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From the January-February, 1998 issue (Vol. 5 No. 2) |
Could it really have been just a few months ago that things looked so promising in the King case? Newspapers were carrying stories about its possible reopening; James Earl Ray was actually on news and talk shows; Bill Pepper was actually debating people about the facts of the case etc. We don't really know what happened to wreck all this, but in this issue we chronicle the whole sorry mess in one installment, giving the reader a macroscopic view of the wreckage. As we note in our cover story, in 1996, the state of Tennessee overturned a point of law that stated that a defendant could get a new trial if his original presiding judge had not decided on his request for a rehearing. In retrospect, we can't help wondering about the timing of that rewrite of the law books.
As we have done in the past, we print here an excerpt from a new book on this issue and tell you how to get it. This excerpt, from Dr. James Fetzer's collection of essays called Assassination Science, concerns Dr. David Mantik's continuing work on the John F. Kennedy skull X-rays. Mantik's work on the medical evidence in this case has continued to be utterly fascinating and this new book features three essays by him. This piece makes the best case yet for alteration of autopsy evidence after the fact in order to conceal a conspiracy. David invites anyone to debate him on this issue as he has been researching it for about four years now. We think his essay is quite convincing, but welcome anyone who wishes to debate his findings.
John Armstrong's two part article on the case for two Oswalds elicited a lot of interest from out readers, so we encouraged John to elaborate on his work revolving around the possible use of an Oswald double in the Tippit case. No one has done any really deep work on the Tippit murder since Jim Garrison's fine chapter on the episode in his book On the Trail of the Assassins. Armstrong's work presents some new evidence to light up a different area of that murder, one that has been ignored for much too long.
Donald Gibson continues to dig deeper into connections between New Orleans and Wall Street. Here he pushes back the curtain on the mysterious International House, so much a part of the New Orleans aristocracy in general and Alton Ochsner and Clay Shaw in particular. He shows how this was basically a Wall Street, power elite invention; a device to push a global economy way before that phrase became a liberal buzzword. He also raised some interesting points about the enigma of Richard Sorge and the Institute for Pacific Relations, which appears to have been, in CIA jargon, a "false flag" front i.e. an establishment creation meant to attract and keep track of leftists. Interestingly, Hoover and Joe Alsop knew this. Charles Willoughby did not.
Lisa Pease pays tribute to a marvelous, but ignored, first generation researcher of the first rank: the late Maggie Field. She had the privilege of meeting her before she died a few months ago. She shares some of that experience with our readers. Finally, I chronicle some more of the unfortunate public utterances of the Review Board members. "Nuff said. Let's be happy with John Tunheim and the marvelous staff.
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