Rob Reiner's podcast series, Who Killed JFK? alleges that General Charles Willoughby was the tactician of the JFK assassination. Dick Russell, who supplied the research for the series, has now gone further and claims that Willoughby was the mastermind.
Is there any evidence to support either of these allegations?
Here is an excerpt of a transcript from Episode Ten: (right from the start)
Rob Reiner: It's nineteen seventy-five. We're in New York City at the offices of the Village Voice newspaper. Shaggy-haired reporters hack away their typewriters and chat around the coffee machine. You can almost smell the smoke hanging in the air.
One reporter, Dick Russell, is going through his mail and he comes across an anonymous letter.
Dick Russell: The letter was from someone who identified himself as the Brooklyn Waiter, and he wrote that he was familiar with a recent article I had published on the JFK assassination. He also wrote that I was now part of the "great game" of researching the JFK assassination, and he wanted to bring the name of someone to my attention. The name was Adolph Tscheppe Weidenbach. I'd never heard that name before, but I kept reading.
The Brooklyn Waiter claimed that Tscheppe Weidenbach was the mastermind behind the JFK assassination. I didn't know what to make of it. I mean, who the hell is Adolph Tscheppe Weidenbach. There was no Internet back then, so I didn't have a way to find out who this Tscheppe Weidenbach was.
Then years later, I was working on a book about the assassination and stumbled upon an article about a General Charles Willoughby. Charles Willoughby rose through the ranks of the US military to become the chief of intelligence for General Douglas MacArthur during World War II and then the Korean War. It got my attention because Richard Case Nagell had also worked for the top-secret Field Operations Intelligence under Willoughby's command.
Soledad O'Brien: You might remember Field Operations Intelligence as the top-secret army intelligence unit closely connected to the CIA. Nagell described its role as "designed to conceal the true nature of CIA objectives."
Dick Russell: I continued to research Willoughby and found out that not only was he an extreme, far-right anti-communist with connections to Nagell, but he also had connections to CIA chief Allen Dulles, the Hunt Oil family of Dallas, and the Cuban exile community. And then, when I thought I'd read just about everything I could about General Charles Willoughby, I stumbled upon his birth name. Charles Willoughby was born Adolph Tscheppe Wiedenbach. Was it possible that the letter that the Brooklyn waiter sent me fifteen years earlier was a major clue into who killed JFK.
Field Operations Intelligence was part of Army intelligence:
I don't know if Nagell was really in FOI. I see very little evidence of this in the primary documents, except that Nagell said he was. It's possible that he was. But the statement by Russell that "Nagell had also worked for the top secret Field Operations Intelligence under Willoughby's command," is pure nonsense. Willoughby was in charge of Far East Command (FECOM) G-2 but he resigned from the Army in 1951. Nagell was then a sergeant at Fort Benning, Georgia.
So, they did not overlap.
Russell mentions his research to learn more about Willoughby. Here is an excerpt from his book, On the Trail of the JFK Assassins, which tells more about where he got his information from: (page 193)
One afternoon Susan was studying an article by the late Mae Brussell—a researcher I had always considered a bit “fringy”—about the so-called “Nazi connection.” Susan kept insisting I reread it and, secretly smug that she was off on a tangent, I put her off as long as I could.
“Read carefully the section on General Willoughby,” she instructed.
Reluctantly, I did. Charles Willoughby, the onetime chief of intelligence for General Douglas MacArthur (1941-51), turned out to have been born in Heidelberg, Germany, as Adolf Tscheppe-Weidenbach. “Hmmmmm,” I said, “that sounds familiar.” Scavenging through my files, I retrieved an anonymous letter, received in response to my first published piece on the assassination back in 1975. The letter-writer, who called himself “the Brooklyn waiter,” pointed to an acquaintance named “Tscheppe-Weidenbach” as the possible “mastermind” of the JFK conspiracy. The name had seemed like gobbledygook to me at the time.
“Honey,” I said 17 years later, holding aloft the letter, “I think we’re onto something.” We? her eyes said. OK, we.
Thus, when I was supposed to be entering the homestretch, we embarked together on a whole new course of research. It led to a host of connections—Tscheppe-Weidenbach, Willoughby and Allen Dulles, ex-Nazis, the Hunt oil family, Cuban exiles. Nagell, my central character, was becoming but one crucial part of a much broader tapestry. Sifting through interviews old and new, having no idea how all the disparate pieces might fit together, gradually we saw a pattern emerge.
