 Hi everyone, this is Chichou. Welcome to another live stream. Today is January 15th 2023 and we're going to continue our reading of the coup d'etat, the assassination of JFK trading cards put out by Eclipse Comics in 1989. We've done two other live streams where we read cards 1 to 12 in one live stream, the first live stream, and we read cards 13 to 24 in the second live stream, which we did last week actually. So it's actually taken about a year for us to go through this thing and we're going to read through the rest of the cards, which cards number 25 to number 36 in this set as well. Finish it off. Now initially I had only bought this set. This is the original set that came out in 1990, I believe actually. It was 1990, 1991, 1990, where's the copy right on this? It came out in 1990. So it came out in 1990, this set. And then Oliver Stone put out his movie, JFK, and there was some additional information that was released, revealed, and Eclipse Comics, the people that put this card together, they came out and they released a revised edition based on some of the information that Oliver Stone shared in the JFK movie that he put out and the documents that they released at the time as well. So there's a revised edition that came out in, and the revised edition came out in, well this says 1990, but it's not. It's 1991, 1992, the revised edition. So 1990, first edition, Oliver Stone's JFK comes out in 1991. They go back and release a revised edition in 1992. Now what we did previously, I'm going to put the boxes here. What we did previously, the first 12 cards, we just had this set, so we read them. The next 12, we overlapped it with the revised edition to see what we knew. So we read all the way to card number 20, card number 24. And a couple of the cards, we ended up reading the revised edition because there's additional information out there. So I'm going to put these guys here. We're going to put the box here, sort of out of view of the camera. And I'm going to pull out all the way up to card number 24, and this as well. I'm going to put it in the revised box because I don't want to mix these guys up. Let's put this here. Let's put this here. Let's lay out these cards. Here's this guy. Let's lay out these cards. So there's 12 cards here I'm going to pull out. I'm going to read. And there's a layer of stuff out nicely. Okay gang. 1990, 1992. In the middle is Oliver Stone's JFK movie that came out in 1991. Revised edition, original edition. Let's bring them out. Let's bring them out. Card number 25, oil money that's focused. Oil money and beautiful artwork. Beautiful artwork. Absolutely phenomenal artwork. Oil money. Absolutely beautiful. Let's look at the text. And the artwork was, the artwork was done by legend, comic book legend, Bill Kowalski. I don't know how to pronounce that. My apologies to Bill. I'm horrendous with names and these names throw me off. So let's take a look at this. See if we can get this focused. Come on. Okay, let's see. There we go. So in 1963, there's a paragraph breaks. They ended up adding them in the revised edition. So upcoming trip, let's see if we can find, there's upcoming trip here. And then hours after this assassination, so it looks like the same paragraph begins. It goes to 1963, November 21st, 1963. So it doesn't look like anything's changed there. That's the same. Another son, another son. And then we have AYF board. The YF board and ends with that. So it looks like the revised edition is the same as the original edition. So we're going to read the original edition. Okay. So car number 25, oil money. And the title is the name is still the same as well. Okay. So car 25, Haroldson Latayet Hunt. In 1963, Dallas was a mecca for the ultra right and HL Hunt was their godfather. An oil billionaire, Hunt supported right wing causes, such as the John Birch Society, William F. Buckley's Young Americans for Freedom, YAF, Y-A-F, the political campaign of Senator Joseph McCarthy, and the tax exempt news organization, FACS Forum and Lifeline. On November 4th, 1963, Hunt's security chief and ex FBI agent wrote Hunt a memo on, quote, reports of possible violence and, quote, during Kennedy's upcoming trip. Hours after the assassination, the FBI told Hunt to go into hiding and for several weeks provided him with security. Years later, Hunt's personal aid alleged Hunt knew of the plot, having unwittingly influenced his right wing followers to conspire to kill Kennedy. He added that Hunt had sent him to check on Oswald's security in police custody. Though Hunt and Jack Ruby claimed not to know each other, a reliable witness alleged he and Ruby had won a considerable amount of money from Hunt in veterate gambler waging on football games. Among Ruby's effects was the phone number of H.L. Sun, Lamar Hunt, whose offices Ruby visited on November 21st, 1963. Another son, Nelson Bunker Hunt, sat on the board of the anti-communist international committee for the defense of Christian culture, led by a former Nazi, who, a Brewer agent, Nazi, a Brewer agent, and was a major backer of YAF. Bunker helped buy an ad placed by YAF's future executive secretary in the Dallas Morning News, the day of Kennedy's visit, portraying the president as a Kremlin dupe. Texas Senator John Tower, a YAF board member, personally interceded in 1962 with the immigration of naturalization and naturalization service in the case of Maria Oswald. Wow, and Marina Oswald was Oswald's wife. It was Oswald's wife. Right, we read in previous cards. Cool. I didn't know about this guy. I wonder if his, well for sure his sons are pretty much would still be in the game right now, or what this family is doing. Cool, cool. Let's put these in their respective boxes. Card number 26. The policeman's pimp. Oh, what's this about? I wonder who the two ladies are. Is that what it implies? Ladies of the night? Prositus? Maybe. Beautiful artwork. Look at that. Just magnificent. The color scheme on it. The policeman's pimp. Let's take a look at the writing. Jack Ruby. This is Jack Ruby. Look at this. This is Jack Ruby. Jack Ruby. Let's look at the text. Let's look at the text. Let's make sure the text is, if it's different, we'll read them. So from his days, yeah, same. Ruby sellers, yeah. His pals, yeah. On June 7th, yeah. That's the same. Richard Nixon. What do we got? Richard Nixon, yeah. And it ends with conspiracy. Okay, cool. So the revised edition looks like it's the same as the original. So let's read card number 26. Policeman's pimp. Jack Ruby. From his days as Sparky Rubinstein, Aaron Boyd for Al Capone, to his ownership of a string of Dallas night clubs, where policemen got professional treatment. Ruby was, quote, one of our boys, end quote, according to the mobster Johnny Rossini, with whom Ruby met twice during the month prior to the assassination. Other gangster friends of Ruby's included Joe Sibalo, Dallas mafia chief, Barney Baker, teamster president Jimmy Hoffa's 375 pound bodyguard, and Dave Yaras, hitman for Chicago mob boss, Sam John Chana, John Sanna, known as the guy who could, quote, fix it, end quote, with the police. Ruby counted at least $100, Dallas cops among his pals. Ruby's self-professed idol was Louis J. McWilly, a professional gambler who worked at the mob-owned Tripeca Hotel in Havana. In 1959, Ruby visited McWilly, and the two met with crime boss Santonos Traficana, Cante Jr. Then in a Cuban prison, shortly after Ruby's return to Dallas, Traficante was released. The House Select Committee on Assassinations suspected Ruby, acting as a gangland courier, had bought Traficante's freedom during the six-month period that included his Havana trip. The FBI interviewed Ruby 8 times as a, quote, potential criminal informant, end quote. For Ruby, this was not a first. In 1947, while still in Chicago, he, quote, performed information functions, end quote, for the staff of then-Congressman Richard Nixon. We've got a Nixon connection. On June 7th, 1964, Ruby told the Warren Commission his life was in danger, in quotes. Gentlemen, he said, if we want to hear further testimony, you will have to get me to Washington soon. I want to tell the truth, and I can't tell it here, end quote. Before he died, he smuggled two letters out of prison, which hinted, darkly, that Lyndon Johnson was behind the conspiracy. Wow, wow, Nixon as well, eh? Art 26. Let's take a look at card number 27. Card number 27. The French connection. The French connection. Let's see if we can get this thing focused. Who is this guy? Mesmerizing, eh? Mesmerizing artwork. Jean Soutri. Jean Jean Soutri. Jean Soutri. Let's check this out. What do we got? After Kennedy's death, same text. Canada, Mexico or to Canada, okay. Wenjak Ruby, cool. And then William Harvey, we got at the bottom. Is Jean, yeah? Oh, a little bit of text difference there. Something, Jean. Oh, it changes a little bit. We're going to read the revised version, just because some wording might be more important. So this is the original version released in 1990. This is the revised version released after Oliver Stone's movie from 1991. This was released in 1992. So let's read card number 27. Jean Soutri. After Kennedy's death, French intelligence asked the FBI to help locate Jean Soutri, a French secret army organization, OAS, terrorists previously jailed for attempting to kill French President Charles de Gaulle. According to a CIA document dated April 1st, 1964, which surfaced in 1977, the French claim Soutri was in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963, and was expelled by US authorities 18 hours later. Concerned with security to the Gaulle's upcoming Mexican visit, they wanted to know whether he had been sent to Mexico or to Canada. When Jack Ruby was jailed for killing Lee Oswald, his lawyer asked him if he knew anyone who could damage his defense. Ruby mentioned Thomas L. Davis III, with whom he had run guns and jeeps to Cuba. In 1963, Davis, while on probation for bank robbery, obtained the US passport. By December, he was in Tangier's jail, charged with running guns to the OAS. According to the FBI, Macaron Moroccan authorities intercepted a letter from Davis that referred to Lee Oswald and the assassination. Davis was apparently released from jail through the efforts of a mysterious CIA agent, codenamed QJ Wynne. Described as a foreign national with mafia connections who was recruited for the ZR rifle team, a CIA assassination unit run by X FBI agent and Cuban ex-handler William Harvey. Something John Soutri was QJ Wynne in part because OAS terrorists were involved in heroin trafficking and in 1963, the main American distributor of French heroin was the lucky Luciano Syndicate, run by Meyer Lenski and Tampa mafia boss Santos Junior, formerly of Havana, who was William Harvey's partner in the CIA mafia plot to murder Fidel Castro. Wow, so many connections, crazy, crazy, the French connection always a cigarette in their hands. Card number 28, the mob, the mob. Let's check out the mob. Rossellini, Trefacanti, Giancana. Giancana, those faces with sunglasses. CIA mafia plots. Let's check it out. Let's see if the text is the same. So in the last month, yeah, mob. Okay, so there's a paragraph break. We're looking for, what are we looking for? The Kennedy brothers, mob members. I don't see that. Looks like these end differently. Yeah, looks like this was reworded. The revised edition looks to be majorly reworded relative to the original edition. Right? So we're going to read the revised edition again. Let's read the revised edition. Let's read the revised edition. The mob. There's going to be a lot of names in this that I'm not going to be able to pronounce. Card number 28, the CIA mafia plots. In the last month of the Eisenhower administration, secret meetings mediated by X FBI agent and Howard Hughes, a Robert Mahu, were held between CIA agents and mafia figures for the purpose of plotting to kill Fidel Castro. In 1960, the Cuban leader had nationalized U.S. corporate interests, closed casinos, shut down drug labs, and deported mob members. The Kennedy brothers did not know about the CIA mafia anti-Castro plots until 1962, when Robert Kennedy found the CIA interfering in Justice Department prosecution of the first mobster contacted by Mahu. Chicago boss Sam Giancana participation in CIA mafia plots wasn't Giancana's only protection against prosecution. His girlfriend, Judith Campbell, and President Kennedy had been lovers for two years. In 1963, the Justice Department ordered the FBI to curtail surveillance of Giancana. Judith Campbell, wow, who's that? The gangster with the most to gain from the elimination of Castro was Santos Traficante Jr., former mafia boss of Havana, who with his partner casino developer mob financial wizard, Meyer Lensky, had inherited the lucky Luciano's international heroin operation. Traficante financed terrorist raids against Cuba run by CIA agent Frank Sturgis. Sturgis' Miami based international anti-communist brigade. In 1962, Traficante told Cuban exile and FBI informant Jose Alman, quote, Kennedy is in trouble and he will get what is coming to him. Kennedy is not going to make it to the election. He's going to be hit, end quote. West Coast mobster Johnny Rossellini, another CIA mafia plotter, later alleged Castro was warned of plans to kill him by a double agent, possibly Traficante, and that Castro, assuming the plots were official US