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The New JFK Show # 172 Richard Charnin

Suspicious and Untimely Deaths in JFK

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In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade.
That's what we were told.
Most Americans never believed Lee Oswald was the lone gunman, for excellent reasons.
In fact, there were at least six shooters, who fired from eight to ten shots or more, who are identified here.
We have, finally, the solution to the greatest murder mystery in history, laid out for the world to see proof, after proof, after proof.
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It's an honor to be here among all these great experts who I've admired through the years, although I have not, unfortunately, met any in person.
are I feel I got to know them online.
I want to say one thing first, Beyoncé.
Judith Baker is a true hero, just like you are, Jim.
Two of the smartest people I know.
And what I'd like to see is a film made about Judith Baker, and I'm waiting for Oliver Stone.
It's about time that he did it.
Okay, it's about time that that's the story that needs to be told.
Now, as far as JFK is concerned, I followed JFK very closely from the time of his nomination in 1960.
And I was in college in 63 when he was assassinated.
And I found it very suspicious that Oswald was picked up so quickly And of course, when Ruby shot Oswald, that clinched it for me that this was not a lone gunman, that he was just a patsy.
In 1968, I read Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane, and that was an eye-opener for me.
I learned a lot.
I learned a lot about the Warrant Commission and how they covered up In many devious ways, the facts of the assassination primarily lies by omission and obfuscation.
Basically, I just want to reaffirm that my background is three degrees in Applied Mathematics.
My first job was at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York City in 1965.
I worked there for two weeks.
Because the day I started work at MetLife, I got a letter from Grumman Aerospace, which was five minutes from my home.
And they were going to pay me a dollar more a week than I was making at MetLife.
It was crazy.
So I transferred over.
I went to Grumman in June of 1965.
And I really enjoyed my time there.
Grumman Aerospace, at that time, was working on the lunar module, which I saw developed and manufactured in the plant in which I work.
But that's a different topic.
I'm just mentioning that.
I think it would be of interest.
A key thing for me was, in 1973, The film Executive Action came out, and I went to see it, and I thought it was fantastic.
And only subsequently did I learn that it was difficult to get that movie made, and only through the efforts of Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Mark Lane, and Dalton Trumbo did the movie get made.
They had to overcome a lot of stumbling blocks From the Hollywood moguls and I guess the government itself.
But the key thing that got me started with the death analysis was when I heard that in the movie when it was quoted that the London Times actuary determined that the probability was one in a hundred thousand trillion that 18 material witnesses would die in three years after the assassination.
It blew my mind.
Subsequently, I found out I was really not 18.
There were more than 40 in the three years who died unnatural deaths in the first three years.
That's all in my database, JFCalc, which I'll bring up in a little while.
In 1978, the HSCA, House Select Committee, said that the odds were impossible to calculate.
But they neglected to mention that there were 552 witnesses at the Warren Commission.
The HSCA's only objection to the calculation was that it was not possible to define a witness universe.
But as I just said, 552 at the Warren Commission, that's the universe.
And in fact, I believe that's the universe that the actuary used when he came up with his probability.
An important point to consider is that the HSCA in 1978 mentioned just 21 suspicious deaths.
At that time there were way over a hundred.
So with the HSCA, it was a big cover-up which just called it a limited hangout.
They did not go all the way and unfortunately the Oswald Uh, myth was perpetuated.
Now, uh, the HSCA failed to mention that there were seven FBI officials, senior officials, who were due to speak in 1977, who died within a six-month period before their, uh, speaking, uh, engagement.
Which I thought was very strange, okay?
So nothing was mentioned by the HSCA.
In 2003, I proved that the actuary was right.
I confirmed his calculation.
Okay?
And I posted it.
I posted my confirmation on the internet in the Democratic underground.
And of course, I got a lot of flack.
People tried to argue against the math, but they didn't really know the math.
But they argued anyway, and they still do.
I still get those who object to the calculation method.
Anyway, in 2014, I wrote Reclaiming Science, in which I spell out all the mathematics.
