EPISODE 508: WHO REALLY SHOT JFK? WITH ROGER STONE
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The Assassination of John F. Kennedy was a highly controversial event that took place in the late 50s and early 60s. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald, a member of the Joint Improving Relationships Unit (JRI) and a suspected communist spy unit. The government declassified only about 20% of the documents related to the JFK assassination, and President Donald J. Biden is still holding them back from public release.
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for every lie they tell we're gonna get in their face and yell two truths this is human events
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with your host jack posobik christ is king we have on someone who's very special joining us
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today this sunday it's roger stone longtime iconic legendary political operative but also also an
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acclaimed author and there is a piece that came out recently in the news about jfk classified files
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and the fact that president biden has extended the classification of files regarding the jfk
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assassination but what many people may not realize is that roger stone wrote an entire book all about
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the investigation and what really happened and we've got him here for the sunday special roger
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thank you so much for joining us jack thanks very much for having me so let's get into the the the
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top of it here what's the latest what are these files that biden has classified and why are they
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continuing to hold this back uh in 1978 uh the uh the congress under uh intense fire uh formed
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something called the house intelligence select committee on assassinations and the purpose of
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it was to re-examine the assassinations of not only uh president john f kennedy but also
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dr martin luther king uh and in that re-examination and hearings since most of the people staffing that
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committee uh had come from the investigation of organized crime on the one hand they debunked the
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warren commission theory that oswald was alone not gunman communist acting alone uh they declared that the
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that organized crime was involved in the murder of kennedy but then they went no further another is they
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they left us hanging on the rest at that time they passed a law that said uh in 2017 20 some 25 years
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later all of the uh documents pertaining to the murder of jfk would become declassified unless the
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president of the united states filed an objection in which case the president had the authority to kick
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the can down the road and set up a future date to re-examine and release the material so in 2017
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uh relatively early in his first term uh that date rolled around and donald trump was in the white house
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i contacted him i asked him what what what what are you what are you going to do about the jfk documents
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and he said what are you talking about i said well under the the assassinations uh records law all this
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material is going to become made public unless you decide otherwise and he said why hasn't anyone brought
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this to my attention i said well that's really a question for your staff sir uh but we're only a couple
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weeks away from the release date he said i don't think this is right i said it's definitely right
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i would ask you to look into it uh and see what what you think and he came back to me about a week
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later and he said well you're absolutely right this material is scheduled for declassification
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um you know they they don't want me to release it now by they i take that to mean the intelligence
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agencies and i say well what could possibly be their argument they said and he said uh it will expose
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our sources and methods well first of all our sources are all dead there's nobody who is directly
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involved uh at any level uh in the assassination assassination of john kennedy who's living and
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secondarily uh if the united states government was as i believe actively involved in the murder
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of a president well that's a method we as citizens need to know about so what then subsequently
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happened was um trump did release roughly 80 percent of the documents and we found out some
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shocking things for example uh lee harvey oswald uh had gotten a you know a 1099 from the fbi that's
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because he had been on their payroll he was an informant lee harvey oswald had attended the foreign
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languages school that is run by the central intelligence agency in north carolina that's how
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he learned to speak russian we learned about president lyndon johnson's early membership in texas in the
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ku klux klan that was among uh the documents that were included uh so there's a lot of stuff there that
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historians poured through there was a lot of interesting data but even he trump held back
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20 percent of the documents uh when i had the occasion to ask him about that i said um why didn't you
