From Dallas to Watergate…

From Dallas to Watergate, it’s all here…

• Dallas Police Interviews
  Various interviews of Chief Jesse Curry of the Dallas Police and Dallas DA Henry Wade. Included is the midnight interview of Lee Harvey Oswald and his shooting by Jack Ruby.
  
• Kennedy Assassination Thwarted Weeks Before His Death
  A former Secret Service agent says there was a plot to kill president John F. Kennedy in Chicago three weeks before he was assassinated in Dallas.
  
• David Atlee Philips AKA Maurice Bishop
  CIA operative Antonio Veciana testified regarding his case officer Maurice Bishop. The sketch of Bishop was based on Veciana’s recollections of the appearance of the man meeting with Oswald. He was shot in the head after testifying, but survived. Phillips was The Chief of Western Hemisphere Operations. He denied knewing Oswald, but the HSCA wanted him charged for perjury. He died of cancer in 1988.
  
• House Select Committee on Assassinations – 1976
  Established in 1976 to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. The Committee investigated until 1978, and in 1979 issued its final report, concluding that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, probably as a result of a conspiracy.
  
• 1977 CBS report on Oltmans & De Mohrenschildt
  1977 CBS report on Williem Oltmans’ HSCA testimony concerning his interviews with Georege De Mohrenschildt.
  
• Bill Hicks on JFK
  Bill Hicks talking about JFK from Revelations.
  
• 40 years after RFK’s death, questions linger
  ‘Three major assassinations rocked America in the 1960s. Two of the assassins – Lee Harvey Oswald, the killer of John F. Kennedy, and James Earl Ray, who shot Martin Luther King Jr. – are dead. But Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy 40 years ago in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, is living out his days in the California state prison at Corcoran. He is 64 and has never fully explained what happened that night other than to say he can’t remember it….’
• Mad Money in High Places Citizen Hughes
  ‘Citizen Hughes is mostly about big money in high places, of cash siphoned from Hughes’ Nevada gambling casinos and piped to politicians. Wielding the only power he knew, the deranged industrialist reveals a crude cynicism. On Lyndon Johnson: “I have done this kind of business with him before. So, he wears no awe-inspiring robe of virtue with me.” On Hubert Humphrey: “A candidate who needs us and wants our help . . . somebody we control sufficiently.” On Richard Nixon: “My man. He I know for sure knows the facts of life.”‘
• Remarks By President Gerald Ford On Taking the Oath Of Office As President
  “The oath that I have taken is the same oath that was taken by George Washington and by every President under the Constitution. But I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances never before experienced by Americans. This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.”

 

J’accuse / Bobby Baker Bombshells

Today’s blog examines the impact of the “greatest newspaper article in history” & takes a peek at the political dealings of LBJ.

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J’ACCUSE…

• J’ACCUSE …!
  Emile Zola, Alfred Dreyfus & the greatest newspaper article in history
  Read a translation of the famous article here.
• Dreyfus rehabilitated
  France & the Dreyfus Affair & the long road to justice.
• Zola, a moment of human conscience
  The end of the affair.
• GREGORI IS ACQUITTED
  Verdict, Greeted by Hoots and Cheers, Buries the Dreyfus Affair
• Zola’s Mysterious Death 
  Was it really a stovepipe accident? 

Bobby Baker Bombshells…

• An American shadow points to LBJ
  Blood, money, oil, power…
• Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade
  Discussion of Mutual political contempt.
• Suite 8F Group
  It’s never about oil.

War is a racket

This blog takes a look at Smedley Darlington Butler & the White House Coup (with a sidelong glance at Prescott Bush).

• Major General Smedley Darlington Butler
  One of the most colorful officers in the Marine Corps’ long history, was one of the two Marines who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism.
• War is a Racket
  The title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler in which Butler frankly discusses how business interests have commercially benefited from warfare.
• The Whitehouse Coup
  The Whitehouse Coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

• Corporate Coup in the U.S.
  Scene from the 2003 documentary, The Corporation, about an attempted coup by industrialists (corporations) to overthrow president Franklin D. Roosevelt and the US Government during the 1930’s.
• A video about the Business Plot – Part 1, part 2, part 3
• BBC Radio 4 investigation
  Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.
• How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
  The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

Mai ‘68: Vive la revolution!

This blog looks at the watershed moment of May 1968 & digs up some classic Chris Morris.

• Paris – the student revolt of May 1968
  French newspaper Liberation has created a website of the videos & images focusing on the events of May 1968.
• Where has all the rage gone?
  In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.
• Bushwhacked
  A Bush cutup by Chris Morris. Not serious but funny.
• Why the US has really gone broke
  The economic disaster that is military keynesianism: an article by Chalmers Johnson.
• Terror’s March Backwards
  Vintage Armando Iannucci & Chris Morris. ‘This wouldn’t have happened if I’d still been on BBC1′ Noel Edmonds. Satirical or just sick? You decide.

The assassination trail

This blog is back on the assassination trail with a look RFK, Martin Luther King & Malcolm X.

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• Robert Kennedy speaks in Indianapolis
  announcing to the crowd that Martin Luther King, Jr. had just been assassinated. April 4, 1968.
• The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
  As Ever, a Conspiracy.
• Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy?
  In 1968, Robert Kennedy seemed likely to follow his brother, John, into the White House. Then, on June 6, he was assassinated – apparently.
• Martin Luther King Jr.
  “Secret Files That Would Have Proven James Earl Ray Not Guilty”
• Malcolm X
  Plots, Theories and Facts

Secret history

Thanks to the internet, a flood of information has become publicly available that threatens to expose the subtext of modern history. Below is a handful of articles that challenge the conventional viewpoint & make for interesting/disturbing reading.

As usual, feel free to send in your fave links.

Big in Japan

• Yamashita’s Gold
  Chalmers Johnson discusses Japanese war-booty that disappeared in the Philippines during WW2.
• Kamikaze Over Tokyo, Time 1976
  “No one was particularly suspicious when Movie Actor Mitsuyasu Maeno appeared at Tokyo’s Chofu Airport last week in a World War II kamikaze pilot’s uniform…”
• Yoshio Kodama
  Who was Yoshio Kodama?

Operation Gladio

• Operation Gladio
  Wikipedia article on Operation Gladio & the “stay behind armies”.
• Timewatch: Operation Gladio – Part 1, part 2, part 3
  Video programme about False Flag Terrorism & 9/11.
• Strategy of Tension
  The Case of Italy by Claudio Celani.

American empire

• Family Jewels
  A significant collection of previously classified historical documents are now available in the CIA’s FOIA Electronic Reading Room. The collection widely known as the “Family Jewels” consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency’s charter.
• Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
  Interview with ex-CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson.