On March 20th, at the direction of President Donald Trump, the National Archives released the entire JFK Assassination Records Collection. Having now read all 77,000 pages, and having burned the midnight oil to do so, I can tell you definitively, having written a New York Times bestselling book on the Kennedy assassination, that these records are woefully incomplete.
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00:00:10.540Well, back on March 18th and 20th at the direction of President Donald Trump,
00:00:16.380the National Archives released the entire JFK assassination records collection
00:00:23.420from the National Archives. Having now read all 77,000 pages, and yes, I had to burn the midnight
00:00:33.220oil to do that, I can tell you definitively, having written a New York Times bestselling book
00:00:40.100on the Kennedy assassination, that these records are woefully incomplete. I don't blame President
00:00:47.340Trump, nor do I blame National Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, because they adhered
00:00:53.780exactly to the President's order. The problem is that the National Archives JFK assassination
00:01:00.440records collection is in itself incomplete, meaning that there are thousands of documents still at
00:01:08.600the FBI, the CIA, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the IRS, the U.S. Army
00:01:16.440intelligence, and elsewhere that were not included. It's interesting because we know that there
00:01:23.140are audios, videos, and documents that were actually reviewed by the Assassination Records
00:01:32.020Review Board, which was the last time the government set up a review process for these documents back
00:01:38.920back in the late 90s. Nothing that I have seen, for example, addresses the fact that the House Special
00:01:47.080Select Committee on Assassinations that was appointed in the late 70s conducted an exhaustive investigation
00:01:55.720and concluded that organized crime had played a central role in John Kennedy's murder. Yet none of the
00:02:04.960documents released by the National Archives addressed the question of the involvement of organized crime.
00:02:14.720Nothing that I have seen in these documents changed my fundamental theme of my own book and my own
00:02:20.880research, which tells me that there was a plot that involved Lyndon Baines Johnson at the helm,
00:02:28.960the Central Intelligence Agency, organized crime, and Big Texas Oil to kill John F. Kennedy. Each one of
00:02:38.240those entities had their own individual motive. Let's speak first of all to the motive of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
00:02:47.920Johnson was under investigation in two of the largest corruption scandals of the 1960s. First, there was the
00:02:56.560Bobby Baker scandal. Baker was the Secretary of the U.S. Senate. He was Lyndon Johnson's right-hand man,
00:03:04.960some would say his bag man. No major appropriation went through the Senate in the 1950s when Johnson was
00:03:13.840the majority leader without a payoff to Bobby Baker. Baker would later write a colorful biography that was
00:03:21.600serialized by Politico. If you needed a prostitute or you needed a payoff or if you needed a little
00:03:31.200assistance, well, Baker was the man in the U.S. Senate to see. Johnson maintained a suite at the old
00:03:38.800Sheraton-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., where prostitutes, both men and women, entertained senators and
00:03:47.200congressmen. Unbeknownst to them, this was outfitted with a two-way mirror and a camera. All of this,
00:03:56.000again, in Baker's memoir. This is why, as a Senate majority leader, Lyndon Johnson didn't lose many
00:04:03.840votes on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Johnson was also under investigation in the Billy Sal Estes
00:04:11.280investigation. Sal Estes was a flamboyant Texas Wheeler dealer, and he had received multiple
00:04:19.200million-dollar contracts from the Agricultural Department regarding fertilizer tanks that,
00:04:25.760well, didn't really exist. But he was kicking back to LBJ. In fact, the U.S. Senate hearings,
00:04:34.080run by John J. Williams, the senator from Delaware, opened in the Senate on November 22, 1963.
00:04:43.280Throughout that day, Johnson was in constant telephone contact with his Confederates back
00:04:48.880in Washington to see whether his name had come up. So Lyndon Johnson knew that Attorney General Robert
00:04:58.640F. Kennedy had begun telling people that Johnson would be dropped from the 1964 ticket and he would
00:05:06.720be replaced. In fact, John Kennedy, according to the memoirs of his personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln,
00:05:16.000had told Lincoln that Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina was the likely choice to replace LBJ.
