John F Kennedy and UFO Speech

John F Kennedy and UFO Speech
Was JFK assassinated to prevent him from giving the UFO speech?
By
Rohn DeSilva

On Friday, November 22 1963 John F Kennedy, thirty-fifth president, was assassinated while in Dallas . An official investigation was carried out by the Warren Commission. After 10 months of investigation the Warren Commission concluded that the assassination was carried out solely by Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza . Many researchers, almost immediately after the Warren Commission concluded their investigation, and numerous independent researchers attacked the Warren Commission�s finding and published number of books. Although these researchers disagree with the Warren Commissions� conclusion, none of them could agree on what, why and who killed Kennedy. But they all agree that there was a conspiracy and the culprits ranges from the CIA, the KGB, the Mafia, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Fidel Castro, Cuban exile groups opposed to the Castro government, and the military and/or government interests of the United States.

My interest in the subject was raised when a friend of mine at NICAP sent an article he had found printed on The Weekly World news dated April 30th, 1996. The article referred to a book that was soon to be published and was written by Prof. Lawrence Merrick of Cambridge, Mass. titled "Killing the Messenger: The Death of JFK". His claim was so outrageous that I refuse to believe the story for a while until I started looking at some of the memo JFK wrote. Before I mention the claim made by Prof. Merrick, I would like to lay the background foundation to the story.

On August 29, 1949, only four years after USA dropped the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, USSR tested its first nuclear bomb. The America was surprised at the quickness which the Russian had caught us with the nuclear technology. Then in October 4, 1957 the Russians stunted us (America) by launched Sputnik I, 184 pounds, football size, satellite that orbited the earth every 98 minutes. John Logsdon, Director, of the Space Policy Institute, Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington , D.C . states that,

"the reaction was more fear than surprise, because it showed clearly that the United States was no longer safe behind its ocean barriers. "The claim that who controlled space would control the Earth seemed plausible, and the Soviet Union had taken the first step towards that control"

The US was not fearful of Sputnik itself, but rather the capability of the USSR to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles with a nuclear bomb and that the USSR had surpassed the capabilities of the US defenses. This single event forced the USA to launch the space race.

Four years after the Sputnik shock of 1957, the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human in space on April 12, 1961. Meanwhile on May 5 of that year Alan Sheppard of USA was only able to fly a sub orbital flight unlike Gagarin who flew around the earth at an altitude of 7km. This greatly embraced the USA and put fear into the heart of the military since they realized the military advantage USSR had over USA with their space rockets which can easily be modified into ICBMs to carry a nuclear payload. So on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade. I believe now that it was this speech that lead to number of events which eventually snowballed into his assassination on that fateful day in Dallas .

In July of 1947 the RAAF announced that they have recovered a crashed "flying causer", a UFO. RAAF quickly retracted the statement and announced that it was a weather balloon. But many UFO researchers, almost three decades later, found numerous eyewitnesses and an official paper trail (via the freedom of information act) that indicated that the air force had indeed capture a UFO and its occupants. UFO crash experts, Kevin Randall and Donald Schmitt, learned evidence to prove that that the crashed object and the occupant were transported to Hanger 8 at the Wright Pattern air force base in Ohio . Read the detailed description of the Roswell UFO crash at UFO Related Topics.

Shortly after the crash, President Harry S. Truman ordered secretary of Defense James Forrestal by an executive order to create the MJ12 (Majic 12 or Majestic 12). The purpose of this group was to investigate UFO and their activities. Highly top secret group consisted of high ranking military personnel and respected scientists. The group was headed by Forrestal and Dr. Vannevar Bush and under the executive order they were only to report to no one but the president of United States . James W. Moseley, who published a magazine in the 1950's called Saucer News. " In our two meetings with Truman," said Moseley, "he definitely expressed negative opinions about flying saucers." But closer look at the literature found the Truman�s library suggest otherwise. Truman commanded General Robert B. Landry, the Air Force Aide to the President, coordinated with the CIA and report to him quarterly on the progress of the investigation into the UFOs. One of the UFO researchers, George Filer, interviewed the widow of Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey. Mrs. Ramey indicated that President Truman might have had a role in what had gone out regarding the Roswell crash. She was told "her husband had been visited by Truman on several occasions. She indicated they were quite friendly." This claim was supported by a statement that was made by Air Force Brigadier General Arthur E. Exon who was the commander of Wright Patterson Air Force base from August 1, 1964 through to December 20, 1965. At the time of the Roswell crash, July 1947, Exon was a Lt. Col. at Wright Field where the Roswell wreckage was sent.

