JFK COVER-UP HAS BEEN SOLID AND COMPLETE

THE REPORT “UK paper tipped off about JFK shooting”, warrants a response.

According to the latest infor mation released, involving a memo from the CIA to the FBI, an anonymous call was made to a British newspaper, warning that a major event was about to take place in the US and that the American Embassy should be informed.

Twenty-five minutes later the then president John F Kennedy was shot and killed.

Clearly this is graphic proof that his murder was a sophisticated conspiracy involving a multitude of inter national actors.

Surely the call made to the Cambridge Evening News should have been brought to the attention of the Warren Commission.

Fifty-four years after the shots that changed history, Americans are talking about the Kennedy assassination all over again. The latest batch of documents released raises more questions than provides answers.

Anthony Summers in his book, The Kennedy Conspiracy, mentions: “In any fatal shooting inquiry, the primary factors are ballistics and wounds. Human testimony, though often crucial, must be weighed against the picture presented by hard evidence. In the Kennedy assassination they are the raw material for the answers to vital questions.

“How many gunmen fired how many bullets, and from what position?

“Obviously, if gunfire came from more than one vantage point, there must have been more than one assassin. Similarly, if more shots came from one position than could be fired by one gunman in the available time, it follows that accomplices were at work.”

The question now arises as to whether any one man, even a skilled expert could have fired the three shots within a period of five seconds. Life Magazine hired a skilled marksman, the director of the National Rifle Association, to fire a similar rifle. The best he could do was, three hits in 6.2 seconds. Oswald did not have the requisite skills to fire three accurate shots within 5½ seconds at a moving target. Uncertainty surround the number of shots fired, although most witnesses heard three shots fired within a period of five seconds.

It seems that five bullets had been recovered, a fourth was found in fragments in the car. The fifth bullet was found by Dallas police officers after the shooting. It was in the grass opposite the point where Kennedy was hit.

Mark Lane in his book Plausible Denial asserts: “The solution to Kennedy’s murder will not come from legal or government commissions, but from the minds deeply grounded first and last in the mysteries of hypothesis, uncorrupted logic and meta- phor.”

Colin McLaren, Australia’s finest crime fighter, studied the 26 volumes of the Warren Commission report for five years and unearthed many startling discovers. The Carcano rifle allegedly used by Oswald fires rounds 6.5mm wide.

When shot it will leave an entry hole larger than 6.5mm. The entry hole to JFK’s skull measured 6mm in width.

Lee Harvey Oswald never fired the third shot that hit the president’s head and exploded, as he was using 6.5mm ammunition. There was more than one gun in play that afternoon and there were two distinctly different types of ammunition flying around the killing zone.

All evidence points to Mafia marksmen who carried out the assassination orchestrated by elements in the intelligence community. According to acoustical analysis of the firing zone, four shots over a total period of 7.91 seconds, were fired at the presidential limousine.

The first, second and fourth came from the depository, the third came from the grassy knoll, four shots, including one from the raised ground to the right front of the Kennedy, meant at least two accomplices. These facts delegate the Warren Commission report as a work of political fiction.

The Kennedy murder will never be solved in our lifetime.

The trail has gone cold, the actors involved are all dead. The cover-up has been complete and solid.

Colonel L Fletcher Prouty in his book, The Guns Of Dallas, mentions a list of 85 people who, because they knew too much or got too close, had died suddenly of unnatural deaths following the murder of JFK.

Farouk Araie

THE MORE one watches the TV broadcast of the Van Breda murder court proceedings, the more one becomes aware of the absolute disgrace people’s warped belief in that scourge called the death penalty has become.

This case is now past the 50-day mark. The axe murders of the accused’s parents and brother happened in January 2015.

The police believethe son, Henri is the sole perpetrator of this heinous crime.

This country’s murder rate has now reached alarming proportions with more than 19 000 murders annually, according to the latest statistics released by police. Cases of poor people are steam-rolled through courts.

If all these murderers are caught, tried, convicted and sentenced, more jails will have to be built. There are already more than 15 000 so-called lifers – those sentenced to life imprisonment.

No country, not even the big bullies, China, the US, India, North Korea and Japan can execute so many people. It’s absolutely impractical.

Where did mankind go wrong to have created such a mess? How will we ever emerge from it?

More and more we see bombings, shootings, vehicles ramming into people, farm murders, gangsters killing people, taxi murders, partners hiring contract killers, drunk and reckless drivers causing the deaths of countless people.

To execute a few here and there has not, does not, and never will achieve anything. The world’s most progressive countries are those where this cruel and barbaric form of punishment had been abolished.

There is simply no other way of dealing with this spiralling menace which plunged so many rogue states into civil war and eventual demise, never to become stable again.

Every South African should decide once and for all to condemn all killings, raise their voices against the death penalty which by its very nature, is a racist monstrosity, perpetuating violence and brutalising societies.

CAN ANYONE STILL BELIEVE IN THE DEATH PENALTY?

Koert Meyer