RWB 74 Dr. David W. Mantik: JFK Was Killed by Consensus

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Dr. David W. Mantik: JFK Was Killed by Consensus
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David W. Mantik, MD, PhD, is a radiation oncologist who received his doctorate in physics from the University of Wisconsin and then did a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University. For over 40 years, he has treated cancer patients with x-rays, electrons, and protons. In 1993, he examined the JFK autopsy x-rays and photographs at the National Archives on four separate days. He determined that the three skull x-rays are copies and each has been critically altered, with one change done specifically to incriminate Lee Harvey Oswald.

His new book is JFK WAS KILLED BY CONSENSUS: Dealey Plaza Was Just the Final Stop, available at www.trineday.com and the usual sellers.

His website is www.themantikview.org.

Interview highlights:

David was always interested in the JFK assassination. “November 22, 1963, was a very a dark day in American history.” He knew of the objections of Dr. Cyril Wecht, who later became a very good friend.

But David got angry at historians after seeing Oliver Stone’s film, JFK, because we didn’t seem to know what happened or why Kennedy was killed. That anger fueled his desire to find out what happened.

David wrote the Kennedy family attorney, Burke Marshall, for permission to see the items in the National Archives. Once granted, David spent nine full days in the Archives and did an unprecedented study. Contrary to the official story (that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone), David found that three bullets struck Kennedy in the head, two from the front (in the right forehead and, most likely from the Grassy Knoll, in the right temple) and one from the rear.

The temple shot caused the big exit wound in the right-rear of Kenney’s skull seen by many at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. David said the forehead shot more likely came from the railroad overpass that Kennedy’s car was approaching.

Research indicates that the Zapruder film of the assassination was quickly altered. (The unaltered original could have shown that JFK was hit in the head by multiple shots.)

There are also five or six reports of people seeing a film a lot like Zapruder’s but different, which shows the limousine turn onto Elm Street and then limousine stop in the kill zone, neither of which are seen in the Zapruder film. In JFK WAS KILLED BY CONSENSUS, David explains why he suspects this second film was made by the CIA.

The assassination was a plot that included more than just elements of the CIA. The military and intelligence communities were very opposed to JFK and his desire to make peace with the Soviet Union and work with them to go into space together. “He was like an alien to them.” They literally thought of him as a traitor. They thought they were patriots, saving the country from JFK.

The first part of David’s book is about who pulled the triggers. Thousands of marksmen for hire could have been the culprits. David shows pictures of four possible shooters, and he lists many others.

The second part is more important: who issued the orders to kill JFK? David presents a rather long list of suspects and emphasizes that they were not strangers to each other. Their relationships are what allowed the assassination to happen.

For instance:

… General Edward Lansdale and Major General Charles Willoughby, who was chief of military intelligence for General MacArthur during World War II and the Korean War. Lansdale and Willoughby were involved in the discovery of Yamashita’s gold, tons and tons of gold, which was used for dozens of intelligence operations around the world. It is very likely that Lansdale was in Dealey Plaza on November 22, and “there’s a pretty good hint that Willoughby was there, too.”

Others include the CIA’s notorious William Harvey, General Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from September 1960 to November 1962, and McGeorge Bundy, JFK’s national security advisor.

The Air Force under Curtis LeMay was absolutely furious about the way JFK ended the Cuban Missile Crisis. LeMay thought we should have bombed the hell out of Cuba (which almost certainly would have started a nuclear war that would have devastated the planet). “Surely, after the Cuban Missile Crisis, a plot must have been going around the circles by that time.”

Like many other researchers, David believes that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson knew in advance that the assassination was going to happen. David’s book has photos of Johnson ducking in the rear of his limousine as it turned onto Elm Street from Houston, and witnesses reported that he was ducking, but there are many reasons for believing that Johnson knew in advance.

“It doesn’t make any sense for this kind of assassination attempt to occur without approval in advance from Lyndon Johnson. So many government agencies had to be involved, they had to know that Lyndon had their back, the Secret Service, in particular. The FBI, the CIA – they all had to know that Lyndon would cover for them if necessary.”

Allen Dulles is a central figure in this case, too, but David says Dulles was probably suffering cognitive decline as early as 1961. “So, I cannot place Allen Dulles in the center of the plot [to kill Kennedy]. He’s IN the plot, but he’s not at the center of the plot.”

Hitler’s chief commando, Otto Skorzeny, lived in Spain in the 1950s, and there he developed a school for assassins. David shows that Charles Willoughby visited Skorzeny. They knew each other. Skorzeny was also very involved in oil, and he knew the oil men in Texas, and he had business interests in Dallas. “So, these connections are just everywhere. All the critical people are connected.”

David’s book describes a phone call about the assassination that occurred in advance between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who, David said, was very good friends with General Lansdale.

I said more Americans need to know the truth about these things, so we can cleanse our government of its corruption, because America is close to the edge of destruction (in so many words), and David said, “You’re getting into my next book.” The title is, Evil is Eternal, where he asks such questions as, what can we do? Can we do anything? How do we address evil in our society?

Regarding the 1949 act of Congress that allowed the CIA to conceive of “plausible deniability,” whereby they justified committing crimes as long as the government, especially the president, could deny any knowledge of them, David said, “That’s a total violation of human nature. We can’t have a republic if there’s no responsibility. That killed the American republic. We’ve never been the same since then.”

The plotters not only thought they were saving America from JFK, but they also had very different foreign policy goals that they were determined to pursue and Kennedy stood in the way.

Review

Peter Dale Scott, Killed by Consensus: The Underlying Truth. “JFK WAS KILLED BY CONSENSUS is the right perspective, the right thesis, and the profound basic fact underlying the JFK assassination. This book focuses on both the consensus inside the plot and on the consensus outside that later covered for the killers. David Mantik, a medical expert, is uniquely qualified to write about both. As the author of "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK," I endorse this book; and I wish I had known all the facts it contains, before I had written my own. BUY THIS BOOK!”

David also wrote:

The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis presents indisputable forensic evidence that two shots fired from the front and one shot fired from the rear killed the president in a Dealey Plaza crossfire—exposing a sixty-year coverup by the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, and the Secret Service.

Amazon.com: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis: Forensic Analysis of the JFK Autopsy X-Rays Proves Two Headshots from the Right Front and One from the Rear: 9798888451571: Mantik M.D., Ph.D., David W., Corsi Ph.D., Jerome R., Horne, Douglas P.: Books

David appears in this video on YouTube:

A Closer Look at the Zapruder Film: The Case for Alteration
A Closer Look at the Zapruder Film: The Case for Alteration - YouTube

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