policy, killed Kennedy in retaliation. That part we know is not true. And who was claiming this? West Coast mobster, another CIA mafia, later alleged, yeah, West Coast mobster alleged. Crazy, crazy. The mob, the mob, the mob, which is really CIA mafia, right? CIA mafia. Card number 29. Oh, this is Robert Kennedy. This was sad. Future targets, or future target, the brains, the brains. I'm pretty sure this is who it is. Yeah, Robert Kennedy. Many people say Robert Kennedy was the brains behind John Kennedy, right? Man, I would pay an arm in a leg to have this portrait the original. Oh, my God, what beauty. Look at this, look at this. Absolutely amazing depth of this painting. Got a feeling this might have been revised a lot. Let's check it out. And when we got security risk, security risk, although Robert Kennedy will got that thing going there. Look out, look out, card, look out, card, same. While Robert, yeah. And then Robert left this post four years later. Let's check it out. Robert left this post four years later. There's a paragraph break right there. It looks like it's about the same. It is the same. So we're going to read the original. Card number 29. When Robert Kennedy became Attorney General 1961, he found FBI Chief J Edgar Hoover, uncooperative with his anti-crime campaign. So he formed his own intelligence unit, initiating massive illegal wiretap operations against James Hoffa, Carlos Mancillo, and other mobsters and political enemies, such as the State Department Security Evaluator Auto Ateca, who had rejected several Kennedy appointments as security risks. Although Robert Kennedy had once worked for Senator John McCarthy on Ateca, assisted the McCarthy-inspired Senate Subcommittee of Internal Security. In mid-1963, Ateca was suddenly moved to a less sensitive post, and his safe was drilled open. Inside was found a study on American defectors to the USSR, including Lee Halvey Oswald, on whom Ateca had failed to issue a State Department Lookout card. While Robert may have suspected conspiracy in his brother's death, he never publicly challenged the FBI's findings. Meanwhile, Hoover removed his private phone link to the Attorney General and did not speak to him for the next six months, after which Robert left his post. Four years later, on the verge of capturing the Democratic nomination for the 1968 presidential race, Robert was killed by another alleged lone nut, Sirhan Sirhan. He may have taken to his grave the secret of his brother's missing brain, which was removed along with photos of 119 slides of tissue section from the autopsy materials before 1967, probably on orders from Robert himself, according to the H.S.C.A. Did he take this evidence into safekeeping because he intended, once he became president, to reveal a conspiracy cover-up? Oh, good question, good question, good question, good question. Card number 30. What a card, what a card goddess. What a card, what a course, of course. Let's take a look. John Kennedy affair. We got John and Marilyn right there. Paragraph ends, interested parties, and then John and Marilyn. Oh, it looks like this paragraph ends differently. Look at that. And the last paragraph seems to be the same, but the middle paragraph ends differently. So we're going to read the revised version again. We're going to read the revised version. This is an important card. Card number 30. Marilyn Monroe. John Kennedy's affair with CIA agent. Court Meyers wife. Mary led him to experiment with marijuana and LSD, but the most famous of the 32 presidential paramours tallied by J. Edgar Hoover was actress Marilyn Monroe, who was also the lover of Robert Kennedy. Her August 5th, 1962 death ruled suicide was linked to these dangerous liaisons, which had been observed by several interested parties. That paragraph is insane. Let's read that again. Card number 30. Marilyn Monroe. John Kennedy's affair with CIA agent. Court Meyers wife. Mary led him to experiment with marijuana and LSD, but the most famous of the 32 presidential paramours tallied by J. Edgar Hoover was actress Marilyn Monroe, who was also the lover of Robert Kennedy. Her August 5th, 1962 death ruled suicide was linked to these dangerous liaisons, which had been observed by several interested parties. John and Marilyn often met in the home of the presidential president's brother-in-law, Peter Loughard, whose house had been wired during the 1960 campaign by GOP consultants. Monroe's home was bought for wireman Bernard Spindle, whose usual employer was Jamie Hoffa. The Monroe tapes haven't been made public, but according to many accounts, they contain intimacies with the Kennedys, pro-Castro arguments, and support for ousting J. Edgar Hoover. Most significantly, they recorded a visit from Robert on the day of Monroe's death, during which the pair argued immediately. She felt she had been used and dumped by both Kennedys. Knowledge of this last visit would have been a powerful blackmail tool against Robert. One person who acquired leverage as a result of the tragedy was Hoover, who immediately confiscated Monroe's phone records on Robert's orders. Hoover was hardly a disinterested party. He considered Monroe a security risk and had watched her for years because of her friendship with a communist. Her volumnious FBI files are mostly classified, but it is said they record sex orgies attended by John Robert, L.A. police chief William Parker, and various women, and state she was pregnant by Robert and had had an abortion before she died. An elder god has a definition for us. Palammers, a lover, especially the illicit partner of a married person. Maryland Monroe, would you like to be a fly on the wall? Card number 31. Card number 31. Among the missing. What is this about? Among the missing. Giant stadium. Number 82. Not sure what that signifies. And then there's 70 in the background. Among the missing. James Hoffa. James Hoffa. Let's check this out. Let's check this out. Let's see what the text is like. So Robert Kennedy, that's legit, starts off the same. We got after the assassination. We got after the assassination. Has got to go. Yeah, same. Under Hoffa. Yeah, partner, same. What do we got? Locke became Lyndon. Locke became Lyndon Johnson. Yeah, ends with the same. Yeah, the text looks to be the same. Okay, so we're going to read the original version. James Hoffa. Wow, wow, wow. Card number 31. Robert Kennedy had pursued team stir president Jimmy Hoffa since the 1950s when he served as chief counsel for the Senate McClellan Committee, which exposed the role of organized crime and labor unions. On becoming attorney general in 1961, Robert turned up the heat. And over the next few years, his quote, get Hoffa squad, end quote, brought multiple indictments in indictments, indictments against team stir officials, indictments, it should be. Against team stir officials. By 1962, the pressure was intense. And a team stir inform informant quoted Hoffa as saying quote, somebody needs to bump that son of a bitch off. Bobby Kennedy has got to go end quote. After the assassination, Hoffa told the reporter quote, Bobby Kennedy is just another lawyer now, end quote. But despite his bravado, he was convicted of jury tampering in 1964, and sent to prison, where he remained until 1971, when President Nixon pardoned him. Wow. Under Hoffa, the team stir Central States Pension Fund, SCC SPF was managed by Chicago gangster Alan Dormann, who made low interest loans involving kickbacks to Las Vegas casino developers. Some CSPF loans were political. In 1963, 25 million was lent to the firm of Web and Nap financiers behind the Great Southwest Corporation, a shady Texas land deal backed by the Merchantson family and controlled by their lawyer, Bedford Wayne. With this loan, Web and Nap bought 625,000 shares of overvalued real estate stock from a company run by Texas Democratic Party Chairman Eugene Locke, in whose official offices the fateful Dallas motorcade route was planned. Oh my God. Locke became Lyndon Johnson's ambassador to Vietnam in 1967-68. Web and Nap went bankrupt in 1965. Hoffa vanished in 1975, and rumors persist that the mob killed him and buried his bodies in New Jersey's Meadowsland stadium. Wow. That's why. That's why. That's why we got the giant stadium. That's why we got the giant stadium. Among the missing, touchdown is Hoffa buried right there. Is that what it is? Do I have my stadium at the right place in New Jersey? Is that where they play? New Jersey's Meadowsland stadium? Is that it? Wow. Card number 32. Card number 32. Mafia Kingfish. Who is this? Mafia Kingfish. Trippy portrait. Trippy portrait. Carlos Marcello. Carlos Marcello. Oh yeah. Let's check out the text. Let's see if the same. Let's check out the text. New Orleans mafia. Yeah. You got $1,600 a month. Yeah. In 1961. Okay. What have we got? Lee Oswald. Lee Oswald. That's fun. Lee Oswald and then kill the president. Kill the president. Where are we? Kill the