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PENN JONES T H E CONTINUING INQUIRY VOLUME V , NUMBER 7 FEBRUARY 22 . 1981 I AN OPEN LETTER—AND CHALLENGE—TO 6. ROBERT BLAKEY Mr. Blakey: Frankly, you're a puzzle to us. I t ' s three years since the c r i t i c s f i r s t heard of you and, while you've become increasingly more v i s i b le and vocal, many of us are s t i l l not sure whether you're part of the solution or part of the problem. Now, puzzles are not new to Kennedy assassination researchers. Hardly. When one chips 'away at a facade as large and as rotten as the Kennedy cover-up, one becomes accustomed to.pieces that do not f i t - - a n d you're not the f i r s t investigator to become controversial over these past seventeen years. But there are some differences: f i r s t , as Inquiry magazines noted in an interview with you, Robert Blakey is now the one person having the greatest influence with government o f f i c i a l s - - w i t h access to some significant and/or sympathetic ears in Washington; second, from time to time, you have made statements that would seem to indicate real knowledge and concern about who k i l l e d JFK. You told Chris Stanley during interviews in the summer of 1979 that you were convinced there was a conspiracy and that "the Mob did i t , " ' .and are apparently echoing this in your book with Dick Billings.2 In the Stanley interview, you raised hopes and eyebrows when •you hinted that you could come close to bringing indictments in 6-8 months, given proper investigative assistance. But -nothing you've said has impressed me as much as your admission that "We didn't do i t right in 1964"^ and your statement that " to see how poor this was done...has been the single most soul-shattering experience that I've ever had."^ Now that, Mr. Blakey, is a statement any Kennedy investigator coujd say "Amen!" to. Unfortunately, your statements have npt ended there: take the callous remark about the c r i t i c s and the 50-year restriction on HSCA f i l e s : "They w i l l (get to see them) i f they are historians and i f they live long enough." How do you t e l l this to Penn Jones or Harold Weisberg of Mary Ferrell or countless other people who were bucking the mass of deceit and lies you now condemn while you were s t i l l regarding the Warren Report as a "workman-like product ?"5 Then, there is the one statement which I think wil1 haunt you in time to come: "Look, I have no doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald k i l l e d the President. Oswald did i t , i t ' s «an open and shut case. I should be a prosecutor with evidence l i ke that in every case."^ Well, that's the purpose of this l e t t e r, Mr. Blakey. YOu see, I don't think Oswald did i t , and I'd like for you to be the prosecutor with "evidence like that," too--with me as Oswald's defender-- you with your legal expertise, me with the facts--facts you evidently chose not to look at when HSCA did i t s investigation. So, l e t ' s have at i t. The Burden of Proof To make your "open and shut case," you w i ll have to show that Lee Harvey Oswald fired one or more shots from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository and that a bullet or bullets from this/these shot{s) struck President Kennedy in the head.' First question: Cdn you place Oswald on the 6th floor in the minutes before the assassination.? 1. It is clear from the testimony of TSBD employees that work crews broke for lunch at 11:45, and that Oswald was then near the 5th floor elevator gate, asking that an elevator be sent back up for him.° 2. And here's your problem, Mr. Blakey: there is no credible evidence-- none--to show that Lee Harvey Oswald ever again returned to the 6th floor. Per-
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Title | An Open Letter-And Challenge-To G. Robert Blakey by Wallace Milam |
Volume No. | Vol. 5 |
Issue No. | No. 7 |
Date | 1981-02-22 |
Series | V. Personal – E. Publications – 1. The Continuing Inquiry |
Uniform Title | The Continuing Inquiry |
Digital Collection | Baylor Collection of Political Materials - JFK - Penn Jones Collections - Continuing Inquiry |
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Full Text | PENN JONES T H E CONTINUING INQUIRY VOLUME V , NUMBER 7 FEBRUARY 22 . 1981 I AN OPEN LETTER—AND CHALLENGE—TO 6. ROBERT BLAKEY Mr. Blakey: Frankly, you're a puzzle to us. I t ' s three years since the c r i t i c s f i r s t heard of you and, while you've become increasingly more v i s i b le and vocal, many of us are s t i l l not sure whether you're part of the solution or part of the problem. Now, puzzles are not new to Kennedy assassination researchers. Hardly. When one chips 'away at a facade as large and as rotten as the Kennedy cover-up, one becomes accustomed to.pieces that do not f i t - - a n d you're not the f i r s t investigator to become controversial over these past seventeen years. But there are some differences: f i r s t , as Inquiry magazines noted in an interview with you, Robert Blakey is now the one person having the greatest influence with government o f f i c i a l s - - w i t h access to some significant and/or sympathetic ears in Washington; second, from time to time, you have made statements that would seem to indicate real knowledge and concern about who k i l l e d JFK. You told Chris Stanley during interviews in the summer of 1979 that you were convinced there was a conspiracy and that "the Mob did i t , " ' .and are apparently echoing this in your book with Dick Billings.2 In the Stanley interview, you raised hopes and eyebrows when •you hinted that you could come close to bringing indictments in 6-8 months, given proper investigative assistance. But -nothing you've said has impressed me as much as your admission that "We didn't do i t right in 1964"^ and your statement that " to see how poor this was done...has been the single most soul-shattering experience that I've ever had."^ Now that, Mr. Blakey, is a statement any Kennedy investigator coujd say "Amen!" to. Unfortunately, your statements have npt ended there: take the callous remark about the c r i t i c s and the 50-year restriction on HSCA f i l e s : "They w i l l (get to see them) i f they are historians and i f they live long enough." How do you t e l l this to Penn Jones or Harold Weisberg of Mary Ferrell or countless other people who were bucking the mass of deceit and lies you now condemn while you were s t i l l regarding the Warren Report as a "workman-like product ?"5 Then, there is the one statement which I think wil1 haunt you in time to come: "Look, I have no doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald k i l l e d the President. Oswald did i t , i t ' s «an open and shut case. I should be a prosecutor with evidence l i ke that in every case."^ Well, that's the purpose of this l e t t e r, Mr. Blakey. YOu see, I don't think Oswald did i t , and I'd like for you to be the prosecutor with "evidence like that," too--with me as Oswald's defender-- you with your legal expertise, me with the facts--facts you evidently chose not to look at when HSCA did i t s investigation. So, l e t ' s have at i t. The Burden of Proof To make your "open and shut case," you w i ll have to show that Lee Harvey Oswald fired one or more shots from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository and that a bullet or bullets from this/these shot{s) struck President Kennedy in the head.' First question: Cdn you place Oswald on the 6th floor in the minutes before the assassination.? 1. It is clear from the testimony of TSBD employees that work crews broke for lunch at 11:45, and that Oswald was then near the 5th floor elevator gate, asking that an elevator be sent back up for him.° 2. And here's your problem, Mr. Blakey: there is no credible evidence-- none--to show that Lee Harvey Oswald ever again returned to the 6th floor. Per- |
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