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let it all out and he said i can't tell you it's so horrible you wouldn't believe it someday you'll find
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out and that that was the sum total of it he didn't want to talk about it any further fast forward now
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so he kicked the can down the road uh to president joe biden the new date set by donald trump uh to
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re-review when these documents should be released several weeks ago and no surprise once again joe biden
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has decided to conceal this information from the american people so we have this missing 20 percent
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that's still outstanding it's still staying out from us still staying away you mentioned before
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that you believe the u.s may have been involved the u.s government and the title of the book i mean
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you put it right out there the man who killed kennedy the case against lbj and roger i don't know if
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i've ever told you this but i actually sat and read this book when i was still in the navy while
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while amid ships in my in my bunk you know on my bunk bed on a navy ship just sitting there paging
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actually i had an e-copy of it so i had it on my kindle because you couldn't get too much stuff in
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your sea bag and i read this thing cover to cover as it were while sitting on a navy ship and and
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realizing that there's so much that even all of it would it wasn't enough for oliver stone to fit it
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all in the movie so i guess we needed roger stone to come out and give us the rest well kindly enough
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after oliver stone read my book he actually sent me a note in which he said uh had he known a lot of
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the things that i brought to the fore in my book he would have included them in his movie that he didn't
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really understand the central role that lyndon johnson played in the murder of john f kennedy
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so look i i make a compelling argument using eyewitness evidence fingerprint evidence uh deep
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texas politics uh and a huge amount of what i i admit to you is circumstantial but i think compelling
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evidence that lyndon baines johnson is the man who had the motive means and opportunity to kill
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john f kennedy his motive um was the most obvious he was under investigation he johnson uh in the bobby
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baker scandal bobby baker was the sergeant of the u.s senate was lyndon johnson's chief bag man uh all
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corruption regarding senate appropriations flew flew uh flowed through baker the senate hearings into how
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into bobby baker opened on november uh twenty uh second november uh 1963 throughout the day of
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kennedy's assassination johnson was on the phone uh back to washington to see if his names had come up
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yet in the hearing but the other scandal the scandal that was a much bigger scandal was the billy sol
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estis scandal billy solestis was a flamboyant texas dealmaker wheeler dealer uh who would ultimately go
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to prison for his crimes uh and um johnson had gotten enormous federal grain storage contracts from which uh
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solestis made millions uh and so did his silent partner lyndon baines johnson i went to one of the
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book signings uh by robert caro who's written a multi uh volume pulitzer prize winning biography
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uh of uh lyndon johnson and i asked him how is it possible that billy solestis is not even mentioned
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in every any of those books p.s solestis took the fall did time when he did after he got out of prison
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um he put forward a series of statements uh which uh which implicate lyndon johnson uh in the murder
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of john f kennedy needless to say those got very little uh media coverage at the time now remember
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and and we'll dig into this and peel it back a little bit because it's a very interesting theory
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of the case and i think it's also something that a lot of people have have circled around even from the
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moments of when it initially happened of course obviously the ussr the involvement of of rv oswald
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and some of these cuban groups made him a perfect smokescreen but then at the same time and even
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myself looking at it um many years after the fact it's once jack ruby takes the shot at oswald suddenly
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it begins asking the question it's everyone asking the question what's really going on here and was this
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really the only person who was involved in a a lucky shot on the president of the united states and
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i think it's something where you know when people talk about uh murder mysteries and conspiracies
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it really is the one that everyone comes back to that the minute you begin opening up this door that
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suddenly so much information spills out it's it's in the midst of the raucous 60s a time of great
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change a time a time of great upheaval great tensions obviously the cuban missile crisis going
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on at the time the cold war is in full swing and so it is a time when we also know that the intelligence
