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The Person, The President, The AssassinationContinued From Page One.Although he suffered physically, andalthough in his thousand dnys in theoffice of President he had, as BillBagge was to say. ".learned a greatsotTOW ," he never lost his wonderfulwit and he never lost his deep-sethumility" which enhanced everythingelse."He was honest to the core."Jack Kennedy.- wrote WilliamAnwood, "could never pretend to hesomebody he Wasn't fie couldn't evenput on funny hats or Indian featherslike other candidates. He had his ownpersonal. downbeat style, and all whomet him grit used to Land the countrygot used to it. too,"His wartime courage was to becelebrated in magazine articles and amovie. but he was never ten boast orballyhoo his record. When asked by arepo/let-seeking the corny, heart-stringtugging answer how he hod became ahero. John Kennedy replied gravely,"It wasn't difficult. They sank myboat.' He didn't tell how with his backinjured in the collision, he had put astrap around an injured crewman andholding theurapin his teeth, hollowedthe man two-and-e-hulf miles io sa4ety,It was a courage that he carried intoall aspects of his life, A courage he hadcelebrated in his took Pretties InCorneae, and which he especiallydemonstrated in the thirteen days fromOctober 16 to October 28. 1962 whenhe confronted the crisis of Russianmissiles in Cuba.But he coupled such courage withgreat ensclum and sensitivity. As hisbrattier Robert was to say of the crisis."What guided all his deliberations willan effort not to disgrace Khrusehee.not in humiliate the Soviet Union, notI.13 have them fml they wouldn't haveto escalate their response-this crisis John F. Kennedycourageously. wisely and patientlytook civilization by the hand and leadit to safety from the brink of nuclearwar.Ma husband he took a special pridein his wife, Jacqueline.her beauty.her sophistication. her command ofSpanish and French : howc ver, he neverachieved victory over his delight inother attractive women.He took immense delight in his twochildren, Caroline and John, Jr., andhad been deeply saddened by the deathclan infant son, Patrick.John F. Kennedy. President of theUnited States for one thousand days.Although he accomplished much inthe one thousand days. one is left withthe feeling that he had only just begunand, like Hare let'-.he was likely, hadhe been put on,To have pined most royally."But noose can dogrem good withoutgenerating great hatted. AndPrsidentKennedy was aware of that hatred. Ahatred held by only a few, but that fewwere men of great power and greateve.He was aware. too, of the dangers hefaced and he reflected h is awareness inJune, 1963. when he spoke to someWhite House vinters and, at theconclusion, startled them by taking apaper helm his pocket and reading theFamous speech by Blanche in Shakespeare'sKing John:The sun's teereast with bloodFaif day, adieu!Which is the side that I must gowithal?I am with bath; and each armyhath a hand,And in theis rage. I having hold of both,They whirl asunder anddismember me.John F. Kennedy, family man, loyalfriend. scholar. war hero. Congressman.Senator, and Presulentof Use United Slates- murdered at the age of forty-six.John F. Kennedy started the campaignwith what all the political professionalsand all manner of media 'spin doctors'regarded as an insurmouniabte obstacle: hewas a Roman Catholic - and the folk w isdo mwas that a Catholic could never be electedPreside ru of the Um ted States. Although hehad been a Congressman and a Senator, hehod not distinguished himself in either role.He did not have any positive record ineither civil rights activities or pro-labouractivities. Indeed, he had by his supper!. ofRobert Kennedy's anti-manta activities,incurred the strongest opposition fromJimmy Hoffe's Teamsters' Union.Hectic'. however. have significant assets,He was Itandsome and upon. with a readyJohn F. Kennedy - Always ready with a smile.a ready wit and a sel fdeprecating sense of humour has been the mark or many great leaders- Lincoln, Churchill. Roosevelt. John F. Kennedy was always readywith a witty remark and an honest smile.Planting the seeds of disaster.The 1960 Presidential CampaignThe presidential election of 1960 wasRichard Nixon's to lose and John F.Kennedy's to win.Nixon Weight ye ire expaience as VicxPresident to oneof America's most popularPresidents- Dwight David Eisenhower. AsVice-President, Nixon had taken a momactive rote in affairs of state than anyone inthat office before him. He hod debatedagainst Nikita Khrusetiev and faced theRussian leader down, He had spent hiseight years cultivating the salmon of Partyleaders in every State of the Union. He hada self-effacing wife and two attractivedaughters. In Eisenhower's frequentabsences due to dime and a laid hackstyle, Nixon hail filled in with grace andefficiency. He was, in a word,on the way tobecoming the ihirty-fifth President of theUnited States.smile and a quick wit. He had money fromhis father's wealth and a wonderfulextended family. But most of all he hadthree Mom important things going for him,he ma prepared in drive himself harderthat heaskeilhiscampaign workers: he wasopen to learning and never let on he knewthe answers to everything; and, he wasalways tuned in to