Episode 68: JFK - the Jim Marrs Crossfire Documentary

In 1989, Jim Marrs published his book Crossfire, which was considered a sort of granddaddy or encyclopedia about the murder of JFK. In 2014 or 2015, he released a documentary (which I admittedly knew nothing about) also called Crossfire where he purports to tell us everything we need to know about JFK's murder. No one single documentary can actually do that, but Marrs brings up several intriguing points.

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Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSgC-DtBBiU

https://www.amazon.com/Crossfire-Plot-That-Killed-Kennedy/dp/0465031803

https://consaracytheories.com/blog/f/the-biggest-myth

https://consaracytheories.com/f/ttw-jfk-didnt-play-bullsht-with-us-steel

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2289560/14789150

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Transcript

Transcription by Otter.ai.  Please forgive any typos!

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

JFK assassination, Jim Marrs, conspiracy theories, Crossfire documentary, Dallas 1963, Oswald, Secret Service, Warren Commission, magic bullet, LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover, military intelligence, Kennedy policies, grassy knoll, Zapruder film.

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Hello, hello, and thanks for tuning in. In tonight's episode, I will be talking about Jim Marrs documentary crossfire. Jim Mars also had a book of the same name published in the late 80s that was sort of like the granddaddy or the Bible, if you will, for a very long time about anything related to the JFK, Pop. Pop. This documentary is from 2014 2015 I found it on Amazon and rented it for a couple of bucks, and then after I had already done that, I found that somebody had it on YouTube for free. It may stay there. It may not, but even if you spend a buck or two, there are worse ways to spend an hour, hour and a half of your time than this documentary. Pick out your frosty beverage of choice, and we will saddle up and take this ride. In the introduction to this documentary, Jim Mars purports to tell us everything we need to know about the pop pop of JFK. It strikes me that this is a change from the tone of the book, because at the very beginning of his book, Crossfire, he says, don't trust anything, not even this book. Frankly, given the amount of misinformation and disinformation around not only Jack Kennedy's murder, but his life, his policies, his legacy. I think that's pretty sound advice. So it struck me as rather an about face to go from don't trust anyone resource to trust this documentary, I'm going to tell you everything you need to know in about 75 minutes. Okay? Jim says that over the years, he's been asked many times, will we ever know the truth about Kennedy's murder? He says that we already do know the truth. It's just that most people do not want to deal with it. He talks about the coup d'etat of 1963 which that is a statement I agree with, according to Jim Mars, Dallas in 1963 was a different time and place. He points out segregated restrooms as an example. He describes it as arch conservative. He talks about the attack on Adelaide Stevenson that occurred before JFK ever even went to Dallas. Jim also calls it a hotbed of right wing activity, and Jim has a photo of himself at Jack Ruby's carousel club from when he was 21 and when I saw that I'm like all roads seem to lead to Rome. There is an interesting group of folk, either photographed or rumored to have been hanging out at this carousel club. Jim points out an AP photograph where JFK Secret Service agents are not reacting to shots fired by attending to JFK, but LBJ Secret Service agents are responding to him. There's also a man in the doorway of the Texas School Book Depository that looks suspiciously like Oswald. Oswald's mother claimed that it was him. The official story is that the man in the doorway is Billy love Lady, as Jim says, it is open to individual interpretations, who is actually standing in that doorway. If it could ever be definitively proven that the man standing there is Oswald, then it certainly is true that he was not at the same time on the sixth floor. Can't be in the doorway and on the sixth floor simultaneously, James Powell, an army intelligence agent, was taking pictures of the Texas School Book Depository before the Pop Pop happened. Why was he there? Why did he make photos of an unimportant building before Kennedy's murder. Jim also shows a photograph that he took from the sixth floor window before the museum existed, and he shows that the window is not that far off the floor. There are pipes close to the window, and there's also the Live Oak tree in the way. So how did Oswald, or whoever get a clear shot, or more than one clear shot of Kennedy? He shows conflicting photos of what the so called sniper's nest actually looked like that day. Boxes were moved around, shell casings were moved around. He points out that there were not many people on the western end of Dealey Plaza. And I will butt in here and say we also hear Jay Widener bring up that same point in his super kooky off the wall documentary, JFK X even though he gets far afield, in my opinion, talking about squibs and. And JFK faking his own death and going into the back of the limo via a trap door and running off with Mary Meyer to live on a Greek island and just say, the hell with the presidency. It's like the plot of a bad soap opera, a bad JFK soap opera. But he brings up this point, and it's not a bad point. Why were there not many people? You see other footage, and I'm talking about footage you can watch on any mainstream outlet, plenty of people out on the street, smiling and waving, but then in that western end, there's hardly anybody there. Jim says the police kept people away by saying that no one was allowed in that area after the motorcade began to arrive, people filtered down. So the handful of people that were there sort of a little bit defiant, I guess, because they just wanted to trickle down to get another opportunity to wave or to take a photograph, as Jim asks. I've often wondered, why is it that they didn't want people standing in that area when the whole purpose of the visit was to see the President and to welcome him to Dallas. Jim theorizes that someone somewhere knew the Pop Pop was going to occur, and they didn't want to take the chance of a civilian being hit and a more detailed investigation to happen. We could also extend this theory out, in my opinion, that the powers that be did not want any witnesses. They did not want any extraneous commotion. When Kennedy is hit, we see umbrella man pump his umbrella and another man next to him place his arm in the air. Were they signal men for the shooters, it appears that the man next to the umbrella man has something tucked inside his jacket. It also appears that he's talking into something like a radio or a walkie talkie, and it looks like the device has an antenna. This man walks toward the triple underpass while everyone else rushes to the grassy knoll. Meanwhile, umbrella man walks off in the opposite direction. That's also weird. Who does that? Why would somebody be allowed to have an open umbrella as a motorcade is going by anyway, and then pump it up and down in the air? Super weird. Emmett Hudson, the groundskeeper for this area, said he believed the shots came from the grassy knoll Clint Hill. Who was assigned to Jackie Kennedy was the only agent who springs into action. As Jim Mars points out, he was not even supposed to be there that day. He was only there because Jackie requested that he be there. I've written in my personal notes, this is not surprising when you remember the statements of Abraham Bolden. I'm going to step over now to a blog post that I published on the conspiracy theories blog titled The biggest myth. I talk about how Abraham Bolden was appointed by Kennedy as the first person of color to be on the presidential protective division of the Secret Service in 1961 Bolden had also conducted an interview with Brent Holland, and this is chronicled in his book The JFK pop pop from the Oval Office to Dealey Plaza. And Bolden talks about rampant racism in the Secret Service, including some of the agents who refer to JFK as an inward lover. He also alleges that some of the agents said that if someone took a shot at Kennedy, they would not intervene. They just step out of the way, just long pause there, because that's that's a lot to take in. Going back down to Jim Mars's crossfire documentary, Jackie gets out on the rear of the car and picks up a piece of the president's head and takes it with her to Parkland. Jim asks why there's been misinformation about this action, because some people say that she was afraid and she was trying to escape the shooting. Others say that she was trying to help Clint Hill get into the limo. But Jim says he believes the information has been distorted about what she was really doing, because if a piece of Kennedy's head is on the back of the car, that indicates a shot from the front and not from the back, I will say I always thought, probably, because I had been told at some point, I would guess that that's what was going on, that Jackie was scared. She had, she's still got children, you know, she's trying to escape, or she's trying to help the Secret Service agent get up there to protect them. Those are the stories that I always thought I had no idea. Until I really got into this topic, I had no idea what she was actually doing back there. Jim says that John Connolly's wife and Senator Yarborough told him that they smelled gunpowder as they passed through the lower end of Dealey Plaza, others reported seeing a puff of white smoke. He addresses the