American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us (29 page)

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Authors: Jesse Ventura,Dick Russell

Tags: #Conspiracies, #General, #Government, #National, #Conspiracy Theories, #United States, #Political Science

NOTES
Chapter One
1

Lincoln attending
Marble Heart
:
Lincoln and Booth
, by H. Donald Winkler, Cumberland House: Nashville, Tennessee, 2003, p. 38.

2

Plot in Baltimore:
Blood on the Moon
, by Edward Steers Jr., University Press of Kentucky, 2005 paperback edition, pp. 17-18.

3

Biological warfare plot: Ibid., pp. 47-48.

4

Dahlgren papers: Ibid., p. 45.

5

Booth and Knights: Winkler, p. 44.

6

Early plots: Ibid., pp. 50-53.

7

No more kidnapping: Steers.

8

Booth meeting conspirators: Steers, pp. 110-112; Winkler, p. 99.

9

Drunk customer to Booth: Winkler, p. 102.

10

“highest sources in Washington”: Ibid., p. 95.

11

Booth and assassination: Ibid., pp. 112- 114.

12

Carter, Reagan, and Mudd: Ibid., p. 127.

13

Mudd responsible for coconspirators: Ibid., p. 149.

14

Atzerodt on Booth and Mudd: Ibid., p. 149.

15

Mudd later years: Ibid., p. 138.

16

Corbett on shooting Booth: Steers, p. 204.

17

Unsolved Mysteries
theory: Ibid., p. 246, 250.

18

Bates's story: Ibid., pp. 246-250.

19

Booth body ID: Ibid., pp. 265-267.

20

Stanton's dragnet: Winkler,

21

Stanton prior knowledge: Winkler, p. 120-121.

22

Booth diary: Ibid., pp. 289-292.

23

Congressman Conness: Ibid., pp. 290- 292.

24

John Surratt: Ibid., pp. 235-248.

25

Come Retribution
theory: Ibid., p. 14.

26

Atzerodt lost confession:“George Atzerodt's Lost Confession,”
http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln82.html
.

27

Other theories on assassination: Ibid., Lincoln74.html.

Chapter Two
1

Basis of chapter:
The Plot to Seize the White House
, by Jules Archer, Hawthorne Books, New York, 1973. Except where otherwise noted, all material quoted is from this book.

2

American Liberty League: Archer, p. 160.

3

Quigley on Round Table Groups:
Tragedy and Hope
, by Carroll Quigley, The MacMillan Co., New York, 1966, p. 950.

4

Cecil Rhodes: Quote in Griffin, p. 271, citing
The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden
, Books in Focus, New York, 1981, pp. ix, 36.

5

Front for Morgan:
Tragedy and Hope
, pp. 951-952.

6

Quigley on goal of global financiers:
Tragedy and Hope
, p. 324.

7

Media: Ibid., p. 953.

8

Quigley on suppression: letters cited in
The Creature from Jekyll Island
, by G. Edward Griffin, American Media, Westlake Village, California, 24th printing May 2009, pp. 268-269. Griffin notes that the letters were first published in Summer 1976 issue of
Conspiracy Digest
, published by Peter McAlpine.

9

Rockefeller quote:
The Bilderberg Group
, by Daniel Estulin, TrineDay, 2009, North American Union Edition, p. 61.

10

Prescott Bush and plot:
http://carnival-of-anarchy.blogspot.com/2008/01/smedley-butler-and-business-plot.html
; “BBC: Bush's Grandfather Planned Fascist Coup in America,” by Paul Joseph Watson, July 24, 2007,
http://prisonplanet.com
.

11

Walker and money men:
American Dynasty
, by Kevin Phillips, Viking, New York, 2004, p. 179.

12

“part of this cabal”: Ibid., p. 180.

13

Union Banking/Thyssen: Ibid., p. 180.

14

Brown Brothers Harriman merger: Ibid., p. 184.

15

Relationships with Nazis: Ibid., p. 192.

16

Prescott Bush and Nazis: Ibid., pp. 38- 39.

17

“German embroilments”: Ibid., p. 39.

18

Butler on war: Archer, p. 220.

Chapter Three
1

“Magic bullet”: There are numerous sources on this, but one good one is
Not In Your Lifetime
, by Anthony Summers, updated edition, Marlowe & Co., New York, 1998, pp. 31-33.

2

Cyril Wecht: “Why Did Feds Persecute Celebrity Expert Cyril Wecht? Who's Next,” by Andrew Kreig,
www.huffingtonpost.com
, October 18, 2009.

3

Humes burning autopsy notes:
On the Trail of the JFK Assassins
, by Dick Russell, Skyhorse Publishing, 2008, p. 280 (interview with Douglas Horne).

4

Zapruder film to CIA lab: Ibid., p. 293.

5

Oswald prints on rifle: Summers, pp. 44- 45.

