Harry
Dean
was an undercover agent for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
In 1962 he infiltrated the John
Birch Society.
He later reported that leading members of the society, including John
Rousselot and
Edwin
Walker,
hired two gunman, Eladio del Valle and
Loran Hall, to kill President John
F. Kennedy.
In
his book JFK: The Second Plot,
Matthew
Smith has argued that
the John Birch Society may have joined forces with a group of Texas
oil millionaires to assassinate John
F. Kennedy.
Haroldson L. Hunt and Clint Murchison were both members who provided the John Birch Society with funding. Both were bitter opponents of Kennedy but had good relationships with Lyndon B. Johnson.
Open Debate on the Kennedy Assassination
Debate on the John Birch Society
Namebase: John Birch Society
Forum Debate on Watergate
(M1)
Wanted for Treason, a handbill published by supporters of the
John Birch Society and handed out in Dallas
before President John
F. Kennedy
arrived on his visit (November,
1963)
1. Betraying the
Constitution (which he swore to uphold). He is turning the sovereignty
of the US over to the Communist controlled United Nations. He is betraying
our friends (Cuba, Katanga, Portugal) and befriending our enemies
(Russia, Yugoslavia, Poland).
2. He has been WRONG on
innumerable issues affecting the security of the US (United Nations,
Berlin Wall, Missile Removal, Cuba, Wheat deals, Test Ban Treaty,
etc.).
3. He has been lax in
enforcing the Communist Registration laws.
4. He has given support
and encouragement to the Communist-inspired racial riots.
5. He has illegally invaded
a sovereign State with federal troops.
6. He has consistently
appointed Anti-Christians to Federal office. Upholds the Supreme Court
in Anti-Christian rulings. Aliens and known Communists abound in Federal
offices.
7. He has been caught
in fantastic LIES to the American people (including personal ones
like his previous marriage and divorce).
Why were
members of the John Birch Society angry with John F. Kennedy in 1963?
(M2)
Hugh
Aynesworth,
JFK:
Breaking the News (2003)
Relying on pitifully
weak evidence to elevate a jack-leg Marxist such as Lee Harvey Oswald
to membership in the supposed international communist conspiracy was
precisely the sort of irresponsible straw man fabrication at which
the News editorial writers excelled. No self-respecting communist
would have wanted himself or his movement associated with the likes
of Oswald.
Behind the News' editorial's
bluster, however, lurked a different truth. It wasn't political conservatism,
but intolerance-outright knee-jerk hostility to any opposing view-that
characterized the thought of Ted Dealey and his fellow believers on
the right. It was this brand of extremism that was discredited in
Dallas by the events of November 22nd.
Fear for their own safety
gripped some of the anti-communist crusaders after the shootings,
possibly for good reason. Larry Schmidt and Bernard Weissman left
town, the dust of The American Fact-Finding Committee settling to
earth in their wake. General Walker grabbed a plane for Shreveport,
Louisiana, where he hunkered down for several days.
Why does
Hugh Aynesworth believe some right-wingers like General Edwin Walker
might have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
(M3)
W.
R. Morris, The Men Behind the Guns (1975)
Harry Dean, an ex-employee
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence
Agency, has marble-hard proof that Republican Congressman John Rousselot
from California's 26th Congressional District, and former Army General
Edwin A. Walker of Dallas, engineered the death of John F. Kennedy.
At the time, Rousselot was western director of the John Birch Society
and Walker was a member of the right wing organization.
The ex-agent has an avalanche
of evidence, including several tape recordings of Rousselot and Walker
making threats against President Kennedy's life...
The former agent infiltrated
the John Birch Society for several months and gathered firsthand information
about the group's activities including plans of certain members to
kill the 35th president of the United States.
He said Rousselot and Walker
convinced other members of the Birch Society that a "dirty communist"
tag should be placed on John Kennedy and that he should be marked
for death to save the United States from "falling into Red hands."
Dean said (General Walker
also was obsessed with hatred for both John and Robert Kennedy and
had a "personal grudge" to settle.
"When Robert Kennedy
was attorney general he ordered his aides to imprison Walker in a
Federal mental institution at Springfield, Missouri, following Walker's
involvement in the racial disorders in 1962 at Oxford, Mississippi."
Dean said.
"In fact, Walker's
clothing was torn off him and he was thrown naked into a military
airplane and flown to Missouri. Robert Kennedy then leaked stories
to the news media that Walker was a mental case," the ex-agent
said...