Here is what Ms. Brussell has to say about Charles Willoughby:
I don't know how much of the above is true, but none of it is relevant to the JFK assassination. Willoughby was an extreme right-winger who corresponded with Allen Dulles and was close to H. L. Hunt. Brussell offers this up:
YAF stood for the Young Americans for Freedom, an organization started by William F. Buckley.
Brussell's article is just six degrees of separation along with some innuendo and some very poor connections. But the article was enough to convince Russell that Willoughby was a person of interest.
I went back to Russell's book, The Man Who Knew Too Much, to see if there was anything of interest related to Willoughby.
Russell tries to link Nagell to Willoughby: (page 128)
Willoughby also set up the original 441st Counter Intelligence Corps Group, to which Nagell was reassigned in 1957.
But of course Willoughby was not in Asia when Nagell was in Japan and Korea.
Willoughby also corresponded with Allen Dulles and H. L. Hunt:
Russell also tries to embroil Willoughby in the Walker shooting. He tells the story of Bradford Angers who had worked for H. L, Hunt. After the assassination, Hunt called Angers and said he was sending over a fellow he should hire. That person was an extreme right-winger who ended up in some sort of accident and needed help.
This person told Angers he had been picked up by the Secret Service and asked about the Kennedy assassination. Before the assassination, the brother of this man had worked for General Walker and had made friends with Lee Harvey Oswald:
Russell believes that the man that was hired by Angers was Larrie Schmidt, one of the people behind the Bernard Weissman ad that ran in the Dallas Morning News on the morning of November 22, 1963.
I don't believe any of this story, and the linkage to Charles Willoughby is ridiculous.
Russell than spends several pages on the relationship between Willoughby and Nelson Bunker Hunt -- he helped arrange for Hunt to get some oil leases in Mozambique. Russell believes there is some sort of deeper meaning to the Willoughby-Hunt correspondence. But that's way above my pay grade.
Willoughby also wrote J. Edgar Hoover in 1951 which, of course, is ominous. And, most ominous of all, Willoughby and Allen Dulles corresponded in the mid-1950s.
Finally, on page 707 of his massive tome, Russell cuts to the chase:
The case for Willoughby's involvement in the Kennedy conspiracy can be no more than circumstantial. But Willoughby was a master of intrigue who established Nagell's Field Operations Intelligence unit in the Far East and played a major part in forming the basis for the Asian People's Anti-Communist League. Willoughby was in regular correspondence with Allen Dulles -- before JFK fired Dulles -- and with ex (?)- Nazis who ran the CIA's European-based spy network. Willoughby's domestic associations extended from the Cuban exile community to the H. L, Hunt family. He and other of MacArthur's former top generals undoubtedly retained a strong bond with right-wing elements of the Pentagon. MacArthur's "little fascist," as the general once described him, was assuredly in a position to made the right connections from his Washington domain.
Once gain, a specious connection between Willoughby and Nagell.
I don't even see a circumstantial link to the "Kennedy conspiracy."
Now back to Episode Ten of the Rob Reiner podcast series to learn more about Willoughby and the JFK assassination: (3:06)
Soledad O'Brien: So where does this guy, Adolph Tscheppe Weidenbach fit in and if he's involved in the whole thing, why is this the first time we're hearing his name.
Rob Reiner: He was a rogue and in this episode we'll find out how he and other hardline rogue elements came together to assassinate the president.
The podcast mentions the four assassins that killed JFK, and then: (11:30)
Dick Russell: The fourth shooter we know about was a man named Jack Canon. Canon worked under Charles Willoughby.
Soledad O'Brien: Willoughby was the guy you talked about earlier, the guy
you received the letter about.
Dick Russell: Exactly. Willoughby was the head of intelligence for Douglas MacArthur, and after World War Two, Canon worked with Willoughby. Canon ran
a black ops group known as the z or Z Unit. When I wrote my book on Richard Case Nagel, The Man who Knew too Much, he told me that Canon was a part of the CIA unit
that reported to Willoughby, and he indicated that Canon was directly involved in the assassination of JFK.
