Recent reading: Bloody Treason

Bloody Treason: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Noel H. Twyman.
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For the casual reader, this book probably is overkill. Twyman presents interviews, documents, resources in a torrent of what he calls evidence, though much of it would not stand up in a court of law. All the same, there is enough here to make the case.

I am especially convinced by a number of facts of the case. Here are some of them.

I also asked him if he saw the explosion of blood and brains out of the head.  He replied that he did.  I asked him if he noticed which direction the eruption went.  He pointed back over his left shoulder.  He said, “It went this way.”  I said, you mean it went to the left and rear?  He said yes.  Bartholomew then asked him, “Are you sure that you didn’t see the blood and brains going up and to the front?”  Schwartz said, “No; it was to the left and rear.”  We went over this several times with him to be certain that he was clear on this point.  He was very clear.

In other words, JFK was shot from the front. Doctors who were the first to see him afterwards confirm this.

 All of the doctors at Parkland Hospital stated that there was an exit wound in the back of Kennedy’s head (indicating a shot from the front).

Perhaps even more disturbing than the act itself is the subsequent cover-up.

 The point here is that the photographs of the brain in the National Archives show no damage to the cerebellum. The above testimonies, sworn under oath by experienced medical doctors who observed the head wound, clearly and unambiguously describe extruded and damaged cerebellar tissue. If their testimonies are correct, and there is no reason to believe they are not, then the photographs of the brain in the National Archives are not of Kennedy’s brain. They must therefore be the brain of someone other than Kennedy.

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 The most compelling evidence of all are the nine people who predicted the assassination, in particular how Eugene B. Dinkin and Joseph Milteer described in advance the basic concept and composition of the plot. By examining the backgrounds of these nine people and John Martino, we see a skeletal outline of the complete plot.

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From the day that John Kennedy was murdered, it has been widely accepted that the performance of the Secret Service was unbelievably lax, before and after the shooting. The most basic rules of presidential protection were violated. No effort was made to guard against rifle fire from tall buildings. No effort was made to see that windows were closed in tall buildings along the parade route, even at Dealey Plaza where the president would be most vulnerable. Moreover, no effort was made to secure the area behind the picket fence and wall on the grassy knoll. No effort was made to check that area or station a Secret Service agent or a Dallas policeman there.

I could go on and on. By now there is a large collection of books on the conspiracy side of the event's explanation, and a number who embrace the lone assassin (Oswald) thesis. The House Committee investigating the assassination some time back concluded there was a 75% chance of conspiracy. Personally, I put it at 100%. I am convinced.

But the question, even the more interesting question, is so what? Even though most Americans support the conspiracy thesis, this opinion hasn't resulted in better government, or happier lives, or much of anything but a growing cynicism about government, much of it justifiable.

Politics, wrote Norman Brown, is pissing in public but the image is too polite.