The Truth Behind the JFK Assassination
The truth behind John F. Kennedy’s assassination doesn’t take days or even hours to grasp. If one simply looks at certain key fundamental facts surrounding the assassination, and draws objective logical flows from these facts, the reality that John F. Kennedy was murdered, via a conspiracy drafted by the U.S. intelligence-complex, becomes crystal clear. In the 21st century, we’ve seen the “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means” — that John F. Kennedy warned America and the world about — grow into unimaginable proportions on 9/11 and thereafter. It is more critical now than ever, that Americans demand, a new independent and fully funded investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
By: Thomas F. McFarlan
Originally published on Medium.com in June of 2018
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John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy were the most stunning first couple to ever grace the white house, and beloved for, their gracious and gregarious manner, as much as, the courageously populous direction John steered the country towards. I want to start this essay, with a collection of photographs to visually remind readers, of the truly great man John F. Kennedy was — and the beautiful life that was stolen from him, his family and the people of the United States.
I want to now show the moments from, JFK’s November 22nd 1963 motorcade in Dallas, when he was assassinated. As hard as it is to watch, it is important to see and fully digest the horror of this event.
With this essay, I have drafted a focused account of the key realities surrounding the murder of JFK. All too often, when I’ve seen articles or videos on the JFK assassination topic, the author goes into so much detail — often concerning nuanced factors of the circumstance — that the bigger picture gets lost, for all but those who have hours to study such detail. Moreover, one need not delve into nuanced detail of the murder of JFK, to ascertain the fundamental reality of the situation — if an honest assessment is presented with key facts. Below I present the 10 key facts, that are the most critical to know, to connect the dots concerning the reality of the JFK assassination. My primary reference source for this article is the groundbreaking book: JFK and the Unspeakable by leading JFK researcher James W. Douglass. In addition, I have studied the work of leading JFK researchers Jim Fetzer, Ole Dammegard and referenced the leading JFK research website: 22november1963.org.uk
1: President Eisenhower warned of the disastrous potential, within the military-industrial-complex — just before JFK took office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower recognized that military, intelligence and scientific power-holders within government, had sought and garnered, unprecedented covert power over American government and society. In fact, he was so concerned about this covert entity’s illicit power, that he dedicated a large segment of his 1961 farewell address, to this problem, and warned that the continued unchecked rise of their influence would be disastrous: “Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.” President Eisenhower’s grave concerns, would within months, be recognized by JFK as he started to govern. It is also very important to note, that both presidents recognized and agreed upon, the gravely serious problem the military-intelligence-industrial-complex posed — even thought the two men stood opposite each other, on the political spectrum, in opposing political parties…
2: As the Bay of Pigs operation was put in motion, JFK’s dramatic statements renouncing the CIA, and actions he took, to diminish their power, aligned him in direct adversarial opposition to them…
In early 1961, the CIA attempted to trick JFK into launching an invasion of Cuba, via the covert Bay of Pigs CIA operation. He saw through their covert maneuver however, and managed to juggle the political realities this covert operation imposed upon him, skillfully enough, to remain faithful to his original position of peace. JFK adviser, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. has said that JFK told him, while the Bay of Pigs operation was active, “It’s a hell of a way to learn things. But I have learned one thing from this business, we are going to have to deal with the CIA. No one has dealt with the CIA.” He was so disturbed by this, and other covert actions that the CIA had recently attempted, that he fired current CIA chief Allen Dulles, as well as two additional CIA leaders, and made this statement to a high level official in his administration: “I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the wind”. This extraordinarily revealing comment by JFK, in light of his recent insights into the CIA, wasn’t disclosed publicly until 1966, in a New York Times feature about the CIA. Furthermore, after he fired CIA chief Allen Dulles, JFK issued national security action memorandum No. 55 and No. 57, which were intended to redefine the CIA’s mission mandate, reduce its power, remove them as presidential military advisers and cut their funding… With these dramatic statements and actions to significantly diminish the CIA, JFK knowingly aligned himself in direct opposition to a cold war institution that had, heretofore, almost unlimited powers and answered to no one.
3: JFK’s groundbreaking speech at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, dramatically expanding on his opposition to the CIA, to include secret-societies, and the underlying global “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy”, driving the military-intelligence-industrial-complex…
After the Bay of Pigs deception, JFK’s insights into the full reality of illicit and covert power within American government and society, grew exponentially. These insights weren’t limited to the CIA, but in fact, encompassed the entire military-intelligence-industrial-complex — as well as, the secretive private organizations who covertly steered these official intelligence and military entities. JFK’s newly refined deep understanding of covert power structures in America, were put on full display, in a speech he gave just weeks after the initiation of the Bay of Pigs operation, on April 27th 1961 at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. The following is an extraordinarily profound excerpt, from the official transcript of this speech, which illustrates JFK’s holistic understanding of the dynamics of covert power in America.
“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.
But I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country’s peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of “clear and present danger,” the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public’s need for national security.
Today no war has been declared — and however fierce the struggle may be, it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.
If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of “clear and present danger,” then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.
It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions — by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”
— John F. Kennedy
Below is a link to the full audio of JFK’s profound and prophetic speech on the 27th day of April 1961…
4: The Operation Northwoods proposal, clearly illustrated the extent of the grotesque depth of depravity within the military-intelligence-industrial-complex. JFK’s immediate rejection of the proposal, made him an innocent witness without a “control file”, to these proposed crimes of high treason.
Operation Northwoods was a formally proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government and the people of the U.S., that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, in March of 1962. The proposal called for the CIA, or other U.S. government operatives, to commit acts of terrorism against innocent American civilians and military targets, to then be blamed on the Cuban government, and used to justify a war against Cuba. The plans detailed in the document, included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, the sinking of boats with Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities… Without deliberation, JFK immediately rejected the Northwoods conspiracy plans, becoming an innocent high level witness without a “control file”, to an extraordinary criminal conspiracy of high treason, plotted by high level U.S. military-intelligence leaders.
5: JFK’s unwavering stance for peace, in the face of the Cuban missile crisis, and an overwhelming onslaught of pressure from military and intelligence leaders, to launch an all-out invasion of Cuba — further deepened JFK’s position, as an extremely effective and heroic opponent, of the military-intelligence complex.
As the Cuban missile crisis began to unfold in 1962, JFK found himself on the receiving end of hyper dogmatic and aggressive rhetoric, from all of his military advisers. Since the Bay of Pigs operation, he was consulting little with those in the intelligence community — yet it seemed as if his military advisers, had all been influenced, to adopt the CIA’s attitude… JFK was adamant in his stance against the all-out invasion of Cuba, that his generals wanted, as it was at best an overreaction, and moreover, would bring the U.S. to the brink of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. In the 1990s, recordings were unclassified that JFK covertly made, of his meetings with his military advisers, regarding the missile crisis. The rhetoric that these military advisers engaged in, became so extreme, that JFK apparently felt they needed to be documented as evidence for future reference… With much of his confidence in his military advisers nullified, JFK took the dramatic step of initiating unconventional arrangements for private communication with his Soviet counterpart Nikita Khrushchev — completely bypassing traditional U.S. and Soviet intelligence and military intermediaries. This private communication between the two leaders was unknown to the public, until the 1990s, when the JFK and Khrushchev missile crisis letters became unclassified. In these letters, JFK expressed concerns that there maybe an eventual coup d’état — a forced takeover by military action of his administration — if he and Khrushchev couldn’t come to an agreement in short order. Khrushchev also expressed sentiments that Soviet intelligence and military leaders, were putting extraordinary aggressive pressure on him, to hold an aggressive line in the sand with the U.S. Ultimately, this ingenious and daring move, to engage in direct communication with Khrushchev, bared fruit for a peaceful resolution, and military confrontation was avoided. As the people of the U.S. and world, contemplated what would have happened if JFK hadn’t been in the white house during this crisis, JFK’s reputation fully grew into that of a national and international hero.
6: On the day of JFK’s assassination, there were an array of glaring security oversights, in JFK’s motorcade, that in their totality, are virtually impossible to have occurred by chance.
