JFK - An American Coup D'etat: The Truth Behind the Kennedy Assassination

If you have read other other books, they will explain the evidence in more detail- but if you already have an idea of the key characters and theories, this brings things together very clearly. I hadn’t read a conspiracy book in 15 years or more and was surprised how much more evidence has been revealed, especially about the multiple gunmen in Dealy Plaza.

I admit I enjoyed reading the book. I enjoyed so much I rented the movie JFK. Haven't seen it since the 1990s. What I quickly realized is that this book is rehash of the movie. Surprised it just didn't use the movie script. Although it didn't contain the movie's secret meeting on the park bench (Costner and Sutherland) , the book and movie are quite similar . It's a fun read

Former British Intelligence officer Col. John Hughes-Wilson merits commendation for bringing an experienced and savvy eye to the JFK assassination. Unlike too many, he isn't fooled by the cesspool of disinformation that has mired many would be investigators. In the end, what he describes is a classic, military-style ambush. in 'JFK - An American Coup D'Etat'. Interestingly, his take also has been supported by a long time (38 years) Swiss friend who served in the Spezialdienst (the Swiss equivalent of the CIA). According to him, "Hughes -Wilson nailed it"Both also concur on a total of ten shots made (pp. 188-89) - contrary to the Warren fiction of three. a total of TEN shots on Nov. 22, 1963 (pp. 188-89): Shot 1: Struck sparks behind JFK's limo, observed by Royce Skelton and Austin Miller Shot 2: Struck curb on the north side of Elm and a fragment struck bystander James Tague Shot 3: Struck across a manhole cover and embedded in the grass, later DPD officers photographed removing it. It never was assayed in official documents and supports Carl Oglesby's argument the Dallas police were conscripted to remove evidence. Shot 4: Frontal shot struck JFK in the throat, and he's visible clutching his throatShot 5: Struck Kennedy in the upper back (in line with fifth thoracic vertebra) and came from a "relatively flat trajectory" Shot 6: Misfire but struck limo - causing indentation in limo's windscreenShot 7: Bullet punched hole through Stemmons Freeway sign.("The bullet had punched through from the direction of the grassy knoll and blown the rim backwards") Shots 8, 9: Two bullets struck Gov. John Connally: - Shot from the back that smashed into his chest and shot that shattered his wrist. Shot 10: The fatal head shot from direction of grassy knoll.Col. John Hughes-Wilson, a trained intel operative like my Swiss friend Rolf, never bought the "legend" that one magic bullet created all the 7 wounds in JFK and Connally and emerged pristine. Both, again, could easily spot the hands of the propaganda teams.Hughes-Wilson also concurs with former Justice Dept. agent Walt Brown ('Treachery in Dallas', Chapter 'Blue Death) ',and author James Douglass ('JFK and the Unspeakable') that the original plan was to knock off Oswald at the Texas Theater so there was no chance of his ever getting his say at a public trial Douglass (p. 292) makes it known that the Dallas cops approached Oswald (in his seat) "almost as if they were provoking the suspected police killer to break away from his seat ..which would have given Tippet's enraged fellow officers an excuse to kill him". But Oswald did no such thing. Nor did he attempt to fire any shots. Lee clearly and obviously knew by now he'd been set up as the patsy and the last thing he wanted to do was make these Dallas cops his judge, jury and executioners. No, he