The near-assassination of former President Trump has brought the Kennedy assassination to the forefront of people’s minds, especially since many Americans remain discomforted by that event — and rightly so.
At the same time, the Trump shooting has caused advocates of the lone-nut theory of the Kennedy assassination to come forward and repeat the conclusions reached in 1964 by the Warren Commission, the entity that consisted of former and current government officials, including the former director of the CIA who Kennedy had fired, that, not surprisingly, concluded that a lone nut had killed the president.
Two examples are “The Government Has Failed America Since the Trump Shooting” by Gerald Posner and Mark S. Zaid, which appeared in the mainstream newspaper The New York Times, and “Sorry, Everyone — Oswald Still Acted Alone” by Rich Lowry, which appeared on the website of the conservative National Review and other Internet websites.
The authors of these pieces, however, remain stuck in a pre-ARRB world — that is, the world that preceded the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s — a world that fails to account for the evidence that conclusively established the fraudulent autopsy that the U.S. military establishment conducted on the body of President Kennedy on the very evening of the assassination.
Why is a fraudulent autopsy important? As I have emphasized ever since the publication of my book The Kennedy Autopsy, there is no innocent explanation for a fraudulent autopsy, especially one that is conducted just a few hours after the assassination. No one has ever come up with an innocent explanation. No one ever will. A fraudulent autopsy necessarily equates to criminal culpability in the assassination itself.
There is at least one undisputed fact in the Kennedy assassination: It was the U.S. military that conducted the autopsy on Kennedy’s body. Not the Mossad. Not the Mafia. Not space aliens. Only the U.S. military. Everyone agrees with that incontrovertible fact.
One searches in vain for any mention of the JFK autopsy in the two articles mentioned above. That might be because the authors know, if only on a subconscious level, that the JFK autopsy is the military establishment’s Achille’s heel in the assassination.
First of all, let’s ask ourselves a simple question, one that advocates of the lone-nut theory of the assassination never address: What in the world was the U.S. military in Maryland doing conducting an autopsy on Kennedy’s body? Ever since the assassination, lone-nut theorists have treated this as something ordinary, but it is anything but ordinary. The assassination occurred in Dallas, Texas. It constituted a murder case under Texas state law. Under the law, the Dallas County Medical Examiner was required to conduct the autopsy.
Why didn’t that happen? Because a team of Secret Service agents, operating under orders, declared that they would not permit such an autopsy to be conducted. Screaming, yelling, cussing, and brandishing guns, that Secret Service Team forced its way out of Parkland Hospital, where Kennedy had died, with his body. This is all considered normal by lone-nut theorists. But it is anything but normal. It is very unusual.
That Secret Service team then took JFK’s body to Dallas Love Field, where new President Lyndon Johnson was waiting for it. He then flew the body to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where he delivered it into the hands of the military.
But why the military? At that time, it was not a federal offense to assassinate a president. Therefore, the federal government, including the Secret Service, the FBI, and the military-intelligence establishment, had no jurisdiction whatsoever over the crime.
Thus, while lone-nut theorists see nothing unusual in the military takeover of JFK’s autopsy, any reasonable person would view it a highly unusual.
In the 1990s, the ARRB — the Assassination Records Review Board — was brought into existence to enforce the JFK Records Act, which forced federal agencies, including the military, to disclose their assassination-related records that they had steadfastly kept secret for some 30 years.
The ARRB discovered the existence of a man named Roger Boyajian, who had been a Marine sergeant in charge of security at the Bethesda morgue on the evening of the assassination. Boyajian delivered to the ARRB a copy of the after-action report that he had submitted to his superiors in the days following that event. The military had kept Boyajian’s report secret for more than three decades. The military had also failed to deliver Boyajian’s report to the ARRB, as the law required it to do.
Ever since the 1970s, various Navy enlisted men had stated that they had carried JFK’s body into the morgue in a lightweight shipping casket, rather than the heavy, ornate casket into which the body had been placed at Parkland. Boyajian’s report established that the shipping casket was brought into the morgue at 6:35 p.m., which was almost 1 and 1/2 hours before the official entry time of the Dallas casket into the morgue at 8 p.m.
At the risk of belaboring the obvious, when deep-state personnel were sneaking JFK’s body into the morgue early, they had to be up to no good, especially since other U.S. personnel had forcibly prevented the Dallas County Medical Examiner from performing his job in Dallas.
What do Gerald Posner, Mark S. Zaid, and Rich Lowry — the authors of those two articles mentioned above — say about that early secret introduction of JFK’s body into the Bethesda morgue? Nothing. They don’t say anything at all about that or about the fraudulent actions of the military during the autopsy itself. They are clearly stuck in a pre-ARRB world, one in which the military had been successful in keeping much of the evidence relating to its fraudulent autopsy secret for more than 30 years.
That changed in the 1990s, when the ARRB uncovered the evidence that firmly established beyond a reasonable doubt the autopsy fraud on the part of the U.S. military. It’s that autopsy fraud — which I detail in my book The Kennedy Autopsy — that establishes criminal culpability on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Also, see FFF’s book JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated by Douglas Horne, who served as chief analyst for military records for the ARRB.