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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 21, 2019 4:50:20 GMT -5
25 Transcript of the complete Air Force One tape
See also:15 The original Air Force One tape26 Salinger copy of Air Force One radio communicationsTheodore H. White, in his book The Making of the President, 1964, told us that on the afternoon of November 22, 1963, the Presidential party on Air Force One "...learned that there was no conspiracy, learned of the identity of Oswald and his arrest..." [BK Notes: White, in a visit to the White House, was presented with a transcript of the tape, which he was permitted to read and paraphrase, but not keep or quote directly.]  "But the contents of this message to Air Force One was confirmed in 1993 by Robert Manning, Kennedy's Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs who was on the Presidential plane on its return trip from Love to Andrews Air Force Base. He reported having heard the same account of Oswald being designated as the presumed assassin. (Gerald S. and Deborah H. Strober Let Us Begin Anew, An Oral History of the Kennedy Presidency, Harper Collins Publisher, 1993) That, my good people, is conclusive evidence of high-level U.S. governmental guilt. The first announcement of Oswald as the lone assassin, before there was any evidence against him, and while there was overwhelmingly convincing evidence of conspiracy, had come from the White House Situation Room. Only the assassins could have made that premature declaration that Oswald was the assassin. This announcement had been made while back in Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade was stating that "preliminary reports indicated more than one person was involved in the shooting..." (Dallas Morning News, November 23, 1963) Air Force One had landed at Andrews Air Force Base, at 5:59 P.M. on November 22, 1963. In correspondence with me, Mr. White stated that this message was sent to the Presidential party from the Situation Room of the White House. This same message was confirmed by Pierre Salinger in his book With Kennedy. Mr. Salinger received that same message while on the Cabinet Plane which was flying over the Pacific Ocean." (From Vincent Salandria's speech to the Coalition on Political Assassinations, delivered in Dallas, Texas on November 20, 1998)  LBJ in the Situation Room, 1964"The Situation Room, officially known as the John F. Kennedy Conference Room, is a 5,525-square-foot (513.3 m2) conference room and intelligence management center in the basement of the West Wing of the White House. It is run by the National Security Council staff for the use of the President of the United States and his advisors (including the National Security Advisor, the Homeland Security Advisor and the White House Chief of Staff) to monitor and deal with crises at home and abroad and to conduct secure communications with outside (often overseas) persons. The Situation Room is equipped with secure, advanced communications equipment for the President to maintain command and control of U.S. forces around the world. ( Wikipedia, retrieved 21-1-2019)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 21, 2019 4:55:15 GMT -5
26 Salinger copy of Air Force One radio communicationsSee also:
15. The original Air Force One Tape
25. Transcipt of complete Air Force One TapeWhen [JFK's White House Press Secretary Pierre] Salinger was writing his book, the White House Communications Agency gave him a copy of a transcript of the Air Force One radio communications that included his conversations with the White House Situation Room. Salinger said that he gave his copy of the transcript to the JFK Library in Boston, but when Vincent Salandria requested this document, it could not be located. (JFK Countercoup, Significance of AF1 Radio Transmissions, Wednesday, November 16, 2011)  Salinger, 1964 ![]()
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 22, 2019 4:21:54 GMT -5
27 National Security Action Memo approving "Project Four Leaves"
The same September 25th day in Washington DC CIA officer Desmond Fitzgerald briefed the Joint Chiefs of Staff, temporarily chaired by Air Force Chief Gen. Curtis LeMay while Gen. Taylor was in Vietnam.
Fitzgerald reported to the Joint Chiefs on the CIA's Cuban covert operations with emphasis on how the military could support them, an assignment given USMC Gen. Krulak, whose aide Colonel Higgins was in attendance. Higgins' memo of the meeting, released under the JFK Act, includes the bullet point that Fitzgerald mentioned the CIA was studying the Valkyrie plot and adapting it to use against Castro.
September 24-25, 1963 was a busy time on the Devil's Chessboard as there were many moves by key players besides Ruth Paine moving Marina and the rifle to Texas, Oswald leaving for Mexico and Fitzgerald briefing the Joint Chiefs.
JFK signed National Security Action Memo approving "Project Four Leaves," a military communications order that remains classified, and then he left on a "Conservation Tour," first stop in northeast Pennsylvania to visit Mary Pinchot Meyer's mother.
(Bill Kelly, 2008)
President Kennedy assigns the highest national priority to Project FOUR LEAVES to develop and produce a military communications system.
(JFK calendar for September 23, 1963)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 22, 2019 4:28:17 GMT -5
28 CIA documents related to the CIA study of the Valkyrie plot
Washington attorney Jim Lesar, director of the Assassinations Archive and Research Center, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the CIA documents related to the CIA study of the Valkyrie plot that was to be used against Castro, as mentioned in the Higgins Memo. Until we get these records however, we can see for our selves how the CIA tried to adapt the Valkyrie plan to be used against Castro, as they did try to recruit some disenchanted Cuban military officers who were close to Castro including Rolando Cubella (AMLASH) and Gen. Almeida, both of whom have been extensively reviewed and analyzed elsewhere. Among the differences in the Valkyrie plan and the post-Mafia plots to kill Castro we find that the idea of using a bomb was discarded in favor of a sniper attack on Castro while he was riding in an open Jeep, a common situation. Other aspects of the Valkyrie plan that were adopted besides the murder of Castro and the take over of the Cuban government was the Northwoods style psych-war media campaign to blame the assassination on communists. (Bill Kelly, JFK Countercoup) To me, the most significant aspect of the assassination that involves LeMay is his chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while General Taylor was in Vietnam on September 24, 1963, when they were briefed by the CIA’s Desmond FitzGerald about the CIA’s detailed study of the German military’s plot to kill Hitler, that was being adapted for use against Castro. While the CIA couldn’t get a cadre of disenchanted military officers to stage an assassination and coup against Castro, that was no problem with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who were pretty much unanimous in their distrust and hatred of the President. (Bill Kelly, JFK Countercoup)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 22, 2019 10:54:08 GMT -5
29 The missing section from the Lopez Reportrelated: 183 Tapes of Lee Harvey Oswald calling the Soviet embassy in Mexico CityIn 1976, the House Select Committee on Assassinations undertook re-investigations of the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1979, a single Final Report and twelve volumes of appendices on each assassination were published by the Congress. In the JFK case, the HSCA found that there was a "probable conspiracy," though it was unable to determine the nature of that conspiracy or its other participants (besides Oswald). This finding was based in part on acoustics evidence from a tape purported to record the gunfire in Dealey Plaza, but was also based on other evidence including an investigation of Jack Ruby's underworld connections. The acoustics evidence was disputed by a panel of scientists, but that "debunking" has itself been subject to serious challenge in recent years. The massive internal files of the HSCA were unsealed in the wake of the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. Still being digested by researchers, they have shed more light on the assassination itself and also on the conduct of the HSCA's investigation. Contained herein are some of the more important documents from that collection, including the long-desired "Lopez Report" and many formerly-secret depositions ( Mary Ferrell Foundation) On page 142 of the [Lopez] report, it reads: "This groups purpose and interest in Oswald is detailed in another section of this final report dealing with whether or not Lee Oswald was an agent or asset of the Central Intelligence Agency." When this author interviewed Eddie Lopez, he asked him about the section. "Was Oswald an agent of the CIA?" Because it was not in the report. Lopez paused and then he took the report and started shuffling through the pages. After he failed to locate it he muttered in frustration, "It isn't there. It's gone." He then sat down and returned the report. He collected himself and said softly, "They always hated that part." He paused and then added. "If I was them, I would have hated it too." (James DiEugenio, Reclaiming Parkland, 2016 edition, p. 298) 
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 23, 2019 5:09:18 GMT -5
30 The original Wiegman film
NBC cameraman Dave Wiegman shot this footage from within a car in the motorcade. Much of the film is jumpy, as Weigman leaped from the car to continue filming while running on foot.
