Justification For Killing

by Larry Edward Hunt

  Someone answered, “Dead”.

  “Well by-ned, thank goodness, I really do not know which Universe we ended up it, do any of you?”

  “No,” answered Spook. “It really does not matter Captain - someday we may know what caused the space-time-continuum to shift but for our purposes, we can satisfactorily live with the Universe we are presently in. Lets continue I would love to hear more about you and the teams Dallas exploits and your discoveries.”

  Chapter Fifty-Six

  THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

  This story had a beginning, middle and an end. The conclusion, the final act of this intriguing tale is close at hand – close enough to begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

  They were all sitting in the conference room gleeful over their safe return from Dallas - Forrest, Olive Marie, Bud, Lou and Jacque ‘Rocky’ Jollett. Krista, Trey, Spook, Tinker, Spook, Sam Lin, Si Lei, Mike Watkins and Baba Scarburg were there too. Last but not least Captain Robert Scarburg, Jr.; however, it was a happy occasion, but sadness was not totally absent; Dr. Lonnie Joe Wheeler was not present but on a brighter note, Lady the little Shetland sheepdog was there.

  Captain Scarburg suggested since it was getting late, they should conclude today’s activities, go home, and prepare formal written reports complete with briefing sheets for presentation tomorrow. He requested they all get a decent night’s rest, and reassemble in the conference room tomorrow at 0900 hours. He further stated once all the data was collected and summarized they might be able to come to a decision as to what actually happened in Dallas.

  The time was 5:05:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 7, 2012, Parallel Universe: The Present time.

  THE END OF THE TUNNEL

  The round calendar clock in the right front corner of the conference room was straight up and down nine o’clock. Looking around the table, Captain Scarburg could see that every one that had been present yesterday was once again at the table. Not much conversation was occurring, everyone knew how serious the events of today were to become.

  The Captain took the floor and announced how today’s conference was going to proceed. He said each of them would come to the podium and give a complete rundown of their part in the time-jump back to Dallas for the President John F. Kennedy assassination. Everyone was instructed to take as much time as they needed and to leave nothing out. He wanted as complete a report from them as possible.

  “Excuse me Grandpa,” said Bud, “but before we get started I have something to say, would you mind?”

  “The floor is all yours Bud. What do you have on your mind?”

  “After we left last night I went back to my apartment and did some research on the Internet. I found something concerning Olive Marie that is pretty startling.”

  At Bud’s announcement everyone’s attention in the room was transfixed on his every word, especially Olive Marie. “Me? What is it Bud?” she said.

  He passed a photograph around the table he had downloaded the previous night. “What? This is nothing but a picture of an old Indian. What is its meaning Bud? What does this picture have to do with me?” Olive asked.

  Bud answered, “This is a photograph of Geronimo – Chief of the Chiricahua Apache. The picture was taken sometime around 1890.”

  “Okay,” said Olive, “but – ”

  “Remember the Indians living with the Comanches were captured Chiricahua Apaches when they were camped by the Double Pond Lake in Texas.”

  “Right. I’ll ask again, but – ”

  “Look closely at Geronimo’s picture. Notice he is holding a Winchester Model 76 repeating rifle in his left hand, and check out his right hand. It is touching something he is wearing around his neck.”

  Looking again, Olive Marie exclaimed, “Why! Why it’s my amulet! Geronimo is wearing my amulet that I gave back to Red Wolf! What...? How...?”

  “Just guessing,” said Bud, “this picture of Geronimo was taken approximately ninety years after we left – he must be the grand-son or great-grand son of Ekapitu Tseena – your Red Wolf.

  Remember, ‘for as long as the grass grows and the rivers flow.’ I believe Geronimo is sending a message to you across time saying: Olive Marie ‘you have not been forgotten.’

  A second picture and an article were circulated to the group around the table. The article reported that during the digging of an oil well on a ranch on the outskirts of Celina, Texas in the 1960s, an old Indian graveyard was discovered. Archeologists from the University of Texas preformed a dig at the site and discovered the objects shown in the second picture.

