"Dead Wrong" Right On

Dead Wrong  Right On 

Dead Wrong – Straight Facts on the Country’s Most Controversial Cover-Ups

(Skyhorse Publising, 2012) by Richard Belzer and David Wayne, Afterward by Jesse Ventura.

"I met Murder on the way –

He had a mask like Castlereagh:

Very smooth he looked, yet grim;

Seven bloodhounds followed him.

All were fat; and well they might

Be in admirable plight,

For one by one, and two by two,

He tossed them human hearts to chew."

-         The Masque of Anarchy. From: "Studies In Murder" by Edmund Lester Pearson.

Although it includes JFK and some other high profile crimes, Richard Belzer and David Wayne’s new book “Dead Wrong” is mainly about the killing of some of the other human hearts, the ones thrown by the wayside for the official bloodhounds to chew on while Kennedy’s real killers go free.

Richard Belzer, best known as a standup comic and popular TV actor (“Homicide” & “Law & Order –SVU”), has teamed up with researcher and writer David Wayne to produce a convincing file by file case study of a ten of America’s most newsworthy crimes and cover-ups – all of which we now know a great deal about, but none of which has received any semblance of justice.

With an afterward by Jesse Ventura, this book reminds me somewhat of the great coincidence that occurred when Dick Russell met up with Jesse Ventura at a below the Mexican border small town cafe, which led to them becoming fast friends and teaming up to produce a series of TV shows and conspiracy books by the same publisher - Skyhorse.

Here we have Belzer, the celebrity actor, who provides the style and the audience, working with David Wayne, a respected writer and researcher who compiles the necessary details that quickly convince you that something is indeed wrong here.

We can easily imagine Belzer, the TV homicide actor, as he walks us through the crime scenes using the forensic evidence compiled by David Wayne, a Chicago bred Stanford related journalist who gets his facts straight. It's laid out like a prosecutor's brief so just the information you need to know is included, along with sources so you can get more on the subject if you want to. 

As Wayne put it, “We included two types of entries; deaths that were alleged to be suicides or were originally ruled suicides, but have so many suspicious circumstances that they appear to have been murders and; deaths that were known to be murders but have so many irreconcilable issues that something is clearly amiss. In some cases, they were obvious: shooting one’s self in the head five times with a bolt-action rifle is a bit of a stretch to term a suicide – even in Texas. In others, the flawed official reasoning was more subtle but, upon examination, every bit as clear.” 

Wayne calls attention to the forensic studies of Texas A & M professor Cliff Spiegelman, who has called for re-opening the investigation into the JFK assassination due to “fundamentally flawed” evidence procedures.

In each case, everyone has a point where the evidence becomes so compelling it is eventually tipped in the favor of homicide or conspiracy.

Like Belzer, in the JFK case, I too am convinced that, based on the Warren Commission’s own account, it was physically impossible for Lee Harvey Oswald to have committed the assassination, since he was on the second floor at the time. While others have alternative versions of the events [See the evolution of the 2nd floor lunchroom story - JFK Assassination Debate - The Education Forum and  (Parker)   Reopen KENNEDY CASE! - Reopenkennedycase.net ], the official version of events is confirmed by the testimony of eyewitnesses Roy Truly and Marion Baker, who encountered Oswald in the second floor lunchroom less than a minute and a half after the last shot was fired. [ See: Why Oswald is Innocent of being the Sixth Floor Sniper].

The question then quickly becomes, since Oswald didn’t do it, who did?

The upcoming 50^th anniversary of the assassination of President Kenney will ensure that we get an appropriate review of those events, but the other cases included in this book are all significant and related in that the government refuses to recognize the truth or to pursue justice.

Not all the victims are popular celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, JFK, MLK and RFK, since Frank Olson, Henry Marshall and George Krutilek are not exactly household names, but they are “human hearts” and justice is supposed to serve everyone, regardless of status or wealth, and you can see how the criminal justice system – the bedrock on which our society rests, failed in each and every case.

Olson, the CIA scientist murdered in the course of an LSD experiment that went terribly astray, has been firmly documented in court and by Hank Albarelli [ H.P. Albarelli Jr.], while Marshall was a mid-level government administrator who got in LBJ’s way to the presidency and Krutilek was an accountant for a crook and con artist who apparently knew too much.

MM, JFK, MLK and RFK get the lion’s share of the book, but Belzer and Wayne also devote significant chapters to black activist Fred Hampton, Clinton administrator Vincent Foster and the most recent death of British biological warfare specialist Dr. David Kelly.

This list reminds me of Penn Jones’ attempt to keep track of the strange deaths that seemed to follow witnesses and suspects in the assassination of JFK. Jones, a small town Texas newspaper publisher, was the only one to go out of his way to visit Dealey Plaza at 12:30 PM on November 22, 1964, and thus begin the popular tradition to visit that place on that date since then.

Penn’s collection of obituaries of those connected with the assassination led someone to commission a London actuary that concluded the odds of so many witnesses dying within a certain amount of time was phenomenal. That stat was quoted at the end trailer of a major motion picture Executive Action, which portrayed the assassination as a covert intelligence operation. 

When the HSCA was established in 1976 to investigate the assassinations of President Kennedy and MLK, one of the researchers working for the committee was assigned to look into the strange deaths, but instead, proved how the London actuary was wrong.

So instead of researching each strange death individually, she merely questioned the math of the acturary, and instead of investigating each homicide the government concludes it was suicide or the suspected perpetrator (Oswald) is dead, or the mob did it and we’ll never know the truth.

At the time she issued her report, one of the HSCA Committee members asked her about some of the sudden deaths of witnesses they had ordered to testify – Sam Giancana, John Rosselli and others were murdered outright, and the “strange” and sudden deaths that occurred to others – George DeMohrenschildt, William Sullivan et al.

In response, she said that those deaths were part of another major investigation, separate from her inquiry into the allegations made by Penn Jones, the London actuary and the Executive Action trailer, which satisfied the Congressman at the time. Since the HSCA records have been released under the JFK Act however, it is quite clear that there was no other more thorough and complete investigation of those murders and strange deaths.

As I have previously pointed out [Related Unsolved Homicides / Jurisdictions], you don’t even have to include the “strange” deaths that were originally ruled suicide – Olsen, Marshall, Pitzer and others not included in this book, the government should at least make an effort to solve the open homicides (M. Meyer, S. Giancana, J. Rosselli, et al).

For awhile, a number of high profile cold cases from the 60s and early 70s (Medgar Evers assassination, Birmingham Church bombing, Philadelphia, Miss. Civil rights murders, etc.), were suddenly solved by the emergence of new evidence and witness as well as – more significantly – a new independent prosecutor who wasn’t afraid to bring the cases to justice.

Then the Emmett Till bill passed the house, which would have required the Dept. of Justice to create a special new unit dedicated to prosecute unsolved civil rights cases of the 60s and 70s, but as far as I can tell, the bill somehow got sidetracked in the Senate.

But the Emmett Till bill would have created the independent government unit that is necessary to investigate and solve the cold case murders of the 60s – including those of Sam Giancana, John Rosselli, JFK, MLK, RFK and those lesser known victims like J.D. Tippit and Emmett Till.

The government might be able to ignore the strange deaths, however bizarre they are, but the government does have a responsibility to properly investigate and prosecute these unresolved murders.

I was sitting on the Grassy Knoll one anniversary (2003) when Jesse Ventura gave a little speech and then came over and sat by me, giving us the opportunity to talk. Here he calls attention to the Jack Nicholson role in USMC film, “There is a famous movie quote that most people are familiar with where, during a trail, a Marine Corps Colonel is pressed on revealing the truth to a questioning attorney, until he gets to the point here the Colonel has finally had enough and he screams: ‘You can’t handle the truth!’”

“That’s a good metaphor for the place that we’re in right now because apparently – by order of our own government – our so-called leaders don’t seem to think that the American people are actually capable of handling the truth. Isn’t it ridiculous that documents related to the JFK assassination are still sealed by order of our own government? For what reason are they still sealed?  To protect us? To protect us from whom exactly? From them, apparently. Why are we being treated like babies who can’t handle the truth? I’ve traveled this land far and wide, and I’ve come to quite a different conclusion: Americans can handle the truth.”

“This book is a perfect example of how Americans have not been trusted with the truth; it profiles case after case where we have often been intentionally misled and even clearly lied to on the most basic points of important events that changed history. The fact that we have been lied to about the JFK assassination is so obvious that it’s outrageous. The government cover-up was – and still is- so transparent that it’s ridiculous.”

“As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the JFK assassination, it would seem well time that we, as Americans, come to terms with some very simple truths. I will offer a couple, just to get us started. Beyond the slightest doubt, John F. Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy involving many individuals. That isn’t some theory – that’s the only way it could have happened. Here’s another one. Beyond a doubt, the American government in the years following the JFK assassination has intentionally clouded the issue with intentional obfuscations of the true facts of the matter.”

“So why are we still being lied to about these cases? They seem to be missing a basic point about Democracy – they are our employees. They’re employed by us – We, the People. How dare they withhold the truth from us! Can you imagine if any employee in an office intentionally withheld pertinent information from her or his boss? With what justification? Because she or he didn’t think that their boss could handle it? That employee would rightfully be thrown out of hat office on their ear, and that’s what should happen to a lot of people in Washington too. Somehow things have been twisted backwards, and we need to get them back the way the founders of our country originally intended.”

But remember something very important here. Our elected officials are officially servants of The People. Technically, there’re our employees, That’s the way this government was set up by its founders. I’d say that the time has now come when We, The People, need to oversee our employees quite a bit more carefully. We need to demand the truth.”

“There is one thing that is more powerful than all the armies in the world and that is an idea whose time has come. Mahatma Gandhi once said, ‘The truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.’”

“In my opinion, it should be a peaceful revolution, and one which starts and continues from a very simple and basic foundation – demanding the truth from our elected representatives.”

“Some Americans are so demoralized that they may think that the truth doesn’t even really matter anymore. I respectfully disagree. I think that we, as Americans, have an obligation to the great foundations of this Democracy, as well as a debt to those who have literally laid down their lives to protect it. As the pages of this book have revealed, we have not been told the truth. So now it’s up to us to demand it. We can start with the JFK Assassination. We want all the records released and we want them NOW. Our elected officials need to be reminded of who their real employers are. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. American can handle the truth. And frankly, it’s time that we are allowed that opportunity.”

“Commit yourself to the process of reclaiming our Democracy. We outnumber them and we have the power of truth and history on our side. We can turn this great Republic of ours back into the Democracy it was intended to be. It won’t be easy – but it can be done. And we have to do it, because no one else will.”

Two FBI Agents Come Clean on JFK Assassination

Two FBI Agents Come Clean on JFK Assassination 

THE FBI & the Assassination of President Kennedy

Unlike the Secret Service, whose director Chief Rowley thought it unwise to reprimand any of the Secret Service agents over lapses during the assassination, many FBI agents were reprimanded for a variety of reasons.

Now, nearly a half-century later, we have the reports and confessions of a number of agents who not only recognize there were plots and a conspiracy behind what happened at Dealey Plaza, but offer modus operandi and legitimate suspects who were known at the time, but officially covered up.

“From An Office with A High Powered Rifle” – A Report To The Public From An FBI Agent Involved In The Official JFK Assassination Investigation (Trinday, 2012), is former FBI agent Don Adams’ story of his personal investigation of Joseph A. Milteer, a right-wing fanatic who was caught on an informant’s tape saying President Kennedy would be killed “from an office with a high powered rife,” a threat that was kept from Milteer when he was ordered to locate and interrogate Milteer.

