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In reply to the discussion: will Tom Brokaw ask George HW Bush where he was on 11/22/63? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)8. Poppy told the FBI he was heading for Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963...
George Herbert Walker Bush also dropped a dime on an assassination suspect an hour afterward. One would think a good time to phone in a threat would be BEFORE the assassination.
TO: SAC, HOUSTON DATE: 11-22-63
FROM: SA GRAHAM W. KITCHEL
SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
JOHN F. KENNEDY
At 1:45 p.m. Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer by long distance telephone call from Tyler, Texas.
BUSH stated that he wanted to be kept confidential but wanted to furnish hearsay that he recalled hearing in recent weeks, the day and source unknown. He stated that one JAMES PARROTT has been talking of killing the President when he comes to Houston.
BUSH stated that PARROTT is possibly a student at the University of Houston and is active in political matters in this area. He stated that he felt Mrs. FAWLEY, telephone number SU 2-5239, or ARLINE SMITH, telephone number JA 9-9194 of the Harris County Republican Party Headquarters would be able to furnish additional information regarding the identity of PARROTT.
BUSH stated that he was proceeding to Dallas, Texas, would remain in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel and return to his residence on 11-23-63. His office telephone number is CA 2-0395.
# # #
A week later, FBI director J Edgar Hoover brings up "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency."

Date: November 29, 1963
To: Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Subject: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Our Miami, Florida, Office on November 23, 1963, advised that the Office of Coordinator of Cuban Affairs in Miami advised that the Department of State feels some misguided anti-Castro group might capitalize on the present situation and undertake an unauthorized raid against Cuba, believing that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy might herald a change in U. S. policy, which is not true.
Our sources and informants familiar with Cuban matters in the Miami area advise that the general feeling in the anti-Castro Cuban community is one of stunned disbelief and, even among those who did not entirely agree with the President's policy concerning Cuba, the feeling is that the President's death represents a great loss not only to the U. S. but to all of Latin America. These sources know of no plans for unauthorized action against Cuba.
An informant who has furnished reliable information in the past and who is close to a small pro-Castro group in Miami has advised that these individuals are afraid that the assassination of the President may result in strong repressive measures being taken against them and, although pro-Castro in their feelings, regret the assassination.
The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by Mr. W. T. Forsyth of this Bureau.
# # #
Something else Tom Brokaw should ask the first CIA director to rise to the top of the heap and become preznit and have a kid become pretzeldent: Why has the CIA failed to tell the FBI and the Warren Commission that it was involved in plots with the Mafia to murder Fidel Castro -- even after being ordered to stop by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?
Also: Why did the CIA fail to tell the FBI and the Warren Commission that it was monitoring Lee Harvey Oswald for weeks before the assassination?
What a coincidence, eh Tom?
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Maybe he's the one they are waiting to die so the truth can finally be told...n/t
monmouth3
Nov 2013
#20
Iow, Bush Sr. lied. No tinfoil needed. It's not a theory, it's a fact, a proven fact.
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#40
He's in seclusion, his career in ruins, along with that woman from 60 mins.
silvershadow
Nov 2013
#12
He's a decrepit old man. I don't expect him to remember the last time he pissed. n/t
cynatnite
Nov 2013
#7
He wasn't born a decrepit old man. His memory of where he was that day has probably improved
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#22
I don't know of any young man, which Bush Sr was at the time, who had such a massive case of amnesia
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#29
I see. Your theory is that if someone can escape justice by surviving to be old enough, they get
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#38
Do people honestly think that this decrepit old man will suddenly get a revelation...
cynatnite
Nov 2013
#36
I can't put my hand on it, but I've seen persuasive evidence that he was
The Second Stone
Nov 2013
#9
Are people seriously suggesting the CIA thought of everything except an alibi?
Nuclear Unicorn
Nov 2013
#21
I read the OP and the question was, would they ask Bush Sr. where he was that day since
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#23
Book: Family of Secrets - GH Bush not remembering where he was during JFK assassination, etc....
Mother Muckraker
Nov 2013
#30