Israel's "Kennedy
Curse"?
LAURENT GUYÉNOT • FEBRUARY 11, 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS
On July 16, 1999, John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Junior was flying his private Piper Saratoga II, with his
wife Carolyn Bessette and his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette. He was to drop
Lauren off at Martha’s Vineyard, then fly on with Carolyn to Hyannis Port for
the wedding of his cousin, Rory Kennedy, the following day. At 9:39, as he was
approaching Martha’s Vineyard airport, John radioed the control tower for
landing instructions, giving no sign of difficulty. At 9:41 p.m., witnesses
heard and saw an explosion in the sky, at the precise moment when John’s plane
suddenly plummeted into the ocean at the radar-recorded speed of 4,700 feet per
minute. The next day, pieces of luggage from the plane were found floating
nearly two miles away from the point of last radar contact.
The search and recovery
operations were conducted by the Air Force and the Navy under national security
conditions, with news reporting controlled from the Pentagon. The National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded its investigation eleven months
later, and announced as “probable cause” of the plane crash “the pilot’s
failure to maintain control of the airplane”, with “haze and the dark night”
being possible factors.[1] The corporate media amplified the implication
that John was an inexperienced and reckless pilot who ignored the dangerous
weather conditions and who is to blame for his own death and the death of his
wife and sister-in-law.
But many facts and testimonies
inconsistent with that story have been concealed, while some convenient ones
seem to have been fabricated. Independent investigators have found enough
omissions and contradictions in the official and mainstream narrative to ask
the questions: Was JFK Jr., in fact, assassinated? Was he killed by the same
cabal that had killed his father 36 years earlier, and for the same motive as
his uncle Bobby 5 years later: his plans to conquer the White House and bring
his father’s murderers to justice? (On JFK’s and RFK’s assassinations, read my
article “Did Israel kill the Kennedys?” on unz.com). I will examine the evidence of foul
play and cover-up in JFK Jr.’s death in the second part of this two-part
article. In this first part, let’s see if we can establish the following two
things:
1) At age 39, John had made
up his mind to launch his political career by seeking an electoral mandate in
New York State, and he was about to announce it publicly. He had also expressed
to his friends his ambition to ultimately reach for the presidency. Given his
personality and his popularity, he had high chances to make it in less than 20
years. He might realistically have become U.S. president in 2008 or 2016.
2) Brought up in the worship
of his father, John had taken a keen interest in “conspiracy theories” about
his death at least since his late teens. His knowledge deepened in his thirties,
made him aware of State and media cover-ups in other affairs, and motivated him
to publish, eight months before his death, a cover article by Oliver Stone,
director of the groundbreaking film JFK, titled “Our
Counterfeit History”.
If those two things can be
proven — and they will — they must be connected. John’s quest for the truth
about President Kennedy’s assassination cannot be separated from his political
ambition to reclaim the White House, anymore than it could be in the case of
his uncle Bobby, who, as David Talbot has shown (Brothers: The Hidden
History of the Kennedy Years, Simon & Schuster, 2007), was
planning to reopen the investigation on the Dallas coup as he was campaigning
for the presidency in 1968. These are two sides of the same destiny. The heir
and the avenger are one and the same person. Therefore, the deep power network
that had decided to eliminate Bobby on the threshold of the White House had
every reason to make the same decision about John Junior.
True, John Junior was
probably not yet ready for the presidency — although some, like Pierre
Salinger, believed he would have run for president in 2000. But on the other
hand, for many reasons, he was a more natural candidate than RFK, with more
potential. If he had to be stopped, didn’t it make sense to stop him before he
made his political ambitions public? July 1999 was the right time; after that,
the motive would be harder to conceal. Even for media-brainwashed Americans, a
second heir to JFK killed on the road to the White House would be hard to
swallow. Not to mention the fact that to let JFK Jr. live longer would be
taking the risk of having a JFK III coming into this world: more trouble in
perspective. Indeed, Carolyn may have been pregnant when she died with her
husband.
John’s life and personality
are movingly presented in the film I am JFK Jr. (2016)
John Junior was literally
born with the Kennedy presidency, precisely 17 days after his dad won the
election. From the minute he came into this world, he had been in the national
spotlight. As Americans watched him grow up in the White House, they developed
a strong affection for him, which did not displease his father. While Jackie
was trying to keep the photographers away from her children, “JFK had another
view,” recalls Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy’s Press Secretary. Whenever
Jackie was away, “he was in touch with me and told me that now it was time for
the media to get some wonderful pictures of John Jr. and Caroline in his office
in the White House. I arranged for Jacques Lowe, who had been hired as the
photographer of the Kennedys, to do those photos.”[2]
Little “John John” turned
three the day of his father’s funeral, and he broke the world’s heart when he
solemnly saluted his father’s coffin. That iconic image encapsulated a nation’s
grief, and impressed on millions of Americans the dream of seeing him reclaim
the Oval Office one day. For in the American collective psyche, the Kennedys
represented royalty, and JFK Jr. was the legitimate heir to the throne. He was,
wrote the New York Daily News the day after his death, the
“charismatic crown prince of America’s royal family.”[3] “He was the closest thing we had to a crown
prince,” says Chris Cuomo in I am JFK Jr.
Little “John John” saluting
his father’s coffin, on his third birthday
The Kennedys didn’t attain
that royal status by just buying media coverage. It was conquered by the
patriarch Joe Kennedy, whose philosophy Laurence Leamer has well captured in
his great book Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty (2005).
Joe Kennedy, he writes
“believed that in each generation a few powerful men were the rightful leaders of their generation. He thought that he and his sons were part of this natural aristocracy. … Joseph P. Kennedy created one great thing in his life, and that was his family. With acumen as great as his wealth, and limitless purpose, he built a family of sons who sought to reach the peak of American political life. … Joe knew that he had achieved so much in America because of the liberty and opportunities. He believed that sons of privilege and wealth had an obligation to serve their country and to return something of the bounty that they had inherited. Joe taught that blood ruled and that they must trust each other and venture out into a dangerous world full of betrayals and uncertainty, always returning to the sanctuary of family. His sons took on part of Joe’s psychological makeup, the sense of lives without boundaries and ambitions without restrictions.”[4]
“believed that in each generation a few powerful men were the rightful leaders of their generation. He thought that he and his sons were part of this natural aristocracy. … Joseph P. Kennedy created one great thing in his life, and that was his family. With acumen as great as his wealth, and limitless purpose, he built a family of sons who sought to reach the peak of American political life. … Joe knew that he had achieved so much in America because of the liberty and opportunities. He believed that sons of privilege and wealth had an obligation to serve their country and to return something of the bounty that they had inherited. Joe taught that blood ruled and that they must trust each other and venture out into a dangerous world full of betrayals and uncertainty, always returning to the sanctuary of family. His sons took on part of Joe’s psychological makeup, the sense of lives without boundaries and ambitions without restrictions.”[4]
After their father’s death,
their uncle Bobby played the role of surrogate father for John Jr. and his
sister Caroline. When Bobby was assassinated in his turn in June 1968, Jackie
said: “If they are killing Kennedys, my kids are the number one targets. I want
to get out of this country.”[5] She married shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis,
whose assets included a seventy-five-member, machine-gun-equipped security
force.
Jackie wanted her son to
grow up knowing who his father was. As early as 1967, writes biographer
Christopher Andersen in The Good Son,
“Jackie made sure that John was constantly exposed to
the people who knew John [President Kennedy] best — from longtime pals like Red
Fay, Chuck Spalding, Oleg Cassini, Bill Walton, and his ubiquitous sidekick
Dave Powers to such New Frontier stalwarts as Pierre Salinger, Theodore
Sorensen, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. These were the folks ‘who knew Jack well
and the things Jack liked to do.’ As long as they were around, she reasoned,
‘each day John will be getting to know his father.’”[6]
And so, although John could
hardly have kept real personal memories of his father, he was constantly, so to
speak, steeped in the memory of him: “Whenever another child was visiting,”
writes Andersen, “he would inevitably ask, ‘Would you like to hear my father?’
Then he turned to a small stack of records and selected one to play.”[7] In 1972, Jackie asked Pierre Salinger to join
her and her children for a month: “I want you to spend an hour or an hour and a
half a day with John Jr. and Caroline and explain everything about what their
father did.” And so Salinger did.[8] John’s craving for information about his father
was never quenched. His friend and French biographer Olivier Royant reports
that, when running his magazine George, John hired Jacques
Lowe, JFK’s official photographer, and kept questioning him about his father
for hours.[9]
John John awaiting his
father’s return to the White House
Even John’s irresistible
yearning for flying, despite his mother’s plea not to do so, can possibly be
traced back to his childhood, “when he and his mother watched as Daddy’s
helicopter took off from the South Lawn in 1962,” or watched him reappear from
the sky. When Nanny Shaw announced to little John in the morning of November
23, 1963, “John, your father has gone to heaven to take care of Patrick [JFK
and Jackie’s third child, who did not survive his first month],” John asked,
“Did Daddy take his big plane with him?” “Yes,” she answered. “I wonder,” John
said, “when he’s coming back.”[10] Significantly, John gave his first private plane
the registration number N529JK, a reference to his father’s May 29 birthday.
Did John intend to follow
his father’s footsteps in politics? John Quinn, a pioneer researcher on his
mysterious death, writes:
“Committed to the legacy of his compelling father,
there was never any question about where John F. Kennedy Jr. was heading. Is
there any doubt about the fact that it was only a matter of time before he
claimed his father’s legacy? Anybody who claims that we will never really know,
does not know anything about John F. Kennedy Jr.”[11]
We don’t know at what stage
in his life John fully endorsed that responsibility. But the thought had
certainly been in his mind for many years already when he introduced his uncle
Teddy at the 1988 Democratic convention. Like millions of Americans, Salinger
was “very excited about that speech”:
“I took John Jr. to meet alone with me for several
hours. I was telling him that this speech showed strongly that he should start
thinking about going into politics. He said he was interested, but he was still
too young. He told me that he had an idea that he should go into politics in
the next century.”[12]
Jackie, the guiding spirit
in John’s life, definitely saw her son as Camelot’s standard-bearer. In her
last letter to him before dying to lymphoma in 1994, she wrote: “You,
especially, have a place in history.”[13] According to presidential historian Doug Wead,
interviewed in the film I am JFK Jr., Jackie “knew in her
heart that, some day, the stars are gonna line up, and he’s gonna be
president.” “My mom sort of pressured me to get into politics,” John told Lloyd
Howard in 1997. “She expected me to follow in my father’s footsteps, and of
course I will. But I don’t think the time is right just yet.”[14]
In 1995, John launched his
political magazine George. Under the appearance of
superficiality, it engaged in controversial issues of deep politics that
reflected John’s interests. His longtime friend Robert Littell wrote, in The Men We Became: My Friendship
with John F. Kennedy Jr. (St. Martin’s Press, 2004): “George was also an opportunity for John to
build a platform from which he might possibly move into political life.” After
all, his father had also pursued a career in journalism before entering
politics. George was also a means for John to interact with
political actors and thinkers.
John didn’t avoid letting
people know his interest for his father’s legacy. The September 1996 cover
of George features Drew Barrymore grimed as Marilyn Monroe
with the caption: “Happy Birthday, Mister President,” an obvious — and, to
some, indecent — reference to Marilyn’ serenade in front of JFK at the Madison
Square Garden in 1962. In October 1997, for the 35th anniversary
of the Cuban Missile Crisis, John travelled to Cuba to meet Fidel Castro (the
interview he had wished didn’t materialize, but Castro invited him for dinner
and for a swim in the Bay of Pigs, and rumor has that Castro gave him his view
on his father’s death).[15]
John’s interest for the
presidency also transpired heavily in George, particularly in the
recurrent section “If I were president,” in which various personalities were
asked for suggestions. For the October 1998 issue, for example, Tony Brown,
author of Empower the People: A 7-Step Plan to Overthrow the Conspiracy
That Is Stealing Your Money and Freedom, declared that, if he were president, he would repeal the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
In 1999, at age 39, John was
trying to sell his magazine. He had new plans. According to Gary Ginsberg, a
close collaborator who was with John the night before he died, “That last night
he was very focused on two things: finding a buyer for George and
his political future.”[16] Christopher Andersen writes in his
biography The Good Son:´
“There seemed little doubt in the minds of those who
knew him that John was on the brink of a bright political future. ‘He was
probably a more natural politician than any of the other Kennedys,’ David
Halberstam said, ‘and that includes his father. John had all the makings of a
political superstar — once he decided that’s what he wanted.’”
In July 1999, his decision
was made. His closest friends have testified that he was preparing to enter an
election contest. Pierre Salinger, who knew him well, declared on French radio
Europe 1, on July 19, 1999:
“I felt that in the coming year John Junior would also
become a politician. It’s my point of view. And with other people, we thought
he was going to be a Democratic candidate for the next presidential election.”[17]
John Junior and Pierre
Salinger in 1997
More plausibly, John Jr.
would have started by seeking a political office in New York State, where he
had lived since 1963. He loved New York, and New York loved him. A 1997 private
poll ranked JFK Jr. as New York’s “most popular Democrat,” giving him 65
percent approval rating among fellow Democrats.[18] John had several options. One he excluded was
mayor of New York City. His assistant at George, Rose Marie Terenzio, recounts that when New York Senator Al D’Amato suggested
he should run for mayor, John laughed it off. When Terenzio asked him afterward
if he would ever consider it,
“He said ‘Well, Rosie, how many mayors do you know
that became President?’ I was so shocked I didn’t say anything. Then he smirked
as if to say ‘That’s not the road you go down — we’ll see what happens.’”[19]
Terenzio also made the
following comment to the news website TheWrap:
“I think he would’ve run for president. I thought he
would’ve run in 2008. I had dinner with a friend from George last
night who thought for some reason he would’ve waited for 2016. He
would be 56.”[20]
Donald Trump and John
Kennedy Jr. in 1999: Were they up to something?
According to Gary Ginsberg,
JFK Jr.’s close collaborator at George,
“He had been thinking about running for the N.Y.
Senate seat — he even had meetings about it that spring — but by July had
concluded he would focus his attention on running for governor of N.Y. in 2003.
By temperament and interest, John, I think, realized he was far more suited to
being a governor than a legislator. He knew from running George that
he could be an inspiring, strong chief executive of a state, setting the tone
for government and successfully running a complex operation. That idea became
very appealing to him at some point that summer. Had the stars aligned over the
next couple of years, I’m pretty convinced that’s what he would have pursued.”[21]
Others around John believed
he was about to enter the race for the Senate seat that Daniel
Moynihan, a former assistant to President Kennedy, was going leave vacant in
2000. This is the seat that Bobby Kennedy had occupied from 1964 to 1968. On
July 19, 1999, New York Daily News reporter Joel Siegel interviewed two unnamed
friends of JFK Jr., who said “they believed he would have run for office some
day. Earlier this year, in one of the best-kept secrets in state politics,
Kennedy considered seeking the seat of retiring Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D-N.Y.)
in 2000, friends confirmed yesterday.” Democratic Chairman John Marino, also
quoted in Siegel’s article, did not believe he would have run for the Senate
seat, but had little doubt that, if he did, “It would have been ‘Goodbye,
anyone else. This is a guy who everybody recognized who would have had any
nomination for the asking.’”[22]
Christopher Andersen
supports the view that, after consulting with Democratic leaders, John had made
up his mind for the Senate. It clashed with Hillary Clinton’s plan. The
Clintons, who were to leave the White House in January 2001, were about to
purchase a home in Chappaqua, N.Y., and Hillary was gearing up to run for the
Senate as a stepping-stone to the presidency.
“In the end, John was still convinced his best shot
was at running for Moynihan’s Senate seat. Hillary Clinton had hesitated to
enter the race largely because she feared John, who was being touted behind the
scenes as her principal rival for the nomination, would be a formidable foe.
John was both heir to the Kennedy magic and People’s ‘Sexiest Man
Alive,’ as well as the consummate New Yorker, a resident of the city since the
age of three. Although New York had no residency requirements, Hillary, who had
never spent more than a few days at a time in New York, would almost certainly
be branded a carpetbagger. … As late as the summer of 1999, Hillary actively
worried about JFK Jr. and sought assurances from state party officials that he would
not be a last-minute entry into the race. … In early July, Hillary finally made
her move and formally announced her candidacy. But she was still concerned
about the possibility that John might decide to toss his hat into the ring. As
it turned out, she was right. John was now more confident than ever that he
could easily beat her at the polls. He believed Hillary was vulnerable not only
because of the Monica Lewinsky affair, her husband’s subsequent impeachment,
and a slew of brewing scandals in the Clinton White House, but mainly because
she simply had no connection to the state he loved. As Hillary had feared,
young Kennedy planned on making much of Hillary’s carpetbagger status. ‘Wait
until she gets here,’ John told his friend Billy Noonan. ‘She’s gonna get her
head handed to her.’ He was going to fill Noonan in on the details of his
upcoming campaign for the U.S. Senate — how and when he intended to make the
announcement, what advice he was getting from Uncle Teddy, the endorsements and
backing he was already lining up — when they all got together on Nantucket to
celebrate Noonan’s fifth wedding anniversary on July 16. Then they’d be off to
attend his cousin Rory’s wedding in Hyannis Port. If, of course, all went
according to plan.”[23]
Christopher Andersen’s interview on Eyewitness News
Andersen relies on the
testimony of John’s longtime friend Billy Noonan, who authored in 2006 Forever
Young: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr. (Viking Press). Here is
what Noonan writes precisely, referring to the last phone conversation he had
with John, whom he was supposed to meet on July 16:
“He had been making vague references on the phone
about shutting things down, and starting things up. During the week before our
anniversary dinner, he told me that he had something pressing to talk about,
but with curious ears in the office, John was cautious. ‘We’ll talk about it
this weekend.’ … I asked him now what was up with that [1997] poll, to rib him
about how the press was pushing for Hillary Clinton to replace Moynihan. ‘Wait
until she gets here,’ John said. ‘She’s gonna get her head handed to her.’ He
was in.”[24]
This is the only mention by
Noonan of John’s intention to run for the Senate. On one hand, it is not much.
On the other, it should be taken very seriously, coming from one of John’s most
intimate friends. Given the importance of the issue, there can be no doubt that
Noonan weighed every word he wrote. One gets the impression that he wanted to
say what he knew for the record, yet felt restrained from saying it too
clearly, even when hinting at John’s awareness that his telephone conversations
were tapped the day before he died. In his 2009 article, Wayne Madsen quotes an
unnamed “close friend of the late John F. Kennedy, Jr.” (who may be Billy
Noonan), who said JFK Jr. “was about ready to announce his run for the U.S.
Senate from New York. Kennedy was acutely aware of his vulnerability and hired
on a personal security team just prior to his announcing for the Senate.”[25]
Noonan and Andersen are not
the only ones to think that John was upsetting Hillary’s plans. Andrew Collins
writes:
“Approaching the end of two terms in the White House,
the Clintons began preparing for their political future. They focused their
attention on developing Hillary as a politician (even though she had no actual
experience), and selling influence while they had it — buy now, pay later —
payable to what would become ‘The Clinton Foundation’. Hillary refused to
return to Arkansas, and suggested the purchase of a home in New York which
would allow her to run for the Senate in the upcoming election. There was just
one obstacle…. JFK Jr. had entered the political scene. New York was electric
with word of JFK Jr. reclaiming his father’s legacy! A piece of Camelot was
still alive in America, and donors began to line up. She knew she could never
defeat the son of JFK in New England.”[26]
April 1999: “Why Hillary
won’t be senator”
November 1999: “Hillary
Comes Clean”
After reviewing all those
testimonies, I feel that no certainty can be reached about John’s immediate
plan, other that he was at the dawn of a bright political future and that he
had several options in New York State. If we believe Noonan — and why shouldn’t
we — then Laurence Leamer, author of Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an
American Dynasty (HarperCollins, 2011) is right when writing that
“John watched with growing dismay as Hillary subtly insinuated herself into
what he considered his state.”[27] It is easy to guess that, in return, Hillary saw
John as a serious rival, on the state level in the short term, and on the
national level in the long term. She stood no chance if John ever stepped
across her way, and that was sure to happen sooner or later.
It is true, as some authors
object, that John never frontally attacked the Clintons in his magazine George, perhaps
out of Democratic loyalty. But one of the very last issues of George that
he oversaw himself (April 1999) was hostile to Hillary’s bid on the Senate
seat, posting on the front-page: “Why Hillary won’t be senator.” In April 1996,
the cover had: “Why Women Will Dump Hillary.” But with John out of the way,
Hillary did win the seat and, disturbingly, the November 1999 issue of George contained
an exclusive interview of her, together with — in tragic irony — an article on
“How Bobby Kennedy Seduced New York.”
Let’s move on to the next
question: how dedicated was John to getting to the bottom of his father’s
assassination?
According to testimonies
from his friends, John Junior was haunted by the death of his father and quite
knowledgeable about independant investigations contradicting the Warren Report.
In 1999, he was not a newcomer to JFK conspiracy theories; his quest for truth
had started as early as the late 1970s. His old high school girlfriend Meg
Azzoni, in her self-published book, 11 Letters and a Poem: John F.
Kennedy, Jr., and Meg Azzoni (2007), writes that as a teenager, JFK,
Jr. was questioning the official version of his father’s death: “His heartfelt
quest was to expose and bring to trial who killed his father, and covered it
up.”[28] Don Jeffries, author of Hidden History,claimed
that “another friend of JFK, Jr.’s adult inner circle, who very adamantly
requested to remain anonymous, verified that he was indeed quite knowledgeable
about the assassination and often spoke of it in private.”[29] JFK Jr., said Jeffries in a radio interview, was
on “a Shakespearian quest,” “to avenge his father’s death,” like young Hamlet.[30]
October 1998 “Conspiracy
Issue” with an article by Oliver Stone
John is the only Kennedy to
have shown a serious determination to pursue this truth, besides his uncle
Bobby. And he took the risk of making his interest public in October 1998, when
he released a special “Conspiracy Issue” of Georgemagazine , which
included an article by Oliver Stone titled “Our Counterfeit History,”
introduced on the cover as “Paranoid and Proud of It!”
In an article published in 2009, journalist Wayne Madsen claimed that, two weeks
after John’s death, “I was scheduled to meet with Kennedy at his magazine’s
offices in Washington, DC to discuss hiring on as one of a few investigative
journalists Kennedy wanted to dig deep into a number of cases, but most
importantly that of his father’s assassination.”[31] (There is no confirmation of Madsen’s claim.)
As many truth seekers who
had started with the Kennedy assassination, John had developed an awareness
that other events of great historical consequence were the subject of
State-orchestrated lies and cover-ups, with corporate media complicity. And so
the JFK assassination was not the only “conspiracy issue” explored by George. It
is worth taking a look at two others, for they may inform us on the direction
John Jr. was taking in his quest for truth.
In December 1996, George delved
into the theory claiming that TWA Flight 800, which had exploded on July 17,
1996, soon after leaving JFK International, had been downed by a missile,
rather than as the result of an short-circuit near the central fuel tank, as
the National Transportation Safety Board concluded. The claim was based on the
testimonies of 375 witnesses who saw one or two bright flare objects hit the
plane, many of them believing it was a missile (read Ron Unz’s 2016 article on the
subject,
or watch on YouTube the 2001 documentary Silenced: TWA 800 and the
Subversion of Justice). Although I have not been able to read the Georgearticle
on TWA 800 (I will appreciate a comment from anyone who has), I assume it
supported Pierre Salinger, who had been the most prominent journalist arguing
that TWA 800 was shot down by a missile fired from a US Navy ship. Salinger was
severely attacked by his peers, and his notoriety suffered permanent damage.
But in May 27, 1999, he reaffirmed his belief and asked to be vindicated in
a Georgetowner column, based on new research confirming his
views. In this piece, Salinger mentions that “retired Navy commander William
Donaldson has also come out with a new view: TWA 800 was shot down by a missile
— fired not from a Navy ship but a terrorist group.”[32] That could explain the presence of a mysterious
ship caught on radar while speeding away near where the plane exploded. Details
can be read in a piece written by Philip Weiss for the New York
Observer in July 1999 (days before JFK Jr.’s death), titled “Radar Shows ‘Getaway Boat’ Fleeing
Flight 800 Crash”:
“‘Radar data collected during the last minute of the
T.W.A. flight revealed the two closest objects to the plane, both between three
and four miles away, as a Navy P-3 airplane and what the exhibit called simply
a ‘30-knot target.’ Radar data for the next 20 minutes showed the mystery boat
heading on a beeline out to sea, on a south-southwest course, even as other
boats rushed to the crash to try to help out. It was nearly 9 o’clock at night,
not the usual time for an excursion. … [FBI officer] Lewis Schiliro
acknowledged the presence of the mystery boat, which he said was at least 25 to
30 feet long and reached speeds of 35 knots, close to 40 miles per hour.
‘Despite extensive efforts, the F.B.I. has been unable to identify this
vessel,’ he said. / The response is somewhat alarming given the F.B.I.’s
assurances that it had turned over every stone.”[33]
Alarming, but understandable
if the mystery boat was in fact Israeli. Israel’s LAP (LohammaPsichologit,
the Mossad’s department of psychological warfare) had been busy blaming Iran
from the day of the crash, and “thousands of media stories perpetuated the
fiction,” recounts Gordon Thomas in Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History
of the Mossad (2009), with the London Times claiming
that land-air Stinger missile systems had been smuggled across the Canadian
border into the United States by Islamic terrorists. A year later, the FBI’s
chief investigator, James K. Kallstrom, would tell his colleagues: “If there
was a way to nail those bastards in Tel Aviv for time wasting, I sure would
like to see it happen. We had to check every item they slipped into the media.”[34]
Some researchers into JFK
Jr.’s plane crash have suggested a connection to the TWA 800 crash, which
happened three years earlier almost to the day, and in the same vicinity. Jackie Jura, author of Orwell Today website, wrote:
“I remember when TWA 800 exploded and Salinger was
going to give a press conference in Paris to expose the truth. But then he
cancelled it. The rumour on the net at the time was that the powers-that-be
told him that if he gave the press conference they’d kill John-John, and so he
backed down.”
“TWA
Conspiracy Theories” (December 1996)
“Who was behind the killing
of Yitzhak Rabin?” (March 1997)
Back down he did, but in May
27, 1999, he reiterated his claim, and John Jr. would die 50 days later. I
don’t subscribe to that theory, but it is worth mentioning.
In March 1997, three months
after the issue featuring the “TWA Conspiracy Theories” cover article, George magazine
published a 13-page article by the mother of Yigal Amir, the man convicted of
assassinating Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin had offended the
Israeli far-right by wanting to trade land for peace. Amir’s mother revealed
that her son had operated under the tutelage and training of a Shin Bet agent,
Avishai Raviv, working for forces seeking to halt the peace process.[35] Canadian-Israeli journalist Barry Chamish, who
investigated the Rabin assassination in his book Who Murdered Yitzhak
Rabin?(1988), agrees. He also believes that JFK Jr. was determined to “get
the full story on the Rabin assassination,” and finds support in several news
release following JFK Jr.’s death:
“Catherine Crier of Fox TV’s The Crier Report,
announcing that JFK Jr. was about to meet high ranking Mossad officers. Then
the German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, reported that
Kennedy had met with the deputy chief of the Mossad, Amiram Levine, to get the
full story on the Rabin assassination two days before his plane went down.
Then Maariv ran an interview with JFK’s chauffeur, who happens
to be Israeli. Then people started noting that Ehud Barak was in Washington at
the time of Kennedy’s finale in life.”[36]
Barak’s visit to the U.S.
around July 16, 1999 — with a battalion of Intelligence and security agents —
is a fact, but I have not been able to verify Chamish’ sources in the Crier
Report, the Frankfurter Allgemeine or the Maariv.
Chamish concluded:
“Yes, I’m sure he [John] was murdered. And yes, the
Israeli political establishment had a motive for involvement. The latest
Kennedy to die violently was the only American editor to expose (in the March
1997 issue of his magazine George) the conspiracy behind Rabin’s
assassination. And he had every intention of continuing his exposes until he
got to the bottom of the matter. We don’t know what drove him to stand alone in
seeking the truth, but it may have had much to do with the information
contained within Final Judgment.”[37]
There is no confirmation
that John Junior read Michael Piper’s book Final Judgment blaming
Israel for the Kennedy assassination, and released in 1993. But it is in the
realm of possibility, given his personal quest for the truth on his father’s
death, and his consideration for the theory that Rabin was assassinated by the
Israeli Deep State, rather than by a lone nut.
So, was JFK Jr. himself
assassinated? Here is man whose road to the presidency seemed traced. No other
man of his age had better chances to reach the White House one day. And no
other man in the world had more reasons to want the 1963 Kennedy assassination
reinvestigated. He was already trying to educate the public through his
magazine, at the risk of exposing his own beliefs, something no other Kennedy
had ever done (even RFK had kept his doubt on the Warren report private, and
his plan to reopen the case secret). And this man, his best friend Noonan
believes, was just about to announce his candidacy for a New York Senate seat,
which everyone would have understood as the first step toward the White House.
Pierre Salinger and others even believe he would have run for president in
2000. What are the odds that he would die at this precise moment by accident?
How lucky for his enemies to be spared the trouble of eliminating him, as they
had his uncle in 1968! If that was an accident, then that alone deserves to be
called a “Kennedy curse,” doesn’t it! If it was an accident, then the Devil caused
it. Or was it Yahweh?
As I have argued in “Did Israel kill the Kennedys?”, John’s uncle Bobby had been assassinated because he
was, in his own eyes and in the eyes of most Americans—and therefore also in
the eyes of his brother’s killers —, the continuation of his brother, his heir
and avenger. Even before David Talbot, Laurence Leamer has shown how close Jack
and Bobby had been. He writes in Sons of Camelot:
“Bobby had been the president’s alter ego and
protector. He could finish his brother’s sentences and complete a task that
Jack signaled with no more than a nod or a gesture. He had loved his brother so
intensely and served him so well that within the administration it was hard to
tell where one man ended and the other began.”[38]
A bond of blood and spirit
of a comparable nature existed between John F. Kennedy and the son that bore
his name. Although John Junior could not speak with his father, nor even
remember speaking with him, his love and loyalty to his father, nurtured by his
mother, was the driving force in his life. From the point of view of JFK’s
murderers, JFK Jr. was JFK redivivus, and RFK redivivus at
the same time. All three were like one man who had to be killed three times.
Was JFK Jr. assassinated? As
we are going to see, the evidence may not be absolutely compelling, but what
can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt is that federal authorities and
corporate media engaged in a massive cover-up of any facts that contradicted
the theory of the accident due to the pilot’s error. And that is enough, I
think, to decide between accident and assassination. The transgenerational
cabal who had the motive, means and opportunity to murder JFK and RFK (and the
power to get away with it) had the same motive, means and opportunity to murder
JFK Jr. (and the power to get away with it). We know for sure that, in 1968,
RFK had both the ambition to win the White House and the determination to
reopen the investigation on the death of his brother (read my article “Did Israel Kill the
Kennedys?”).
I have now shown that the same can be ascertained about JFK Jr. in 1999.
Obviously, that made him a target, the next Kennedy on the list.
According to Wayne Madsen,
“JFK Jr.’s Plane Crash Was Originally Treated As Murder Investigation” (the title
of his 2009 article):
“The FBI had discovered that there was ‘suspicious
boating activity’ in an area of Martha’s Vineyard where Kennedy’s plane was
descending to 2000 feet for its final approach to the airport. The ‘suspicious’
boaters claimed to be fishing for striped bass. … after the plane’s wreckage
was discovered, investigators found, according to Kennedy’s friend, that every
light bulb, including that in the emergency flashlight, had been blown out on
the plane and every circuit board, including those in the engine sensors and
other electronic equipment, had been literally ‘melted.’ FBI agents on the
scene preliminarily concluded that a ‘massive electromagnetic event’ caused
Kennedy’s plane to crash. … Before the FBI could begin examining the ocean
floor for any ‘special equipment’ that may have been thrown overboard from the
fishing boat, their ‘murder’ investigation was abruptly called off by FBI
headquarters in Washington.”[39]
Unfortunately, I have found
no source supporting Madsen’s claim about an aborted FBI investigation (that’s
always the problem with Madsen). But the fact that no news of a criminal
investigation ever reached the public is in itself very puzzling, given the
history of Kennedy assassinations and the natural assumption that JFK Jr. could
be a target. That JFK Jr. had powerful enemies was well-known to the whole
world, and the lack of a criminal investigation may be taken as confirmation of
their power.
Independent investigators
have gathered a fair amount of evidence that JFK Jr.’s death was a criminal
act. I will summarize what I hold to be the most solid evidence, based on my
reading of all the relevant articles I could find on the Net (including those
by early researchers such as John Quinn), and of the following two books:
first, chapter 7 of Donald Jeffries’s book Hidden History: An Expose of
Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics (Skyhorse
publishing, 2016), which I recommend (you may also want to listen to
Jeffries’s one-hour interview); second, John Koerner, Exploding the Truth:
The JFK Jr., Assassination (Chronos Books, 2018), which adds little.
In addition, John Hankey’s video “Dark Legacy II: the Assassination of JFK Jr” is
very useful. However, I advise to skip Koerner’s Part I, meant to exonerate the
Clintons and blame the Bushs; for the same reason, I recommend to start
Hankey’s video at 15 minutes.
The basic fact that seems
firmly established by radar data is that JFK Jr.’s plane suddenly nose-dived
into the Ocean at 9:41. That cannot be explained simply by an engine failure,
as the Boston Globe correctly asserted:
“Even if the engine died, a federal aviation source
said, it is unlikely that the plane would reach such a high rate of descent,
because the plane is designed to glide without power at a much slower rate for
several miles. And if Kennedy had run out of fuel, it is likely he would have
made a distress call.”[40]
The most likely explanation,
apart from suicide, is that the plane suffered a structural damage, possibly by
explosive, making it impossible to maintain in the air; blowing off a part of a
wing or the tail would have been enough, and would have required only a very
small device fixed to the plane.
The next element to consider
is that, from the early hours of July 17, it was reported that JFK Jr. had made
a call to Martha’s Vineyard airport at 9:39 pm, asking for landing instructions
in a perfectly calm tone, less than two minutes before his plane suddenly
dropped and disappeared from radar. That information was broadcast on Boston
WCVB-TV and was relayed by ABC News. A United Press International article dated
July 17 said:
“At 9:39 p.m. Friday, Kennedy radioed the airport and
said he was 13 miles from the airport and 10 miles from the coast, according to
WCVB-TV news in Boston. He reportedly said he was making his final approach. …
In his final approach message, WCVB-TV said Kennedy told controllers at the
airport that he planned to drop off his wife’s sister and then take off again
between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. for Hyannis Airport.”[41]
WCVB-TV repeated that
information continuously during their first two days of reporting on the story.
They broadcast, at 12:35 p.m. on July 17, a phone interview by anchor Susan
Wornick of U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Todd Burgun, who confirmed the
information. Here is a transcript of the footage, which Hankey has included in
his valuable film (19:40):
Wornick: “We have been told by the Coast Guard that in
fact there is now evidence of a last communication last night with JFK Jr.’s
plane as he was making an approach to Martha’s Vineyard airport. Petty officer
Todd Burgun joins us from the Coast Guard Base in Boston. He is a Petty officer,
and a public information officer. Thank you for being with us, sir. What can
you tell us about this last communication with JFK Jr.’s plane?”
Burgun: “All I really know at this time is that it was at 9:39 p.m. and it was with the FAA. And he was on his final approach to Martha’s Vineyard.”
Wornick: “So at 9:39, to the best of your information, JFK Jr. made a contact with the airport, with the flight controllers that he was on his final descent.”
Burgun: “That is correct.”
Burgun: “All I really know at this time is that it was at 9:39 p.m. and it was with the FAA. And he was on his final approach to Martha’s Vineyard.”
Wornick: “So at 9:39, to the best of your information, JFK Jr. made a contact with the airport, with the flight controllers that he was on his final descent.”
Burgun: “That is correct.”
Todd Burgun’s interview on
WCVB-TV Boston, from Hankey’s Dark Legacy (19:40)
That is all that remained of
WCVB-TV’s report on the subject, when researchers later obtained archive
copies; “hours of time on the tape archive of WCVB’s July 17 broadcast, during
which information on Kennedy’s radio contact was continually reported, have
been intentionally cut,” complained John Quinn.[42] According to Jeffries, the original interview of
Burgun was much longer:
“On the uncut tape, Burgun went on to delineate all
the points from the UPI’s article: Kennedy was calm, on approach to the
airport, had provided his position and trajectory, and had even made a comment
about dropping Lauren Bessette off at the airport. Some five hours of coverage
was edited out.”[43]
This crucial information was
reported by news services on Saturday July 17 and early Sunday, July 18. By
Monday morning, the FAA claimed that there was never a communication from
Kennedy to the tower. Todd Burgun became utterly unreachable. According to
the Boston Globe, Martin Wyatt, a controller at the Martha’s
Vineyard Airport tower the night of Kennedy’s flight “declined comment on
whether he had radio contact with Kennedy’s plane.”[44] Simultaneously, on July 18, FAA and NTSB officials
produced some “newly found” radar “evidence” which supposedly showed Kennedy’s
flight exhibiting signs of difficulties and irregularities long before 9:39;
obviously, Kennedy’s perfectly normal call at 9:39 did not fit with that new
version of events.
Of course, it is not
inconceivable that the crucial piece of information of JFK Jr.’s 9:39 radio
call was mistaken, false, or fake. Yet it seems highly implausible that the
Coast Guard would charge their spokesman Todd Burgun — whose identity is not in
question — to release it to the public without double-checking it. The fact
that the news was originally broadcast by a Boston TV station is perhaps
significant, as is the fact that, among major newspapers, the Boston
Globe was the most critical of the official story (I’ll mention other
cases along the way). Since Boston is the Kennedys’ historical stronghold, we
can conjecture that an information war of some sort was going on between Boston
and Washington, Boston trying to resist the disinformation assault from federal
agencies.
The only available photo
believed to be of the wreckage of JFK Jr.’s plane
The second element to
consider is the testimony of Victor Pribanic, a trial lawyer from White Oak,
Pennsylvania, who was fishing for striped bass off Squibnocket Point that
night. He gave an interview to The Martha’s Vineyard Times, cited
in the New York Daily News, July 21, 1999: “I heard an explosion over my right shoulder. It
sounded like an explosion. There was no shock wave, but it was a large bang.”
He also said, according to the Daily News, “that just before
hearing the noise, he noticed a small aircraft flying low over the water toward
the island.”[45] Pribanic repeated his story to filmmaker Anthony
Hilder of the Free World Alliance: “I heard a loud impact like a bomb.” The next day,
when Pribanic heard the news of the Kennedy crash, he gave his information to
Hank Myer of the West Tilsbury Police Department. Myer accompanied Pribanic to
the site where he’d heard the explosion, which would turn out exactly where the
plane went missing. Police, he was told, forwarded his information to the
investigators.[46] Pribanic was apparently not the only witness of
the explosion. The July 17 UPI article mentions:
“A reporter for the Vineyard Gazette newspaper
told WCVB-TV in Boston that he was out walking Friday night about the time of
the crash and saw ‘big white flash in the sky’ off Philbin Beach.”
When John DiNardo contacted
the Vineyard Gazette in an attempt to talk with this reporter,
a few days later, he was told that the “whole thing” was a mix-up due to some
fireworks having been set off at “Falmouth”, and, when he insisted, he was told
that the reporter was no longer employed by the paper.[47]
Like the 9:39 radio call,
the ear- and eye-witnesses disappeared from news reports from July 18 on. The
National Transportation Safety Board initial report, released on July 30, 1999 makes no mention of them.
It states that there was no “in-flight break-up or fire, and no indication of
pre-impact failure to the airframe,” which excludes an explosion damaging the
plane. On June 7, 2000, eleven months after the plane crash, the NTSB released
its final report. That report was announced to the press by a short
official NTSB news release which included the following statement: “The
probable cause of the accident, as stated in the accident report, is: ‘The
pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during a descent over water
at night, which was a result of spatial disorientation. Factors in the accident
were haze and the dark night.’” A first problem must be pointed out: that
statement from the NTSB news release which is supposedly taken from the final
report does not appear in the final report. In fact, as I will show, it is hard
to see how the full report supports the conclusion of that news release. One
gets the impression that the person who wrote the news release didn’t even read
the full report.
For example, the sudden drop
of altitude from 2,200 feet to 1,100 feet in 14 seconds, stated in the full
report, is hard to reconcile with the news release statement. Disorientation
implies that the pilot was not aware that he was flying straight into the
ocean. But that is impossible, as the NTSB Investigator-in-Charge, Robert
Pearce, had admitted as early as July 20, 1999: “They were aware they were
going down. With that kind of descent rate, it is going to be noisier than hell
in the cockpit.”[48]
Jeb Burnside, commercial
pilot and editor-in-chief of Aviation Safety Magazine, did a careful analysis of the NTSB report and radar
data and confirms that weather conditions and pilot experience (or lack of)
fail to explain the crash:
“On paper, this accident shouldn’t have happened.
Despite most of his time being in a training environment, a typical 310-hour
instrument-rating student in a well-equipped airplane should have had no
problem with this flight.”[49]
The mainstream media hardly
paid attention to the full report, and focused on the short news release. But
they even distorted it to make its hesitant conclusion (“probable cause”) more
assertive and dramatic. “Haze and the dark night,” which are mentioned as
“factors in the accident,” were exaggerated and declared totally unsafe for
flying. “The pilot’s failure to maintain control … as a result of spatial
disorientation,” became proof that JFK Jr. was incompetent to fly in such
terrible weather at night. And the implication was that JFK Jr. was reckless
and irresponsible to fly that night, especially with his wife and sister-in-law
on board.
So, after the first step of
crucial omissions in the NTSB report (JFK Jr.’s 9:39 call to the airport and
Pribanic’s report of an explosion), the disinformation process continued in two
more steps: first, a NTSB news release about the “probable cause” of the
“accident” is falsely presented as “stated” in the NTSB final report, whereas
it is in reality a far cry from the picture presented in the report; second,
that relatively prudent statement is exaggerated and dramatized in mainstream
news, while all contradictory details in the full report are ignored. Let’s see
out that works for the two following crucial points: 1) weather conditions and
visibility, 2) the pilot’s experience and cautiousness. My point is not so much
to determine exactly the visibility and the level of JFK Jr.’s skill, but
rather to demonstrate a concerted effort to distort credible reports on these
matters, with the obvious intention to convince the public that the lack of
visibility and John’s inexperience are sufficient explanations for his plane
crash, although in fact, they are not.
Even the NTSB initial report
(July 20, 1999) noted that there was no report of “significant
meteorological conditions” along the flight. We also read
“At about 6:30 on the night of the accident, the pilot
received an Internet weather forecast for flight from Teterboro, New Jersey, to
Hyannis, Massachusetts. The report was for VFR (visual flight rules) weather,
visibility 6 to 8 miles.”
So two hours before taking
off, JFK Jr. received a forecast of very good flying conditions. The NTSB final
report also quotes the Martha’s Vineyard tower manager as stating:
“The visibility, present weather, and sky condition at
the approximate time of the accident was probably a little better than what was
being reported. I say this because I remember aircraft on visual approaches saying
they had the airport in sight between 10 and 12 miles out. I do recall being
able to see those aircraft and I do remember seeing the stars out that night.”
This tower manager must be
Marvin Wyatt, interviewed for the Boston Globe: “Marvin Wyatt, a controller
at the Martha’s Vineyard Airport tower the night of Kennedy’s flight, said
visibility was good at the airport at Kennedy’s expected arrival time.”[50]Wayne Madsen quotes an unnamed close friend of JFK Jr.
(probably Billy Noonan, who was supposed to meet him that night) who said “that
visibility around the Vineyard was clear at 9:41 p.m. when the plane
disappeared from the sky.”[51]
Mainstream news outlet,
however, repeated over and over again, in contradiction even to the NTSB
report, that the weather was so bad, the fog so thick, that John should have
cancelled his plan to fly, had he been a responsible man. FAA Flight Specialist
Edward Meyer, who had prepared for the NTSB the FAA’s official report of
weather conditions over Martha’s Vineyard on July 16, 1999, and had determined
that they were “at least very good,” was disturbed by the way his conclusions
were distorted, and released a public statement:
“Nothing of what I have heard on mainstream media
makes any sense to me… The weather along his flight was just fine. A little
haze over eastern Connecticut. … I don’t know why the airplane crashed, but
what I heard on the media was nothing but garbage.”[52]
One of the most dubious
witnesses brought forward by the corporate media to support their claim of
fatal visibility was Kyle Bailey. Here is how the Washington Post introduced
him on July 21st:
“Kyle Bailey, 25, a pilot with more than a decade of
flying experience who also keeps his plane at Essex County Airport and who
frequently flies the same route as Kennedy — Fairfield to the Vineyard — took
special note of Kennedy that night because Bailey had just decided against
making the flight. / Bailey said he feared the combination of darkness and haze
could be treacherous, causing him to lose sight of the horizon, lose his
bearings, maybe even lose control of his plane. Visibility was four to five
miles in Fairfield due to haze, near the margin for flying by visual rules, as
opposed to instruments.”[53]
According to the NY
Daily News of the same day, Bailey said:
“I saw him taxi [drive the plane on ground to prepare
for take off], and I saw him take off. I [later] told my family, ‘I can’t
believe he’s going up in this weather.’ At night, you don’t know where the sky
ends and the ocean begins. You have no sight of the horizon. It can give you a
false sense of flying level.”
“Bailey,” commented
the Daily News, “was staggered by what he feared was another
ghastly Kennedy tragedy. ‘It never seems to end for this family,’ he said.
‘He’s so young, with a life full of promise.’”[54]
How moving! But who is Kyle
Bailey, “the last man to see Kennedy alive at the Fairfield airport”? I had no
difficulty to find the answer to that question: it happens that Kyle Bailey
later became an aviation analyst regularly working
for major network and cable televisions such as Fox News, CBS, ABC, NBC, BBC.Bailey even appeared in the documentary Curse
on the Kennedys? and very recently in the ABC documentary The
Last Days of JFK Jr., aired in January 2019, in which he repeats his story.
Can
you swallow that blue pill?
Kyle Bailey at work
In the same
documentary The Last Days of JFK Jr. appears another private pilot
by the name of Bob Arnot, who claims to have flown the same night along the
same route as John. He declares there was no visibility, to the point that,
when approaching Martha’s Vineyard, he could not see any lights at all. Unlike
Bailey, who somehow escapted the attention of NTSB investigators, this Bob
Arnot is most probably the unnamed pilot mentioned in the NTSB report as
follows: “when his global positioning system (GPS) receiver indicated that he
was over Martha’s Vineyard, he looked down and ‘…there was nothing to see.
There was no horizon and no light. … I turned left toward Martha’s Vineyard to
see if it was visible but could see no lights of any kind nor any evidence of
the island. … I thought the island might [have] suffered a power failure.’”
That testimony completely contradicts Martha’s Vineyard tower manager (Marvin
Wyatt), who is quoted in the NTSB report as saying visibility was great. Which
shows that the NTSB report is self-contradictory in some areas.
Now, it is a very small
world. You can find on Wikipedia that “Dr. Bob Arnot is a journalist, author,
former host of the Dr. Danger reality TV series, and
previously medical and foreign correspondent for NBC and CBS.” Can you swallow
that too? Or do you start to smell a media conspiracy?
Let’s now talk about JFK
Jr.’s flying experience and skill. Kyle Bailey’s testimony implies that JFK
Jr.’s is solely to blame for his own death and for the deaths of his wife and
her sister. That view was reinforced by hundreds of comments on air about how
inexperienced JFK Jr. was. Just like on weather conditions, the mainstream
media gave a grossly negative view of JFK Jr.’s flying experience and skill,
unrelated to the NTSB report and to the real testimonies of flight instructors
who knew him. The NTSB report reckoned that JFK Jr. had a flight experience of
“about 310 hours, of which 55 hours were at night.” During the last fifteen
months, he had made 35 flights between Fairfield airport, N.J., and Martha’s
Vineyard, including five at night. Three certified flight instructors (CFI) quoted
in the report describe John as an “excellent”, “methodical” and “very cautious”
pilot. In the early days, some newspapers echoed that view with their own
research. John McColgan, JFK Jr.’s federal licensing instructor from Vero
Beach, Florida, was interviewed for the Orlando Sentinel, July 18,
1999, and said: “He was an excellent pilot. … In fact, by now he probably has
enough hours to be a commercial pilot.”[55] One the same day, the New York Daily
Newsquoted flight instructors Ralph and Chris describing John as a careful
pilot, always checking meticulously “every nut and bolt on the airplane. … He
was very safety oriented. … John was a natural in flying.”[56] On July 21, USA Today published
an article titled “Pilot Kennedy was ‘conscientious guy,’” whose lead paragraph
said: “John F. Kennedy Jr. attended the Harvard of flight schools, may have had
far more flight experience than has been reported and was known at his New
Jersey airport for prudence in the cockpit.” The article quoted other people
who knew Kennedy as a good pilot.[57]
But as days passed, major TV
channels and newspapers gave a more and more negative assessment of John’s
flying skills and of the weather conditions. They emphasized that he didn’t
have the proper license to fly with instruments only, as the absence of
visibility would have required. It is true that John’s license was for visual
flight only, meaning visibility of at least 4 miles. But although John had not
yet obtained the license allowing him to fly by instruments only, he had passed
the written test and completed the training for the inflight test. According to
the flight instructor who trained him, as quoted in the NTSB report, “the
pilot’s basic instrument flying skills and simulator work were excellent.” So
even if the visibility had been very bad — which it was not — John could have
guided his plane safety to the airport, using his autopilot if necessary.
According to Scott Meyers, a foremost expert on the death of JFK Jr. who was
interviewed for the program “Encounters with the Unexplained: The Kennedy
Curse, JFK, Jr.’s, Death – Accident or Assassination?” aired February 15, 2002:
“The fact that Kennedy knew how to use his plane’s
navigational instruments casts serious doubt on the official explanation for
the crash, because even if he had gotten lost, his knowledge of the plane’s
instruments would have allowed him to flip a switch and allow the autopilot to
guide him to a short distance from his runway destination. A little haze should
have never stopped him from landing safely.”[58]
One question has been the
focus of much attention from independent researchers: was there a flight
instructor as co-pilot in the plane? Officially, there wasn’t. No fourth body
was recovered in the wreckage. But strangely enough, one seat was also missing,
and conspiracy theorists such as John Hankey have speculated that it might have
had a flight instructor’s body seat-belted on it, which might have been
spirited away for the sake of building up the story of an incompetent and
reckless John. For if John had flown with a flight instructor, then the whole
argument of his recklessness falls. Again, I am mentioning this issue here, not
to make any definite conclusion, but mainly to point out evidence of a
concerted effort to close the case and satisfy the public that JFK Jr. died—and
killed his wife and sister-in-law—by his own recklessness.
JFK Jr. had owned his Piper
Saratoga for a little more than two months, and he had never flown it without a
flight instructor. He had flown to Martha’s Vineyard 8 times in the previous
month with that plane, always with a flight instructor. Since he had his wife
and her sister on board, it doesn’t seem like him to fly without an instructor,
especially at night. According to Donald Jeffries, “Early reports, such as the
one that appeared in the New York Times on July 17, 1999,
indicated that a flight instructor was on the plane. JFK Jr.’s George magazine
coeditor Richard Blow recounted that Kennedy had told him he was taking a
flight instructor with him during their last lunch together.”[59] Then, from the next day on, any mention of a
flight instructor on board disappeared. Different explanations were offered for
the fact that John flew without a flight instructor that particular night, for
the first time on his new plane. His biographer Christopher Andersen writes:
“On today’s trip up from New Jersey, Jay Biederman,
the flight instructor who had recently helped John pass his written instrument
test and was preparing him for his instrument flight test, was scheduled to go
along as he had several times before. But when Biederman canceled to join his
parents on a hiking trip in Switzerland, John made the fateful decision not to
find a replacement.”[60]
Curiously, that explanation
contradicts a key testimony included in the NTSB final report, of which John
Hankey provides a good critical analysis at the end of his film. I quote here
the shorter presentation from Donald Jeffries:
“one of Kennedy’s flight instructors, Robert Merena,
told the NTSB, some six months after the crash, that JFK Jr. had turned down
his request to fly with him by saying he wanted to “do it alone.” These
dramatic, ironic words were reported widely in the establishment press and
solidified the image of JFK Jr. as an irresponsible daredevil. Merena’s own
lawyer would deny he’d ever made such a statement, and the memorandum produced
by the NTSB regarding it was suspiciously irregular, with no date, location, or
signature on it. Most crucially, Merena had been interviewed five days after
the crash by the NTSB, and he never mentioned anything about this, which would
certainly seem to have been a pertinent fact. Merena did tell the NTSB in this
early interview, however, that he’d never seen JFK Jr. fly without an
instructor.”
