Gary Mack has researched
the assassination of John
F. Kennedy
for over twenty-five years.
He was "senior consultant" for the first two parts of the
television series The
Men Who Killed Kennedy. He is currently Curator of the
Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
in Dallas, Texas, where he identifies and acquires artifacts and restores
and preserves the museum's collection of films, photographs and videotapes
regarding the Kennedy assassination.
He has also been a Kennedy
assassination subject matter advisor to ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS as well
as for The Dallas Morning News,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Washington
Post, Los Angeles Times
and other news organizations. He has also been a consultant to several
Discovery Channel and History Channel programs.
In 1998 Mack co-produced
the Emmy award winning JFK: The Dallas Tapes
and in 2003 co-produced the PBS special JFK:
Breaking The News.
Open
Debate on the Kennedy Assassination
Gary Mack and the Sixth Floor Museum
Namebase: Gary Mack
(1)
Gary
Mack, newsgroup posting (19th May,
1998)
The original 1988
British broadcast named the three hit men and accused them of killing
Kennedy. One, Sarti, was dead, but the other two were still alive.
One threatened to sue Central and had a good alibi. Central quickly
produced a 30-minute "apology" program in which the "assassin"
told his story. The guests included Robert Groden, Robert Blakey,
Howard Willens of the Warren Commission, and James Duffy. I was
not invited. The moderator and all of the guests, except Groden,
criticized Nigel for failing to do thorough research. Groden tried
to emphasize the film's strong points.
The "apology"
program, taped in Washington, aired only in England. Parts one and
two of "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" were then re-edited
to remove the accusations, but the show's credibility was damaged.
That was the real reason ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS lost interest in
purchasing US rights from Central, even though all four initially
wanted the series.
(2)
Gary Mack published
an account of Madeleine Brown's story on 14th May, 1997.
Madeleine
has claimed over the years that she attended a party at Clint
Murchison’s house the night before the assassination and
LBJ, Hoover and Nixon were there. The party story, without LBJ,
first came from Penn Jones in Forgive My Grief. In that
version, the un-credited source was a black chauffeur whom Jones
didn’t identify, and the explanation Jones gave was that
it was the last chance to decide whether or not to kill JFK. Of
course, Hoover used only top FBI agents for transportation and
in the FBI of 1963, none were black. Actually, there is no confirmation
for a party at Murchison’s. I asked Peter O’Donnell
because Madeleine claimed he was there, too. Peter said there
was no party. Madeleine even said there was a story about it in
the Dallas Times Herald some months later (which makes no sense),
but she had not been able to find it. Val Imm (Society Editor
of the Dallas Times Herald) told Bob Porter (of the Sixth Floor
Museum at Dealey Plaza staff) recently she had no memory of such
an event and even looked through her notes - in vain.
Could
LBJ have been at a Murchison party? No. LBJ was seen and photographed
in the Houston Coliseum with JFK at a dinner and speech. They
flew out around 10pm and arrived at Carswell (Air Force Base in
northwest Fort Worth) at 11:07 Thursday night. Their motorcade
to the Hotel Texas arrived about 11:50 and LBJ was again photographed.
He stayed in the Will Rogers suite on the 13th floor and Manchester
(William Manchester - author of The Death of a President) says
he was up late. Could Nixon have been at Murchison’s party?
No. Tony Zoppi (Entertainment Editor of The Dallas Morning News)
and Don Safran (Entertainment Editor of the Dallas Times Herald)
saw Nixon at the Empire Room at the Statler-Hilton. He walked
in with Joan Crawford (Movie actress). Robert Clary (of Hogan’s
Heroes fame) stopped his show to point them out, saying “.
. . either you like him or you don’t.” Zoppi thought
that was in poor taste, but Safran said Nixon laughed. Zoppi’s
deadline was 11pm, so he stayed until 10:30 or 10:45 and Nixon
was still there.
(3)
Jack
White,
Was Mary Standing in the Street?, included in The
Great Zapruder Film Hoax
(2003)
In 1982
JFK researcher Gary Mack noticed what he thought to be the image
of a gunman behind the fence on the knoll in a Moorman slide copy
given to him by Robert Groden. Mack asked whether I could copy
the image, enlarge and enhance it. By copying the slide at great
enlargement and using a wide range of exposure stops, I was able
to derive a number of optimum exposures which show in clear detail
the face of a man whose chin is obscured by a puff of smoke, in
a rifle-firing, pose. He seems to be wearing a Dallas police uniform,
complete with shoulder patch and badge. Considering the original
image is smaller than an eighth-inch square, the image is extremely
sharp. This image was later confirmed by computer photoanalysts
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Lab,
but neither would go public because of political considerations.
(4)
Don Jeffries, JFK
Lancer (11th September, 2002)
Gary
Mack is a friendly and very helpful guy, but keep in mind his
primary role these days is with the Sixth Floor Museum, which
promotes the lone-assassin nonsense. Gary still says he believes
in conspiracy, but defends virtually every ridiculous aspect of
the official story.
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