Just as FBI agents were kept from informing other agencies of information they collected on those who would become 9/11 hijackers, Don Adams was shocked to learn, after the JFK Act forced the release of many assassination records, that he was kept in the dark at the time he was investigating the assassination. It was only years later that he learned that the man whose case he was assigned had been recorded on tape predicting the murder and how it would be accomplished by a Florida police informant, that his suspect was photographed in Dallas on the day of the assassination, and he later bragged that he was there.

Despite the fact that an FBI document falsely claims that Milteer was at home in George at the time of the assassination, Adams knows he wasn’t because Adams was at Milteer’s house that day looking for him. When Milteer finally arrived at his girlfriend’s home a week later, Adams took him into custody, but was continually frustrated by other FBI agent’s attempts to cover their ass. Adams wasn’t even aware of the extent of the cover-up until he was shown some of the record released under the JFK Act.

When finally shown the transcript of the police informant’s conversation with Milteer, Adams was shocked to read that Milteer not only said the assassination would be accomplished “from an office with a high powered rifle,” but that “they will pick up somebody within hours afterwards…just to throw the public off.”

While working for the FBI in Ohio, Adams became familiar with Leo “Lips” Moceri, who Chauncey Holt, a self-professed tramp, con artists and syndicate accountant first mentioned as being in Dallas at the time of the assassination. While Moceri later disappeared, Adams says that in 1976 he located Moceri’s car in hotel parking lot, and he is sure Moceri is dead because his clothes and golf clubs were covered with blood.

I can identify with Don Adams, and his frustrations, as we are both sons of police detectives. I can understand his desire to make it in the FBI on his own without the benefit of his father’s friendship with Cartha DeLoach, a high ranking FBI official whose name is cc’d on nearly every FBI document related to the assassination.

Like my father, a Camden, NJ detective, Adams had the highest regard for the FBI and was proud he was an agent, serving “Truth, Justice and the American Way,” until he was convinced otherwise by the real evidence, and sadly learned that justice was never served, at least in the case of JFK.

My father had a similar high regard and opinion of the FBI, until a new agent was assigned to the Camden office and he was asked to show him the lay of the land. My dad later told me that after giving the new agent a tour of the high crime areas of the city, he took him out to Garden State Race Track where he pointed out a few organized crime characters and bookies. A few weeks later, one of the bookies complained that the new FBI guy was shaking him down for hundreds of dollars a week, thus changing my dad’s opinion of the FBI.

Those involved in such organized crime operations know who the bad cops are, the ones that will take a bribe, and they call them the “right coppers,” as opposed to the “wrong coppers,” or good cops who won’t take a bribe. Don Adams was a good FBI agent and to the criminals, a “wrong copper,” but he didn’t know who the bad FBI agents were when was working with them, and only later, belatedly figured them out.

High on Adams’ list today is J. Edgar Hoover himself, of whom he says, “If one looks clearly at the entire window concerning the assassination and asks what one major player could influence the investigation, the answer would have to be J. Edgar Hoover. I do not make that powerful statement lightly. Nonetheless, I have come to believe that it was the actions of the director of the FBI that facilitated the cover-up.”

After serving in the backwaters of Georgia, where he was handed the Milteer case, until it was covered up, Don Adams was assigned to the Dallas FBI office, where he had the opportunity to meet some of the other agents involved in the “investigation” of the president’s murder, including J. Gordon Shanklin and Robert Gemberling.

Their names are well known to JFK assassination researchers since Shanklin was in charge of the Dallas FBI office and he assigned Gemberling to investigate all the leads that came in after the assassination. After they both retired, Gemberling took exception to an interview Adams gave to a local Ohio newspaper, going on the record against the lone gunman theory promoted by Gemberling. Both men exchanged long letters. Then Adams attempted to straighten out some of the misconceptions Gemberling flouted in an article in the (Nov. 2003) issue of Grapevine, the official publication of retired FBI agents. But the editor would not publish Adam’s rebuttal.

