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In reply to the discussion: FBI taped RWNJ who said JFK would be shot by sniper, patsy set up for blame (9 November 1963) [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,876 posts)7. Every year, there are fewer who remember.
Don Adams RIP: an FBI agent who didnt buy the official theory
Don Adams, whose career as an FBI agent spanned 22 years, never really bought the official line of his own employer: that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
Adams, who died on June 14 at age 83 in Akron, Ohio, eventually wrote From an Office Building with a High-Powered Rifle (Trine Day, 2012), in which he argued that the FBIs investigation was compromised from the top down, beginning with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
I have learned that crucial evidence was withheld from me as an agent investigating a planned assassination of the president, just weeks before it actually took place, Adams wrote.
He never believed Lee Harvey Oswald was the shooter, his son, Mark, a career police officer, told the Akron Beacon Journal. One of his FBI assignments was to investigate a man [Joseph Milteer] who had threatened to assassinate the president who claimed Kennedy would be killed from an office with a high-powered rifle. He found out that the man was in Dallas when the president was shot, but was always puzzled as to why he had limited access to the man.
In an interview with the Akron Beacon Journal published last year on the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Adams, a former chief of the police force on which his son now serves, said he didnt think Oswald killed President Kennedy and that he was a scapegoat in a conspiracy that reached the highest levels of government.
Adams recalled being shown the Zapruder film shortly after he was transferred to the Dallas FBI office in 1964 and, on seeing Kennedys hands go to his throat, remarking that the shot must have come from the front, not from the behind Kennedys limousine.
Don, keep your comments to yourself, he was told.
Source w/links, details: https://jfkfacts.org/don-adams-rip-an-fbi-agent-who-didnt-buy-the-official-theory/
Thank you for caring, msfiddlestix!
Don Adams, whose career as an FBI agent spanned 22 years, never really bought the official line of his own employer: that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
Adams, who died on June 14 at age 83 in Akron, Ohio, eventually wrote From an Office Building with a High-Powered Rifle (Trine Day, 2012), in which he argued that the FBIs investigation was compromised from the top down, beginning with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
I have learned that crucial evidence was withheld from me as an agent investigating a planned assassination of the president, just weeks before it actually took place, Adams wrote.
He never believed Lee Harvey Oswald was the shooter, his son, Mark, a career police officer, told the Akron Beacon Journal. One of his FBI assignments was to investigate a man [Joseph Milteer] who had threatened to assassinate the president who claimed Kennedy would be killed from an office with a high-powered rifle. He found out that the man was in Dallas when the president was shot, but was always puzzled as to why he had limited access to the man.
In an interview with the Akron Beacon Journal published last year on the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Adams, a former chief of the police force on which his son now serves, said he didnt think Oswald killed President Kennedy and that he was a scapegoat in a conspiracy that reached the highest levels of government.
Adams recalled being shown the Zapruder film shortly after he was transferred to the Dallas FBI office in 1964 and, on seeing Kennedys hands go to his throat, remarking that the shot must have come from the front, not from the behind Kennedys limousine.
Don, keep your comments to yourself, he was told.
Source w/links, details: https://jfkfacts.org/don-adams-rip-an-fbi-agent-who-didnt-buy-the-official-theory/
Thank you for caring, msfiddlestix!
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FBI taped RWNJ who said JFK would be shot by sniper, patsy set up for blame (9 November 1963) [View all]
Kid Berwyn
Nov 2021
OP
Unfortunately, Lee Harvey Oswald had a good day on the range. It's that simple.
marble falls
Nov 2021
#1
Not simple at all. In addition to Miami and Tampa Bay plots, there was Chicago...
Kid Berwyn
Nov 2021
#4
"Those guys on the grassy knoll were dead within 3-hours and buried in the desert.
Hotler
Nov 2021
#28
I have trouble believing that anyone has ever said "bet your bottom dollar" except ironically
Orrex
Nov 2021
#18
Many people can't accept that parts of the government misleads, deceives and occasionally
former9thward
Nov 2021
#25