New Generation of JFK Researchers
Jefferson Morley is a leader among the second generation of Kennedy Assassination experts. We say second generation because Morley was only five years old when JFK was killed. He has, however, relied on the best of the first generation of critics - those who were involved in the early challenges to the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald alone committed the crime. Our former Gold Coast magazine partner Gaeton Fonzi, in Philadelphia Magazine, challenged the Warren commission soon after its report in the mid 1960s. Fonzi’s work expanded with several printings, and the New York Times called it one of the best books on the assassination in its obituary of Fonzi. Fonzi's book The Last Investigation was written in response to his disappointment in his House Select Subcommittee on Investigation's failure to solve the crime - largely because the CIA sabotaged its work. That book first appeared as long articles in Gold Coast.
Jefferson Morley
Fonzi’s work first appeared in 1980 in Gold Coast Magazine.
Morley mentioned Fonzi in a recent article in which he revealed the CIA's role in obstructing that investigation. Morley referenced recently released JFK documents which meant little to most mainstream reporters, but, due to his detailed knowledge of past revelations, enabled Morley to make connections to the CIA's role in the crime. As a result, Morley has flatly accused the CIA of engineering the crime and its elaborate cover up.
Morley found additional evidence to support the previously known efforts of the CIA to hinder the JFK investigation, beginning with its control of the Warren Commission in the 1960s. A few months ago he reported that the CiA managed to infiltrate the 1970s investigation in a blatant way. Fonzi and other investigators were complaining that the CIA was not cooperating with their work. The agency responded by assigning a man named George Joannides to facilitate the flow of information. He provided little help and years later we found out why. It turned out that he was the man assigned to track Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was being manipulated by the agency. A man likely involved in the plot to kill Kennedy was hardly one to help solve it.
Gaeton Fonzi reported that audacious incident in one of his last pieces on the assassination shortly before his own death in 2012. Not much has been written about Fonzi's work since his passing. With the anniversary of the murder coming up this month, it is good to see that a a respected JFK researcher like Morley has not forgotten our former colleague.