claim that modern boom sticks don't smoke by saying, yes, they do, especially if they are freshly oiled. He shows a photo from a news photographer that appears to show a puff of smoke drifting off the grassy knoll, and it truly it does. Yes, behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll, things were chaotic. The railroad, railroad workers thought the shots had come from behind the picket fence. Policemen were seen on the grassy knoll, even though we're told that no cops were stationed back there. Men in suits and ties who showed Secret Service identification cards were also back there, but again, no agents were officially stationed to be back there. So who were these men on the Monday after the murder? Life magazine hired Robert West, a Dallas surveyor, and Chester Brennaman, his associate, to take still frames of each frame of the Zapruder film, and then performed survey work in Dealey Plaza, measuring distances, taking elevations, etc. According to Jim, both of these men told him that they did not feel like the Pop Pop could have been performed by only one man in spring of 1964 both men again performed survey work for the Warren Commission, they noted two yellow marks on the curb that didn't make sense. There were two small yellow stripes of undetermined purpose, as Jim asks what happened in between these marks the fatal head shot. Some researchers believe that these stripes were there to aid the snipers in targeting Kennedy inside of a particular kill zone. When the Warren Commission publishes the survey map, they delete references about the paint as well as the foliage that would have prevented Oswald from being able to make the shot. As Jim says, this is suppression of evidence. We also learned that the Warren Commission altered the frame numbers from the Zapruder film. Lieutenant Jack reveal was the intelligence officer for the Dallas police. He said he left the Texas School Book Depository and rode back to the Dallas police station with a military intelligence agent, a man from the Office of Naval Intelligence, and upon arriving at the police station, he met with Foxtrot Bravo India agent James hosty, who had been in charge of Oswald's case. After this, he immediately makes a report, which is a list of the employees in the Book Depository. Heading his list is Lee Harvey Oswald, but it lists him as Harvey Lee Oswald at an address not listed with the employer. So where did Ravel get the information? At the time of the HSCA, they interviewed Lieutenant Colonel Robert Jones of the Fourth Army intelligence, and he said that on the day of the pop pop, he got word from Dallas that they had arrested a suspect and that his name was Alex James hydell, and he said he went to the army military intelligence files and found an Alex James hydell who crossed reference to a Harvey Lee Oswald of 605 Ellsworth. So this was a mistake that had been made in military intelligence files, according to Jim, what this tells us is that it was US military who tipped off the Dallas police as to the identity of their suspect. About 90 minutes after the murder, the call comes in about someone sneaking into the Texas theater. A massive police presence rolls in, including some men who claim to be Charlie India, alpha Oswald. Selective Service Card that bears the name Alex Hey Dell has his photo on it. Jim Marr says that Selective Service cards of that time did not include photos. Oswald is uncooperative with the police. He makes some smart ass comment like you're the cops. You figure out who I am. However, two hours after the Pop Pop, J Edgar Hoover was on the phone to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, saying, we have our man in Dallas. It's Lee Harvey Oswald, and he's an ex Marine. He defected to Russia. He's a mean spirited individual in the category of a nut, as Jim Mars rightfully asks, How did J Edgar Hoover already work out the scenario of Oswald as a lone nut two hours after the murder? He's telling this to RFK. Was someone impersonating Oswald in the months leading up to the murder in a document dated June 1960 J Edgar Hoover was personally aware of Lee Harvey Oswald, and sent this memo to the Security Division of the State Department warning that an imposter might be using Oswald's birth certificate. Jim also shows a composite of photographs of Oswald. Some of the photos don't appear to be the same man, and if you look at this in the documentary, which I hope you will you'll see for yourself, the photos don't all look like they were taken of the same dude. They just don't, according to Jim, making composite photos was a common practice in the intelligence community because it helped assets to be able to go through customs, security, etc, and look close enough to. To the target to be passable. When we see the photos that look strange in closer detail, they do look like a mash up of two separate men. Oswald's