Subtitled A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza, this unusual text looks at the Kennedy assassination from an entirely new perspective — and thereby adds a few new pieces to the puzzle.

Mister Roberts is an expert sniper who served with the Marine Corps in Vietnam and has been working as a police officer for over 20 years. He has written several books on sniping, and really seems to know his shit. However, he also identifies himself as a "Christian Patriot" (and even goes so far as to quote scripture!), which somewhat detracts from his credibility (I am uncomfortable in the company of zealots, and most Christian Fundamentalists seem ignorant and naive to me). Personal theological beliefs aside, this text is, by far, the best reconstruction of the scenario to date.

True, nearly anyone who looks too closely into the highly irregular events surrounding this profound incident can reasonably be expected to be dismissed as a delusional "conspiracy theorist" (if not a "paranoid anti-government whacko"), but the facts clearly show that, not only was there a complex and highly organized network of operators working on this project, but that there was also complicity within the highest echelons of "our" government. These facts are so glaringly obvious that even the prestigious History Channel acknowledged them in their series of investigative reports entitled "The Men Who Killed Kennedy." Yes, our government was responsible for the liquidation of this "troublemaking freethinker" (although some would prefer the term "progressive"), but the vast majority of the "conspiracy theorists" are unable to see the big picture and instead of focusing on why Kennedy was prematurely removed from office, they instead scream "coup d’etat!" and vainly struggle to find someone to blame.

Yes, Kennedy did have a lot of good ideas, as well as a great deal of charisma, but he was still an incorrigible fuck-up. The facts that he was a lecher as well as a druggie really weren’t that bad compared to all the other fucked-up shit he pulled. Pleasant though he might’ve seemed to the public at large, behind the scenes he proved to be an unscrupulous scumbag who foolishly betrayed a lot of extremely powerful people (and actually seemed to believe that he could get away with it). He was an idealist with delusions of grandeur, who made a noble (although misguided) attempt to create radical changes in our country instead of simply acting as the impotent figurehead all Presidents are intended to be. Not only was he an insubordinate punk, but he started to fuck with the livelihoods of some very dangerous people in a blatantly disrespectful manner — so they busted a few caps in his dumb ass. Just because you happen to hold the highest office in the land doesn’t automatically give you carte blanche to carry out your every whim (for example, firing the DCI and stating that he intended to dismantle the CIA). If Kennedy was more mature, stable, and realistic as to his limitations, he probably would not have been killed (and he might’ve even been able to act on a few more of his less radical ideas).

This operation was conducted in a highly orchestrated manner by the top intelligence assets in the world. Not only was it carried out with clockwork precision (with most of the physical evidence being immediately destroyed and many of the eyewitnesses "taken out of the equation" shortly thereafter), but more than one writer has alleged (as well as detailed) that there was a significant amount of Masonic symbolism in the way the assassination was carried out (refer to King Kill 33 for more on this theory). As most researchers know, Kennedy was a "papist," which made him an enemy of the predominantly Masonic intelligence community, which he recklessly threatened to destroy. In their eyes, not only was he regularly confessing State Secrets to agents of a foreign power (Rome), but he was hostile to their worldview, and was actively taking steps to attack them (dozens of high ranking officials were either fired or pressured to resign, and he intended to sharply curtail the powers of the intelligence community as well as downsize it dramatically). When he proved to be ambivalent towards the perceived threat of Communism — and then deliberately sabotaged the Bay of Pigs invasion (which directly resulted in the Cuban Missile Crisis), he actually became a traitor in their eyes. Thus, not only could they justify their actions to themselves, but they could even convince a large number of loyal Americans that such an "unthinkable act" was, indeed, their only viable option. The intelligence community was cornered, and this well-planned operation was a simple matter of survival.

