> However, if the FBI omittied his name on a list, etc., then it's another
> shot at their credibility, and anyone else who says otherwise.

>> 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