: $9.95
Files of
AMKW VOl. 2 Oswald, the KGB and Cuba: The Coleman-Slawson Report
Written by the WC, classified Top Secret, then passed to the Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee. Finally declassified in 1994. Redacted in small part, it explores LHO in Russia and possible KGB ties. Also his ties to pro and anti-Castro groups. Appendices from John McVickar, and FBI interview of Nosenko. Strongest evidence yet that the WC knew Oswald was an agent. (132 pages) $12.95
The Kathleen Cunningham Collection
When the JFK Act declassified hundreds of thousand of pages of documents in 1992, Kathleen Cunningham specifically targeted the previously classified medical evidence of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Chief Counsel Robert Blakey had stashed away much of the raw data on which that Committee based its ultimate conclusion of one assassin, one magic bullet, and the fatal shot from the rear. Many had thought there must be a reason for so many interviews remaining classified and Blakey's insistence on issuing such a limited amount of evidence to the public while carefully choreographing the public hearings.
Ms. Cunningham began making requests to the National Archives and collecting hundreds of documents at her home in Florida. Then she went beyond that. She transcribed them to computer disc so others could access them without requesting them one by one from the Archives. Lisa Pease has taken Ms. Cunningham's original transcriptions and reformatted them for easy accessibility. The collection contains over 342 pages of documents.
Here, for the first time, the reader can read the unrehearsed, unmanaged interviews of many important witnesses, some never from before e.g. Kennedy's personal physician George Burkley, Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Parkland nurse Audrey Bell, Admiral Galloway, General Wehle, FBI agents SIbert and O'Neill, radiologist John Ebersole. Some of what they have to say, as Harold Weisberg has noted, is startling. By reading it, the reader will understand, not only the failure of the House Select Committee, but the truth about the medical evidence and why it had to be covered up. As we have noted elsewhere, this is probably the most valuable collection of data on that aspect of the case since 1979.
IBM or Mac Disk Price: $19.95 Printed :$39.95
Michael Morrissey's
manuscript Looking for the EnemyProfessor Morrissey lives is an American living in Germany. After viewing The Men Who Killed Kennedy he began to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Kennedy assassination. In 1993 he self-published this manuscript. He then appeared at the 1994 COPA Conference. There he made a presentation based on one of the chapters in the book, a review and reinterpretation of the crucial Bay of Pigs episode. The first extended discussion of the possibility of deliberate sabotage of that operation at a high level. We think you will agree that it is representative of a vigorous, inquiring, incisively mind and an equally energetic writing style. In this intriguing and irresistible collection, Michael also reviews the whole Vietnam dispute. He discusses the Stone/Newman version of JFK's intent to pull out vs. the Cockburn/Chomsky conception that this was not the case. Included here are extended quotes from Cockburn's attack on Stone in The Nation and never before revealed excerpts from correspondence between Morrissey and Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT.
The anthology concludes with essays on control of the media and Michael's thoughts on the history and origins of AIDS. (167 pages)
Price: $17.95
Bill Davy's Monograph Through
the Looking Glass: The Mysterious World of Clay Shaw People interested in the case are always asking: Is there anything new coming out of the Archives? Bill Davy answered that question with his 1995 monograph on New Orleans and Clay Shaw in the '60's.
This sensational, scholarly work furthers the research of authors like Bill Turner, Paris Flammonde, and Jim DiEugenio with authority and precision. Author Davy lives outside Washington D.C. and when the National Archives opened up the Kennedy documents he began making regular forays there and focusing on the Garrison investigation, especially the role and career of Clay L. Shaw. He supplemented that with two research trips to New Orleans where he did more archival work and conducted many important interviews. The result is, to use an appropriate but familiar phrase, state of the art. The entire New Orleans scene is lighted and amplified as never before. New personages are introduced, nagging questions are answered, shady areas are filled in. And Clay Shaw's life is explored, for the first time, in depth and at length. Never again can anyone say that Garrison's pursuit of him was misguided or unwarranted.
Bill's manuscript is offered with a foreword by James DiEugenio, over 200 footnotes (many from never before released documents), and an index by Lisa Pease. (70 pages)
Price: $12.95
Shaw Trial: Clinton
Witnesses' Testimony In the summer of 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, David Ferrie, and Clay Shaw took a trip to the Clinton-Jackson area of Louisiana. These two rural areas are about 170 miles north of New Orleans and stand about 12 miles from each other. When State Trooper Frances Fruge was investigating the Rose Cheramie case, he heard about the visit since the hospital she was at, is located between the two small towns. Although the incident had been reported a few times earlier, this is the first time that Garrison had learned of it. His office conducted an extensive investigation of the episode, interviewing hundreds of people. They came up with a list of 45 potential witnesses to the appearances. Andrew Sciambra and Fruge decided on the eight witnesses to be presented at trial.
When they appeared, they made one of the most a most vivid impression at the trial of Clay Shaw. Knowing this ahead of time, Garrison's opponents like Hugh Aynesworth and Tom Bethell, tried to discredit them in advance. This failed. So Irvin Dymond tried every trick in the book to shake their stories on the stand. As the reader will see, this also failed. At times, as in the case of William Dunn, it backfired with jocular results. Many of the jurors felt that they were the most compelling witnesses for either side.
Until 1992, the only copy of the trial transcript was in the files of court stenographer Helen Dietrich. When the JFK Act went into effect, the National Archives revealed that the House Select Committee on Assassinations had ordered a copy from her. At last the public can now see for themselves who is telling the truth about that strange, incriminating excursion into the outer provinces of Louisiana in the waning summer of 1963, less than three months before the murder of JFK.
