Peter Janney Locates and then sues Alleged Mary Meyer Assassin - Atty William Pepper

Search the Washington, DC Civil Lawsuit case filing at this link: https://www.dccourts.gov/cco/maincase.jsf

(A $120.00 filing fee was paid plus whatever cost of summons service to "defendant" in California.)

Release of revised paperback book edition of Peter Janney's book recently pushed back from 23 September to 3 October.:
http://www.amazon.com/Marys-Mosaic-Conspiracy-Kennedy-Pinchot/dp/1626361274/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

http://politicalassassinations.com/2013/09/washington-d-c-court-filing-claims-possible-cia-involvement-in-the-1964-death-of-mary-pinchot-meyer-seeking-a-new-investigation/

WASHINGTON, D.C. COURT FILING CLAIMS POSSIBLE CIA INVOLVEMENT IN THE 1964 DEATH OF MARY PINCHOT MEYER, SEEKING A NEW INVESTIGATION
September 3, 2013
By admin
WASHINGTON, D.C. COURT FILING CLAIMS POSSIBLE CIA INVOLVEMENT IN THE 1964 DEATH OF MARY PINCHOT MEYER, SEEKING A NEW INVESTIGATION
For Immediate Release:
September 2, 2013
Press Contact: Rev. Frank Morales
frm@panix.com
On August 30 this past week in a Washington D.C. Superior Court, Attorney William F. Pepper, on behalf of author Dr. Peter Janney, submitted a wrongful death suit in a case involving the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer in 1964. The Complaint alleges that Mary Meyer (b.1920), a D.C. socialite, painter, and former wife of Central Intelligence Agency official Cord Meyer and intimate friend and lover of President John F. Kennedy, was murdered, two days before her 44th birthday, as she took her usual lunch-time stroll along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath adjacent to her Georgetown
neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
Mary Pinchot Meyer has been noted as a strong and intimate influence in the life of President Kennedy during the last three years of his life. She was instrumental in assisting a transformation of his views away from the Cold War toward global peace initiatives. Her murder took place on October 12, 1964, less than a year following President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, and just three weeks following the publication of the Warren Commission report, which she believed was a blatant cover- up of the conspiracy to assassinate the president in November 1963.
The complaint, “Dr Peter Janney vs. William Lockwood Mitchell (aka Bill Mitchell)” alleges that the conspiracy to murder Mary Meyer was devised to prevent her from publicly disclosing certain details she had uncovered involving President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. The suit claims that “Lt. William L. Mitchell,” an Army lieutenant working at the Pentagon in the fall of 1964, and who was allegedly an undercover CIA operative, helped to facilitate the Meyer murder. Dr. Janney, author of Mary’s Mosaic, a detailed 35 year long investigation into the circumstances surrounding her life and death, was a childhood friend of the Meyer family. It has only been within the last year, after he finally located and confronted Defendant Mitchell in August 2012, that he now believes he has finally amassed enough evidence to formally seek justice in the D.C. Superior Court.
In addition, the book makes the claim that the author’s own father, also a career, high-level CIA officer, was himself part of the conspiracy to terminate the life of Mary Meyer. Janney’s close relationship to Mary Meyer and her family has led him to pursue justice in her case and to further uncover the truth of the assassination of President Kennedy – a man who many now believe had turned away from the Cold War after the Cuban Missile Crisis in the fall of 1962, toward the pursuit of nuclear disarmament and world peace.

Usually a relative of the deceased files this sort of civil action. What is Attorney William F. Pepper's evidence and legal strategy. Is the evidence to be procured primarily via court ordered discovery? Seems like shameless hype and manipulation, but then again, Janney claims he located the alleged assassin!

What is Pepper doing involved in this kind of grandstanding?

BTW, shouldn't the  suit should be filed in California not Washington?

That's where Mitchell lives.

Janney has a PhD in psychology and evidently can be pretty persuasive; Horne, Mantik, Albarelli, et al have all sipped Janney's kool-ade.

What is Pepper doing involved in this kind of grandstanding?
BTW, shouldn't the  suit should be filed in California not Washington?
That's where Mitchell lives

If you commit a tort in a state (and for these purposes, DC counts), you can always be sued in that state no matter where you live.

However there are two big problems here, the first is standing. Only a deceased person's estate or closest living relative can sue on her behalf, a childhood friend of decedent's son doesn't count. The second problem is the statute of limitations, I just checked, in DC, a wrongful death claim must be brought within 2 years of tort. So even if the family is willing to be on board, the train's already left the station. Judges frown on press releases in the form of frivolous lawsuits, I wouldn't be surprised if Janney is ordered to pay Mitchell's legal bills when the court dismisses it.

And what, pray tell, prayerman, does Mr. Mitchell have to say of all....... this?

Hey Mark!

As luck would have it, Peter Janney's paperback revision of his 2012 hardcover book, "Mary's Mosaic," had been released with a new final chapter in this revised edition of his book.

Janney claims Dr. Mitchell returned a call on March 7, 2013 in response to a message left on Mitchell's home telephone by a researcher of Janney's team. Janney writes,

...Devereux would make an attempt to contact Bill Mitchell directly by telephone, using his lised phone number. Devereux made the call but there was no answer, only a mechanical default message, "Please leave a message," which he did. Later that day, William Lockwood Mitchell, (aka Bill Mitchell) called back.

"Don't bother me anymore. Don't send me anythin in the mail. Thank  you," said Mitchell anxiously,  but politely, then hanging up on Devereux.41

I've posted a new one star review of the newly released paperback edition of Mary's Mosaic.":

http://www.amazon.com/review/RHETJR89AG4KJ/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1626361274&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=
1.0 out of 5 stars In the new PaperBack Edition, Peter Janney again distorts and misrepresents the facts., October 3, 2013
By 
T. Scully "TJ" (USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace (Paperback)
Since I am mentioned by name in the new, final chapter of Peter Janney's newly released paperback edition of his book, Mary's Mosaic, I want to share with readers the new distortions and misrepresentations author Janney has published in this new paperback release.

In the new final chapter, Janney writes,
...Although we were unable to duplicate Scully's Google search, the three of us closely examined the citations he had brought to light.
In several of the citations, William L. Mitchell listed references to his education--Cornell University (B.M.E. degree in 1962), Harvard University (M.S. Degree in 1963), and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. in Mathematics 1970). We subsequently corroborated all three degrees with the registrars of these institutions.

Gaining access to the Cornell University Alumni Directory through a friend, I learned that Mitchell had listed his current address and phone number in northern California. Then, through another friend, I acquired access to the Harvard Alumni Directory, where I discovered that William Mitchell's middle name was "Lockwood," thereby giving us another needed piece of the puzzle to further penetrate his true identity..."

In the new chapter, Janney credits me with authorship of a negative Amazon.com review (dated 8 August, 2012) of the original hardcover addition of Mary's Mosaic. The sixth line of the review Janney described reads,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3P5TSN27O03MK/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp
"The "missing" villain in Janney's book is William Lockwood Mitchell, a UC Berkeley, PhD"......

.....The second page of the new last chapter in Janney's new, revised paperback edition asserts, "The second negative review, however, was more difficult to deal with, at least initially. Posted on Amazon in early August, the review was, I later learned, written by a DiEugenio protege whose name I discovered, was Tom Scully, but he would identify himself on Amazon only as "Rational Voice."

Peter Janney must attempt to discredit the messenger when he cannot discredit the message......Again, Peter Janney allows his preconceived suspicions to drive his "research" and his conclusions. He had the option to react to my uncovering his professed "missing CIA assassin of Mary Meyer, William L. Mitchell," age 74 in 1993 and using the name Mitchell as one of many aliases, by rolling up his claims and falling silent. Instead he now claims that a California PhD. who Janney admits is 20 years younger that the description he originally presented, is a man who changed his name to Bill to hide his covert murderous past.....Now I am motivated to pick it apart because there are too many contradictions and inaccuracies and too little evidence to support Janney's accusations against Mitchell.....

Janney writes in the new Mary's Mosaic paperback epilogue,

...Should the murder case of Mary Meyer now be reopened, would America's national security apparatus ever allow William Lockwood Mitchell to testify? Or would he just disappear into new ethers of obscurity, perhaps by accidental death or suicide?....

