Four Months of Setting the Stage for What Would Happen in Dealey Plaza

[Anthony Frank]

Part 1

Senator Barry Goldwater’s KGB handlers used Goldwater to lure President Kennedy to his death on November 22, and Goldwater, the “front-runner” for the Republican nomination for President, was more than happy to cooperate.

In what appeared to be nothing more than political posturing, the KGB had Goldwater using inflammatory and oftentimes nonsensical rhetoric while visiting key electoral states in the months leading up to the assassination. Goldwater clearly showed that he planned to run for President in 1964 while adamantly denying that he had any intention of running for President, all for the purpose of luring President Kennedy to his death.

Elements of the KGB’s grand production sprouted at a Political Action Conference on July 12, 1963, when Senator Barry Goldwater, “the leading candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1964, arrived at the Statler-Hilton Hotel, just three blocks from the White House, to have breakfast with 500 of his admirers.”

With exactly nineteen weeks remaining before his KGB handlers would assassinate President Kennedy, KGB asset Barry Goldwater “charged that President Kennedy was trying to ‘coexist with international communism wherever it thrives, even in the Western Hemisphere.’” Goldwater made several statements attacking the way Kennedy dealt with communist expansionism, adding that “today’s liberal is so frightened of the future that he is incapable of acting in the present.”

His attacks on the President “were greeted with applause, shouts, cheers, whistles and the stomping of feet and the Senator’s harsh words set the tone for a long day of speeches by other Members of Congress,” some of whom were evidently opposed to civil rights and integration.

Congressman Bruce Alger of Texas “declared that ‘Bobby is behind every bush,’ and the audience howled at this thrust at Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy,” the President’s brother and a leading proponent of President Kennedy’s civil rights program.

The only Democrat to address the conference was Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a Southern Democrat who was “one of the principal opponents of Mr. Kennedy’s civil rights program.”

Nineteen days later, on July 31, 1963, Goldwater, who had voted for civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960, bolstered what was apparently a newly found segregationist stance. While addressing the U.S. Senate, Goldwater “accused Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy of using ‘police state’ powers in an effort to desegregate communities around military bases . . . . He and several Southern Democrats denounced a Pentagon directive authorizing military commanders to designate as off limits for servicemen communities which practice ‘relentless discrimination’ against Negroes.”

“What he fears, Goldwater said, is ‘the threat of a military takeover should things change in this country and we find that the military commanders have become used to running politics and the social life of the community.’”

Goldwater, in aligning himself with segregationist “Southern Democrats,” clearly stated that the Pentagon was creating a “police state” and threatening a possible “military takeover” of the United States government by doing nothing more than forbidding military personnel from going into segregationist communities.

The Washington Post touted CIA officer Barry Goldwater as the “front-runner for the Republican Presidential nomination” on August 14, 1963, when it reported on Senate hearings to ratify a partial nuclear test ban treaty. The treaty, which banned testing nuclear weapons in the air to stop the spread of radioactive fallout around the globe, was ratified by the Senate in September by a margin of eighty to nineteen. During the August hearings, Goldwater claimed that the treaty would “open ‘a possibly fatal gap’ in this nation’s defenses against an enemy missile attack.”

Goldwater’s clear position is that the Soviet Union would be able to destroy the United States in a nuclear onslaught unless the United States tested nuclear weapons in the air.

Exactly nine weeks before the KGB would lure President Kennedy to his death, they had Goldwater directly threaten President Kennedy’s 1964 re-election bid while Goldwater continued to backpedal on the idea that he would run for President.

On September 20, 1963, CIA officer and KGB asset Barry Goldwater announced that he had formed a California advisory committee “‘for consultation’ about the California primary,” but he firmly maintained it was “not an announcement that I intend to seek the Presidential nomination.”

It is no surprise that they chose the electoral prize of California to directly threaten Kennedy’s re-election. The electoral prize California had one Republican Senator going into the 1964 election, and a second Republican Senator was elected in 1964.

