Twenty five years ago, I was glued to the television set, watching endless video of helicopters scanning the waters off of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. You know, the guarded and gated community where in 2022 a handful of migrants so frightened the tanned One Percenters, that the National Guard was immediately sent for.
I knew immediately that they’d never find JFK, Jr. alive. While Ted Kennedy did survive one of the numerous plane crashes involving this family, I was thoroughly versed in the Kennedys’ incomprehensible history of tragedies. Thus, it was clear that the son of the slain president was going to be the latest addition to their extensive Body Count. It didn’t matter that he had everything the world could offer; money, wealth, charisma. The Hunk was going down. No more Sexiest Man Alive to worry about. I followed the usual disinformation on television, and scoured the internet, which was then in its raw, Wild West stage, for credible information. Real investigative reporting. John T. Quinn, John Hankey, Anthony Hilder, and John DiNardo led the way in this area. They did the best they could with limited resources.
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Scott Myers, a one time regular contributor to the old JFK assassination internet forums, was kind enough to send me a four hour VHS tape of live coverage he’d recorded from WCVB-TV. This unedited footage was a gold mine. The phone call JFK, Jr. had reportedly made to the FAA at 9:39 pm, notifying them all was well and that he was awaiting landing instructions, was referenced many times on this live television coverage. This call was vitally important, because 9:39 pm was the exact moment the official narrative would subsequently have his plane plunging into the ocean in a death spiral. The 9:39 pm phone call was reported by mainstream outlets like UPI and ABC News. How could they deny it occurred? When researchers later obtained videotape of the coverage, all references to the 9:39 pm phone call had been deleted.
Included in this explosive live coverage was an interview with Coast Guard Petty Officer Todd Burgun, by anchor Susan Wornick. I tried emailing Wornick multiple times about this, but she never responded. In 2012, the Kennedy Library would give her the RFK Award for “protecting children.” It is not known exactly how Wornick protected children, or which children she protected. The Kennedy Library has an unfortunate habit of giving out prestigious awards to their enemies. I guess it’s like Trump’s 4D affection for Never Trumpers. Warren Commission member Gerald Ford actually received the Profile in Courage Award in 2001. In 2014, crime boss George H.W. Bush got the Profile in Courage Award. For breaking his “read my lips, no new taxes” vow. So they have a history of giving awards to the uncourageous and corrupt.
Researcher Chris Graves and I had tried for years to track down the elusive Todd Burgun. I assumed he’d been silenced in some way, like so many others. To my amazement, we found his email, and he actually answered me. This little email exchange is one of the real gems in my upcoming book American Memory Hole: How the Court Historians Promote Disinformation. I hope you understand that I’m not going to provide a spoiler. Suffice to say that our conversation was eye-opening. I was also able to exchange text messages with Steven Lagudi, a New York airport employee who’d claimed to be “haunted” by an “increasingly anxious and frustrated” voice he thought might have been JFK, Jr.’s that night, trying to contact someone at Martha’s Vineyard airport. Again, no spoilers. And again, the exchange was eye-opening.
Steve Sbraccia was a reporter for WCVB-TV in 1999. Off on the day JFK, Jr.’s plane went down, he still stopped and walked along the beach, looking for information. He is the only known person to have seen and questioned the enigmatic reporter for the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette, who claimed to have seen an explosion in the sky at the right location, and the right time, to correspond to Kennedy’s plane. Readers can find out more about my efforts to find this unidentified reporter, in my book Hidden History. In that book, I conducted the first in depth independent investigation of the death of JFK, Jr. Sbraccia had volunteered to me initially that “something didn’t seem quite right” about the JFK, Jr. crash, and stated he’d “swear in court” regarding the still unidentified Gazette reporter. He appears to have lost interest in the case.
During my initial research into this case, I talked with JFK, Jr.’s high school girlfriend, as well as a member of his adult inner circle who was very adamant about not being identified. Both of them described how he was thoroughly obsessed with his father’s assassination, and had a quest to expose the truth about it. Reporter Wayne Madsen told me he was scheduled to be interviewed by JFK, Jr. for a position at George magazine. His first assignment- the JFK assassination. JFK, Jr. was literally reading the same books I was, at the same time. We could have been close chums. He could have joined me in Mark Lane’s Citizens Committee of Inquiry. Imagine me hanging out with the World’s Sexiest Man. Something like that is bound to increase your own appeal to the fairer sex. There I am using antiquated, verboten terms again. Women aren’t fairer! Click your heels three times, and listen closely to The Kinks song Lola.
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I can’t get into all the details of why the official narrative in the JFK, Jr. death is so false. Fake news, as the recently nearly assassinated Donald Trump would say. In Hidden History, you can read the email I received from the guy who was tasked to write the official FAA report on weather conditions that night, Edward Meyer. Guess what? It wasn’t “hazy.” JFK, Jr. was not “reckless” in flying in “those conditions.” As the preeminent expert on the subject concluded, flying conditions were normal, even good. Meyer was still mad at the media for its promotion of the “hazy” and “reckless” lie. But he had no more chance of appearing on a television show to expound on this than I did. The Big Lie marches on. Both history and current events are written by the victors. So JFK, Jr. was “reckless.” Another entry in the Kennedy Curse. He might have been drinking. He had an injured foot. He probably deserved it.
If Kennedy was even aware of a conspiracy-friendly reporter like Wayne Madsen, that should tell you something about how “awake” he was politically. He showed up at the 1999 White House Correspondents Dinner, only a few months before his death, with his date for the evening, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt. Now Flynt had published the nude photos of his mother, Jacqueline, so you’d think JFK, Jr. might hold a grudge against him. But they had a common interest. Flynt was involved enough in JFK assassination research to have offered a million dollar reward for the real killers of John F. Kennedy. I’m sure that wasn’t the reason they hooked up. Maybe JFK, Jr. really enjoyed the most objectionable kind of pornography. Hustler, after all, used to publish photos of “The Turd of the Month.” No other magazine could boast that.