Hitlery helped cover up the JFK assassination
The key names are these: Bobby Baker, Mary Jo Kopechne, Mark Shields, Irv Kupcinet, and
Karyn Kupcinet. All of these individuals link to both Hillary Clinton and the
assassination milieu through Wellesley College.
Karyn Kupcinet
As Edgar Allen Poe often noted, nothing rivets the imagination like the death of a
beautiful young lady. For this reason, few Hollywood tragedies have the haunting resonance
of Karyn "Cookie" Kupcinet's unsolved murder.
Born Roberta Lynn Kupcinet, she was the beautiful daughter of famed and powerful Chicago
columnist Irv Kupcinet (jocularly known as "Kup"). Under the name Karyn, she
gained a foothold in Hollywood, appearing in Jerry Lewis' The Ladies Man and in an episode of Perry Mason. Although given to occasional bouts of mild
depression and groundless concerns about her weight, the 23 year old actress seemed poised
for an important career. She wanted for little, since her father sent her a generous
monthly allowance.
Karyn Kupcinet was strangled to death in her Hollywood apartment on November 28, 1963 --
just a week after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The crime has never been solved.
The nation remained so transfixed by the tragic events in Dallas that Karyn's mysterious
death did not attract the press attention that otherwise might have accrued.
Here are the facts surrounding her death:
Karyn had befriended actor Mark Goddard and his wife Marcia. He later became well-known
for his role in the science fiction television series Lost
in Space, and his wife Marcia. Later still, Godddard became a university professor.
On the last day of her life, Karyn had Thanksgiving Eve dinner at the Goddard home in
Beverly Hills. The Goddards noticed that her behavior seemed odd: Her speech was faltering
and her manner distracted. It remains unknown whether this behavior was due to emotional
turmoil or to prescription drugs. Many theorize that she took pills in order to cope with
a stressful situation.
According to Mark Goddard, Karyn had related a fanciful story about an abandoned baby
being placed on her doorstep that very day, a tale which no doubt carried a certain
symbolic truth. She left the Goddards by taxicab at 8:30, promising to call her friends to
assure them of her safety.
(A conflicting account of her mental state on that evening appears in John Austin's 1970
volume, Hollywood's Unsolved Mysteries. Quoting Mark Goddard, Austin describes
Kupcinet as happy and "vivacious" during her last meal. For unknown reasons,
Austin excised the Kupcinet chapter from the 1990 edition of his book.)
Within the hour, Karyn was at her apartment and in the company of two other friends,
writer Edward Stephen Rubin and actor Robert Hathaway. By this point, she appeared to have
regained her normal state of mind. The trio watched television until she fell asleep on
the sofa. After she awoke briefly and transferred herself to her room, the two men lowered
the television volume and left. The time was shortly after 11:00. They went to Hathaway's
home and were joined by Karyn's on-and-off boyfriend, Andrew Prine, a successful
television actor. The three men socialized until 3:00 a.m.
So, at least, they told the police. The statements of Rubin and Hathaway thus provided an
alibi for Prine, with whom Karyn had a tempestuous relationship.
Karyn had promised to telephone the Goddards to assure them that she was safe and in good
health. After more than a day had passed with no contact, the Goddards became anxious and
visited the apartment. It is worth noting that they entered without a key. Goddard said
that the door just "popped open" -- even
though Rubin and Hathaway adamantly told the authorities that they had locked the door
behind them. (An acquaintance named David Lange had earlier tried the door and
found it unlocked. But he did not enter.)
Karyn's nude body was lying on the sofa, even though she had gone into her room on the
night of the 28th. The Goddards initially presumed that she had died of an overdose.
Coroner Harold Kade found a broken hyoid bone in her throat. The examination concluded
that Karyn Kupcinet had died of strangulation on the night of the 28th, shortly after her
friends had left the apartment.
