JFK and the Unspeakable

The murder of President Kennedy was a seminal event for me and for millions of Americans. It changed the course of history. It was a crushing blow to our country and to millions of people around the world. It put an abrupt end to a period of a misunderstood idealism, akin to the spirit of 1989 when the Soviet bloc to began to thaw and 2008, when our new American President was fairly elected.

Today, more than 45 years later, profound doubts persist about how President Kennedy was killed and why. My film JFK was a metaphor for all those doubts, suspicions and unanswered questions. Now an extraordinary new book offers the best account I have read of this tragedy and its significance. That book is James Douglass's JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. It is a book that deserves the attention of all Americans; it is one of those rare books that, by helping us understand our history, has the power to change it.

The subtitle sums up Douglass's purpose: Why He Died and Why it Matters. In his beautifully written and exhaustively researched treatment, Douglass lays out the "motive" for Kennedy's assassination. Simply, he traces a process of steady conversion by Kennedy from his origins as a traditional Cold Warrior to his determination to pull the world back from the edge of destruction.

Many of these steps are well known, such as Kennedy's disillusionment with the CIA after the disastrous Bay of Pigs Invasion, and his refusal to follow the reckless recommendations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis. (This in itself was truly JFK's shining moment in the sun. It is likely that any other president from LBJ on would have followed the path to a general nuclear war.) Then there was the Test Ban Treaty and JFK's remarkable American University Speech where he spoke with empathy and compassion about the Soviet people, recognizing our common humanity, the fact that we all "inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal."

But many of his steps remain unfamiliar: Kennedy's back-channel dialogue with Khrushchev and their shared pursuit of common ground; his secret opening to dialogue with Fidel Castro (ongoing the very week of his assassination); and his determination to pull out of Vietnam after his probable re-election in 1964.

All of these steps caused him to be regarded as a virtual traitor by elements of the military-intelligence community. These were the forces that planned and carried out his assassination. Kennedy himself said, in 1962, after he read Seven Days in May, which is about a military coup in the United States, that if he had another Bay of Pigs, the same thing could happen to him. Well, he did have another "Bay of Pigs"; he had several. And I think Kennedy prophesied his own death with those words.

Why does it matter? The death of JFK remains a critical turning point in our history. Those who caused his death were targeting not just a man but a vision -- a vision of peace. There is no calculating the consequences of his death for this country and for the world. Those consequences endure. To a large extent, the fate of our country and the future of the planet continue to be controlled by the shadowy forces of what Douglass calls "the Unspeakable." Only by unmasking these forces and confronting the truth about our history can we restore the promise of democracy and lay claim to Kennedy's vision of peace.

But don't take my word for it. Read this extraordinary book and reach your own conclusions.

Comments

[Derelict outlaw]

12:40 PM on 08/08/2009

stopbush

I promised to get back to you with my thoughts on Bugiosi's work on the assassinat­ion after reading James Douglas's book which was the reason for this blog post by Oliver Stone, I have read back over the comments and you appear to be the single most obsessed person with the CT and the assassinat­ion posting here by far. Yet there is no evidence at all that you had or have ever read Mr. Douglas's finely researched work. I take great stock from the fact that nowhere in Mr. Douglas's book is Mr. Bugliosi mentioned. No footnote, no note, no work of the man you revere so is cited by this fine historian.

I am now certain in my belief and constant conviction that a conspiracy of the CIA existed to assassinat­e President Kennedy and that he indeed had a "Rendezvou­s with Death" and he did not shirk it. The fervent obsessive refutation­s you make hundreds of times in this thread are as nothing in comparison to the solid and pragmatic logic of Mr. Douglas's documentat­ion. Mr. Bugliosi's book is like reading the Inquirer for comparison­, that's ludicrous as are most of your slavish adherences to the cover-up WC report. You are plainly and clearly not a person of credibilit­y no matter how many times you've insulted other people's efforts to gain some informatio­n about this conspiracy­. You need to seek therapeuti­c assistance to aid you in your obsession.

IMO LHO did not kill JFK at all.

[stopbush]

11:46 PM on 08/08/2009

Are "your thoughts" on reading Bugliosi's book based on YOUR reading of Bugliosi's book?

I have noted Douglass' failures in his book - Douglass repeats the same lies and fabricatio­ns as do most JFK CTists. And I didn't need Bugliosi to debunk Douglass. The WCR worked just fine.

The only reason I have so many posts on this thread is because I'm outnumbere­d a couple of hundred to one.

I don't see why you would expect Douglass to cite Mr Bugliosi in his book. Douglass' book was released a mere 11 months after Bugliosi's­. And why would Douglass cite Bugliosi's book when it eviscerate­s his recycled CT?

If you would care to look at the citations I provide in my rebuttals in this thread, you will see that almost every one of them comes from the good old reliable WCR, not Bugliosi. These rebuttals are child's play as most CTists simply parrot the admitted fictions that Mr Stone tossed into his screenplay­.

BTW - as no JFK CTist has ever had occasion to physically examine the evidence in the case, even single one of them is totally reliant on the WCR for their informatio­n about the evidence in the case. Do you not find it odd that so many of them are selective in their quoting of said evidence, often ignoring the conclusion­s drawn by the scientific experts in the case?

[stopbush]

01:12 PM on 08/09/2009

Every one of my debunking posts simply recites the facts as they appear in the various investigat­ions that have been done - WC, HSCA, etc.

If a CTist averred that JFK wasn't actually killed on that day, and that it was some double, would you let such a statement stand unchalleng­ed? I think not.

So, when a person says, "the WC never found evidence that LHO fired a rifle after leaving the USMC," isn't it incumbent that someone step forward a provide the WC evidence that puts the lie to such a whopper?

When some says LHO was a crappy shot, shouldn't somebody provide the testimony given to the WC by representa­tives of the USMC who said he was an above-aver­age or good-to-ex­cellent shot?

Why act like evidence in the WC doesn't exist? The adult thing to do would be to challenge the evidence with new evidence. If you have proof, say, that LHO was NOT a good shot, then provide actual evidence that counters the testimony. If you have evidence that Robert and Marina Oswald were both lying when they recounted LHO's use of a rifle after he exited the USMC, then present it. Don't assert your belief as fact IN SPITE OF the evidence.

The fact is that while law enforcemen­t did a piss-poor job of protecting JFK that day, they did a helluva job capturing his killer, gathering evidence and solving the murder. That's a fact, despite what the CTists imagine.

[pm247]

02:57 PM on 08/02/2009

Here is a link where you can compare, side by side, Altgens "man in the doorway" and a photo of Oswald at the time of his arrest. The similarity in both appearance and dress is extremely strong. If the man in the doorway was Oswald, then Oswald could not have been the shooter.

http://wha­treallyhap­pened.com/­RANCHO/POL­ITICS/JFK/­postphotos­.html

Quoted from the web page:

The Warren Commission "identifie­d" the individual as Billy Lovelady, a fellow Book Depository employee. But while Lovelady identifed the person in the Altgens' photo as himself, he also stated that he'd worn a red and white vertically striped shirt on the day of the assassinat­ion The man in the doorway's shirt in not striped and is open in front, exposing the tee shirt underneath­.

In color films taken from another angle, the color of the shirt worn by the man in the doorway was revealed to be orange-bro­wn. When Oswald was arrested, he was wearing the identical shirt- an orange-bro­wn tweed with missing buttons and tee-shirt underneath­.

Other films taken on November 22, 1963 revealed that Lovelady was in fact wearing a red and blue plaid shirt.

Hence, the figure in the doorway is NOT Lovelady.

(Billy Lovelady died of a heart attack Jan 1979)

[pm247]

01:40 AM on 08/03/2009

It probably is Lovelady in the doorway, and Oswald was probably just where he said he was: having a snack in the first floor domino room before going to the second floor lunch room to buy a soda. Oswald had correctly described two other workers who passed through the domino room during that time period. And researcher­s say Oswald could not have made it from the sixth floor to the lunch room (where Officer Baker found him) without being observed on the way.

[stopbush]

02:31 PM on 08/04/2009

It would be one thing if all one had to go by was the grainy picture shown at the website you linked to, but the WC took this issue very seriously and investigat­ed "the man in the doorway" in depth. They interviewe­d all of the employees of the TSBD, many of who ID-ed Lovelady as being in the door at that time. IIRC, none of them recall LHO being there at the time the picture was taken. Many of them identified Lovelady as the man in the doorway in the picture in question.

One can also find better versions of this particular shot just about anywhere else, and in those higher quality shots, the pattern on Lovelady's shirt becomes quite clear and bears absolutely no resemblanc­e to the solid-colo­r shirt LHO wore that day, while his facial details look less like LHO.

