TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

From the Nov. 18 edition of GLOBE, which was on the stands last week:

JFK JR'S MISSION TO FIND DAD'S KILLERS
The disturbing details he learned about that deadly day in Dallas

JFK JR. spent his adult life on an astounding secret mission that he shared with only a few of his closest confidants - mulling over classified documents in a determined bid to unmask exactly who was behind his father's assassination 40 years ago.

And now, GLOBE can exclusively reveal the shocking secrets uncovered by the gutsy Camelot heir - and it wasn't the Mafia, or Fidel Castro, or Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone to gun down JFK in Dallas Nov. 22,1963.

It was JFK Jr.'s belief following his 20-year investigation that the guilty parties were 10 to 15 ultra-right wing military generals and disgruntled CIA operatives who were angry at his father's plan to keep America out of the growing Vietnam conflict.

This clandestine group, stung by the U.S. military failure at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, wanted to crank up the American war machine and win in Vietnam at all costs - including the use of nuclear weapons - and JFK stood in their way.

Publicly, JFK Jr. distanced himself from the conspiracy theories swirling around his father's shocking assassination, but behind closed doors, he burned the midnight oil to uncover the tiniest clue, starting at age 18, say close friends. He even denied ever watching Oliver Stone's 1991 controversial movie, JFK, which contained many of the same beliefs about the assassination that JFK Jr. shared. But he actually watched it in private many times.

"Can you imagine the headlines if someone spotted me m the theater*?" JFK Jr. asked his friend. "Anyway, it would upset my family too much."

JFK Jr. agreed with Stone on one point: "He refused point blank to believe the official version that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone shooter," says the friend. He came to his conclusion after watching the famous Zapruder footage frame by frame, listening to enhanced audio tapes of the actual gunshots, and reviewing autopsy reports and forensic evidence on Oswald’s gun.

He doggedly sifted through papers that few other people cpuld get their hands on, documents at the JFK Library in Boston and top secret files that his close friends in Washington, D.C., obtained for him.

"I just have get to the bottom of this. I need answers," JFK Jr. told his confidants.

While studying at Brown University, he spent much of his spare time on his mission. Later, he would pace the floor of his Manhattan apartment, acting as if he were arguing the case before a judge and jury, the friend reveals.

"John called it his hobby, but it was his burning passion," says the source, one of JFK Jr.'s closest friends for more than a decade before his fatal airplane crash July 16,1999. "He would never have published his findings - he was doing it just for himself."

Sadly, JFK Jr. never remembered saluting his father's coffin - one of the most famous pictures of the 20th century - or happy times playing in the White House, says the friend.

"The saddest thing John ever said about his motivation was, 'My father was one of the greatest figures in American history and every single thing he ever did and said was documented - yet I don't know anything about him,'" the source tells GLOBE. "He told me time and again he needed to find out exactly what happened to satisfy himself. He was terrified of being seen as obsessed and feared conspiracy buffs would turn him into a poster boy for their theories if word ever leaked out."

He took great pains to ensure that his mom, Jackie, didn't find out about his mission, as she had the attitude that what happened happened and she needed to move on with her life. His wife, Carolyn Bessette knew.

"But I don't think she was really that interested," says the source.

JFK Jr.'s personal investigation took him to Dallas, where he visited the assassination site at Dealy Plaza while he was in law school in 1988. Wearing a baseball cap pulled low to hide his face, he was shocked to find the place where his father was killed to be so attractive.

"It was much smaller than I expected and the sun was shining," JFK Jr. told the source afterward. "I couldn't get over the fact that such a tragic, horrific thing happened on such a pretty little street."

One time, JFK Jr. bumped into Frank Sinatra at a party and the Chairman of the Board asked for his phone number. Sometime later, Sinatra called him to tell him, "I don't want you to think my friends had anything to do with the assassination," says the source. But Sinatra had no worries - JFK Jr. did not believe the Mafia was involved with his father's death.

In 1997, JFK Jr. made his way to Cuba, where he interviewed Fidel Castro for his George magazine. The Cuban dictator, too, wanted to clear the air.

"John told me Castro looked him straight inthe eye and told him, 'It is important to me that you know I had nothing to do with your father's assassination,'" says the source. "John said he nodded and smiled because he knew Castro wasn't involved."

For a while, JFK's vice president, Lyndon Johnson, was in JFK Jr.'s spotlight. "But the more I look into him, the less likely it seems LBJ could have been involved," JFK Jr. told the source. "He was a mean, arrogant bastard - but I don't think he killed my father."

Incredibly, a friend at the Russian Consulate in New York allowed JFK Jr. to view KGB files on the assassination and Oswald, who lived in Russia for a while. Again, he knew the Russians were not involved in the case.

In the end, JFK Jr.'s conclusion echoed that of Oliver Stone: Certain generals and CIA honchos set up Lee Harvey Oswald as the patsy and there were four other shooters, disguised as hobos. At least three of the supposed hobos, too clean and well-dressed to be real bums, were found dead on different Dallas streets, but no one paid much attention because they were slain the same day JFK died.

"John was driven - there's no other word for it - to find out the truth," the source tells GLOBE. "He spent time, energy and money, and he pulled a lot of strings to go places and get his hands on crucial evidence.

"He vowed to find the identities of the guilty parties before he died but, ironically, not long after John told me he had just about wrapped up his investigation, he was killed in the crash."

-ANNETTE WITHERIDGE

B&W scans: jfkjrglobe1.jpg | jfkjrglobe2.jpg

TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: This edition printed Nov. 5. A similar anonymously-sourced story ran in the Irish Sunday Mirror dated Nov. 16.

`The AMI supermarket tabs are getting the teensiest bold again in the wake of the attack on their Florida headquarters with U.S.-Army bred military grade anthrax in 2001 (which seems to have targeted a photo editor who possessed photographs of G. W. Bush's homoerotic Skull & Bones inititation pictures).

But not too bold, however. The article repeats the official line and ignores the truth regarding the murder of JFK Jr. himself. He had been getting bold in his magazine George, exposing the assasanation conspiracies aimed at Yitzhak Rabin and George Wallace. The man had a story to tell, among other ambitions:



DATELINE NBC (7:00 PM ET)
July 18, 1999
[...]
[Stone] PHILLIPS: Through the years many people have encouraged JFK Jr. to follow in his father's footsteps and those of his uncles and cousins and go into politics. He always refused. But now word that he may have changed his mind, tomorrow's Newsweek magazine reports that according to one of John's closest friends he was planning to run for elective office. And the magazine says he was even eyeing next year's Senate race here in New York until Hillary Clinton entered the picture.
[...]

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