Now that Nagell is dead, Russell can claim he said all sorts of things. What exactly does it mean when he says that Nagell "indicated that Canon was directly involved in the assassination of JFK." Indicated? We hardly know anything about Jack Canon, and he's now implicated in the JFK assassination.
Here is what Russell wrote about Canon in his book, The Man Who Knew Too Much: (page 127 of the first edition)
Russell claims that Nagell told a Garrison investigator that Canon was a "rub-out man for CIA." There is no claim in The Man Who Knew Too Much that Nagell had told Russell that Canon was involved.
There is no mention that Canon was the "rub-out man for CIA." Nor can I find that quote anywhere.
The podcast then goes into who ordered and planned the assassination: (17:34)
Soledad O'Brien: Okay, so you're saying that we have Dulles as aware of the event, and Angleton and Atlee Phillips making sure there was a patsy to take the blame, but who actually orchestrated this?
Dick Russell: Evidence leads us to the ZR Rifle Chief Bill Harvey as the strategist and General Charles Willoughby as the tactician. Willoughby and Harvey then tapped the mafia and the Cuban exiles to help provide the shooters.
So, General Charles Willoughby was the tactician.
There is only thing missing. Evidence.
Russell has since upgraded Willoughby from tactician to being the mastermind of the JFK Assassination.
Dick Russell: So, FOI was formed in there after the Korean War by General Charles Willoughby, who was a very right-wing, extremely right-wing, connected to Nazis in Germany, and sort of a behind the scenes figure who corresponded with Allen Dulles.
I'll tell you a quick story about him, because I want to get to who this shooter was, that I believe was involved, who worked for Willoughby. But I think Willoughby was one of the masterminds of this, of the assassination, and years ago, after I wrote my first article for The Village Voice, I get an anonymous letter in the mail, sent to the Voice, and it's got, you know, block letters on it, just to somebody who, you know, didn't even want their handwriting seen. And they say, "Our Canadian computers," which there barely were computers in those days, "traced the masterminding of the assassination of President Kennedy to a man named Adolf Tscheppe Wiedenbach." Maybe he didn't even say Adolf.
And, you know, he was connected to General MacArthur. And I just thought it was, you know, what is it? Tscheppe Weidenbach. It's a crazy name, so I didn't pay any attention to it. He said, at the end of that, which I regretted, he said, if you want to find out more about this, put a classified ad in The Village Voice saying, "Brooklyn waiter, I'm waiting."
Well, I never did it. I wish I did.
Oh, what a missed opportunity!
A few minutes later Russell tells us the source of his allegation that Willoughby was involved in the assassination: (24:30)
Dick Russell: And finally, on this, this particular subject, Willoughby and Canon. So, you've probably seen this new book that came out by Hank Albarelli. He died, unfortunately, tragically, apparently, of a regular illness. But who knows? He had been in touch with this guy named Pierre Lafitte, who part of the family of Lafitte, who had kept a date book. That was, finally, this story was published in a book called Coup in Dallas in 2021. If you haven't seen it, it's a very dense book, but it's quite amazing, and I've seen the diary, the date book of Lafitte. It exists. It's handwritten. It looks like it was done in 1963 which it's labeled as, and it's very cryptic. But all through it, you know, Oswald is named -- clearly they're leading up to November 22, 1963. And there's more than once in that date book that Lafitte, who was a very well known, worked for the Bureau of Narcotics, worked for the CIA. He worked for Reily Coffee Company at one point in New Orleans, where Oswald eventually got a job. Another really interesting figure,
And, I'd also got to know Albarelli, and he had been giving stuff to me that he'd be running across. But in the date book, a number of the entries clearly point to Willoughby as a lead architect of the plot against JFK, in collusion with CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton.
There's one date book entry that says, "soldiers kill squad" alongside Willoughby's name, and that's as early as April 12th of 1963. And then as November 22nd approaches, the date book delineates in four separate entries that Jack Canon was on hand in Dallas. November 21, it says, "Willoughby team - Canon (Z org) D", meaning Dallas. Then a few days after the assassination, it says November 26th, "Canon -- home.", He left.
Of course, the Lafitte diaries are "cryptic" which means that only experts like Dick Russell and Hank Albarelli are capable of deciphering its meaning.
So, just who is Jean Pierre Lafitte?
