[[ by Martin Shackelford ]]
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An Expanded Table of Contents for
Never Again!:The Government Conspiracy in the JFK Assassination
by Harold Weisberg (1995)
Preface
The cover-up conspiracy traced to the White House; the military may have
been involved in the assassination (vii); Hoover declares a lone assassin
(viii); Katzenbach formulates the conspiracy (ix); file releases,
unreleased key LBJ phone transcripts (x); conspiracy theories abound
(xi); JAMA inspired this book (xii); FBI refusal to investigate, key
phone calls (xiii); Hoover's role (xiv); Gerald Ford's perjury (xv); FOIA
lawsuits (xv-xviii), JAMA (xix), LBJ policy shifts , JFK to Gavin on
Vietnam (xx), COINTELPRO (xxi), Whitewash (xxii-xxiii), Weisberg's files
(xxiv), acknowledgements (xxiv-xxvii).
Foreward
Good journalism v. JAMA (xxxi-xxxii); records releases (xxxii-xxxiv),
democracy (xxxv), coup d'etat (xxxiv), Weisberg v. phony critics (xxxvi,
xxxix)), proof of conspiracy (xxxvii-xxxviii), JAMA v. journalism
(xl-xliii), the early critics (xliii), Weisberg in the OSS (xliv-xlv),
the ARRB (xlvii)
Chapter 1: An Introduction
JAMA press conference, May 1992 (1), assassination to autopsy (2),
government "solutions" (3-4), Lundberg blunders in (4-6), the FBI (7-12)
Chapter 2: Dirty Linen
The FBI takes control of the case (15-20), Katzenbach memo to Moyers and
the non-investigation (23-26).
Chapter 3: What a Stench!
Dismissing conspiracy leads (27-28), avoiding photographic evidence
(29-31), the FBI and the autopsy (31-33), conspiracy suspected (34),
after the Shaw trial (35), COINTELPRO v. critics (35-37), JAMA and the
autopsy (38-40).
Chapter 4: What Did JAMA Do and How Did JAMA Do It? And Why?
JAMA press conference scam (41-45), the media's limitations (45-48)
Chapter 5: AMA as Flack
Misrepresentations of JAMA press conference (49-52), Boswell and Richard
Levine of the Baltimore Sun (52-56), JAMA's media coverage (57), early
critics of the autopsy (57-58), Boswell to Levine on the autopsy face
sheet (58-60).
Chapter 6: Twenty-eight Years of Silence
Josiah Thompson interviews Boswell,, Boswell interviewed for Harrison
Livingstone (61), Humes on CBS and at HSCA, Finck in New Orleans (62),
blaming the Kennedys (63), Warren Commission avoids the photos & X-rays
(64-66)
Chapter 7: The Muck That Was Not Raked
JAMA's soft interviews (67-68), Boswell interviewed by Harrison
Livingstone (68), Dallas doctors (68-69), NY Times corrections (70)
Chapter 8: Truth Forever on the Scaffold, Wrong Forever on the Throne
One-sided journalism (71-73), blaming the Kennedys (73-74), lies about
the brain (74-76), forensic pathology (76-77), destruction by Humes
(77-78), Whitewash and the media (78-79), Dr. Lattimer (79), FBI and the
media(80)-81), Humes' phony rationale for the destruction ((81-84)
Chapter 9: The Records That Speaks for Itself
Autopsy doctors and the Warren Commission (87), JAMA on the autopsy
report and records (87-90), first draft, not notes , were burned (90-96).
Chapter 10: "The Least Secret Autopsy in the History of the
World"--James J. Humes
Warren Commission records (97-98), the gutted autopsy file (98-102).
Chapter 11: Into and Partly Out of the Memory Hole
Paper trail and missing autopsy records , including Humes'
notes(103--109)
Chapter 12: To Set the Record Straight
Justice Department panel, Garrison blows his lawsuit (111-112), Admiral
George Burkley picks Bethesda (113-117), a throat wound leak, s hutting
up the witnesses (118), Burkley's report (119-123), seeking the records
(123-127), missing items noted on the Burkley r eceipt (128-131).
Chapter 13: If It Isn't Written Down, It Wasn't Done
Attempts to mislead (133-137), Howard Roffman's study for Weisberg
(137-138), Burkley's approval (139-140), changes in the autopsy report
(140-143), the calls to Dr. Perry (143), avoiding the Parkland press
conference (144), the calls to Perry as handled by Spector (144-146),
Boswell's lie and Burkley's verification (146-148).
Chapter 14: JAMA's Four
No interference with the autopsy claimed (151-152), preceding the autopsy
(152-153), Finck in New Orleans (153-156).
Chapter 15: Specter's Bastard
The Single Bullet Theory (157), Humes attempts to justify the omissions
(157-159), the back and throat wounds (159-160), the autopsy doctors'
1966 statement (161), the Justice Department panel on fragments
(161-163).
Chapter 16: The Nitty-gritty
The autopsy report (165-166), Humes to JAMA on the head wound (166-167),
JAMA overstates the case (168)
Chapter 17: The Gritty
The head wound (171-173), back and neck wounds (173-174), Weisberg's
interview of Dr. Perry (175-176), the X-rays, the photos and the drawings
(177-181), hearsay in the report (181-182), changes in the report
(182-183), military ammunition (184-185)
Chapter 18: "Truth Is Our Only Client"--Chief Justice Earl Warren
Commission counsel (187), dealing with unwelcome testimony (188-189),
Zapruder's testimony (189-190), Darrell Tomlinson finds a bullet
(191-193), Dr. Perry testifies (194-195), avoiding the media accounts
from Parkland (196-199), Weisberg's interview of Perry (199), avoiding
Allan Sweatt (200), Perry tells Humes about the throat wound (201-202),
Perry to Weisberg on the throat wound, including its abrasion collar
(202-203), the bullet that didn't enter Connally's thigh and fall out
(203-204), the fragments (204-205), the bruise on the pleura (205), the
fragments in the head (206)
Chapter 19: The President's Clothes--Or the Emperor's of the Commission
Misrepresentations about the clothing (207-208), seeking the clothing
photos (209-210), the necktie and the knot (210-211), Baden isn't
appointed (212), the single bullet theory and the clothing in JAMA,
Boswell's lie and the back wound (212-216)
Chapter 20: Michael Baden
Admissions in Baden's book (217-219).
Chapter 21: The Commission Deceived Its Own Dissenting Members!
The dissent of Sen. Richard Russell and the suppressed transcript
(221-228), the Commission's phony formulation (229), the photo of the
shirt collar (230), Edgewood's Dolce and Light (231-233).
Chapter 22: Pictures Worth More Than Ten Thousand Words
Members of the Clark Panel (235), and HSCA medical panel (236), the
Single Bullet Theory, the Zapruder film and the re-enactment (237-239),
Carrico, Henchliffe and Bowron on the clothing removal (239-241),
Weisberg's interview of Dr. Carrico (241-242), the shirt and tie (243,
248), FBI Exhibit 60 (244), photo of the shirt collar (245), photo and
enhanced photo of the tie (246-247), missiles and projectiles (249), the
clothing v. the Single Bullet Theory (249-250)
Chapter 23: Was the FBI Witting? Yes!
The FBI report (251), avoiding an independent investigative staff (252),
FBI leaks (252-255), Commission fear of the FBI (255-256), judges
favoring the government (256-258), the Justice Department cites Weisberg
as an expert (259), FBI lab agents trained on how to testify (259),
Frazier on the stand (259-260), photo of the base of CE 399 (261).
Chapter 24: Lundberg and JAMA as Malice in Blunderland
The JAMA October issue with Finck (263), Humes on CBS (264-265), the
adrenals (265-266), cites High Treason 2 and Baden (266), Lundberg's
political posturing (267-269).
Chapter 25:"It Is Over. No More Questions."--Pierre A. Finck
The October issue (271), Dr. Gary Aguilar's critique (272), Finck in JAMA
(272-276), the unpublished meeting of doctors and staff (277-278), Finck
in JAMA on New Orleans (279-280), the clothing (280-281).
Chapter 26: Was There a Military Conspiracy?
Oliver Stone and Jim Garrison, old and new evidence (283), Oswald didn't
pick up the leaflets from the printer (284), the kidnaped witness and
the raped witness (285), Finck to JAMA and Finck to Blumberg (285-289).
Chapter 27: The Army Protected the Conspiracy. Why?
Dr. Joseph Dolce avoided, Chip Selby and "Reasonable Doubt"(291), the
April 21, 1964 conference (292-293), Selby interviews Dr. Dolce
(293-299), Specter suppresses (300-301), Ronald Simmons on the shooting
experiements (301-304), Army-Navy takeover and Army rules on VIP injuries
(305),
Chapter 28: Finck in New Orleans
Who's in charge, military orders (307-310), Humes in JAMA "explains"
Finck overheard an event an hour before he arrived! (311-312), versions
of Finck (313-317), Finck changes his testimony the next day (317),
evasions (317-318), influence by Galloway and Kenney (318-319), more
notes (319), JAMA's lies triggered by "JFK" (320-322).