  “Bud, what are these two old rusty looking things?” Olive Marie asked as she turned the photograph first to the right and then to the left. “I can’t make heads or tails of it – what are they supposed to be?”

  “Let me read the last paragraph in the report by the Texas Archeological Research Association (TARA) concerning these artifacts: Materials were curated in accordance with current guidelines of the TARA. Artifacts processed in the TARA laboratory were air-dried and stored in zip locking archival-quality bags. Each bag contained provenience information and a corresponding lot number written in archival ink.

  The gold, metal object (TARA 66-101) found at the Double Pond burial site northwest of Celina, Texas was subjected to Carbon-14 dating. The official report from the lab indicates the object was buried circa 1810 to 1815.

  The object was found around the neck of the skeletal remains of a Native American further identified as belonging to the band known as Comanche, obviously a chief identified by the other burial items.

  The metal object was suspended by what once were leather thongs. Microscopic examinations indicate the metal was stainless steel; however, all experts in this field readily agree this is quite impossible. Further speculation cannot be made at this time. Its use is unknown; however, the conclusion is it must have been some type of ceremonial device...’

  Of further note, another astounding object (TARA 66-102) was found in the same burial site: it has been identified as a 1911 .45 caliber U.S. Army automatic pistol, circa 1944. Obviously, grave robbers had some time in the past attempted to excavate the burial site and lost the weapon, it is of no use to the further interpretation of the burial site...

  FOOTNOTE: Carbon-14 dating on the leather pouch containing the automatic pistol indicates an 1800 – 1820 date. Conclusion: pistol was placed in old pouch and grave robbers, in their haste, lost both before leaving burial site.

  Captain Scarburg interrupted, “Olive Marie, let me cut to the chase: those ‘old rusty looking things’ were my Special Forces Zippo lighter that I gave to Two Buffalo, and the other was the .45 caliber pistol that I traded for the golden crucifix.”

  After the shock of the Bud discoveries, Captain Scarburg regained the podium and announced if they were through with their startling revelations he would begin his Dallas briefing, and he did so for the next hour or so.

  Nearing the completion of his presentation he revealed his own revelation: “Remember, I told you about the snapshot I took of a person escaping from the Grassy Knoll. A photo I snapped on my first trip to Dallas. You were told our lab had my photo to enlarge the person’s image and, if possible, find out whom the sniper was through their facial recognition program. Well, the lab report is back. They found a conclusive match for our mystery person. She is Natasha Danletsky.”

  “Who is she Captain? Was she someone important?”

  “I believe you could say that - she was only a Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency achieving the rank of Deputy Director for Operations, second in command to the Directorate of Operations of Covert Affairs.”

  “How? When? How could she achieve such a high position within the CIA?”

  “Oh, I left out one vital bit of information - she served as a CIA Deputy Director from 1963 to 1969. Funny how those dates coincide with the term of office of President Lyndon Johnson! Well, it’s not strange when I tell it was President Johnson who appointed Ms. Danletsky to
her prominent position in December 1963. I see Rocky shaking his head in disbelief. You see we had already identified Ms. Danletsky before you all arrived this morning. LJ and Rocky taped the back room meeting in Jack Ruby’s place between Jack and a few of his closest Mafia chums. In this meeting were two CIA agents, a David Pherson and Danny Danletsky, as the person was called. At the time we believed ‘Danny’ was a man, we now have positively identified this mystery person as Dannie Danletsky - the person sitting in the Carousel Club with Jack Ruby on the 21st of November 1963 was none other than the Grassy Knoll shooter and later Deputy Director of the CIA – Natasha “Dannie” Danletsky! I told you, I thought I had seen her before! I have attended CIA meetings at Langley when she was present, back in the day.”

  “Whoa! No wonder the Kennedy investigations never got anywhere. The fox was in charge of the hen house.”

  After the discussion and murmuring died down each member of the expedition walked up front and related their experiences and at the end where asked the opinion of the operation. The details provided by the voyagers were specific and in some cases downright suspenseful and nerve racking.