The modern Lafitte's background is as mysterious as his career. Not even the FBI is sure whether Lafitte is his real name, and its "wanted" flyers merely suggest that he is somewhere between 66 and 74 years old and may have been born in Canada, France or the U.S. Lafitte loyally claims U.S. birth. He says that he was born to the madam of a bawdy house in Louisiana's Cajun country. His mother, he relates, took him to France, abandoned him and left him to be raised by friends. He denies a French police report that he was arrested in 1921 and claims that the authorities picked up a relative whose name he just happened to be using at the time. A matter of record that he does not deny is his enlistment in the French Foreign Legion—and his desertion a few months later.
Lafitte returned to the U.S. in the 1930s. He first came to the attention of the authorities in the early 1940s, when he failed to register for the draft and was sent to Ellis Island to await deportation to France. While there, he saw a chance to ingratiate himself with the law by becoming an informer. He won the confidence of some racketeers who were being held on the island and offered to carry a message to their fellow gangsters in New York. Instead, he carried it to the Government.
From then on, Lafitte, who changed identities as easily as he changed his stylish clothes, led a double life. Although police records show that he was arrested 23 times in 48 years for fraud, confidence schemes and burglary, they also show that he was a valuable undercover man for the Federal Government. He helped trap some of the late Vito Genovese's mafiosi for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He also posed as a buyer for the FBI, luring thieves into selling him stolen paintings and jewelry and then testifying against them in court.
Lafitte turned up in New Orleans in 1967 where he became the manager-chef of the Plimsoll Club (under the name of Jean Martin) at the International Trade Mart. Unfortunately for Lafitte, he was wanted by the FBI and his photograph was distributed to restaurants.
Here is an article about his arrest from the Times-Picayune:
Journalist James Phelan also wrote about Lafitte in several articles for various magazines. Here is an article from the July 29, 1956, edition of the Independent Press Telegram (Long Beach):
But conspiracy theorists believe they have hit gold with a relationship between Lafitte and George White, a former official in the Bureau of Narcotics. White and Lafitte worked together on several sting operations. In 1977, it came out that White assisted the CIA in the early 1950s in MK-Ultra. White's diaries say that Lafitte helped rent an apartment in New York City used by the CIA in drug experiments. John Crewdson, a reporter with the New York Times, got in touch with Lafitte who said that "although he had worked closely with White on a number of important narcotics cases, he had never knowingly spoken with or worked for anyone from the CIA and had never known about the Greenwich Village apartment or the drug tests that were conducted there."
But any connection with MK-Ultra is enough to send conspiracy theorists into overdrive.
Lafitte may have been many things, but was he involved in the JFK assassination? He sounds like the kind of guy who would have informed on the conspirators, no?
I then turned to the book, Coup in Dallas. I've written a few blog posts about the book - most notably the fact that its chapter on Permindex/CMC lacks footnotes, and its erroneous claim that the former Prime Minister of Hungary Ferenc Nagy, who was the nominal President of Permindex, lived in Dallas.
Dick Russell wrote the foreword to Coup in Dallas: (page 7 in the Kindle edition)
Readers should not expect that Coup in Dallas means “case closed.” By design of Lafitte, himself very much part of the plot, his entries are thin on detail and sometimes confined to initials. Doubtless, analysis of their content will occupy researchers in search of the truth for the next fifty years. But the clues are numerous, and sometimes explicit—for example, this chilling notation two weeks before the assassination: “On the wings of murder. The pigeon way for unsuspecting Lee. Clip, clip his wings.”
Well, Russell did tell us that the entries are "cryptic."
And Russell believes the Lafitte datebook is authentic: (page 9 in the Kindle edition)
Pending verification by forensic document specialists and handwriting experts, I have carefully reviewed the 1963 datebook allegedly written by Jean Pierre Lafitte. Based on the entries I have seen, cryptic as many of them are (no doubt intentionally), this is a crucial piece of new evidence indicating a high-level conspiracy that resulted in the assassination that November 22 of President John F. Kennedy. Many of the names mentioned are familiar to me as someone who has researched and published numerous articles and three books on the assassination over the past forty-plus years. A number of these names, however, were not known publicly in 1963 and for more than a decade thereafter. Thus, assuming the datebook entries were indeed set down at that time by Lafitte, this adds substantial credibility to the likelihood that the document contains never-before-revealed information about a conspiracy involving accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald as well as his own killer, Jack Ruby.
So, the cryptic entries in the diary are "no doubt intentional."
So, what does the diary say about Willoughby? Russell provides a summary: (page 11 in the Kindle edition)
WILLOUGHBY: Until my first book came out in 1992, assembling circumstantial evidence linking retired General Charles Willoughby as a possible “mastermind” of the assassination, no one had raised such a possibility before. The datebook cites the far-right General Willoughby numerous times, specifying: “Nov 22 – Willoughby backup – team [with a strikethrough of the word team] squad – tech building – phone booth/bridge.” Prior to that, an April 12 entry states: “Willoughby soldier kill squads.”
Albarelli also thinks that General Edwin Walker was involved: (page 36 in the Kindle edition)
Most prominent among those propagandists identified in Chapter 6 were Generals Charles Willoughby and Edwin Walker, both of whom have long been recognized, even by those less steeped in this research, as prime suspects in the assassination. Further proof is now presented that the two highly controversial retired generals were among those directly responsible for the murder of John Kennedy.
Further proof? Well, all he has are a few Lafitte diary entries. Here are the entries that mention Willoughby, along with some screen shots from the book. By the way, the screen shots of the datebook in the book are incredibly fuzzy and are extremely hard to read.
April 12, 1963:
Congress meet - Willoughby - "soldiers kill squad"
June 5, 1963:
Willoughby and d. Valle
NO re Madrid
Church group meet
check with Hunt & Vickers
June 7, 1963:
Else [sic] and W's wife = shipment $
-- John 'Wilson-H' -- Ruby
Deciphered: Ilse was the wife of Otto Skorzeny. John Wilson refers to John Wilson-Hudson, a British journalist who informed the CIA that Jack Ruby had visited Cuba.
June 12, 1963:
*Paris murder
*Willoughby -- Walker*
June 18, 1963:
Willoughby meet 8:00 PM
September 17, 1963:
SPRAY-GUN 2
Willoughby - Shaw
Deciphered: What exactly is a spray gun? In Coup in Dallas, Albarelli writes that a spray gun dispenses some sort of gas, potentially lethal. Shaw is Clay Shaw.
October 2, 1963:
Askins - Willoughby OK
October 9, 1963:
OSARN--OSARN--OSARN--
OSARN- get Willoughby-Litt-
plus Souetre, others (Hungarians)
Lancelot pro.- kill squads Dallas,
New York –Tampa-(loaded .E) -T says
called Oswald to purpose- weapons-
Walker. Davis in N.O. with
swamp groups Florida (Decker,
Bender, Vickers, K of M)---
Deciphered: K of M refers to the Knights of Malta, Decker refers to General George H. Decker, and Walker is General Edwin Walker. Vickers is Harry Vickers, a friend of General MacArthur. OSARN refers to the Secret Organization of National Revolutionary Action, a clandestine political and military organization in France in the 1930s.
October 15, 1963:
Meet with Willoughby at
(Ella R) others at
49 East 53rd St.
NYC
Deciphered: Ella R refers to Ellen Rometsch, who was alleged to be an East German spy who had an affair with JFK.
November 15, 1963:
/Nov 22/
Willoughby backup
team [the word team has a strike through] squad- tech
building-- phone booth/bridge
O says turn them.
Silverthorne-
Ft. Worth
-Airport
Mexico
November 21, 1963:
Willoughby team - Canon (Z org) D.
Deciphered: Jack Canon served under Willoughby in Japan and Z organization is supposedly some sort of secret intelligence unit. D is supposedly Dallas.
December 4: 1963:
Canon - Home
Shells - Souetre
(November 26)
W Teams returned FK [FR?]
(November 28)
Deciphered: The assassination teams return home.
These scribbles have yet to be authenticated. The publisher of Coup in Dallas, Tony Lyons, wrote this note in the front of the book: (page 8 in the Kindle edition)
We do not have a definitive position on the authorship of the Jean Pierre Lafitte 1963 datebook and make no representation or warranty as to the veracity of its entries. However, we feel that Hank was a serious and dedicated researcher with absolute faith in the legitimacy of the datebooks, and his analysis ought to be part of the public record.
Shouldn't he have had the datebook authenticated before publishing Coup in Dallas?
