Wim Dankbaar was born in
the Netherlands. He first became interested in the assassination of
John
F. Kennedy
in 1988. An entrepreneur,
he has financed a private investigation into the murder of Kennedy.
He is also a major contributor to the JFK
Murder Solved website.
Dankbaar believes that
James Files, Charles
Nicoletti and
Johnny Roselli, were sent to Dallas by
Sam Giancana, head of the Chicago
mob and CIA agent, David Atlee Phillips,
to kill John
F. Kennedy.
Dankbaar also believes that the so called "three tramps",
detained and photographed in Dealey
Plaza, were Chauncey
Holt, Charles Harrelson, and Charles
Rogers. His belief is based on the following:
(1) The analysis of Houston Police forensic artist and facial expert
Lois Gibson.
(2) The book The Man on the Grassy Knoll
by John Craig and Roger Phillips, wherein Charles
Rogers is being confirmed from the tramps photographs by two contemporary
witnesses, who knew Rogers well.
(3) The testimony of Chauncey Holt himself,
one that Wim Dankbaar claims the world has never fully seen as of
yet, and wherein Holt also testifies that he drove Charles
Nicoletti into
Dallas and saw the now notorious Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carrilles
on Dealey
Plaza. A summary
of his story can be found at the JFK
Murder Solved website.
Furthermore, Dankbaar believes the testimony of Tosh
Plumlee, a CIA contract pilot, who claims to have flown Mob associate
and CIA asset Johnny Roselli into Dallas,
as part of a CIA supported mission to abort the pending assassination
of John
F. Kennedy.
An interview with Plumlee is available from the JFK
Murder Solved website.
Dankbaar emphasizes that he does not claim to present a full picture.
He believes there were more gunmen involved than mentioned on his
website. Among his "candidates" are Richard
Cain,
David Sanchez Morales, Jack Lawrence,
Luis Posada Carrilles and Cesar Diosdado.
Wim
Dankbaar
Open
Debate on the Kennedy Assassination
(1)
Wim
Dankbaar, Is
James Files Telling the Truth?, Assassination
of JFK Forum (18th April, 2004)
Why do I believe
James Files is telling the truth? Here is a non-exhaustive list of
reasons in random order:
When I first learned about
James Files some three years ago, I was rather amazed that I didn’t
know his name. After all, I had been studying the Kennedy assassination
for over 12 years. I was more astonished because Files had made his
confession in 1994 and I was told the website had been up since 1995.
When I searched for the name "James Files" on the Internet,
I found that 9 out of 10 articles attempted to completely discredit
Files' story. I then set out to closely investigate these criticisms
and came to the conclusion they were all superficial and didn't hold
water.
For example, critics said
that the weapon Files claimed to have used was more a pistol than
a rifle and would have had an enormous recoil. They said it "kicks
like a mule". Therefore, Files could never have seen what he
claimed he had witnessed through the scope of his weapon. I sent an
email to one of the gun shops I found on the Internet. I acted as
a potential customer and asked whether the Remington Fireball was
a pleasant weapon to fire. That man stated the weapon was one of the
most sophisticated guns ever made, etc. When I inquired about the
recoil he said it was nice and steady. Ultimately, I told him why
I asked. He was quite amused and said that the alleged murder weapon
of Lee Harvey Oswald had a lot more recoil than the Fireball. He added
that whoever said that the XP-100 had substantial recoil had a lot
to learn about firearms.
Files was also criticized
with the allegation that the XP-100 was not available in 1963 and
that the rounds used for this weapon were not a .222 caliber but rather
.221. I found both accusations to be untrue. The weapon was introduced
in 1963 and prototypes were available as early as 1962. The weapon
was originally chambered for .222 rounds. To learn more about the
Remington XP-100 Fireball click here.
Another statement was that
Files would not have had the time to do all the things he claimed
to have done. He states that he bit the shell casing after firing
the shot and left it on the on the picket fence on the grassy knoll.
He then put the weapon back in his briefcase, turned his jacket inside
out, put it on and walked away. Critics shout he would never had the
time to do all of that because numerous bystanders rushed to the knoll
right after the shots, since that is where most bystanders had heard
the shots coming from.
It is true that many bystanders
ran towards the grassy knoll, but not immediately. Files says that
everyone stood frozen and stunned and that even the policemen acted
uncertain, as if they were waiting for someone to tell them what to
do.
I was quickly able to determine
that Files was right. One of the photos of the knoll shows the press
bus in front of it. There is not a soul on the knoll yet. This was
the last vehicle in the motorcade, so it must have taken, at the minimum,
30 seconds for the bus to reach that point. The president's limousine
had almost come to a stop and the press bus had to make the sharp
turn of 120 degrees from Houston street onto Elm, forcing it to a
near-stop also. To see that Files was right click here.
The lead on James Files
came from the FBI. Agent Zack Shelton (now retired) served 28 years
with the FBI. He has an impeccable record and spent much of his career
on organized crime task forces of Chicago and Kansas City. He is the
man who gave the information on James Files to private investigator
Joe West, because Zack Shelton had reason to believe that James Files
knew more about the Kennedy assassination. This was based on a remark
that James Files had made to an FBI informant. Joe West subsequently
located James Files in Stateville penitentiary, which ultimately led
to his confession of being the gunman on the grassy knoll.
It is important to note
that James Files had never volunteered to give information on his
role in the assassination. The tip from Zack was given to Joe West,
who was working on a lawsuit to exhume JFK’s body. He wanted
to prove that Kennedy was hit from the front and by multiple gunmen
and a new and independent autopsy would prove sure as hell that the
first was a total fraud.
