Gerald Ford in American Conspiracies

On Homeland Security: OpEd: Kept FBI informed of Warren Commission activities

After the JFK assassination, Nixon recommended to President Johnson that Ford be put on the Warren Commission. There, Ford served as the FBI's informant about what the commission was up to. This was confirmed long afterward, in an FBI memo stating: "Ford indicated he would keep me thoroughly advised as to the activities of the commission. He stated that would have to be done on a confidential basis, however, he thought it had to be done."

We also have learned from some handwritten notes of Ford's that he changed one of the most significant findings in the "Warren Report." A first draft had said that a bullet had "entered JFK's back at a point slightly below the shoulder to the right of the spine." Whoops! That trajectory meant there was no way for the bullet to emerge from Kennedy's neck and then somehow hit Gov. Connally. No more "magic bullet"! So Ford urged the commission to change the description and put the wound up higher. So Ford had always been counted on to help out in critical situations.

Source: American Conspiracies, by Jesse Ventura, p. 88-89 Mar 9, 2010

On Homeland Security: 1964: Evaluated Kennedy assassination for Warren Report

Life magazine devoted most of its Oct. 2, 1964, issue to the Warren Report, assigning commission member (and future president) Gerald Ford the job of evaluating it. In 1997, the Assassination Records Review Board would release handwritten noted by Ford, revealing that he had misrepresented the placement of the president's back wound--raising it several inches to suggest he'd instead been struck in the neck--in order to make it fit the theory that a single bullet had hit both Kennedy and Gov. Connally. Otherwise, the entire lone-assassin notion would have collapsed.

That same issue of "Life" underwent two major revisions AFTER it went on sale. One of the articles was illustrated with eight frames from the Zapruder film. But Frame 323 turned out to contradict the Warren Report's conclusion about the shots all coming from the rear. So the issue was recalled, the plates broken and re-set, (this was all pre-computer) and Frame 313 showing the president's head exploding became the replacement.

Source: American Conspiracies, by Jesse Ventura, p. 40-41 Mar 8, 2010

The above quotations are from American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us, by Gov. Jesse Ventura. Click here for other excerpts from American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us, by Gov. Jesse Ventura. Click here for other excerpts by Gerald Ford. Click here for a profile of Gerald Ford.
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