JFK / November 2019
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22 November 1963
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I had been exiled to labor among Republican cronies of my Father at the State Capitol as punishment for failing grades at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
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When it happened I was living in Springfield, Illinois. Twenty years old, and working for the Illinois Secretary of State! A glamorous job for a boy from the Illinois Village of Ullin, population 800, where Abraham Lincoln ~ the first Republican President ~ was worshiped.
I had been exiled to labor among Republican cronies of my Father at the State Capitol as punishment for failing grades at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
I had spent too much time liberating the downtrodden ~ in coffee shop and barroom bloviations ~ to attend my own classes.
My Father saw it befitting my civil liberation work that I head North to Springfield, "Where the tax man's bagman takes all that Gott damn tax money!" My Father clearly saw the World through Republican eyes.
My Father saw it befitting my civil liberation work that I head North to Springfield, "Where the tax man's bagman takes all that Gott damn tax money!" My Father clearly saw the World through Republican eyes.
"So, it was time to put the Son on the state payroll?" L. A. Norma said.
Yes, it was. For it is true, all over the World, citizens live better in the shadow of the crooked staff (church and state's). That is where the taxman delivers his harvest.
Anyone seeking work ~ from king to janitor ~ in any capital anywhere in history is after that tax money. "In one form or the other," L. A. Norma said through a fog of Camel Cigarette smoke.
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Yes, it was. For it is true, all over the World, citizens live better in the shadow of the crooked staff (church and state's). That is where the taxman delivers his harvest.
Anyone seeking work ~ from king to janitor ~ in any capital anywhere in history is after that tax money. "In one form or the other," L. A. Norma said through a fog of Camel Cigarette smoke.
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| Illinois Capitol, Springfield courtesy Illinois Secretary of State |
In the square around Illinois' Victorian Capitol stands a statue of Lincoln. I went there on 22 November 1963, when I heard the news. The inscription on its base is from Lincoln's farewell address, departing Springfield for Washington. It reads:
"I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return..."
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| Cabildo, Jackson Square, New Orleans / photo credit: Mark Tullos |
That was fifty-six years ago this month. I did then, but don't any longer, believe the party line on Kennedy's murder, but I haven't more than a clue what happened. I have looked at it from a hundred different angles, and it did not happen as told by the Warren Commission.
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This I do know first hand
In New Orleans, where many participants in this drama originated ~ decades after the assassination ~ at the Old U. S. Mint, the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 sent a traveling circus of disclosure-hearings. Prompted, said the good government legislators, by Oliver Stone's movie, JFK, the year before.
At the Old U. S. Mint Hearings, one day, I sat next to Harry Connick, Sr., Orleans Parish District Attorney (and Father of the musician). Connick stood, took the witness chair and testified at this latest JFK "full disclosure hearing". He testified as to the wicked work of his predecessor, Jim Garrison, NOLa D. A., at the time of the murder.
Later, Garrison authored ON THE TRAIL OF THE ASSASSINS, inspiration for Stone's movie. In the film, by the way, Jim Garrison plays his arch villain in the real drama, Earl Warren. There will always be irony in New Orleans.
Later, Garrison authored ON THE TRAIL OF THE ASSASSINS, inspiration for Stone's movie. In the film, by the way, Jim Garrison plays his arch villain in the real drama, Earl Warren. There will always be irony in New Orleans.
Connick testified that Garrison burned the District Attorney's JFK investigation files ~ and he had not ought to ~ because they belonged to the holy people of New Orleans, if not the whole wide holy World.
The World Wide Web had not yet come to pass, L. A. Norma pointed out, "Or Connick would have planted a righteous flag on its e-turf, too!"
It turned out Garrison did not burn the files.
New Orleans WDSU-tv reporter, Richard Angelico captured Connick on film later in Connick's office, rolling his eyes for more heavenly guidance and retelling his same well dressed disinformation about evil Jim Garrison.
Like Julia Street chef Emeril Lagasse, "BAM!," Angelico pulled an affidavit from his coat pocket and read a retired Connick office worker's testimony that Harry Connick had ordered him to do the burning of the files.
Praise the Lord, the worker, Gary Raymond, did not follow those orders, and kept the files in his car's trunk all the following years.
Just think, for the next twenty-some years, stopped at an intersection in Big Swamp City, you might have been sitting next to an old car carrying those files. Ultimately Raymond was convicted of violation of grand jury secrecy laws and sentenced to six months. Becoming the only conviction in the Kennedy assassination probe.
Angelico turned the files over to the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. They are said to contain nothing of significance, though they had led to the only charges in the murder of the President. "There will always be a Washington, D. C., too!" Norma says, from within her bubble of Camel smoke.
Connick did an heroic backstroke before the tv-reporter's lens ~ sending the bar where I was watching into blustery blasts of laughter. He ended with the finely honed belly-flop of: "So what if I did? We needed the space," as we barflies hooted and slapped the bar!
So much for guardian of the sanctified City's property, mon ami, Harry!?
There will all ways be a New Orleans. Even if we go underwater and don't come out again.
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| Jim Garrison as Earl Warren in JFK |
Burt A. Folkart, 22 October 1991 / Los Angeles Times
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| Richard Angelico |
"New Twist in ‘JFK’ Case: Investigator Kept Grand Jury Records" / Associated Press, by ALAN SAYRE
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