San Francisco, which hosted the Republican National Convention in 1964, had a Republican Mayor and had nothing but Republican Mayors from 1912 to 1964, and California was conservative enough to elect staunch Goldwater supporter Ronald Reagan as its Governor in 1966.

California went to the Republican Presidential candidate in 1952, 1956, and 1960, and back in 1948, incumbent President Harry Truman barely edged out Republican candidate Thomas Dewey by less than one half of one percentage point in California. The electoral prize of California was most definitely a GOP target in 1964.

Six days after CIA officer and KGB asset Barry Goldwater issued his threat, President Kennedy spoke in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he “sharply attacked the foreign policies advocated by Senator Barry Goldwater” and “took issue point by point with proposals put forth by the Senator . . . . The speech marked the first time that the President has tried to refute in a detailed way the foreign policies that Goldwater has stressed . . . . Utah, like the other mountain states the President is visiting on his five-day, ten state Western tour, is a center of Goldwater strength.”

Kennedy deleted a reference to the fact that Goldwater often spoke about “total victory,” but in what seems to be a naively ironic parody of the fate that awaited him, Kennedy did say, “We have history going for us today.”

(Continued in Part 2)

[Anthony Frank]

Part 2

Four days later, a September 30th front page headline in the Dallas Times Herald was forebodingly symbolic of the fate that awaited President Kennedy in Dallas, stating, “First Shots Fired: JFK Tour Trains Democrat Guns on Goldwater.”

With fifty-three days remaining before JFK’s scheduled assassination in Dallas, the Dallas Times Herald made it clear that “in the wake of a Presidential tour of the West that will be followed by forays into the South,” Senator Barry Goldwater was “the Democratic Party’s No. 1 political target,” adding that the President’s upcoming trip to Texas had been “expanded into a two-day visit in which the President will seek to shore up Democratic leaders sorely beset by a Dallas-based Goldwater boom.”

It also stated President Kennedy was planning “a major appearance” in the electoral prize of California to “counteract a recent massive rally in Goldwater’s behalf that all but filled Dodger’s stadium in Los Angeles.”

“Kennedy’s Salt Lake City speech on foreign policy was a clear attack against the principles advocated by Senator Goldwater. It is already a certainty that a similar speech will be included in those to be made in Texas . . . . For all practical purposes, the Kennedy-Goldwater clash that many expect in 1964 is already under way.”

On October 3, three days after the Dallas Times Herald reported that “Democrat Guns” were trained on Goldwater, KGB asset Barry Goldwater returned to the electoral prize of California, and while “deep in the heartland of Western conservatism,” he told the California Federation of Republican Women that the Kennedy Administration was “establishing ‘a Soviet-American mutual aid society.’”

The KGB asset attacked the President’s New Frontier proposals and said: “In less than a month the New Frontier has offered to pick up the check for half the cost of a joint shot to the moon, stop testing nuclear weapons in the air and, finally, bail out the highly vaunted Soviet farm collective with what I’m willing to bet will be tons of free American wheat.”

Goldwater sharpened his attack, stating, “There is an old line somewhere that goes:  If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. But I for one am not quite ready to lie down and play Rover to Kremlin tunes . . . . Along the New Frontier the idea is to conform or keep quiet.

“Nothing must be done to ruffle Mr. Khrushchev’s feelings or lead him to think that we are superior to the Soviets in any category. We don’t hear a tough note out of this Administration unless it is directed at one of our tried and proven allies.”

CIA officer Barry Goldwater’s “tried and proven allies” were the repressive dictatorships that the KGB-controlled CIA propped up in Latin America to foster Communist insurgencies, and contrary to Goldwater’s claim that President Kennedy was lying down and “playing Rover to Kremlin tunes,” it was less than a year earlier that President Kennedy initiated a naval blockade of Cuba that forced the Soviet Union to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba.

Six days after Goldwater’s crack about President Kennedy being “tough” only with “our tried and proven allies,” President Kennedy held a news conference and stated that “the United States is wholly opposed to military coups in Latin America, no matter what justification is made for them . . . . In addition to their threat to the whole process of democratic government and progress, he said, military ‘dictatorships are the seed-beds from which communism ultimately springs up.’”

