1. Once ordered to do so, did the FBI go into the very basics of investigation of President Kennedy's murder? |
31. Why do reports by McGraw and Harding include Adams ' interview of Milteer without acknowledgement or reference to Adam's original reports/documents?
Note: This is a very important point. The McGraw and Harding reports omit any mention of the SA Adams investigations. Further, none of the documents, interviews and copies of records which accompanied SA Adams' reports are included or referenced in the documents attributed to McGraw and Harding which are on file at the National Archives. For example, the National Archives show no record that it was SA Adams who obtained Milteer's fingerprints from the Lowndes County SO. |
2. Did the FBI conduct a detailed and thorough investigation once those basics were established? |
32. Why do the National Archive records show only one document attributed to SA Adams, the FD302 report of the Milteer interview? |
3. Were investigating agents aware that five threats to kill the president occurred within several months of each other? |
33. In the National Archive's copy of the FD 302 Milteer interview, SA Williams' and SA Adams' names are reversed. Also, two different dates are referred to in the report. The original FD302, filed by SA Adams, does not show these alternations. Why is this important?
Regarding the names transposition, SA Adams was the assigned case agent with SA Kenneth Williams assisting. Adams 's name should appear first in the FD 302, per FBI protocol. As the case agent, SA Adams would be interviewed by higher authority if the Milteer interview or other evidence were questioned. Reversing William's and Adam's names and using two different dates in the body of the text proves that the document was falsified. Why was this done? The truth must be uncovered. |
4. Were investigating agents aware of the October threat by Milteer and others to kill the President as he left Homestead Air Force Base in Florida? |
34. SA McGraw's report (item 31 above) shows that Milteer was known by McGraw to possess and carry weapons. McGraw did not inform SA Adams that Milteer should be considered, “Armed and Dangerous.” Failing to do so placed the lives of SA Adams and SA Williams in jeopardy. |
5. Were investigating agents aware of the Nov. 9, 1963 tape-recording made by the Miami Police Department intelligence unit which exposed the threat to kill the President from a tall building with a high-powered rifle? |
35. Following the assassination, media reports indicated that the FBI declared that between 365 and 385 agents were working on the murder of President Kennedy. Why weren't a majority of the most important leads covered and the murder solved? |
6. Were investigating agents aware of a similar threat to be carried out in Chicago in Nov 2, 1963? |
36. Once Oswald was fixed as the lone shooter, much important work that should have been done was not completed. In fact, leads or evidence, such as the five threats to the President's life (items 4-7 above) were either set aside or completely forgotten since, I speculate, there was no known connection to Oswald. |
7. Were investigating agents aware of a similar threat to be carried out in Tampa in 1963, two weeks before the President's trip to Dallas? |
37. After threatening the President's life (9 Nov. 1963 Tampa Police Dept. tape-recording) Milteer was photographed on Nov. 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza, standing on Houston Street, watching the presidential limousine pass by just only seconds prior to the murder of the President and wounding of Gov. Connelly. |
8. Considering the above facts, items 4-7, did the FBI conduct appropriate and thorough investigations concerning each threat and each of the people involved? |
38. Did J. Gordon Shanklin, the SA in charge of the FBI operations in Dallas and also in charge of overseeing the entire assassination investigation, set aside the logical leads that should have been covered in Dallas?
Note: We now know that a number of shots were fired in Dealey Plaza. Were comprehensive investigations undertaken concerning each shot? Indeed, were investigations undertaken at all? |
9. Was each case, items 4-7, considered a "Special" or priority type investigation? |
39. How many shooters were involved in the assassination and what was their location when the President was murdered? |
10. Were teams of agents assigned to work a Special? |
40. How did the assassins move in and out of their positions without being seen? |
11. Where are the results of their separate investigations? |
41. What happened to the weapons used in those shootings? |
12. How many agents worked each of those matters and what was the duration of their investigations? |
42. To where did the subjects who did the shootings disappear? |
13. What was done, and by whom, regarding each of the above named threats? |
43. Doctors and medical staff at Parkland Hospital who first saw the President following the shootings at Dealey Plaza, reported one of the President's head wounds was to the back of the cerebellum. Were these witnesses interviewed in detail? |
| 14. Were there investigations conducted to determine if there was a connector between other interested offices?
Note: During the time of the Kennedy murder, the FBI was operating Field Offices and Resident Agencies. A Field Office was a general office covering a certain territory consisting of a number of counties. The size and population of a state dictated the number of field offices therein. For example, Texas, a large state, had three field offices - Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. The population of the state was spread out, thus the three offices had to cover a large concentration of people within the cities plus a number of surrounding counties. Comparatively, Ohio's population was more concentrated and the state is geographically much smaller than Texas. Therefore, Ohio had two field offices - Cleveland and Cincinnati.
