JFK-TIMELINE	Military: Pentagon, Joint Chiefs, FBI, Police, SS	Industry: Profiteers, Bankers, Corporations, Moguls, CIA, Union Busters	Government: Executive, Judicial, Legislative	Human Rights	Kennedy	Mass Communication, Persuasion, & Propaganda	Other	Body Count	Suspects & Motives
Taft/Sherman/1910	.	November 22: Senator Nelson Aldrich, Rockefeller relative by marriage, returns from Europe where he studied private central banking & sends private rail car to transport group with Paul Warburg (lobbiest for Rothschild firm, Kuhn, Loeb & Company) & Jacob Schiff (who had purchased Kuhn, Loeb & Company)to Jekyll Island. Aldrich later admits: "Before [FR] Act, NY Bankers could only dominate the reserves of NY. Now we dominate reserves of the entire country." Note: The Rothschilds, Warburgs & Schiffs are interconnected by marriage. Their Jekyll Island gang agenda is to set up US central bank, destroy competing banks & address fact that strong national economy means corporations finance their own expansions out of profits instead of taking out huge loans from banks, i.e., American Industry is becoming independent of banks. Result is "Aldrich Bill." 1908 – 1912: Henry Lewis Stimson, partner in Wall Street law firm Root & Stimson, 1988 member of Skull & Bones, is Secretary of War. ~: The wives of striking miners arrested in Greensburg, Pennsylvania sing their way out of jail under the leadership of Mother Jones.	March 27: Late President Theodore Roosevelt is quoted in the NY Times: "These International bankers & Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers & the columns of these newspapers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.	.		~: In 1935 participant Frank Vanderlip, President of National Citibank & representative of Rockefeller family, confirms Jekyll Island trip in Saturday Evening Post.	~: Strategy in naming central bank is to avoid word "bank," give the impression that purpose of the bank is to stop bank runs, conceal its monopoly character & make it sound like part of government. To make it look governmental the plan called for the central bank to be run by a board of governors appointed by the President & approved by Senate.	.
Taft/Sherman/1911	.	~: The Triangle Waist Co. fire in New York on March 25, causes the death of 146 workers.	May 15: Government attempts to use Sherman Anti-Trust Act to break up Rockefeller's Standard Oil to limit monopolies & crack down on robber barons. US Supreme Court rules that Standard Oil’s near global monopoly violates anti-trust laws & dissolves it into separate companies including: Chevron (Standard Oil California), Amoco (Standard Oil Indiana), Mobil (Standard Oil New Jersey) & Exxon, formerly Esso (Standard Oil New Jersey). ~: Government also tries unsuccessfully to break monopoly of US Steel, the first billion dollar corporation in history & a company symbolic of the high tide of banker power in America, largely run by Rockefeller through JP Morgan.	.		.	.	.
Taft/Sherman/1912	~: US forces return to Cuba to help put down black protests against discrimination.	Pre-November: Bankers don't have Congressional support to pass Aldrich bill so they back Democrats, financing Democratic Presidential nominee Woodrow Wilson. Republican representative, Louis T. Mcfadden, explains 20 years later as Chairman Of House Banking & Currency Committee: "When Woodrow Wilson is nominated...the Party promised...there would be no central bank established here while they held the reins of government." ~: In Lawrence, Massachusetts the IWW leads a strike of 23,000 men, women and children to organize the Lawrence Textile Mills: The "Bread & Roses" Strike, hailed as the first successful multi-ethnic strike.	Pre-November: Senate outs Aldrich bill as bill to benefit bankers. Republican Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh states: "The Aldrich plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead." Pre-November: During Presidential campaign Woodrow Wilson pretends to oppose Aldrich bill. November 5: Woodrow Wilson is elected, so JP Morgan, Paul Warburg, Bernard Baruch et al, advance the same bank plan now named Federal Reserve (FR) by Warburg, cloaked in "Glass-Owen Bill."		July: Joe Kennedy begins his banking career as a clerk for Columbia Trust Company; two years later he will organize resistance to a takeover bid, and become president of the bank at age 25.	.	.	.
Wilson/Marshall/1913	.	April: Averell Harriman, son of railroad baron Edward Henry Harriman, becomes member of secret Yale society Skull & Bones. Note: Skull & Bones is the immoral & moneyed "American WASP warrior caste" heavily influenced by the British Imperial system.	October: 16th amendment is pushed thru Congress by Senator Aldrich, legalizing income tax of people. Income tax is fundamental to FR since FR runs up unlimited debt & income tax is only guarantee of payment on interest (collateral). This is same method Bank Of England uses. 16th amendment is never ratified & in 1895 the Supreme Court finds income tax law similar to the 16th amendment unconstitutional. The Supreme Court also finds a Corporate Tax Law unconstitutional in 1909. December 22: FR Act, aka Glass-Owens bill, is pushed through Senate Christmas night after most Senators left town & after reassurance that nothing would be done on bill until after Christmas recess. Representative Charles A Lindbergh Sr. states: "This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized. The people may not know it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed...The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking & currency bill." Woodrow Wilson signs the bill into law, as his financial backers intended. ~: The United States Department of Labor (separate from Commerce) is established by law.	.		.	.	.
Wilson/Marshall/1914	July 28: World War 1 begins.	~: German Rothschilds loan money to Germans, British Rothschilds loan money to British & French Rothschilds loan money to French. April 20: Ludlow Massacre - a small army of goons hired from the Baldwin-Felts agency backed up by the National Guard lay down a barrage of machine gun fire on a strikers' tent village at Ludlow, Colorado, killing men, women and children. ~: The Clayton Anti-trust Act, described by Sam Gompers as "Labor's Magna Carta", limits the use of injunctions in labor disputes and providing that picketing and other union activities are not illegal conspiracies or trusts.	~: One year after passage of Federal Reserve Bill Representative Lindbergh outlines how FR creates business cycle for their advantage.	.	October 7: Joe Kennedy marries Rose Fitzgerald. They settle in Brookline, Massachusetts, and start their family.	.	.	.
Wilson/Marshall/1915		~: JP Morgan becomes sales agent for War Materials Board to both British & French in WW1 thereby becoming biggest consumer on planet. ~: Joe Hill, IWW organizer and "labor's troubador" was executed by firing squad in Utah on November 19, 1915 for a robbery and murder it is most unlikely he had anything to do with.	March: Congressman Oscar Callaway inserts account into Congressional Record of how Rockefeller/Rothschild seized control of media via JP Morgan. ~: President Wilson appoints banker Bernard Baruch to head War Industries Board. Baruch & the Rockefellers profit by ~$200M dollars during WW1 per historian James Perloff.	.	July 25: Joe and Rose Kennedy's first-born, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., known as Joe Jr., is born.	.	.	.
Wilson/Marshall/1916			~: President Wilson says: "Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce & manufacture, are afraid of something. They know there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
Wilson/Marshall/1917		April: Prescott Bush, father of George Herbert Walker Bush, becomes member of secret Yale society Skull & Bones. April: E. Roland Harriman, Prescott friend & Averill's younger brother, becomes member of secret Yale society Skull & Bones.			May 29: John F. Kennedy, known as Jack, is born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Joe and Rose Kennedy (Fitzgerald) and the great-grandson of Irish immigrants. October: Joe Sr. opposes World War I. He becomes assistant general manager of Bethlehem Shipbuilding's Fore River Plant in Quincy, Massachusetts, and is able to avoid active military service.
Wilson/Marshall/1918	November 11: World War 1 ends.	April: Robert A. Lovett, future partner of Brown Brothers Harriman, becomes member of secret Yale society Skull & Bones. ~: Leadership of the Industrial Workers of the World sentenced to federal prison on charges of disloyalty to the United States.	~: Web-Pomerene Act is passed by congress legalizing cartels & monopolies outside US. The loophole sets robber barons loose on the world.		September 13: Daughter Rosemary is born to Joe & Rose Kennedy. Within her first year, it is apparent that she has serious learning disabilities.
Wilson/Marshall/1919	January: WW1 officially ends with Paris Peace Conference which bankers Paul Warburg & Bernard Baruch attend with President Wilson. A. Dulles, State Department delegate, attends. At top of banker's agenda is World Government, aka "League Of Nations," now called New World Order, which fails since US Congress does not support it. June 28: Treaty of Versailles is adopted. Treaty makes it illegal to sell arms to Germany. US is one of few nations not to ratify it. ~: J. Edgar Hoover, working for Justice Department since WW1, is promoted to head new General Intelligence Division.	February 6 - 11: The Seattle General Strike of over 65,000 workers in several unions, dissatisfied after two years of World War I wage controls. August 26, United Mine Workers' organizer Fannie Sellins, a widowed mother of four, is shot to death by coal company guards while leading strikers in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. September 9: A strike by 1,100 police in Boston is the first ever by public safety workers. It is broken when Governor Calvin Coolidge summoned the entire Massachusetts Guard. September: The Great Steel Strike against U.S. Steel Corp. led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Starting in Chicago, it spreads to 350,000 workers throughout Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia and lasted from September 1919 to January 1920. It is broken by massive use of scabs.			June: Joe Kennedy Sr. joins the Hayden, Stone and Co. brokerage firm in the heyday of the unregulated stock market. He will open his own stock trading business four years later.				J. Edgar Hoover
Wilson/Marshall/1920	January 10: Leauge of Nations is formed. Treaty of Versailles goes into effect with harsh treatment of Germany, a catalyst for rise of Nazis.	January 2: Palmer Raids - Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer ordered raids by the Federal Department of Justice in 30 cities across the United States to arrest and deport suspicious immigrants (so called "alien reds") many of whom were involved in US labor unions. The raids were coordinated by a young J. Edgar Hoover, Palmer's chief investigating officer. In all, he rounded up and deported about 3,000 people as foreign agitators, anarchists, communists. April: Henry Luce, CIA propagandist/future owner of Time/Life, becomes member of secret Yale society Skull & Bones. May 19: Baldwin-Felts guards invade Matewan, West Virginia to break up a coal miners strike. The mayor, a small boy, a miner and four guards were killed in a show-down. Prior to the battle, the coal miners had begun to organize themselves into a union. The Stone Mountain Coal Company heavily resisted this effort from the coal miners by hiring agents from the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency to evict them from their company-owned houses. ~: John L. Lewis is elected president of the United Mine Workers of America, at the age of 40, taking control of the largest labor union in the nation.	February 24: German Workers' Party announces name change to National Socialist German Workers' Party.		February: Kathleen Kennedy, known as Kick, is born. Jack, not yet three years old, nearly dies of scarlet fever.
Harding/Coolidge/1921	July 11: In Germany, Hitler threatens to resign from Nazi Party unless he is made authoritarian leader. July 29: Hitler is introduced to Nazi gathering as "der Führer" of the Nazis, the first time that title is used. ~: J. Edgar Hoover joins Bureau of Investigation as deputy head.	January 21: National conference of state Manufacturers' associations in Chicago develop the "American Plan" to combat union oganizing. August: Prescott Bush marries Dorothy Walker & goes to work for Herbert Walker, his father-in-law. ~: The U.S. Supreme Court holds that nothing in the Clayton Anti-trust Act protects unions from injunctions brought against them for conspiracy in constraint of trade. (Duplex Printing Press v. Deering) ~: Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is formed. Initial members include Robert A. Lovett. ~: Haroldson Lafayette Hunt (HL Hunt) joins oil boom in El Dorado, AR where he becomes lease broker & promotes his first well.	~: Warren G. Harding becomes US President kicking off the "roaring twenties." The economy grows in spite of WW1 debt because Harding reduces taxes domestically & increases tariffs on imports.		July 10: Joe and Rose Kennedy's third daughter, Eunice Kennedy, is born.
Harding/Coolidge/1922	~: Averell Harriman uses father's money to establish banking business W.A. Harriman & Co.	July 1 - September 1: Nationwide railroad strike of 400,000 shop workers caused by the Railroad Labor Board's wage cut. The railroads hired strikebreakers, increasing hostilities between the railroads and striking workers. On September 1 federal judge James H. Wilkerson issues a sweeping injunction against striking, assembling, picketing, and a variety of other union activities, colloquially known as the "Daugherty Injunction."				March 27: Theodore Roosevelt quote in NY Times makes it clear that Rockefeller owns the media.
Coolidge/1923	November 9: Hitler's attempt to overthrow Bavarian government, the Beer Hall Putsch, fails. November 11: Hitler is arrested for treason.	October: Fritz Thyssen, German political conservative & rich industrialist, attends speech by Adolf Hitler leader of Nazi Party. Thyssen is impressed with Hitler--his opposition to Treaty of Versailles, his opposition to socialism & trade unions, & begins making large donations to party to fight off "Communists/Jewish conspiracy against Europe" & support Hitler's vision of a fascist German monarchy with a nonunion national work force. November 11: Hitler is arrested for treason.	August 22: President Harding dies on a train in mysterious circumstances, reportedly food poisoning or stroke, but no autopsy is done. New President Coolidge continues Harding's economic policies, growing economy & shrinking national debt.
Coolidge/1924	April 1: Hitler is sentenced to serve 5 years in prison where he begins begins work on Mein Kampf. May 10: Coolidge appoints J. Edgar Hoover Director of Bureau of Investigation in response to allegations that prior Director William J. Burns was involved in financial scandals in Harding administration. December 20: Hitler is released from prison after serving only 9 months.	~: W. A. Harriman & Co. invests money for American client's (including Rockefellers) with companies in Nazi Germany via subsidiaries. In one 3-year period Harriman firm sells more than $50 million of German bonds to American investors who profit enormously from economic boom in Germany. ~: Harriman subsidiary Union Banking Corporation (UBC) opens with Herbert Walker as president. It is owned by Rotterdam bank, Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart. Rotterdam bank is owned by Fritz Thyssen, Hitler's chief financier, who has bank in Berlin, August Thyssen Bank. The 3 private banks are used to launder money, conceal profits, evade taxes & move Thyssen assets around. No matter who wins WW2, corporate stocks will be shifted around to the bank in a "neutral" country when the war is over so he doesn't have to surrender war profits. Dutch royal Prince Bernhard helps Thyssen hide accounts in Dutch banks. ~: Attorney John McCloy joins law firm Cravath, Henderson & de Gersdorff. He becomes friendly with W. Averell Harriman and Robert A. Lovett.	:~ Cuban leader Gerado Machado institutes vigorous measures, forwarding mining, agriculture and public works, but subsequently establishing a brutal dictatorship.		May 6: A fourth daughter, Patricia Kennedy, is born to Joe and Rose.				FBI
Coolidge/Dawes/1925	February 27: Nazis hold 1st public meeting since Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler is banned from public speaking for 2 years for anti-Semitic remarks.	~: HL Hunt claims to have fortune of $600,000. He buys whole block in El Dorado & builds a 3-story house for his family.	~: Cuban Socialist Party founded, forming the basis of the Communist Party.		November 20: A third son, Robert Kennedy, is born to Joe & Rose.	July 18: Mein Kampf is published. Hitler originally wanted it titled "4&1/2 Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity & Cowardice."
Coolidge/Dawes/1926		May 20: Railway Labor Act requires employers to bargain collectively and not discriminate against their employees for joining a union and outlawing "yellow-dog" contracts. ~: A. Dulles leaves government to become Wall Street lawyer with brother John Foster Dulles, in Sullivan & Cromwell (S&C). S&C works with Hitler's financial agent to acquire large German monopolies, especially in steel & chemicals, as clients. ~: Thyssen creates United Steel Works (USW), the biggest industrial conglomerate in German history, & merges with coal magnate Fredich Flick, motivated by determination to suppress new labor & socialist movements. ~: P. Bush's father-in-law appoints him VP of W. A. Harriman & Co, which also employs Skull & Boners Harrimans & Knight Woolley. Bush supervises USW & subsidiary Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC). Flick owns 2/3 of CSSC stock & Harriman owns 1/3.	1926 - 1928: Henry Stimson becomes Governor General of the Philippines. ~: Oil depletion allowance, huge tax breaks for oil industry, is approved by congress making TX oil barons super wealthy.		February: Joe Kennedy Sr. enters the movie business as a producer.
Coolidge/Dawes/1927	March 10: Ban on Hitler speaking publicly is revoked.	November 21: Picketing miners are massacred with machine guns in Columbine, CO. ~: E. Roland Harriman joins brother Averell in W.A. Harriman & Co & the name is changed to Harriman Brothers & Company. ~: John McCloy is sent to establish an office in Milan. Over the next few years he traveled throughout Italy, France and Germany on business, & works as an adviser to the fascist government of Benito Mussolini. He develops the view that German Reparations from WW1 are unwise & unfair, stating: "Practically every merchant bank and Wall Street firm, from J. P. Morgan and Brown Brothers on down, was over there (Germany) picking up loans. We were all very European in our outlook, and our goal was to see it rebuilt." McCloy argues that otherwise Germany would be taken over by the communists who were getting support from the Soviet Union.			eptember: The Kennedy family moves to Riverdale, New York. They will continue to live in the New York area, summering at Hyannis Port on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and maintaining a residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
Coolidge/Dawes/1928		~: Thyssen pays for purchase & renovation of Munich's Barlow Palace, renamed Brown House, to serve as Nazi headquarters. After this Thyssen & Hitler become close friends.			February 20: Joe and Rose's fifth and youngest daughter, Jean Ann Kennedy, is born.
Hoover/Curtis/1929		April: Banker Paul Warburg warns friends that nationwide depression is planned for 1929. So certain Wall Street giants: John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Joseph Kennedy, Bernard Baruch, et al-get out of stock market 1st & put assets into cash or gold. August: Federal Reserve tightens money supply. October 24: New York bankers call in 24 hour loans so both stockbrokers & customers must dump stocks at any price to cover. October 29: Great Depression starts with stock market crash known as Black Thursday. ~: In his dealings with Germany John McCloy works closely with Paul M. Warburg. Coincidently or not McCloy does not put his money into stocks & shares & is unaffected by the Wall Street Crash.	1929 - 1933: Stimson becomes Secretary of State (SOS) under President Herbert Hoover.		October 29: The New York stock market crashes. Anticipating problems, Joe Sr. has already liquidated his substantial long-term investments. Joe will later deny, then admit, that he continued to make money in the stock market by selling short while the market fell.
Hoover/Curtis/1930	September 14: Nazis take second place in the German parliamentary elections.	February 3: "Chicagorillas," labor racketeers, shoot & kill contractor William Healy with whom the Chicago Marble Setters Union had problems. April 14: Over 100 farm workers are arrested for unionizing activities in Imperial Valley, CA; 8 are convicted of criminal syndicatism. ~: German Fritz Thyssen becomes a leading backer of Nazi Party. Its union-hating agenda is considered good for business. He joins business associate in donating 1,000,000 marks.	May 5: Fish (House) Committee is formed ostensibly to root out Communists, more likely to harrass FDR.			~: According to NY Herald Tribune 7/31/41: "Herr [Fritz] Thyssen’s status are not new in the history of the man who, more than any other, financed Hitler’s rise to power."
Hoover/Curtis/1931		February: Republican Congressman, Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of House Banking & Currency Committee, warns of Bank of England plan to "take almost any means to reacquire rapidly the gold stock which Europe lost to America as a result of WW1... You have all heard of the spending that has taken place in Germany...All this was given to Germany through the Federal Reserve Board. The Federal Reserve Board...has pumped so many billions of dollars into Germany that they dare not name the total." The money pumped in to Germany in preparation for WW2 went into German Thyssen banks affiliated with Harriman interest in NY. May 4: Gun-toting vigilantes attack striking miners in Harlan County, KY. September 1: Clara Holden, National Textile Workers' Union organizer, is abducted and beaten by vigilantes in Greenville, South Carolina. December: Fritz Thyssen officially joins Nazi party. ~: Harriman Brothers & Company merges with Brown Brothers & Co. to create holding company Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) P. Bush becomes senior partner & is put on board of directors of UBC.	March 3: Davis-Bacon Act provides for payment of prevailing wage rates to laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on public construction.		Fall: JFK enrolls in Choate.
Hoover/Curtis/1932	July 17: Thousands of WWI veterans, dubbed the Bonus Army, converge on DC & demand immediate payment of bonuses due them in 1945 to provide relief for those unemployed due to the Depression. They are are attacked & dispersed by General MacArthur's troops.	March 7: Police kill striking workers at Ford's Dearborn, MI plant. September: Thyssen invites group of elite German industrial tycoons to his castle to meet with Hitler. They spent hours questioning Hitler, who answers all their questions to their "utmost satisfaction," Thyssen remembers. Money pours in from industrial circles mostly due to Hitler's "monarchistic attitude" towards labor & issues of class. ~: German Fritz Thyssen & other industrialists sign letter successfully urging Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler chancellor. At earlier meeting of Association of German Industrialists Thyssen raises 3,000,000 more for the Nazi Party in forthcoming election. He is rewarded with membership in the Reich’s Grand Economic Council, in Prussian State Council & with seat in Reichstagg. ~: HL Hunt Production Company has 900 wells in East TX.	March 23: Norris-LaGuardia Act (Anti-Injunction Act) passes, prohibiting some federal injunctions in labor disputes and outlawing "yellow-dog" contracts - agreements where an employee agrees not to join a union. April 10: Paul von Hindenburg is reelected to German Presidency. June 16: German President Hindenburg revokes ban on paramilitary groups of Nazi Party: the SS & the SA. July 20: Martial law is declared in Berlin in reaction to political violence of SA. August 13: Nazis demand that Hitler be appointed chancellor or else they will not enter into the government. August 30: Hermann Goring is elected to president of the Reichstag, the German parliament. November: German voters grew weary of Hitler's antidemocratic tendencies & turn to Communist party which gains the most seats in fall election. Nazis lose 35 seats in Reichstag but are secretly negotiating power sharing alliance with reelected President Hindenburg that ultimately leads to Hitler declaring himself dictator, German voters are politically insignificant. ~: Wisconsin enacts the nation's first unemployment insurance law.		February 22: Edward Moore Kennedy is born. He will be the last of Joe and Rose Kennedy's nine children; oldest brother Joe is nearly seventeen years old. ~: Joe Sr. energetically backs Franklin Delano Roosevelt's successful bid for the presidency.
Roosevelt/Garner/1933	January 30: Hindenburg appoints Hitler as Chancellor & Hitler is sworn in. February 3: Hitler makes his first address in office. He outlines goal of obtaining living space in the east. February 27: Reichstag, Germany's parliament, is set afire giving Nazis the pretext they need to deny liberties & solidify power. Communists are blamed, conveniently targeting union supporters that Hitler's rich industrialist backers hate. March 20: Existence of a concentration camp at Dachau is revealed by Heinrich Himmler. March 23: Hitler is granted dictatorial powers over Germany with the passing of the Enabling Act. April 1: Hitler calls for 1-day nation-wide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses. April 7: Jews employed by German government are fired. Government places limit on number of Jewish students in higher education. April 26: German Gestapo is formed. May 30: Germany's treatment of Jewish citizens is condemned by the League of Nations. July 14: Nazi Party is declared to be the only legal political party within Germany. October 14: Germany withdraws from League of Nations. ~: Cuban leader Machado overthrown in a coup led by Sergeant Fulgencio Batista.	February 28: Hitler's government declares state of emergency suspending all civil rights. Communist members of Reichstag are arrested. Labor unions are soon crushed. May 2: To repay the industrialists who funded his rise to power, Hitler orders the Storm Troopers to arrest Germany's trade union leaders, who are sent to concentration camps. All labor union funds, including pension and benefit funds, are seized. May 10: Hitler gives Robert Ley the task of forming the German Labor Front (DAF), the only union organization allowed in the Third Reich, formed to teach the Nazi philosophy to German workers and to weed out from industrial employment all who were backward in their lessons. Hitler bans political parties with socialist (pro labor) leanings. May 19: German government decrees that "trustees" of labor, appointed by Hitler, should regulate the conditions of all labor contracts, replacing the former process of collective bargaining. June 24: In Germany the remaining Christian Trade Unions are seized pursuant to an order of the Nazi Party signed by Ley. July 1: General Smedley Butler is asked by American Legion members representing J.P. Morgan to help overthrow FDR gov't. Many large banking firms hate FDR & are anti-New Deal ("conservative"). ~: A pay freeze is imposed in Germany & is rigorously enforced by the Labor Front, which also dictates wages. Compulsory deductions made for income tax. The Labour Front issues work-books that record worker's employment record; no one can be employed without one. ~: Workers at George A. Hormel and Company stage the first sit-down strike in the U.S., taking over the Austin meat-packing plant for three days. The tactic works: Hormel agrees to submit wage demands to binding arbitration	March 4: FDR is inaugurated after being elected on a New Deal coalition platform known as "liberal." Soon Democratic Congress passes emergency banking bill, gives mortgage relief to millions, creates Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority & gives the Federal Trade Commission new regulatory powers. FDR rejects deficit spending. Industrialists support higher wages for employees as a way of increasing consumption. Prohibition is repealed. FDR's New Deal provides relief for unemployed, economic recovery & regulation of Wall Street via the Security & Exchange Commission (SEC). Many New Deal programs are abolished in the 1940s; FDR's most important permanent legacies include Social Security & the SEC. April 5: FDR outlaws private ownership of gold bullion & coins, essentially confiscating gold. The government pays $20-66 an ounce for the gold. ~: Stimson becomes Secretary of War. ~: Section 7(a) of the National Recovery Act (NRA) is passed by Congress to give most private sector workers the right to join a union and bargain collectively with their employers. Shortly thereafter the Supreme Court holds Title I of the Act unconstitutional.		~: Anticipating the repeal of Prohibition, Joe Sr. capitalizes on his relationship with President Roosevelt by securing lucrative liquor distribution licenses in Great Britain.	March 13: Joseph Goebbels is appointed Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda.
Roosevelt/Garner/1934	August 2: Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany, dies. August 3: Hitler merges powers of President & Chancellor. All military personnel are required to swear oath of loyalty to him. August 19: Hitler declares himself der Führer, the Leader, of Germany.	May: "Business Plot" against FDR fails when General Smedley Butler exposes plot & financial backers calling themselves American Liberty League (ALL). "ALL" worked for or with: Morgan, Mellon, Du Pont, Weirton Steel & Sun Oil. Also there-Hal Roach, Hollywood producer admirer of Mussolini. Early July: San Francisco General Strike: the key event of modern west coast industrial unionism, led by longshoremen and sailors; Alameda County workers go out too, including streetcar drivers, calling for the municipalization of the privately-held streetcar company; general strikes in other cities. On July 5 (Bloody Thursday) two pickets are killed by the police. The strike of 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and all over the southeastern United States and lasting twenty-two days. The strike's ultimate failure and the union's defeat left the southeastern portion of the United States an unorganized and anti-union region for the next 50 years. July 16: Minneapolis Truckers Strike, 5000 men go out in a strike that established the Teamsters as a nationally significant labor union. Four men are killed--two on each side--and martial law is declared before an agreement is reached. September 1 - 22: Strike in Woonsocket, RI part of a national movement to obtain a minimum wage for textile workers, result in deaths of 3 workers. Over 420,000 workers ultimately go on strike. ~: 1300 National Guard troops, included 8 rifle companies & 3 machine gun companies, are called in to disperse strikers at Electric Auto-Lite Strike in Toledo, OH. 2 strikers die & over 200 are wounded. ~ 2 longshoremen are shot to death by San Francisco Police during International Longshoremans & Warehouse union strike. ~: January 20 Reward to German industrialists, who support Hitler, continues with the Law Regulating National Labor, known as the Charter of Labor, which decrees that the owners of enterprises should be the "fuehrers" and the workers should be the followers. The enterpriser-fuehrers should "make decisions for employees and laborers in all matters concerning the enterprise." Wages are set at a low rate, workers cannot make wage demands, strikes are forbidden.	November 20: McCormack-Dickstein congressional committee investigates fascist "Business Plot" to oust FDR & seize white house. ~: Congressional investigation claims Bush/BBH/Walker Hamburg America Line subsidizes pro-Nazi propaganda in Germany & the US. ~: US abandons its right to intervene in Cuba's internal affairs, revises Cuba's sugar quota and changes tariffs to favour Cuba.		July 2: FDR appoints Joe Sr. chairman of the new Securities and Exchange Commission, charged with regulating the manipulation of stock prices that Kennedy had mastered decades earlier. "The appointment is appalling," says one editor. "Kennedy is that worst of economic parasites, a Wall Street operator." Yet after 14 months of service, even critics will concede that he has served well. September: After a year spent studying in London, Joe Jr. enrolls as a freshman at Harvard.
Roosevelt/Garner/1935	March 9: Germany announces the existence of the Luftwaffe, the German air force. March 16: Military service becomes compulsory in Germany. September 15 Nuremberg Laws, designed to achieve "racial purity," are passed by German Reichstag stripping Jews of all rights & legalizing their persecution. Jews are prohibited from sexual relations & marriage with non-Jewish Germans. The swastika is officially incorporated into the German flag. ~: US Bureau of Investigation's powers are broadened. It is renamed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).	February: After gold confiscation at $20-66/ounce official price of gold is raised to $35/ounce but only foreigners can sell at higher price. Since 1919 world price of gold is set at private bank N. M. Rothschild & Sons in London, 11:00 am daily. Therefore gold shipped to London before stockmarket crash can now be sold back to US government at higher price. FDR orders building of a gold bullion depository called Fort Know to hold confiscated gold. June 26: In Germany a compulsory labor service decree is issued: young men & women between the ages of 18 & 25 are conson character of the trade union and employees' associations, and in its place we have substituted the conception 'soldiers of work'." The productive manpower of the German nation is now in Nazi control. They won the battle to liquidate labor unions as potential opposition & impose upon the working class the burdens of for aggressive warfare. July 5: National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), establishing the National Labor Relations Board. ~: Six affiliated unions of the AFL form a Committee for Industrial Organizing to expand the scope of the AFL beyond its craft-union orientation. November 9: Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) is formed to expand industrial unionism. ~: HL Hunt, Incorporated, is superseded by Placid Oil Company & the shares are divided into trusts for Hunt's 6 children. ~: The Wagner Act--the key labor measure of the New Deal--cancels the employees right to fight the organizing process & to refuse to bar­gain collectively. Governmental intervention thereby cru­cially assists the union cause, but undermines the voluntary framework of US labor relations.	February 15: McCormack-Dickstein committee reports to congress verifying JP Morgan plot against FDR but taking no action against plotters. August 14: The Social Security act is approved. August 31: FDR signs Neutrality Act with aim of keeping nation out of a 2nd war in Europe.		October: Jack enrolls at Princeton, having withdrawn from the London School of Economics and Political Science with an attack of jaundice. He will leave after one semester due to ill health.	February: Morgan-controlled media tries to bury business plot story but Butler's outspokenness, & journalist John L. Spivak's publication of committee transcripts, expose it. March 28: Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), one of the seminal works of Nazi propaganda, premiers in Berlin. ~: Time magazine describes Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia as a "civilizing mission"& ridicules the Ethiopians. ~: A. Harriman is co-founder of Today magazine with Vincent Astor, which merges with Newsweek in 1937.
Roosevelt/Garner/1936	February 25: The British government begins work to rearm nation for looming conflict. March 7: German Jews are prohibited from voting in elections for the Reichstag. Germany takes back Rhineland. March 29: In nation-wide vote 98.7% of Germans support recent reoccupation of Rhineland & abandonment of Treaty of Versailles. May 11: During a speech Pope Pius XI names Communism as the "greatest evil to men." September 4: Labor court in Berlin rules that any non-Jewish German who marries non-Aryan is to be fired from their job. September 24: German government orders Jewish-owned employment agencies to shut down. October 4: German Chamber of Culture decrees that all Jewish art galleries must close their doors by year's end. November 23: Over 2,000 books written by Jewish authors are blacklisted by German government. December 7: In Germany the last Jewish-owned department store is "Aryanized." ~: In Britain's House of Commons Winston Churchill declares re-militarization of the Rhineland a triumph for Hitler & speaks of the danger to Britian. He complains the spirit of British people is tamed & cowed "with peace films, anti-recruiting propaganda and resistance to defense measures." He is denounced as a scaremonger & warmonger.	June 18: Faced with exposure of financial collusion with Nazi Germany, Bush & Harriman hire A. Dulles to cloak assets which includes Hamburg America Line, a cover for German chemical company I.G. Farben. August 1 - 16: John J. McCloy, "Chairman of the Board of the American Establishment," a future Warren Commission member, shares a box with Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. October 1: Long time Federal Reserve critic Louis T McFadden is poisoned to death. December 28: A "sitdown strike" of auto workers (UAW) supported by the Women's Emergency Brigade at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan. ~: The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor votes to expel all labor members who claim affiliation with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO, which was being led by the UMW president John L. Lewis. ~: HL Hunt buys Excelsior Refining Company in & changes name to Parade Refining Company. He also founds Hunt Oil Company.	June 4: Leon Blume is elected French Premier. He is 1st socialist & 1st Jew to hold that office. June 30: The Walsh-Healey Act sets safety standards, minimum wage, overtime pay and child labor provisions on all federal contracts.		1936-1940: JFK enters Harvard University as a freshman. ~: Joe Sr. joins Roosevelt's presidential re-election campaign.	July 9: German Minister of Propaganda Goebbels halts anti-Jewish state-sponsered propaganda until Berlin Olympics are over. ~: With help from New York Times journalist Arthur Krock, Joe Kennedy Sr. publishes I'm for Roosevelt, a book that explains how Roosevelt helps capitalists.
Roosevelt/Garner/1937	January 16: Gestapo dissolves all Jewish youth organizations throughout the Reich. January 22: German government asks its citizens not to patronize Jewish doctors. January 24: Goering orders Reinhard Heydrich to organize the emigration of all Jews living in Germany. February 1: Hitler's government forbids German citizens from accepting any Nobel Prize. April 11: German Ministry of the Interior issues decree revoking citizenship of Jews. May 9: In Germany Jews are officially barred from receiving university degrees. May 14: Performance of music from Beethoven & Mozart by Jews in forbidden in Germany. October 20: European Nazi police begin the picketing of Jewish shops & market stalls. December 14: German government declares Gypsies to be "inveterate criminals" & orders all those identified as "asocial" to be sent to concentration camps.	January: Dulles merges all his cloaking client accounts into one: Brown Brothers Harriman-Schroeder Rock. February 11: General Motors recognizes United Auto Workers union following sit-down strike. March 8: Residue gas from HL Hunt's Parade Refining Company causes New London Explosion, killing at least 300 people & injuring hundreds. May 26: The Battle of the Overpass - United Auto Workers bloody confontation with Ford security forces. Walter Reuther & UAW supporters fresh from organizing GM & Chrysler, attempt to distribute leaflets at Ford Motor Company's River Rouge plant & are beaten up (together with bystanders) by Ford Service Department guards. Published pictures of badly beaten UAW organizers Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen swayed public opinion in favor of the UAW. May 30: The Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police kill 10 & wound 30 during "Memorial Day Massacre" at the Republic Steel plan. ~: In Harlan County, Kentucky, Sheriff Deputies in the pay of the coal operators shoot unionists in a violent effort to break the United Mine Workers.	April 10: Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) successfully runs on New Deal platform for Congress in special election for 10th District of Brown and Root is main financial backer. TX Majority Leader Sam Rayburn becomes his mentor. October 5: Breaking his long-held pro-neutrality stance FDR warns against continued American isolationism, saying that aggressors must be "quarantined." November 17: Meetings between Edward Wood, Lord Halifax & Hitler begins marking beginning of Britain's policy of appeasement.		1936-1940: JFK attends Harvard University. April: Joe Sr. is appointed head of the newly-established U.S. Maritime Commission. He publicizes his achievements successfully enough to be featured on the cover of Fortune magazine.
Roosevelt/Garner/1938	January 25: Gestapo is given the authority to detain prisoners under "protective custody" without charging them with a crime. February 4: Chief of the High Command of German army Werner von Fritsch is fired by Hitler on fabricated charges of homosexuality. Hitler assumes direct personal control over the army. April 24: German Jews are required to register their property with the government. April: Socialist Party announces that FDR-style liberalism is "a prelude to war." The Socialist Party leader, Norman Thomas, speaks against collective security as a way of stopping fascist aggression. Staying out of war, he claims, is the best way of avoiding fascism in the United States. American Federation of Labor joins the isolationists, its executive council announcing its opposition to any step that might lead to war. June 5: German edict goes into effect that Jewish doctors are to treat only Jewish patients. July 2: Nearly 40,000 Jews in Nazi-controlled Austria are taken into "protective custody". July 21: German government passes legislation to require identity cards for Jews. July 27: German streets with Jewish names are renamed. August 12: Germany begins to mobilize a full military. September 27: Jews are prohibited from practicing law in Germany. November 9 - 10: "Night of the Broken Glass" (Kristallnacht) against Jews takes place. World reaction is largely negative. A Gallop poll records 94 percent disapproval of "Nazi treatment of Jews." November 11: Hitler orders Hermann Goering to find solution to the "Jewish question" & frees him to use whatever resources are necessary. November 12: German government orders Jewish population to pay 1 billion Reichsmark for the damages from Kristallnacht. November 15: Jewish children are expelled from their schools throughout the Reich.	April: J. Richardson Dilworth, who will manage Rockefeller forune, becomes member of secret Yale society Skull & Bones. June 25: Wages & Hours (Fair Labor Standards) Act is passed banning child labor & setting 40-hour work week. Act goes into effect in October 1940 & is upheld in Supreme Court on 3 February 1941. ~: Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman states: "The stock of money, prices & output was decidedly more unstable after the establishment of the Reserve System than before. The most dramatic period of instability in output was, of course, the period between the 2 wars...This evidence persuades me that at least a third of the price rise during & just after World War I is attributable to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System...& that the severity of each of the major contractions--1920-21, 1929-33 & 1937-38--is directly attributable to acts of commission & omission by the Reserve authorities." ~: Fritz Thyssen "flees" Germany claiming Hitler turned on him & seized his property so he owns no interest in foreign companies. Under rules of Allied occupation of Germany all property owned by citizens of neutral nation that was seized by Nazis must be returned to the neutral citizens upon proper presentation of documents showing proof of ownership. Thyssen accumulated much proof of neutral ownership with help of UBC. ~: HL Hunt family moves to Dallas. ~: John L. Lewis, seeking to organize steelworkers, secures a labor contract with the president of the world's largest steel company, United States Steel, but the smaller companies that collectively were known as "Little Steel" brutally fought steelworkers. Scores of deaths and injuries occurred as the United Steelworkers of America struck at Little Steel plants across the industrial northeast.	January 28: FDR calls for the rearmament of US. June 25: Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA); established Wage and Hour Division in DOL. November 9 - 10: FDR expresses horror & dismay over Kristallnacht. November 14: FDR withdraws US ambassador to Germany in protest of Kristallnacht. ~: House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) is formed to investigate German American involvement in Nazi & KKK activity. TX Congressman Martin Dies however is supporter of Klan & speaks at rallies. Other members of HUAC such as John Rankin & John S. Wood are also Klan sympathizers. Wood defends Klan by arguing that: "The threats & intimidations of the Klan are an old American custom, like illegal whisky-making." Investigations of KKK are dropped. Instead, HUAC concentrates on investigating possibility that American Communist Party infiltrated New Deal Projects like Federal Writers Project, to discredit accomplishments of FDR's administration. Note: Brown & Root (now Halliburton) are LBJ's main financial backers. He repays them with fat government contracts such as building the Corpus Christi Naval Station.		January 5: After intense lobbying, FDR nominates Joe Sr. ambassador to Great Britain . Two months later, Joe Sr. will arrive in London, followed soon after by Rose, Kick and the four youngest Kennedys. Winter 1938: JFK tours Europe. June: Joe Jr. graduates from Harvard College. Joe Sr.'s pique at not being offered an honorary degree from the university prevents him from attending his son's graduation. October 19: Ambassador Kennedy argues for co-existence with dictatorships in a speech at the Trafalgar Day dinner of the Navy League. 1936-1940: JFK attends Harvard University.
Roosevelt/Garner/1939	January 1: German Jews are required to wear badges & are banned from working with non-Jewish Germans. January 30: In a speech to the Reichstag Hitler states that outcome of world war will be destruction of the Jewish race. February 21: German Jews are ordered to surrender gold & silver with the exception of wedding bands. April 20: The largest display of military might in the history of Germany celebrates Hitler's 50th birthday. August 23: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a ten-year non-aggression pact. September 1: World War 2 begins when Hitler's Nazis invade Poland believing that Britain & France will not go to war. He says, "Our opponents are poor creatures. I saw them at Munich." September 3: Britain & France declare war on Germany, joined by India & New Zealand. The British cannot send help to Poland & the French sit on their border rather than invade Germany. September 9: All Jewish males are shipped from town of Gelsenkirchen to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. Women & children are left unprotected. September 24: Poland surrenders to Germany. September: WW2 underway in Europe until 1945. ~: FBI becomes pre-eminent in field of domestic intelligence. ~: J. Edgar Hoover lobbies vigorously to expand the FBI jurisdiction globally to become the one US intelligence agency. FDR opts instead to create the OSS under Hoover rival William Donovan, a move that was supported by British intelligence counterparts. As a result Hoover resents OSS & British intelligence as obstacle to his dream of controlling all US intelligence, foreign & domestic	February 27: US Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes are illegal. April: William Bundy, son of 1909 Bonesman Hollister Bundy, brother of McGeorge, becomes member of secret Yale society Skull & Bones.	April 15: FDR appeals to Hitler & Mussolini to cease their campaigns of aggression. April 28: In a globally-broadcast speech, Hitler mocks Roosevelt's requests for peace. August 2: Research on atom bomb begins after Einstein-Szilárd letter to FDR informing him of German work on atomic weapons.		1936-1940: JFK attends Harvard University. March 13: The Kennedy family attends the coronation of Pope Pius XII. Jack travels through Germany, Poland and Russia on the eve of World War II, reporting to his father on the imminence of war.	May 23: In preparation for invasion of Poland Goebbels puts propaganda machine into full force against Poles.
Roosevelt/Garner/1940	May: US Navy moves base of its Pacific Ocean fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Admiral Yamamoto Isoruku, commander of Japan's Combined Fleet, describes the move as "tantamount to a dagger pointed at our throat." June 5: Hitler invades France & 11 days later French government votes for armistice with Germany. Germany agrees to peace with a friendly French government. German forces remain in France along the coast of the English channel. June 14: Paris falls to the German army. September 16: US selective service bill is made law, requiring service for men between the ages 21 through 35. ~: WW2 continues. Air war between Britain & Germany begins.	April: McGeorge Bundy, son of 1909 Bonesman Hollister Bundy, brother of William, becomes member of secret Yale society Skull & Bones. ~: Spending lifts US out of the depression. Millions go to work in what is called the defense industry.	1940 - 1946: Stimson becomes Secretary of War. November 5: Roosevelt is reelected to a third term. December: Lovett accepts appointment as special assistant for air affairs to Secretary of War Stimson.		June: John F. Kennedy (JFK) graduates cum laude with a BS degree from Harvard University. July: JFK's college thesis "Appeasement in Munich," about UK's failure to prepare itself against Nazi Germany, is published as book "Why England Slept." October: Joe Sr. returns to the United States, asking to be relieved of his ambassadorial post. December 2: Joe Sr. officially resigns as ambassador to England.	July: JFK's book "Why England Slept," written with Arthur Krock, is published. It receives positive reviews and becomes a bestseller. November 8: In an interview with The Boston Globe, Joe Kennedy Sr. reiterates his views on staying out of the war for an American audience.
Roosevelt/Wallace/1941	February 25: WW2 continues. Joseph Goebbels writes in diary: "Cables from the USA to the short-wave service are generally very positive. My work is also greatly respected there. America does not consist entirely of Jews & plutocrats. It is just that the can shout the loudest." April 10: Goebbels writes in diary: "With the fall of Yugoslavia, we shall also take possession of enormous potential sources of raw materials. Particularly copper, which we could do with." June 14: Goebbels writes in diary that Hitler, looking forward to invasion of Soviet Union, says "And victory is right, moral & necessary, & once we have won, who is going to question our methods?" June: COI opens London office, works closely with British Espionage. July 31: Göring instructs Heydrich to make plans "..for bringing about the complete solution of the Jewish question." August 18: Hitler orders that all Jews in Berlin to be moved to the slums of Poland. September 1: Nazis order Star of David is to be placed on all Jews over age of six. December 7: US enters WW2 after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. December 12: Goebbels writes in diary: "With respect of the Jewish Question, the Führer [Hitler] has decided to make a clean sweep. He prophesied to the Jews that if they again brought about a world war, they would live to see their annihilation in it. That wasn't just a catch-word. The world war is here, & the annihilation of the Jews must be the necessary consequence."	June 20: Henry Ford recognizes the UAW. June: A. Harriman, FDR's special envoy to Europe, attends meeting between Winston Churchill & FDR. Outcome of 5-day meeting is Atlantic Charter, a common declaration of principles of the US & UK. October 20: US government orders seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City, including A. Harriman owned Union Banking Corporation, of which P. Bush is Director, shareholder & VP. December 15: AFL pledges there will be no strikes in defense-related industry plants for the duration of war. 1941 - 1942: A. Harriman becomes director of Lend-Lease program of the US State Department. 1941 - 1945: Lovett, partner in BBH, becomes Assistant Secretary of War for Air overseeing massive expansion of Army Air Forces and procurement of huge numbers of WW2 aircraft. ~: FDR announces a no-strike pledge by AFL and CIO for duration of World War II. ~: 5-week animators' strike at Walt Disney Studios to end the paternalistic relation between Disney and his animation staff, cemented the studio's derogatory nickname of "the mouse factory."	March 11: FDR signs Lend Lease Act, enabling him to send war materials, including ships, to nations at war. June 14: US freezes German & Italian assets in America. June 26: FDR freezes Japanese assets in US & suspends relations. June 28: Congressman Johnson loses special election for US Senate seat, to replace deceased Morris Sheppard, still running as FDR New Dealer, in election marked by massive fraud on both sides. Brown & Root gives huge sums of cash to LBJ, going so far as to literally give money away at LBJ campaign rallies. Even this money could not buy the election because the opponent was even more corrupt. Brown & Root violate IRS rules over campaign contributions, largely in charging off its huge donations as deductible company expenses. Subsequent IRS investigation threaten to bring criminal charges against Brown & Root as well as LBJ & others. It is not quashed until FDR himself tells IRS to back off & allow Brown & Root to settle for pennies on the dollar. LBJ retains seat in Congress where he continues to repay Brown & Root. June: FDR names William Donovan Coordinator of Information (COI), 1st head of US Espionage. A. Dulles heads NY HQ in Rockefeller Center. August 1: US announces an oil embargo against all countries except Britain. Japan is forced to make a decision in the war. August 12: Churchill & FDR meet in New Foundland & create "Atlantic Charter." expressing "the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live." November 27: Stimson & FDR conspire to provoke Japanese into first strike so US can enter WW2. December 13: FDR signs Trading With the Enemy Act after learning UBC is doing business with Hitler's Germany, declared enemy of US. December 9: LBJ, recognizing he'll need war service for his political aspirations, becomes 1st member of Congress to volunteer for active duty, becomes reserve Naval officer. He convinces FDR to send him on an inspection tour of the southwest Pacific where MacArthur allows him to go on single bombing mission as an observer. LBJ is awarded his Silver Star by MacArthur for his one & only combat mission on June 9, 1942. He wears it the rest of his life & exaggerates his war exploits.		September: Joe Jr. and Jack both enlist in the Navy. Joe Jr. is sent to flight school; Jack is commissioned as an ensign, joining the Office of Naval Intelligence. ~: Jack begins an affair with Inga Arvad, a married Dane falsely suspected of being a Nazi spy. The FBI monitors the relationship. ~: Joe Sr. arranges for Rosemary to have a frontal lobotomy. The operation leaves their daughter in worse condition, and she will be institutionalized for the rest of her life.	July 31: Washington Post runs NY Herald Tribune's article about Thyssen, hiding Harriman & Bush involvement by omitting parts. ~: Kathleen Kennedy joins the Washington Times-Herald.
Roosevelt/Wallace/1942	January 23: WW2 continues. Discussion about final solution to "Jewish problem" begins. End result is mass murder of Jewish people. January 23: Japanese-Americans are segregated out of US Army units. February 26: German physicist Werner Heisenberg informs Hitler about new wonder (atomic) weapon (wunderwaffen). March 21: Jews are removed from their ghetto in Lublin, Poland & sent to extermination camps. March 23: US government begins moving Japanese-Americans to internment camps from war zone areas on the Pacific Coast, but not from Territory of Hawaii, where they are more numerous. March 27: Deportation of Jews from France to the extermination camp at Auschwitz, in Poland, begins. From elsewhere in Europe, since February: Box cars carrying Jews have been arriving at Auschwitz. Jews there are 60% of prison population. June 12: In Amsterdam Anne Frank receives a diary as a present for her thirteenth birthday. June 22: Germans begin "resettling" Jews from the Warsaw ghetto, walled Jewish community 7 miles square. Anyone trying to leave or refuse is shot. Exempt are those Jews working for German institutions & companies. December 12: Hoover's FBI starts file on Charlie Chaplin saying he wants tolerance & understanding for Soviet Union's Communism.	June: George HW Bush joins US Navy to become an aviator. June 13: Office of Strategic Services (OSS) replaces COI. Donovan recruits rich & powerful as agents & assetts. August: Under authority of Trading with the Enemies Act Congress seizes 1st of Bush-Harriman managed Thyssen entities: Hamburg American Line. Note: P. Bush's UBC, in conjunction with Thyssen's German Steel Trust, produces roughly 1/3 of Nazi war machine, specifically: 50.8% pig iron, 41.4% universal plate, 36% heavy plate, 38.5% galvanized steel, 45.5% pipes & tubes, 22.1% wire, 35% explosives. All are needed to build tanks, fighter planes, guns & bombs.	July 16: LBJ returns to Washington after FDR orders congressmen on active duty to return to their lawmaking responsibilities. August: Richard Nixon joins the US Navy as lieutenant & is sent to the Pacific. August: Under authority of Trading with the Enemies Act Congress seizes 1st of Bush-Harriman managed Thyssen entities: Hamburg American Line. October 10: Harriman/Bush's UBC is seized by US government under Trading with the Enemy Act. Adolf Hitler's financiers, the Thyssen family, formed UBC to help cloak assetts. A US congressional report describes UBC as an "interlocking trust" with the German Steel Trust. UBC is also involved in raising funds for Germany & illegally transferring aviation fuel technology to the Luftwaffe. October 26: Two more Harriman affiliates are seized by the US government under the Trading with the Enemy Act: Holland American Trading Corporation & the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. By November, the Silesian-American Corporation, another of P. Bush's ventures, is also seized because it profits allegedly profits from slave labor at Auschwitz via a partnership with IG Farben, Hitler's third major industrial patron & partner in the infrastructure of the Third Reich. November 11: Another Harriman affiliate is seized by the US government under the Trading with the Enemy Act: Silesian-American Corporation. December: LBJ purchases Austin radio station KTBC using wife's money & name. FCC gives unusually fast approval for media ownership by public official. He becomes wealthy doing political favors in return for ad revenues, using radio station as a front for laundering bribe money. ~: Bobby Baker becomes a page in the US Senate & LBJ his mentor, resulting in his nickname "Little Lyndon." ~: National War Labor Board established with labor representation on the board.		January: Jack is transferred from Naval Intelligence to the Navy shipyard at Charleston, South Carolina. Within the year he graduates from Officer Training at Northwestern University and Torpedo Boat School as a PT boat skipper in the South Pacific. May 6: Joe Jr. receives his naval wings with his father in attendance.	February 2: LA Times says a Japanese-American "almost inevitably...grows up to be a Japanese not an American."
Roosevelt/Wallace/1943	January 24: WW2 continues. FDR, Churchill, Henri Giraud & Charles DeGaulle conclude a 10-day meeting at Casablanca & decide the war must end with unconditional surrender of enemy nations. November 22 - 26: FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt & agree that Japan will be "stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of WW1," & "all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese...shall be restored to the Republic of China."	April: Donovan recruits Catholic Church in Rome to be center of Anglo-American spy operations in Fascist Italy. It becomes one of America’s most enduring spy alliances in the Cold War.	1943 - 1946: Averell Harriman becomes US Ambassador to the Soviet Union. ~: Congress passes the Smith-Connally Act to restrict labor bargaining and organizing. It would have required 30 day "cooling off" before strike, criminal penalties for encouraging strikes, Presidential seizure of struck plants, prohibitions against union campaign contributions. It is vetoed by President Roosevelt.		March: JFK earns command of PT-109 as a lieutenant. June: Kathleen begins working for the Red Cross. August 2: A Japanese destroyer rams PT 109 off the Solomon Islands; skipper Jack Kennedy loses two men immediately. Despite being stranded in the middle of the Pacific, he manages to save the rest of his crew. His valor will earn him Navy and Marine Corps medals. October 5: Just shy of his eighteenth birthday, Robert Kennedy enlists in the Naval Reserve.	February 20: US studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies. March: Benjamin Bradlee, childhood friend of Richard Helms, joins naval intelligence as communications officer handling classified cables.
Roosevelt/Wallace/1944	January 20: WW2 continues. US Secretary of War Stimson announces that Japanese-Americans are eligible for the draft. June 6: D-Day. From England 50,000 British, Canadian & US troops land on beaches of Normandy in largest amphibious landing ever. August 4: Anne Frank & family are arrested by Gestapo in Amsterdam.	June: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) & World Bank are approved with full US participation. They repeat on a world scale what the National Banking Act & Federal Reserve Act established in the US. They created a banking cartel comprising the world's privately owned central banks, which gradually assumed the power to dictate credit policies to the banks of all nations. December 28: FDR orders Army to seize executive offices of Montgomery Ward after they fail to comply with National War Labor Board directive on union shops.	November 4-7: FDR wins a fourth term. ~: Batista retires and is succeeded by the civilian Ramon Gray San Martin.		Spring 1944: JFK enters Boston's Chelsea Naval Hospital with a lower back condition. May 6: Kathleen marries a British lord, William Cavendish. June 11: JFK is awarded Navy & Marine Corps Medal & Purple Heart for his actions while in command of PT-109. August 12: Joe Jr. dies on a secret mission flying over the English Channel. The Naval Cross will be awarded posthumously. Joe Sr. begins to transfer his ambitions to his second son. September 9: William Cavendish is killed in battle against the Germans. Kathleen Kennedy is widowed after only four months of marriage. November: Robert Kennedy enrolls in Harvard College.
Roosevelt/Truman/1945		~: Lovett returns to Brown Brothers Harriman. 1945 - 1949: Joint UK/US interrogation team unsuccessfully questions Fritz Thyssen about his role in the missing billions in assets of the Third Reich. He did not divulge his secret ownership of banks enabling him to transfer ownership documents-stocks, bonds, deeds & trusts- from his bank in Berlin through his bank in Holland to Union Bank in NY.	April 12: FDR dies making Harry Truman President after only weeks as VP.		March 1: JFK is honorably discharged from Navy with full rank of lieutenant & begins a career as a journalist, reporting on the charter for the new United Nations in San Francisco and on the British Parliament. November: Joe Sr. buys Chicago's Merchandise Mart, the largest privately-owned building in the world.
Truman/1945	January 26: Soviet troops enter Auschwitz. February 13: British bombers firebomb 11 square miles of Dresden, Germany which was filled with people fleeing from the advancing Soviet forces. US joins bombing the city & Dresden burns for 5 more days killing at least 60,000. March 9: Incendiary bombing of Tokyo begins. Firestorm consumes oxygen & suffocates thousands as liquid glass rolls down streets. Around 200,000 die. April 11: Hitler's Gestapo phones Buchenwald concentration camp to order staff to blow up the camp & its inmates. Camp administrators have already fled so an inmate answers the phone &, pretending to be an administrator, says it has already been done. The Gestapo does not arrive. A few hours later the US Army arrives. April 30: Hitler supposedly commits suicide. May 1: Joseph Goebbel's commits suicide along with family & pets. May 7: Germany surrenders unconditionally to the allies. May 28: Churchill sends memo to Air Marshall Arthur Harris: "It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, should be reviewed." July 21: Since July 17 Stalin, Churchill & Truman have been at Potsdam Conference. Truman remains suspicious of Stalin & Soviet Union, which is scheduled to enter the war against Japan. Truman approves use of atomic bomb against Japan, supposedly thinking it will be on a purely military target. July 27: Truman cables Japan from Potsdam & warns of "utter devastation of the Japanese homeland" unless they surrender unconditionally. August 6: Japanese have not accepted Truman's demand for unconditional surrender only because they want to retain their emperor, a god to their culture. The military has participated in choosing non-military city of Hiroshima as target & the US drops its atomic bomb. Truman informs US on radio & refers to Hiroshima as "non-military" target. August 8: Soviet Union declares war on Japan. August 9: Truman drops A-bomb on Nagasaki on advice of Stimson, who considers old imperial capital of Kyoto too sacred to bomb. August 15: Japan surrenders, ending WW2 fighting. September 2: WW2 officially ends when the Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed on USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Japanese Emperor is allowed to remain by Stimson. November 20: In Nuremberg Germany war crimes trials begin.	April 1: Strike by 400,000 mine workers in the US begins. US troops seize railroads & coal mines the following month. September: Operation Paperclip is approved by Truman, allowing US intelligence & military to import Nazi scientists from Germany. October 4: US Navy seizes oil refineries to break 20-state post-war strike. December 27: Truman approves World Bank & Internaional Monetary Fund (IMF) ~: Workers in packinghouses nation-wide go on strike.	February 3 - 11: Stalin, Churchill & FDR meet at Yalta & firm up agreements including coalition government for Poland. Stalin speaks of continuing good relations but warns that they may be divided by "diverse interests." July 26: Winston Churchill is voted out as British Prime Minister. October 1: Truman dissolves OSS since it is a wartime agency with no war & rival J. Edgar Hoover successfully persuaded Truman that the OSS in peacetime would be an "American Gestapo". Covert actions cease. At the end of the war, Truman fired Hoover’s enemy William Donovan & abolished the OSS that he had managed so successfully. In the overseas intelligence vacuum created by the dismantling of the OSS, Hoover again put forth a proposal to extend the scope of the FBI to intelligence gathering overseas. He sent to Truman his "Plan for U.S. Secret Worldwide Intelligence Coverage." October 24: United Nations (UN) is formed replacing "League Of Nations" with same goal of One World Government.
Truman/1946	April 1: Allied occupation of Indochina officially ends. US recognizes Indochina, including Vietnam, as under French control. October 15: Hermann Goering poisons himself hours before he is scheduled to be hanged.	~: Lovett leaves BBH works with General George Marshall as under SOS. ~: LBJ helps Brown & Root get $21,000,000 contract to build navy & airforce bases on Guam. With LBJ in Congress, their net worth increases 5-fold over previous decade. ~: A national railway strike stops all trains. President Harry S. Truman takes over railways and settles the dispute.	January: Nixon leaves Navy in January 1946 to run for Congress. During campaign he attacks New Deal & says his Democratic Party opponent is an enemy of free enterprise. March 14: Stalin responds to Churchill: "In substance, Mr. Churchill now stands in the position of a firebrand of war." November 5: US meat shortages, economic difficulties & labor unrest help Republicans win majorities in congress for first time since 1930: Nixon wins congressional seat after accusing incumbent of being soft on communism; Joseph McCarthy is elected to US Senate after exaggerated stories about his military service in the Pacific." ~: HUAC becomes permanent committee to investigate "suspected threats of subversion or propaganda that attack "the form of government guaranteed by our Constitution," i.e., communists. New Congressman Nixon is a member of committee. ~: Averell Harriman briefly becomes US Ambassador to Britain. ~: Averell Harriman becomes United States Secretary of Commerce until 1948.		February: Robert F. Kennedy begins a tour of duty aboard the U.S.S. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. April: Jack announces that he will run for Massachusetts' 11th Congressional district seat, left vacant by once-again-mayor James Michael Curley. His grandfather, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, who held the seat a half-century earlier, campaigns with him. Once Kennedy wins the primary, he is a shoo-in for the seat in Democratic Boston. He will represent his district for the next six years. June 17: JFK wins the Democratic primary for Massachusetts' Eleventh Congressional District. November: JFK is elected to the House of Representatives.	March 5: Cold War begins when Winston Churchill makes "Iron Curtain" speech, at Truman's invitation to home state of MO. Communism officially becomes the new boogeyman--a tool of the political right with many aims including opposing organized labor on behalf of the business community. The tactic of Red-baiting makes it possible to oppose unions without having to address economic issues.
Truman/1947	February 27: Truman prompts congress to declare Communism a threat to Western civilization to scare country into accepting Cold War arms spending. Result is long "nuclear war" scare followed by long "red menace" scare. March 12: Truman solidifies Cold War with Truman Doctrine speech pledging American support against Communism. Plan is to aid Greece & Turkey, to support "free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way." March: Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War. September 7: Stalin frets about economic recovery in part of Germany occupied by Britain, France & US, proclaiming: "imperialists want war." October: HUAC holds hearings into alleged Communist propaganda in Hollywood movie industry.	June 23: Labor-Management Relations (Taft-Hartley) Act becomes law in spite of Truman's description as "slave-labor bill" & veto. The federal law, greatly restricts activities & power of labor unions & is a response to perception that labor has become too powerful. State "right-to-work" (union-busting) laws appear. September 18: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is created by Truman via National Security Act. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter is appointed 1st Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). Supposedly limited to subversive operations abroad, CIA actually protects profits of US corporations, especially defense contractors & crushes alternatives to Capitalism. It is closely allied with Yale's Skull & Bones. War Department is renamed Department of Defense. ~: CIA interferes in 2-year Greek civil war helping neo-fascists beat leftists who had fought Nazis. Neo-fascists institute brutal regime.	June: LBJ woos conservative voters, who believe that federal controls upon labor unions are needed, by supporting Taft-Hartley Act. He joins successful coalition to override Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act. June 5: Secretary of State George Marshall. Marshall gives address to graduating class of Harvard University Standing on the steps of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard, offering American aid to promote European recovery and reconstruction. The most important element of the speech was the call for the Europeans to meet and create their own plan for rebuilding Europe, and that the United States would then fund this (Marshall) plan July 12: Truman announces Marshall Plan earmarking $13B for rebuilding allied countries of Europe, repelling communism, escalating Cold War. Stalin is hostile toward plan accusing Western powers of seeking to divide Europe into 2 hostile camps. March 21: Truman sees fears of a Communist takeover of US government as ridiculous, but bows to public pressure & institutes loyalty oaths for federal employees.	April 15: Jackie Robinson joins major league baseball at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.	May 13: Kathleen is killed in a plane crash over southern France. Fall: Jack becomes ill in London. He is diagnosed with Addison's disease, a hormonal disorder that causes fatigue and compromises the immune system.	October 27: Film stars in Committee for the First Amendment: John Huston, William Wyler, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Danny Kaye and Gene Kelly; arrive in DC to urge congress to let artists work free of government interference. Danny Kaye states the motion picture industry has not been putting propaganda into its work.			~ : Jack Ruby (Jacob Rubenstein) moves to Dallas where he manages various nightclubs including Carousel Club, favorite hangout of instutionally corrupt Dallas Police Department (DPD) close to Ruby. He gives them large quantities of liquor & other favors.
Truman/1948	January 20: Truman begins military conscription. February: Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia. June 24: Berlin Blockade begins .	April 18: CIA interferes in Italian elections to prevent Communist Party from legally & fairly coming to power. April 20: Labor leader Walter Reuther is shot & seriously wounded by would-be assassins. April: George Herbert Walker Bush, son of P. Bush, becomes member of secret Yale society Skull & Bones. June: CIA revives covert action wing, innocuously called Office of Policy Coordination, led by Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner. Secret charter includes propaganda.	January 27: Congress passes Smith-Mundt Act. March 17: Truman speaks to Congress, blames Soviet Union for communist take over in Czechoslovakia & calls on Congress to pass Marshall Plan & to enact universal military training & selective service bill. April 3: Republicans in Congress oppose Marshall Plan, complaining about throwing billions of dollars into "a bottomless pit of wasteful altruism." But Communist coup in Czechoslovakia turns them around & they help approve the $5.3 billion plan. July 20: US federal government indicts all 12 members of the governing board of Communist Party USA, charging them with advocating "destruction of the government of the United States by force & violence." August 28: LBJ, with campaign manager John Connally, runs right-wing anti-union platform, opposing anti-lynching bill, in 2nd US Senate race. Steals primary with 202 blatant fraudulent "votes" cast in alphabetical order, not included in original count. Primary is contested over vote fraud & federal court rules against LBJ, who has attorney Abe Fortas persuade US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, to overturn the ruling. November 2: LBJ becomes US senator by winning general election. Brown & Root invested $1 million dollars to insure win & Bell Aircraft let him travel by helicopter all over the state. Note: Freshman Senator Johnson is mentored by Senator Richard Russell, leader of Conservative coalition & arguably the most powerful man in Senate. November 2: Truman defeats Thomas Dewey & wins re-election. Dixiecrat candidate, Governor J. Strom Thurmond, carries 4 states: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama & his home state, S. Carolina. Most people have merely read about the campaigns in the newspapers. TV is still uncommon.		November: JFK is elected to a second term in the House. ~: Robert Kennedy graduates from Harvard College and enters law school at the University of Virginia.	January 27: Congress passes Smith-Mundt Act to fund global Cold War propaganda, mainly against Soviet Union. Act turns gov't-funded broadcasting & information programs into Cold War classified weapon. National Security Council (NSC) creates Office of Special Projects (OSP), renamed Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), separate from CIA. OPC covert action wing, is funded by siphoning of funds intended for the Marshall Plan. Secret charter includes: psy-ops, propaganda, economic warfare & sabotage. Wisner's OPC establishes Operation Mockingbird a propaganda program to influence domestic & foreign media. Washington Post's Philip Graham runs Mockingbird which soon owns members of NY Times, Newsweek, CBS et al. August 15: US CBS-TV begins 15-minute nightly newscast. ~: Ben Bradlee starts working for the Washington Post in 1948 as a reporter.			George Herbert Walker Bush
Truman/1949	May 12: Berlin Blockade ends. July: NATO ratified. September: Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes control of China. September: Soviets explode first atomic bomb.	January: Lovett returns to BBH. ~: CIA creates propaganda wing via Operation Mockingbird. ~: US & UK spend years trying/failing to replace Albanian Communist gov't with pro-Western/corporate gov't with ties to Italian fascists & Nazis. ~: ILWU leaves CIO rather than be ejected for "Communist domination." Ten other CIO unions are kicked out.	January 2: LBJ elected Majority Whip of US Senate. April 29: US George F. Kennan, former diplomat in Soviet Union concerned about public opinion states publicly that Russians are not an enemy of the American people, that they still believe in "decency, honesty, kindliness, & loyalty in the relations between individuals." May 31: Alger Hiss is tried for perjury. He worked for the Nye Committee, which investigates & documents wartime profiteering by military contractors during WW1, i.e., antagonizing American industrial & banking giants. Since Germany was illegally rearming some wanted to discredit Hiss, while raising new Congressman Nixon's profile. So Whittaker Chambers, a Senior Editor at Luce's rabid anti-communist right wing Time magazine, states that Hiss had been a member of the communist party. Hiss denies it & Nixon suggests that rather than proving Hiss was a Communist, which would be tough, he could prove that either Hiss or Chambers was lying. Nixon, after strategizing with Allen & JF Dulles, presents flimsy forged "evidence" that he uses to accuse Hiss of perjury. July 7: Alger Hiss perjury trial ends in hung jury. July 15: Truman establishes national housing policy providing federal aid to slum clearance programs & low-cost housing projects. November 17: 2nd Alger Hiss perjury trial begins. 1949 - 1950: Averell Harriman works on the Marshall Plan. ~: Child labor is finally prohibited through an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. Previous attempts had not been successful.			April 28: Speaking to the American Newspaper Publishers Association, Herbert Hoover calls for expelling communist countries from UN & receives "thunderous, almost impassioned ovation." ~: Operation Mockingbird is launched by the CIA to recruit American news assetts as spies & disseminators of propaganda. Headed by Frank Wisner, A. Dulles, Richard Helms & Philip Graham (publisher of Washington Post which becomes major CIA asset). Eventually CIA's media assets include: ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, AP, UPI, Reuters, Hearst, Scripps-Howard, Copley & more, totalling at least 25 organizations & 400 journalists.			~: Edward Clark introduces Malcolm/Mac Wallace to LBJ.