When asked if he expected Goldwater to end up being the Republican nominee who would challenge his 1964 re-election bid, President Kennedy, who was scheduled to be assassinated in forty-four days, warned that Goldwater will have “a trying seven or eight months which will test his endurance and his perseverance and his agility.”

On the following day, October 10, 1963, CIA officer and KGB asset Barry Goldwater spoke in the electoral prize of Pennsylvania and “lashed out at the ‘corruption-ridden machines’ which he said are the key to national Democratic victories . . . . Goldwater delivered a slashing attack on the New Frontier’s connections with the big city machines in the North and East.

“Mr. Goldwater, rated a leading prospect for next year’s Republican Presidential nomination, said the Kennedy Administration’s choice was clear: ‘Government of the Kennedys, by the Kennedys and for the Kennedys.’

“His appearance in this key state was widely viewed as another sign that he is seriously considering becoming a candidate for the GOP nomination next year.”

Goldwater also proclaimed, “The vitality of American leadership in the cold war has waned to the vanishing point.”

And while in Pennsylvania, Goldwater held a news conference, telling reporters that he “would be willing to debate President Kennedy on television if he is the Republican Presidential nominee in 1964, but he stressed that he had not made up his mind about seeking the nomination. When asked when he would make a decision, he said, ‘I don’t know when it will be.’”

In the plan to lure President Kennedy to his death, Goldwater now had the electoral prizes of California and Pennsylvania under his belt as points of interest in a “possible” Presidential bid, and the day after his Pennsylvania visit, where he claimed he was still undecided about running for President, his KGB handlers had him make a most noteworthy visit.

On Friday, October 11, 1963, exactly six weeks before Goldwater’s KGB handlers would assassinate President Kennedy, renegade CIA officer Barry Goldwater flew to San Antonio, where he received “a red carpet welcome” and “rode from the airport in an open convertible” while “a crowd of fans chanted ‘We want Barry’ and waved ‘Goldwater for President’ signs.”

(Continued in Part 3)

[Gerry Down]

a September 30th front page headline in the Dallas Times Herald was forebodingly symbolic of the fate that awaited President Kennedy in Dallas, stating, “First Shots Fired: JFK Tour Trains Democrat Guns on Goldwater.”

Interesting info.

[Anthony Frank]

Part 3

Goldwater, who was “rated by pollsters as a leader among potential candidates for the 1964 Republican Presidential nomination, waved and leaned over to shake hands” while riding from the Texas airport in an open convertible as a crowd of fans chanted “We want Barry” and waved “Goldwater for President” signs.

The Dallas Morning News, reporting on Goldwater’s speech in San Antonio, stated: “Senator Barry Goldwater charged here Friday night that the Kennedy Administration is following the most disastrous foreign policy in the nation’s history . . . . ‘The policy stands wall-eyed in Berlin and cross-eyed in Paris and blind in Cuba.’

“Senator Goldwater waded into the Administration after receiving an award for his contribution to national defense from the Military Order of World Wars, made up of active and retired commissioned officers . . . . The front-runner for the Republican Presidential nomination told the officer veterans that he was going to give them some plain, hard talk about the world situation . . . . His speech was interrupted eighteen times by applause from an obviously conservative and anti-Kennedy military audience . . . . He rounded the world in his indictment and was particularly critical about the handling of Latin American affairs.”

Goldwater also held a news conference in San Antonio in which he addressed civil rights and further aligned himself with segregationists, stating, “I’d like to see us calm down in the whole field . . . . The whites, in many instances, have beefs.”  (Goldwater’s statement that “whites” have “beefs” in the drive to end segregation was clearly a milestone in the nonsensical statements that he incorporated into his escalating rhetorical conflict with President Kennedy.)

And while speaking to reporters back in Pennsylvania before his Texas visit, Goldwater spiced up the flavor of his upcoming grand reception by “from time to time” responding to questions with the words “If I were a candidate,”  which made the front page of the Dallas Morning News on October 11, as it was the first time that Goldwater did not issue a straightforward denial that he might eventually become a candidate.

