A Circus Would Have Been Better by Penn Jones

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VOLUME III NUMBER 3 OCTOBER 22, 1978
A CIRCUS WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER
By Penn Jones
The incomplete and carefully guarded question­ing
of the handpicked witnesses called before
the House Select Committee on Assassinations
h£s truly disappointed us. Since there is
more evidence, more information, now than was
available to the Warren Commission in 1964,
the present HSCA is proof positive that the
Congress of the United States is heavily
involved in the coverup of the plot that
assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
Congress is deliberately destroying this
nation. This editor sincerely doubts that
our country could ever win another war — if
this trend continues. The attitude, morale,
the courage of a man willingly to give up
his life in battle as thousands did during
World War II —these elements of courage
are like a beautiful, tender flower. If
men see continued lying, deception, thievery,
and cheating by public officals, then courage
on the battlefield wilts despite helpless,
screaming generals.
Arnold Toynbee said, many years ago, that
the whole world is concerned that America
seems to have lost her way. My God, this
Committee is using all its power and prestige
to try again to sell the tired old no-conspiracy
theory to an unbelieving country.
The people, though almost powerless, are
not buying the fraud. The people, although
abandoned by the media, by the legal pro­fession,
by the clergy, by their teachers;
the people, even with few books of record
to study; they still are not buying the one
gun theory of Earl Warren and Gerald Ford.
But Chairman Louis Stokes and member
Richardson Preyer and the other pitiful
little puppets continue to try. One
Congressman was so uniformed, Marina Oswald
had to tell him that he seemed to be
confused.
These Congressional puppets were too
frightened to protest when Richard Helms
si(t ormed and threatened them. Helms called
the 201 file a personality file. Too many
ex-servicemen in the country know that a 201
file is a serviceman's personal record of his
service —not a personality file
Surely the Congressmen knew this.
Certainly the Congressmen were being
threatened when Helms said, "You know, we
might open a file on Congressmen." Then
Helms weakened somewhat by adding, "and
put clippings in it." Many people know
that clippings do not go in a personal
201 file.
The Congressmen merely smiled and ended
their questioning as Helms told them that
he did not want to come back the next day.
In November 1976, this newsletter named
an incomplete list of forty-four witnesses
who should have been called in any honest
investigation into the death of President
Kennedy. The Committee called two, Mr. and
Mrs. John Connally. A third witness,
George DeMohrenschlldt, did not live until
the Committee could hear him, At least the
last man to talk to Mr, DeMohrenschlldt,
author and critic of conspiracy buffs,
Edward J. Epstein, should have been called
before the Committee. Epstein should
have been asked some questions about what
DeMohrenschlldt said at that last meeting—
was he suicidal during his last hours. Or
was DeMohrenschlldt another in the long
string of murders connected with this
case.
Although we have written most of this
before, we feel it is important to restate
some of the names we suggested as wit­nesses
and what they could have told the
Committee, WILL FRITZ: Told a dinner
party in Dallas that he was ordered by
President Lyndon Johnson to halt Fritz
investigations of Oswald, Fritz should
have been requi'^ed to repeat the statement
under oath.