6

LBJ on Oswald: Telephone recordings of Johnson White House,
http://wwww.theatlantic.com/doc/200406/holland
.

7

Nixon on Warren Commission: Nixon tapes,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1848157.stm
.

8

Hoover on assassination: Summers, p. 376.

10

Oswald as FBI informant:
The Man Who Knew Too Much
, by Dick Russell, Carroll & Graf, New York, 1992, p. 68.

11

Oswald at Stripling:
Harvey and Lee
, pp. 98-99. Dick Russell also interviewed Frank Kudlaty and received verification for this story.

12

Hoover imposter memo: FBI File No. 105-82555, addressed to: Office of Security, Department of State.

13

Slawson quote:
New York Times
, February 23, 1975.

14

Harvey and Lee name shifts: Russell,
On the Trail
pp. 127-128.

15

Robert Oswald: Ibid., p. 128.

16

Harvey and Lee: Ibid., pp. 128-129.

17

Height discrepancies:
Khrushchev Killed Kennedy
by Michael H.B. Eddowes (Dallas, TX, self-published, 1975), pp. 18, 96-97.

18

Groody story: told to author Jim Marrs.

19

Oswald burial: Russell,
On the Trail
pp. 130-132.

20

Burroughs on two Oswalds in theater:
JFK and the Unspeakable
, by James W. Douglass, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N.Y., 2008, pp. 291-93.

21

Bernard Haire on two Oswalds: Ibid., p. 293.

22

Media and cover-up: This story is all drawn from Russell,
On the Trail
, pp. 34- 40, “The Media, the CIA, and the Cover-up.”

23

Media and
JFK
film: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) report.

Chapter Four
1

Gordon Parks, “I was a Zombie Then—Like All [Black] Muslims, I Was Hypnotized,”
Life
magazine, March 5, 1965, p. 28.

2

Sources for the chapter: I'm drawing heavily on an excellent article by James W. Douglass (“The Murder and Martyrdom of Malcolm X”), in a book called
The Assassinations
that I gave a cover endorsement for when it came out in 2003. Douglass summarizes the investigations recounted in several other books:
The Judas Factor,
by Karl Evanzz (1992),
Conspiracys: Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X
, by Baba Zak A. Kondo (1993), and the much earlier book by Louis E. Lomax,
To Kill a Black Man
(1968). Lomax was working on a documentary film alleging that the American intelligence community—specifically the FBI and CIA—had a hand in Malcolm X's assassination, when he died after the brakes on his car suddenly failed while he was driving to the studio on July 31, 1970.

3

FBI watching Malcolm X in prison: March 16, 1954, FBI report, captioned MALCOLM K. LITTLE, cited in
Conspiracys: Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X
, by Zak A. Kondo, Nubia Press, Washington, D.C., 1993.

4

Police inspector comment:
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
, as told to Alex Haley, Ballantine Books, New York, 1973, p. 309.

5

“neutralizing Malcolm X”: FBI HQ file on Elijah Muhammad; FBI NY file on Malcolm X, cited by Karl Evanzz,
The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X
, Thunder's Mouth Press, N.Y., 1992, p. 186.

6

John Ali background: “The Murder and Martyrdom of Malcolm X,” by James W. Douglass, in
The Assassinations
, edited by Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, Feral House, 2003, pp. 378-379.

7

“dark night of social disruption”: Evanzz. pp. 226-227.

8

Ulasewicz: Douglass, p. 390.

9

Roberts with Malcolm X: Ibid., pp. 390-391.

10

Assassins come together: Ibid., p. 392.

11

John Ali on “life in danger”: Evanzz, pp. 247-48.

12

Malcolm X on “resources”:
Ghosts in Our Blood
, by Jan Carew, Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago, 1994, p. 39.

13

CIA report/knowledge: Evanzz, p. 254.

14

Hoover on “social revolution”: Evanzz, p. 258.

15

John Lewis:
Walking with the Wind
, by John Lewis, Simon & Schuster, N.Y., 1998, p. 288.

16

Louis Farrakhan: Douglass, p. 400.

17

“bad rap sheet”:
The Death and Life of Malcolm X
, by Peter Goldman, University of Illinois Press, 1979 second edition, p. 261.

18

French knowledge: Douglass, p. 404, citing Eric Norden, “The Murder of Malcolm X,”
The Realist
, February 1967, p. 12.

19

Firebombing of house: Douglass, p. 406.

20

“dry run”: Douglass, p. 407.

21

“marked for death”: Haley, p. 428; Evanzz, p. 293.

22

Assassination day: Douglass, citing numerous sources, pp. 411-415.

23

Trial and Hayer confession: Douglass, p. 413.

24

Background on suspects: Appendix to Kondo, pp. 203-04.

25

Ali-Hayer meeting:” Douglass, p. 411. The author notes, “Hayer denied this to Peter Goldman, per Goldman p. 432.”

26

Ameer death: Evanzz, pp. 314-15.

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