Goldwater literally prefaced his “red carpet welcome” in the electoral prize of Texas with the words “If I were a candidate,” and Goldwater, who had told reporters in Pennsylvania several times that he was “not a candidate,” exuded the aura of being the Republican nominee for President as he “rode from the airport in an open convertible” while his fans chanted “We want Barry” and waved “Goldwater for President” signs.

Besides his news conference in Pennsylvania and his news conference in San Antonio, renegade CIA officer Barry Goldwater “stopped over at Dallas Love Field” while on his way to his grandiose reception and held a “brief five-minute press conference.”

Dallas Love Field is the airport from which President Kennedy would be riding when he was assassinated.

And during his Love Field news conference, Goldwater found it necessary to refute a copyrighted story in the Dallas Morning News stating that Goldwater would announce his Presidential bid in early January. When asked about plans to announce his candidacy, Goldwater replied, “There is no truth in it. It is absolutely not true.”

(Continued in Part 4)

[Anthony Frank]

Part 4

In an interview on November 10, thirty days after riding from a Texas airport “in an open convertible,” Goldwater stated, “Any interference in this Administration’s bungling of foreign policy would work for the better.”

With twelve days remaining before President Kennedy’s scheduled assassination, KGB asset Barry Goldwater, who constantly brought up “foreign policy” in his attacks on the President, was even more speculative about running against President Kennedy in 1964, using the phrases “not yet decided . . . until I am convinced . . . . If and when . . . unless I decide . . . whether or not I decide.”

When President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, he was “on his way to the Trade Mart to make a speech.  It was to be a bold speech. Here in the stronghold of political conservatism and before an audience made up largely of critics of New Frontier policies at home and abroad, he was going to accuse right-wing extremists of talking ‘just plain nonsense.’”

“Mr. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy were riding in the rear seat of a top-down Lincoln Continental . . . . Thousands had cheered the First Family as the motorcade drove in from Love Field.”

“The assassination occurred just as the President’s motorcade was leaving downtown Dallas at the end of a triumphal tour through the city’s streets . . . . The original plans called only for a fast ride from the airport to a lunch at the Trade Mart . . . . Mr. Kennedy himself had made the decision to ride in the slow-moving motorcade.”

Back in January 1963, the Washington Post reported: “President Kennedy himself, it can be said with knowledge, does not think his re-election will be easy or can be taken for granted.”

On October 5, 1963, forty-eight days before the scheduled assassination, the Washington Post reported: “President Kennedy is now much preoccupied with his chances of winning a second term. Governor Connally, on his way out of the White House, had this to say to reporters: ‘I told the President that he would have a hard race in Texas. It would be unrealistic to think we are not going to have a tough fight there next year.’”

“Connally acknowledged that Goldwater had ‘considerable strength’ in Texas but suggested that after the Democrats do a job on the Senator, some of his strength might vanish. Goldwater will certainly be on Mr. Kennedy’s mind when he visits Texas on November 21-22.”

Six days after the Washington Post stated that Goldwater would “certainly” be on Kennedy’s mind “when he visits Texas,” Goldwater’s KGB handlers had him riding from a Texas airport in “an open convertible” while his enthusiastic fans lined the streets chanting “We want Barry” and waving “Goldwater for President” signs.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how they lured President Kennedy to his death.

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[Anthony Frank]

KGB officers inside the CIA turned Dealey Plaza into a death trap for JFK.

A CIA document on November 2, 1964, states that “manpower support” from the CIA has been “provided to the Secret Service since 1955.”

Five months later, the Deputy Director of the CIA, Lieutenant General Marshall Carter, wrote a memorandum titled “Agreement Between the United States Secret Service and the Central Intelligence Agency Concerning Presidential Protection in the United States.”

General Carter’s memorandum states that when CIA officers are assigned to Secret Service duty, “Such officers detailed by the CIA will be designated officers of the Secret Service,” and they will be protecting the President “while he is in the United States.”

