The JFK and MLK Assassination Report
“We can report that Edward G. Partin has been under investigation by the New Orleans District Attorney’s Office in connection with the Kennedy Assassination investigation… based on an exclusive interview with an Assistant District Attorney in Jim Garrison’s office. We can report that Partin’s activities have been under scrutiny. In his words: “We know that Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald were here in New Orleans several times… there was a third man driving them and we are checking the possibility it was Partin.”
WJBO radio, New Orleans, 23 June1964
“As noted in the account of Ruby’s telephone records, the committee confirmed the existence of several contacts between Ruby and associates of Hoffa during the period of October and November 1963, including one Hoffa aide whom Robert Kennedy had once described as one of Hoffa’s most violent lieutenants.”
– The 1976 Congressional Committee on Assassinations John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Report
I’m Jason Ian Partin.
A few months after my grandfather’s funeral on 11 March 1990, I served with Anti-Tank Platoon #4, Delta Company, 1/504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division of the United States army in Desert Shield and Desert Strom, which began on 03 August 1990 and ended on 04 March 1991, one week shy of being a year since Big Daddy had died. In 1993, when the 1976 John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Junior Assassination Report was first made public, I was still in the 82nd Airborne and was on newly elected President William “Bill” Clinton’s quick-reaction force; that was when Clinton released the first part of the 1976 John F. Kennedy Assassination Report, and 1993 was the first time I first saw Big Daddy implicated in killing President Kenndy.
It took Oliver Stone’s 1991 film JFK to prompt the release of the report. JFK was based on New Orleans attorney general Jim Garrison’s memoir about the only trial against alleged Kennedy assassination contributors and implicated FBI and CIA agents that voters demanded to see the file; like The Irishman, JFK was layered with stars to sell tickets and some would overlap with The Irishman decades later (Jim Garrison, the New Orleans district attorney who arrested Big Daddy based on photos of him with Oswald and Ruby, had a cameo as Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Joe Pesci played the pilot who was in the civil air patrol with Oswald in JFK and mob boss Russel Bufalino in The Irishman).
10 Million people saw JFK in theaters, and in 1992 voters demanded that incumbent president William “Bill” Clinton to release part of the report when he assumed office in January of 1993.
The report was released publicly, but the internet was so nacent in 1993 that few people were logged on and practically no documents were released. And the report was too massive to publish. When I downloaded a copy after Wendy died in 2019, it took almost ten minutes using relatively high end WiFi connections in the technology hub of San Diego; with a modem in 1993, that file would probably still be downloading today. But an army of journalists, hobbyists, and people hoping to cash in on solving Kennedy’s murder quickly published excerpts, pamphlets, and – over the next two years – entire books.
Fayetteville, the small civilian town next to Fort Bragg, didn’t have a Barnes and Noble or Borders bookseller, so I dug deeper into my family’s history using my Fort Bragg library card. With a pen and notepad in hand, I began cross-referencing the assassination report with books I remembered on all of my grandmothers’s shelves. My mind overlaid family memories. These are some of the things that stood out to me.
The JFK and MLK Assassination Report reverased the hastily assembled 1964 Warren Report. It said:
“Since the Warren Commission’s and FBI’s investigation into the possibility of a conspiracy was seriously flawed, their failure to develop evidence of a conspiracy could not be given independent weight.”
And:
“The committee conducted a three-pronged investigation of conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination. On the basis of extensive scientific analysis and an analysis of the testimony of Dealey Plaza witnesses, the committee found there was a high probability that two gunmen fired at President Kennedy.“
And after enough paperwork to fill a fleet of Teamster dump trucks, the committee narrowed down the suspects for orchestrating Kennedy’s murder to murder to three men into this concise sentence:
“Following the completion of its investigation of organized crime, the committee concluded in its report that Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante, and James R. Hoffa each had the motive, means, and opportunity to plan and execute a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy.”
Hundreds of pages of evidence pointed to my grandfather being behind the scenes of killing President Kennedy. But the fingers pointed past him and at Jimmy Hoffa. And I realized that all of that had been hidden from even the highest source of justice in America, the United States Supreme Court.
In October 1962, acting under the orders of Attorney General Kennedy, FBI Director Hoover authorized a detailed polygraph examination of Partin. In the examination, the Bureau concluded that Partin had been truthful in recounting Hoffa’s discussion of a proposed assassination plan. Subsequently, the Justice Department developed further evidence supporting Partin’s disclosures, indicating that Hoffa had spoken about the possibility of assassinating the President’s brother on more than one occasion.
In other words, I saw that Warren was shackled with ignorance, and that Bobby Kennedy’s pride changed history and the United States Constitutions Bill of Rights.
And more and more.
A quirk about swearing to join the army is that you do not swear to follow any one person’s orders, you swear to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
I may have inherited my grandfather’s knack for penetrating to the heart of a contract. To paraphrase The Irishman, I may not have had much education, but I could read and think for myself.
Clinton had released approximately 60% of the report, which, despite the Freedom of Information Act, meant that 40% of the report was kept classified. Each subsequent president reviewed the classified remains and chose which parts to release. The final part was released at the beginning of Donald Trump’s second presidency in January of 2025.
I don’t know why presidents Johnson, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Senior, Clinton, Bush Junior, Obama, Trump, and Biden kept what they knew classified; if I were president, I’d want everyone to know how to stop people from killing presidents.
Solving Kennedy’s murder and understanding my current rights under whichever Supreme Court rulings bent the words of the original U.S. Constitutions became something like a hobby. And so did America’s system of justice. It took my mother’s passing in 2019 and the release of The Irishman Time and time again, I kept finding myself turning back to Big Daddy’s testimony against Hoffa and the resulting Supreme Court verdict in Hoffa versus the United States, which is the next chapter.1
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- But I want to end this part by touching on why the congressional committee on assassinations grouped the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King together into one report. I have only begun digging into it’s trove of history.
This is what I believe as of now; to be transparent, most of what I know is from Wikipedia, which will show up later in this story.
I believe Martin Luther King Junior was shot and killed by a lone sniper in Memphis, Tennesee, on 04 April 1968.
The evening before, King gave his final public speech entitled “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” which proved to be prophetic. Near the end of his final speech, Martin Luther King Junior said:
“And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats … or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers? Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! And so I’m happy, tonight; I’m not worried about anything; I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!“
The next day he was shot through the cheek by a single .30-06 rifle round, pronounced 30 ot’ 6, a former military round and to this day one of the most common long-range, big game hunting cartridges.
Escaped convict and racist James Earl Ray confessed to killing King, but, like Jack Ruby, later recanted his confession and asked for a trial by jury. Parole boards denied Ray’s request, and in 1988 he died in prison. Some historians say he was a scapegoat, similar to how Lee Harvey Oswald claimed to be “just a patsy,” and that, like conspiracy theories about Kennedy, King’s death was orchestrated by a collaboration between people in the FBI and CIA, the mafia, and local police.
Like with JFK, the jury is still out and may never reach a conclusion about what happened to Martin Luther King. To me, any answer would have to come from a bigger picture view, which is what I would spend my lifetime pondering yet still do not fully understand; if I realize anything useful, it’ll be in another book.
Bobby Kennedy was one of the first people to announce King’s murder. He was about to speak at one of his presidential campaign rallies in a predominately African American community of Indianapolis . This was long before cell phones or other forms of instant news; one of Bobby’s aides told him what had happened, and Bobby began his campaign by telling the audience what happened, and by saying:
“For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.”
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