Murder Tales: The JFK Conspiracies

by H. N. Lloyd

  There is one other little coincidence that connects George H. W. Bush to the Kennedy conspiracy. Bush was good friends with George de Mohrenschildt, the man widely believed to have been Lee Harvey Oswald’s CIA handler. The friendship between the pair was lifelong and undeniable; Bush was roommates and best friends with de Mohrenschildt’s nephew whilst at school. When George H. W. Bush became the Director of the CIA in 1976, George de Mohrenschildt’s wrote his old friend a rather peculiar letter, this read in part, ‘I tried to write, stupidly and unsuccessfully, about Lee H Oswald and must have angered a lot of people... Could you do something to remove the net around us? This will be my last request for help’. Shortly after receiving a point blank refusal of any help from Bush, de Mohrenschildt turned to reporter Edward Jay Epstein for help, de Mohrenschildt confessed to Epstein that he had indeed been a CIA operative, and that he had been Oswald’s CIA contact. The very next day de Mohrenschildt was found dead, a shotgun blast to the head, the coroner’s verdict was that it had been a suicide.

  Of course the naysayers will say that it wasn’t George H. W. Bush in the photograph taken in Dealey Plaza, it was just someone else who looked incredibly like the future President. They will say that the Hoover memo was talking about another George H. W. Bush who just happened to work for the same organisation as the George H. W. Bush who would later become that organisations director; and then President of the United States. They will say that there are lots of oilmen in Texas, and it wasn’t Bush who was arrested coming out of the Dal-Tex building. They are correct to point out these possibilities, although there is a lot to indicate that George H. W. Bush’s actions on the day of the assassination were peculiar, and his subsequent claims not to remember assassination day is odd in the extreme, especially given his peculiar actions in phoning the FBI, yet despite the memos and the paper trails and the peculiarities there is no solid evidence that could convict the former President in any court of law.

  A Load of Greedy Bankers

  Bankers, we blame them for a lot of woes in the modern world, after all their foolish and greedy actions brought many countries to the brink of economic collapse a few years ago; and as such the rule of law broke down for a period in many states. It is not surprising then that in an anti-banking era; a conspiracy theory has arose which places the blame for President Kennedy's assassination fair and squarely at the feet of a cabal of ruthless and greedy bankers. The origins of this theory stem from Executive Order 11110, a Presidential decree signed by President Kennedy on Tuesday the 4th of June 1963. In the early 1960's the demand for silver was at an all time high, this was in no small part due to the 1961 announcement by President Kennedy halting the sale of silver by the Treasury Department, and also announcing that $4.2 billion worth of Silver Certificates would be issued instead of Federal Reserve Notes (the ordinary dollar bills Americans hold in their wallets every day). This in turn increased the demand for silver, and the price of the precious metal thereby rapidly increased to a record level. At this new higher price President Kennedy sold off 80% of the governments silver reserves, netting the government a tidy profit. Now researcher Jim Marrs asserted that Executive Order 11110 served President Kennedy in a most important way, helping him to wrestle further power away from the increasingly influential Federal Reserve Bank, and giving it instead to the much more controllable Department of the Treasury. This was all part of a long term game plan initially instigated way back in 1957 by Joseph Kennedy, a man who hated the idea of a Federal Bank and the elite and shadowy forces such an organisation profited. In effect Marrs argues that Executive Order 11110 stripped away the Federal Reserve Banks authority to lend money to government departments, it also meant that the United States Treasury could now issue currency without having to go through the Federal Reserve, as it started to issue the 'United States Notes' instead of 'Federal Reserve Notes' as paper money. The Federal Reserve was, despite appearances, not a government body, but in fact a conglomeration of privately owned and operated banks. When it issued its 'Federal Reserve Notes' on behalf of the government, to the government, it did so on the proviso that it charged the government interest on the ‘loan’, just like a normal bank would. Due to the interest imposed when the Federal Reserve Bank issued money, the government would have to ask for more money to pay off the debt created, perpetually making the Federal Reserve Bank and its bankers richer; and putting the government deeper and deeper into debt. This system of finance effectively meant that the American Government was always in debt to the Federal Reserve Bank and its unholy cabal of banking families. So by cutting the Federal Reserve’s power and influence, and allowing the Treasury to freely print its own money, it effectively ended the monopoly owned by the Federal Reserve, and its bankers would now be the ones losing money. I mean why would you borrow money off someone you had to pay interest to, if you could just print the money yourself? So with their supremacy challenged and profits about to plummet; the Federal Reserve Bankers plotted with those old bogey men the CIA to murder President Kennedy. The day after President Kennedy was assassinated the Treasury stopped issuing 'United States Notes', and went back to the system of issuing 'Federal Reserve Notes' a situation which Jim Marrs argued has led to America being $9 Trillion in debt; simply for asking the Federal Reserve to print new money which interest then has to be paid on.

  Of course Executive Order 11110 wasn't as clear cut as all that. The issuing of the United States Notes was simply a temporary measure to replace the Silver Certificates; ultimately this move would have consolidated and made the Federal Bank even stronger. It’s also argued that any money the Federal Bank makes is rebated back to the treasury each year, what little profit the Federal Reserve Bank does keep from charging the government interest on its services, is they say, not out of greed but a necessity for keeping the bank afloat, they do after all have to pay their workers and have some working capital. So there was no real financial gain to be made by the shadowy bankers in the wake of President Kennedy’s death. The debunkers of the Federal Banking Conspiracy state that those who detest the Federal Bank have also over egged the size of the national deficit they claim the Federal Bank is responsible for, and that in real terms its financial burden is only 7% of the whole national deficit. Again this portion of the nation’s debt was created through no fault of their own, or the greed of their bankers, but through the natural running costs of operating a national Federal Bank. It has also been stated that United States Notes were not immediately withdrawn the day after Kennedy’s murder as is popularly believed, but were being issued by the Treasury at least up until 1966, and far from President Johnson repealing Executive Order 11110 with unseemly haste after his predecessors murder, it actually lay on the statute books until President Regan repealed it twenty years later. This proves, say the debunkers; that for twenty years the treasury had every opportunity to print free money if they so wished, but simply chose not to, completely undermining the whole alleged motive for the bankers to have murdered President Kennedy.

  Kennedy Vs The Ku Klux Klan

  On Saturday the 9th of November 1963; a covert police operation in Miami, Florida, overheard a conversation which was intelligence gold. Police Officer Everett Kaye, was running an undercover-operation to infiltrate the far right National State Rights Party. Kaye listened in as his mole, William Somerset, chatted to a man who looked like everyone’s favourite white haired cuddly old grandfather. Joseph Adams Milteer was in fact a dangerous and staunch racist from the deep-south, who had the type of scary friends most of us would move cities to avoid. He was the leader of the National States Rights Party, and a member of the White Citizens Council of Atlanta, the Congress of Freedom (it’s funny how racists always bang on about freedom and rights when they want to curtail them for so many) and of course the perennial Ku Klux Klan. Milteer was noted by the FBI to be one of the most vile, racist and violent men in the country, despite his grandfatherly appearance. Milteer sat in Somerset’s third story flat; and informed a stunned and bemused Somerse
t that President Kennedy was going to be shot with a high power-rifle, from the window of a high rise building, at some point in the near future. Milteer informed Somerset that his friends would get away with the assassination because in the immediate aftermath of the killing the police and the FBI would look for anyone they could blame, Milteer was confident that someone, anyone, would have to be in custody within a matter of hours to sate the public’s fears and lust for justice, allowing the true assassin to escape.

