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The Zapruder film seems to show the front of JFK’s head being blasted open by a shot:

Researchers like Stewart Galanor, who were lucky enough to see the film in the 1960s (at a private screening in the U.S. National Archives), believed that this proved that JFK was killed by a shot coming from in front of him and to his right (from the “grassy knoll”), because his head moves backwards and to his left. In the same way, when the film was first shown on TV in 1975, people were outraged. The U.S. Government’s story—that one man in a building far behind the President shot him—didn’t make sense. This led the U.S. House of Representatives to create a new Select Committee to investigate the assassination. But even in the 1960s, researcher David Lifton discovered that the Zapruder film not just gives us confusing information about where the shot came from, but actually makes no sense at all! Lifton was a graduate in engineering physics. He took the black-and-white copies of the Zapruder film frames, published by the U.S. Government, to Nobel-prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. He thought that Feynman would conclude, from the laws of physics, that the shot must have come from the front. Lifton was dismayed when Feynman ignored all of the frames except the ones that show the President just before and just after the impact of the shot:  (These are modern copies of those frames.) Even though Frame 313 is blurred, Feynman was able to measure the position of JFK’s head compared to fixed parts of the limousine (like the handle reflection between the Kennedys and the Connallys ). Feynman found that JFK’s head moved //forwards// at the moment of impact. The laws of physics then tell us that the shot must have come from //behind//! The //backwards// movement of the President’s head after Frame 313 then became the mystery. Were there //two// shots? Could there be some other physics explanation for this strange phenomenon? Did the red spray of blood force his head backwards, like a jet engine? Could his muscles have gone into spasm because of the brain damage? In 2001, scientists used modern computers to remove as much of the blur from Frame 313 as possible. When the two clear frames are laid on top of each other, there is no doubt at all that JFK’s head moves forward:

The movement was checked by yet another method: Frame 312 was //blurred// by the same amount as Frame 313, and then the two frames were compared. Again, the President’s head was found to move forwards. You can also see something remarkable in this comparison: the red spray of blood in Frame 313 is clearly //in front of// JFK’s head. Indeed, it blocks our view of his wife’s face, which can be fully seen in Frame 312! This seems to again tell us that the shot came from behind. There is no other way for bloody brain matter to be blasted forwards. But Lifton made a discovery that, for more than two decades, was so incredible that it was not given much credence: the head wound shown on the Zapruder film does not at all match the wound described by eyewitnesses and the doctors that treated JFK in Dallas! <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;">We can see the problem just by going one more frame forward, to Frame 314:

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;">The Zapruder film is telling us that the whole front-top of JFK’s head gets blasted away! There is a huge crater where his forehead used to be, through which we can again see his wife. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;">This would make sense, if he was indeed hit by a high-velocity rifle bullet from behind. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;">There is only one problem with this: //everyone// who saw the President after the shooting said that his face was not injured or damaged at all! <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;">JFK autopsy photographs surfaced in the late 1980s, and showed his face to be completely intact:

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Even the skeptics had to agree that either the Zapruder film or the autopsy photos (or both) have to be forgeries. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;">From the 1970s, Lifton had argued that the bright reddish-white wound which seems to appear and snake up the side of the President’s head, which he called “the blob”, completely disagreed with the descriptions of the head wound given by the doctors and nurses at Dallas’s Parkland Hospital, where the President was taken:

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;">In a thousand-word footnote in his 1980 book, //Best Evidence//, he argued that this tells us that the Zapruder film has been substantially altered, if not completely forged. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;">However, Lifton would have to wait nearly a quarter of a century for scientists to prove that he was right. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;">His hundred-page chapter in //The Great Zapruder Film Hoax// is a wonderful history of the Zapruder film, and the way it was used to convince the American public, over the past four decades. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> =<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 2cm; margin-right: 2cm; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify;">The Zapruder film was a cover up so people would not find out that the mob and the CIA were working together!!!!! =

Plans are moving forward to complete the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement. Known also as the Mob Museum, it will be an interactive attraction "dedicated to the history of organized crime and law enforcement." One of the displays, in the organized crime section of the museum rather than the law enforcement area, should feature President John F. Kennedy. That's because the Outfit helped put him in the White House. Academics still captivated with the myth of Camelot may not buy that contention, but the evidence is pretty persuasive. Tina Sinatra authored //My Father's Daughter//, a book about her father Frank, in 2000. In it, she details how Frank served as an intermediary between Chicago crime chief Sam "Momo" Giancana and JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, in 1960. Frank Sinatra had been a lifelong Democrat and close personal "swinging" buddy of the notoriously womanizing John Kennedy. If he had a reason to lie to his own daughter about the episode, the motive isn't obvious. Joe Kennedy invited Frank to the Kennedy compound in early 1960. Tina writes: "When Dad was summoned to Hyannis Port early that year, he assumed that Joe Sr. would be asking him to sing at a fund-raiser or two. But the Kennedy patriarch had a more ambitious plan in mind. The campaign had entered a critical phase. Jack needed to win the primary in West Virginia, a state with few Catholic voters, to knock out Hubert Humphrey. The Kennedys would need strong support from the mob-infested unions – which was where my father came in. "As Joe Sr. cryptically explained, ‘You and I know the same people, and you know the people I mean.' ‘"Sure,' my father said. He didn't need to have the dots connected. ‘"I can't go to those people,' the old man went on. "It might come back at Jack. But you can. The best thing you can do for Jack is to ask for their help as a personal favor, to you. Keep us out of it.'" Sinatra then scheduled a date with Giancana, on a golf course to reduce the possibility of getting recorded. Reminding Momo that he'd not asked for any favors before, he requested one now: "Giancana looked him in the eye and said, ‘It's a couple of phone calls. And tell the old man I said hello.'"

Kennedy won the election and, appointing his minimally qualified brother Robert as attorney general, watched as his administration chased the Mob with vigor. Tina relates that her father "mollified" Giancana for his monumental blunder by performing with Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dean Martin at an Outfit-owned Chicago nightclub. Interviewing Tina in 2000, //60 Minutes// correspondent Steve Kroft reported: "Those Rat Pack members did eight shows - two shows a night for eight days. I'm told there are transcripts with jokes about them doing it for free." Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh's //The Dark Side of Camelot// in 1997 included Tina Sinatra's recollections before her book was published. Hersh provided other particulars. A former Chicago FBI agent wrote in his own book that the agency wiretapped Giancana discussing the Mob supporting Kennedy in exchange for leaving Momo alone. Hersh interviewed a former Justice Department prosecutor and chief counsel to the House Assassinations Committee. He asserted that FBI bugs unambiguously demonstrated that enough votes were stolen to give Kennedy Illinois. He also avows that the Mob gave money to help Kennedy. "Can you say mob money made a difference? My judgment is yes." Hersh also cites a memoir written by the woman who served as playmate to both Kennedy and Giancana. She quoted Sam as telling her: "Listen, honey, if it wasn't for me your boyfriend wouldn't even be in the White House." Supplementary verification of the Outfit's interest in electing JFK was provided by the wife of mob financial wizard Murray Humphreys. She told Hersh her late husband called Joe Kennedy a four-flusher and double-crosser because of a previous experience involving bootlegging during Prohibition. Humphreys opposed helping his son win the White House. He was outvoted, however, and went along with the program, spending the two weeks before the election sequestered in the Chicago Hilton as he industriously worked to usher in the New Frontier. Mrs. Humphreys said, "I didn't know that a president could be elected on the whim of Chicago mobsters." Bobby Kennedy later wondered if his brother's assassination were orchestrated by the Mob. Naturally, that idea needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt, as do the theories that it was Fidel Castro or the CIA or Lyndon Johnson or the Federal Reserve or ant-Castro exiles or fill in the blank who completed that dastardly deed. I have few doubts that the Outfit assisted Kennedy in winning the 1960 election. But I'm not holding my breath waiting for that story to be included in textbooks. The fable of Camelot lives on.

