People who predicted Kennedy's assassination

[Walt Cakebread]

Dinkin was a military cryptographer and there's speculation that he learned of the plot from intercepting the communications of French Intelligence:


Private First Class Eugene Dinkin was a cryptographic code operator stationed in Metz, France. On November 4, 1963 he went AWOL from his unit, and entered Switzerland using forged travel orders and a false Army identification card. On November 6, he appeared in the Press Room of the United Nations in Geneva and told reporters he was being persecuted. He also told reporters that "they" were plotting against President Kennedy and that "something" would happen in Dallas. After Kennedy was murdered, a friend of Dinkin's named Dennis De Witt told military authorities that Dinkin had predicted Kennedy's assassination for November 28, and later changed the date to November 22.

Dinkin was arrested on November 13 and placed in a psychiatric hospital, and latered transferred to Walter Reed, where he underwent various psychological tests before eventually being released. His allegation reached the White House on November 29, and went to the Warren Commission in April of 1964.

Retellings of the Dinkin story typically note his status as a crypto operator, and speculate that he may have learned of an assassination plot decrypting military communications, perhaps between military plotters and Marseilles assassins. But the FBI reports on Dinkin, including interviews with him conducted in April 1964, state that the allegations came about from Dinkin's study of military publications such as Stars and Stripes. Dinkin told the FBI that it was his study of "psychological sets" which revealed to him both an anti-Kennedy bias as well as a military plot in the works. How we could divine the latter, and in particular attach dates and places for the upcoming murder, is hard to imagine.

One explanation would be that Dinkin indeed learned about a plot through his crypto assignment, and that something about his confinement at Walter Reed led him to suppress this in favor of the story the FBI reported. An opposing view would of course be that he was a paranoid individual who happened to make a lucky guess.

One method of determining the truth would have been to interview his military associates to see what he told them about where his ideas came from, including those named by Dinkinin his FBI interviews: PFC Dennis De Witt, PFC Larry Pulles, Sgt. Walter Reynolds, and R. Thomas. The FBI, after taking these names, does not appear to have followed up on them. The Warren Commission took no interest in the matter, and indeed omitted any mention of Dinkin from its purportedly encyclopedic 26 volumes of evidence.

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Allegations_of_PFC_Eugene_Dinkin.html

The Warren Commission took no interest in the matter, and indeed omitted any mention of Dinkin from its purportedly encyclopedic 26 volumes of evidence.


LBJ's "hand picked" committee of "Venerated and honorable men" were charged with finding Lee Havey Oswald guilty of the murder of JFK....     So naturally they wouldn't have taken any interest in Eugene Dinkin's report.

[Jon Banks]

The Georgian Who Knew a Sniper Would Kill JFK

Who was Joseph Milteer?

Joseph Milteer (1902‐1974), of Quitman, GA, was a racist right‐wing extremist activist who hated
President Kennedy insanely and spent his life combating the Civil Rights movement. On Nov. 9, 1963, 13
days before the Kennedy assassination, Milteer had a lengthy conversation in a Miami, FL apartment
with a childhood friend, Willie Somersett, in the course of which Milteer told Somersett about a plot
that was afoot to assassinate JFK. Unknown to Milteer, Somersett, a secret informant for local Miami
police, was surreptitiously tape‐recording the conversation.

In that conversation Milteer confided that the killing of Kennedy “was in the working;” that the
president could be killed “[f]rom an office building with a high‐powered rifle;” that the rifle could be
“disassemble[d]” to get it into the building; and that “[t]hey will pick up somebody within hours
afterward, if anything like that would happen, just to throw the public off.” (Excerpts from the transcript
of the conversation are set forth below at the end of this article.)

FBI Investigation

Miami police promptly notified the Secret Service and the FBI of Milteer’s remarks, giving them
transcripts of the recorded conversation. The Secret Service and the FBI both quickly opened files on the
matter, hastily investigated Milteer and within a few days—and prior to the assassination—closed those files.

Five full days after the JFK assassination, on Nov. 27, 1963, the FBI interviewed Milteer. The FBI’s official
report of that interview is one and one‐half pages long, consisting of six terse paragraphs, only one of
which relates to the assassination. Shockingly, during the interview Milteer was not interrogated about
his previously recorded statements to Somersett regarding plans to murder the president. Milteer was
not even asked the vital question of what he knew of or had heard about any plots against President
Kennedy. Unlike many other witnesses, Milteer was not asked where he was on Nov. 22, 1963.

There is no mention of Joseph Milteer in the Warren Report or the 26 volumes of exhibits published by
the Warren Commission, and for years both the Secret Service and the FBI kept secret as much as they
could about Milteer.

The public did not find out about Milteer’s recorded conversation with Somersett until three years after
the assassination, when Miami police gave a transcript of that conversation to Bill Barry, a local
newspaper reporter. It is said that Miami police decided to release the transcript because they realized
the striking similarities between what Milteer said would happen and the Warren Report version of
what did happen.

On Feb. 2, 1967, Barry published an article in The Miami News newspaper which discussed Milteer
(without revealing his name) and quoted from the transcript of that conversation. In 1971 the entire
transcript was published in Harold Weisberg’s book Frame‐Up, and, for the first time, Milteer’s name
was publicly revealed. Soon assassination scholars were suggesting that Milteer could be seen in a
photograph taken in Dealey Plaza shortly before the president was murdered. Milteer, it was claimed,
was the sixtyish, unsmiling man standing on the sidewalk with other spectators watching the
presidential limousine as it drove past them a minute before the assassination. The spectator alleged to
be Milteer is easy to spot: immediately to his right is a taller man wearing a dark hat, coat, and necktie.