Alberta Williams King, victim of assassination
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Monday, February 9, 2015
MLK's Mother Was Assassinated, Too: The Forgotten Women Of Black History Month
(Editor's note: On June 30th, 1974, Alberta Williams King was gunned down while she played the organ for the “Lord’s Prayer” at Ebenezer Baptist Church. As a Christian civil rights activist, she was assassinated...just like her son, Martin Luther King, Jr. But most people remember only one I certainly DID NOT KNOW this story, until I read an article by Aurin Squire. I've put up a link so that you can read his article, too. He makes a number of interesting statements about his acquisition of black history. It's a wonderful article to read during Black History Month. Read it, and share your comments, please.)
Monday, April 21, 2014
Internationally Acclaimed JFK Assassination Researcher, John Judge, Dies
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Official release - Renowned Researcher John Judge Dies in Washington, DC
John Patrick Judge, assassination researcher
Washington, DC --- John Patrick Judge passed at the age of 66, just as he had lived – with courage in the midst of pain. An internationally acclaimed researcher, writer and speaker, as well as a lifelong anti-militarist anti-racist activist, and community organizer, Judge died on April 15 due to complications from a stroke suffered in early March.
Judge’s primary areas of research were the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as totally unique research which he conducted on-the-ground
The 2013 COPA conference drew more than 300 researchers and activists to Dallas on the 50th anniversary of John Kennedy’s death. Amidst the national furor when the feature film "JFK" came out in 1992, Judge was one of the key public proponents behind the creation of the Assassination Records Review Board. One of his last efforts was to press for release of some of the thousands of Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination records still kept classified by the CIA and the FBI.
The 2013 COPA conference drew more than 300 researchers and activists to Dallas on the 50th anniversary of John Kennedy’s death. Amidst the national furor when the feature film "JFK" came out in 1992, Judge was one of the key public proponents behind the creation of the Assassination Records Review Board. One of his last efforts was to press for release of some of the thousands of Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination records still kept classified by the CIA and the FBI.
As co-founder of 9/11 Citizens Watch, Judge also did investigative research on the background and details of the attacks of September 11, 2001. He worked with family members of the victims to push for a federal investigation and closely monitored the work of the 9/11 Commission.
Judge was also a co-founder of CHOICES, an organization engaged since 1985 in countering military recruitment in DC area high schools and educating young people about their options with regard to the military. Beginning with the war in Viet Nam, Judge was a life-long anti-war activist and supporter of active-duty soldiers and veterans.
From 2005 to 2007, Judge served as Special Projects Assistant to Representative Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. One of his many undertakings in Congress was to advocate on behalf of active-duty soldiers who received harsh sentences for declaring themselves conscientious objectors and others who claimed to have been tortured in military brigs. He helped write the Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush which Representative McKinney introduced in December 2006, before leaving office.
At the time of his death, John Judge was working on creation of a Hidden History Museum and Research Center in Washington, DC, to educate a new generation about covert operations, and to support the work of investigative journalists and researchers looking into the National Security State and the rise of secrecy, government plans for extra-Constitutional jurisdiction during emergencies, and threats to civil liberties and international relations. Some of his writings can be found at judgeforyourself.org.
Acclaimed nationally and internationally for his vast store of historical knowledge, Judge wrote: "Under the evil genius of Allen Dulles, whose espionage attacks on the Soviet Union date back to the 1920's, $200 million in Rockefeller and Mellon funds was directed into the hands of Hitler's spymaster Reinhard Gehlen and his 350 Nazi spies, who formed and founded our Central Intelligence Agency in 1947."
An avid public speaker, Judge never spoke about himself but rather, humbly retained a tireless devotion to the search for truth beyond the official government or mainstream media record. Until his final days, Judge was a seeker of truth and justice of the first order. He is irreplaceable in the annals of serious research and documentation.
John Judge is survived by his long-time companion and life partner, Marilyn Tenenoff and thousands of friends and admirers across the country and around the world. A celebration of his life will be held in late May. In lieu of flowers, tax-deductible donations can be made to support the preservation of Judge's books and archives in a new Museum of Hidden History, P.O. Box 772, Washington, DC, 20044.
It's often greed or selfish hate, in ancient times and recent.
John Judge's aim is just to find the truth and then to show it.
So we can change the world by letting all the people know it."
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
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Contact Susan Klopfer
Cuenca, Ecuador
Words: 68,380 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780982604977
Language: English
ISBN: 9780982604977
The Plan: Murder Mystery
Historical Fiction Novel Based on Actual Civil Rights People, Places and Events;
JFK Assassination Explored
A young Cleveland McDowell enters the University of Mississippi as the first black law student; later he was kicked out. Students, he said, had chased with with guns. When he carried a firearm to class, out of self protection, he was expelled. He lost a legal bid to reenter. McDowell was a close friend of James Meredith and Medgar Evers. (Photo, U of M files)
Short Summary of The Plan: The tight bond between Clinton and Joe, two gay,
black lawyers (one of them, married) is broken when Joe is reportedly found
hanged. A suicide seems impossible to Clint, and Joe’s widow is acting cagey.
Clinton Moore believes Joe Means was tortured and murdered because of his and
Joe’s shared obsession—investigating and fact gathering about civil rights cold
case murders and assassinations.
***
The
Plan is based on a real
event that took place in the Mississippi Delta, where author Susan Klopfer and
her psychologist husband lived for two years on the grounds of Parchman
Penitentiary, where Fred Klopfer worked.
The former award-winning Missouri news reporter and Prentice Hall book
editor, asked around about a murder that had taken place in the Delta—a fact
she’d picked up from a new friend.
But all that “Ella’ could say was that “he was a bad man—a gay lawyer.
And he was murdered.”
“Of course, I wanted to hear more. I always like a good story. But
I had to learn who, what, when, where
and why on my own.”
Klopfer began digging to learn the full story, starting with a
telephone call to a local minister’s wife she’d met through a local restaurant
owner. “That would be Cleve McDowell, the first black law student to enter Ole
Miss. He got kicked out!” the wife told her.
“I quickly learned some of this man’s story, but it took months to
put everything together, so that I could make sense of what I’d heard. I had a
feeling that I was the first person to uncover the whole story, as much of it
that was possible to track. Of course I had to search old records, lie it to a
courthouse clerk, and track down several older people who’d known this man. I
eventually got a copy of his autopsy and with the help of a physician and
forensic researcher, I learned that two shooters were probably involved. I also
learned that the autopsy was sloppy and quick. One person went to prison for
this murder, but it looked to me as if the person who shot the fatal bullet got
away.”
Klopfer believes that she has the only existing copy of McDowell’s
autopsy. “The state said it was no longer available, when I asked for a copy.”
Cleve McDowell became the main character—Clinton Moore—in The
Plan. “I changed names, dates and locations, moving the story from Drew to
Clarksdale, but did not change much else, at least in the beginning of the
book. I wanted to remain true to Delta history.”
For instance, The Plan details the murder of a young woman, Jo
Etha Collier, who was brutally killed on the night of her high school
graduation in Drew. More is written about the murder of Mississippi civil
rights icon, Medgar Evers. The Emmett Till lynching is further explored. But
the book finally takes a paranormal turn, Klopfer admits.
The writer, who currently resides as an expat in Cuenca, Ecuador,
said that she picked up a piece of “interesting Mississippi Delta JFK
assassination history” which she weaves into The Plan. “I learned of a Delta
man, a private detective named John D. Sullivan, who ended up working in New
Orleans with key figures named by well-known JFK assassination conspiracy
researchers.” The names, she said, include former FBI agent Guy Banister and pilot
David Ferrie, along with Carlos Marcello, boss of the New Orleans crime family.
Sullivan died from a suspicious gun accident at home, after
returning to the Delta from the Big Easy. “Even Sullivan’s children said they
didn’t believe the story they were told about how their father died. Apparently
Sullivan spent a lot of time with a family friend, a well-known judge, after
coming home before he died. I would love to see the judge’s notes.”
Klopfer believes that “the real Cleve McDowell” easily would have
had contact with Sullivan. “They would not have liked each other. Sullivan was
a right-wing, former FBI agent who was a racist for at least most of his
professional life. The state’s Sovereignty Commission records attest to this,
as do those who gave me interviews. Who knows? Maybe McDowell researched
Sullivan’s strange death and got in over his head.”
The Delta attorney, she says, could have learned something about
the Kennedy or Dr. Martin Luther King assassination. “Or the Emmett Till
lynching. I certainly could not leave out this possibility. He kept in frequent
contact with Emmett Till’s mother, working on this cold case for most of his
professional life. His office was filled with investigation records when he was
killed. Later, many were burned in a dramatic fire,” Klopfer said.
"I learned through all of this that Cleve McDowell was a compassionate man who deserves to be remembered. I want this message to come out of this book. I am surprsed at how difficult it was to find records and stories about him."
The Plan starts in New York City, with a history professor who intends on contacting Moore to congratulate him on his seventy-second birthday. But the professor gets interrupted by the sister of a colleague at Penn State University who disappeared in South America—in the Chilean Andes—in 1985. Trying to assist Boris Weisfeiler’s kin, the professor forgets to call his Mississippi friend.
