John Rousselot
John Rousselot was born in Los Angeles, California, on 1st November, 1927. Educated in schools in San Marino and Pasadena, he worked for a while as an insurance agent. This was followed by the post of assistant to public relations director, Pacific Finance Corporation (1954-58) and an employee of the Federal Housing Administration.
A member of the Republican Party and the John Birch Society, Rousselot was elected to the 87th Congress (1961-63). He unsuccessful candidate for re-election for the 88th Congress. He was relected in 1970 and held the seat for 13 years.
In 1975 Harry Dean claimed he had been an undercover agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 1962 he infiltrated the John Birch Society. He later reported that Rousselot and General Edwin Walker had hired two gunman, Eladio del Valle and Loran Hall, to kill President John F. Kennedy. However, Dean was unable to provide any evidence to back up his claim.
After being defeated in 1982 Ronald Reagan appointed him President of the National Council of Savings Institutions (1985-88).
John Rousselot died in Tenet, California on 11th May, 2003.
Primary Sources
(1) W. R. Morris, The Men Behind the Guns (1975)
Harry Dean, an ex-employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, has marble-hard proof that Republican Congressman John Rousselot from California's 26th Congressional District, and former Army General Edwin A. Walker of Dallas, engineered the death of John F. Kennedy. At the time, Rousselot was western director of the John Birch Society and Walker was a member of the right wing organization.
The ex-agent has an avalanche of evidence, including several tape recordings of Rousselot and Walker making threats against President Kennedy's life...
The former agent infiltrated the John Birch Society for several months and gathered first-hand information about the group's activities including plans of certain members to kill the 35th president of the United States.
He said Rousselot and Walker convinced other members of the Birch Society that a "dirty communist" tag should be placed on John Kennedy and that he should be marked for death to save the United States from "falling into Red hands."
Dean said (General Walker also was obsessed with hatred for both John and Robert Kennedy and had a "personal grudge" to settle.
"When Robert Kennedy was attorney general he ordered his aides to imprison Walker in a Federal mental institution at Springfield, Missouri, following Walker's involvement in the racial disorders in 1962 at Oxford,
Mississippi." Dean said.
"In fact, Walker's clothing was torn off him and he was thrown naked into a military airplane and flown to Missouri. Robert Kennedy then leaked stories to the news media that Walker was a mental case," the ex-agent said...
"I attended many meetings of the John Birch Society prior to the assassination in 1963 and I heard details of the Kennedy kill plan being discussed each time we met," Dean said.
"I know that John Rousselot organized the murder plot and with other right-wingers financed it. General Walker ramrodded and trained the hired guns, Dean said.
"I was with a man in September 1963 when he picked up $10,000 from Rousselot. The money was taken to Mexico City to help finance the murder of Mr. Kennedy'. The assassination planning team operated out of Mexico City for several weeks before the president was shot in Dallas," Dean added
Dean said that he has been staying behind the scenes for many years and that his family has lived in constant fear.
"My wife and children have gone through hell. The life of a government undercover agent isn't the glorified one as depicted on television and in the movies.
"Now, however, I have decided to bring out the truth regardless of the price. I can't keep living with this horrible burden on my conscious. It haunts me day and night," the former agent said.
Dean said many persons will ask why he waited so long to reveal the facts about the Kennedy assassination which occurred almost 12 years ago.
"The truth of the matter is. I told my superiors about this plot when I first learned of the details, but they ignored it," Dean added.
The former agent said all the articles printed in recent weeks about the CIA and the Mafia masterminding the Kennedy murder are like the "Mother Goose and Little Red Riding Hood" stories . . entertaining, but not factual.
"The news media has been playing right into the hands of the real Kennedy killers by creating a smoke screen which continues to hide them from justice," Dean said...
"If the assassins had attempted to shoot Mr. Kennedy at the Trade Mart, they would either have been killed or captured because the whole area was crawling with federal officers who were heavily armed. Lee Harvey Oswald, working as a federal security agent, had performed his job well," Dean said.