Was there a Mississippi hotlink to the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Records appearance that a U. S. agent and a Mississippi clandestine detective may accept accepted about affairs to annihilate JFK.
-- Who dead JFK?
While cabal theorists accumulate the agitation alive, few acknowledgment Mississippi's links to the annihilation of a U. S. admiral 42 years ago this week, says the columnist of two noncombatant rights books that focus on the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
Banister was after affiliated to Lee Harvey Oswald and Mississippi's agent through captivation with Eastland's Senate Internal Security Subcommittee or SISS (sometimes alleged Where Rebels Roost, Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited The New Orleans Times-Picayune on March 23, 1956, appear that Robert Morrison, a above arch admonition for Sen. Joseph McCarthy's House UnAmerican Activities Committee or HUAC, and Banister catholic to Greenwood, Mississippi in the affection of the Delta, to advise alone with Senator Eastland for added than three hours Mr. Banister has complete communication with the committee's agents which was the capital article of our trip. When Sullivan reportedly committed suicide anon afterwards the Kennedy assassination, Sovereignty Commission board approved to access his library and files, but a lot of of his arcane files were either reportedly austere by his added or they had been lent out, and she 'could not remember' who had them, Sovereignty Commission files disclose. Lee Harvey Oswald was absolutely possibly an abettor of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and he was accomplishing the behest of [Sen. Thomas J. Dodd and Eastland and Morrison, columnist John McLaughlin swore. Instead, Eastland's annal were managed for years by a above accessory and addict who followed the affidavit from Washington, D.C. to Oxford He generally blocked money from advancing into the Delta to augment and apply the atomic of Mississippians. Yet he was absolutely accomplished at accession hundreds of bags dollars of federal agriculture subsidies for himself There has been actual little accounting about Eastland; his ancestors and accompany assume to be attention what advice is accustomed to the public. I was abreast that the plan was to absolution aboriginal all columnist releases, according to one Ole Miss historian who aswell told me that abounding important files were apparently missing -- that the files looked bankrupt out. just appearance the bounce letter accounting to the endure being who asked for this information. people at Ole Miss were absolutely angry Polsgrove said she was told they were stowed in boxes in a basement--uncataloged and inaccessible. A library staffer explained to her, in hushed tones, that Senator Eastland was not absolutely 'politically correct'. Even today, Ole Miss doesn't assume to acquaint the law school's character - the James O. Eastland School of Law. really would adulation to go through all of Eastland's records. ALL of them. Susan Klopfer became absorbed with the Mississippi affiliation to JFK's assassination if she came above advice bond a Delta figure to several others generally associated with the adverse Dallas event, including a clandestine detective from Vicksburg.
Seven years afore John F. Kennedy's murder, the magnolia state's U. S. Sen. James O. Eastland met for the aboriginal time with Guy Banister, a arguable CIA accessible and retired FBI abettor in allegation of the Chicago bureau, according to Klopfer.
"Banister was after affiliated to Lee Harvey Oswald and Mississippi's agent through captivation with Eastland's Senate Internal Security Subcommittee or SISS (sometimes alleged "SISSY")," writes the columnist of "Where Rebels Roost, Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited" and "The Emmett Till Book."
"The New Orleans Times-Picayune on March 23, 1956, appear that Robert Morrison, a above arch admonition for Sen. Joseph McCarthy's House UnAmerican Activities Committee or HUAC, and Banister catholic to Greenwood, Mississippi in the affection of the Delta, to advise alone with Senator Eastland for added than three hours," Klopfer said.
Describing the appointment as "completely satisfactory," Morrison told the New Orleans anchorman that "Mr. Banister has complete communication with the committee's agents which was the capital article of our trip."
Known as a belled political agitator who was after declared as the catalyst for James Garrison’s 1967-1970 Kennedy assassination probe, Banister beforehand became a abrupt focus of Mississippi's abstruse spy agency, the Sovereignty Commission, if it was appropriate Banister should be assassin to set up an "even tighter" calm spying arrangement throughout the state. Klopfer said she begin this address in the state's Sovereignty Commission records.
