Richard Belzer Discusses "Hit List," His Book on the JFK Assassination, at The National Press Club

my name is Heather forg Gren Weaver and I'm the vice chair of the national press club's book and author committee and I'd like to welcome you all and thank you all for coming tonight to tonight's book WP featuring Richard Belzer and his New York Times best-selling book hit list an in-depth investigation into the mysterious deaths of witnesses to the JFK assassination Mr will be signing only books purchased tonight he because it's a fundraiser for the national Jour national press club's journalism Institute so if you haven't bought your book yet now would be a really good time to go out and get it before we begin I've got a couple of housekeeping items we have to take care of first of all everybody take their cell phone out make sure it's on silent and now that everybody has silenced their cell phones so we don't have any interruptions later let me tell you about a few of our upcoming book wraps Buzz Aldren plans to be here this Friday to discuss his book Mission to Mars my vision for space exploration Jessica Buchanan and Eric L mom are scheduled to be here on May 22nd to discuss impossible odds the kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and her D dramatic Rescue by Seal Team Six Walter KRON kite's grandson Walter kronite ivth and Morris iserman plan to be here on June 4th to discuss kronites War His World War II letters home and last but certainly not least on June 19th we have scheduled Steve Barry for his new book The King's deception if you are interested in receiving email notifications about upcoming book wraps please sign up up outside at the front table tonight's program will be structured as follows I will introduce Mr beler he will speak for about 20 minutes and then we will have a question and answer session before he signs the books okay I'm done with the housekeeping for more than 20 years Richard beler has been known to most of us as sergant John Munch of Law and Order Special Victims Unit and homicide life on the street Mr Bowzer or Sergeant Munch has also appeared on a record setting 10 different TV series including the xfiles and Sesame Street before becoming Sergeant Munch Belzer portrayed an LAPD detective On A Very Brady Sequel and had other acting roles Mr Bowzer is also a well-known stand-up comedian but even after writing a whole slew of books one might ask can he write the answer is most definitely yes because before he was Sergeant Munch or stand-up comedian Mr Bowzer was a reporter for the Bridgeport Connecticut Post and other Connecticut newspapers so as one reporter to another I am pleased to welcome Richard Belzer to the National Press Club Nick Gregory ladies and gentlemen just to see uh Greg alone is worth the price of admission don't you think one of the most important uh not just performer but uh activists and Advocates and uh along with Lenny Bruce and Mort Saul um Mr Gregory has uh redefined what comedy can do and besides make us laugh it can inform us it can educate us and it can make us think about who we are and how we treat other people and still function as one of the funniest people so that is one of the great gifts that dick has and and he's partially responsible don't arrest him for me being in Show Business um he inspired me very early on I I I'll just recall one story uh the first time I saw um Mr Gregory was uh indelibly imprinted on the emotion sheet of my mind uh he came out on stage this is on television came out sat on a stool put up a cigarette and said if you don't laugh I may move in next door to you and that was in the 50s so not only do we laugh at that but it's it's a revelatory joke it's a joke that gives us we all can have an epiphany about that joke because he told the truth he made us laugh and he made us think and for that we are forever grateful to Dick Gregory I'm going to DARE and talk about something he knows more about than I do but you can school me if I'm wrong okay uh you know there are those in positions of power who malign the pursuit of Justice by intentionally associating the word conspiracy with the Delirious hallucinations of unbalanced Minds while they're wrong the real world definition of conspiracy is simple two or more persons agreeing to commit a crime in short they are everywhere a constant component of daily events throughout our history and are by no means the Restless imaginings of an over attentive audience now this I'm going to throw in some quotes here that I like there was a book called farewell America written under a pseudonym by James heurn which some people think was written by French intelligence right there um this is the quote from that book President Kennedy's assassination was a work of magicians it was a stage trick complete with accessories and fake mirrors and when the curtain fell the actors even the scenery disappeared the plotters were correct when they guessed that their crime would be concealed by shadows and silence that would be blamed on a madman and negligence um I'm going to read from my own works now because I got to earn my my book hit list by the way I just found out yesterday made the New York Times bestseller list I and my thank you and um the reason I mentioned is my last book dead wrong also made the New York Times best s list and the New York Times does not review my books so if I may say [ __ ] the New York Times uh pardon my French um okay we all know this is