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Subject: JFK: List of Convenient Deaths
Date: 26 Mar 91 01:10:57 GMT
Here is the much requested list of people associated with the JFK assassination whose deaths are called convenient. Bear in mind that this is a terse summary of each individual's circumstances in relation to the case. Therefore, you may not get the full appreciation of why a particular death is suspicious. An asterisk indicates that a death is particularly suspicious. Some
These deaths were part of why the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation got started. However, they concluded that due to the highly varied backgrounds of people involved, a proper actuarial study was not possible.
Aside from the likelihood of x number of deaths over a period of time of people connected with an invenstigation, there is also the trend that the number of deaths actually increased closer to the time of these investigations. The listing below is grouped by investigation. Note that in 1977, for example, before the HSCA investigation kicked off, six top FBI officials scheduled to appear before the HSCA died. William C. Sullivan, for example, was out hunting, when he was shot by a man with a high-powered rifle who said he mistook Sullivan for a deer. This was *not* investigated by anyone. And so it goes.
Some of the causes of death listed appear on the surface to be natural. Keep in mind that the CIA developed methods to "make it look like an accident". This was documented through the testimony of CIA technicians to the Church committee who told of TWEP technology (Termination With Extreme Prejudice) in 1975. These methods are designed to not be detected in postmortem examinations. I have a couple of exerpts of declassified CIA documents to demonstrate the case. One of the techniques involves the injection of cancer cells, heart attack inducement, as well as non- chemical techniques which require no special equipment. Based on the strange circumstances of Jack Ruby's death in prison (he died from lung cancer but the cancer cells were not the type that originate in the respiratory system). Ruby wrote notes and spoke to several people saying that JFK was killed by a conspiracy and that he had been maneuvered into killing Oswald who was a fall guy. He claimed to have been injected with cancer cells when treated with shots for a cold. He died just before he was to testify in Congress. He had told congressional investigators that he wanted to talk but he needed protection.
This list does not include the names of the many people who claimed that their lives were threatened physically and verbally, as well as the many people questioned by the FBI who were intimidated and forced to change their testimony to agree with the official lone-gunman version.
This list is not meant to be proof of a conspiracy. I believe a conspiracy took place based on a plethora of circumstantial evidence, many involving questions that are very strange if we are to believe the lone-gunman theory. Many of the points I have raised can be rationally explained, but it is the confluence of many aspects of the case which make me doubt the official version of events more than anything else.
| Date | Name | Connection With Case | Cause of Death |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/63 | Karyn Kupcinet | tv host's daughter overheard telling of JFK's death prior to 11/22/63 | murdered |
| 12/63 | Jack Zangretti | Expressed foreknowledge of Ruby shooting Oswald | Gunshot victim |
| 2/64 | Eddy Benavides | Look-alike brother to J. D. Tippit (Officer) shooting witness, Domingo Benavides | Gunshot to head |
| 2/64 | Betty McDonald | Former Ruby employee who alibied Warren Reynolds shooting suspect | Suicide by hanging in Dallas jail |
| 3/64 | Bill Chesher | Thought to have information linking Oswald and Ruby | Heart attack |
| 3/64 | Hank Killam | Husband of Ruby employee, knew Oswald acquaintance | Throat cut |
| 4/64 | Bill Hunter | Reporter who was in Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63 | Accidental shooting by policeman |
| 5/64 | Gary Underhill | CIA agent who claimed agency was involved | gunshot in head ruled suicide |
| 5/64 | Hugh Ward | Private investigator working with Guy Bannister and David Ferrie | Plane crash in mexico |
| 5/64 | Delesseps Morrison | New Orleans Mayor | Passenger in Ward's plane |
| 8/64 | Teresa Norton | Ruby employee | Fatally shot |
| 6/64 | Guy Banister | ex-FBI agent in new orleans connected to Ferrie, CIA, Carlos Marcello, Oswald | Heart attack |
| 9/64 | Jim Koethe | Reporter who was in Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63 | Blow to neck |
| 9/64 | C.D. Jackson | Life mag senior VP who bought Zapruder Film and locked it away | unknown |
