The Adele Edisen Story and the Murder of John Kennedy

Adele Edisen is not a name commonly found in Kennedy assassination histories, but her story is fascinating nonetheless, she being a proleptic witness to the murder of John Kennedy in Dallas' Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.

Like Rose Cheramie, Edisen received pre-assassination warnings when she had an encounter with an enigmatic figure named Jose Albert Rivera who made cryptic predictions about Kennedy's murder, and all too accurate predictions about Lee HARVEY Oswald and Edward Grant Stockdale.

Before plunging into the story, we should address some of the objections or apprehensions many have registered about her tale, the common one being that she does not have smoking gun evidence of her encounters with Rivera. Defenders note that her mind was sharp and lucid during interviews, and that files have since surfaced corroborating parts of her story. 

Our view is that she is telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. No one has found evidence to rebut or falsify her story - merely potential objections without substance. William Perry, one of her chroniclers, satisfied himself through independent corroboration that her account is trustworthy, based in part on other researchers' independent verifications of the story's details.

The following summary of her experience is condensed from William Perry's article which we reference below, and to which we add our own commentary. In many ways Adele's revelations are explosive.

Edisen held a post-doctoral fellowship at the  National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness in 1963 in New Orleans, the very place where Kennedy murder conspirator Alton Ochsner worked at Tulane University, and the very city where CIA contract employee Lee HARVERY Oswald was stationed in 1963.

Rivera had ties to New Orleans as well, having been a faculty member of the Loyola University biochemistry department. He subsequently lived in Washington, DC. But his career included much more than academics, for he joined the US Army in 1948, retiring in 1965. His obituary claims that he joined in 1942, but we favor the former date for reasons to develop elsewhere.

His birth date is a bit of a mystery, with different dates provided depending upon the government file consulted. However, one researcher, Tom Scully, found his birth certificate which records his birth in 1898 in Lima, Peru. But why all of the birth dates which typically have him born anywhere from 1905-11? And why the discrepancies on his military service?

Edisen and Rivera met at a professional convention in Atlantic City in April 1963 from which a social relationship of brief duration ensued. During one visit, the subject of Dallas came up at which point Rivera encouraged her to visit the Carousel Club managed by soon-to-be famous Jack Ruby. Rivera also asked if she knew Lee Oswald whom he encouraged her to meet. He knew all about his wife, child, and move to New Orleans even if Oswald himself did not know about it. Later, when urging Edisen to call Oswald, he told her to tell him to "kill the chief."

During the visit, Edisen also found out that Rivera was a colonel in the army doing work for the State Department. While driving around Washington on a site seeing tour, Rivera asked what Jackie would do when Jack dies, a question which startled Edisen. He also knew about her pregnancy although Edisen did not, indicating that neither did the general public know. Rivera also asked his guest if she had seen Caroline on her pony. In general, Rivera expressed negative or hostile attitudes towards Kennedy.

During another dinner, Rivera asked Edisen if she knew John Abt, chief counsel for the Communist Party USA. Abt would be the lawyer whom Oswald would attempt to reach when jailed falsely for the murders of President Kennedy and JD Tippit. Abt himself is almost a footnote in the JFK drama, but Rivera was plugged into him and his future role at an early date, telling Edisen that Oswald would call him for defense.

Following his preview of John Abt, Rivera proceeded to inform his dinner companion that Grant Stockdale, the one-time ambassador to Ireland, and some-time fundraiser for Kennedy, would kill himself due to inconsolable grief. Rivera showed extraordinary powers of clairvoyance to say the very least.

When Adele returned to New Orleans, she called Oswald thinking that he was a research colleague of Rivera's. The first time she called, the man answering the phone said that she must have the wrong number. A week later, the same man said to wait a moment - he was just arriving. In Oswald's absence, she spoke with his wife Marina whom she described as having a Slavic-Russian accent, and who understood the conversation, then told her she was welcome to call back later when her husband was present. The most interesting fact of this conversation is that Marina could speak and understand English, a point we have made before which contradicts many of the popular and CIA based stories lying about Oswald's wife's inability to speak English.

Even more interesting than confirmation that Marina was rather fluent in English is the fact that Rivera had given Edisen Oswald's phone number before he had moved to New Orleans or had even found a place to live. We will return to this item in our conclusion.

One interesting item we learn from Perry's recounting is that Oswald used Sgt Robert Hidell as a reference on his application to CIA front company William B Reilly. This last name would show up again in connection with his post office box, and with identification found in his planted wallet at the Tippit scene with the name Alek Hidell.

