Title: FW: The JFK Murder & the Winnipeg Connection
Note: John Bevilaqua is a researcher who explored the Charles
Willoughby-Weidenbach connection to the murder of John Kennedy, a path that
has led him to possible White Russian and Canadian intelligence connections.
He has published articles on the JFK hit in High Times and other
publications. ‹ AC
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From: "John Bevilaqua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: 21st Century eCommerce Systems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:38:30 -0500
Here it is you requested it, you got it.
Picture caption: Kennedy rides in a motorcade about a minute before he was
shot in Dallas,
Texas, on November 22, 1963. Associated Press Archives.
Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
November 22, 2000
Headline: JFK's real assassins conspired in Winnipeg Airport: theorist
by Lindor Reynolds, Winnipeg Free Press Columnist
John Bevilaqua is a conspiracy theorist, a man determined to unearth the real
killer or
killers of John F. Kennedy.
The Web site developer not only believes Lee Harvey Oswald was a fall guy, he
also
believes the key to the conspiracy lies in Winnipeg.
It's a strange story that has tenuous roots in reality, anchored by countless
pages of
supporting documents and computer files that Bevilaqua, 53, uses to support
his
passionate argument that "The Winnipeg Airport Incident" points to
the real killer
or killers. Express an interest in the topic and you will be bequeathed a
mountain of
faxes, emails and relevant Web sites.
Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas 37 years ago today. Thousands of Kennedy
buffs,
ranging from serious academic researchers to the sort of people who also want
to
prove that Elvis lives, have spent time speculating on who killed him and
why.
"I guess you could call me a mild obsessive-compulsive," says the
affable Bevilaqua
from Rhode Island office. "I guess for the past nine years I've spent
about 10 per
cent of my waking hours on this."
His wife tolerates his obsession, he says.
"When she asks me to do the dishes, I'll say, "Honey, I'm on the
trail of the assassins,"
he laughs.
"The Winnipeg Airport Incident" is also known as "The Richard
Giesbrecht Incident." It is
important to note that neither name appears in the majority of the legions of
books published
on the Kennedy assassination. It reigns only on the Internet, safe haven for
conspiracy
theorists of all stripes. But Bevilaqua is positive that an ordinary
Winnipeg accountant (sic),
[Note: actually insurance salesman] accidentally overheard a conversation
between the real
killers - or at least the men who hired the killers.
On February 13, 1964, Richard Elvin Giesbrecht was having a drink in the
Horizon Room
at the Winnipeg airport. Giesbrecht, then 35 and the father of four,
overheard three men
discussing what appeared to be their involvement in Kennedy's assassination.
In his
later report to the RCMP and the FBI, Giesbrecht said the men appeared
knowledgeable
about the murder. He jotted notes [Note: he actually he reconstructed the
events later at home
by taking notes from memory, then destroyed those notes in fear, then later
reconstructed
them once again from memory with the help of his brother who encouraged him
to pursue
this matter further to its logical conclusion] while they talked, carefully
detailed their appearance
and later told officials he felt threatened by the presence of one of the
man. [Note: The man
who stood menacingly between him and the RCMP office at the Winnipeg airport
as he
attempted to report the incident at the time to any available constable or
law officer.]
It could have been dismissed as the imagination of a mid-afternoon drinker,
but wasn't.
Giesbrecht was eventually asked to testify at the New Orleans conspiracy
trial of Clay Shaw,
a businessman charged with conspiracy to murder Kennedy. In the end, the
Winnipeg man's
story was rejected by authorities. [Note: "rejected" is hardly the
right term in my opinion.
"taken as far as it could be developed" is a much more accurate
representation. When no
real names or companies could be discerned from his comments and
recollections, the event
had to be abandoned as not providing any solid or conclusive leads.] His
claims received
wide media attention.
Giesbrecht died in 1990. Today his widow, Nadia, refuses to talk about her
husband's
brush with fame. "My husband has passed away and so has the story.&
quot;, she said this week.
Bevilaqua isn't about to let the story die. [Note: Never in a million
years.]
"I think the killing was the work of the Pioneer Fund, a right-wing
organization," he says.
"One hundred times, yes, I think they were behind it."
He believes the three men in the airport bar were Rev. Gerald L. K.
Smith, whom he calls
"a Nazi sympathizer"; Anastase "Annie" Vonsiatsky, a
German-American [Note: Russian
Fascist American] once sentenced to five years in prison for violation of The
Espionage Act;
and either Ronald A. Gostick or Patrick J. Walsh, both allegedly extreme
right-wingers.
They were in Winnipeg, Bevilaqua believes, to attend a meeting of the
Canadian Anti-Communist
League.
"This story has unfortunately been relegated to a very, very small
footnote in history," he says.
"There are a number of us who believe (the) Richard Giesbrecht
(Incident) holds the key."
As for Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who took the official blame for the murder,
Bevilaqua says
he was likely a trained assassin who was selected to go down for the murder.
The conspiracy
theorist says that if Oswald pulled the trigger, "he was acting under
hypnotic suggestion."
The Richard Giesbrecht Incident could be truth, fiction or, more likely, some
muddy combination.
For John Bevilaqua, it's an historical fact he is determined to prove. It's
been 37 years but he's
still trying.