"I attended many meetings
of the John Birch Society prior to the assassination in 1963 and I
heard details of the Kennedy kill plan being discussed each time we
met," Dean said.
"I know that John
Rousselot organized the murder plot and with other right-wingers financed
it. General Walker ramrodded and trained the hired guns, Dean said.
"I was with a man
in September 1963 when he picked up $10,000 from Rousselot. The money
was taken to Mexico City to help finance the murder of Mr. Kennedy'.
The assassination planning team operated out of Mexico City for several
weeks before the president was shot in Dallas," Dean added
Dean said that he has been
staying behind the scenes for many years and that his family has lived
in constant fear.
"My wife and children
have gone through hell. The life of a government undercover agent
isn't the glorified one as depicted on television and in the movies.
"Now, however, I have
decided to bring out the truth regardless of the price. I can't keep
living with this horrible burden on my conscious. It haunts me day
and night," the former agent said.
Dean said many persons
will ask why he waited so long to reveal the facts about the Kennedy
assassination which occurred almost 12 years ago.
"The truth of the
matter is. I told my superiors about this plot when I first
learned of the details, but they ignored it," Dean added.
The former agent said all
the articles printed in recent weeks about the CIA and the Mafia masterminding
the Kennedy murder are like the "Mother Goose and Little Red
Riding Hood" stories . . entertaining, but not factual.
"The news media has
been playing right into the hands of the real Kennedy killers by creating
a smoke screen which continues to hide them from justice," Dean
said...
"If the assassins
had attempted to shoot Mr. Kennedy at the Trade Mart, they would either
have been killed or captured because the whole area was crawling with
federal officers who were heavily armed. Lee Harvey Oswald, working
as a federal security agent, had performed his job well," Dean
said.
Who does
Harry Dean believe organized the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
What evidence does he provide to support this claim?
(M4)
Barry
Goldwater, syndicated article (6th December, 1963)
In the nation’s initial
shock at the assassination of President Kennedy, there was little
time or opportunity for objective assessment of motivation. Immediately
following the shooting, there were some misleading statements to the
effect that the assassination had been engineered by the so-called
‘radical right.’ Even the U.S. Information Agency, in its
broadcast to Russia, said the assassination had taken place in Dallas
and described that city as a center of right-wing extremism. This
broadcast was at the root of the Soviet contention that rightists
were responsible for the killing and that the subsequent slaying of
Oswald was part of a plot to cover up the conspiracy. Efforts to tie
every group to the right of center, whether extreme or not, into the
slaying have continued since, despite the long Communistic background
of Lee Oswald himself. One columnist even suggested that ‘extremists’
are bent upon such acts of violence and therefore we should do away
with free speech. His reasoning was that our constitutional right
of free expression leads to violent dissension and intemperate acts.
Why does
Barry Goldwater believe that right-wing groups such as the John Birch
Society were accused of being involved in the assassination of John
F. Kennedy?
(M5)
William
F. Buckley, syndicated article (27th November, 1963)
The opinion makers of
the country... were getting ready to turn the President’s tragedy
into an excuse for a program against the American Right. Within a
matter of minutes nationally known radio and television commentators
had started in, suggesting that the assassination had been the work
of a right-wing extremist… Goodness knows what would have happened
if Lee Harvey Oswald had not been apprehended, or even if he had been
apprehended a day or two later. Even as it was, the disappointment
was more than some could bear, and the genocidal fury here and there
broke its traces.
According
to William Buckley, why were the John Birch Society helped by the
arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald?
(M6)
Billy
James Hargis,
Weekly Crusader (6th December, 1963)
It may be difficult for
my readers to understand my fear upon hearing the right-wing accused
of participation in President Kennedy’s death. May I assure you,
as one who has gone through a hate campaign directed at me by the
liberals and left-wing element, and having seen the degree to which
they will go to destroy anyone who stands in their way, my heart told
me that their hatred knew no limitations and their vengeance knows
no bounds.
I know - and you know -
that no true conservative in the United States would stoop to taking
the law into his own hands. I know - and you know - that any man who
would assassinate the President of the United States, in these days
when we still have "due process of law," would not be a
conservative or a patriot, but an anarchist. I hold them in the same
contempt that I hold the Communists or any man who would go beyond
the law to achieve an end. In my thinking, the end never justifies
the means.