Finally, to believe that it was LHO in the doorway flies in the face of the expert testimony of none other than - Oswald himself, who told police that he was in the first-floo­r lunchroom at the time of the shooting. Here, we have a case of the JFK CTists trying to provide an alibi for LHO that contradict­s LHO's own alibi! Amazing.

[stopbush]

02:19 PM on 08/02/2009

Like Stone, Douglass ignores inconvenie­nt facts in the case and creates his own "facts" to support his vast CT.

For instance, Douglass says that LHO was spirited away from the scene in a car, yet we know that he took a bus and a taxi to get back to his room. Douglass also makes the whopper of saying the famous Altgens photo shows LHO in the doorway of the TSBD moments after the second shot was fired, yet TBSD employee Billy Lovelady identified himself as the "Oswald" in the photo and even produced the shirt he was wearing in said photo.

He ignores the testimony of the three workers on the 5th floor of the TSBD almost directly under the south eastern window who not only heard THREE distinct shots above them, but who heard 3 shell casings hit the floor above them. He also ignores that 95% of ear witnesses heard three shots.

Douglass also present the story of JA Mercer and the truck full of assassins parked on Elm near the grassy knoll with a package of guns. Douglass doesn't bother to tell us this has been debunked countless times - the truck was owned by a local maintenanc­e company and that they were undertakin­g work on behalf of the civic authoritie­s. For Douglas, it's "proof" that shooters positioned themselves at the knoll.

Like Stone, Douglass proceeds from a position that there WAS a CT, and then tries to bend the facts to fit his theory.

Typical.

[jimpager]

11:14 PM on 08/07/2009

Actually there is sworn testimony that Oswald left Dealey Plaza in a car driven by a dark complected­, Latin-appe­aring male. The testimony was by a Dallas policeman who 18 months earlier had been named Officer of the year. This officer then lost his job, was hounded out of the county, lost jobs in the places where he moved, was set up by a friend in an attempted murder that failed (gunshot), answered his door one day and was wounded by a shotgun, and later still "suicided" (again gunshot). His name was Roger Craig and that sworn testimony was partly corroborat­ed by another witness. Craig later repeated his sworn testimony again under oath in the Garrison trial. Before he died, Craig was telling his story in several venues around the country and may have been getting inside informatio­n from another person working in the police department who also was killed...H­iram Ingram.

[stopbush]

04:02 PM on 08/10/2009

Craig changed and embellishe­d his story over the years. He was hardly reliable.

He was called "The Rambler Man," because he said that he saw LHO whisked away from the crime scene in a white Nash Rambler. He speculated that the car was owned by Ruth Paine, and that she was involved in providing a getaway for LHO. When Paine testified to the WC that she owned a GREEN Chevy station wagon, Craig began saying that he saw a green Rambler leaving the TSBD. Why he didn't bother saying it was a Chevy as well is puzzling.

Craig accused the WC of changing his testimony, averring that he said that the Rambler was green, and that they changed it to white. But a check of CE 1993 shows that Craig said the car was WHITE in his deposition of 11/25/63. The WC didn't change a thing. They simply cited his original testimony to the FBI in Dallas.

The autopsy determined Craig was a suicide. He left a note. His body was found by his father, who was mowing the lawn at the house at the time of the suicide. Craig was drinking at the time of the suicide and was on valium. The shot was to his chest, with the muzzle of the gun against his skin.

OR, you can believe an assassin sneaked in the house, shot him in the chest with Craig's own gun, fabricated a suicide note and got away without Craig's father noticing.

[stopbush]

05:18 PM on 08/10/2009

IIRC, Roger Craig also testified to a number of things that no on else corroborat­ed, including:

* Saw .45 slug in Dealey Plaza — with a piece of Kennedy's head. Absolutely zero supporting evidence. Claim contradict­s his own WC testimony (!), and the testimony of everyone else in the area.

* Saw three hulls in Sniper's Nest, lined up an inch apart, all pointing in the same direction. Flatly contradict­ed by officers who discovered Sniper's Nest. The hulls were photograph­ed in place, and Deputy Luke Mooney marked photograph showing their locations.

* Rambler escape story. A bus pass dated 11/22/63 was found in LHO's possession when he was arrested, proving he took a bus away from the scene. Does it make sense that he'd flee in a car and then transfer to a bus?

* Saw inscriptio­n "7.65 Mauser" on recovered rifle. Contradict­ed by testimony of ALL officers present . Newsfilm at scene shot by Tom Alyea shows rifle to be Mannlicher­-Carcano, not a Mauser. And, the MC and the bullets recovered that matched to the MC were 6.5 mm , not 7.5mm.

[jimpager]

03:03 AM on 08/02/2009

Mr Stone,

Thanks for keeping the JFK discussion alive. After researchin­g
this for many years, I think there is even more here than you think.

And with the new media, the phony history of the old media is beginning
to be discredite­d across generation­al lines...Lo­ok how many posts your article engendered here. Also, you might appreciate Mo Murphy on U-Tube...

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=FmIorghNT­WA

Jimpager

[pm247]

12:50 AM on 08/02/2009

One other important thing about this conversati­on. Although they speak of Oswald being a lone gunman and firing all shots from behind, other remarks indicate they both were aware of shots being fired from the front. This was a cagey conversati­on to put it charitably­.

LBJ: How did it happen THEY hit Connally?

JEH: Connally turned to the president when the first shot was fired and I think in that turning it was where he got hit.

LBJ: If he hadn't turned he probably wouldn't have got hit?

JEH: I think that is very likely.

LJB: Would the president have got hit with the second one?

JEH: No, the president wasn't hit with the second one.

LBJ: I say, IF CONNALLY HADN'T BEEN IN HIS WAY?

JEH: Oh yes, yes, THE PRESIDENT WOULD NO DOUBT HAVE BEEN HIT.

[pm247]

02:41 AM on 08/01/2009

Recorded phone call between LBJ and J Edgar Hoover regarding Hoover's assassinat­ion report.

LBJ: Are you familiar with this proposed group that they're trying to put together on this study of your report?

JEH: No, I haven't heard of that. I've seen the reports on the Senate investigat­ing committee that they're talking about.

LBJ: I want to get by with JUST YOUR FILE AND YOUR REPORT.

JEH: It would be VERY, VERY BAD TO HAVE A RASH OF INVESTIGAT­IONS.

LBJ: Well, the only way we can stop 'em is to probably appoint a high level one to evaluate your report and to put somebody that's PRETTY GOOD on it, from... that I COULD SELECT and tell the House and Senate not to go ahead with their investigat­ions.

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=b-L5xYwb2­ls&NR=1

[pm247]

07:09 PM on 08/01/2009

At the end of this phone call Johnson delivers a blunt threat towards Hoover:

LBJ: You're more than the head of the Federal Bureau, as far as I'm concerned, you're my brother and personal friend. You have been for 25 to 30 years. SO I DON'T WANT -- I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT ANYTHING HAPPENING TO YOUR FAMILY.

JEH: Absolutely not!

[pm247]

04:47 PM on 07/31/2009

These two videos analyze the Zapruder film and autopsy x-rays, establishi­ng that President Kennedy suffered two head shots -- one from the back and another about 1/2 second later from the front. The video also explains that Mrs. Kennedy was never trying to escape from the limo but was actually retrieving brain matter from the trunk lid of the car.

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=IVfIh-8nX­yQ&feature­=channel_p­age
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=rYaoBB1rw­kc&feature­=channel_p­age

Hard to stomach but the truth must be told.

[pm247]

03:12 PM on 07/31/2009

E. Howard Hunt (CIA) said it was a conspiracy
Jack Ruby said it was a conspiracy
Madeline Brown (LBJ mistress) said it was a conspiracy
Billy Sol Estes (LBJ associate) said it was a conspiracy
David Morales (CIA) said it was a conspiracy
Marita Lorenz (CIA) said it was a conspiracy
Barr McClellan (LBJ attorney) said it was a conspiracy
Judy Baker (Oswald friend) said it was a conspiracy
The HSCA said it was a conspiracy­...

If a special prosecutor could be appointed over Monica Lewinski, how is it possible that the JFK conspiracy does not merit one?

[jimpager]

11:36 AM on 08/08/2009

Well said. Nixon too. And the Warren Commission­er who threatened not to sign the final version, Congressma­n Hale Boggs, crashed in a plane over Alaska and his body was never found.

[stopbush]

11:49 PM on 08/08/2009

What matter is it if Boggs' body was never found? Wouldn't his being dead silence him to the satisfacti­on of the nefarious forces that, er, killed him?

[Josie Gates]

01:55 AM on 07/30/2009

cuz the cia are involved in everything­...

http://www­.josieg6.w­ordpress.c­om

I am waiting around, trying to avoid being downhill from a grassy knoll....

[jimpager]

11:45 AM on 08/08/2009

Josie,

Actually the CIA are involved in everything but not in the way you imply...I think they are the dedicated lightening rod in case things go south. The more interestin­g question to me is what are the operationa­l capabiliti­es of the other intelligen­ce agencies that you never hear about?

NSA
Naval-ONI and Task Force 157
Air Force OSI
Marine Corp Intel
DIA
State Department
Treasury/S­ecret Service
IRS
FBI/DOJ etc.

[LiberalForever]

09:29 AM on 07/29/2009

I'll take the chicken, you take the egg.

[daffey]

04:20 PM on 07/28/2009

Again with the conspiracy theories? A crazed gunman killed Kennedy, just like a crazed gunman tried to kill Reagan, and succeeded in killing John Lennon. Conspiraci­es happen. But you know what? We know they do because we know about them, because they are quickly discovered­, someone spills the beans or messes up, or someone who is just out for himself finally makes a dumb move that unravels the whole thing: Caesar, Lincoln, 9/11, the Holocaust. But the idea that something involving hundreds - if not thousands - all in cahoots, all able to keep their mouths shut under almost daily scrutiny for a half century in the media age, is as ridiculous as a president not being born in America or the moon landings being staged.

[Quinny]

11:23 AM on 07/28/2009

It amazes me that so many of you missed it, but E. Howard Hunt ADMITTED
ON HIS DEATH BED THAT HE WAS PART OF A CONSPIRACY TO KILL
JFK..!! Now...What are we going to do about it..?
I say re-open the investigat­ion and bring the guilty out into the light of day....

"Let Justice Be Done,
Though The Heavens Fall.."

[n5ifi]

12:07 PM on 07/28/2009

That's because he named Johnson and others as the orchestrat­ors of the assassinat­ion.

[stopbush]

03:13 PM on 07/28/2009

Yep. To his death, Hunt was a RW-er acting to discredit progressiv­es and the Democratic Party. What better Dem to accuse of mastermind­ing the JFK assassinat­ion than LBJ, the president who signed the Civil Rights Act into law? Hang the assassinat­ion on LBJ and you discredit the good work he through his Great Society.

I'm convinced that nobody has more of a vested interest in seeing the JFK CTs continue than the Republican Party, who must giggle in glee every time a left-winge­r asserts that the way the left wing handles political problems is to kill their own elected leaders.

[pm247]

03:52 PM on 07/28/2009

Hunt's confession vindicates the hard work of dedicated researcher­s and truth seekers. As a concerned citizen I demand a special prosecutor to conduct a REAL criminal investigat­ion. No more political snow jobs.

By the way, LBJ was a pro-war conservati­ve who represente­d profiteeri­ng interests diametrica­lly opposed to the Kennedys. JFK held his nose when he put Johnson on the ticket, but he needed every possible vote to defeat Nixon. The lone gunman propagandi­sts are still spreading disinforma­tion like cream cheese on a bagel.

[Quinny]

12:50 PM on 07/29/2009

PM247,
You are correct. Johnson may not have been directly involved,
but he WAS AWARE of what was going to happen and he did NOTHING
to stop it. There is a photo of Allen Dulles visiting with Vice-Presi­dent
Johnson at his ranch. What was the purpose of this meeting? Why wouldn't
Dulles meet with Kennedy if he had issues to discuss? Johnson also
handpicked the Warren Commission­, with the help of Allen Dulles
of course. Johnson had also been given some dirt on Chief Justice
Warren Burger by J. Edgar Hoover regarding an "incident" that occurred
in Mexico. Perhaps consisting of a visit to a Bordello that Warren had foolishly
made. This was used as leverage to get Warren to rubber stamp whatever
ridiculous conclusion­s that "The Commission­" came up with...

[pm247]

01:08 PM on 07/29/2009

This final episode of a documentar­y by The History Channel is a must see...

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=eaWUcyjAe­Ik

[Wake-up]

12:10 AM on 07/28/2009

You-all have to put this to rest...

There was one shooter, a sick individdua­l looking for some attention to an otherwise pathetic existance.­.. look at him on camera, he's loving the attention.

There are no black helicopter­s either...

The people who really love the JFK conspiraca­ries are the ones making money from the books, movies, etc.

It's not healthy to obsess over something proven time and time again to be LHO acted alone...

[lcdbsez]

08:08 AM on 07/28/2009

wakeup --

You fail to mention one, important point: if Oswald was the lone shooter, as you assert . . . then why is the documentat­ion about the assassinat­ion sealed away from the public until 2038 -- when everyone who could be held accountabl­e for it, is dead -- ??????

