Aubrey Lee "Al" Rike: Ambulance driver helped Jackie after JFK assassination | Dallas Morning News

Aubrey Lee "Al" Rike: Ambulance driver helped Jackie after JFK assassination

11:02 PM CDT on Tuesday, April 27, 2010

By JOE SIMNACHER / The Dallas Morning News

2 witnesses to key events surrounding JFK assassination die

11:11 PM CDT on Tuesday, April 27, 2010
By SCOTT PARKS / The Dallas Morning News
sparks@dallasnews.com

The deaths of H. Louis Nichols and Aubrey Rike probably wouldn't have been noticed outside their circle of family and friends – except for one thing: Both men were eyewitnesses to important events surrounding the death of President John F. Kennedy.

Collection of Marilyn Monroe Writings to be Released

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The candle in the wind just keeps burning. Farrar, Straus and Giroux has announced that they plan to release a collection of Marilyn Monroe’s own writings. Fragments will include poems, correspondence, rare photos, as well as reproductions of documents handwritten by the blond bombshell herself. It is set to hit bookstores this fall.

Aubrey Rike Services and Tributes

Aubrey Rike has passed away

Aubrey Rike passed away on Thursday, April 22, 2010. You may post your condolences on this forum thread and I will pass them on to his wife Glenda and son Larry.

Al Rike, age 72, of Plano, Texas passed away April 22, 2010. He was born December 18, 1937 in Dallas, Texas to Argus and Lois (Longley) Rike. Al received his associate’s degree in law enforcement from Abilene Christian College in Dallas. He proudly served his country in the United States Marine Corps, actively from 1955- 1959, and as a reservist for the following four years. Al married Glenda Spears on August 27, 1960, in Dallas. He retired from the Highland Park Police Department as a Detective Sergeant after 26 years of service. Al worked from 1994-2002 for the Dallas County Sheriffs Department. Al is survived by his wife, Glenda Rike of Plano, Texas; son, Larry Rike of Plano, Texas; sister, Carolyn Hawkins and husband James of McKinney, Texas; sister-in-laws, Violet Taylor, Ruthie Keenum, Jarlene Graham, and Janet Spears; brother-in-law, J.T. Spears; numerous nieces, nephews, and other loving relatives. He was preceded in death by his parents, and three brothers, James Young, Bill Rike, and Richard Rike.

Visitation will be Wednesday evening at Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Funeral Home beginning at 7:00 P.M. and services will be held Thursday, April 29, 2010 in the Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Chapel with the Rev. Ron Hathcoat officiating at 2:00pm. Interment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas.

Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Funeral Home
http://www.turrentinejacksonmorrow.com
Highway 75 and Exit 38 - Ridgeview Dr.
P.O. Box 1007
McKinney, Texas 75070-1007
Phone: 972-562-2601

Aubrey was a "man's man" with a gentle soul, one that gave our First Lady comfort as she spent her final moments with her husband at Parkland Hospital that day long ago. Aubrey was the one that helped Mrs. Kennedy put her ring on President Kennedy's finger, as she was determined to do. He was the perfect person -- that I believe God choose -- to be there for her and with his strength, both inner and in his body, he lifted the President's body into the casket. Anyone else could not have performed these acts with such grace.

It has been my honor to know him, work with him, and to have published his autobiography. We will all miss him terribly.

Please keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Sincerely,

Debra

John Carl Warnecke, Designed Kennedy’s Grave Site, Dies at 91 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

John Carl Warnecke, Designed Kennedy’s Grave Site, Dies at 91 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

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Kennedy Family Will Review 3,000 Pages of Ted Kennedy’s Secret F.B.I. File Before Its Release | VF Daily | Vanity Fair

Darren Aronofsky to Direct Rachel Weisz as Jacqueline Kennedy | CinemaSpy

According to Entertainment Weekly, actress Rachel Weisz is attached to play the title role in Jackie, the story of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy during the days following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy.

Weisz will again re-team with her fiancee Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, The Fountain), who will direct and produce.

Written by Noah Oppenheim, Jackie chronicles the four days between JFK’s assassination and his burial, showing the beloved Jackie at both her most vulnerable and her most graceful.

Family gets a say on FBI Kennedy file - The Boston Globe

WASHINGTON — Edward M. Kennedy’s family will be given a rare opportunity to raise objections before the public disclosure of thousands of pages of the late Massachusetts senator’s exhaustive and secret FBI file, according to bureau officials and advisers to the family.

	The accommodation, though uncommon, will help ensure that the release of material on Kennedy gathered by agents throughout much of his life will not violate the privacy rights of his surviving relatives, those involved in the process said.

