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The circumstances surrounding the assassination of US President John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963 spawned immediate suspicions of a conspiracy. The following year an official investigation by the Warren Commission concluded that there was no conspiracy and that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in firing the shots that killed the president. Today [October 2013] most Americans believe that Oswald did not act alone.[1]. Diligent work by a small army of concerned researchers has uncovered mountains of evidence indicating that the Commission was set up to fail and that the US government itself has, ever since, been involved in a determined, ongoing cover up of what really happened.
As wikispooks user Charles Drago so bluntly and accurately opines "Anyone, with reasonable access to the evidence who does not conclude that JFK was killed by conspirators, is cognitively impaired and/or complicit in the crime".
Subsequent official investigations have confirmed most of the conclusions of the Warren Commission which remains the Official Narrative of the event. However, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that Kennedy was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy, with "...a high probability that two gunmen fired at the President."[2] - but no person or organization was identified by the HSCA as being a co-conspirator.
James Douglass, author of JFK and The Unspeakable, notes that an earlier plan was to assassinate Kennedy in Chicago, but that it never came into effect since the president cancelled that trip.
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Background
President John F Kennedy was assassinated by gunfire as he traveled in a motorcade in an open-top limousine in Dallas, Texas on Friday, November 22, 1963 (12:30 pm, CST); Texas Governor John Connally was wounded during the shooting, but survived. Within two hours, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder of Dallas policeman JD Tippit and arraigned that evening. Shortly after 1:30 am, Saturday, Oswald was arraigned for murdering President Kennedy as well.[3][4] On Sunday, November 24, at 11:21 am, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald as he was being transferred to the county jail.
Immediately after the shooting, many people suspected that the assassination was part of a larger plot.[5] Ruby's shooting of Oswald compounded initial suspicions.[5] Among conspiracy theorists, Mark Lane has been described as writing "the first literary shot" with his article, "Defense Brief for Oswald," in the December 19, 1963 edition of the National Guardian.[6] [7] Thomas Buchanan's Who Killed Kennedy?, published in May 1964, has been credited as the first book alleging a conspiracy.[8]
Warren Commission
In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone and that no credible evidence supported the contention that he was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate the president.[9] The Commission also indicated that Dean Rusk, the Secretary of State; Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense; C. Douglas Dillon, the Secretary of the Treasury; Robert F Kennedy, the Attorney General; J Edgar Hoover, the Director of the FBI; John A. McCone, the Director of the CIA; and James J. Rowley, the Chief of the Secret Service, each independently reached the same conclusion on the basis of information available to them. [9]
House Select Committee on Assassinations
In 1979, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) agreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald assassinated Kennedy, but concluded that the Commission's report and the original FBI investigation were seriously flawed. The HSCA concluded that at least four shots were fired with a "high probability" that two gunmen fired at the President, and that a conspiracy was probable.[2] The HSCA stated that "the Warren Commission failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President."[2]
The Ramsey Clark Panel and the Rockefeller Commission both supported the Warren Commission's conclusions, while New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison unsuccessfully prosecuted Clay Shaw for conspiring to assassinate Kennedy.