And of course, my blog, richardsharnan.wordpress.com, has all of my blog posts.
Related to JFK, as well as election fraud, which is another topic.
My book, well, let's put it this way.
I've been quoted in a number of books by Jim Mars, Richard Belzer, Judith Baker.
So I'm honored that these people who are truly experts mentioned my work in their books.
Now, now I guess it's time to move on to the crux of the analysis.
Data sources is very important.
How did I come up with my numbers?
Well, we have who's who in the JFK assassination, a compendium of about 1,400, 1,500 witnesses.
1,500 witnesses.
We have Jim Mars, crossfire, 103 suspicious deaths.
We have John Simpkins, JFK index, 656 JFK-related individuals.
And I've gleaned, I've done analysis based on each of those categories.
Now, basically, my initial analysis, I calculated the probability of 78 unnatural witness deaths assuming 1,500 witnesses.
And the probability is one in trillions.
This is over a 15-year period, 1963, 1978.
And in the Simkin Index, there were 70 suspicious deaths, 44 of which were unnatural out of 656 JFK-related 44 of which were unnatural out of 656 JFK-related individuals in four different categories, Now, I don't believe when Simpkins said you could check out his link.
I think he would probably be amazed that the analysis proving that it was a conspiracy was right there in his index.
Now, what is the basic calculation?
How does it work?
It's really very simple when you get right down to it.
To develop, I mean, the final equation is very simple because it's just a call from a spreadsheet to the Poisson function.
We need just two parameters.
We need the number of unnatural deaths, which I'll call small n, and we need the number of expected deaths From mortality tables, which we'll call E, which is just the product of the number of witnesses, the mortality rate, and the time period.
So by plugging in small n and E, we're comparing the actual to the expected.
Very simple concept.
What we come up with, just those two numbers, we come up with a probability.
Now, the key is how do we come up with the, well, the time period we know, the number of witnesses we estimate based on our data source, but the key is the unnatural death rate Now, we could look at the death rates in two ways.
We could look at the combination of unnatural deaths, which is suicides, homicides, and accidents.
At that point, we have to look at the weighted average of the rates of each of those specific rates.
Another option, which is very simple, is to just look at homicides, where we know the rate based on historical Homicide rates in the period 1963 to 1978, which I have, you can link to those numbers.
So you can do it two ways, and I've done it both ways.
The easiest one to understand is just to look at the homicides.
But what I do, in fact, also calculate a probability for the combination of unnatural deaths, which are the, again, homicides, suicides, and accidents.
Now, in my calculations, I look at various subgroups.
And now, I want to bring up some charts which will illustrate the calculations and the model In one big spreadsheet.
Okay, in the JFK Calc Database, this is a spreadsheet of witnesses, 146 witnesses.
What we have are various, each column is a separate category, contains certain information.
The first contains the date of death, the second is the witness name in column C, column E Contains the category.
Oh, column D, I left that out.
that can check.
That contains a code of where they testify.
Warrant commission, garrison, uh, uh, and, uh, two other Investigations, the Senate Intelligence, and HSCA.
So that tells you where they testified.
The next column is the connection, which is the description of who they were, who their contacts were, what they knew, and basically a one-line summary of their relevance.
We go on to the next column, which is the cause of death.
And what I do is I break out the ruled official cause of death and the estimated true cause of death.
The reason?
I figured out that the, I'm scrolling over, and how they died, but What I've calculated was the expected cause of death for suicides and accidents as well as heart attacks and determined that there were many more than we would have expected statistically.
So I put the excess into what I call the murders, opposites.
So that's why you see in column I, you see a lot of M's.
M is for murder.
Okay.
H is heart attack.
A is accident.
Next column over, we have links to their bios on Spartacus JFK Index.
We have the location in column L of where they died.
Very interesting.
Out of the 146 deaths, over 60, the location of death was in the Dallas area.