Truman/1950	January 11: Truman announces program to develop the hydrogen bomb. June 17: US SOS Dean Acheson sends JF Dulles to S. Korea. Dulles visits the 38th parallel & speaks of US determination to stand by S. Korea. June 25: Korean War starts. It ends in 1953.	April 21: Seattle Northgate shopping mall opens, beginning US trend toward shopping malls with parking taking customers away from main street & requiring customers to have cars. August 27: Truman orders US Army to seize nation's railroads to prevent general strike. Railroads are returned to owners 2 years later. September: General Marshall brings Lovett back into government as deputy secretary of defense when he takes over at Pentagon where he is instrumental in the creation of the CIA. April: William F. Buckley, CIA propagandist, becomes member of secret Yale society Skull & Bones. February 7: James Paul Warburg appearing before Senate states: "We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent." V October 7: Walter Bedell Smith becomes DCI. ~: CIA Project Bluebird, the first CIA mind control program, begins with the purpose of creating new identities, inducing amnesia, inserting hypnotic access codes in subjects' minds, creating multiple personalities, & creating false memories. Note: Closely allied to McCarthy's attacks on communism, the industrialists in the business of cracking down on labor militants and repressing leftists are supposed forces of law & order--local & state police, FBI & military intelligence. Many of these groups are formed specifically to fight radicalism & crush labor unrest & it was not uncommon for them to be subsidized by local businesses. But they had their own interests as well. Because of the authoritarian mind-set that law enforcement work breeds among its practitioners, opposition to radicalism was widespread. Moreover, their own bureaucratic interests, including the desire to present themselves as protecting the community against the threat of internal subversion, inspired them to exaggerate the danger of radicalism. ~: Cord Meyer becomes disillusioned with political liberalism, begins working with CIA. He forms the Committee to Frame a World Constitution with others, as a result makes contact with: the International Cooperative Alliance, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the Indian Socialist Party & the Congress of Peoples Against Imperialism. It is almost certain that this is done on behalf of the CIA.	January 21: Alger Hiss perjury trial ends with guilty verdict & he is sentenced to 5 years of prison. In 1975, as a result of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suits by Hiss et al, DOJ documents become public that expose evidence against him as fraudulent; he is exonerated. February 9: Senator Joe McCarthy makes claim, & 1st national headline, by telling the Ohio County Republican Women’s Club there are 205 Communists in US State Department. He provides no names yet is given senate committee to investigate charges, fueling red scare Hoover tried unsuccessfully to fuel. Throughout the "McCarthyism" era witch hunts Hoover & the FBI supply McCarthy with confidential information, speech writers, & training in the timing of press releases just prior to the national press deadlines in order to avoid embarrassing & unanswerable questions until after the charges are already in print. In return McCarthy generates headlines that Hoover can't. The atmosphere that McCarthy created allows the FBI to flourish, gaining the increased funding, power, & prestige desired by Hoover for years. McCarthy becomes Hoover's proxy, even attacking agents of his CIA nemesis. September 22: Truman vetoes Internal Security (McCarran-Wood) Act, saying it would "betray our finest traditions" & "curb the simple expression of opinion. Sep 23 Congress overrides Truman's veto the next day & McCarran-Wood Act becomes law. November 8: Congressman Nixon runs for seat in US Senate, wins against Helen Gahagan Douglas, whom he described as pink (almost communist) while she coined phrase "Tricky Dick." ~: Lovett becomes Secretary of Defense (SOD) during the Korean War. He focuses on long-range rearmament program & argues for large budgets for Korean war as well as expansion of all branches of armed forces. Like Marshall, Lovett believs that the US erred at end of WW2 by disintegrating the military. He is a proponent of NATO.		November 4: JFK is reelected to a third term in the House. ~: Robert Kennedy marries Ethel Skakel. ~: Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy enters Harvard College.				October: Mac Wallace begins working with the US Department of Agriculture in TX & begins affair with LBJ's sister, Josefa, who also had relationship with John Kinser, owner of a Austin golf course. She tells Kinser about her brother's corrupt activities, then Kinser asks Josefa to approach LBJ for financial help. Johnson refuses & Kinser may have resorted to blackmail. ~: David Ferrie, future CIA asset, becomes stridently anti-Communist. Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Truman/1951	April 9: General MacArthur has defies Truman who wants a ceasefire in Korea with Korea divided as before at the 38th parallel. After MacArthur writes letter to Republican House Minority Leader criticizing Truman, Truman's advisers agree MacArthur is a problem April 11: Truman fires MacArthur. April 12: In Europe MacArthur's dismissal is considered good news. In the US Republicans call for Truman's impeachment. The Chicago Tribune agrees. Senator Nixon demands that MacArthur be reinstated. June 25: Truman says he does not want a wider war & is ready for war to end with division at the 38th parallel. ~: Korean War continues.	July: Averell Harriman is sent to Tehran to mediate between Persia & Britain after Persian nationalization of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. August 20: CIA Project Artichoke arises from Project Bluebird, with goal of controlling an individual completely. V ~: OPC & CIA are merged. ~: Bush & Harrimans reclaim Union Bank from the US Alien Property Custodian, along with their "neutral" Dutch assets. Fritz Thyssen dies & remaining UBC shareholders liquidated their stock. P. Bush receives $1.5 million for his stock. ~: P HW Bush establishes Bush-Overby Oil Development, an oil-drilling business in Texas. ~: UAW president Walter Reuther elected president of CIO.	January 12: Federal Civil Defense Administration established.		May: Ted is caught cheating on an exam and is expelled from Harvard. He enlists in the Army and will serve for the next 16 months. July 4: Kathleen Hartington Kennedy is born to Robert and Ethel. She is Joe and Rose's first grandchild. Robert and Ethel will have 10 more children.	~: CIA plants "important assets" inside every major US news publication. Director A. Dulles recruits radical right wingers William Paley (CBS), Charles Douglas Jackson (Fortune), Henry Luce (Time) & Arthur Hays Sulzberger (N.Y. Times) for Operation Mockingbird. ~: A. Dulles recruits Cord Meyer officially into the CIA & Operation Mockingbird under Wisner. 1951 - 1963: HL Hunt promotes extreme right wing politics in 2 radio shows he financially supports: Facts Forum & Life Line. Facts Forum is also an organization that produces & distributes radio & TV programs & subsidizes mass distribution of anticommunist & jingoistic books & pamphlets.			October 22: Mac Wallace goes to Kinser's miniature golf course & shoots him several times, then escapes in his station wagon. A customer/witness makes note of Wallace's license plate & Wallace is arrested & charged with murder. He is released on bail after Edward Clark arranges for two of Johnson's financial supporters, M. E. Ruby & Bill Carroll, to post bond. Johnson's attorney, John Cofer, agrees to represent Wallace. ~: Ferrie moves to New Orleans to work as a pilot for Eastern Air Lines. CIA, Mob, Anti-Castro Cuban exiles
Truman/1952	February 26: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces possession of an atomic bomb. ~: Korean war continues.	April 8: Truman orders US Army to seize nation's steel mills to avert strike. It is later ruled illegal by Supreme Court. ~: HL Hunt, who has radical right-wing political views, launches & funds Douglas MacArthur for President campaign.	November 18: Lovett writes letter to Truman proposing restructure of Department of Defense. His recommendations for his successor play important role in reorganization in early Eisenhower administration & he acts as adviser. ~: Averell Harriman campaigns for Democratic nomination for president but loses. ~: Batista seizes power again in Cuba and presides over an oppressive and corrupt regime.		November 4: Jack wins a place in the United States Senate, unseating the descendant of a Boston Brahmin family, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Jack's brother Robert manages the campaign.	April 7: TV is becoming a large part of the lives of Americans. ~: HL Hunt's Facts Forum radio show endorses Senator Joseph McCarthy. ~: Actors' Guild president Ronald Reagan is recruited by Mockingbird's Crusade for Freedom to raise funds for resettlement of Nazis into US. Reagan serves as FBI informant & collaborates with producers to purge movie industry of subversives. ~: Reporter Ben Bradlee befriends Senator Kennedy.
Eisenhower/Nixon/1952	October 16: British face nationalization of oil they have controlled in Iran. Aware that the British are plotting to have him overthrown, Premier Mossadegh severs diplomatic relations. British ask US join plot against Mossadegh but Truman refuses. ~: Batista seizes power again in Cuba and presides over an oppressive and corrupt regime. ~: Korean War ends.	June 2: US Supreme Court rules that Truman seizure of nation's steel mills to avert strike was illegal.	July 9: Senator Joe McCarthy tells a cheering audience at Republican Convention that he will not soften his blows on Communist issues because "a rough fight is the only fight Communists can understand." July 11: Eisenhower (who detests Senator McCarthy) wins Republican nomination for President. November 4: Eisenhower easily defeats Democrat Party candidate Adlai Stevenson, a high-minded liberal.		January: Robert Kennedy becomes assistant counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations chaired by Joseph McCarthy. December: Joseph McCarthy is censured by the U.S. Senate. JFK abstains from voting on the resolution.	1952 - 1953: Ben Bradlee joins staff of the Office of U.S. Information & Educational Exchange (USIE), the embassy's propaganda unit which produces films, magazines, research, speeches, & news items for use by the CIA throughout Europe. USIE (later USIA) also controls Voice of America, a means of disseminating pro-American "cultural information" worldwide. While at the USIE Bradlee works with E. Howard Hunt.			February 1: Mac Wallace resigns from his government job in order to distance himself from Senator Lyndon Johnson. February 18: Mac Wallace's trial begins. Cofer admits his client's guilt but claims it was an act of revenge as Kinser had been sleeping with Wallace's wife. The jury finds Wallace guilty of murder with malice afore-thought. 11 jurors are for the death penalty; the 12th argues for life imprisonment. Judge Charles O. Betts overrules the jury, imposes 5 year suspended sentence & frees Wallace. Several jurors explain to Kinser's parents they agreed to "suspended sentence due to threats against their families. Edward Clark & LBJ arrange job for Wallace with Luscombe Aircraft Corporation which eventually becomes part of Ling-Tempco-Vought (LTV), a conglomerate funded by Clark's oil industry clients.
Eisenhower/Nixon/1953	April 16: Eisenhower states: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger & are not fed, those who are cold & are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." June 19: Rosenberg executions. July 26: Fidel Castro, 26 & brother, Raul, 22 & more than 100 others attack military garrison in an unsuccessful revolt against the Batista regime in Cuba. 61 rebels die & others are captured. July 27: Korean War ends.	April 20: CIA Operation MKUltra arises from Project Artichoke, experimenting with mind control on unwitting subjects, some of whom die. V January 20: Lovett returns to BBH as active partner. October 7: Allen Dulles becomes DCI. ~: CIA overthrows Iran's democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in military coup after he threatens to nationalize British oil & replaces him with dictator, Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo. ~: Although Federal Law requires annual physical audit of Fort Knox's gold, last audit is done under Eisenhower. Fort Knox which is found to contain over 700 million ounces of gold, 70% of the world's gold. ~: HW Bush uses BBH money to form Zapata Petroleum Co., a CIA front, with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who "resigned" to go into private business. ~: AFL expels the International Longshoremen's Association for corruption. ~: Louisiana Sugar Cane Workers' Strike.	January 3: LBJ becomes youngest minority leader in Senate history at age 44. January 3: Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President of the US & Nixon VP. August: Wisner becomes enemies with J. Edgar Hoover who begins carrying out investigations into their past. He soon discovers some of them were active in left-wing politics in the 1930s. This information is passed to Joseph McCarthy who starts attacking members of the OPC. McCarthy accuses Cord Meyer of being a communist. The FBI adds to the smear by announcing it is unwilling to give Meyer "security clearance" because he was a member of several groups considered subversive by the Justice Department, including being National Council on the Arts, where he associated with Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party. It is also pointed out that wife, Mary Meyer, was a former member of the American Labor Party. Meyer is eventually cleared of these charges & allowed to keep his job.		January 3: Evelyn Lincoln starts work as JFK's personal secretary. May 23: Eunice Kennedy marries Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. September 12: JFK marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.	June 7: Eisenhower becomes 1st president to appear on color TV. June 19: Ben Bradlee helps the CIA manage European propaganda regarding the spying conviction & execution of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg. He begins working for Newsweek, still officially employed by USIE, & divorces his first wife to marry Antoinette Pinchot. Antoinette's sister, Mary Pinchot Meyer, is married to Cord Meyer, Operation Mockingbird's principal operative. Mary is a committed pacifist. This insures that the FBI starts a file on her political activities. Initially Cord's politics are also liberal.	January 10: "The Crucible," Arthur Miller's play about the "red scare," opens on Broadway. FBI has a file on Miller that describes him as "under Communist Party discipline."
Eisenhower/Nixon/1954	~: French defeated at Dien Bien Phu, Geneva Agreements call for nationwide elections (US abstains). March: KGB established. July 13 - 21: Geneva settlement is signed that divides Vietnam temporarily at 17th parallel. For 2 years French will maintain administration in South half. Then elections will reunite Vietnam. Vietnamese are talked into signing by China's delegate, Chou Enlai. November 20: US begins sending aid directly to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in southern Vietnam, by-passing the French	May 19: US Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project. May 29 - 31: Prince Bernhard, a Nazi SS Officer who helped Thyssen hide money in Dutch banks during WW2, is co-founder of Bilderberg group which meets annually to "promote understanding between the cultures of US & Western Europe," i.e., where the elites of the western world formulate policy that helps further their New World Order agenda. June 18 - 27: CIA overthrows Guatemala's democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Among the CIA agents involved: Tracy Barnes (in charge), David Atlee Phillips, Jacob 'Jack' Esterline, E. Howard Hunt, David Morales & Henry Hecksher. Possibly William Harvey & William (Rip) Robertson. 1954 - 1958: CIA officer Edward Lansdale starts 4 years trying to overthrow communist government of N. Vietnam & CIA attemps to legitimize tyrannical puppet regime in S. Vietnam, headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. They fail since S. Vietnamese people know Diem government is opposed to true democracy, land reform & poverty reduction measures. ~: CIA assimilation of right wing radicals is handled by Nelson Rockefeller, who is succeeded by VP Nixon in 1955.	January 7: In state of the Union message Eisenhower recommends legislation that takes away the citizenship of anyone "conspiring to advocate the overthrow of this government by force or violence." March 10: Eisenhower describes Senator McCarthy as a peril to the Republican Party. June 2: Senator McCarthy claims communists are working in the CIA & in atomic weapons plants. June 14: Eisenhower signs a law that adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. July 12: Eisenhower proposes interstate highway program to counteract inefficiency in transportation of goods & "appalling inadequacies to meet the demands of catastrophe or defense, should an atomic war come." August 24: US Communist Control Act provides severe penalties for Communists who fail to register, or become involved in Party activities. September 8: Eisenhower administration creates South East Asia Treaty Organization, a political-military alliance to "contain communism." November 2: LBJ re-elected to US Senate. December 2: US Senate votes to censure Joe McCarthy, for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor & disrepute" due to his bullying & slanderous tactics. ~ Averell Harriman becomes Governor of NY to prepare for presidential run.	May 17: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (BvB), landmark US Supreme Court decision, declares establishment of separate public schools for black & white students inherently unequal. It paves the way for integration & civil rights movement. Eisenhower feels it's his duty to accept it but does not like the decision, stating that southern whites are good people who just don't want their daughters sitting next to black children & he believes that one can't change hearts.	April 24: Patricia Kennedy marries Peter Lawford. May 19: Jean Ann Kennedy marries Stephen Edward Smith. June: Ted graduates from Harvard and enrolls in the University of Virginia Law School. October 21: JFK undergoes surgery for a back injury possibly received during PT-109 incident and nearly dies.	March 6: Edward R. Morrow of CBS television broadcasts his "Report on Senator McCarthy." ~: Operation Mockingbird, now overseen by A. Dulles, has major influence over 25 newspapers & wire agencies. These organizations are run by people with well-known right-wing views such as William Paley (CBS), Henry Luce (Time Magazine & Life Magazine), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times), Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star), Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal), James Copley (Copley News Services) & Joseph Harrison (Christian Science Monitor). One of the most important journalists under Mockingbird is Joseph Alsop, whose articles appear in over 300 newspapers. Other journalists promoting the views of the CIA include Stewart Alsop (New York Herald Tribune), Ben Bradlee (Newsweek), James Reston (New York Times), Charles Douglas Jackson (Time Magazine), Hal Hendrix (Miami News), Walter Pincus (Washington Post), William C. Baggs (Miami News), Herb Gold (Miami News) & Charles Bartlett (Chattanooga Times). These journalists sometimes wrote articles that were unofficially commissioned by Meyer was based on leaked classified information from the CIA. ~: Wisner arranges for the funding the Hollywood production of Animal Farm, the animated allegory based on George Orwell's book.			David Atlee Phillips David Sanchez Morales Ted Shackley Henry Hecksher William (Rip) Robertson
Eisenhower/Nixon/1955	January 22: US announces plan to develop Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles armed with nuclear weapons. February 12: Eisenhower sends 1st US "advisors" to S. Vietnam to aid the government under US puppet Ngo Dinh Diem. April 18: Albert Einstein dies in Princeton NJ at age 76. Days before his death he signs Russell-Einstein Manifesto, drafted by Bertrand Russel, which says researchers must take responsibility for their creations, such as the atomic bomb. May 14: "Warsaw Pact" is formed as a response to what is claimed to be a threat from NATO & the re-militarization of Germany. Member states are the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland & Romania. June 16: US House of Representatives votes to extend Selective Service until 1959. June 30: US begins funding West Germany’s rearmament. October 26: South Vietnamese Premiere Ngo Dinh Diem rejects Geneva accords and refuses to participate in elections (with US backing). Proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president.	January 13: Chase National & the Bank of Manhattan merge resulting in the 2nd largest US bank. March 31: Chase National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan. April 30: West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & higher wages. August 4: Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters. December 5: AFL-CIO is formed when 2 largest US unions merge: American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations, with 15M members.	January 13: Eisenhower meets with newspaper publisher Roy Howard in oval office & expresses resistance under pressure to commit American troops to Vietnam. Conversation is recorded on dictabelt machine Eisenhower secretly installed. April 6: Winston Churchill resigns as British prime minister; is replace by Anthony Eden. May 5: West Germany becomes a sovereign state. June 30: UN report says US is facing increased competition in Latin American markets from Soviet Union & Soviet bloc. July 2: LBJ suffers severe heart attack & enters Bethesda Naval Hospital. July 21: During Geneva summit Eisenhower presents open skies proposal under which US & USSR would trade info on military facilities. August 7: LBJ released from Bethesda Naval Hospital. August 8: Castro, after 2 years in prison, receives amnesty from Batista. In Mexico with other Cuban exiles he forms "July 26th Movement." August 12: Eisenhower raises minimum wage from $0.75 to $1 an hour as of 3/27/56. August 27: LBJ returns to LBJ Ranch to recuperate. September 24: Eisenhower suffers heart attack. NY Stock Exchange consequently losses $44 million, heaviest one-day loss since 1929. December: LBJ return to Washington & Capitol Hill. ~: LBJ becomes youngest majority leader in Senate history. Bobby Brown becomes his secretary. Carole Tyler becomes secretary & mistress to the married Baker. Tyler is room mate of Mary Jo Kopechne, who is secretary for Senator George Smathers.	May 31: US Supreme Court orders that states must end racial segregation "with all deliberate speed." August 28: Emmett Till, black 14 year old from Chicago, is abducted from uncle's home in Money, MS, by white men after he supposedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman. He was found murdered 3 days later. Eyewitnesses linked her husband Roy Bryant & half-brother J.W. Milam to murder. Bryant & Milam were indicted Sep 10 for a trial on Sep 19 & acquitted by all-white jury. The area was a cotton-trading center where the white racist Citizens Councils maintained their regional headquarters. November 7: US Supreme Court outlaws racial segregation in public parks, playgrounds & golf courses. December 1: Rosa Parks, 42-year-old secretary of Montgomery NAACP, is arrested in Montgomery, AL as she sits in section of a bus reserved for whites. She refuses to move to the back the bus to accommodate a white male passenger as ordered by driver, defying South’s segregation laws. It prompts 5-year Mongomery Bus Boycott by blacks & launches US Civil Rights movement to end segregation. December 2: Martin Luther King (MLK), 26 year old pastor of the Montgomery's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, in Montgomery, AL steps forward with speech that marks him as the "acknowledged leader of a major mass protest."	February: JFK undergoes 2nd back operation during which he almost dies, writes "Profiles in Courage" during recovery (largely written by his speechwriter Theodore Sorensen).	June 9: SOS JF Dulles says "neutrality is obsolete &, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception." November 19: CIA asset William F. Buckley Jr. publishes his first issue of the National Review, a conservative political journal. Buckley criticizes middle-of-the road Republicanism, like Eisenhower administration. Buckley's first issue proclaims the "middle-of- the-road politically, intellectually, & morally repugnant."			William Harvey~ American Security Council, "The Heart of the Military-Industrial Complex," is formed. AMERICAN SECURITY COUNCIL
Eisenhower/Nixon/1956	January 9: Former Communist Louis Budenz, a leading source for the FBI on communism, describes co-existence as a Russian trick. He urges US to break relations with the Soviet Union. February 23: In 6-hour speech to closed session of the Communist Party's 20th Congress, Soviet Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev denounces "crimes" of Stalin against the Party & denounces the "cult of personality" that developed with Stalin's leadership. March 28: British Communist Party members question their leadership's past subservience to Stalin. April 23: Khrushchev announces that the USSR will produce an H-bomb guided missile. June 8: First American known to die in Vietnam is Air Force Tech Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. His son dies in Vietnam 9/7/65. May 22: US tests hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. July 18: In the wake of Khrushchev's anti-Stalin speech, Soviet Union forces Stalinist Mátyás Rákosi to resign as head of Hungary's Communist Party. He is replaced by an old friend Enró Geró. July 25: In Germany compulsory military service became law. July 31: US SOS JF Dulles speaks for international operation of Suez Canal & for isolating Egypt's Nasser. November 4: 200,000 Russian troops & tanks attack Hungary & crush revolt. Martial law is proclaimed, mass arrests follow, 25,000 people die. October - November: Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary. Egypt took control of Suez Canal; U.S. refused to help take it back. November 25: Castro, Ernesto "Che" Guevara & 80 other armed men depart Mexico for Cuba. 50 others are left behind for lack of room. Castro lands in eastern Cuba from Mexico and takes to the Sierra Maestra mountains where, aided by Che, he wages a guerrilla war. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program is launched by Hoover, who claims frustration by Supreme Court decisions limiting DOJ's ability to prosecute Communists, formalizing covert attacks on US citizens & groups. It is mainly used against progressive social groups: Communist Party, Black Panther Party, MLK's SCLC & others.	March 8: American Petroleum Institute predicts that US oil production for the 48 states will peak in 1965. Peak year is 1970. May 9: Bank Holding Company Act is enacted by Congress, in response to the rapid growth of TransAmerica Corporation, to create a barrier between banking & insurance & keep financial-services conglomerates from amassing too much power. July 10: 650,000 US steel workers go on strike. July 31: Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane penetrates Soviet air space.	January 25: Khrushchev says he believes Eisenhower is sincere in his efforts to abolish war. January 28: Eisenhower rejects proposal for a friendship pact from Soviet Premier Bulganin. March 27: US seizes communist newspaper Daily Worker alledgedly for non-payment of taxes. US Treasury agents remove invoices, receipts, financial ledgers & subscribers' lists. June 14: Eisenhower authorizes the phrase "under God" to be added to Pledge of Allegiance. July 30: Eisenhower signs legislation that authorizes "In God We Trust" as the national motto. November 7: Eisenhower crushes Stevenson is elected for second term. November 17: Khrushchev tells Western diplomats "We will bury you." national motto. December 18: SOS JF Dulles says "...we have no desire to surround the Soviet Union with a band of hostile states. He speaks in favor of "a peaceful evolution - of the satellite states toward genuine independence." ~: Averell Harriman campaigns for Democratic nomination for president, receives Truman's endorsement, but loses to Adlai Stevenson.	January 31: Stick of dynamite explodes on the porch of the Martin Luther King family in Montgomery, AL. February 3: Autherine Lucy is admitted to the University of Alabama. Whites riot & she is suspended. Later she is expelled for her part in further legal action against the university. February 24: Massive Resistance is declared by US Senator Harry F. Byrd to unite white VA politicians opposed to school integration. March 12: Southern Manifesto is released to press by US congress people opposed to racial integration. It's ultimately signed by 96. April 11: Singer Nat Cole is attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites. May 28 - December 27: Tallahassee, FL bus boycott takes place. June 27: MLK is featured speaker at NAACP convention in San Francisco. November 13: US Supreme Court overturns AL bus segregation law in Browder v Gayle. Race-based seating on AL buses ends. ~: MS State Sovereignty Commission is formed by legislature to keep segregation in place. Commission has 12 appointed members including Governor & is funded with $250,000 a year from state coffers. ~: Georgia state flag with its Confederate emblem is adopted under Governor Marvin Griffin to protest protest integration. Griffin vows to fight "come hell or high water."	August 17: JFK loses bid for Democratic nomination for VP. Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver edges JFK out to become Adlai Stevenson's running mate. August 23: JFK's daughter Arabella is stillborn in Newport, RI. Jack is in France. ~: "Profiles in Courage" by John F. Kennedy is published.	May 7: National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) issues press release claiming Air Force U-2s conduct weather research. May 22: The NACA issues press release with a false explanation about a U-2 aircraft operating overseas. ~: "History of the English Speaking Peoples" by Winston Churchill is published. ~: HL Hunt suspends operation of Facts Forum after spending $3.5 million on it. ~: Radio Free Europe incites Hungary to revolt & hints at American aid, by broadcasting Khruschev's Secret Speech denouncing Stalin. No aid is offered as Hungarians launch doomed armed revolt resulting in major Soviet invasion killing 7,000 Soviets & 30,000 Hungarians.	September 8: Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso" goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks becoming the first to sell over a million copies.
Eisenhower/Nixon/1957	January 10: Responding to decline of France & Britain in world affairs, Eisenhower proclaims his administration's commitment to the defense of the entire free world. March 21: Nixon returns from tour of Africa. He reports that Africa in conflict "between... freedom & international Communism." July 26: USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile & announces successful test on August 26. September 18: SOS JF Dulles predicts that in a few years Western powers may be able to defend themselves with tactical nuclear weapons in the event of a non-nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. November 15: Khrushchev asserts Soviet superiority in missiles, challenging the US to a rocket-range shooting match. December 17: US successfully test-fires 1st Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. December 19: Eisenhower gives "pre-delegation authority" to senior military commanders to retaliate with nuclear weapons if he can not be reached or is unable to respond to a nuclear attack against the US.	~: Jimmy Hoffa is elected president of the Teamsters. December 6: AFL-CIO members vote to expel Teamsters due to racketeering by executives, including president Dave Beck & VP Jimmy Hoffa. The crimes were disclosed during special Senate investigation of racketeering & organized crime in labor. ~: CIA carries out ~1 coup/year until 1973 trying to nullify Laos' democratic elections & destroy Pathet Lao leftist group with enough popular support to be part of a coalition government. US drops more bombs on Laos than all US bombs in WW2, forcing 1/4 of Laotians to be refugees.	June 2: Interviewed on "Face the Nation," Khrushchev says: "I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism, & please do not be afraid of that. Your grandchildren will ... not understand how their grandparents did not understand the progressive nature of a Socialist society." June 17: US Supreme Court rules Smith Act unconstitutional. US Communists are being freed from accusations of crime. July 3: Khrushchev wins Russian election. August 28: Senator Strom Thurmond starts filibuster lasting 24 hours & 18 minutes, longest in Senate history, against Civil Rights Act. October 10: Eisenhower apologizes to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, finance minister of Ghana, after he is refused service in Dover, DE restaurant. November 25: Eisenhower suffers minor stroke. From now on his speech is slightly impaired. ~: Nelson Rockefeller defeats Averell Harriman in election for Governor of NY.	January: "Southern Leadership Conference" is formed in New Orleans, LA to harness moral authority & organizing power of black churches to conduct non-violent protests in the service of civil rights reform. MLK is named President. In August the name is changed to "Southern Christian Leadership Conference" at its first convention in Montgomery, AL. February 14: Georgia Senate approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites. July 17: Eisenhower says he cannot imagine circumstances that would induce him to send federal troops to the South. August 29: Congress passes Civil Rights Act, first such act since reconstruction. Eisenhower signs it into law September 9. September 4: AR Governor Orval Faubus calls out National Guard to prevent 9 black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School. Eisenhower responds with Federal troops to enforce federal law for integration. Altercations continue for a month wherein "Little Rock 9" must be protected from white mobs & escorted to class. September 24: Eisenhower federalizes AR National Guard & sends 1,000 to Little Rock "to prevent anarchy." ~: Martin Luther King writes his autobiography "Stride Toward Freedom." ~: MLK writes "The Measure of A Man" from which "What is Man?"--an attempt to sketch optimal political, social & economic structure of society--is derived.	May 6: "Profiles in Courage," written by JFK (and Ted Sorensen), wins Pulitzer Prize for biography November 27: Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is born at Cornell Medical Center, NY. ~: The Senate Rackets Committee investigates organized labor. Jack Kennedy is a member; Robert Kennedy is the chief counsel. ~: As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jack Kennedy argues for the independence of Algeria from France.	May 6: Profiles in Courage wins the Pulitzer Prize for biography. October 10: Ayn Rand's heaviest book of fiction, Atlas Shrugged, her philosophical magnus opus, is published. ~: Martin Luther King writes his autobiography "Stride Toward Freedom." ~: MLK writes "The Measure of A Man" from which "What is Man?"--an attempt to sketch optimal political, social & economic structure of society--is derived. ~: CIA's main collaborating newspaper in US, Washington Post, reports Nixon's crimes long before other newspapers. The 2 reporters, Woodward & Bernstein, make almost no mention of CIA fingerprints on the scandal. It is later revealed that Woodward was a Naval intelligence briefer to the White House & knows many important intelligence figures. Their main information source, known as "Deep Throat," is revealed in 2005 as Mark Felt, Associate Director of FBI. ~: Life magazine prints R. Gordon Wasson’s "Seeking the Magic Mushroom" wherein JP Morgan VP details his experiences at 1955 ritual in Mexico. ~: Ben Bradlee creates controversy by interviewed members of the FLN, Algerian guerrillas in rebellion against French government. This had all the earmarks of an intelligence operation & he was expelled from France.	May 13: Chuck Berry plays music white teenagers enjoy & has risen to the top of Rhythm & Blues chart. October 4: Space age begins as the Soviet Union launches Sputnik--the first man-made space satellite. October 30: Soviet Union launches Sputnik II. ~: Sam Cooke has a hit with "You Send Me." He had just switched from gospel music to pop. ~: Harry Belafonte sings "Banana Boat Song."		~: Edwin Walker, commander of the Arkansas Military district in Little Rock and rabid segregationist, Arkansas is forced to implement an order from President Eisenhower to quell civil disturbances during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock. ~ Larrie Schmidt is News Editor of the Hurricane, University of Miami weekly student newspaper until 1959.
