Ferris Lova Rookstool III is the Bizzaro Ferris Bueller.
In John Hughs’ iconic 1986 film, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ferris is a laid-back, cool, charming, computer savvy, high school student. (“Oh, he’s very popular.... The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads — they all adore him. They think he’s a righteous dude.”)
Ferris Bueller is anti-authoritarian. He uses his creativity to defy the mind-numbing, censored, bowdlerized history taught by school authorities. (“I do have a test today. ... It’s on European socialism. I mean, really, what’s the point? I’m not European. I don’t plan on being European. So who cares if they’re socialists? They could be fascist anarchists. It still doesn’t change the fact that I don’t own a car.”)
He takes his days off by faking illnesses to skip school. (“How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?”) Those days are spent exploring freedom, fun, and culture with friends while ducking his bamboozled school principal and family members.
Farris L. Rookstool III is the nefarious opposite of Ferris Bueller. He is one of “The Real Conspiracy Nuts.”1 Now a self-employed marketing and public relations consultant (i.e., professional prevaricator), he was for 11 years (1984-1995) the FBI’s “expert” on the assassination of President Kennedy (i.e., the FBI’s conspiracy-denying fantasy version). Farris describes himself on LinkedIn.com, “as their primary resource on the JFK Task Force and spent nine years reading over 500,000 pages of classified investigative reports concerning the assassination.” He further promotes himself as “the world’s leading expert on the assassination….”
Was Farris a “one-man task force,” as superspy Matt Helm was promoted in the 1960s novels and movies? How did Rookstool read all those pages? What was his daily routine? To read 500,000 pages in 11 years, you have to read 45,454 and a half pages a year. That’s over 3.7K pages a month. That’s a daily reading of over 126 pages, over 15-pages an hour in a normal workday. That’s about four minutes per page. Nonstop. Seven days a week. For 11 years. FBI documents are not light reading like Matt Helm spy novels.
Fortunately, in 2017, Dallas Observer reporter Stephen Young gave us a less hyperbolized glimpse of Farris’ former job.
Whenever someone in the bureau needed access to the redacted information, he or she called Rookstool in Dallas, where an unredacted copy of the records was kept, and he read the information on a secure telephone. Because of all the time he spent working with the Kennedy file, he says, there’s a good chance he’s already read whatever will be released Thursday.2
There’s a “good chance” he read “whatever.” That’s not the same as actually reading and comprehending all of it, as Farris usually spins it. The good news is, Farris had time for a day off. But, that doesn’t mean he took a rest.
There are more reality checks of Farris’ FBI job description.
In a strange but true example of Rookstool’s lofty, so-called expertise, one of the classified files reportedly handled by his task force was released in 2017 thanks to the JFK Assassination Records Review Act. Dated three weeks before Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, the document “alleges that [King] had a string of affairs and other ‘sexual aberrations’, as well as links to the Communist Party.”
Mr. Kennedy is not referenced in the file and it is not clear why it was kept secret for almost 50 years.
There is no evidence that any of the claims in the report were verified.
Its cover shows it was assessed in 1994 by an FBI task force on the JFK assassination, which concluded none of the document should be released.
Many of the allegations contained in the paper appear to be reports of private conversations between others, or hearsay reported third-hand.3
The allegation that MLK was a seditious conspirator was itself a wacky, baseless conspiracy theory. Researcher and author Joseph E. Green’s assessment is more honest: “Especially at the time, newspapers and the FBI said that he was a Communist plant and that Russia was paying Martin Luther King. Which is a conspiracy theory in itself. Right? If you say that Russians have sponsored Martin Luther King’s rise to power, that is a conspiracy theory — maybe true, maybe false, without any evidence — but it is a conspiracy theory. So it tells you that that’s an acceptable conspiracy theory to have in the ‘60s about Martin Luther King.”4
Four years before it was released, and nine years after it was assessed by Rookstool’s task force, Joseph Green summarized that FBI document’s historical context in his essay, “The MLK 10-Point Program.”
The MLK that is sold to the public was not the MLK of 1968.
MLK had clear, well-defined enemies within the government.
Dr. King was set up to go to the site of his assassination by the FBI.
This is one of the most famous photographs in the world. See the guy crouching over King’s body? At the time, he was an undercover police agent and an informant for the FBI. He later joined the CIA.
James Earl Ray was a patsy.
Much like the JFK case, there are enormous problems with the ballistics evidence, the rifle, and the angle of the shot.
The resources required to both finance and supply the materials Ray used in his travels after the shooting imply government agency.
Ray didn’t get a fair trial.
The FBI had a guy they wanted to write the book on the King assassination. He did write it—the author’s name is Gerold Frank.
A civil trial found that Lloyd Jowers and “other government forces” conspired to kill Dr. King, not James Earl Ray.5
Unsurprisingly, Green’s historical context clarifies why Rookstool’s task force kept this fake conspiracy secret — to continue the FBI’s complicity in the real conspiracy behind Dr. King’s murder.
Withholding evidence relevant to a legal proceeding is considered spoliation of evidence. Rookstool’s FBI task force was aware of its withholding of this document before, during, and after the 1999 conspiracy verdict in King’s murder. The same evidentiary rules apply to all of the 500,000 pages of classified JFK files Rookstool “read.” Keeping criminal evidence secret to hide one’s complicity is not “national security,” the umbrella term used to justify gratuitous secrecy. It is obstruction of justice by evidence tampering.
Farris is authoritarian. He works to protect the lies of official historians — the lies with which schools indoctrinate their students. Farris uses an old psychological trick well known to the FBI and the Warren Commission. It is a logical fallacy known as appeal to authority, or argument from authority, based on the Asch effect. (“There is no other person, to date who has read all 500,000 pages of classified material. There is no other historian out there who was invited by Caroline Kennedy and John Jr. to go through all their material. There is no other historian who broadcast live from Dealey Plaza during the 50th, which I was fortunate to do for ABC News.”6) Farris’ not so subtle message is: don’t do your own thinking, just trust expert Farris, the GOAT. In the 1950s, the psychology experiments of Solomon Asch showed people tend to agree with assertions of perceived authority figures even though they know the assertions are wrong.
When he was young, Farris Rookstool might have seemed to be a bit more like Ferris Bueller. (“I never really understood what a Historian did in Junior High and High School [sic]. Having a history teacher, they were always kind of the nerdy type of teachers that you just didn’t know what they would do outside of the classroom.”7) Young Rookstool seemed brave enough even to defy authority:
… I started out believing in a big conspiracy … I had read all these conspiracy books and the Garrison Investigation [sic], Mark Lane’s book, Rush to Judgment, and Forgive My Grief, by Penn Jones and Sylvia Meagher’s book that she wrote on the assassination, Accessories, After the Fact, and Harold Weisberg’s trilogy of books that he wrote on the assassination. So all these works, the original, I call them the “early thinkers”, the early critics, I started subscribing to their theories. And, I started believing that perhaps, there was a conspiracy. And I can still remember my parents saying that to me, ‘Oh, good God, don’t tell anyone that you’re reading all this JFK stuff because people are getting killed and witnesses are dying off. … They’re disappearing!’ So, I would read at nighttime, under the sheets with a flashlight, in my bedroom. I’d read these books and various literature and again, I started subscribing to some of the conspiracies.”8
But any early, supposed similarity to Ferris Bueller did not last long. After high school Farris studied to be a medical illustrator/photographer. In a 2014 radio interview, he talked about his role in the 1981 exhumation of Oswald.
And, I worked my first significant job, that I had — I was a medical artist and medical photographer at what is now know as the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School. At that time, it was called UT Health Science Center at Dallas. And I worked with all the doctors that treated President Kennedy. And then subsequently, I was on the exhumation team as the medical photographer for digging up Lee Harvey Oswald that occurred in October, the 4th, 1981.9
As the medical photographer at Oswald’s exhumation, Farris saw and photographed evidence of conspiracy. I described that evidence in my essay, “The Imitation Game”:
The pathologists assigned to the case officially identified the body as Oswald’s. However, the funeral director who originally buried the body insisted it could not be the same since the one he buried clearly showed a craniotomy, which had been done during autopsy, and the exhumed skull showed no craniotomy. Also, the pathologists used dental records to identify the corps, but ignored the fact that Oswald had lost a front tooth in a fight in high school (there is a photo of him in class with a gap-tooth smile, and many classmates remember the fight and the missing tooth). The exhumed skull had a full set of natural front teeth.10
The “world’s leading expert on the assassination” should know that photographs of “Oswald’s” exhumed corps are evidence of conspiracy.11 Staying quiet about that evidence makes him complicit.
