Authors: Lamar Waldron
state at Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s
National Security Council and,
plots against, 26, 32, 38, 46, 53, 56–
Cathedral, 647; body on train from
182–183, 284; Nebraska primary
58, 68, 73–81, 88, 97, 101, 103–122,
NYC to Washington, 647;
and, 623; as New York senator, 323;
129, 134, 150–152, 159, 161, 163,
California primary and, 624, 625,
Oregon primary and, 624, 625, 627;
166, 168, 171, 182, 187, 193–200,
657; campaigning in open cars,
Oswald and, 159; pipeline into the
209–211, 225–226, 228–230, 237,
654; Castro retaliation theory and,
CIA, 330; Poor People’s Campaign
244, 249–251, 256, 271–272, 508–
392–395, 410–412, 415–421, 422,
and, 553; poverty issues, 439–440,
509, 534, 536, 746, 766, 771 (
see also
424–431, 437–439; Chavez and, 295,
487, 553; presidential campaign of,
JFK assassination); attempts to
487, 673; the CIA and, 157, 158–159,
620, 625; presidential election and,
assassinate Castro (
see
JFK-
182, 221–222, 294, 296, 727; Civil
553–554, 558, 620, 623, 629, 653,
Almeida coup plan); Attwood and,
Right movement and, 6–7, 291–
659–660; resignation as Attorney
704; autopsy of, 122, 123, 181–188,
293, 487, 490; conservatives and,
General to run for Senate, 322; risk
355; burial of, 188, 425–427; Castro
621; Cuba and, 8–9, 12–15, 18, 20,
of assassination and, 557; Robbie’s
and, 260–261, 275, 460–462, 465;
22, 25–26, 29, 34, 146, 282, 285–286,
Restaurant in Pomono, California,
the CIA and, 727; civil rights and,
296–298, 621; Cuba Contingency
626, 657; Rosselli and, 100; Russell
490; Cuba and, 9–10, 13–15, 25–26,
Plans and, 24–26, 74, 94, 182, 184,
Parsons and, 665; Sam Yorty and,
29, 34, 75, 175, 275, 282–284, 298,
188; Cuban exiles and, 93, 94, 96,
625; in San Diego, 627; second
711; Cuban American training, 769;
285, 727; death of, 632, 636;
gunman and, 666; secrecy of, 9;
Cuban exiles and, 76, 162; Fidel
documentary about, 627; Dorman
security and, 620, 625, 626; Sirhan
Castro and, 770; funeral of, 187–
and, 622; Drew Pearson and, 624;
Sirhan and, 652, 657; speech at
188, 224, 241, 248, 257; grave of,
drug traffickers and, 92, 259;
Portland, OR, synagogue, 627;
648; Hoover and, 173; international
enemies and, 622;
The Enemy
speech in Ambassador Hotel, 630–
image of, 174–175; Latin America
Within
, 250, 294; Eugene McCarthy
631; speech in Indianapolis after
and, 174–175; liaison with East
and, 627; the FBI and, 231, 294;
MLK assassination, 600–601;
German beauty, 32; the Mafia and,
FitzGerald and, 296; funeral of,
statements about Israel in
66–67, 69, 85, 100, 181, 771;
647, 648; Garrison and, 254; Get
synagogue in Portland, Oregon,
Marcello and, 93; MLK and, 291–
Hoffa Squad, 56; gunman on roof
656; support for Israel and, 627; in
292; November 18 speech in
in Lansing, Michigan, 620; Harvey
support of Warren Report, 314;
Miami, 282; Oswald and, 191; in
and, 207; hatred of by far Right
Szulc article about the Cuba
Palm Beach, Florida, 159, 194;
and extreme conservatives, 488;
Contingency Plans, 739; Teamsters
Palm Beach compound of, 80; at
hatred of wealthy California
and, 93; Trafficante and, 100; trip to
Parkland Hospital, 122–123, 181,
farmers towards, 622; Helms and,
Mississippi, 553; Vietnam and, 7,
182, 184–185, 186; “Plans for a
296, 418–421; Hickory Hill estate
291, 408–409, 533, 557, 635; Warren
Coup in Cuba” (1963 document),
of, 34, 92, 133; Hoffa and, 100, 294–
and, 277; Warren Commission and,
766; popularity of, 174–175;
296, 538; Hoover and, 31–32, 169,
241, 310, 353–354, 566; white
presidential campaigns of, 6, 292;
171, 173, 285, 293, 374; in
supremacists and, 256; Williams
Senate activities of, 4, 6; the South
Indianapolis, 600; Indiana primary
and, 154, 156, 157, 211, 234, 287,
and, 7; special commission on drug
and, 623; Israel and, 635, 656;
288, 296–297, 698.
