David Martin - The Assassination of James Forrestal

Praise for
The Assassination of James Forrestal

David Martins book The Assassination of James Forrestal focuses on the historic truths related to the systemic harassment and consequent death of James Forrestal in May, 1949, at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. It is a long-overdue, hugely important, work of revisionist history. The timeworn myths intended to support his suicide which had originally been planted by such muckraking columnists as Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell, then repeated by the authors of several biographies of Forrestal have been systematically deconstructed by Martin (a.k.a. DCDave).

This profoundly important book describes in detail one of the earliest plots of the Deep State as it was constituted post-WWII: The plot to remove all impediments to the creation and successful launch of the nation of Israel, through silencing the most influential and prescient voice cautioning his country, and the world, about the long and possibly endless tail of retaliations, recriminations and retributions that lay ahead. The history of that land, still resonating with the repercussions he predicted, proves James V. Forrestals legendary wisdom.

--Phillip F. Nelson, author of LBJ, the Mastermind of the JFK Assassination; LBJ, from Mastermind to The Colossus; Remember the Liberty; and Who Really Killed Martin Luther King, Jr.?

The Assassination
of James Forrestal

David Martin

McCabe Publishing
Hyattsville, Maryland

Acknowledgments

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the John Birch Society for permission to quote extensively from The Death of James Forrestal by Cornell Simpson, to Simon & Schuster, Inc., to quote from Truman, by David McCullough, and to Penguin Random House for the use of quotations from a number of publications. The cover photograph is used with permission of the U.S. Navy, Courtesy of Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.

Copyright 2019 by David Martin.

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Contents

To Alfred M. Lilienthal, the brave and principled man whose positive reaction to the first installment of "Who Killed James Forrestal?" in 2002 encouraged me to continue my quest for truth in the case and to P.A. Leonard, Deputy Director, (Claims, Investigations and Tort Litigation), of the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General's office who sent me the Navy's official inquiry into Forrestal's death in 2004. That inquiry, which I dubbed the Willcutts Report after Admiral Morton D. Willcutts, the head of the National Naval Medical Center who appointed the review panel, had been kept secret for 55 years.

Inconvenient Lives

To our south they're "disappeared;"
Up here they're "suicided."
To achieve a similar end,
A similar means is provided.

James Vincent Forrestal, February 15, 1892, - May 22, 1949

Main tower of Bethesda Naval Hospital, view from the back

Main tower front view. Note bay window upper left, matched on the back but obscured by trees.

Right wing of 16th floor of the hospital. Wall with two windows of Forrestals room is at the front of the building

Forrestals vacated hospital room sometime May 22, 1949

Forrestals hospital room, another angle

Kitchen with open window from which Forrestal fell, sometime May 22, 1949

Window in Forrestals room showing security screen

Carpet in Forrestals room showing broken glass

Actual Forrestal handwriting sample

Actual Forrestal handwriting sample

Actual Forrestal handwriting sample

Poem transcription purportedly found in Forrestals vacated room

President John F. Kennedy visiting Forrestals grave, Memorial Day, 1963

Foreword

Historic Assassination

While exploring the national attic,
I discovered something quite chilling:
It seems that James V. Forrestal
Was a victim of targeted killing.

How did it happen that I came to be interested in the death of Americas first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, I am often asked?It all began with another mysterious death of a high government official, one that occurred in 1993, a little more than 44 years after Forrestals plunge from a 16th floor window of the main tower of the Bethesda Naval Hospital. I am speaking of President Bill Clintons deputy White House counsel, Vincent W. Foster, Jr. What follows is a summary of the political odyssey that led me to become the lone figure to look seriously and honestly into Forrestals death since his fall from that window in the early hours of Sunday morning, May 22, 1949.

Ive heard it said that the politics of most men is set by the time they are twelve years old, and it is the politics of their father. That was very much true in my own case for the first fifty years or so of my life. My father, a small-town North Carolina school principal, was a liberal Democrat from a large, fairly prominent liberal-Democratic Party family. His oldest brother was the longtime editor of the left-leaning