  Everett Kaye rushed straight to his superiors and played them the incriminating tape. His bosses in turn turned the tape over to the FBI and the Secret Service. In response to what was perceived as a credible threat, the Presidential motorcade route was scrapped when President Kennedy visited Miami on Monday the 18th of November 1963, instead of taking part in a planned tic-a-tape parade; President Kennedy was flown to his speech in a helicopter, the changes were not publicised, and his visit went off without a hitch.

  Bizarrely enough Joseph Milteer was in Dallas on assassination day. We know this from two sources; firstly a photograph taken on Elm Street just as the Presidential Motorcade passed, a photograph taken just moments before the assassination. In this image a man who bares an almighty resemblance to Milteer can be clearly seen looming from the crowd with a stupid grin upon his face. Secondly, Joseph Milteer made a telephone call to William Somersett that terrible day, which was traced all the way back to Dallas. During this telephone call an elated Milteer said, ‘I guess you thought I was kidding you when I said he would be killed from a window with a high-powered rifle’. A shocked Somerset asked Milteer if he had simply been guessing as to the details of Kennedy’s murder, Milteer in response laughed; and chided Somerset with the words, ‘I don’t do any guessing’. Given his peculiar prophecy Milteer was picked up by the FBI in the days after the assassination. When the FBI spoke to Milteer, and listened to the conversation he had held with Somerset, they realised that Milteer’s view of what might happen in an assassination attempt had been littered with inconsistencies compared to what did actually happened in Dallas. Milteer had believed that President Kennedy had fifteen look-a-likes who stood in for him at public appearances, therefore the most ideal time and place to hit on President Kennedy was when he was on the veranda of the Whitehouse, the gunman firing from one of the high-rises across the way from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Milteer had also named a likely hit-man, another right wing nut by the name of Jack Brown. It could be proved quite easily by the FBI that Brown was not in Dallas on the day of the assassination. So Milteer had got just as many of his predictions wrong, as he had gotten right. After just a few short hours of questioning they let Milteer go, partly because an FBI officer had given Milteer a blatantly false alibi, saying that he was in the town of Quitman, in Georgia, at the time of the assassination. Soon afterwards Joseph Adams Milteer died in a house fire which was described by some as being ‘mysterious’.

  Murderous Masons and Conniving Catholics

  As my regular readers will know I’m a sucker for my peculiar theories, the outlandish, the odd, the damn right strange. Like all high profile murders the assassination of President Kennedy is no different from any other when attracting oddball and let’s face it, cuckoo, theories that allegedly explain its inconsistencies and contradictions. Possibly the worst offenders of all these types of theories; are the ones that involve, or ludicrously and tenuously try to rope in; the Freemasons. When starting to write this book, I thought to myself, ‘well at least I won’t have to deal with any Masonic twaddle’, oh how wrong I was. For one such theory was found in a wondrous work called ‘The JFK Assassination & the Occult’.

  Many believe that most occult actions are governed by an adherence to mystical numbers. One of the most powerful of these numbers is the number three. Three is known as the first sacred number, and the first perfect number. The number three is prevalent in religions throughout the known world and throughout history, from Egyptology and its holy trinity of Horus, Osiris and Ra, The Father, Son and Holy Ghost of Christianity, Ahu, Raa and Maz in Zoroastrianism, the Trikaya or three bodies of Buddha in Buddhism, and The Soul of Ultimate God, The Spirit of Narayana and Body of Muthukutty in Hinduism. The number three is even more powerful if it is combined, so the number thirty-three (33) has more power than a solitary number three. With the mystical support of the number three seismic events that can shape the destiny of the universe can be more easily achieved. What does any of this numberwang have to do with that fateful day in Dallas? Well, some would have it that the number three is as woven into the lore of President Kennedy’s assassination as much as any other undisputable fact. The city of Dallas is located just south of the thirty-third degree of latitude. President Kennedy’s motorcade had been due to pass under the ‘Triple Underpass’ and he was in sight of this landmark when he was murdered. Dealey Plaza itself is three acres in size; and is penned within a triangular road system containing Commerce, Elm and Main streets. The whole site is near the Trinity River. Three shots were supposedly fired, by an alleged (according to some theories) three gunmen, and of course there were ultimately three victims in the conspiracy, President Kennedy, J. D. Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald. Other notable links to the number three throughout the conspiracy are the facts that Lee Harvey Oswald had been in the Marines for three years. The lone assassin story was given to the press three hours after the President’s assassination, and each of the victims had three parts to their names John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald and J. D. Tippit. The number 33 can also be made by adding the 22nd day to the 11th month (just conveniently ignore the year). It is also alleged that the Texas School Book Depository had 33 employees at the time of the assassination.