The original trajectory, that JFK’s motorcade was supposed to travel, was revised at the last minute. His secret service officers and police escort motorbike guards, were reduced in number and the remaining guards were positioned in an unusual manner along the motorcade, that nullified most of their effectiveness. The limousine that JFK road in, was positioned towards the front of the motorcade, instead of the standard secure middle location for a VIP in a motorcade. The tall buildings along the motorcade route weren’t cleared of people, nor were the windows sealed off. Immediately after the shooting, JFK’s parked limousine at the hospital, was completely cleaned of JFK’s blood and brain matter by secret service guards — thus critical evidence was hastily and carelessly destroyed. Finally, the crime scene wasn’t cordoned off for an investigation — soon after the incident, crowds of people were allowed to mill about, and cars were allowed to travel through the crime scene location. If even just one of these unusual security lapses had been the case, it would be a very glaring oversight on the part of the secret service. The fact that there were an array of these glaring oversights, and JFK was traveling in a convertible limo with the top down, makes these ridiculously blatant security lapses virtually impossible to have occurred by chance.
7: All official accounts of the assassination, claim JFK was shot from a position behind his body. Yet a basic examination of the medical records that describe his bullet wounds, and the only film of the shooting, tell a different story.
The hospital medical records denote that JFK was shot in the back, in the throat, and utterly fatally in the forehead. Obviously, the bullet wound in his back was shot from a position behind him, but what is equally obvious, is the bullet wounds in his throat and forehead were shot from a position in front of him. Moreover, the only film of the shooting, clearly shows JFK’s body and head, violently thrust backwards upon the impact of the fatal shot to his forehead. So this basic and incontrovertible evidence, completely discredits the notion that he was only shot at from a position in back of his body. It also incontrovertibly discredits, the official account of Lee Harvey Oswald as a lone gunman — as there had to be at least two gunmen, for him to have been shot at, from a position in front and in back of his body. No wonder the film of the actual moments of the shooting, was delayed 12 years, before it was allowed to be shown to the public — and even then in a limited capacity, and with clear signs of touch-up editing to key frames.
8: There is overwhelming evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was framed, to take the fall, as a “patsy” for the assassination of JFK.
First of all, there is overwhelming evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was a covert U.S. intelligence-complex asset, who worked as an unwitting pawn at their beck and call. The evidence of this is too complex to get into, in this brief accounting of the JFK assassination, but is readily available from a number of leading JFK researchers like 22november1963.org.uk. Then it is completely unclear, when or how, Lee Harvey Oswald gained, the extraordinary marksmanship skills necessary, to be able to fire off so many shots in mere seconds so accurately, fatally wounding a 1 ft. x 3 ft. moving target at a great distance. Equally bizarre, is the claim that Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed a random police officer, out on a routine patrol, after shooting JFK. Why would someone — who was trying to escape from the scene of a shooting they had just carried out on the president of the United States — want to needlessly draw dramatic attention to themselves, by shooting a random police officer? Soon after, supposedly drawing this extraordinary attention to himself, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, mere hours after of the assassination of JFK. He was immediately charged, with both the murder of the policeman and JFK. He wasn’t simply questioned about the assassination of JFK, and thought of as a suspect, he was fully accused of JFK’s murder — mere hours after JFK’s assassination, with zero investigative work completed on JFK’s assassination. Lee Harvey Oswald had emphatically told journalists in passing that “I’m just a patsy”. It was just days after his arrest that Lee Harvey Oswald was shot dead, while in transit within the custody of the police, by a Texas businessman by the name of Jack Ruby, who owned a nude strip club and had other associations with organized crime… Somehow it was of no relevance to police or federal investigators, that this Jack Ruby assassin ran a type of business known to be tied to organized crime… Nor was it relevant that, as someone involved with organized crime, he would naturally have no appreciation for JFK’s politics — much less have a motivation to avenge JFK’s murder.