The damning story of John
rejecting the offer of a flight instructor and stubbornly insisting to pilot
alone was included in the NTSB’s final report and became widely quoted.[61] Here it is from ABC News on July 7, 2000: “John
F. Kennedy Jr. turned down an offer by one of his flying instructors to
accompany him the night of his fatal flight to Martha’s Vineyard, saying he
‘wanted to do it alone,’ federal investigators say.” The same could be read in
the Los Angeles Times on the same day, and in The New
York Times.[62]
I personally feel that the
question of whether there was a co-pilot in the plane or not cannot be
conclusively answered either way. But the important thing here is the strong
probability that Robert Merena’s testimony was fabricated or forced, to hammer
in the point that there was no co-pilot and that JFK Jr. acted irresponsibly.
In this whole affair, we
cannot prove directly that JFK Jr. was murdered. What we can prove, however, is
that federal agencies and mainstream media conspired in a massive fraud,
including the concealment of key evidence (the 9:39 call and reports of an
explosion), the distortion of facts (visibility and pilot’s ability) and false
testimonies (Kyle Bailey and Bob Arnot being the most likely). That can be
taken as indirect proof that JFK Jr. was murdered.
Eight hours of video footage
taken by recovery divers might have helped to solve the mystery, but the Navy
preferred to destroyed them (Sidney Morning Herald, February 13,
2001)
Truth seekers such as Donald
Jeffries, John Koerner or John Hankey have raised important questions
concerning the 10 hours (they say 15 hours) it took for a search to begin after
the plane was reported missing by Bessette and Kennedy
relatives, at 10 p.m. on July 16th, and for the 4 or 5 days it took to locate and retrieve the wreckage and the bodies. The plane was equipped with an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT), which sends out a beacon signal in the event of a crash. According to the original UPI article mentioned earlier, “the beacon was heard by the Coast Guard in Long Island, N.Y., at 3:40 a.m. But as the search went on, authorities seemed to discount the relevance of the beacon signal.”[63] Was the search intentionally directed away from the crash site during three days, in order for the perpetrators to secretly destroy the evidence from the cockpit voice recorder (the NTSB report says that “its backup battery was missing, and it had retained no data”), remove the log book which John kept in a waterproof box and, more importantly in Hankey’s view, remove the body of the co-pilot (together with the missing seat reported by the NTSB)? That is a possibility that finds support in the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Richard Stanley of the Civil Air Patrol, who “would report seeing what he thought were Coast Guard helicopters around the crash site at about 7 a.m., hours before the Coast Guard or anyone else arrived.”[64] For lack of space, I will not dwell on those issues, which are thoroughly discussed by the above-mentioned researchers.
relatives, at 10 p.m. on July 16th, and for the 4 or 5 days it took to locate and retrieve the wreckage and the bodies. The plane was equipped with an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT), which sends out a beacon signal in the event of a crash. According to the original UPI article mentioned earlier, “the beacon was heard by the Coast Guard in Long Island, N.Y., at 3:40 a.m. But as the search went on, authorities seemed to discount the relevance of the beacon signal.”[63] Was the search intentionally directed away from the crash site during three days, in order for the perpetrators to secretly destroy the evidence from the cockpit voice recorder (the NTSB report says that “its backup battery was missing, and it had retained no data”), remove the log book which John kept in a waterproof box and, more importantly in Hankey’s view, remove the body of the co-pilot (together with the missing seat reported by the NTSB)? That is a possibility that finds support in the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Richard Stanley of the Civil Air Patrol, who “would report seeing what he thought were Coast Guard helicopters around the crash site at about 7 a.m., hours before the Coast Guard or anyone else arrived.”[64] For lack of space, I will not dwell on those issues, which are thoroughly discussed by the above-mentioned researchers.
Rather, let’s focus on the
tight military control of all procedures following the tragedy, from the search
and rescue missions to the news reporting, all conducted under national
security standards. The search was done by military planes and vessels.
According to John Koerner, “the military immediately instituted in the hours
after the crash a 17-nautical mile no-fly zone, and no entry zone, around the
crash site. No civilians or media were allowed in this area until the bodies
and wreckage were recovered.” On July 20, 1999, we read in the NTSB report,
“the airplane wreckage was located by U.S. Navy divers from the recovery ship,
USS Grasp.” Why was the Navy, rather than civilian rescue craft, tasked with
the retrieval of JFK Jr.’s crashed airplane?[65] More disturbing still, why did the Pentagon take
control of news reporting from July 18?
Pentagon Press conference,
from Hankey’s Dark Legacy II (24:08)
There are issues also with
the autopsies. Joanna Weiss and Matthew Brelis of the Boston Globe wrote
on July 23, 1999, in an article headlined “JFK Autopsy Rushed”:
“the autopsies in the Kennedy case were performed
especially quickly, pathologists said. The remains were taken to a Bourne
hospital at about 7:15 p.m. Wednesday night and released to the victims’
families at 11 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office and the Cape
and Islands district attorney’s office. / Many jurisdictions refuse to perform
autopsies at night, said Robert Kirschner, a former deputy chief medical
examiner for Cook County, Ill. The haste in this case, he said, could lead to
questions about the investigation’s thoroughness. … The timing of the Kennedy
investigation, Kirschner said, makes it unlikely that pathologists performed
autopsies on Carolyn Bessette Kennedy or Lauren Bessette. ‘You can’t possibly
do three investigations in four hours,’ he said.”[66]
But, to me, the most
suspicious thing of all is the way the bodies were disposed of after their
rushed autopsies: they were cremated in Duxbury’s cemetery crematorium. Then
their remains were taken aboard the Navy destroyer Briscoe, and scattered into
the sea, near the place where they had found their death.
Why? “The burial for the 35th president’s
son,” noted local Duxbury journalist Paula Maxwell, “was reportedly carried out
in keeping with his expressed wishes.”[67] The Boston Globe reported on
July 22 , “Kennedy’s family requested a burial at sea, and the
Pentagon granted that request.”[68] But, the next day, the same newspaper expressed
surprise:
“The cremated remains of John F. Kennedy Jr., his
wife, and her sister were cast from a warship to the ocean currents in a manner
not favored by the Catholic Church and in a ceremony that occurred only after
the intercession of Pentagon brass. The Roman Catholic Church prefers the
presence of a body at its funeral rites. And the Defense Department rarely
accords the honor of burial at sea to civilians.”[69]
Moreover, no other Kennedy
had ever been cremated. The reasons given for cremating JFK Jr. body do not
make any sense and are contradictory. The New York Times wrote:
“Kennedy family members, citing his wishes and hoping to avoid having a
spectacle made of Mr. Kennedy’s final resting place, have decided to have his
body cremated and his ashes scattered at sea in a Navy ceremony, a family
adviser said.”[70]Can we believe that the Kennedy family, who had always
showed respect for Catholic traditions, wanted no grave for JFK Jr., by fear
that his grave might become a pilgrimage site? And can we believe that John, at
age 39, had expressed “his wish” to be cremated? CNN added more bizarre
explanations to that already incredible story:
“Sen. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, had requested the
burial at sea, saying it was his nephew’s wish to be cremated and his ashes
spread on the waves. The request was approved by Defense Secretary William
Cohen. / The family of the Bessette sisters requested that the two women be
buried in the same ceremony, the Pentagon said. / John Jr., like his father,
the late President John F. Kennedy, had a love of the sea. He spent many
summers sailing and kayaking the waters where his plane crashed. / Pentagon
officials tell CNN there are two grounds for granting permission for a naval
burial at sea. First, there is a provision allowing for such burials for people
providing “notable service or outstanding contributions to the United States. /
Also, protocol allows sea burials for the children of decorated Navy veterans.
President Kennedy was a naval officer wounded and cited for heroism in World
War II.”[71]
How ridiculous! JFK was a
decorated Navy veteran, and he surely loved sailing, yet he was buried in
Arlington. It seems to me unconceivable that JFK Jr. would not have wished to
be buried near his father. Even Pierre Salinger asked to be buried at Arlington
Cemetery, not far from JFK. It is just as unbelievable that the Bessettes, who
are said to hold John responsible for their daughters’ death, and to have
received 10 million dollars in compensation from the Kennedys, would decide
just the same. According to information found in RFK Jr.’s diary, published by
the New York Post, Ann Freeman, Carolyn and Lauren Bessette’s
mother, “began asking that her two daughters be buried near her home in
Greenwich, Connecticut.” It was Edwin Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy’s wife, who
convinced her to have her two daughters cremated and their ashes spread in the
ocean. “He bullied, bullied, bullied the shattered grieving mother,” writes RFK
Jr., also commenting: “All the Bessette family knows that Ed hated Carolyn and
did everything in his power to make her life miserable.” After Carole
Radziwill, the wife of Anthony Radziwill, JFK Jr.’s cousin and close friend, complained
to RFK Jr. about Schlossberg, RFK Jr. wrote in his diary: “She says she wants
to start an ‘I hate Ed Club.’ There would be many, many members. John &
Carolyn would have certainly applied.”[72] That surely makes us wonder about Edwin
Schlossberg’s interest in the whole affair.
So, have we proven without a
reasonable doubt that JFK Jr. was assassinated? Admittedly, no. None of the
elements analyzed above is entirely conclusive by itself. Perhaps, after all,
Todd Burgun was mistaken about John’s radio call to Martha’s Vineyard airport
at 9:39 (but why didn’t he come forward to retract his statement?). Perhaps
Victor Pribanic lied, or mistook the sound of John’s plane crashing into the
Ocean for an airborn explosion (but what about the other witnesses?). Perhaps,
among the conflicting reports about the visibility, we should give the benefit
of the doubt to the worst reports. Perhaps Kyle Bailey, the last man to see JFK
Jr. alive, was really there, before becoming an aviation analyst expert
regularly appearing on Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC, CNBC, The
Weather Channel, CBS, ABC, NBC, BBC, CTV, I24 News, and HLN, as his LinkedIn
account says. And perhaps we should trust Bob Arnot too. Perhaps flight
instructor Robert Merena did suddenly remember in January 2000 that JFK Jr. had
rejected his offer to fly with him because “he wanted to do it alone.” Perhaps
John Junior, at age 39, did ask to be cremated and his ashes spread into the ocean
he loved so much. And so on.
