COINCIDENCE OR CONSEQUENCE? 
by Robin Smith.

The list of strange deaths in the wake of the Kennedy assassination is a long one, with bizarre and disturbing implications. Even a cursory examination of this list forces us to ask if these deaths were COINCIDENCE OR CONSEQUENCE?

Warren Commission member Hale Boggs, congressman from Louisiana, had this to say about the so-called 'Magic Bullet': 'I have strong doubts about it'.

Boggs then received a package of damaging dirt on the private lives of Warren Report critics from FBI Director Hoover, prompting Boggs to charge: 'The FBI is using Gestapo tactics'. Boggs further accused the FBI of tapping his and other congressmen's telephones shortly before his plane disappeared without a trace somewhere in Alaska.

A white russian anti-communist with links to the CIA, George Demohrenschildt 'befriended' Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas and later stated: 'Lee is innocent'.

Hours before he was to be interviewed by assassination investigator Gaeton Fonzi Demohrenschildt allegedly committed suicide with a .20. gauge shotgun. His widow didn't buy it.

'They may get me too. I think Oswald was a CIA agent, but he did not kill Kennedy. Something is being covered up.

Marilyn Moon Walle (a.k.a. 'Delilah') was a stripper employed at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club at the time of the JFK snuff. Walle was found shot to death on September 1, 1966. She had planned to write an insideknowledge assassination book.

Car salesman Albert Guy Bogard claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald test-drove a vehicle shortly before the Kennedy hit, zooming along the stemmons freeway at 75 miles per hour. At the showroom, Oswald said he would be 'coming into a lot of money in the next two or three weeks' and if financing could not be arranged 'I just might go back to Russia where they treat workers like men'. But Oswald had never learned to drive... and the Warren Commission necessarily placed the 'real Oswald' in Irving, Texas at the time, thereby creating two Oswalds. Where was Dorothy Kilgallen when we needed her?

Assassination lore is rife with Oswald doubles who invariably incriminate themselves, as Silvia Odo states: 'Oswald came to my home with two cubans and was introduced as Leon. Later, one of his companions quoted him as saying we cubans should "kill Kennedy.""

Another Oswald annoyed patrons of a rifle range outside Dallas by scoring perfect bull's eyes in their targets. Before leaving, he retrieved all his spent casings.

Car salesman Al Bogard's Oswald story was corroborated by fellow employees...he even passed a lie detector test...before being found dead in a Louisiana cemetery. The dead was ruled a suicide.

Moments after the assassination, Deputy Sheriff Buddy Walthers found a .45 slug in the Dealy Plaza grass...and gave it to a man who identified himself as an FBI agent. No one ever saw the slug again...but Walthers couldn't stop talking about it...'No way that bullet came from a 7.65 Mannlicher Carcano.' ...until he was slain in a 1969 police shootout...quite possibly by a fellow cop.

Two nights before the assassination, another Jack Ruby employee - Rose Cheramie - was thrown from a speeding car en route from New Orleans to Dallas. One of the men in the car was later identified as anti-Castro exile Sergio Arcacha Smith. Cheramie survived and made hysterical accusations from her hospital bed: 'They're going to kill the President! Kennedy is going to die in Dallas!' Cheramie later dropped some juicy tidbits about her boss Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald: 'They were bedmates!'

Cheramie was then the object of a hit-and-run 'accident' in 1965. This time the car won...and she died.

According to many witnesses and researchers, when the long-suppressed JFK authopsy photos were finally released, they showed clear evidence of tampering and even forgery. Retouching changed exit wound to entrance wound, implying a fatal head shot from the rear rather than the front. The original autopsy photos were taken by Lt. William Pitzer, who told friends he underwent repeated and 'horrifying' debriefings. Found dead of a gunshot wound which was ruled 'self-inflicted', Pitzer still held a .45 pistol in his right hand. He was left-handed.

In another alleged suicide - after telling friends the CIA was involved in the JFK hit - former CIA agent Gary Underhill was found shot through the left side of his head. He was right-handed.

Lee Bowers, Jr., stationed in a railroad control tower behind the grassy knoll, saw two men at the stockade fence and 'a flash of light or smoke' at the time of the Kennedy shooting. The Warren Commission didn't want to hear it. Bowers died on August 9, 1966 when he somehow managed to crash into a bridge abutment. The pathologist said Bowers was in a 'strange state of shock' at the time of the one-car 'accident.'

In violation of JFK's orders, notorious oddball David Ferrie helped the CIA train anti-Castro cuban exiles in camps outside New Orleans. Ferrie also worked for New Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello, who had once been deported to Guatemala by future assassination victim attorney general Robert Kennedy. Another Ferrie associate was fellow anti-Castroite and former FBI agent Guy Bannister, working out of the same building at 544 Camp Street which housed Lee Harvey Oswald's ostensibly pro-Castro activities. Finally, pilot Ferrie had served as a Captain in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol - and one of his cadets had been none other than a young Lee Harvey Oswald. All this made Ferrie a prime witness-suspect in Jim Garrison's trial of Ferrie's good buddy Clay Shaw. Unfortunately for the New Orleans district attorney, Ferrie was found dead of an unusual 'brain hemorrhage' before he could testify. At the same time Ferrie's cuban-exile friend Aladio del Valle was shot and had his head split with a machete in Miami. Jim Garrison had been looking for him, too. Yet another person connected to Ferrie - Dr. Mary Sherman - was shot in bed and set on fire. Truly, we have now stumbled into the weird and chilling realm of overkill. Beaten the day before he was to testify in the Garrison trial about the connections between Shaw, Ferrie, Oswald, and Ruby - Clyde Johnson was subsequently murdered by shotgun. Following her husband Robert Perrin's death by poisoning, Nancy Perrin rich testified that her former boss Jack Ruby had smuggled guns into Cuba.

Dr. Nicholas Chetta, a potentially key witness who performed the autopsies on Ferrie, Sherman, and Perrin, himself died of a 'heart attack' during Garrison's investigation. Not even the New Orleans Coroner was safe from death - or allowed to testify. As for Clay Shaw himself, he was acquitted of all charges in the 1969 Garrison prosecution. The jurors admitted that D.A. Garrison had proven a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but had not convinced of Shaw's involvement. Since the trial, however, many of Garrison's allegations have been proven dead on. A recently uncovered photo, for example, establishes that David Ferrie and Clay Shaw were indeed acquainted - well enough to party together at a gay bash.

Clay Shaw, posing as 'Clay Bertrand' also asked New Orleans hipster - attorney Dean Andrews to represent Oswald after the assassination.

And former CIA agent Victor Marchetti confirms Shaw's CIA relationship: 'The agency was very concerned about helping their man Shaw during his trial.' (This, while the CIA publicly disavowed any connection to Shaw.) And Clay Shaw's own death - supposedly on August 14, 1974 - ranks right up there with the strangest of the strange. First, neighbors reported seeing a dead body being taken into Shaw's house and later - after an ambulance had arrived - out of the house. Where, how, why, and exactly when Shaw actually died is anybody's guess since his body was whisked away for burial before an autopsy œcould be performed.

Mafia figure Charles Nicoletti was found in his burning car with three bullets in his head shortly before he was scheduled to testify before the House Assassination Committee. Two other mob figures were also slated to testify about the connection between the JFK rubout and CIA-mafia attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro - John Roselli and Sam Giancana. (Giancana had allegedly 'shared' mistress Judith Campbell Exner with JFK.) Before his scheduled testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee - but after he had blabbed Kennedy conspiracy info to columnist Jack Anderson - Roselli's sliced and diced pieces were found stuffed in a barrel floating in a Miami Bay.

Giancana was shot to death while cooking a pot of spaghetti. The murderweapon was a silenced .22 pistol, a gun favored by clandestine spooks, not mob hitmen. The list goes on - key witnesses, and suspicious individuals dying of untimely 'heart attacks,' stabbings, shootings, slashed throats even a 'suicide' committed by 'charging facefirst through a plate glass window.' Far too many to list them all - so let's wrap with the one death most indicative of conspiracy.

Russian defector and Marine patriot, commie and anti-commie, sharpshooter and lousy shot, loving husband and wife-abuser, sophisticate and hick, Kennedy hater and JFK admirer, Lee Harvey Oswald was a convivial loner capable of being in two (or many more) places at once. A 'meek, mild man,' Oswald was arrested for the violent murders of a cop and a president. When Oswald's scheduled transfer to the Dallas County Jail had been delayed for an hour, he was finally escorted out into the basement of police headquarters only after a man named Jack Ruby had arrived whereupon a car horn mysteriously blared four times and Ruby, the Dallas strip joint owner with links to organized crime, the police, Castroites, anti-castroites, and intelligence circles, surged forth with a gun in his hand -shooting Oswald dead literally under the noses of the cops 'protecting' him.

Ruby himself died in prison after claiming he'd been 'injected with cancer cells' - and that 'the full truth of the assassination will never be known.'[1]