Reply #31: Fascinating Secret letter, amazing how when these are declassified...

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...they never seem to get much attention in the MSM.

And she was only 35 when she died. It still amazes me how people in the 1950's and 60's seemed to accomplish so much more that people the same age today do. When I was 30, I was still struggling to find a stable work situation, actually I still am at 42, so maybe I'm not a good example.

Here's another "Chapter" of the Lisa Howard story I found, I'm not really that concerned about the "doing acid with Timothy Leary" part of this story (although I wouldn't rule it out of the movie), but check this out, one of her close friends was murdered the year before her death. "...Her murder "officially" has never been solved...."

<http://www.sirbacon.org/jfk.htm>

...November 1963.

Lisa Howard was in the process of arranging a conference between Bobby Kennedy and Che Guevera. <25> ".......On November 19th, Presidential aide McGeorge Bundy, who was acting as an intermediary in the secret discussions, told Ambassador Attwood that the President wanted to discuss his plans for a Cuban-American detente in depth with him right after "a brief trip to Dallas." <26>
Three days later the President was dead. On November 23rd, Fidel Castro said that President Kennedy's assassination was the work of "elements in the U.S. opposed to peace." <27> His remarks were labeled as propaganda.

December 1st, 1963.

Mary called Dr. Leary in almost unintelligible grief. She sobbed into the phone."They couldn't control him anymore. He was changing too fast.....They've covered everything up. I gotta come see you. I 'm afraid. Be careful." <28> Suddenly there was a dial tone. The doctor replaced the phone slowly, regarding it with concern.
The group met secretly one last time. It was agreed that there was no choice but to disband. It was a solemn meeting and not all of the women were ready to accept failure. The two newswomen met each other's eyes. "This will all come out, you know." Dorothy announced. Lisa nodded, "I'm not finished yet!"
Almost a year later Mary Pinchot walked the familiar towpath by the canal. It was early afternoon and Mary stopped to watch a bird wing overhead. There was a step not far behind her. She turned. A man regarded her silently. Her eyes widened and then narrowed. "You have no idea what your facing. You can't change what we've started." He shot her in the chest and fired at her body's head twice. After her death, her apartment was searched and her diary removed for "disposal" by the CIA chief of counterintelligence, James Angleton. <29> Her murder "officially" has never been solved.


Photo of the Mary Pinchot Crime scene

A year later, Lisa Howard died under suspicious circumstances. Her death was attributed to suicide. Supposedly she took one hundred phenobarbitols at mid-day in a parking lot where she was found wandering in a daze. She had been fired because she had "chosen to participate publicly in partisan political activity contrary to long established established ABC news policy." <30> Suspicions about her death"..... if ever substantiated.....would make her the second female news reporter (after Dorothy Kilgallen) whom assassination critics suspect was silenced because of her knowledge of the assassination. " <31>
Before her death, Lisa turned against Robert Kennedy, who was running for the U.S. Senate in New York. At a group meeting she organized with Gore Vidal in support of the incumbent Senator Keating, Bobby was described as " the very antithesis of his brother....ruthless, reactionary, and dangerously authoritarian." Explaining her reasons for forming the group she said, "if you feel strongly about something like this you can't remain silent. You have to show courage, and stand up and be counted." After ABC fired her she continued her "partisan political activity" remarking in a debate over Robert Kennedy that "Brothers are not necessarily the same....There was Cain and Abel."<32> An interesting comparison.

In the wake of the Kennedy assassination there have been many more deaths than those of Mary Pinchot, Lisa Howard, and Dorothy Kilgallen. District Attorney Jim Garrison, of New Orleans, who investigated the Kennedy assassination said that "witnesses in this case do have a habit of dying at the most inconvenient times....a London insurance firm has prepared an acturial chart on the likelihood of 20 of the people involved in this case dying within 3 years of the assassination and found the odds 30 trillion to one. <33>

<http://www.sirbacon.org/jfk.htm>

It would take a bit of research to figure out how true this story is, but it sure seems to fit with the rest of big picture. Looks like more info about Mary Pinchot, and Dorothy Kilgallen might be in order too.