by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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We were reading recently about the Warren Report and other known hypothesis concerning the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Texas (Dallas, November 22, 1963, 12 : 30). And we had a sudden hint, when we reconnected all the contradictive explanations surrounding a potential plot (or even several simultaneous plots leading to the same end). Yet, a lot of things are known for years and years now, but so misunderstood. Generally, historian analysts are losing their way among the too numerous tracks : that's why the enigma has remained unsolved !
The most striking to us in this tragic end, is the fact JFK could have totally avoided it, if he had listened to the various warnings of FBI, CIA, Vice-President Lyndon Johnson (1908 - 1973)...and even the Man you'd least expect to have done that ! So fasten your seatbelt not to fall, and get ready to read our new article. Of course, you can make a pause after each part of our story, to catch your breath !
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JFK (1917-1963) certainly died because of a conjunction of various happenings, by a most likely hazardous synchronicity. He could, for instance, have simply avoided to go to Dallas on that fateful day. John Edgar Hoover (1895 - 1972), the Head of FBI, warned him in person not to go over there where he was hated, not to be assassinated. And even CIA, often considered as a foe, gave him the same warning. But, he didn't listen to anybody, as he was just thinking about his campaign for reelection. So then, his ambition and confidence were too strong, and blinded him to the point of minimizing the danger.
Lee Harvey Oswald (1939 - 1963), his official and only killer, according to the Warren Commission Report (September 24, 1964) wasn't a KGB agent about him : in Minsk, he was seen as umbalanced, even in his shootings of "CIA agent". After his return from USSR to America with his Russian wife, he was living in Fort Worth (Texas). Afterwards, he was able to be accepted by the anti-Castrists of New Orleans (his birth place in Louisiana). The latters were furious after JFK, because they had definitively lost the Cuban juicy market after the Bay of Pigs disaster of 1961. So Oswald was not an innocent man in this assassination. Jack Ruby (1911 - 1967) killed him two days after to prevent him to talk about their new group. Just to give a seemingly unimportant information, JFK and his wife, Jackie Kennedy (1929 - 1994) spent some time to relax in Jack Ruby's night club, on the eve of the assassination !
Oswald actually shot on the President three times, from the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) where he was working. He was shooting from the fifth floor. The choice of a convertible Lincoln by Kennedy on that day was not very judicious : it was rather reckless. Oswald was said to be a good sniper when he was a Marine. But he was certainly not a "very good one" : the first bullit missed the target and injured a bystander, and the two others injured JFK (as well as Governor John Connally - 1917 -1993) but didn't kill him. There was then no "magic bullit". And it has been thought afterwards, that Oswald's Carcano sniper rifle wasn't properly adjusted.
Equally, a mystery was made around a strange man opening an umbrella by this beautiful day on the passage of the presidential motorcade on Elm Street. His puzzling attitude appeared suspicious afterwards for the proponents of a plot. His filmed gesture has been interpreted as a signal for a second shooter around to kill Kennedy. He did this visible umbrella movement at the immediate passage of the car preceding JFK's one. We say that because a bodyguard of this car - who was just an occasional one - shot immediately a bullit in direction of Kennedy's car... and exploded the President's head. This strange "spotter" nicknamed "the Umbrella Man" stayed for 15 years "an object of interest", but was not wanted. And in fact, it's him who finally made himself officially known : he was called Louie Steven Witt (1924 - 2014). And in 1978, he presented himself voluntarily to the HSCA (House Select Committee on Assassinations) created two years before, to explain his weird gesture... only made to heckle the President !
According to him it was just an innocent sign of protest directed against the whole clan of Joe Kennedy (1888 - 1969) - the father of JFK and Bobby Kennedy (1925 - 1968), himself assassinated thereafter. Joe Kennedy was an anti-war Ambassador of America to England at the time PM Neville Chamberlain (1869 - 1940), the previous "umbrella man" bended down to Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945 ?) in Munich (1938). Witt said he was working for the Rio Grande Insurance Company which was rather nearby Dealy Plaza. And nobody noticed straight away his company was sharing the same building with... the Secret Service which had to protect JFK on that fateful day. He gave too another important information about a dark complected man, who was pictured sitting down just beside him on the green grass of Dealy Plaza : they were just waiting for the coming of the President's limousine. He said that this man was a Cuban, with a two-ways radio. When he stood up to open his umbrella, the Cuban also stood up before him and shot his fist into the air. After his testimony to the HSCA, Witt was free to go !
Coming back to the second shooter of Dallas, his name has been advanced from a long time now, by himself and his surroundings first, and finally by a CIA agent. He was called Lucien Sarti (circa 1931 - 1972). He was actually from French-Corsican origin, and had some connections with Indochina (where he was having some interests) and the Diêm clan. We don't say Vietnam, because for him it was still Indochina in a way. Above that, he was in the worlwide narcotics trafficking. He is inconspicuous on the "Zapruder film" when he is shooting, as his car was before. The only one appearing visibly to turn to Kennedy with what could have been a special gun, is JFK's driver from NIA. So we don't clearly know if Sarti didn't want in fact to protect Kennedy by shooting on his driver... and missed him by accidentaly shooting JFK's head. However, because of his career of drug trafficker from Indochina and hit man of an ex-Nazi collaborator in Marseilles (from the French Connection), it is usually stated he was aiming at the President, to execute a "contract".
Our epilog may totally surprise you, as it is involving Lyndon Baines Johnson. If he was the Vice-President of Kennedy, it's because they were friends, and had esteem for each other. His implication in the end of JFK, often advanced, is not proved at all. Even him had told Kennedy not to go to Dallas, and not to be imprudent !
And when he became President on that fateful day, by swearing allegiance to the USA on the
Bible of Kennedy, it's him who helped afterwards to enforce the political program
of JFK for a New Society, like his fight for Civil Rights or the New
Frontier with the Run to the Moon, for instance !
Johnson was
previously Senator of Texas. And he always thought Kennedy was
assassinated because he himself had wrongly ordered the CIA to eliminate
President Ngô-Dinh-Diêm (1901 - 1963) in Saïgon (South Vietnam) : the
latter was killed with his brother on November 2, 1963...so then just 20
days before he died himself. But it seems Johnson was the only one to
think so !
At last, John Fitzgerald Kennedy could also have taken on account the strange telex (on 17 November 1963), attributed thereafter to Lee Harvey Oswald in person, warning him about his assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963 ! As a matter of fact, this challenging telex sent from TSBD was in a way ultimately suggesting him not to be temerary, and to cancel his fateful coming to Dallas !