the "decent" thing to do.His hard campaigning in the primarieshad helped make him a better known publicfigure. His refusal to try to fudge the issueof his religion earned him respect as didhis refusal to cry to curry the favour of theLebour movement.on one campaign swinga huge over-weight union official turnedup at a series of rallies and heckledKennedy. Spurting all manner of labour badges and buttons on his jacketand hat, the leather-lunged activistshouted his insults. John Kennedydidn't dignify his bellowing with aresponse until. near the train f the day.as Kennedy paused him on the way tothe campaign bus, the candidate pausedand looked him straight in the eye "Drop dead, Fatso." he said. Theheckler was struck silent and turnedup at no further meetings.If he didn't have all the leaders oflabour on his side, his distinguishedwar record, his hard campaigning andhis open, handsome face with itsbrilliant smile won many of the rankand file.At one campaign stop in Virginia anolder, kneeled worked Arriving at theplant gate. stepped up to him."Ls it true you never worked a day inyour life?" he growled."You might say that. end Kennedy."Well let me tell you,"said the fortyyear veteran of the coal mines. "Youhaven't missed a goddamn thing."Although, after the election vicicey.there were all manner of groups whoclaimed to have made that victorypossible - the Daley machine withMafia hacking in Illinois: theStevenson workerswhoheld Metier:alvtees.thelehnson Texans who claimedtheir man won the South - the mostcritical vote that made the victorypreoibie was that of the AfricanAmericans.Hundreds of thousands of African.Americans were tilling towards Nixon- including the Rev. Martin LutherKing. Sr. - partly tern sae of a greatdebt of Southern Blacks to theRockefeller family. and partly inreaction to the oppression of SouthernWhites who were nominally'Democrats'.That all changed when, near thevery end of the campaign. MartinLather King, Jr. was sentenced to fourmonths hard labour for failing tochange the address on his driver'stoence.At the end of a long torturous day ofcampaigning. John F. Kennedy wastold of thisabomination and wasaskedby a campaign worker if he wouldphone Mrs. Carmel King and expresshis sympathy and support to her."What the hell." said John F.Kennedy. "it's the decent thing to do.Get her on the phone.Thai one phone call rang throughthe Black community like 3 SUMMOVISto a new day and on the followingTuesday they went in their millions toelect John F. Kennedy as President ofthe United States.It was the "decent" thing to de.Weighing all the "political"conseq uences,Ric hard Nixon refusedto call Mrs. King and he went on todefeat.THE PERSON, THE PRESIDENT, THE ASSASSINATIONCONTINUES ON PAGE FIVE.Page 3

Tell It Like It Is.This special memorial issue of Ontario Options is published in theinterest of truth, justice and the democratic system of government AUprofits from this issue will be donated to the John F. KennedyAssassination Committee in support of the Symposium being presentedat Laurentian University between August the 19 and 22.It is the considered opinion of our Editorial Board the the world hasbeen lied to for thirty years about what happened on November 22, 1963in Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Texas.The lies were not the product of an inadvertent failure to get the factsstraight. The lies by such prestigious journals as kik and j jtpg are thereto be seen by anyone who takes the trouble to look. (See: Misinformation. Dis-Information and Limited Hang-out - P.7)Justice has been denied to two people in particular and many othersin general.First of all, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. that remarkable citizen ofAmerica who served his country without sparing himself despite anopportunity to live an idle, self-indulgent life, has been denied justice- not just because he was murdered but also because his murder hasnever been thoroughly, vigorously and professionally investigated. TheWarren Report is dishonest Many of the Warren Commissioners wereculpable participants in the covert activities of the Control IntelligenceAgency.The House Select Committee on Assassinations was a make-shiftresponse to public pressure for a re-investigation of the murders of Mr.Kennedy and Mr. King. Despite their efforts to mis-lead the public, theCommittee was forced to at least accept the reality that the President wasmurdered by a group of conspiratorsThe Rockefeller Committee was part of President Gerald Ford'sdamage control efforts to contain the criminality of Richard Nixon,Allan Dulles, E. Howard Hunt and others.But there is another person who has been denied justice in this wholesordid affair.Lee Harvey Oswald has been tabled "assassin" by the likes of GeraldFord, Life magazine, Dr. John Lattimer and others - despite the fact thatthis young man was never convicted in a decent legal forum followingproper standards of evidence, He was convicted in a hysterical court ofpublic opinionAs an American citizen, and as a young volunteer in his country'smilitary forces, he deserves much better than what he gotFinally, if the democratically elected President of the United Statescan be executed by a cabal of military men, intelligence operatives.Mafia gangsters and