Many in the Cabinet were over the Pacific, en route to Tokyo...

...Pierre Salinger can be heard on the Air Force One tapes calling for information about the President. Gosh, it breaks me up, hearing "Wayside" trying to restrain the anguish in his voice.

The Cabinet was heading for some important, but pre-planned shindig. J. Gary Shaw writes in his book Cover-Up, "that Secretary of State (Dean) Rusk, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and Labor Secretary W.W. Wirtz, as well as other administration officials like White House Press Secretary (Pierre) Salinger, were trapped in an airplane over the Pacific Ocean at such a critical time."

I agree with several others who have wondered why Salinger was not with the President in Dallas. He might've asked "WTF?" on seeing the motorcade and security arrangements in Dallas.

The thing that is most treasonous that few Americans know: Two weeks before Dallas, Secret Service in Chicago had busted up an attempt by a team of four shooters. Same schema, high powered rifles, skyscrapers, JFK in open car, making a hairpin turn. Knowing all that, the Secret Service allowed the motorcade in Dallas.



One of the agents who helped break up the Chicago plot was the first African American Secret Service Agent to serve on the White House detail, Abraham Bolden. He was personally selected by President Kennedy, whom he describes in this address at JFK Lancer.

There's no need to theorize. The facts themselves are startling.

Personally, I greatly admire Gen. LeMay for his bravery during World War II. The guy did what he asked his men to do. (Looking back, I disagree with firebombing Japan's cities and civilian population. Same for the raids on Germany's civilians. And you know how I hate NAZIs and Imperialists, seeing how they were and are business partners with a certain class of wealth.)

Of course, I don't agree with LeMay's postwar leadership and politics. He seemed to want to spark World War III, after Krushchev blinked during the Cuban Missile Crisis:

Doug Horne worked for the ARRB...

...Thank you, stranger81! He is most profound.

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/jfks-war-against-the-national-security-establishment/

The evidence seems to show a clear trail from LHO to Moscow.

Guy has a record as a disaffected shmo. Guy goes to work with a package. President shot outside place he works. Guy runs and is arrested at the movies with a gun. Guy says he's a patsy to reporters and asks to speak to a lawyer specializing in defending those in political conspiracies. Guy tries to make a phone call from jail to a US Army intelligence big wig in North Carolina. Guy gets shot dead in police custody. J Edgar Hoover tells new President about a "little incident" in Mexico City involving someone impersonating the guy.

A great chunk of the rest of the evidence shows the guy couldn't have done what he is accused of doing.

Who laid down the evidence, and why, are other matters. Personally, it looks like figures in the national security establishment. My reasons: JFK said "No" to them every time they wanted war.

JFK Conference: Bill Kelly introduced new evidence - adding Air Force One tape recordings

As a Democrat, a DUer and as a citizen of the United States, I was proud to attend the Passing the Torch: An International Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy at Duquesne University. One of the many important things discussed there was what historian and researcher, William E. Kelly, Jr. presented to the conference. He added new information to the historical record: a more complete record of the Air Force One radio transmissions made on Nov. 22, 1963. Now a fellow DUer, please welcome Bill Kelly, should he pop up on a thread.



In his presentation, Mr. Kelly described the provenance of the new recording -- discovered among the personal effects of Gen. Chester Clifton, an aide to President Kennedy who was aboard Air Force One on the trip to Dallas. The new tapes add content to what was on the version held by the National Archives.

To get as much information as possible from the new material, Mr. Kelly contacted Ed Primeau, the audio expert who had assisted in the analysis of 9-11 recordings in the Trayvon Martin case. Mr. Kelly and Mr. Primeau combined the tapes and created a transcript. It is available online:

http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/

Interestingly, the more complete tape still does not have information that was, evidently, available in the mid-1960s when authors Theodore White, William Manchester and JFK Press Secretary Pierre Salinger quoted from them in their books. Among the points those authors made that are not on the tapes available: Sections of military personnel conversations from the plane to Washington; President Lyndon B. Johnson was concerned about Soviet involvement in the assassination; McGeorge Bundy was in charge of the Situation Room at the White House; Bundy contacted Air Force One to report Oswald arrested and there was no conspiracy.

Here's an overview of what the new Air Force One tapes:

http://vimeo.com/76173546

The new combined Air Force One tape is about an hour and half long. It still may be a small fraction of what may still be available in some archive, based on the amount of material referenced and the normal procedure to tape all transmissions between Air Force One and the various governmental and military authorities. Mr. Kelly estimates there may be as much as 8 hours of AF1 tapes from that terrible day in Dallas.