the 50th anniversary of the murder of our president and one thing I I I feel that people lose sight of with uh with the assassination and and all the myths and and theories and a man died that day and we I think a lot of people lose sight of the fact it's become almost like a pop culture thing JFK the grassy null lone gunman there are these catchphrases that diminish and marginalize the depth the complexity and the true meaning of what it meant to have our president's head exploded in broad daylight and uh they got away with it so um I'm going to read from uh some of my stuff and very little from the new book because you got to buy the new book um where were you on November 22nd 1963 I can remember where I was and I can prove it I have witnesses and unlike many of the men and women who had inadvertently become Witnesses in Dallas that day my Witnesses are still alive you see the very moment snipers were busy making Jack Kennedy's wish come true because Jack Kennedy had said it' be easy to shoot me from a you know with a high powerered rifle from an office building he actually said that um because uh someone was worried about him say if they want to get me they'll get me so he knew so um the very moment these snipers were busy making Jack Ken's wish come true I was taking aim on a grassy n behind the gymnasium at Dean Jr College I was in college I was in archery class and I was shooting a bow and arrow this is all True by the way you don't have to make anything up in this world do you Valerie paluchi was watching me this girl and I was trying to impress Valerie puchi's breasts the rest of Valerie didn't exist for me at that age nothing else existed I always directed all of my communication skills directly at her breasts anyway it was my turn to shoot and just as I was pulling the bow back the president of the student body ran out and said Bells the president's been shot my body tense and I instinctively release the arrow I'm lucky I didn't hit one of Valerie puchi's breasts I guess she was lucky too I also missed the target just the same way we all missed the target about who shot JFK most of the country worshiped Jack the way I worshiped Valerie puchi's breasts they both symbolized our hopes for the future in case you have a clear memory of where you were on the 22nd at 63 but you're a little murky on what else happened that day here's a clue ve ismir okay [ __ ] Steve Jobs this thing's not working okay all right the president of the United States was killed by rifle fire while riding in an open car in broad daylight it was an event witnessed by hundreds but investigated by a panel of seven men none of whom was anywhere near Dallas that day and it was decided that Kennedy was assassinated by a lone nut Lee Harvey oswal who was among other things not an agent of the US government the commission felt compelled to throw that factoid in not that there was any reason to suspect that oswal had links to the federal government or anything but in fact newly released information in oswalt's 201 file reveals that he was involved in Espionage for the CIA and apparently the FBI was paying him $200 a month as an informant the FBI reported to the commission that Oswald fired three shots at the target the first bullet hit the president below the shoulder and penetrated less than the distance of a finger length the second bullet struck Governor Connelly the third bullet struck the president's head and fragmentized the commission however did not accept all the details of the FBI report Oswald was later shot and killed by another lone nut Dallas Nightclub owner there was no conspiracy case closed thank you and good night but the case is only closed if you the evidence and this is where it gets really interesting okay my book Hit List is about 50 witnesses to the JFK assassination who mysteriously died now when we say mysteriously died um we mean uh someone who was about to testify before the house select committee on assassinations is found chopped up in a barrel floating off the kisan bay another person who was under house arrest was shot in the back and then five times around the mouth they were going to testify the next day Dorothy killed gallon a great reporter who was the only person to interview Jack Ruby uh alone there were other reporters around but she managed to get in her room she was working on the case she was a really good reporter you may know her from What's My Line but she was really a great reporter in addition to being a celebrity and she told her best friend her agent and two other people that she was going to blow the lid off the case that she had explosive information and uh she also said that the FBI would be better served finding out who killed our president than harassing me she was found dead in a bed in her apartment now the bed she was found in was a guest room bed not the bed she sleeps in she had all her makeup on and ladies that we know we don't take off our makeup and go to sleep we do so all her makeup was on her false eyelashes she was wearing something that she never w a bed they had a book on her she had a book on her lap that uh she had already read and her eyeglasses were nowhere to be found and they found they said the official verdict was she died of an overdose of alcohol and barbituates problem is they found three different kinds of barbituates in her so that means there were two barbituates that she did not have access to she was murdered her best friend who she told