oil-rich millionaires, then democracy throughoutthe world is in danger.The articles in this special edition are based upon the study ofhundreds of books, articles, audio and video tapes, interviews andlectures. After thirty years we feel we need to start telling it as it is.Publishers' StatementAll conclusions in this issue of purio Options have been reachedafter careful study, research and discussion. We believe all facts citedhave a solid basis and are readily verifiable.FootnotesAlthough all statements of fact are derived from the best sourcesavailable to us, we have purposely not footnoted the text since such aconvention slows down the text and the impact. We will be pleased torespond to written queries about specific sources.WANTED FOR QUESTIONING.Left To RightRichard M. Nixon who was prepared to pay over one million dollars blackmail "to keep quiet".E. Howard Hunt who was arrested in Dealey Plaza shortly after the assassination and was taken in the frontdoorof the Police Station and then let out the back door.Why was he given a job in the White House by Nixon?,.Gerald Ford who was hand-picked to succeed Nixon by Nixon himself. Then did two things: he pardoned Nixonfor all crimes "known and unknown" and then he appointed Nelson Rockefeller to study the evidence that Huntwas in Dallas on November 22, 1963! Ail PRINTINGCompliments to.ONTARIO OPTIONS AND ITS JOHN F. KENNEDY SYMPOSIUMSPECIAL EDITION m.o. ca. ai.1.1.401.4 4.4 are —"En, tE u.P.O. Box 307, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 4P2 Telephone 673-7127 — Fax 705-673-2794111 jOURNAL,ioPage 4

The Assassination.On November 22, 1963, at 12:30noon in the City of Dallas, Texas, JohnF. Kennedy the thirty-fifth Presidentof the United States was shot to deathnear the end of a triumphant motorcadethrough that City.The world was stunned by theslaying of the handsome young manwhose intelligence and devotion toduty had endeared him nix just itsAmericans but to people of good willeverywhere.It was. quite possibly. the mostsignificant death in history. Otherdeaths in retrospect have acquired asignificance they tacked at the antethey occurred. The death of Mr.Kennedy had an immediate impactthat registered the date of November22,1963 on the minds of hundreds ofmillions of people in every part of theworld.Messages of gtief came fromthousantLsof ordinary cinzensoflapart.from the Poet laureate of England.from the President of Venezuala(gently addressed to 'Dear Carolineand John-John'). foam Doctor AlbertSchweitzer in Gabcai, West EquatorialAfrica. and Mayor Willy Brandt ofWest Berlin.The grief was deeply- felt. immediateand universal.John F. Kennedy was loved,honoured and respected and, onNovember 22,1963 he was assassinateiLWithin minutes of the shots being firedin Dealey Plaza on that day, the Dallasauthorities, with what many felt at thetime was superior police work, werelooking for Lee Harvey Oswald, anemployee in the Texas School BookDepository which over-looked the murderscene.Mr. Oswald was arrested about an hour.and-a-half later in s movie house a fewmiles from Dealey Plaza. He was heldand interrogated by Dallas Police forforty-eight hours, and was himselfmurdered by a Dallas nightclub owner.Mr. lack Ruby, on November 24,1963.One would have though: that wuh theaccused ass-issin apprehended and thenkilled, the tragic death of John F. Kennedywould have faded 111t0 history. But, thirtyyears later, the assassination still seemsTO be current history for millions ofpeople.many of whom were not hornuntil ten or fifteen years after the event.The avassination of the Presidentremains current MR only because of theimpression he made an people around theworld, but because, over the years. moreand more evidence has come to lightwhich suggests Mat the murder was notthe act of a Ione lunatic, but was thecritical element of a cpuo Teta; staged bypowerful fortes of evil.From Left to Right.Frames 237, 238, 255, 312, 316 and 322from the now famous Zapruder film.Dealey Plaza.County Crominni Court. BtuldionCounty Raced, ButidtngUNION TERMINALNORTH TOWERTEXAS SCHOOL BOOK r EPOSITORYAlleged3188/AM.B windowDealey Plaza in Dallas is a site almost tailormade for an assassination. Three streetsconverge under a railway overpass, with fourbuildings to the north and east, seven to eightstories high over-looking the streets and a park.In addition there are two knolls on either side ofthe streets where these pass under the railwaylines.The railway effectively cuts the built up, cityarea to the east from open space and highwaysto the west.The sharp right turn from Main Street on toHouston and the 100 dezree left turn off Houstonon to Elm Street ensure that a vehicle on thisroute must be slowed to ten or fifteen miles anhour.There are railway yards to the north and southof the point where the triple streets pass underthe railway. These yards are difficult to accessfrom the park because of varous obstacles suchas picket fences and cement abutments.The setting is thus ideal for the triangulationof rifle fire from five or six locations, 'for thecontrol of access to the latter locations.' and .for the necessary slow speed of a vehicle witha sharp right, sharp left approach to it.Page 5