In later years, crime writer James Ellroy theorized that Kupcinet had broken her neck
while taking a shower. This suggestion was immediately ruled out by the family -- and, it
would seem, by the facts. It should be remembered that the body was found on the couch, not in the bathroom. (How could a woman with a broken
neck make such a journey journey?) Flecks of blood were found on the body. Even a
less-than-competent coroner can easily determine strangulation by damage to the larynx,
disc-like bruises, damage to the thyroid cartilage, hemorrhaging under the skin of the
neck and bruising of the strap muscles. It is inconceivable that an experienced forensic
pathologist, employed by a large city, could miss such obvious signs. The hyoid bone is
almost never found broken unless fractured during manual strangulation. Ellroy's
suggestion would appear to be not just wrong, but -- some might argue -- intentionally
misleading.
A brandy snifter filled with cigarette butts had been overturned onto the floor. This
indication of a violent struggle was not present when Rubin and Hathaway had left.
Who had motive to murder Karyn Kupcinet? The police would naturally suspect the boyfriend,
who was, by some accounts, trying to back away from the relationship. But they could not
break his alibi.
Assassination allegations
Flashback: One week earlier.
According to the Toronto Star Telegraph of
November 23, 1963, twenty minutes before the assassination, a telephone company executive
named Ray Sheehan overheard a woman say that "the president was going to be
killed." The woman was calling from Oxnard or Camarillo, California, less than an
hour's drive north of Beverly Hills.
Ray Sheehan, manger of the Oxnard division of General Telephone Co., said the caller
"stumbled into our operator's circuits," perhaps by misdialing.
Sheehan said the woman "seemed to be a little bit disturbed." Besides predicting
the President's death, he said, she "mumbled several incoherent things."
The woman's upset state of mind and general location are consistent with what we know
of Karyn Kupcinet. If placed in a stressful situation, she was likely to self-medicate,
hence the grogginess in her speech.
Still, these factors hardly constitute evidence that Kupcinet and the unidentified woman
were one and the same. It should be noted that a mental institution then operated in
Camarillo.
In the second volume of his series of books Forgive My
Grief, Texas journalist Penn Jones definitively stated that the woman was, in fact,
Karyn Kupcinet. In his book, Jones said that an "Associated Press dispatch" told
"approximately the same story as we have on Miss Kupcinet." Unfortunately, Jones
inflicted some self-damage by getting the date of Kupcinet's murder wrong. When I spoke to
the late Penn Jones in the early 1990s, he alleged that he had an independent source of
information for linking this prophetic telephone call to Karyn Kupcinet. Unfortunately, he
did not name his source.
Despite their disagreements on other issues, both Ellroy and the Kupcinet family are
united in disputing the Jones account. They point out that she had, in fact, traveled
south (not north) on the 22nd, going to Palm Springs in the company of Prine and actor
Earl Holliman. She struck them as very upset by the events of the day, and did not
indicate any foreknowledge.
Although most reearchers now believe that Karyn Kupcinet was not the person who made the call from Oxnard/Camarillo,
the possibility cannot be entirely ruled out, since the trip to Palm Springs began after
the tragedy. No-one can explain why Karyn would travel north to make such a call. Perhaps
she feared having the call traced to her home number. Arguably, she was in an agitated
state of mind when she made a mad dash on the freeway until she found a phone booth which
she considered a safe distance away.
Karyn's father, famed columnist Irv Kupcinet, had known Jack Ruby during Ruby's days in
Chicago. This relationship -- admitted even by Warren Commission supporters -- should
surprise no-one, since both men made it their business to know "anyone who was
anyone" in town.
Penn Jones always believed that Ruby had given Kupcinet some prior indication of the
conspiracy to murder JFK, and that Karyn learned of this plot via her father. This is not
a theory which I share.
According to this investigator, journalist Mark
Shields (more recently a PBS commentator) played a role in the cover-up:
The warning given to the Los Angeles FBI by Kupcinet's daughter Karyn was never passed
on to Washington D.C.Dallas, Texas thanks to the heads up phone call made to the CIA
by...Mark Shields.
Mark Shields was clearly operating as a CIA asset and FBI informant on November 22,
1963.
