Hit List Quotes

“U.S. Intelligence Examiner Fred Burks of Berkeley, California, has investigated whether the CIA is capable of inducing heart attacks as a method of assassination, and based on the evidence, concluded that they have had that capability for many decades.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“•  Officer Tippit was reportedly shot with an automatic and Oswald was carrying a revolver.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“All I know is that witnesses with vital evidence in the case are bad insurance risks.4 —New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, when asked about all the deaths of witnesses who had been sought for testimony.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“History will not absolve us if we do not, once and for all, reveal all that is known about the greatest, most tragic murder mystery in American History. After all, 90 percent of the American people believe that there was a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“Lee infiltrated the plot to kill President Kennedy, was set up as the patsy, and was then murdered to protect the real assassins by silencing him.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“was working “penetration” on behalf of U.S. intelligence and was not only infiltrating, but attempting to preclude, a plot against the life of President Kennedy.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“The LBJ team also attempted to change the passenger configuration of the Dallas motorcade in order to get Governor Connally, a longtime LBJ ally, out of the limousine in which Kennedy was riding.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“Johnson’s Secret Service Agents had changed the orders and advised the remaining four motorcyclists not to advance beyond the back tires of the limo.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“So one might say that there was a second conspiracy to make it look like there was no conspiracy at first; and directed by a man who was apparently a major player in both!”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“According to Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, Cord Meyer was the principal “operative” of Mockingbird.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“The American media struggled to sustain a semblance of calm and order, still insistent Lee Harvey Oswald had been the lone crackpot assassin and had acted unilaterally. But observers and journalists in other countries had already started speculating Oswald had been killed to keep him from talking.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“Richard Charnin is an author and quantitative software developer with advanced degrees in applied mathematics and operations research. He paints a very clear portrait of the JFK witness deaths in the context of the mathematical landscape: I have proved mathematically what many have long suspected: The scores of convenient JFK unnatural witness deaths cannot be coincidental.15”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“In the three-year period which followed the murder of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, 18 material witnesses died:”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“Huey Long once said, “Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.” I’m afraid, based on my own experience that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.863”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“Huey Long once said, “Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“Meridian Pennsylvania”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“An actuary engaged by the London Times calculated the probability that at least 18 witnesses would die of any cause within 3 years of the JFK assassination as 1 in 100,000 trillion.5”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination