Who was Otto F. Otepka and Why Did Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Keep a File?

Beginning in 1957, Otto F. Otepka served as Deputy Director of the State Department Office of Security. This meant that Otepka was in charge of granting security clearances for all State Department personnel. A cadre of people worked under his supervision. From this position of considerable responsibility, Otepka was plunged into a nightmare universe of harassment and surveillance. He was reassigned and removed to a position from which he could no longer reveal inconvenient truths. Yet he had done nothing wrong. It is an extraordinary tale of a career government officer being framed from within the government, his only sin the scrupulous manner in which he performed his duties.

Now, why would there be a small file of clippings about this man in Sovereignty Files? His story has recently been tied to the assassination of JFK -- but this comes years later, as researchers like Joan Mellen do this work on John F. Kennedy's demise.

Here's is a Sovereignty Commission Link

http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/sovcom/result.php?image=/data/sov_commission/images/png/cd06/045916.png&otherstuff=6|44|0|34|1|1|1|45243|

There's a couple more files you can pull up, too.

And here is a link to a free online book about this man by author Joan Mellen. You might take a look; it's quite fascinating. For myself, it helped answer a question of why one of Kennedy's closest friends and cohorts turned on Jim Garrison, making it so rough for him to convict Clay Shaw.

Link to online book --

JFK Assassination Tour: Where Lee Harvey Oswald Was Shot By Jack Ruby

Where the trail ends?

Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed as he walked through the area behind the brown doors,across the street.Some believe Jack Ruby was acting strictly out of anger, something for which Ruby was known. Further, Ruby had left his small dogs waiting for him in his car -- pets he always took to work. Would he have brought the dogs with him if he knew he would be arrested?

But what about Ruby' documented Chicago mob affiliations?

That's one of many topics discussed by retired FBI agent M. Wesley Swearingen in To Kill A President: Finally---An Ex-FBI Agent rips aside the veil of secrecy that killed JFK and in FBI Secrets: An Agents Expose

The author served in the US Navy and holds a BA from Ohio State. Swearingen received the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice President's Award for Courage, Commitment, Unswerving Faith and United Effort to overcome racism.
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Search Sovereignty Commission files for Jack Ruby files here
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Meanwhile, here's a Sovereignty Commission link on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

JFK Assassination Conference: Where Oswald Questioned

Old City Hall where Oswald was questioned on the third floor.
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Was Oswald ever in Mississippi?

Letter to the Sovereignty Commission by University of Mississippi professor

Follow up memo to FBI

Both documents were found in the Mary Ferrell archives.

JFK Assassination Tour: Following the Trail?

Location and spot where this photo of Lee Harvey Oswald with his rifle; the photograph was purportedly taken by Marina Oswald of her husband and appeared on cover of LIFE Magazine Feb. 21,1964.
This spot was another Dallas residence for the Oswald family.
But where did the other shooters come from? Chicago? France?
And is this photo for real or is it just another attempt to manufacture the Oswald story?

Was there a connection between Oswald and Jack Ruby? Here's an article posted in the Sovereignty Commission files that explores this question.

A Dallas Apartment Where Oswalds Once Lived

The Texas Theatre

Theatre where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested within the hour of the shooting of JFK. Oswald's eye- witnessed killing of Officer Tippit took place about one mile away from the Texas Theatre, about 30 minutes before he was arrested.

JFKConference: Taking a Tour of Landmarks

The Dallas rooming house where Lee Harvey Oswald lived.

What was the extent of the CIA's involvement with Lee Harvey Oswald? Why was Oswald's file tampered with before the assassination of John F. Kennedy? And why did significant documents from that file mysteriously disappear?

Oswald and the CIA: The Documented Truth Anout the Unknown Relationship Between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK

JFK remembered: Dallas Nov. 22, 2008

Why JFK on a Mississippi Sovereignty Commission page? In these files are records on John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, Lee Harvey Oswald, Guy Bannister, John D. Sullivan, James Eastland, and others.

Take a look for yourself at http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/sovcom

JFK Lancer Dinner

Why Did Hoover Own Stock in DalTex Business? Author Shares Strange Story

Larry Hancock,leading JFK researcher, is presenting on the Mystery of the DalTex building. Photos taken show police officers looking at this building when shots were first fired. In his research, Hancock found a business, Dallas Uranium and Oil, with no assets, business or employees. It was a shell. One of Jack Ruby's employees also worked in the same building at the time.

Today the business has turned into -- another shell business.

"You can lose lots of sleep at night over this stuff."

The DalTex is a building where a shot could have been fired from, Hancock believes. Especially since in his research he found one stockholder listed for the Dallas Uranium and Oil Company--J. Edgar Hoover owned one share.