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agencies were at the peak of their powers and the peak of their influence at least from a physical
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perspective within the united states and certainly within the u.s government and so we'll we're coming
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up on our first break here but but roger what was it that drove you to write this book in in just a
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minute uh i had a conversation when i was working for former president richard nixon this conversation
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which he had a couple cocktails uh and i asked him point blank who killed john f kennedy uh kind of
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shuddered and said let me put it to this way lyndon and i both wanted to be president the difference was
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i wasn't willing to kill for it wow there it is wow and talk about someone who did by the way
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actually have their election stolen not the uh the later election but the first election that of
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1960 which has been which has all come out and i think people widely acknowledge but at the same
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time we're not allowed to talk about things that may have happened recently only things that happened
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far far in the past stay tuned we're going to be right back with our continuing coverage this special
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of who shot jfk with mr roger stone roger let's wind back the clock november 22nd 1963
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dealey plaza dallas texas we've seen the film we've seen the review the zabruder film
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jackie onassis um her her actions her face after what happened prior to that motorcade
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driving through the plaza not just what happened in the video but what really happened well first
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of all it's important to understand the whole purpose of kennedy's trip to texas which is insisted
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on by vice president lyndon johnson is to bind up a division in the texas democratic party uh between
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the old conservative bourbon wing of the party represented by lyndon johnson uh and the more liberal
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progressive a wing of the party with a growing hispanic constituency headed by ralph yarborough so
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the idea is that the that uh kennedy would go to dallas be seen with the leaders of both wings of the
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party to bind the party uh it is uh lyndon johnson's then chief of staff john connolly uh then governor of
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texas after he was the chief of staff senator johnson later secretary of the treasury under
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president richard nixon um who insists uh on the route through dealey plaza kennedy had stayed the night
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the previous night in fort worth in a hotel uh he's driving from fourth fort worth to the merchandise
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dice mark uh in dallas uh the route through dealey plaza is neither the most direct route nor is it
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the safest route because the secret service manual specifically prohibits the presidential limousine
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from ever coming to a full stop in in dealey plaza not only does the limousine have to come to a full stop
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and has to make a hard right turn uh under the secret service manual the buildings on both sides of
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the street are supposed to have been searched uh cleared and sealed that hasn't happened uh they're
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supposed to be plainclothes secret service agents uh in uh in the crowds on both sides that doesn't
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happen they're supposed to be six uh a motorcycle escort of six motorcycles three each abreast of the
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presidential limousine there's only one motorcycle and it is behind the presidential limousine uh in
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violation of the manual uh and then of course there's supposed to be uh uh two secret service agents
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on the back bumper of the car you can go to youtube and see one of them being told by his
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superior to stand out he's shrugging his shoulders so uh all of the secret service protocols all of
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which had been followed in kennedy's trips to chicago and miami in the days just prior to the trip uh to
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texas are violated in this particular case i establish in my book uh that an attorney for lyndon johnson had
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obtained the secret service manual early in the kennedy presidency in fact on inauguration day of 1961
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a bitter bitter cold day in which washington had been hit by a blizzard at the outdoor ceremony in which
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kennedy uh is sworn in uh after kennedy is sworn in uh lyndon johnson is sworn in as vice president
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presidential speech writer ted sorenson turns to sergeant of arms and lyndon johnson lieutenant
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bobby baker and says well congratulations bobby uh bobby baker says john f kennedy will live a will
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die a premature and violent death and he storms away there there you have it folks
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so there's there's all of this tension and at the same time when when you look at the jfk assassination
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there's so many uh competing theories out there in the various research communities the various um you
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know oliver stone has his opinion jake tapper will always come in and make sure to defend the official