9: Somehow, no one thought that there was a conflict of interest problem, in appointing JFK’s arch-enemy from the CIA, Allen Dulles, as the head of the organization investigating JFK’s murder…
As I’ve denoted in point #2 above, JFK fired the head of the CIA Allen Dulles, in 1961, after Dulles led the Bay of Pigs operation on Cuba, which was ultimately a trap to force JFK’s hand in launching an invasion of Cuba with U.S. troops. So obviously, there was serious ill will between JFK and Dulles, moreover, Dulles was intimately connected with secretive organizations known to engage in covert plots and assassinations. Obviously, these facts should have made Dulles a prime subject for investigation by the commission, not a prime candidate to be the director of the commission… Yet Allen Dulles was made the director of the Warren Commission, tasked with investigating JFK’s murder. This illogical and highly suspect appointment by the newly sworn in successor to JFK, Lyndon Johnson, was just one travesty of justice, amid an array of illogical and highly suspect decisions and “conclusions”, made by the Warren Commission. This deeply flawed and utterly fraudulent commission and resulting report, consistently either simply ignored evidence, that incontrovertibly proved their conclusions were impossible — or grossly diminished, or subverted the meaning of, such evidence. All the while, propping up fraudulent flows of logic, and claims, with opportunistic manipulations or utter fabrications. Finally, through positioning the Warren Commission as an impervious monolith, and unleashing the intelligence-complex propaganda machine, Allen Dulles was able to, mostly silence journalists of reason, who pointed out the glaring flaws in the flows of logic that the commission made, and its conclusions. This being the case, a majority of the public at the time of the shooting, thought that JFK was assassinated via some kind of conspiracy, that involved at least two gunmen — by a 52% to 29% majority.
10: In the 55 years since the shooting, an average of 65% of Americans believe, JFK was the victim of a conspiracy, that involved two gunmen. Yet an unbiased, official and fully transparent new investigation has still never been done.
It wasn’t until 12 years after the assassination of JFK, in the year 1975, that the general public was even allowed to see the assassination film. It was at this time, that public opinion regarding the assassination began to move overwhelmingly towards, the opinion that JFK was murdered via a conspiracy by two or more gunmen. Yet here we are, 55 years after the assassination of one of the top 5 presidents to ever grace the white house — and the most important, beloved and heroic president of the post-modern era — and there still hasn’t been an unbiased official new investigation into the assassination. What possible legitimate “national security concerns”, could there be at this point, or indeed since the “cold war” ended in 1990, to prevent the full release of all the classified JFK assassination files and a new unbiased, fully transparent investigation. Somehow congress and private entities together spent tens of millions of dollars, investigating president Bill Clinton’s extra-marital sex life, with a consensual adult, in the late 1990s — yet congress completely ignores the assassination of JFK… How can congress, and other power-holders in government, claim any fitness for office or legitimacy, if their ability to discern priorities and evidence is this far removed from reality? From every angle, what we’ve been told all our lives about the assassination of JFK, just doesn’t add-up in any way, shape, or form.
For a deeper look at the JFK assassination topic, I highly recommend the relatively recently released and absolutely groundbreaking JFK book: JFK and the Unspeakable, by leading JFK researcher James W. Douglass. For a deeper dive into the topic online, I recommend the JFK research website: 22november1963.org.uk
As we’ve seen, what John F. Kennedy termed, the “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means”, grow into monstrous proportion on September 11th 2001, and thereafter; it’s clear that Americans can no longer afford to live in willful ignorance about the JFK assassination, 9/11 and interrelated issues of corruption. Those that say “too many years have past to investigate”, “we’ll just never know the truth about JFK” or that misuse catchy phrases like “you just need to let go”, either haven’t seen an accurate accounting of the JFK assassination, haven’t connected the dots on its relevance to 9/11, and the explosion of interrelated 21st century corruption issues, or are deliberately spouting rhetoric that is disingenuous.
Not only is getting to the bottom of the assassination of JFK relevant in the 21st century, it is one of a handful of essential keys to realigning our nation and world, on a trajectory of healing from the ravages of decades of the “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means”. I will end this essay, with the clarion call segment from John F. Kennedy’s profound and prophetic, 1961 Waldorf-Astoria speech. The relevance of these words to our era is downright eerie…
“Today no war has been declared — and however fierce the struggle may be, it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.
If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of “clear and present danger,” then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.
It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions — by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”
— John F. Kennedy
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