Jack Ruby: Self – Former Associate of Richard Nixon
Four part documentary about JFK’s murder, and who had reasons and means to do it, and to escape. – Part 1: History is written by the winners. Part 2: Through the Looking Glass. Part 3: Who killed JFK?. Part 4: Deep History.
Did Jack Ruby, the man who killed President Kennedy’s alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, work for Richard Nixon a decade earlier? It is said Ruby was in the mob, so does that mean that Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford had mob connections?
There are strong rumors bordering on potential facts that Jack Ruby worked for both Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson as a fake communist, to infiltrate communist organizations just like Lee Harvey Oswald tried to do. After JFK was killed, RFK had his investigators check Ruby’s phones records and it turned out Ruby usually phoned Mafia friends in Chicago a dozen times or less a month. But in the 2–3 months leading up to Nov. 22, 1963 he was talking to them 50–100 times a month.
The big backer who brought Richard Nixon into politics was Prescott Bush, father of George H. W. Bush. JFK’s dad Joe Sr. had extensive Mafia connections. Joe was a booze smuggler and booze racketeer, regularly cheating Mafia associates so badly they put out a murder contract on him from the East Coast. Joe Sr. had to go on his knees to Sam Giancana in Chicago to beg for him to arrange to get the contract cancelled. So the Kennedy patriarch literally owed his life to Sam Giancana. Then he asked Giancana’s help to get his son elected president for which Giancana put out a lot of money and manpower. The Mafia expected favors in return.
JFK victimized Giancana by seducing Judith Campbell Exner away after Giancana tried to marry her. JFK got her pregnant, then went to Giancana as an errand boy to arrange for an abortion in Chicago. JFK also used Exner as a courier to relay handwritten messages between himself and Giancana about assassinating Castro, favoring shooting Castro with a high-power rifle from a tall building.
After all his efforts, Giancana was further kicked in the teeth by RFK when his Mafia associates were harassed and prosecuted instead of rewarded. So his attitude became, “Thanks guys. I really appreciate getting stabbed in the back for helping you out and getting double-crossed.” That’s how it is easy to see why once the Teamsters, CIA, Lyndon Johnson, Texas oil, and other politicians became interested in killing JFK, Giancana (and Marcello, who also got the short end of the stick from RFK) didn’t have to be asked twice to bring what they had to the pot-luck party and pending Big Magic Trick of smoke and mirrors for the assassination and cover up.
When Gerald Ford became president due to Nixon resigning after Watergate, Ford brought in an old aide named Jerry terHorst to be his press secretary. TerHorst resigned after being press secretary for only a month, objecting to Ford’s pardon of Nixon. We can speculate there were other unsavory things terHorst learned about White House politics once he arrived at the American Mount Olympus. There theoretically could have been more to which he objected than just the pardon but was too polite to pin on Ford as a long-time friend.
LBJ had his own home-grown Texas mafia. You can read up on the Duke of Duval, Mac Wallace, Henry Marshall, Bobby Baker, Billie Sol Estes, Madeleine Brown, Bert Peck, John Liggett, a hundred others, and learn all about it including LBJ’s history of ordering murders.
Per Roger Stone Nixon found Rubenstein from the Yidish Mafia of Chicago wanting Vegas and Cuba potential, prormised that, as part of the CIA plans to overthrow Cuba. In his Dallas club according to Ted Gunderson was Candy Barr spelled like that, imho likely tied to Donald Barr who held the experimental monkey in the White House, Barrack Obama Jr, shortly after the party at the Lawford house.
Lucillly Ball was not in the Security Index she and Desi Arnez were anti Castro but as CIA FBI assets Lucille may have gone to some communist meetings to see what they were.
The FBI Indexes, or Index List, was a system used to track American citizens and other people by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) before the adoption of computerized databases. The Index List was originally made of paper index cards, first compiled by J. Edgar Hoover at the Bureau of Investigations before he was appointed director of the FBI.[1] The Index List was used to track U.S. citizens and others believed by the FBI to be dangerous to national security, and was subdivided into various divisions which generally were rated based on different classes of danger the subject was thought to represent.
