On the 45th Anniversary of the end of Camelot... there have been strange revelations on the conspiracy front. Not necesarrily true, but stange. At least, it makes for more drama than anything James Bond can offer on a gray weekend, now that that the 007 franchise has apparently decided to go "plotless" from now on (not that I didn't like the action).
And speaking of lost paths - how long will it take for the Aquarian dream of the sixties - peace, love, flower power, and all that - to re-establish itself in this new century, or will the same forces of evil prevail? Already Obama is being compared to JFK. The Dallas Police Association headquarters building is officially named "The George E. Butler Building" in honor of the detective who was the organized crime expert for the Dallas Police at the time when JFK was assassinated. Curiously, he was never interviewed by the Warren Commission despite his intimate knowledge of the situation. He was in charge of, and standing next to Oswald at that infamous moment his old friend and free-lap-dance supplier - Jack Ruby - silenced Lee Harvey for all eternity. He had known Jack Ruby and Ruby's sister Eva Grant since 1947 - or before, and knew that Ruby had an illegitimate son who met with him regularly in the sixties. And more intriguing is that Butler has been said to have been Dorothy Kilgallen's 'deep throat' information source -- that is: before she too was murdered to further silence the conspiracy. The bombshell she had obtained from Butler was apparently that Jack Ruby was Oswald's biological father. DNA could now confirm that - if any remains from the two. It would be no surprise if none survived, of course. Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939, in New Orleans before Ruby moved to Dallas. According to conventional wisdom Oswald's father died of a heart attack just two months before Oswald was born, leaving Oswald's mother to care for three young children. There is no indication that Ruby, who was itenerate at the time, was ever associated with Oswald's mother, except for the Butler revelation- so it is very easy to dismiss. It is almost too bizarre a detail for even Dorothy Kilgallen to have believed. But that knowledge may have been her death warrant - and an act which served double duty to silence Butler from then on. Less easy to dismiss, was a letter from the FBI to the Dallas police chief, found in an old safe recently, stating that Eva Grant (Ruby's sister) had sworn under oath immediately after the event, that her father had inexplicably obtained a full detailed police report on the preparations for Kennedy's visit to Dallas. Ruby was not likely to have be on the White House or Secret Service mailing list, so he probably got it through his mob connections, or through Butler. Did Ruby setup Lee in the Book Depository, which was the 'weak link' in security that was obvious to anyone with the aforementioned police report ? Should not the Warren Commission have mentioned Eva Grant's testimony in their report, even if it was discredited by her character as being true (she ended up as a prostitute)? All of that is makes for good fact-tinged fiction - but if there is a grain of truth to the recurrent suggestion that there exist a cadre of 'bad apples' remaining at high levels of goverment - pehaps even invigorated by 8 years of coddling by Dick Cheney, then Obama should be especially vigilant. There is no assurance that even the Secret Service has not been infiltrated by Cheney. Secret ServiceDirector Mark Sullivanasked congressional leaders in April to extend Cheney’s security detail beyond January when the administration leaves office, citing “the threat environment we face today,” The Washington Post reported that Cheneywill get a $4 million Secret Servicedetail for six months beyond the administration’s term. This is not without precedent but scary. Former agency officials said the request is reasonable considering the war in Iraq, the terrorism threat and the "unusually active role Cheney played in Washington". No kidding. They did not mention any special need for Cheney to stay in touch with the same people who will be protecting Obama. Guess we have to trust out govenrment on that one, no?
