Coup d’etat
Mixed media on unframed canvas
369.5cm X 180cm (145.5″ X 71″)
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Footnotes
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Frame 313
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald are married in the collective consciousness of the world as victim and shooter, a view religiously advanced by the media, taught in high school history books and stated factually without irony on Wikipedia. Yet a massive body of opposition exists beginning at the highest levels of government including three members of the Warren Commission -Chief Justice Earl Warren, Richard Russell and Hale Boggs, to innumerable researchers, historians and witnesses (the ones who were not erased from existence in a plague of improbable deaths to odds figured as high as 100,000 trillion to one) that suggest a conspiracy of multiple shooters, and not including Lee Harvey Oswald and the un-sightable Carcano rifle. Investigations by French intelligence and the KGB would come to the same conclusion: that LBJ was behind the assassination, a view shared by both Jackie Kennedy and Jack Ruby.

After the assassination the body of JFK was illegally removed from the Texas State homicide investigation by the Secret Service. When the body arrived at Bethesda Naval Hospital it had already been descecrated, a gash on right temple to remove evidence of a frontal shot to advance what would become the Warren Commission finding: that the fatal head shot came from the rear from a bullet fired by Lee Harvey Oswald. The conclusion was in opposition to the testimony of every doctor at Parkland Hospital who universally described the head wound as a massive exit wound in the occipital parietal, unlike the official photos allegedly taken at Bethesda Naval Hospital which show a small neat entrance hole in the back of the head. In a final insult JFK’s corpse was laid out nude in full view of his former enemies -the Joint Chiefs of Staff and generals including Curtis LeMay, who sat and smoking a cigar.

JFK is my favorite president for two reasons. One, his engagement with Khrushchev for a nuclear test ban as a first step to end nuclear proliferation. And two, His decision not to invade Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which saved the world from nuclear holocaust.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis the Joint Chiefs of Staff advised for an invasion of Cuba believing that warheads sent by Khrushchev were not yet operational. In a 1975 interview Fidel Castro revealed the missiles were operational and that the Kremlin had authorized nuclear retaliation in the event of a US invasion with one hundred warheads aimed at US cities. Kennedy, disillusioned and bitter over the gross incompetence of his military advisers in the planning and execution of Bay of Pigs, shut down the invasion. It was the second time Kennedy would save the world from nuclear holocaust, having shut down a preemptive nuclear strike that had been in the works since 1957, presented to him in July of 1961 by top military and intelligence leaders when he disclosed to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, “And we call ourselves the human race.”

After the assassination, Castro was deeply disturbed. He had believed Kennedy was the only hope in advancing peace between the two nations.
Kruschev wept.