The GID took files from the Bureau of Investigations (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation) and ‘systematized’ them via index cards; according to Walker and contrary to evidence, the cards covered 200,000 people.[3] But by 1939, Hoover had more than 10 million people ‘Indexed’ in the FBI’s domestic file system.[1]
Although the GID was terminated in 1924 after objections from people such as William J. Donovan who questioned its constitutionality,[4] Hoover and the FBI continued to expand the Index system for use by the agency, by Hoover, and by Hoover’s political associates well into the 1970s. Presently, the Index files covering untold numbers of Americans are still accessible by the FBI and its 29 field offices.
Titles to numerous Index catalogs include:[1] The Reserve Index, for influential people to be “arrested and held” in case of a national emergency; The Custodial Index, which included 110,000 Japanese Americans that were held in internment prison camps during World War II; The Sexual Deviant Index; The Agitator Index; The Communist Index; and The Administrative Index, which compiled several other earlier indexes.
Even though a complete list of Index titles is currently unavailable, Hoover and the FBI used their Index system to catalog Native American and African American liberation activists during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as Vietnam War protesters and some other college students.
The Custodial Detention Index (CDI), or Custodial Detention List was formed in 1939–1941, as part of a program named variously the “Custodial Detention Program” or “Alien Enemy Control”.
J. Edgar Hoover described it as having come from his resurrected General Intelligence Division in Washington. According to Hoover, it created large numbers of files on “individuals, groups, and organizations engaged in subversive activities”, including espionage, and enabled the Bureau to immediately identify potential threats.[1] Congressman Vito Marcantonio called it “terror by index cards”. Senator George W. Norris complained as well.[1]
The Custodial Detention Index was a list of suspects and potential subversives, classified as “A”, “B” and “C”; the ones classified as “A” were destined to be arrested immediately and interned at the beginning of war. Category A were officials of Axis-related organizations, category B were members deemed “less dangerous” and category C were sympathizers. The actual assignment of the categories was, however, based on the perceived individual commitment to the person’s native country, rather than the actual potential to cause harm; officers of cultural organizations could be classified as “A”.
The program involved creation of individual dossiers from information obtained secretly, including unsubstantiated data and in some cases, even hearsay and unsolicited telephone tips, and information acquired without judicial warrants by mail covers and interception of mail, wiretaps and covert searches.
While the program targeted primarily Japanese, Italian, and German “enemy aliens“, it also included some native-born American citizens.
The program was operated without Congress-approved legal authority, without judicial oversight and in excess of the legal authority of the FBI. A person against which an accusation was made was investigated and eventually placed on the index; it was not removed until the person died.[5]
According to the press releases at the beginning of the war, one of the purposes of the program was to demonstrate the diligence and vigilance of the government by following, arresting and isolating a previously identified group of people with allegedly documented sympathies for Axis powers and potential for espionage or fifth column activities.
The list was later used for Japanese American internment after Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066.[citation needed] Although some say Hoover actually opposed those measures,[6] Hoover and the FBI created the list from which 110,000 people were interned, 70,000 of which were American-born.
Attorney GeneralFrancis Biddle, upon learning of the Index, termed it “dangerous, illegal” and ordered its end. However, J. Edgar Hoover simply renamed it the Security Index,[7] and told his people not to mention it.
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The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly dubbed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having either fascist or communist ties. It became a standing (permanent) committee in 1945, and from 1969 onwards it was known as the House Committee on Internal Security. When the House abolished the committee in 1975,[1] its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.
Several factors shaped aviation industry growth during the early 20th century. On the heels of the Wright Brothers’ first successful flight in 1903, the U.S. government purchased its first airplane in 1908. Demand for pilots and airplanes would increase at the onset of World War I, during which over 10,000 new pilots were trained and 17,000 airplanes were built.