Edisen saw Rivera one more time when he was on business at Louisiana State University. The encounter was by chance - at least from Edisen's point of view. There was nothing but a clumsy passing interaction between the two near an elevator. Rivera allegedly retired from the military in 1965, and allegedly died August 15, 1989 at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

One month prior to encountering Rivera at LSU, Adele received an unmarked envelope containing a drawing similar to one Rivera drew for her while they dined together in Washington. Rivera was in a near frenetic state at the time but made the point that there will be men on the 5th floor of the building he drew on the napkin, and that Oswald is not what he seems, and other incoherent thoughts. The 5th floor is actually where the shots from the Texas School Book Depository were fired, or where significant command and control operations occurred.

To conclude the recitation of events, we will note that Edisen contacted the Secret Service about these strange events and encounters - twice before the assassination, and once after. In no case did the Secret Service take any actions to follow-up on her reports, or to protect the president. Indeed, the Secret Service was involved in the assassination.

Edisen's story is extraordinary in several ways. One of the more curious aspects is that Rivera bothered to share specific details with Edisen. They were dangerous to reveal if for no other reason than exposing the plan to assassinate the president could have brought a lot of unpleasant publicity for the conspirators. Unfortunately, at the time, Rivera's babblings sounded senseless. And why would one of the conspirators reveal the plans to a stranger?

The only explanation which makes sense to me is that CIA was conducting a systems check to make sure that there were no leaks in the formal bureaucracies which might compromise their plans. In other words, they had to be sure that there were no inter-agency cooperations in following up assassination tips and that all information was dutifully scrubbed from the records so that the murder cover-up would succeed.

The common belief, expressed in his CIA-Wikipedia article, is that Grant Stockdale committed suicide. This vignette with Rivera tells us clearly that he was murdered when the assassins pushed him out of the window of his hotel room. Rivera's foreknowledge of this event and its public explanation is the smoking gun that he was murdered.

We also learn that Oswald was indeed the patsy. His movements were so controlled that Rivera could state where he would be before Oswald could. We also see the co-conspiracy of the vile Ruth Hyde Paine who was an important handler of Oswald.

The fact that Oswald's telephone number was being answered by the apartment owner shows the collusion between him and the conspirators.

Perhaps the most enlightening disclosure in this affair is the complete, total, and minute control CIA had over the entire operation, including the creepy observations by Rivera of Jackie's baby and Caroline's pony. 

Anyone who has managed large organizations or projects knows that goals and work do not happen by accident. The amount of managerial  and logistical support required to murder a president of the United States was epically enormous. It involved a massive apparatus from several countries, the most important of which were the United Kingdom, Israel and International Jewry, and the United States. 

One final point regarding Oswald - he may have been mind controlled. Edisen raises the suggestion that Rivera may have tried to poison her with LSD, and this would be entirely unsurprising given CIA's deep investment in MK Ultra.

While Adele Edisen's story is generally a detail in the vast knowledge we now have about the murder of Kennedy, it is our opinion that it may rise to the top as one of the most important because it reveals the scope and breadth of the planning which attended the assassination long before its execution. The only question now is, how long before April 1963 was the assassination planned?

Reference

William Perry, A New Oswald Witness Goes Public, JFKCountercoup, December 30, 2009, source( JFKcountercoup: A New Oswald Witness Goes Public, accessed 4/11/2021)

Tom Scully, Adele Edisen in the Searchers, Deep Politics Forum (website forum), January 22, 2017, source( Adele Edison in The Searchers (deeppoliticsforum.com), accessed 4/11/2021)

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Who Murdered Mary Sherman?

Mary Sherman (1913 - 1964) is another somewhat obscure footnote in the assassination of President Kennedy who was murdered for knowing too much. The newsfakers of the time of her death attributed her murder to a random act of meanness, but we mean to set the record straight because the truth is stranger than fiction.

 

Sherman was a famed oncologist whom the highly reputable cancer authority Dr Alton Ochsner brought to Tulane University in New Orleans in order to help him study cancer. The studies turned out to be research for developing a bio-weapon to induce virulent cancer.

 

Ochsner had assembled a first rate mod squad of researchers to complete the weapon. The prominent players besides Sherman and Ochsner were Judyth Vary Baker, David Ferrie, and Lee Oswald, all of whom worked in offsite labs to grow the cultures and mice to produce the weapon.

 

Considerable work was done in David Ferrie’s apartment and some in Sherman’s, not to mention lab work at Tulane. Judyth Baker provides detailed accounts of her work on the project, and the collaborations of these 5 individuals, in her ground breaking book Me & Lee.

 

Ochsner’s explanation for the weapon was that it was needed for “national security” – in other words the murder of Fidel Castro. The only problem with the story is that it was a lie. Castro was the boogey man of Latin America whom the CIA installed as its pretext du jour whenever it needed to stir up the Red Menace to turn on the spigots of cash for its wars of imperial aggression. George Bush Sr was the bagman who carried money to Castro in the early days.

 

When 4 of the 5 researchers discovered that they had not been working on a weapon targeted at Castro – a highly inane idea in the first place due to the preparations required on a victim to make it work – they realized they had been used, but not sure how, and not sure how it related to Kennedy’s murder by the CIA.

 

But Ochsner knew the details and relationships, having intimate ties with the CIA through International Trade Mart which CIA employee / asset / operative / and bagman Clay Shaw directed. The ITM was another CIA front, this one targeted at oppressing Latin America – a long time custodial province of the Rockefellers. George Bush Jr does not have a humungous ranch in Paraguay for nothing. And the Wall Street Nazis who installed Adolph Hitler in power also hid their Nazi puppets all throughout South America.

 

Interestingly, Ochsner had ties to Brazil where he conducted business for the CIA.

 

Fearing that Sherman might say something wittingly or not when the Warren Commission went on its road show south, Ochsner murdered her. She was found dead in her apartment on her bed with severe burns and puncture wounds. The New Orleans police, as corrupt as the Dallas Police Department, cooperated in the cover-up of the murder.

 

But how do we know that Ochsner, the world renowned oncologist, murdered the internationally esteemed Dr Sherman? New evidence has emerged showing the extent and nature of the burns suffered by Sherman. Even casual observers would recognize that a bed fire could not have produced the burns she endured. Besides, there were no burns on the mattress.

 

Sherman was murdered by a linear particle accelerator, a very sophisticated piece of machinery requiring very carefully controlled access and supervision. The number of people with the necessary access to it for use as a murder weapon was exceedingly few. And among that handful, only Ochsner had both the authority and motive to murder Sherman.

 

Ochsner murdered others as well. As part of his medical research, he infected people with viruses and other foreign agents without their consents or knowledges. In fact, he sent Oswald and Baker to a mental health hospital in Louisiana to infect prisoners brought from Angola State Prison for his cancer weapon experiments. Death was brutal.

 

Ochsner also used this weapon on Jack Ruby after the mobster confessed things to journalist Dorothy Kilgallen, which things ought not to have ever been confessed. Ruby died a short time thereafter.

 

The finger prints of Ochsner are all over the murder of Dr Sherman as well as others who got in the way of his defense of “national security.” Her knowledge of his nefarious management of the cancer weapon, and more significantly his handling of Oswald, proved too big a risk for the thug to take. So, Ochsner murdered a single, defenseless woman to protect his reputation. What a man.

The macabre deeds of New Orleans are seeping up through the marshy bogs like so many putrid corpses. The fog is lifting and we can finally bring closure to so many unexplained murders, knowing full well that the CIA is no longer able to keep its dirty, murderous secrets.

 

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Cancer, Murder, and New Orleans

Judyth Vary Baker’s groundbreaking book Me & Lee has cast into a whole new light the activities in New Orleans anticipating the murder of President John Kennedy in Dallas, TX. These new revelations reconstitute the work of Jim Garrison and make entirely plain the conspiracy of the CIA and its clients in the summer of 1963.

 

New Orleans was host of 3 major activities – the development and testing of a cancer bioweapon to murder Fidel Castro, the frame-up of Lee Oswald as pro Castro and pro Communist agitator, and the training of the Alpha 66 and other Cuban anti Castro expatriates who would be involved in the assassination of the president in and around Dealey Plaza.

 

Dr Alton Ochsner, Dr Mary Sherman, and David Ferrie feverishly engaged in the development of an injectible cancer virus under the umbrella of Tulane University where Sherman worked, and Ochsner’s research center at Charity Hospital. The majority of the research was conducted underground in Ferrie’s and Sherman’s apartments with additional support provided by Eli Lilly.

 

The ostensible goal of the research was to create a cancer weapon to kill Fidel Castro for the purpose of relieving pressure on Kennedy who had earned the enmity of a growing cabal of revolutionaries in New York and Texas. Sherman, Ferrie, and Oswald were led to believe by their CIA handlers that killing Castro would throw a bone to the plutocrats and government elements, thus mollifying them in their rages against Kennedy whose many sins against them were mounting daily.

 

This team, augmented by a 20 year old Judyth Vary Baker from Florida, maintained a grueling schedule to produce the virus before September. Oswald and Baker worked undercover through the J Reilly Coffee Company to shield their stealth work. Ochsner provided the funding, organization, and high level management to keep the project on track, reporting progress regularly to his CIA supervisors.

 

When the virus was completed, Oswald accompanied Ferrie and Clay Shaw to Jackson, LA to administer the virus to prisoners from the Angola State Prison at the East Louisiana Mental Health Hospital. A follow up trip by Oswald and Baker retrieved evidence showing that the virus was eminently successful. The CIA assigned Shaw to supervise Oswald's and Ferrie’s work at the hospital.

 

These test results completed the first major phase of the CIA’s work in New Orleans. Meanwhile, the agency had assigned Oswald to create a pro Castro persona so that he could go to Mexico City to apply for a visa into Cuba to smuggle the virus. At the very least, he would hand off the goods to another agent in Mexico City.

 

Before going to Mexico in September, Oswald felt that he was being framed for a murder, but was too enmeshed in the plots to extricate himself. The proof of his suspicions came when the hand off man failed to appear.

 

The important point is that there was no Oswald double in Mexico City as many researchers - including ourselves - have alleged. Oswald indeed went to Mexico City. The other major point is that the CIA had no intention of killing Castro. It simply wanted a bioweapon for other purposes and to deceive the cancer team about the objective of their work.

 

The CIA’s real intention was to kill Kennedy, a task which required well trained assassins and reliable operatives in Dealey Plaza. Alpha 66 and other violent mercenaries trained near Lake Pontchartrain with equipment provided through Clay Shaw whose position as head of the CIA’s International Trade Mart gave him the perfect perch from which to smuggle weapons into New Orleans. Baker unwittingly provided the technique for camouflaging the arms.  Carlos Marcello’s mafia transported the weapons to the Army / CIA mercenaries who were led by none other than George Bush Sr.

 

Once the New Orleans operation was complete, Oswald was reassigned to Dallas where his handler David Atlee Phillips turned him over to CIA operatives Ruth and Michael Paine and George DeMohrenschildt to handle the dirty details of directing Oswald to his demise. The cancer bioweapon would later be used on Jack Ruby while awaiting appeal of his death sentence for the murder of Oswald.

 

Oswald knew that the president was targeted for murder and worked as best he could to thwart the assassins who, in the end, handily prevailed.

Reference
Me & Lee, Judyth Vary Baker, 2010

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First Impressions: Me & Lee

 

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If anyone is looking for the neutron bomb for the Kennedy Lone Nut theory and a torrid love story all rolled into one, then run – don’t walk – to buy Me & Lee, a book which shines a battery of Krieg lights into dark corners and crevices of the crime of the century. This masterpiece is a canonical book in the JFK Assassination Bible.

 

The author, Judyth Vary Baker, has produced a blazing barn burner of a story which a stable of Hollywood writers on hallucinogenic drugs could not produce, proving once again that truth is stranger than fiction. The book overturns established classics in the field dealing with Lee Oswald, and has caused us to reconsider important elements of our understanding of this conspiracy to end all conspiracies.

 

Me & Lee mixes many genres of narrative including autobiographical and historical viewpoints, as well as an unmatched love story William Shakespeare could not touch. Baker is a firsthand witness to history who has done as much as any other to give us extraordinary insight into a cast of characters involved in the most sinister operation against the people of the United States by its treasonous fifth column elites.

 

The story begins with an autobiographical introduction to Judyth Vary Baker and a traumatic life threatening illness which kept her in a hospital for 18 months at age 5. As a bed ridden child who was not expected to survive, she was nursed back to health by caring Catholic nuns who saw to her education, and helped to sharpen a keen mind with hours of reading.

 

After leaving the hospital, Vary continued to feed her voracious reading appetite, artistic talents, and athletic abilities, all of which led her to a precocious interest in cancer research, especially after her grandmother died of the disease.

 

Her pursuit was facilitated by important mentors she met in and out of school, who would provide exceptional support as she developed sophisticated, leading edge experiments which would win local, state, and national awards and recognition, even from the nation’s foremost cancer authorities such as Dr Alton Ochsner, past president of the American Cancer Society, and a man with powerful connections in the highest places.

 

As a very idealistic high school graduate zealous to find a cure for cancer, she was a favorite among many prestigious schools’ science departments, struggling to select from a bevy of scholarship offers. Her path was guided by fateful outcomes to her many conflicts with her increasingly mentally ill father, which took her from the University of Florida to Tulane University through the agency of Dr Ochsner who had arranged for her to study under the world renowned oncologist Dr Mary Sherman.