Do I think that they did the right thing? Of course not! But I can understand why they felt that they had no alternative. I can even sympathize with them to an extent — but their actions put LBJ in the Presidency, and he was a downright evil piece of sister-humpin’ trailer-trash who shouldn’t even have been allowed to clean the White House toilets! (Okay, LBJ really didn’t grow up in a trailer, and perhaps he didn’t even have a sister, but he most certainly "fits the profile." This is a man who obviously despised the Kennedys {he brazenly insisted upon being sworn into the Presidency immediately after Kennedy was loaded onto AF-1, his first act after returning to the White House was to throw away Kennedy’s famous rocking chair, and it is even alleged that he dove to the floorboards of his vehicle seconds before the first shot rang out} and used to get great satisfaction from humiliating his subordinates by calling them in for important meetings while he was squatting on the fucking commode pinching a loaf! I’m sorry, but heads of State simply do not conduct their affairs in such a hideous manner!) Then, mysteriously, the country seemed to go into a downward spiral from which we still haven’t pulled out of, as politicians and high-level bureaucrats began filling their pockets with taxpayer’s dollars in an unending series of scandalous swindles (of which only a fraction have come to light). Okay, now that my ranting is done, I’ll share with you a few excerpts from this very unique book:

"I turned my attention to the window in the southeast corner — the infamous Sniper’s Nest. . . . I walked up to it and looked down. I immediately felt like I had been hit with a sledge hammer. The word that came to mind at what I saw as I looked down through the window to Elm Street and the Kill Zone was: Impossible!

I knew instantly that Oswald could not have possibly fired three shots in rapid succession — 5.6 seconds according to the museum displays — with a worn-out military surplus Mannlicher-Carcano mounted with a cheap telescopic sight from that particular location to the kill zone I now examined in more detail on the street below. The reason I knew that Oswald could not have done it was because I could not have done it." (p. 5)

"Then, as I watched one particular scene, something grabbed my attention. The scene was the famous footage of Air Force One parked on the ramp at Andrews Air Force Base. It was the night of the assassination and the airplane had just returned to Washington with the body of JFK. . . . I saw something that no researcher, no Warren Commission critic, had ever noted. Air Force One did not appear to be Air Force One! . . . Air Force One was an executive version of the Boeing 707 jetliner. . . . This airplane had something that identified it as being something other than a 707. It had a ventral fin. . . . In both the news footage and in photographs, the airplane delivering Kennedy’s body to Andrews AFB — bearing tail number 26000 — was fitted with a ventral fin. . . . Of particular interest was a notation that a helicopter of some type was running on the right side of AF-1 as it off-loaded the casket at Andrews from the left side, and that this helicopter took off within minutes of the jet’s arrival and shutdown. From my past experience in providing security for presidential and vice-presidential VIP visits, I knew that no aircraft is allowed within a very strict radius of the presidential aircraft." (pp. 21-23) "Just to the right of where the casket was placed is a trap door that drops down into the aft baggage compartment! It is no secret that the door, known as the ‘Aft Cargo Compartment Ceiling Access Panel," exists. . . . In my theory that a different airplane had been substituted — the 720B I originally questioned — I felt the reason was because the aft baggage compartment had been specially prepared in advance to receive the body, and if so, probably had the facilities to alter it. The compartment, accessible from the main passenger compartment above, is heated, air-conditioned, pressurized and lighted." (p. 74) "The casket guarded so faithfully during the flight by the Kennedy aide was empty. This stage of the plan complete, it was now a matter of removing the metal shipping container (allegedly containing the presidential cadaver) from the airplane at Andrews and transporting it to where the physical evidence of the wounds — the direction of shot and the bullet fragments still in the brain — could be altered." (p. 76)

