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From the July-August, 1997 issue (Vol. 4 No. 5) |
Call them the assassinations that won’t go away. In the last two months the JFK, RFK, and MLK cases have all been in the news in various ways. It is amazing that three decades after the fact, when official verdicts have been rendered in them all, that like a recurring nightmare, they continue to prick at our national consciousness.
In the feature story, I continue my investigation into the newly released information about Clay Shaw’s defense team, led by the Wegmann brothers. This half shows the depth of the Wegmann’s involvement with the Washington intelligence establishment. Significant new information is revealed here for the first time, including a link between Gordon Novel and Allen Dulles. Lisa Pease follows this up with an excerpt from Novel’s Playboy deposition about an episode relating to these two characters that is as hilarious as it is illuminating.
In the JFK case, on June 29th, Arts and Entertainment Channel televised a one hour Investigative Reports in which, Jack Anderson basically recycled his decades old version of the crime: the CIA-Mafia Castro assassination plots backfired onto JFK. In this one he implied that Santo Trafficante was a double agent working for Castro and he got Oswald to shoot Kennedy for the Cuban leader in retaliation for the plots. Earlier, on C-SPAN, the ARRB hearing on the Zapruder film was telecast live. Probe covers this proceeding in depth and gives you the latest on other Board developments specifically a possible one-year extension and the denouement to the Harry Connick conflict.
On the RFK front, Court TV televised the latest parole hearing for Sirhan Sirhan. Although Larry Teeter made another credible presentation, although Sirhan has been a model prisoner, the parole is still denied after nearly three decades. Lisa Pease summarizes that hearing and gives you some good background on what is probably the strangest of the three assassinations.
The King case has been in the news the most of late. As we went to press the test results of the rifle, as ordered by Judge Joe Brown, have not been finalized. But James Earl Ray is still in need of a liver transplant and William Pepper and the King family still continue to fight for a new trial for Ray. As they do, the media controversy continues to swirl about them and we detail it here.
In other stories, Don Gibson begins a two part reexamination of the life and death of Huey Long. In this segment, Gibson notes the parallels between Long’s policies and JFK’s. As expected, he sheds new light on a much distorted figure.
Probe alerts you to long delayed justice in the case of Elmer Pratt, the Black Panther who is finally released after a quarter century in jail.
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