about all this stuff two days later mysteriously dies all her know and all her things go missing the list of strange deaths in the wake of the Kenedy assassination is a long one but with bizarre and disturbing imp implications even a cursy examination of this list forces us to ask if these deaths were coincidence or consequence Warren Commission member hail bogs Congressional he was a congressman K Robert's father congressman from Louisiana had this to say about the so-called Magic Bullet I have strong doubts about it bogs then received a package of damaging dirt on the private lives of Warren report critics from FBI director Hoover prompting bogs to charge the FBI is using gestapo tactics bogs further accused the FBI of tapping his and other congressman's telephones well guess what shortly before his plane disappeared Without a Trace somewhere in Alaska oh you know oh this's is a little fact you might not even know um you know who drove hail bogs to the airport that day Bill Clinton he was a campaign worker not saying anything all right now um there's some very curious th this is the greatest murder mystery of all time this is Arthur Conan Doyle on speed this is an amazing amazing story when you consider all the characters involved and all the the levels of plausible deniability and and uh the way the cover up was almost bigger than the crime a lot of people don't realize that people involved in the coverup weren't involved in the murder they covered it up out of institutional embarrassment people in our government said holy [ __ ] people in our government killed our president so and it's the height of the Cold War so they had to circle their wagons and and partake in the up that was 50 years ago during the height of the Cold War as I said and I think some people were genuinely patriotic and and meant well by uh covering it up because we didn't want the world to think we could we're a Banana Republic and we could shoot our president broad daylight so people did cover it up in the press and in the government but that's 50 years ago there's no reason to cover it up anymore we know who the plotters are they're all dead some of the shooters are still alive and in jail it's very this is what makes me very angry is that the patronization and the contempt for the American public the Kennedy assassination is one of the ghostly parts of our history if you go to any history book in any town in this country and you open it up John Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey oswal next paragraph that to me is very very disturbing because for 50 years very diligent there's of course there's crackpots of course there's crazy people I mean the president was murdered it's going to attract moths to a flame but there have been incredibly responsible people Scholars and professors and activists who've taken this very seriously and have investigated and keep investigating it as a matter of fact uh the zuder film was not seen for 13 years can you imagine what it would have been like if that film was shown the day after Jack Kennedy's murder I think a lot of things would be different they they sat on there for 13 years and it took the diligence and the Persistence of Mr Dick Gregory who got Robert groden who was an investigator for house SEL assassinate he was a photographic expert and dick got the film and showed it on good night America a haraldo Rivera show and the audience gasped as we all would have if we saw it but it was 13 years later so they sat on that for 13 years and as I'm sure dick will agree we don't even know what version of that film that was because some people have said that there are frames repeated and that the film's been doctored but we can't get caught up in the minutia doesn't matter if the zuda film existed or not I mean it shows the president's you know going back and all that but there's a lot more stuff that will prevent us from getting lost in the weeds as we say there was a white russian communist with links to the CIA George deor Shield was a a Russian engineer a Nazi uh during World War II um one day he just shows up at Lee's house you know and befriends Lee Oswald in Dallas and later stated Lee is innocent uh deor was a friend of George Bush Senior hours before he was to be interviewed by assassination investigator gon Fonzi deor sheld allegedly committed suicide with a 20 gate shotgun now what's interesting about that is uh deor Shield's wife used to watch soap operas but she wasn't going to be home that day so she audio had an audio recorder to tape the audio of it and on that tape you hear a beep beep beep which means that their security system in the house was breached and then you hear footsteps and then you hear the explosion of the gun he did not commit suicide his widow didn't buy it they may get me too she said I think oswal was a CI agent but he didn't kill Kennedy something's being covered up and then it gets down to um Marilyn Moon uh who was uh her name was Delila she was a stripper employed at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club at the time of the JFK snuff wall what is a baby come here is that my dog come here it's okay it's okay I'm not I'm right here it's okay C no no he's all right he just wants to make sure I'm not leaving uh so um Delilah was found shot to death on September 1st 1966 she had planned to write an inside knowledge book about the assassination a car salesman Albert guy Bogard claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald test drove a vehicle shortly before the Kennedy hit zooming along the stemens freeway at 75 miles hour by the way Oswald couldn't drive that was another Oswald he was clearly set up there was at least two oswalds that's in the public domain that's not crazy conspiracy stuff when when Oswald wasn't in the country there was a guy here uh saying he was Oswald going to firing ranges and shooting at other people's targets and uh making a spectacle of himself to set Oswald up there anyone who had any knowledge for knowledge of the of the murder was eventually murdered including CIA agents FBI agents police officers in I think one of the most tragic probably well that's hard to say you know but Roger Craig who was a um a a police officer in Dallas 15 minutes after the shots were fired he saw someone run out of the back of the school Book Depository and someone in a Rambler station wagon whistled and the person ran and got in the car and they drove off and he the uh Roger Craig the uh the officer tried to cross the street to see what was going on but there was just too much traffic the person he saw getting into the Rambler was Lee Harvey Oswald the other person he said was negro maybe he was you know a um AFR Cuban but dark complected man so he saw someone who looked exactly like Lee Harvey Oswald 15 minutes after the shooting run off and get in the car and drive off and so when when they were interrogating Oswell by the way they destroyed virtually everything he said uh but some of the things he said we are on record and in fact this is very interesting all right since uh since him Roger Craig seeing Oswald run out this made a mash of Oswald's alleged bus and taxi Escape Route you know the story of how Oswald he got on a bus then he got in the taxi and then he went home and then he got a gun he shot tippet it's pretty amazing stuff Escape Route all right so a Fritz uh asks this is the another officer says to Oswald now what about this car because Roger Craig had mentioned it and this is what Oswald said he said that station wagon belongs to Mrs Payne don't try to tie her into this now what the [ __ ] does that mean Ruth Payne and her husband were government operatives we now know uh Ruth Payne was already in invol as a friend of the deor shields who took Marina Oswald and the child into her home while Lee made his Infamous New Orleans trip uh and she also said uh they found Le's rifle she said she saw his rifle in her house anyway she's um very fishy to say the least and um it it just goes on on and on and the other oswalds there are some researchers say there are like you know 60 oswalds or 30 oswalds or 10 oswalds or two oswalds here's what's important about this in the late 50s our government was sending Marines and army uh servicemen to Russia as fake defectors we had a program to send people over there to pretend they were defecting and then become spies or whatever now the Russians aren't stupid they may you know have a a weird idea of how to govern but they they tagged every one of them they knew who who they all were and they knew Oswald was in fact sent over there and he got a job he got an apartment over with a overlooking a river and a job at a radio Factory which Russians would have to wait years to get so they were on to him they kept an eye on him or at least that one and um but how can alone not act alone when there's half a dozen of of them let's check out just a few of the many okay the man that was arrested for assassinating Kennedy and murdering Dallas police officer JD tippet he's dead now but they told us he was Lee Harvey Oswald the problem is they also said Oswald posed for each of these photos there are there is um there are pictures of Oswald head shot of Oswald from when he was in the Army from when he was younger from when he was arrested and it's clear a couple of different people there's just no you know a sharp high school kid could tell you that there because there oswalds were doing one thing while one oswal was in another place so and then they the picture of him in the cover of Life magazine which pretty much indicted him in the Press Oswald knew that was fake he worked in a in a high-tech what was it Styles uh he he got some Curious jobs he was at a base in atsugi in Japan that had the flight plan of the U2 spy planes that was shot down over Russia and Gary Powers the pilot of that plane said that Lee Harvey mentioned Lee Harvey as of course he would died in a mysterious helicopter crash what was his name that pilot Gary Powers yes so um the I'm just looking through my notes here there's just so many then Oswald pretended to be uh proastro but he was actually hanging out with the white russian uh fascist community in the southwest of Texas a lot of people don't realize that about a million Russians joined the Nazis the White Russian Community so-called and that's who hawald was hanging out with people that hated Communists and hated Kennedy so he was pretending setting up unbeknownst to him his py uh story but you what I'd like to do now I could go on for you know years here obviously there's just so much but uh you may wonder why you I'm I'm involved in this I mean I like you I have a beautiful wife a house in France and a hit TV show we're all the same uh so why would I be interested in this um actually uh i' have to go back to my roots as a reporter and a newspaper reporter and oh as a kid I got thrown out of every school I ever went to uh literally thrown out um they threw me out of yiva okay they said you know what eat pork go pray to mini pearl get out of here so that really flabbergasted my parents when when the rabbis couldn't kick my ass they just figured this kid is this kid is hopeless so what I'd like to do now is open it up for uh questions we have questions yeah and you read them and then I respond wow actually whatever you need babbe I can read it actually we're gonna allow people to stand up The Beautiful Beast Snider has a microphone so if you'll raise your hand she will uh bring you the microphone um however she's under strict orders if you start speechifying smart audience they're going to ask quick succinct questions exactly right but if they don't she'll she'll she'll yank it back and I'll stand up here and snarl I'm sure we'll be okay all right I'm fairly loud should I take micone we need mic any uh thanks uh deor Shield yes quoted as saying that Oswald spoke Flawless Russian which seems implausible for a short time do you believe that's true or was that a setup well as I said there were two oswalds at least one of them was very smart he went to the Monteray uh he learned Russian in montere at a u which is now a military Language School uh he worked in a very sophisticated photographic uh house uh company uh in his notebook they found the term micro dots which in 196 3 not many people uh would be using that term they also found a minox camera which in those days was called a spy Cameron was not available to the general public deor Shield is a very curious strange cat who wrote actually wrote a book saying that Oswald was innocent a you know after uh after that but he was um he was a buddy of George Bush uh senior and uh had was pro-nazi and the unfortunate thing about our government is after World War II we brought a lot of Nazis into our country thinking that you know these German scientists can help us and and uh unfortunately we didn't know that um Kim filby the English uh double agent who was a communist sympathizer but he was an English spy and after World War II when we were re so-called repatriating Nazis and getting them we wanted we wanted these scientists so did the English so did the Russians we did not know that Kim filby was a communist agent double agent so he sent all the really smart good not good but good with a small G uh the really expert scientists went to Russia and they went to England and we got the lowest drags of Nai that these people were allowed to uh subvert the will of the nberg trials uh Alan Dulles who was on the warrant commission who Jack Kennedy fired throughout the 1930s helped English and American Bankers invest in Germany because Teddy Ro this is this is gets deep are you ready to go deep Teddy Roosevelt was against big business as we all know and he he actually put through legislation that would prevent cartels and and things like that and he he was known as a person who was allergic to Big Business and because of that the hermans The Rockefellers uh the Vanderbilts Jack Kennedy's father Prescott Bush all the wealthiest families in this country started investing in the German stock market because in Germany in the 20s you could have cartels and conglomerates so the richest families in America are more than 50% responsible for our depression because they took all their money out of of this country and put it in Germany now Hitler comes along they're still fine with it Dallas is in Switzerland with his brother John Foster answering the phone H Hitler helping the Germans helping English bankers and American Bankers in fact Standard Oil Chase Bank were helping the Germans throughout the war and in fact I'm jumping around here but it's interesting because there were 200 uh English and Americans who stayed in Germany throughout the war to help the Germans to help the Nazis they were arrested they were brought to a prison that was called Ashan dust pin was the code name for it and uh John Loftus is a great writer his friend was a guard in this prison and one of these American Bankers was said said to this guard I'll be out of here in a few days my friends at Chase will get me out of here and the guard said this guy's nuts sure enough a week later they were all released now this is important because FDR wanted German Bankers to go on trial in nurg for financing the Holocaust but the German Bankers told our justice department before they went to trial hey we were just doing what the American Bankers told us to do so they couldn't indict them because they found out that the American Banks the English banks and the Nazis and the Dallas brothers were helping them figure out how to move the money around so that after the war war criminals were let free people who were committed acts of treason were allowed to go free because of the embarrassment because of the banking ties Allen doll should be should have been hung for treason because he continued to do business with the Nazis throughout the war and then when Hitler turned he wasn't a good dog you know like Nora was a good dog and then we had get rid of him and Hussein he's a good dog got rid of him and Bin Laden you knce how this happens we we enlist these people to help us get resources out of their country and then we knock them off if they don't play right but the dllas brothers were Geniuses at helping the Nazis and and helping uh they there's a great book I recommend called the arabist about the state department during World War