"Hoover was only one of the Washington inner-circle old school boys that Kennedy was in the process of removing from office. In the months since he ascended to the presidency, an unusual number of government officials fell by the wayside. Among them were: Army Major General Edwin A. Walker . . . S. Wesley Reynolds, Secretary Director of the National Security Agency . . . General Joseph M. Swing, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization . . . A. Gilmore Fluse, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury . . . General C. P. Cabell, Deputy Director of the CIA . . . Richard M. Bissell, CIA Deputy Director of Plans . . . Allen Dulles, DCI . . . William T. Heffelfinger, 45-year veteran official of the Treasury Department . . . William L. Mitchell, Commissioner of Social Security . . . Robert Amory, Jr., another Deputy Director of the CIA . . . Jerry R. Holleman, Assistant Secretary of Labor . . . General Lauris Norstad, six-year commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe . . . Admiral George W. Anderson, a one-term Chief of Naval Operations . . . Ambassador deLesseps S. Morrison . . . Bobby Baker, Secretary for the Majority . . . Fred Korth, Secretary of the Navy . . ." (pp. 29-31)

"My direct question on the FAX was: ‘Who owned the controlling interest, or was a major stockholder, in the following U.S. corporations between 1960-68: Bell Helicopter, General Dynamics, Colt Firearms, Ford Motor Company, Boeing-Vertol, McDonnell Aircraft, and Douglas Aircraft?’ One week later I received a telephone call from a female assistant to the addressee. In a somewhat mystified sounding voice, she said that she had spent the day looking for the records of the above corporations concerning the dates in question, but had failed to locate them. She said that this was most unusual — that those particular records were missing . . . before I could write to the National Archives, my original letter evidently surfaced at the SEC . . . I received a letter with the following statements: ‘This is to acknowledge your letter concerning the above referenced. We are unable to provide the information you are in need of because the files have been disposed of in accordance with the Commission’s Records Control Schedule (17 CFR 200.80f).’ In a country that archives over 200 years of paperwork, including such important items as World War I memorandums on the procurement procedures for pack mules, World War II technical manuals on obsolete equipment, and records of telephone calls made from various obscure offices during the FDR years, I found it incredible that records dealing with some of the country’s corporate giants had been ‘disposed of.’ I was disappointed. Another door had been slammed shut by the bureaucracy." (pp. 37-38)

"According to various sources, Trafficante was directly responsible for recruiting ten sharpshooters from the Cuban community in Miami for Operation 40's attempt on Castro. The action-team snipers that were selected from this pool were supplied with precision-built takedown Belgian rifles, trained at a secret location known as ‘The Ranch’ in Mexico, then infiltrated into Cuba using CIA assets. Operating under the CIA’s executive action program assassination team for the Caribbean and Latin America, codenamed ZR/RIFLE, the Mafia-supplied shooters managed to get very close to accomplishing their objective." (p. 45)

"It should not be assumed that the CIA, as an organization, was involved in the conspiracy. It can only be speculated that certain elements, or individuals within the agency, and certain agency assets, were involved. In the mainstream, the vast majority of CIA personnel had no idea of such an operation being undertaken. This, for the insiders, was easy to accomplish. By their very nature, intelligence organizations are compartmentalized into areas only those with a need to know have access to. No one outside of a given cell will have a clue about what is happening next door. This technique of organization not only provides elements of security, it makes deniability much easier for the organization. It becomes very easy to say, ‘We didn’t know what was going on down there. It was a rogue element operating on its own.’" (p. 48)

"Realizing the evidence supports the fact that Kennedy was struck in the back just before the head shot, it must be concluded, because of the range of the sniper positions behind the President that the bullet was fired from a rifle. But if it was, then why was the wound so shallow? . . . (one explanation would be the implementation of) a sabot round — a specially hand-loaded bullet — purposely fired to insert false evidence into the crime scene. In this case, either into the car or the body. It mattered not which, as long as ‘Oswald’s’ bullet could be found with enough rifling left intact to match the barrel of a 6.5 Carcano. In 1975, a maintenance man named Morgan was working . . . on the roof of the Dallas County Records Building . . . he found a .30-06 casing that had rolled back under some of the roofing tarpaper . . . It had an unusual roll-type crimp around the neck of the cartridge. This crimp is used to secure a plastic ‘sabot’ liner on subcaliber munitions. . . . And if the round is undercharged, the bullet travels at much less of a velocity — with a reduced noise signature." (pp. 80-81)

