George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

he had heard in recent weeks, date and source unknown. He advised that

one JAMES PARROTT had been talking of killing the President when he

comes to Houston.

PARROTT is possibly a student at the University of Houston and is active

in politics in the Houston area.

According to related FBI documentation, "a check with Secret Service at
Houston, Texas revealed that agency had a report that PARROTT stated in 1961
he would kill President Kennedy if he got near him." Here Bush is described as "a
reputable businessman." FBI agents were sent to interrogate Parrott's mother, and
later James Milton Parrott himself. Parrott had been discharged from the US Air
Force for psychiatric reasons in 1959. Parrott had an alibi for the time of the
Dallas shootings; he had been in the company of another Republican activist.
According to press accounts, Parrott was a member of the right-wing faction of
the Houston GOP which was oriented towards the John Birch Society and which
opposed Bush's chairmanship. 19 According to the San Francisco Examiner,
Bush's press office in August, 1988 first said that Bush had not made any such
call, and challenged the authenticity of the FBI documents. Several days later
Bush's spokesman said that the candidate "does not recall" placing the call.

One day later after he reported Parrott to the FBI, Bush received a highly
sensitive, high-level briefing from the Bureau:

Date: November 29, 1963

To: Director

Bureau of Intelligence and Research

Department of State

From: John Edgar Hoover, Director

Subject: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F.

KENNEDY NOVEMBER 22, 1963

Our Miami, Florida, Office on November 23, 1963 advised

that the Office of Coordinator of Cuban Affairs in Miami

advised that the Department of State feels some misguided

anti-Castro group might capitalize on the present situation

and undertake an unauthorized raid against Cuba, believing

that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy might

herald a change in US policy, which is not true.

Our sources and informants familiar with Cuban matters in

the Miami area advise that the general feeling in the anti-

Castro Cuban community is one of stunned disbelief and,

even among those who did not entirely agree with the

President's policy concerning Cuba, the feeling is that the