“I knew that nothing would change his beliefs,” Adams writes, “not even evidence that should have at least made him question the veracity of his investigation. I have come to believe that Gemberling could not be dissuaded because he was following LBJ and FBI Director Hoover’s directive that Oswald had to be the shooter. Gemberling wrote of the outstanding work done by the FBI agents in this investigation and how proud he was of their work. But that work was tainted by corruption from above….There are too many witness statements from too many different people that contradicts the official findings.”

While the editors of the official FBI publication wouldn’t publish Don Adams rebuttal of the official findings and conclusions, Kris Millegan, publisher at TrinDay has no such reservations. Millegan gets personally involved in each book he publishes, and notes that, “There is much to learn from Adams’ story: connivance, deceit, and distraction by federal officials both before and after the assassination to deflect inquiry from its natural course and affect its outcome. And there is something there.” 

There certainly is something there. Adams himself concludes, “As the 50^th anniversary of this great tragedy approaches, it is time to begin again. Americans and people around the world have the right to know as much of the truth as can be learned.” 

M. WESLEY SWEARINGEN

M. Wesley Swearingen, a 25 year veteran of the FBI had to self-publish his own book, “To Kill A President” – Finally – An Ex-FBI Agent rips aside the Veil of secrecy that Killed JFK.

Swearingen, who faithfully served the bureau for a quarter of a century, eventually “came clean” and in an earlier book, “FBI SECRETS – An Agent’s Expose,” (South End Press, Boston) reported on FBI “corruption and wrongdoing,” including “black bag jobs” - breaking and entering private offices and residences to conduct illegal searchers, and COINTELPRO, the counter-intelligence program that targeted suspects J. Edgar Hoover thought subversive.

Swearingen served in the Chicago FBI office, where Guy Bannister had been the Special Agent In Charge before he ran Lee Harvey Oswald as an agent provocateur in New Orleans.

Chicago is where Swearingen worked closely with William F. Roemer, Jr., a big blow-hard whose book “Roemer: Man Against the Mob,” falsely portrays how he gave the Chicago mob a hard time, when he actually protected their operations, in league with the CIA, to plot the assassination of Fidel Castro and partake in the conspiracy that led to the death of JFK. 

When I read in Roemer’s book how he tapped the phones and the cocktail conversations of Sam Giancana, John Rosselli and the crooked cop Richard Cain and others, I realized he was full of it, and Swearingen confirms it.

Swearingen had an informant, an anti-Castro Cuban he calls “Ramon,” who was trained by the CIA at JM/WAVE who told him all about the Chicago mob’s connections to the Cubans, to the CIA and their plans for the Bay of Pigs and to kill Castro and Kennedy.

Cain was shot in the face with a shotgun by a masked gunman in Rose’s Sandwich Shop in Chicago on December 20, 1973, Giancana was killed, shot in the back of the head a few days before he was to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978, and Rosselli shortly after he testified, turned up in pieces stuffed in a 50 gallon oil drum floating in the Florida bay.

Among the characters in Swearingen’s book are Judith Campbell Exner, girlfriend of Frank Sinatra, JFK and Sam Giancana, who was questioned by the FBI in Swearingen’s apartment, Oliver “Buck” Revell, another FBI official who is also exposed as a blow-hard, and William Sullivan, Hoover’s assistant who was killed in 1978 in a hunting accident.

While there isn’t much documentary evidence to support his version of events, like Don Adams documents published in the appendix of his book, Swearingen’s story rings true, and fits all the facts of the case as I know them.

TrinDay & A Memoir of Injustice

A Memoir of Injustice (TrinDay, 2011)
by Jerry Ray as told to Tamara Carter, with an Afterward by Judge Joe Brown.

From the moment Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed it was clear there was a war on, not a race war, a perspective encouraged at the time, but because the violence also consumed the lives of John and Robert Kennedy, it was a war over the hearts and minds and political lives of the America people.