At the risk of getting ahead of our story, perhaps we should here note that Shields has
become part of the Clinton inner circle:
Mark Shields also participated with Bob Woodward of the Washington Post and Judy
Woodruff's husband, Al Hunt, then of the Wall Street Journal, now with Bloomberg News, in
conducting a smear campaign against Gore during the Clinton fundraising scandals in order
to take the heat off Bill and Hillary.
Shields once stated to this reporter on the phone in early 1994, after Hillary blew out
the Democratic Congress, that Al Gore would never again be nominated for national office
by the Democratic Party because he was not part of the Washington elite.
Shields even stated to this reporter... "Gore won't play ball so he is not a good
horse."
If Karyn Kupcinet possessed any foreknowledge of the assassination, her father, in all
likelihood, was not the source. It certainly is hard to imagine why Irv Kupcinet would
give his young daughter (but no-one else) scuttlebutt received from a low-level gangster
like Jack Ruby.
However, she may have inadvertently been
introduced her into a dangerous milieu via Bobby Baker.
Baker was the chief aide to Lyndon Johnson, the man who succeeded JFK to the presidency.
Like his successor Bill Clinton, Johnson had many links to organized crime -- and Baker
was the point of contact.
In the early 1950s Baker had also been involved in helping the InterContinental Hotels
Group to establish casinos in the Dominican Republic. Baker arranged for Ed Levison, an
associate of mobsters Meyer Lansky and Sam Giancana, to become involved in this deal.
Afterwards, Baker continued to do business with Levison, Giancana and Ben Siegelbaum (an
associate of Jimmy Hoffa) in the Dominican Republic, believing that the Dominican Republic
could be a Mafia replacement for Cuba.
In 1962, Baker established the Serve-U-Corporation with his friend, Fred Black, and
mobsters Ed Levenson and Benny Sigelbaum. The company was to provide vending machines for
companies working on federally granted programs. The machines were manufactured by a
company secretly owned by Sam Giancana and other mobsters based in Chicago.
Although his only official income came from his role as Johnson's aide, Baker was clearly
a very wealthy man, and rumors eventually began circulating that he was involved in
corrupt activities. Baker was investigated by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who
discovered Baker's links to several Mafia bosses.
As evidence emerged linking Johnson directly with organized crime, the Kennedy's soon
understood that they might have to drop LBJ from the ticket.
Baker's secretary and mistress was a young woman named Nancy Carole Tyler, who shared an
apartment with none other than Mary Jo Kopechne, the woman killed in the accident (if
accident it was) that did such irreparable damage to Edward Kennedy's political career.
More than that:
Nancy Carole Tyler was Bobby Baker's secretary. She lived with Mary Jo Kopechne, who
worked for George Smathers. It was later discovered that the home was owned by Baker who
used it to hold sex parties for his political and business associates.
These parties -- which call to mind the Profumo affair, as well as the later scandal
involving Tonsung Park -- will prove key to our story.
Tyler refused to testify against Baker during a 1964 Senate investigation. Later, her
relationship with Baker turned acrimonious when he refused to leave his wife for her. She
died in a mysterious plane crash on May 10, 1965.
Her roommate, Mary Jo Kopechne, is also thought to have been involved with Baker's
activities. The manner of her death is well-known.
Kopechne and Tyler were not just roommates -- they were also students at Wellesley College
in Massachusetts. At some point, Karyn Kupcinet became enmeshed in this same milieu.
Some researchers have mistakenly
claimed the Kupcinet was herself a Wellesley student, but this is not quite true.
"Cookie" attended Pine Manor Junior College, also located in Wellesley,
Massachusetts. Assassination researcher John Simkin has found evidence linking
the beautiful Karyn Kupcinet to Nancy Carole Tyler -- and thus, to Bobby Baker's
operation.
I am not suggesting that Karyn ever became one of Baker's escorts. However, a source has
informed me that Tyler did befriend Kupcinet. This is, in and of itself, unremarkable:
Karyn's undeniable beauty naturally would have prompted Baker to attempt to recruit her.
This innocent friendship between three attractive young women placed Karyn Kupcinet within
the circle of powerful individuals who had excellent reason to despise and to fear both
John F. Kennedy and his brother's Department of Justice.
LBJ had been receiving kickbacks from business contacts through Bobby Baker. The
largest was the Fort Worth TFX contract to build a fighter plane for $7 million. Word
circulated that Johnson, Vice President of the United States at the time, was going to be
indicted. President Kennedy, it was rumored, was going to drop Lyndon from the ticket in
1964. Perhaps he would choose Senator George Smathers, who would become President
Kennedy's "best friend," yet would say detrimental things about Kennedy's
lifestyle after the Assassination, hurting Kennedy's memory. Don Reynolds, a man who put
together Johnson's will and knew a lot about LBJ's finances, was testifying that he had
seen a $100,000 payoff to Johnson over the TFX contract. Reynolds' testimony came to a
halt that day when word came that President Kennedy had been assassinated.
LBJ began a smear campaign against Don Reynolds. Reynold's testimony would not be made
public.
Karyn Kupcinet. Nancy Tyler. Mary Jo Kopechne. All three girls with potential knowledge
of the plot met with untimely ends.
Karyn's killer was, in all likelihood, a Chicago mobster named Paul "Red"
Dorfman, a known Ruby associate. Like Kupicinet, Prine and Holliman, Dorfman was in Palm
Springs on the day of the assassination. Their presence in the same town was not coincidental.
When Ruby shot Oswald, Irv Kupcinet, Chicago columnist and Karyn's father, immediately
called Paul Dorfman, a heavily mob-connected man. He'd been written about by none other
than Robert Kennedy in Kennedy's book about organized crime, The Enemy Within. Dorfman
served as head of the Waste Handler's Union in Chicago after Jack Ruby. He is described as
a slight man with a benign demeanor. Where did Irv find Paul Dorfman on November 24th?
Palm Springs where Karyn stayed that weekend. Irv Kupcinet had a lot of feelers out. He
located Paul Dorfman easily enough.
After the assassination, Irv Kupcinet went scurrying after the scoop of a lifetime. The
famed, extremely well-connected columnist formulated the goal of telling the true story of
the JFK murder. He was uniquely well-situated to get at the truth: At some point before
the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, he put a call through to his old associate Jack Ruby,
nicknamed "Sparky." In a sense, this communication both
endangered and saved the columnist's life:
Had they killed Irv Kupcinet, people would connect it to the Assassination and Ruby.
While some suspect that the motive for Karyn's murder was to distract, my own sourcing
suggests that the motive was to send the elder Kupcinet a message. Killing Karyn had
"the added benefit of having her most prominent columnist/talk show host father, Irv,
get off the Ruby case. He wouldn't be in any shape to investigate Jack Ruby or
Mobsters."
I would add: He would not be able to investigate the Bobby Baker angle, about which Karyn
could have provided inside information.
The Clinton Factor
Early in 1965, Hillary Clinton -- who, while in high school, had already established
herself as an active supporter of Republican Barry Goldwater -- entered Wellesley, where
she quickly became the president of the Young Republicans. (She says that the debates over
Vietnam and Civil Rights eventually caused her to switch affiliations.)
At this time, Bobby Baker's operation remained ongoing. It must not be presumed that he
ran a mere "call girl" ring -- these were worldly, politically-connected and
erudite young women whose job was to get to know well-connected and powerful individuals
in DC. Sex might or might not be involved.
Although Hillary may not seem a likely candidate for this operation, photos from her first
year at Wellesley depict an attractive, elegant, well-groomed young lady, fresh out of
high school. Moreover, her commitment to right-wing causes could easily put prominent
conservatives at ease. Her ambition made her trustworthy.
A Wellesley classmate, whom I will here call F, confirms that Hillary Clinton came to know
an older student connected to the Baker operation -- a woman I will call K. At the time, K
was widely rumored to be Hillary's first lesbian lover. Although some incautious
researchers have privately linked Hillary with Nancy Tyler, these reports are almost
certainly erroneous; Tyler, as you will recall, met her premature end in 1965, and I know
of no evidence indicating that she had communicated with Hillary Clinton before her fatal
airplane trip. K, whose full name I will be at liberty to reveal only after her death
(although it has already appeared in at least one biographical study), later
went on to form an even more remarkable association with John Gittinger of the CIA. She
initiated Hillary Clinton into this world of intrigue, guiding her well-crafted segue from
"Goldwater girl" to student radical.