00:05:23.520So Johnson was a man staring into the abyss. Now, it's interesting that Robert Caro, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
00:05:34.240author, whose book is far more famous than mine, my book, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, The Case Against LBJ,
00:05:42.400he won a Pulitzer Prize for a three-volume biography of LBJ. But somehow, Billy Sal Estes is never
00:05:52.320mentioned once in that three-volume biography. It was Lyndon Johnson who convinced John Kennedy to go
00:06:02.080to Texas. The purpose of that trip was to bind up divisions in the Democrat Party that between the
00:06:12.640progressive wing headed by Senator Ralph Yarbrough and the bourbon or more conservative wing headed by
00:06:21.040Senator Governor, pardon me, John Connolly. Connolly had formerly served as Johnson's chief of staff in the U.S.
00:06:30.560Senate and in the Senate Majority Leader's Office until returning to Texas to run for governor. It never made
00:06:38.320any sense as to why the motorcade went through the city of Dallas because on that fateful day, John F. Kennedy was
00:06:46.300driving from the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport to the Merchandise Mart, both of them outside the city limits
00:06:54.780of Dallas. And the easiest way to get between them was on the freeway, where the car, of course, would
00:07:01.340never have come to a full stop. If you go to the autobiography of Jerry Bruno, who was the chief advance
00:07:10.780man for President John F. Kennedy, Bruno records that he objected to the motorcade route that had
00:07:18.940the president's limo and motorcade going through Dealey Plaza, where the car was required to come to a
00:07:27.260full stop at a stop sign, and that Governor Connolly insisted that they would take that route or the entire
00:07:35.100trip to Texas would be canceled. We also know because of the memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy that the night
00:07:41.900before the assassination, Lyndon Johnson, the vice president, went to JFK's suite at the Fort Worth
00:07:50.140Hotel and argued that they should change the motorcade entourage to put his hated rival, Senator Ralph
00:07:59.260Yarbrough, in Kennedy's car, the so-called death car, and move Governor Connolly to the vice president's
00:08:07.340limousine, which would normally be only one car length away from the presidential limousine with a carload of
00:08:17.020Secret Service agents between them. But the president said that would undo the whole purpose of the trip, which was
00:08:24.620for Kennedy to be seen with Connolly. Johnson did not take this news well, storming out of the room after pitching
00:08:33.980a fit. In fact, Jacqueline Kennedy said to her husband, what was that all about? And JFK said, well, that was just
00:08:41.020Lyndon being Lyndon. Now, I have demonstrated in my book that the most likely shooter from the sixth floor of the Texas
00:08:50.700School Book Depository Building is a man named Malcolm Mack Wallace. Wallace has a clear connection
00:08:57.900to Lyndon Johnson. In 1951, Malcolm Wallace, who was a Marine Corps veteran but a much more highly
00:09:06.860rated shot than Lee Harvey Oswald, was convicted of first-degree murder. Wallace was convicted of first-degree
00:09:14.700murder. He was represented at trial by John Cofer, who was Lyndon Baines Johnson's personal attorney,
00:09:21.980and he is the only man in the history of Texas jurisprudence to be convicted of murder, but to get off
00:09:31.100with probation. So we know that the Dallas police found multiple fingerprints for Wallace, both on the
00:09:42.060window encasement and in the cardboard boxes that fashioned the so-called crow's nest from which the
00:09:49.260shooter from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository shot. No fewer than six people see a man
00:09:58.060who meets the physical description of Wallace in the window, meaning of medium build, balding, and every
00:10:05.580one of them says wearing glasses. That is most certainly not a description of Lee Harvey Oswald.