It is a war that continues today, a violent one that uses murder and assassination as a tool in the chest of strategists who remain behind the scenes and immune from justice, and a war that is manifest in the refusal of the government to release the now historical investigative records of the Congressional investigation into the murder of Dr. King.

The assassination of MLK is not unique in the failure of the government to bring justice to an historic homicide, or release of the relevant government records, as that is also the case with the JFK and RFK assassinations. More specifically in the MLK case, the government failed to put the accused assassin on a fair or thorough trial, or to properly identify and locate the shadowy Latin smuggler “Raoul,” who holds the key to the true powers behind the assassination, thus requiring amateur sleuths, civilians, historians and the younger brother of the accused to do the job.

While there are dozens of other books that go into the details more thoroughly, Jerry Ray’s view of the proceedings is fascinating and reads like a Raymond Chandler novel, without pulling any punches, short, crisp and to the point.

The early part of the book, describing the dysfunctional and basically criminal nature of the Ray family, is a sad tale that sets the stage for how Ray could have been easily  persuaded to be part of the plot or, like Oswald, set up as the patsy and fall guy.

One might expect the brother of the accused to stick up for his kin, even after James Earl Ray died in prison, but Jerry’s story is engaging and believable, and thanks to T. Carter, is delivered in a style that serves a fine example of the proper way to draw out oral history from a closely engaged witness like Jerry Ray.

Jerry first learned the authorities were looking for his brother when he heard they were after a suspect named Eric Galt, which he knew was an alias James Ray had used. He immediately drove to St. Louis to talk to another brother who owned the Grapevine Tavern, a seedy, shot and beer joint on the hard side of town.

After James was caught in England, and the details began to emerge, Jerry learned that when the alleged getaway car was located, “Don Wilson, a 25 year-old agent with the Atlanta FBI office, was one of two agents who made the initial response. While the senior agent conferred with Atlanta police, Wilson opened the driver’s side door and two pieces of paper fell out. Thinking the papers were insignificant and that possibly he had messed up a crime scene, Wilson stashed the two pieces of paper inside his pocket. It was not until later that Wilson discover the great significance of the two pieces of paper: they had the name ‘Raoul’ written on them…”

From prison, James Earl Ray asked his brother to check out a guy “Randy Robenson,” whose name was on the back of a card “Raoul” had, a card from the Le Bunny Lounge on Canal Street in New Orleans.

A cab driver told Jerry the club was probably one of Carlos Marcello’s joints, and as Jerry relates: “At the time, Carlos Marcello was the biggest crime boss in the United States, his criminal empire claiming the entire Gulf region, even stretching into parts of the Caribbean. At the time, there was strong evidence that Marcello, who harbored bitter hatred for Robert F. and John F. Kennedy, had played a direct role in JFK’s assassination.”

As recounted by Jerry, “I walked inside, sat down at the bar and ordered a beer. To my surprise, Le Bunny Lounge was an average place. There were only a few other customers there, and they were sitting at tables away from the bar. The cocktail waitress was an attractive woman. We started talking back and forth. I asked her if she knew Randy Robenson. She stared my way and said, ‘Who’s asking?’ I didn’t beat around the bush, and replied, ‘Twenty Dollar Bill, that’s who.’…”

She knew a Randolph Robenson, a guy from Florida who came in with a Latin looking guy, good tippers.

Jerry thought it significant, “Jimmy and Raoul meeting at Le Bunny Lounge, owned by a New Orleans crime boss, an acquaintance of Percy Foreman, an attorney with ties to both the Kennedy and King assassination – the pieces were coming together, and a big picture was starting to take shape. It was not a pretty picture.”

Though Ray never acknowledged killing King, and it is questionable that his rifle that was left at the scene was the one used in the shooting, Percy Foreman, who became James Earl Ray’s lawyer, convinced Ray to plead guilty to avoid the death sentence, and also avoid a trial during which all the facts in the case would have emerged.