Eisenhower/Nixon/1958	January 13: 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition the UN for a nuclear test ban. March 31: Moscow declares a halt on all atomic tests & asks other nations to follow. May 24: Cuban dictator Batista sends force of 10,000 against Castro's rebellion. May 29: In France there is widespread support for Charles de Gaulle rescuing France from political chaos. President Coty calls on de Gaulle to accept the position of premier (prime minister). June 1: De Gaulle becomes premier &, in keeping with his demands, parliament gives him emergency powers for 6 months, during which a new constitution is to be created. October 5: France's new constitution establishes an end to its Fourth Republic & the beginning of the Fifth Republic. November: Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin. ~: The US withdraws military aid to Batista. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues.	May 24: JF Dulles dies. August 1: In wake of now failed rebellion that Dulles brothers backed in Indonesia, US gives $20 million in assistance to Indonesia's military establishment, seeing it as the only anti-communist force in that country December 9: SOS JF Dulles opposes proposed US visit by Khrushchev, warning it would confer recognition on "Kremlin gangsters" & dispirit the captive people of Eastern Europe. Dulles, who symbolizes the hard line anti-Soviet position, dies in 1959, whereupon Khrushchev visits the US & relations between US & Soviet Union begin to improve. ~: A secret war in Indonesia ends abruptly when Allen Pope, CIA contract pilot, is downed in dogfight. Pope is carrying documents revealing extent of US involvement. CIA was sending weapons & advisers to anti-government rebels on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island as mercenaries mounted combat sorties in a fleet of unmarked B-26 bombers.	January 31: US enters space age when Explorer 1 is launched by rocket becoming the first successful US satellite. March 27: Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party. April 15: US SOS JF Dulles resigns because of cancer. May 8: Nixon embarks on 8-nation tour in Latin America. In Lima Peru he is shoved, booed & spat upon by protesters who object to American imperialism & interference. May 13: In Caracas, Nixon’s limousine is battered by rocks. May 24: Cuban President Batista opens an offensive against Castro's rebellion. June 19: Nine entertainers refuse to answer a federal congressional committee’s questions on communism. September 22: Sherman Adams, assistant to Eisenhower, resigns amid charges of using improper influence to help an industrialist. November 4: Goldwater is re-elected to Senate after campaign in which he called Eisenhower's plans for health care for aged "socialized medicine." December 21: Charles de Gaulle is elected to a 7-year term as first president of Fifth Republic of France. December 14: US State Department tells Cuban dictator Batista he no longer has support of US & should leave Cuba at once. December 31: Cuba’s dictator Batista flees to Dominican Republic as Rebels under Castro march into Havana.	September 20: MLK is stabbed by a deranged woman during a book signing in Harlem.	November 4: JFK is reelected as senator from Massachusetts. November 29: Ted Kennedy marries Virginia Joan Bennett.	May 8: In the New York Times the Latin American hostility towards Nixon is described as "communist inspired." July 15: Dorothy Kilgallen becomes first reporter to imply that the CIA is working with organized crime to kill Castro. ~: HL Hunt starts Life Line which produces 15 minute radio programs with ultra right-wing content. ~: The Hearst Corporation acquires Popular Mechanics magazine.			December 9: John Birch Society is established in Indianapolis by a group of 12 "patriotic and public-spirited" men led by Robert Welch, Jr., a retired candy manufacturer from Belmont, Massachusetts. JBS's objective is to fight communism using communism's own techniques -- organization of front groups, infiltration of other groups and letter-writing campaigns. They "believe the free market system, competitive capitalism." Members include: Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, aka HL Hunt (allegedly provided funding), Clint Murchison (allegedly provided funding), Nelson Bunker Hunt (HL Hunt's son), Edwin Walker, Congressman John Rousselot. Clint Murchison: Wealthy TX oil mogul & member of JBS, bitter opponent of JFK due to JFK's intention of eliminating the oil depletion allowance (tax break), backer of LBJ. John Rousselot: CA Republican Congressman & member of JBS.
Eisenhower/Nixon/1959	January 1: Castro leads a 9,000-strong guerrilla army into Havana, forcing Batista to flee. Castro becomes prime minister, his brother, Raul, becomes his deputy and Guevara becomes third in command. Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees to Dominican Republic. Castro takes command of the Cuban army the next day. February 6: US successfully test-fires 1st Titan intercontinental ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral. September 15: Internal memo to J. Edgar Hoover cites confidential informant who "stated that [Dorothy Kilgallen and her husband Richard] have their own private lives," that he "has been dating other women...is interested in both sexes... and has his own private apartment..." December 1: Twelve countries, including the US & Soviet Union, sign treaty that makes Antarctica a scientific preserve & bans military activity, the first arms control agreement since the beginning of the Cold War. ~: US military helps "Papa Doc" Duvalier become dictator of Haiti with his own machete-wielding private police force, the "Tonton Macoutes." He kills over 100,000 while the US does not object. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues.	September 30: Sid Richardson, rich TX oil man, dies. ~: HW Bush starts operating out of his CIA front-Zapata Offshore headquarters in Houston. ~: Guarantee Trust merges with J.P. Morgan. 1959 - 1960: A. Dulles & Eisenhower assemble JM/WAVE in Miami FL, the infrastructure for covert action against Cuba. ~: Longest steel strike in U.S. history, shut down 90% of US steel production for 116 days.	January 7: US recognizes Castro’s new government in Cuba. Cuba gets new constitution. February 16: Castro takes the oath as Cuban Premier. February 24: Khrushchev rejects Western plan for the Big 4 meeting on Germany. April 15: JF Dulles, US SOS, resigns. April 15: Fidel Castro arrivs in DC to begin goodwill tour of US and meets VP Nixon. June 25: Cuban government seizes 2.35 million acres under new agrarian reform law. July 23: Nixon goes to Moscow to open the US Trade & Cultural Fair as a goodwill gesture by the USSR. While there he gets into "kitchen debate" with Khrushchev. It starts when Nixon boasts of advanced comforts available to US citizens, which annoys Khrushchev. September 15: Khrushchev begins 13-day visit in the US; Eisenhower greets them at their plane. Khrushchev says that he has arrived "with open heart & good intentions. The Soviet people want to live in friendship with the American people." He reacts angrily to being told that, for security reasons, he can't visit Disneyland. September 21: Khrushchev, delighted by applause from people in San Francisco, breaks away from security to shake hands. September 23: Students at Iowa State College cheer Khrushchev. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey says that the United States must not be lulled by Khrushchev's visit into accepting a "live & let live" agreement with the Communists. September 25: Khrushchev begins his visit to Camp David with relaxed talks with Eisenhower. Khrushchev enjoys chatting with Eisenhower's grandchildren. The "Spirit of Camp David" is born. A Paris summit meeting is planned. ~: Ronald Reagan delivers over 200 speeches as a "Democrat for Nixon."	April 25: Mack Charles Parker, accused of raping a white woman, is taken from jail & lynched by a white mob in Poplarville, MS. May 1: West Germany introduces 5 day work week. June: Supervisors of Prince Edward County, VA pass budget that provides no money for public schools & cut the property tax in half rather than comply with school desegregation. Public schools close down for 5 years. County whites open tuition-free private academy for white children. June: S. Ernest Vandiver becomes Governor of GA with campaign motto "No, not one," meaning not one black child in a white school. September 11: Congress passes bill authorizing food stamps for the poor. September 14: Congress passes the Landrum-Griffin Act which bars convicted felons & members of the Communist Party from holding an office in a labor union. November 7: Taft-Hartley Act is invoked by US Supreme Court to break a steel strike.		February 20: FCC imposes equal time rule to TV newscasts of political candidates. July 15: The FBI, which spied on Dorothy Kilgallen since the 1930s, tries to dig up more dirt on her after she becomes 1st reporter to imply that the CIA is working with organized crime to kill Castro. ~: Richard Condon authored novel "The Manchurian Candidate." It is made into a film in 1962.			~ Larrie Schmidt rejoins US Army, after stint from 1954-1957. He serves under General Edwin Walker develops extreme right-wing views & makes friends with Bernard Weissman. While in Germany the 2 men discussed establishing a right-wing political group when they returned to the US. ~ Jack Ruby goes to Cuba to visit a Mafia-connected friend, influential Dallas gambler Lewis McWillie whom Castro briefly imprisoned.
Eisenhower/Nixon/1960	March 6: Eisenhower announces that 3,500 U.S. soldiers will be sent to Vietnam to support Diem regime. May 1: American U-2 spy plane drops out of the sky over Russia. Pilot Francis Gary Powers is held in the Soviet Union for 21 months. October 14: Urban Reform Act in Cuba goes into effect commanding that rents be cut in half. October 19: Eisenhower administration places a partial trade embargo on Cuba. October 22: Candidate Nixon accuses JFK of "a shockingly reckless proposal" regarding Cuba that might lead to WW3. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues. ~: General Edwin Walker is sent to Germany to command the 24th Infantry Division.	March 17: Eisenhower approves Bay of Pigs, a CIA plan to overthrow Castro & budget of $13 million. CIA starts training Cuban exiles for invasion. April: US CIA begins planning invasion of Cuba culminating in 1961 Bay of Pigs. Initial budget of $4.4 million grows to $46 million. July 6: Eisenhower retaliates against Cuba for actions against US business by canceling 700,000 tons of sugar imports from Cuba that remained for 1960. July 8: Soviet Union announces it will buy the 700,000 tons of sugar imports the US refused. July 22: Cuba starts nationalizing businesses including, over the year: all US owned sugar factories; Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba; US banks; then all remaining US businesses without compensation. August: Sheffield Edwards, Bissell & Dulles start to work with mob to assassinate Castro to give CIA plausible deniability. If plot is exposed finger could be pointed at mob, known to be angry with Castro for closing down their profitable brothels & casinos in Cuba. They use cut out Robert Maheu to recruit Johnny Roselli. Roselli gets sanction of godfathers Santo Trafficante & Sam Giancana, both on FBI 10 most wanted list. September 30: CIA recruits gangsters, including Johnny Roselli, and through him Sam Giancana and Santos Trafficante, to kill Castro, knowing they're unhappy with him for closing their profitable operations in Cuba. September 30: State Department advises US travelers to avoid Cuba "unless there are compelling reasons" for going. December 11: CIA Operation 40 assassination group is formed to focus on Castro's Cuba. Over next few years members include William Harvey, Gerry P. Hemming, E. Howard Hunt, David Morales, Carl E. Jenkins, & Frank Sturgis. Cubans used include Antonio Veciana, Luis Posada, Orlando Bosch, Rafael Quintero, Roland Masferrer, Eladio del Vall, Carlos Bringuier, Antonio Cuesta, Hermino Diaz Garcia, Barry Seal, & Felix Rodriguez. ~: ILWU signs Mechanization and Modernization Agreement, which pioneers the tradeoff of members' job security for the employers' right to introduce labor-saving equipment.	January 2: JFK announces candidacy for president of the United States. January-August: Refugees cross from East to West Germany following food shortages. Khrushchev orders wall 103 miles long and 12 feet high to be built with guards & barbed wire to stop the flow of refugees. February 2: US Senate approves 24th Amendment banning poll tax. May 6: News of downed aircraft in the Soviet Union is published in US. Eisenhower claims the plane is a weather craft. That story, like the U-2, doesn't fly & it becomes a major international incident. May 8: Cuba & the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations. May 16: Big 4 summit in Paris collapses on opening day when Soviet Union levels spy charges against US in wake of U-2 incident. July 13: LBJ receives 409 votes on only ballot at Democratic convention which nominates JFK, disappointing HL Hunt who pushed hard for LBJ nomination since LBJ supports oil depletion allowances (tax breaks). July 13: JFK wins Democratic nomination for President. July 27: VP Nixon is nominated for president at the Republican national convention in Chicago. Note: While running for VP with JFK, LBJ seeks 3rd term in Senate; Texas law is changed to permit him to run for 2 offices at the same time. LBJ is reelected senator & Democrat William A. Blakley is appointed to replace VP LBJ as Senator. October 12: Khrushchev disrupts UN General Assembly session by pounding his desk with a shoe protesting discussion of the Soviet Union's relations with East European states. October 19: US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba covering all commodities except medical supplies & certain foods. November 8: JFK defeats Nixon to become president-elect of the United States. November 9: President-Elect Kennedy gives his victory speech at the Hyannis Armory. November 9: Suspicions exist of voter fraud in IL. Nixon doesn't complain because his side's fraud was worse. November 10: JFK's victory is Eisenhower's biggest political disappointment; he tells his son: "All I've been trying to do for eight years has gone down the drain." ~: US breaks off diplomatic relations with Havana.	February 1 - August: Greensboro Sit-In, first sit-ins, are sparked when 4 black students are refused service at Woolworth's lunch counter. February - May: Sit-ins are held as part of nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters in Nashville, TN. April: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is formed in Raleigh, NC & becomes one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement. May 6: Civil Rights Bill of 1960 is signed by Eisenhower, establishing federal inspection of local voter registration polls & introducing penalties for anyone obstructing someone's attempt to register or vote. July 31: Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state. December 5: US Supreme Court rules in Boynton v Virginia that racial segregation in public transportation is illegal.	January 2: Jack announces his candidacy for the presidency. The viability of a Catholic candidate is tested in state primaries throughout the year. May 8: JFK campaigns in the West Virginia primary, successfully battling anti-Catholic bias by framing issue as tolerance vs intolerance. May 10: JFK wins the West Virginia primary causing Hubert Humphrey to drop out of race. July 11: Democratic National Convention begins in LA. After JFK's doctor's office is broken into & ransacked, Texan & LBJ supporter John Connelly holds a press conference announcing that JFK had Addison's disease & would not live long enough to fulfill his term. JFK team holds press conference to deny the illness (though he did suffer from it). July 14: JFK is lobbied by LBJ's backers to offer VP slot to him. Kennedy family doubts LBJ will risk his powerful majority leader status to be VP, so expect him to decline offer. He accepts. In 1963 Don B. Reynolds tells FBI that friend Bobby Baker said the "SOB" Kennedy would never live out his term & would "die a violent death," providing possible explanation for LBJ's otherwise puzzling acceptance of VP slot. July 14 ~: LBJ backer Senator Robert Kerr, of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, is furious at VP acceptance & slaps Baker. Kerr apologizes & shakes Baker's hand once the strategy is explained. July 15: JFK accepts Democratic nomination for President, accepts LBJ as running mate, gives acceptance speech. September 12: JFK speaks to Houston Ministers on subject of his religion. October 6: Candidate JFK derides Eisenhower & Nixon for "neglect & indifference" in allowing Cuba to slip "behind the Iron Curtain." October 20: Candidate JFK calls for US aid to those in exile & inside Cuba who are seeking to overthrow Castro's regime. He calls them "fighters for freedom." November 8: JFK defeats Nixon in US presidential election. November 25: John F. Kennedy Jr. is born at Georgetown University Hospital.	March 4: Alberto Korda takes photo of Che Guevara at a rally in Cuba that becomes famous as symbol for Cuban revolution. September 26 1st JFK/Nixon TV debate is broadcast. Subsequent debates are broadcast: October 7, October 13 & October 21. ~: To Kill a Mockingbird is published.			September: After drifting in & out of civil air patrol units, Ferrie starts his own unofficial Metairie Falcon Cadet Squadron. Offshoot of this group, the Internal Mobile Security Unit, is formed to fight Castro's Cuba. September: After Ferrie is convinced Castro is a Communist he associates with New Orleans office of Frente Revolucionario Democratico, CIA-backed organization & with Guy Banister, former FBI agent & right wing PI. Carl E. Jenkins Rafeal (Chi Chi) Quintero Hermino Diaz Garcia Tony Cuesta Gerry P. Hemming Eladio Del Valle
Eisenhower/Nixon/1961			January 3: Eisenhower announces the US will sever diplomatic relations with Cuba. Between this action, and Eisenhower's 3/17/60 approval of the Bay of Pigs, Ike was handing JFK an undeclared war.			January 17: Eisenhower gives televised speech warning citizens against the rise of "the military-industrial complex" in his farewell speech. Original draft referred to "Military Industrial Congressional Complex."
Kennedy/Johnson/1961	March 12: JFK's Joint Chiefs are: Joint Chief of Staff General Lyman Lemnitzer followed by General Maxwell D. Taylor, Navy Chief Admiral Arleigh A. Burke followed by Admiral George W. Anderson then Admiral David L. McDonald, Army Chief General George H. Decker followed by General Earl G. Wheeler, Air Force Chief General Thomas D. White followed by General Curtis LeMay, Marine Corp Chief General David M. Shoup. Armed forces secretaries are: Navy-John B. Connally Jr then Fred Korth (both members of TX Suite 8F Group), Army-Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr, Air Force-Eugene M. Zuckert. March 12: Maheu arranges for CIA operative Jim O'Connell to meet Roselli, Trafficante & Giancana at Fontainebleau Hotel. O'Connell gives poison pills & $10,000 to Rosselli to be used against Fidel Castro. Plot fails. April 9: Castro appears on Havana TV warning: “The extremely vigilant and highly-prepared Cuban people would repel any invasion attempt by the counterrevolutionaries now massing in Florida & Guatemala who are sponsored & financed by the United States.” April 18: Khrushchev sends letter to JFK with "urgent call" to end "aggression" against Cuba. April 19: Cuban forces shoot down B-26 bomber North of Larga beach, an area they controlled. Pilot is on contract to US CIA. May 11: JFK authorizes American advisers to aid S. Vietnam against the forces of N. Vietnam. June 28: JFK speaks out on the need for a nuclear test ban treaty. July 8: Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the suspension of projected reductions in the Soviet armed forces. Behind the scenes he, like JFK, is charged from within governing circles with being too passive about threats from the other superpower. July 19: Air Force Chief Curtis LeMay tells people at Georgetown dinner party that nuclear war will break-out later in year & major cities such as DC, NY, Philadelphia, LA, Chicago & Detroit will be destroyed. July 20: At NSC meeting General Lemnitzer presents JFK with official plan for surprise nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. LeMay is strong supporter of this strategy. Kennedy is disgusted & walks out of the meeting, later remarking to SOS Dean Rusk "and we call ourselves the human race." July 26: JFK requests increase in military spending. Soviet Union accuses him of exploiting Berlin dispute to accelerate arms race. September 15: US resumes underground nuclear testing. October 6: JFK advised Americans to build fallout shelters from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. October 15: JFK calls out military reserves in the wake of the Berlin crises. November 1: JFK sends advisor General Maxwell Taylor to Vietnam; he concludes "If Vietnam goes, it will be exceedingly difficult to hold Southeast Asia," His "eyes only" report to JFK is that Communist guerrillas are ""well on the way to success in Vietnam." October 30: Soviet Union tests massive hydrogen bomb, breaking 3-year nuclear test moratorium. November 14 JFK increases the number of American advisers in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000. December 11: Army helicopters & crew arrive in Saigon constituting 1st direct American military support for S. Vietnam. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues.	March 29: CIA's Bissell briefs JFK on Bay of Pigs, which JFK inherited from Eisenhower & reluctantly supports, using code name "Operation Zapata," revealing likely link to Zapata Offshore & GW Bush. BOP landing fleet include ships named "Barbara" (name of Bush's wife) & "Houston" (Bush's city). April 15: A. Dulles goes to Puerto Rico to give a speech, so he's out of the country & incommunicado throughout the critical Bay of Pigs mission he is supposed to be in charge of. His absence defies logic, unless he wants plausible deniability, & has never been explained. April 16-1:45pm: Bay of Pigs operation begins. JFK approves dawn air strike of Cuba from unmarked/deniable planes since he is legally precluded from engaging armed forces in covert CIA operation. Among the CIA agents involved: David Atlee Phillips & E. Howard Hunt. April 16-9:30pm: National Security Advisor (NSA) McGeorge Bundy phones Deputy Director Charles Cabell of the CIA to inform him that dawn air strikes the following morning should not be launched, thereby reversing JFK's orders without consulting JFK. Once notified, Cabell & Bissell do not ask to speak directly to JFK by phone, losing the opportunity to set things straight. The order to cancel air strikes is then dispatched to pilots in their cockpits ready for take-off. April 17-4:30am: C. Cabell calls White House, has Dean Rusk wake JFK with a request for new air cover for Bay of Pigs invasion using marked identifiable planes which are not “deniable,” & therefore illegal. JFK's hands are tied & Cabell is told no. BOP is a disaster; of the 1600 men involved, 114 are killed, 1,189 are captured by Castro’s forces, & 150 either never land or make their way back to safety. July 7: James R. Hoffa is elected president of Teamsters. October 9: US members of communist party are obliged to report themselves to Police. November 1 - 1963: Averell Harriman is appointed Assistant SOS for Far Eastern Affairs. November 4: CIA Operation Mongoose, to sabotage & subvert Cuba, is launched at White House meeting & overseen by RFK. CIA spooks include: Edward Lansdale (in charge), William Harvey, Sheffield Edwards, Tracy Barnes, David Atlee Phillips, David Morales, Rip Robertson & E. Howard Hunt. November 29: John McCone becomes DCI November: CIA operation ZR/RIFLE is initiated to assassinate Castro. CIA/mobsters include: William Harvey, David Morales, David Atlee Phillips, Tracy Barnes, William Pawley, Johnny Roselli, John Martino, Santos Trafficante, & Meyer Lansky. ~: Interpen (Intercontinental Penetration Force) is established by Gerry P. Hemming. Members include Loran Hall, Roy Hargraves, William Seymour, Lawrence Howard, Steve Wilson, Howard K. Davis, Edwin Collins, James Arthur Lewis, Dennis Harber, Bill Dempsey, Dick Whatley, Ramigo Arce, Ronald Augustinovich, Joe Garman, Edmund Kolby, Ralph Schlafter, Manuel Aguilar, Robert Emmett Johnson & Oscar Del Pinto. ~: CIA assassinates Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo, a murderous dictator the US has supported since 1930, when his businesses grows so large it competes with American business. ~: CIA-backed military forces democratically elected President Jose Velasco to resign in Ecuador. ~: Covert CIA operation known as OPLAN 34-A is launched to infiltrate N. Vietnam. The operation is taken over by Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1964 & run by colonels of the military’s Special Operations Group. ~: CIA assassinates democratically elected Patrice Lumumba in Congo, but public support for Lumumba's politics is so high that CIA cannot install opponents in power, resulting in 4 years of turmoil. ~: After Bay of Pigs Castro proclaims Cuba a communist state and begins to ally it with the USSR.	January 20: JFK is inaugurated as 35th president of the United States with extraordinary inaugural address. Joseph P. Kennedy advises son JFK to offer Lovett any Cabinet post he might desire. Lovett declines but makes recommendations on cabinet members. Staff includes Robert S. McNamara (per Lovett's advice) as SOD; Dean Rusk (per Lovett's advice), former head of Rockefeller Foundation as SOS; McGeorge Bundy (per Lovett's advice) as National Security Advisor; Adlai Stevenson as ambassador to UN. Averell Harriman is appointed Ambassador at Large. Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK), the President's brother, is named US Attorney General (AG). January 20: Clare Boothe Luce & LBJ sit together on a bus transporting them to an inaugural ball during the evening. Luce asks LBJ why he accepted the VP slot. LBJ replies: “Clare, I looked it up; One out of every 4 presidents has died in office. I’m a gamblin’ man, darlin’, & this is the only chance I got.” March 6: Peace Corp is created by JFK. The government-funded volunteer organization is created to fight hunger, disease, illiteracy, poverty & lack of opportunity around the world. The first volunteers are sent to Ghana. April 4: Carlos Marcello (Mafia boss in New Orleans) is deported from US on orders from RFK. April 22: JFK directs Gen. Maxwell Taylor to give him a report on the “Immediate Causes of Failure of Operation Zapata” working with RFK, Admiral Arleigh Burke & A. Dulles. April 24: JFK publicly accepts "sole responsibility" for Bay of Pigs failure while privately tasking Maxwell Taylor with identifying cause. Subsequently released CIA documents expose the fact that the CIA knew in advance the operation could not succeed without US military support, & that assurances to JFK that the landing would be followed by a mass popular uprising were false. The CIA either counted on pressuring JFK into direct intervention or set up new president for humiliation & escalation of the Cold War. [Time zone weirdness.] April 27: JFK gives speech: "The President & the Press," before American Newspaper Publishers Association in NY. Says: "The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free & open society; & we are as a people inherently&historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths & to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive & unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it." April: Averell Harriman is appointed Under SOS for Political Affairs. May 1: Fidel Castro announces that there would be no more elections in Cuba. May 25: JFK asks the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade, before the Soviets do. June 3-4: JFK meets with Khrushchev in Vienna to discuss disarmament, Germany, Laos & nuclear testing. They fail to agree but issue joint statement that they will maintain contact. August 13: Berlin wall construction begins, to stop the mass exodus of East Berliners into West Berlin (30,000/month), but making JFK look weak in the eyes of powerful government hawks. August 24: JFK issues "solemn warning" that interference with allied access to West Berlin will be considered "an aggressive act" for which the Soviet government will bear full responsibility. August: US & Latin American nations join in the "Alliance for Progress." September 5: JFK signs law against hijacking. September: Maxwell Taylor's BOP report cites breakdown of management. JFK fires DCI A. Dulles, Deputy Director C. Cabell (brother of Dallas Mayor Earle) & Director for Plans Bissell as a result. But many CIA spooks & Cuban exiles blame JFK for BOP failure. JFK's firing of the CIA bosses increases resentment of spooks. CIA/anti-Castro Cuban exile hatred becomes a powerful ongoing force. November 3: JFK establishes the US Agency for International Development (USAID). December 2: Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist who will lead Cuba to Communism. December 23: Castro announces Cuba will release prisoners from BOP in exchange for $62M worth of food & medical supplies. ~: Congress votes a minimum-wage increase from $1.00 to $1.25 an hour over two-year period. ~: Kennedy is advised to send combat troops into Vietnam but declines.	March 6: Affirmative Action & Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) are created by JFK with Executive Order 10925, setting up a presidential committee mandating that projects financed with federal funds "take affirmative action" to ensure that hiring & employment practices are free of racial bias. May 4: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sends student volunteers called Freedom Riders on interstate bus trips. May 14 in Anniston, AL the KKK has permission to attack Freedom Riders without fear of arrest. The bus arrives & is attacked by angry crowd with no police around. The bus moves on to Birmingham where riders are beaten severely while police stand by. The leader of CORE, James Farmer, ends the tour&has the riders flown to the original destination: New Orleans. May 20: Some have decided to continue the "Freedom Rides." RFK asks AL state police to protect the Freedom Riders. When Freedom Riders enter Montgomery, AL the police disappear. A crowd of 300 attack the riders with baseball bats, pipes, & sticks. One rider is covered with kerosene & set on fire. RFK sends federal marshals to the city. May 21: In Montgomery, a crowd throws stones through windows of a church where MLK is to speak. Armed federal marshals with tear gas move against the crowd, joined by baton wielding local police. In his speech, King calls for campaign to end segregation in AL. May 25: JFK administration, wanting a "cooling-off period," asks civil rights leaders for moratorium on Freedom Rides. They continue into MS. RFK wins agreement from Governor of MS that the Freedom Riders will not be beaten, merely arrested. May 29: JFK administration directs Interstate Commerce Commission to ban segregation in all its facilities. November 17: Albany (GA) Movement begins pushing for desegregation. Those involved include SNCC, NAACP, SCLC & MLK. ~: FBI begins wiretapping MLK, with RFK's approval, under the guise of concern over Communist infiltration of civil rights movement. No such evidence ever emerges yet the bureau continues to tape King.	January 20: John F. Kennedy is sworn in as President of the US, the youngest elected president ever at 43 years of age & 1st president to be Roman Catholic. January: Joe Kennedy insists that Robert F. Kennedy be given a cabinet appointment; Robert is named attorney general. April: Bay of Pigs fiasco results in heavy criticism of JFK, who is aware that CIA sandbagged him. JFK, realizing the CIA is out of control, vows to "splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces & scatter it to the winds." April: JFK meets with General MacArthur who says: "The chickens are coming home to roost, & you just moved into the chicken coop." He also warns JFK against the commitment of American foot soldiers in Asia. July 4: JFK responds to letter from Khrushchev: "I wish to thank you personally & on behalf of the American people for your greetings on the occasion of the 185th Anniversary of the Independence of the United States... I am confident that given a sincere desire to achieve a peaceful settlement of the issues which still disturb the world's tranquility we can, in our time, reach that peaceful goal which all peoples so ardently desire." July: MacArthur restates warning against Asian land war during second meeting with JFK after General returned from Far East. September 12: JFK delivers speech at Rice University pledging US will put man on the moon before end of decade. September: Dallas Morning News publisher Ted Dealey confronts JFK at White House meeting of newspaper professionals: "The general opinion of the grassroots thinking in this country is that you & your administration are weak sisters. If we stand firm, there will be no war. The Russians will back down. We need a man on horseback to lead this nation & many people in Texas & the Southwest think that you are riding Caroline's tricycle." Note: Dealey Plaza in Dallas is named for Ted Dealey's father, George Dealey--also publisher of the Dallas Morning News. November 18: JFK speaks at Hollywood Palladium about right wing extremists: "There have always been those fringes of our society who have sought to escape their own responsibility by finding...an appealing slogan or a convenient scapegoat. They look suspiciously at their...leaders. They call for a 'man on horseback' because they do not trust the people. They find treason...[&] object...to politics' intruding on the military but [want] the military to [be] in politics." December 19: Joe Sr. suffers a stroke. He is paralyzed and will remain unable to speak for the last eight years of his life.	April 7: Tad Szulc writes front page NY times article on anti-Castro forces training to fight at Florida bases, predicting probable invasion on April 18. The "covert" invasion takes place Apr 17. April 13: English-language radio broadcast in Moscow announces invasion of Cuba will happen within a week.			April: Major General Edwin Anderson Walker is accused of initiating an anti-communist indoctrination program for troops, and indoctrinating his troops with right-wing literature from JBS. With agreement of JFK, Defense Secretary McNamara relieves Walker of his command in Germany & announces investigation. Senators Strom Thurmond and Barry Goldwater accuse JFK of trying to suppress anti-Communist feelings of the military. August: Ferrie loses his pilot job at Eastern Airlines on morals charges after an arrest associated with his fondness for young boys. The Falcons fold as a result. October: Walker is reassigned to Hawaii to become assistant chief of staff for training and operations in the Pacific. November 2: Edwin Walker resignes from his army command in Hawaii to protest his treatment. He tells a Senate subcommitee tasked with looking into the issue of activist military officer - My career has been destroyed. I must find other means of serving my country in the time of her great need. To do this, I must be free from the power of the little men who, in the name of my country, punish loyal service to it. It will be my purpose now, as a civilian, to attempt to do what I have found it no longer possible to do in uniform." December 13: Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell, brother of former CIA deputy Charles Cabell - fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs - presents Edwin Walker with honorary citizenship to the city of Dallas at the National Indignation Convention. Edwin Collins Roy Hargraves John Martino William Pawley Felipe Vidal Santiago Steve Wilson Robrt Emmett Johnson E. Howard Hunt: CIA propaganda specialist...
