Benjamin Cole Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 The legacy media ossifies into coprolite. Again we are told (by TIME) the "definitive" account of the JFKA is the Warren Commission. The HSCA Report, that concluded there had likely been a conspiracy...is erased from history. Orwell, anyone? Passing thought is given to the Biden Administration snuff job on the JFKA Records Act. A curiosity, only. The Orwellian "Transparency Board" is also a non-entity. You can't make this stuff up. What We Know and Still Don’t Know About JFK’s Assassination--TIME U.S. President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and others smile at the crowds lining their motorcade route on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas—just minutes before the President was assassinated as his car passed through Dealey Plaza.Bettmann Archive BY OLIVIA B. WAXMAN NOVEMBER 21, 2023 2:39 PM EST This Wednesday marks 60 years since America’s youngest President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 46 by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was shot while riding in a car with his wife First Lady Jackie Onassis and Texas Governor John Connally during a tour of the state. Two days later, local nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963. Sixty years after the JFK assassination, it’s still unclear why Oswald shot the president, fueling countless conspiracies—like whether his successor Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the assassination. (He was not.) The continued fascination over who killed JFK and why helps provide context for the conspiracy theories that continue to dominate American politics today. The definitive account of what happened the day of the assassination is the report produced by the Warren Commission. Just a week after JFK’s death, Johnson signed an executive order that created the commission, headed by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Earl Warren, to investigate the death of the President. Ten months later, its report confirmed that Oswald fired the shots that killed JFK and wounded Connally, and that there is “no evidence” that Oswald or Jack Ruby were part of a domestic conspiracy or that a foreign government was behind the assassination. The report did not determine why Oswald shot JFK; as TIME reported in 1964, “The explanation of Oswald's motive for killing President Kennedy was buried with him.” “I don't think we fully understood how many people just could not give up the idea that there was a conspiracy,” says Burt Griffin, assistant counsel on the Warren Commission, and author of JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth. Read more: JFK's assassination and the conspiracy industry The killing of the President helped fuel a climate of mistrust in the 1960s that grew with the assassinations in 1968 of Martin Luther King, Jr. and JFK’s brother Robert F. Kennedy, says Larry Sabato, author of The Kennedy Half Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy. The ongoing Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s contributed to a culture of conspiracies. “As a society, we became addicted to conspiracy theories because of the Kennedy assassination,” Sabato says. Since the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, the government has been declassifying documents related to JFK’s assassination. But according to experts on the JFK assassination that TIME talked to, no major revelations have been found in these document dumps in the 60 years since the President was killed. “No new information has been revealed or exposed that really alter the course of our understanding of what happened,” says Nicola Longford, CEO of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, a museum all about the JFK assassination located in the building where Oswald shot JFK. Some eyewitnesses to the JFK assassination are still alive. National Geographic’s new docuseries out Nov. 5 is told through archival footage from the Sixth Floor museum and eyewitnesses from the Associated Press reporter Peggy Simpson to Clint Hill, a Secret Service agent who tried to shield the Kennedys from bullets. “The 60th anniversary is the last round-year anniversary in which we’re going to have eyewitnesses to the assassination coming up with any news,” says Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. The most prominent eyewitness account that surfaced this year is from Paul Landis, 88, who was on Jackie Kennedy’s Secret Service detail and has opened up about his role on that fateful day in a new memoir that came out in October. Per a Sep. 9 New York Times article, Landis was riding in a convertible behind the presidential limousine and claims that he found an intact bullet in the seam of the limousine’s cushioning, slipped it into his coat pocket, and left it on Kennedy’s stretcher. The bullet then ended up on Connally’s empty stretcher, as a hospital staffer was moving them around. The Warren Commission did not locate the bullet on JFK’s stretcher. But the fact that Landis has not spoken up for 60 years has raised some questions about his account and how accurate his memory is, as well as the fact that the Warren Commission didn’t interview him. Even the 2023 Times article concluded that “A couple elements of his account contradict the official statements he filed with authorities immediately after the shooting, and some of the implications of his version cannot be easily reconciled to the existing record.” One big reason that JFK assassination conspiracy theories still persist is because not all of the files pertaining to that fateful day have been made available by the U.S. government. All of them were supposed to be released by 2017, but the release date has been postponed multiple times during the Trump and Biden administrations. Sabato, who does deep dives into the declassified JFK assassination files with his students at the University of Virginia, says there are thousands of pages that are classified and it’s unclear why. “We don't know what they cover and so that feeds the conspiracies even more,” as Sabato puts it. “What are they hiding?” Posner agrees, but given Oswald never went to trial, he argues, “You're never going to feel as though the case is really settled.