  After their briefings of the Dallas expedition had been presented Captain Scarburg said, “I do not know about the rest of you, but what we found is troubling to me. We have found the assassination of President Kennedy had connections to the Mafia, the Cuban freedom fighters, high government officials notwithstanding the Vice-President of the United States and of all people even the Secret Service, an agency who is sworn to and duty bound to protect the President. But last but not least the CIA! They were directly involved! And one of their top level Directors was one of the assassins!!

  “I know we sat out on a fact finding mission to see if the JFK assassination had been a plot or conspiracy. I believe we have answered those questions, without a doubt, but also the agencies and people just mentioned were involved in a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy, I believe they used all means available, up to and including murder to hide this fact from the American people.”

  Standing in front of the group, he began to enumerate the group findings:

  KNOWN FACTS AND IRREGULARITIES

  Some of the things that the Captain talked about concerned the fact that Oswald did NOT act alone. He said numerous witnesses reported seeing more than one gunman; a minimum of four shots was fired at the President. He spelled out that shots came from the Texas School Book Depository, possibly the Dal-Tex Building and the Grassy Knoll. The Captain thought it was possible that a shot might have come from another location that the team did not locate.

  He talked about the video LJ and Rocky recorded from Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club. The video, which confirmed the Cosa Nostra or Mafia was involved and used Ruby’s club as a meeting place. This film shows Ruby was, as least, a supporter of this group. They were upset that Castro had thrown them out of Cuba. The Captain explained how the Cuban Freedom Fighters had become upset with Kennedy over the lack of air-support at the Bay of Pigs.

  The video also proved the CIA was a principal player in the assassination also.

  The CIA was upset with Kennedy’s plan to dismantle the clandestine organizations. And he continued with the CIA using mind control techniques on Lee Harvey Oswald, and did so for years before the assassination. He explained how the CIA had eliminated anyone who could expose them as an unscrupulous organization.

  He said the CIA killed Katrina Sokolov, Dr. Joseph Rusnak and Malita Smith in Bangkok that they were sure of, and assumed they also killed some of the assassins connected with the presidential assassination. The CIA did not want their involvement in this mind control MK- ULTRA project revealed.

  The Captain further theorized the plan was to have Oswald killed in the street at the corner of 10th and Patton. He was framed for shooting J. D. Tippit, and the CIA assumed the police would take care of him when caught. He thought it was probable that the CIA later killed the actual shooter of Tippit.

  This was supported by spent .38 caliber shells found at the murder scene not matching bullets Oswald had in his handgun when captured. Lou and Bud, at the scene of the Tippit murder, validated Oswald did not murder the police officer.

  Based on Lou and Bud at least one Oswald lookalike had been identified, there could have been more.

  Captain Scarburg stated that Secret Service personnel were involved in the assassination. It was the Secret Service that imprisoned Forrest and Olive Marie with the intention of killing them after the assassination of President Kennedy.

  Forrest and Olive Marie proved President Lyndon Johnson was involved in the plot to kill Kennedy while Johnson served as Vice-President. Other high members of the government were also involved. Rich and powerful business leaders had an interest in the replacement of President Kennedy with Vice President Lyndon Johnson.

  The Captain then moved to the Dallas police saying persons within the Dallas police department were not totally innocent. J. D. Tippit was more involved than just being a shooting victim. Tippit was a spitting image of John F. Kennedy. No notes were taken during the autopsy of the President. His medical records were missing even his brain and part of his skull had disappeared. Autopsy photos do not seem to agree with photos of the President’s head. Was Tippit a stand in? Was he killed because they needed a body double? A body double was necessary to ‘prove’ to the public the fatal shot came from the rear!! The shooter in the Grassy Knoll was not supposed to be discovered.

