Like many posts presented on this blog we advise you to take this information with a degree of skepticism. However, if Howard Hunt’s allegations are true then this truly is some piece of news.
‘As the explosive revelation of E. Howard Hunt’s deathbed confession, in which the former CIA agent and Watergate conspirator admits that he was part of a CIA conspiracy to assassinate JFK, continues to rage across the Internet, the establishment media remains almost mute on what is undoubtedly one of the biggest stories of the decade.’
From Wikipedia:
The April 5, 2007 issue of Rolling Stone contained an extensive article on Hunt, based in large part on an interview with his eldest son St. John. It describes Hunt’s alleged deathbed confessions of his supposed knowledge and indirect complicity in the JFK assassination.[12] Among other things, the article claims that Hunt, in hand-written notes and a voice recording to St. John, implicated Lyndon B. Johnson, and CIA operator Cord Meyer as the key players in the JFK assassination conspiracy. According to Hunt’s son, Hunt claimed the other assassin was a French gunman on the grassy knoll, often identified in other assassination theories as Lucien Sarti.
Listen to a part of and read a transcript of his taped confession here.
May 7, 2007 at 10:02 am
On the Alex Jones radio show E. Howard Hunt’s son came on and explained the road to leaking his father’s information, which was all of believable, and credible. This is a huge story, but there’s no way this is getting on mainstream news. There are too many pentagon gate keepers in the media to be leaking this, in the era of 9/11 and the “War on Terrorism.”
May 8, 2007 at 12:08 am
True that, collin. Let us not forget Project Monarch, which has placed intelligence assets in the major newspapers and media (including one Anderson Cooper and one Bob Woodward) for at least the past sixty years.
I don’t wholly believe Hunt’s thing–I believe the confession of a Kennedy assassination, but not necessarily the specifics of all the leaders and players in the conspiracy (who was in charge, etc.)–and given the way intelligence operations are set up, it would be hard for anyone to really know.
But I covered this plus the strangeness of the Hunt News coming after the death of another alleged conspirator, Charles Harrelson, dad of Woody, in a piece here:
http://cadeveo.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/stranger-than-holy-woody-pt-1-jfk-e-howard-hunt-charles-harrelson-and-six-to-eight-tramps/
And I’d suggest that, while some of the folks who may have been complicit in the murder are still alive (including a former president by the name of Bush), this will continue to NOT be the news it should be in the MSM.
May 8, 2007 at 5:10 pm
I’m studying for my law exam today, and I have this tidbit to add to the discussion: “dying declarations” are admissible as evidence in court (whereas most hearsay is not); our court system believes that people don’t lie when they know they are about to die because they really don’t have a reason to, they are more concerned with clearing their consciences.
And I guess y’all are right, the story doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, as I haven’t heard about it except from here… but maybe the power of the market will overcome the power of the government, there are a lot of people interested in anything to do with JFK or Jackie O and this story could certainly sell quite well…
May 8, 2007 at 8:15 pm
I think it’s said that Rachel, you’re thinking in terms of marketability, whether or not an honest President had his head blown off is sellable. It’s the fact that the government is completely crooked, and criminal, and this story should be told, because it’s in the interest and well being of our citizens. If enough people know that the CIA murdered that man, and his brother, and were aware of all the other tragedies that the government has brought onto this nation. They wouldn’t be able to hoodwink us with catch phrase wars, like the giant catastrophic one we are involved in now. It’s time for the people to wake up to this corruption, 911 and all the facts surrounding that, the JFK assassination, bay of pigs, all of it. We are at a critical turning point, we are either going ot wake up, or we are going to go down a very bad path in America. This is one battle front, and this story needs to be told by the mass media, “selling,” the dead mans’ legacy is not the issue here. It’s getting the truth out.
May 8, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Also something to keep in mind…
I know very little about Hunt’s mental health but with old age comes the increased probability of confabulation and delusions. Of course, he might have been completely healthy.
“I think it’s said that Rachel, you’re thinking in terms of marketability, whether or not an honest President had his head blown off is sellable.”
Unfortunately, when you’re trying to reach masses of people this is how you have to think. If your information is not entertaining or marketable you might as well shout into the void. Look at how politics has worked over the course of history. The end of the 20th Century was heavily influenced by the idea that markets can grant a better understanding of the will of the people than democratic participation. And if you can’t sell an idea [fnord] you’ll never win.
May 17, 2007 at 7:20 pm
I think we’ve completely lost touch with sanity when everything must be sold, even Truth itself, and that’s a capital T. A high profile murder, and cover up took place, within the constraints of the class that has complete authority over our lives, and we must be able to “sell” the truth. Here’s how it should be adressed on the news, “The CIA killed Kennedy, just as everyone knows, now we’re letting you know that you can’t trust the government as far as you can throw them, and there needs to be a revolution within the people to get these people out of power.” That’s pretty attractive to me!!!!