It is the accumulation of
such doubtful elements that is hard to accept. It is also the military control
over the operations, right down to news reporting from the Pentagon, which is
odd. Add the fact that the regional director of the NTSB in charge of the
investigation, Robert Pearce, according to his official profile, later “briefed State Department officials and the
Egyptian Ambassador in the wake of the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash [the jet plane
that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after leaving JFK airport, with 33 high
ranking Egyptian military officers on board, allegedly by the fault of a
suicidal Egyptian co-pilot] as well as supported the FBI on scene at the World
Trade Center in the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001.” I sure
wouldn’t trust Robert Pearce to investigate my own plane crash.
In the final analysis, it is
the explanation of the crash that is strikingly implausible. As Anthony Hilder
put it:
“A finely-tuned, well-kept first-class airplane
doesn’t just drop out of the sky and head straight down into the ocean unless
it’s blown out of the sky or the pilot deliberately sends it into a dive to kill
himself and his passengers.”[73]
There is evidence of an
accumulation of deliberate omissions, lies and false testimonies from the NTSB
investigation to mainstream reporting, in order to blame the plane crash on the
pilot alone, regardless of inconsistencies. And so, between accident and
assassination, I lean strongly toward assassination.
Who orchestrated the plot,
then? Behind every Kennedy assassination, John Hankey sees the Bushs, heirs to
the Nazis, he insists. Hankey belongs to the category of half-truthers who
would rather see the hands of Nazis than of the Mossad. He believes JFK Jr.
named his magazine George as a way to “tell everyone who he thought
killed his father, by hiding the answer in plain sight.” Hankey doesn’t suspect
the Clintons at all. Neither does John Koerner, who starts his book Exploding
the Truth by a chapter for “exonerating the Clintons”: the Clintons
loved the Kennedys so much they would never have done them harm, he wants us to
believe.[74]
Donald Jeffries is more
rational when suggesting to add John F. Kennedy Jr. to the list of the
notorious “Clinton Body Count”, which already includes quite many deaths by
plane crash: Victor Raiser, the Clinton presidential campaign’s national
finance cochairman (July 30, 1992), Dr. Stanley Heard, a member of Clinton’s
health-care advisory committee (September 10, 1993), Hershel Friday, Clinton’s
Finance Committee chairman (March 1, 1994). After all, the Navy takeover of the
rescue and recovery missions, and the whole national security protocol around
the case, can only have been ordered by President Clinton. Roger Stone, a
longtime aide to President Richard Nixon and investigator into JFK’s death,
believes the Clintons ordered the murder of JFK Jr.’s because he was
planning to run for the Senate seat that Hillary coveted.[75]
Yet the Clintons certainly
had nothing to do with JFK or RFK’s assassinations. So whatever role they
played in the case of JFK Jr.’s assassination, they must have been part of a
larger scheme. Even if Hillary had a motive to eliminate JFK Jr. from the New
York Senate race, I don’t think she would have gotten away with it without
higher protections. Let us not forget also that, in all Kennedy assassinations,
the key factor for success is the complicity of the mainstream media for more
50 years. The Clintons don’t own the media.
Like Michael Collins Piper
long before me, and like Ron Unz more recently, I believe that Israel assassinated both JFK and RFK. From there follows naturally the hypothesis that
Israel also killed JFK Jr., and for the very same reason as they killed RFK: to
prevent him from ever reaching the White House and reopening the investigation
on his father’s death. When I say “Israel”, I mean it in the broad sense, as
including all the Machiavellian crypto-Zionists infiltrated in all layers of
the U.S. power structure, including corporate media.
Israel not just assassinate
Kennedys. They keep assassinating their memory, through a constant flow of
anti-Kennedy books attacking their character and vilifying their family. This
is what JFK researcher James DiEugenio calls “the posthumous assassination of
JFK,” the obsession to “smother any legacy that might linger”; for
“assassination is futile if a man’s ideas live on through others.”[76] Take for example pseudo-biographer C. David
Heymann, who after working for the Mossad in Israel (from his own admission), returned to the U.S. only to write Kennedy
biographies, including the salacious Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, and went on, after JFK Jr.’s death, to claim a
ten-year secret acquaintance with him in order to fill the media with rubbish.[77] Why do publishers and mainstream media keep
taking Heymann seriously? Why does the New York Post give a
positive review of his latest book, American Legacy: The Story of John
and Caroline Kennedy (2007), which portrays John Junior as a “novice
pilot” who boarded his plane half-drunk and under heavy medication (“Vicodin to
relieve the pain of a recently broken ankle, plus Ritalin for attention-deficit
disorder and medication for a thyroid problem”), who took off while “the haze
had already grown thick and viscous,” and who spent the last 30 seconds of his
life “not knowing up from down, frantically pulling at his plane’s controls in
a panicked attempt to right its deadly spiral,” “with whirling instruments
sending him messages he couldn’t read”?[78]
The Jewish elites have hated
the Kennedys ever since Joseph Kennedy, as U.S. ambassador in London, tried to
prevent Roosevelt from entering World War II, resigned when he did, and then
complained that “the Jews have won the war.”[79]Kennedys must pay for “the sins of the father,” as
Ronald Kessler titled his book (The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy
and the Dynasty He Founded, 1996), a not-so-subtle reference to Exodus
20:5 asserting Yahweh’s right of vengeance on three generations. The Jewish
elites also hated the Kennedys for everything they represented, including a
very strong sense of blood kinship that Jews prefer Gentiles not to have.
Paradoxically, in a nation
founded on the rejection of monarchy, the Kennedys embodied the idea of royalty,
the highest form of a dynastic aristocracy founded not just on the accumulation
of wealth and power, but on a patriotic dedication to civil service. It is as
if the archetype of royalty had crystallized in the United States on this
family, to the point that the name of King Arthur’s court, Camelot, has stuck
to their legend. The Kennedys also embodied the Irish Catholic root of the
American people, with its deep-seated antagonism to British puritanism, the
more Israel-friendly branch of Christianity, which has come to dominate
American politics since Lyndon Johnson (“Our First Jewish President” as one
American Jewish newspaper calls him).[80] From this point of view, the triple
assassination of President Kennedy, his younger brother and his only son are
the equivalent in Western Christendom of the extermination of the Romanov
family in Orthodox Russia. And I believe that, just like Russia with the Tsar
family, America will only be great again when it opens the archives and honors
the Kennedys as national martyrs of a foreign power.
But wait: there is still one
male heir to John F. Kennedy: Jack Schlossberg, son of Caroline Kennedy and
Edwin Schlossberg. Will he become “our first Jewish president,” asks Rabbi
Jeffrey Salkin? I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure he won’t be assassinated.
Notes
[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NTSB_NTSB_releases_final_report_on_investigation_of_crash_of_aircraft_piloted_by_John_F._Kennedy_Jr.aspx
[2] Pierre Salinger, “Mourned for what he might have
been,” UPI, August 6, 1999, reproduced on http://www.orwelltoday.com/jfksalinger.shtml
[3] Dave Saltonstall, Austin Fenner, Helen
Kennedy And Greg B. Smith, “John F. Kennedy Jr. went missing after
taking a flight with his wife and her sister in 1999,” New York Daily
News, July 18, 1999, on http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/plane-lost-vineyard-wife-sis-craft-t-article-1.846379
[4] Laurence Leamer, Sons of Camelot: The
Fate of an American Dynasty, HarperCollins, 2005, kindle, k. 225-67.
[5] Jackie’s words reported by Pierre Salinger,
quoted from Christopher Andersen, The Good Son, JFK Jr. and the Mother
He Loved, Gallery Boosk, 2014, kindle, k. 1912-4.
[6] Andersen, The Good Son, op. cit., k.
1645-52
[7] Andersen, The Good Son, k.
1962-7.
[8] Pierre Salinger, “Mourned for what he might have
been,” UPI, August 6, 1999, reproduced on http://www.orwelltoday.com/jfksalinger.shtml
[9] Olivier Royant, John, le dernier des
Kennedy, Éditions de l’Observatoire, 2018.
[10] Andersen, The Good Son, op. cit., k.
671-3
[11] John Quinn, “Like Father Like Son”, http://www.angelfire.com/ms/leg/JFK.html
[12] Pierre Salinger, “Mourned for what he might have
been,” UPI, August 6, 1999, reproduced on http://www.orwelltoday.com/jfksalinger.shtml
[13] Andersen, The Good Son, op. cit., k.
4300-4309
[14] Andersen, The Good Son, op. cit., k.
4808-11.
[15] Read Robert D. McFadden’s report on https://ia801309.us.archive.org/10/items/nsia-KennedyJohnFJr/nsia-KennedyJohnFJr/Kennedy%20John%20F%20Jr%2002.pdf
[16] Liz McNeil, “Would JFK Jr. Have Run for
President? His Best Friends Reveal His Last Days”, July 19, 2016, https://people.com/celebrity/john-f-kennedy-jr-for-president-jfks-sons-political-ambition/
[17] Dominique Page, “Kennedy Junior: La pure
hypothèse de l’assassinat,” https://largeur.com/?p=147
[18] Joe Siegel, “JFK Jr. Mulled Run For Senate in
2000,” New York Daily News, July 20, 1999, http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/jfk-jr-mulled-run-senate-2000-article-1.847866
[19] Liz McNeil, “Would JFK Jr. Have Run for
President? His Best Friends Reveal His Last Days”, July 19, 2016, https://people.com/celebrity/john-f-kennedy-jr-for-president-jfks-sons-political-ambition/
[20] Matt Donnelly, “JFK Jr Would Have Run for
President in 2016, Top Aide Says,” The Wrap, July 29,
2016, https://www.thewrap.com/jfk-jr-would-have-run-for-president-in-2016-top-aide-says/ Asked for People magazine if
she tought JFK Jr. would have run for president, Terenzio answers: “I do think
that eventually he would have made the leap” (video on https://people.com/celebrity/john-f-kennedy-jr-for-president-jfks-sons-political-ambition/ at 3 minutes).
[21] Liz McNeil, “Would JFK Jr. Have Run for
President? His Best Friends Reveal His Last Days”, July 19, 2016, https://people.com/celebrity/john-f-kennedy-jr-for-president-jfks-sons-political-ambition/
[22] Joe Siegel, “JFK Jr. Mulled Run For Senate in
2000,” New York Daily News, July 20, 1999, http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/jfk-jr-mulled-run-senate-2000-article-1.847866
[23] Christopher Andersen, The Good Son: JFK
Jr. and the Mother He Loved, Gallery Books, 2014, kindle k. 4918-44.
[24] Read on Google.books. The audio recording of the
book is on Youtube: this passage starts at 7:52.
[25] Wayne Madsen, “JFK Jr.’s Plane Crash Was
Originally Treated As Murder Investigation,” August 12, 2009, on http://www.whale.to/c/jfk_jr5.html
[26] Andrew Collins, “Hillary Clinton & The
Mysterious Death of JFK Jr.,” May 8, 2016, http://pmnightlynews.com/index.php/2016/05/08/clinton-jfk-investigation/
[27] Laurence Leamer, Sons of Camelot: The
Fate of an American Dynasty, HarperCollins, 2005, kindle k. 8297,
quoted in Keith J. Kelly, “JFK Jr. Mad at Hill Senate Run: Book,” New
York Post, March 16, 2004, https://nypost.com/2004/03/16/jfk-jr-mad-at-hill-senate-run-book/
[28] Quoted in John Koerner, Exploding the
Truth: The JFK Jr., Assassination, Chronos Books, 2018, kindle k.
540-45.
[29] Quoted in Koerner, Exploding the Truth,
op. cit., k. 540-5.
[31] Wayne Madsen, “JFK Jr.’s Plane Crash Was
Originally Treated As Murder Investigation,” Wayne Madsen Report, August 12,
2009, on http://www.whale.to/c/jfk_jr5.html. Madsen told more details to Jeffries, who
reports them in his book Hidden History: An Expose of Modern Crimes,
Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics, Skyhorse publishing,
2016, kindle k. 3981.
[32] Pierre Salinger, “TWA 800: The Truth Is Out
There; Tell It,” Georgetowner, May 27, 1999, https://georgetowner.com/articles/2013/07/22/salingers-accusations-about-twa-flight-800-resurface-new-documentary/
[33] Philip Weiss, “Radar Shows ‘Getaway Boat’
Fleeing Flight 800 Crash,” The Oberver, July 12, 1999, https://observer.com/1999/07/radar-shows-getaway-boat-fleeing-flight-800-crash/
[34] Gordon Thomas, Gideon’s Spies: The
Secret History of the Mossad, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015, p. 95-99.
[35] Guela Amir, “A Mother’s Defense”, George, March
1997, reproduced on
groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/soc.culture.usa/P-mc7BFF1Nc/K3S6Bizg-U4J
[36] Barry Chamish, “The Murder of JFK Jr – Ten Years
Later,” www.barrychamish.com, reproduced on www.rense.com/general87/tenyrs.htm
[37] Barry Chamish, “A Zionist Looks at Final
Judgment,” www.barrychamish.com, reproduced on https://rense.com/politics5/zionist.htm
[38] Laurence Leamer, Sons of Camelot: The
Fate of an American Dynasty, HarperCollins, 2005, kindle k. 225-67.
[39] Wayne Madsen, “JFK Jr.’s Plane Crash Was
Originally Treated As Murder Investigation,” August 12, 2009, on http://www.whale.to/c/jfk_jr5.html
[40] Mitchell Zuckoff and Matthew Brelis, “Plane fell
fast, probe finds,” Boston Globe, July 20, 1999, http://archive.boston.com/news/packages/jfkjr/072099_plane_fell.htm
[41] UPI article saved on http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/JFK_JR/upi.html
[42] John Quinn, “Hard Evidence Obtained of Conspiracy,
Cover-up in JFK Jr. Death,” on http://www.angelfire.com/wy/1000/HardEvidence.html
[43] Donald Jeffries, Hidden History: An
Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American
Politics, Skyhorse publishing, 2016, kindle k. 3908-14.
[44] Mitchell Zuckoff and Matthew Brelis, “Plane fell
fast, probe finds,” Boston Globe, July 20, 1999, http://archive.boston.com/news/packages/jfkjr/072099_plane_fell.htm
[45] Dave Saltonstall and Bill Hutchinson, “Angler
May Have Heard Crash,” New York Daily News, July 21,
1999, http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/angler-heard-crash-article-1.846018
[46] Anthony Hilder’s article, “The explosive story:
a Second Opinion on the Kennedy Crash,” Free World Alliance, was recently
accessible at http://netowne.com/conspiracy/konformist/kennedy.htm, from which I secured a copy, but is no more.
[47] John DiNardo, “JFK Jr. Sky Flash Reporter
Unapproachable”, August 9, 1999, on https://rense.com/politics4/jekunap.htm. Also in John Quinn, “JFK Plane Explosion
Eyewitness ‘Compromised’ And/Or Missing,” 8-6-99, http://pages.suddenlink.net/anomalousimages/images/news/news489.html
[48] Mitchell Zuckoff and Matthew Brelis, “Plane fell
fast, probe finds,” Boston Globe, July 20, 1999, http://archive.boston.com/news/packages/jfkjr/072099_plane_fell.htm
[49] Jeb Burnside, “Revisiting JFK, Jr.,” Aviation
Safety Magazine, June 2016, http://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/issues/36_6/features/Revisiting-JFK-Jr_11190-1.html
[50] Mitchell Zuckoff and Matthew Brelis, “Plane fell
fast, probe finds,” Boston Globe, July 20, 1999, http://archive.boston.com/news/packages/jfkjr/072099_plane_fell.htm
[51] Wayne Madsen, “JFK Jr.’s Plane Crash Was
Originally Treated As Murder Investigation,” August 12, 2009, on http://www.whale.to/c/jfk_jr5.html
[52] First reported by John Quinn, “Hard Evidence
Obtained of Conspiracy, Cover-up in JFK Jr. Death,” on http://www.angelfire.com/wy/1000/HardEvidence.html, reproduced by Donald Jeffries, Hidden
History: An Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American
Politics, Skyhorse publishing, 2016, kindle k. 3956-61, and by John
Koerner, Exploding the Truth: The JFK Jr., Assassination, Chronos
Books, 2018, kindle k. 1228-46.
[53] Dale Russakoffand Lynne Duke, “JFK Jr.’s Joyful,
Fateful Final Hours,” Washington Post, July 21, 1999, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/07/21/jfk-jrs-joyful-fateful-final-hours/308a73e7-5bfb-4995-a25c-38e0f3cbbd08/?utm_term=.35b9f292747c
[54] Dave Saltonstall, Austin Fenner, Helen
Kennedy And Greg B. Smith, “John F. Kennedy Jr. went missing after
taking a flight with his wife and her sister in 1999,” New York Daily
News, July 18, 1999, on http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/plane-lost-vineyard-wife-sis-craft-t-article-1.846379
[55] John Quinn, “Was JFK Jr Murdered?”, August 2,
1999, http://www.angelfire.com/wy/1000/WasJFKJR.Murdered.html
[56] Michael Daly, NY Daily News, July
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Assassination, Chronos Books, 2018, kindle k. 1211-19.
[57] Alan Levin, Kevin Johnson, and Deborah Sharp,
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1999, quoted in Koermer, Exploding the Truth, op. cit., k.
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[58] Quoted in John Koerner, Exploding the
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[59] Donald Jeffries, Hidden History: An
Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics ,Skyhorse
publishing, 2016, kindle k. 3879-81.
[60] Christopher Andersen, The Good Son: JFK
Jr. and the Mother He Loved, Gallery Books, 2014, kindle k. 141-43.
[61] Ricardo Alonzo-Zaldivar, “Instructor Offered to
Fly with JFK Jr., Report Says,” Los Angeles Times, July 7,
2000, http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jul/07/news/mn-49042
[62] Koerner, Exploding the Truth, op.
cit., k. 1392-1427.
[63] UPI article reproduced on http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/JFK_JR/upi.html
[64] Jeffries, Hidden History, op. cit. k.
3930-32.
[65] L. C. Vinvent, “On the Elimination of Natural
Leaders,” January 22, 2013, https://www.henrymakow.com/on-the-elimination-of-natural.html
[66] Joanna Weiss and Matthew Brelis, “JFK Autopsy
Rushed,” Boston Globe, July 23, 1999, http://archive.boston.com/news/packages/jfkjr/0722_coroner.htm
[67] Paula Maxwell, “Kennedy Cremated in
Duxbury,” Duxbury Clipper, July 28, 1999.
[68] Mitchell Zuckoff, “Bodies of 3 are
recovered,” Boston Globe, July 22, 1999, http://archive.boston.com/news/packages/jfkjr/bodies_recovered.htm
[69] Quoted in Jeffries, Hidden History, op.
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[70] Mike Allen, “Bodies From Kennedy Crash Are
Found,” New York Times, July 22, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/22/us/bodies-from-kennedy-crash-are-found.html
[71] “Remains of JFK Jr., wife and sister-in-law
buried at sea,” July 22, 1999, http://edition.cnn.com/US/9907/22/kennedy.plane.07/
[72] Michael Zennie, “The Kennedys fought Over Where
Bodies Would Be Buried… “, Daily Mail, November 3, 2013,
on https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486083/Kennedys-fought-bodies-buried-JFK-Jr-plane-crash-bullied-heartbroken-mother-wife-Carolyn.html
[73] Anthony Hilder, “The explosive story: a Second
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[74] Another artile of the same vein: https://www.popdust.com/conspiracy-theory-thursdayjfk-jr-was-murdered-and-you-wont-believe-who-1892591783.html
[75] Darren Boyle “Conspiracy theorist claims Hillary
Clinton ‘murdered’ John F Kennedy Jnr because he was planning to run for the
same senate seat as her in shocking new book,” MailOnline, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3539583/Conspiracy-theorist-claims-Hillary-Clinton-murdered-John-F-Kennedy-Jnr-planning-run-senate-seat-shocking-new-book.html
[76] James DiEugenio, “The Posthumous Assassination
of JFK”, in The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK, and
Malcolm X, edited by Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, Feral House, 2003.
[77] Andrew Goldman, Observer, August
2, 199, “Kennedy ‘Expert’ C. David Heymann: Do His J.F.K. Jr. Stories Hold
Up?”, http://observer.com/1999/08/kennedy-expert-c-david-heymann-do-his-jfk-jr-stories-hold-up/ Read also David Cay Johnston, “C. David
Heymann’s Lies About JFK and Jackie, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth
Taylor”, Newsweek Magazine, August 27, 2014, http://www.newsweek.com/2014/09/05/c-david-heymanns-career-serial-fabulist-266876.html
[78] Elizabeth Wolff, “Inside JFK JR.’s Daze of
Doom”, New York Post, June 17, 2007, https://nypost.com/2007/06/17/inside-jfk-jr-s-daze-of-doom/
[79] Quoted in Herbert Druks, John F. Kennedy
and Israel, Praeger Security International, 2005, p. 10
[80] Morris Smith, “Our First Jewish President Lyndon
Johnson? – an update!!,” 5 Towns Jewish Times, April 11, 2013,
on 5tjt.com.
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