Exon further indicated that Truman was also a member of a top echelon group formed after the Roswell crash to control access to the wreckage, bodies, and information about the crash. He referred to them as the unholy thirteen. Truman was the only elected official on the committee. "Elected officials," he stated, "were excluded from knowing anything about it."

Not only did General Ramey deal with Truman, Brigadier General Exon was sure that Ramey would have reported to General Dwight Eisenhower who would become the next President. At the time of the Roswell crash Eisenhower was the Army Chief of Staff. Exon thought that Ramey would have followed the chain of command and phoned Eisenhower about the crash.

Stan Friedman, an expert on the MJ12 documents, discovered that Dwight Eisenhower was shown the wreckage of the UFO and the alien bodies in 1954. In February of 1954 Truman visited Palm Springs for a winter holiday. This action itself is a suspicious since he was a hunting vacation in Georgia only a week earlier. On the night of February 20th he simply disappeared. When press learned of his disappearance, the rumors circulated that he had died or was seriously ill. The story even managed to appear in the Gazette before being killed. White House Press Secretary James Haggerty called an urgent late evening press conference to announce "solemnly" that the president had been enjoying fried chicken earlier that evening, had knocked a cap off a tooth, and had been taken to a local dentist for treatment.

Next morning, February 21st, Ike turned up as scheduled for an early church service, the matter seemed ended. He was photographed shaking hand with the pastor, Rev. James H. Blackstone, Jr. Even though he is seen smiling, Eisenhower, according to his secretary Ann Whitman, hated church. "I don't know how he ever put up with Billy Graham," she said.

While the incidence of a local dentist being called upon to treat a president of the United States is unusual enough that it should constitute a rather memorable event for those involved, the dentist's widow, in a June, 1979 interview, was curiously unable to recall any specifics relating to her husband's alleged involvement in the affair--not even the time of day it had occurred. Yet her memory appeared flawless when asked to relate details of her and her husband's attendance (by presidential invitation) at a steak fry the following evening, where her husband was introduced as "the dentist who had treated the president".

This would appear to suggest a cover story, the details of which would have easily been repeated at the time, but quite naturally forgotten 25 years later. Research at the Eisenhower Library has uncovered two other facts inconsistent with the dentist story.

The first is that while the library maintains an extensive index of records relating to the president's health, there is no record of any dental work having been performed at all during February of 1954. A file on "Dentists" contains nothing concerning any such incident either. Secondly, there is a large file containing copies of all sorts of acknowledgments, which were sent by the White House to people who had something to do with the Palm Springs trip.

There are letters, for example, to people who sent flowers, people who met the airplane, people who had offered to play golf, etc. There is even a thank you letter to the minister who presided over the Sunday service Ike attended. Yet there is no record of any acknowledgment having been sent to "the dentist who treated the president."

So the question is where President Eisenhower went on February 20th, 1954? APRO have uncovered documents through the freedom of information act that would indicate that he might have visited the nearby Edward AFB. It is rumored that parts of the UFO wreckage that crashed in Roswell was latter moved from the Wright-Patterson AFB to the Edward AFB. Is it possible that he visited the base to see the first the wreckage of the Roswell UFOs?

Before we look at John F Kennedy, it should be noted that in 1949 James Forrestal increasingly objected the secrecy. In fact he lobbied for the CIA to be brought under much tighter governmental control.

