Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.wpost From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: All the President's Triggermen Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 09:18:27 EST Message-ID: <38.1992Nov22.091827@AmeriCast.com> All the President's Triggermen THE WARREN Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone to shoot JFK. Edward Epstein suggests in "Legend" that Oswald might have been a KGB agent out of control. Michael Ed- dowes argued in "The Oswald File" that the Oswald who returned from Minsk was a Soviet changeling and had the Oswald body ex- humed to try to prove it. Lincoln Lawrence claimed in "Were We Controlled?" that Oswald had been robotized in Minsk with a dev- ice implanted in his brain, that Jack Ruby had been hynotized and that somebody made a lot of money that day on Wall Street. In 1967, a Puerto Rican named Luis Castillo was arrested in the Phillipines for trying to shoot Marcos; while hypnotized, he blurted out that he had been a programmed assassin in Dallas. In 1980, Charles Harrelson (father of actor Woody) shot a Texas judge. During a standoff with police, Harrelson, high on cocaine, said he'd shot JFK. Often interviewed, he most recently claimed he was in Houston that day. Harrelson, said to be a mob hit man, is thought by several authors to be one of the famous "tramps" arrested and photographed after the shooting. In 1985, ex-con Robert Easterling told author Henry Hurt that he shot JFK for Castro. In 1965, the parents of Charles Rogers were found dismembered and stuffed into their refrigerator. John R. Craig and Phil A. Rogers argue in "The Man on the Grassy Knoll" (a new book) that Charles Rogers was a CIA agent, that he and Harrelson shot JFK together from the Grassy Knoll, that they and Chauncey Holt are the tramps and that Rogers murdered his parents when his mother deduced he'd killed JFK. (Two men, Chaucey Holt and Harold Doyle, have said this year that they are in the tramp photos. Holt says he was with Harrelson; Doyle says that he and two other men were not in- volved in the shooting.) Alan J. Weberman and Michael Canfield argue in "Coup d'Etat in America" (updated and reissued) that the tramps were the trigger- men and that two of them look like Watergate burglars Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis; the third one is a CIA man called "Carswell." They offer acetate photo overlays to try to prove their point. Jim Marrs wrote in "Crossfire" that the case of Jack Lawrence "deserves serious study." Lawrence, a recently hired Dallas car salesman, showed up for work on Nov. 22 after the shooting, mud- dy, pale and sweating, and promptly vomited; his car was found behind the Grassy Knoll. Turned in by co-workers, Lawrence, said to have been an Air Force expert marksman, left town after being released by police. Geneva White, a former Ruby stripper, said before she died in 1990 that her late husband Roscoe, a Dallas cop in '63, had once been a hit man, and that he and Ruby dis- cussed killing JFK. Ricky White, their son, said last year that he'd found his father's diary, which contained evidence that the CIA had ordered Roscoe to shoot JFK; he was unable to produce the diary. In 1975, Hugh C. McDonald wrote in "Appointment in Dallas" (reis- sued) that a European assassin named Saul told him he'd shot JFK from the second floor of the Dallas County Records building while on contract for a private group. In 1977, Soviet journalist Mi- khail Lebedev deduced that the head shot was fired by a gunman code-named "Zed" working for fascists. Steve Rivele concluded that the gunmen were three French Corsican mobsters led by Lucien Sarti, who shot from the Grassy Knoll wearing a cop's uniform. Robert Morrow, a contract CIA man, writes in "First Hand Knowledge" (a new book that is a rewrite of his 1976 work, "Be- trayal") that he bought three rifles used in the shooting from Sunny's Surplus in Baltimore. David Ferrie planned the assassina- tion and Clay Shaw was involved. Morrow says one team of assas- sins was led by a French gunman named John Michael Mertz. Gary Shaw says CIA records indicate that French gunman Jean Souetre was in Dallas on Nov. 22, and was expelled from the country the day after. The FBI says that was another Frenchman named Michel Roux. Souetre used "Roux" as an alias, notes Anthony Summers in "Conspiracy," though Roux is also a real person. Souetre said in 1983 that the man in Dallas was Mertz, using Souetre's name. In "The Man Who Knew Too Much," (a new work) Dick Russell writes about Richard Case Nagell, who says he was a double agent given a mission, perhaps by the KGB, to stop Oswald. Russell's book is "The Magus" of JFK literature, with Nagell operating in a world of shifting identities. Russell also writes of the Souetre-Roux- Mertz connection, noting the role of Mertz (or whoever) in the Corsican mafia. Souetre has his own card in Paul Brancato's deck of "Coup d'Etat" assassination trading cards. Bonar Meninger's "Mortal Error" (released this year) describes the theory of firearm's expert Howard Donahue: Trajectory and ballistic factors prove that the head shot was fired from the car behind JFK. Donahue says that a Secret Service agent grabbed a firearm on hearing shots, tried to stand, but fell and squeezed off the round. In films and photos, a man is seen waving an umbrella as JFK is shot. Robert Cutler argues that Umbrella Man shot JFK with an umbrella-borne biodegradable dart. In 1978, Louis Steven Witt said he'd been the Umbrella Man and had waved it to heckle JFK.<02:45 11-22C9999----- Copyright 1992, The Washington Post. This story is from the Washington Post's Capitol Edition On-Line and is not to be ar- chived or redistributed. For more information, send-email to American Cybercasting Cor- poration (usa@AmeriCast.COM)