Kennedy/Johnson/1962	February 18: RFK says US troops will stay in Vietnam until Communism is defeated. March 2: JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing. March: Top secret US Army memorandum is presented by General Lemnitzer, with support of LeMay, to SOD McNamara for approval. It is code named Operation Northwoods and describes "Possible Actions to Provoke, Harass or Disrupt Cuba." Joint Chiefs of Staff and Deputy Defense Sec. Roswell Gilpatric approve plan to "lure or provoke Castro, or an uncontrollable subordinate, into an overt hostile reaction against the US." The memo suggests that the administration arrange a terror campaign in Miami & DC to create international revulsion against government of Fidel Castro. JFK refuses & Lemnitzer is soon replaced by JFK. August 22: Assassination attempt on de Gaulle fails. October 16: U.S. satellite photos and subsequent U-2 flyovers uncover proof of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Fearing another US invasion, Castro had agreed to allow the USSR to deploy nuclear missiles on the island. The ensuing Cuban Missile Crisis has the world at the brink of nuclear annihilation. JFK ignores advice of General Curtis LeMay to nuke Cuba, opting instead for naval blockade & negotiated peaceful resolution through negotiations with Khrushchev. October 22: JFK announces naval quarantine of Cuba. October 28: The Cuban Missile Crisis is resolved when the USSR agreed to remove the missiles in return for the withdrawal of US nuclear missiles from Turkey. The negotiated resolution infuriates the joint chiefs, especially LeMay. CIA spook William Harvey clashes with Kennedys. November 24: Pentagon awards $6.5 billion contract to General Dynamics for TFX fighter-bomber, later known as the F-111. Choice over Boeing sparks controversy. November 1961 - October 1962: Khrushchev protects Castro against CIA/government murder & invasion plots by sending soldiers & weapons. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues. ~: Increase of American advisors in Vietnam from several hundred to several thousand, Strategic Hamlet program initiated.	March 31: Cesar Chavez founds the United Farm Workers Union on his birthday. April 8: Bay of Pigs invaders get thirty years imprisonment in Cuba. April 13: US steel industry is forced by JFK to give up price increases. May 25: US union AFL-CIO started campaign for a 35-hour work week. May: Stock market decline coincides with JFK's attack on steel industry & RFK’s antitrust suits against numerous US industries. RFK launches price-fixing investigation after US Steel raises prices by $6 a ton & other steel-makers follow suit. May: Memo from CIA briefing for RFK reveals that $150,000 was offered to the US mob for the assassination of Fidel Castro. June 1: CIA asset Lee Harvey Oswald leaves Soviet Union for US with Russian wife & daughter. October 30: RFK terminates "all sabotage operations" against Cuba as a result of President Kennedy's promise to Nikita Khrushchev that he would not invade Cuba; Operation Mongoose is disbanded. November 15: Herman Brown, of Brown & Root, financial backer of LBJ, dies. December 21: Bay of Pigs prisoners ransomed by U.S., and JFK soon meets with them at the Orange Bowl in Miami. December: Halliburton purchases Brown & Root. ~: Bobby Baker establishes Serve-U-Corporation with friend Fred Black & mobsters Ed Levenson & Benny Sigelbaum, to provide vending machines, secretly manufactured by company secretly owned by Chicago mobsters including Sam Giancana, for companies working on federally granted programs. He uses his position in politics to hurt competing companies & starts numerous big money business ventures using his political advantage & becoming wealthy.	February 3: JFK bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs via Trading with the Enemy Act. Blockade begins within days. February 10: Soviet Union exchanges captured American U2 pilot Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, Soviet spy held by US. February 22: Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks is turned down by US. March: FBI arrests Billie Sol Estes on charges of fraud & theft pertaining to cotton allotment. This puts pressure on LBJ since he is a known business partner of Estes & received gifts from him & therefore became a concern to the JFK administration. August 13: President speaks to nation about income tax cuts he plans to present to Congress in January to spur economy. September 30: Khrushchev invites JFK to visit the Soviet Union. October 30: Khrushchev writes to Castro: "Had we, yielding to the sentiments prevailing among the people, allowed ourselves to be carried away by certain passionate sectors of the population & refused to come to a reasonable agreement with the US government, then a war could have broken out, in the course of which millions of people would have died & the survivors would have pinned the blame on the leaders for not having taken all the necessary measures to prevent that war of annihilation." November 6: Edward M. Kennedy wins his 1st election as Senator in Mass. December: JFK commutes sentence of Junius Scales who had served 15 months for being member of Communist Party, the only American ever sent to prison for being a CP member. December: JFK meets Cuban exiles at the Orange Bowl. ~: President Kennedy issues Executive Order 10988 giving federal workers the right to join unions and bargain for wages and working conditions.	August 31: Fannie Lou Hamer attempts to register to vote in Indianola, MS. September 20: James Meredith is barred from becoming the 1st black student to enroll at University of MS when Governor Ross R. Barnett blocks Meredith from registering in spite of Supreme Court order. Meredith returns to register with Federal troops & university complies, sparking rioting. JFK & RFK send 13,500 to stop rioting wherein 2 die. Meredith attends his first day of class with by US marshals. September 22: 100th anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation is marked with numerous US rallies & media coverage. November 20: JFK signs Executive Order 11063 banning segregation in federally funded housing. ~: JFK signed an Executive Order maintaining the right of federal employees to join unions & negotiate on many issues. ~: The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) is formed to unite civil rights groups with common goals: NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality, Southern Christian Leadership Conference & the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.	March 22: Hoover talks to JFK about phone calls to him from Judith Exner, made to JFK from the home of mobster Sam Giancana. JFK ends phone conversations with Exner. March: JFK battles US Steel over price increases, sides with Steel Worker's Union. March: Ted resigns as assistant district attorney in Suffolk County and announces his candidacy for his brother Jack's unexpired Senate seat. May 19: Marilyn Monroe sings "Happy Birthday" to JFK at Madison Square Garden while wearing a dress described as "skin & beads." July: JFK installs a taping system in the White House. August 3: Kilgallen becomes 1st journalist to refer publicly to Marilyn Monroe's relationship with a Kennedy. November 6: The people of Massachusetts elect Ted Kennedy to the U.S. Senate.	January 25: JFK holds 1st of 64 presidential news conference carried live on radio & television. February 14: First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts a televised tour of the White House. July 10: Telstar communications satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. The next day it carries the first transatlantic TV transmission. October 22: JFK addresses nation on TV about Missile Crisis. Armed conflict seems imminent but Soviets ultimately retreat & promise not to set up missiles. US agrees not to attack Cuba. November 7: Nixon, who failed to become Governor of CA, holds "last press conference" telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." Nixon's loss was in part due to revelation that that his DC home was being sold under "restrictive covenant," preventing sale to black or Jewish buyer. ~: Robert Donovan authors "PT-109: John F. Kennedy in World War II."		August 5: Actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her Los Angeles home at age 36 & the Kennedy brothers are framed in an unsuccessful attempt to remove them from government.	January 4: E. Walker addresses New Orleans Indignation Committee via closed-circuit TV at Soule Business College. February: Edwin Walker enters the race for Governor of Texas, likely funded by HL Hunt. Although he gains the support of Barry Goldwater he finishes last among six candidates in a Democratic primary election in May won by John Connally. April 4: Edwin Walker testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the subject of the proposed test ban treaty. As he leaves the hearing room, journalist Tom Kelly of the Washington Daily News asks if he has any comment. The General's reply is a punch in the nose. September 26: Edwin Walker organizes protests against enrollment of James Meredith at Ol' Miss. He calls on 10,000 citizens to march on Oxford. September 29: Edwin Walker makes public statement - "This is Edwin A. Walker. I am in Mississippi beside Gov. Ross Barnett. I call for a national protest against the conspiracy from within. Rally to the cause of freedom in righteous indignation, violent vocal protest, and bitter silence under the flag of Mississippi at the use of Federal troops. This today is a disgrace to the nation in 'dire peril,' a disgrace beyond the capacity of anyone except its enemies. This is the conspiracy of the crucifixion by anti-Christ conspirators of the Supreme Court in their denial of prayer and their betrayal of a nation." September 30: After a violent, 15-hour riot breaks out on the campus in which two people were killed and six federal marshals were shot, RFK issues a warrant for Edwin Walker's arrest on charges of seditious conspiracy, insurrection & rebellion against the United States. Walker is arrested by feds on 4 counts & flown to Medical Center/prison for psych observation. He is jailed for 5 days & claims he is a "political prisoner" of the JFK Administration. October 2: Edwin Walker is released on $50,000 bond after agreeing to psychiatric examination in Dallas. He returns home to Dallas via Love Field where he is greeted by 250 supporters. October: Larrie Schmidt leaves the US Army. ~ Ferrie begins working for lawyer G. Wray Gill & his client, Carlos Marcello, including attempts to block ~: RFK's deportation of Marcello to Guatemala. Curtis Lemay Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy/Johnson/1963	January 1: Robert Kerr, corrupt TX businessman/politician, dies. January 14: George Wallace is sworn in as Governor of AL with pledge: "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" in inaugural address. January 21: A federal grand jury in Oxford, MS adjourns without indicting Walker on any of the 4 counts. The Justice Department dismisses charges "without prejudice" therefore the charges could be reinstated within five years. January 28: SC schools are desegregated when African-American student Harvey B. Gantt enrolls at Clemson. Gantt later becomes mayor of Charlotte, NC. February 11: CIA Domestic Operations Division is created. February 20: Moscow offers to allow on-site inspection of nuclear testing. February 21: Medicare bill is submitted to Congress by JFK (passed after his death under LBJ). February 22: Soviet Union withdraws thousands of troops from Cuba & warns US that attacking Cuba would mean war. March 4: Six people get death sentence in Paris for failed plot to kill de Gaulle. March: Raids by Cuban exiles against Cuba from U.S. shores begin to be shut down, though the National Security Council continues to approve some raids throughout 1963. April 1: Longest newspaper strike in US history ends after 9 major newspapers in NYC cease publication over 100 days. April 2: Grand jury indicts US Steel & 6 other manufacturers in price-fixing investigation. April 2 - May 2: Birmingham civil rights campaign begins by challenging city leaders & business owners in Birmingham, AL with daily mass demonstrations. Over next few weeks police, under chief Bull Conner, uses dogs & cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators, turns hoses on them & arrests 500 African-Americans including MLK. After images of fire hoses & police dogs turned on protesters are shown on television, Children's Crusade impels a negotiated truce - an end to mass demonstrations in return for rolling back oppressive segregation laws & practices & release of thousands of jailed demonstrators. Campaign was organized by SCLC & AL Christian Movement for Human Rights. April 2: Citizens Congressional Committee files petition with Senate Judiciary Committee requesting investigation of Walker's arrest. April 7: George Soule chairs 12th Annual National Congress of Freedom. E. Walker’s lawyer, Clyde Watts, is event speaker. Joseph Milteer is in attendance. April 10: Edwin Walker is supposedly shot at in his Dallas home. It is later claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald had taken the shot at Walker. However, there is a witness to the shooting. Neighbor Kirk Coleman saw two men making their escape, one stopped to place something in the back of his Ford sedan, then they both drove off in different cars. As Oswald could not drive this has raised serious doubts if he could have been involved in this attempt on Walker's life. Walker is unhurt. He tells DPD there might be connection between shots & swastika incident. April 16: Letter from Birmingham Jail written by Martin Luther King. April 16: Decals of black Nazi swastika & the words 'We Are Back' are found on windows of Dallas Jewish stores. April 23: CORE activist William L. Moore is killed in Gadsden, AL. April: JFK issues United States Note dollar bills carrying red seal, likely a reissue of Lincoln's Greenbacks, therefore unlikely to be a factor in his murder. April: Averell Harriman is appointed Under SOS for Political Affairs & presidential secret envoy to Soviet leaders Stalin, Krushchev, Brezhnev & Andropov. May 11: Fidel Castro says in TV interview that the US has "taken some steps in the way of peace" in its relations with Cuba & that these might be the basis of better relations. May 18: JFK gives speech in Nashville at 90th Anniversary Convocation of Vanderbilt University. He says civil rights protesters are “in the highest tradition of American freedom.” May 22: After delivering the keynote speech at a pacifist meeting in Thessaloniki, Gregoris Lambrakis, Greek politician & peace advocate, is intentionally run down by a delivery truck driven by 2 far-right extremists (E. Emmanouilidis and S. Gotzamanis). He suffers brain injuries & dies in the hospital May 27. May: Oswald moves to New Orleans & works at CIA front William B. Riley Coffee Company. May: Harvard Professor Timothy Leary loses post after providing students with LSD. May: Development of contingency plans for a coup in Cuba are undertaken, and revised over the summer and into fall. May: SOD conference on Vietnam sets timetable from withdrawal from Vietnam. June 1: AL Governor Wallace vows to defy injunction ordering integration of the University of Alabama. On 6/13/63 he blocks doorway to 2 black students. JFK federalizes part of the Alabama National Guard. Wallace moves; the students register. On 9/2/63 Wallace prevents the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers. By 9/10/63 20 black students enter public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee & Mobile, AL & JFK federalizes AL's National Guard to prevent Wallace from using guardsmen to stop public-school desegregation. June 9: Fannie Lou Hamer is among a group of several SNCC workers badly beaten by police in the Winona, MS jail after their bus stops there. June 10: JFK signs Equal Pay Act, making it illegal to pay women lower rates for the same job strictly on the basis of their sex. June 10: JFK gives Commencement Address at American University, groundbreaking in its appeal for peace with the Soviets. JFK speaks on television later in day expressing his support for civil rights movement. June 11: After MLK is arrested for trying to integrate restaurants in FL, JFK makes historic civil rights speech stating segregation is "morally wrong" & it is "time to act." He refers to civil rights legislation he will send to congress. June 11: AL Governor George Wallace stands in front of a schoolhouse door at the University of AL in an attempt to stop desegregation of that institution by the enrollment of 2 black students. Wallace only stands aside after being confronted by federal marshals, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach & the AL National Guard. June 12: Georgia Senator Richard Russell says JFK’s policies are destructive to American system & constitutional rights: “I shall oppose them with every means & resource at my command.” June 12: NAACP worker Medgar Evers is murdered in Jackson, MS. (His killer is convicted in 1994.) June 19: JFK sends to the Congress (H. Doc. 124, 88th Cong., 1st session.) his proposed Civil Rights Act asking for equal accommodations in housing, public facilities, hiring & schools. June 20: CIA Operation Tilt/Bayo-Pawley mission, another attempt to embarrass the Kennedys out of government, fails. Included: William Pawley, Eddie Bayo, Rip Robertson, John Martino, & Life journalist Richard Billings. June 20: US & Soviet Union sign agreement in Geneva to limit nuclear testing. June 26: JFK speaks to enormous crowd in Germany, inspiring them with words: "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin & therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner." June 27: Henry Cabot Lodge is appointed US ambassador to S. Vietnam. June: First self-immolation by Buddhist monk in Vietnam during “Buddhist Crisis.” July 4: Army Psychiatrist Dr. Charles E. Smith is cleared by the AMA after being charged by Walker’s supporters with unethical conduct. AMA received 2500 letters from physicians alleging unethical conduct by Dr. Smith. June 5: Decision for Texas trip made at meeting with JFK, LBJ & Connally at Cortez hotel in El Paso Texas. June 26-29: President visits Ireland & delivers speech to Irish Parliament in Dublin. July 11: CIA-backed military coup overthrows Ecuador's President Arosemana whose independent (not socialist) policies are unacceptable to Washington. A military junta assumes command, cancels the 1964 elections & begins abusing human rights. July 19: Oswald is fired from William Reily Coffee Company in New Orleans. July: A major arms cache is raided at Lake Ponchartrain near New Orleans, and other raids occur during the summer. August 3: Philip Graham, said to be manic-depressive, reportedly commits suicide with a shotgun after publicly criticizing the CIA's manipulation of reporters. August 5: US & Soviet Union agree to a nuclear test-ban treaty. August 7: The Kennedys' 2nd son, Patrick, is born 5 weeks premature & dies Aug. 9. August 12: President Betancourt of Venezuela wants former dictator Perez Jiminez back in Venezuela to face charges of embezzling $13M. After careful legal study JFK administration extradites him. August 28: A quarter of a million people listen to MLK’s “I Have A Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial in DC after the March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom. August 30: Washington-to-Moscow hotline goes into effect to cool Cold War tensions. August: There is a raid on the CIA arms cache on Lake Pontchartrain. August: Weissman is discharged from Army but is unable to find work. Short of money, he contacts Schmidt who is in Dallas. September 6: Right wing Senator Barry Goldwater urges postponement of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. September 12: VP of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. sends telegram to the MS State Sovereignty Commission saying wealthy NY client Wickliffe Preston Draper, is "setting aside an anonymous gift" of $100,000. MS Governor Barnett accepts. September 15: KKK throws bomb into basement of the all-black Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL killing 4 little girls. September 20: JFK delivers speech at UN General Assembly, suggesting cooperation between countries to reach space. September 20: RFK orders Interstate Commerce Commission to issue regulations requiring desegretation on all facilities used in interstate travel. Cities that don’t comply will be sued by the DOJ. September 20: JFK gives speech to the UN General Assembly, proposes joint US-Soviet expedition to the moon. September 23: JFK says, during interview with Walter Cronkite, that S. Vietnam's Government cannot win its war against the Communists unless it recovers popular support. He also mentions domino theory: "if we withdrew from Vietnam, the Communists would control Vietnam. Pretty soon, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, would go..." September 24: JFK attends function in Pennsylvania at the Pinchot estate wherein background check of laborers reveal Neo-Nazi ties. Their work is suspended for day for presidential security. September 25: Antonio Veciana, Alpha 66's Cuban leader, goes to Dallas to meet with Maurice Bishop (David Atlee Philips) & sees him speaking to man later ID'd as Oswald. September 25: US Senate, by a vote of 80 to 19, ratifies the treaty outlawing nuclear tests - in the atmosphere, in space and in the waters of the earth. JFK sets out on an eleven-state tour to plead for support for his domestic program. September 25: CIA overthrows the Dominican Republic's democratically elected Juan Bosch in military coup & installs repressive, right-wing junta. September 26-27: Lee Oswald & 2 Latin men go to Silvia Odio's house with some pretext; one of the Latin men phones Odio later, portraying Lee as homicidal sniper. September 27: Man calling himself Lee Harvey Oswald Cuban consul's office in Mexico City & asks employee Silvia Duran for Cuban transit visa. He calls attention to himself by showing Duran his passport, correspondence with American Communist Party, his membership card for Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a newspaper clipping about his activities in New Orleans & a photograph of Oswald in custody, accompanied by two police officers. Duran is suspicious and thinks photo looks phony. September: Richard Case Nagell, an Oswald associate contracted with US intelligence & associated, with the Soviets, walks into an El Paso bank & fires 2 shots into the wall so he will be in jail while "it" comes down. September: Roscoe White joins DPD. Soon after his wife Geneva claims she overheard him & Ruby plotting assassination of JFK. September: CIA reactivates contact with Rolando Cubela. Castro gives impromptu interview and warns that U.S. leaders aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders will themselves not be safe. White House authorizes William Atwood to explore talks with Castro representative. October 1: Hoover approves combined COMINFIL-COINTELPRO plan against civil rights movement. October 1: Ernesto Castellanos, Cuban exile who took part in Bay of Pigs invasion, is secretly tape-recorded at John Birch Society meeting in Dallas saying "We're waiting for Kennedy the 22nd. We're going to see him in one way or the other. We're going to give him the works when he gets in Dallas." October 1: Larrie Schmidt writes from Dallas to Munich, Germany: "I have a lot of contacts, bankers, insurance men, realtors... My brother began working as an aide to General Walker...Paid full time...National Indignation Committee will merge in the Fall of 1963, as soon as Bernie & Norman are in Dallas." Schmidt invites Bernard Weissman to Dallas, saying: "If we are going to take advantage of the situation, or if you are, you better hurry down here & take advantage of the publicity, & at least become known among these various right-wingers, because this is the chance we have been looking for to infiltrate some of these organizations & become known." October 2: JFK sends message to Ambassador Lodge in Vietnam declaring that "no initiative should now be taken to give any encouragement to a coup" against Diem, but Lodge should "identify & build contacts with possible leadership as & when it appears." October 7: President signs Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: "With our courage & understanding enlarged by this achievement, let us press onward in quest of man's essential desire for peace." October 7: Senate investigating committee holds hearings on TFX scandal where General Dynamics received $7 billion contract in 1962. October 7: Bobby Baker is forced to resign from LBJ's staff as a result of the growing scandal over improperly obtaining federal contracts. His secretary Carole Tyler resigns at the same time. October 11: JFK signs National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 263 ordering all US personnel (including CIA spooks) out of Vietnam by end of 1965 and initiating immediate withdrawal of 1,000 men. October 16: Oswald begins job at Texas School Book Depository (TSBD). He reportedly obtained it through contact of Ruth Paine. October 23: Walker speaks to thousands at "US Day" at the Dallas Memorial Auditorium. October 24: On UN Day, UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson is in Dallas TX, where he is attacked by a hostile mob of Edwin Walker's Walker's cohorts parading as the 'National Indignation Convention' and spat upon. October 29: Larrie Schmidt to Munich Germany: "Kennedy is scheduled in Dallas on November 24...All big things are happening now." October: Navy Secretary Fred Korth, former bank president & LBJ man, is forced to resign after reporters discover that his bank was principal money source for the General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth that got $7 billion contract for fighter plane TFX. Senate Rules Committee investigation into Bobby Baker implicates LBJ in General Dynamics TFX scandal & hears evidence that his staff solicited kickbacks for him. October: Desmond Fitzgerald, head of the CIA's Special Affairs Staff, meets with Cubela, representing himself as Robert Kennedy's personal emissary. The assassination of Castro is discussed. October ~: Schmidt tells Weissman about his involvement in the October 24 attack on liberal politician, Adlai Stevenson. According to Schmidt, it was organized by Walker. November 1: Oswald delivers a note to Dallas FBI Agent James Hosty. November 2: Diem, president of S. Vietnam & brother are assassinated in CIA coup supported by Harriman & LBJ, but not JFK. November 4: Weissman arrives in Dallas. Soon after Schmidt introduces Weissman to Joe Grinnan of JBS who is organizing protests against the visit of JFK. Grinnan seems to know about the visit before it was officially announced to the public, & suggested that they should place a black-bordered advert in the Dallas Morning News on 22nd November, 1963. The ad cost $1,465 which Grinnan supplied, claiming some money came from Nelson Bunker Hunt, son of HL Hunt. Weissman was given task of signing the advert & taking it to the newspaper office. November 8: Secret Service (SS) Agent Winston Lawson is briefed & receives tentative schedule of upcoming Texas trip from SS Agent Roy H Kellerman, who is in charge of trip timetable & motorcade route. November 8: Lee Harvey Oswald writes note: "Dear Mr. Hunt, I would like information concerding [sic] my position. I am asking only for information. I am suggesting that we discuss the matter fully before any steps are taken by me or anyone else. Thank You, Lee Harvy [sic] Oswald" November 9: Miami police informant William Somersett meets with Joseph Milteer, who belonged to several right-wing & racist groups & says JFK, who is scheduled to come to Miami on November 18, will be shot by a rifle from a building. He adds that the police will pick up a patsy within hours "just to throw the public off." As a security measure local police were monitoring known subversives like Milteer & the conversation was taped. November 8: Governor Connelly confirms trip to Dallas on November 21-22. November 12: JFK administration hopes for better relations with Cuba & sends secret messages indicating this to Castro via newswoman Lisa Howard. Howard discusses this by phone unaware that the CIA has bugged the line. November 14: Secret Service (SS) Agents Lawson & Sorrels are shown route from Love Field to Trademart which bypasses Dealey Plaza. November 16: President visits Cape Canaveral. November 17: President returns to Palm Beach to rest before upcoming visits to several US cities. November 17: SS Agents Lawson & Sorrels drive with DPD assistant Chief Charles Batchelor through motorcade route verifying that it is unchanged. November 17: FBI Teletype directs to all field offices to contact Cis (confidential informants) to determine whether a revolutionary group is potential threat to the president in Dallas November 22 - 23. November 18: President travels to Tampa for appearances & speeches. Gives speech in Miami that divide analysts as to whether it invited a coup or was a door-opener for accommodation with Castro. November 19: JFK tells secretary Evelyn Lincoln that his running mate in 1964 will not be LBJ. November 19: White supremacist Joseph Milteer predicts JFK will be shot by a rifle from a building. November 19: M. Bundy tells Ambassador Attwood that JFK wants to discuss his plans for Cuban-American detente with him after "a brief trip to Dallas." November 20: Walker is in New Orleans meeting with racist politican Leander Perez & about 35 conservative leaders. November 20: 2 Dallas cops witness “mock target practice” at the picket fence atop knoll. They arrived in time to see participants depart in haste, & only write a report of the incident after November 22. November 20: President signs his final bill authorizing medals commemorating founding of International Ladies Garment Workers Union. November 20: Rose Cheramie is found unconsciousness by side of road at Eunice, Louisiana. As Lieutenant Francis Fruge of Louisiana State Police takes her to state hospital Cheramie says she was thrown out of a car by 2 gangsters working for Ruby & claims the men are involved in plot to kill JFK soon in Dallas & that Oswald visited Ruby's night club. Later she tells the same story to doctors & nurses. As she appeared to be under the influence of drugs her story is ignored. November 21: M. Bundy signs draft of NSAM #273 which covertly annuls Vietnam withdrawal plans JFK ordered in NSAM #263. November 21: Walker holds meeting with 90 people in New Orleans. November 21: JFK visits Texas to tour San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas & Austin. November 21: Edwin Walker flies three flags upside down - an international distress signal - in front of his Dallas home in anticipation of President Kennedy's arrival. November 22: Cubela meets again with a CIA officer on Nov 22, and is handed a poison pen. As the meeting is breaking up, the participants received the news of Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. The same day, Castro hears the news of Kennedy's murder while meeting with French journalist Jean Daniel, himself there as part of the secret "accommodation track." November 22: Bobby Baker friend Don B. Reynolds tells B. Everett Jordan & Senate Rules Committee that LBJ demanded kickbacks & ad purchase on KTBC. Reynolds describes "$100,000 payoff to LBJ for his role in securing Fort Worth TFX contract." Testimony ends with news of JFK assassination. November 22: Banister & friend Jack Martin go drinking together & return to Banister's office when Banister becomes enraged over missing file & pistol whips Martin. A bitter Martin tells reporters & authorities that Ferrie was involved in JFK assassination, had known Oswald from New Orleans Civil Air Patrol, had given him lessons on how to use a rifle with a telescopic sight, had flown Oswald to Texas & had threatened JFK & outlined plans to kill him. November 22: Schmidt & Weissman meet in a bar. Weissman is shocked by the assassination of JFK & tells Schmidt he fears he will be accused as accomplice because he suspects JFK was killed by supporters of Walker. November 22-11:00am: Julia Ann Mercer's drives down Elm street is blocked by green Ford pickup truck. A young man removes long paper bag with visible outline of rifle in the bag. He walks with it to top of grassy knoll. She sees driver of truck whom she identifies, before he is shown on TV shooting Oswald, as Jack Ruby. November 22-11:10am: Air Force One leaves Carswell AFB in Fort Worth for 13 min flight to Love Field in Dallas. November 22-11:30am: Motorcade leaves Love Field. Secret Service conspicuously stands down leaving JFK vulnerable to ambush. November 22 Man who appears to be Joseph Milteer is photographed in Dealey Plaza. Many other suspicious faces are photographed in Dealey Plaza as well. November 22-11:45am: Oswald is left on 6th floor of TSBD as workmates go to lunch. He yells, “Guys, How about an elevator? Send one of the elevators back up.” November 22-11:50am: TSBD foreman Bill Shelley sees Oswald near telephone on first floor. November 22-12:00pm: Ruby is seen sitting in an office at the Dallas Morning News by newspaper employee Wanda Walker. November 22-12:00pm: TSBD employee Eddie Piper speaks to Oswald “Just at twelve o’clock, down on the first floor.” November 22-12:10pm: Lee Bowers, railway supervisor in tower behind knoll, sees 3 suspicious cars in parking lot behind knoll fence. November 22-12:15pm: Carolyn Arnold sees Oswald in 2nd floor lunchroom. ”Oswald was sitting in one of the booth seats on the right hand side of the room as you go in. He was alone as usual & appeared to be having lunch. I did not speak to him but I recognized him clearly.” November 22-12:15pm: Witness Arnold Rowland observes man with rifle at Western end of TSBD. November 22-12:15-12:20pm: TSBD employee Bonnie Ray Williams leaves 6th floor after eating lunch; he sees nobody. November 22-12:18pm: Man has seizure in front of TSBD. November 22-12:19pm: Police radio “code 3” (haste) for ambulance for Dealey Plaza. Ambulance arrives & picks up suspected epileptic, departs at 12:25 pm for Parkland Hospital where his admittance is never recorded. November 22-12:20pm: Bonnie Ray Williams leaves 6th floor & uses elevator; joins co-workers on 5th floor to watch motorcade. November 22-12:29pm: "Geneva Hine, the only employee in the Depository's second-floor offices, observes the electrical power & telephone system go dead. The Dallas Police radio systems Channel One, reserved for officers participating in the security of the President, is suddenly immobilized." November 22-12:30pm: President Kennedy is shot multiple times while riding in motorcade through downtown Dallas. November 22-12:30:40pm: Sheriff Bill Decker uses police radio to order officers to the “Railroad track area just North of Elm.” November 22-12:32pm The Washington DC phone system goes out of service. It will not be restored for almost one hour." November 22-12:38pm: President Kennedy arrives at Parkland Hospital. November 22-12:40pm: Police officer Roger Craig sees white male running down hill from direction of TSBD then entering waiting Rambler station wagon that then drives off. November 22-12:40-45pm: Oswald leaves bus & boards 2nd taxi after allowing woman to take 1st taxi; tells driver William Whaley “500 N. Beckley St.” November 22-12:45pm: Description of suspect broadcast on DPD radio: "The wanted person in this is a slender white male about thirty, 5'10", 165, carrying what looked to be a 30.30 or some type of Winchester". November 22-12:45pm: Officer Tippit is told by dispatcher to “go to central Oakcliff area” where no suspicion of criminal activity has been raised. Almost every other Dallas cop is dispatched to Dealey Plaza, Parkland Hospital or Love Field. November 22-12:48pm: Police radio: “He is thought to be in the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) here on the North West corner of Elm & Houston.” November 22-12:49pm: Captain Talbert orders on police radio: “Have that cut off on the back side will you? Make sure nobody leaves [TSBD].” November 22-12:51pm: Homicide Chief William Fritz calls dispatcher from Trademart to ask if JFK will be coming. He's told “It’s very doubtful.” November 22-12:54pm: Dispatcher asks Officer Tippit if he is in Oakcliff area. He replies, "Yes". He is ordered to be at large "for any emergency that comes in," an unusual instruction since that's any cop's job. November 22-~1:00pm: Police search the bus that Oswald boarded & departed. November 22-1:00pm: President Kennedy is pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital at age 46. November 22-~1:00pm: Police car stops outside Oswald's rooming house & sounds horn twice. November 22-~1:00pm: Darrell Tomlinson discovers "magic" bullet (WC exhibit 399) on stretcher at Parkland hospital. November 22-1:0?pm: Oswald enters Texas Theater. November 22-1:04pm: Oswald seen standing at bus stop outside his rooming house by his landlady. November 22-1:05pm: Car with 3 men is pulled over South of Dallas. One Ids self as SS agent & states: "We are in a hurry to get to New Orleans to investigate part of the shooting." However there is no record of SS being dispatched to New Orleans then. November 22-1:08pm: Officer Tippitt makes 2 attempts to call H/Q but dispatcher does not reply. November 22-1:10pm: T.F. Bewley finds Tippit’s body in street. November 22-1:12pm: Officer Luke Mooney finds hulls on 6th floor of TSBD. November 22-1:15pm: Oswald buys popcorn at concession stand inside Texas theatre. November 22-1:16pm: Civilian Domingo Benavides uses police radio to say: “Officer Tippit has been shot. November 22-1:20pm: Witness Jean Hill states she heard shots from the knoll in live television report. November 22-1:22pm: Rifle found on 6th floor of Book Depository first identified as 7.5 German Mauser. Police radio call goes out describing Tippit's killer as about 30, 5ft 8in black hair & slender. November 22-1:25pm: Captain Fritz is given Oswald's name & address & description by Roy Truly, then later returns to police HQ without issuing APB for Oswald. When he arrives Oswald is already there. Police radio reports finding of a white jacket in parking lot. November 22-1:30pm: Seth Kantor has brief conversation with Ruby at Parkland hospital. November 22-1:35pm: Police radio status on TSBD given: “It’s secure now.” November 22-1:36pm: Police radio from scene of Tippit’s murder: “I got an eyeball witness to the getaway man that suspect in this shooting. He is a white male apparently armed with a .32, dark finish automatic pistol.” November 22-1:45pm: Police radio: "Have information, a suspect just went into Texas theatre on West Jefferson". November 22-1:55pm: Police arrest Oswald at Texas theater as suspect in Tippit shooting. November 22-2:00pm: Bullet 399 is handed to SSA Richard Johnson at Parkland Hospital by Chief of Parkland security OP Wright. November 22-2:04pm: JFK’s body leaves Parkland Hospital. November 22-2:14pm: JFK's body arrives at Love Field. November 22-2:15pm: Oswald taken into DPD. November 22-2:18pm: Casket placed aboard Airforce One. November 22-2:30pm: Hoover calls RFK to brusquely tell him the President was shot. He calls back shortly to brusquely tell RFK the President is dead. November 22-2:38pm: LBJ sworn in aboard Airforce One then orders take off.
