From: aq817@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Crocker)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: PART 21 - Pacifica Radio Investigates JFK Assassination
Date: 9 Nov 1992 07:25:37 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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At John's request I am posting this to alt.activism, alt.conspiracy, and 
alt.conspiracy.jfk. Due to technical difficulties, I cannot crosspost and
must post separately to each newsgroup. My apologies. John is seeking others 
assist in posting to the other groups in which this series has been appearing.
Also, he expects to be established at an alternate site within 2-3 weeks, when
he will resume regular posting.

-Steve

        The following transcript was made from a tape recording 
        of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station
               WBAI-FM (99.5)
               505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
               New York, NY 10018       (212) 279-0707

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                        (continuation)
JIM MARRS [author of CROSSFIRE]:
In fact, they used motorcycle officers, who were to flank Kennedy's
car, who were given orders by the Secret Service not to proceed
past the rear bumper. That left him hanging out there, unprotected.
Dallas police Captain Fritz had requested of the Secret Service
that he be allowed to ride a car or two back from the President
with some of his sharpshooters and to watch the windows and watch
for problems on the rooftops. He was told: No, you can ride at
the rear of the motorcade. So, in disgust, he just went on to the
trademart.

None of the normal precautions were taken that day. And, in fact,
there were direct violations of Secret Service regulations, the
most blatant of which was that the men who were actually in charge
of protecting the President -- in direct violation of Secret
Service regulations -- were out drinking until four and five in
the morning over in Fort Worth. And they were not just drinking
beer. They were drinking Everclear. This was a direct violation,
punishable by dismissal from the Secret Service, and yet, all of
this was hushed up and covered up.

The next big security breach was that Secret Service regulations
stated that you would not make a turn greater than ninety degrees.
And if you had to make a ninety degree turn, you'd station
security people at the intersection. Well, the one hundred and
twenty degree turn in front of the Texas School Book Depository
was a direct violation. And no security people were stationed
there. Only one policeman, Joe Smith, was stationed there. And
what was his experience?  He said that he heard shots down near
the triple underpass by the little concrete monument,  ran down
there, and could still smell gunpowder hanging in the bushes.
So you could see that there was something really wrong going on
with the motorcade.

GARY NULL:
So Secret Service elements would have to have been involved.
Isn't it also true that the right-flanking motorcycle cop leaves
the motorcade when everyone turns onto Elm Street, and that cop
continues straight down Houston Street? 

JIM MARRS:
Well, that is true, but I think I have an explanation for that.
In one of Mary Moorman's five Polaroid snapshots, we see a
picture of this motorcycle officer, by himself, rushing down Elm
Street. I think what happened there was kind of a normal police
motorcade procedure, like in a funeral or something. One runs up
ahead, checks the intersection and holds traffic while everybody
goes through -- and then he races ahead -- leap-frogs up ahead.
I think that this motorcycle officer simply roared up Houston
Street a little ways to make sure that everything was secured and
that nobody was coming through there; and then he turned around,
rode back and rejoined his companions further down in the plaza.
I don't necessarily see anything suspicious in that one particular
incident. 

GARY NULL:
Jim, what you're telling us is very new and very important for
this audience. And that is that there were extraordinarily tight
and professional safety precautions earlier that same day in     
Fort Worth, and all of that was undone. All of that was dismissed
in Dallas. That is completely atypical, and that is something
that the media should have picked up on. That story ALONE would
have been enough, if I were the city editor, for me to send out a
reporter -- to say: Hold on a second.  Dallas and Fort Worth are
side-by-side. They're only about thirty miles apart. You have, in
one case, tight, complete, total security. And in another case
you have no security ?  

JIM MARRS:
That's true.  Well let me tell you something -- then and now.
First off ..... Well, I don't want to use any names, but a good
friend of mine, a peer, who was a news reporter at that time, and
who knew Dallas quite familiarly .....and that was part of the
problem: all the news media poured into Dallas, but they didn't
really know Dallas. They didn't know how to get around. They
didn't know how to talk to the people. But this fellow did. And
he was beginning to kind of investigate on his own because he
smelled a rat. Okay? And he became convinced that his phone was
tapped, and that people were following him around. He had a wife
and a family, and he just told me, quite frankly, that it scared
him, and he backed off. Now that was back at the time [soon after
the assassination].  Today, just two years ago, a senior editor
for one of the Dallas-Fort Worth major dailies told me -- he said:
"Jim, I know you're right, but I can't print the truth because
it could mean my life."   Okay?  And the guy was dead-serious.

Now I, for one, do not believe for a minute that some hit-team is
going to come to Dallas-Fort Worth and kill some newspaper editor
just because of some story he runs in the newspaper. The point is,
this fellow does. This fellow really believes it. So we've got
absolute fear still being used as a very, very powerful weapon down
here to keep people who should know otherwise ..... to keep them
silent.

JERRY POLICOFF:
Can I interject something here? You know, when you're talking about
security in Dallas, of all of the places where there should have
been a greater measure of security than anywhere else, it should
have been Dallas where [liberal Democrat who ran against Eisenhower
in `56] Adlai Stevenson had been attacked and spat on by a crowd.
Lyndon Johnson had been [too]. There were legitimate reasons to be
concerned about the safety of the President in Dallas, of all places.

GARY NULL:
Alright.  We're going to take a break here to summarize everything.
Then I want to go into the means, the motives and the opportunities
to assassinate the President, and try to give as much new
information as possible, and at that time, also bring in what the
media has done or not done. I even want to get to the information
that was NOT reviewed, or not given credibility by the investigators.
In particular, when one good investigator was doing a good job,
he was fired, and a person who supported the "single gunman theory"
was brought in to take his place. So, at every level, damage control
was maintained. The only way that could have been done is for people
who were in a position to control it from the very first day knew
that no matter how long it took -- no matter who came into the picture,
no one in the major media, or in any Governmental agency was going
to uncover anything that would be that damaging.  
                      (to be continued)
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      If you agree that this story deserves broad public attention, please
      assist in disseminating it by posting it to other bulletin boards,
      and by posting hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. 
      As evidence accrues concerning the corporate mass-media's thirty-year
      cover-up of the corporate CIA's coup d'etat against the People of 
      the United States, the need for citizen reportage becomes
      ever more striking.

         John DiNardo


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