Claviger wrote:
And by the way, there was no mystery Army General
giving orders to the autopsy team either. That silly story has been
completely debunked.
I wrote: Because it was Curtis LeMay of the Air Force.
claviger wrote:
A list of people in the
autopsy room was made by the FBI. Curtis LeMay is not on that list.
Randy Owen wrote on Lancer:
Excerpts of the material never heard before, can be listened to here:
http://www.raabcollection.com/kennedy-air-force-one-tape/
What's fascinating, and I'm sure will generate lots of discussion, is
that references to Gen. Curtis LeMay were "cut out" of the versions
that are in the National Archives and/or the LBJ Library. But you can
now hear at least one reference to him that's never been heard before.
This Raab Collection website is excellent!
I responded to Claviger:
Interview with Paul O'Connor with William Law "In the Eye of History,"
2005. You believe who you want; I would not believe the FBI on anything in
this case. From Horne's AARB report Volume IV, page 1018.
QUOTE ON:
Law asked O'Connor specifically which high-ranking personages were present
at the autopsy.
O'Connor: I remember there was Admiral Burkley, the President's personal
physician. He came in and was very agitated --giving orders to everybody,
including higher ranking officers.
Law: What kind of orders?
O: Be prepared to do what I tell you to do, when I tell you to do it.
L: So he, in effect, assumed command?
O: He was entirely in command over admirals, over generals. I remember
one general who was sitting in the gallery. It was a teaching morgue and
we had a big gallery. I remember Curtis LeMay sitting there with a big
cigar in his hand.
L: How did you know it was Curtis LeMay?
O: I knew Curtis LeMay by seeing him before and by the big cigar he smoked
all the time (footnote)*.
L: What was his manner when you saw him?
O: Nonchalant. Kind of , "well, let's get this show on the road."
*Horne's footnote: "I refer the reader to my writeup in Chapter Five. in
which I laid out documentary evidence -- proof -- showing the U.S. Air
Force Chief Curtis LeMay had refused a directive from the Secretary of the
Air Force to go to Andrews AFB to meet Air Force One when it arrived from
Dallas, and had instead incongruously landed at Washington, D.C.'s
National Airport in an Air Force aircraft. LeMay's aircraft landed in
plenty of time to allow him to get to Bethesda before the President's
arrival there at 6:35 PM.
Finally, an additional post on Lancer stated:
One last, brief post on this before the conference.
In the new section of tape, General LeMay's aide
describes LeMay as being airborne in a C-140
specifically a SAM C-140
SAM stands for Special Air Mission and is the
designated air group which supports travel
by the President and the other highest ranking
US govt. officials. It appears that LeMay was
on a SAM aircraft which would explain why
his aide is talking to SAM control - the unit
in communications with all SAM aircraft including
AF1 and the Cabinet aircraft and that is why
he gets on this particular tape.
-- Larry
Burgundy