To the editor:
Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s murder, justice still has not been served. David Talbot, in his 2007 book Brothers, quotes a letter which Robert Kennedy sent to the Soviet government just days after the assassination.
Kennedy makes it clear that he knows the Soviets were not responsible for his brother’s death and that it was entirely a conspiracy originating in the United States.
Dr. Charles A. Crenshaw, who attended to President Kennedy at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, stated in his 1993 book, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence, virtually all medical personnel agreed that Kennedy had been shot from the front, as for his throat and head wounds.
Jacqueline Kennedy, in her testimony to the Warren Commission, states that shots came from the front and the back.
The government would not allow her testimony to be released.
It was finally obtained through the courts in 1971.
Dave Powers, assistant to JFK, was in the motorcade not far behind his boss that day in Dallas. He was asked in 1991, after he had seen Oliver Stone’s film JFK, what he thought of the movie.
“I think they got it right,” said Powers. “We were driving into an ambush.”
Powers was a seasoned Second World War combat veteran. He said that shots came from the front and back. A friend of mine visited Dealy Plaza in recent years. She was told by a man who witnessed the assassination as a child that indeed bullets came from various directions.
Previous to Dallas, two plots in November 1963 were discovered, both aimed at killing JFK – one in Chicago and one in Miami.
Peter Janney, in his 2012 book, Mary’s Mosaic, chronicles that Kennedy told his mistress and confidante Mary Meyer that there was a conspiracy in the works to kill him.
He said that the people behind the plot were close to him. The motives for the assassination are clear. Kennedy was turning away from the Cold War toward the pursuit of peace. Mary Meyer herself fell victim to the same forces who killed the president. She had begun to speak out against the lies of the Warren Report and her social standing gave her the platform to do so. She was shot to death on Oct. 12, 1964 and the case remains unsolved.
Some people have toiled for years to bring the truth to the public regarding JFK’s murder. Some have given their lives. We are in their debt.
Bruce Gray,
Thunder Bay