II and right after and how they fell in love with oil and how they prevented and this this almost they Alan Dallas is is responsible for denying for making it impossible for thousands and thousands of Jews to escape Germany because he didn't want them going to the Middle East and upsetting the the Arabs that we were going in business with the oil it was all about oil and money and anti-Semitism uh and it's pretty pretty disturbing stuff but you know here we are I'm sorry I do go on don't I sorry but I think it's important that we know who we are so we know what to do hi is it true that they lost President Kennedy's brain during the autopsy i' I've heard about this and and secondly yes do you have an overarching conclusion as to exactly what happened with the assassination and why uh I'll I'll try to answer both questions um in fact the president's brain did go missing uh and some people theorize that it would show trajectory and and and and uh you know it would dismiss the single bullet theory but uh the president's head was uh surgically altered before he got to Bethesda between Parkland Hospital and Bethesda the president had surgery done on his head to disguise the wound so they could they really had to try and find a way to have it come from behind which is clearly impossible now to answer your question in part let's get this straight Lee Harvey Oswald not only did he not shoot the president he didn't fire a shot he was on the first floor having lunch he went up to the second floor and got a Coke he was seen at 12:23 or 24 by three different people one was a pregnant woman who had to go to the bathroom AR I think her last name is Arnold Mrs Arnold she had to you know as as we know she had to go to the bathroom every 20 minutes or so she saw Lee in the in the lunchroom at like 12:24 or something and and Lee Harvey oswal that that one named two people that were in the lunchroom one guy was named Junior and the other guy he didn't know his name was two black gentlemen who worked in the building he couldn't have guessed so Oswald was there and then this is at 1223 1224 and then he goes up to the second floor and gets a Coke and he's seen calmly drinking it by Roy truly the manager of the building and officer Marian Baker now um they said so they had to prove that he could fire these three shots wipe off the rifle go across I've been in the depository and I've retraced these steps as much as I could because some things are cut off now but in most books that don't believe in a conspiracy they say Oswald you know went across the depository the sixth floor to the door well there were stacks of books there so he would have had to go around them uh the rifle that he you ostensibly used was found wedged behind boxes um I'm telling you all this for a reason and then he supposedly so he supposedly fires off three shots first shot there's a tree in the way can't see somehow he does that and uh the the two of the shots came so close together that it would be physically impossible for the rifle to do that but keep in mind I'm telling you oswal didn't fire any shots so if he did it means that he would have had to fire the three shots now when you fire this rifle you shoot it but you have to cite it again so that's time they're saying that six seconds he fired three shots uh that's physically impossible too and the reason I know that is because the greatest marksman in the world couldn't do it I quote him in my last book as CBS hired 19 Sharpshooters one guy kind of did it but his rifle was locked down on a tripod so it's just you know impossible so for osw so Oswell was seen in the second floor by Officer Baker now officer Baker was driving his motorcycle he's an ex-military man he heard shots from the roof of the depository from be up and behind him he parked his motorcycle ran up the first ran into the depository ran up the first flight of stairs running so fast he bumped into the back of Roy truy the manager of the building and they went to the got got to the second floor officer uh Baker sees through a glass wall you know a window or whatever he sees this guy standing there calmly with a Coke in his hand has his gun out and Roy truly he's okay he works here and then they went up another fight stairs now that to me just to stop for a second how many times have you seen a cop go all right everybody move he's supposed to say nobody move anyway so so the warrant commission said okay it was possible for this to happen in 90 to 95 seconds this is very important because that's what they base it on now to F for Oswald to have gone let's say he was on the second floor not the first floor and going up and came down whatever let let's say he's at the window he fires the three shots and somehow the shells from that rifle landed right next to each other now he goes across the floor wipes the rifle and wedges it behind the books and then goes down the four flights it's actually eight flights it's four flights with Landings and the door to open it is very heavy so we're talking about seconds here the seconds are important so if if Oswell did what they said he did he would have been down on the second floor in 60 seconds which is physically impossible he could not have physically done it that alone proves a lot now you ask me uh who killed Kennedy is that the what I say who didn't kill him no I'm not I'm that's glib but the uh he was going to change the the Federal Reserve System he was going to change the way oil