Some important background on the tapes and the history:

Yes. The illegal, lie-based war on Iraq goes straight back to Dallas.

Connecting the dirty dots along the way is the name Bush.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1377737

What a coincidence. Not.

JFK stood up to the Cold War hawks who counseled war -- EVERY TIME.

Even though Dulles and Lemnitzer knew their invasion plans were compromised, the CIA and Pentagon tried to force Kennedy to make war over the Bay of Pigs.

While an attack on Soviet missile bases in Cuba and on ships at sea would escalate to nuclear war, the Pentagon and most of the Cabinet tried to force Kennedy to make war, nuclear if necessary -- the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Pentagon and the Hawks in Congress and his Cabinet recommended war in Vietnam and southeast Asia to stop the spread of Communism, Kennedy sent volunteers -- which he ordered out by the end of 1964 -- but said he would never commit U.S. draftees to fight in another country's civil war, Vietnam.

Most troublesome to me, seeing how the Hawks lied America into invading Iraq twice in the last 22 years, DCI Allen Dulles and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Lyman Lemnitzer counseled Kennedy to order an all-out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in Fall of 1963 -- the optimal time for a successful pre-emptive war.

JFK Conference: James DiEugenio made clear how Foreign Policy changed after November 22, 1963

As a Democrat, a DUer and as a citizen of the United States, I was proud to attend the Passing the Torch: An International Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy at Duquesne University. One of the many important things discussed there was what author, historian and teacher, James DiEugenio reported on the important change in foreign policy JFK represented from his predecessor and his successors, immediate and otherwise.



DiEugenio said President John F. Kennedy did not undergo a change of heart from Cold War hawk to liberal dove Democrat only after the hair-raising nuclear crises he experienced in office. "John F. Kennedy was never a Cold Warrior," DiEugenio said. Throughout his 16-year career in the House and Senate, President Kennedy sided with the People, Justice and Democracy -- across the United States and around the world. This is a world view radically different from Eisenhower, and his foreign policy makers, principally the Dulles Brothers and their allies, including young Dick Nixon.

The JFK Administration may have represented a break in the action, H20 Man's Father explained to him and I agree. It was a special interlude, indeed. In only 1,037 days, we launched the nation toward the moon, creating a new type of economy; maintained the peace when several times the heads of the military and the secret organs of the national security state counseled all-out war; and started the nation on a path where all men are equal under the law, no matter race, color, or creed, and justice extended to economics and health, as under FDR and the New Deal.

DiEugenio’s research shows President Kennedy was working to defend the interests of democracy over those of colonialism, not only in Europe, as evinced in divided Berlin, but in Africa, Asia, South America and around the world. During less than three years in office, Kennedy turned official U.S. support from that of Eisenhower and the Dulles Brothers for supporting US commercial and colonial interests over democracy, such as in Guatemala and Iran, to respect for the nations and their democratically elected leaders, like Lumumba and Sukarno. In matters of war and peace, JFK always sided with peace, making overtures to North Vietnam. The Dulles Brothers and Nixon sided with France and the colonial powers, even drawing up plans to nuke the North Vietnamese Army at Dien Bien Phu, Operation VULTURE.

The record shows JFK's Foreign Policy of democracy over colonialism was immediately reversed by Lyndon B. Johnson, who reversed course in Vietnam and supported the pro-colonialist forces in Congo, Vietnam, Brazil, Dominican Republic and elsewhere around the world. Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and most who followed continued the Business-As-Usual, advancing the interests of Big Money, Big Oil and Big Wars for Profit.

One of the things I am most proud of is how Democratic Underground covered many of these salient points on its boards, from DU1 through the present day. At the Duquesne conference, I was listening and nodding, knowing that many times we had discussed this on DU. In looking back to one particularly important post through GOOGLE, I found we sourced this information back to DiEugenio. That's what the Internet can do: Spread Truth.

Why it matters.

Democracy depends on Truth. The Republic depends on Justice. That is, the reality that ours is a nation under law.

Once a criminal is, or criminals are, allowed to go free, Justice has been denied. We find ourselves operating under a falsehood, we are living a Big Lie.

We as a Nation have been on the criminal path since November 22, 1963.

DUers know you don’t need to read a history book or watch a tee vee special to know: It shows. Since 1964 and the Gulf of Tonkin, it’s been a series of wars without end for profit. And in the process, the rich became super-rich -- the richest and most powerful people in history.

Thanks for reading. Keep spreading the Truth, DU! The next 50 years can be different -- they can be decades of peace and prosperity for ALL: They can be Democratic.

Smirko was so scared of aerial attack, he slept on board a destroyer.