(Mary Ferrell Foundation)
The idea of turning on the camera, I don’t know where that came from. I’ve turned in some real sloppy work over the years that went into editing because I believed that sometimes you’re not photographing what’s happening as much as the moment. It’s a slice of time. And something told me, “hey look, what have I got to lose. I’ve got a full spring and just turn it on.” I can’t stop and plant my feet, so I put it against my chest because you can’t run with a Filmo up to your eyes. So I just slid it down under my chin and looked forward and ran as fast as I could and took in everything I could.”
(Richard Trask, Pictures Of The Pain, 1989 p. 371-372)
"NBC owns the original Wiegman film but when producers of JFK: Death in Dealey Plaza asked them for it 12 years ago (at my request), NBC could only locate a 1960s-era video tape of it. We wound up using, I think, a 1963/1964 theatrical newsreel version held by UCLA.
NBC took the original Wiegman and Darnell films from the Dallas NBC affiliate to New York following the assassination weekend. Whether the network still has the original Darnell film is unknown, but as a former employee I know the affiliate does not have it or a copy. Nor does Jimmy Darnell.
Fortunately, a first-generation 16mm copy print was made in Dallas over that weekend and it is in the Museum’s collection; however, the Museum cannot do anything with it until copyright issues are resolved. It’ll happen, and sooner rather than later."
(PM Gary Mack to Darren Hastings on Education forum, March 2015)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 23, 2019 6:38:25 GMT -5
31 The original Darnell film
See also16 The camera original of the Nix film21 Several frames from the Towner film30 The original Wiegman film 52 An accurate account of the Zapruder film's time in the governments hands66 The original and complete Alyea Film96 The original Jack Daniëls filmDenis Morissette pointed these two videos of Jimmy Darnell footage out in a Facebook post. The videos have been recently released via the UNT site and are from the WBAP/KXAS channel, these days known as NBC5 In the first clip you can see Darnell looking at a strip of film on a reel, this strip is of the front of the T.S.B.D. segment. Now this may not even be his film, but Dave Wiegman instead. I am simply amazed that he is looking at this film, which supposedly disappeared into NBC’s archives in N.Y. Yet here we are looking at a very good copy of it. This is the film no one knows where it is, by the looks of it from this segment and the next the copy they have digitized for these videos looks of great quality, question is at what resolution did they digitize the film? And where is it now? (Bart Kamp, Prayer-Man.com, 7-30-19) WBAP cameraman James Darnell captures the immediate aftermath of the assassination. Darnell filmed the activity behind the fence on the grassy knoll. "Alan Dale asked Stephen Fagin after a talk during the Lancer Conference in Nov. 2018 about whether the 6th Floor Museum had a copy of the Darnell film and if so when could scholars get access to it? This then got the reply: “Funny as you mention this we are about to give access to a digital 2K copy of the Darnell film in our reading room”. That is partial good news, its existence has been acknowledged, but 2K is not 4K which it should have been. Since this film could give a lot of info on T.S.B.D. employees I would have not spared any money to get the best optimal result from the 16 mm film. ( Prayer-Man.com, January 12, 2018) Parts in private hands, notes Denis Morissette on his website: Where are the Original of these Films Taken in Dealey Plaza?