"I learned through all of this that Cleve McDowell was a compassionate man who deserves to be remembered. I want this message to come out of this book. I am surprsed at how difficult it was to find records and stories about him."
The Plan starts in New York City, with a history professor who intends on contacting Moore to congratulate him on his seventy-second birthday. But the professor gets interrupted by the sister of a colleague at Penn State University who disappeared in South America—in the Chilean Andes—in 1985. Trying to assist Boris Weisfeiler’s kin, the professor forgets to call his Mississippi friend.
The Plan moves to the Mississippi Delta. “A murder takes place,
and Clinton Moore narrates the rest of the story. It is his journey to find the
murderer of his best friend, Joe Means. And his own killer, as well,” Klopfer
said.
Klopfer notes that character “Joe Means” is also based on a true
person who she believes also was murdered in Montgomery Alabama. “Henry S. Mims
was a friend of Cleve McDowell’s. They went to school together. It is said he
committed suicide, but after listening to whispers over the phone from a
Huntsville law clerk (where he worked), I don’t believe that story, either.”
Mims also was a lawyer who worked on civil rights cold cases in
his spare time.
The Plan has a gay subtheme. “The Plan is historical fiction. I
took liberties to make it more interesting to readers. But I believe that was
not a big stretch to make. I spoke to various friends and scoured the state’s
Sovereignty Commission files to make this decision.”
Is a sequel in the works? “Definitely,” Klopfer says.
The Plan, as it moves from the Delta to Ecuador, has a strong link
to Chile, where recent trials have taken place over a Chilean and German-run
terrorist/torture camp, by the name of Colonia Dignidad.
“Look this up on the Internet. Colonia Dignidad exists,” Klopfer says.
“And it is where the sequel begins.”
The Plan
Words: 68,380 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780982604977
Language: English
ISBN: 9780982604977
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
50 Years Ago Today in Birmingham, AL Negotiations Begin Ending Jim Crow: Update
Freedom Lifted
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Friday, April 12, 2013
JFK Assassination Author, John Beviliqua, Thanks Colleagues For Research Efforts
John Bevilaqua, authorJFK - The Final Solution (Red Scares, White Power and Blue Death)
She also pointed out that Banister was on the payroll of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission for Senator James O. Eastland, along with Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker during both the Ole Miss Riots and the Little Rock, Arkansas school desegregation crisis. Recall also that it was Walker who often visited Byron De La Beckwith in prison following the murder of Medgar Evers, Jr. and that it was none other than Jack Ruby who fingered Walker in his Warren Commission testimony.
And how long was it the Banister's role in the Anti-Communist League of the Caribbean was totally ignored, almost deliberately, 40+ years, perhaps? And how many of you knew that Banister played a role with E. H. Hunt in the 1954 Guatamala coup of Arbenz run with 'Rip' Robertston and Allen Dulles, along with his United Fruit Company client which was less than a mile from his offices on Lafayette Street on St. Charles? Not many, I would venture to say.
And when the information about 'Operation Red Cross', also run by Senators Eastland and Goldwater, and NOT the CIA was painstakingly extracted from Nathaniel Weyl, how many of you said: "Wow, everyone always said that one of the main keys to the understanding of the sponsors of the JFK hit was 'Operation Red Cross', now that we know it was done by SISS, under the auspices of Senator James Eastland from Mississippi who was on Draper's payroll, for the benefit of Senator Barry Goldwater from YAF and organized by Robert Morris from SISS and The China Lobby, who was the real force behind McCarthyism, this puts the entire JFK Assassination in a much clearer, brighter light!" No one besides me.
Why does it take a Civil Rights Activist to bring us all back to our senses to realize that the JFK murder and the other 3 acts of violence done between the Summer of 1963 and the Summer of 1964 were all done by the SAME forces, paid for by the SAME person, Wickliffe Draper, for the SAME reasons using the power behind Senator James O. Eastland, the Senator from The Pioneer Fund?
Looks like Jackie was right after all, and it looks like those like Bill Baggs, Editor of The Miami News whom I had the privilege to work for at the age of 16, and Ralph McGill, Editor of the Atlanta Constitution were also right when they said the JFK murder was first and foremost perpetrated by those in the Civil Rights movement for their own sinister purposes.
Sure, it also served the purposes of the Viet Nam lobby, the MIC, the anti-Semites, the anti-Papists, the anti-Catholics, but who actually represented ALL of these interests and was in a position to reach deep down into his pockets and deep down into his hierarchy of KKK stormtroopers and the Gestapo of the Southern Civil Rights opponents?
Only Wickliffe Preston Draper, using Senator James O. Eastland from the MSC, the KKK and the Draper Genetics Committee and Robert J. Morris whose history included Rapp-Coudert, McCarranism, The China Lobby, the Liberty Lobby, McCarthyism, MacArthurism and then SISS with Eastland as well. Trust me, without my contributions, Robert Morris, Charles Willoughby, Wickliffe Draper, Edwin Walker and even James Eastland and Guy Banister would have gone totally scot free. And both Army Intel and ONI would have gotten off clean as a whistle, too.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
"I'm sorry" -- Former KKK Supporter Elwin Wilson Says Before He Dies
KKK Doesn't Go Away
Who's sorry now?
Elwin Wilson has died at the age of 76, leaving behind a legacy of a man who was able to admit the error of his ways. Wilson was formerly a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan, which is frequently misspelled as Klu Klux Klan. During his affiliation with the KKK, he participated in hate crimes which haunted him in his later life, so he bravely decided to apologize, according to a March 31, 2013 report by The Huffington Post.
After a lifetime that included burning crosses and assaulting African Americans, Wilson finally found peace in forgiveness. After President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009, he decided to apologize for his many hateful indiscretions, which included the 1961 beating of U.S. Rep. John Lewis at a Rock Hill bus station.
Elwin Wilson dies with a clear conscience and the blessing of forgiveness from the very man he assaulted on that day 50 years earlier. In 2009, Wilson offered Lewis an apology for the brutal beating, and Lewis graciously accepted. As a result, both men were honored on Worldwide Forgiveness Day later that year, and both men received the Common Ground Award for Reconciliation in Canada. Wilson even had the opportunity to honor his victim with an award in Maryland.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Civil Rights Author Releases Autopsy of Mississippi Lawyer; Death of Cleve McDowell 'Still a Mystery'
For Immediate Release
Susan Klopfer
Civil Rights Author, Speaker
Mississippi Civil Rights Author Releases Autopsy of Delta Lawyer
Murdered in 1997; Report Found in Sunflower County Courthouse Basement 'Leaves
Open Questions About What Really Happened to Cleve McDowell'
(Gallup, NM) – A
controversial autopsy of a civil rights lawyer murdered in 1997 has been placed
on the Internet “for the public to see” by the author of three Mississippi
civil rights history books and eBooks.
“I still think
about Cleve McDowell, how brave he was and how he remains a forgotten civil
rights hero. And I believe his murder should be reinvestigated,” Klopfer said
today, after placing the 29-page report on a civil rights blog, MississippiSovereigntyCommission.com.
Klopfer, a
graduate of Hanover College, is the author of Who Killed Emmett Till, The
Emmett Till Story, and Where Rebels Roost, Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited.
She is a former acquisitions and development editor for Prentice Hall, and has
won journalism awards in Branson, Missouri for her investigative work.
The story of Cleve McDowell, a
small-town civil rights leader who investigated the murder of Emmett Till and
so many others killed in the civil rights movement has been “pretty much”
forgotten, Klopfer said.
“Go to Mississippi’s
state civil rights library that houses civil rights reports and books, and ask
for something on McDowell. Most likely, you will get a blank stare. The state
has forgotten this man – the first African American to be admitted to the
University of Mississippi’s law school – and a cohort of James Meredith and
Medger Evers.”
McDowell a 'Bad' Lawyer, Delta Matron Claims
Klopfer said she
learned of McDowell only because she asked a simple question about a gate
protecting an unfinished home on the outskirts of Drew, Miss., where McDowell
was born and later murdered.
“I was riding in a car with one of the matrons of this small Delta town. I saw the rusted gate and several large stakes driven into the ground. It looked like a construction project that was halted a number of years ago – and it turned out this was a home McDowell was building for himself at the time he was killed.”
Klopfer said she asked the driver of the car, a woman she was interviewing at the time on what happened – who abandoned the construction, and why.
“She would not look me in the eyes, but said a ‘bad’ lawyer was murdered, and was building this house at the time. That caught my attention and I started asking people about the ‘bad’ lawyer, and soon I began to piece together his story.
“As it worked out, he was an important person who set several state records for African Americans. His short stay at the University of Mississippi was controversial – he was kicked out for carrying a gun in self-defense. He had been chased by students with guns back to his car, and even when driving home. Nothing happened to the white students, but McDowell was booted out. His law professor helped him get into a Texas law school where he finished, and returned to Mississippi to practice law.
When Klopfer approached the current dean of the law school, asking for the letter of recommendation that was written for McDowell back in 1963, she said he refused to hand it over.
"Several years later, I received a copy of the letter from an archivist at the school. She personally pulled it from law school files so that it would be saved from destruction.”