Farris did not just read the conspiracy books. He comes off as an ambitious buff, an eager fan boy, the lamest kind of student of murder. He collects souvenirs and memorabilia of the assassination. He collected signed copies of books about it. Nearly halfway into his “expert” tenure at the FBI, he phoned leading Warren Commission critic Harold Weisberg and wrote fan letters to him asking to purchase his books.12
In those letters, Farris revealed he was a close friend of Mary Ferrell and her husband, Buck. Mary was a magnet to JFK assassination students and investigators because of her legendary collection of JFK assassination files, publications, and her card-catalog database, most of which was put online by the Mary Ferrell Foundation after her 2004 death. Why Farris, who is reading the classified FBI files, convinced by them that Oswald acted alone, would be doting on “conspiracy theorists” like Ferrell and Weisberg seems bizzare — unless he had darker secrets. Ferrell’s early public image as a serious, honest chronicler of the assassination began to suffer by the early 1990s when private stories of her hidden agenda began to leak.
Author Harrison Livingstone, one of the first to publicly expose Mary Ferrell as an agent provocateur, also had some of the earliest doubts about Farris.
I personally felt that Farris Rookstool had a certain amount of good will and a somewhat open mind for evidence in the case, but it was impossible to deal with him due to the immense damage already done by both sides. Even worse was the fact that Mary Ferrell seemed to attempt to manipulate the FBI for her own purposes, chief among them to get other researchers into trouble, never mind the fact that she was pushing a great deal of false evidence on this nation….13
Author Joseph McBride, who does not mention Rookstool, had his own revealing encounters with Farris’ BFF around the same time.
My dealings with Mary Ferrell in 1985-86 were what made me aware of her duplicity. I first called her to ask her confidential advice about a previously unknown FBI document I had found that seriously undermined the Warren Commission’s lone gunman theory, and she betrayed my trust (see Chapter 15). After being thus alerted to her dishonest modus operandi, I began delving into her dubious background and concluded that after the assassination she set up shop with the backing of the federal government to serve as a clearing house and watchdog in Dallas, doling out favors while actually going about her main business of keeping tabs on what researchers were doing and selectively, subtly feeding them disinformation. As a result of her clever application of spycraft and her faux-motherly act, many researchers naively regarded her as a guru with a disinterested dedication to the truth. When I called her again in 1992 to request an in-person interview about her background and involvement in the case, she pressed me hard to find out what aspects of the assassination I was researching, and when I carefully gave her only general answers, saying that my areas of interest included the roles played by researchers, she refused to meet with me and said she didn’t want to be interviewed about her own background. [Dallas Tippit researcher Greg] Lowrey said, “Mary stays in the shadows. Her agenda is subtle and devious: ‘What are you going to do with it?’” Penn Jones gave me some good advice: “Stay away from her.”14
Having been mentored by her, it seems nefarious Farris became the new fallacious Farrell.
Larry Howard, the late co-director of the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas (AIC), was another magnet to JFK assassination students and investigators, but as a true conspiracy realist. Howard did groundbreaking research, and personally knew many researchers, authors, and witnesses quite well. When Oliver Stone was filming JFK, he hired Howard as one of his main technical consultants. Dr. Grover B. Proctor, Jr., an historian, former university dean, and true expert on the assassination, interviewed Larry Howard about the advice he gave to Oliver Stone.15
“The internecine warfare that has erupted among Warren Commission critics does not surprise Howard, though he finds himself in the middle of it. ‘I told Oliver before we started this film, your problem is not going to be with the CIA or the FBI; it’s going to be with the other researchers. And sure enough it was.’”16
Howard knew what he was talking about, and he knew Ferrell and Rookstool. Before being hired by Stone, Howard confessed some trepidation about a developing investigation by him and his AIC. “One, the story needs to be investigated more to make sure everything we have here is true, and two, we’re scared to death.”17
Larry Howard confessed to me personally, in 1993, fear for his life just before having the two “strokes” that killed him.
Farris worked with other deceivers at Dallas’ Sixth Floor Museum which, from its inception in 1989, has been dedicated to denying the conspiracy: “Paid and volunteer assassination researchers included G. Robert Blakey, former chief counsel and staff director of the House Select Committee on Assassinations; volunteers Jim Moore, Farris Rookstool, and Carl Henry; ...”18
Notable among these Sixth Floor Museum conspiracy deniers was Charles Briggs Sr. When Briggs died, researchers reading his obituary discovered his double-dealing background:
As a long term gatekeeper of CIA records, Briggs’ career extended far beyond his actual service years. Upon retirement he became an “annuitant”, an officially retired CIA officer still on the payroll and available for assignments. We don’t have a listing of all those assignments — yet — but we do know he was called back to work on documents being released under the JFK Records Act and in response the work of the Assassinations Records Review Board in the 1990s.
Briggs’ obituary also lists another very interesting project — serving as “liaison for creation of the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, Texas, dedicated to the JFK Assassination.” Understanding that particular assignment has also proved to be quite educational — but that’s a story in itself.19
Farris was collaborating, at least indirectly, with a CIA officer on publicly spinning conspiracy-denial fantasies, and gatekeeping assassination records. That is just about everything you need to know about Rookstool’s real agenda. It was the now infamous, 1967 “CIA Dispatch #1035-960" that first pushed the label “conspiracy theorist” to its secret, mass-media assets as the go-to smear attack against anyone who challenged the govenment’s official narrative.20
To offset appearances, Farris spins himself publicly as an accidental JFK buff. (“And it was something that I never, in my wildest dreams would have imagined me spending my entire adult life talking about. … you take a Historian, a Law Enforcement Investigative Analyst, Medical Illustrator/Medical Photographer [sic] and then you also take someone who was around to be able to know the principal characters — the doctors, the witnesses, et cetera and all that just neatly made me who I am today.”) So said the guy who read all the conspiracy books at night under the sheets with a flashlight in bed, wrote fan letters to the authors, and collected signed copies. He further undermined his pretense of detachment when he explained how he got the job of reading the classified FBI files: “And, it’s like anything. If you show too much interest in something, you get assigned the case.” [emphasis added]21
Farris also pretends it was happenstance that he found himself working with the Parkland doctors and talking to them about Kennedy’s wounds which (implausibly) changed his mind about the conspiracy.
There was a doctor, who I worked with; he’s now deceased, named Charlie Baxter. Charlie is the one who came forward to all the doctors at Southwestern and he said, “Ok, guys, let’s get our stories straight, what occurred. We’ll write our narratives. Let’s do all this, but let’s make an agreement that we’re not going to get into that slippery slope by conducting interviews. So, let’s not talk about this any further.” It wasn’t based on a sinister position. It was based on the fact, that he wanted a cohesive medical report that is — his description of it was, that would, “stand the test of time” — to say, “We only had this patient in here for this period of time. This is all we can say, based on what we were able to treat the President, and anything outside the scope of Trauma Room One and Two is really subject to speculation and innuendo, and all that. And, we can’t as a teaching hospital and medical school in training medical professionals, we can’t get into those realms of possibilities and this and that.”
So again, Charlie’s initial intent was good, but people have twisted that to believe that maybe, they were coached or in fact maybe, they were told by government people that this is what the official line should be about the bullets and how they entered and et cetera.22
The only twisting going on here is by Farris. His twist is not the dance craze done by Ferris Bueller. But it is a craze.
Dr. Baxter’s “let’s agree on a narrative and a code of silence” is the exemplification of conspiracy. Farris’ “good intention” rationalization does the trick only if none of the doctors talked, — and some did.23 As explained by Mr. McBride:
The Parkland doctors’ reports on November 22 about shots from the front were quickly buried after the initial reports in the media. The original recordings of the press conference held by Doctors Malcolm Perry and Kemp Clark at Parkland Hospital at 3:16 P.M. that Friday have been missing for many years; they reportedly were seized by the Secret Service. The official transcript prepared by White House stenographer Wayne Hawks was also said for many years to be missing, but it has since surfaced in the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. Although Dr. Perry later suggested to the Warren Commission, after considerable pressure had been applied to him by the government, that he “misunderstood” questions about the throat wound in the “bedlam” of the press conference, he showed no doubt at the press conference that it was a wound of entrance, making that point repeatedly….24
It was through the official handling of the whole matter that, “they were told by government people that this is what the official line should be....”
A code of silence is the only way to preserve the false, official narrative of Kennedy’s wounds. Even Kennedy’s personal physician kept quiet about his own role at Parkland Hospital. The conspiracy is that obvious, as former Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Arlen Specter found out when he ran for president in 1995.25
In support of another official lie, Farris was asked by the Dallas Historical Society to write the text for the plaque to be placed at the Oak Cliff site of the murder of Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit. So, of course, the marker falsely accuses Oswald of shooting and killing Tippit. Thankfully, we have the serious, honest, extensive analysis of Joseph McBride, who concluded:
While it is frustrating that we can never be entirely certain about all the facts of the Tippit killing, as is the case with many other poorly investigated and vigorously obfuscated aspects of the events that weekend in Dallas, many facts about both the Kennedy and Tippit killings that contradict the official version of events have long been known. And now, after an effort involving many years of research on the scene of the crime and in various archives, I have been able, with the help of many concerned citizens, both witnesses and researchers, to piece together a more complete picture than has ever been assembled before, one that suggests that the murder of Officer Tippit was something more than chance and misfortune. Like the assassination itself, the Tippit killing, and the officer’s futile pursuit of Oswald that preceded it, was not a meaningless, random encounter that demonstrates the absurd chaos of history and, as such, can easily be dismissed, but it was instead an important part of a calculated plan to overthrow the United States government, to end our relatively young nation’s experiment with democracy. And that plan worked.26
In a hubristic homage to the proverb, “no honor among theives,” Farris even co-opted the work of a fellow conspiracy denier, Dale K. Myers, to make a splash on a local, 50th anniversary TV news special. (“There is no other historian who broadcast live from Dealey Plaza during the 50th, which I was fortunate to do for ABC News.”) The work concerned the authenticity of an alleged wallet of Oswald’s found at the Tippit murder scene, complete with cards identifying Oswald by his alias, Alek James Hidel. Farris claimed the wallet was authentic, and anointed himself as the first who did the work to figure that out. Myers had spent many years studying the wallet and proved it was not Oswald’s. He wrote about his proof in his book, which Myers said Farris read just weeks before doing the special. Myers fired back on his blog: “Anyone with a brain knows that if Oswald’s wallet had been found at the Tippit murder scene it would have been printed in every newspaper and broadcast on every radio and television station in America before the end of the day, Friday, November 22, 1963.”27
Farris can’t fool all of the people all of the time, not even in the quisling news media. To their credit, the editors at Vanity Fair magazine were having none of his preoccupations in 2008. Their gut reaction to Farris nailed him:
On the heels of our April story on Jack Worthington—the Canada-based banker who believes he could be the illegitimate son of John F. Kennedy (“A Claim to Camelot”)—four readers have approached Vanity Fair to disclose that they harbor similar suspicions about themselves. …
Strangest of all is the claim by Texas P.R. man Farris Rookstool III, who asserts that not only did he spend years as an F.B.I. expert examining the J.F.K.-assassination files (which turns out to be true) but, quite coincidentally, he also dated Worthington’s sister Nancy in the 1990s (which she confirms).
Rather than follow up on “P.R. man” Rookstool’s JFK-related love life, Vanity Fair made a quick exit stage left: “All of which is a way of saying that for the time being we’re Kennedy Conspiracy’d out, thank you.”28
There is method even to this particular letter-to-the-editor madness. Farris helps promote one of the biggest lies about, and distractions from the conspiracy reality of JFK’s assassination: the ingrained, stubbornly persistent, salacious, urban legend that JFK had extramarital affairs.29
As can be seen in an October 2022 broadcast interview by WTVJ-TV, NBC 6 South Florida, Farris repeats many rhetorical ploys used for decades30 to set the media agenda for conspiracy denial and distraction:
nothing to see in the withheld files;
if there was, it would have been destroyed;
nothing is going to change;
nobody will read them anyway.