But Joe West never heard
a full confession from James Files. Files didn’t want to talk.
Only if Joe could arrange immunity for him, would Files consider it.
During that time Joe had to go into a hospital for heart surgery.
The operation itself was a success, but then out of nowhere he went
into a coma and never came out of it. With his death, his exhumation
suit also died. Files, and others, thinks Joe was murdered by an overdose
of wrong medication in order to silence him. He was informed as such
by one of his sources. Indeed there are some strange details; the
attending doctor is still to be found for example. And just before
he went into coma and could not talk anymore, he scribbled a note
for his family "Get me out of here, they are trying to kill me!"
The official cause of death was Acute Deficiency Respiratory Syndrome.
Bob Vernon was later told by a surgeon that this is more or less a
standard method to cover-up medical errors, such as an overdose of
drugs. Joe's death is one of the main reasons why James Files decided
to tell his story to Bob Vernon, who took over from Joe.
A second reason is that
Files has turned religious. An element of clearing his conscience
also plays a role. In addition, he feels it was not his idea to put
his name before the public. He says it was the FBI (Zack Shelton)
and he was convinced the FBI would want the truth kept covered-up.
Indeed J. Edgar Hoover had done his best. To James Files, the FBI
is one big bad organization. What he does not understand, is that
mostly honorable people work for the FBI and the cover-up was controlled
from the top. Zack Shelton and his colleagues feel betrayed their
own former boss covered-up such a big crime, while they were thinking
they were doing the greatest thing in the world.
Another reason is that
both Files and Bob Vernon had received clear threats to stop with
all of this. Those threats came from organized crime as well as the
government. To name just a few examples: Vernon claims he was shot
at from a car and Files received a message from a mob lawyer to "keep
quiet and lay down by your doggy bowl." Vernon’s proposal
to Files was then: "If they want to take us out, let’s leave
them something for history!" Files stared in silence through
the window for a minute, according to Vernon the longest minute of
his life. Finally Files turned around and said: "Ok, bring in
the cameras tomorrow!"
A final reason is that
James Files is convinced he will never be tried for the assassination
of JFK. A trial would expose the government’s involvement. He
knows the powers behind it and they have too much to lose.
(2)
Wim
Dankbaar, James
Sibert and Gerald Ford, Assassination
of JFK Forum (22nd April, 2004)
Gerald Ford, former
President and last surviving member of the Warren Commission, has
demonstrated his strategy again: Disguise your crimes by attacking
the attacker. I am increasingly flabbergasted about what is possible
in America. Why is the world and the History Channel swallowing his
attack on the documentary "The guilty men"? For those who
missed this headline news, it is the last episode of "The men
who killed Kennedy" series, aired last November and originally
scheduled for re-runs over the next nine years, which makes a case
for Lyndon Johnson as a main conspirator in JFK's murder. Ford's coordinated
protest with former Johnson cronies like Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti
and Johnson's widow, has now even resulted in complete cancellation
of all three new episodes, including those which were not attacked,
like "The Love Affair" with Judyth Vary Baker, who makes
a credible case for having been Lee Harvey Oswald's girlfriend, exonerating
him from the Government's theory that he was the lone assassin. To
my knowledge, this is an unprecedented form of censorship in the United
States.
In all the heated discussions
and controversy about the History Channel's documentary, whether LBJ
had a role in the JFK assassination or not, it seems that one thing
is overlooked : In this case, Lyndon Baines Johnson and his next door
neighbor and close buddy J. Edgar Hoover are guilty of the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy, not because we can prove they ordered
it or because we can prove they had any direct connection to the killing,
but because we can prove beyond any reasonable doubt that those two
men took steps and took actions that covered up the truth of the crime.
Washing out and refurbishing the President's limousine is just one
of many examples of destroying crucial evidence. This makes them at
least accessories after the fact. And was it not to Bill Moyers that
Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach sent the infamous memo:
"The public should be satisfied that Oswald was the lone assassin"?
But what's more, Ford himself
is guilty! Not only was it learned that he was secretly reporting
on the Commission to FBI Director Hoover, but also, forced by declassified
files, he has admitted that he instructed the Warren Commission to
move Kennedy's backwound up by several inches !!! The significance
of this cannot be overstated! For with a wound in the original location,
there cannot be a single bullet theory and without a single bullet
theory there cannot be a lone gunman. Last time I looked, this was
called "tampering with evidence", which is a federal crime
and in such an important case as the death of a president, it is also
treason. Raised with my naive and Dutch set of values on freedom and
democracy, I believe the man should be in jail, despite his rehearsed
repetitions that the Commission "found no evidence of a conspiracy,
foreign or domestic". Instead, he is allowed to bury essentially
good documentaries. What is happening to America?
(3)
Wim
Dankbaar, JFK
Murder Solved (2004)
The murder of John
F. Kennedy was a conspiracy.
James Earl Files, in association
with Charles Nicoletti and John Rosselli, were sent to Dallas by Sam
Giancana, head of the Chicago mob and a known CIA covert operative,
David Atlee Phillips.
The CIA and Mafia had full
knowledge of the hit and CIA covert operatives were actively involved.
John Rosselli was flown
into Dallas on a CIA supported Military Air Transport flight co-piloted
by Robert Towh Plumlee.
Charles Nicoletti was driven
into Dallas from the Grace Ranch in Arizona by Chauncey Holt.
David Atlee Phillips of
the CIA orchestrated Oswald and possibly an unknown third party who
was to have eliminated Oswald but who killed Officer J.D. Tippit instead.
This man's identity is unknown.
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