See also
RFK
abuse, 69; speech at the Interna-
Jewish constituency, 627; JFK-
assassination.
tional Inn, Tampa, Florida, 107;
Almeida coup plan and, 39, 151,
Kennedy, Rose, 248
Vietnam and, 7, 275.
See also
JFK
201, 246, 280, 285–286; JFK
Kennedy administration, 106
assassination.
assassination and, 42–43, 46, 49–50, Kennedy-Johnson program, 576
Kennedy, Joseph, 4, 6
54–57, 67, 71–80, 136–138, 141–142, Kennedy Presidential Library, 106
Kennedy, Regis, 516, 517, 522
147, 158, 165, 168, 199, 206, 210,
Kennedys, 671, 706.
See also
specific
Kennedy, Robert F., 1963 Cuban
219, 223–224, 232–233, 248–250,
family members
operations, 557; 1964 Senate run,
252, 278, 284–285, 293–294, 295,
Kennelly, Tom, 405, 459
310; actions after JFK’s death, 109,
300, 314, 355, 399–403, 454, 456–
Kerner, Otto, 556
122, 133–134, 135, 147–153, 157–
463, 465–470, 534, 557–558, 567,
Kerner Commission, 556
158, 181–183, 188, 234–235, 291–
644, 727; Jimmy Hoffa and, 622;
Kerner Report, 556
293; allegation that he paid off a
LBJ and, 31–32, 101, 144, 234–235,
KGB, 83, 302–303
witness in a Hoffa case, 624; at the
276, 282, 285, 286–288, 296, 356,
Khan, Khaiber, 660
Ambassador Hotel, 626, 627, 629;
533, 576, 577; in Los Angeles, 626,
Khrushchev, Nikita, 10, 277
anti-Castro activities of, 188;
657, 674; Los Angeles Police
Kilgallen, Dorothy, 369
antiwar speech, 555; appearance
Department (LAPD) and, 626; the
Kimmel, Thomas A., 47, 751, 753,
on CBS’s
Face the Nation
, 533;
Mafia and, 49, 59–60, 66–67, 69, 85,
755, 757, 761
assassination plots against, 46, 53,
92, 93, 97, 100, 152, 171, 177, 181,
King, Coretta Scott, 291–292, 293,
294, 295–296, 405, 621; attempts to
285, 294, 363–365, 622; magic bullet
515, 522, 565, 601, 603, 647, 695
840
LEGACY OF SECRECY
King, Martin Luther, Jr., anti-war
Kostikov, Valery, 219, 226, 237, 284
Long, Edward, 347, 348, 349, 364,
movement and, 440–441, 550;
Kotz, Nick, 553, 572, 575, 580
366, 374, 376, 534
assassination plots against, 499,
Ku Klux Klan, 164, 201, 449, 488,
Long, Russell, 366, 370, 423–424,
503–505, 507, 510–511, 530, 536,
490, 495–513, 546, 550, 688;
423–424, 460, 465–467
546, 562, 673 (
see also
MLK
Atlanta, Georgia and, 499;
Lopez, Gilberto Policarpo, 76–77,
assassination); Atlanta and, 572,
bombings and, 491; contract on
137, 197–199, 209, 271–273, 746
578; ballistic evidence and, 595;
Martin Luther King, 499, 504;
Lorraine Motel, 572–574, 579–580,
“Black is Beautiful” slogan, 493;
convictions in burning death of
582, 586–589, 593–594, 597, 599, 762
bomb threat at Atlanta Municipal
Mississippi civil rights worker
Los Angeles.
See also
Los Angeles
Airport, 578–580; bus boycott
Vernon Dahmer, 560; declining
Police Department (LAPD)
in Alabama, 292; came out against
membership, 492; fragmented as
Los Angeles Police Department
the war, 550; civil rights
organization, 492; Imperial
(LAPD), 626, 629, 632–635, 642–
movement and, 487, 490 (
see also
Wizard, 495; Joseph Milteer and,
645, 649–650, 652, 655, 657, 661–
civil rights movement); COINTEL-
500; in Mississippi, 499; New
665, 669, 671, 678–680, 682–686
PRO operations, 569; Communist
Orleans, 517; in North Carolina,
Los Angeles Times
, 545, 560, 638,
Party and, 293, 549; convicted for
499; racial violence in the south,
713
staging sit-in in Atlanta, 291; death
491; Sam Bowers and, 545;
Louisiana, 42, 43, 44, 48–49, 54.