Chapter 29:"There May Have Been Other Gunshots"--George D. Lundberg
Ignorant defenders of the Warren Report : Lundberg on
"McNeil-Lehrer"(323-325), Henry Wade writes he didn't believe Oswald was
alone (326), Russell's dissent and letters of resignation (326-327),
the Oswald note (327), Chief Curry (after talking with Chaney) believes
two men fired (328),
Special section: the tangled tale of the Tague shot (328-334), Dillard's
photos (329, 332, 333), Leonard Hill and Buddy Walthers see Tague , Hill
reports the shot on the police radio, which is monitored by the FBI
(330-331), the FBI seizes Dillard's negatives (331), the patch of the
curb (334), photo of the curb segment at the Archives (336)
the paraffin tests and ERDA NAA tests (335, 337), the FBI on the facts of
the assassination itself (339-340), Humes April 15, 1964 version of what
happened (340-341), Hoover's version v. the Commission's, the Secret
Service reconstruction (342), the FBI reconstruction (342-343), the CIA
analysis of the Zapruder film (343), Willis, Zapruder and the sprocket
hole area (344)
Chapter 30: How Much the FBI Does Not--or Maybe Does--Love Me
How to testify: training given to FBI lab agents (347-348), Agent John
Gallagher (348), Frazier and Shaneyfelt (349), Lyndal Shaneyfelt, the
missing Z-frames, the Altgens photo versions, and the lawsuit charade
(346-356), FBI dirty tricks (356-357), an agent's daughter volunteers to
helpWeisberg (357-358), Farris Rookstool III (358-360), FBI agents
Weisberg has known and loved (360-361), the police state FBI (362)
Chapter 31: Rosetta Stones
Weisberg on David Belin (365), presumption of Oswald's guilt (366)
Special Section: The Tague Shot: the FBI avoids reporting it (367),
potential analysis (368), Shanklin tells Belmont about the Tague hit less
than an hour after it happened (369), the press reports the Tague shot
the next day, a Dec. 13 followup story prompts as Dec. 14 interview of
Tague (370), a third media story in June causes the Commission to notice
Tague, whom Gemberling belittles (371), Alex Rosen tries to dismiss Tague
(372), Specter's June 11 memo,
the FBI obtains the Underwood footage that day, waits until June 30 to
give it to the Commission, Rankin's letters of July 7 & 9 (373), on July
11, the FBI re-interviews Dillard and Underwood, the "washed-away" curb
(374), the curb removed and photos taken July 16 (375), re-examination
of the curbstone in 1983 (376-377), surveillance of Tague (378), who
patched the curb? and the missing spectrographic plate (379), the
Commission version (381)
Chapter 32: Waketh the Watchman
The CIA's Zapruder film analysis (383-384), the sidewalk scar reported
(384), the sidewalk scar investigated (385-388), the sidewalk scar
patched (388-390) ,
[NOTE: This patch is the material Gary Mack uses to dismiss the sidewalk
scar], William Barbee finds a cartridge and the FBI "handles" it
(391-392), Rex Olivier finds a bullet and the FBI "handles" it (392),
Wayne and Edna Hartman (392-393), the mystery FBI man photos (393-394),
James Chaney said he saw a separate bullet hit Connally (394-395), the
Oswald note and the FBI (396-398), Baker quotes Chaney (398), the FBI
avoids the motorcycle officers (398-400), Douglas Jackson's account from
his memoirs written the night of Nov. 22, 1963 (400-403, 406).
Chapter 33: Never Again!
Old evidence, new evidence and the failure of the media (409-417),
Weisberg and George Lardner (415), an engaged scholar (417-419), what can
people do? (420), Brandeis on government lawbreaking, Hamilton on
trusting the military, Jefferson on public knowledge (421), Jefferson on
the free press and honesty , St. Jerome on exposing the truth , Churchill
on a nation's conscience, Faulkner on the presence of the past (422),
Lincoln on telling the truth, Jackson on one-man majorities (423),
Kennedy's changes (423-426), why study the assassination? (427-428), the
Schweiker subcommittee (428), Richard Sprague in and out (428-429),
Robert Blakey (429-430), it's up to individual Americans (430-432).
Epilogue
Katzenbach:"Trust us"(433-434), corruption of government in the wake of
the assassination (434-438), the archivist and President Bush (438),
"distinguished service" (439), trusting attorneys general (440), Lundberg
at the Midwest Conference on Assassinations in 1993 (441-444), the book
that never was (445-446), the LBJ Library oral history of Kenneth
O'Donnell (446-449), praise for John Newman's JFK and Vietnam (449-451)
Bibliography and Bibliographical Essay
The only books worth reading on the case are Weisberg's, Sylvia Meagher
and Weisberg's protege Howard Roffman (453), Lifton's theory is a fraud,
and another example is Harrison Livingstone's books (454), sources used
(455-456), the Weisberg FOIA lawsuits and a court clerk's comment
(457-458), Weisberg's files (458-459), a court decision that copyrighted
photos be given to Weisberg for study purposes: "one cannot copyright the
nation's history and then deny access to it" (460-461), the FOIA lawsuits
listed (461-463), some of the released records (463), FBI coding
(463-464)
Afterword
Suppression (465-467), the HSCA (467-468), recent releases, Dr. Aguilar,
and Anna Marie Kuhns Walko (469), the autopsy photos and X-rays aren't
fake (469-471), HSCA records (471-473), Ebersole to HSCA on the back
wound, Parkland called the shots (474-479), Finck to HSCA (480-482),
Galloway's restrictions (482-483), Andy Purdy (483), James Sibert on the
dustlike particles and his call to the FBI lab (484-485), Francis X.
O'Neill on the back wound, a soft-nosed bullet hitting the head
(486-487), avoiding the evidence (488-489), the FBI (490-493), the LBJ
phone transcripts (493-496).