 

While at the University of Florida, Judyth met (and later married) Robert Baker III whose emotional capacity did not exceed that of a hamster, owing in large measure to limited, venal parents who transmitted to their son a well developed love of money and self. His selfish, miserly, controlling personality opened the way to a reluctant affair with Lee Oswald through a happenstance starting at the post office where she anxiously awaited a letter from Robert.

 

Oswald was Judyth's entre into the murky underworld of intelligence where crime and government coalesced to form a perfect union of conspirators, double crossers, and murderers. Recognizing her possible utility to their own conspiracy, Oswald introduced Vary – not yet Baker – to David Ferrie, Dr Mary Sherman, Jack Ruby, Clay Shaw, Carlos Marcello, Guy Banister, and other characters closely associated with the New Orleans intelligence world. These people to varying degrees, especially Ferrie, Sherman, Ochsner, and Oswald, were racing against time to develop an injectible cancer virus which would rapidly induce death.

 

The main target of their bioweapon was Fidel Castro, the pariah of American plutocrats who resented the loss of Cuba as the vice capital of the Carribean – to say nothing of the sugar and fruit plantations. The rationale for killing Castro was that his assassination would divert attention from President Kennedy who was equally loathed by the plutocrats running the CIA. Such a diversion might give him more time to live or possibly escape the assassins’ death altogether.

 

This usage of medicine was not at all for what Vary had signed up. She wanted to find a cure for the dreaded disease – not find out how to propagate it – and certainly not for the purpose of murder. Although she had gotten so deep into the plot that there was no safe way out, her conscience eventually caught up with her when she crossed Ochsner by reminding him in writing that injecting the virus into healthy people was unethical. This act of truthiness damned her promising career as an oncologist, and put her in the cross hairs of powerful vengeful men.

 

Ferrie, Shaw, and Oswald headed to Jackson, LA to inject the cancer into victims at the East Louisiana State Mental Hospital as final testing for its ultimate target. Baker accompanied Oswald on a follow up trip a few weeks later to get blood samples from the victims in order to assess the efficacy of the bioweapon. The successful results required Oswald to take a trip to Mexico City in order to pass the cancer weapon to an agent in Mexico who would smuggle it into Cuba to administer to Castro.

 

When Oswald goes to Mexico City but fails to make his connection, his previously developed fears about being framed for a murder were confirmed. He grows increasingly anxious about his safety as well as that of his family. Knowing that he is trapped, he makes the best of his situation by looking for ways he might counter the Kennedy assassins. In the end he is overwhelmed by his handlers who rub him out in order to guarantee his silence.

 

We have only related the barest skeleton of the plot which is moved along by the many interpersonal relationships among the characters, not the least of which is that of Oswald and Baker. They each discover the other’s virtues and flaws, falling into an unbreakable love between soul mates based upon numerous compatibilities and mutual respect.

 

Along the way we learn much about the central players, facts often unknown to veteran assassination researchers. Oswald’s marriage of convenience to Marina was a rocky tumultuous one which he only remained in because of his children whom he deeply loved. By the fall of 1963 Oswald and Baker had planned to escape to Mexico to start their lives anew.

 

Of the major characters presented in the story, the only ones to survive the Kennedy assassination were Marcello and Ochsner. The others were quietly and not so quietly murdered as part of a cleanup operation to hide the crime. Baker survived only due to her relative obscurity and youth, but she may well have inadvertently sealed the fate of Oswald at the hands of the imperious CIA asset Alton Ochsner.

 

Baker brings Oswald into living color, warts and all, to render him a richly textured hero who made the best of his dark underworld CIA swamp. A warm, sentient, noble woman, Baker paints an exhilarating picture of a lustful love affair of which many dream but few experience.

 

Regarding the physical composition of the hardback copy which we reviewed, we can only say that it is a first class production. The 500+ page book is sturdily bound whose fluent prose reflects the literary talents of its Masters of Arts English graduate, with only two noted proofreading errors. The story elements are richly documented with numerous footnotes, many of which are more revealing than the main narrative.

 

The book is profusely illustrated showing many of the locations and artifacts of the story, which helps immensely in understanding the geography and connections described in the text. The book also contains a good index and appendices, further substantiating important elements of the story.

 

When we say that we have only presented a snow flake on the tip of an iceberg, we exaggerate only slightly. This volume packs an enormous amount of information which any seeker of the truth about the assassination must read – especially those wanting to understand Oswald.

 

The decision to write her story was a difficult one for Baker especially given the threats to her life and family – to say nothing of lost relationships; but following the trail of her lost lover, she has accepted the risks of witnessing to the truth. For this we salute Judyth and send our love.

Reference
Me & Lee: How I came to Know, Love, and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald, Judyth Vary Baker, Trine Day LLC, Waterville, OR, 2010

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