medical records in the Marines showed that he was 511 and at his autopsy, he's recorded as being five foot nine in 1967 Oswald's own mother asked to have the grave exhumed, and she questioned marks and scars on the body and questioned the identity of the person in the grave. And she was not the only one. Paul Groody, the funeral home director who buried Oswald and told Jim that about a week after he was buried, a secret service agent showed up and asked about scars and marks on the body, and one of them commented, We don't know who is buried in that grave. The Presidential limousine is washed out while it's still at Parkland, which destroys important evidence. According to Jim, the limo is sent off on orders of LBJ so that it can be rebuilt before there was any forensic study made of the car. Bullet proof glass was put back in, and it was painted black, and it's now on display in Dearborn, Michigan. LBJ refused to ride at it. Jim brings up James C Cadigan a Foxtrot Bravo India, Fingerprint expert in his testimony, James was asked why exhibit 820 was not de silvered. This is a process for bringing out fingerprints on various things. And he replied, I could only speculate. They said yes, and he went on to say that all of the evidence was taken from the Dallas police the night of the pop pop, against the wishes of the Dallas Police Captain Fritz, who was in charge of the investigation, said, I need to get people to identify the weapons, and I need to talk to people about this evidence. How can I do that if it's taken away, but the evidence gets sent to Washington, according to Cadigan, there is a huge number of higher echelon Foxtrot Bravo India officials and security people pouring over this evidence the whole weekend. Police Chief curry said that they wanted the evidence up in Washington, the laboratory, and Captain Fritz said, I need to get some people to try to identify the boom stick if it's in Washington. How can I do that? And he said somebody in high authority was requesting this, and we finally agreed, as a matter of trying to cooperate with the feds. Chief curry says to the Warren Commission, as far as I know, we have never received any of that evidence back. It's still in Washington, I guess. Jay Lee Rankin of the Warren Commission says yes, the commission is still working with it. So the government kept all the evidence to begin with, even though it was illegal for them to do so. In the time that the Foxtrot Bravo India had this evidence with no oversight, there's really no way to know what was done, as Jim asks, What could have been omitted, what could have been added? Exhibit 2003, shows, that three spent rounds were found on the Dallas police evidence sheet. They list two spent rounds at the bottom. It says paraffin test made on Oswald was positive on both hands and negative on face. The original report found no gunpowder and only traces of nitrates on his hands and none on his face. The Warren Commission simply deletes this information. Jim shows two Foxtrot Bravo India memos about wrapping paper used to conceal the boom stick. One memo says the paper matches the paper from inside the Texas School Book Depository and the other does not. We're also told that a man walked around with a third shell casing in his pocket and didn't think to turn it in as evidence until it was decided that the scenario called for three shots. The shell casings that supposedly came from Oswald's Boomstick have a dent, but the mysterious and convenient third shell that shows up does not have this dent. Ronald Simmons of the army ballistics test center told the Warren Commission that they could not sight in the Oswald Boomstick using the telescopic sight because it was misaligned, and they had to add three metal shims under the telescopic site to make it accurate enough to even test it. We learn about Oswald's minox spy camera that was not commercially available in the US. Where did it come from? There was a photo of general Walker's house and a car parked beside it in the photograph of the photograph in Oswald's possession. There was no damage done to the photo. However, while it was in the custody of the Warren Commission, someone poked holes through the license plate of that car. Why? Henry Wade announced that Oswald's fingerprints were found on the boom stick. However, the day after the murder. There's a memo from J Edgar Hoover saying that no latent prints of value were found anywhere on Oswald's Boomstick. On Sunday the Boomstick was shipped back to Dallas on Monday morning, it was taken by two Foxtrot Bravo India agents to the Miller funeral home in Fort Worth, where they were preparing Oswald for burial. According to the funeral home director Paul grudy, who has publicly stated this, he was there and present when the Foxtrot Bravo India put Oswald's dead hand on the boom stick. In fact, he told Jim he had a hard time getting the