November 22, 2003
40 Years
Forty years today from that awful Black Friday when John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas. It's fascinating that the case continues to grow even now as more and more people come forward with their stories. In response to the government's coverup of the murder case, thousands of people have furthered the research and built a huge case about what really happened. The preponderance of evidence against the government's lone nut assassin theory has been enormous for most of that 40 years, but the case continues to grow. More and more of the story is coming out. More and more people continue to come out and tell their stories. Many of them are losing their fear of reprisals as they approach the ends of their lives. Knowing they will die anyway, they want their stories to be told. They want to make their contributions to history, and to expose the fraud that has been perpetrated on America by its power structure and the major media system that serves the powerful.The whole phenomenon is fascinating. The History Channel is showing a great deal of material on the assassination this week, as well as on Kennedy in life. Old establishment media like the major networks and the New York Times stay locked in their original mode at square one, holding stubbornly to the absurd coverup lone assassin theory, still beating that dead horse, still trying to prove that the possibility of the crime being carried out by a single person is plausible in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. But the growth of media, the information explosion, makes it impossible to control. The almighty buck still rules and the History Channel is responding to a market demand for the truth about the mystery.
The History Channel has been showing segments of a long documentary series called The Men Who Killed Kennedy, which was filmed about 25 years after the assassination, but a great deal of recent material has been added and is being presented as The Men Who Killed Kennedy: the Final Chapter. It includes a great deal of work done with computer analysis of films of the assassination in Dealey Plaza, autopsy photos and so forth. Computer analysis shows how the autopsy photos were faked, how the corpse was subject to reconstructive techniques familiar to embalmers who prepare shooting victims for viewing. Photographic processing has revealed a shooter behind the fence on the so-called grassy knoll. Acoustics evidence have shown the presence of shooters from different vantage points in the plaza area. The evidence continues to mount, the murky areas have gradually been filled in, the story emerges increasingly clearly. Contradictions are resolved one by one.
And in addition to mounting revelations produced by the physical evidence -- and perhaps even more striking -- are the people who are coming out to tell their stories. Many of them appear on this footage being presented by the History Channel. A woman who was married to John Ligget, the expert in reconstructive embalming work who apparently worked on Kennedy's corpse, is one. She and her daughters tell different parts of the story of how he disappeared the day of the assassination, came back in a stressed and disheveled state and evacuated the family from Dallas, then showed great relief when Oswald was killed and said it was then okay to return to Dallas, and then suddenly came into a great deal of money.
One of the most fascinating people to go public with her story is Judith Baker, who claims to have been Oswald's girlfriend during the last period of his life. She was a remarkably talented medical researcher who wanted to find a cure for cancer, and had distinguished herself with some breakthroughs while still a teenager. She was picked to participate in a project that was being carried out to try to find a way to use cancer as a bioweapon, specifically to kill Castro. Through this project she met Guy Bannister, Lee Oswald, David Ferrie and others who were later implicated in the plot to kill Kennedy. Oswald was a CIA operative, as has been well established by now, and his handlers had him working on several projects, one of which was the anti-Castro cancer project.
Baker's story is fascinating. She tells how she and Oswald were drawn together and fell in love. Oswald was posing as a pro-Castro figure in order to prepare for possible use infiltrating Cuba. Within a couple of months before the assassination he was moved to Dallas, given a job at the Texas School Book Depository, and according to Baker was infiltrating a ring of rightwingers and anti-Castro Cubans who were plotting to kill Kennedy. Baker said Oswald was under the impression he had been assigned to infiltrate the conspiracy in order to thwart it. He said saving the president's life would have been worth dying for. But he knew that he would be blamed for the assassination if it went through, Baker said. He knew he was going to die, one way or the other. But there was no way out anyway. If he did not go along with the program, his wife and child and Baker and "everyone he loved would have been slaughtered, and he would have died anyway. He was in too deep."
Baker said she came forth at great expense to herself and her family. To have her grandchildren see her as a woman who was the mistress of the man accused of assassinating the president is extremely painful, but she did it, she said because she felt obliged to clear the name of Oswald, who was not as he is portrayed. She said he was a "hero."