Some of those facts would come out during the 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) investigation and two subsequent civil trials, one led by Dr. William Pepper on behalf of the King family that resulted in the conviction of co-conspirators, thus proving conspiracy. The other case was COPA v. DOD – (Coalition on Political Assassinations and Department of Defense) that sought the release of Army Intelligence files on Dr. King in the last two months of his life, and though COPA lost the case on appeal, the DOD did release an after action summary of the reports, which clearly indicated they had maintained a very close surveillance of King and in fact, watched him being murdered.

William Pepper once said that he had identified “Raoul” and even talked with him on the phone, but since then, we haven’t heard much more about the shadowy Latin smuggler, or whether the other leads were properly followed and investigated. Pepper's suspect is described and his photograph printed in his book, An Act of State.

Memphis Judge Joe Brown, now of TV Court fame, presided over James Earl Ray's last court appeal before he died, and tested the alleged murder weapon against the bullet removed from Dr. King's body. Judge Brown claims the rifle ballistics don't match and it should be tested properly. Instead it sits in a case in the Civil Rights Museum at what was once the Loraine Hotel where King was killed. Judge Brown writes an appropriate afterword for this book.

The records on the Martin L. King assassination of the HSCA are still locked away, and were not included among the JFK Assassinations Records Act as they should have been, though they can and should be released by an act of Congress, if people will only ask them to do so.

Justice many never be served in this case, as Jerry Ray concludes, but history still can be, if the relevant government records are released to the public, as they should be.

TRINDAY – A few words about the publisher – TrinDay.

Not your traditional mainstream publisher, TrinDay is run out of Walterville, Oregon, by Kris Millegan, who asks, “Will we stand up and take back our country from the crooks, cronies and cabals?”

Millegan has found a nice niche, publishing radical and conspiratorial, though historically documented books that are too hot or controversial for other publishers to handle.

Some of the books, like “The Bilderberg Group” and “Shadow Masters” by Daniel Estulin, concern the larger strategic conspiracies behind big governments, big money and maintaining the drug-oil industrial scheme of things that we have no real control over.

“Dr. Mary’s Monkey,” “Me & Lee” and “The Last Circle” bring out first person stories much like Jerry Ray’s “Memoir of Injustice.”

“Dr. Mary’s Monkey” is Ed Haslam’s personal investigation into the death of a New Orleans cancer researcher, and her ties to those on the edge of the assassination of President Kennedy, which dovetails nicely with Judyth Vary Baker’s Harlequin style love affair with the accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. “The Last Circle” is Cheri Seymour’s story of Danny Casalarso’s fatal investigation into the “Octopus” and Promis software scandal.

Though there has been some dispute over the details, Baker certainly was employed at the same coffee company at the same time as Oswald, but with few questionable witnesses to them being together, their love life may be exaggerated. However, the overall story of what happened in New Orleans in the summer of ’63 is accurate and colorful enough, enlivened by documents, photos and maps that adorn practically every page.

More significant are other TrineDay books, like a revised and expanded versions of John Loftus’ classic “America’s Nazi Secret” and the late George Michael Evica’s under-appreciated “A Certain Arrogance” – subtitled “The sacrificing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Cold War manipulations of religious groups by U.S. Intelligence.”

Then there’s Hank P. Albarelli Jr.’s “A Terrible Mistake,” about the MK/ULTRA death of CIA officer Dr. Frank Olson, Douglas Valentine’s book on the DEA “The Strength of the Pack,” and Lt. Col. Dan Marvin’s “Expendable Elite.”

In all, TrinDay continues to give us much to think about, and should change the way we think about politics and murder.

TrinDay P.O. Box 577, Waterville, OR, 97489
1-800-566-2012

[Bill Kelly is author of “300 Years at the Point” and “Birth of the Birdie.” His research on the JFK assassination is supported in part by a grant from the Fund For Constitutional Government Investigative Journalism Project. He can be reached at bkjfk3@yahoo.com]