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Chapter 15
Ghosts of Witnesses Passed:
They May Be Deceased but the Many Ignored Witnesses of 11/22/63 Can Still Tell Us How JFK Was Assassinated!
Can you imagine a crime at which more than 600 people witnessed a murder, but only a handful of the eyewitnesses and earwitnesses ever got to tell what they saw or heard to police investigators?
Even worse, can you imagine that of the few witnesses who got to speak to investigators or give a deposition, almost all of them happened to support the prosecution’s case against the accused person?
And to add the ultimate insult, can you imagine that at trial, only a couple of several witnesses in support of the accused’s innocence got to testify while dozens of witnesses testified to the guilt of the defendant?
Such a travesty of justice played out in a different way when JFK’s accused ‘lone’ assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was gunned down by Jack Ruby in police custody before a public trial could be held.
Instead of a public trial, the Warren Commission conducted private hearings, with the accused given no rights of a defendant. The Commission heard from selected witnesses with no cross examination allowed.
If all that isn’t disturbing enough, the few witnesses who appeared before the Commission hearings who offered exculpatory evidence of Oswald being a shooter, or at the very least, not the only shooter, were ALL routinely ignored by the Commission in reaching its findings.
Fortunately for history, the many eyes and ears of truth did not die with President Kennedy on 11/22/63. Thanks to investigative reporters like Earl Golz and independent researchers like Mark Lane, Josiah Thompson, Harold Weisberg and Penn Jones Jr., witnesses ignored by the Dallas police, FBI and Warren Commission got to tell their story of what they saw or heard at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas.
The accounts of the many ignored witnesses can be found in newspaper articles, taped audio interviews and stunning video interviews, a majority of which conflict with the conclusions of the Warren Report.
Almost all of these witnesses are now dead but what they saw or heard are no less relevant to the events in Dealey Plaza than the few who appeared before the Commission hearings.
Chapter 15 tells their collective story of more than one gunman. They remind us that had Oswald lived to stand trial, a good defense attorney would have made sure that their voices would not have been suppressed from 12 jurors, never mind millions of Americans for years.