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Lone nut" | “Nor, for example, is there any reason to interpret the 'lone assassin' verdict, which emerged immediately after the assassination as itself an indicator of the conspiracy at work. On the perspective I am suggesting, almost before Kennedy's heart stopped beating the one thing which everyone involved would have agreed upon, without discussion, never mind coercion, was that a 'lone nut' verdict had to emerge. The 'truth' was not an issue: in politics the 'truth' is simply a tool.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> The point about the 'lone nut' is that it was then, and remains (cf Hinckley) the only safe explanation for political assassination within America. 'Disney America'<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a>, the fantasy pluralist democracy described in the textbooks on the American political system, cannot accommodate planned political assassination.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a>” | Robin Ramsay | 1983 |
| 1960s | “After five decades, the mysteries behind the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X may finally get the scrutiny they deserve. A group consisting of relatives of the Kennedy and King families, as well as their confidantes and other prominent voices, is calling for a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to get to the bottom of these tragic murders.” | 19 January 2019 | |
| JFK/Assassination/Cover-up | “I believe there was a common denominator in our silence – a fearful perception that to come forward with what we believed to be the medical truth would be asking for trouble. Although we never admitted it to one another, we realized that the inertia of the established story was so powerful, so thoroughly presented, so adamantly accepted, that it would bury anyone who stood in its path… I was afraid of the men in suits as I was afraid of the men who had assassinated the President... I reasoned that anyone who would go so far as to eliminate the President of the United States would surely not hesitate to kill a doctor.” | Charles Crenshaw | 1992 |
| Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | “I can't look, and I won't look.” | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | 1967 |
| Merriman Smith | “that he [Merriman Smith] was riding under the underpass when he heard the shots that killed our young president, which is interesting since he was two cars behind Kennedy and Kennedy never reached the underpass,<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> he was killed while ahead of it, and possibly from it.” | Merriman Smith Mort Sahl |
Witnesses
| Witness | Description |
|---|---|
| Merriman Smith | Put the first story about the JFK Assassination on the UPI newswire. Supposedly shot himself. |
| Abraham Zapruder |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Bush angle to Reagan shooting still unresolved as Hinckley walks | Article | 16 August 2016 | Russ Baker | John Hinckley who shot and wounded President Reagan was released from a federal psychiatric facility on 5 August 2016 after being detained for 35 years. Hinckley's family were well known to the Bush family. Coincidence? Sure. Anything, after all, is possible. |
| Document:Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination | article | 2017 | Garrick Alder | |
| Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State | book | 22 November 2013 | Mark Gorton | A detailed overview of the modern US deep state which names names, the most prominent of which, George H. W. Bush, is exposed as the kingpin of the US Deep state and probable a key mover behind the 9/11 plot. |
| Document:Hammarskjold and Kennedy vs. The Power Elite | Article | 7 August 2016 | James DiEugenio | President John F. Kennedy hears of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba's murder from UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Perhaps no photo from the Kennedy presidency summarises who Kennedy was, and how he differed from what preceded him and what came after him, than this picture. |
| Document:Nicholas Katzenbach on the importance of reassuring the US public about Oswald | memo | 25 November 1963 | Nicholas Katzenbach | "The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial. Speculation about Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off..." |
| Document:Permindex - The International Trade in Disinformation | Wikispooks Page | 1983 | Stephen Dorril | |
| Document:The Doomsday Project and Deep Events | article | 21 November 2011 | Peter Dale Scott | |
| Document:The Hidden Government Group | Wikispooks Page | 15 May 2015 | Peter Dale Scott | Beginning from the assassination of JFK, Peter Dale Scott reviews the Continuity of Government group's connections to the structural deep events - the Watergate coup, October Surprise and 9/11 |
| File:Final Judgment.pdf | book | 1 January 1995 | Michael Collins Piper | One of the most controvesial books on the JFK assassination - because it very specifically implicates Judaic interests and Israel |
| File:The Secret Team.pdf | book | 1973 | Fletcher Prouty | An unauthorised history of the CIA from its origins to the Kennedy assassination. Prouty suggested that the assassination was a coup d'état to stop the President from taking control of the CIA after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He also points out that the movement of Kennedy after a bullet struck his head was consistent with a shot from the grassy knoll. He also drew attention to the suspicious actions of the "Umbrella Man". |
The Official Culprit
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Lee Harvey Oswald | A patsy accused of the assassination of JFK and assassinated himself 2 days later by another "lone nut" gunman |
References
- ↑ Poll: Most Believe 'Cover-Up' of JFK Assassination Facts
- ↑ a b c Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives - 1979 Summary of Findings and Recommendations
- ↑ Warren Commission Report, Chapter 5: Detention and Death of Oswald, Chronology. p. 198.
- ↑ Tippit murder affidavit: text, cover. Kennedy murder affidavit: text, cover.
- ↑ a b The Kennedy Assassination - by Peter Knight. Edinburgh University Press Ltd 2007 ISBN 978-1-934110-32-4 p 75
- ↑ Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Vincent Bugliosi. 2007. WW Norton & Company ISBN 0-393-04525-0 p 989
- ↑ Oswald Innocent? A Lawyer’s Brief
- ↑ Donovan Barna William Conspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious 2011 McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina ISBN 978-0-7864-3901-0 page=34
- ↑ a b Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy 1964 Chapter 6
See Also
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