"Heritage.of.Stone.2" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kennedy John F)library and did some research on the company. He learned the
network was a subsidiary of RCA, a bulwark of the military- industrial complex whose defense contracts had increased by more than a billion dollars from 1960 to 1967. Its chairman, retired General David Sarnoff, was a well-known proponent of the Cold War. "Some long-cherished illusions about the great free press in our country underwent a painful reappraisal during this period," writes Garrison. Clay Shaw was brought to trial on January 29, 1969. It took less than one month for Garrison to present his case. Demonstrating the cover-up was the easy part. Although the overwhelming majority of eyewitnesses in Dealy Plaza testified that the fatal shot came not from the Texas School Book Depository ~ where Oswald worked ~ but from a grassy knoll overlooking the plaza, the FBI had encouraged many witnesses to alter their testimony to fit the ~lone nut' theory. Those that didn't were simply ignored by the commission. The ballistic evidence was flawed and obviously tampered with. Even though the FBI had received several warnings of the assassination, they had ignored them. Security for the President was strangely lax. Although Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby, had ties to the CIA and the Mafia, this evidence had been suppressed. Ruby was never allowed to testify before the commission, and when interviewed in a Texas jail by Chief Justice Warren and Gerald Ford, he told them: "I would like to request that I go to Washington... I want to tell the truth, and I can't tell it Washington. He remained in jail and died mysteriously before Garrison could call him as a witness. Even more disturbing was the treatment given the deceased President's corpse. Under Texas law, an autopsy should have been performed by a civilian pathologist in Dallas. Instead, the body was removed at gunpoint by the Secret Service and flown to a naval hospital in Maryland, where an incomplete autopsy was performed under the supervision of unnamed admirals and generals. The notes >from this "autopsy" were quickly burned. Bullet holes were never tracked, the brain was not dissected, and organs were not removed. The autopsy was a botched, tainted affair, performed under military supervision. (The medical aspects of the case were so weird, they would later form the basis for a best-selling book on the assassination, Best Evidence by David Lifton [Macmillan, New York].) The most important and lasting piece of evidence unveiled by Garrison was an 8mm film of the assassination taken by Abraham Zapruder, a film that only three members of the Warren Commission had seen, probably because it cast a long shadow of doubt across their conclusions. A good analysis of the film can be found in Cover-Up by J. Gary Shaw with Larry Harris (PO Box 722, Cleburne, TX 76031): Had the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination been shown on |
|
© 2025 Библиотека RealLib.org
(support [a t] reallib.org) |