fingerprint ink off of Oswald's Dead Hand in time for the burial. And that evening, Henry Wade says, Have I mentioned we've got his fingerprints on the boom stick? Again, a serious question here about this so called hard evidence. Attorney Albert Jenner says to Jaylen Rankin, our depositions and examination of records disclose that there are details in Mr. E Lee's memorandum which will require material alteration and in some instances, omission. I've put two huge exclamation points in my personal notes, like, okay, there's going to be some testimony here that we're going to have to alter and in some cases omit. They're just coming out with it. The official version is that the first shot goes through Kennedy's neck, and then it travels out of his neck and goes all through Governor Connolly like a bumblebee. The second shot misses, and then the third shot strikes Kennedy in the head. Jim says that in 1980 a House Committee concluded that one shot probably did come from the grassy knoll, but it probably missed. Jim Mars says that JFK was never shot in the neck. The official autopsy report says that the second wound occurred in the posterior back at about the level of the third thoracic vertebrae, which would be below your shoulder blades. He brings up the autopsy sheets, one which bears George Berkeley's signature, and one that does not there's a bullet mark on Kennedy's back. Jim brings up the bullet holes in his shirt and in his jacket. The clothing shows the bullet hole in the back, not the neck. Now, in my personal notes, I've written Jim's main assertion here seems to be that if Kennedy wasn't shot in the neck, the entire single bullet theory goes away. I am not entirely convinced of this because of the testimony of the doctors at Parkland who said there was a small wound in the throat that they had to, unfortunately destroy the evidence of by performing the tracheotomy to help him breathe. I would also wonder why Kennedy was grabbing his throat in the Zapruder film, if he wasn't wounded there. Jim Mars mentions Gerald Ford relocating the back wound up to supposedly bring clarity. Ce 399, the alleged magic bullet is found on a stretcher at Parkland. Whose stretcher was it? It's not certain. Daryl Tomlinson, a hospital tech at Parkland, said that he could not say it came from that stretcher. It appears the bullet was planted. So who did it? I've written in my personal notes, one conspiracy theory for years is that Jack Ruby planted the bullet in 2023 approaching the 60th anniversary of JFK murder. Secret Service Agent Paul Landis comes out with a book and claims that he is the one who planted the bullet because he found it in the back of the limousine and simply did not want it to get lost. Now, why he would have laid it on a stretcher as opposed to giving it to law enforcement, kind of unclear to me, why not call someone from the foxtrot, Bravo India, the Charlie India alpha, the Dallas Police, someone in authority? That's a major question here. Like so many people with these revelations, they conveniently appear to time those revelations with some major anniversary of JFK murder. So whether we're talking about women that suddenly have a nasty sex story to tell, or something like this, it always seems to be conveniently timed. Jim Mars brings up that Jack Ruby was seen at about one o'clock that afternoon at Parkland. For me, this raises the question of whether the sudden revelation near the 60th anniversary was done to eliminate the conspiracy theory that Jack Ruby was involved even before he murdered Oswald. Jim shows a newspaper clipping about bullet fragments in Governor Connally, yet the magic bullet that supposedly hit him is pristine. Now we see the Warren Commission diagram of the magic bullet from 60 feet in the air, the bullet first goes into Kennedy's back, then it goes up right around the neck tie knot and exits his neck. Then it goes back down again somehow, and it hits Conley around the armpit, then it goes through one of his ribs, then it goes through his chest. It shatters his right wrist, and then it also wounds him in the leg. Five before it is done. Yeah. So in my notes, I've written, obviously, anyone with even vague familiarity with firearms knows this is ridiculous. Jim makes a joke about how they have experts who can tell you that angels will dance on top of a pinhead. Oops. I mean, how many pop poppers could actually pull something like this off I've written in my personal notes. Of course, this goes back to a topic I've written about many times across platforms, so called experts, economists, professors, etc. You can pay them and or threaten and intimidate them to say whatever you want. There are people who will follow these so called experts and economists right off a cliff. They will believe the talking heads and their nonsense to their own peril. Even Kennedy himself remarked about this to Ted Sorensen. And