Jack D. White was born
on January 17, 1927, in San Angelo, Texas. His parents, John Nathan
White and Billie Lorena Dumas White, moved the family to Fort Worth
shortly after his birth and he was raised and educated there. After
graduation from Amon Carter Riverside High School in 1944, White worked
briefly for the Fort Worth Press as a
sports writer covering high school sports under legendary sports editor
H. H. "Pop" Boone.
During the Second
World War White enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
After his discharge in 1946, White returned to Fort Worth to pursue
his interest in journalism, art, and history. He graduated from Texas
Christian University in 1949, with a B.A. in journalism and began
an advertising career as copywriter and art director at Yates Advertising
Agency in Fort Worth. In 1954, he joined the Witherspoon and Ridings
Public Relations Agency in Fort Worth, which later became Witherspoon
and Associates, at the time the largest advertising agency in town.
White began as the firm’s first art director and during his twenty-seven
years with the agency rose to vice-president, executive art director,
personnel manager, and part owner. He specialized in design, type
management, and photography and developed their in-house facilities
for darkroom work, studio photography, and slide show presentations.
Although White had photographed
the city since the 1950s, he only began collecting Fort Worth photographs
seriously in 1972, when Witherspoon was planning the 100th anniversary
of one of its clients, the Fort Worth National Bank. He was in charge
of acquiring copies of historical prints of Fort Worth for the bank’s
annual report, a historical booklet, and an exhibit for the bank lobby.
After the anniversary event, he took care to preserve all the exhibit
materials. During the next twenty years White reproduced other clients’
historical photographs and took hundreds of pictures to add to the
collection.
Another of White’s
areas of expertise and collecting interests is the assassination of
President John
F. Kennedy in
Dallas, Texas, in 1963. He is nationally known as an expert on the
assassination and served as a photographic consultant to the House
S elect Committee on Assassinations during the hearings. He was
also a consultant on the Oliver Stone film, JFK.
As a result of his interest in the Kennedy assassination, White published
two videotapes on his photographic studies of the assassination. He
has developed a slide lecture, which he presents to classes and symposia
on the JFK assassination and also contributes his research to professional
journals.
White, along with David
Mantik, Charles
Crenshaw,
Robert
Livingston
and Ronald
F. White,
contributed to Assassination
Science (edited by James
H. Fetzer).
He also contributed several articles for Murder
in Dealey Plaza (2000) and The
Great Zapruder Film Hoax (2003).
White retired from Witherspoon
and Associates in 1981, and formed his own company, Jack White Enterprises,
which specialized in free-lance art and photography. In 1984, as business
increased, he took on partners. The firm’s name changed to VJS
Companies, and the company added new services, including typography
and photostats. The firm closed for a brief period in 1991, following
several setbacks, but reopened later in the year as Jack White Graphic
Arts. Now retired, White lives in the White Lake Hills addition in
east Fort Worth with his wife the former Sue Benningfield. Their home,
built in 1970, was designed to focus on a view of the downtown Fort
Worth skyline.
Open
Debate on the Kennedy Assassination
(1)
Jack White, 20 Years of Thoughts About the Zapruder Film, included
in Assassination
Science (1998)
Ron Redmon,
a school principal in Indiana, has studied the Z-film extensively.
Ron discovered that approximately 20 spectators along the north Elm
curb east of the Stemmons sign do not appear to move for more than
three seconds, while every spectator on the south curb does move.
By overlapping images from two slide projectors, I determined that
Ron was probably correct. It seems to me that a single image of the
20 spectators had been repeated over and over. It seems improbable
that in this period of time not a single person moved an arm or leg,
waved, or changed position to any noticeable extent. Ron speculates
that when frames were removed in this sequence, spectator movements
would have been very jerky so they had to be stabilized by repeating
them. In correspondence with me, Ron also mentioned many other possible
signs of tampering, which he summarized in The Fourth Decade
in March of 1995. These include:
(A) In frames 144-153
(one-half second), spectator Hugh Betzner has moved a distance which
exceeds human speed capability indicating excised frames.
(B) In frames 155-161
(one-third second), spectator Linda Willis has turned 180 degrees
and comes in contact with spectator Robert Croft, another instance
of superhuman speed... again indicating
excised frames.
(C) In frames 161-180
(approximately one second), Linda Willis takes several steps, and
Rosemary Willis takes several steps... again much too fast, indicating
excised frames.
(D) Looking at the Stemmons
sign, in frame 161 it is in perfect condition, but by frame 183 there
is a significant notch on the top left edge, yet by frame 188, the
notch disappears.
(E) In frame 255, Ron
speculates that a fake shadow has obscured driver William Greer, to
his west. Since the sun was overhead and to Greer's left, Ron says
this shadow is inconsistent.
(F) In frames 312-321,
Governor Connally turns 90 degrees in one half-second. Also the white
spot on the grass in the background moves more than 10 feet in one
half second.
(G) In frames 321-336,
JFK's head moves from the seat back to leaning forward with his head
in contact with Jackie's left arm in less than one second, seemingly
too fast.
(H) In frames 153-155
(one-ninth of a second), a woman who is the thirteenth person east
of the Stemmons sign has shifted her feet significantly... more than
should be possible.
