STATEMENT OF AUTHOR DAVID TALBOT re NEW YORK TIMES DISTORTION IN OBIT OF JFK PARKLAND DR ROBERT McCLELLAND

Dr. Robert McClelland was one of the very first people to conclude President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. And it was no "theory." Dr. McClelland, a surgeon at Parkl

and Memorial Hospital in Dallas, saw the medical evidence with his own eyes as he struggled to save the life of the mortally wounded president. As Dr. McClelland stood directly over Kennedy's head, he saw clear evidence that JFK had been struck in the head by a bullet fired from

in front of his limousine, not just from the rear, where Lee Harvey Oswald was alleged to have shot down the president.

For years, Dr. McClelland and the other members of the Parkland surgical team were strongly pressured by authorities to stick with the Warren Commission's abs

urd lone gunman theory. But Dr. McClelland and his colleagues finally told the truth: JFK was the victim of a conspiracy, which was then officially covered up.

In today's obituary of Dr. McClelland, who died in Dallas earlier this month, the New York Times does not mention this

sensational piece of information -- the most remarkable revelation of his medical career -- until paragraph 22! In the news business, that's called burying your lead. The Times buries this explosive fact, of course, because the newspaper has long been part of the JFK assassinatio

n coverup.

The Times also fails to mention that Dr. McClelland and two other surviving members of the Parkland surgical team that worked on President Kennedy signed a powerful joint statement about the assassination and coverup last January. The statement, which I played a role

in writing and organizing, reads that the "conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy was organized at high levels of the U.S. power structure, and was implemented by top elements of the U.S. national security apparatus using, among others, figures in the criminal underworld to

help carry out the crime and cover-up."

Strong words -- NEWSWORTHY words. And the Parkland surgeons were joined by an impressive list of signatories, including Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and G. Robert Blakey, the former Kennedy Justice Department official who

served as chief counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the 1970s. The joint statement WAS, in fact, deemed newsworthy by the Washington Post, which ran a respectful article about the public declaration -- but not by the Times, which completely blacked out the

story.
https://washingtonpost.com/history/2019/01/25/kennedy-king-malcolm-x-relatives-scholars-seek-new-assassination-probes/

It's long past time for the New York Times -- our so-called newspaper of record -- to honestly acknowledge our traumatic history, and its own role in helping government agencies bury the past.

Here's a copy of the provocative joint statement signe

d by Dr. McClelland earlier this year, and a list of the other notable signatories: https://americantruthnow.org/sign-the-petition

And click here to add your own name to the joint statement:
https://americantruthnow.org/petition 

above statement by David Talbot author of the must read The Devil's Chessboard