Before his death, Albarelli had arranged for a London-based professional in handwriting/document analysis as well an international ink expert, to study the date book and render a professional opinion. Leslie Sharp reports that there is no disclosure of results or findings and “no know prospect of any, by contractual agreement with the owners of the datebook “. “The London professional would only state that he remains under a Nondisclosure Agreement and could not comment.” Which is not very reassuring, as is “Of deep concern were those parties in a position to confirm the provenance but refused to cooperate; every feasible effort to secure a definitive statement has gone unfulfilled”. So, what changed Sharp’s mind? “He [Albarelli] would not be a victim of fraud”, “In my relatively informed opinion, Hank would never have subjected himself to ridicule were the datebook to be determined to be the equivalent of the ‘Hitler Diaries”’ This is not sound logic in my book and this statement also backs that up “Of deep concern were those parties in a position to confirm the provenance but refused to cooperate; every feasible effort to secure a definitive statement has gone unfulfilled.”
The date book appears to be a concern of the publisher as well, because there is a Publisher’s Statement about it by Tony Lyons of Skyhorse at the beginning of the book.
The problematic date book is assumed to be real and we also learn that many of the initials in the date book are guessed or assumed to be individuals who are mentioned in other JFK works like JA is James Angleton, HH is Howard Hunt and not HL Hunt, who Sharp worked for.
Another issue with the datebook is that George Joannides features prominently in two entries:
August 16, 1963
Antoine's Room - Martello,
E. Joanides [sic] and Labadie. Quigly [sic]
Interview st. demonstration
Call Holdout
Deciphered: Martello is the New Orleans police officer who wrote up the incident between Oswald and Bringuier. Labadie is a Tampa FBI agent. Quigly is actually FBI agent John Quigley who interviewed Oswald after his New Orleans arrest. Albarelli was not able to determine the meaning of Holdout.
August 21, 1963
Talk Joannides Cuba –
he refer to K org. in
Mex – similar setup now.
Discuss with King – Geo
+Charles about Havana
Mx trips. (Holdout) [followed with a check mark]
Deciphered: This was the date of the Oswald appearance on the Bill Stuckey radio show. K org. is the CIA.
Joannides was using a cover name in 1963. What are the chances that Lafitte knew about his work for the CIA and his real name?
And the Lafitte datebook is so cryptic that other conspiracy authors can utilize its entries. The book Admitted Assassin by Ricky White uses the datebook to support his claim that his father Roscoe was a grassy knoll assassin!
There are two entries use the name White:
January 24, 1963:
848 - Harvey - Soon
White - Smith
(Canada)
December 9, 1963:
White + all/guns Rudel
Here is an excerpt from the book, Admitted Assassin: (pages 198 -199)
Are these "White" references in Lafitte's datebook about Roscoe White? If - as Admitted Assassin contends - Roscoe White's admission of guilt in the assassination of JFK is true, then it stands to reason that his name would appear along with other players found in a datebook that reveals the participants and actions of those involved in his ruthless and brutal operation.
Dick Russell would argue that White refers to George White.
My guess is that the entry refers to Betty White -- a favorite entertainer of Lafitte's.
Just kidding.
Another bothersome element of the Lafitte datebook is that additional entries keep popping up. The second White reference is not in the Coup in Dallas Book. Additional Lafitte entries have been posted on the Education Forum website. So, just how many entries are there in this datebook? How many entries have not been published at all? We have no idea.
I asked Anthony Amore, head of security for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for his view of the Lafitte datebook. Amore had planned, at one point, to write a book about Lafitte:
Though Hank Albarelli included portions of the date book in his final book before dying, I've no way of knowing whether the date book is authentic or, even if it is, whether Lafitte simply wrote the notations in long [hand] after the assassination. He was a peculiar man taken to fabulism.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Lafitte datebook will never be authenticated. Even if it was, it's still meaningless since it is so cryptic, to say the least.
We haven't heard the last of the Lafitte datebook. Dick Russell is writing a new book based upon the Rob Reiner podcast series. Expect the Lafitte datebook to figure prominently.
So, let's return to the topic of this post -- Charles Willoughby. There is absolutely no evidence that ties him to the JFK assassination. And it is incredibly irresponsible to claim that Jack Canon, who worked for Willoughby, was one of the grassy knoll assassins.
As I concluded in another post: "It's amazing that conspiracy theorists do not accept the evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald, but they are so quick to point the finger at other people."
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