THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY THE PATTERN OF COUP D'ETAT AND PUBLIC DECEPTION

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: November 1, 1971
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'THE PA TERN OF COUP D5EIA T AND y UEs L1C
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Edmund C. Berkeley
Editor, Computers and Automation
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"We nuest begin to recognize history as it is happening to us. We 'can no longer toy with
illusions. Our war adventures in Asia are not related to national security in any rational
sense. ... A coup d'etat took place in the United States on November 22, 1963, when
.In May.1970,Computers and Automation published a
32-page article "The Assassination of President Ken-
nedy: the Application of:Computers to the Photo-
graphic. Evidence" by Richard E. Sprague. The author
made the following important statements (among others)
which bear on the subject'of this article:
(Beginning of Quotation)
Who Assassinated President Kennedy?
On November 22,, 1963,. in Dallas, Texas, President
Jnhn F. Kennedy, while riding in an open limousine
through Dealcy Plaza and waving to the surrounding
crowds, was shot to death. Lee Harvey' Oswald, an
ex-Slarine, and former visitor to the Soviet Union,
was arrested that afternoon in a movie theatre in
-'another section of Dallas; that night he was charged
with shooting President Kennedy from the sixth floor
easternmost window of the Texas School Book Deposi-
?tory Building overlooking Dealey Plaza. This act
Oswald denied steadily through two days of question-
ing (no record of questions and answers was'ever
preserved). Two days later while Oswald was being
.transferred from one jail to another, he was shot
by'Jack Ruby. a Dallas night-club owner, in the
basement of the Dallas police station, while mil-
lions of Americans watched on television. The cdm-
mission of investigation, appointed by President
Lyndon B. Johnson, and headed by Chief Justice Earl
Warren of the U. S. Supreme Court, published its
report in September 1964, and concluded that Oswald
was the sole assassin and that there was no
conspiracy.
In'view of the authority of the iarren Commis-
sion, that conclusion was accepted by many Americans
for a long time. But the conclusion cannot be con-
sidered true by any person who carefully considers
the crucial evidence - such as"the physics1of the
shooting, the timing of a number of events, and
other important and undeniable facts. In other
words, Oswald was not the sole assassin, and there
was a conspiracy.
This article will develop that thesis, prove it
to be true on the basis of substantial, conclusive
evidence, and in particular some analysis of the
photographic evidence.
There was in fact a conspiracy. Oswald played
a~role in the conspiracy, although there is con-
ably four) - none of whom were in the sixth floor
easternmost window of the Texas School Book Depos-
tory building where the Warren Commission placed
Oswald -- fired a total of six shots at President
Kennedy.
' One of these shots missed entirely; one hit
Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of-Texas, riding
with Kennedy; and four hit President Kennedy, one
in his throat, one in his back, and two in his head.*
(The bulk of the-undeniable evidence for these state-
ments about the shots consists of: (a) the physics
of the motions of Kennedy and Connally shown in.
some 60 frames of the famous film by Abraham Zapruder;
(b) -the locations of the injuries in Kennedy and i'n
Connally; and (c) more than 100 pictures, consist-
ing of more than 30 still photographs and more than
70 frames of movies.)
More than 50 persons were involved in the con-
spiracy at the time of firing the shots. These
persons included members of the Dallas police force.
(but not all of the Dallas police and that ac-
counts-for some strange events), elements of the
Central Intelligence Agency, some anti-Castro Cuban
exiles, some adventurers from New Orleans, and
some other groups.- After the assassination, some
very highly placed persons in the United States
government became accessories to the crime. In
other words, they participated in assiduous con-
cealment of important facts, in shielding the per-
petrators of the crime, and in spreading a thick
layer of rewritten history (in the manner of George
Orwell's famous novel "1904") over the whole crime.
Of course, asserting these statements makes them
neither true nor believable. Without very strong
evidence, it would be evil to make such statements.
As to believability, prior to,District Attorney,
Jim Garrison's trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans
In Feb. and March, 1969, public opinion polls in
the United States showed that over 75 percent of
the people in the United States believed that there'
.was a conspiracy. The press, radio, and TV almost
everywhere in the United States reported Garrison's
investigation and the New Orleans trial in a very
distorted way. Furthermore,Garrison did not prove
to the satisfaction of the New Orleans jury that
Clay Sham was involved in the conspiracy, even
though he proved that Shaw knew and met Oswald.
.The news media of the United States (except. for two
newspapers in New Orleans). reported the trial in
no shooting at President Kennedy, and that, just The media lar el succeeded inchanging U.S, public
as he claimcAp ro\tedvFt~~irRetle2[ 12~1Qp/(16/Ae3 : CIA-RD h3y~ r14QQ0i R O 190Q' IAQUe8falling off of the
was a "patsy. At least three gunmen (and prob- poll percentages.