  Because of this saturation of the number three throughout the case, it turned some investigators minds to the Freemasons. How, you might ask, do the Freemasons fit into this? Well, the number three is very important to Freemasons, the initial three degrees are the bedrock of everything the freemasons do, and the 33rd degree is Freemasonry’s highest rank, therefore every number three that cropped up in relation to the assassination was a sly nod to the fact that the assassination was sanctioned and organised by a cabal of evil 33rd Degree Freemasons. Further evidence was the fact that Dealey Plaza was the site of Dallas’ first Masonic temple. Earl Warren, Gerald Ford, J. Edgar Hoover and Allen Dulles were all Freemasons, and the man who appointed them to the Warren Commission, President Kennedy’s successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson was also a Freemason. Another key player in assassination lore; whom it is alleged was a Freemason, was Abraham Zapruder; he was alleged to have been a 32nd Degree Freemason; who was raised shortly after the assassination to the 33rd Degree. President Kennedy’s wounds are alleged to correspond to the wounds inflicted on Hiram Abiff, one of the key figures in Masonic lore, murdered by three assassins. Abiff himself was murdered in a conspiracy, where the killers allegedly struck Abiff on the back, throat and the rear of the head, matching exactly President Kennedy’s wounds. The famous photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding his leftwing newspapers and rifle; is also claimed to be further evidence of a Masonic conspiracy, as Oswald is allegedly stood in the same position as a Masonic initiate, his right foot looming out in front of him whilst his left is turned on a peculiar angle. In Dallas, Jackie Kennedy was given a gift of red roses; this was yet another coded Freemasonic symbol, this time harking to the Freemasonic Rosicrucian Order.

  Of course all the above is simple extrapolation to prove the point that there is lots of occult numerology which may point to the Freemasons having had a hand in the assassination. It in no way explains just quite what an organisation that primarily concerns itself with charitable works and teaching its members about spiritual growth via architectural analogies; hoped to gain by offing the President of the United States? Well, the Jesuit General, Jean-Baptist Janssens, is alleged to have ordered the hit on President Kennedy, and this was then ratified by Pope Paul VI, who asked American Cardinal Spellman to organise the details of the assas
sination. Spellman (allegedly a play on words, Spell-Man or Magician/Occultist) then arranged for the Freemasons to carry out the murder. Obviously because the Freemasons have managed to infiltrate every level of high governance, everyone from the new President to the CIA and the FBI then helped to cover up the truth of the bloody deed on behalf of the Freemasons. There were three motivations behind the murder, which also linked in to the repetition of the number three throughout the assassination. Firstly, President Kennedy wanted to end the Vietnam War. Secondly, he wanted to disband the CIA. Thirdly, President Kennedy wanted to do away with the Federal Reserve Bank. Yes, that’s right; the Freemasons did it for the same three prominent reasons shanghaied from other eminently more sensible (by these standards) theories covered elsewhere in this tome. This explanation begs the serious question, why would the Vatican want to prolong war in Vietnam, keep the CIA running, or even care if America scrapped the Federal Reserve Bank? Well, the theorists are strangely silent on these points, other than saying that the conspirators were playing a long game and it is difficult to know what their true motivations were. Hmm.