Sorensen writes about this in his book, Kennedy JFK was frustrated about how that mess with the Bay of Pigs played out. And he said, all my life, I've known not to just trust the experts. I can't believe I was so stupid to do it this time around. Returning now to the crossfire documentary, Warren commissioned meeting January 27 1964 they were just beginning their investigation, and yet, at this early date, they knew that the single bullet theory did not work. Jaylene Rankin makes the comment, it seems quite apparent now, since we have the picture of where the bullet entered in the back, that the bullet entered below the shoulder blade to the right of the backbone, which is below the place where the picture shows the bullet came out in the neck band of the shirt in the front and the bullet, according to the autopsy, didn't strike any bone at all that particular bullet. So how could it turn? As Jim points out, you realize that he's thinking out loud, how could a bullet turn in mid air and then strike governor? Connally Arlen Specter authors the single bullet magic bullet theory. Even when they try to recreate this scenario, it doesn't come out the way they want it. To the medical professionals in Dallas say that JFK had had a large head wound in the right rear portion of his head. Sorry to stop and take a drink. This indicates a shot from the front at the time of the HSCA. We're shown a drawing based on the official autopsy photographs where JFKs head is intact, but there's a rather small bullet hole, as Jim points out, when the official autopsy photos become publicly available, there doesn't even appear to be a bullet hole back there. It looks more like a dried, small patch of blood with hair growing through it. Jim also said the bullet wound in JFK is back in the official autopsy photos doesn't line up with the hole in his jacket. Gerald Custer, who was the X ray tech at Bethesda, and who took the X rays of Kennedy At the autopsy, and Floyd Reeb, the photographer who took the autopsy photographs, both say that the X rays and the photos being shown to the public and being kept in the National Archives are not the ones they took in my personal notes I've written Gerald, you may remember, was interviewed by David Lifton as part of his best evidence documentary. In a newspaper report on this story, we read Gerald Custer, who took x rays of Kennedy's body at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, the night of November 22 1963 Pop. Pop said at a news conference that the X rays are wrong. He said the released X rays showed a black hole where the right side of Kennedy's face should be, indicating that a portion of the face had been destroyed. But he said there was no damage to the face and no part of his skull was missing on the forward part of his head. These are fake X rays the February 21 1964 edition of Life magazine shows the backyard photos of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a communist newspaper and a boom stick, along with another boom stick on his belt. The byline beside the photo says Lee Oswald with the weapons he used to kill President Kennedy and Officer Tippett. This magazine was published months before the Warren Commission came out from behind closed doors and concluded that Oswald was probably the lone pop popper. This is convicting someone in the press before they even get a fair hearing, but it certainly cements the idea to the American public that Oswald was the killer. When Oswald is shown the backyard, when Oswald is shown the backyard photographs that, by the way, came from Mrs. Payne's garage, Oswald responds by saying it's his face, but that he had never seen the picture before he believes that someone had taken a picture of his face and superimposed it on someone else's body in order to make the photographs a third backyard photo of Oswald turned up 15 years after JFK murder from a Dallas police officer's widow, she said that her. Husband told her, hang on to this. It'll be worth something someday, and we see that in this photo, Lee is holding a boom stick in the left hand and holding the newspaper up with his right hand. In the Warren Commission exhibit 337 there is the photograph of a federal official posing in the same pose as the third photograph that was never accounted for, never explained or seen for 15 years. Jim also points out a place in the Zapruder film that he believes was altered with paint to cover the massive exit wound on the rear of JFK his head. Jim points out the disturbing evidence of the car slowing down and the brake lights coming on and the driver turning around to look at Kennedy, and then after Kennedy is fatally shot in the head, that's when the driver accelerates. In my personal notes I've written, some conspiracy theorists have said that shots were coming from the triple underpass, and the man was probably aware of this, so he did not want