Final_Judgment

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conspiracy and only give people reason to doubt serious research of any
kind. After Cooper was gunned down following a confrontation with police
officers in his home town, a lot of people took this as "proof" that Cooper
was right all along, but it was anything but that. The only thing Cooper
accomplished was adding confusion to the lore of the JFK assassination.
In Final Judgment you never mention JFK's speech at Columbia
University ten days before he was assassinated in which he said, "The
high office of President of the United States of America has been used
to foment a plot to destroy America's freedom, and before I leave
office, I must inform the citizens of their plight." Many publications
have quoted this speech over the years.
I have seen this quote appear in dozens—if not hundreds—of
newsletters over the last 20 years. I have been asked time and again why I
have not mentioned this "famous quote." There's a very simple reason: I
have never seen any single source verifying that JFK did indeed say such a
thing and I've never even seen any documented proof that JFK did give any
speech at Columbia University at the given time.
Frankly, this type of rhetoric doesn't even sound like JFK and if JFK
did intend to reveal any such plot and inform the citizens of their plight, it
seems logical to me that JFK would have waited until he got into his second
term before undertaking any such effort to stop this plot. What's more, if
JFK did indeed say this (which I don't believe that he did), it seems unlikely
that the conspirators would have been able to rush into action within ten
days to dispatch JFK to the great beyond simply because he made this
ambiguous remark. No one ever quotes anything else other than that
particular sentence from that purported speech. So I would ask these people
to supply the source. Supply a copy of the speech. What was the context of
the quote, let alone the entire speech?
The bottom line is that I don't believe that the statement was ever made in
any public speech by President Kennedy. And this quote does nothing—
absolutely nothing—to advance research into the JFK assassination and
I wish people would drop it altogether. These kinds of things gain such
immense currency. There are probably more people who are aware of this
quote (or "non-quote" as the case may be) than there are who are aware of
the allegations I make in the pages of Final Judgment.
The son of Roscoe White, a now-deceased former Dallas policeman, has
come up with evidence suggesting that his father was one of the assassins
on the grassy knoll. What do you think of his allegations?
I don't think much about the allegations one way or another. If Mr.
White's father was involved in the assassination conspiracy, it has no
immediate bearing on the thesis in Final Judgment. Roscoe White could
very well have been a CIA operative, as his son contends, and he could have
been one of the assassins and I have no evidence contradicting either claim.