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In reply to the discussion: JFK Conference: Mark Lane Addressed the Secret Government’s Role in the Assassination [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)187. Thank you, MinM. Here's FBI Agent Donald A. Adams on Joseph Adams Milteer...
The man's mind is sharp and his story is remarkable:
Georgia Law Professor Wilkes details the story -- from before Adams went whistleblower:
DID HE KNOW JFK TO DIE?
Author: Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law.
Published in The Athens Observer, p. 2A (February 12,1987).
A south Georgian named Joseph Milteer, now dead, represents a second possible Georgia connection to the assassination of President Kennedy. According to FBI documents published by the noted assassinations expert Harold Weisberg in this book Frame-Up in 1971, Joseph Adams Milteer was born in Quitman, Ga., on Feb. 26, 1902. Thus, at the time of the assassination, Milteer was 61 years old. In 1963 he apparently lived in both Quitman and Valdosta. Like many of the persons who were eyewitnesses to Kennedy's death, or who have been suspected of involvement in the Kennedy assassination, Milteer apparently died a violent and unnatural death. According to Robert Groden, a photographic expert who worked for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Milteer died of burns in 1974 at the age of 72 after a Coleman heating stove exploded.
Information concerning Milteer and his possible connection to the JFK assassination is not new. Milteer's possible connection was first divulged (although his name was not mentioned) in a Miami newspaper in an article by a reporter named Bill Barry as far back as Feb. 2, 1967. The FBI presented information on Milteer to the Warren Commission, although Milteer is not mentioned in the Warren Commission Report or in the 26 volumes published by the Commission.
Who was Joseph Milteer? On this question there is general agreement. Miller was a segregationist and arch-conservative on the far right. In his co-authored book The Plot to Kill the President (1981), G. Robert Blakey, who served as counsel for the House Assassinations Committee, describes Milteer as "a right-wing extremist." Anthony Summers, in his 1980 book Conspiracy, uses similar language ("a known right-wing extremist" to describe Milteer, as does Henry Hurt ("an ultra-right wing Georgia business man" in his Reasonable Doubt, published in 1985, and the best single book on the assassination, Michael Kurtz's Crime of the Century (1982), calls Milteer "a well-known right-wing extremist."
The House Assassinations Committee referred to Milteer variously as "a militant conservative," "a militant right-wing organizer," and "a right-wing extremist." Milteer was apparently associated with the National States Rights Party and the White Citizens Council and actively opposed to integration and social justice.
On the morning of Nov. 9, 1963, two weeks before the Kennedy assassination, Milteer engaged in a conversation in a Miami hotel room with a man named Willie Somersett. Apparently unknown to Milteer, Somersett (who died in 1970), was an informer for the police who surreptitiously tape-recorded the conversation. The tape was promptly turned over to local Miami police, who then forwarded it to federal authorities. The taped conversation was revealed for the first time publicly in the Miami News in February 1967, although Milteer's named was not mentioned. The Miami News article was quoted at length (again without mentioning Milteer's name) in Harold Weisberg's Oswald in New Orleans, also published in 1967. In 1971 in Frame-Up Weisberg published a transcript of the taped conversation, together with various FBI documents relating to Milteer. This time Milteer's name was given. In 1979 the House Assassinations Committee included information on Milteer in several of its published volumes, and quoted verbatim an excerpt from the transcript of his Nov. 9, 1963 conversation with Somersett.
According to the House Committee transcript, Milteer told Somersett that the killing of Kennedy "was in the working," that the president could be killed "[f]rom an office building with a high-powered rifle," that the rifle could be "disassembled" to get it into the building, and that "[t]hey will pick up somebody within hours afterward, if anything like that would happen just to throw the public off." He also mentioned "the Cubans."
When Miami police turned the tape-recorded conversation over to the Secret Service and FBI, there was a flurry of activity and extra security precautions were taken to protect the president on his trip to Miami, which took place on Nov. 18, the Monday before the Friday assassination. However, information about the Milteer remarks apparently was not passed on to Secret Service officials responsible for the trip to Dallas.
Here, then, is a second possible Georgia connection to the JFK assassination: less than two weeks before the president's death, a Georgia political extremist on the far right was recorded saying things that indicate--at least in retrospect--that he knew not only of a plot to kill the president but also some of the details of the plot. Milteer's statements, as noted, were taken seriously by federal authorities; and the Secret Service's Miami office filed on Milteer was entitled "Alleged Possible Threat Against the President."
However, the recorded conversation of Nov. 9, 1963 is not the only evidence of the possibility of a Georgia connection through Joseph Milteer to the JFK killing. According to FBI documents published by Harold Weisberg, Milteer told an informer (presumably Somersett) in an unrecorded conversation in Jacksonville, Fla., on the afternoon of the assassination: "Everything ran true to form. I guess you thought I was kidding you when I said he [Kennedy] would be killed from a window with a high-powered rifle."
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http://www.law.uga.edu/dwilkes_more/jfk_4did.html
ETA Wilkes article.
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Octafish
Nov 2013
OP
I see. You're the type of person who argues that you can't prove George Washington really existed.
stopbush
Nov 2013
#69
More boring cut-n-paste from Octa who refuses to answer why they believe the HSCA
stopbush
Nov 2013
#98
Please look at YOUR post #7 in this thread: "CIA Director Bush helped destroy HSCA investigation."
stopbush
Nov 2013
#105
Blakey believes the mob was involved and will probably go to his grave believing that.
stopbush
Dec 2013
#172
Don't understand why certain DUers don't appreciate the BFEE connections to Dealey Plaza.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#106
Odd is how that same George HW Bush in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963 shows up to head CIA 12 years later.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#145
Like your exchange with Jim DiEugenio? You did all you could to drive him off.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#149
Speak plainly, sir. Are you accusing me of being here under false pretenses?
Bolo Boffin
Nov 2013
#150
Or leave these foolish games and Meta distractions aside and start dealing with the evidence already
Octafish
Nov 2013
#151
No, I have not been 'payed' or paid to write about the assassination of President Kennedy.
Octafish
Dec 2013
#179
There's a good analysis of the Parrott memo in Russ Baker's book 'Family of Secrets'
Mc Mike
Dec 2013
#186
I'm sorry that you sometimes take so much flack and displays of antipathy for posting good info.
Mc Mike
Dec 2013
#190
The problem for them is that no matter how they try to discredit ANYONE who doesn't march in
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#53
journal.. feh. you're no REAL journalist man... you've never even been in a shootout!!1111
dionysus
Nov 2013
#57
E. Hunt was such an upstanding man. Now I'm convinced, Hunt denied it, therefore it must be true.
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#55
"So much effort to prevent people from speaking their minds on this historical tragedy."
zappaman
Nov 2013
#56
Most of us, a majority of the people, want to see bullshit countered and don't everything their
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#65
E Howard Hunt planted fake cables in WH safe to make it look like JFK ordered Diem assassination...
Octafish
Nov 2013
#141
CIA caught red-handed in HSCA safe, a pattern of obstruction of justice in JFK assassination.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#142
Wow, thank you for that. Tampering with evidence. Yet nothing was done about it, and some wonder why
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#144
I don't know what Brehm said, but Lane interviewed him on videotape. It's on You Tube.
Zen Democrat
Nov 2013
#109
You've got the wrong book. The CIA went after Lane's idiocies in in his POS book
stopbush
Dec 2013
#153
Guilt by association is un-American. Lane is an attorney who represented two clients.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#28
It's easy. Mark Lane says we don't know the whole truth, but it looks like CIA conspiracy.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#38
I watched the 'Firing Line' debate between Lane and Buckley on YouTube the other day
KurtNYC
Nov 2013
#6
It doesn't matter, but I believe Mark Lane is Jewish. He also is an attorney...
Octafish
Nov 2013
#41
Mark Lane's involvement with Liberty Lobby references the JFK assassination.
avaistheone1
Nov 2013
#50
I'm pretty new to all the JFK conspiracy stuff, about the past 6-7 years or so. I was only 9 months
Ghost in the Machine
Nov 2013
#73
YOU are a DU treasure, Octafish, keep the info coming. I look forward to your next reporting.
mother earth
Nov 2013
#47
And yet when he was a part of the HSCA investigation, he agreed that the head wounds
Bolo Boffin
Nov 2013
#51
Looks like you've got a host of Hugh Aynesworth wannabees in this thread Sir-K&R, NGU
bobthedrummer
Nov 2013
#44
I finally got around to reading Lane's Rush to Judgment in the mid-70s. I usually save books but
struggle4progress
Nov 2013
#75
Seems after forty years, Lane's still working to get more than two pebbles in a straight line
struggle4progress
Nov 2013
#115
A spoon of barley tossed into a barrel of water makes mighty thin gruel. Here's the testimony
struggle4progress
Nov 2013
#129
The Chicago Plot involved a tipster named ''Lee.'' And the DIA harrassed Edwin Black.
Octafish
Nov 2013
#132
Apparently, Veciana's death was misreported, according to Vince Palamara.
robertpaulsen
Dec 2013
#193
Mr. Lane credited himself on that one! Said it should've been called 'The Mark Lane Bill.' LOL!
Octafish
Nov 2013
#120
It was, indeed, Oliver Stone's "JFK" that got Congress to pass the "JFK Act"
red dog 1
Nov 2013
#125