Conservatives stand for
law. We preach obedience to the law. For that reason, we opposed the
racial demonstrators who took the law into their own hands and carried
on racial agitations, defying state and local laws, without regard
to "due process of law." My main criticism of the racial
agitators is the fact that they have no regard for the law - that
they go beyond the law in an emotional period of American history
to accomplish their end. No American - no minority group - no majority
group - can ever justify breaking the law to accomplish their self-justified
goals.
Does Billy
James Hargis believe that the John Birch Society was involved in the
assassination of John F. Kennedy?
(M7)
Matthew
Smith, JFK: The Second Plot
(1992)
Another group which
hated the President and which merited investigation was the extreme
right-wing John Birch Society. Centred on Dallas, the group made no
secret of its disdain for the Kennedy administration, in fact it advertised
it well. To its members, the young President was a Communist-lover,
and, in their world, that represented just about the worst thing anybody
could be. In their vocabulary, to call anybody a name like that represented
using real venom. That was reaching down the barrel to find the biggest
of all insults. Some John Birch members were oil barons, and the oil
men made up an overlapping group which, when it came to its opinions
of the President, had a great deal in common with the Society. The
oil industry in Texas had enjoyed huge tax concessions since 1926,
when Congress had provided them as an incentive to increase much needed
prospecting. The oil depletion benefits were somehow left in place
to become a permanent means by which immense fortunes were amassed
by those in the industry and, well aware of the anomaly, John Kennedy
had declared an intention to review the oil industry revenues. There
was nothing in the world which would have inflamed the oil barons
more than the President interfering with the oil depletion allowance.
In the minds of many, the conspirators could very easily have come
from the ranks of either the John Birch Society or the oil men, which
is not to say they didn't belong to both groups.
What evidence
does Matthew Smith provide to suggest the John Birch Society was behind
the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
(M8)
Joachim
Joesten,
How Kennedy Was Killed (1968)
The conspiracy to
kill President Kennedy sprang from a gradually developing consensus
of (mostly, though not exclusively) Texas political figures. Big Businessmen,
right-wing extremists and key elements of the Dallas power elite,
with the ClA in it at all levels as the connecting and cementing link.
Three levels of operation
can be distinguished. At the top or control level were men consumed
by ambition and the thirst for power; at the intermediate or command
level, ClA men and high police officers guided the course of events.
And at the lowest or operative level, experienced marksmen, recruited
from the ranks of the Minutemen and Cuban adventurers, trained and
equipped by the ClA, carried out the assassination.
Apart from the obvious
overall purpose of ending the Kennedy Administration and opening a
new era, prime factors in the conspiracy were the desire to effect
a radical change in foreign policy (in particular towards Cuba and
in Vietnam) and to preserve specific Texas interests such as the tax
privileges enjoyed by the oil industry.
All these aims were attained.
Cuba was further isolated through the establishment, with the help
of the ClA, of military dictatorships throughout Latin America. The
war in Vietnam - which Kennedy had meant to liquidate at the earliest
possible moment - was escalated, step by step, into the senseless
mass slaughter in progress at the end of 1967. And the oil industry
has never had it so good.
Who did
Joachim Joesten believe that the John Birch Society join forces with
to assassinate John F. Kennedy?
(M9)
CIA
Report released as a result of the Assassination
Records Review Board (1st December,
1966)
A source
who has furnished reliable information in the past and who was in
Russia on the date of the assassination of the late President John
F. Kennedy advised on December 4, 1963, that the news of the assassination
of President Kennedy was flashed to the Soviet people almost immediately
after its occurrence. It was greeted by great shock and consternation
and church bells were tolled in the memory of President Kennedy.
According to our source,
officials of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union believed there
was some well-organized conspiracy on the part of the "ultraright"
in the United States to effect a "coup." They seemed convinced
that the assassination was not the deed of one man, but that it rose
out of a carefully planned campaign in which several people played
a part. They felt those elements interested in utilizing the assassination
and playing on anticommunist sentiments in the United States would
then utilize this act to stop negotiations with the Soviet Union,
attack Cuba and thereafter spread the war. As a result of these feelings,
the Soviet Union immediately went into a state of national alert.
Our source further stated
that Soviet officials were fearful that without leadership, some irresponsible
general in the United States might launch a missile at the Soviet
Union. It was the further opinion of the Soviet officials that only
maniacs would think that the "left" forces in the United
States, as represented by the Communist Party, USA, would assassinate
President Kennedy, especially in view of the abuse the Communist Party,
USA, has taken from the "ultraleft" as a result of its support
of peaceful coexistence and disarmament policies of the Kennedy administration.
Explain
what officials of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union believed
was the reason why John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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