A Resident Agency was responsible to a field office. Each resident agency had a number of counties to cover, usually in those locations too distant to be covered by its field office. The number of counties assigned to each agent located within a resident agency depended upon the number of agents assigned to that particular resident agency. Per FBI standard operating procedure, all administrative reports or "paperwork" were written by the agents and typed by secretaries within the field office and the reports were returned to the resident agency. |
44. Some of the doctors who were present in Parkland Hospital Trauma Room One when the President arrived said that he had an entrance wound in his throat. If this is true, that one fact eliminates Oswald as a lone shooter. Many years later, the House Assassinations Committee acknowledged that a shot that had hit the President had come form the “grassy knoll” facing Dealey Plaza. This fact was known even before Oswald was identified as the shooter. |
15. Were the persons identified, photographs obtained and provided to all other interested offices? |
45. In violation of investigative procedure and protocol, the President's limousine was washed down and cleaned by Secret Service agents immediately following his arrival at Parkland Hospital, thus destroying whatever evidence it contained. Why was this done? Was an in-depth investigation conducted to ascertain the facts surrounding this unprecedented action? |
16. Did the field offices where the threats were made correspond with FBI Headquarters, any other offices, Dallas in particular, once the assassination occurred? |
46. The Warren Commission determined that “the second bullet” fired by Oswald hit President Kennedy in his back and also wounded Gov. Connally in five locations, but was found in “pristine” condition on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital. Was an in-depth investigation undertaken at the time of the discovery of the evidence at Parkland? |
17. Once the tone was set that Oswald was the lone assassin, was all of the above played down as to its importance? |
47. At least one photograph of law enforcement personnel holding a rifle which was allegedly recovered from the Book Depository is different from the one allegedly held by Oswald in the famous “backyard” photo of Oswald.
Note: At least one additional photo shows a third weapon which appears to be different from those that appear in the referenced photos above. All are purported to be the weapon used to murder the President. Clearly more investigative work is required. |
18. Have any of the field office investigations disclosed any other suspect other than Oswald? |
48. Who was overall in charge of the Investigation of the Assassination of President Kennedy? |
19. Were the investigations which should have been conducted, in fact, conducted? |
49. Where was the command center established and how many agents and clerical personnel worked out of the location? |
20. Why hasn't the public become aware of Milteer as a suspect as it has learned of Oswald? |
50. Who oversaw the distribution of leads of value as they were uncovered? |
21. Why hasn't the public become aware that Milteer was probably a more likely threat to President Kennedy than Oswald was prior to the assassination in 1963? |
51. What other person was responsible to ensure that those and all leads of value were covered? |
22. When the SAC of Atlanta had all of the information from Miami that same day regarding the Nov 9 th Milteer-Somerset tape recording, and combining that with the other know threats made by Milteer, why wasn't a Special set up with a team of agents doing a complete workup on Milteer? |
52. Who was in charge of seeing that the steno pool took care of all typing? |
23. Why wasn't a proper investigation conducted concerning Milteer in1962 and 1963 and afterwards? |
53. Who was in charge of all teletypes that arrived and were sent? |
24. Why have the full facts concerning Milteer been withheld from the public? |
54. Who was in charge of the work schedule for all supervisory and agent personnel to ensure that proper rest was afforded them? |
25. Are not the American people entitled to know the full facts of the involvement of Director J. Edgar Hoover, SAC McMahon, Supervisor Harding and Agent McGraw and others regarding Joseph Adams Milteer? |
55. Who was in charge of all evidence that was gathered and the securing of that evidence? |
26. Why was information intentionally destroyed or buried concerning questions 4-25, above?
Note: Only "piecemeal" information has been written about Milteer for many years. |
56. Who was in charge of all documentation located in the Kennedy and Oswald rooms and the establishment of proper recordkeeping? |
27. When the Nov. 9th tape-recorded threats on the President's life were reported by the media, why wasn't a follow-up investigation conducted by the writers of the news stories? |
57. Who was in charge regarding interviews of all key people, including Mrs. Kennedy, Gov and Mrs. Connally, Jack Ruby, Ruby's associates, law enforcement officials, Mr. Zabruder and other witnesses? |
28. When shown documents revealing the fact of their earlier investigation, why didn't either, or both, Chief of Police William Elliott, with whom SA Adams worked closely conducting his later investigation of Milteer, or SA McGraw inform SA Adams that they had previously worked on Milteer in 1962? |
58. What investigation was conducted concerning the “three bums” in the railroad yard? |
29. Immediately following the assassination of the President, why did SA McGraw tell Atlanta Field Office Supervisor Harding that, “Milteer was in Quitman, Georgia,” when SA Adams had just left McGraw and had told him that he was on his way to try to locate Milteer as requested by the agent in charge in Atlanta? |
59. Who interviewed the Secret Service agents and law enforcement personnel who worked the Presidential protection detail prior to the assassination and those who were involved in the assassination investigation afterwards? |
30. Why are the complete reports and supporting evidence prepared by SA Adams regarding his investigation of Milteer either missing or destroyed? Requests for them at the National Archives disclosed none in existence. |
60. Who interviewed Marina Oswald as well as other Oswald associates?

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