Richard Belzer > Quotes

“Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.”
― Richard Belzer

“U.S. Intelligence Examiner Fred Burks of Berkeley, California, has investigated whether the CIA is capable of inducing heart attacks as a method of assassination, and based on the evidence, concluded that they have had that capability for many decades.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“All I know is that witnesses with vital evidence in the case are bad insurance risks.4 —New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, when asked about all the deaths of witnesses who had been sought for testimony.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“•  Officer Tippit was reportedly shot with an automatic and Oswald was carrying a revolver.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“History will not absolve us if we do not, once and for all, reveal all that is known about the greatest, most tragic murder mystery in American History. After all, 90 percent of the American people believe that there was a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“Johnson’s Secret Service Agents had changed the orders and advised the remaining four motorcyclists not to advance beyond the back tires of the limo.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“The LBJ team also attempted to change the passenger configuration of the Dallas motorcade in order to get Governor Connally, a longtime LBJ ally, out of the limousine in which Kennedy was riding.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“So one might say that there was a second conspiracy to make it look like there was no conspiracy at first; and directed by a man who was apparently a major player in both!”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“The American media struggled to sustain a semblance of calm and order, still insistent Lee Harvey Oswald had been the lone crackpot assassin and had acted unilaterally. But observers and journalists in other countries had already started speculating Oswald had been killed to keep him from talking.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“Richard Charnin is an author and quantitative software developer with advanced degrees in applied mathematics and operations research. He paints a very clear portrait of the JFK witness deaths in the context of the mathematical landscape: I have proved mathematically what many have long suspected: The scores of convenient JFK unnatural witness deaths cannot be coincidental.15”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“was working “penetration” on behalf of U.S. intelligence and was not only infiltrating, but attempting to preclude, a plot against the life of President Kennedy.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“According to Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, Cord Meyer was the principal “operative” of Mockingbird.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“•There is still an active focus on media propaganda in the U.S. by Intelligence agencies to discredit conspiracy theories and solidify the official version of historical events;”
― Richard Belzer, Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups

“In the three-year period which followed the murder of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, 18 material witnesses died:”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“Lee infiltrated the plot to kill President Kennedy, was set up as the patsy, and was then murdered to protect the real assassins by silencing him.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“What’s happening in our country? The First Amendment clearly states that “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.” But it was recently abridged anyway. It wasn’t covered much in the media but a new bill, HR 347, was recently passed by Congress and quietly signed into law by President Obama that gives federal agents sweeping powers and now makes it a felony offense for the crime of standing and protesting, determined at the discretion of the Secret Service. As Judge Andrew Napolitano put it, “it is a part of American history since Day One that we have a right to speak freely to, about and against those in the government.” But we no longer have it.”
― Richard Belzer, Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups

“So why are we still being lied to about these cases? They seem to be missing a basic point about Democracy— they are our employees. They’re employed by us— We, The People. How dare they withhold the truth from us!”
― Richard Belzer, Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups

“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
― Richard Belzer, Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups

“There are those in positions of power who malign the pursuit of justice by intentionally associating the word “conspiracy” with the delirious hallucinations of unbalanced minds. They’re wrong. The real-world definition of conspiracy is simply two or more persons agreeing to commit a crime. In short, they are everywhere, a constant component of daily events throughout our history, and are by no means the restless imaginings of an over-attentive audience.”
― Richard Belzer, Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups

“Huey Long once said, “Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“An actuary engaged by the London Times calculated the probability that at least 18 witnesses would die of any cause within 3 years of the JFK assassination as 1 in 100,000 trillion.5”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“Meridian Pennsylvania”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination

“Huey Long once said, “Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.” I’m afraid, based on my own experience that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.863”
― Richard Belzer, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination