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The Smoking Gun of
the Cover–Up

I’ve highlighted the memo from acting Attorney General Nick Katzenbach for a very good reason: Because it lays out the whole plan for the cover-up. If you want to read it again, it’s at the front of this book, right where it belongs.

Keep in mind that it came from the U.S. Department of Justice—the Attorney General’s office that Robert F. Kennedy himself was the head of— and it detailed exactly what had to be done.

That document proves that the whole U.S. government cover-up was not some idle occurrence and did not just evolve as the circumstances developed.

That was their plan from the start.

So look at the words and get yourself a good handle on the truth. It tells you what the plan was, straight from the get-go:

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.³¹⁷

Is that clear enough for you? Because it’s sure as hell clear to me.

We need something to head off public speculation or Congressional hearings of the wrong sort.³¹⁸

Yeah. We wouldn’t want the public to wonder what actually happened to their President who just had his brains blasted to smithereens. We wouldn’t want our duly-elected officials in Congress to conduct an actual investigation and try to figure out what actually happened. We wouldn’t want any of those things, would we?

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.³¹⁹

And that’s why they formed the Warren Commission. That’s the real reason:

Not to find the truth, but to bury it!

³¹⁷ Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Deputy Attorney General, “Memorandum for Mr. Moyers,” November 25, 1963: maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Katzenbach_Memo

³¹⁸ Ibid.

³¹⁹ Ibid.