?
Nobody. Nobody
.
False statements and press leaks about Oswald circulate the globe
.
The official legend is created and the media takes it from there
.
The glitter of official lies and the epic splendor of JFK's funeral confuse the eye and confound the understanding
.
Hitler always said: "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.
"
Lee Harvey Oswald, a crazed, lonely man who wanted attention and got it by killing a President, was only the first in a long line of patsies.
Lee Harvey Oswald, a lonely man who wanted attention and got it by killing a President, was only the first in a long line of patsies. The first in a long string of scapegoats.
In later years, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King...men whose commitment to change and peace, made them dangerous to men committed to war, would follow also killed by such lonely, crazed men.
Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King. . . These people, who were committed to change and peace, made the warmongers feel in the way, so they all died at the hands of this kind of lonely lunatic.
Men who remove all guilt by making murder a meaningless act of a loner
.
We've all become Hamlet in our country, children of a slain father-leader whose killers still possess the throne
.
The ghost of John F.Kennedy confronts us with the secret murder at the heart of the American Dream. The ghost of John F.Kennedy confronts us with the secret murder at the heart of the American Dream
.
He forces on us the appalling questions:
He shocks us with a series of questions:
Of what is our Constitution made? What is
the foundation of our Constitution?
What is our more citizenship our lives worth
?
What is the future of a democracy where a President can be assassinated under conspicuously suspicious circumstances while the machinery of legal action scarcely trembles
?
How many more political murders disguised as heart attacks, suicides, cancers, drug overdoses
?
How many airplane and car crashes will occur before they are exposed for what they are
?
"Treason doth never prosper!" wrote an English poet, What's the reason
?
For if it prosper, none dare call it
treason.
The American public hasn't yet to see the Zapruder film, why
?
The American public hasn't yet to see the real X-rays and photographs of the
autopsy, why?
There are hundreds of documents that could help prove this conspiracy, why have they been withheld or burned by the government
?
Each time my office or you, the people, asked those questions, demanded crucial evidence, the answer from on high has always been "national security". When there is evidence of sex, the official answer is always: "national security."
What kind of "national security" do we have when we have been robbed of our leaders? What kind of "national security" do we have
? What "national security" permits the
removal of fundamental power from the hands of the American people and validates the ascendancy of invisible government in the United States?
"National security" endorses the dominance of an invisible so-called "government"?
That kind of "national security", gentlemen of the jury, is when it smells like it, feels like it, and looks like it, you call it what it is - Fascism!
When "national security" evolves to Sri Lanka, gentlemen jurors, its essence is - what you call - fascism!
I submit to you that what took place on November 22, 1963 was a coup d'etat
.
Its most direct and tragic result was a reversal of President Kennedy's commitment to withdraw from Vietnam
.
The war is the biggest business in America worth $80 billion a year
.
President Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy that was planned in advance at the highest levels of our government and was carried out by fanatical and disciplined Cold Warriors in the Pentagon and CIA's covert operations apparatus, among them, Clay Shaw, here before you.
President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy at the highest levels of the government, carried out by rabid, well-trained, cold-blooded gunmen from the Department of Defense and CIA cover-up operations, including this Clay Show in front of you.
It was a public execution and it was covered up by like-minded individuals in the Dallas Police Department, the Secret Service, the FBI, and the White House, all the way up to and including J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson—whom I consider accomplices after the fact.
It was a blatantly executed shooting, and for like-minded people in the Dallas Police Department, Secret Service, FBI and White House even up to J. Edgar Hoover and I personally believe that after the fait accompli Covered up by Lyndon Johnson, his accomplice.
The assassination reduced the President to a transient official
.
His job, his assignment is a speaker as often as possible of this nation's desire for peace while he acts as a business agent in the Congress for the military and hardware manufacturers.
His job and assignment was to represent the military and arms manufacturers in Congress while speaking as loudly as possible about the country's desire for peace.
Some people say I'm crazy, southern caricature seeking higher office. Some people say I'm crazy, a southern caricature seeking
political capital.
Well there is a simple way to determine if I am paranoid: let's ask the two men who have profited the most from the assassination—your former President Lyndon Baines Johnson and your new President Richard Nixon—to release 51 CIA documents pertaining to Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby, or the secret CIA memo on Oswald's activities in Russia that was "destroyed" while being photocopied.