“I was riding in a car with one of the matrons of this small Delta town. I saw the rusted gate and several large stakes driven into the ground. It looked like a construction project that was halted a number of years ago – and it turned out this was a home McDowell was building for himself at the time he was killed.”
Klopfer said she asked the driver of the car, a woman she was interviewing at the time on what happened – who abandoned the construction, and why.
“She would not look me in the eyes, but said a ‘bad’ lawyer was murdered, and was building this house at the time. That caught my attention and I started asking people about the ‘bad’ lawyer, and soon I began to piece together his story.
“As it worked out, he was an important person who set several state records for African Americans. His short stay at the University of Mississippi was controversial – he was kicked out for carrying a gun in self-defense. He had been chased by students with guns back to his car, and even when driving home. Nothing happened to the white students, but McDowell was booted out. His law professor helped him get into a Texas law school where he finished, and returned to Mississippi to practice law.
When Klopfer approached the current dean of the law school, asking for the letter of recommendation that was written for McDowell back in 1963, she said he refused to hand it over.
"Several years later, I received a copy of the letter from an archivist at the school. She personally pulled it from law school files so that it would be saved from destruction.”
McDowell's attorney friend 'commits suicide' in Alabama
Klopfer became further intrigued with the story, when learning that another black
lawyer, McDowell’s protégé and investigative partner, was killed in Alabama (“committed
suicide”) several years before McDowell was murdered.
“McDowell went to Alabama and investigated his friend’s 'suicide.' He knew this man since they were children, and even influenced his decision to become a lawyer.
“When McDowell returned to his Delta home from Montgomery, he told a best friend this was not a suicide, but a murder – there were signs of torture. He also told this friend, he (McDowell) would be next.”
McDowell immediately quit practicing law in his office, and started a small church in Drew where he spent his last years. "His secretary told me that he stayed at the church most of the time, telling her how to proceed. She told me that on the day before he was killed, he wrote a lengthy resume that included all of his accomplishments."
Klopfer personally believes that McDowell and his friend were very likely investigating the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Too many signs point in this direction. McDowell was a friend of King. He worked for the SCLC right out of law school, and on several occasions, Dr. King visited his office in the tiny town of Drew. After learning as much as I could about McDowell, I know that he was a dedicated and persevering man, who investigated many murders in the Delta, and would not have left King’s assassination alone.
“McDowell went to Alabama and investigated his friend’s 'suicide.' He knew this man since they were children, and even influenced his decision to become a lawyer.
“When McDowell returned to his Delta home from Montgomery, he told a best friend this was not a suicide, but a murder – there were signs of torture. He also told this friend, he (McDowell) would be next.”
McDowell immediately quit practicing law in his office, and started a small church in Drew where he spent his last years. "His secretary told me that he stayed at the church most of the time, telling her how to proceed. She told me that on the day before he was killed, he wrote a lengthy resume that included all of his accomplishments."
Klopfer personally believes that McDowell and his friend were very likely investigating the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Too many signs point in this direction. McDowell was a friend of King. He worked for the SCLC right out of law school, and on several occasions, Dr. King visited his office in the tiny town of Drew. After learning as much as I could about McDowell, I know that he was a dedicated and persevering man, who investigated many murders in the Delta, and would not have left King’s assassination alone.
Finds Clue in Lubbock, Texas Newspaper
"In an obituary appearing in a Lubbock, Texas newspaper – where I once worked as a journalist – it was reported that he was known for investigating civil rights crimes, with several other lawyers. Ironically, this information never made it into Mississippi newspapers, as far as I could tell.”
McDowell also had working papers in boxes and in his safe, stashed in his office from various investigations over the years, including the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago visitor to the Delta who was murdered in 1955.
“Those papers all disappeared following McDowell’s murder. All of his guns were removed from his office and home, too. Months later on, his entire office ‘caught’ on fire.”
A young man was arrested for McDowell’s murder, and remains in prison.
Autopsy Leaves Questions
“In court
records that I found in the basement of the Sunflower County Courthouse, I
learned that this young man tried to commit suicide while in jail, and that after confessing, he
later claimed he did not kill McDowell, that he admitted guilt because he was
threatened he would be charged with a capital crime if he did not plead guilty.”
The autopsy leaves some real questions for Kloofer, “after learning how McDowell’s murder was described in court.
“Some pieces don’t fit the puzzle, and I believe that this murder is far more complex than what meets the eye. I never met McDowell, of course, because I did my research in 2004 and 2005. But every time I tried to interview family members and some friends or relatives about him, and about his murder, I ran into a brick wall.
"The person who did the autopsy was frequently questioned by his peers regarding his standards. And then, a host of crime scene questions have not been resolved--in fact, they need to be asked!"