And....once again, team Janney brought comparatively great resources to bare and came up short. From the epilogue in the paperback revision of Mary's Mosaic.:

...Moreover, was the man I had just confronted the same person who phoned Leo Damore in 1993 to reveal his involvement in the Meyer murder?....These questions and host of others, had been reignited. ...I conferred with Roger Charles and Don Devereaux, who quickly decided to come out of retirement for this effort, bringing with him noted private investigator Robert Arthur of Global Investigations and Security Consulting in Scotsdale, Arizona. Everything was about to change. Working together, the four of us would uncover a hidden history of a man who was attempting to camouflage his true identity and whereabouts during critical periods in his life.

William Lockwood Mitchell, we learned, was born on July 25, 1939 in New York City. His father was Victor Irving Mitchell, and his mother's maiden name was Doris Sheehan. Mitchell's middle name, "Lockwood" came from his paternalgrandmother, Kathryn "Kitty" B. Lockwood. The Mitchells moved to Mamaroneck, New York, from Norwalk, Connecticut in 1940. When one tracks the Mitchell name at Ancestry.com, the family tree lists William Mitchell's father and motehr, and his younger brother James, but the caption, "Private" appears where the birthplace of their first born son William should be listed.3...

Janney also writes earlier in this new epilogue chapter that  he learned that Tom Scully posted an 8 August, 2012, Amazon review under the psuedonym, "Rational Voice." -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3P5TSN27O03MK/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp
In that review is displayed the identical Mitchell D.O.B. that Janney crafts as a description of fruits of discovery of his intrepid investigative team.

So, using the Mitchell D.O.B. I furnished to them, the Janney group identified names of a father, mother, and brother of William Lockwood Mitchell that fit his description, but they took it no further. Janney wrote of the limits of their ability to confirm that Mitchell was the son of the couple he named. He was unable to confirm a definitive match of son William to parents Victor and Katherine Lockwood Mitchell.

For this first time, I can share this application establishing that Mitchell's father and family were not attempting to conceal any information related to family or about their son in 1961, and that William's D.O.B. to this couple and their other son, James. The details displayed also include the change in residence of Victor Irving Mitchell from New York in 1961 to Florida in 1963. I predict that Janney will explain in coming book promotions that he "learned" the following details. It seems he still has much to learn and no new fact will give him pause in his sensationalist approach and delivery. (The revised edition of Mary's Mosaic is released, the new chapter fails to make pleadings or present evidence in support of pleadings, for which relief can be granted. Since I have been delivering unimpeachable related details since last August, and author Janney has not, I feel qualified to write that this is so.):





Mark, you are mentioned in both editions of Mary's Mosaic, and you did research for Leo Damore. I hope you will share your reaction to Janney's continued belief that someone called Damore in 1993 claiming to be CIA assassin Mitchell and that Damore believed what this caller told him and that this is still relevant and supports the belief that Mary Meyer was assassinated, although Janney has now published that this new PhD. CIA man of intrigue "wet work" perpetrator who attempted to frame Raymond Crump for murder is NOT the same man Leo Damore wrote of because Janney noticed that this new guy in California is 20 years younger than the guy Damore claimed to confess to him that he murdered Mary. Janney also writes that Damore's guy had ties to the FBI but William Lockwood Mitchell is only working for MI and CIA.

"...Although we were unable to duplicate Scully's Google search yadda yadda........."
                                     ________________ "PJ", on "TJ"

To this day, far as I can 'Google', no one has been able to duplicate Mr. Scully's "searches".  On ANY subject  No one.  And how is this gentleman rewarded for his due diligence? As stated before I am mystified, mortified........ far from pacified.  I am still trying to understand what Dr. Janney's visage is doing on the OIC 'Wanted' poster that his fellow Senior Member, Ralph Cinque has showing on his 'Oswald in the Doorway'
internet site.  What a sight.

A protege of DiEugenio?

I have never met Tom in person, and I have never talked to him on the phone.

I don't even know if he has read any of my books.

Using Peter Janney's connection criteria, it is safe to describe Janney as his uncle Frank Rockefeller's Pace's most accomodating nephew. I guess Ben Bradlee did not get the directive Janney got ..... never mention Uncle Frank....

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=20178&p=273300

A Good Life - Page 130
books.google.com/books?isbn=1439128855
Ben Bradlee - 2011 - Preview - More editions
Ben Bradlee. 
...The offer came from Frank Pace, then Secretary of the Army, former Budget Bureau Director, and later the young president of General Dynamics. He had never heard of me, but he was married to Wistar Janney's sister, and one night at the Janneys' he mentioned he was
 
https://www.google.c...urce=newspapers
Frank Pace Jr. Joins Time Inc. Directors
‎Hartford Courant - Apr 25, 1960
Frank Pace Jr., chairman ot the board and chief executive officer ot General Dynamics ... A joint announcement from Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce and. ......
 

