ASSASSINS: WHAT MAKES BIG JIM RUN?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300040002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 31, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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ASSASSINS: Wbat
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Makes Big Jim RUn? Also last week Garrison subpoe-
. ned two men living in California and
t Garrison, New r eans
district attorney, is either grossly
wrong about the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy-or he's
frighteningly right. Frightening be-
cause if he's right a movement to
cover up the truth exists that is as
ugly and shocking as the assassina-
tion itself and even more harmful to
the nation.
A day after the slaying of the
President on Nov. 22, 1963, Garrison
had his staff investigate to see if Lee
Harvey Oswald had accomplices in
New Orleans, for it was known that
he had been there the previous
summer. The investigation turned
up a number of persons allegedly
connected with Oswald, indicated
that Oswald was connected with. a.
paramilitary right-wing group, and.
that on Sept. 16, 1963, he and
other men discussed an ambush of.
the President. One of the other men,
according to Garrison, was known as
Clem Bertrand, another was David
Ferrie. Ferrie has since died. Ben;
trand, identified by Garrison as a
New Orleans businessman, named
Clay Shaw, was indicted in connec-
tion with the asserted conspiracy
and his trial is scheduled to begin
Feb. 14.
Last week, in Los Angeles, a man
named Edgar Eugene Bradley,.49, of .
North Hollywood, surrendered to
Sheriff Peter Pitchess on a fugitive
complaint after Garrison sought him
also in connection with the murder
of the President.
Bradley is a representative of Dr.
Carl McIntire, a fundamentalist
radio evangelist. Hi-, encounter with
the local l; %% -i;en was cordial. Sher-
iff Pitchers thanked him for conve-
niently coming down to give himself
up; Bradley thanked the sheriff for
"the trust and confidence you have
shown. Believe me, I don't -have a
thing to hide."
After he was arraigned, freed on
his own recognizance and granted a
30-day continuance, during which
Louisiana is expected to start extra-
dition proceedings, Bradley said:
"I know I'm not guilty of any
crime. God knows I'm not guilty.
That's the important thing."
His attorney, former FBI agent
George Jensen, said they would
"fight extradition tooth and nail.-*. i
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Eventually, Gov. Reagan may de-
cide. I
one living in Nebraska as material
witnesses in his inquiry into the.
assassination. They are Loran Hall,
Kernville; Lawrence J. Howard Jr.
of El Monte and Thomas Beckham
of Omaha.
The three face no charges In New
Orleans. Garrison said. they had not
been questioned by the Warren
Commission appointed by President
Johnson, which contended that Os-
wald acted alone in the killing of
President Kennedy-a finding. many
investigators besides Garrison. re-
gard as erroneous.
Garrison says he can get no help
from the Dallas Police Dept. from
the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation, nor from officials In high
office, up to and including President
Johnson. Thewcover up, he says, is so
intense that efforts are repeatedly
made by various individuals and
organizations and even news media
to discredit his Investigation and to
smear him personally. .
Big 'Why' of the Assassination?
Among Garrison's assertions:
s President Kennedy was assassin-
ated because a "number of extreme
individuals" considered him a Com-
munist or one who had sold out to
the Communists. Sponsors of the
plot are very rich men.
a At least 10 men actually conduct.
ed the slaying. Some merely drove
autos. Shots were fired at the Presi-
dent from at least four points.
0 Bullets from a number of differ
ent directions struck him. Autopsy
photographs were never seen by
6" 2 ers of the Warren Commission .
"because they knew in advance they.
would see wounds caused by gun-
hots from a number of directions
. You aren't supposed to see that 1
ecause you are dutiful Americans i
nd believe the fairy tale of the lone
ssassin . . ." He suspects that some
ay an attempt might be made to
ring out autopsy photos doctored to
upport the lone-assassin conten-
ion.
The notes from the autopsy on the
resident's body were burned.
Cuban exiles, vengeful, because
hey thought Mr. Kennedy had let
hem down in not overthrowing
idel Castro, were deeply involved
the plot.,
Oswald, connected with the Cen-
al Intelligence Agency, the..
government's spy 'apparatus, was
manipulated into the role of the
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jack Ruby, "very much involved,
ndividuals in the case," simply
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Oswald when he had the
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elk, Ruby later became remorseful,
istrict attorney and his own c
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el be removed "and he would talk."
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hief justice to take ,him to Washing-
em there." This also was refused
.
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy may be so
everely shocked" that he "has just
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away from
the matter and
far has been "unable to look at it.",
Some of the many later deaths of
tnesses and others associated with
e assassination were natural. oth-
reat Fairy Tale." -
In, view of the stone wall of
difference and hostility that he
ys he runs into, and giving full
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lly, anyone who wonders why,
s course is told this:-'
He is appalled at the way "my
ing totalitarian,-becoming- "the
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