Johnson/1963	November 22-2:25-4:04pm: Oswald interrogation in office of Captian Will Fritz. November 22-2:47pm: Air Force One airborne. November 22-3:30pm: Cops arrive at the residence of Michael & Ruth Paine. November 22-3:54pm: NBC Newsman Bill Ryan announces on national TV that “Lee Oswald seeems to be prime suspect in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.” November 22-4:00pm: White House situation room communications center tells LBJ assassination is act of lone nut & no conspiracy exists. November 22-4:04pm: First interrogation of Oswald ends. November 22-4:05pm: Oswald is taken to 1st lineup for Helen Markham witness to Tippit murder. While waiting outside the lineup room Oswald is searched & 5 bullet cartridges are found in his pockets. November 22-4:45-6:30pm: Second interrogation of Oswald in Captain Fritz’s Office. November 22-5:00pm: Air Force 1 arrives at Andrews Air Force base in DC; total flight time 2 hours & 15 minutes. November 22-5:30pm: Deputy sheriff Roger Craig Ids Oswald as man he saw running toward Rambler station wagon. When asked about it Oswald replies: "That station wagon belongs to Mrs Paine; don’t try to tie her into this. She had nothing to do with it." November 22-5:30-6:30pm: SS Agent Richard Johnson hands bullet 399 to SS Chief Rowley at Executive building in DC. November 22-6:20pm: Oswald taken to second lineup & yells to reporters in hallway: “I didn't shoot anyone.” November 22-6:30pm: Lineup for witnesses Cecil J. McWatters, Sam Guinyard, & Ted Callaway. November 22-7:05pm: Oswald charged with Tippit's murder. November 22-7:15pm: First incision made at JFK autopsy. LeMay watches autopsy with cigar in hand. November 22-7:50pm: Oswald taken to third lineup for Witness J.D. Davies. November 22-7:55pm: Oswald yells at reporters in hallway “I’m just a patsy”. November 22-7:56pm: Third interrogation of Oswald in Captain Fritz’s Office. November 22-8:55pm: Oswald’s fingerprints, ID, paraffin tests occur in Fritz’s Office. November 22-11:00-11:20pm: Oswald “Talked to” by FBI Agent M. Clements & Police Officer John Adamcik. November 22-11:20-11:25pm: Oswald is taken to press conference & asked if he is member of Free Cuba Committee but before he answers, Ruby standing up in back, corrects the reporter & says, "That’s The Fair Play For Cuba Committee". Oswald is asked by reporter “Did you kill President Kennedy?” Oswald replies, “No I have not been charged with that. In fact nobody has said that to me yet. The first thing I heard about that is when the newspaper reporters asked me that question.” Oswald is told by a reporter: "You have been charged" (with the murder of JFK.) Oswald looks baffled as he is lead away. November 22-11:26pm: Oswald charged with JFK’s murder but is not told. November 22: When Oswald is arrested after JFK assassination Silvia Duran's name & phone number are found in Oswald's address book. Eusebio Azcue, another man who met Oswald in the office, said the Mexico "Oswald" looked quite different the man arrested in Dallas. November 23: Life magazine cover photo shows composite "photo" of Oswald holding a rolled-up copy of Young Socialist League newspaper The Militant & a rifle. November 23~: In defiance of the half-staff mourning period that had been proclaimed due to President Kennedy's murder, Walker flies all of the flags at his house right side up - at full staff. November 23: Silvia Duran is arrested by Mexican police & questioned extensively about Oswald encounter then released. They hold her until she agrees to ID Oswald as the man who visited the consul. November 23: Silvia Duran is arrested again on orders of CIA, whose covert operations chief Richard Helms cables CIA station chief Winston Scott: "to be certain that there is no misunderstanding between us, we want to insure that Silvia Duran gets no impression that Americans are behind her rearrest. In other words we want Mexican authorities to take responsibility for the whole affair." November 25: FBI interviews Martin & Ferrie but does not pursue case. November ~ : Walker abruptly leaves Dallas after assassination to stay in Shreveport, LA for several days. November ~ : HL Hunt and family abruptly leaves Dallas after assassination to stay in DC under the protection of the FBI for several days. November ~: Schmidt & Weissman abruptly leave Dallas after assassination. ~: Walker sues media outlets for $23 million dollars in libel damages alleging "false statements" & "suppression of truth was motivated by malice & a desire to hurt...his good name" in alleging he "led a charge of students against Federal marshals on the Ol' Miss campus" & "Walker assumed command of the crowd." ~: Fort Worth jury awards Walker with $800,000 judgment against AP, ruling that malice was intended. November 23-12:30-1:00am: Darrell Thomlinson is awakened by phone call from FBI & told to keep his mouth shut about bullet he found on stretcher at Parkland Hospital. November 23-12:35am: Oswald complains, “That this is the third set of fingerprints, photographs being taken.” November 23-1:35am: Oswald is officially told he has been charged with JFK's murder. November 23-2:15am: Sheriff's officer Perry McCoy gets phone call from "white male" saying Oswald will be killed during his transfer. [Later recognizes voice as Ruby?] November 23-2:20am: Police lieutenant Billy Grammer also receives phone call from someone asking specifically for him, who says: "You know me." Describes in detail the plans to move Oswald & tells him that other arrangements should be made or, "We are going to kill Oswald right there in the basement". November 23-3:00am: FBI Special Agent Vince Drain transports gun & all other evidence to DC. November 23-10:30am-1:10pm: More interrogation of Oswald at Capt Fritz’s office. November 23-1:10-1:30pm: Oswald is visited by Mother Margurite & Wife Marina. November 23-2:15pm: Lineup for Witness William Scoggins & William Whaley. November 23-3:30-3:40pm: Robert Oswald visits brother Lee for 10 Minutes. Lee tells Robert: “Don't belive all the so called evidence.” November 23-3:40pm: Lee Oswald calls Ruth Paine & asks her: “Would you please call John Abt (Lawyer) in NY for me after 6:00pm?” November 23-4:21pm: Kenedys body returns to the White House. November 23-5:30-5:35pm: Oswald has visit with H. Louis Nichols, President of the Dallas Bar Association. November 23-6:00-6:30pm: During interrogation in Fritz’s Office Oswald is shown backyard photo of him with gun. “That picture is not my mine. The picture has been made by superimposing my face. The other part of the picture is not me at all, I have never seen this picture before. I understand photography real well, & that in time, I will be able to show you that this is not my picture & that it was made by someone else.” November 23: Copy of Oswalds passport file is "accidentally" destroyed while being Thermofaxed. November 23: Fidel Castro states that JFK's assassination was the work of "elements in the U.S. opposed to peace." His remarks are labeled as propaganda. November 24-9:30am: Interrogation in Capt Fritz’s Office November 24-11:10am: Preparation for Oswald’s transfer to County Jail November 24-11:15am: Inspector Thomas J. Kelly Secret Service, has final conversation with Oswald November 24-11:17am: Ruby wires money order at Western Union Office, a few hundred feet away from DPD. November 24-11:19am: [Ruby is let into basement thru stairwell intentionally left unlocked by cop.] November 24-11:21am: Ruby shoots Oswald in basement garage of DPD. November 24-1:00pm: On being told that Oswald is dead, Ruby calms down in his cell at DPD station after being agitated. November 25: President Kennedy's funeral includes public service at Arlington National Cemetery after mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral. Charles de Gaulle of France attends. He is later returned to the sea in a private family service. November 25: FBI Agent Richard Harrison arrives at Miller’s Funeral Home with Rifle (type uknown) & finger print ink. Funeral Director later tells researchers he could not understand the event & had a difficult time getting the black ink off Oswald’s corpse. November 26: Cape Canaveral renamed Cape Kennedy to honor enthusiastic backer of space program after Jackie's request to LBJ. November 26: LBJ signs NSAM #273, which was drafted on November 21, reversing JFK's plan to withdraw troops from Vietnam. November 27: LBJ pledges support for JFK's legislative agenda which includes civil rights & education legislation, in address to Congress. November 29: LBJ appoints Warren Commission (WC). Members are: Earl Warren, Chief Justice of US Supreme Court; US Senators Richard B. Russell Democrat from GA, John Sherman Cooper Republican from KY; US Representatives Hale Boggs Democrat from LA, Gerald R. Ford (FBI informant) Republican from MI; Allen W. Dulles (CIA protector), former Director of CIA & John J. McCloy, former president of World Bank (CEO of the establishment). November 23: Hoover tells LBJ that someone impersonated Oswald, alleged single assassin, at Soviet embassy in Mexico City. November: Averell Harriman remains Under SOS for Political Affairs. December 1: Malcolm X, a spokesperson for Elijah Muhammad of Nation of Islam, describes the JFK assassination as "the chickens coming home to roost." Muhammad suspends Malcolm's right to speak for the movement for 90 days. December 3?: Warren Commission begins/interviews first witness. December 18: Sylvia Odio testifies to WC that Oswald & 2 Latin men came to her house September 26 or 27 with some pretext, then one of the Latin men phoned her a day later portraying Lee as homicidal sniper. December : Marina Oswald, Lee's widow, meets privately with HL Hunt under tight security. December: Jack Zangretti, who expressed foreknowledge of Ruby shooting Oswald, is found shot to death. ~: Harriman becomes Ambassador at Large for LBJ administration; is chief US negotiator at Paris peace talks on Vietnam. Note: Around 100 US personnel die in Vietnam in 1963. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues.
Johnson/1964	February 1: LBJ says that he sees no chance of negotiating peace for Southeast Asia as proposed by de Gaulle. March 2: LBJ telephones McNamara to prepare a statement on Vietnam; 2 days later, McNamara issues statement rejecting withdrawal, neutralization, or American ground troops. This is discussed with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Taylor argues for “the progressive & selective attack against targets in North Vietnam”. General LeMay advocates immediate “hard blow”. Johnson replies he does “not want to start a war before November” (the presidential election). May 8: Hoover is appointed FBI Director for life by LBJ. July 27: LBJ sends 5,000 more military "advisers" to S. Vietnam, bringing total to 21,000. August: FBI interrogate Kilgallen over source of Ruby's WC transcript leak. FBI memo reports "she stated that she was the only person who knew the identity of the source and that she 'would die' rather than reveal his identity." October 13: Members of the Russian Presidium call special meeting voting to send Khrushchev, always unpopular because of his quest for peace, into retirement. Khrushchev will be given a pension & watched closely by the KGB. His successor as Premier will be Alexei Kosygin & as Communist Party First Secretary will be Leonid Brezhnev, a hard liner. October: After GOP presidential candidate Barry Goldwater calls for escalation of the war against the North Vietnamese, LBJ says he is not willing: "to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues.	March: AMLASH supplied by CIA with rifles for use in assassinating Castro. April 7: Sabotage operations against Cuba cease when DCI McCone states that LBJ is abandoning goal of "eliminating" Castro. ~: CIA-backed military coup overthrows the democratically elected Brazilian government of Joao Goulart. Bloodthursty junta replaces it. General Castelo Branco creates Latin America's first death squads, bands of secret police trained by the CIA who hunt down "communists" (often merely political opponents) for torture, interrogation & murder. ~: Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa succeeds in bringing virtually all North American over-the-road truck drivers under a single national master freight agreement.	May 22: LBJ kicks off campaign for presidency with "Great Society" speech. July 2: LBJ signs Civil Rights Act of 1964; Title VII bans discrimination in the workplace. July 14: Governor Nelson Rockefeller of NY is booed when he denounces extremism at the Republican convention. July 16: Senator Barry Goldwater wins the Republican nomination for president on the first ballot. August 7: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizes LBJ to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the US & to prevent further aggression," based on LBJ's lie that US ships were attacked in Gulf of Tonkin. This escalates Vietnam war, leads to presence of 550,000 soldiers & is only later revealed as a lie. August 26: LBJ nominated for President of US at Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, NJ. Hubert Humphrey nominated for VP. October 16: In his first major campaign speech on civil rights, Goldwater declares that "forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation." October 16: Nixon says that a LBJ administration would be "a sitting duck" for the ruthless & tough-minded leaders who replaced Khrushchev. October 21: Campaigning for re-election in Akron, OH LBJ says "[We] are not about to send American boys 9 to 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves." October 27: Speech by Ronald Reagan is broadcast on TV for Goldwater campaign. Reagan tells of switching from Democrat to "another course" & complains about tax burdens, asking whether a "little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves." The speech enhances his standing in the Republican Party. November 3: LBJ, seen as the "peace candidate" due to Goldwater's extremism, easily wins presidential election. Hubert Humphrey elected VP. RFK wins race for US Senator from NY. HW Bush wins Republican nomination for the US Senate from TX. Opponent is incumbent Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough who attacks Bush as "tool of the eastern kingmakers" & a right-wing extremist. Bush loses general election.	January 23: Twenty-fourth Amendment abolishes the poll tax. Summer MS Freedom Summer. February 10: House of Representatives passes Civil Rights Act that they refused to pass for JFK June 1963. March 8: Malcolm X breaks with Elijah Mohammad's Nation of Islam, pushes for separation of races & announces he is forming Black Nationalist Party. April 19: Malcolm X travels to Mecca to meet devout Muslims of different races. He evolves, believing that racial barriers can be overcome & that Islam is the religion that can do it. May 25: Supreme Court rules that closing schools to avoid desegregation is unconstitutional. June 21: Three civil rights workers are murdered near Philadelphia, MS, by law enforcement officials. June 28: Organization of Afro-American Unity is founded by Malcolm X and lasts until his death. July 2: Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed in televised ceremony at White House. It protects the right to vote, guarantees access to public accommodations & withhold federal funds from programs administered in a discriminatory fashion. August 20: Congress passes the Economic Opportunity Act which, among other things, provides federal funds for legal representation of Native Americans in both civil & criminal suits. This allows the ACLU & the American Bar Association to represent Native Americans in cases that later win them additional civil rights. December 10: Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. December 14: US Supreme Court upholds Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Heart of Atlanta Motel v United States. December 2 - 3: Chancellor at U.C. Berkeley has refused to drop plans to discipline "Free Speech Movement" leaders. 500 students stage overnight sit-in takeover of campus administration building. Liberal CA governor Pat Brown gives permission to bring in off-campus police who drag students down stairs "bumpety bumpety bump," to waiting police vans. Students & liberal faculty members are appalled by the site of students being manhandled. December 18: MLK accusses FBI agents in Georgia of failing to act on complaints filed by blacks. FBI Director Hoover retaliates, describing Nobel Peace Prize winner as "the most notorious liar in the country." ~: MS Freedom Democratic Party challenges seating of all-white MS representatives at Democratic national convention.	June: WC members go to Dallas & met with Ruby who repeatedly begs them to take him to DC because he fears for his life, stating: "A whole new form of government is going to take over this country, & I know I won't live to see you another time." Warren refuses Ruby's request claiming the Commission would have no way of providing protection for him. June: Senator Ted Kennedy's back is broken in a plane crash that kills his aide and the pilot. April 22: George Senator testifies before WC that he "could not recall" 11/24/63 meeting in Ruby's apartment. May 14: J. Edgar Hover appears before the Warren Commission & commits perjury multiple times. September 24: The Warren Commission report concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy.	September 27: Final Warren Commission report is published. Warren Commission publishes report claims Oswald was lone gunman, ignoring massive evidence of conspiracy to assassinate JFK. October: Pursuit of Justice by Robert Kennedy is published. ~: Movie 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb' is released. General Curtis Lemay is the inspiration for character: General Jack D. Ripper. ~: HL Hunt begins writing conservative newspaper column. ~: Release of book on JFK "That Special Grace" by Ben Bradlee.	May 2: 400 to 1,000 students march through Times Square, NY & 700 in San Francisco, in the 1st major student demonstration against Vietnam War. Smaller marches also occur in Boston, Seattle & Madison, Wisconsin.	January 23: Warren Reynolds, who saw the gunman running from the scene of Tippit's murder is shot in the head 2 days after telling the FBI the fleeing man was not Oswald. Since he is not robbed there is no obvious motive. Darrell Garner is arrested for shooting Reynolds but Betty Mooney MacDonald, who worked for Ruby gives Garner an alibi. Reynolds recovers & is out of the hospital 3 weeks when, in late February, an attempt is allegedly made to kidnap his 10 year old daughter. He & his family receive phone threats. Reynolds, living in constant fear, now testifies to the WC that Oswald was the man he saw fleeing Tippit's shooting. February: Eddy Benavides, lookalike brother to Tippit shooting witness Domingo Benavides who testified shooter was not Oswald, dies of gunshot to head. February: Betty MacDonald, former Ruby stripper who alibied Warren Reynolds shooting suspect, is arrested for fighting with her roommate, "disturbing the peace" on a street corner. The roommate is not arrested; 2 hours later she is dead, allegedly having hung herself in her jail cell. March: Bill Chesher, thought to have information linking Oswald & Ruby, dies of heart attack. March: Hank Killam, husband of Ruby employee with additional Oswald tie, dies of cut throat. April 23: Bill Hunter, reporter who was at meeting in Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63, is shot dead by Dallas cop Creighton Wiggins hours after George Senator's testimony that he could not recall the meeting. Wiggins explanation that his gun fired when he dropped it was proven impossible in court & it was found that Hunter was murdered. Wiggins finally claimed he was playing quick draw with fellow officer Errol F. Greenleaf, who testified he had his back turned during shooting. In January 1965, both were convicted of involuntary manslaughter but given probation. May 8: Gary Underhill, former military intelligence employee/CIA asset who claimed CIA was involved in JFK murder, dies from bullet to head. A few days earlier he appeared at the home of friends, badly shaken & charged that JFK was killed by a small clique within the CIA & that his own life was in danger. May: Hugh Ward, private investigator working with Banister & Ferrie, dies of plane crash in Mexico. DeLesseps Morrison, New Orleans Mayor, is a passenger in Ward's plane & also dies. June 6: Guy Banister, ex-FBI agent in New Orleans connected to Ferrie, CIA, Carlos Marcello & Oswald, dies of heart attack at age 64. June 19: Ted Kennedy's plane is en route to the State Democratic Convention in Springfield, MA when it crashes on final approach. Kennedy aide Edward Moss & pilot Edwin Zimny are killed. Kennedy is critically injured with a broken back. August: Teresa Norton, Ruby employee, is fatally shot. September 21: Jim Koethe, reporter at meeting in Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63 who is writing book about JFK assassination, dies from karate chop to neck in his apartment. His notes for a book about JFK's murder are stolen. Within a week a 22-year-old ex-con from AL named Larry Earl Reno is picked up selling Koethe's personal effects & held on suspicion of murder. Reno's lawyers are Mike Barclay & Jim Martin (who was with Koethe at the 11/24 meeting), both friends of Ruby roomie George Senator. When the Reno case came before the grand jury, DA Henry Wade secretly instructed the jurors not to indict; they complied. September 18: Charles Douglas Jackson, "Life" magazine senior VP who bought Zapruder film & locked it away, dies of unknown causes at age 62. October 12: Mary Pinchot Meyer, JFK special friend whose diary was taken by CIA chief James Angleton after her death, is murdered at age 43. She likely had extensive knowledge of Operation Mockingbird due to her marriage to Cord Meyer. She was reportedly furious at the lies in the just-released Warren Commission report. She was dangerous to the CIA. ~: Edwin Collins dies in a boating accident. It is believed he was murdered by a fellow member of Interpen.	February or March: Kilgallen approaches Ruby lawyer Joe Tonahill to request Ruby interview. Per Tonahill "This interview with her was a very significant point in his classless life." Ruby "cooperated with her in every way that he could, and told her the truth. Kilgallen saves interview material for upcoming book on JFK murder. March 14: Ruby is convicted of murder with malice for killing Oswald, for which he receives a death sentence. For months Ruby begs orally & in writing, to speak to the members of the Warren Commission. Only after Ruby's sister Eileen writes letters to the Warren Commission (and after her writing letters to the commission became publicly reported) did the commission agree to talk to Ruby. June: Warren Commission gets Jack Ruby's testimony in Dallas jail. Ruby talks about John Birch Society and refers to Edwin Walker as "one of the top men of this organization." Suite 8F Group: A group of ultra right-wing influential TX politicians & business men who meet at suite 8F at Lamar Hotel in Houston, constituting a network enabling them to get government contracts & block damaging legislation. Members include LBJ & Albert Thomas. Dallas Police Department Joseph Milteer Nelson Bunker Hunt -: Felipe Vidal Santiago, exile militant arrested on sabotage mission into Cuba, tells his captors that in Washington, D.C. in December 1962 he'd met with a lawyer/lobbyist connected to a "Citizen's Committee to Free Cuba." This lawyer informed Vidal Santiago of a conversation he'd had with Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, soon to be U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, who said he'd heard from Kennedy aide Walt Rostow of "a plan to open a dialogue with Cuba." "Vidal told us he was very surprised," says Escalante. In fact Vidal, infuriated and betrayed, had alerted his exile cohorts, as well as a CIA contact, Colonel William Bishop. "It was almost like a bomb, an intentional message against Kennedy." Vidal was also an information conduit for General Edwin Walker, the ultra-right Texan paramilitary leader at whom Oswald had allegedly taken a shot in April 1963. And FBI files call Vidal a "very close friend" of Miami mobster John Martino, who intimated to family and associates that he had foreknowledge of the JFK assassination. Felipe Vidal Santiago told Cuban intelligence that on the weekend before the assassination, he was invited to a meeting in Dallas by the CIA's Colonel William Bishop. "It was supposed to be a meeting with a few wealthy people to talk about financing anti-Castro operations," says Escalante. Bishop left on his own "for interviews" numerous times during their stay in Dallas. After approximately four days they returned to Miami.
Johnson/1965	February: LeMay is infuriated that LBJ does not order a sustained bombing campaign like the one LeMay organized against Germany & Japan in WW2. He clashes with McNamara over it & is forced into retirement. Patrick J. Frawley of the right-wing pressure group, the American Security Council (ASC), approaches LeMay about running against liberal Senator Thomas Kuchel. April: U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism. July 2: LBJ announces increase in US military forces in Vietnam to 125,000 & increase in monthly draft. October 15 - 16: Huge anti-war marches occur around the country. ~: Bombing of North Vietnam begins, followed by the landing of Marines at Da Nang, later followed by hundreds of thousands of American soldiers. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues.	April 28: William Raborn becomes DCI. Jun: CIA contact with AMLASH terminated. September 8: Delano Grape Strike began when the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, mostly Filipino farm workers in Delano, California, walked off the farms of area table grape growers demanding wages on level with the federal minimum wage. One week after the strike began, the predominantly Mexican-American National Farmworkers Association led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta joined the strike, and eventually the two groups merged, forming the United Farm Workers of America. Quickly, the strike spread to over 2,000 workers ~: Suite 8F Group & Military Industrial Congressional Complex begin backing Republicans after Democrat LBJ signs civil rights act. ~: CIA overthrows democratically elected Indonesian Sukarno with military coup after trying to eliminate him since 1957 due to his Cold War neutrality. Successor General Suharto will massacre around 1 million civilians accused of being "communist." The CIA supplies the names of countless suspects. ~: Popular rebellion attempts to reinstall Juan Bosch as Dominican Republic's elected leader. Revolution is crushed when CIA directed US Marines uphold military regime by force. ~: CIA backed Greek king removes George Papandreous as prime minister since he failed to support US interests in Greece. ~: CIA-backed military coup installs hated & repressive Mobutu Sese Seko as Congo dictator; he exploits his poor country for billions.	January 20: LBJ sworn in as president. July 30: LBJ signs Social Security Act into law, establishing Medicare & Medicaid. September 1: Congressional Republicans & Southern Democrats vote to investigate DOJ's handling of cases including, Jimmy Hoffa, Roy M. Cohn & Edwin Walker to embarrass Attorney General RFK because of his civil rights support. October 22: Service Contracts Act. ~: LBJ persuades Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg to resign to be Ambassador to UN & appoints his attorney Abe Fortas to the court. ~: LBJ signs Civil Rights Act thereby ending popularity of Democratic Party in TX & entire South. ~: Cuba's sole political party renamed the Cuban Communist Party.	January 2: MLK begins a drive to register black voters in the US South. February 21: Malcolm X is shot 16 times & dies in Manhattan, NY in front of 400 people. March 7: Voting rights workers in Selma, AL start march to Montgomery led by MLK but are stopped by massive police blockade of cops who attack with clubs & tear gas. Many marchers are severely injured & 1 killed. It is broadcast on television. March 9: There are national demonstrations against police action in Selma. In Selma a 2nd march attempt is stopped. March 18: A federal judge rules that MLK & SCLC have a right to march from Selma to the capitol, Montgomery, to petition government. March 21: MLK leads 3,200 marchers from Selma to Montgomery. March 25: In AL, Klansmen, one of whom is an FBI informant, shoot to death white volunteer Viola Liuzzo, of Michigan, as she is driving marchers from Montgomery back to Selma. June 2: Black deputy sheriff O'Neal Moore is murdered in Varnado, LA. July 2: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission opens. July 30: LBJ signs Medicare bill establishing a medical care program for the aged under the Social Security System. August 6: Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed. August 11: Watts riots erupt. September 24: Executive Order 11246 is signed, requiring equal employment opportunity by federal contractors.	November 3: Robert Kennedy is elected to the Senate. ~: Release of book "Portrait of an Assassin" by Gerald Ford, supporting lone nut-WC version of JFK murder. Publisher is CBS Corporation/Simon & Schuster.	~: Bill Cosby co-stars in I Spy, a first for a black person on American television		January: Paul Mandal, "Life" writer who told of JFK turning to rear when shot in throat, dies of cancer. February 21: Malcolm X is murdered in NY at age 40. March: Tom Howard, Ruby's 1st lawyer & in Ruby's apartment on 11/24/63, dies of heart attack at age 48, 2 days after friends see him acting strangely. No autopsy is performed. May: Maurice Gatlin, pilot for Banister, dies in a fall. August: Mona B. Saenz, Texas Employment clerk who interviewed Oswald, dies after being hit by Dallas bus. Banister, dies in a fall. September 4: Rose Cheramie, who knew of assassination in advance & told of riding to Dallas with Cubans, is found dead on road near Big Sandy, TX. October 29: Frank Wisner kills himself with a shotgun. November 8: Dorothy Kilgallen, columnist who had private interview with Ruby & pledged to "break the [JFK] case wide open," dies at age 52 of reported drug overdose. November 10: Florence/Margaret Smith, close friend of Kilgallen who may have had her interview notes for safekeeping, dies 2 days after Kilgallen of unknown causes. December: William Whaley, cab driver who drove Oswald to Oak Cliff, dies in car crash becoming only Dallas taxi driver to die on duty.	March: As Ruby's lawyers appeal his murder conviction Ruby conducts brief televised news conference in which he states: "everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, & had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world."
Johnson/1966	April 29: US troops in Vietnam increase to total of 250,000. November 7: At Harvard University, SOD McNamara is set upon by around 800 organized by Students for a Democratic Society. 25 of them get under his car to prevent his get away. The crowd jeers, screams & calls him a fascist & a murderer. December: There are 385,000 US troops in Vietnam & 5,008 U.S. military personnel died in action 1966 (more than 13 per day). ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues.	June 30: Richard Helms becomes DCI.	January 10: Duly elected young black Julian Bond is denied his seat in GA's legislature because of his opposition to Vietnam war. May 12: Ronald Reagan, running for governor, calls for dismissal of those who contributed to the "degradation" of UC Berkley, & demands legislative investigation of alleged communism & sexual misconduct at the campus. September 9: Reagan lashes out at appeasement of campus malcontents by the CA university system president Clark Kerr & his opponent, Governor Pat Brown. He calls for keeping the university "isolated from political influence." November 7: Reagan is elected Governor of CA. HW Bush is elected to US House of Representatives for TX.	January 10: NAACP local chapter president Vernon Dahmer is injured by a bomb in Hattiesburg, MS. He dies the next day. October: Black Panthers founded by Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale in Oakland, CA. November: Edward Brooke is elected to the US Senate from MA. He is the first Black senator since 1881. ~: Julian Bond is seated to the GA House of Representatives by order of the Supreme Court after his election.	February: Patricia Kennedy divorces Peter Lawford. June: On one of his many foreign trips, Senator Robert Kennedy addresses students in racially segregated South Africa, and emphasizes "the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings." December 8: Robert Kennedy announces the creation of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, a private-public partnership designed to address poverty in a Brooklyn, New York neighborhood.		November 13: ACLU appeals to the nation's college & university presidents to block efforts by HCUAA to get membership lists of campus organizations critical of US policy in Vietnam.	January 9: Earlene Roberts, Oswald's landlady who testified before WC that DPD car honked in apparent signal to Oswald after assassination, dies of heart attack. DPD denied they had any cars in that area & later subject Roberts to intensive harassment, including contacting all employers & getting her fired from jobs including 3 housekeeping & nursing jobs in April, May & June of 1964 alone. February: Albert Bogard, car salesman who said Oswald test drove new car, dies at 41 years old; is ruled suicide. June: Captain Frank Martin, Dallas cop who witnessed Oswald slaying, told WC "there's a lot to be said but probably be better if I don't say it," dies of sudden cancer. August 9: Lee Bowers Jr., who witnessed men behind picket fence on grassy knoll, dies in motor accident after likely drugging. On 22nd November, 1963 Bowers was working in a high railroad tower overlooking Dealey Plaza & saw 2 men behind fence on grassy knoll who "were the only 2 strangers in the area. The others were workers whom I knew." Bowers said the 2 men were there while shots were fired, accompanied by "a flash of light or smoke." Bowers received death threats after interviews by WC & journalist Mark Lane. Witnesses of crash say he was driven off road by black car. He survived for 4 hours & told ambulance crew he felt he had been drugged when he stopped for coffee in Midlothian, TX. September: Marilyn "Delila Walle, Ruby dancer, dies of gunshot by husband of 1 month. October 29: Lt. William Pitzer, Chief of the Educational Television Division of Bethesda Naval Medical School, who likely photographed JFK autopsy via closed-circuit television dies of gunshot. A few days after autopsy colleague Dennis D. David found Pitzer working on photos of JFK autopsy & noted entry wound in right temple with corresponding exit wound in the lower rear of skull. Prior to scheduled retirement after 28 years in the Navy, to accept TV station job likely intending to make a program about assassination, he was found dead at Bethesda under very suspicious circumstances. In May 1995, ex-Special Forces Colonel Daniel Marvin claimed to have been solicited by CIA agent to "terminate" William Pitzer, but he refused. November: James Worrell Jr., who saw man flee rear of Texas School Book Depository, dies in car crash. December: Hank Suydam, "Life" magazine official in charge of JFK stories, dies of heart attack. ~: Judge Joe Brown, who presided over Ruby's trial, dies of heart attack. ~: Karen "Little Lynn" Carlin, Ruby employee who last talked with Ruby before Oswald shooting, dies from gunshot. ~: Clarence Oliver, District Attorney Investigator who worked Ruby case, dies of unknown causes.	November: TX appellate court overturns Ruby's conviction & death sentence & grants new trial & change of venue for February 1967, in Wichita Falls, TX. December 9: Ruby is admitted to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, suffering from pneumonia. Clay Shaw
Johnson/1967	February 15: In Vietnam 13 US helicopters are shot down in one day. March 6: LBJ announces his plan for a lottery for conscription into the military: "the draft." April 4: MLK denounces Vietnam war. An angry LBJ calls him " that goddam nigger preacher." April 28: General William Westmoreland tells the US Congress that the US will "prevail in Vietnam." His says S. Vietnam is "marketas a target for the Communist stratagem called 'War of National Liberation" & sees "no evidence it's an internal insurrection." July 30: General Westmoreland "claims both that he is winning the war in Vietnam & needs more troops." August 3: LBJ announces plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam. October 17 - 18: LBJ's draft mobilizes those it threateneds. Possible draftees join anti-war protesters from Berkeley campus & demonstrate, temporarily close down Oakland city center. At the same time US Army sends one of its battalions into a trap, killing 61 of them. Meanwhile at university in Madison, WI hundreds of students protest recruiting by Dow Chemical, the maker of napalm & Agent Orange. Madison police turn violent. Dozens of students are beaten bloody & 19 police officers are treated for minor injuries at local hospitals. The violence by police politicize thousands of previously apathetic students. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues.	August: LBJ dramatically boosts CIA's illegal spying on US citizens, ongoing since 1959, so he can keep tabs on anti-war activists. The program will soon be named Operation CHAOS. Operation Phoenix is created in conjunction, which has similar goals as CHAOS but targets South Vietnam. October 9: CIA-organized military operation captures legendary guerilla Che Guevara in Bolivia & murders him. ~: CIA-backed military coup overthrows Greek government 2 days before elections because likely winner is liberal candidate George Papandreous. CIA-backed "reign of the colonels" uses torture & murder against political opponents. When a Greek ambassador objects to LBJ about US plans for Cypress, LBJ tells him: "Fuck your parliament & your constitution." ~: CIA murders alleged Viet Cong leaders operating in S. Vietnamese villages. According to a 1971 congressional report, Operation Phoenix killed about 20,000 "Viet Cong." ~: Brown & Root is now part of a consortium of 4 big construction companies known as RMK-BRJ & are contracted by the Navy to build ports, airfields, bases, ammunition depots and hospitals in South Vietnam. This is the first time the US military has private contractors on a large scale to do work usually performed by the government. Brown & Root's portion of contract is worth $380 million.	March 22: Republican House Minority Leader, Gerald R Ford says LBJ "does not have sufficient resolution" about Vietnam. June 16: CA governor Reagan meets with FBI agents for information on Berkeley campus radicals. June 20: Reagan & the state Board of Regents fire Clark Kerr, president of CA university system for being too soft on student protesters. July 4: Freedom of Information Act becomes official. To withhold info government agencies must show need to classify. August 31: Governor George Romney, GOP presidential front runner says: "When I came back from Viet Nam [in November 1965], I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get." He then shifted to opposing the war: "I no longer believe that it was necessary for us to get involved in S. Vietnam to stop Communist aggression in Southeast Asia," he declared. Decrying the "tragic" conflict he urges "a sound peace in S. Vietnam at an early time." Backlash ruins campaign, partly since it evokes image of Manchurian Candidate. December 15: Age Discrimination in Employment Act. ~: Congressman Wright Patman, Chairman Of The House Banking & Currency Committee, states in Congress: "In the United States today, we have in effect 2 governments...the duly constituted government...Then we have an independent, uncontrolled government in & uncoordinated the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution." ~: HUAC loses it's mojo after it subpoenaes Jerry Rubin & Abbie Hoffman of the Yippies. Unlike previous subjects of the committee's investigations, the Yippies neither respected nor feared the committee & used media attention to make a mockery of the proceedings. ~: Inspector General's Report on plots to assassinate Fidel Castro is written.	May 8: 26 Black Panthers, led by Bobby Seale, visit CA state legislature concerning gun legislation. They are openly armed, arrested & charged with disturbing the peace. June 12: In Loving v Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional. June 13: Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the US Supreme Court. June 28: CA State legislature passes Mulford Act prohibiting the carrying of fireams in any public place, effectively outlawing Black Panther safety patrols in Oakland. July: Race riots erupt around US. October 28: While going for food at 4am, Huey Newton is pulled over & hassled by sarcastic Oakland cop. A shootout results in the death of cop John Frey. Newton is taken to the police station, spit at & threatened with "an accidental shooting." November 13: Oakland grand jury indicts Huey Newton on charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder, & kidnapping. ~: Trial of accused killers in MS civil rights worker murders convicts 7 of 18 accused men. Conspirator Edgar Ray Killen is convicted in 2005.	April: Traveling through the Mississippi delta, Robert Kennedy is confronted with extreme poverty in rural America.	June 19: NBC broadcasts "White Paper" slandering Garrison to undermine his JFK murder investigation. Broadcast was so slanted the FCC took unprecedented step of forcing NBC to give Garrison equal time to rebut. August 2: The movie In the Heat of the Night is released. December 11: The movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is released. ~: Supposedly independent CBS documentary on assassination is secretly altered by former WC member John McCloy, to conform to WC Report.	April 28: Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the Army & is stripped of his boxing title. June 16 - 18: Monterey International Pop Music Festival takes place. Over 200,000 people attend. It is often regarded as the precursor to Woodstock & likely alarms both FBI & the CIA. David Crosby, of the Byrds, tells the crowd that the Warren Report is a lie & that JFK was killed by many guns in a conspiracy. He then dedicates a song, "He Was a Friend of Mine," to him. Performers include The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas & The Papas (whose members John & Michelle Phillips also helped plan festival), & made some into instant stars: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Laura Nyro, Canned Heat, Otis Redding (performing in front of a large mainly white audience for 1st time), Steve Miller & Ravi Shankar (the only performer to insist on payment). Paul McCartney was on festival board & Brian Jones attended & introduced Hendrix. Monterey Pop was also highly significant, in troubled civil rights era, due to racially integrated bill, & it united bands from major regional music centres around the US.	January 3: Ruby suddenly dies of mysterious causes at age 56 after telling family he was injected with cancer cells, weeks before his new trial was to begin. February: Harold Russell, who saw escape of Tippit killer, is killed by cop in bar brawl. February 22: David Ferrie, acquaintance of Oswald, Garrison suspect & employee of Banister, dies of brain hemorrhage at age 49 before Garrison can arrest & charge him. February 22: Eladio Del Valle, anti-Castro Cuban associate of Ferrie sought by Garrison, dies of gunshot to heart hours after Ferrie dies. July 21: Dr. Mary Sherman, Ferrie associate working on cancer research, is stabbed to death & burned inside her home. July 23: Desmond FitzGerald, in charge of CIA's Cuban Task Force trying to assassinate Castro, dies of reported heart attack. ~: Leonard Pullin, civilian Navy employee who helped film "Last Two Days" about assassination, dies in 1-car crash.	June 12: US Supreme Court, in Associated Press v. Walker, overturns Walker's libel award in landmark case about private individuals who willingly participate in public affairs.
