The Castro Diamonds, part 5

…Continued from The Castro Diamonds, part 4…

All but one of the newspaper clippings were by the same journalist, Doris Killian. The first one in chronological order was titled “Nation Shocked: President Kennedy Assassinated in Texas” and was dated November 23rd, 1963. It read:

My Dear Reader,

I am overcome with grief. The 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. central standard time in Dallas, Texas, while riding through Dealey Plaza in a presidential motorcade. Kennedy was accompanied by his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie. The President was shot once in the back, the bullet exiting via his throat, and once in the head, which was fatal. The motorcade rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was pronounced dead about 30 minutes after the shooting.

Governor Connally was seriously wounded in the attack, suffering from a pierced lung, a fracture of his 5th rib, and a shattered wrist. Further, he had a bullet lodged in his leg. The injuries he sustained in the shooting are reportedly emanating from an entrance wound in the right side of his back, with a matching exit wound on the right front chest below the nipple; a reentry wound on top of the back portion of his right wrist, with a corresponding departure wound on the lower palm surface of the wrist; and a shallow, non-threatening entrance wound in his left thigh. The Governor underwent four hours of surgery after the shooting and is currently recovering from his wounds in the intensive care unit. Emergency security personnel have locked down Parkland Hospital.

Upon notification of the President’s death, Vice President Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States while aboard the Presidential jet.

More updates will follow, Dear Reader, as the nation mourns together our great loss.

Always to the truth, onward.

DK

The second newspaper clipping was titled “Conspiracy?: Why Kill the President?” and it was from May 20th, 1964:

My Dear Reader,

I thank you for following my continued series over the past six months as we unravel together the horrific and sometimes mysterious events surrounding our national tragedy last November in Dallas. Recapping the official version of events has become a part of every American’s ingrained memory. While traveling in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas in an open-top limousine, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by gunshot. It happened at 12:30 pm CST on Friday, November 22, 1963. Texas Governor John Connally was also shot and severely wounded, but he survived.

About 45 minutes after the assassination of the President at Dealey Plaza, police officer J.D. Tippit was shot and killed in a residential neighborhood in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas. He was an 11-year veteran with the Dallas Police Department and was survived by a wife and three children.

Now a well-known event, suspected assassin and former U.S. Marine ‘Expert’ rifleman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested about two hours later for killing the President and Officer Tippit. Oswald was quickly arraigned for both murders just after 1:30 am on Saturday, November 23, but on transfer to the county jail at 11:21 a.m. on Sunday, November 24, he was gunned down by strip club owner (and reputed Mafia associate) Jack Ruby. Ruby approached Oswald from the side of a crowd that had gathered at the Dallas Police Headquarters to witness the transfer and fatally shot him once at close range in the abdomen. Somewhat ironically, an unconscious Oswald was taken by an ambulance to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where President Kennedy was pronounced dead two days earlier. Oswald died at 1:07 p.m. Ruby has stated that he was distraught by the President’s assassination and wanted to protect Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy from having to witness and potentially participate in a protracted trial for the accused murderer of her husband.

This has been the official narrative of the assassination and the events that followed so closely afterwards. Obviously, a world-changing episode such as the murder of our beloved President would give rise to a number of theories that circulate around the driving reasons for such an occurrence, the biggest question remaining “Why?” But the follow-on events are equally bizarre, and this reporter is not done asking questions.

Most intriguingly, a recent source of mine, who will remain anonymous, has intoned an explanation that involves the Cuban government, and quite possibly their President, Fidel Castro, as well. He or she told me that a plot to kill President Kennedy was derived as an answer to the multiple attempts on Castro’s life by the past two American governments and involved a litany of players. Well, as my award-winning journalist father would have said, “Follow the money!”

My source has confided that funding came directly from the Cuban government, and perhaps with the contribution of the Soviet Union, in the form of diamonds smuggled into the United States by Oswald after a visit to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. The source says the diamonds were concealed inside a salad bowl-sized porcelain souvenir that was in the shape of a raging bull, of the kind one might see for sale in a Mexican street market. This person has also offered to show me the now-empty bull, it’s precious cargo presumably in the hands of the aforesaid ‘litany of players.’

I am, I must say, very intrigued, and have agreed to set a meeting, but am not sure what proof a plain raging bull souvenir from Mexico will be able to prove. Hopefully, my source will be able to provide more details that can be imparted here, my Dear Reader, for your consumption and consideration.

Always to the truth, onward!

DK

To Be Continued…