From the July-August, 1995 issue (Vol. 2 No. 5)

Notebook

Rio Conference

Claudia Furiati, author of ZR Rifle: The Plot to Kill Kennedy and Castro has gotten together with the government of Brazil's Ministry of Culture and arranged a three day conference on the Kennedy assassination to be held in Rio de Janeiro on August 29th, 30th, and 31st. To be co-promoted with the Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro the conference will be entitled "Seminar JFK: International Meeting of J. F. Kennedy Assassination Investigators". The invitations were tendered in July from Helena Severo, Secretary of the Ministry of Culture for Rio de Janeiro. The original invitation list included Jim Lesar, Cyril Wecht, Wayne Smith, Gaeton Fonzi, Gordon Winslow, John Newman, Bill Turner, Edwin Lopez Soto, and Jim DiEugenio.

Dave Park Books

To those looking to spread their horizons on the JFK case to include more than assassination research, Dave Park (nicknamed Captain Cranky) has just issued his most current book list on John Kennedy. The list runs nearly 50 pages and includes over 200 titles and descriptions. To say that some of these books are rare is an understatement. It is difficult to get books like Brad Ayers The War that Never Was, Kerry Thornley's Oswald, and Herb Philbrick's I Led 3 Lives (FBI infiltrator Philbrick was the young Oswald's role model). Sometimes they are not even available in libraries. But has anyone ever heard of Steel and the Presidency, or Kennedy and Big Business? Were you aware there was a record album by Lawrence Schiller and Richard Warren Lewis to accompany their book The Scavengers and Critics of the Warren Report? Finally, did you know that David Phillips wrote a foreword for a book called The Mystique of Conspiracy published in 1978 and that the book's author had help from Paul Hoch?

All this in addition to many of the standbys like Meagher, Lane and Weisberg. Dave caters to collectors so there is a lot in the way of offbeat memorabilia but there's rare gold too. The catalog itself makes for a fascinating read. To get it send ten dollars to Dave Park Books, 3456 17th St., San Francisco CA 94110.

Jennifer Harbury Coalition

Before the Oklahoma City bombing blew her off the front pages, Jennifer Harbury was making headway in finding out who killed her husband and Michael Devine in Guatemala. Now, post-Oklahoma City, few people read about her. Jennifer, an incredibly courageous woman, went down to Guatemala City in July to investigate the case herself. She demanded the exhumation of her late husband, who was reportedly murdered by a Guatemalan army officer in the employ of the CIA. The military has stonewalled on this demand and the CIA has attempted a damage control operation through the media. The special prosecutor on the case in Guatemala has received threatening phone calls, has been the object of surveillance, and had a shot fired through the window of his office.

The following is an excerpt from a letter sent by Jennifer to her friends in July:

The situation in the City is really grim. Karen Fisher's sister was shot at (Karen is the daughter-in-law of Carpio Nicolle-the President's cousin, assassinated by the army in 1993-she is still pushing that case full blast). A young fiscal (state prosecutor) was just shot to death. A gringo photographer (Sky Callahan) from Dallas was just beaten twice in one week-the second time by men who spoke English and accused him of being a political troublemaker. I'm told he will need testicular surgery in the U.S.

It's a spooky pattern. Karen is in the international spotlight-so her sister was attacked. Arango is in the spotlight-a colleague is dead. I am in the spotlight. Another U.S. citizen is beaten twice for no reason. Was this a warning to me?

As Chris Sharrett wrote so eloquently in a recent issue of "The Fourth Decade" one of the shortcomings of the Kennedy research community has been the failure to see causes that we should be making coalitions (real and rhetorical) with. This is one that, to us at CTKA, is clear-cut. The methods of terror installed abroad by the CIA and its allies are alive and kicking today. The question is: If the American public won't demand that its government come clean on who killed its president, can Jennifer Harbury force it to prosecute those who killed her husband?

Those interested in more information on this case can call 213-852-9808.

~ Perry Raymond Russo ~

1941-1995

Just as we went to press, we were told by New Orleans sources that Perry Russo had passed away of a reported heart attack on August 16th.

Russo, of course, was the witness at the Shaw trial who stated that Ferrie, "Leon" Oswald, and a man he later identified as Clay Shaw, discussed the assassination of President Kennedy at Ferrie's apartment in New Orleans in September of 1963. Russo surfaced after Ferrie's death (Ferrie had threatened his life previously) and became a witness for Garrison at the preliminary hearing of Clay Shaw in March, 1967. Perry was brutally maligned by local Shaw allies like Rosemary James, and national media reporters who ended up having government ties e.g.Walter Sheridan, Hugh Aynesworth, and James Phelan (see p. 7, col. 1). Because he would not turn on Garrison he underwent a four year onslaught that altered his life permanently. He later became a taxi driver, working 80 hour weeks. He would always give researchers access to him and was a font of information on Ferrie, anti-Castro Cubans, and the New Orleans scene in general. In the summer of 1994, Perry got researchers Jeff Caufield and Romney Stubbs into Ferrie's apartment and reconstructed the scene at Ferrie's apartment that he testified to at the Shaw trial.


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