Johnson/1968	January 30: Tet offensive by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong highlight the lack of American success. January: North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo. March 1: LBJ's popularity drops below 30 percent & endorsement for war policies falls to 26 percent. March 1: US Army company enters the hamlet of My Lai & kills everyone in sight, an estimated 300. August 22 - 30: Chicago police riot against antiwar demonstrators as Democratic Convention picks Hubert Humphrey as candidate for president. August: Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt. September 30: 900th U.S. aircraft is shot down over N. Vietnam. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues, now in conjunction with CIA's Operation CHAOS. Among their long list of domestic enemies "Advocates of New Lifestyles," "New Left," "Apostles of Non-Violence and Racial Harmony" & "Restless Youth." LBJ's AG Ramsey Clark coordinates Chaos & COINTELPRO operations by creating Interdepartmental Intelligence Unit (IDIU) within DOJ's Internal Security Division.	March 18: In Paris youths set off bombs in the offices of Chase Manhattan Bank, the Bank of America & Trans World Airlines. They believe these companies are involved in the war in Vietnam. April: George W. Bush, son of George HW Bush, grandson of P. Bush, becomes member of secret Yale society Skull & Bones. April: AFSCME Sanitation Workers' strike in Memphis occurs; MLK attends for support. May 12: Poor People's Campaign marches on Washington, DC in spite of MLK's murder. May 13: French labor unions students & teachers begin 24-hour general strike. Labor unions turn their factory yards into fairgrounds in support of the student uprising. Jean Paul Sartre & 121 other intellectuals sign a statement asserting "the right to disobedience" & Sartre speaks approvingly of student barricades. May 26: France's striking workers gain a 35 per cent increase in minimum wages. June: Operation CHAOS becomes formal CIA program when DCI Helms consolidates all CIA domestic spying under one program & title. Its activities are greatly expanded at the urging of LBJ who wants more info to compare it with that provided by the FBI's COINTELPRO, & wants anti-war protesters neutralized. Agents go undercover as student radicals to spy on & disrupt campus organizations protesting Vietnam War. CHAOS eventually spies on 7,000 individuals & 1,000 organizations. November 20: A gas explosion at Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine at Farmington, West Virginia trap 81 men, 78 of whom are killed in the mine.	March 12: LBJ barely wins NH Democratic primary against critic of the war, Senator Eugene McCarthy. March 12: RFK, now a US Senator from NY, announces candidacy for presidency. Polls indicate RFK is more popular than LBJ. March 31: LBJ announces he won't be a candidate for another term as President. His extreme unpopularity is due the Vietnam War. June 28: Chief Justice Earl Warren announces retirement. LBJ nominee Abe Fortus becomes first nominee since 1795 to be rejected by senate. August 8: Nixon is chosen as GOP presidential candidate promising "an honorable end to the war in Vietnam." HW Bush lobbies to be Nixon's running mate but fails. He then wins reelection to house. October: Segregationist presidential candidate George Wallace picks Curtis LeMay as his running mate on American Independent Party ticket. LeMay nukes Wallace's campaign by burbling that he, unlike many Americans, did not fear using nuclear weapons. November 5: Nixon wins presidential election. George Wallace's American Independent Party, with Lemay for VP, receives 13.5 percent of the popular vote wins in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama & Georgia. ~: Age Discrimination in Employment Act makes it illegal to discriminate against people 40 to 65 years old.	February 8: Orangeburg Massacre occurs during university protest. April 4: Dr. Martin Luther King/MLK is shot & killed in Memphis, Tennessee. Hoover's FBI starts several years of spying on his widow, Coretta Scott King, fearing she will continue the work of her late husband. That she could "tie the anti-Vietnam movement to the civil rights movement" as MLK did is of particular concern. SCLC is consistently bugged and spied on as well. April 11: Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed. It includes Fair Housing Act which bans discrimination in the sale, rental & financing of housing. September 9: Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker of the Netherlands to win the US Open. October: Tommie Smith & John Carlos raise their fists to symbolize black power & unity after winning gold & bronze medals, respectively, at Olympic Games. ~: In Powe v Miles a federal court rules that private colleges that are funded by public money are subject to Civil Rights Act.	March: After much deliberation, Robert Kennedy announces his candidacy for the presidency. Although late to the race, he wins primaries in Washington, D.C., Indiana, Nebraska, and South Dakota. June 6: Senator Robert Kennedy is murdered on the eve of his win in the CA primary to prevent him from becoming president, investigating his brother's murder & ending the profitable Vietnam war. Immediately after the murder of RFK police radios are immobilized for an extended period of time. Sirhan Sirhan is blamed by the LAPD but he appears to be programmed or hypnotized. July: Eunice Kennedy Shriver convenes the first Special Olympics for people with mental retardation in Chicago's Soldiers Field. The organization quickly expands and by 2003 will boast 1 million participants in more than 150 nations. December: Esquire magazine publishes "So Here You Are, Clay Shaw, Twenty Months & Thousands of Dollars After Being Charged with Conspiracy in the Worst Crime of the Century. What Are You Doing About It? Surviving." It is blatant smear of Garrison & uncritically sympathetic to Shaw, who is proven to be a CIA asset & liar in 1979.	November 22: First interracial kiss on American television, between Nichelle Nichols & William Shatner on Star Trek. ~: On a primetime television special, Petula Clark touches Harry Belafonte's arm.		January: A. D. Bowie, Assisstant Dallas District Attorney prosecuting Ruby, dies of cancer. April: Hiram Ingram, Dallas Deputy Sheriff, close friend to Roger Craig, dies of sudden cancer. April 4: Martin Luther King Jr. is murdered in Memphis, after he arrived to assist with the AFSCME Sanitation Workers' strike, at age 39. James Earl Ray is blamed but it soon becomes clear that he is a patsy. May: Dr. Nicholas Chetta, New Orleans coroner who ruled on death of Ferrie, of heart attack. June 6: Senator Robert Kennedy is murdered at age 43 at Ambassador Hotel in LA following his win in the CA primary that made it clear he would be elected president. August: Philip Geraci, friend of Perry Russo, told of Oswald/Shaw conversation, dies of electrocution.	Bernardo De Torres
Johnson/1969	February 27: CA Governor Reagan orders National Guard to control Berkeley campus. April 9: At Harvard University SDS occupy University Hall & are evicted by police. May 15 - 30: [Berkley police attacks.] November 12: US Army admits that a massacre of civilians took place at My Lai & announces investigation is underway. ~: President Nixon begins secret bombing of Cambodia.	October: Operation CHAOS begins recruiting double agents from within Black Power & Anti-War movements, from names provided by FBI & CIA. ~: Notorious CIA torturer Dan Mitrione arrives in Uruguay to teach right wing forces to use torture as a routine practice. "The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect," is his motto. The torture techniques he teaches to the death squads rival the Nazis. He becomes so feared that revolutionaries kidnap & precisely murder him a year later. ~: Mary Moultrie organizes the successful strike of 550 black women hospital workers for union representation in Charleston, South Carolina.	January 20: LBJ returns to Texas following the inauguration of Nixon. May 14: Abe Fortas becomes first Supreme Court Justice to resign due to threat of impeachment. May: Congress approves laws authorizing FR to accept IMF's "SDR's" as reserves in the US & to issue FR Notes in exchange for SDR's. ~: LBJ gives Presidential Medal of Freedom to A. Harriman.			May 31: John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance."	August 8: In LA followers of Charles Manson murder 5 people including Sharon Tate, pregnant wife of Roman Polanski. July 20: US takes credit for putting Apollo 11 & 1st man, Neil Armstrong, on moon. August 10: In LA followers of Charles Manson murder Leno & Rosemary LaBianca.
Nixon/Agnew/1969	~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues.	~: CIA's Operation CHAOS program continues.			July 18: Senator Ted Kennedy is framed for death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick Island. The official story is that following an appreciation party for volunteers on Robert Kennedy's campaign, Senator Ted Kennedy drives his car off a bridge at Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts. Kennedy manages to escape; his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, does not. Kennedy will not report the accident for hours. July 25: Ted Kennedy delivers a national television address to explain his actions at Chappaquiddick. November 18: Joe Sr. dies. He is survived by five of his nine children and by his wife Rose.	March: Newlyweds John Lennon & Yoko Ono have "bed-in for peace" at the Amsterdam Hilton on their honeymoon, earning world-wide media coverage. June: John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" in a second "bed-in" in their hotel room in Montreal. The song quickly becomes the anthem of the anti-war movement. ~: Penthouse magazine publishes sympathetic interview with Shaw wherein he says he feels like a man in a Kafka novel.	November: Half a million demonstrators sing "Give Peace a Chance" with Pete Seeger in DC at the 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day.	January: Henry Delaune, brother-in-law to coroner Chetta, is murdered. January 10: Eddy Raymond (Buddy) Walthers, Dallas Deputy Sheriff involved in Depository search, is shot dead by Walter Cherry after Sherrif Bill Decker sent him to question the escaped convict & suspected murderer. On November 22, 1963 Walthers was first police officer to question James T. Tague, who was cut by flying debris in Dealey Plaza from a gunshot into the curb. Soon after he was seen by witnesses with 2 men, possibly CIA or FBI agents, in a sequence of photos showing 1 man picking something up out of the grass & then putting it in his pocket. Walthers initially claimed a bullet was found but denied it later. Garrison tried to persuade Walthers to testify at the Shaw trial. In June, 1968, Walthers reported a bombing outside his home, possibly an attempt to warn him no to talk to investigators such as Garrison about the assassination. April: John Crawford, close friend to Ruby & Wesley Frazier, who gave ride to Oswald on 11/22/63, dies in private plane crash. April: Rev. Clyde Johnson, scheduled to testify about Shaw/Oswald connection, is fatally shot. ~: Charles Mentesana, who filmed rifle other than Mannlicher-Carcano being taken from Depository, dies of heart attack.
Nixon/Agnew/1970	April 1: US Army charges Captain Ernest Medina with war crimes at My Lai. April: President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia. May 3: Ohio Republican governor James A. Rhodes orders the National Guard to quell the demonstration at Kent State University. May 4: At Kent State University in Ohio, national guardsmen order a noontime rally of some 2,000 students to disperse. The guardsmen fire tear gas & charge the crowd. A number of guardsmen fire their rifles at the students for 13 seconds, killing four & wounding 9 to 11 others. October: Nixon announces the pullout of 40,000 American troops in Vietnam by Christmas. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues.	January 5: Joseph A. Yablonski, unsuccessful reform candidate to unseat "Tough Tony" Boyle as President of United Mine Workers, is murdered with his wife & daughter in their Clarksville, PA home by Boyle's assassins. Boyle is later convicted of the killings. March 18: First mass work stoppage in 195-year history of Post Office includes 210,000 of nation's 750,000 employees. With mail service paralyzed in NY, Detroit & Philadelphia Nixon declares state of national emergency & assigns military units to NYC post offices. March: CIA overthrows Prince Sahounek, who is highly popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War & installs CIA puppet Lon Nol who throws Cambodian troops into battle. This strengthens once minor opposition parties like Khmer Rouge, which achieves power in 1975 & massacres millions. July 29: United Farm Workers force CA grape growers to sign agreement after 5-year strike. November 26: Chile's new president Allende already took over 2 businesses controlled by US companies & on this day he announces to Communist Party leaders his plans for large-scale nationalization of basic industries. ~: CIA's Operation CHAOS program continues. ~: US Postal Workers' strike affects mail service in major cities. ~: Under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers start boycott of 25 major growers in California.	May 4: Nixon convinces HW Bush to relinquish his House seat to again run for Senate against Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, a fierce Nixon critic. Lloyd Bentsen beats Yarborough in primary & beats Bush. September 15: At a meeting in the oval office Nixon says he wants to prevent president-elect of Chile, Salvador Allende, from taking office. November 3: Salvador Allende is inaugurated President of Chile. November 3: In CA Ronald Reagan wins a second term as governor. December 2: Nixon creates Environmental Protection Agency. ~: Nixon appoints HW Bush UN Ambassador.	December: Fred Hampton, chairman of IL Black Panther Party is shot dead while asleep in bed during a police raid on his home. ~: United Citizens Party is formed in SC when Democratic Party refuses to nominate African-American candidates. ~: Control of segregationist TV station WLBT given to a bi-racial foundation. ~: Congress passes Indian Civil Rights Act which prohibits state governments from assuming jurisdiction over Native American lands & extends to Indians the same rights non-Native whites have had since the Bill of Rights.	November 3: Ted Kennedy is reelected to the Senate, but loses his post as Majority Whip. He chairs the Senate Health Committee.	May 3: In a press conference the Ohio Republican governor James A. Rhodes calls anti-war protesters "the worst type of people we harbor in America, worse than the brown shirts & the communist element."		January: Darrell W. Garner, arrested for shooting Warren Reynolds & released after alibi from Betty MacDonald, dies of drug overdose. September 18: British rock star guitarist Jimi Hendrix dies in London of reported drug overdose at age 27. October 4: Rock star Janis Joplin dies of reported heroin overdose at age 27. December: Salvatore Granello, mobster linked to Hoffa, Trafficante & Castro assassination plots, is murdered. ~: George McGann, underworld figure connected to Ruby friends, wife Beverly, took film in Dealey Plaza, is murdered.
Nixon/Agnew/1971	March 29: US Army Lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of 22 murders in My Lai massacre & sentenced to life in prison. November 12: Nixon sets February 1 as a deadline for removal of another 45,000 troops from Vietnam. ~: FBI's COINTELPRO program continues. CIA's Operation CHAOS programs conintues.	April 21: "Papa Doc" Duvalier dies, leaving Haiti with 19-year old son "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who continues bloody reign with CIA approval. August 15: Nixon takes US off gold standard repealing FDR's Gold Reserve Act of 1934, allowing Americans to buy gold. Soon all gold is reportedly secretly moved from Fort Knox, sold to international money changers for $35 per ounce & is likely in London. August 22: After 5 years of CIA-inspired political turmoil, a CIA-backed military coup overthrows the Bolivian leftist President Juan Torres. In the next 2 years, dictator Hugo Banzer will have over 2,000 political opponents arrested without trial, tortured, raped & executed. December 18: US dollar is devalued for the second time in history, meaning prices will rise in the US.	June 30: Nixon administration applies injunction against NY Times publishing Pentagon Papers but US Supreme Court rules that the government's injunctions are unconstitutional. August 15: War in Vietnam has accelerated US inflation. US has trade deficits for first time in the twentieth century & abandons gold standard, intending to let the value of the U.S. dollar fall. Nixon announces that the U.S. will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, & he imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents. Next day Dow Jones Industrial Average rallies nearly 4%. April 28: Passage of Occupational Safety and Health Act. December 23: Jimmy Hoffa's prison sentence is commuted by President Richard Nixon on the condition he not participate in union activities for ten years.	~: US Supreme Court, in Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upholds desegregation busing of students to achieve integration.		March 8: The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI breaks into Media, PA FBI office & steals over 1000 classified documents, then mails them anonymously to several American newspapers. Most refuse to publish the information. May 3: Harris Poll claims that 60% of Americans oppose Vietnam war. June 13: New York Times begins publishing the "Pentagon Papers," supposedly an internal Department of Defense study of the war commissioned by McNamara.	August: Lennon & Ono move to New York City. December: Lennon & Ono perform at "Free John Sinclair" concert in Ann Arbor, MI to free local antiwar activist serving 10 years in jail for selling two joints to an undercover cop. Lennon & Ono appeared on stage (in his first live appearance since The Beatles' breakup) along with Phil Ochs & Stevie Wonder, plus antiwar activist Jerry Rubin & Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers. 20,000 people attended the rally & 2 later the State of MI releases Sinclair.	~: James Plumeri, mobster tied to mob-CIA assassination plots, is murdered. January: Mac Wallace, hit man with close ties to LBJ, dies in a single car accident. March: Clayton Fowler, Ruby's chief defense attorney, dies of unknown causes. May 25: C. Cabell, who is connected to anti-Castro Cubans, collapses & dies after physical. April 26: Winston Scott, CIA's station chief in Mexico, dies of reported heart attack after telling CIA director Helms he wrote book called "It Came Too Late." CIA's James Angleton confiscates manuscript. Son Michael Scott is told by CIA sources his father didn't die from natural causes. Son gets father's manuscript back from the CIA but 150 pages-everything after 1947-is removed on grounds of national security.
Nixon/Agnew/1972	May 2: FBI director Hoover dies. May 3: L. Patrick Gray is named Acting Director (AD) of the FBI. Operational command of Bureau resides with Associate Director W. Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat). May 26: In Moscow Nixon & Brezhnev sign Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), designed to limit the arms race. The agreement locks strategic ballistic missile launchers at their current number. June 28: Nixon ends sending draftees to Vietnam unless they volunteer for duty there. August 12: Nixon withdraws the last US combat units from Vietnam.	October 8: Prescott Bush dies. ~: Rockfeller's Chase Manhattan bank in NY secretly owns 38% of the Thyssen company. ~: CIA's Operation CHAOS programs conintues. ~: Congress passes ineffective Case-Zablocki Act requiring congressional review of executive agreements to make CIA accountable. ~: Congress votes to cut off CIA funds for its secret war in Cambodia. ~: In Harlan County, Kentucky Coal operators again try to break the United Mine Workers and a bloody coal-field war erupts.	February 21 - 28: Nixon visits the People's Republic of China. US & China pledge to work toward full normalization of diplomatic relations. March 20: After Nixon's visit to China Brezhnev says Soviet Union is concerned about possible secret agreements between China & US. May 28: First attempt is made by GOP operatives to break into the Democratic Party's national headquarters. June 17: Watergate scandal starts when Nixon's men are caught breaking into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate Hotel in DC. Team members have extensive CIA histories, including James McCord, E. Howard Hunt & 5 Cubans. They work for the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP), which does dirty work & launders illegal campaign contributions & is funded & organized by CIA front, the Mullen Company. June 23: Nixon's White House recording system tapes him & chief of staff H.R. Haldeman talking about using CIA to obstruct FBI investigation of break-in at the Watergate hotel. July: SALT I signed. November 7: Nixon is re-elected in landslide over Senator George McGovern. December 9: One day after Watergate plane crash head of Nixon's plumber's outfit - Egil Krogh, Jr. - is made undersecretary of transportation, putting him in position to oversee NTSB & FAA which both investigate airline crashes. December 18: Nixon resumes bombing N. Vietnam. December 19: Nixon appointed ex-CIA officer, Alexander Butterfield, as head of the FAA, which investigates airline crashes. ~: Nixon names HW Bush Chairman of Republican National Committee. Bush holds this position thru Watergate scandal, loyal to Nixon.	December: Two Southern University students in Baton Rouge are killed by white Sheriff deputies during school protest over lack of state funding.		March: FBI COINTELPRO is exposed & ended when WIN Magazine publishes documents stolen from Media, PA FBI office in March, 1971. Hoover's program receives considerable criticism over its methods included infiltration, burglaries, illegal wiretaps, planting forged documents, discrediting key members of organizations, inciting violence & arranging murders.	February: Lennon & Ono become friends with antiwar leaders Jerry Rubin & Abbie Hoffman & consider a national concert tour to coincide with the 1972 presidential election. They want to help persuade young people (with 1972 being the 1st year 18 year old could vote) to register to vote & to vote against the war & Nixon. Thus, the planned tour was to combine rock music with anti-war organizing & voter registration. Nixon learns about Lennon's plans from Senator Strom Thurmond, who suggests in a memo that "deportation would be a strategic counter-measure." The next month the Immigration & Naturalization Service begins deportation proceedings against Lennon arguing that his 1968 misdemeanor conviction for pot possession in London made him ineligible for admission to US. Lennon spends 2 years in & out of deportation hearings & constantly under a 60-day order to leave the country, which his attorney managed to get extended repeatedly.	October 16: Hale Boggs, House Majority Leader, WC member who began to publicly express doubts about findings, disappears & is presumed dead in Alaskan plane crash. May 2: Hoover, FBI director who published report on JFK assassination pushing lone nut story for Warren Commission to rubber stamp, dies of reported heart attack at age 77. No autopsy is done. May 15: In Laurel, MA while campaigning for presidency, AL Governor Wallace--who split the right wing vote with Nixon--is shot & paralyzed. December 8: United Airlines flight 553 crashes just outside Chicago during landing at Midway Airport. Among those killed are 12 people connected with Watergate affair including: Dorothy Hunt, wife of E. Howard Hunt who is under arrest for Watergate & blackmailing Nixon, possibly over his complicity in JFK murder, carrying $2 million worth of cashier’s checks & money orders; & Michelle Clark, CBS news corespondent doing report on Nixon's involvement in Watergate burglary. Witnesses say that moments after impact a battalion of plainclothes FBI agents in unmarked cars parked on side streets pounced on the crash-site & sift through the wreckage looking for something. At least one survivor recognizes a "rescue worker" sifting through wreckage as CIA operative. ~: Lucien Sarti dies.
Nixon/Vacent/1973	January: Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States. April 30: William Ruckelshaus becomes FBI Director. April 30: Clarence M. Kelley becomes FBI Director. October: Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid. ~: American troops leave Vietnam.	February 2: James R. Schlesinger becomes DCI after Richard Helms is fired for his refusal to block the Watergate investigation. Schlesinger's first words upon becoming DCI are "I'm here to make sure you don't screw Richard Nixon." May 30: Crystal Lee Jordan (aka "Norma Rae") is fired for trying to organize a union at the J.P. Stevens plant in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. July: David Rockefeller, Chairman of CFR, founds Trilateral Commission when western based Bilderberg Group wont include Japanese. September 4: William E. Colby is named DCI, becoming the most controversial DCI ever for cooperating with congressional investigations. September 11: CIA overthrows & assassinates Chile's Salvador Allende, Latin America's first democratically elected socialist leader after he nationalizes American owned firms. CIA replaces Allende with General Augusto Pinochet, who tortures & murders thousands in a crackdown on labor leaders & the political left. ~: CIA begins internal investigations, led by William Colby who orders all CIA personnel to report illegal activities they know about for supposed report to congress. The list of violations becomes known as the "Family Jewels." As a result Operation CHAOS is reevaluated in terms of damage from public disclosure.	January 9 ~: Nixon's appointments secretary, Dwight Chapin, is made an executive in the Chicago office of United Airlines where he threatens media to steer clear of speculation about sabotage in the crash. January 30: 2 former officials of Nixon's re-election committee, G. Gordon Liddy & James W. McCord, Jr. are convicted of conspiracy, burglary & bugging the Democratic Party's Watergate headquarters. April 30: Nixon accepts the resignation of 4 close aides, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kleindienst & John Dean. May 18: Senate committee begins hearings on the Watergate scandal. Nixon's new Attorney General, Eliot Richardson appoints special prosecutor for Justice Department: Archibald Cox. June 5: Letter from John Reed, chairman of NTSB to FBI Director William Ruckelshaus about investigation of flight 553 says: "Our investigative team assigned to this accident discovered on the day following the accident that several FBI agents had taken a number of non-typical actions relating to this accident within the first few hours following the accident. Included were: for the first time in the memory of our staff, an FBI agent went to the control tower & listened to the tower tapes before our investigators had done so; and for the-first time to our knowledge, in connection with an aircraft accident, an FBI agent interviewed witnesses to the crash, including flight attendants on the aircraft prior to the NTSB interviews." June 25: Former White House counsel John Dean begins to testify before the Senate Watergate Committee. July 16: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield tells the Senate Watergate Committee that Nixon has secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations. July 23: Nixon refuses to turn over presidential tape recordings to Senate Watergate Committee or special prosecutor. October 10: VP Spiro Agnew resigns amidst charges of bribery, tax evasion & money laundering. October 20: Nixon orders Attorney General Richardson to dismiss Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refuses & resigns. So does Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Solicitor General Robert Bork, third in line at the United States Department of Justice fires Cox & become acting Attorney General. November 1: Acting Attorney General Robert Bork appoints Leon Jaworski as new Watergate Special Prosecutor. November: Nixon’s Secretary takes the blame for “accidentally” erasing an 18 minute tape that probably betrayed Nixon’s role in the Kennedy assassination cover up. December 6: Nixon replaces Agnew with Representative Gerald Ford. December 7: White House cannot explain 18 ½-minute gap in a subpoenaed tape.		December: Release of book "November 22, 1963: You Are the Jury" by David Belin, WC Attorney, tries to prop up WC premise after public rejects it. Publisher is Quadrangle-New York Times Book Co.:	April 30: In TV address Nixon says "There can be no whitewash at the White House," & claims "full responsibility" for the actions of his subordinates in the Watergate scandal.		January 22: Lyndon Johnson, who led the cover-up of President Kennedy's murder by directing the Warren Commission to rubber stamp the Warren Report, dies of reported heart attack at age 65. ~: While visiting Africa in 1973, protest singer Phil Ochs is attacked & his throat is slit, damaging his vocal cords. He is convinced the attack was arranged by the FBI (who in fact has a 410 page file on him) due to his activism.
Nixon/Ford/1974		March 22: The founding convention of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in Chicago elects Olga Madar its first president. March: CIA's Operation CHAOS is 'officially' terminated by DCI Colby in an effort at damage control. November 13: Karen Gay Silkwood, a lab tech at the Cimeron plutonium plant and officer of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union local in Oklahoma City dies mysteriously en route to a union meeting with a newspaper reporter investigating her claims of irregularities and wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plant. Kerr-McGee is owned by unscrupulous Oklahoma politician/LBJ ally & industrialist Robert S. Kerr.	March: Nixon is named a Watergate co-conspirator. May 9: House Judiciary Committee opens formal & public impeachment hearings against Nixon. July: US Supreme Court orders Nixon to turn over surviving Watergate tapes. August 5: One of of Nixon's secret tapes, the "smoking gun" tape, is released, revealing that Nixon authorized hush money to Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt & ordered CIA to tell FBI to stop investigating because of "the Bay of Pigs thing." August 9: Nixon resigns without admitting criminal wrongdoing in light of near certainty of impeachment by the House of Representatives & probable conviction by the Senate. Gerald R. Ford becomes President & chooses Nelson Rockefeller over HW Bush as new VP. Instead Ford appoints Bush as Chief of the US Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China. September 2: Passage of Employee Retirement Income Security Act. ~: The House of Representatives clears the CIA of any complicity in Nixon's Watergate break-in. ~: Hughes-Ryan Act is passed by Congress after 1972/1973 hearings of Senate Armed Services Committee, provoked by committee member Senator Hughes, into covert military operations in Cambodia, Laos & N. Vietnam in early 1970s. Committee found that military conducted secret air strikes & falsified after-action reports to conceal them. For Hughes & other senators, the military activity represented a secret war, bypassing Congressional oversight. The Act requires president to promptly report all covert CIA operations to relevant congressional committees.		May 29: JFK’s Birthday.	July 1: NY Periodical publishes article titled: "Mysterious Death Silences Key Informant in Missing Fort Knox Gold Controversy," about Louise Auchincloss Boyer. The article by Tom Valentine claimed Rockefeller family manipulates Federal Reserve to sell cheap Fort Knox gold to anonymous European speculators. Three days later the story's anonymous source, long time secretary to Nelson Rockefeller, Louise Auchincloss Boyer, mysteriously falls to her death from the window of her ten story apartment in NY.		July 4: Louise Auchincloss Boyer, mysteriously falls to her death from the window of her ten story apartment in NY just three days after serving as anonymous source claiming Rockefeller family manipulates gold prices.
Ford/Vacant/1974			Note: Ford staff includes: State, Henry Kissinger; Defense, Donald Rumsfeld; HW Bush, liaison to the People's Republic of China, then DCI; Dick Cheney, senior White House assistant (later names Chief of Staff, then campaign manager for 1976). September 8: Ford gives Nixon "full & unconditional pardon for any crimes he may have committed against the United States while President."	July 25: Milliken v Bradley US Supreme Court ruling holds that outlying districts can only be forced into desegregation busing plan if there is pattern of violation.				August 14: Shaw, suspect in Garrison case & CIA contact with Ferrie & E. Howard Hunt, dies at age 61 under suspicious circumstances. ~: Dave Yaras, close friend to Hoffa & Ruby, is murdered.
Ford/N Rockefeller/1975	April 17: North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam. ~: Eager to demonstrate American military resolve after defeat in Vietnam, Kissinger launches CIA-backed war in Angola.	January 4: Rockefeller (Presidential) Commission on CIA activities within the US is formed in response to outrage from Seymour Hersh's article on CIA's Operation CHAOS, in apparent attempt to prevent congress from investigating. Commission's namesake, VP Nelson Rockefeller, is a major CIA figure. Five of eight commission members are also members of the CFR, a CIA-dominated organization. July 1: Cesar Chavez and sixty supporters of the UFW embarked on a thousand-mile march across California to rally the state's farm workers. July 30: Former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red fox Restaurant in suburban Detroit. Although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. September 16: Senators Church & Tower call DCI Colby to testify at a hearing about CIA assassinations. Colby shows up carrying a CIA poison dart gun & Church waves the gun before the televison cameras. It looks like an automatic pistol with a telescopic sight mounted on the barrel. News producers recognize this as sensational footage & this exposure of CIA secrets destroys Colby at the CIA. November 2: DCI Colby, who angered CIA by revealing secrets, is fired. On 1/30/76 he is replaced with George HW Bush. November 11: CIA helps topple democratically elected, left-leaning government of Australian Prime Minister Edward Whitlam. ~: Averell Harriman receives West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award.	February: Nixon aides, John N. Mitchell, HR Haldeman & John D. Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. June 6: Rockefeller Commission's report finds that the CIA committed unlawful acts within the US including infiltrating dissident groups, opening private mail, testing behavior-inducing drugs on unknowing citizens & subjecting foreign defectors to physical abuse & prolonged confinement. It publicizes CIA mind control abuses via MKULTRA, studies JFK assassination head snap seen in the Zapruder film (first shown publicly in 1975) & looks at possible presence of E. Howard Hunt & Frank Sturgis in Dallas, TX on November 22, 1963. Overall it was seen as a whitewash. January 27: Church (Senate) Committee, aka Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, forms due to embarrassment over their failure to oversee executive branch & in response to outrage from Hersh's article, CIA/FBI abuses, Vietnam War & Nixon's crimes revealed in recently concluded Watergate hearings. Otis Pike holds corresponding House investigation. Some witnesses conveniently die before they can be questioned. Investigations lead to ineffectual reforms meant to increase CIA's accountability to Congress, including creation of a standing Senate intelligence committee & Gerald Ford's Executive Order 11905 (replaced in 1981 by Reagan's Executive Order 12333) to ban US sanctioned assassinations of foreign leaders. September: Church sub-committee, made up of Gary Hart (CO) & Richard Schweiker (PA) is asked to review performance of intelligence agencies in the JFK assassination investigation. Hart & Schweiker became alarmed about what they find. On 1st May, 1976, Hart says: "I don't think you can see the things I have seen & sit on it." ~: HUAC is abolished & its functions transferred to the House Judiciary Committee. ~: Church Committee issues its Interim Report on Castro assassination plots, along with information on Operation Mongoose and other aspects of the "secret war" against Castro.		May 29: JFK’s Birthday.	March: Edith Roosevelt, grand-daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, writes column in New Hampshire Sunday News: "Allegations of missing gold from our Fort Knox vaults are being widely discussed in European financial circles. But what is puzzling is that the Administration is not hastening to demonstrate conclusively that there is no cause for concern over our gold treasure, if indeed it is in a position to do so. November 17: ABC broadcasts assassination special promoting lone assassin theory." ~: Release of book on JFK "Conversations with Kennedy" by Ben Bradlee.	October 9: On John Lennon's 35th birthday Yoko Ono gives birth to a son, Sean Ono Lennon, after suffering 3 miscarriages of babies fathered by John. Regretful of the limited relationship with first son Julian, Lennon decides to retire from music to dedicate himself to family life as a house husband. ~: Lennon gets green card after a years-long battle with the Nixon administration that includes an FBI investigation involving surveillance, wiretaps, & agents following Lennon around as he travels. Lennon insists the investigation is politically motivated, a claim later proven true.	May 15: Roger Craig, former Dallas cop who insisted the rifle found in the Book Depository was a 7.65 Mauser & not a Mannlicher-Carcano, dies of gunshot. He became pariah in DPD when he testified before the WC that Oswald get into the station wagon 15 minutes after the shooting with 2 others & was fired from the police department in 1967 after he was found to have discussed his evidence with a journalist. He was a prosecution witness at the trial of Shaw in New Orleans where he was shot at but the bullet only grazed his head. He also survived a 1973 incident wherein a car forced his car off a mountain road, another shooting in 1974 & explosion of his car in 1975. June 19: Sam Giancana, Chicago Mafia boss slated to testify about CIA-mob death plots to Church Committee the next day, is murdered with multiple gunshots to head, mouth & neck at age 67. July 30: Jimmy Hoffa, union official & mobster, disappears & is presumed dead at age 62. December: General Earle Wheeler,contact between JFK & CIA, dies of unknown causes.