wanted to have his trial and his say, and how and why he'd been set up. So, rather than mindlessly react he expressly said: "I am not resisting arrest! Police brutality!" He never said "It's all over now" - those words were put into his mouth by the WC's cavalcade of faux witness puppets and liars. Hughes-Wilson cites his own source (p. 176) who overheard two Dallas cops talking about how Oswald was to have been killed before he ever arrived at the station. One, in a snarling voice, said to the other (ibid.) "You were supposed to kill Lee....you stupid son of a bitch, then you go and kill a cop". Referring to the shooting of officer J.D. Tippet. So there were snafus along the way, even the best planned conspiracies can go awry, but in the JFK case the architects ensured there was always a back up plan. In this case, to recruit former Chicago mobster Jack Rubinstein, aka Ruby, to snuff Oswald. Mark North, using actual, released FBI files, documents many of Ruby’s Mob connections in his book, Act of Treason- including his reported “gangster connections in Dallas”, especially to Joseph Civello, the Mafia boss in Dallas. The same files disclose that Ruby, on October 26, 1963, “placed a 12 minute person to person call to Irwin S. Weiner at Weiner’s Chicago home”.It is further noted that Weiner was: “a prominent Chicago Mafia associate” and “instrumental in coordinating the flow of cash between the Teamsters and Las Vegas casinos." (North, op. cit., pp. 333-34). All of this Col. Hughes-Wilson agrees withNote that a mistake (oversight?) made by some reviewers is that Col. Hughes -Wilson's book is simply a "regurgitation" of old facts. It is not, and this merely discloses that the complainants didn't read it carefully enough. Hughes -Wilson notes the then Dallas PD as part of a national security pact with the elements of the CIA, NSA orchestrated the strategy for compromising Kennedy. Hughes-Wilson cites the background details from a source (p. 142): "In the first week of November, three Corsican gunmen slipped across the Mexican border using Italian passports. They were ensconced in a CIA house by Dallas policeman Roscoe White, acting for the CIA". The point is, if elements of the then Dallas PD were charged with hiding the JFK mechanics, they wouldn't also set up blockades after the events to apprehend them. This distrust of the then Dallas cops is also a theme that runs through Carl Oglesby's book, ('JFK - The Facts and the Theories', p. 94) Oglesby points out that there was NO chain of credible evidence connecting Oswald to the casings or the rifle found at the Book Depository. Neither proves Oswald fired from there- or fired at all, a point with which Col. Hughes-Wilson concurs. . Further, Oglesby himself suspects they were planted compliments of the Dallas PD. - a point that conforms with Walt Brown's take in his section 'Blue Death'. E.g. p. 125 (Brown):"No crime scene involved in the assassination was ever truly sealed. They (Dallas police) rushed to the grassy knoll, stayed only long enough to take a cursory look and sniff gunpowder, to which they attached no significance. ...There was a pervasive pattern of not taking names and addresses as if they did not want to know. Certain witnesses were totally ignored. No impedimenta were placed in the way of potential fleeing assassins."The point is there are multiple points of consistency with Col. Hughes-Wilson's analysis and other long time researchers. Those who pass this work up on the basis of being 'recycled" merely do themselves a great disservice - especially from a person with bona fide intelligence background.

