The Mary Ferrell site has a useful backgrounder on Hunt’s (not quite) “deathbed confession. Hunt’s story has one element of truth: there was deadly animus toward President Kennedy among the CIA men in Miami in 1963. Especially because he does not provide any data to corroborate his story–no dates, times, or locations where the events he is talking about actually happened. He doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to veracity. Hunt was a scoundrel, convicted criminal, prolific liar, frank blackmailer, and (do I repeat myself?) a career undercover CIA officer. He (sort of) suggests certain other CIA officers were somehow responsible for the “Big Event.” How? He never explains.Īs I listen to this tape, there are times when I have the distinct impression that Hunt is trying hard NOT to confess, that he is dissembling, that he is a BS artist. Hunt says that he was “a benchwarmer” in “the Big Event,” his preferred euphemism for JFK’s assassination. The tape could be billed, with equal accuracy, as a “deathbed contortion.” John, while not alienating his second family to whom denied any JFK knowledge.Īnd, in the end, Hunt doesn’t confess to much of anything. ![]() He didn’t make this tape out of fear of extinction or a desire to “come clean.” He wanted to make amends with his estranged son, St. Hunt supported the Warren Commissions conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John F. Hunt was not on his deathbed in 2004 he died in 2007.
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