| 10/64 | Mary Pinchot Meyer | JFK mistress whose diary was taken by CIA chief James Angleton after her death | Murdered |
| 1/65 | Paul Mandal | Life writer who told of JFK turning to rear when shot in throat | Cancer |
| 3/65 | Tom Howard | Ruby's first lawyer, was in Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63 | Heart attack |
| 5/65 | Maurice Gatlin | Pilot for Guy Banister | Fatal fall |
| 8/65 | Mona B. Saenz | Texas employment clerk who interviewed Oswald | Hit by Dallas bus |
| ?/65 | David Goldstein | Dallasite who helped FBI trace Oswald's pistol | Natural causes |
| 9/65 | Rose Cheramie | Knew of assassination in advance, told of riding to Dallas with Cubans | Hit/run victim |
| 11/65 | Dorothy Kilgallen | Columnist who had private interview with Ruby, pledged to "break JFK case" | Drug overdose |
| 11/65 | Mrs Earl Smith | Close friend to Dorothy Kilgallen, died two days after columnist, may have kept notes | Unknown |
| 12/65 | William Whaley | Cab driver who reportedly drove Oswald to oak cliff | Motor collision (the only Dallas taxi driver to die on duty) |
| 1966 | Judge Joe Brown | Presided over Ruby's trial | heart attack |
| 1966 | Karen "Little Lynn" Carlin | Ruby employee who last talked with Ruby before Oswald shooting | Gunshot victim |
| 1/66 | Earline Roberts | Oswald's landlady | heart attack |
| 2/66 | Albert Bogard | Car salesman who said Oswald test drove new car | Suicide |
| 6/66 | Capt. Frank | Dallas police captain who witnessed Oswald slaying, told warren commission, "there's a lot to be said but probably be better if i don't say it." | Cancer |
| 8/66 | Lee Bowers, JR | Witnessed man behind picket fence on grassy knoll | Motor accident |
| 9/66 | Marilyn "Delilah" Walle | Ruby dancer | Shot by husband after one month of marriage |
| 10/66 | William Pitzer | JFK autopsy photographer who described his duty as a "horrifying experience" | Gunshot, ruled suicide |
| 11/66 | Jimmy Levens | Fort Worth nightclub owner who hired Ruby employees | Natural causes |
| 11/66 | James Worrell | Saw man flee rear of Texas schoolbook depository | Motor accident |
| 1966 | Clarence Oliver | D.A. investigator who worked Ruby case. | unknown |
| 12/66 | Hank Suydam | Life mag official in charge of JFK stories | Heart attack |
| Date | Name | Connection With Case | Cause of Death |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Leonard Pullin | civilian navy employee who helped film "last two days" about assassination | one-car crash |
| 1/67 | Jack Ruby | Oswald's slayer | lung cancer (he told family he was injected with cancer cells) |
| 2/67 | Harold Russell | saw escape of J. D. Tippit (Officer) killer | killed by cop in barroom brawl |
| 2/67 | David Ferrie | acquaintance of Oswald, Garrison suspect, employee of Guy Bannister | blow to neck, ruled accidental |
| 2/67 | Eladio Del Valle | Anti-Castro Cuban associate of David Ferrie being sought by garrison | Gunshot wound, Ax wound to head |
| 3/67 | Dr. Mary Sherman | Ferrie associate working on cancer research | Died in fire, Possibly shot |
| 1/68 | A.D. Bowie Ruby | Assistant Dallas d.a. prosecuting | Cancer |
| 4/68 | Hiram Ingram | Dallas deputy sheriff, close friend to Roger Craig | Cancer |
| 5/68 | Dr. Nicholas Chetta | New Orleans coroner who ruled on death of Ferrie | Heart attack |
| 8/68 | Philip Geraci | Friend of Perry Russo, told of Oswald/Shaw conversation | Electrocution |
| 1/69 | Henry Delaune | Brother-in-law to coroner Chetta | Murdered |
| 1/69 | E.R. Walthers | Dallas deputy sheriff who was involved in depository search, claimed to have found .45 caliber slug | Shot by felon |
| 1969 | Charles Mantesana | Filmed rifle other than mannlicher-carcano being taken from depository | Heart attack |
| 4/69 | Mary Bledsoe Ferrie | Neighbor to Oswald, also new | Natural causes |
| 4/69 | John Crawford | Close friend to both Ruby and Wesley Frazier, who gave ride to Oswald on 11/22/63 | Crash of private plane |
| 7/69 | Rev. Clyde Johnson | scheduled to testify about Clay Shaw/Oswald connection | Fatally shot |
| 1970 | George McMann | Underworld figure connected to Ruby's friends; wife took film in Dealey Plaza | Murdered |
| 1/70 | Darrel Garner | Arrested for shooting Warren Reynolds, released after alibi from Betty McDonald | Drug overdose |
| 8/70 | Bill Decker | Dallas sheriff who saw bullet hit street in front of JFK | Natural causes |
| 8/70 | Abraham Zapruder | Took the famous film of JFK assassination | Natural causes |
| 12/70 | Salvatore Granello | Mobster linked to Hoffa, Trafficante, Castro assassination plots | Murdered |
| 1971 | James Plumeri | Mobster tied to Mob/CIA assassination plots | Murdered |
| 3/71 | Clayton Fowler | Ruby's chief defense atty. | unknown |
