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of the evidence distinctly pointed to the involvement
of a number of men in the President's ambush. The
historic news that one man alone had done everything
-- and, inferentially therefore, there was no political
meaning to the President's assassination -- originated
not in Dallas but in Washington, D. C.
The confusion of Dallas law enforcement authorities
about the assassination did not interfere with the
clear vision from Washington as to what the official
solution was going to be. The amazingly prescient
government broadcast to Air Force One told not only of
the capture of the lonesome, motiveless assassin but
added the good news that no one else was involved,
that no conspiracy existed.
Announcing that a lone assassin did it all and that
there was no conspiracy on the very afternoon of
the assassination, before any investigation had begun
-- was roughly equivalent to announcing the final score
of a football game right after the opening kick-off.
The source of this prophetic announcement was the Joint
Chiefs Communications Center in Washington, D. C., from
which the messages to the returning Air Force One were
being transmitted.
By now the government has destroyed the original tape
of this transmission just as it has destroyed everything
which contradicts history's greatest fairy tale. How-
ever, the fact of the transmission was caught inadvertently
and is recorded forever in Theodore White's "The Making
of the President, 1964" :
"There is a tape-recording in the archives
of the government which best captures the sound
of the horrors as it waited for leadership. It
is a recording of all the conversations in the
air, monitored by the Signal Corps Midwestern
center 'Liberty' between Air Force One in Dallas,
the Cabinet plane over the Pacific, the Joint
Chiefs Communication Center in Washington. The
vóices were superbly flat, calm, controlled
one receives the E.T.A. - 6:00 P.M. Washington.
It is a masking of emotionless voices in the air,
performing with mechanical perfection.
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