One More Once: Greer, Connally, and Kennedy

Long time readers of these Chronicles know that we have struggled valiantly to explain the relationship between William Greer, John Connally, and John Kennedy in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 when the Mossad’s CIA murdered the President at high noon. We believe that we can now recount a coherent narrative of the relationships.

While the theory has been around since the 1960s, we have championed the case that William Greer, the Secret Service driver of the presidential limousine, delivered the shot which blew the brains out of the president.

We have fumbled on John Connally, but believe that one of our correspondents, a person who humorously asked to be identified as Deep Truth,  brought to our attention a theory which makes eminent sense regarding Connally as collateral damage in the limousine. Deep Truth argues that Connally was intentionally shot in order to keep him humble and to disqualify his witness of Greer’s murder of the president.

Returning to Greer, we have previously noted his close relationship to Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr, Kennedy’s traitorous ambassador to South Viet Nam, who conspired with the CIA to run an independent policy in Viet Nam,  and who supported the murder of the Diem brothers.

Being an insider with Lodge made Greer an excellent conspirator in the murder. Kennedy’s long time driver suddenly died a month before the Dallas trip, which in our estimation was a murder – the old “heart attack” routine, in order to make room for Greer.

In Dealey Plaza, Greer carried with him a 45 caliber weapon, with witnesses testifying to the sounds of small arms fire. Douglas Horne has reported that the witnesses of the original Zapruder film – a film no one has seen since a day or 2 after the assassination – except the CIA and Mossad – stated that the explosiveness and violence of the fatal head shot to Kennedy was massively greater than what is evident in the adulterated Zapruder film.

Thus it seems reasonable that a closer proximity to the president than the Grassy Knoll was required to achieve the accentuated violence which killed Mr Kennedy - a proximity enjoyed by the president's driver.  Greer’s murder of the president explains why Jackie attempted to escape the limousine – not because she was trying to help Clint Hill into the vehicle as is so commonly supposed – an almost preposterous idea.

It is Greer’s murder of Kennedy which necessitated the altering of the Zapruder film, a plot in which Zapruder was intimately involved. The fact that Greer brought the limousine to a full stop cements the case for his culpability as a murderer, and why he was rushing around so feverishly at Bethesda to cover-up the crime.

This brings us to Connally, whom we have argued, as have others such as Horne, who was indeed part of the conspiracy to murder Kennedy, working as a protégé of Lyndon Johnson. Some will argue that Connally was hit by stray bullets. There are a few simpletons who still believe the Warren Commission’s hoot about the Single Bullet Theory – in reality the Magic Bullet Theory – that the shots which killed Kennedy somehow managed to hit Connally in at least 3 places. My God, have we a bridge for you.

More sophisticated Conspiracy scientists would argue that Connally was shot in a case of mistaken identity since either Johnson or Yarborough were supposed to be with the president. Johnson despised Senator Yarborough who knew what a scumbag Johnson was. However, it is possible that one of the assassins did not know about the last minute change in plans, and therefore mistakenly shot Connally when Yarborough was the real target. With Collins Radio all over Dealey Plaza, we have little patience for the theory. Also, we believe that it was always a part of the plan to shoot any witnesses in the limousine.

Yet others analysts would argue that Connally was shot because of his political rivalry with George Bush and Jack Crichton, both of whom sought to gain control of Texas politics with the governor’s office. Although we suspect that there is some truth in that observation, we believe that the ultimate answer comes from our friend Deep Truth.

The most plausible explanation of Connally’s attempted assassination is that he was deliberately shot to silence him and to compromise his testimony about what he observed in the limousine when Greer shot the president. Connally was shot less than a split second after Kennedy, and we believe that the governor was shot by Mac Wallace on the 6^th floor of the Texas School Book Depository, a location in which damning finger print evidence attests to his presence. Wallace had a long career murdering people for Johnson until his demise circa 1971.

When Connally regained consciousness at Parkland Hospital, he ordered all Secret Service officers out of the hospital, and demanded to be taken to the top floor where he could be guarded by Texas state police officers. Why? Because he knew from his participation in the murder, and his witness in the limousine, that the Secret Service was the trigger puller in the murder, and he did not want to become part of a cleanup operation as had Tippit and Oswald, and so many hundreds more.

