Conspiracy in Camelot

347 Pages·2003·3.681 MB·English

by  Jerry Kroth, Jerome A Kroth

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ONSPIRACY IN AMELOT

The Complete History of the Assassination of
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Jerry Kroth

Algora Publishing
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kroth, Jerome A.
Conspiracy in Camelot : the complete history of the assassination of John Fitzgerald
Kennedy / by Jerry Kroth.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87586-247-0 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-87586-246-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 — Assassination. I. Title.
E842.9.K76 2003
364.15'24'097309046—dc22
2003015447

Printed in the United States
Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Trudy Burrows for her inspiration and my wife Anya, Bill Burton,
and Jo Ann Vasquez who were there during the darker hours, Frank Cichowicz for his
support, and Maya Kroth for editorial assistance. In addition, it is necessary to mention
Norman O. Brown whose text, Love’s Body, often forms the deep structure which organ-
izes these thoughts, along with the insights of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for a remark
which appears as the display quote for Chapter 7. It served as an important beacon in
directing this work to its inevitable conclusions.
Tables, Lists and Figures

Tables and Lists

1.1 Kennedy-Lincoln Correspondence 20
3.1 Autopsy evidence impugned by the following witnesses
present at Kennedy's admission to Parkland Hospital in Dallas 40
3.2 Deaths associated with Kennedy assassination 49
3.3 Suspicious deaths of HSCA and Senate Intelligence Committee
witnesses 67
3.4 Significant individuals named in the literature as withholding
information or engaged in disinformation about the assassi-
nation. 69
4.1 Individuals mentioned in conspiracy texts with respect to a
Mafia aspect of the assassination 106
4.2 Jack Ruby's underworld connections and contacts 115
4.3 Important figures in the CIA assassination model 121
4.4 Eight 'soft' lines of evidence connecting Oswald to the CIA and
military intelligence. 156
4.5 CIA efforts to dissociate itself from Oswald. 158
4.6 Deceptions and/or inaccuracies of Marina Oswald 172
4.7 The CIA-Mafia link 186
4.8 Summary of names in published conspiracy theories 190
6.1 Mob connections with the Kennedys 245
6.2 Chronology of events versus Bobby Kennedy's awareness 259
6.3 Kennedy's mistresses during his Presidency 263
6.4 Marilyn Monroe's lovers 269
6.5 Individuals alleged in the literature to have covered up or with-
held information concerning Marilyn Monroe's death 270
6.6 Mental health status of major conspiracy school characters 302
6.7 Mental health status of more minor conspiracy school characters 302
FIGURES

