When Harry Met CIA: Rob Reiner, Harry Connick, Jr., and the JFK Assassination

 

The release of Rob Reiner’s 1989 romantic comedy hit When Harry Met Sally made a star of pianist Harry Connick, Jr., who contributed youthful renditions of several old jazz standards to the soundtrack. Outside of New Orleans, however, comparatively few are familiar with Harry Connick, Sr., the corrupt Orleans Parish District Attorney who made his son’s music career possible.

The elder Connick, who operated two record stores [1] with his Jewish wife, Anita Levy [2], also a lawyer, achieved some prominence as a US attorney, assisting Lyndon Johnson’s Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach in his efforts to desegregate America’s schools [3] and prosecute federal civil rights violation cases against local authorities [4]. Connick’s superior had been a key party to the cover-up of the JFK assassination. As Deputy Attorney General at the time, Katzenbach had written a memo directing that the “public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial” and indicating the need “to head off public speculation or Congressional hearings of the wrong sort.” [5]

In 1969, Connick mounted an unsuccessful bid to unseat Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison, who had stirred national controversy with his prosecution of Clay Shaw in connection with the JFK murder plot, with Garrison dismissing Connick as “the Man from UNCLE” (i.e., Uncle Sam) [6]. Assassination researcher James DiEugenio relates the outcome:

In the 1969 race, on the eve of the election, a poll put out of New Orleans on October 15th placed Garrison ahead 49%-18%. Three weeks later, very close to election eve, a St. Louis company called DeWitt announced the results of another poll. This one put Connick ahead 49%-28%. Garrison won in a landslide. The poll was quite questionable, yet WDSU newscaster Terry Fletcher did a much publicized segment trumpeting its results. The day after the election even the Times-Picayune, no friend of Garrison's, wondered if the poll was a hoax intended to help Connick win. [7]

“In 1973, Connick outspent Garrison by a wide margin, as had been the case in '69,” DiEugenio continues:

In the second race, the local alternative papers like Gambit and The Courier badgered Connick to release the list of contributors to his campaign. After weeks of pressure, Connick finally released a partial list. The contributors included the major backers of the Superdome project, including his brother William (Superdome secretary). In other words all the big banking interests in the city. Two other contributors were Clay Shaw and [Cuban exile] Carlos Bringuier. Two others were Leonard and Bill Gurvich, who also ended up helping Shaw’s defense. Both [major New Orleans] newspapers at that time, owned by Ashton Phelps, did much to help Connick. Connick won a close race. [8]

Phelps was really only the president and publisher of the Times-Picayune Publishing Corporation [9]. The owner of both the Daily States-Item and the Times-Picayune was Samuel Newhouse, Sr., born Solomon Neuhaus [10]. Garrison brought an unsuccessful lawsuit against Connick alleging “that in many precincts persons who did not personally appear in the polling booth were entered on the poll lists, and votes were actually cast through the voting machines in a corresponding number.” [11]

Following an inauguration at which his precocious son played “The Star-Spangled Banner” [12], Connick’s usefulness to “UNCLE” became apparent when he set about undoing Garrison’s work in the DA’s office, DiEugenio reveals:

According to an affidavit executed by a former Connick staffer the DA decided to destroy the records of the grand jury testimony during the Shaw investigation. When the staffer questioned this decision on the basis of historical significance, Connick said, “Burn this sonofabitch and burn it today!”

Fortunately for history, the staffer did not. He kept them in his garage in the intervening years […] [13]

DiEugenio laments that “one can only estimate what we have left of Garrison’s files. […] it’s probably about 60%. The rest were incinerated by Connick, stolen by infiltrators […] or […] stolen from the garage of a friend of Garrison’s after he left office.” [14]

Connick’s office also brought him into contact with troubled but gifted pianist James Booker, who would help to hone the younger Connick’s talent, Dominic Green recounts:

After starring at the 1975 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Booker began touring Europe. […] He even appeared in Leipzig, East Germany, after smuggling his marijuana through the Iron Curtain in his curly wig. But Booker couldn’t get arrested back home – unless it was for narcotics. Luckily, the New Orleans DA was a fan. In lieu of jail time, he sentenced Booker to teach piano to his young son, Harry Connick, Jr. [15]

