King-Kill/33

by James Shelby Downard

James Shelby Downard may be the most controversial conspiracy theorist of the 20th century. In his essay “King-Kill/33”, Downard notoriously laid out the involvement of Freemasonry in the assassination of President Kennedy.

Genres: History, Conspiracy Theories

Unknown Binding

About the author

James Shelby Downard was an American conspiracy theorist whose works, most of which have been published in various anthologies from Feral House, examined perceived occult symbolism, twilight language and synchronicity behind historical events in the 20th century. Shelby is known for his addition to Masonic conspiracy theories with his belief that the Freemasons were responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy through a ritual known as "Killing of the King".

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[Russell Noble]

By James Shelby Downard and Michael Hoffman

The authors argue that the assassination of JFK was ultimately masonic

Here's the only link I've found to this book, which is a copy that can be purchased in a ring binger format:

https://www.revisionisthistory.org/pa...

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Geometry is a branch of mathematics dealing with measurements, and relationships of points, lines, planes, solids and theorems. A theorem is described as being "a proposition that can be proved from accepted premises". Essentially a theorem is an axiom. Euclidean geometry is called an axiomatic system and theorems are based upon Euclidean geometry. The Euclidean theorem having to do with the right-angle triangle which is "that the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides are equal to the square of the longest side" is traced to Pythagoras and then to the ancient Egyptian religion where the right-angle triangle symbolically expressed the sexual relationship between Osiris and Isis which produced Horus. […] Recall that the science of symbolism is considered to have an analogous relationship to Masonry. [...] If an axiomatic computer begins with some assumption and through analysis arrives at a necessary truth it is then able to apply the ‘rule of inference’. The rule of inference is described as ‘the ability to draw a conclusion’.”
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“It is not simply a coincidence that Texas is a by-word for brutality, political corruption and unheard-of violence; and, at one time in American history, masses of people connected these atrocities and scandals with Masonry. Needless to say this is not the case at present, but the authentic nature of the Kennedy assassination is incontrovertible evidence of Masonic hoodwinking.”
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“Never allow anyone the luxury of assuming that because the dead and deadening scenery of the American city-of-dreadful-night is so utterly devoid of mystery, so thoroughly flat-footed, sterile and infantile, so burdened with the illusory gloss of ‘baseball-hot dogs-apple pie-and-Chevrolet’ that it is somehow outside the psycho-sexual domain. The eternal pagan psychodrama is escalated under these ‘modern’ conditions precisely because sorcery is not what "twentieth-century man" can accept as real.”
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“Oswald was literally butchered in the ‘post-mortem examination’. Pieces were actually cut out of his body. The trenchant incision in his torso resembled a huge ‘Y’ which ran from the area of his groin to the solar plexus region. From there incisions were made to the right and left arm pits. (It is also probable that he was castrated). The so-called "two horns of the letter ‘Y’ supposedly symbolize two different paths of virtue and vice: the right branch leading to the former and the left to the latter. The letter is sometimes referred to as the ‘Litera Pythagorae’ (The Letter of Pythagoras): ‘Litera Pythagorae, discrimine secta bicorni, Humanae vitae speciem praeferre videtur’ (The letter of Pythagoras parted by its two branched division appears to exhibit the image of human life).”
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“In the 47th Problem of Euclid, lies a secret of the Third Degree of Masonry. Pythagoras is called by Freemasons ‘our ancient friend and brother’. One of Pythagoras's main doctrines was the system of ‘Metempsychosis’ which pertains to the passing of a human soul into the body of an animal. Perhaps this was the intention of the autopsy — by incising in Oswald's body the ‘Letter of Pythagoras’ they sought to expedite transmigration and they may even have gone as far as feeding sections of Oswald's corpse to the intended animal, for this too is a practice of what used to be widely feared as necromancy.”
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“When a stone wall becomes merely a thing of symbolism, it begins to represent secrecy and silence.”
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“Ibycus, who supposedly lived circa 550 B.C. was attacked and mortally wounded near Corinth. Before he expired he asked a flock of cranes to avenge him. After a brief interval a play was performed in Corinth in one of the open air theatres and a flock of cranes hovered over the audience. Suddenly a man cried in panic: ‘The cranes of Ibycus! The Avengers!’ In so doing he revealed himself as one of the murderers of Ibycus and he and all of the others who took part in the murder of Ibycus were discovered and executed. If the people responsible for the murder of our Catholic President are ever executed, it would take a number of firing squads working night and day, some time to execute all of those archcriminals.”
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“These are the thoughts of a huckster-witch although one not search for this creature, these days, robed all in black with a conical cap; no instead, look among the anonymous gray-flannel suits; and in the board rooms and offices of the newspapers, electronic media, government and advertising agencies; that is, those who are not busy working for the CIA or Naval Intelligence selling the public a demimonde of lies and every form of betrayal and deceit in honor of the murderers among us who sip cocktails and watch the sunrise while John Kennedy's mutilated corpse lies crumpled below the earth. Mason Lyndon Johnson appointed Mason Earl Warren to investigate the death of Catholic Kennedy. Mason and member of the thirty-third degree, Gerald R. Ford, was instrumental in suppressing what little evidence of a conspiratorial nature reached the commission. Responsible for supplying information to the commission was Mason and member of the thirty-third degree J. Edgar Hoover. Former CIA director and Mason Allen Dulles was responsible for most of his agency's data to the panel. Is it paranoid to be suspicious of the findings of the panel on these grounds?”
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“If one inverts the letters of the word ‘Avis’ as in the rental car corporation, one encounters the ‘Siva’. Siva is Sanskrit for ‘happy’ or ‘auspicious’. Siva is also the name of one of the gods in the Hindu triad and in character represents ‘become-death, the shatterer of worlds’ as a certain alchemist once said. The symbol of Siva is the Lingam or penis. Siva, like Neptune and Satan is usually pictured with a trident. The words ‘Wizard’ and ‘Golden File’ are formally registered trademarks of Avis Rent-A-Car System, Inc. The ‘Wizard of Avis’ according to advertising propaganda, is a ‘sophisticated computer’ that ‘remembers everything you tell it’ and the ‘Golden File’ is ‘the Wizard's permanent file’ (memory bank). In Latin ‘Avis’ means bird or omen. Avis is a member of a corporate conglomerate, the center of which is the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation which is engaged in millions of electronic exchanges involving the Masonic principle of Rapport, the Hartz Mountain principle of empathy and the fundamentals of magnetic Masonry. All of this reminds this writer of the killing of our President on Bloody Elm Street in front of the Sexton building divided by the looming Hertz sign; a tragedy which also wounded Governor John Conally and car salesman James Thomas Tague.”
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“This information is of the first-priority and I make that statement not because I have discovered it but because it simply exists in reality in such a way as to forthrightly indicate the extraordinary nature of the processing of this planet which is taking place.”

[Y · Rating 3 out of 5]

Taking Kennedy and his assassination as a starting point, Downard has gone through every trail of free association possible, with a heavy emphasis on history and etymologies. He then uses these as evidence of connections between freemasonry and JFK’s murder. The writing comes across as frantic and chaotic and it’s hard to follow him through the different leaps he’s constantly making. However, he does have a lot of historical knowledge he is able to communicate, it’s mostly the links that lose me.

For example, much of the early part of the book points to connections between the play MacBeth and JFK. Excerpt below:

“Shortly before the assassination of President Kennedy, Macbeth was performed in the White House.
The part of Macbeth was played by actor Franklin Cover. In a photograph taken at the performance, Franklin Cover is shown standing under a chandelier and this picture was widely circulated in a national magazine. The particular chandelier is a magnificent work of art said to comprise 5060 pieces of cut glass. Jacqueline Kennedy ordered the chandelier, or one exactly like it, removed from the White House as one of her last acts as First Lady. Chandeliers have tremendous symbolical importance in sorcery. For example, a chandelier is said to be the test of a "jettatore's" power. A jettatore is a man possessed of the "malocchio", the "evil eye". Jettatore literally means, in Italian, "thrower" or one who casts. The act itself is called "jettatura".
A photograph was also taken of Mrs. Kennedy at the performance, also showing her standing under the same chandelier under which stood Franklin Cover in his Macbeth costume (if Mrs. Kennedy was not standing under that one it was one identical to it).
There is, in folklore, the superstition that when a wife believes her husband has been injured or killed by sorcerous means instigated by a jettatore, she is to go to that jettatore's chandelier or the one she has seen him take position under and throw her shoe at it.
(None of this is intended to imply that Mr. Cover is a sorcerer, only that his picture under so symbolical an artifact is striking in and of itself). It is also a folk-belief that the taking of position under a chandelier by a practitioner of the "evil eye" is accompanied by "a sound".
Slightly to the east of "Crescent City" (New Orleans) there is an area called "Chandeleur Sound "; beneath it, on many maps, are the words "Freemason I".”