Donald Trump said he would release the John F. Kennedy assassination records when he was in office the first time.
He did not follow through on that promise.
It’s now been more than six decades.
Who is left to protect?
I wasn’t a believer in a conspiratorial version until I read a book by the man who spoke to the 2003 Illinois Libertarian Party Conention.
As the party’s 2002 gubernatorial nominee, I was seated at his table.
He wrote “Barry & ‘the Boys’: The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History.”
There was information in the book which resulted in the author’s being sued and forced to remove certain pages before selling more books.
So, what’s the connection to the Kennedy assassination that put me on the side of the conspiratorialists?
On that day a plane was on the other side of a regional airfield south of Dallas with its engine running…all day.
The air traffic controller wondered why.
In the afternoon, the plane began to take off.
Although the controller had no right to know, he asked where the plane was going.
“South” was the answer.
However, after flying south for a short while, it reversed course and flew north toward Dallas.
That opened my eyes to the possibility that our government was hiding information.
If you have not believed the official story since the beginning, call me naive and overly trusting.
In any event, sixty-three years after JFK died, I’d like to know the truth.
And, on another personal note, I was in the office of the Oberlin Review when we heard of kennedy’s death.
That paper had been put to bed and the pressmen had started their run.
“Do you want me to tell them to stop the presses?” I asked the Editor.
The reply was in the affirmative and I ran in and yelled, “Stop the presses!”
The Oberlin Review was undoubtedly the first paper in Ohio to have a story, a really short one, about Kennedy’s death.
He also wrote a book on Mohamed Atta and the FBI coverup of 9-11. I don’t have the book with me, but I think it’s “Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida” by Daniel Hopsicker.
The author grew up in Sarasota, the city where some 9-11 pilots were trained.
A year after 9-11,he went back to see what he could find.
Among other derelictions of duty on the part of the FBI, he discovered the waitress who served Atta every day at lunch had not even been interviewed.
Atta had rented a car in Pompano Beach, yet when the author searched for the rental agency, he found it in an office building with no signs out front. He wondered how Atta found the agency.
He also found the CIA ran the airport.
The author concluded that the best that could be said of 9-11 was that it was an attempt to infiltrate the terrorist organization that went wrong.