president? This one says but Oswald would have been poor. So that looks to be the same. Marcello, 1964. Okay. We're going to read the original because it's the same. It's just though one word's changed but instead of Lee Oswald would have been poor. You know what? Let's read the revised version of this one. Okay. Let's read the revised version. Mafia Kingfish. Card number 32. Carlos Marcello. New Orleans mafia don. Carlos Marcello born Calo Giro Menocor was a protege of New York mob boss Frank Castello. In 1963, Marcello ran a multi-million dollar crime empire spread over several states. Yet New Orleans FBI agent Regis Kennedy stated he was a tomato salesman who earned $1,600 a month. What the hell? In 1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, aware that Marcello, Marcello, held only a questionable Guatemalan passport had him abducted, flown to Guatemala City, an unceremoniously dumped. After sneaking back to the U.S. via Miami, Marcello was heard making threats against Robert Kennedy. A Marcello associate told the H.S.C.A that in 1962, Marcello had said, quote, don't worry about that little bobby son of a bitch. He's going to be taken care of, end quote. He also reportedly spoke of using a nut in quotes, someone who couldn't be traced back to him to kill the president. Lee Oswald would have been a poor, untraceable nut in quotes for Marcello to use because his uncle and surrogate father, Dots Moret, was a bookie for Marcello Lieutenant Nofio Pecorra. Furthermore, Oswald's associate, David Ferry, had helped plan legal strategy for Marcello's deportation hearings and was with him in court the morning of the assassination. Marcello also had strong ties to Jack Ruby's friend, Dallas Mafia Chief Joe Civello. Marcello's operations benefited greatly from the largest of Mafia's Teamster pension funds in 1965 to 67 with help from lobbyist Irving Davidson and $1 million donated by his mob friend. Marcello spearheaded the quote, save about that end quote movement, later to become the Spring Hoffa in quote movement, currently serving time for wire and mail fraud and reportedly suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He is due to be released in 1994. He's long gone. Long gone. Mafia Kingfish. Carlos Marcello. Card number 33. The Arranger. Look at this. The Arranger. Who is this guy? Who is this guy? This guy's face doesn't ring a bell to me. Eye Irving Davidson. Eye Irving Davidson. Let's check out the Thai Irving Davidson. Registered. Yeah, it starts the same. First paragraph is the same. Through Hoffa, same. West Corporation, same. Clint, yeah, same. Okay, they look to be the same. So let's read card number 33. Eye Irving Davidson. I registered Washington lobbyists for the Teamsters and a friend of Jimmy Hoffa. Eye Irving Davidson had a vast international network of powerful connections and called himself, quote, degrees for the machinery, end quote. His business card read, quote, Door Opener and Arranger, end quote, what a great title for a business card. Door Opener and Arranger. Among his seemingly diverse clients were the CIA, Coca-Cola, Fidel Castro, the family dictatorships of Nicaragua, the Somozas, the Dominican Republic, the true Helos and Haiti, the Duvaliers, the oil rich, more Merchantson family of Dallas, and Mafioso Carlos Marchello. The close 20-year relationship between Davidson and Marchello ended in 1981 when the two were indicted in the wire and mail fraud case that finally snared Marchello. Davidson's acquittal and the fact that he had introduced Marchello to the government sting operator who caught them suggests that he set up his mafia friend. Through Hoffa, Davidson arranged the Teamster Pension Fund loan for the Merchantsons who shared with Davidson a close mutual friend, J. Edgar Hoover. Davidson arranged another deal for the Merchantsons that resulted in a large, large payoff to then Senator Lyndon Johnson's close aide and bagman, Bobby Baker. Part of Baker Johnson set was Bedford Wayne, whose law firm represented George the Merchantsons and controlled the Great Southwest Corporation. Clint Merchantson, senior, liked to gamble and frequented the Ford Deuces Club where he played high stakes poker with fellow gambler like H. L. Hunt, Sam Rayburn, and Lyndon Johnson. The club's owner, W. C. Kirkwood, a man with unquestionable access to Johnson, was a friend and former employer of Jack Ruby's idol, Louis J. McWillie. Just insane. Look at that smile. The arranger. Look