00:10:13.500Now add to the fact that the Dallas police conduct a paraffin test on Oswald and they see that he has
00:10:22.460no powder burns on his chest or his arms or his cheeks or his hands. So if he had indeed shot a leaky
00:10:30.94026 dollar World War II vintage Carcano rifle, he would have had powder burns all over him. He had
00:10:41.420none. Then there is the idea that Wallace, pardon me, that Oswald had time to get off three shots all from
00:10:49.500behind to hit John Kennedy and kill him, hide the rifle, and then run down four flights of stairs from the
00:10:58.620sixth floor to the sixth floor to the second floor of the Texas School Book Depository building. The
00:11:03.900problem with that is that a another Texas School Book Depository employee, Victoria Adams, was on the
00:11:11.420staircase between the fourth and second floor at that exact time, 90 seconds after Kennedy was shot and she
00:11:21.580neither saw, neither saw nor heard, neither saw nor heard Lee Harvey Oswald and a Dallas police officer
00:11:27.660records that he saw Wallace in the lunchroom on the second floor calmly eating an apple as part of his
00:11:36.620lunch and drinking a Coke only 90 seconds after the first, the final shot hit Kennedy. So I stick to my
00:11:47.260theory that Johnson had the greatest single motive, means and opportunity to kill John Kennedy, but I'm
00:11:58.300not arguing that by the way that he did it alone. The Central Intelligence Agency plays a very key role in
00:12:05.500the murder of John F. Kennedy. They had two motives. First of all, there was the botched Bay of Pigs
00:12:13.260operation. For years we were told that the Bay of Pigs failed because the men storming the beaches in a CIA
00:12:23.420laid out plan were cut to ribbons due to any lack of air support. But the truth is that the plan that was
00:12:31.260approved by John F. Kennedy, the CIA plan, included 29 Panamanian flagged bombers that were supposed to be
00:12:41.900piloted by Cuban pilots. That was canceled by the CIA the day before the invasion. This was a fiasco for
00:12:52.940which John F. Kennedy took full responsibility. When we come back, I will tell you about the mob's
00:13:00.780motive, but then I want to focus on the released documents regarding Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
00:13:07.020They came out on April 18th. There's only 10,000 of them. I've also now had the opportunity to read
00:13:13.100those, but we have just learned that there are 50,000 pages that we have not seen yet that have
00:13:21.340not been released. You're tuned into the Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. Whatever you do, don't touch that
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00:14:04.860And we're back. We're deconstructing the 77,000 documents released by the National Archives
00:14:12.060pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But as I was indicating,
00:14:18.220the Central Intelligence Agency in this latest dump, at a minimum, demonstrates that they knew far
00:14:24.100more about Lee Harvey Oswald than they ever admitted before. In addition to the Bay of Pigs
00:14:31.680fiasco for which the CIA blamed Kennedy, for which Kennedy blamed the CIA, there was the Cuban
00:14:38.320missile crisis. Now, we've all heard the story. There's actually a movie about it, 14 Days, about how
00:14:44.000brave Robert and John Kennedy faced down Nikita Khrushchev, who then withdrew the missiles from Cuba.
00:14:54.620The problem with that, of course, is that it's not true. The Pentagon and our intelligence agencies knew
00:15:00.860in real time that the Kennedys made a secret deal that would be classified for 40 years to remove our
00:15:08.300missiles from Turkey and Italy, NATO missiles, changing the balance of power in Europe in return
00:15:14.540for a pledge from Khrushchev to remove the missiles from Cuba that included no on-site inspections.
00:15:20.940Perhaps this is why John F. Kennedy said that he would smash the CIA into a million pieces.
00:15:29.500Now we have the release of the documents regarding the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy was
00:15:37.260murdered in the Ambassador Hotel on the night of his greatest triumph. That was his victory in the
00:15:43.660California Democrat primary for president in 1968. I argue that Senator Kennedy probably
00:15:50.860sealed his fate speaking to a student audience just days before in California when asked if he was
00:15:58.300elected president. He had always given lip service to the Warren Commission conclusions, but he did say
00:16:05.260for the first time that if elected president, he would reopen the investigation into his brother's death.
00:16:11.500Here's the problem. Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of killing Robert Kennedy, was always in front of him.
00:16:19.980He was also shooting wildly. He got off eight shots, but all eight shots are accounted for, and none of those eight shots hit Robert F. Kennedy.
00:16:31.980According to the L.A. County Coroner, Thomas Noguchi, Robert F. Kennedy was shot from behind at the left rear of his skull at point-blank range.
00:16:45.800That means with the barrel of the gun right up against his head.