The eccentric Booker, a “conspiracy enthusiast”, had lost one of his eyes in a mysterious incident that he mythologized in varying versions, telling Dr. John, for example, that it “had something to do with Jackie Kennedy.” [16]

“I would go and sit in with different Dixieland bands and such from the time I was maybe six,” Connick, Jr., told David Letterman in 1989, adding, “When I got to be about thirteen [circa 1980] I got my first real job at a club called the Famous Door, and I played there, um, from like eleven to three in the morning, and that was kinda scary.” [17] The Famous Door was operated by gangster Nick Karno (Karnofsky), business partner of Frank Caracci – both known to have been underlings of New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello [18], a Meyer Lansky associate [19]. Leander D’Avy, who worked as a doorman at Karno’s Court of Two Sisters restaurant from 1961 to 1963, told investigators for the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1977 that he had seen David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, and Jack Ruby (Rubenstein) at the restaurant, and that he had also observed Eugene Davis, manager of the Court of Two Sisters, in the company of Lee Harvey Oswald [20]. “A month before he gunned down Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby met with Johnny Roselli in Miami and later with Frank Caracci […] in New Orleans,” notes John William Tuohy [21].

Interestingly, Karno was prosecuted by Connick, Sr., for the 1974 murder of Anthony Zappia – a case that resulted in an oddly lenient sentence for Karno, as the Associated Press reported in 1978:

French Quarter nightclub owner Nick Karno, accused of killing a man at his lounge, has pleaded no contest to manslaughter in a long-delayed trial.

He drew a five-year suspended sentence and a $70 fine for court costs.

The action – an unusual finish for an unusual case – took place Friday before a traffic court judge, Louis P. Trent, who was sitting in for Criminal District Judge Bernard J. Bagert, Sr., off on vacation.

“We objected to the plea but there was nothing we could do to block it,” said Joseph Meyer, the seventh assistant district attorney to inherit a case known around the DA’s office as a “hot potato”.

Karno, 68, who claimed self defense, had evaded trial on the original charge of second-degree murder. Defense lawyers claimed his heart condition was so bad a trial might kill him. […]

Criminal District Judge Bernard Bagert signed a quick release on $100,000 bond, allowing Karno to skip appearance before a magistrate, who normally sets bond in such cases.

It was the first of a long series of Bagert signatures on Karno case documents – frequently on grants of delays. […]

On Dec. 13, 1977, Judge Bagert set a trial. [Karno’s attorney Stephen] Plotkin appealed. On Jan. 28, 1978, the state Supreme Court ruled Karno must face trial. Federal court refused to step in.

The defense then attacked the indictment, claiming that it was issued in a time when Orleans Parish tended to exclude women as grand jurors. The indictment was voided.

District Attorney Harry Connick sought another indictment on the murder charge, which the grand jury refused. Connick then filed a bill of information charging Karno with manslaughter.

Judge Bagert missed the windup by being on vacation. [22]

Adding to the strangeness of the case is the fact that the District Attorney’s son would shortly thereafter be working in one of Karno’s establishments and that Stephen Plotkin, who represented Karno, also represented Garrison nemesis Gordon Novel. “It was later revealed to a Garrison investigator by a former member of the CIA that Plotkin was receiving his fees from the CIA via a cutout,” writes William Davy [23].  

Winston-Salem Journal (June 16, 1989)

In 1989, an interviewer asked Harry Connick, Jr., “Did you have any really rough times before you had the record contract, trying to get them to see what you could do?” His response is revealing:

Nah, not really. You know, I mean, my rough times, in comparison to other people’s rough times, are not at all. I mean […] my daddy supported me in New York. I haven’t suffered that much. […] I didn’t have very difficult a time getting signed to Columbia because I knew that, from the time I was fourteen, that a guy was interested in me, and it basically wasn’t too difficult. [24]

Bobby Colomby, formerly of the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, was the Jewish [25] executive at Columbia Records who brought Connick to the attention of Rob Reiner when he was making When Harry Met Sally [26], the project that launched Connick as a star, earned him a Grammy Award, and led to an acting career in films and television. The extent to which either Colomby or Reiner were aware of Connick’s family background is a matter for speculation, but it may be relevant to note Reiner’s special interest in the JFK assassination. “I’ve studied it for 60 years,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 2023 [27]. Writing for Vanity Fair, James Robenalt describes the episode that purports to have sparked Reiner’s fascination with the conspiracy:

He recalls that a couple of years after the [1964] Warren Report came out, he and entertainer Joey Bishop’s son, Larry, were performing at the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco as an opening act before jazz singer Carmen McRae, when Mort Sahl, the brilliant political satirist, was playing in an adjacent room. Reiner took in Sahl’s act, but instead of his normal political parody, Sahl spoke only of the Warren Report. “That’s all he talked about,” Reiner says. “That they had lied.” That was Reiner’s trigger for further inquiry. [28]

Rob Reiner and Larry Bishop

The mysterious Sahl – whose wife, Playboy model China Lee, was the brother of Harry Lee, an associate of both Warren Commission member Hale Boggs and mob boss Carlos Marcello [29] – would insinuate himself into Jim Garrison’s office as a volunteer investigator in 1967. It may also be noteworthy that Reiner, in taking an interest in the assassination, was keeping company with Larry Bishop, son of Joey Bishop (born Joseph Gottlieb), who ties into the Kennedy nexus by way of membership in the Rat Pack. JFK’s sister Patricia married actor Peter Lawford in 1954, after which Lawford was admitted into Sinatra’s elite circle [30].

“The Kennedy brothers needed a base of operations in California, and by 1960 they had one – the beachfront home of their brother-in-law, Peter Lawford,” Anthony Summers writes in Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, adding: “In every scenario involving Marilyn and the Kennedys, Lawford is cast as the connection.” [31] Dean Martin and his wife Jeanne “were frequent guests at the Lawford home, and were there when both John and Robert Kennedy were present,” Summers continues, citing Jeanne’s assertion that she “saw Peter in the role of pimp for Jack Kennedy” [32]. She was “sometimes present when Marilyn Monroe came to the Lawford beach house.” [33] According to Summers, there is reason to believe that Monroe, who converted to Judaism in 1956 when she married Arthur Miller [34], was being utilized as an intelligence asset:

There had reportedly been CIA interest in making use of Marilyn’s acquaintance with another visiting political leader. During the shooting of Bus Stop, in 1956, Marilyn had met the Indonesian president, Achmed Sukarno. […]

Marilyn and the Indonesian took a shine to one another. “They kept disappearing to the edges of the party,” Bus Stop director Joshua Logan recalls. “The atmosphere was all S-E-X. I think they made a date to meet afterwards.” […]

According to Joseph Smith, a former CIA career officer in Asia, “There was an attempt to get Sukarno together with Monroe. In mid-1958 I heard of a plan to get them in bed together. I remember someone from Washington coming through and talking about ‘some crazy business with Marilyn Monroe that didn’t work out right.’” [35]

Gary Wean, who served as a law enforcement officer in Los Angeles and Ventura County during this period, has alleged that Bishop, acting on behalf of L.A. mob kingpin Mickey Cohen, was using Lawford to set up call girl parties for the Kennedys and that Monroe was being utilized for the specific purpose of gleaning JFK’s private thoughts on Israel. It should be noted, however, that James DiEugenio has called Wean’s reliability into question [36]. Notwithstanding, the scenario is far from implausible, as Bishop and Cohen were known to be “particularly close” [37], and Cohen had multiple connections to the JFK assassination nexus including his relationship with Jack Ruby’s defense attorney Melvin Belli [38] and proprietorship of the Santa Anita racetrack that employed Sirhan Sirhan [39]. Cohen, moreover, “claimed that after meeting Haganah and Irgun emissaries [during the 1940s], he became so absorbed with Israel that he pushed aside much of his own activities and did nothing but try to help Israel in its war” through fundraising and weapons procurement [40]. Brad Lewis, using Wean as his source in his book Hollywood’s Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen, suggests that Cohen sought to use Monroe to “find out what John Kennedy intended to do about financing Israel” and continues:

Mickey definitely wanted a closer connection to JFK, and it was through Monroe that he got that link. He was the king when it came to manipulation. While some credit Sinatra with making the Monroe connection to the White House – Sinatra introduced Marilyn to JFK at Peter Lawford’s Malibu beach house, a popular show biz hangout – there is evidence that it was really Mickey. The Lawford compound was renamed “High Anus Port”, likely by Rat Pack wordsmith Sammy Cahn. […]

The shared credit goes to Mickey pal comedian and Rat Pack regular Joey Bishop for making the shidech – Yiddish for “match”. According to Wean, Bishop was personally responsible for setting up JFK with Marilyn during the presidential campaign in 1960. “It was Joey Bishop that came up with the idea of a wild party for JFK. He talked Lawford into it.” Wean persists based on ethnic bonds: “Bishop was a Jew and real tight with Cohen” […] [41]

Perhaps significantly, guests on The Joey Bishop Show, which ran from 1967 to 1969, included Mort Sahl, who appeared on six episodes; Melvin Belli, who appeared twice; Playboy head and Castle Bank & Trust depositor Hugh Hefner, who appeared once; and Louis Armstrong, who also appeared in one episode [42]. As a child in New Orleans, “Satchmo” had been employed by the Karnofsky family to which Nick Karno belonged [43]. More pertinently, Armstrong’s manager, Joe Glaser, was acquainted with Jack Ruby [44], and the trumpeter, wittingly or not, had lent his services as a “Trojan horse” in his capacity as a “jazz ambassador” to Africa as the CIA plotted the assassination of Congolese nationalist Patrice Lumumba [45]. Rob Reiner, incidentally, started out as a comic working Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Club circuit [46].

Considering that he had “studied” the JFK assassination for decades when he made it, Reiner’s 2016 biopic LBJ is staggeringly unforthcoming, presenting a largely sympathetic portrait of Lyndon Johnson and exonerating him of complicity in the cover-up of the conspiracy, which is not even acknowledged. Instead, the film focuses on Johnson’s engagement with civil rights legislation, with very little said about his foreign policy positions, and ignoring his radical commitment to Israel entirely. There is, however, arguably a touch of macabre humor to the casting of Woody Harrelson, the son of a hitman who made a dubious claim to have been JFK’s assassin [47], in the lead. 

Reiner in 2016 was also considering making a film specifically about the JFK assassination in collaboration with researcher Dick Russell, as he told Black Op Radio host Len Osanic, because there had been “many books written, but there’s something about a film, a Hollywood film, that reaches the public in a much bigger way.” He elaborated on what he perceived as the need for such a movie:

I loved Oliver Stone’s film [JFK], but Oliver, you know, basically, uh, put a lot of ideas out there but didn’t really connect the dots. I mean, he kind of just threw a lot of things out there to consider and what I thought, what I would do, after meeting with Dick is, is there a way to put this all together, so that the public could understand how all this was connected? […] And the first thought I had was to do it as a TV series, like a limited series […] We wrote three scripts […] [48]

As Reiner’s partner Russell remembers:

I met Rob Reiner, actually, in 2016 and originally he wanted to do a feature film, or series, a limited series, […] We’d both been fascinated by the subject and trying to, you know, get to the bottom of what we believed was a big cover-up for a long time, and so, um, there was an attempt to make a series and, interestingly, none of the studios would take it, even though the scripts were very good, and it was kind of going to be based in part on my work and my book The Man Who Knew Too Much, and On the Trail of the JFK Assassins was my second one, and then a book I did with Jesse Ventura, They Killed Our President. [49]

Then, in a 2019 stunt, Reiner and Russell along with Mort Sahl, Oliver Stone, and others lent their names to a public letter in which “they demanded a public tribunal modeled on South Africa’s ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ process” for a reconsideration of the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King [50], the framing of which vaguely implies – like the shots of Confederate flags in Dallas in Reiner’s LBJ – that perhaps racism had a hand in Kennedy’s murder.

