An Open Letter to Assassination Researchers By Christopher Sharrett

              AN OPEN LETTER TO ASSASSINATION RESEARCHERS By Christopher Sharrett
November 22nd of this past year marked the fourteenth anniversary of the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Many people, such as Penn Jones, Vin­cent
Salandria, Gary Shaw, Richard E. Sprague, Bob Cutler and others have been
concerned with the political significance of this crime for over a decade; other
interested writers and researchers, including the author, came to an understanding
of the events not only of Dallas but of Memphis, Los Angeles, Laurel Park, Chap-paquiddick
Island and Watergate in more recent years, largely because the trauma
of the Vietnam War preoccupied the lives of the people in this writer's generation.
It is fitting on this anniversary, however, for all interested citizens--those
of the "first generation" and those of the "second generation"--concerned with the
facts in the death of President Kennedy and others to take stock of where this
country is in the final quarter of this century. What are the real consequences
of President Kennedy's murder? Who are the people controlling America in the
wake of the assassinations? What was to be gained from these violent deaths and
their associated crimes and what do the individuals behind them hope to earn on
a long-term basis?
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This writer agrees with Vincent Salandria on the notion that a huge amount
of time has been spent in studying the hard evidence of conspiracy in the Dealey
Plaza operation; by now most reasonable researchers agree that JFK was killed in
a paramilitary , multi-assassin ambush similar to those utilized against political
leaders around the world over the past century. The general features of this
assassination were continued with a few modifications (such as brainwashing, hyp­nosis,
etc.) in the killings of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and
in the shooting of Governor George Wallace. The great majority of researchers
agree on how the killing of President Kennedy was accomplished to such an extent
that squabbling over minor points (such as Aether a bullet struck at Z23^ or Z237)
is ridiculous and tends to consume energies which could be spent on other areas.
In fact, as Gary Shaw and Vince Salandria have suggested, the evidence of conspir­acy
and of a "public execution" (in Gary Shaw's phrase) in JFK's death now seem
so overwhelming as to have us conclude the government meant to reveal such evi­dence,
despite the seemingly contradictory protestations supporting the lone-assassin
thesis.
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An example of the,incredible obviousness of conspiracy can be seen in the
publication of the Oswald "backyard photos" in national magazines, with the auth­orities
claiming these photos proved Oswald to be the assassin since he was a
"gun nut", a Communist, etc. Any logical adult with a knowledge of our legal sys­tem
would know, particularly with the benefit of hindsight, that such an assertion
was a slap in the face to both law and the intelligence' of our citizenry. More­over,
anyone with a knowledge of photography or the graphic arts could see these
pictures were composites, especially when Marina Oswald contradicted herself so
blatantly regarding the way she "took" these photographs. The fact that Marina
was allox^ed to testify against her o\m husband, even though the Warren Commission
was not an adversary procedure, by itself provides another insult to the public.
Another blatant example of conspiracy is the absurdity of the "sniper's nest" in
the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository; the early photographs of this
"nest", circulated by the Dallas newspapers and the wire services, had to show to
any interested citizen that the assassination was not accomplished in the way
officialdom asserted.