According to the extensive material presented, the three U.S. mob bosses, Santo Trafficante, Johnny Rosselli and Carlos Marcello masterminded the plan to murder JFK. They were motivated by the direct threat posed by the Kennedy's to their huge and lucrative drug, gambling, gunrunning and prostitution businesses and, in 1963, the imminent threat of imprisonment or personal deportation by Attorney General, Bobby Kennedy. Key players in the JFK murder conspiracy masterminded by Trafficante, Marcello, and Rosselli were: former FBI supervisor Guy Banister, French Connection mastermind Michel Victor Mertz, and Chicago hitman Charlie Nicoletti. On the next level of the conspiracy came Jack Ruby, Chicago law enforcement official (and Mafioso) Richard Cain, David Ferrie and Eladio del Valle. Other Trafficante associates involved included John Martino and Rolando Masferrer. Jimmy Hoffa's enforcer in Puerto Rico, Frank Chavez, was also involved. Chavez was an associate of Jack Ruby who would later attempt to kill Robert Kennedy. The CIA's David Morales, a close friend of mobster Johnny Rosselli, played a role in the conspiracy, as well as one other unnamed CIA official. Tony Varona and Manuel Aritime, both exiled Cuban leaders, also played a role in JFK's murder. "Looking at those involved in JFK's assassination, most were informants or operatives for various US intelligence or law-enforcement agencies. Rosselli, Trafficante, Marcello, Nicoletti, Ruby, Cain and Varona had all worked on the **CIA-Mafia plots. (To assassinate Fidel Castro in the late 50's and early 60's)** Banister, Ferrie, del Valle, Martino, Frank Fiorini, Masferrer, and the (unnamed) CIA operative had all been involved in CIA-backed anti-Castro operations. Such operations not only let all those people feed disinformation to the CIA and other agencies; it also gave them potential blackmail leverage to use against those agencies if they were ever suspected of involvement in JFK's assassination." Revealed for the first time in "Ultimate Sacrifice" is the evidence of three assassination attempts on JFK in November 1963. The first in Chicago on November 2nd consisted of 4 shooters with high-powered rifles. An anonymous call to the Secret Service warning of the plot caused JFK to cancel his trip there at the last minute. The second was in Tampa on November 18, 1963. Again, the plan involved four shooters from windows of a tall building along JFK's motorcade route. The plot in Tampa was uncovered ahead of time resulting in 700 security agents being used to protect JFK's

motorcade that day. And, of course, the fatal attempt 4 days later on the 22nd in Dallas where security was lax and where authorities had not been tipped off. Also named in the book for the first time is the Cuban military leader, Commander Juan Almeida, Cuba's number 3 behind the Castro brothers. Almeida was working with Bobby Kennedy in 1963, having been disillusioned with Fidel Castro's leadership, on a secretive and sophisticated plan to be implemented on or around December 1, 1963, to assassinate Fidel Castro, bringing and end to the communist government in Cuba. This plot, "C-Day", was infiltrated by the three mob bosses and used to insidiously weave their own plot to assassinate President Kennedy. This new information helps to explain why the American people could not be told about the real conspiracy to kill JFK. First: If it became public knowledge that the CIA, under the authority and guidance of the Kennedys, was planning to assassinate Fidel Castro and overthrow the communist government in Cuba…..national security, truly, would have been threatened. The U.S. actually faced its most serious threat in the 60's from Russian nuclear missiles. The Cold War was red hot during those days. Second: Robert Kennedy and a host of operatives had worked long and hard to plan "C-Day". In the immediate aftermath of JFK's killing, if there were any hopes of preserving the Castro plan, keeping covert "assets" secretive, and perhaps still carrying out the plan later, any in depth investigation into how the mob had penetrated the plot itself in order to murder the president had to be prevented. This information also helps to explain Robert Kennedy's grieving proclamation after hearing of his brother's murder…."I've killed my own brother." In addition, if the investigation into JFK's murder got too close to the real killers…..many, many questions about the CIA's power and close ties to Mafioso figures would certainly have been damaging to that agency, as well as the U.S. government as a whole. The U.S. government is still, today, keeping over one million documents dealing with the JFK murder secret. The release date, if it's honored, of the remaining related documents is 2017.

=**JFK'S LIFE**:= = = = Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety. = Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. In 1955, while recuperating from a back operation, he wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history. In 1956 Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for President. Millions watched his television debates with the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Winning by a narrow margin in the popular vote, Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President. His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II; before his death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty. Responding to ever more urgent demands, he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society. He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations. But the hard reality of the Communist challenge remained. Shortly after his inauguration, Kennedy permitted a band of Cuban exiles, already armed and trained, to invade their homeland. The attempt to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro was a failure. Soon thereafter, the Soviet Union renewed its campaign against West Berlin. Kennedy replied by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and increasing the Nation's military strength, including new efforts in outer space. Confronted by this reaction, Moscow, after the erection of the Berlin Wall, relaxed its pressure in central Europe. Instead, the Russians now sought to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. When this was discovered by air reconnaissance in October 1962, Kennedy imposed a quarantine on all offensive weapons bound for Cuba. While the world trembled on the brink of nuclear war, the Russians backed down and agreed to take the missiles away. The American response to the Cuban crisis evidently persuaded Moscow of the futility of nuclear blackmail. Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963. The months after the Cuban crisis showed significant progress toward his goal of "a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion." His administration thus saw the beginning of new hope for both the equal rights of Americans and the peace of the world.

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