". . . the reason behind the decision to eliminate the president was something far more important to the conspirators than revenge or war profits: President John F. Kennedy, like Lincoln before him, was about to interfere with the progress of the master plan. After two hundred years of alternating victories and setbacks for the international banking cabal, and just when they had total power within their grasp by way of controlling the nation’s economy, Kennedy intended to exterminate the Federal Reserve System, then put the country back on the Gold Standard. . . In this action he would . . . eventually eliminate the national debt. . . . In 1963, by presidential order of John F. Kennedy (EO 11 and EO 110), the United States Treasury began printing over $4 billion worth of "United States Notes" to replace Federal Reserve Notes. . . . For those in doubt, a few of these bills can still be found. They can be recognized easily by the distinctive red seal on the front of the bill in lieu of the green seal of the Federal Reserve Notes." (p. 189)

"When the motives and beneficiaries are combined, it can be seen that several things would occur if Kennedy was eliminated at precisely this point in history: The CIA would remain intact and would be permitted to pursue its operations both world-wide and in Laos; The Mafia, besides making money on the war by way of interests inside the military/industrial complex, and also in illicit drug dealings by distributing the heroin coming out of Laos for the CIA, would be rid of Bobby Kennedy and his anti-Mafia crusade; Life-long high-level bureaucrats, including J. Edgar Hoover, could keep their jobs; Certain corporate entities — most of which provide financial support to selected politicians, and which do little business in peacetime — would turn billions in profits during a war; The anti-Castro Cuban community would be revenged for Kennedy’s treachery during the Bay of Pigs invasion; and lastly, Lyndon Baines Johnson, a nobody vice president — would become President of the United States." (p. 39)

"What follows is a reconstruction utilizing a logical meld of the evidence: As the Lincoln entered the kill zone — the section of street where the firing trajectories of all sniper positions intersected — the order was given to commence firing. From behind the picket fence, the first marksman squeezed his trigger. His shot, an underpowered round loaded specifically to stun the target and at the same time present a subdued sound signature, struck Kennedy in the throat. . . . As the Lincoln slowly approached Abraham Zapruder’s position on the steps of the monument, a second shot . . . came from the Dal-Tex building . . . across from the Texas School Book Depository. It was also an undercharged cartridge, for after striking Kennedy in the back . . . it failed to penetrate more than one inch. . . Kennedy’s body slumped forward slightly, but not dramatically as it would if struck by a high velocity rifle round such as the 6.5mm Carcano supposedly used by Oswald. . . . The next shot was fired from the School Book Depository and is the actual shot that struck Connally. . . . The next shot came from the Dal-Tex building, fired as a diversionary shot that narrowly missed the limo. It flew long and struck the curb near the triple underpass and shattered into fragments. One such fragment ricocheted up to hit James Tague, a bystander . . . The fifth shot came from the Book Depository — possibly from the roof — and also missed the car. It struck the sidewalk . . . At this time, for some unknown reason, the presidential limousine — instead of racing away from the scene as is procedure — came almost to a stop. . . . The sixth, and final shot, would not miss. It was the one fired by a man positioned behind the picket fence, approximately 30-40 feet west of the corner of the fence on the Grassy Knoll. As so vividly portrayed in the Zapruder film, this shot struck Kennedy in the right front temple area of his head and exploded on contact. . . . The film plainly depicts a reddish mist that casts a piece of skull directly upwards at a 90 degree angle to the ground. Such a bullet strike can only be accomplished by an exploding — or ‘frangible’— bullet. . . . At this point the limousine, now bearing the fatally wounded President, finally accelerated away from the kill zone." (pp. 59-62)