His opposition to the high levels of secrecy caused him to attract the attention of those he opposed and when he voiced his objections to �being watched�, he was declared paranoid by those who were ignorant of the true facts. MJ12 was fearful that Forrestal would go public with his knowledge of UFO. Forrestal was ordered to the mental ward of Bethesda Naval Hospital and was said to have suffered a nervous breakdown. He was isolated and discredited; even his family and friends were denied permission to visit him. On May 21st 1949, Forrestal�s brother informed the authorities that he intended removing him form the hospital on the following day. His removal from Bethesda Naval Hospital meant that the CIA or MJ12 could no longer keep him under surveillance and control what he say and do. In the early hours of 22nd May 1949, it was later announced, James Forrestal committed suicide.

However, ex-Naval Intelligence Officer William Cooper maintains that James Forrestal was the victim of the people whose obsessive secrecy he opposed and some time on that fateful morning secret agents (CIA or MJ12) entered his hospital room, tied a sheet around his neck and the other end to a room fixture. The agents then threw Forrestal out of the window, unfortunately the sheet could not sustain his weight and it tore and he plummeted to his death. James Forrestal�s secret diaries were confiscated, probably by the CIA. If the MJ12 was powerful enough to kill a former defense secretary to keep the secret of the UFOs, they certainly wouldn�t hesitate in killing the president of the Unites States to keep the secret.

In 1961 democratic senator from Massachusetts became the 35th president of the United States. Unlike Truman and Eisenhower, Kennedy was a liberal. He championed the civil rights movement in the south, world peace, withdrawal of troops from Vietnam and most importantly the space race to the moon. But regardless of his philosophy or political view, he was the president of the United States. As the president, the MJ12 reported only to him as it was done during the previous Truman and Eisenhower administrations. This was evident from the June 28, 1961 National Security Memorandum referencing MJ-12, signed by President John F. Kennedy. On White House stationery dated June 28, 1961, this TOP SECRET National Security Memorandum was addressed to the Director, Central Intelligence Agency about the Subject: Review of MJ-12 Intelligence Operations as they relate to Cold War Psychological Warfare Plans. It states,

"I would like a brief summary from you at your earliest convenience. TOP SECRET"

On May 25, 1961 President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade.

"First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth."

In this 1962 speech given at Rice University in Houston, Texas, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed America's commitment to landing a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s.

After learning the true nature of UFOs, John F Kennedy came to the conclusion, as did the MJ12 group that these UFOs were not made by the Russians. This meant that they were extraterrestrials. In his wisdom Kennedy realized, just as Reagan did three decades later, that both USA and USSR had a common enemy. Yet another document was found through the freedom of information act to confirm the above statement. On November 12, 1963 President Kennedy wrote a memorandum to the director of CIA regarding "Classification review of all UFO intelligence files affecting National Security." In this memo, Kennedy stated, ". . . I have initiated [blacked out] and have instructed [then NASA Administrator] James Webb to develop a program with the Soviet Union in joint space and lunar exploration. It would be very helpful if you would have the high threat cases reviewed with the purpose of identification of bona fide as opposed to classified CIA and USAF sources. It is important that we make a clear distinction between the knowns and unknowns in the event the Soviets try to mistake our extended cooperation as a cover for intelligence gathering of their defense and space programs."

Kennedy then asked for all files on "Unknowns" to be turned over the NASA authorities and an interim report be forwarded to the White House no later than Feb.1, 1964.

This was a crucial mistake in the part of John F Kennedy. Even if the NASA agreed to a joint venture with the USSR, it is highly unlikely that the top secret group, MJ12, would actually allow the president to go ahead with his proposal. By 1963, the MJ-12 group has become a government within a government. MJ12 group consisted of top brass military, defense (from the Pentagon) and CIA personals. The few civilian scientists were sworn to secrecy. During the Kennedy years the MJ-12 group became so powerful that even the president of the United States were left in the dark in some of the major decisions taken by them.

