John Carl Warnecke, Architect to Kennedy, Dies at 91 April 23, 2010 New York Times By WILLIAM GRIMES John Carl Warnecke, the court architect of the Kennedy administration and the designer of John F. Kennedy’s grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, died on Saturday at his home in Healdsburg, Calif. He was 91 and also…
The freedoms afforded would-be assassin John Hinckley, Jr. By Annys Shin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 23, 2010; 5:03 PM John W. Hinckley Jr. is a man of routine. On warm days, he likes to sit on a bench outside the John Howard Pavilion on the grounds of St. Elizabeths hospital, and work his…
United Nations report asks the same questions that “conspiracy theorists” do here about political assassinations, but theirs are taken seriously and believed about foreign governments. Our questions are dismissed out of hand because we believe our government to be benign or at worst only incompetent. Note the commentary at the end about the role of…
Benazir Bhutto murder ‘avoidable’ A long-awaited UN report into the killing of Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto two years ago has been highly critical of the government of the day. It says Bhutto’s death at a rally near Islamabad could have been prevented if proper security measures had been taken by Gen Pervez Musharraf’s government. The…
Reality is finally sinking in about assassinations, even at the New York Times. Of course they have worked so well here, who could blame them for thinking they’d have the same effect abroad? – John Judge “America… routinely firing missiles into countries it’s not at war with”? Mr Wright has clearly never heard of the…
This is an interesting excerpt from Financial Times online, an architecture critic looks at Dealey Plaza and what it conveys – dark days indeed. A photographer caught a contrasting alignment of architecture, displayed at the Hotel Lawrence where we meet annually, of the John Neely Bryan Cabin, the Gothic gargoyled roof of the Dallas Courts…
1964 Jackie Kennedy interviews to be published By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer Hillel Italie, Ap National Writer Tue Apr 13, 2:54 pm ET NEW YORK – During the first half of 1964, just months after her husband was assassinated, Jacqueline Kennedy sat for seven interviews with historian and family friend Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. They met at her…
This approach could be used in regard to the Martin Luther King Jr. Records Act file releases on Dr. King Family Gets A Say on FBI Kennedy File Courtesy given to protect kin’s rights before release By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | April 12, 2010 WASHINGTON — Edward M. Kennedy’s family will be given a…
Cable ties Kissinger to Chile controversy By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer Apr 10, 8:21 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed…
Is the CIA Assassination Order of a US Citizen Legal? Democracy Now! April 8, 2010 US officials have confirmed a Yemen-based Muslim cleric has become the first US citizen added to a CIA list of targets for capture or killing. Anwar al-Awlaki is a US-born cleric accused of having ties to the failed Christmas Day…
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