00:16:51.500I believe that the killer is Thane Eugene Cesar, a Filipino who was a security guard hired by the Ambassador Hotel the week before the Kennedy murder, and who abruptly quit his job and returned to the Philippines.
00:17:09.460By the way, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. agrees with me, said so in a terrific interview with Mike Tyson, of all people.
00:17:18.340It really is spellbinding. I wish you could see it, but it was posted on YouTube where it was very quickly taken down.
00:17:26.380I guess it's another example of censorship.
00:17:29.660Don't go away. You're in the Stone Zone. We're going to talk about saving the animals when we come back.
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00:18:46.500We tried to save his leg, but it had to be amputated.
00:18:49.680It's amazing how he got along incredibly well on three legs, and he lived a long and full life as an adoptee in our household.
00:18:59.760Some of the work that I'm proudest of during President Donald Trump's first term is when I worked as a volunteer with the White Coat Waste Project
00:19:10.860to end the inhumane and horrific so-called scientific taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs, cats, and other primates.
00:19:23.740We made great strides during the first Trump presidency, and the president zeroed out funding for these horrific, unscientific, but chilling experiments.
00:19:37.980But now it appears that some of it is back.
00:19:41.040Joining me now, Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Public Policy at the White Coat Waste Project.
00:19:48.880For more than 15 years, Justin has led winning grassroots and lobbying campaigns to expose and end the wasteful and cruel taxpayer-funded experiments on dogs, cats, primates, and other animals.
00:20:03.760Justin, welcome back in to the Stone Zone.
00:20:06.740Roger, it's a pleasure to be here, and thank you for all your great advocacy for animals, suffering, and government labs.
00:20:11.940We couldn't do this stuff without you.
00:20:13.640Well, I really much appreciate your work, and I was happy to volunteer.
00:20:17.720And I want to bring public attention to the issue again yet today.
00:20:22.640While we did make great strides in the first Trump administration, and even in this administration,
00:20:29.800so, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency, now run by former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin,
00:20:35.840announced that it would get the agency back on track and consistent with the 2019 Trump plan to eliminate animal testing.
00:20:45.000Other places in the government, it seems that this is not happening.
00:20:55.860You know, as you know, you were one of the people who helped get this historic policy in place back in 2019.
00:21:01.060Andrew Wheeler, then the head of the EPA under Trump 45, announced a historic plan, first in the history of the government,
00:21:09.700that they were going to completely eliminate all animal testing by 2035, and they were going to make a 30% reduction by 2025, which is this year.
00:21:18.200Andrew Wheeler and President Trump put the agency on track in 2019 to accomplish that.
00:21:24.980Unfortunately, right after Andrew Wheeler and President Trump left the White House in 2021,
00:21:34.000the Biden administration, due to pressure from scientists inside the agency as well as environmental groups,
00:21:41.620got the Biden administration to kill the Trump plan to end animal testing at the EPA.
00:21:47.540The environmental groups that were pressuring the Biden administration got them to do that,
00:21:52.540to remove the deadlines to end animal testing,
00:21:55.000and said they needed to do it in the name of environmental justice that we needed to do.
00:21:59.800Not only did they want to completely eliminate Trump's plan,
00:22:03.360but they wanted the EPA to do more animal testing,
00:22:06.520again, in the name of environmental justice and other woke priorities,
00:22:09.600like there's one example during the Biden administration where the EPA was shooting off handguns and rifles
00:22:15.740and forcing animals to breathe the firearms emissions for gun control experiments.
00:22:20.880In other testing, they were putting rats in cages, feeding them unhealthy diets,
00:22:26.340and then heating up the cages to mimic climate change, allegedly,
00:22:31.480and then pump smoke, wildfire smoke, into the cages to mimic wildfires and climate change,
00:22:38.440interacting on people who eat crappy food.
00:22:41.980So the mind reels, but the Trump administration, one of the first things they did,
00:22:46.980and you and I have been advocating this since the beginning of the year,
00:22:50.080Lee Zeldin's EPA committed to getting the agency back on track to eliminating animal testing.