Jacob Hornberger

• The Future of Freedom Foundation (https://www.fff.org/)

(Jacob Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation [FFF], a non-profit educational foundation in the United States whose mission is to present the principled case for the libertarian philosophy. He received his B.A. in economics from The Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. After serving as a trial attorney for 12 years, he left the practice of law to enter the educational-foundation world. Jacob has written and spoken extensively on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and his assassination-related books include: An Encounter with Evil : The Abraham Zapruder Story; The Kennedy Autopsy; The Kennedy Autopsy 2; and Regime Change : The JFK Assassination. FFF has also published JFK’s War with the National-Security Establishment by Douglas Horne (who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board), and CIA & JFK : The Secret Assassination Files by Jefferson Morley (a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post). FFF has also held two conferences relating to JFK, which featured presentations by Oliver Stone, Jeffrey Sachs, Stephen Kinzer, Michael J. Glennon, Ron Paul, Douglas Horne, Jefferson Morley, and others. Videos of the presentations at those conferences can be found in the Multimedia section of FFF’s website: fff.org.”)—FFF.org

Key Resources for the Interview

• Douglas P Horne, Inside the Assassination Records Review Board : The US Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK, Volumes I-V, Douglas P Horne (2009; second printing with corrections 2010). [Hereafter abbreviated to IARRB]
  

  • For an expanded table of contents, see (https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Inside_the_ARRB.html)

  • For appendices of declassified documentation, see (https://www.maryferrell.org/php/showlist.php?docset=1932)

• Jacob Hornberger, The Kennedy Autopsy, The Future of Freedom Foundation (2014)

• Oliver Stone, JFK Revisted : Through the Looking Glass, (2021)

Clarifying Notes

• Henry Rybka. According to Douglas Horne (IARRB, Vol. 5, pp. 1410 - 1411), the Secret Service agent who threw his hands in the air three times was Henry Rybka. Horne writes that, as the presidential limousine (SS-100-X) and follow-up car (SS-679-X) were leaving Dallas Love Field, Secret Service agent Emory Roberts stood up in the follow-up car and "appeared to speak sharply" to Rybka (who was on foot behind the presidential limousine) and "emphatically waved him away from SS-100-X". Rybka's reaction—which Horne describes as "What the ****?"—can be seen in the black and white footage below. According to Horne, Secret Service agent Clint Hill told Arlen Specter of the Warren Commission that a decision "not to place agents on or near the rear of the presidential limousine" had been implemented just days before the trip to Texas. Rybka, Horne suggests, hadn't got the message (for whatever reason) and was just trying to do his job.

  • YouTube URL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEX2VqBe3xE)

• Pierre Finck. I can find only two mentions by Colonel Finck that Dr James Hulmes had said to him on the telephone at 8 o'clock on the evening of the assassination that they already had X-rays of the President's head: at the Clay Shaw Trial in 1969 (https://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/garr/trial/Feb_24/html/Feb_24_0052a.htm) and before a "Forensic Pathology Panel" working for the US House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 (https://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/md30/html/Image09.htm). Col. Finck did mention Dr Humes' 8 o'clock telephone call in his "Blumberg Report", but (so far as I can see) only mentioned that they X-rays were already there when he arrived at Bethesda at 8.30 pm (https://www.jfk-assassination.net/weberman/finck1.htm).

Items mentioned in / relevant to the interview

• TMR 298 : Jacob Hornberger : JFK's War with the US National Security Establishment

• Douglas Horne's eye-opening interview with Dino Brugioni can be seen in the documentary The Zapruder Film Mystery (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_QIuu6hsAc).

• Dino Brugioni (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_Brugioni)

• "The Zapruder Film Mystery", see Horne, IARRB, Vol. 4, pp. 1185 - 1377.

• Roger Boyajian's After-Action Report (https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=145280#relPageId=187)

• ARRB report on interview with Dennis David (https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=145280#relPageId=360)

• The documentary "The Fifth Estate : Who Killed JFK?" (CBC, 1983) contains illuminating interviews with many people including Dennis David and Paul O'Connor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbAcikdBfYY).

• John VanHoesen's memo for Gawler's Funeral Home (https://aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/md129/html/md129_0001a.htm)

• Dr Malcolm Perry speaking in 1963 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLbDuO-Lot0)

  • Dr Perry speaking in 1967 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZppQ-hVJjk&t=93s)

• Clint Hill questioned by Arlen Specter during Warren Commission hearings (https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=38#relPageId=149)

• "The Harper Fragment", see Horne, IARRB, Vol. 2, pp. 392 - 394.

• "Two Brain Examinations", see Horne, IARRB, Vol. 3, pp. 777 - 844.

• Robert Knudsen and the Autopsy, see Horne, IARRB, Vol. 1, pp. 247 - 254.

• Deb Riechmann, "Newly Released JFK Documents Raise Questions About Medical Evidence", Associated Press / Washington Post (09 November 1998)

• George Lardner Jr, "Archive Photos Not of JFK's Brain, Concludes Aide to Review Board" Washington Post (10 November 1998)

• James W Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable : Why He Died and Why it Matters, Orbis Books (2008)

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