| 4/71 | Gen. Charles Cabell | CIA deputy director connected to anti-Castro Cubans | Collapsed and died after physical at Fort Myers |
| Date | Name | Connection With Case | Cause of Death |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Hale Boggs | House majority leader, member of Warren Commission who began to publicly express doubts about findings | disappeared on Alaskan plane flight |
| 5/72 | J. Edgar Hoover | FBI director who pushed "lone assassin" theory | heart attack (no autopsy) |
| 9/73 | Thomas Davis | Gun runner connected to both Jack Ruby and CIA | Electrocuted trying to steal wire |
| 2/74 | J.A. Milteer | Miami right-winger who predicted JFK's death and capture of scapegoat to a police informant | Heater explosion |
| 1974 | Dave Yaras | Close friend to both Hoffa and Jack Ruby | murdered |
| 7/74 | Earl Warren | Chief justice who reluctantly chaired warren commission | heart failure |
| 8/74 | Clay Shaw | Prime suspect in Garrison case, reportedly a CIA contact with Ferrie and E. Howard Hunt | possible cancer |
| 1974 | Earle Cabell | Mayor of Dallas on 11/22/63 whose brother, Gen Charles Cabell, was fired from CIA by JFK | natural causes |
| 6/75 | Sam Giancana | Chicago mafia boss slated to tell about CIA-mob death plots to senate committee | murdered |
| 1975 | Clyde Tolson | J. Edgar Hoovers assistance and roommate | natural causes |
| 7/75 | Allan Sweatt | Dallas deputy sheriff involved in investigation | natural causes |
| 12/75 | Gen. Earl Wheeler | Contact between CIA and JFK | unknown |
| 1976 | Talph Paul | Ruby's business partner connected with crime figures | heart attack |
| 4/76 | Dr. Charles Gregory | Governor John Connally's physician | heart attack |
| 6/76 | William Harvey | CIA coordinator for CIA/Mob assassination plans against Castro | complications of heart surgery |
| 7/76 | John Roselli | Mobster who testified to senate, was to appear again | Stabbed and stuffed in metal drum |
| Date | Name | Connection With Case | Cause of Death |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/77 | William Pawley | Former Brazilian ambassador connected to anti-Castro Cubans and crime figures | Gunshot, ruled suicide |
| 3/77 | George Demohrenschildt | Close friend to both Oswald and Bouvier family (Jackie Kennedy's parents), CIA contract agent | Gunshot wound, ruled suicide |
| 3/77 | Carlos Prio Soccaras | Formerly Cuban president, money man for anti-Castro Cubans | gunshot wound, ruled suicide |
| 3/77 | Paul Raigorodsky | Business friend of George Demohrenschildt and wealthy oilman | natural causes |
| 5/77 | Lou Staples | Dallas radio talk show host who told friends he would break assassination case | Gunshot wound to head. ruled suicide |
| 6/77 | Louis Nichols | Former number-3 man in FBI worked on JFK assassination | heart attack |
| 8/77 | Alan Belmont | FBI official who testified to warren commission | "long illness" |
| 8/77 | James Cadigan | FBI document expert who testified to warren commission | fall in home |
| 8/77 | Joseph Ayres | Chief steward on JFK's air force one | shooting accident |
| 8/77 | Francis Powers | U-2 pilot downed in Russia in 1960 | helicopter crash (he reportedly ran out of fuel) |
| 9/77 | Kenneth O'Donnell | JFK's closest aide | natural causes |
| 10/77 | Donald Kaylor | FBI fingerprint chemist | heart attack |
| 10/77 | J.M. English | Former head of FBI forensic sciences laboratory | heart attack |
| 11/77 | William Sullivan | Former number-3 man in FBI, headed division 5, counter-espionage and domestic intelligence | hunting accident |
| 1978 | C.L. "Lummie" Lewis | Dallas deputy sheriff who arrested mafia man Braden in Dealey plaza | Natural causes |
| 9/78 | Arland Slack | Man who said Oswald fired at his target at rifle range. | Unknown |
| 1/79 | Bill Lovelady | Depository employee said to be man in doorway in AP photo | Complications from heart attack |
| 6/80 | Jesse Curry | Dallas police chief at time of assassination | Heart attack |
| 6/80 | Dr. John Holbrook | psychiatrist who testified Ruby was not insane | Heart attack, but pills and notes found |
| 1/81 | Marguerite Oswald | mother of accused assassin | Cancer |
| 10/81 | Frank Watts | chief felony prosecutor for Dallas d.a. | Natural causes |
| 1/82 | Peter Gregory | Original translator for Marina Oswald and secret service | Natural causes |
| 5/82 | R. James Weston | Pathologist allowed to see JFK autopsy material for hsca | Died while jogging, ruled natural causes |
| 8/82 | Will Griffin | FBI agent who said Oswald "definitely an informant" | cancer |
| 10/82 | W. Marvin Gheesling | FBI official who helped supervise JFK investigation | natural causes |
| 3/84 | Roy Kellerman | secret service agent in charge of JFK limousine | unknown |
Source: "Crossfire", Jim Marrs, Carroll and Graf, 1989. --
Steve Feinstein