Jackie Kennedy Interviews: Long-Sealed Transcripts To Be Published

During the first half of 1964, just months after her husband was assassinated, Jacqueline Kennedy sat for seven interviews with historian and family friend Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Speaking at her home in Washington, D.C., the former first lady discussed her marriage and her White House years, election year campaigning and President Kennedy's thoughts about a second term. The interview is part of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library's Oral History and, at Mrs. Kennedy's request, was kept sealed for an indefinite time. Since the death of Jacqueline Kennedy, in 1994, and son John Kennedy, Jr., in 1999, decisions about the tapes have been handled by daughter Caroline Kennedy.
Now, with the 50th anniversary of her father's inauguration coming next year, Caroline Kennedy is allowing the conversations to come out.

Kennedy mania - NewsandSentinel.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Community Information - Parkersburg News and Sentinel

The Kennedy collage of photos in Bill Richardson Jr.’s office in downtown Parkersburg. Richardson’s father, Bill Richardson Sr., was the Wood County campaign manager for John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign.

PARKERSBURG-Local volunteers working John Kennedy's presidential primary campaign in Wood County were concerned the senator's religion would submarine their efforts.

The late William Richardson Sr., who served as Wood County chairman for Kennedy's 1960 Democratic primary campaign, told interviewers residents weren't warm to the idea of a Catholic president. And more than a few people went so far as to threaten Richardson for supporting Kennedy.

"Several prominent people called me on the telephone and told me to get out of this campaign; that they would see I wouldn't get any law business and would do everything they could to hurt my law business," he said.

Richardson, who died in 2002, and the late Rev. Harley Bailey were both interviewed in 1964 by the John F. Kennedy Library about the 1960 primary campaign in Wood County. Transcripts of the Richardson and Bailey interviews are available through the library's Web site www.jfklibrary.org.

New Evidence Implicates Henry Kissinger In Assassination Case

WASHINGTON — As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, a newly released State Department cable shows.

Whether Kissinger played a role in blocking the delivery of the warning against assassination to the governments of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay has long been a topic of controversy.

Discovered in recent weeks by the National Security Archive, a non-profit research organization, the Sept. 16, 1976 cable is among tens of thousands of declassified State Department documents recently made available to the public.

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Decades after assassinations, Memphis and Dallas remain hostages of history, says Hampton Sides | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Breaking News for Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas Morning News

09:42 AM CDT on Sunday, April 4, 2010

By HAMPTON SIDES / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

Editor's note: On the 42nd anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, best-selling author Hampton Sides reflects on the impact the assassination had on his hometown of Memphis and the tragic stigma the city now shares with Dallas.

I was just a kid when it happened – 6 years old, living in a rambling house close by the Southern railroad. My father worked for the Memphis law firm that represented the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. when he came to town on behalf of the garbage workers. I remember my dad rushing home that night, pouring a screwdriver or three, and talking with alarm about what had happened and what it meant for the city and the nation and the world. I remember the curfew, the wail of sirens, a line of soldiers with fixed bayonets. I remember seeing tanks for the first time.

Life, death and tolerance - The Times Herald Opinion: Norristown, PA and Montgomery County (timesherald.com)

By ARTHUR I. Cyr
Commentary

Sunday is the 41st anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tenn. We rightly celebrate his birthday, now a national holiday, rather than his death day. But his assassination should be remembered. The moral struggle that cost his life puts our contemporary policy debates in context. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was in Indiana pressing his whirlwind 1968 presidential campaign when King was murdered. Advisers urged suspending events. Instead, RFK spoke at a rally in the inner city of Indianapolis.

Anatoly Dobrynin, 90, Longtime Soviet Ambassador to U.S. - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the Soviet ambassador to Washington from 1962 to 1986, whose behind-the-scenes diplomacy was credited by many historians with helping to resolve the Cuban missile crisis and ease tensions in the cold war era, has died, the Kremlin announced Thursday. He was 90.

insidethearrb - HORNE REBUTS COSTELLA---WITH VIGOR

On April 6, 2010, I became aware of a recent posting on The Education Forum, by Australian school teacher John Costella, attacking my five-volume book, “Inside the Assassination Records Review Board,” expressing his general displeasure about my writing style and the lack of an index, but specifically focusing upon his extreme unhappiness with my 200-page chapter on the likely alteration of the Zapruder film, Chapter 14, titled “The Zapruder Film Mystery.”

insidethearrb - The SECOND PRINTING of "Inside the ARRB" Is Now For Sale on Amazon.com

The SECOND PRINTING of "Inside the ARRB" Is Now For Sale on Amazon.com

insidethearrb

March 11th, 23:18

The Errata Page for the First Printing of "Inside the Assassination Records Review Board" is still posted on this site as the December 5, 2009 journal entry. It applies to all copies of the book purchased between November 24, 2009 and March 11, 2010, inclusive.

I am pleased to announce that the SECOND PRINTING incorporates all of the changes listed on the Errata Page; it went on sale on Amazon.com effective March 12, 2010.

The SECOND PRINTING also incorporates some desired corrections to my broad characterizations of David Lifton's work found in Chapters 1, 6, and 12---on pages 56-57, page 637, and pages 888-890, respectively. Excerpts of these corrections will be posted on this site in the near future, for those who purchased the First Printing.

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22 Days Hath November by Bob Dorff

Available Again!

This book reads like a private journal, one surreptitiously typed on a manual typewriter late at night. In fact, the typeface is one we haven’t seen in a modern novel in quite some time (typewriter) which gives the reader the mood of the book right away. The story moves from place to place, in voices person to person, while spinning out the differing events that culminated in the loss of a president and the loss of our political innocence.

What makes this novel a great read is that JFK is not merely observed, he speaks, he dreams. You know what is happening to him and around him, creating the suspense that makes you turn page after page. It doesn’t build from a perfect man, no, indeed, both JFK and RFK are shown to have failures, both in public and private. Some may be the author’s own conclusions, but the evidence is clear that John Kennedy was living life everyday at its fullest.

“22 Days Hath November” is named after the school song we all learned back in the 1960’s and school children probably still learn today:

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Save February, with twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine each leap year.

It reminds us that every month has only so many days, and November 1963 had only 22.

Robert Kennedy with President Kennedy

If you are weary of theories and biographies of the famous in history, read Bob Dorff’s book and order one for your friends. Meticulously sourced, the book has not only the probable truth within, but also considerable insights to give anyone a second (or third) thought about what really happened before, during, and after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the wounding of Texas Governor John Connally, and the pain of a nation.

22 Days Hath November

• Paperback: 310 pages
• Publisher: Robert Dorff; 1st edition (August 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1424338271
• ISBN-13: 978-1424338276
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches

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Film declares Bush Sr involved in Kennedy assassination

Film declares Bush Sr involved in Kennedy assassination

By Carol Forsloff.

One reviewer maintains a film indicating George H.W. Bush involvement in Kennedy assassination is one that raises questions in the light of present political discord, but the film itself might warrant a critical look.

Hankey's film, Dark Legacy, examines the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and makes the claim that George Herbert Walker Bush was involved by examining the former President's CIA relationships and where and what he was doing at the time of the assassination. Hankey is a former high school teacher from Southern California who has spent years researching his thesis, connecting the dots, and making his case, which one reviewer, Henry Eshelmann, maintains is compelling. Eshelmann observed yesterday Hankey has made a credible examination of the evidence in the film, calling it "spirited and well-documented."

This isn't the first time Hankey has put forth the film, and other reviewers declare "not so fast" to the notions he puts forth. For example, Seamus Coogan who writes for the CTKA, a group devoted to the study of the Kennedy assassination, maintains Hankey makes exorbitant claims about himself and his research and also distorts many facts. He writes this:

Where, when, and how did he "hang Kennedy's murder around Bush's neck"? Is JFK 2 evidence of this? Not on your life. The evidence would suggest that Hankey first got into his research around 1999, with the death of John Kennedy Jr. After that, around 2004, his video was cobbled together. Hankey seems to have had a mere 5-6 years of investigation under his belt before the film. But that's no excuse for 1.) The errors that riddle his work and 2.) His penchant for taking credit for things he did not achieve. 3.) His need to distort things both large and small.

Coogan's review is very detailed, and he quotes the assessments of other critics as he examines Hankey's film, which just yesterday has been touted again. His summary conclusion declares firmly that viewers need to look with a jaundiced eye upon many of Hankey's notions since they take away from serious investigations and mislead the public. He ends by saying, "There is nothing wrong with writing revisionist history. But if you choose to do so, you must be held to high standards of scholarship. "

CSI science could yield clues in MLK killing | Journey To Justice

CSI science could yield clues in MLK killing

On April 2, 2010, In Justice, By Jerry Mitchell

Digital technology seen on the TV show CSI could help to identify still-unknown fingerprints collected by FBI agents in their investigation of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., experts say.

“The FBI collected literally dozens of unidentified prints from a number of different ‘crime scenes’ connected to the King case and James Earl Ray,” said Stuart Wexler, co-author of the upcoming book, Seeking Armageddon: The Effort to Kill Martin Luther King Jr.