reason to believe that Kennedy would have ousted J. Edgar Hoover from his self-
appointed life tenure at the FBI, subjecting that agency to presidential control for
the first time in many years. Kennedy was committed to a vigorous expansion of
the space program, the cultural impact of which was beginning to alarm the
finance oligarchs. Above all, Kennedy was acting like a man who thought he was
president of the United States, violating the collegiality of oligarchical trusteeship
of that office that had been in force
since the final days of Roosevelt. Kennedy furthermore had two younger brothers
who might succeed him, putting a strong presidency beyond the control of the
Eastern Anglophile Liberal Establishment for decades. George Bush joined in the
Harrimanite opposition to Kennedy on all of these points.
After Kennedy was killed in Dallas on November 22, 1963, it was alleged that E.
Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis had both been present, possibly together, in
Dallas on the day of the shooting, although the truth of these allegations has never
been finally established. Both Hunt and Sturgis were of course Bay of Pigs
veterans who would later appear center stage in Watergate. There were also
allegations that Hunt and Sturgis were among a group of six to eight derelicts who
were found in boxcars sitting on the railroad tracks behind the grassy knoll near
Dealey Plaza, and who were rounded up and taken in for questioning by the
Dallas police on the day of the assassination. Some suspected that Hunt and
Sturgis had participated in the assassination. Some of these allegations were at the
center of the celebrated 1985 defamation case of Hunt v. Liberty Lobby, in which
a Florida federal jury found against Hunt. But, since the Dallas Police Department
and County Sheriff never photographed or fingerprinted the "derelicts" in
question, it has so far proven impossible definitively to resolve this question. But
these allegations and theories about the possible presence and activities of Hunt
and Sturgis in Dallas were sufficiently widespread so as to compel the
Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States (the Rockefeller
Commission) to attempt to refute them in its 1975 report. 14
According to George Bush's official biography, he was during 1963 a well-to-do
businessman residing in Houston, the busy president of Zapata Offshore and the
chairman of the Harris County Republican Organization, supporting Barry
Goldwater as the GOP's likely 1964 presidential candidate, while at the same time
actively preparing his own 1964 bid for the US Senate. But during that same
period of time, Bush may have shared some common acquaintances with Lee
Harvey Oswald.
Between October, 1962 and April, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian
wife Marina were in frequent contact with a Russian emigré couple living in
Dallas: these were George de Mohrenschildt and his wife Jeanne. During the
Warren Commission investigation of the Kennedy assassination, de
Mohrenschildt was interviewed at length about his contacts with Oswald. When,
in the spring of 1977, the discrediting of the Warren Commission report as a