A man who witnessed four decades of history through the lens of a camera was remembered as "a pioneer" in
television, a stickler for "honesty and integrity" and "a wonderful best friend." Retired NBC 5 photojournalist Jimmy Glen Darnell, 82, was laid to rest Wednesday after he died last Friday, Sept. 29. (...) Darnell was in the motorcade in Dealey Plaza as a cameraman on Nov. 22, 1963. He was riding in a vehicle several cars behind Kennedy. He heard a popping sound, thought it was a car backfiring, then like everyone else that tragic day, realized it was the sound of gunfire. The president had been shot. In recounting the story, Collins said "Jimmy followed and filmed, wheels always turning, on the go, energetic, chasing the story." Darnell eventually made his way to the police department, where his new bride Ruth was on duty. The hall was crowded with news crews when Ruth came walking in with several detectives, Collins said. Several jumped to the conclusion that the dark-haired woman with police was Marina Oswald, wife of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. ( Jimmy Darnell, Longtime NBC 5 Photojournalist, Dies at 82, Oktober 17, 2017)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 23, 2019 8:44:25 GMT -5
32 Unseen Darnell footageSee also:31 The original Darnell film175 One Willis photoDELL FOSTER, another Port Worth Star Telegram reporter, came over and talked to DARNELL about CRAIG. The Forth Worth Star Telegram ran a story on what DARNELL had seen on the next day, November 23, 1963. DARNELL told SPRAGUE. that he had gotten footage of a man who was being arrested, described the man as being middle-aged, a little bit husky. He said that the police put him into a squad car on the Southwest corner of Houston and Elm Streets, and turned him loose after a few minutes. He further described the man who was taken into custody as being a white man, not dark complexioned. SPRAGUE stated that at the time of the assassination a man named DOYLE VINSON was the supervisor of the TV News Room for WBAP in Dallas. SPRAGUE stated that presently the News Director for WBAP is a man named RUSS THORNTON. SPRAGUE feels that this film should be in the library at WBAP and should be available for viewing. (Stephen Jaffe memo to Jim Garrison, January 26, 1968) As of 2004, some parts have never been published, and are still in private hands as per Gary Mack. Hopefully, the 6th Floor Museum knows where this unseen film is. UPDATE: In Reporting the Kennedy Assassination, I learned that Darnell filmed the coffin loaded at Love Field: “That Deputy Chief of Police with the DPD says, “Let me have that. That’s sacrilegious”. So I handed him the film”. Darnell added, “To this day, it’s never been seen- except there’s one person who has told me that he’s heard that it has been seen on the West Coast or somewhere” (Denis Morissette, JFK Assassination Photos and Films Blog)  Roger Craig in Darnell
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 23, 2019 8:52:15 GMT -5
33 The Cook filmMr. SPRAGUE interviewed a photographer named DON COOK. His phone number in Dallas is 747-2202. SPRAGUE said that COOK worked for Channel 11 in Fort Worth, KTVT, at the time of the assassination. COOK told SPRAGUE that at the time of the motorcade's turn from Main onto Houston COOK was in the Sheriff's office taking film of the motorcade out the window. When the shots rang out, COOK ran out of the Sheriff's office and took film as he went. The significant part of the film which was taken by COOK is in footage he made behind the picket fence in the parking lot shortly after the shots were fired. SPRAGUE further stated that when COOK went to the station, the Fort Worth Channel 11 Station of KTVT, one week after the assassination to inquire about his own footage, the station told him that that footage had disappeared. (Stephen Jaffe memo to Jim Garrison, January 26, 1968)  Cook in Murray photoThe film was actually taken by Don Cook. Cooper was not even in Dealey Plaza… In this document, Richard Sprague describes what Cook filmed. Strangely, he reports that Cook filmed out of a window of the Sheriff Office. It also reports that when the shots rang out, he ran out of the building, and took pictures as he went. (...) Yet, the Cooper film shows he was outside the Office. No running. See for yourself from 23:13 into the video. (Denis Morissette, JFK Assassination Photos and Films Blog)
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Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 24, 2019 10:32:02 GMT -5
34. The death certificate of Thomas B. Shipman
"One of the President's drivers, Tom Shipman, died suddenly" (George MacNally, A Million Miles of Presidents, 1982, p. 211)   Thomas B. Shipman, 1912-1963Thomas B. Shipman, one of three agents who drove President Kennedy or his Secret Service follow-up vehicle, died 10/14/1963 of an alleged heart attack at (of all places) Camp David, the month before the Kennedy assassination. I made this shocking discovery when perusing a passage buried in Col. George J. MacNally's obscure and non-indexed book entitled, A Million Miles of Presidents.( ... ) Where's Shipman's death certificate? At present, it is unavailable and, without an exhumation and toxicology tests, at this late juncture, a verdict of "heart attack" is a country doctor 'catch-all' that is unsatisfactory and inconclusive, given the subject at hand (a presumably fit Secret Service agent who had to pass annual physicals and perform the rare honor of driving several presidents). (From Vince Palamara, The Not-So Secret Service, 2017, Chapter One)
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