Klopfer said her book, Who Killed Emmett Till, gives "relevant details that have never been resolved" about the murder.
Cleve McDowell’s story may be further complicated, "because he was gay (as were several major iconic civil rights figures, at the time) and he kept this secret quite well. This has made it more difficult to find his true friends, and often when I do, they usually won’t talk because they seem to be either afraid or embarrassed.”
The New Mexico author adds that “so little” is still reported and understood about the entire modern civil rights movement in Mississippi.
“This is a small piece of the big civil rights story, but I would really like to know more truth – for now, I really believe that the case of Cleve McDowell is not closed.”
The autopsy leaves some real questions for Kloofer, “after learning how McDowell’s murder was described in court.
“Some pieces don’t fit the puzzle, and I believe that this murder is far more complex than what meets the eye. I never met McDowell, of course, because I did my research in 2004 and 2005. But every time I tried to interview family members and some friends or relatives about him, and about his murder, I ran into a brick wall.
"The person who did the autopsy was frequently questioned by his peers regarding his standards. And then, a host of crime scene questions have not been resolved--in fact, they need to be asked!"
Klopfer said her book, Who Killed Emmett Till, gives "relevant details that have never been resolved" about the murder.
Cleve McDowell’s story may be further complicated, "because he was gay (as were several major iconic civil rights figures, at the time) and he kept this secret quite well. This has made it more difficult to find his true friends, and often when I do, they usually won’t talk because they seem to be either afraid or embarrassed.”
The New Mexico author adds that “so little” is still reported and understood about the entire modern civil rights movement in Mississippi.
“This is a small piece of the big civil rights story, but I would really like to know more truth – for now, I really believe that the case of Cleve McDowell is not closed.”
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Running For Congress in California: FBI Files On Norman Solomon Because He Supported Martin Luther King, Jr. When He Was 14 Years Old!!
Letter received today from Alan Grayson:
Dear Susan:
I have five children. Sometimes I try to explain to them what it was like to live in America in the Sixties and Seventies. When the federal government listened in on phone conversations of civil rights leaders, and bugged their homes. When the President of the United States and his henchmen plotted to kill a reporter, Jack Anderson. When one major party burglarized the headquarters of the other major party. When the National Guard shot and killed college students. When rioting prisoners were picked off and killed by marksmen with rifle scopes.
There is one candidate for Congress this year who knows all about that. Because the FBI had a file on him. When he was 14 years old.
Norman Solomon is running for Congress in California. He is running in the very blue district now represented by Lynn Woolsey, former head of the House Progressive Caucus. He needs to win the primary election, on June 5.
Show your support for Norman Solomon by clicking here.
Here is how Solomon describes how it came about that the FBI opened a file on him when he was 14:
"I'd heard that some people were protesting at an all-white apartment complex close by, near the D.C. border, named Summit Hills. I was just a kid, but I'd figured out that segregation was wrong. So I picked up a sign, and joined the picket line."
And that, ladies and gentleman, was enough in 1966 to label you a "subversive," and put you under FBI surveillance.
But what's important now is that Norman Solomon showed what he was made of, at the age of 14.
Support someone who doesn't just talk the talk, but someone who walks the walk. Someone who has been walking in picket lines and protest marches for the past 46 years. Someone whom J. Edgar Hoover wouldn't like at all. Someone named Norman Solomon.
A lot of people who have been working in progressive causes for almost half a century are too tired, too burnt out, to run for Congress. But not Norman Solomon. He still has the energy, and the drive, and the conscience, to make a difference in Congress.
But Norman Solomon faces a very tough primary two weeks from tomorrow, and he needs your help. Who should represent San Francisco in Congress, Norman Solomon, or some useless, empty suit? It's up to you.
Let's help a lifelong progressive make it to Congress, where he can do good things for all of us. Click here, and click now.
Courage,
Alan Grayson
P.S. Almost 2,000 of us rallied to the cause last week, and contributed to our "Fight Back" fund to help us respond to the Chamber of Commerce's $324,000 blitzkrieg of lying attack ads. To those who contributed, thank you. To those who didn't, forgive me for asking, but what are you waiting for? "The time is always right to do what is right."
Dear Susan:
I have five children. Sometimes I try to explain to them what it was like to live in America in the Sixties and Seventies. When the federal government listened in on phone conversations of civil rights leaders, and bugged their homes. When the President of the United States and his henchmen plotted to kill a reporter, Jack Anderson. When one major party burglarized the headquarters of the other major party. When the National Guard shot and killed college students. When rioting prisoners were picked off and killed by marksmen with rifle scopes.
There is one candidate for Congress this year who knows all about that. Because the FBI had a file on him. When he was 14 years old.
Norman Solomon is running for Congress in California. He is running in the very blue district now represented by Lynn Woolsey, former head of the House Progressive Caucus. He needs to win the primary election, on June 5.
Show your support for Norman Solomon by clicking here.
Here is how Solomon describes how it came about that the FBI opened a file on him when he was 14:
"I'd heard that some people were protesting at an all-white apartment complex close by, near the D.C. border, named Summit Hills. I was just a kid, but I'd figured out that segregation was wrong. So I picked up a sign, and joined the picket line."
And that, ladies and gentleman, was enough in 1966 to label you a "subversive," and put you under FBI surveillance.
But what's important now is that Norman Solomon showed what he was made of, at the age of 14.
Support someone who doesn't just talk the talk, but someone who walks the walk. Someone who has been walking in picket lines and protest marches for the past 46 years. Someone whom J. Edgar Hoover wouldn't like at all. Someone named Norman Solomon.
A lot of people who have been working in progressive causes for almost half a century are too tired, too burnt out, to run for Congress. But not Norman Solomon. He still has the energy, and the drive, and the conscience, to make a difference in Congress.
But Norman Solomon faces a very tough primary two weeks from tomorrow, and he needs your help. Who should represent San Francisco in Congress, Norman Solomon, or some useless, empty suit? It's up to you.
Let's help a lifelong progressive make it to Congress, where he can do good things for all of us. Click here, and click now.
Courage,
Alan Grayson
P.S. Almost 2,000 of us rallied to the cause last week, and contributed to our "Fight Back" fund to help us respond to the Chamber of Commerce's $324,000 blitzkrieg of lying attack ads. To those who contributed, thank you. To those who didn't, forgive me for asking, but what are you waiting for? "The time is always right to do what is right."
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
New Release: Updates Recent RFK Assassination News Release
For Immediate Release: April 18, 2012
Contact: Leutrell (Mike) Osborne Sr.
Annapolis, MD USA
Phone 301 858-8455
Annapolis, MD USA
Phone 301 858-8455
BLACK MAN IN THE CIA Finds Atrocities in LAPD Handling of RFK Assassination Case
Entertainment News
Robert F. Kennedy; assassinated presidential candidate, focus of new film
It was in 2006 that Leutrell Osborne Sr. first ran across a press release about the MLK assassination by Gary Revel on the internet. The more he read the more irritated he became that Gary was blaming everybody it seemed; Mafia, FBI, CIA, even the Memphis Police and Fire Department Director for having some involvement in the killing. He made a mental note that it was just another wacky 'conspiracy theory' and went on with his life.
Days later he happened to be talking with an old friend, Congressman Walter Fauntroy, and heard some of the same types of conclusions. The curtain he had drawn in his mind against the ideas was pulled back. He went back to the internet and googled, 'Gary Revel'. There was more than enough to keep him busy for a few days. He studied the statements and conclusions. After a few days he realized that they were not the tyical 'conspiray theory' offerings. Rather they were facts drawn from real evidence Revel had found during his own MLK assassination investigation in 1977 as he had worked independently but in association with the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
He contacted Gary and offered to help him further the quest to find and expose all the facts of the case so that the world would finally know what Gary knew. The world would finally know the truth that James Earl Ray did not kill MLK.
Gary accepted his offer and days turned into weeks, weeks into months and months into years. One lead led to another and Leutrell began to see the link between the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This had been another 'wacky idea' from Gary, at first. However, it became clear that it was true, there is a connection. Then RFK? No, Leutrell did not want to go there. Sirhan Sirhan was still alive and in prison for the crime, surely the State of California would not be so bold to continue holding an innocent man for such an infamous crime.
Gary offered evidence again and Leutrell was shocked. The atrocities by the LAPD in the investigation of the assassination of Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy were blatant; destruction of evidence, bullying witnesses into changing their statements and not following up on vital leads were not the marks of any true investigation into any crime.
When Leutrell learned that Gary and Frank Burmaster had started writing a screenplay about the assassination he offered his help again. JFK Assassination Expert Al Navis is attached as 'Consulting Historian'. Leutrell attached as a 'Research Technical Consultant' for the screenplay. Leutrell knows he can help due to his extensive knowledge of Counterintelligence, Black Operations, COINTEL PRO (the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program), Covert Action and other relative matters that now clearly relate to the crime. The atrocities of the assassination and the following corrupted investigation must be brought to the world even it takes a motion picture to finally spell it all out.
Leutrell M. Osborne Sr. is the author of 'Black Man in the CIA'. He is a 26 year career Case Officer for the Central Intelligence Agency and is a 'Research Technical Consultant' for the screenplay being written by Frank Burmaster and Gary Revel, working title, 'Red Polka Dot Dress'.
Gary Revel is a Special Investigator of the assassination of Martin Luther King JR. whose work on that case led him to find links to those responsible for the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK.
Frank Burmaster has written 28 screenplays and has a zombie film in development. "Zombie Warriors", is to be filmed by StewArt Productions/Biblical Films. He also has a TV pilot in development, "Last Hope", with Stuart Sabin at It's a Living Productions. He just finished co-writing an action/thriller, "Sons of the Fallen", with producer Robert Hammond, and is currently co-writing two thrillers, "Thorn", and "Thorn 2" with producer Pamala Hall. He is also due to begin work on another TV Pilot, "The Discovery Process".
Al Navis is a writer, radio personality, book store owner and expert on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Contacts:
Leutrell Osborne Sr. - iiculture@mac.com
Gary Revel – gary@garyrevel.com
Al Navis - allenmnavis@gmail.com
This is a news website copyright 2012 by Gary Revel
All Rights Reserved
Monday, April 16, 2012
Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Film On The Way
Polka Dots and the Assassination of Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy
Entertainment News
To Be Released: April 16, 2012
Temple, TX USA
Gary Revel, email; gary@garyrevel.com
Special Investigator Gary Revel reflects on the polka dots and the RFK assassination as he pursues making a movie to expose the deadly killers behind the killing.
Gary Revel
(Temple, Texas) -- The year was 1977 and by the time three people (an associate, a brother and the husband of a cousin-with whom I had at least some discussion of my work investigating the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination were murdered) I was starting to make connections beyond MLK. Links began to surface that led to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Civil Rights Leader.
It was after the attacks on me and my family became too great to bear that I decided to end my investigation. This was in the early part of 1978 and I was living in Nashville, Tennessee where I had based my investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
A few months after making this decision I was sitting in the law office of my business associate, James Earl Ray attorney Jack Kershaw. I got a phone call from someone who said he was a friend of a woman who knew something about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and thought it had something to do with his brother‘s assassination as well (JFK). I told the caller that I was no longer investigating the King killing and wasn’t interested in pursuing neither Robert’s assassination nor JFK’s.
The caller was not relieved by this and continued to explain that his friend had seen a lady in a polka dot dress run from the Ambassador Hotel with a male friend saying that they had killed Kennedy.
I really didn’t want to hear this. My faith in any kind of real justice in the United States had been completely destroyed by my experiences of the past year. However, just as I had been compelled to delve into the underbelly of the MLK and JFK assassinations, I again felt the grip of hunger for justice.
I continued to listen and asked a few questions and once off the phone began to make some calls myself.
I learned that there had been several people who had seen a lady in a polka dot dress in and around the Ambassador Hotel that night. More than one had seen her in the company of Sirhan Sirhan.
One turned out to be the woman my caller had told me about, Sandra Serrano. She had been sitting on the steps that led down from the Ambassador Hotel Ballroom where RFK had just made his victory speech when the polka dot dress lady ran past her claiming, ‘We shot Kennedy’.
Another was a policeman, Sergeant Paul Sharaga, who saw the polka dot dress lady shortly after in the parking lot saying the same thing.
A third was Vincent DiPierro. He was working as a waiter in the hotel and saw the polka dot dress lady with Sirhan. She and Sirhan seemed quite cozy and was the recipient of a whisper from Sirhan. According to Vincent, soon after, Sirhan saw Robert Kennedy coming into the hallway and quickly moved forward taking a pistol out and began shooting.
I learned that more shots were fired than would have been possible if they had all come from Sirhan’s pistol. Then I learned of the destruction of evidence by the LAPD and other details that were very disturbing.
This kind of knowledge has come to me steadily, layer after layer, building a firm foundation and structure of truth about the assassination of RFK that isn’t found in the official court records that have kept Sirhan Sirhan in prison for 44 years.
It is because of this and other factors that I must go forward and make every effort to make a movie that will provide a perspective of truth, as I see it, beyond what is found in the official history of the killing of Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
So I have entered into an agreement with Frank Burmaster to co-write a screenplay about the assassination. We have accepted offers from JFK Assassination Expert, Al Navis and former CIA Case Officer, Leutrell (Mike) Osborne Sr. (author of Black Man in the CIA) to consult on research for the screenplay.
This is not an undertaking taken lightly I assure you. The pain and suffering that these matters have caused me over the years is more than enough for a lifetime, still I am compelled to continue.
Sirhan Sirhan, convicted for murder of RFK
A young U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Contact:
Gary Revel, email; gary@garyrevel.com
This is a news website copyright 2012 by Gary Revel
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