He advances the fallacy that only by reading every secret file can anybody know anything — and Farris is the only one who has read them all. (“Yeah, right. Dry that one out, you can fertilize the lawn.”) You don’t need to examine every rock on a mountain to know it’s a mountain. Perhaps the most sophisticated (literally sophist) of his ruses is his emphasis on motive. It is a clever one because motives have nothing to do with conspiracy. They are essential only to a lone gunman, and as even Farris points out, Oswald had none. Motives are poor conspiracy evidence because, by definition, conspiracies have multiple motives. Playing the motive-guessing game gives us a false sense of accomplishment. If you focus on them, you are distracted from the real proof — physical evidence and connections.31 Once the conspiracy is the official truth, and the conspirators are publicly known, their many motives will become apparent.
Farris Rookstool III uses his authoritarian deception to produce the mind-numbing, bowdlerized history that is taught in school and repeated by mass media authorities. The biggest Bizzarro World difference between nefarious Farris and hilarious Ferris is that the former fakes wellness, and never takes a day off from his ailments: conspiracy denial, disinformation, propaganda, and trickery.
First-generation critic Maggie Field said, “Until we can get to the bottom of the Kennedy assassination, this country is going to remain a sick country. No matter what we do. Because we cannot live with that crime. We just can’t. The threat is too great. There are forces in this country who have gotten away with this thing, and will strike again. And not any one of us is safe.”32
According to clues in the film, the calendar date of Ferris Bueller’s day off was discovered to be June 5, 1985, about a year before the movie’s release, June 11, 1986.33 June 5 is also the day of the assassination of President Kennedy’s brother, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., by a conspiracy in 1968.34 Let’s take that day off. Let’s call it “Ferris Rookstool’s Day Off,” a day to go on strike in protest of the metaphorical Rookstools of the world. Isn’t it time Farris Rookstool had a day off — so a sick world can begin to heal? (“Anyone? Anyone?”)
ENDNOTES:
See my essay, “The Real Conspiracy Nuts,” bartholoviews.substack.com
Stephen Young, “Dallas’ JFK Experts and Conspiracists Warily Eye This Week's Document Release,” Dallas Observer, October 25, 2017. Accessed May 11, 2023. https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/what-to-expect-from-thursdays-kennedy-documents-10004590
Ibid.
Robbie Robertson, “Out Of The Blank #1402 - Joseph E. Green,” Out Of The Blank podcast, 0:22:45-0:23:14, May 4, 2023. Accessed May 4, 2023.
Joseph E. Green, “The MLK 10-Point Program,” The Ratville Times, 2013. Accessed May 1, 2023. https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLK-10-Point-Program.html; Dissenting Views: Investigations in History, Culture, Cinema, & Conspiracy, CreateSpace Independent PublishingPlatform, 2nd edition, 2015.
Ira David Sternberg, “Talking With Farris Rookstool,” Talk About Las Vegas with Ira, December 18, 2014, Accessed May 2, 2023. https://talkaboutlasvegas.com/talking-with-farris-rookstool-iii-december-18-2014/; abridged transcript; Accessed May 2, 2023. https://farrisrookstool.com/radio
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Richard Bartholomew, “The Imitation Game,” bartholoviews.substack.com
Sandy Larsen, “Oswald was missing a front tooth, but his exhumed body was not!” JFK Assassination Debate, The Education Forum, February 7, 2018, Accessed May 5, 2025. https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/24630-indisputable-evidence-for-harvey-lee-oswald-was-missing-a-front-tooth-but-his-exhumed-body-was-not-new-evidence-found/
Harold Weisberg, “Rookstool Farris L III,” National Security Archive-Weisberg, The Weisberg Archive, Beneficial-Hodson Library, Hood College, 2015. Accessed May 11, 2023. https://archive.org/details/nsia-RookstoolFarrisLIII
Harrison Edward Livingstone, Killing the Truth: Deceit and Deception in the JFK Case, New York, NY, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1993, pp. 381-382.
Joseph McBride, Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit, Berkeley, CA, Hightower Press, 2013, pp. 221-222, 556-557.
Grover B. Proctor, Jr., “Larry Howard: A Man Under Fire,” The Saginaw News, December 21, 1991. Accessed May 15, 2023. http://www.groverproctor.us/jfk/jfk91d.html
Ibid.