In 1925, the passage of the Kelly Air Mail Act encouraged private aviation company growth by allowing private contractors to competitively bid on air mail routes, rather than relying on the Army Air Corps (a predecessor to the United States Air Force) for mail delivery. Aviation was further popularized by films such as Wings (1927) and Howard Hughes’ Hell’s Angels (1930) that featured stunt pilots, and by Charles Lindbergh’s highly publicized transcontinental flight from New York to Paris. In 1926, Congress passed the Air Commerce Act, which helped legitimize the industry. The Act established federal regulations for safety standards such as pilot qualifications, accident investigations, and airway charting that were implemented by the newly-formed Department of Commerce Aeronautics Branch.
In 1926, Congress passed the Air Commerce Act, which helped legitimize the industry.
Los Angeles, from 1910 through the 1930s, possessed a number of very effective civic leaders who contributed to the growth of the region as an aircraft manufacturing center. Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, used his influence and the reach of his newspaper to entice aviation companies to the area. Harry Culver, founder of Culver City, was instrumental in establishing the Los Angeles Municipal Airport in the late 1920s as an incentive for aircraft manufacturers and carriers. A collective, concerted effort on the part of powerful figures like Culver and Chandler successfully targeted the new aviation industry and marketed the benefits of the Los Angeles area: the moderate climate, lower construction costs, and an abundance of skilled and semi-skilled labor.
Consequently, Los Angeles quickly became home to several of the world’s largest aviation firms. In 1916, the Lockheed Brothers migrated from Northern to Southern California and set up a small aircraft production firm. Within a few years, they became major suppliers to the British Royal Air Force, and by the end of World War II, they had over 60,000 employees. In 1920, Harry Chandler persuaded Donald Douglas to open a company in the region. His firm Douglas Aircraft first rented facilities in an abandoned movie studio in Santa Monica and went on to become one of the chief manufacturers of aircraft in the United States. Jack Northrop opened his first airplane company in Los Angeles in the 1920s, but soon after, merged it with other firms. He started another company in 1939, which benefitted enormously from the impending Second World War, and became yet another aircraft giant. Howard Hughes’ Hughes Aircraft Company, founded in 1932, started in a rented hangar in Burbank, but ultimately grew to encompass 1,300 acres at the edge of Culver City and became one of the largest industrial employers in the state.
The move of North American Aviation, later Rockwell International, to Inglewood in 1935 solidified the region as a center of aircraft production. The success of these firms was due in part to a wealth of technical talent graduating from the California Institute of Technology, which had established a School of Aeronautics and an associated research lab in the early 1920s. Theodore Von Karman, head of Caltech at the time, emphasized cooperation with the aircraft industry.
The success of these firms was due in part to a wealth of technical talent graduating from the California Institute of Technology, which had established a School of Aeronautics and an associated research lab in the early 1920s.
Northrop Gamma Racer at Newark Airport, January 13, 1936 – Source: Welcome Home, Howard Digital Collection, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections.
The success of these companies during the war made the aircraft industry crucial to the Southern California economy, providing employment for tens of thousands, as well as substantial tax revenues.
During World War II, the fledgling aircraft industry became a key player in the Allied strategy to defeat the Axis powers. Los Angeles-based companies, including Hughes Aircraft, expanded rapidly to meet wartime manufacturing demands. Smaller companies that may have produced, at most, a few hundred planes, rapidly transitioned into mass production, expanding to be some of the largest companies in the nation. The success of these companies during the war made the aircraft industry crucial to the Southern California economy, providing employment for tens of thousands, as well as substantial tax revenues.
Hughes H-1 Racer, 1945 – Source: Welcome Home, Howard Digital Collection, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections.
Both during and after World War II, the aeronautic technologies and expertise of the aircraft industry created the ideal setting for experimental research in new and highly sophisticated defense weaponry, including missile systems. Southern California was at the forefront of the budding aerospace industry, and the research and development fields. Caltech Graduates Dr. Simon Ramo and Dr. Dean Wooldridge were pioneers in this new industry. Dr. Ramo, manager of General Electric Company’s research laboratory, and Dr. Woodridge, Vice President and Research Physician at Bell Telephone Laboratories, joined Hughes Aircraft in 1945. Together they formed Hughes Electronics, and advanced Hughes Aircraft from a small, inventive aviation manufacturer to a successful aerospace electronics firm. The electronics division worked exclusively on defense programs such as airborne radar, computers, and guided missiles. For a time, this pioneering Hughes Electronics technology was used in every U.S. fighter aircraft to intercept long-range bombers.