A additional Eastland operative, clandestine investigator John D. Sullivan of Vicksburg, fabricated this advancement to the agency just months afterwards the JFK assassination, aswell appear in appear Sovereignty Commission records, Klopfer said.
"Former FBI abettor Sullivan had formed for Banister (both central the FBI and privately) and as a clandestine self-employed investigator for the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission; the clandestine white Citizens Councils, of which he was an breath member; and for SISS, as had Banister and Lee Harvey Oswald.
"When Sullivan reportedly committed suicide anon afterwards the Kennedy assassination, Sovereignty Commission board approved to access his library and files, but a lot of of his arcane files were either reportedly austere by his added or they had been lent out, and she 'could not remember' who had them, Sovereignty Commission files disclose."
Some twenty-nine years later, in affidavit afore the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board during a Dallas audition on November 18, 1994, the backward Senator Eastland was anon active in the president’s assassination by one of the author/theorists arrive to testify, Klopfer said.
"Lee Harvey Oswald was absolutely possibly an abettor of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and he was accomplishing the behest of [Sen. Thomas J. Dodd and Eastland and Morrison, columnist John McLaughlin swore."
Klopfer said that affidavit that could abutment or even discredit such assertions could be present in the Eastland athenaeum at the University of Mississippi, "but no cold academic has been accustomed to seek these athenaeum back the day they accustomed on campus.
"Instead, Eastland's annal were managed for years by a above accessory and addict who followed the affidavit from Washington, D.C. to Oxford," she said.
Eastland, a affection agriculturalist from Doddsville, Mississippi in the affection of the Delta, was the consumate racist. "He generally blocked money from advancing into the Delta to augment and apply the atomic of Mississippians. Yet he was absolutely accomplished at accession hundreds of bags dollars of federal agriculture subsidies for himself," Klopfer said.
"There has been actual little accounting about Eastland; his ancestors and accompany assume to be attention what advice is accustomed to the public."
Eastland died in 1986 at the age of 82.
After an bootless Freedom of Information Act or FOIA appeal to the University of Mississippi's law academy by Klopfer, a historian was assuredly assassin to adapt the athenaeum based in the James O. Eastland School of Law.
But there was still a cat-and-mouse aeon appointed afore any of the files could be viewed, Klopfer said.
"I was abreast that the plan was to absolution aboriginal all columnist releases, according to one Ole Miss historian who aswell told me that abounding important files were apparently missing -- that the files looked bankrupt out."
Klopfer asserts the law academy dean, if presented with a abandon of advice act appeal or FOIA for acceptance to Eastland archives, asked her, while laughing, if he could "just appearance the bounce letter accounting to the endure being who asked for this information."
Later, Klopfer said, it came aback to her that “people at Ole Miss were absolutely angry” over the FOIA request.
Klopfer said she already batten with historian Carol Polsgrove from Indiana University who aswell capital to see the Eastland records.
"Dr. Polsgrove was absorbed in the white attrition to the noncombatant rights movement, that it has not accustomed the affectionate of absorption from historians that the movement itself has--understandably, back there is annihilation ballsy about the resistance.
"She already anticipation about autograph a adventures of Eastland, who she agreement the political linchpin of the resistance, and went so far as to alarm the University of Mississippi Law School, area his affidavit were kept.
"Polsgrove said she was told they were stowed in boxes in a basement--uncataloged and inaccessible. A library staffer explained to her, in hushed tones, that Senator Eastland was not absolutely 'politically correct'."
Klopfer addendum that "Even today, Ole Miss doesn't assume to acquaint the law school's character - the James O. Eastland School of Law."
But like the Indiana professor, Klopfer said that she, too, would "really would adulation to go through all of Eastland's records. ALL of them."
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