Then I have codes which indicate in the who's who in the JFK assassination, in Belzer's hit list, in Simpkin's JFK index, how they accounted for the deaths, the cause of death.
So that's basically the database.
I'm going to scroll over.
We'll look at, we've got J.D.
Tippett.
Okay, now we're looking at the list.
We can see all the names and probably some that you're not familiar with, who were related in some way to the JFK assassination.
They were in various categories.
They're listed in various categories, which I'll break out in the next slide.
But we start off with Karen Kupcinet, Who was a TV host, daughter of reporter Irv Kupcinet, who had connections with the Chicago Mob, and knew Ruby.
Apparently, Karen got word that Ruby was involved, and her death is a mystery.
Right after that we have, of course, J.D.
Tippett.
Really, it should come first.
This is November of 63.
Lee Harvey Oswald should be number one, but it's November 63, the sort didn't differentiate.
So Lee Harvey Oswald was a suspicious death.
He was watching, we know that he was watching the parade, and of course we know he was in front of the school book depository, which is another issue, but nevertheless.
We have a little summary of Oswald, FBI informant, CIA, and declared he was just a patsy at the interrogation.
A bunch of other names are not that well known, but these were the early deaths in 63 and 64 and 65.
There were quite a few deaths.
Uh, Guy Bannister in June of 64.
Uh, and we go down further.
Uh, we have Rose Sheremy, who, uh, you might've seen in JFK.
She, in the initial, uh, beginning of the movie, she's thrown out of the car.
She would, she was going to Miami with the, uh, uh, some mafia hitmen.
We have Dorothy Kilgallen, New York columnist, who interviewed Ruby.
She's the most famous unnatural death.
I'm just going down slowly.
And of course we have another very important one, Jack Ruby, in January of 67, who had basically admitted that it was an inside job and that it was the Vice President Johnson who was responsible.
Ruby was apparently injected with cancer after being granted a new trial.
He died 29 days later.
Then of course we have David Ferry, again in early 67, February.
David Ferry, an associate of Oswald, Shaw, Bannister, the Cubans.
They claim that he suicided when he was named as a witness by Garrison.
Let me continue further to some names that I think are very, very key.
Mack Wallace died on January 71.
His fingerprints were found on the Texas School Book Depository.
He was a hitman for LBJ.
Charles Cabell, CIA Deputy Director.
Jay Edgar Hoover died mysteriously in May of 72.
Dorothy Hunt, the wife of E. Howard Hunt, in December of 72, suspicious airplane crash.
Then we have Lyndon Johnson in January of 73.
Most people would not even consider it.
I consider it suspicious.
Uh, he had a heart attack at the age of 64.
Uh, he had the most to gain from JFK's death.
And, uh, he was about, speaking to a psychiatrist, I think he pretty much revealed that he was, that he, he felt bad about being involved.
So I put him on a suspicious list.
We have Clay Shaw, prime suspect in the Garrison case.
We have, uh, Roger Craig, Dallas Deputy Sheriff, the only, the only one who really told the truth and who was hounded by, uh, the, uh, FBI for years afterwards.
And he was finally found murdered in May of 75.
He saw the Mouser, 765 Mouser at the Texas School Book Depository.
And claim that Tippett was killed before 1.06 p.m.
When, of course, the Wire Commission said he was murdered at 1.15 p.m.
We have Jimmy Hoffa.
I'll just mention the names.
William Harvey, CIA coordinator of the Harvey assassination plots.
Johnny Roselli.
Charles Nicoletti.
Regis Kennedy.
FBI Oswald Handler died of a heart attack the same day he was called by the HSCA on confiscation of movies of the assassination.
We have, uh, there are so many.
Uh, look at the FBI, Alan Belmont, FBI document expert, died just before HSCA.
J.M.
English, head of FBI head of Forensic Science Labs could not testify to HSCA.
William Sullivan, number two in the FBI, was shot, apparently mistaken for a deer, shortly before he was supposed to testify.
He was going to blow the whole thing wide open.
I go on and on and on.
And then of course, let me just end it with this guy.
