Lone Star Speaks

Sara Peterson

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Both authors became interested in President Kennedy's assassination at a young age. Zachry's grandparents lived in Dallas in 1963, and saved newspapers from that era. Her grandfather was connected to the Dallas oil industry. Peterson became interested in the assassination in 1978 when she participated in the Presidential Classroom for Young Americans program in Washington, D. C. The two have collected books and artifacts concerning the assassination for years. Both are currently employed by Midland College. The Lone Star Speaks began with a presentation the authors made to the West Texas Historical Symposium in 2014. The presentation soon expanded into a four-year research project that resulted in the authors finding and interviewing more than 150 individuals. Among the most intriguing is Robert T. Davis, who was the Assistant Attorney General in Texas in 1963. As an attorney who was sent to help interview Warren Commission witnesses, Davis immediately sensed that the official investigation was a "whitewash." Davis was one of the first to suggest that the investigation should include Jack Ruby's contacts with Mafia members. Other witnesses whom the authors located include a Lyndon Johnson staff member who was directed by the new President to serve as his eyes and ears in Dallas after the assassination. She personally reported Oswald's death immediately to President Johnson on November 24, 1963. Still another previously unknown witness (who even today insists on anonymity) was part of at least two "abort teams" in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Working with a U. S. Marshall in Dallas that day, he attempted to tell the FBI that more than one assassin had been firing at the President. More than a half-century later, he is still bitter that his information was ignored by officials. Other individuals who have helped the authors add information to the Kennedy assassination puzzle include a personal female friend of President Kennedy, and another woman who spent the late hours of November 21, 1963 with Jack Ruby. The authors also uncovered several individuals who can personally vouch for the fact that there was and is a Dixie/Texas Mafia, and that it may have been involved with the Kennedy assassination. The Lone Star Speaks provides new insights into the assassination of John F. Kennedy and uses actual witness testimony to raise new questions concerning what many have called "the crime of the twentieth century."

Sujets

• Histoire
• USA
• United States of America
• History of the Americas
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Bancroft Press
• Date de parution: 06 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781610881944
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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THE LONE STAR SPEAKS
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UNTOLD TEXAS STORIES ABOUT THE JFK ASSASSINATION
SARA PETERSON & K.W. ZACHRY
Copyright: Sara Peterson and K. W. Zachry, 2020. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the authors except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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ISBN: 978-1-61088-192-0 (Hardcover) 978-1-61088-193-7 (PB) 978-1-61088-194-4 (Kindle) 978-1-61088-195-1 (Ebook)
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Printed in the United States of America
To Dr. Herbert Hogan, who taught me the importance of dissecting, critically analyzing, questioning, and interpreting all information regarding political theory, political philosophy, and historical facts. He also taught me these twin imperatives: Don’t allow others to influence your research, and draw your own conclusions by deciphering the Truth.
—Sara Peterson
To Dr. Selma Bishop, who taught me how to write; and to my mother, who taught me how to think.
—K. W. Zachry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE:
SECTION I: SECRETS FROM THE SHADOWS
Chapter 1 The Kennedy Family
Chapter 2 The Voice of Layte Bowden
Chapter 3 The Voice of Axel Holm
Chapter 4 The Kennedys and the Mafia
Chapter 5 The Warren Commission and the CIA
Chapter 6 The Voice of Lt. J. Goode
Chapter 7 The Voice of Tom Mills
Chapter 8 The Voice of Sharon Calloway
Chapter 9 The Voices of James Jenkins and Dennis David
Chapter 10 Voices of Witnesses Unknown on November 22, 1963
SECTION II: THE SHADOWS OF AMBITION
Chapter 11 The Voice of Robert T. Davis
Chapter 12 The Voice of George Day
Chapter 13 The Voice of Iris Campbell
Chapter 14 The Voice of Kyle Brown
Chapter 15 The Voices of Tommy Wright and Jan Amos
SECTION III: A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH
Chapter 16 1960—And So It Begins
Chapter 17 The Voice of Jim Bundren
Chapter 18 Foreshadowing and Assassination
Chapter 19 “Castro Knew”
Chapter 20 The Voice of Michael Marcades
Chapter 21 The Voices of Lt. J. Goode and Tosh Plumlee
SECTION IV: IN THE SHADOWS OF DEALEY PLAZA
Chapter 22 The Accused Assassin
Chapter 23 The Voices of Henry J. Roussell, Jr., James A. Botelo, and Bill J. Lord
Chapter 24 The Voice of Pat Hall
Chapter 25 The Voice of Buell Wesley Frazier
Chapter 26 The Voice of Sandra Styles
Chapter 27 The Voice of Marilyn Johnson
Chapter 28 The Voices of Dr. Karl Dockray and James Huddleston
Chapter 29 The Voice of Elsse Goldstrich
Chapter 30 The Voice of Tommy Wright part II
Chapter 31 Voices for Paul Groody
Chapter 32 Voices of Neighbors of Donald Wayne House
SECTION V: LEE AND HIS SHADOWS
Chapter 33 Shadows of the Doppelgangers
Chapter 34 The Voice of Dorothy Cox
Chapter 35 Shadowing Lee Harvey Oswald
Chapter 36 Theatrics in Oak Cliff
Chapter 37 The “Voice” of Sgt. Robert Vinson
Chapter 38 A Background of Shadows
SECTION VI: DALLAS IN BLUNDERLAND
Chapter 39 The Voice of Jack Hardy
Chapter 40 The Voice of Bill Poston
Chapter 41 The Secret Service and Its Tragedy of Errors
Chapter 42 The Voices of Motorcade Bystanders
Chapter 43 The Voice of Gary Loucks
Chapter 44 The Voice of Dorothy Wean
Chapter 45 The Voice of Barry Walters
Chapter 46 The Voice of Eugene Boone
Chapter 47 Voices from the Sixth Floor
Chapter 48 The Voice of Paul Gower
Chapter 49 The Voice of Danny Peters
Chapter 50 The Voice of Doyle Brunson
Chapter 51 From the Vaults of the FBI
SECTION VII: THE SHADOWY WORLD OF JACK RUBY
Chapter 52 The Voice of “Joy Dale”
Chapter 53 The Multi-Faceted Ruby
Chapter 54 The Voice of Duke Stephenson
Chapter 55 The Voice of J.J. Singsong
Chapter 56 The Voice of Congressman Ralph Hall
Chapter 57 Two Oswalds, One Ruby
Chapter 58 Friends in Shadowy Places
Chapter 59 The Voice of Mel Barney
SECTION VIII: THE DIXIE MAFIA: DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS
Chapter 60 Voices for George McGann
Chapter 61 The Voice of Texas Ranger Al Mitchell
Chapter 62 George McGann’s “Homecoming”
Chapter 63 George McGann’s Luck Runs Out
Chapter 64 Organized Crime Pays Its Last Respects to George McGann
Chapter 65 Where was George McGann on November 22, 1963?
SECTION IX: THE WEST TEXAS CONNECTION
Chapter 66 Voices for Billie Sol Estes
Chapter 67 The “Voice” of Fred Michaelis
Chapter 68 Voices for Jim Bolden
Chapter 69 Voices for Roscoe White
Chapter 70 More Voices for Roscoe White
EPILOGUE: SHADOWS OF THE PAST
AFTERWORD
END NOTES
INDEX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PROLOGUE
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” —Soren Kierkegaard
I n ancient times, marvelous sorcerers were nothing short of amazing, at least if you asked the poor gullible common folk. Such magicians “caused” fierce storms, accurately predicted rain, walked on hot coals, and summoned long dead spirits to commune with the living.
Science has taught the modern world that these tricksters had no more magical powers than anyone else had.
What they did have was knowledge not available to most people. They knew how to use balms and herbs, their so-called “magic potions.”
They were aware of how birds and animals behave before the weather changes. They understood how the bereaved feel after losing a loved one, and how desperately they will grasp any hope of an earthly reunion. In other words, magicians had “inside information.”
We 21st century sophisticates osmugly tell ourselves that we are now too intelligent, too well-educated, to be drawn in by magic. Magicians exist only in Las Vegas, and their secrets have been exposed to national audiences via television. “What fools these mortals be!”
But “real” magicians are at work every day, bewildering us just as easily as Merlin did King Arthur. They convince us there is an over-abundance of wheat, that all the homeless are minorities, that all drug addicts are from poverty-stricken areas. The hand is quicker than the eye, but the mouth is quicker than either. Promises of lower taxes flow sweetly from smiling lips while the old sleight-of-hand trick pilfers our coffers.
Yes, indeed. Just as in the days of old, we still have magicians and sorcerers. They simply have new names—“politicians” and “bureaucrats.” And it is these politicians and bureaucrats who helped take away the voice of John F. Kennedy and the voices of many who were touched by his death. Even if they had nothing to do with his assassination, they altered, ignored, and hid evidence so that one man was assigned all the blame for the death of a president. Like the best magicians, they kept the public’s eyes on one thing, the Warren Report, while they made sure important information and witnesses were “hidden behind the curtain” of national security. Most of the people never saw the ventriloquists’s lips moving while the dummies mouthed the official story.
What the politicians and bureaucrats forgot is that the American people can handle the truth. What they can’t handle are distortions, half-truths, character assassinations, and out-and-out lies. Ignorance is not bliss to most Americans. That is why some of them finally demanded to “look behind the curtain,” even if their curiosity spoiled the performance or cost them their lives. These brave souls refused to sit like trained seals and applaud an “investigation” that invisibly banged nails into the coffin of truth.
Sadly, American history books devote very little space to the mystery surrounding President Kennedy’s death. Many high school and college students know only that he was assassinated by someone. Perhaps that is preferable to the history books which refer to Lee Harvey Oswald as “the assassin.” In a country that preaches “innocent until proven guilty,” many textbook authors seem to have forgotten that Oswald was never given the opportunity to defend himself. This alone makes him innocent simply because his voice was silenced before a jury could hear his defense.
That silencing began before Oswald even reached the Dallas Police Department. Dallas reporter Hugh Aynesworth witnessed his arrest and heard him shouting, “I protest this police brutality” as local police were forcing him into the backseat of a patrol car. In Aynesworth’s notes can be found a chilling observation: “A hand reached out and covered his mouth.” 1 This could certainly explain why Oswald attempted to speak to news reporters every time he was in their presence. They were the only “voice” he had.
Fortunately, the voices of many other individuals are no longer silent. It has taken some of them years to tell their stories. For some, this was because they were afraid to speak or at least correct what the Warren Commission claimed they had said. Some did not realize that the information they had was important. Some had been sworn to secrecy even though what they knew might have exonerated innocent persons. Some were never even questioned, and others were never asked the appropriate questions.
Their stories may not tell the reader exactly who assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, or why and how. But they will provide information that the members of the Warren Commission and even the House Select Committee on Assassinations either did not know or chose not to share with America (for national security reasons, of course).
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