TELLING STATEMENTS MADE BY OFFICIALS - 1st Press Conference on JFK Jr. Crash Conflicts With What Public Now Being Led to Believe ALSO: Brand New "Hi-Tech" Airport At Martha's Vineyard! AND: Light Pollution Cited as Increasing Problem In Area Makes Kennedy's Purported "Disorientation" Even Less Likely! © 1999 NewsHawk Inc. All Rights Reserved (Rights of UNALTERED reproduction/distribution hereby waived) 7.25.99 The first press briefing for news media on the disappearance of JFK Jr.'s flight took place on Saturday evening, July 17 at the BRAND NEW, state-of-the-art airport facility on Martha's Vineyard. I quote below some relevant excerpts from an article on this event in the Martha's Vineyard Times. 'The news that the plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. disappeared en route to Martha's Vineyard Friday night launched a media juggernaut early Saturday morning. By Saturday night, reporters and cameramen from around the country and the world had made their way to Martha's Vineyard and gathered at the Martha's Vineyard Airport terminal for the first official press briefing. 'At the Martha's Vineyard Airport, Beth Toomey, West Tisbury police chief, stepped into role of media ringmaster and set up an area for satellite trucks and reporters and later helped organize the first press briefing in an outside courtyard of the new airport terminal. 'Asked how a major news story comes together, Mr. Roberts...said that with any big story the best chance to talk to people and gather information was in the first three hours. "Later," he said, "people become tight lipped and very official." ' END EXCERPT The press briefing finally began some time shortly after 9 pm. After some brief statements by public safety officials, 1st assistant Cape & Islands DA Michael O'Keefe and Massachusetts State Police Capt. Robert Bird began answering answer reporters' questions. Questions about the plane, the flight, and the items recovered dominated. One reporter with a foreign accent asked if "the debris is being examined for explosives." "Not yet," was the answer. When another reporter asked Captain Byrd, "Is this case being considered a crime scene?", Cape & Islands DA O'Keefe HURRIEDLY took control of the microphone to answer quickly and emphatically "No!"......This IN NO WAY SUGGESTS THAT THERE IS ANY INVESTIGATION OTHER THAN TO DETERMINE THE IDENTITY OF THE DECEASED". What is significant here is that not ONLY does this indicate an official assumption less than 12 hours after the flight's disappearance that all aboard were dead, it ALSO shows that without the slightest supportive hard evidence of any kind and in fact with at least THREE eyewitnesses reporting an AIRBORNE explosion southwest of Philbin Beach around 9:40-9:45 in the EXACT sector of he sky where the flight "went missing", officials had obviously ALREADY "concluded" that nothing criminal or otherwise suspicious had happened to the plane! In other words, the decision had already been made at high levels to spin-doctor the entire event into being the result of pilot error or mechanical failure--as opposed to having been blown out of the sky as it now is apparent it WAS. Interestingly, however, Captain Byrd stated clearly in reference to material evidence of the crash which may come ashore, that "POSSESSION OF THIS EVIDENCE IS AN ARRESTABLE OFFENSE!! This warning means that any person who took possession of any such material evidence would be committing criminal action. It seems likely that at least some of this material evidence WOULD NOT validate the official disinformation accounts of the disaster. The following excerpt from the Letters to the Editor section of the Martha's Vineyard Times clearly refers not only to light pollution form the NEW airport facility on the island but ALSO to increasingly severe light pollution around the WHOLE ISLAND due to a new type of streetlight having been just installed. These salient facts make the likelihood that JFK JR. was unsure of is location, position, direction, altitude and flight path even LESS likely! ========================= Too Much Light at New Airport To the Editor: The Vineyard has taken another step towards becoming Orlando north. Last weekend, we took a late ferry back to the Vineyard after a few weeks away. When we arrived at our house south of the Edgartown/Vineyard Haven Road, turned off the car lights and stepped out of the car, I was astonished to see the sky to the north of us lit up as brightly as the Boston skyline. I drove north to discover that the new airport had apparently been opened in our absence, and there were now 60 new roadway lights in operation! Unlike the old street lights, which had their bulbs up inside a reflector where they would illuminate the ground but be shielded from the sky, these new lights are very bright and completely unshielded. Not only do they direct much of their light upwards, the glare from the bright, unshielded bulbs prevents you from seeing the grounds clearly. Considering The Martha's Vineyard Times series last year on the issue of light pollution, numerous letters to the editors of the Gazette and The Times about light pollution, the new Aquinnah building regulations covering lighting, and letters to the airport commissioners pleading with them to consider the issue of light pollution in the design of the new airport, who was the genius who specified these new street lights? They may have "architectural presence," but they destroy a large area of night sky. Please call and write the commissioners, demanding that they replace these lights with ones that shield their bulbs from the sky, like the new lights on the Vineyard Haven-Oak Bluffs causeway. We do not have to let "progress" turn the Vineyard into just another metropolitan suburb. Peter Jones Belmont and Edgartown ======================= END Well? 'Nuff said!