1.1 Articles written about Kennedy vs. Elvis Presley five years after
their respective deaths 17
1.2 Schools, hospitals and colleges named after Kennedy, Lincoln,
Jefferson, and Nixon 17
3.1 Cause of death in Kennedy sample compared to national
mortality norms 58
4.1 Jack Ruby’s toll calls in 1963 117
5.1 Distribution of cover-up sources (including Mafia murders) 194
5.2 Possible assassins in Dealey Plaza, Nov. 22, 1963 195
5.3 Metropolitan Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 201
5.4 Eugene Hale Brading as a case study in guilt by association 203
5.5 Metropolitan Dallas on Nov. 21, 1963, the eve of the assassination 205
6.1 A recently released, but redacted, document about Oswald
from 1959 293
7.1 Feelings of confidence versus a sense of alienation since 1960 324
7.2 Violent crimes in the United States since 1963 325
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1. JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY: INTRODUCTION TO THE DREAM 1
OSWALD 2
LUCIEN SARTI 2
CARLOS MARCELLO 3
THE CIA MONGOOSE TEAM 3
CHARLES HARRELSON 4
THE ELUSIVE PARTICLE 5
NUMINOSITY AND ARCHETYPE 7
THE KENNEDY WIT 10
A NEW IDEALISM 12
KENNEDY AND LINCOLN 18
CHAPTER 2. CASE CLOSED 23
EVIDENCE AGAINST OSWALD 24
Physical Evidence 24
Circumstantial Evidence 26
DR. PEPPER OR COCA-COLA: THE OBSESSION BEGINS 29
CHAPTER 3. REASONABLE DOUBT 33
EVIDENCE FAVORING OSWALD 34
EYEWITNESSES FAVORING OSWALD 36
BEST EVIDENCE FOR A CONSPIRACY 39
(1) A Fourth Shot 39
Exit Wound in the Back of the Head 40
Ballistics Inconsistencies 42
Ballistics/Autopsy Inconsistencies 43
Acoustic Evidence of a Fourth Shot 43
Further Evidence of a Fourth Shot: The Zapruder Film 44
Revisionism 45
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(2) Deaths of Witnesses 48
Mary Pinchot Meyer 50
Rose Cheramie 51
Jerry Wald 52
Dorothy Kilgallen 52
David Ferrie and E. del Valle 53
State Department Officer 54
Other Deaths 54
Statistical Analysis 57
Unusual Accidents 60
(3.) Death of Witnesses Prior to Government Hearings 62
George deMohrenschildt 62
Carlos Prio 63
Charles Nicoletti 63
Sam Giancana 64
Leo Moceri 64
Regis Kennedy 65
William Sullivan 65
William Pawley and John Paisley 65
John Martino 66
(4.) The Cover Up 68
How to Look at this Data 79
The Hard Evidence of a Cover-Up 80
SUMMARY 86
Physical Evidence Favoring Oswald 86
A Fourth Shot 86
Pattern of Suspicious Deaths 87
Deaths Associated with Congressional Witnesses 87
Cover-up Actions as a Predictor of Conspiracy 87
CONCLUSION 88
CHAPTER 4. CONSPIRACY 93
1. THE JOHNSON THEORY 93
Essential Ideas 94
Strongest Points 100
Weakest Points 102
2. THE MOB THEORY 103
Essential Points 103
Hoover Wiretaps 105
Marcello 109
Who Killed the President? 110
Weaker Points 118
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3. THE CIA THORY 120
Essential Points 129
The Odio Incident and Loran Hall 135
Mexico City 139
The Vietnam Connection 141
Who Killed Kennedy? 142
Clues From Oswald Himself 147
Oswald’s Dyslexia 147
Library Books 148
Oswald and Ferrie 150
“Better For You Not to Know!” 154
Strong Points in the CIA Conspiracy Model 156
Weak Elements 158
4. THE COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY 162
Oswald’s Soviet Diary 167
Marina Nikolaevna Prusakova: Suspicions Increase 169
The Yuri Nosenko Affair 173
Soviet Motives 175
Inconsistencies in Soviet Behavior 177
5. THE CUBAN COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY 179
Strong Points 183
Weak Points 183
White Hand And Black Hand: The CIA and the Mob 185
SUMMARY 190
APPENDIX 191
CHAPTER 5. PARADOX 193
INTERPRETING THE FACTS 193
The Cover Up 194
Dealey Plaza 195
Jim Braden aka Eugene Hale Brading: A Leading Suspect? 199
H.L. Hunt 204
Richard Nixon 207
Clint Murchison 208
YET-TO-BE-DEVELOPED CONSPIRACY SCENARIOS 210
Suzy Chang and Maria Novotny 210
Mary Pinchot Meyer and the CIA 211
Modern-Day Conspiracy: James E. Files 215
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Three Interviews with Inmate N-14006 215
Eugene Hale Brading 216
Richard Cain 216
Nofio Pecora 216
Dutz Murret 217
Joseph Campisi 217
Strong Points of the Files Version 222
Weaker Points 222
The Brothers Karamazov 223
CHAPTER 6. SHADOWS AND SECRETS 227
CAMELOT VS. CONSPIRACY SCHOOLS 227
J. EDGAR HOOVER’S HOMOSEXUALITY AND PARANOIA 232
KENNEDY SILENCE AND SECRETS 237
SHADOWS OF THE FATHER 238
SEX: THE SINS OF THE FATHER PASS TO THE SON 240
SECRECY BETWEEN THE BROTHERS? 242
JUNE 1963 249
ROBERT KENNEDY’S PERSONALITY 251
REVELATIONS FROM A COLLEAGUE 255
EVEN MORE RECENT REVELATIONS 257
EVEN DEEPER SECRETS: THE SHADOW OF JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY 260
The Adventures of J.J. 260
MORE SEXUALLY DYSFUNCTIONAL PLAYERS: MARILYN MONROE 268
The Monroe Cover Up 270
Events Leading To Her Death 271
A Curious Clue 273
JACKIE KENNEDY: WIDOW, BONE-CRUSHER, ENIGMA 276
Images of Jackie 279
LEE HARVEY OSWALD: PATSY, SPY, COUNTERSPY 284
Oedipal Elements and Jealousy 286
An Unconscious Hatred Of Kennedy? 287
Oswald the Mystery 289
Oswald, on the Right 290
Oswald, the Psycho 293
Oswald, the Mafia Patsy 296
Oswald, Not Guilty 297
‘To Kill That Sonofabitch Kennedy!’ 300
MENTAL STATUS OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS 301
CONCLUSION 303
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APPENDIX: 304
Confusion of Theory and Fact 307
The First Bullet 308
CHAPTER 7. CAMELOT AND CAROUSELS 313
COLLECTIVE DENIAL 313
SYMBOLIC DISCERNMENT 316
The Carousel 316
Dream Interpretation 317
SYMBOLS IN THE MYTH 318
Camelot 318
Passion versus the Dream 319
Abraham Lincoln 320
THE COLLECTIVE SCAPEGOAT 321
THE KENNEDY TRAGEDY AS THE FORESHADOW OF AMERICAN TRAGEDY 323
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NUMBER THREE 327
CONCLUSION 328
APPENDIX: A CHRONOLOGY OF OSWALD’S LIFE 329
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 333
PHOTO CREDITS 337
INDEX 339
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