The Deep Politics of America.Peter Dale Scott, thedistinguished scholar and son ofProfessor Frank Scott of McGillUniversity and Marlon Scott, thepainter, is a fair-minded. diligent.sensitive and thorough researcherinto the underside of Americanpolitics. For this realm of hiddenpower-brokers, Dr. Scott hascoined the phrase "deep politics"which he defines as anunacknowledgedpoliticalarrangement in which theunderworld is part of the actualadrntnistrauon of major cities.There are other scholars whofeel that the rot goes deeper intosociety than that.that, indeed, thehighest levels of Americangovernment are dominated bypower brokers who. throughvarious media, front 'think tanks'and ' institutes' and 'foundations'all oiled by huge sums of moneyset the real agenda of America. Anagenda of the right which John LSalome was to table "Use newconservative labyrinth".There are some students of thestudy of deep politics who perceive aneven deeper cabal of power: a cabal ofa few super-rich. arch-conservativeswho determine foreign policy, whobuy legislators and judges, who makeand break presidents and prime ministers.One can honestly differ from one'sfellow scholars and researchers as tohow deep, how dark and how powerfulthese unseen power brokers are, butany reasonable student of the timesmust accept that there is some elementof hidden control and that control caneven extend to the assassination of apresident, and the instigation of a war.Where, and how the secret powerdeveloped is known only to itsmembers, but a study of recent historysuggests some answers. Furthermore,whether this power group is a specificdefined entity or "a ruling class thatmakes its policies operate through apervasive business-defined consensus"as Gabriel Kolko suggests is alsosubject to opinion.However, when one fits together theevents, people. objectives. andoutcomes of the past half century apattern emerges.Basically the pattern is this:As World War fI began to wind downcertain financial interests began tocoalesce with certain intelligence forcesin order to advance a conservativeforeign policy and domestic agendafor the U.S. The essence of the foreignpolicy agenda was to identify andachieve control of certain resource areas- especially oil - anywhere on theglobe and to limit the growth ofCommunist governments to EasternEurope and the Soviet Union. Thedomestic agenda was to be moderatewith a turning back of the New Deal.The principal agency to achieve thesetwo thrums was robe asecrel, privatelyfunded intelligence agency. Thisagency came into being in May, 1945as the "British American CanadianCorporation S.A." and was re-namedthe "World Commerce Corporation"in April- 1947. Among its memberswere Allen Dulles. John J. MeCloy andNelson Rockefeller.The first foreign policy goals were tostake out American claims on thedistintegrating "French IndoChina" and on Iran and Iraq. asWell as to preserve Americancommit of Central and SouthAmerica.The first domestic policy goalswere to discredit the New Deal,discover and cultivate right-wingpoliticians and to elect aRepublican President.The initial domestic policy goalwas a complete success when thesecret intelligence agency recruitedRichard Nixon and Gerald Fordand when they used the former tospearhead an attack on a New Dealrepresentative. Alger Hiss. Withthese secret allies Richard Nixonwas to destroy Mr. Hiss and use the-victory" to parlay his way to theWhite House.The names of Rockefeller,Dulles, McCtoy, Nixon and Fordwere destined to recur in the storyof the assassination of John F.Kennedy.The Assassination Model.A successful assassination requires that the following format be employed for theretains cited.The victim must be executed in a public place in full public view so that1.certain people (such as bodyguards) who might come under suspicion are seen to beinnocent(Mr. Kennedy was executed in broad daylight in Dealey Plum, Dallas with hisbodyguard in full view.)2.The assassination must be a success once commenced: hence, there must beat least date shooters - unless the crane is commiued at point blank range.(There were shooters on the grassy knoll ahead of the President, and in twobuildings over-looking the site.)3.Immediately following the assassination a 'patsy" must be executed while'trying to escape' or while attacking his captor. There must be at least two -back-upexecutioners.(Lee Harvey Oswahlwas to have been mecluedin the lunchroom of the School BookDepository. When rhisfailed he was to be executed on the street in the Oak Cliff areaof Dallas. Finally, with the second attempt fading. it was necessary to execute himright in the police station I4.The patsy must have a 'legend' created before the crime so that no demandfor further investigation remains.(Lee 1-karvey0swald had o legend built arnunda purporsedattempt roma-Me, Gen.Edwin Walker (he was 'viokni' I. he distributed leaflets in New Orleans (he war p "0Castro): he debated the merits of Marxism on radio (he was a "communist" .1)5. There must bc ore or two fu

President John F. Kennedy. All that can be said is that at the end of the thirteen days. Nikita Krushc her ordered the dismantling of the missiles and their return to the Soviet Union. Quite possibly John F. Kennedy's actions over those thirteen days was the greatest single demonstration of leadership in the greatest crisis in human history.