On March 1st, 1967 New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison charged a local businessman Clay Shaw with conspiracy in the John F. Kennedy assassination. Along with Shaw, two others were also investigated and charged, Fred Crisman and Guy Banister. All three of them, Clay Shaw, Guy Banister and Fred Crisman, were involved in the UFO phenomenon.

Fred Crisman was a USAAF airman stationed in the Far East during World War II. Crisman was also a member of the CIA who was involved with the project Paperclip at the end of the war. The Torbitt document indicates that Fred Crisman was a CIA "internal disruptor". Crisman, who worked as a go-between in the Military Industrial establishment (especially the aerospace companies which were the major beneficiaries of Project Paperclip) was believed to be a 'middle man' within a deep level intelligence network, working in between those who gave the orders (which included assassinations) and those who carried them out. The aerospace industry has always had an interest in the UFOs that could fly from pole to pole in hours as Admiral Byrd had stated in his memoirs. Thus it wasn�t a surprised to find Fred Crisman involved in the Maurey Island UFO crash in 1947. The Maury Island story beings on June 21, 1947, three days before what is widely regarded as the event that launched the modern UFO era, pilot Kenneth Arnold's sightings of "flying saucers" over Mt. Ranier. A lumber salvager named Harold Dahl, his son and two unidentified people on a salvage boat in the bay witnessed six doughnut-shaped craft, one wobbling, the others surrounding it and apparently trying to help it. Dahl described the craft as 20 feet in diameter with five-foot portholes in their sides. The craft in the middle wobbled and dropped down about 700 feet before it stopped wobbling. Then one of the circling saucers broke formation, flew down, touched it and also became still. The craft then spewed two different substances, white paper-like metal that floated into the bay, and a black slag-like substance that came down hot enough to raise steam. Pieces of that material struck Dahl's son and killed his dog. Dahl reported these events to Crisman, who is described as Dahl's "superior." Crisman went to Maury Island to take a look, and not only saw a great deal of both materials on the shore and recovered some for himself, but also claimed to have had his own sighting of a doughnut-shaped craft. Crisman reported his experience to Ray Palmer, a publisher of pulp magazines like Amazing Stories. Palmer hired Kenneth Arnold to investigate the case, whose own sightings three days later initiated a UFO wave, a part of which was the story of a housewife who recovered in that area a 30-inch saucer that she handed over to FBI officer Guy Banister. Two Air Force investigators joined Arnold's investigation at Maury island, Capt. Lee Davidson and 1st Lt. Frank Mercer Brown. The two officers worked under Gen. Nathan Twining to collect information on the UFO flap with particular attention to retrieval stories, Thomas said. Crisman turned samples of the debris to them, which was loaded into their plane, a B-25 bomber. Shortly after taking off to return to Wright-Patterson AFB, the plane crashed, killing the two men. The counter-intelligence team sent out to clean up the crash site supposedly failed to find any evidence of the Maury Island debris. However, Thomas said that one of the recently surfaced MJ12 documents suggests that Crisman turned samples of the debris over to Clay Shaw, one of the three people that Garrison attempted to indict in the alleged conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Although Shaw was acquitted of the crime, his role as a CIA agent is well-documented.

When in 1968 Jim Garrison arrested Clay Shaw in connection with the assassination of JFK, Fred Crsiman was the first person Shaw contacted. Later in a well known report called the Torbitt Document, Crisman is named as one of three hoboes picked up in the railyard behind the grassy knoll at Dealy Plaza.

As I have described in details Fred Crisman, Guy Banister and Clay Shaw were all involved in the project Paperclip. All these three men were all CIA operatives but conspiracy of John F Kennedy murder and the project Paperclip can be traced to the very top of the CIA, the director of Allen Dulles. In 19646, president Truman authorized OSS (later CIA) to create Project Paperclip, a program to German scientist to work on the space and military program to help America during the cold war.

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