The Reiner-Russell project that had begun as a film or television concept finally came to fruition in 2023 in the form of the midwit-targeted IHeartRadio conspiracy primer podcast series Who Killed JFK?, which Reiner produced with Soledad O’Brien. Appealing to a neophyte audience, the program covers the expected material on the motivations of the CIA, organized crime, the anti-Castro Cubans, and other Cold Warriors opposed to Kennedy because he was “soft on communism” and represented “progress” and “peace”. Allen Dulles and James Jesus Angleton are discussed as interested figures and “rogue individuals”, although the latter’s service to Israel is omitted. Reiner and Russell name four men as Dealey Plaza assassins and settle on retired military intelligence officer Charles Willoughby, who was born with the conveniently scary-sounding German name Adolph Tscheppe-Weidenbach, as “the tactician” for the plot. Willoughby, Russell acknowledges, came to his attention in connection with the conspiracy through an anonymous letter he received in the 1970s [51]. Curious listeners who google Willoughby’s name and find his Wikipedia entry will learn that he was an anti-Semite, the “pet fascist” of General Douglas MacArthur, and that he was involved in “the International Committee for the Defence of Christian Culture, an extreme right organization” [52]. Meanwhile, Jim Garrison’s investigation of Clay Shaw, who through Permindex connects with Israeli intelligence mastermind Tibor Rosenbaum [53], seems to have been deemed insufficiently important for inclusion in Who Killed JFK?. Russell and Reiner now purport to be working on a book to put forth the “last word” on the assassination [54].

Those unfamiliar with the basics of the labyrinthine matrix surrounding the president’s murder can learn much from listening to Who Killed JFK?, but the point of Reiner’s engagement with the assassination, coming as it does in the wake of internet-based growth in public awareness of the Zionist hand in Kennedy’s death and in the problems of American political life more generally, is its metapolitical significance in centering a smiling Hollywood Jew as the source of forbidden political knowledge speaking truth to power. As the “Meathead” actor, who finds such fascination in the mincing of JFK’s brain, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency when he was honored at the 2008 Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, “We celebrate Passover. That’s our heritage, our race.” [55]

Rainer Chlodwig von K.

Rainer is the author of Drugs, Jungles, and Jingoism.

Endnotes

[1] Pope, John; and John Simerman. “Harry Connick Sr., Long-Serving and Hard-Charging District Attorney, Dies at 97”. Times-Picayune (January 25, 2024): https://archive.ph/T7lkO

[2] https://archive.ph/mNt50

[3] “Govt. Sues to Force Plaquemines Mixing”. [Opelousas] Daily World (July 22, 1966), p. 12.

[4] “US to Outline Rights Case Against Sheriff”. The Shreveport Journal (November 15, 1966), p. A9.

[5] Washburn, John. “The Missing Calls of Officer Mentzel Pt. 2”. Kennedys and King (July 12, 2024): https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/the-missing-calls-of-officer-mentzel-pt-2-1516

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYz0l_VJtvk

[7] DiEugenio, James. “Connick vs. Garrison: Round Three”. Kennedys and King (August 15, 1995): https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/connick-vs-garrison-round-three

[8] Ibid.

[9] “Ashton Phelps, 69, Is Dead; New Orleans News Executive”. The New York Times (March 22, 1983): https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/22/obituaries/ashton-phelps-69-is-dead-new-orleans-news-executive.html

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Sr.

[11] https://law.justia.com/cases/louisiana/supreme-court/1974/291-so-2d-778-1.html

[12] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxSed7P6gEc

[13] DiEugenio, James. “Connick vs. Garrison: Round Three”. Kennedys and King (August 15, 1995): https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/connick-vs-garrison-round-three

[14] DiEugenio, James. “Kerry Thornley: A New Look (Part 1)”. Kennedys and King (June 13, 2020): https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/kerry-thornley-a-new-look-part-1

[15] Green, Dominic. “The Dazzling, Devious, Doomed Sound of James Booker”. The Spectator (October 10, 2020): https://archive.ph/fMPBR

[16] Keber, Lily, Dir. Bayou Maharajah. Mairzy Doats Productions, 2013.

[17] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxSed7P6gEc

[18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_crime_family

[19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Marcello

[20] https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/docid-32265528.pdf

[21] Tuohy, John William. “The Lost Boy: Jack Ruby and the Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald”. American Mafia (April 2002): https://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_201.html

[22] “Karno Pleads No Contest”. Vicksburg Evening Post (August 19, 1978), p. 20.