The ties between the two women cannot be understood without some knowledge of the student
organizations operating at that college. A sorority at Wellesley actually refers to
itself, in a jocular vein, as the Secret
Society. Previously, it went by other titles, although the insignia has always
consisted of a skull and crossbones overlaid with a pink bow. (The pink ribbon presumably
serves a humorous purpose, although, as we shall see, the effect can at times be anything but funny.) Their current
web page includes the following information:
The Secret Society will work to foster social opportunities at Wellesley College and
strive to forward a lifestyle that balances academics with social opportunities on campus.
Listed activities include "TAG/Assassin" and "Spooky World trip."
Again, these terms are meant to present a jovial external face to the world -- but they
also hint at the darker secrets known only to the upper echelons. This inner grouping
operates, in turn, within the shadowy Phi Sigma sorority.
Although I have no evidence that Clinton ever joined Phi Sigma, I do know that K was a
leading member. These seemingly innocuous sororities have served as "feeders"
for intelligence community personnel. The Skull and Bones fraternity at Yale (which
Clinton also attended) performs a cognate function.
Thus it was that Hillary Clinton was tasked with an important assignment: She was to
deliver a message to columnist Irv Kupcinet.
Kupcinet, after he had somewhat recovered from the shock of his daughter's death, had
tentatively decided to return to a study of the JFK assassiantion after his old friend
Jack Ruby had died of a strangely rapid cancer. (Ruby had been under the care of Doctor
Louis Jolyon West of the CIA.) Another famed reporter, Dorothy Kilgallen, met with an
untimely death after interviewing Ruby in 1965. A transcript of that interview has never
been made available.) Kilgallen had once said, vis-a-vis the assassination, "That
story isn't going to die as long as there's a real reporter alive, and there are a lot of
them alive." Kupcinet considered himself just such a figure.
In 1970, Kupcinet had an unusual guest on his popular television program: Hillary
Rodham, then an unknown student at Yale, later the first lady of the United States.
Why did a major broadcaster in Chicago pay such undue attention to an obscure young lady
from Connecticut? The more one mulls over the scenario, the less likely it seems.
In fact, a member of the Kupcinet production staff arranged for the guest spot. Hillary's
appearance no doubt came as something of a surprise to the host of the show.
But the true jolt came when arrived in the studio wearing a pink ribbon.
The interview became more unnerving as it progressed. Repeatedly, Hillary Clinton made
pointed and deliberate use of the phrase "That's the
way the Cookie crumbles." (As you will recall, "Cookie" was Karyn
Kupcinet's nickname.) Those reviewing the tape
will not miss the elder Kupcinet's visible nervousness every time Hillary utters the word
"Cookie."
No further words were necessary. She did not need to deliver any obvious threats. Indeed,
it is very likely that Hillary Clinton herself
had no awareness of the import of her words. She may not have known who or what
"Cookie" meant. She was simply given a line to say, and she said it -- to
devastating effect.
Irv Kupcinet abandoned his search for the truth. He never wrote another word about the JFK
assassination -- not until Oliver Stone came out with his 1991 film JFK. At that time,
Kupcinet sent out a message angrily denouncing any conspiracy theories touching upon the
death of his beloved daughter. He was, of course, worried about the safety of other family
members.
I have no doubt that Kupcinet family will continue to denounce or to detract from any
objective investigation into these areas. Who can blame them? The image of young Hillary
Clinton -- wearing that bow, saying those words -- probably remains forever seared into
their consciousness.
(c) Leo B. Harley
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Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism,
their loyalty to family traditions and national identification." (Brock Chisholm - Director of the World Health Organization)
"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to
believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a
reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police
State Dictatorship it's going to
get." (Ian Williams Goddard)
The fact is that "political
correctness" is all about creating uniformity. Individualism is one of the biggest obstacles in the way of
the New World Order. They want a
public that is predictable and conditioned to do as it's told without asking questions.
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Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
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