Kerry, to my knowledge, has NEVER claimed he reported that "plot" or "discussion" or whatever you wish to term it. If he did, don't you think he'd claim that immediately? I wouldn't be surprised if he knows or is afraid there is the proof to the contrary and that's what stops him.
The New York Sun first reported last week that other anti-war activists placed Mr. Kerry at the Kansas City meeting. A total of six people have now said publicly that they remember seeing Mr. Kerry there. Participants say the plot was voted down, and several say they remember Mr. Kerry speaking and voting against it.
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“My evidence is incontrovertible. He was there,” Mr. Nicosia said in an interview yesterday. “There’s no way that five or six agents saw his ghost there,” said the historian, who lives in Marin County, north of San Francisco.
Mr. Nicosia said that the records show Mr. Kerry resigned from the group on the third day of the meeting, following discussion of the assassination plan and an argument between Mr. Kerry and another VVAW national coordinator, Al Hubbard.
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“It’s kind of unmistakable to see a pattern. All four of them were out the door, bingo, the morning after” the socalled Phoenix plot was discussed, the author said.
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“I think Senator Kerry better get his story straight on this,”Mr. Nicosia said.
“I’m a Kerry supporter. I honor the guy,”Mr.Nicosia said. He noted that Mr. Kerry threw a book party for “Home at War” at the Hart Senate Office Building. The senator also wrote a positive blurb for the book’s dust jacket.
The book does not mention Mr. Kerry’s presence at the Kansas City meeting. Mr. Nicosia said he did not have the FBI files as he was writing the manuscript. Other accounts led him to think that Mr. Kerry had quit the group at a July meeting in St. Louis.
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NOTE: I presume they mean July '71, which would have been before the meeting. But again, given, that would expect Kerry to come out and say that.
Also, it appears I may have been wrong about Presidential assassination. I read that somewhere, but have seen no reference to it today. It may only have been against Senators who supported the Vietnam War.
The minutes indicate that at the end of the day on Saturday, November 13, discussion nturned to “national actions and other things.” The meeting is reported to have adjourned at 10 p.m. and resumed at 11 a.m. Sunday. The document goes on to say that the group passed a motion to hold a “national action… in 3 to 5 different sites.”The next entry in the minutes is, “John Kerry, Scott Moore, Mike Oliver and Skip Roberts resigned as national coordinators.” A later entry indicates that it was decided that the resignations and the decision on the “national action” should be reflected in all the group’s papers.
According to Mr. Nicosia, the FBI documents and other records do not include any direct reference to the assassination plot. However, Mr. Nicosia said some informants who attended the Kansas City meeting warned the FBI of a “drastic move toward more violent actions.”
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A group of VVAW members seized the Statue of Liberty on behalf of the group on December 27, 1971. It’s unclear whether that action was approved at the Kansas City meeting in November.
That's a possible out. They could claim THAT was the "action" under discussion. NOBODY has claimed it as of now.
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