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version of events every time anyone talks about this it's almost like it's like he's being told
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that he has to say something about this very interesting um but jake is someone i keep an eye
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on as as the leaker of the dossier and the the validator of the dossier as we all remember from
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2016 2017 so you know roger what would you say then to folks that come to you and say well stone you've
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you've got it completely wrong it was it wasn't lbj it was it was the mob or it was the banks or it was
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the soviets or it was the langley um you're you're barking up the wrong tree lbj would never do that
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he may have been a little kooky later on in years but he wouldn't do something like this
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look i built my my book on the shoulders of many many others in other words i don't think any of
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those people are wrong uh the uh the military the military industrial complex the intelligence agencies
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uh and uh and the pentagon their motive is uh quite simple it's uh the bay of pigs uh which is a failed
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military invasion of of cuba for which they blame linden john pardon me they blame john f kennedy
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uh what hasn't been written is uh that plan included the use of 29 uh uh panamanium flagged bombers
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that were supposed to be piloted by cuban pilots that were supposed to take off from panama to
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provide air cover for the men storming the beach for reasons that are unknown uh charles cable the
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number two man at the cia whose brother earl cable just happens to be the mayor of dallas in a
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lyndon johnson intimate uh canceled the air cover the last minute the generals and the joint chiefs are
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telling jfk well you've got to send in the air force that's the only way to save this operation
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kennedy had only green lighted the the bay of pigs on the condition that we had plausible deniability
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that this was an indigenous cuban uprising not a u.s invasion uh they also blamed kennedy in the
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cuban missile crisis the narrative you've been told that brave jack and bobby kennedy faced down
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the key to khrushchev and he removed the missiles from cuba thus averting world war three ignores what
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we learned 40 years later but which was at that time classified we removed our missiles from turkey
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and italy in a bargain changing the the uh the balance of power in europe in return for a pledge from
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khrushchev to remove the missiles from cuba so uh there's there's great trepidation uh uh that uh
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kennedy is soft uh in the intelligence agencies as far as organized crime is concerned uh lyndon
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baines johnson was on the pad for organized crime he was being paid by carlos marcello who ran the
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mob in both louisiana and texas to protect the uh gambling dens uh that were run in houston dallas and
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san antonio a man named jack alfer uh was the bag man delivering johnson's payments
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halfer received a presidential pardon by the way on november 23rd 1963 how convenient uh those who
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say uh the bankers were upset yes john and robert kennedy were insisting on a silver or gold back dollar
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the rothschilds were not happy about this um they wanted to move towards paper money which has been the
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ruination of our of our system big texas oil their chief uh uh their chief water carrier uh in washington
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dc is of course the senator from texas led to the vice president lyndon baines johnson but as far as the
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fbi and the cia are concerned the cia's black box budget uh is controlled uh by the defense appropriate
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a secret secret defense appropriation subcommittee uh as chairman of pardon me he's majority leader
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of the senate johnson takes the rare step of serving on that committee himself while in the senate
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traditionally the majority leader would serve on no committee although he has the authority to do so
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and when he left that position he left senator harry f bird of florida one of his closest allies in charge
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johnson is the paymaster for the cia and of course he lives next door in uh morningside heights uh in
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the washington dc area uh the johnson daughters refer to j edgar hoover who would have been uh
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mandatorily retired in 1974 or 1964 had kennedy been re-elected as their uncle edgar so um lyndon
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johnson johnson is the common thread between uh the military industrial complex uh the bankers through
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elliott janeway uh the uh the organized crime crime through mars carlos marcelo he is the common thread
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but he's also the man with the greatest interest john f kennedy has already begun telling people that
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johnson will be dropped from the 1964 ticket if you read the biography of evelyn lincoln uh kennedy's