Billy Lovelady, fifth Texas School Board Depository employee, the Oswald look-alike, who the disinformationists want to be doorway man, but who was not doorway man.
And he was, he had a possible alibi, he was a possible alibi for Lee, but of course Lee was shot.
And Billy Lovelady died of a heart attack at the age of 41.
White males' probability of dying from a heart attack at that time was less than 1 in 10,000.
He would have been called to go to the Texas School Board to testify at the HSCA.
And then we just, finally, let me just end it with a name.
That I consider suspicious.
Frank Church, Senator, ran the 1975 Church-Senate hearings and questioned the Warren Commission.
He died of apparently cancer, pretty young, and he was one of our greatest Senators who never got the credit for trying to get to the bottom of the assassination.
Frank Church.
Sort by category.
Same sheet that we just saw.
And we can see that we have a number of anti-Castro Cubans.
We see Guy Bannister related murders.
We have CIA related.
Quite a few.
And I'm going to go down to continue on.
You can see there are quite a few, up to 32 in just those categories.
24 is important, Richard.
David Sanchez Morales.
David Morales.
And you have Earl Campbell, and Dorothy Hunt, and Clay Shaw.
I mean, these are stunningly important people.
Yes.
Let me go down now to the next screen.
We have in the FBI, we have all the FBI officials who died in 1977, all within a six-month period, who never got to testify.
We have JFK-related, John Ferry-related individuals, people who knew JFK, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Nancy Carol Tyler.
Robert F. Kennedy.
Let's not forget Kennedy.
We know what happened in 1968, June of 68, with Bobby Kennedy.
We know what happened in 1968, June of '68, with Bobby Kennedy.
And then, of course, we'll come down to the monster.
Cliff Carter, '55.
Lyndon sent Cliff Carter down to Dallas.
He was his chief administrative assistant to make sure all the arrangements were in place for the assassination.
And two months later, And four months after him, Mack Wallace.
Who, as you observed, was Linden's hitman, who murdered over a dozen people for Linden, including one of his own sisters.
Right.
Mafia-related, we have Jimmy Hoffa.
We have Sam Giancana, okay?
Johnny Roselli, who they claim was at the Dealey Plaza, and it's unclear as to what his objective was.
That's another issue.
And then, of course, we have, among the Mafia connections, we have Jack Ruby, obviously.
I'm going to scroll down again.
We're up to 66.
We have possible shooters.
Mafia-related.
Lucian Sardi, Richard Cain, Charles Nicoletti.
Then, of course, in the media.
We have Bill Hunter, C.D.
Jackson of Life Magazine.
We have Jim Cody, who was a reporter in Ruby's apartment on November 24th.
Bill Hunter was as well.
They died mysteriously.
Dorothy Kilgallen and Lou Staples was the radio talk show host.
And of course Merriman Smith.
Most people don't talk about Merriman Smith.
You're a top UPI White House reporter in the Dallas motorcade.
It's very close to the Secret Service.
Richard, Merriman Smith was the first to phone in three shots fired in Dealey Plaza before anyone could possibly know that to be true.
The assassination hadn't even been completed when Merriman Smith was already reporting.
I mean, this is a pure illustration of the CIA's infiltration of the media, where Merriman Smith and many others were actually working for the agency to set up the predetermined story of three shots from a single source.
Yeah, and of course they say he was murdered.
He shot himself, supposedly.
Yeah.
We have William Pitzer, medical JFK autopsy radiologist photographer, who planned to expose the autopsy, called it a horrifying experience.
He was shot just before his retirement, ruled a suicide.
Richard, yeah, Dennis David has explained how after this, on Monday, after they had the event he showed, Pitzer shared with him photographs of the autopsy where Pitzer had recorded the entire autopsy.
They tortured him to make sure whether he had a copy.
This is why he was murdered.
He had done a film of the entire autopsy.
Right.
And then, of course, George de Morin's shield.
A close friend of Oswald, a CIA agent, supposedly committed suicide the day he was notified to testify at HSCA.