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Jolliffe Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 18 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said: The legacy media ossifies into coprolite. Again we are told (by TIME) the "definitive" account of the JFKA is the Warren Commission. The HSCA Report, that concluded there had likely been a conspiracy...is erased from history. Orwell, anyone? Passing thought is given to the Biden Administration snuff job on the JFKA Records Act. A curiosity, only. The Orwellian "Transparency Board" is also a non-entity. You can't make this stuff up. What We Know and Still Don’t Know About JFK’s Assassination--TIME U.S. President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and others smile at the crowds lining their motorcade route on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas—just minutes before the President was assassinated as his car passed through Dealey Plaza.Bettmann Archive BY OLIVIA B. WAXMAN NOVEMBER 21, 2023 2:39 PM EST This Wednesday marks 60 years since America’s youngest President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 46 by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was shot while riding in a car with his wife First Lady Jackie Onassis and Texas Governor John Connally during a tour of the state. Two days later, local nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963. Sixty years after the JFK assassination, it’s still unclear why Oswald shot the president, fueling countless conspiracies—like whether his successor Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the assassination. (He was not.) The continued fascination over who killed JFK and why helps provide context for the conspiracy theories that continue to dominate American politics today. The definitive account of what happened the day of the assassination is the report produced by the Warren Commission. Just a week after JFK’s death, Johnson signed an executive order that created the commission, headed by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Earl Warren, to investigate the death of the President. Ten months later, its report confirmed that Oswald fired the shots that killed JFK and wounded Connally, and that there is “no evidence” that Oswald or Jack Ruby were part of a domestic conspiracy or that a foreign government was behind the assassination. The report did not determine why Oswald shot JFK; as TIME reported in 1964, “The explanation of Oswald's motive for killing President Kennedy was buried with him.” “I don't think we fully understood how many people just could not give up the idea that there was a conspiracy,” says Burt Griffin, assistant counsel on the Warren Commission, and author of JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth. Read more: JFK's assassination and the conspiracy industry The killing of the President helped fuel a climate of mistrust in the 1960s that grew with the assassinations in 1968 of Martin Luther King, Jr. and JFK’s brother Robert F. Kennedy, says Larry Sabato, author of The Kennedy Half Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy. The ongoing Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s contributed to a culture of conspiracies. “As a society, we became addicted to conspiracy theories because of the Kennedy assassination,” Sabato says. Since the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, the government has been declassifying documents related to JFK’s assassination. But according to experts on the JFK assassination that TIME talked to, no major revelations have been found in these document dumps in the 60 years since the President was killed. “No new information has been revealed or exposed that really alter the course of our understanding of what happened,” says Nicola Longford, CEO of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, a museum all about the JFK assassination located in the building where Oswald shot JFK. Some eyewitnesses to the JFK assassination are still alive. National Geographic’s new docuseries out Nov. 5 is told through archival footage from the Sixth Floor museum and eyewitnesses from the Associated Press reporter Peggy Simpson to Clint Hill, a Secret Service agent who tried to shield the Kennedys from bullets. “The 60th anniversary is the last round-year anniversary in which we’re going to have eyewitnesses to the assassination coming up with any news,” says Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. The most prominent eyewitness account that surfaced this year is from Paul Landis, 88, who was on Jackie Kennedy’s Secret Service detail and has opened up about his role on that fateful day in a new memoir that came out in October. Per a Sep. 9 New York Times article, Landis was riding in a convertible behind the presidential limousine and claims that he found an intact bullet in the seam of the limousine’s cushioning, slipped it into his coat pocket, and left it on Kennedy’s stretcher. The bullet then ended up on Connally’s empty stretcher, as a hospital staffer was moving them around. The Warren Commission did not locate the bullet on JFK’s stretcher. But the fact that Landis has not spoken up for 60 years has raised some questions about his account