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uh personal secretary and also published within it the notes she made on air force one on her way
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back to washington after kennedy has been slain in which she makes a list of those who may have been
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responsible first on her list um is uh lyndon johnson the night before the assassination uh according to
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what uh jacklyn kennedy has written lyndon johnson goes to jack kennedy's hotel suite in fort worth
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and proposes a change in the lineup of the motorcade proposing that uh instead of john connelly
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riding in the presidential limousine uh with jack kennedy that that uh senator ralph yarborough
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arch enemy of lyndon johnson should ride with the president uh kennedy says absolutely not we're leaving
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things the way they are that was the whole purpose for me to be seen with connelly as the leader of the
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more conservative wing of the party i'm not making any changes johnson storms out of the room jacqueline
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kennedy writes uh she said to her husband what's wrong with him uh and john kennedy says oh he's just
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being linden hmm he's just being linden and so when when you see we're coming up on our next break but
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when you see through this lens that there are various interests that certainly were served by jfk's
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removal from office um and lbj then becomes the sort of linchpin for all of this his ties of course to dallas
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his diet ties to the leaders in dallas the politicians there the power structure it creates
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a situation where these are all people that know him from the law enforcement all the way down
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to the beat cops that are on the street to even potentially some of the secret service agents that
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uh that are assigned from the local office when we come back roger i want to talk to more about
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how could this have been avoided and what would have happened had jfk stayed in office come right
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now roger this is one of the cases of course some of the most famous gunshots that have ever been taken
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on u.s soil um the the uh there's a lot that line in full metal jacket old italian bolt action rifle
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scores three hits including a headshot um this is this is the great uh late great r army lee uh the
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drill sergeant describing how a u.s marine took the shots that that took out kennedy and so this physical
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evidence uh it also is explained through the abilities of a junior prosecutor uh later a united
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states senator from pennsylvania who i know you know uh the late great arlen specter who comes up with
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this the silver bullet theory which he's later referred to as silver bullet specter so the physical
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evidence as well as the zabruder tape which by the way none of these and and people need to understand
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that in the 1960s the idea that somebody would be on the side of a road with a camera like a video
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camera video lens like this um home camcorders were very new to the market this is not 2022 where
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everybody's got a cell phone and so people knew there would be photographs of the situation but the
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fact that an actual videotape of this exists is extremely rare for the situation so anyone involved
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from from harvey on down to to any of these various entities would likely not have anticipated that a
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video would be shot so so roger let's get into the gunshots the physical evidence and where we left
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you were talking about the placement of the men in the motorcade and in the car itself now you got a
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number of problems here first of all no government marksman has ever been able to replicate the alleged
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shot because a motorcycle police officer had left his microphone on we know the exact timing between
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the shots uh and no no marksman uh invested jesse ventura tried as well but no government marksman has
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ever been able to get off three shots within the time sequence required also if you look at the footage
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in the zap order film there's a period in which kennedy's uh motorcade drives behind the street sign so he
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cannot physically be seen which does not lend itself to a clear shot additionally uh if john f kennedy
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was killed with a cheap 29 italian carbine how come there are no nitrate burns on his hands
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or his chest according to the police report uh when oswald uh is uh apprehended um they parade him in
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public what does he say i didn't shoot anyone he says i'm a patsy uh indeed um he did not shoot uh anyone
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you also have to wonder why a man suspected of killing the president united states is being paraded
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through public in a public area where of course he is murdered by jack ruby the warring commission
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tells us that jack ruby had no known association with organized crime which is funny because he
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ran a casino for mark carlos marcello in havana uh and his club the carousel club in dallas is actually