By the end of World War II, 60 to 70 percent of the American aerospace industry was located in Southern California;
By the end of World War II, 60 to 70 percent of the American aerospace industry was located in Southern California ; the industry continued to expand and became more crucial in response to events like the Korean War and the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik. Other major aviation companies, including Lockheed, Northrop, Douglas, and Rockwell, which had been primarily production-oriented until the end of the Second World War, eventually followed the lead of Hughes Aircraft and diversified their output to include aerospace research and production, particularly of missiles. Aerospace firms worked closely with local universities to develop aerospace degree and research grant programs, so employees were able to earn specialized degrees in their fields.
The aerospace industry continued to grow and diversify in the postwar period. At the height of the Cold War, 15 of the 25 largest aerospace companies in the U.S. were headquarted in Southern California. Aerospace was such an important part of the regional economy that Los Angeles County was home to one out of every ten aerospace jobs in the country by 1987. Thus, in 1989, when the Cold War ended and rapid downsizing began, the Los Angeles area was hit especially hard. By 1995, the number of Department of Defense spending fell below $50 billion for the first time since 1982. As of 2012, only a few of the largest of the original Los Angeles area firms remained. Some closed completely, while others either relocated, or were absorbed by mergers and consolidations in the 1990s. By 2016, employment in the aerospace industry was one-third of what is was in 1990. And yet, what remains of the aerospace industry in the region from its 20th century heyday continues to be a vital part of the local economy. With the move toward private space travel in the 21st century, new companies, like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, have injected new energy into the aerospace scene, while industry veterans, like Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, continue to provide high-paying jobs and groundbreaking technologies.
And yet, what remains of the aerospace industry in the region from its 20th century heyday continues to be a vital part of the local economy.
BY JOEL GROVER AND MATTHEW GLASSER
Tucked away in the hills above the San Fernando and Simi valleys was a 2,800-acre laboratory with a mission that was a mystery to the thousands of people who lived in its shadow. In a place called Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), there was a secret collaboration between the U.S. government and private companies to test the limits of nuclear power.
For decades, scientists and staff at SSFL experimented with new types of nuclear reactors, advanced rocket systems and futuristic weapons. While this research helped launch Americans into space and provided a better understanding of nuclear power, years of mishandling dangerous radioactive materials and chemicals has also left a toxic legacy for generations of people living near the site. The scientists are now gone, but acres and acres of radioactive and chemical contamination remains right above the neighborhoods of thousands.
The Santa Susana Field Lab occupies more than 2,800 acres in the rocky terrain of the Simi Hills at the intersection of Simi Valley and the West San Fernando Valley. It sits atop the Simi Hills overlooking Simi Valley to the north, Chatsworth, West Hills and Canoga Park to the east, Woodland Hills and Thousand Oaks to the south, and Moorpark to the west.
O BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT WENT ON AT THE SITE, IT’S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW IT OPERATED.
What is the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL)?
With the detonation of the world’s first nuclear weapon by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, the world ushered in the “Atomic Age.” Two years later, an American aerospace company called North American Aviation selected a rural location in the hills above Simi Valley to build a secret research facility.
At first, the purpose of the site was to test rocket engines. But in 1953, under the supervision of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the predecessor of the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Field Lab added Area IV. This 209-acre section of the Field Lab was dedicated to nuclear research including the development and testing of experimental nuclear reactors. Over the course of four decades, Area IV would be home to 10 reactors, a plutonium fuel fabrication facility, a uranium fuel facility and a “hot lab” for remotely cutting up dangerous radioactive material. The rest of the site, more than 2,000 acres was used for the testing and development of rocket engines for the U.S. space program and for advanced weapons research. During its operational history, more than 30,000 rocket engine tests were conducted at SSFL.
With universities, ports and Hollywood, in the days of J. Edgar Hoover and MacCarthyism (oddly split between Republican Protestants and Roman Catholic Democrats) the Post WWII world inlcuded spies, spy movies, spy hunts, assets used by spies gain access or influence.
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