  Turning to the SCAR Kennedy researchers, Captain Scarburg explained, what he considered, the one most damning piece of information the Dallas SCAR team had found. It concerned the Zapruder film, or Z-Film as it was now being called. Holding up the two Bell & Howell Zoomatic eight-millimeter cameras that he, Forrest and Olive Marie had purchased the morning of November 22, he hesitated as if he did not want to explain what he knew about the Z-Film. He began, “We bought two exact duplicates of Abraham Zapruder’s camera the morning of the assassination at the same store Mr. Zapruder purchased his camera. We used the same type Kodachrome II film and Forrest stood within three feet of Mr. Zapruder as they both filmed the Presidential motorcade. I had the film developed after we returned yesterday. This morning I viewed the film Forrest had taken along side the Z-Film – the two are not identical. Mr. Zapruder has stated, for the record that he never released his finger from the ‘record’ button on his camera from the time the Presidential motorcade began the turn from Houston Street onto Elm Street. His film shows that the Cadillac limousine convertible carrying President Kennedy, the First Lady, and Governor and Mrs. Connally moved from the corner in front of the Texas School Book Depository to the exact frame of the fatal wound to the President’s head took exactly 486 frames and 26.2 seconds.

  “This piece of film has been regarded as the ‘Holy Grail’ of the Kennedy assassination. Let me said unequivocally, It Is Not!!”

  The Captain further stated the film Forrest took is 503 frames and runs for 28.4 seconds. Seventeen frames and 2.2 seconds of film have been removed from the ‘official’ Z-Film.

  The first cut occurred as the motorcade turned the corner from Houston onto Elm Street. Elm was not a ninety-degree turn it was 120 degrees. The Presidential driver missed the turn, and the right front wheel ran up on the sidewalk of the island that separated the street directly in front of the TSBD from Elm Street. It was established in testimony later on that the driver had never driven the parade route before and was unaware of the sharp, more than ninety degree, left turn. At that instant, the assassin was supposed to fire the first shot. The tire running over the curb evidently caused the assassin to hesitate his shot.

  The second cut of film occurred a few frames later when the second assassin fired and missed. It missed the limousine entirely; it struck the concrete curb, ricocheted and hit the cheek of Mr. Teague. Mr. Teague was standing by the support column underneath the triple overpass. The third and fourth shots hit their mark, and the President was killed. I think it was cut here simply to hide the fact the Presidentia
l limousine stopped. My theory is the Secret Service cut out the sequence of events when the first shot was to occur to cover the ineptness of the driver, and they cut the film showing the Presidential car had stopped because a head shot at a stationary target was much easier than a shot with the target moving. Instead of stopping the limousine, the driver should have gone into ‘escape’ mode and accelerated the Cadillac as fast as possible to flee the kill zone.”

  “Captain, a question. Was the driver involved in the assassination?”

  “The simple answer is – I do not know… it was unusual for him to stop the vehicle, but it may have just been a reactionary response. At this point, it is impossible to determine the reasons for his reactions, but if I had to venture a guess I would say yes, and I believe the film taken by Olive Marie on the opposite side of Elm proves everything I have just said. You all have not seen her film, which we are now referring to as the O.M. Film, so I’m going to ask Olive Marie to come up and explain the new facts that were uncovered in her Film.”

  At the mention of the O.M. Film the entire group started chanting “Babushka… Babushka… Babushka…” Olive Marie approached the podium, raised her hands in an effort to quieten the group.

  “Okay, okay, enough, enough… I know Grandpa said he would make me a Kennedy Assassination icon, and obviously he did, but I didn’t know for the past forty-nine years I would be known as the “Babushka Lady”. Until two days ago, I had never even heard of the “Babushka Lady”, now she and I are one. Last night I was up most of the night reading every bit of information I could find on the Internet about her. The word ‘her’ sounds strange and foreign to me – strange for I am the Babushka Lady, I was researching myself. I cannot seem to put myself into her body… it is as if she were someone else, a stranger. A specter that appeared, filmed a few seconds of a president being killed, walked across the street and disappeared. I was in history for only 28.4 seconds but will be remembered forever. Grandpa said icon, I say curse. It is like having a terrible secret that you are dying to tell, but you know you cannot. It has been said some are born to greatness, and other have it thrust upon them; I believe there is yet another reason – sometimes history demands it. I will accept this responsibility as the “Babushka Lady” under one condition that I will explain at the end of my presentation.”