to accelerate the car and drive them closer to harm's way. Judge for yourself on whether or not you think that's true. Still, yet there are other conspiracy theorists, and this is something that gets posited in the book. Behold a Pale Horse. That's another sort of like granddaddy of all conspiracy theory books that supposedly the man driving the limo was the man that delivered the fatal head shot, which we see no evidence of that. I mean, I think that's one of the crazier conspiracy theories. But as Jim Mars points out, there is disturbing evidence of the car slowing down and the brake lights coming on. I mean, had Kennedy simply had a wound in the back and a wound in the neck. Even if he never sounded the same, even if it took away his ability to speak, he'd still be alive. Mean, he had to be put in the position to be shot in the head. I know there's no delicate way to say this, and I know this is a super macabre topic, but I mean, he wasn't dead. The car slows way, way down. You see the brake lights, and it's like, um, this sort of does feel like a turkey shoot to me. I could be wrong, but kind of looks that way to me. Jim also discusses the Mary Mormon photo and the alleged person called badge man. Now we talked about this in my review of the men who killed Kennedy Docu series, the photographs that they show where someone had gone in and interpreted the shapes and added clothing and adding added color, I was like, I don't think I believe this. It just looks like blotches. You can take blotches on a picture, or like ink blots in a psychiatrist office and put color on them and ascribe any meaning that you want. Now in the photograph that Jim presents, the figure looks clearer, for my money, the photo that Jim Mars has is a clearer photo than the one we see in the men who killed Kennedy Docu series, and in Jim's photo, it honestly does look like a man with a badge on his chest. His photo is clearer and it hasn't been put in with colors and a soldier standing there and all that. Honestly, to me, it does look like a man with a badge on his chest. That could be wrong. Maybe it has been enhanced. Maybe it's been altered in some way. I don't know, because, as Jim says in his first book, unlike this documentary, don't trust anything. Don't trust any one single resource. You're gonna have to do the research for yourself. So Jim asks, Why was the chief executive eliminated? JFK was shaking up the status quo. Jim mentions the steel crisis incident, which I've blogged about and done at least one podcast episode about his brother. RFK was prosecuting organized crime. JFK wanted to stop the Charlie India Alpha raids on Cuba. He also brings up operation north woods. I need to do an entire podcast episode about that, because that's completely fucking horrifying. Kennedy and Khrushchev had reached certain agreements and wanted to end the Cold War. There was also the oil depletion allowance. As Jim says, he got all the oil and gas people mad at him. The mafia is mad at him. The military is mad at him. In the summer of 63 he ordered $4.2 billion of interest free money issued through the Treasury Department, not the Federal Reserve. Thus, he becomes the second president in American history to try to issue money free from interest from the international bankers. The first was Abraham Lincoln, as Jim says, I do not feel it was sheer coincidence that both of those presidents were shot in the head in public. I will butt in and say, Yeah, I don't think that's a coincidence, either. But this information about the Kennedy bills and the US notes that doesn't get talked about very often, and when it does, it's usually dismissed as. That did the conspiracy theory or, well, he was going to do that, but he didn't have the same goal as what you're ascribing him to have. It's like we're just not even supposed to touch that particular conspiracy theory or that particular motive for his murder, as Jim is pointing out, which I have pointed out many times. If we want to look at the people that he pissed off, the people that didn't like him being in office, start a line over there, and it's going to wrap around the block numerous times. He pissed off a lot of people in high places. That's just a fact. On screen, Jim has a picture saying that JFK was a war hero despite the loss of his ship. He's the first president born in the 20th century, the best educated president, which, I mean in modernity. I don't know if that's still true. I mean, there may have been some others that went through a graduate school program. I'm not sure. Maybe, maybe I don't know. I don't know. He fought organized crime, tried to control the Charlie India alpha and the military. There was the Kennedy tax act of 1962 he issued interest free bank notes, and he opposed the globalists. Our involvement in Vietnam also changed. He shows in SAM 263, from october 11, 1963 about a week after the