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owned by marcello uh and ruby is merely fronting for him jack ruby is known as a
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long-time button man for the mob you also have the problem of course with the murder of officer
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tippett um it is alleged that in his fleeing from uh uh dealie plaza oswald goes first to his home
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for a change of clothes at least a change of jacket the landlady by the way uh testifies to the warring
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commission that a dallas police car pulls up in front of the boarding house honks the horn three
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times and drives away what's that about why why did that not make the warring commission a report uh
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the her deposition is quite findable then of course at the scene where oswald allegedly shot tippett
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uh the shell casings on the ground uh came from uh an automatic the problem with that is when lee harvey
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oswald is apprehended at a theater nearby um he's brandishing a revolver this entire story is full of
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holes uh at this point the thing that's the most bullet riddled is the warring commission report uh even
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in the case uh of lyndon johnson pardon me in the case of arlen specter's magic bullet theory there's
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a couple different problems first of all jaker hoover and the fbi wrap up their investigation
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of the murder of john f kennedy in less than a week uh look one gunman shooting uh from behind three shots
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that's it okay kid they say to 29 year old uh arlen specter who's been brought in as the chief
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investigator the deputy uh of the warring commission go wrap it up kid the problem with that is uh that
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jim tague um who was a young car dealer uh had walked down to dealey plaza to watch uh the presidential
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motorcade while he's standing there a bullet hits the curb next to where he's standing a fleck of cement
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comes up and grazes his shoulder and he is bleeding this is seen by a dallas county sheriff's officer
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who says we've got to go report this takes him to the dallas police he fills out a report um he expects
00:30:24.340
to hear from the authorities but then nothing happens he keeps seeing on television and reading
00:30:30.100
the newspaper there are only three shots all three shots are accounted for they all came uh from behind
00:30:37.140
even though uh in the zap rudder film kennedy's head can be seen uh back he it goes back and to the
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right now i believe there are multiple gunmen i believe kennedy is shot from the front and the back
00:30:52.900
there is a an entrance wound on his throat um that is they immediately do a tracheotomy so that you can't
00:30:59.940
tell whether that's an entry wound or an extra wound uh but it is indisputable in the new york times report
00:31:06.420
this that at the request of j edgar hoover warren commission member gerald ford then a congressman
00:31:14.580
from michigan and the minority leader of the republicans in the house physically takes a pencil
00:31:20.980
and on the diagram in the autopsy moves the depiction of the wound from kennedy's upper back to his neck
00:31:29.700
uh to accommodate the the magic bullet theory when asked by the new york times why he did this he said
00:31:38.420
well the country needed finality not the country needed truth but the country needed a finality
00:31:46.740
uh so um i believe that there are certainly more than three but bullets uh and there's a physical
00:31:52.660
evidence uh which they've tried forever to explain away uh that kennedy was shot you know uh in a turkey
00:32:00.740
shoot from both the front and the back and this this is i was just going to say that's the line in in
00:32:05.940
this the oliver stone movie they said he drove it's uh jim garrison he drove into a turkey shoot that it was
00:32:12.660
not some lone gunman and i i do think that the just the general common sense uh take by so many people
00:32:22.180
having heard this as the official explanation that a 29 year old kid with uh who would who had had some
00:32:29.380
military experience but was not um notably proficient with this was was somehow able to pull something
00:32:36.420
like this off it it doesn't seem to make sense it doesn't carry water and the idea that uh that we
00:32:45.300
were just supposed to go along with it in a in addition to as you say there are so many stories
00:32:51.380
that have come out from that day from that moment uh people who were seen and never heard from again
00:32:57.300
the the man with the umbrella uh you know who has an umbrella on a on a clear day these these type of
00:33:03.060
things that multiple witnesses uh are subsequently killed that that is true um legally harvey oswald
00:33:11.620
is not only not the shooter he's not even on the sixth floor of this texas school book depository
00:33:16.900
building there are multiple witnesses who see a man uh in the window of the sixth floor they all
00:33:22.900
describe some of them are prisoners by the way in a in a jail which is across the street kind of a
00:33:28.900
captive audience so to speak um where they have a clear view of the texas school book depository
00:33:33.780
building others are on the ground they all describe a man who's middle set balding uh and wearing
00:33:40.580
spectacles some of them say he's wearing a light colored jacket that is a description of the man whose
00:33:46.100
fingerprints are found on the so-called crow's nest his name is malcolm wallace he's an employee of the
00:33:53.940
u.s agriculture department uh patronage job gotten for him um by uh senator lyndon johnson we have his
00:34:02.180
fingerprints because in 1951 uh in cold blood and in uh with the wide open he murders a man uh in dallas
00:34:10.820
who's involved in a uh in a uh a love triangle with lyndon johnson's sister uh and the man has begun
00:34:18.420
trying to blackmail johnson regarding corruption in the uh and the u.s senate election so malcolm
00:34:26.180
wallace killed that man he was convicted of first-degree murder the only case of first-degree
00:34:32.100