CIA officers “detailed” to the Secret Service insisted that President Kennedy’s motorcade travel down Elm Street and go directly past the Texas School Book Depository, overruling the Dallas Host Committee’s plans for the Presidential motorcade.

Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry testified to the Warren Commission, “We left the parade route up to the Host Committee. They chose the route, asking that we go down Main Street . . . . But had we proceeded on down Main Street, we could not have gotten onto Stemmons Expressway unless we had public works come in and remove some curbing and build some barricades over it.”

Curry testified that he met with the “Secret Service people,” who “suggested” that instead of doing something with a small section of curbing, the motorcade could go over to “Elm Street” and drive past the Texas School Book Depository to access the Stemmons Expressway.

Curry also testified that “without coming down and removing some curbing or building over the curbing,” it was “necessary” to take the Secret Service’s route to get to the Stemmons Expressway, adding that doing something with the curbing would be “disturbing” to “the regular flow of traffic,” even though the Dallas Host Committee had no problem with it.

The motorcade was already “disturbing” to “the regular flow of traffic” through much of the city. Dallas Police Officer Joe Marshall Smith, with the “traffic division point control,” told the Warren Commission that “nearly the whole traffic department” was assigned “all along the motorcade route from the airport into downtown Dallas.” Officers were told to “keep traffic out of the way when the motorcade was coming and keep an open and clear route.”

There was absolutely no “security” reason for the Secret Service to alter the Host Committee’s designated parade route. The Secret Service’s job has nothing to do with limiting the lengths to which a city should go for a Presidential visit. Their job is security.

The Warren Commission asked Chief Curry, “Was there any consideration given prior to establishing the parade route to removing this curbing?”

Curry replied, “No, sir; nothing was said about it at all. In fact, when they were choosing the routes for this parade, we left it entirely up to the Host Committee and to the Secret Service.”

In an interview with the FBI on the evening of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy’s limousine driver, Secret Service Special Agent William Greer, stated that Secret Service drivers “have always been instructed to keep the motorcade moving at a considerable speed inasmuch as a moving car offers a much more difficult target than a vehicle traveling at a very slow speed.”

If the motorcade had continued straight down Main Street to access the Stemmons Expressway, it would have been moving at a considerably faster pace.

In taking the “Secret Service” route, however, President Kennedy’s limousine and the entire, lengthy motorcade, consisting of at least seventeen cars and three buses,  had to slow down, make the right turn onto Houston, travel one block, and then slowly turn onto Elm to drive past the Texas School Book Depository. Almost the entire motorcade was still back on Houston or Main Street when the assassins opened fire on the slow-moving limousine.

Other than the assassination plans being disturbed, it would not have disturbed anything for the Secret Service if the City of Dallas “public works” did something with the curbing so that the motorcade could follow the Dallas Host Committee’s route. There is no legitimate reason why the Secret Service would not want the motorcade to continue down Main Street to access the Stemmons Expressway.

To repeat, the Secret Service’s job has nothing to do with limiting the lengths to which a city should go for the President’s visit. Their job is security, and the claim that removing the curbing would disturb “the regular flow of traffic” was just an excuse for choosing the specific route on which President Kennedy would be killed.

The Host Committee consisted of Robert Cullum, President of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce; Sam Bloom of the Sam Bloom Agency, a public relations firm in Dallas; and Felix McKnight, Editor of the Dallas Times Herald.  They most certainly knew of the curb issue when they chose to have the Presidential motorcade go straight down Main to access the Stemmons Expressway. The Dallas Host Committee wanted something done with the curbing.

On November 14, Special Agent Lawson told the Dallas Police that “the announcement of the definite route would be made in the press by the Host Committee,”  and the Warren Commission reported that “representatives of the local Host Committee” were “advised by the Secret Service of the actual route” on November 18,”  which means the Secret Service overruled the Dallas Host Committee and made the definitive choice for the assassination route.

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[Mark A. Oblazney]

My information cited in another thread lays out how the KGB officers turned Dealey Plaza into a Death Trap for JFK.

The “Secret Service” also insisted that President Kennedy’s motorcade travel down Elm Street and go directly past the Texas School Book Depository, overruling the Dallas Host Committee’s plans for the Presidential motorcade.

Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry testified to the Warren Commission, “We left the parade route up to the Host Committee. They chose the route, asking that we go down Main Street . . . . But had we proceeded on down Main Street, we could not have gotten onto Stemmons Expressway unless we had public works come in and remove some curbing and build some barricades over it.”

Curry testified that he met with the “Secret Service people,” who “suggested” that instead of doing something with a small section of curbing, the motorcade could go over to “Elm Street” and drive past the Texas School Book Depository to access the Stemmons Expressway.

Curry also testified that “without coming down and removing some curbing or building over the curbing,” it was “necessary” to take the Secret Service’s route to get to the Stemmons Expressway, adding that doing something with the curbing would be “disturbing” to “the regular flow of traffic,” even though the Dallas Host Committee had no problem with it.

The motorcade was already “disturbing” to “the regular flow of traffic” through much of the city. Dallas Police Officer Joe Marshall Smith, with the “traffic division point control,” told the Warren Commission that “nearly the whole traffic department” was assigned “all along the motorcade route from the airport into downtown Dallas.” Officers were told to “keep traffic out of the way when the motorcade was coming and keep an open and clear route.”

There was absolutely no “security” reason for the Secret Service to alter the Host Committee’s designated parade route. The Secret Service’s job has nothing to do with limiting the lengths to which a city should go for a Presidential visit. Their job is security.

The Warren Commission asked Chief Curry, “Was there any consideration given prior to establishing the parade route to removing this curbing?”

Curry replied, “No, sir; nothing was said about it at all. In fact, when they were choosing the routes for this parade, we left it entirely up to the Host Committee and to the Secret Service.”

In an interview with the FBI on the evening of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy’s limousine driver, Secret Service Special Agent William Greer, stated that Secret Service drivers “have always been instructed to keep the motorcade moving at a considerable speed inasmuch as a moving car offers a much more difficult target than a vehicle traveling at a very slow speed.”

If the motorcade had continued straight down Main Street to access the Stemmons Expressway, it would have been moving at a considerably faster pace.

In taking the “Secret Service” route, however, President Kennedy’s limousine and the entire, lengthy motorcade, consisting of at least seventeen cars and three buses,  had to slow down, make the right turn onto Houston, travel one block, and then slowly turn onto Elm to drive past the Texas School Book Depository. Almost the entire motorcade was still back on Houston or Main Street when the assassins opened fire on the slow-moving limousine.

Other than the assassination plans being disturbed, it would not have disturbed anything for the Secret Service if the City of Dallas “public works” did something with the curbing so that the motorcade could follow the Dallas Host Committee’s route. There is no legitimate reason why the Secret Service would not want the motorcade to continue down Main Street to access the Stemmons Expressway.

To repeat, the Secret Service’s job has nothing to do with limiting the lengths to which a city should go for the President’s visit. Their job is security, and the claim that removing the curbing would disturb “the regular flow of traffic” was just an excuse for choosing the specific route on which President Kennedy would be killed.

The Host Committee consisted of Robert Cullum, President of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce; Sam Bloom of the Sam Bloom Agency, a public relations firm in Dallas; and Felix McKnight, Editor of the Dallas Times Herald.  They most certainly knew of the curb issue when they chose to have the Presidential motorcade go straight down Main to access the Stemmons Expressway. The Dallas Host Committee wanted something done with the curbing.

On November 14, Special Agent Lawson told the Dallas Police that “the announcement of the definite route would be made in the press by the Host Committee,”  and the Warren Commission reported that “representatives of the local Host Committee” were “advised by the Secret Service of the actual route” on November 18,”  which means the Secret Service overruled the Dallas Host Committee and made the definitive choice for the assassination route.

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how many books have you sold?  this ain't the days of mark lane, y'know.  primary sources matter+

[Anthony Frank]

how many books have you sold?  this ain't the days of mark lane, y'know.  primary sources matter+

I was curious about the exact number myself. As of yesterday, June 27, 2021, I have sold 2933 books.

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