and how accurate his memory is, as well as the fact that the Warren Commission didn’t interview him. Even the 2023 Times article concluded that “A couple elements of his account contradict the official statements he filed with authorities immediately after the shooting, and some of the implications of his version cannot be easily reconciled to the existing record.” One big reason that JFK assassination conspiracy theories still persist is because not all of the files pertaining to that fateful day have been made available by the U.S. government. All of them were supposed to be released by 2017, but the release date has been postponed multiple times during the Trump and Biden administrations. Sabato, who does deep dives into the declassified JFK assassination files with his students at the University of Virginia, says there are thousands of pages that are classified and it’s unclear why. “We don't know what they cover and so that feeds the conspiracies even more,” as Sabato puts it. “What are they hiding?” Posner agrees, but given Oswald never went to trial, he argues, “You're never going to feel as though the case is really settled.” Ben, No offense, but really, it's Time Magazine for god's sake! What did you expect? Time Magazine was founded in 1923 by "America's Most Influential Private Citizen", Henry Luce (who was still publisher and head honcho in 1963.) Time is now and has always been the voice of the globalist elite, the very class of people bitterly opposed to President Kennedy's foreign and domestic policies. Luce (himself a child of Protestant Missionaries in China, intent on saving souls), had a messianic view of the role the United States should play after World War II. Indeed, Luce invented both the term and concept of "The American Century" which remains to this day the cornerstone economic, political and military philosophy of the American Deep State/Establishment. Luce believed "the power conferred was global and universal rather than territorially specific . . . Luce called upon United States "to exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit and by such means as we see fit". The Ambiguous Legacy: U.S. Foreign Relations in the 'American Century' - Google Books (See page 20.) Henry Luce was the heart, soul and voice of the globalist, economic elite - the very people who would never allow a mere president to stand in the way of their goals. Time Magazine was Luce's most-prized creation, and today, 56 years after his death, it is still his baby. Time will never, ever acknowledge that a conspiracy to murder the president was originated and carried out by the highest-level operatives of the American Deep State. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 (edited) “No new information has been revealed or exposed that really alter the course of our understanding of what happened,” says Nicola Longford, CEO of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, a museum all about the JFK assassination located in the building where Oswald shot JFK. Edited November 22, 2023 by James DiEugenio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Can I ask Longford a question: Have you ever heard of the ARRB? 2 million pages of documents. A medical investigation by Jeremy Gunn and Doug Horne: Sandy Spencer, John Stringer etc. Lopez Report decalssified. Sec/Def Meeting of May 1963 declassified. The notes of Betsy Wolf of the HSCA on the Oswald file. I call what she says utter nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Cole Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 9 hours ago, Paul Jolliffe said: Ben, No offense, but really, it's Time Magazine for god's sake! What did you expect? Time Magazine was founded in 1923 by "America's Most Influential Private Citizen", Henry Luce (who was still publisher and head honcho in 1963.) Time is now and has always been the voice of the globalist elite, the very class of people bitterly opposed to President Kennedy's foreign and domestic policies. Luce (himself a child of Protestant Missionaries in China, intent on saving souls), had a messianic view of the role the United States should play after World War II. Indeed, Luce invented both the term and concept of "The American Century" which remains to this day the cornerstone economic, political and military philosophy of the American Deep State/Establishment. Luce believed "the power conferred was global and universal rather than territorially specific . . . Luce called upon United States "to exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit and by such means as we see fit". The Ambiguous Legacy: U.S. Foreign Relations in the 'American Century' - Google Books (See page 20.) Henry Luce was the heart, soul and voice of the globalist, economic elite - the very people who would never allow a mere president to stand in the way of their goals. Time Magazine was Luce's most-prized creation, and today, 56 years after his death, it is still his baby. Time will never, ever acknowledge that a conspiracy to murder the president was originated and carried out by the highest-level operatives of the American Deep State. PJ-- Of course, your are right. But what do I expect? I spent the bulk of my professional life as a small-time journalist (was also furniture-maker for a stretch, and now a farmer). I expect journalists to demand disclosure of public documents, and maximum transparency. We are not a democracy unless we know what our government is doing. I expect journalists to be fair, but skeptical regarding government (or corporate) proclamations. TIME is not even in the ballpark. Hell, they are not even in the parking lot of the ballpark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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