Ford/N Rockefeller/1976	~: Idealistic group of young military officers, repulsed by the massacre of the poor, overthrows the right-wing government in El Salvador. US compels the inexperienced officers to include many of the old guard in key positions in new government. Soon the military government is repressing & killing poor civilian protesters & many of the reformers, finding themselves powerless, resign in disgust.	January 30: Ford appoints HW Bush DCI. Bush claims appointment is "a real shocker," denying fact of long career with agency. December: Soviets invade Afghanistan so CIA arms any faction willing to fight occupying Soviets. Indiscriminate arming means that when the Soviets leave Afghanistan, civil war erupts & Muslim extremists possess weaponry. One of these is Sheik Abdel Rahman, who will become involved in the World Trade Center bombing in NY.	January 2: Ford vetoes Common Situs Picketing Bill; in aftermath Dunlop issues statement of resignation. May: Church Committee Report is issued on intelligence abuses against US citizens, declaring them illegal & contrary to Constitution. It regards Operation Phoenix as evidence that the CIA is a rogue elephant on a rampage. The inquiry demonstrates need for perpetual surveillance of intelligence groups & resulted in the creation of the permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. ~: House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) is formed to investigate JFK & MLK assassinations. Many witnesses conveniently die before they can be questioned, including 6 top FBI officials in a six month period in 1977. Committee issues 1979 report concluding that JFK was assassinated by Oswald, probably as a result of a conspiracy.	February: Black History Month is founded by Carter Woodson's Association for the Study of Afro-American Life & History.			April: The emaciated body of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes is wheeled from a stretcher to the morgue of a Houston hospital. Hughes routinely financed spy wars, much like Richard Melon Scaife’s famous "Arkansas Projects,"& may have financed Nixon’s interests. The paths Nixon & Hughes often crossed & even if they ultimately developed a dislike for each other they shared the obsession to evade accountability through the terror of privately funded secret operations.	January 28: Reports surface that comedian Freddie Prinze, activist democrat deeply concerned about who killed JFK & owned a copy of the Zapruder film & spoke openly about his suspicions, committed suicide. April: James Chaney, Dallas motorcycle officer riding to JFK's right rear who said JFK "struck in the face" with bullet, dies of heart attack. April 9: Phil Ochs hangs himself at his sister's home in Far Rockaway, NY. April: Dr. Charles Gregory, Governor John Connally's physician, dies of heart attack. June 23: Edwin Walker is arrested for public lewdness in a public toilet at a Dallas park and accused of fondling an undercover policeman. June: William Harvey, CIA coordinator for CIA-mob assassination against Castro, dies of complications from heart surgery as HSCA forms. August 7: John Roselli, mobster who testified to HSCA & was to do so again, is found dismembered inside metal drum at age 71. ~: Ralph Paul, Ruby's business partner connected with crime figures, dies of heart attack.
Ford/N Rockefeller/1977		March 9: Stansfield Turner becomes DCI.	~: HSCA continues.
Carter/Mondale/1977			~: HSCA continues.				January 20: Jimmy Carter invites Lennon & Ono to Inaugural Ball, after which Lennon is rarely seen in public until his 1980 comeback.	January: William Pawley, former Brazilian Ambassador connected to Anti-Castro Cubans & crime figures dies by shotgun before his testimony before the HSCA. March 29: George DeMohrenschildt, close friend to Oswald, CIA contract agent dies at age 66 of gunshot before scheduled HSCA testimony. In tape recording of his death the burglar alarm is audible before the gunshot, indicating an intruder entered the home immediately before the shooting. March: Carlos Prio Soccaras, former Cuban President, money man for anti-Castro Cubans dies of gunshot before scheduled HSCA testimony. March 29: Charles Nicoletti, mobster connected with CIA-Mafia assassination plots, dies at age 61 of gunshot before scheduled HSCA testimony. May: Lou Staples, Dallas radio Talk Show host who told friends he would break assassination case, dies of gunshot to head. June: Louis Nicholas, former No. 3 man in FBI, worked on JFK investigation, dies of heart attack before scheduled HSCA testimony. August: Alan Belmont, FBI official who testified to WC, dies after "long illness" before scheduled HSCA testimony. August: James Cadigan, FBI document expert who testified to WC, dies in home fall before scheduled HSCA testimony. August: Joseph C. Ayres, chief steward on JFK's Air Force One, dies in shooting accident. August 1: Francis G. Powers, U-2 pilot downed over Russia in 1960, dies in helicopter crash at age 48 after "running out of fuel." October: Donald Kaylor, FBI fingerprint expert who examined prints found at the assassination scene, dies of heart attack before scheduled HSCA testimony. October: J.M. English, former head of FBI Forensic Sciences Laboratory where Oswald's rifle & pistol were tested, dies of heart attack before his scheduled HSCA testimony. November 9: William Sullivan, former #3 man at FBI, headed Division 5 counter-espionage & domestic intelligence, dies at age 65 in hunting accident shortly after his preliminary meeting with HSCA. November 18: Manuel Artime Buesa abruptly dies of cancer in Miami before he was due to appear before the HSCA.	March 16: Edwin Walker is arrested again for public lewdness. He pleads no contest to one of the two misdemeanor charges, is given a suspended, 30-day jail sentence, and fined $1,000.
Carter/Mondale/1978	February 23: William Webster becomes FBI Director. James Blackburn Adams is AD for 1 week prior.	~: David Atlee Phillips confides in a House Select Committee staffer Kevin Walgh shortly before his death: “My private opinion is that JFK was done in by a conspiracy, likely including rouge American Intelligence people.”	~: HSCA continues. ~: Silvia Duran is interviewed by HSCA; testimony is classified. In 1979 she tells author Anthony Summers that testified that the man who visited the office was about her size (5 feet 3.5 inches). This created problems as Oswald was 5 feet 9.5 inches. When Summers showed Duran a film of Oswald taken at the time of his arrest, Duran said: "The man on the film is not like the man I saw here in Mexico City." She also said she had told Mexican authorities soon after the assassination that man at consul's office was "blond-haired" and with "blue or green eyes"-which does not fit Oswald. Those details had been removed from the statement by the time it reached the Warren Commission. ~: The Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, also known as Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, grants by statute collective bargaining to federal workers which had been subject to executive order.			February 17: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has press conference announcing $1M reward for information leading to arrest of JFK's murderer.		March 6: Larry Flynt is shot & paralyzed three weeks after offering $1M reward for information leading to the arrest of JFK's murderer. May 8: David Morales, CIA agent to claimed to have helped murder JFK, declaring to people "well, we took care of that son-of-a-bitch" & RFK dies under mysterious circumstances at age 53, after telling friends he was afraid of his "own people," & before his testimony before the HSCA. September 26: John Paisley, Deputy Director of Office of Strategic Research, is found dead in MD's Patuxent River attached to diving weights & shot in head. Police investigators described it as "an execution-type murder." He was "about to blow the whistle" on JFK murder to HSCA according to journalist Victor Marchetti. November 18: Congressman Leo Ryan, congressional critic of CIA & sponsor of Hughes-Ryan Act, is murdered in Guyana at age 53 after investigation of Jim Jones', Jonestown, People's Temple. ~: CIA assassin Tony Sforza dies of a reported heart-attack before being interviewed by HSCA.
Carter/Mondale/1979	March 29: HSCA issues final report & cites Helms for perjury for testifying to WC that he didn't remember hearing Oswald's name before assassination. However a declassified memo written by Helms on November 25, 1963 states: "As soon as I [blacked out] had heard Oswald's name," he recognized Oswald as a potential recruit. The name of the government agency, recruiter, & operation had been blacked out from the memo. November 4: After CIA fails to predict fall of CIA puppet Shah of Iran & rise of Muslim fundamentalists who are furious at CIA's backing of Shah's bloodthirsty secret police, Muslims take revenge by capturing 52 Americans hostage in US embassy in Tehran.	July 17: Anastasios Samoza Debayle, CIA-backed Nicaraguan dictator, is toppled. Marxist Sandinistas who take over government are popular because of their commitment to land & anti-poverty reform. Samoza had a murderous & hated personal army called the National Guard. Remnants of the Guard will become the Contras, who fight a CIA-backed guerilla war against the Sandinista government throughout 1980s. October 22: US permits Shah of Iran - who is ill with cancer - to attend the Mayo Clinic for medical treatment. The American embassy in Tehran had discouraged the request, understanding the political delicacy, but after pressure from influential figures including former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Council on Foreign Relations chairman David Rockefeller, the Carter administration decided to grant the Shah’s request. The Shah's admission to the US intensifies Iranian revolutionaries anti-Americanism and spawns rumors of another US-backed coup and re-installation of the Shah. ~: Richard Helms, former CIA director, testifies to HSCA under oath that Shaw was connected to the CIA, proving Garrison correct. ~: Douglas Fraser becomes first labor leader elected to board of directors of a major corporation (Chrysler).	March 29: HSCA report concludes that JFK was assassinated by Oswald, probably as a result of a conspiracy. Further finding evidence that Oswald, while living in New Orleans in the summer of 1963, had established contact with Ferrie as well as with other non-Cubans of anti-Castro sentiments. The Committee also found "credible & significant" the testimony of 6 witnesses who placed Oswald & Ferrie together in Clinton, Louisiana in September, 1963. May 5: Carter asks for, & is granted, a national television spot during prime time to answer his critics who call Carter weak & favor conservative CA Governor Reagan. Pundits predict he is about to announce sweeping changes in government. 10 minutes before he is due to speak to the Hispanic crowd on Cinco de Mayo at the civic center mall in LA, anglo Raymond Lee Harvey is arrested carrying a pistol. He tells police that he & another man (Mexican Osvaldo Ortiz) were hired to create a diversion so that Mexican hitmen armed with rifles could kill Carter. Carter cancels his national TV speech & goes into seclusion at Camp David, MD. After seeking advice from a lengthy line of consultants, including Billy Graham, Carter is reported to have said, "I have lost control of the government." Carter never announces major policy changes & runs low key unsuccessful re-election campaign dominated by the October Surprise. July: SALT II signed.		April: Carter states: "We are going to have to go all the way back to the assassination of president Kennedy to get this country right." November: Ted Kennedy announces his candidacy for the 1980 presidential election.	March 29: Ronald Kessler’s "A Matter of Character: Inside the George W. Bush White House" relates that Bush & Etra (in whose jurisdiction the assassination threat to Carter occured) are among 15 inductees into Skull & Bones during their junior year at Yale & are close friends.
Carter/Mondale/1980	February: Archbishop of San Salvador El Salvador Oscar Romero pleads with President Carter "Christian to Christian" to stop aiding the military government slaughtering his people. Carter refuses. Shortly afterwards, right-wing leader Roberto D'Aubuisson has Romero shot through the heart while saying Mass. The country dissolves into civil war, with the peasants in the hills fighting against the military government. The CIA & US Armed Forces supply the government with overwhelming military & intelligence superiority. CIA-trained death squads roam the countryside, committing atrocities like that of El Mazote in 1982, where they massacre between 700 & 1000 men, women & children. By 1992, some 63,000 Salvadorans will be killed. April 24: President Carter's attempt to rescue Iranian hostages by helicoptor fails, possible due to sabotage. July - August: William Casey & other representatives of Reagan presidential campaign make a deal with Iranians at the Ritz Hotel in Madrid to delay release of Americans held hostage in Iran until after the November 1980 presidential elections. Reagan’s aides promise they will get arms for hostages if they wait until Carter is defeated. The arms the Iranians demanded are soon delivered via Israel. September 22: Iraq invades Iran. Iranian government is now in desperate need of spare parts & equipment for its armed forces. Carter suggests that US hand over supplies in return for the hostages but strategic rumors in media sabotage deal for Carter.	Note: After Cold War CIA is increasingly used for economic espionage, stealing technological secrets of competing foreign companies & giving them to American ones.	September 21: Intelligence Oversight Act amends Hughes-Ryan Act & requires US government agencies to report covert actions only to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) & Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). Previous requirement to notify 6 to 8 other committees is eliminated. October: Reagan-Bush campaign team makes secret pact with Iran to delay release of Embassy hostages until after November election, in return for future covert arms sales. It becomes known as the 'October Surprise;' William Casey, Reagan's campaign manager, is often considered the mastermind, & may have been appointed DCI as a reward. November: Ronald Reagan is elected president with running mate HW Bush. Bush had tried to win nomination but lost, then almost lost VP slot to former President Gerald Ford.		January-August: Ted Kennedy wins Democratic primaries in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, California, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and New Jersey. The rest go to the incumbent, President Jimmy Carter. August: In an emotional speech to the Democratic national convention, Ted withdraws his bid for the presidency.			December 8: Self described "peacenick" John Lennon is murdered in NY at age 40. Mark David Chapman is blamed but many observe he appears to be programmed or hypnotized.
Carter/Mondale/1981		August 3: The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association struck in defiance of the law. Newly elected President Ronald Reagan fired all the strikers and broke the union, sanctioning the practice of hiring "permanent replacements" for striking workers. Solidarity day labor rally draws 400,000 to the Mall in Washington D.C.
Reagan/HW Bush/1981	January 20: 20 minutes after Reagan is sworn into office American hostages are released from Iran. Within weeks military supplies, which Carter withheld, began moving to Iran.	January 28: William J. Casey becomes DCI. March: Reagan appoints Gold Commission to study feasibility of return to gold standard.	Note: Reagan staff includes: State, Alexander M. Haig; Treasury, James A. Baker. January 20: Hostages held in the American Embassy in Iran released. Reagan takes oath of office.
Reagan/HW Bush/1982		March: Reagan's Gold Commission reports to Congress: "The US Treasury owned no gold at all. All the gold that was left in Fort Knox was now owned by the Federal Reserve, a group of private bankers, as collateral against the National Debt." October: Boycott is initiated by Industrial Association of Machinists against Brown & Sharpe in RI after firm refuses to bargain in good faith & forces union into unwanted strike during which strikers are pepper sprayed by police & shot at. National Labor Relations Board subsequently charges Brown & Sharpe with regressive bargaining & entering into negotiations with the express purpose of not reaching an agreement with union.			December: Ted Kennedy announces he will not run for president in 1984. After 24 years of marriage, he divorces his wife Joan.
Reagan/HW Bush/1983	~: Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative. October: U.S. troops invade Grenada.	~: CIA gives Honduran military officers the Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual which teaches how to torture people. "Battalion 316" uses these techniques, with the CIA's full knowledge, on thousands of leftist dissidents. At least 184 are murdered. ~: "Ecuador Interim Country Assistance Strategy" dictates terms of 1.5 billion dollar IMF loan; Ecuador must take over unpaid private debts Ecuador's elite owe to private banks. Then to ensure Ecuador can repay loan IMF dictates price hikes in utilities orders Ecuador to fire 120,000 workers. Other IMF requirements: Raising price of cooking gas by 80% by November 1 2000; transferring ownership of biggest water system to foreign operators; granting British Petroleum rights to build & own oil pipeline over Andes; eliminating jobs of more workers & reducing the wages of those remaining by 50%.						September 1: Congressman Larry McDonald dies in shoot-down of Korean Air Flight 007. He was likely the target of the shoot-down due to his exposure of Rockefeller/New World Order plots. He was on his way to the World Anti-Communist League meeting in S. Korea; Senator Jesse Helms & 34 others in the delegation took another flight to the meeting & arrived alive. Larry was placed all alone on another flight which was blown up in mid air after it intentionally entered Soviet airspace for 2.5 hours as the pilot was instructed to do & was subsequently blown up. Pilot's wife doubled his life insurance policy before the flight after he warned her it was a risky flight.
Reagan/HW Bush/1984		~: Last of a series of Boland Amendments is passed to cease CIA aid to the Contras. But CIA Director William Casey is already prepared to "hand off" operation to Colonel Oliver North, who illegally continues supplying the Contras through the CIA's secret network of "humanitarian aid" from Adolph Coors & William Simon & profits from Iranian arms sales.	November: Reagan/Bush ticket wins reelection in landslide against Democratic Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro ticket.
Reagan/HW Bush/1985	July: Israeli official suggests a deal with Iran to then-national security adviser Robert McFarlane, that the transfer of arms could lead to release of Americans held hostage in Lebanon. McFarlane brings the message to Reagan. August 30: First planeload of US-made weapons is sent from Israel to Tehran; 2 weeks later 1st American hostage is released.		December 5: Reagan secretly signs presidential 'finding,' or authorization, describing operation with Iran as arms-for-hostages deal. ~: Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union.		December: Ted Kennedy announces he will not be a candidate for President in 1988.
Reagan/HW Bush/1986	February ~: Rising popular revolt in Haiti forces "Baby Doc" Duvalier out. US flies him to South of France for comfortable retirement, then rigs elections in favor of another right-wing military strongman. However, violence keeps the country in political turmoil for another 4 years. The CIA tries to strengthen the military by creating the National Intelligence Service, which suppresses popular revolt through torture & assassination. October: Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe.	January 17: Reagan signs finding authorizing CIA participation in arms sales to Iran & ordering process kept secret from Congress. April: Oliver North writes memo outlining plans to use $12 million in profits from Iran arms sales for Contra aid. October 5: Iran-Contra is exposed, along with Reagan's lies about it, when Sandinista patrol in Nicaragua shoots down October 6: 1,700 female flight attendants win 18-year lawsuit for $37 million against United Airlines for firing them for getting married. ?: C-123 transport plane carrying military supplies to the Contras. Lone survivor Eugene Hasenfus tells his captors the CIA is behind the operation. Involved are: Raphael Quintero, Felix Rodriguez, Clines, Oliver North, Edwin Wilson, Richard Secord, Bush, & Reagan.	November 5: Bush records in diary "On the news at this time is the question of the hostages...I'm one of the few people that know fully the details...it is not a subject we can talk about..." November 13: Bush's diary: "I remember Watergate. I remember the way things oozed out. It is important to be level, to be honest, to be direct. We are not saying anything." November 25: Iran-Contra crimes are revealed to public. Attorney General Edwin Meese III discloses to public that $10-$30 million in arms-sale profits were diverted to Contras. Bush's diary: "The administration in disarray-foreign policy in disarray-cover-up-who knew what when?" ~: Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellites.	~: MLK Day is established as a US holiday.				December 15: DCI Casey, a man in excellent health, suffers "cerebral seizures" 1 day before scheduled testimony in Iran-Contra hearings & is unable to speak. He is hospitalized, the public is told he has brain cancer, & he is never seen again. May 6: DCI Casey dies.	July: David Atlee Phillips tells Kevin Walsh, a former HSCA staffer: "My private opinion is that JFK was done in by a conspiracy, likely including American intelligence officers."
Reagan/HW Bush/1987	October: Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing treaty. November 2: William S. Sessions becomes FBI Director. John E. Otto is AD for 6 months prior.	May 26: William Webster becomes DCI. ~: Edmond de Rothschild creates World Conservation Bank designed to exchange debts from third world countries for land. This could result in Rothschilds' control of third world, 30% of earth's surface. October 24: AFL-CIO readmits 1.6 million member Teamsters Union after 1957 expulsion for links to organized crime.	January 1: Bush's diary "These so-called findings on Iran-I'll be honest-I don't remember any of them, and...the Vice President is not in the decision making loop." May 11: McFarlane testifies to Congress that Reagan told staff in 1984 to find ways around Congress ban on military aid to Contras.		~: Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, son of Robert Kennedy, is elected to Congress from the 8th District of Massachusetts. He will serve until 1999, when he steps down to run the Citizens Energy Corporation, a non-profit organization negotiating affordable energy for the poor.			March 17: Santo Trafficante dies.
Reagan/HW Bush/1988		~: World Central Bank's 3rd arm-BIS (World Bank & IMF are other 2 arms) require world's bankers to raise their capital & reserves to 8% of their liabilities by 1992. This increased capital requirement puts an upper limit on fractional reserve lending. To raise the money the world's bankers sell stocks which depresses their individual stockmarkets & begins depressions in those countries.	November: HW Bush/Quayle ticket wins presidential election.						~ David Atlee Phillips, dying from lung cancer, calls his brother James who has long been estranged because James knows David was "seriously involved" in the JFK assassination. James & David had argue about this vigorously & it results in a silent hiatus between them that lasts almost 6 years. During this final call James asks David "Were you in Dallas that day?" David answers "Yes" & James hangs up the phone on him.
Reagan/HW Bush/1989	January: Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan. June: China puts down protests for democracy; Poland becomes independent. September: Hungary becomes independent. November: Berlin Wall falls. December: Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends.	September 17: The United Mine Workers of America wildcat strike of the Pittston Coal Group in Virginia spreads across the eastern coalfields involving up to 50,000 miners in 11 states. Using non-violence and civil disobedience, the miners win a contract after a bitter nine-month struggle. While month-long Soviet coal strike dominates US news, the year-long Pittston strike garneres almost no mainstream press coverage. December: US invades Panama to overthrow General Manuel Noriega, a paid CIA asset since 1966, but growing independent & angering US. Hostilities supposedly begin when a US Marine in Panama is shot & killed. In response, Bush launches invasion of Panama, though this military action had obviously been planned months in advance. This move was thought by some critics to be ironic since, during his tenure as Director of the CIA, Bush personally arranged annual payments to Noriega in the initial amount of $110,000. Noriega is captured January 3.	January: Just before Reagan leaves office White House computer is purged of data & ~24 back-up tapes mysteriously disappear. July 25: US District Judge Harold Greene dismisses theft & wire fraud charges against Poindexter, who remains charged with conspiracy, obstructing Congress & making false statements.
HW Bush/Quayle/1989
HW Bush/Quayle/1990	March: Lithuania becomes independent. September 11: HW Bush gives orders to start military action in Gulf War with words: "Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective, a New World Order, can emerge: a new era." October 3: Germany reunited.	March 3 - 24: 7500 hotel worker and members of HERE, Local 5 strike 11 major hotels to protect their pension benefits. June 15: LAPD officers attack a group of 400 non-violent demonstrators in the SEIU "Justice for Janitors" campaign in the Century City strike against that high-rise commercial office area of Los Angeles.	February 5: Judge Greene orders Reagan to give a unusual videotaped testimony & immediately turn over 33 excerpts from his diaries. Former president invokes iffy doctrine of executive privilege made famous by Nixon, says on tape he never had "any inkling" that his aides were arming Contras. April 7: Poindexter is convicted of all 5 charges. May 29: Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia.
HW Bush/Quayle/1991	January 16: Gulf war starts under pretense of liberating Kuwait from Saddam Hussein after Congress hears bogus testimony about babies tossed from incubators. CIA-created dictator Hussein, who invaded Iran in 1980 with CIA backing & weapons, uses same weapons to crush internal rebellions. February 28: Gulf war ends when Bush makes controversial decision to leave Saddam Hussein in power. April: Warsaw Pact ends. August: End of Soviet Union Cold War Ends. December 8: The Soviet Union is dissolved; the CIA fails to predict the most important event of the Cold War, failing at its ostensible mission of gathering & analyzing information. The fall of the Soviet Union also robs the CIA of its reason for existence: fighting communism, yet the intelligence community's budget is not significantly reduced after the demise of communism.	September 3: Imperial Food Products fire in Hamlet, North Carolina where, despite a federally approved state OSHA program, 25 poultry processing workers are killed, 49 injured. February 7: Leftist priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide takes office becoming Haiti's first democratically elected leader after competing against 10 wealthy candidates & capturing 68% of Haiti vote. After only 8 months in power, a CIA-backed military coup diposes of him. More military dictators brutalize the country, as thousands of refugees escape the turmoil in barely seaworthy boats. As popular opinion calls for Aristide's return, the CIA begins a disinformation campaign painting the courageous priest as mentally unstable. November 6: Robert Gates becomes DCI. November 26: CIA's Duane Clarridge is indicted for lying about knowledge of Iran-Contra.	February 28: Poindexter appeals all 5 convictions. June 16: Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger is indicted on 5 felony counts of obstruction of justice, perjury & making false statements. ~: The Soviet Union collapses.			June 6: At Bilderberg Conference in Baden-Baden, Germany, David Rockefeller states: "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the NY Times, Time Magazine & other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings & respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world, if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But the world is now more sophisticated & prepared to march towards a world government. The super-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite & world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practised in past centuries."
HW Bush/Quayle/1992		~: The founding convention of the AFL-CIO's Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) is held from April 30 to May 2 in Washington D.C. ~: 3rd world debtor nations borrowing from World Bank, pay more for World Bank funded purposes than they receive from World Bank. This increases their permanent debt in exchange for temporary relief from poverty caused by the payments on prior loans, the repayments of which already exceed the amount of the new loans.This year Africa's external debt is 290 billion dollars, 2.5 times greater than in 1980, causing deteriorating schools & housing, sky-rocketing infant mortality rates, a drastic downturn in the general health of the people & mass unemployment. This year American taxpayers pay the Federal Reserve 286 billion dollars in interest on debt the Federal Reserve purchased by printing money virtually cost free.	December 9: Clair George is convicted of lying to Congress about Iran-Contra in 1986, becoming highest-ranking CIA spook convicted of felonies committed in the name of duty. December 24: Bush grants pardons to Weinberger, Abrams, Clarridge, Fiers, George & McFarlane.		~: Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Reggie.
HW Bush/Quayle/1993		February 5: James Woolsey becomes DCI.				August 31: Release of book "Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald & the Assassination of JFK" by Gerald Posner, supporting lone nut theory of JFK murder. Publisher is Bertelsman/Random House. Bertelsman took over Random House in 1998 & had close ties to Nazi Propaganda Ministry in WW2.			October 31: Edwin Walker dies of lung disease in Dallas.
Clinton/Gore/1993	September 1: Louis Freeh becomes FBI Director. Floyd I. Clarke is AD for 2 months prior.	~: A five day strike of 21,000 American Airlines' flight attendants, virtually shutting the airline down is ended when Pres. Clinton persuades the owners to arbirate the dispute.	~: The Family and Medical leave Act is passed.
Clinton/Gore/1994		May: The Regal Act is introduced in the US to replace President Lincoln's Greenbacks with debt based notes. ~: The longest players' strike in sports history (232 days) is conducted by the Major League Players Association against National and American League owners.	September 19 - October 15: Chaos in Haiti grows so bad President Clinton is forced to remove dictator Raoul Cedras. In doing so Clinton ousts, unknowingly or otherwise, the right wing CIA regime. Instead of arresting ex-military leaders for crimes against humanity US occupiers ensure their safety & rich retirements. Aristide is returned to power only after being forced to accept agenda favorable to ruling class. US conservatives, such as Senator Jesse Helms, are against the intervention & criticize President Bill Clinton for engaging in unnecessary “nation building” in Haiti. Helms falsely makes the claim on the Senate floor that Aristide is “psychotic,” based on a CIA document later revealed to be a forgery.		~: Ted Kennedy's son, Patrick Joseph Kennedy, is elected to Congress from Rhode Island's First District. He still serves in 2003.
Clinton/Gore/1995		May 10: John M. Deutch becomes DCI. October 4: Report entitled, "China's Economy Toward the 21st Century," predicts per capita income in 2010 China will be ~$735. This is higher than the World Bank definition of a low income country & a reason for increased offshoring. ~: Dick Cheney becomes CEO of Halliburton, which soon goes from 73rd largest defense contractor to 18th, in terms of revenue. ~: The 123,000-member I.L.G.W.U. and the 129,000-member A.C.T.W.U. merge to form the new Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE).			January 18: Robert Kennedy's oldest child, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, is sworn in as lieutenant governor of Maryland. Her bid to be Maryland's governor in 2002 will fail. January 22: Family matriarch Rose Kennedy dies, just a few months short of her 105th birthday.			October: Journalist Leo Damore, writing a book about Mary Meyer's murder, after stating in interviews that a CIA contact told him that Meyer’s death had been a professional hit, commits suicide in front of witnesses with gun shot to head.	Isaac Irving Davidson
Clinton/Gore/1996						~: Oliver Stone, Director of the fact-based movie "JFK" co-produces film "The People vs. Larry Flynt" about the Hustler magazine publisher who was shot & paralyzed weeks after offering a $1M reward for a solution to the JFK assassination. Flynt is played by Woody Harrelson, whose real-life father Charles, a professional hit man, is one of the infamous 3 tramps photographed in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on the day JFK was murdered: November 22, 1963.		April 27: Former DCI William Colby disappears. May 6: Former DCI Colby's body is found 20 yards from a canoe after the area was thoroughly searched multiple times, without the life jacket his friends say he usually wears. Inquest reports he died from drowning & hypothermia after collapsing from a heart attack or stroke & falling out of his canoe. Kay Griggs, ex-wife of United States Marine Colonel George Griggs, says Colby was murdered. Dr. Dekov claims he saw former FBI Director Louis Freeh killed Colby.
Clinton/Gore/1997		March 5: Just prior to Tony Blair's rule in England, the Earl of Caithness states: "The next government must grasp the nettle, accept their responsibility for controlling the money supply & change from our debt-based monetary system...If they do not, our monetary system will break us & the sorry legacy we are already leaving our children will be a disaster." May 6: Four days after Tony Blair's election as Prime Minister his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announces he is going to give full independence from political control to the Bank of England. July 11: George Tenet becomes DCI. August 18: In a big win for their members and all of organized labor, the Teamsters reach a new five-year agreement with United Parcel Service (UPS) ending a two-week strike over abuse of part-time workers and health care for retirees.
Clinton/Gore/1998		May: IMF eliminates food & fuel subsidies for Indonesian poor while absorbing billions of dollars to save Indonesia's international banks. Document leaks out of the World Bank called "Master Plan for Brazil" which lists 5 requirements to ensure a flexible public sector workforce.
Clinton/Gore/1999		November : Joseph Stiglitz, former Chief Economist of the World Bank & former Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, goes public over World Bank's, "Four Step Strategy" designed to enslave nations to the bankers.			July 16: En route to the wedding of cousin Rory Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr. dies with wife & sister-in-law when his small plane crashes while flying from N.J. to Martha's Vineyard. All are later buried at sea.			July 16: John F. Kennedy Jr. dies with wife & sister-in-law when his small plane crashes while flying from N.J. to Martha's Vineyard. All are later buried at sea.	~: The Major General Edwin A. Walker Society is started as a "closed, anti-Communist association of active duty and retired officers and noncommissioned officers who have taken upon themselves the mission of combating the communistic forces of Cultural Marxism, multiculturalism, the United Nations and Boshevist influences in the military".
Clinton/Gore/2000
Clinton/Gore/2001		March 29: The 500,000-member United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners announced that it was disaffiliating with the national AFL-CIO because of differences in the direction of the labor movement. April 5: 10,000 Public school teachers and 3000 state university faculty in Hawaii shut down all public education in the State in the nation's first state-wide education strike. September 4: Robert Mueller becomes FBI Director. Thomas J. Pickard is AD for 3 months prior.
W Bush/Cheney/2001	September 11: 911 - NORAD conspicuously "stands down" leaving world trade center vulnerable to ambush. When it is destroyed it is used as a Reichstag-type pretext for invading other countries using "terrorism" as the boogeyman to manipulate a fearful populace into supporting perpetual war & accepting curtailed liberties.
W Bush/Cheney/2002
W Bush/Cheney/2003		~: Halliburton's revenue increases 30 percent to $16 billion, largely because of military contracts in the middle east. Halliburton is #1 US Army contractor with the total value of its Army contracts valued at $3,731,725,648.
W Bush/Cheney/2004		September 24: Porter Goss becomes DCI. ~: 70,000 Southern California grocery workers strike Safeway to protect their health benefits and stop imposition of a vicious two-tier wage system.
W Bush/Cheney/2005		~: Seven major national unions, representing six million workers, disaffiliate from the AFL-CIO and, in September, form a new coalition called "Change to Win", devoted to organizing.
W Bush/Cheney/2006
W Bush/Cheney/2007		May 29: Thyssen-Krupp is the largest industry in Germany, the wealthiest conglomerate in Europe, worth $50 billion.				May 29: Release of book "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" by Vincent Bugliosi, supporting lone nut theory. Publisher is W. W. Norton & Company.
W Bush/Cheney/2008
W Bush/Cheney/2009
Obama/Biden/2009
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