Been two weeks since Tom's been keeping Pace with all of this.  Where's Mitchell?  Why doesn't he say anything?  Just askin'.

beowulf, I assume plaintiff wants very much to avoid "winning" a default jusdgment. Do they seem to have any leverage requesting "more time" for defendant Mitchell to respond? It seems there is only one litigant, so far.....

https://www.dccourts.gov/cco/maincase.jsf

Docket Date Description Messages
10/21/2013 Motion to Vacate Default Judgment Filed Motion to Vacate Default Judgment Against the Defendant and to Extend Defendant's Time to Respond Filed. submitted 10/21/2013 12:06. tds
Attorney: PEPPER, Dr WILLIAM F F (464502)
Dr PETER JANNEY (PLAINTIFF); Receipt: 265514 Date: 10/22/2013

10/16/2013 Returned Mail: Returned Order of Default Hearing notice issued on October 7, 2013
Mailed to: Dr. William F. F. Pepper Address: 1003 K Street, NW, Suite 640, Washington, DC 20001
Returned to Court on: October 16, 2013
Reason: No such street

10/07/2013 Event Resulted: Event Resulted:
The following event: Initial Scheduling Conference-60 scheduled for 12/06/2013 at 9:30 am has been resulted as follows:
Result: Scheduling Conference Hearing Cancelled
Judge: HOLEMAN, BRIAN F Location: Courtroom 214

10/07/2013 Default Issued. Notice Mailed Default Issued. Notice Mailed
WILLIAM LOCKWOOD MITCHELL (Defendant);

09/06/2013 Proof of Service Proof of Service
Method : Service Issued
Issued : 08/30/2013
Service : Summons Issued
Served : 09/03/2013 ....

1. Its rather odd that process was served (and presumably a process server in California swore he handed notice of the lawsuit to someone at Mitchell's home) and yet notice of a default hearing was returned by the Post Office for "no such street". If I was a judge I would have questions that the Mitchell residence was actually served papers if plaintiff doesn't seem to know where they live. I think plaintiff is stalling, hoping Mitchell gets them off the hook by responding.There's already a couple reasons to dismiss the case (standing, statute of limitations), why add another?

2. I'm extremely doubtful Mitchell will pay a penny or even see the inside of a courtroom. If there was a case you'd know because you'd see  Peter Janney arrested.

Let's think this through, Mitchell came forward as witness after Mary Meyer's murder and even testified at the murder trial. If Janney's suit had any kind of traction, the US Attorney would be looking at him for witness retaliation charges.  Prosecutors take a dim view of people trying to put the squeeze on prosecution witnesses, past, present or future.

(e) Whoever knowingly, with the intent to retaliate, takes any action harmful to any person, including interference with the lawful employment or livelihood of any person, for providing to a law enforcement officer any truthful information relating to the commission or possible commission of any Federal offense, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1513

If I was Mitchell (and for all I know he's lurking on this thread), I would take the bull by the horns and call the US Attorney and say,
"I came forward to testify in a murder case for you guys and now some guy who's not related to the victim, is over 40 years late on the statute of limations but does a Kennedy conspiracy book to sell is suing me for wrongful death. I'm only on his radar screen because I talked to the police and testified for your office. Isn't there a law against retaliating against witnesses?"
)

Mitchell may have moved since he was first served in September? The problem lately is that Janney, armed with a PhD in psychology and a well organized set of obsessions, has persuaded a DC Metro PD homicide detective to investigate Mitchell. This is from the new epilogue in the paperback edition. Janney says he met with the detective four times, up to publication cut off. He also seems to have convinced Atty. Dr. Pepper, and the new epilogue is designed to minimize the discrediting impact of my identification of "missing" Mitchell.

continued in image below:

Janney wrote that Leo Damore found in the early 1990's and that Det. Whalen has confirmed that the DC PD and court files of the officially unsolved Mary Meyer murder case were discarded after 25 years, shortly before Damore was able to attempt to gain access to them.

This article is a year old..... (Was Det. Whalen a guest in "Beverly by the sea", Mass., meeting with Janney, last October?)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/dc-homicides-in-15-percent-of-closed-cases-no-----arrests-and-no-trial/2012/10/13/2fb8e5d6-fb8b-11e1-b2af-1f7d12fe907a_story_3.html
Special Report
Murder under the microscope
Despite a stunning drop in homicides in D.C., murder remains a stubborn crime to solve and prosecute.
D.C. homicides: In 15 percent of closed cases, no charges and no arrests
........
Longtime homicide detective Daniel Whalen, who investigated the case, declined to discuss why police did not question Vanterpool.
“I just can’t comment,” Whalen said when reached on vacation in Massachusetts. .....

This article is a year old..... (Was Det. Whalen a guest in "Beverly by the sea", Mass., meeting with Janney, last October?)
...

“I just can’t comment,” Whalen said when reached on vacation in Massachusetts. .....

Heh, nice catch. Even if they had all the evidence handy unless they had the proverbial smoking gun, a confession, say, there's no way the US Attorney's office is going to pursue the case (DC is an odd duck jurisdictionally, the prosecutor is a presidential appointee while the Police Dept reports to the Mayor and City Council). Indicting Mitchell, would mean the US Attorney's office admitting they screwed up every which way, 1. for already trying the wrong man for murder and 2. for letting the "real killer"  get away with it for 50 years and 3. for allowing the real killer to be the star witness against the (acquitted) patsy.  Even if any this was true (which I rather doubt), I believe the controlling legal principle here is, let sleeping dogs lie.

"This is the strangest experience ever to capture my attention.  Janney* seems to have an ability to convince almost anyone of anything and then say it is so in the face of all actual evidence."
                    _________ Tom Scully, 'EF &DP Forum', Sat., Oct. 5, 2013 @ 3:12 p.m.



* in all fairness to Peter, many other authors/pundits/researchers are guilty of this technique in order to promote/sell their 'revision' of history, truth or no. (asterix/comment by MAO)

Let us not forget David Lifton in this regard.

James DiEugenio wrote:Let us not forget David Lifton in this regard.

I think Mr Body alteration definitely belongs in that camp.

James DiEugenio wrote:Let us not forget David Lifton in this regard.

I think Mr Body alteration definitely belongs in that camp

I like to think of him as Mr Landscape architecture.
https://reopenkennedycase.forumotion.net/t374p15-amos-lee-euins#3067

And as if things couldn't get any stranger, Mr. Pepper's 'research' man has joined Ralph Cinque's OIC.  Now isn't that Devine(sic)?

Are those guys in the OIC for real or are they set up to divert attention away from PM?
I still can't believe Salandria has joined them. I use to like him. Mark Lane I can understand. He turned out to be a fuckwit.

Moreover, as of this writing, Dr. Cinque has posted one thousand-eight hundred and ninety-seven entries in his blogspot since September of last year.  Has everyone in the OIC read all of them?   Has everyone gone insane?  Apparently.  Ralph boasts 33 (including Señor Cinque) 'Senior Members' in his group, these giants who stand behind him as a cohesive unit, trying to get to the bottom of all this.  Bravo, Senior Members.  Stars in your Crown.  And what's up with Mr. Mitchell?

Cinque recently stated on a JFK facebook group that Larry Hancock wasn't good enough to get into the OIC.

Which reminds me of Groucho Marx, who said, "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member".  

I wonder who will be the first to drop out of the OIC?  We should make a wager with Dr. Cinque, don't you think?

Hey Mark!

Tip of the day..... extra points for those who correctly answer the question.:
http://www.news.com.au/world/priscilla-johnson-mcmillan-the-woman-who-knew-jfk-and-lee-harvey-oswald/story-fndir2ev-1226743055022
Priscilla Johnson McMillan: the woman who knew JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald

• 8 months ago October 17, 2013
  

Marina Oswald, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, with friend Jerre Hastings (c) and Priscilla Johnson (later McMillan,) pose for a photo taken during the time that Johnson befriended Oswald after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Photo courtesy of Priscilla Johnson McMillan Source: Supplied

Who is the person in the above photo who was in the McAdams, Winnetka, IL household listed in the 1940 US Census, and in the circa 1964 photo, was married at the time to Marguerite McAdams, aunt of presidential advisor, Clark McAdams Clifford?

C'mon....this is an easy one.......