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KENNEDY ASSASSINATION REDUX

TOP BILL "THE KILLER MOLE" MOYERS' CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

* Texas native, former summer intern to, and long-time friend and crony of Lyndon Baines Johnson.

* Named Deputy Director of Peace Corp for the Kennedy Administration -- a.k.a. an LBJ mole -- at VP Lyndon Johnson's insistence.

* Somehow Moyers, without written authority, was put "in charge" of JFK trip to Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, despite working for the Peace Corp, a supposedly non-partisan organization started by JFK!

* Moyers states later that the only "major decision" he made with respect to Dallas was that: ". . . some 24 hours before the President arrived, there was a dispute as to whether or not to print in the newspapers the route." Said Moyers, "Betty Harris called me . . . and said they were not going to print the route of the ... [motorcade] procession and I said, 'Oh, yes they are. He's not coming down here to hide. He's coming down here to get a public reaction, and the decision is to print the route of the President's procession.' "

* Luckily for JFK, Moyers was at Love Field the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, when JFK's flight arrives from Fort Worth.

* Once again Moyers, without written authority, takes charge of President's security in the motorcade going to downtown Dallas, overriding the Secret Service.

* Moyers is caught in a lie above as he is witnessed to have made a second "major decision" when he issued, once again without any written authority, an order to Secret Service (re: Groden and Livingstone) to (Moyers' words): "Take the goddamn bubble top off so the President can be seen!"

* Moyers quickly leaves Dallas to go to Austin "for lunch" before Kennedy is assassinated.

* Bill Moyers is immediately promoted to "special assistant" to LBJ by LBJ on November 24th, 1963, one day after JFK was murdered.

* Receives and supports the infamous memo from AG Nicolas Katzenbach on November 25th, 1963, two days after JFK was murdered.

(1) Nicholas Katzenbach, memorandum for Bill Moyers (25th November, 1963)

It is important that all of the facts surrounding President Kennedy's Assassination be made public in a way which will satisfy people in the United States and abroad that all the facts have been told and that a statement to this effect be made now.

1. The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial.

2. Speculation about Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off, and we should have some basis for rebutting thought that this was a Communist conspiracy or (as the Iron Curtain press is saying) a right-wing conspiracy to blame it on the Communists. Unfortunately the facts on Oswald seem about too pat - too obvious (Marxist, Cuba, Russian wife, etc.). The Dallas police have put out statements on the Communist conspiracy theory, and it was they who were in charge when he was shot and thus silenced.

3. The matter has been handled thus far with neither dignity nor conviction. Facts have been mixed with rumour and speculation. We can scarcely let the world see us totally in the image of the Dallas police when our President is murdered.

I think this objective may be satisfied by making public as soon as possible a complete and thorough FBI report on Oswald and the assassination. This may run into the difficulty of pointing to in- consistencies between this report and statements by Dallas police officials. But the reputation of the Bureau is such that it may do the whole job. The only other step would be the appointment of a Presidential Commission of unimpeachable personnel to review and examine the evidence and announce its conclusions. This has both advantages and disadvantages. It think it can await publication of the FBI report and public reaction to it here and abroad.

I think, however, that a statement that all the facts will be made public property in an orderly and responsible way should be made now. We need something to head off public speculation or Congressional hearings of the wrong sort.

* In October 1964 Walter Jenkins resigned from Johnson's staff after being arrested in a men's room in Washington, and Moyers became the President's informal chief of staff. According to Laurence H. Silberman—who examined Barry Goldwater's staff to find similar evidence of homosexual activity, to be used in case Goldwater brought up Jenkins's arrest as a campaign issue. According to Silberman, Moyers at first claimed that the memo was a forgery, but then admitted to him that it was genuine. Moyers denies these allegations, stating, "Silberman's account of our conversation is at odds with mine."

* Bill Moyers named LBJ's Press Secretary in 1967.

* For over five years (1963-1968) sits compliantly by, supporting LBJ and their policies, as they escalate the Vietnam war, causing an additional 38,000 American GIs Killed in Action and 100,000 wounded.

* Never, ever complains once in over 40 years about the Warren Commission, Arlen Specter's "magic bullet theory" or Oswald as the lone assassin, but complains bitterly about the History Channel's "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" series in which LBJ (thus Moyers) is considered a prime suspect.

* In 2003 the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, of which Moyers is president, gave money to a variety of establishments which have been described as "left leaning," such as the Christian evangelical magazine Sojourners ($500,000), Salon.com ($277,785) and The Nation magazine ($115,000). He has also been involved with the group Take Back America, an organization that seeks to help elect liberal political candidates.

* Moyers has been the subject of accusations of liberal bias from some quarters. In 2005 former Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman Kenneth Tomlinson commissioned a study of the show NOW with Bill Moyers. The study supported what Tomlinson characterized as "the image of the left-wing bias of NOW and Moyers, of course, denies these allegations. Moyers' frequent criticism of conservative policy has led conservative commentators like Brent Bozell to label him a liberal commentator rather than an objective journalist.

* October 2006, Dr E. Calvin Beisner, whom Moyers interviewed for Is God Green, wrote that Moyers had told him that he "intended for the documentary to influence the November elections to bring control of Congress back to the Democrats".
* Makes self-described "devastating" documentary in 2007 about the national press' support, and failure to stop the Iraq War, a war that in five years has killed over 3,300 Americans and wounded nearly 25,000. He notes that only conservatives and Neocons refuse to be interviewed.

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