Ibid.
Stephen Fagin, Assassination and Commemoration: JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 2013, p. 125.
Larry Hancock, “Limits to Transparency,” Mary Farrell Foundation, January 20, 2016. Accessed May 2, 2023. https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Essay_-_Limits_to_Transparency.html; “CIA Document News,” The Works of Larry Hancock, November 2015. Accessed May 2, 2023. https://larryhancock.wordpress.com/2015/11/; “Briggs and the Sixth Floor Museum,” The Works of Larry Hancock, November 2015. Accessed May 2, 2023. https://larryhancock.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/briggs-and-the-sixth-floor-museum/
Lance deHaven-Smith, Conspiracy Theory In America, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2013. https://archive.org/details/conspiracy-theory-in-america-2013-lance-smith; CIA Dispatch 1035-969, https://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/cia/russholmes/104-10406/104-10406-10110/html/104-10406-10110_0001a.htm
Ira David Sternber, op. cit.
Ibid.
Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D., Jens Hansen, and J. Gary Shaw, JFK : Conspiracy of Silence, New York, NY, Penguin Books USA, Inc. 1992. https://archive.org/details/jfkconspiracyofs00cren; revised and expanded edition: Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D., J. Gary Shaw, and Bradly Kizzia, Trauma Room One: The JFK Medical Coverup Exposed, New York, NY, Paraview Press, 2001. https://archive.org/details/traumaroomonejfk0000cren; “Dr. Robert McClelland - Evidence of Conspiracy,” JFKcountercoup, blog post, Sunday, November 11, 2018, repost of two news articles: Michael A. Fuoco, “Surgeon in ER insists two gunmen shot JFK,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 17, 2013, http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2013/10/18/Surgeon-in-ER-insists-2-gunmen-shot-JFK/stories/201310180137; Mark Hodge, “Surgeon’s sketch suggests two gunmen killed JFK,” The Sun, June 21, 2017, https://nypost.com/2017/06/21/surgeons-sketch-suggests-2-gunmen-killed-jfk/ Accessed May 8, 2023. https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2018/11/dr-robert-mcclelland-evidence-of.html?m=1
Joseph McBride, op. cit., pp. 108-109.
See my essays, “Certain Death: Dr. Burkley’s Big, Dark Secret,” and “True Believers: Tom Snyder Talks to Arlen Specter,” bartholoviews.substack.com
Joseph McBride, op. cit., p. 611.
Gokay Hasan Yusuf, “Dale Myers, With Malice (Part 2),” Kennedys and King, March 29, 2014. Accessed May 8, 2023. http://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-reviews/myers-dale-with-malice-part-2; Dale K. Myers, “JFK Assassination Redux: The Best and the Worst of 50th Anniversary Coverage,” “The truly pitiful,” JFK Files, December 1, 2013. Accesses May 8, 2023. http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2013/12/jfk-assassination-redux-best-and-worst.html
“A Claim to Camelot,” postscript, Vanity Fair magazine, May 6, 2008. Accessed May 10, 2023. https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2008/06/postscript200806
James DiEugenio, “The Posthumous Assassination of John F. Kennedy,” Kennedys and King, December 1997. Accessed May 11, 2023. http://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/the-posthumous-assassination-of-john-f-kennedy
See my essay, “True Believers Part 2: Conspiracy-Denial Bigotry in Mass Media,” bartholoviews.substack.com
Nik Zecevic, “Former FBI Analyst Weighs In On JFK Assassination Records,” WTVJ/NBC (channel 6) South Florida, October 24, 2022. Accessed May 9, 2023. https://www.lx.com/community/former-fbi-analyst-weighs-in-on-jfk-assassination-records/58980/;
See my essay, “The Danger of Using Motive as Evidence of Conspiracy,” bartholoviews.substack.com
John Kelin, Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First Generation Critics of the Warren Report. San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2007, p. 464.
Todd Van Luling, “Here’s Proof That Today Is The Day Ferris Bueller Took Off,” Huffpost, June 5, 2016. Accessed May 10, 2023. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ferris-bueller-june-5_n_574dcbdfe4b0af73af957d27
See my essay, “2024: RFK Jr.’s Deep Political Gambit,” bartholoviews.substack.com