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Shaw Trial: Finck Testimony
Next to the Zapruder film, no other episode at the Shaw trial was as damaging to the official story as the cross-examination of Pierre Finck. Helped by assassination expert Vincent Salandria, Garrison's assistant Alvin Oser was well prepared to show both the extraordinarily unprofessional practices undertaken at the autopsy and some of the breathtaking inconsistencies in the official medical and ballistics story (or legend).
Garrison had initially called Finck to New Orleans to testify for the prosecution. When he realized he would be a hostile witness, he dismissed him. The defense then enlisted him to testify for their side. Realizing that Garrison would explore the gaping holes in the single bullet theory, they thought that Finck would save the day by showing that the autopsy still supported it. But after, a predictably easy direct-examination, Oser began his grueling, grinding cross-examination. To read the transcript is to see how faltering, how hesitant, how halting Finck is when faced with tough questions. Sometimes he contradicts himself, sometimes he needs his own answer read back, sometimes he takes so long to answer it becomes funny. And even though he is resistant, Oser still gets him to emit some bombshells, e.g. about the delay by the doctors in seeing the actual photos, and their obedience to military brass on the night of 11/22/63. Many feel this was the first big crack in the medical aspect of this case. Its a pity we had to wait so long to see it. Now everyone can.
Price: $24.95
Air-Force 1 Transcripts CTKA board member Kathleen Cunningham has transcribed a new record of those famous broadcasts based on the actual recording obtained from the LBJ Library. These are not government transcripts. Kathy listened over and over to the audio tapes to render the most accurate transcription of that record now available. She spent many hours amplifying levels, adjusting bass and treble, even adding another recorder for stereo effect, in order to attain the most complete record of radio traffic between Washington and the president's plane to date. The transcript includes annotations, a short introduction and a Code Name directory.
Price: $11.95
Ed Haslam's new
book Mary, Ferrie & The Monkey Virus
A fellow writer once said of James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, "Enter this sacred wood if you dare." The same figure applies to Haslam's book. The difference is that Joyce's work is fiction. Haslam's is fact. Which, of course, makes it even more intriguing and powerful.
In his 1967 interview in Playboy (still worth reading), Garrison made the following statement: "Ferrie had a rather curious hobby in addition to his study of cartridge trajectories: cancer research. He. . .wrote a medical treatise on the subject and worked with a number of New Orleans doctors on means of inducing cancer in mice. After the assassination, one of these physicians, Dr. Mary Sherman, was found hacked to death with a kitchen knife in her New Orleans apartment. Her murder is listed as unsolved."
For almost three decades no one realized the thunderous importance of that passage. Finally, native New Orleanian Ed Haslam began an inquiry into the curious life and horrible death of the brilliant, eccentric Mary Sherman. His investigation of only her death ends up touching on the lives of David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Guy Banister, Ed Butler and one of the most prominent New Orleans citizens of the day, Dr. Alton Ochsner. Haslam peels back the surfaces on these people and the city of New Orleans in the sixties. His quest ultimately touches on the mystery of the 90's: was the AIDS virus manmade? And if so, how and why? To use one of Jim Garrison's favorite phrases, the book is radioactive.
Price: $12.95
Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba
and the Garrison Case, by Jim DiEugenio With the demise of Sheridan Square Press, it has become very difficult to get Don Gibson's and Jim DiEugenio's books. CTKA has decided to offer both as a service to its readers. DiEugenio's 1992 book was the first favorable review of Jim Garrison's investigation in over two decades. Along with Oliver Stone's film it spawned a new look at the work of the much maligned DA and led to new discoveries and a reevaluation. Among its achievements are the new work done on the intelligence ties of Garrison's major journalistic critics; a reexamination of the life and role of Clay Shaw and the PERMINDEX complex; perhaps the most balanced and objective view of Shaw's trial in book form. The book also includes two valuable appendixes: verbatim excerpts from the trail testimony of Dr. Pierre Finck, and the complete text of the famous CIA memorandum advising stations how to deal with (read "discredit") critics of the Warren Report. The book has nearly one thousand footnotes, many of them interesting and worth reading themselves.
Price: $19.95
Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy
Presidency, by Professor Donald Gibson Donald Gibson is a professor at he University of Pittsburgh. In 1994, he wrote his study of the Kennedy presidency which focuses on the economic policies of JFK. It remains the best, most complete, most profound analysis of Kennedy's monetary and fiscal policies. By studying these in depth and at length, not only does Gibson show us who Kennedy really was, but also he points out who the opposition and its allies were. And by following that trail, he shows where the nexus of power, media control and the CIA meet. From the opening jewel of a chapter in which he (definitively) examines the 1962 steel crisis, Gibson broadens his analysis to include both Kennedy's micro and macro-economic policies and how they impacted the status quo. He also includes a section on Kennedy's economic policies toward the emerging Third World and how those effected the same forces he was in opposition to at home. He closes with how those policies were reversed by his enemies once he was murdered. The book is so unique, accurate, and convincing that its actually invigorating. Can anyone imagine any of JFK's successors calling the steel barons a tiny cabal "whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility" and whose actions can show "utter contempt for the interests of 185 million Americans."
Like John Newman's JFK and Vietnam, Battling Wall Street has opened up new vistas of research on both JFK's life and the conspiracy that erased it and its legacy.
Price: $19.95
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