magnates got billions of dollars in tax breaks he was going he had the first nuclear testband treaty with Russia he wanted the day he was shot he had a Swiss Diplomat I believe talking to Castro about cooling that out he had Martin Luther King in the white house which drove people crazy in the South Dallas was a hotbed of racism uh rabid anti-communism I'm an anti- anti-communist by the way as gadal used to say um not meaning I'm a communist but meaning I'm against this shrill communist under every bed we spent trillions of dollars on borrowed money against an empire in Decline the Russian Russia was never the threat that we made it out to be so who killed them it's elements within our government elements within the mob as we know now um the CIA hired Johnny roselli and Sam Gan Conor to figure out a way to kill Castro so that's an executive action 1963 the American people didn't know that our government was whacking other world leaders we were floating false currency to screw up other government's economy we were poisoning crops we were it was you know nobody could handle that in 1963 again so it was the reason the cover up was so gigantic is because people in the government realized holy [ __ ] somebody in the government killed the president we got to cover it up so um the the we now know the names of the people in the CIA in the FBI and in the mob uh who were involved in the murder and um you have to buy some books to find out but no but seriously all the plotters are dead and some of the shooters may be in jail so there's no reason there's no National Security reason there's just no reason not to tell the the full story it's again I think contempt for us the American people yes madelle dead not I wish I was joking um fortunately being a celebrity um I have a lot of friends in the government um and I uh I have a friend who I can't name anyone but I'm telling you the truth uh who's in the Secret Service and uh I was visiting the White House some years ago when I had another book I was writing about the county assassination and my wife said should we be worried about any of this and I said I don't know so I asked my friend and this is what he said he said they won't kill you they won't kill you in other words they do kill people but they won't kill me because I'm I'm an actor and they can marginalize me and like the New York Times won't review my book no really they don't and and I make their bestseller list they still marginalize uh uh people who are it's easy to marginalize people that question authority because most people don't want to know that their government did an awful thing or that their parents did an awful thing or that their priest or rabbi did an awful thing so when we start implicating the government not as an institution but elements within it it it it takes people it it it affects their brain and and and it's true something happens I've had discussions with highly intelligent people and I've told them undeniable truths and they couldn't they just couldn't wrap their head around it so I think there's a psychological element to that but that's another book yes sir oh sorry next sir no This Woman's here and then sorry what white lady first man come on you know it's United States man come on yes ma'am well then I'll make them very quick first of all thank you both for coming I have one quick question that's off topic for you and then both for one of you one question they're both for rumors rumor is number one did you really were you really brought up in Fairfield Connecticut Bridgeport okay me too I graduated from high school in Fairfield all right thrown out but because I think we went to the same high school okay second thing for both of you is Kennedy assassination uh Bobby Kennedy assassination any corollaries well of course they were both murdered uh by more than and what and brothers you know Bobby had said Robert uh Senator Kennedy Senator Robert Kennedy had said the only way he could find out who killed his brother is is to become president and uh so that's what happened to him um and as a matter of fact the first call he made was to John mcon of the CIA and he said you bastards killed my brother so Bobby had a Target on his back from day one yes sir uh what's your opinion of uh the video series The Men Who killed Kennedy yeah Nigel Turner yeah that's from the 90s I believe a lot of that stuff is really good I mean the problem with the murder is that it's 50 years there's thousands of books and lectures and documentaries and articles and you know I've been waiting through this stuff since you know I don't know at least 40 years um so yeah that was an important and a very good series and it's a great uh uh stepping off point if you're you know if you're intrigued by some of the stuff they cover then you can go further I highly recommend you don't take any even me uh at face value don't take anyone's word at face value believe me yes um yes you probably know that on Wednesday There's going to be whistleblowers eyt toyaz murne cover Benghazi 911 no I think that Benghazi is one of the first of all a lot of people don't understand President Obama whatever we think whatever our political persuasion President Obama was told by Generals in our uh Army and by NATO just to do a no-fly zone over Libya over Benghazi and and President Obama said well wait a minute they're going in with tanks and artillery and troops a noly zone is is meaningless so to make a long story short President