I know there’s been a lot of articles written about the Kennedy assassination, and those of you who follow my column know I have occasionally dabbled in the subject myself, but this article, I assure you, is completely different. When I stumbled upon this new evidence, I knew it would change the way people viewed the Kennedy assassination, as well as the roll of covert organizations in American politics.

I stumbled upon this new information when I was doing research for a children’s book I am writing for Binky Books entitled "Baby’s first Conspiracy". As I was looking through stacks of photographs pertaining to the JFK assassination, I happened to notice a small black speck on a photograph of the infamous "Grassy Knoll". This photograph was taken seconds before the "shooting" by a young Irish-Samoan boy named Faffatie Yehwright (a future Senator from New Mexico), from a vantage point diagonally across the street from the grassy knoll. I almost passed by this photo until I noticed a black speck floating in the sky between two trees.

Just out of curiosity, or perhaps divine intuition, I decided to have the photograph scanned into a computer at very high resolution. When I enlarged the photograph with a computer program, the black speck became a large dark gray formless blob. My next move required a little help from my friend at NASA. I used one of their image enhancement programs to refine the detail in the photograph. Now the dark gray blob was miraculously transformed into an object that closely resembled a helicopter. Perhaps a little too closely.

Now most reporters would have stopped their investigation at this point, after all its quite common to have a helicopter flying over a presidential appearance. Right? But I was suspicious that this formless blob should so closely resemble a helicopter after being processed by a program written by and for members of the government. So I called up my friend John(not his real name) at NASA, who had run the image processing for me, and asked him how long the image processing took. The following is a brief excerpt of our conversation:

KS. Hi John. I was wondering how long it took to processes that image for me the other day.

John. Well Ken, I think it took about 15 minutes.

KS. Did anyone enter the computer room during that time?

John. Well, my boss did go into the room to get the donut he had left in there earlier.

KS. Could your boss have used the computer while he was in there?

John. (pause) Yeah. I guess. I couldn’t see the computer terminal from where I was sitting.

So as you can see, John’s big government, black suit wearing, boss could have easily slipped in and tampered with the results of the image enhancement. And yes I did ask - The donut was a "Bear Claw" (see my article in the April ’96 issue of the National Inquisition, entitled "Black Suits & Bear Claws: the bakery within a `government within a government' ").

So maybe the object in the photo isn’t a helicopter. If it’s not a helicopter, then what is it? I was determined to find out, So I sent out an E-mail to everyone I knew (except for John at NASA, they might be monitoring his communications) asking if they knew of any software that could clarify a blurry image.

This is where the gods smiled on my little crusade. My friend Kirk (his real name) at N.I.T.E.C.A.P. (National Investigation Team for Extraterrestrial Communication, Abduction, and Phenomena) responded to my E-mail with the following message:

…You’re in luck Ken. I just spent the last few months perfecting a program for N.I.T.E.C.A.P. that can take blown up images of UFO’s and resolve the image based on the laws of physics (Thermodynamics, atmospherics, velocity, etc.). You can download the program from our FTP site….

I was very encouraged and set about downloading the program immediately. Within hours I had installed the program, inputted my picture, and received confirmation that my hunch, about the NASA results, was true. For the image that finally appeared on my screen was not a helicopter, but some sort of shiny hovering disc. I was shocked. I never expected the black blob to be of extraterrestrial origin.

So what does this mean? Was this UFO involved in the murder of JFK? Were secret organizations within our government conspiring with extra-terrestrials to assassinate JFK? Well, the answer is - I don’t know. Unfortunately this new evidence posses more questions than it answers. But I am still researching, and should know more soon. I will be writing an update to this story as soon as I finish this book for Binky Books, which is taking much longer than I thought. It seems that the people at Binky object to the graphic illustrations I am using to explain the order of events for the JFK assassination. They said it was far too violent. They have suggested that it would be less violent if all of the people in the motorcade were rabbits. They also suggested that I make the rifle be a high-powered squirt gun.

Now, I am accustomed to the mainstream media misrepresenting facts to the people, but to try and shove this kind of propaganda down the throats of children is a whole new level of evil. I find my self, questioning whether I want to finish this book under these harsh constraints. I have to weigh the moral dilemmas involved in this situation. Will the changes in this book lead to children devaluing the lives of rabbits?

Well, perhaps this is a subject for another column.

Ken Spircy reporting for Fragmented Press International (FPI)