Very thought provoking and interesting read with a lot of undeniable facts. Gets you thinking what other government lies are we told that we all just believe.

The author's contention, which he withholds until the very last page, is this: John Kennedy's assassination was a politically-motivated, inside job which amounts to nothing less than a coup, accomplished via a complicated, far-ranging conspiracy involving Cubans, the Mafia, Zionist Jews and the state of Israel, fat-cat Texas oilmen, war-mongering arms manufacturers, Herbert Hoover, and, of course, Vice President Lyndon Johnson. With Kennedy bumped off, LBJ got to be president and cover up his other murders, Zionists got to continue their corruption in Israel and retain their influence in America, Cubans got their revenge for the Bay of Pigs, and the Mafia, well... Unfortunately, the reader tends to lose track. But they got Marilyn Monroe as well as their man, even if they didn't get back their sleaze-generating cash crops in Cuba. And of course the secret deep state government which also controls the press covered everything up and either killed or silenced anyone who dared to contradict their "lone gunman" version of events.Whether this book will provide the reader with any new information about President Kennedy's assassination depends entirely upon how much prior reading has been done about the subject; readers familiar with only the official version will learn something new, while those who have done a bit of conspiracy research probably won't. For the latter, even in cases where the information is "new," it will not be especially surprising. The most interesting parts of the book have nothing to do with the assassination, but are about the history of gangs and corruption in the US, which goes back to the turn of the last century. The author does an excellent job of presenting both the facts, and the ambiance associated with the immigrant experience in big-city America − and the crime which was inextricably intertwined. He also does a good job of establishing the ambiance of the Kennedy administration, and situating it in a broader political context, including JFK's tense relationship with the prime minister of Israel. What he doesn't do is shed any new light on the Kennedy assassination. And worse, he doesn't shed any new light on the Kennedy assassination in an irritating, inappropriate, way.A serious non-fiction work which attempts to prove a point should state upfront what that point is. If the point is a sensational one, then telling potential readers what it is will not spoil their reading pleasure. On the contrary, it will enhance it by piquing their interest, and enable them to better understand the details and determine whether the author's contention is supported by the facts brought to bear upon it. Presenting an argument as a "murder mystery" is not just bad style; it is a dead giveaway that the author has nothing terribly revealing to say. And worse, what this author does say is written in a profane, unprofessional, style, peppered with gratuitous obscenities which are apparently supposed to establish his street cred "coolness."It is understood that vulgar people say vulgar things, and unnecessary as well as unprofessional to quote them verbatim in a serious work. But the author goes a step farther here, and uses the same vulgar vernacular to describe Kennedy's − and others' − sexual escapades. But to what end? And while the sheer amount of corruption he chronicles is staggering, it does not explain why any of these characters were abetted by the state in carrying out a political assassination. Indeed, it has the opposite effect, and makes Kennedy's assassination look that much more mysterious. For if run-of-the-mill thugs and political enemies could enlist the support of local officials and law enforcement agencies so easily, then these sorts of assassinations would be carried out with routine regularity, and “witness and whistleblower killer” would be an official job description.No, there was simply too much official involvement at every level to make the JFK assassination a "rogue" job, even if it was, as everyone assumes, carried out by an unofficial element of the CIA. The assassination had to have been more than just a collection of political hatreds, underworld criminality, and corrupt financial interests, however copious. To also enlist the aid of every single non-corrupt official involved, there had to have been an important issue of national security involved. And indeed there was. The author claims that the JFK assassination was the first "conspiracy killing." In fact, the first conspiracy killing took place during the Truman administration, and Lyndon Johnson was implicated in that one, too. The victim? Secretary of Defense James Forestal. The crime? Threatening to publicly disclose information about the recently-classified subject of UFOs.John Kennedy threatened to make a similar disclosure shortly before he was murdered. The reporter Kennedy hired to expose the story of the extra-terrestrial presence on our planet − Dorothy Kilgallen, presented in this work as threatening to disclose what she knew about the JFK assassination − was also murdered, and her notes about UFOs, stolen. Hundreds of other witnesses and whistleblowers have been threatened or killed for going public with what they knew about UFOs, and what happened to them sounds exactly like what happened to the witnesses and whistleblowers involved in the JFK assassination.Note also that the official explanation for UFOs is just as incredible as the official explanation for the Kennedy assassination, and it is widely believed in conspiracy circles that JFK was killed to prevent him from making a full public disclosure about UFOs − with the full co-operation of officials at every level, all of whom might have believed that they were doing their duty, and/or acting in the national interest. It is a serious offence to disclose top-secret military secrets, and refusing to co-operate in a covert military operation undertaken to prevent a public official from gravely compromising national security would have been tantamount to treason. This would certainly explain why everyone involved, from the local sheriff to the coroner, would have agreed to lie about what they really saw. It is the most credible hypothesis advanced so far, and it fits all of the facts presented in this book and elsewhere. It also explains why the secret deep state government would enlist the aid and confidence of, and pretend to involve so many disparate criminal elements and enemies of the president they intended to eliminate: The wider the web, the more fantastic the charge of “conspiracy” sounds, and the easier it becomes to pin it on somebody else.And finally, note how much more interesting this review would have been if I had offered this hypothesis upfront, rather than waiting until the final sentence.