Obama defied the generals as Jack Kennedy learned to do and saved a million people a million libyans were saved because of the president as a matter of fact 10 libyans died trying to protect our ambassador because he was in the he was a real Ambassador he was in the street he was helping you know neighborhoods and and relations between our country and Libya libyans loved him and it's a very very uh it's very very seductive to try and tie all this stuff together I don't think there's one big Grand conspiracy in the world I think there's a lot of sharks you know um multinational Bankers oil whatever that just go along and every once in a while they have a common interest and they and they get together and say this guy's got to die or we got to invade this country but a lot of them are at odds with each other until you know you got to whack someone or start a war yes sir at the risk of sounding too mechanical why I checked your book very quickly I did not see an index why did you not put an index in your book are you serious yeah I am serious let me see my book names people maybe I didn't an index Come On Son what what is this talk I can't read so I'm no I got this is footnoted up the ass man what are youing talking about two more questions two more questions I'm sorry I go I do go on yes sir yes so the have you been on any big talk shows or are they stonewalling you too well actually um that's a good question uh I'm doing Pier's Morgan right on Thursday but uh the these other shows are they you know and some of them are my friends I won't mention them because they're friends but um people are certain people don't want to hear what I have to say on this subject but uh because it's true and you know yes I'm John judge I'm the John judge thanks John oh do John great I'm the director of the National Coalition on political assassinations we are the scholars and medical and forensic ballistic experts and historians who' studied all these assassinations how did I do today okay John thanks you did better because you're you're a known celebrity and you're willing to talk about the truth and that makes a difference thank you and a few are fortunately and those who do talk the truth don't usually become celebrities well you're a star in in my world but uh you know uh we were responsible for the release of the JFK records I was out on April 4th at the King memorial uh trying to get a new bill to release all the files on the life and death of Dr Martin Luther King which are still locked up by the government and not all the Kennedy records are out yet I know there's a hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pages a friend for many many years decades of the original Hit List compiler pen Jones Jr one of my heroes pardon my grief he went from 1964 every year and I went with him and after he got sick I continued it to go out and do a moment of silence on the grassy n and then to speak the truth about the assassination this year the mayor of Dallas is closing off the entirety of Da PL I heard that and refusing to let us come and do our moment of silence uh we'll go to court if we have to we have a petition out but uh we will on June 10th commemorate the speech the last nail on his coffin the cedy gave at American University we all breathe the same air we all live on the same Planet Call call for anend that was the nail you're right and uh we go to the American you there's a plaque there to memorate the speech read some of it and some of us meet and then Dallas November 22nd and 24th we will be holding a national conference on all the assassinations this in Dallas you gock yeah maybe we'll come this this year well I'll come with Dick and uh you know we we're continuing the fight to get the files loose and get the truth of these cases thank you John for your work our t-shirt toass we get up ah we might have trity River and come out of the man cover 50 years of denial is enough great I gotta get one of those before I leave all right John judge thank you John John of course you know that in 1999 a jury in Tennessee found that the government was involved in the murder of Dr King and that was a trial that was jury yeah one more actually I he has a question oh when are we going we're going to go in like a couple of minutes okay sweetie a okay let me just jump up here just for a second I got one thing I have to one more thing I have to do I go on so much I would love to answer all these question all right I'll have to come back we'd love to have you um over here is where the signing is going to start come around there um but before you do that I have to do one more thing what I have to give you the world famous National Press Club mug of all the awards I've received in my life this is the latest now we want Sergeant Munch to drink coffee out of this we want to see this you know we want this would be on Munch's desk yeah that's what yeah we want we want a Munch's desk I don't know if I can zoom in on it but thank you very much for coming thank you all so much we talked about that

Channel: The National Press Club

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Keywords: NPC, National Press Club, National Press Club (USA), Richard Belzer, Hit List, JFK, Assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, Gary Powers, Jack Ruby, Dorothy Kilgallen, Conspiracy, John F. Kennedy, Dallas

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Length: 52min 16sec (3136 seconds)

Published: Thu May 09 2013