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courage, and possibly the desire, to support Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s
outstanding patriotic services to the nation that he rendered at the
actual sacrifice of his life. For his valiant patriotic activities, he certainly
deserved better treatment by the nation.
The conspirators’ agents on the committee and the cowardly
members of Senate who were scared to defy the “McCarthyism” propaganda
flood that was loudly echoed by the red and communist press
and communications media, traitorously condemned and censured
McCarthy. They thus destroyed the effectiveness of the only man in
their midst who had the courage and patriotism to defend the country
against the conspirators. And they aided and abetted the destruction
of the man himself.
In censuring Sen. McCarthy, his colleagues made it possible for
the conspirators to intimidate any and all men in public life.
“McCarthyism” was made by the subversive conspirators an epithet
synonymous with “patriotism” and equally “reprehensible.”
Shortly after the hearings, Sen. McCarthy’s health began to
fail. This is not an unusual experience for those who oppose
the conspirators, which is a distinctly unhealthy occupation.
It is the trail of a multitude of deaths. His illness “baffled” the
physicians who treated him at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, the
same institution where Forrestal was hurled to his death.
McCarthy’s health went steadily and rapidly downhill to his death in
the institution.
McCarthy’s medical attendant issued a death certificate and a
statement to the press that indicated to the informed that he had
been murdered in some unknown fashion. The death certificate read:
“Cause of death: Acute hepatitis, CAUSE UNKNOWN.”
Simultaneously the physician released a statement to the
press that Sen. McCarthy had not suffered from an infection that
caused the symptoms of hepatitis. To understand the medical significance
of these facts, one must bear in mind that hepatitis may develop
as a manifestation of either an infection or of poisoning. Since the
hospital made it quite clear in its press release that the cause of the
hepatitis and death was not infection, the inference to be drawn from
the death certificate is obvious.
The laws of the land dictate that the deaths due to unknown
causes must be investigated by postmortem examinations to eliminate
the possibility of murder. Such postmortems are compulsory and
routine. There may be no interference with them by anyone. And no
consent is required of the surviving members of the family. Burial of
the corpses without postmortems is a felony under both local and federal
laws.
No move was made by the conspirators to comply with the law
and determine by postmortem what caused McCarthy’s death. A
number of McCarthy’s associates and intimates, including his hometown
friend, Mr. Engel, who acted on behalf of his family, approached
this author with the request that he attempt to induce the authorities
involved to order that an autopsy be done on the corpse to determine
the unknown cause of his death and to eliminate the possibility
of murder.
This author requested compliance with the law, by phone, of all
the officials in the various parts of the country who were involved,
including: officials of the Bethesda Naval Hospital; officials of Montgomery
County, Maryland, where the hospital is located; officials of
the District of Columbia; federal officials; officials of the state of Wisconsin;
and officials of Appleton, Wisconsin, McCarthy’s home town.
These efforts to secure compliance with the law met with no success.
Each official “passed the buck.” The excuse that they offered for their
disregard of the law was: “Mrs. McCarthy objects to an autopsy.”
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None of them explained why it was that the wishes of any
McCarthy, including his recently acquired wife, superseded the criminal
laws of the land. It did not seem to matter to the responsible officials
that their failure to comply with the law put them in the position
of being accomplices after the fact in a felony, in a possible murder.
Obviously, extremely powerful influence bore on the matter.
An extremely interesting but assiduously neglected phase of
the John Kennedy assassination and its “investigation” or whitewash,
was presented in a story published in the New York Daily News
of November 10, 1963, by Joseph Cassidy and Lester Abelman. They
related that President Kennedy visited New York on the preceding
day, shortly after Nelson Rockefeller had announced his candidacy.
He stopped at the Carlyle Hotel, which is reported to be jointly owned
by the Rockefeller and Kennedy interests. They reported that the
Secret Service maintained the “tightest vigilance on a New York visit
in recent years”; and that no one, even newspaper reporters, was permitted
to approach the president. No explanation has been offered, or
sought by the “investigators,” for this extraordinary vigilance by the
Secret Service in New York as contrasted with the lack of vigilance in
Dallas. Was the service warned that Kennedy’s life was in danger in
New York? Did they have reason to believe that an attempt would be
made on his life in New York? A clarification of this matter might
throw considerable light on the unexpected assassination in Dallas.
To set at rest the suspicions of murder raised by the McCarthy
death certificate and the inquiries launched into the matter,
Drew Pearson falsely alleged in his syndicated column that
the hepatitis had been caused by alcoholism. In so doing, he
cast a serious reflection on the reputations of the Bethesda Hospital
physicians. For they would be poor specimens of the profession if they
could not recognize cirrhosis resulting from the vitamin B deficiency
caused by alcohol abuse, and treat it accordingly. Sen. McCarthy’s
associates vouch for the fact that he had not been able to take liquor
because of his illness for many months prior to his development of the
hepatitis. Whatever poison precipitated his death, they attest that it
was not alcohol. The obvious purpose of the Pearson column was to
draw a “red herring” across the conspirators’ trail.
Nelson Rockefeller was insistently and dictatorially vocal on
all matters that would swing the Republican party into full “bipartisan,”
or “omnipartisan,” support of all so-called “liberal,” new deal
and pro-communist subversions. These he absurdly called, in the
words of his red ghostwriters, “the mainstream of Republican
thought.” He insisted that they were essential for attaining his goal:
“To make democracy live.” With the characteristic semantic perversion
of reds and so-called “liberals,” he alleged that they were “. . . the
sound and honest conservatism that has firmly based the Republican
party in the best of a century’s traditions. . . .” In short he campaigned
on the insane premise that communism and new dealism were
Republicanism. And it was this “grandiose idea” that brainwashed
American peasants must accept the thievishness of communist
“internationalism” and its “new deal” counterfeit as the basis of their
political organization, instead of the Constitution and patriotism.
This was a frank expression of his and his fellow conspirators’ purpose:
to reduce the nation to the totalitarian device of a single political
party with himself as its dictator.
This explains why Nelson Rockefeller, as the real behind-thescene,
omnipartisan political boss of the nation and as overt new
dealer and Trojan horse who planted himself in the Republican Party,
made every move in the past decades that sapped, undermined and
defeated the Republican Party from within. It explains the imposition
of a Democratic unknown, Wendell Willkie, for example, on the