For all you folks investigating Freemasonry. Here's an update of response
to a Freemasons who challenged the notion that Masons were involved in the
Kennedy assassination cover-up

One need look no further than the Masonic publications to find the Masonic
lunatics who might want Kennedy killed.  The level of hostility that
Freemasons felt toward Kennedy was documented in February 1960 issue of
New Age magazine, a Masonic publication, where Luther A. Smith, Sovereign
Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, told his
readers:

"whatever bigotry is in evidence in the United States is exhibited solely
by the Roman Catholic hierarchy; that the Canon Law of the Roman Church
and the directives of the Pope validate the fears of the people that the
dual allegiance of American Catholics is a present danger to our free
institutions, and lastly that the people in passing upon the
qualifications of a Catholic candidate for the Presidency will be guided
by their knowledge of history and their great store of plain old-fashioned
common horse sense, and their innate caution not to gamble when their
LIBERTIES AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARE AT STAKE (emphasis added).

          Among American citizens there should be no question or suspicion
of allegiance to any foreign power, but in the case of the Roman Catholic
citizen, his church is the guardian of his conscience and asserts that he
must obey its laws and decrees even if they are in conflict with the
Constitution and laws of the United States."

So we have Masonic crazies asserting NATIONAL SECURITY issues over the
potential election of a Catholic, John F. Kennedy. Mind you, this is
Masonic leadership. Now add to this the fact, documented by Masonic
sources (see below) , that the Masons controlled the investigation into
the Kennedy assassination and you have legitimate concerns over the
honesty of the investigation. Most Americans believe a conspiracy existed.
Comparatively few know that members of a secret society, hostile to a
Kennedy presidency, presided over the assassination investigation.

As for the maintenance of a secret. Freemasons, as demonstrateded by the
legend of Hiram Abiff, have always focused on teaching the membership to
keep their secrets. Hiram, the Masonic Christ figure, was raised from the
grave because he kept his secrets. Those who violate Masonic secrets can
expect retaliation, those who keep them, like Hiram, can expect rewards.

A longer article on the probable involvement of Freemason's in the
Kennedy assassination is available at the WWW site below. As is partial
text from a variety of Masonic exposes and the "Proceedings of the US
Anti-Masonic Convention", a record of the 1st third party political
convention in the US. Critics of Freemasonry include President John Q. Adams.

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In his book, Freemasonry in American History, the Masonic scholar, A. E.
Roberts identifies some of the Masonic participants in the investigation
of the Kennedy assaination,

     "Johnson had received the Entered Apprentice Degree in Johnson City
Lodge No. 561, Texas, on October 30, 1937. Reasons for him going no
farther are unclear. Until the 1850s becoming an Entered Apprentice made a
man a full member of the lodge conferring the degree. During the 1850s all
Grand Lodges adopted laws making the Master Mason (or Third) degree the
criteria for a man to be considered a Freemason. Before then, all Masonic
business was conducted in the First Degree (and still is in some foreign
countries). With the adoption of the new law, business can be considered
only in a Master Mason Lodge.

     One of Johnson's first acts was to order the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to check every aspect of the assassination. The FBI was
headed by J. EDGAR HOOVER, who had become a member of Federal Lodge No. 1,
District of Columbia, on November 9, 1920... But the public wanted more
answers concerning the murder of the President than any agency could
provide. So, on January 29, 1963, Johnson issued an executive order
creating a special commission. It would take the name of the man chosen to
head it, Chief Justice EARL WARREN.

     Warren, a Past Grand Master of Masons in California, was joined on
the Commission by two other known Freemasons. They were Senator RICHARD B.
RUSSELL, a member of Winder Lodge No. 33, Georgia, and Representative
GERALD R. FORD of Michigan. John Sherman Cooper, Hale Boggs, Allen W.
Dulles, and John J. McCloy made up the balance of the Commission." (pg 379)

It is difficult to reliably determine if other members of the Warren
Commission were also Freemasons, because no published records of
membership exist. Even Mr. A.  E. Roberts, who should have excellent
access to masonic sources of information, qualifies his list of Masonic
participants on the Warren Commision to describe 'known Freemasons'.
 

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