murder in texas history in which the man convicted received probation he is at least one of his shooters
00:34:41.220
joan mellon who's a pretty prominent author has written a book in an attempt to debunk this she's
00:34:47.860
full of crap i'd be happy to meet her anytime any place i'll just like to know where the funding for
00:34:53.380
her book came from lyndon johnson was very very shrewd about his legacy uh he sent jack valente one of
00:35:01.460
his top aides to head the motion business association so there would never be a movie uh until oliver
00:35:08.100
stone's movie came along about the kennedy assassination uh the former chairman emeritus of cnn
00:35:16.260
whose name enough strangely enough was also johnson is one of the reasons why cnn is more adamant
00:35:23.060
about pushing the falsehoods of the warring commission than any of the the other networks
00:35:30.420
and in addition we we've had this case the separate commission that came out and found that it was not
00:35:39.300
merely the act of one man this is an official government case and yet that's never referred to
00:35:45.300
that's never discussed you don't see it getting the prominence that it ever i think one of the first
00:35:49.860
times i ever realized realized it existed was from reading your book was reading this book about jfk and
00:35:56.420
then really because for me this had always been one of those cases that i'd heard about and i i didn't
00:36:01.940
necessarily accept the uh the company line on the whole thing but i'd never gone down the rabbit hole
00:36:08.900
because i didn't feel like i had a good entry point until i got a copy of your book and i said you
00:36:14.260
know what it's time for me to do this i'm gonna dig through now roger we're coming up on our last break
00:36:18.660
but when we come back i do want to get into that next question of the america that would have been
00:36:24.980
had these shots not been fired stay tuned we're coming back for our last segment with roger stone on who
00:36:31.300
shot jfk now roger we're coming in it's our last segment we've laid out the foundation for why so
00:36:39.780
many powerful entities stood to gain from the death of jfk you've walked us through the physical evidence
00:36:49.380
in addition to the evidence of the route the security the lack security the security violations of the
00:36:56.260
secret service and you've debunked much of the physical evidence that's presented to us in the
00:37:01.620
official case but i want to ask you a question and this is more drawing on your background as
00:37:07.300
a political analyst and a political operative but walk us through what would have been the america
00:37:15.620
that could have existed and then i know it's you know it's hard to ask those type of questions
00:37:19.620
but let's say jfk lives goes on and we'll give him the reelection
00:37:23.860
do we not get into vietnam do we not go off the gold standard walk us through the america that would
00:37:30.980
have been well we do know that kennedy had reached out through french back channels to fidel castro
00:37:40.580
to talk about peace talks to talk about coexistence the pentagon was very deeply opposed to that
00:37:49.940
we also uh know uh that uh and there's some discrepancy about this it is the thesis uh of
00:37:58.180
oliver stone uh it is also the thesis of those who wish to burn is the image of camelot uh that john
00:38:05.540
kennedy was uh uh was waking up to the fact that uh a deeper and deeper involvement in vietnam
00:38:13.060
was mistaken was preparing to withdraw troops it is notable that in an oral history after jfk's death
00:38:21.860
robert kennedy insists vehemently that that was not the case that john kennedy was committed to the
00:38:29.620
defeat of communism in vietnam so that's an open question um he certainly was adamant about a gold or
00:38:37.620
silver backed dollar it would ultimately be richard nixon who closes the gold window nixon's probably
00:38:44.340
nixon's single greatest mistake i've written about two different books uh but the but the uh the
00:38:51.860
bankers were already agitating to come off the gold standard maybe that would not have happened kennedy
00:38:58.500
had a very deep distrust of the intelligence agencies after the fiasco at the bay of pigs
00:39:06.260
he threatened as he put it to smash the cia into a million pieces uh and um and therefore perhaps
00:39:13.540
you would not have the the rogue cia the rogue fbi that you have today interestingly enough in the
00:39:22.100
immediate heels of kennedy's murder former president harry truman wrote an op-ed piece for the washington
00:39:29.300
post in which he said signing the cia into law was the greatest single mistake that he had made
00:39:36.260
they were supposed to be limited only to foreign intelligence gathering and services but they were
00:39:42.420
operating in this country illegally that op-ed runs for one edition only before it is spiked so they
00:39:51.460
actually were able to spike an op-ed by a former and at that point very respected president of the
00:39:58.500
united states what kennedy might have achieved in the second term well he achieved nothing for civil
00:40:05.220
rights in the first term uh he had uh campaigned very hard for a fair housing law for a voting
00:40:11.780
rights act uh but uh president vice president lyndon johnson a lifelong segregationist i might add um had
00:40:19.700
convinced him that because the old bulls in the senate chaired most of the committees they would eviscerate
00:40:26.260
kennedy's budget and program and that he had to wait until a second term to keep his promises on civil rights
00:40:33.940
then of course after the murder of john f kennedy it was lyndon johnson the man who wrote the southern
00:40:41.540
manifesto against civil rights although didn't sign it himself because he was looking at running for
00:40:46.980
president in 1960 who completely reverses himself and becomes essentially the father of american civil
00:40:53.940
rights law saving that opportunity for himself that in turn bought johnson an enormous amount of cover
00:41:02.500
to deepen our engagement in vietnam which even then democrats on the left were beginning to question
00:41:10.180
so um it is uh i have new respect for kennedy as a nixon republican i'd always resented um uh something i
00:41:19.060
document to my other books the theft of the 1960 election uh but i now recognize uh that kennedy was a much
00:41:27.380
greater man than i had thought that his plans for the country um were much more anti-establishment and
00:41:35.060
much more reform oriented i think he was a peacemaker even though he had run to nixon's right uh in 1960 as
00:41:44.180
as a cold warrior uh insisting that we uh uh that uh we take a harder line on castro uh we fought about
00:41:52.260
the chinese islands of quimoy and mat su that were then uh being disputed in terms of their ownership
00:41:58.740
between the nationalist chinese and the communist chinese so quite still being disputed uh but but
00:42:05.220
ironically uh in retrospect uh my the whole exercise brought me much much greater respect
00:42:12.340
for john f kennedy i think he was a great man i think he was murdered by all of these entities each
00:42:18.980
one of them had their own specific interest johnson's interest was staying out of prison obviously uh but i
00:42:25.940
think um his his second term as candidate as president i think he would have achieved many
00:42:31.140
great things we know roger when i actually um had an occasion back in 2016 to be a member of a panel
00:42:37.620
on the joy reed show on msnbc and uh when when asked about civil rights i brought up the history of
00:42:47.220
lyndon bades johnson and his personal history of being against civil rights for the entire time that
00:42:53.220
he was in the congress and the senate and uh she promptly tried to have me thrown off of her show
00:42:58.420
she didn't like that i brought that up there's a terrific book on this entitled bystander by nick
00:43:04.420
bryan which documents uh lyndon johnson first of all john f kennedy's great promises uh in the 1960
00:43:13.220
campaign virtue all of which were thwarted by vice president lyndon johnson until the time that johnson
00:43:19.460
became president and then reserved those positions for himself as you know he is famously quoted as
00:43:26.180
saying i'll have those and we're voting democratic for a hundred years and so he has roger the other
00:43:36.420
case that i think i think there's another book to be written and roger i i don't know if you're the man
00:43:43.060
to do it but i think you are and that's a book about watergate because this story i think in the
00:43:52.820
aftermath of the intelligence agencies actions during the trump administration it has gotten so
00:44:02.660
many millions of people going back and re-examining some of these past cases like the jfk assassination
00:44:09.940
and then also watergate from a sense of this individual mark felt deep throat was he a leaker
00:44:20.340
or was he a plotter and were woodward and bernstein were they themselves uh intrepid journalists or were
00:44:30.260
they patsies for the national security state and i think that's a frame that none of the watergate
00:44:37.620
researchers have really explained yet but i think it's a story that people are willing now to actually
00:44:45.300
have the discussion of and john dean and madeline dean and whose names are on that client list in
00:44:51.380
her desk and there's a whole story about that but interestingly enough this also comes up in your book
00:44:59.300
watergate in the sense that watergate is almost a an operation that that builds out of dealey plaza and
00:45:08.180
what happened there walk us through that sure first of all four of the uh watergate burglars are on the
00:45:14.980
ground uh in dilly plaza how could that be uh e howard hunt one of the watergate burglars uh says on his
00:45:22.900
a deathbed that he was there working for the agency but he was a backbencher he also says by the way
00:45:29.220
lyndon johnson was the man calling the shots um you the people who removed kennedy are the same people
00:45:36.900
who moved uh nixon and for the same reasons uh the pentagon and the central intelligence agency were
00:45:43.700
opposed to the strategic arms limitation agreements that nixon reached with the russians they were opposed
00:45:50.500
to normalizing our relationships uh with uh with the chinese they were opposed to ending the war in
00:45:58.660
vietnam they were opposed to ending the military draft richard nixon's great sin he was a peacemaker
00:46:07.140
they expect him to be even more of a cold warrior than johnson had been i don't know how you could
00:46:12.420
have stepped up the bombing in vietnam any more than lyndon johnson did but uh henry kissinger and uh
00:46:19.780
and richard nixon understood that they needed to withdraw from vietnam they needed to cover their
00:46:25.940
retreat while doing so so um there's been a number of of documents declassified just in recent months
00:46:34.740
terrific piece on this by james rosen uh now at newsmax i think formerly with fox news uh at real clear
00:46:42.180
politics it is absolutely clear uh that at least three of the watergate burglars are still
00:46:48.340
actively on the payroll uh of the central intelligence agency and they're reporting uh to their handlers
00:46:56.500
prior and during the break-in so uh it is in the book silent coup by len collodny who passed recently
00:47:04.500
it is a second coup nixon it's not that nixon's men did not give the central intelligence agency
00:47:10.660
the opening they did but who is it who starts demanding the wiretapping of uh journalists and
00:47:18.260
white house staff members to find leakers why that would be henry kissinger man who has walked away from
00:47:24.580
that train wreck completely and totally unscathed the people who killed kennedy john kennedy are the same
00:47:32.100
people who killed his brother robert kennedy and who are the same people in essence uh who removed richard
00:47:39.300
nixon uh in many ways it is uh their uh is their successors who sought to remove a donald trump for
00:47:47.860
president from the presidency and i think that's what brings it all together roger i'm i know you've done
00:47:53.300
one book on nixon but i'm just saying i i think there might be another book specifically on maybe a
00:48:00.500
follow-up to silent coup in a sense in a spiritual sense and i think roger stone is the man to do it
00:48:06.500
a man who always has richard nixon very close to him roger thank you very much for for taking time
00:48:12.980
with us here on human events daily folks you can do a google image search of roger stone shirtless to
00:48:18.020
understand what that means roger where can people follow you uh they can follow me at stonezone.com
00:48:23.540
you get a copy of my book uh the man who killed kennedy the case against lbj by going to
00:48:28.980
stonezone.com in the shop you get a signed copy of it it is a new york times bestseller
00:48:35.380
quite proud of it make a great christmas gift um jack is alluding to the fact that i have a
00:48:41.300
a tattoo of richard nixon on my back it's not there for any political reason it's there
00:48:47.300
as a daily reminder that in life when you're knocked down when you suffer defeats when you have
00:48:53.460
setbacks when you are uh dejected or depressed that's the time you have to get back up on your
00:48:59.300
feet and get back in the game story of nixon putting politics aside is a story of resilience
00:49:05.700
it's a story of persistence it's an american story roger stone god bless you ladies and
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gentlemen as always you have my permission to lay ashore