Diem brothers were killed. Three days later, LBJ issues in SAM 273, and stops the pull out order. The document also emphasizes plausible deniability. There's something very, very interesting. Jim shows a document that he says was in the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas. Its date is November 21 1963 and it's a draft copy of in SAM 273, I'm gonna long pause there now I'm gonna go back and read this again, because I don't want you to miss this information. If there's any smoking gun in this documentary, I feel like it's this. Jim shows a document that he says was in the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas. Its date is November 21 1963 and it's a draft copy of in SAM 273, why would he make that the day before Kennedy's murder? As Jim says, somebody knew the day before that he wasn't going to be there to implement his pull out orders in Vietnam, and instead, we were going to be launching a full bore war in Southeast Asia. That is interesting, right? This is, this is very groundbreaking, if it's true. So you have the vice president drafting a copy to reverse the pull out order, and it's dated the day before the President is murdered. Why? Why would a vice president even be doing that? Why would it be his place to do that? I mean, it's highly presumptive for one thing, but it's presuming that the President's not going to be there, he's going to be out of the way, and then I'm going to be the president, and I'm going to reverse this pull out order. That's frightening. Jim shows a letter from Evelyn Lincoln, JFK, long time secretary, from October 1994 the recipient's name has been blurred out for this documentary, but here is the text of the letter. It was a pleasure to receive your kind letter concerning your desire to obtain my assessment of President Kennedy's administration and pop pop to pass along to your students. I am sending along an article which was written by something it was written by some kind of press. I couldn't make out the word. It was written by some kind of press for the ladies circle October 1966 and was recently reprinted in a current issue of that magazine, which will give you an insight into my impression of the man as for the Pop Pop, it is my belief that there was a conspiracy, because there were those that disliked him and felt the only way to get rid of him was to pop pop him. These five conspirators, in my opinion, were Lyndon B, Johnson, J, Edgar, Hoover, the mafia, the Charlie India alpha and the Cubans in Florida, the House Intelligence Committee investigation also came to the conclusion that there was a conspiracy. End quote, wow, that's also pretty deep. John J McCloy is mentioned for his role in helping the Nazis. Then he's on the Warren Commission. He says, this is John J McCloy. This is Jim Mars quoting John J McCloy, it was of paramount importance to show the world that America is not a Banana Republic where a government can be changed by conspiracy, as Jim Mars rightly says America is just another banana republic. Now at the end, Jim points the finger, finger, particularly at LBJ and J Edgar Hoover, wow. So when do you think you know the the opinions, the information I've presented you all comes from Jim Mars, except for the places where. I have butted in and made a personal note. It's Jim Mars's research. It's his information. When do you think I mean to me? As I said before, the Whoa moments really came for me at the end, like, if that's true about LBJ having a draft of that national security memorandum that's completely fucked up. You know, a letter that Evelyn Lincoln, who was, you know, with Kennedy for years and had a lot of insight into his day to day routine over the course of 12 years. She has her theories about who did it, and, you know, the people she list off there certainly had something to gain. If Kennedy was no longer in the picture, then we're also told about the man from military intelligence who was making photographs of the Texas School Book Depository before Kennedy's murder, when it was just another insignificant who cares building that was on the parade route. I mean, who does that? Why would you do that? Why would military intelligence be there then? Why would he be photographing that building? Specifically, that's weird. That's weird. So often this is the case with JFK, pop, pop research. You go down one weird rabbit hole after another, and you just get crazy intense information. Check this documentary out for yourself. Come to your own conclusions. Unlike Jim Marrs at the beginning of this documentary saying, Well, I'm going to tell you everything you need to know, there's no documentary that's going to do that. Go and read, check out information for yourself. Do your own research and come to your own conclusions, stay a little bit crazy, and I will see you in the next episode.

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