Supposedly shot himself.
Let me go down to the next screen.
We're up to 100.
We've got the police, all the police.
The names, Frank Martin, Bill Decker, Buddy Walters, Alan Sweat, and of course the most famous, Roger Craig.
Roger Craig.
Lyndon Johnson's in a category by himself.
He was the president.
Okay.
Now, a lot of Ruby associates.
Tom Howard, Rose Sheremy, Lynn Carlin, Marilyn Wally.
I mean, these are names that are associated with Ruby.
I can go on and on.
And, of course, Lee Harvey Oswald, who knew Ruby.
And, in fact, they worked together.
Read about it in Me and Lee and in Dave Ferry.
Judith Baker goes into it in great detail.
Mary Sherman.
Judith, there was a book about Mary Sherman's strange death.
And she was also involved in developing a vaccine to assassinate Castro.
Yes, Judith would explain how she was in collaboration with David Ferry and Lee Oswald, and they were doing experiments with mice, for example, to develop a rapid-acting cancer to be used against Fidel Castro ostensibly.
And they were supervised by Mary Sherman, so she used to joke about Mary Ferry and Ferry because, of course, her name at the time was Judith Ferry.
Okay, I'll scroll down.
We've got Roy Kellerman of Secret Service.
Unknown cause of death.
His wife said he believed it was a conspiracy.
He was in the JFK limo.
And he identified at least three shots.
At least three shots.
I mentioned just a comment on Kellerman.
Kellerman collected the autopsy photographs and the x-rays.
The photographs weren't even developed.
That meant they were unavailable to the physicians at Bethesda, who of course were deeply involved in the whole cover-up prior to.
And the next time we see the x-rays and the photographs, they have been altered and changed.
So Kellerman couldn't just testify to it.
Having been a conspiracy, he knew it was a conspiracy.
He was a key player in the conspiracy, having been in the limousine with William Greer when he pulled the limo to the left into a hall to make sure JFK would be killed.
Okay, just going on, I had mentioned Frank Church and of course Roscoe White.
Discuss the JFK hit with Ruby in his diary who claimed he shot JFK with the Mauser and that he killed Tippett, Roscoe White.
Let me just continue.
William Somerset was recorded in conversation with Joseph Miltier predicting the assassination was in the works.
Then we have witnesses at Dealey Plaza, Lee Bowers, Albert Bogart, Warren Reynolds, William Whaley, and Billy Lovelady.
Billy Lovelady.
Now, when we sort by cause of death, 146 names in the database, we see that the official ruled number of homicides is 35.
28 accidents, 18 suicides, 10 unknown, 34 heart attacks, 16 other, and 5 natural.
You can see in the column, which is sorted by cause of death, on the ruled cause of death.
But right adjacent to it, we see the estimated true cause of death.
We don't have 35 homicides, we have about 91.
We don't have 28 accidents, which is the official, we have 11.
We don't have 18 suicides, we have 4.
We don't have 34 heart attacks, we have 19.
So, the true cause of death, again it's an estimate based on a statistical analysis of the expected cause of death,
For accidents, suicides, and heart attacks, which shows that the number that were ruled to be either accident, suicide, or heart attack was much more than what we would expect from the mortality tables.
So I use that difference.
Between the expected accidents, expected suicides, expected heart attacks, and the official number, which are higher, I say the difference were really homicides.
So that's how we jumped from 35 homicides to 91 out of 146 witnesses.
In this chart, which looks like the bell curve, What we've done is we've calculated the probability of unnatural deaths among 1,400 JFK-related witnesses from 1964 to 1978.
Now, as you can see in the middle of the chart, 18 is the expected number of unnatural deaths.
18.
However, when we get out to 33, We're already approaching zero probability.
That's at 33 unnatural deaths.
But there were 78 and 99 official.
There were 78 official, but there were 99 estimated true unnatural deaths.
So you could see that as we go to the right on the screen, we could see that it vanishes.