(I) In frames 335-336
(one-eighteenth of a second), Jackie moves her right arm a significant
distance. Ron reminds us that laboratory tests show that a human eye
blink is one-twenty-fifth of a second, and a flinch or startle response
of moving an arm, leg or head
takes one-fifth of a second as a basis for his conclusions.
(J) Comparing the Willis
and Betzner photos, which are almost simultaneous in time, Ron notes
that in Willis five adults and a child can be seen framed between
the posts of the Stemmons sign, but in the Betzner picture, from a
similar angle and a split second earlier, the same persons are not
seen. Also, two women appearing in Zapruder in this sequence (188-210)
should be seen in Willis and Betzner are not seen.
(K) In recent correspondence
with me, Ron cites Dan Rather's description of the film and compares
it to what is seen. Rather, of course,
was one of the first persons to view the Z-film. Early in his commentary.
Rather says the film shows... "The President's automobile was
preceded by one other car... (the film does not show this) ... the
President's black Lincoln automobile made a turn, a left turn, off
Houston Street onto Elm Street (the film does not show this). It got
about 35 yards from the corner of Elm and Houston... at the moment
the President put his hand up and lurched forward and it was obvious
he had been hit." The present film begins with the limo already
on Elm at frame 133 and the forward lurch is between frames 188-200.
"Governor Connally," Rather continued, "... in the
seat just in front of the President, sensed something was wrong...
his coat was unbuttoned... and as he turned he extended his right
hand toward the President, he exposed his entire shirt front and chest...
and was wounded with... a second shot (as Redmon comments, no existing
Zapruder frames show the specific action that Rather describes, with
the governor in full turn with hand extended toward the President).
Rather continues"... the third shot hit the President, and...
his head went forward with considerable violence." Was Rather
looking at an unaltered different film... or is he just a lousy reporter?
(2)
Jack White, The Great Zapruder Film Hoax, included in Murder
in Dealey Plaza (2000)
Abraham Zapruder,
with his secretary Marilyn Sitzman, allegedly photographed the JFK
assassination while standing on a pedestal in Dealey Plaza. But did
he? Recently analyzed evidence shows not only that Zapruder could
not have filmed "the Z-film", as it is known, but that this
film and several other movies and photos of the assassination have
been fabricated, altered, or faked to conceal evidence of the crime.
(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)
Jack White, statement on the assassination of John F. Kennedy (31st
March, 2004)
(1) President
Kennedy was murdered by a cabal headed by Lyndon Johnson, Allen Dulles,
J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon. The CIA and Pentagon carried out
the hit... with help from Cubans and mobsters.
(2) Lee Oswald and Harvey
Oswald were agents of the CIA and did not kill JFK. Both were controlled
by the CIA.
(3) Robert Kennedy and
Martin Luther King were killed by the same cabal. Similar fate befell
several others who threatened the cabal, such as George Wallace, Larry
Flynt, John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe. Teddy Kennedy and Richard Nixon
also were "eliminated" by the cabal. An attempt on the life
of President Reagan tried to install G.H.W. Bush as president, but
it failed, and Bush One had to wait his turn. Gerald Ford was installed
as president because he was a willing stooge of the cabal.
(4) It is scientifically
provable that the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination is a fabrication
by the government.
(5)
Jack White, JFK
Research Assassination Forum (2nd
April, 2004)
On 11-22-63 I was certain it was LBJ and cronies. For the next 30
years I read every book and watched every TV show, and considered...
the CIA, the Mafia, the Cubans, the Russians, the Secret Service...
you name it, I considered it. But I knew it was not a lone nut kid
named Oswald. By about 1990 I was back where I started. I was certain
it was LBJ and
friends.
Over the years, logic prevailed.
Who benefited most? Who had the motive, means, opportunity? Who could
cover up the crime? Who could control the autopsy? Who could control
the investigations and the investigators? Who could control the evidence
and suppress or change it? Who could fabricate evidence in the hands
of the FBI? Who could control the media? Who could control the public?
Who could control the patsy? Who could fabricate the Zabruder film?
Certainly not Dulles... Giancana... Castro... Kruschev... etc.
ANSWER: THE POWER OF THE
PRESIDENCY.... especially a venal and corrupt president and his friends,
backers, and cronies. Lyndon Baines Johnson. He controlled Texas.
He controlled Dallas. He controlled Hoover. He controlled Dulles.
He controlled the military. He controlled Warren and the commission.
He had alliances with the mafia and the media. He and Hoover used
BLACKMAIL and murder to control those he could not control. Hoover
fabricated evidence for him. Hoover was his next door neighbor. He
allied himself with Hoover, Dullles, Nixon and his backers in the
oil/military industrial complex/CIA/military to carry out the murder.
That is the truth. It was
so obvious all along. One of the most corrupt men in all of history...
LBJ.
| If
you have ever been tempted to believe that President Kennedy
was killed by a lone, demented gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald,
then Assassination Science is the one book which will convince
you, beyond any reasonable doubt, that there was indeed a
conspiracy and a cover-up. Completely lacking the wild speculations
that have marred some books on the shooting of Kennedy, Assassination
Science sticks to the hard facts, interpreted by medical and
scientific expertise. (James
H. Fetzer, Catfeet, ISBN 0 8126 9366 3, £9.00) |
James
H. Fetzer, Assassination Science, Catfeet (1998)
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