One piece I recall that was in the earlier part of "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" is Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas, who was there on the scene when Kennedy was killed. He said that there were people who did not want the peaceful world that Kennedy was leading toward because they made too much money from war. This comes close to summing up the dilemma the U.S. finds itself in today under Bush, the contemporary representative of those forces in the military industrial complex for whom the absence of war would be the worst of all possible worlds. The coup that took place on November 22, 1963, was a great turning point in which the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about in his farewell address, consolidated its hold on the U.S. government. And it has not loosened its hold since that day.
November 27, 2003
Judy Baker and the Bioweapons Program
It took 40 years to get to the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination and it's going to take more than a few days to finish thinking about all the thoughts that came up during that anniversary week when the History Channel was playing a lot of good documentary material on the assassination.The footage of Judy Baker, the woman who claims to be Oswald's mistress at the time of the assassination was a mind-blower. She told a very credible story that fits with many elements of Oswald's life as assembled by researchers, and with the reports of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, who prosecuted the only court case ever against anyone in connection with the Kennedy assassination. The circle of people targeted by Garrison's investigation were the people that Baker names in her story about her love affair with Lee Oswald.
More on that below (before), but something tangiential to the main thrust of that story stuck in my mind. Baker said she met Oswald through a project she was invited to work on because of her talent in scientific research. She had shown immense promise as a researcher when still in high school, so she was plucked and given all sorts of wonderful patronage and opportunities to dedicate herself to government projects. She dreamed of being the person who would cure cancer, and she had already made impressive contributions before she went into college. But the military industrial complex appropriated her talents and she became a researcher into how to use cancer as a bioweapon. She was convinced of the nobility of the project because it was being designed specifically to kill Castro, which she thought was a worthwhile objective at the time.
From there the story goes on to tell the story of Oswald from the point of view of a young woman who adored him. But while it's dropping that bomb, there's barely any mental energy free to notice that she was talking about a bioweapons program that was bent on finding a way to induce cancer in a chosen victim. The experiments were set up to inject hundreds of mice with strains of viruses that had been bombarded with radiation to splinter their DNA and see which ones cause cancer.
The experiments did produce successful results, that is, they succeeded in causing cancer in rats. Next the masters of the project wanted to experiment on human "volunteers," donated by mental hospitals, who didn't know what was happening to them. This was in preparation for a planned covert operation the goal of which was to give Castro cancer and assassinate him in a way that no one could pin anything on the United States -- because that might start World War III. This was the mad rationale behind this government project.
Baker, who was the young genius about cancer, came up with the idea that the way to give him cancer was to get some one to inject him with the virus, then subject him to repeated Xrays to weaken his immune system to make him more vulnerable to the virus.
Baker's story, remember was November 1963. If that kind of research was that far then, what must it have developed into. The almost unlimited amount of research and development money of these kinds of spooks is a factor to consider.
Jack Ruby, who wanted to tell about the conspiracy that drove him to do what he did but was never allowed to leave Dallas and go to Washington, complained of injections he was being given in prison before he came down with cancer. The same applies to Margaret Mitchell, the wife of Nixon's attorney general John Mitchell. She was talking to much, so they put her away in a mental hospital. She complained of injections. She died of cancer.
I have seen evidence that leads me to suspect the death of Bob Marley from cancer was an assassination attempt that worked after a shooting had failed.
Now we look at that bioweapons cancer program in the early '60s, project it to the 21st century, and let's see ... that virus that destroys people's immune systems, that emerged in the late about 15 or 20 years after the program that planned to find a way to weaken Castro's immune system so he would fall prey to cancer.
I have often wondered about the origin of AIDS, and I have heard various theories. The one about it being created in a laboratory and unleashed upon the world has always seemed very credible. It fits so perfectly with the pattern of behavior and character of the spooky-CIA-Skull & Bones covert elite types that control the U.S. currently.
It was just an idea that stuck in my head and stewed for a while. Of course you can dismiss the whole thing and say it was made up. But you must see the footage before you make a judgment.
[The Judy Baker interview is part of "The Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Final Chapter." It's available from the History Channel (dot com).]