at that smile. Arranges everything. Look at that. That's dark. The arranger. We know who this is. This is Hoover. Gotta be Hoover. J. Edgar Hoover. Look at that face. What a vile creature. The untouchable. Literally the untouchable. The untouchable. I know a little bit about the history of this guy. A vile creature. This portrait. What an absolutely brilliant, brilliant portrait. Captures what this monster represented. Just look at him. Sheryl's commenting. Would have loved to have a hint of a shoulder strap showing with this. Yeah. He was a cross dresser. I think that's what Sheryl was referring to. What a portrait. Let's check out the text. Let's check out the text. FBI. FBI. Hoover. Looks the same. More power around more. Yep. Yeah. Marylandsky. Yeah. Looks the same. Private. Yep. Jim Rowley. The true nature of FBI. Yeah. And it ends the same. We're going to read the original. Let's read the original. Card number 34. J. Edgar Hoover. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover hated the Kennedys and refused to cooperate with their crackdown of organized crime because according to him, organized crime didn't exist. Yet he spent his vacations gambling at Del Mar racetrack and relaxing at the Del Charo Motel notorious hangouts for top level mobsters and both owned by his pals, the Texas Merchants and his off and he often met privately with Mafia Prime Minister Frank Castello and has been alleged that Hoover had a secret hit squad of mob assassins recruited with Castello's help. The day after Kennedy died, the FBI taped gangster Charlie Ingalls telling his boss Sam Jacan Khanna quote two months from now, the FBI will be like it was five years ago. They won't be around no more and quote Hoover's power resided in his confidential files during the Warren commission investigation. For instance, he collected derogatory materials on commissioner members and their staff. He also investigated the sex lives of prominent people particularly homosexuals but ironically, it is rumored that Hoover's own alleged homosexuality may have subjected him to blackmail by gangster Meyer Lansky. Private corporations, government and media were infiltrated by ex-FBI agents who while no longer on the payroll remain loyal to Hoover. This may shed light on the true roles of ex-FBI agents like Guy Bannister, William Harvey, Robert Mahu, Jim Garrison and Secret Service Chief James Rowley. The true nature of FBI links to Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby have never been revealed but they certainly were ties between the FBI and both men and by controlling the investigation, Hoover was in a position to obscure the trail of the assassins. Just imagine what the United States would have looked like now in 2023 if Hoover was not in charge for the amount of time that he was and if he was actually investigated and prosecuted for his crimes. What a different world we would be living in right now. What a monster. What a monster. Card number 35. Card number 35. Ballots and bullets. Ballots and bullets. Simple. Want to guess who that is? Want to guess who that is? I got a feeling that's Nixon. Is it Nixon or is it Lyndon Johnson? Lyndon Johnson. I thought they might bring in Nixon at some point. Lyndon Johnson. And if I recall correctly he was sworn in on a plane. Right? With Jackie beside him with a little winking going on. Was it on a plane? Brilliant that is. Look at that. Let's look at the text. Let's look at the text. Let's see what we got. Lyndon Johnson. Lyndon Johnson. Paragraphs and same ballads. The two scandals. Johnson. Yeah. Yeah. Legislator. Yeah. Let's see. There's a paragraph break here. CIA. I think that paragraph within hours. Okay. This last paragraph seems a little different. Ends the same but I think they're a little different. We're going to read the revised version gang. Let's read the revised version. Important. Card number 35. Lyndon Johnson. Lyndon Johnson's political career was mired with corruption. In 1948, he got a local official to certify 200 fake ballots, literally stealing the election to become US senator by 87 votes. In 1949, a TV newsman investigating Texas vote fraud was killed. In 1952, his assassin was found hanging in his jail cell after he offered to reveal the location of the missing fraudulent ballots. Two scandals rocked Johnson's vice president presidency. First was his link with Texas Wheeler dealer, Billy Soul Estate, who collected millions in federal agriculture