In fact, there is a simple way to tell if I have ulterior motives: please, the two who have benefited the most from the assassination - the former President Lyndon Baines Johnson and current President Richard Nixon - Released CIA File 51 related to Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby, or a "destroyed" copy of classified CIA memos about Oswald's activities in Russia.
All these documents are yours, the peoples property, you pay for it!
These materials are all yours, the property of the people, and you have paid taxes! But because the government considers you as
children who might be too disturbed or distressed to face this reality, or because you might possibly lynch those involved, you cannot see these documents for another 75 years.
Either you are too sad to see the truth, or you have to wait another 75 years to see this material because you are worried that someone will "spoof".
I'm in my early 40's, so I'll have shuffled off this mortal coil by then, but I'm already telling my 8 year-old son to keep himself physically fit so that one glorious September morning in 2038 he can walk into the National Archives and find out what the CIA and the FBI knew.
I'm in my forties and I'll be dead by then, but I've told my eight-year-old son to stay healthy, so that in September 2038 One bright morning, he could go to the National Archives to see what the CIA and FBI were hiding.
They may even push it back then. It may become a generational affair, with questions passed down from father to son, mother to daughter
. the secret.
But someday somewhere, someone may find out the damned truth!
But one day, somewhere, someone will find out the damn truth!
We'd better, we'd better or we might just as well build ourselves another Government—like the Declaration of Independence says to—when the old one ain't work, just a little farther out West
. We're better off or we're going to have to build a new government ourselves - as the Declaration of Independence tells us - when the old government doesn't represent the people, it's a big deal to look further west.
An American naturalist wrote:"a patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government".
One American naturalist wrote: "Patriots always be ready to defend his country against its government!"
I'd hate to be in your shoes today.
I didn't mean to upset you today.
You have a lot to think about
.
You've seen much evidence that the American public hasn't never seen
.
Going back to when we were children, I think most of us in this courtroom thought that justice came into being automatically, that virtue was its own reward, the good would triumph over evil. Thinking
back to my childhood, I believe most of us in this courtroom thought that justice came into being automatically, that virtue was its own reward, the good would triumph over evil. I used to think that the realization of justice is as natural as the ripening of a melon.
But as we get older we know that this just isn't true
. Individual human beings have to create justice and
this is not easy because truth often possess a threat to power and one often has to fight power in great risk to themselves.
Often means a threat from power, and people often have to take huge risks to fight against power.
People like SM Holland, Lee Bowers, Jean Hill, and Willie O'Keefe have all taken that risk, have all come forward
. came to testify in court.
I have here some $8000 in these letters sent to my office from all over the country - quarters, dimes, dollar bills from housewives, plumbers, car salesmen, teachers, imbeciles...
There are about eight thousand dollars in these envelopes from From all over the country to my office, there are 25, 1, and 1 yuan, from housewives, plumbers, car salesmen, teachers, disabled people. . . These are the people who cannot afford to send money
but do; these are the ones who drive the cabs, who nurse in the hospitals, who see their kids go to Vietnam, why?
They paid for it. They drove taxis, worked as nurses in hospitals, and watched their sons go to Vietnam. Why?
Because they care; because they want to know the truth; because they want their country back; because it still belongs to us; as long as the people have the guts to fight for what they believe in
! The truth; because they still look forward to their country; because as long as the people have the zeal to fight for their faith, it remains ours.
The truth is the most important value we have because if the truth does not endure , if the government murders truth, if we cannot respect the hearts of these people, then this is not the country in which we were born in and is certainly not the country that I want to die in!
The truth is the most important value we have, because if it ceases to exist, if the government deliberately hides the truth, if we fail to respect the hearts of these children, then this is not where we were born nor where I would like to be buried. that country!
Tennyson wrote: "Authority forgets a dying king"
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And this was never more true than for John F. Kennedy whose murder was probably one of the most terrible moment in the history of our country
. Probably the most terrifying moment in the history of our country.
You the people—the jury system—sitting in judgement on Clay Shaw, represent the hope of humanity against government power
. hope.
In discharging your duty, to bringing the first conviction in this house of cards against Clay Shaw.
Fulfill your duty to convict Clay Shaw, even in difficult times.
"Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.
"
Do not forget your dying king!
Don't forget your dying king!
Show the world, this is still a government of the people, for the people, and by the people.
Let the world know that this is still a government of "the people, for the people, and for the people".
Nothing as long as you live will ever be more important
.
It's up to you!
It's all up to you!
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