[23] Davy, William. “‘Shoot Him Down’: NBC, the CIA and Jim Garrison”. Kennedys and King (September 27, 2013): https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/shoot-him-down-nbc-the-cia-and-jim-garrison

[24] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYtLYXPmPgE

[25] Benarde, Scott R. Stars of David: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Jewish Stories. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2003, p. 119.

[26] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harry_Met_Sally..._(soundtrack)

[27] Battaglio, Stephen. “Death and a New Era”. Los Angeles Times (November 15, 2023), p. E1.

[28] Robenalt, James. “Who Killed JFK? Alec Baldwin and Rob Reiner Have Been Asking That Question for Decades”. Vanity Fair (November 14, 2023): https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11/jfk-assassination-symposium-alec-baldwin-rob-reiner

[29] “Allan Katz and Danae Columbus: Kennedy Assassination Anniversary Remembered by All”. Uptown Messenger (November 21, 2013): https://archive.ph/uYRaq

[30] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lawford#Frank_Sinatra_and_the_Rat_Pack

[31] Summers, Anthony. Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1985, p. 213.

[32] Ibid., p. 214.

[33] Ibid., p. 215.

[34] Ibid., pp. 160-161.

[35] Ibid., p. 182.

[36] DiEugenio, James. “Brad Pitt, Joyce Carol Oates and the Road to Blonde: Part 1 / 2”. Kennedys and King (February 22, 2024): https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/brad-pitt-joyce-carol-oates-and-the-road-to-blonde-part-1

[37] “Joey Bishop Pals with Leading Gangsters of His Era”. 8 News Now (October 18, 2007): https://www.8newsnow.com/news/joey-bishop-pals-with-leading-gangsters-of-his-era/

[38] Mitgang, Herbert. “Melvin Belli”. The New York Times (November 21, 1976): https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/21/archives/melvin-belli.html

[39] Baker, Nicholson. “Dallas Killers Club”. The Baffler (July 2014): https://archive.ph/MmRRG

[40] Rockaway, Robert. “Gangsters for Zion”. Tablet (April 19, 2018): https://archive.ph/UF65U

[41] Lewis, Brad. Hollywood’s Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen. Monroe, IL: BookSurge, 2009, pp. 265-266.

[42] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0061268/fullcredits/cast

[43] Raeburn, Bruce. “Satchmo and the Jewish Family”. 64 Parishes (December 16, 2014): https://archive.ph/J4aES

[44] Tarby, Russ. “When Jack Ruby Robbed Jewel Brown”. The Syncopated Times (March 1, 2016): https://archive.ph/iGq90

[45] Burke, Jason. “Louis Armstrong and the Spy: How the CIA Used Him as a ‘Trojan Horse’ in Congo”. Portside (September 18, 2021): https://archive.ph/gaBml

[46] https://archive.ph/GTmP9

[47] DeLong, William. “The Story of Charles Harrelson – Woody Harrelson’s Dad Who Worked as a Hitman for a Texas Drug Lord”. All That’s Interesting (May 22, 2021): https://allthatsinteresting.com/charles-harrelson

[48] Osanic, Len. “Guest Rob Reiner”. Black Op Radio ep. 1184 (January 25, 2024): https://rumble.com/v4angni-black-op-radio-1184-guest-rob-reiner.html

[49] Osanic, Len. “Dick Russell, Jim DiEugenio”. Black Op Radio ep. 1230 (December 19, 2024): https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/1230-dick-russell-jim-dieugenio/id1471941974?i=1000681189819

[50] Jackman, Tom. “Kennedy, King, Malcolm X Relatives and Scholars Seek New Assassination Probes”. The Washington Post (January 25, 2019): https://archive.ph/EHcCs

[51] https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-who-killed-jfk-127000428/

[52] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Willoughby

[53] https://archive.org/details/michael-collins-piper-final-judgement-lecture-mossad-connection-to-jfk-conspiracy

[54] Osanic, Len. “Dick Russell, Jim DiEugenio”. Black Op Radio ep. 1230 (December 19, 2024): https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/1230-dick-russell-jim-dieugenio/id1471941974?i=1000681189819

[55] “No Joke: Carl and Rob Reiner Honored by Israel Film Festival”. Jewish Telegraphic Agency (June 17, 2008): https://archive.ph/YNa6H