subsidies for non-existent cotton farms. In 1985, a state testified that Johnson had ordered the death of Henry Marshall, who had been investigating the scam. Then came the exposure of ties between Johnson, a Bobby Baker and Irving Davidson, the Merchantsons, the Teamsters, and Carlos Marcello. It was alleged that during the 1950s, Johnson received $500,000 in cash from Marcello's racing wire and slot machine profits in return for killing anti-racketeering legislation. Johnson's longtime mistress, Madeline Brown, claimed he told her Kennedy's death was, quote, ordered by American oil men and the CIA, end quote, and he knew of it in advance. His abrupt reversal of Kennedy's plan to bring Americans back from Vietnam has fueled speculation about his complicity in the CIA military intelligence plot. Within hours of becoming president, Johnson made Texas officials halt their inquiries and turn all evidence over to the FBI. As if to return the favor, J. Edgar Hoover promptly stopped FBI participation in Attorney General Kennedy's probe of Baker's mob ties. In January 1964, Johnson made Hoover FBI director for life. Later, his executive order, 1162, locked all assassination evidence in the National Archives until the year 2039. Wow, wow, absolutely effin, wow, wow, wow, card number 36, silenced, silenced with this amazing artwork. Dead witnesses, indeed. Dead witnesses. This has got to be different than the original. Maybe. Let's see what we got. Let's see what we got. In the first three, in the first three is the same chronologically, yeah, 64. Oh, maybe it's the same. Look at this one. This is the revised edition. So the last card in this set is very much damaged. But it looks like to be the same. So we're going to read the original. Okay, so this one's damaged in the revised edition. So card number 36, dead witnesses. In the first three years following the assassination, 13 material witnesses died of unnatural causes. Other suspicious deaths occurred during both the Garrison trial in the late 1960s and the congressional investigation of the mid 1970s. In all more than 40 witnesses have died mysteriously, many because they knew too much. These include chronologically, these are the names, look at this, chronologically. Attribute to those that knew. 664, Guy Barrister, apparent heart attack. His files were gone by the time authorities arrived. 964, C.D. Jackson, unknown causes. Life magazine publisher and longtime CIA propagandist. He purchased and suppressed the, oh, Zapruda film. 165, Dorothy Kilgallan, drug overdose. The colonist had promised after meeting with Jack Ruby to break open the Kennedy case. 167, Jack Ruby, cancer just before his appeal was to begin. He told family members he had been injected with cancer cells. 267, David Ferry, unspecified natural causes in quotation marks. Within hours, his Cuban ex-off friend, Eladio del Val, was shot through the heart and his head split open. 973, Thomas E. Davis III, electrocuted while stealing, stealing wire from a warehouse. 874, Clay Shaw, possible cancer, no, no autopsy performed. 61975, Sam Giancana, shot once in the back of the head and six times in a circle around his mouth while under police protection. What the? 775, James Hoffa, vanished on his way to meet Anthony Provenzano, a mob-connected teamster official. 776, Johnny Rossili, garoted, stabbed, dismembered and found floating in an oil drum off the coast of Florida after agreeing to testify to the Senate. 377, George the red shit, gunshot, shot wound through the mouth, ruled suicide on the day he was called to arrange an interview with the H.S.C.A. Dead Witnesses. Gang, that's the JFK trading cards. Kuteta, the assassination of JFK, original version, 1990, revised version, 1990. I hope they blew you away as much as they did me. Wow, wow, wow. Just one little commentary I'll just put out. Just from these cards alone, the rot in U.S. politics has been there for decades. It is not recent, it has been there for decades, which is why, why we have needed accountability and transparency of capital as power, which is why, why we should work towards freeing Julian Assange, because he's a publisher journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capital as power to humanity, something that we have desperately needed in our societies for decades upon decades upon decades. For more information, see wikilees.org, defend.wikilees.org, or our Julian Assange and Wikilees playlist on censored.