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Subject: Masons & Kennedy
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 05:56:34 -0400
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For all you folks investigating Freemasonry. Here's an update of
response to a Freemasons who challenged the notion that Masons were
involved in the Kennedy assassination cover-up.
One need look no further than the Masonic publications to find the
Masonic lunatics who might want Kennedy killed. The level of
hostility that Freemasons felt toward Kennedy was documented in
February 1960 issue of New Age magazine, a Masonic publication,
where Luther A. Smith, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish
Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, told his readers:
"whatever bigotry is in evidence in the United States is exhibited
solely by the Roman Catholic hierarchy; that the Canon Law of the
Roman Church and the directives of the Pope validate the fears of
the people that the dual allegiance of American Catholics is a
present danger to our free institutions, and lastly that the people
in passing upon the qualifications of a Catholic candidate for the
Presidency will be guided by their knowledge of history and their
great store of plain old-fashioned common horse sense, and their
innate caution not to gamble when their LIBERTIES AND THE NATIONAL
SECURITY ARE AT STAKE (emphasis added).
Among American citizens there should be no question or
suspicion of allegiance to any foreign power, but in the case of
the Roman Catholic citizen, his church is the guardian of his
conscience and asserts that he must obey its laws and decrees even
if they are in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the
United States."
So we have Masonic crazies asserting NATIONAL SECURITY issues over
the potential election of a Catholic, John F. Kennedy. Mind you,
this is Masonic leadership. Now add to this the fact, documented by
Masonic sources (see below) , that the Masons controlled the
investigation into the Kennedy assassination and you have
legitimate concerns over the honesty of the investigation. Most
Americans believe a conspiracy existed. Comparatively few know that
members of a secret society, hostile to a Kennedy presidency,
presided over the assassination investigation.
As for the maintenance of a secret. Freemasons, as demonstrateded
by the legend of Hiram Abiff, have always focused on teaching the
membership to keep their secrets. Hiram, the Masonic Christ figure,
was raised from the grave because he kept his secrets. Those who
violate Masonic secrets can expect retaliation, those who keep
them, like Hiram, can expect rewards.
A longer article on the probable involvement of Freemason's in the
Kennedy assassination is available at the WWW site below. As is
partial text from a variety of Masonic exposes and the "Proceedings
of the US Anti-Masonic Convention", a record of the 1st third party
political convention in the US. Critics of Freemasonry include
President John Q. Adams.
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In his book, Freemasonry in American History, the Masonic scholar,
A. E. Roberts identifies some of the Masonic participants in the
investigation of the Kennedy assaination,
"Johnson had received the Entered Apprentice Degree in Johnson
City Lodge No. 561, Texas, on October 30, 1937. Reasons for him
going no farther are unclear. Until the 1850s becoming an Entered
Apprentice made a man a full member of the lodge conferring the
degree. During the 1850s all Grand Lodges adopted laws making the
Master Mason (or Third) degree the criteria for a man to be
considered a Freemason. Before then, all Masonic business was
conducted in the First Degree (and still is in some foreign
countries). With the adoption of the new law, business can be
considered only in a Master Mason Lodge.
One of Johnson's first acts was to order the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to check every aspect of the assassination. The FBI
was headed by J. EDGAR HOOVER, who had become a member of Federal
Lodge No. 1, District of Columbia, on November 9, 1920... But the
public wanted more answers concerning the murder of the President
than any agency could provide. So, on January 29, 1963, Johnson
issued an executive order creating a special commission. It would
take the name of the man chosen to head it, Chief Justice EARL
WARREN.
Warren, a Past Grand Master of Masons in California, was
joined on the Commission by two other known Freemasons. They were
Senator RICHARD B. RUSSELL, a member of Winder Lodge No. 33,
Georgia, and Representative GERALD R. FORD of Michigan. John
Sherman Cooper, Hale Boggs, Allen W. Dulles, and John J. McCloy
made up the balance of the Commission." (pg 379)
It is difficult to reliably determine if other members of the
Warren Commission were also Freemasons, because no published
records of membership exist. Even Mr. A. E. Roberts, who should
have excellent access to masonic sources of information, qualifies
his list of Masonic participants on the Warren Commision to
describe 'known Freemasons'.
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