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The Masons killed Kennedy you know
Many years ago, when I was a local activist in the Labour Party (all right, I was young and idealistic; the alternative is still worse), one fellow member was Hayley Mills's toyboy. She lived locally and occasionally let us meet in her rather swish house. He had apparently arrived as a mate of her son Crispian from that fuck-awful band Kular Shaker, then got it on with mum.
Anyway, he was forever going off to America to interview people for his forthcoming book on the Kennedy assassination, which would reveal it to be a Masonic plot. Here's how he claimed it happened. One assassin fired from the infamous grassy knoll, another from the overpass bridge in front of the motorcade but the fatal shot was delivered by Kennedy's own driver, William Greer. The wounds formed some sort of shape with Masonic significance.
Having an interest in the case and having come to the mundane conclusion that Oswald did it, I taxed him on the details a bit. How could Greer possibly get away with it? Wouldn't Jackie Kennedy and hundreds of others have seen? She did, but was too terrorised to say anything. What did the Masons have against Kennedy anyway? There was no pattern to the wounds, so what was the significance of the shape? Etc. He was gloriously impervious to it and added for good measure that the Jack the Ripper murders were Masonic too.
Later on they split up and it emerged that he, like Crispian, had some distinctly dodgy right-wing beliefs. Twunt.
(Thu 3rd Sep 2009, 9:28, More)