JFK

Posted at 10:01 am on Tuesday, November 25, 2008, in Travels, and tagged conspiracy, jfk, nine-eleven.

The forty-fifth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy came-and-went this weekend. I think that CBS should re-live those dramatic events, similar to how the cable networks have been paying tribute on anniversaries of nine-eleven, re-airing the events as if they were live. The aftermath of the JFK murder cemented television as a medium, and now we take such coverage for granted, probably because of the obnoxious bottom scroll. It would be a neat thing for CBS to do on the fiftieth anniversary of the day that practically started the modern conspiracy theory movement.

Although much of it is fabricated, JFK is one of my favorite movies, and it certainly spurred my interest in the numerous JFK conspiracies. In fact, I still have nightmares about them. I think I may know too much, and that someone will try to silence me, especially when I was in New Orleans in September. That shit straight freaked me out. That is exactly why I do not blog the subject that often, and only briefly when I do. Until now. Because I’m buying-in. The Warren Commission is right. Most likely.

These are the facts that I now fully realize (and appreciate). There were only three bullets. One of them was “magic,” but actually not. There was only one shooter. The shots were fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository (a great name for a building; we need one of those in my town). Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed the president. And Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald in a fit of rage.

And this is what I do not understand. How did Oswald get a job at the depository only weeks before the assassination? Why were Secret Service agents not positioned on the back-stands at the rear of the limousine? And why did the driver not speed off after the first or second shots were fired?

A conspiracy in the JFK assassination does not mean that there had to have been a second shooter on the grassy knoll (which there wasn’t). It only means that someone else knew about the plan, or assisted in any way, even a cup of coffee to talk things over. Oswald’s wife may have known bits and pieces but probably thought nothing of it, more out of fear of retribution than anything else. But no one in Miami — where an assassination attempt was foiled only months earlier — and no one in New Orleans — where Oswald was seen distributing pro-Cuba propaganda and was even interviewed by the local news — knew anything about the former Marine who would study Marxism, move to Russia and denounce his U.S. citizenship, return to the U.S. as an outward communist-Cuba sympathizer, move to Dallas and begin working at a book warehouse in the path of a long-planned presidential procession? And a man who would have a lengthy FBI file, but don’t we all.

Oswald killed Kennedy. It required three bullets. These are facts.

No related posts.