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From the January-February 2000 issue (Vol. 7 No. 2) |
We are gratified to present here John Williams interview with the first Chief Counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Richard Sprague. Sprague was forced to resign on the last day of March 1997. He was then replaced by Cornell professor Robert Blakey. Most commentaries agree that the transfer of power marked the beginning of the end for the last chance to resolve the Kennedy case. They turned out to be right to our knowledge, this is the longest published interview that srague has given since the end of the HSCA. We think it's also his best.
The redoubtable author of the best book on the Garrison investigation, Bill Davy, has been doing more sifting through the newly released files. He reports here on four new ones of interest. Is the CIA dodging and feinting to ignore giving us the facts about Clay Shaw's operational status? Was Shaw connected to Southern Air Transport, a long-time airline that is CIA propriety? He also reveals pseudonyms for the notorious head of the CIA’s "Executive Action" assassination program, William Harvey. Finally, he produced some startling evidence about Kennedy's real attitude toward Cuba in 1963 and how the Cuban exiles felt about it. Away, Gus Russo, away.
In our cover story, I survey the media reaction to the King vs. Jowers lawsuit. The Kings won. The jury ruled that Jowers was a conspirator in a plot too wide to have been handled solely by James Earl Ray, Predictably but sadly, the media downplayed the story. They buried it on the back pages; they ridiculed the people involved; and they editorialized against it. They even brought out Darth Vader, a.k.a. Gerald Posner, to demean the Kings and to portray the trial as a sideshow. They could not reverse the fact that the King case has now been declared a conspiracy in a court of law.
We are always on the lookout for good stories on foreign assassinations. We think we have another on the assassination of Luis Colosio, a candidate for the Mexican presidency in 1994. Film director Alex Cox has assembled a wealth of information which makes startling connections between Colosio's murder, the later assassination of Francisco Massieu, the Salinas brothers, the CIA, and the drug trade. We urge our readers to read this long article in its entirety. It is both eye opening and yet oddly familiar.
Gary Aguilar has given us another fine article on the JFK medical and ballistics evidence. Gary has been going through the declassified files of the Review Board and has come up with information that further weakens two cornerstones of the House Select Committee’s and the Warren Commission’s verdicts. It seems that now there is even more indication that the Kennedy autopsy photographs were not really authenticated and that CE399—the Magic Bullet—could not be identified later by the people who originally found and handled it. And the FBI and HSCA knew it and skirted the issue. In the JFK case, the authorities always do.
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