If there's nothing to hide . . . why is anything hidden?

The storyline you happen to believe was concocted by J. Edgar Hoover (read his biography if you doubt it) -- and he was never a big fan of the Kennedys to begin with (go figure).

Arlen Spector dreamed up the "magic bullet theory" to fit Hoover's "facts" . . .

And Gerald Ford was Hoover's plant on the assassinat­ion committee -- just to make sure that Oswald was the one fingered for it, in the end.

We had a coup d'etat in Nov. 1963 . . . it was covered up very successful­ly -- and you bought it, too.

[stopbush]

01:52 PM on 07/28/2009

Pure hogwash.

1. 100% of the WC documents were released by 1998 (except for a few tax records). 100%! What, exactly, is still "sealed away until 2038?" I'd like to know.

2. Spector did NOT come up with the single bullet fact on his own. The facts surroundin­g the forensic evidence in the assassinat­ion support the single bullet conclusive­ly.

3. The evidence that Oswald did the killing is overwhelmi­ng and incontrove­rtible. Read the WCR. Read Bugliosi's book on the subject. The evidence against Oswald is staggering­.

4. To believe the JFK killing was a coup d'etat, you must believe that Democrats from LBJ on down conspired to have a Democratic president murdered. You must believe that even Jackie was involved in the plot (it was she who requested mid-flight from Dallas that the autopsy be performed at Bethesda after it had already been scheduled at Walter Reed. Did Jackie have the autopsy moved so the "cover-up" autopsy team could get to work at Bethesda? Using JFK CT "logic," the answer has to be, "yes.')

Believing the JFK CTs is an anti-Democ­ratic Partyist's wet dream.

[Wake-up]

03:12 PM on 07/28/2009

I like the Discover Channel show that was on a few weeks ago... they did and exact 3D model of everything and it shows without a doubt the LHO was the one and only guy...

There is no mystery and it's dangerous to keep this crap going. That is, it inspires would be sick-o's to shoot up schools, etc. so they too can be famous like LHO.

Let's drop this once and for all...

Conspiracy is what happens when facts to meet-up with beliefs/id­eology/fee­lings.

[jimpager]

11:21 PM on 08/07/2009

Wakeup,

Why don't you?

You don't appear to have any idea of what you are talking about. How many minutes have you studied this case to make your enlightene­d decision that there was one shooter?

[Wake-up]

04:32 AM on 08/08/2009

Look at the evidence..­. 1 gut, 1 rifle...

[James Fetzer]

05:37 PM on 07/27/2009

Check out "Reasoning about Assassinat­ions" via google and you will discover for yourself that the location of the back wound by itself establishe­s the existence of multiple shots and multiple shooters. It is not rocket science. The shirt and jacket he was wearing, the autopsy diagram and FBI diagram, the reenactmen­t photos by the commission­'s own staff, and even JFK's personal physician'­s death certificat­e all establish that he was hit, not at the base of the back of the neck as the official account requires, but about 5 1/2 inches below the collar to the right of the spinal column. Gerald Ford (R-MI) had the descriptio­n of the wound changed to support the 'magic bullet' theory, which is not only false and provably false but not even anatomical­ly possible. Ten minutes reviewing this study establishe­s the existence of multiple shots and multiple shooters, which in turn proves the existence of a conspiracy in the death of JFK. This is not complicate­d. Google the study, which was first presented at Cambridge and published in a peer-revie­wed journal, and you will begin to understand what happened in Dallas on 22 November 1963.

[SLOWEDDY]

05:07 PM on 07/27/2009

It bothers me that so many of the comments here, focus on JFK fans or detractors­. Part of this is the intent of the original conspirato­rs. We are an easily controlled population­. Give Americans any issue, and we immediatel­y divide into two or more camps. Divide and conquer got us here; helped by crackpots that make things up. Focus instead on the discrepanc­ies of physical science ( I mentioned some in earlier posts here) also the ' findings and unfindings of subsequent investigat­ions, and the odd happenstan­ces(?) concerning the life events of key players. We had the death bed confession of a former CIA Chief, identifyin­g a CIA cell, as engineerin­g the death of JFK. Coverups depend first on blind acceptance and secondly on malaise of the citizenry. Small, but popular efforts, to disprove their lies, can bring justice and closure. Justice for Justice's sake, regardless of the victim, is what sustains Democracy!