The probability becomes effectively zero, almost with one in trillions.
Okay, in this comprehensive probability chart, I calculate probabilities for different subgroups.
I look at the... I confirmed the London Times actuary, which is three years after the assassination.
My calculation is virtually identical One in a hundred, one thousand trillion.
So it's virtually identical.
If we come down, I also do calculations for one year, three years, and fifteen years after the assassination, based on fourteen hundred material witnesses.
And the calculations are in a scientific notation, They're weighted in different ways.
They're either weighted or unweighted.
Homicides are in black.
I also do probabilities based on the Warrant Commission, 552 witnesses.
The CIA stated that 418 testified in person.
So I calculate the probability based on the Warrant Commission witnesses for 3 years and 15 years.
And then, of course, there's Simpkin Spartacus International.
I calculate probabilities over a 15-year period.
656.
And then the Investigations, Moire Commission, Harrison Church Estimates.
And one key... I have one key matrix here.
Probability of homicides for 200 to 600 daily plaza witnesses.
And then, let me end it here.
I look at various assumptions for the FBI call to testify at the warrant commission, at the HSCA, who died.
Now, I estimate, I don't know how many were called in total, but we have seven deaths.
What if there were eight called, 20 called, 50, 100?
Go down, go down just one more click here.
Yes, stop there.
These improbabilities, 1 in 7 heart attacks, 1 in 25 trillion.
5 heart 2 accident, 1 in 190 trillion.
3 heart 4 homicide, 1 in 7,000 trillion.
7 homicides, probability 1 in 1 in 9 trillion trillion.
Richard, you're off the chart.
Absolutely off the chart.
Yeah, it is.
It's off the charts.
I mean, I mean, once you get to one in a million, I mean, you know, it's almost like, and people might say, well, it's overkill.
Well, this is what the numbers are.
Okay.
Okay.
In this chart, what I've done is I printed the poll results from various polling organizations who asked whether they, respondents believed it was a lone nut or a conspiracy or had no opinion.
Now, you can see that in column G, I indicate the timeline for the Warren Commission, Mark Lane's rush to judgment, Jim Garrison, Frank Church, House Select Committee.
The point is that there was a real jump in 1967 at the time of Jim Garrison's trial.
And then it went up to over 80% time in the House Select Committee.
And 80% in the 20th anniversary.
These said it was a conspiracy.
And then it dropped.
Of course, the Washington Post had it down 57% in 1991.
57% in 1991 but it jumped at 77% in 1991 because it was a JFK movie it also we had the 30th anniversary and 2000 And then, uh, the most recent I have here is November 20, 2013, when it was down to 62% of Washington Post.
The most recent I have here is November 2013, when it was down to 62% in the Washington Post.
Excuse me.
Richard, the evidence is overwhelming that those who believe in conspiracy are in the right, and it's hard to believe anyone today who knows anything about the case could continue to hold out for the low nut theory.
Absolutely, Jim.
I believe these numbers now are probably about 85%, 90%.
Anybody who believes the low-nut theory is either Government shill or a complete idiot.
Unfamiliar with the evidence or cognitively impaired, Richard, I can't thank you enough for your brilliant work.
You are a man among men, an exemplary scholar of JFK, Richard.
Thank you.
Thank you again.
Thank you, Jim.
It's been a great pleasure, and I'm looking forward to seeing all the other speakers at this time.
That's what we were told.
Most Americans never believed Lee Oswald was the lone gunman, for excellent reasons.
In fact, there were at least six shooters, who fired from eight to ten shots or more, who are identified here.
We have, finally, the solution to the greatest murder mystery in history, laid out for the world to see, proof, after proof, after proof.
Photos were faked.
The body was changed.
X-rays were altered.
The home movies were fixed.
15 experts contribute to a 529-page book with 1,037 photos and diagrams in black and white and color.
Hi, this is Gary King.
If you'd like JFK, who, how, and why, and would like to support the new JFK Show, then go to PatriotRadioBooks.com.
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