We now feel satisfied in our narrative about why Connally was shot in the limousine. With so many expert assassins ringing Dealey Plaza, he could have been murdered. Connally always stated – even to the end of his despicable life – that America would never know the truth about the Kennedy murder, and could not know for "national security" reasons. Connally was still clinging to his useless, wretched life to the bitter end.

Copyright 2015 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Do Conspiracies Exist?

If an authority figure wants to shut down discussion about historical or current events which don't follow the party line, his one trump card is to label an idea a conspiracy theory. But is a conspiracy nonexistent  because someone - especially someone in authority - calls it a conspiracy theory? And what does it mean when the authority figure becomes personal and calls you a conspiracy theorist? We say bring it on. We believe that conspiracies exist and will always exist whenever two or more are gathered in the name of politics.

Cass Sunstein a law professor at Harvard taking a leave of absence to serve as Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs co-authored a paper on "Conspiracy Theories" in which he defines a conspiracy as "an effort to explain some event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role."

So far so good. Unfortuntely the not so good professor proceeds to debunk conspiracies as essentially the workings of an unhinged mind. With this assessment we strongly disagree by calling upon the witness of history and its players to demonstrate otherwise.

The most primitive example is the story of Julius Caesar wherein leading Senators of SPQR determined that it was in their and the republic's best interests to remove Caesar from power. We assure you that the histories do not report a lone nut as the culprut, Brutus being a prominent and respectable Roman politician.

I would surmise that the Roman populace would not have inveighed against those anticipating a plot against Caesar's life as such intrigue frequently surrounded the throne and centers of power. Indeed, when the Praetorian Guard become the primary king making apparatus, anyone not believing in conspiracies had to be  a little off his rocker.

Another important example of conspiracy was the plot to assassinate Jesus. As most Christians are aware, the leading Jewish citizens - especially those of the Sanhedrin - had sought for some time to silence Christ who was attracting quite a following and whose teachings seemed seditious to their rule. Judas was bought for 30 pieces of silver and the rest is history and salvation. I can assure you that Judas did not act or conspire openly among the other 11 disciples and thus sought to conceal his role.

Although these examples are interesting and constructive, we have a more systematic presentation of the concept of conspiracy with Machiavelli whose treatise The Prince - whether satire or not is immaterial - develops the notion of the prince of the realm needing to promulgate certain strategems to consolidate, retain, and perpetuate power. Whatever one may think of Machiavelli, he is not known as a kook.

One would think that it is self evident that various parties in a society conspire in varying degrees of stealth to obtain objectives - certainly in the political realm. Did Richard Nixon earn the sobriquet Tricky Dick because he was an upright practicing Quaker who showed his poker hand to one and to all so as to give all an equal chance to destroy him? I think we all know the answer to that question.

We will admit that conspiracy theories prosper in the absence of facts and knowledge. We admit that some are totally wacky and not worthy of serious consideration. We agree that those who argue that the moon landing was a hoax are mistaken. But the way of resolving such ambiguities is not through invective but through examination of the facts and discoveries of missing links. Indeed the fact that facts are missing is often itself an indication of conspiracy.

A relatively recent example of partial facts in the aftermath of fact finding is the case of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in which a court found James Earl Ray guilty of conspiring (with himself of course ) to kill Dr. King. Unfortunately the court did not hear all of the facts. However, a civil trial which began in November 1999 in Memphis revealed a mountain of facts demonstrating without question that the government of the United States murdered Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is of a verity that people often disguise their true motives and means to achieve their political aims. We all have seen this from the time of competing with siblings, to competing in school, to survival in business, church, and elsewhere. Did the Archbishop of Canturbery Thomas à Becket die from a random act of lone nutness and Henry II not have plausible deniability?

The moral of the story is that conspiracies occur all of the time and that they may well explain the truth of an otherwise insoluable mystery. We will do much to expose conspiracy in this country both in real time and in history.

Copyright 2010 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.