#1023 – Gerald McKnight

 

  • Gerald taught in Frederick, MD, where researcher Harold Weisberg lived
  • Original airdate: May 30, 2013
  • They developed a relationship which turned into a preoccupation
  • Today we are an empire, our republic is in pretty sad shape
  • Gerald’s Breach of Trust (2005), now in paperback
  • Oswald was put on the docket 25 minutes after JFK was pronounced dead
  • In the theater, Oswald was looking for his contact
  • Oswald was a low level Intelligence operative
  • None of his interrogation in Dallas was written down
  • Hoover kept the FBI away from the police basement
  • Marina’s first Secret Service interrogation has also been lost
  • The non-testimony of JFK’s physician Admiral George Burkley (more) (more)
  • The unsigned Walker note written in Russian
  • General Walker denied the Carcano-matching bullet
  • LBJ wanted an FBI reported supported by the Attorney General
  • Dr. Earl Rose competently autopsied Oswald, Tippit, and Ruby
  • Admiral Galloway controlled the Bethesda autopsy
  • Gerald believes LBJ was in on the planning
  • LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination (Nelson/2011)
  • Gerald would like an entire Air Force One conversations record
  • McGeorge Bundy had been a CIA asset while a dean of students at Harvard
  • Average Marines are not sent to language school
  • Senator Russell, the Dean of the Senate, was the first dissenter
  • Russell, Cooper, and Boggs re-interviewed Marina in Dallas
  • Jack Ruby was, and Lee could have been, an informant
  • Oswald was a provocateur in New Orleans, he called the FBI
  • Lee attempted to call his cut-out John Hurt in Nags Head
  • Lee Oswald the Cuban conspirator became the lone nut
  • The new edition of Gerald’s book contains a new preface
  • A film script supporting the Commission was reviewed by the FBI
  • In their review, the FBI noted that the paraffin test was erroneous