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From the September-October issue (Vol. 6 No. 6) |
Probe continues to counter the phony Conventional Wisdom that "there's nothing new in the declassified documents." We have run important articles by Gary Aguilar and Milicent Cranor on the re-investigation of the medical evidence by ARRB Chief Counsel Jeremy Gunn. This new evidence is nothing more than devastating to the official story. Last issue we ran a long piece based on new evidence focusing on Rose Cheramie and Sergio Arcacha-Smith. In this issue, we are proud to publish the latest work on the CIA, Oswald, and Mexico City by Professor John Newman. We think Newman's work with the declassified files on this subject is among the most important contributions quarried out of the four million pages of new evidence declassified by the Assassination Records Review Board. In fact, we believe that it is the most important work pinpointing a high-level conspiracy before the fact. Again, like the two previous subjects, it is the type of evidence that could be used in a court of law. Not only does Newman show that Oswald was impersonated in Mexico City, he also shows that others on the CIA transcripts were impersonated and that the impersonation was meant to pin the blame for the assassination on the communists in Cuba or the Soviet Union. He also shows that the chief culprit in this clever maneuvering was David Phillips about whom Eddie Lopez—one of the authors of the HSCA Mexico City Report—told me: "Jim, this conspiracy was like a giant spider web, and in the middle of it was Phillips."
Speaking of Phillips, we present an interview with the House Select Committee investigator who was chiefly responsible for bringing his name to the forefront of the newspapers and public consciousness: Gaeton Fonzi. Fonzi takes us behind the scenes at the HSCA and shows us how that Committee was transformed after the departure of the first Chief Counsel Richard Sprague.
The always trenchant Milicent Cranor focuses her skills this time on Josiah Thompson. Has Six Seconds in Dallas withstood the test of time? Or was it even at the forefront of knowledge when it first came out over thirty years ago? Cranor asks some difficult questions about that work and demonstrates why she would answer both queries in the negative. This is an article that really makes us think about accepted judgments.
Mike Vinson reminds us that the MLK case is not dead, and that legal obfuscation continues to deny Jerry Ray the right to the rifle belonging to his dead brother. Is the state of Tennessee afraid that Ray will have the rifle tested, and that the tests may finally prove Ray’s innocence?
The battle over a free press is always raging either in the foreground or the background. Dennis Melendez describes the battle in Berkeley to save KPFA from retreating into the mainstream, i.e. trivia and inconsequence. And speaking of inconsequence, in1975, Geraldo Rivera electrified the nation with the first public showing of the Zapruder film. But today he plays pattycake with the likes of Gerald Posner and Michael Baden. We note these milestones and try to fathom the reasons. It's not a pretty picture.
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