See
of, 594; death threats and, 488;
Southern police and, 520; Tarrants
also
specific cities
domestic surveillance of, 516, 521,
and, 545; unions and, 500; White
Love Field, Dallas, Texas, 105
522; family of, 515, 610; the FBI
Knights, 504, 506–507, 617
Luce, Clare Booth, 164, 220
and, 293, 508, 516, 690, 737; funeral Kurtz, Michael L., 68, 69, 78, 83–84,
Lukas, J. Anthony, 715, 719
of, 610, 620; Hoover and, 293, 539;
85, 86, 87, 201–202, 223, 256, 265,
Lyon, Verne, 523, 524
“I Have a Dream” speech, 7;
277
influence of, 492; injunction to
Kyles, Billy, 588
M
stop planned April 8th demonstra-
MacDill Air Force Base, 166
tion, 580; James Earl Ray and, 571; L
MacNeil, Robert, 117, 120–121, 190
JFK and, 291–292, 565; Joseph
La Charta, Salvadore (Sol), 541–542
Macon, Georgia, 453
Milteer and, 500; Ku Klux Klan
Lakewood General Motors plant,
Maddox, Lester, 493, 496, 510, 605
and, 499, 517; last speech of,
494, 496, 498, 510, 511
Mafia, the,
specific members
; Alabama
580–581; LBJ and, 293, 575, 577; in
Landis, paul, 114
Mafia, 44–45; amusement
Lorraine Motel, 588; the Mafia
Lane, Mark, 353–354, 357, 383, 534;
companies and, 593; Artime and,
and, 536; Marcello and, 762; march
Rush to Judgment
, 353–354
215; attorneys for, 664; Chicago
and, 588; as Marxist/Leninist, 549; La Rue, Jack, 5–6, 242, 294.
See also
Mafia, 6, 43, 45–46, 52–53, 58, 61,
in Memphis, 561, 568, 572, 574,
Ruby, Jack
65, 73, 75, 80, 92, 161, 193, 246; the
576, 578, 579, 597; Milteer and, 510; Las Vegas, Nevada, 65, 66, 92, 456,
CIA and (
see
CIA-Mafia plots);
negative attitudes towards, 509; in
467–468
contract on Robert Kennedy, 672,
New Orleans, 561; in New York,
Latin America, 36, 717.
673; Dallas Mafia, 52; Dorfman
564, 568; non-violence and, 488,
See also
specific countries
and, 250; Florida Mafia, 49, 58–59;
572; peace movement and, 523;
Law, William Matson,
In the Eye of
Helms and, 151; Hoffa and, 250;
planned march in Memphis, 580;
History
, 182, 186
Hoover and the, 5; illegal arms
plot to assassinate, 493; Poor
Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit
sales by, 163; infiltration of JFK-
People’s Campaign and, 553; race
(LEIU), 574, 678
Almeida coup plan, 724; James
riots and, 488; reaction to JFK’s
Leake, Hunter, 83, 84–85, 86, 103,
Earl Ray and, 479–481, 484, 608;
assassination, 293; RFK and,
157, 201–202, 205
JFK and, 85; JFK assassination and,
291–293, 556, 565; security and,
Leavenworth, Kansas, 504, 505, 506,
42–44, 47, 57, 59–65, 75, 76, 92, 102,
520; sermon at Washington
507
141, 143–144, 152, 159, 160, 162,
National Cathedral, 575; speech at Lechuga, Carlos, 218
199, 210–211, 249, 285, 363–365,
Mason Temple, 580; speech in Los
LeMay, Curtis, 24, 497
447, 449, 452, 456, 459, 460–471,
Angeles, 560–561; speech to
Lesar, Jim, 193, 516, 786
698, 701, 771; the Kennedys and,
Memphis striking black garbage
Letelier, Orlando, 162, 450, 719, 741
66–67, 69, 100, 181; Las Vegas
workers, 562; stabbed in Harlem
Lewis, Benjamin F., 45, 46
Mafia, 66, 92, 673; LBJ and, 101;
in 1958, 580; stalking of, 511;
Lewisburg Federal Prison, 457–459
Los Angeles Mafia, 665, 668, 671,
surveillance of, 293, 509, 550, 569,
Liberto, Frank C., 513, 519, 575, 580,
673, 675, 680; Louisiana Mafia, 43,
574, 579; threats against, 586.
583, 584, 585, 598, 602, 614, 690,
44, 48–49, 50; Memphis Cartel and,
See also
MLK assassination.
693, 762
519; Memphis Mafia (“the Cartel”),
Kinney, Sam, 76
Liberto, Jack, 456, 519, 536, 615, 693
519; MLK and, 502; MLK
Kirk, Tom, 751, 752, 754–758
Liddy, G. Gordon, 714, 715, 721, 722
assassination and, 515, 527–528,
Kirkpatrick, Lyman, 33, 93, 95, 96,
Life
magazine, 164, 295, 449, 469–470,
531, 541, 564, 574–575, 585, 595;
134, 135, 141, 145, 153, 154, 155,
516, 533, 622, 710
Montreal Mafia, 92; in New
156, 727
Lifton, David, 182, 185–186, 698
Orleans, 513, 575, 702; New York