JFK/Assassination/Cover-up

 JFK/Assassination/Cover-up(Cover-up)

Description	The cover-up of the JFK assassination continues.

The JFK Assassination was followed by a cover-up operation, which promoted the "lone nut" story that gave all the blame to Lee Harvey Oswald.

Warren Commission

Full article: Warren Commission

One of the key components was The Warren Commission. "In the mid-to-late 1960s the CIA initiated concerted efforts to defame independent researchers of the Kennedy assassination that contested the Warren Commission’s findings, seeking to suppress their message at every turn. By 1966 the most prominent of these researchers was New York-based attorney Mark Lane. “As part of the campaign to smear Warren Report critics,” writes historian David Talbot, former CIA Director Allen Dulles “compiled dirt on Mark Lane, whom he considered a particularly ‘terrible nuisance’ because of his growing media visibility and his influence overseas, where he was often invited to speak.”"

Destruction of evidence

Other aspects included the destruction of evidence, such as the washing of the JFK motorcade limousine. (A parallel of the quick removal of the WTC debris.)

Corporate Media

The CIA dispatch which lead to the phrase "conspiracy theorist" having negative connotations

The US Corporate Media was used to try to promote the idea that anyone opposing the "lone nut" theory was a "conspiracy theorist". Indeed, a 1968 declassified CIA memo entitled Countering Criticism of the Warren Report reveals this to be the source of the derogatory connotation of the phrase.

House Select Committee on Assassinations

Full article: House Select Committee on Assassinations

After more political assasinations in the US in the 1960s, pressure built to try to get to the bottom. The result was the 1970s House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) re-investigated the assassination of JFK. The cabal had only partial control of the group, which concluded that there was a high probability that the JFK assassination was not carried out by a "lone nut". However, deep state control of corporate media remains such that even as of 2017, many US citizens did not know this.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Document:Countering Criticism of the Warren Report	An explanation of how the CIA added pejorative connotations to the phrase "conspiracy theory". The document instructs spooks in the use of "propaganda assets" in the commercially-controlled media to undercut any criticism of the JFK assassination official narrative, especially suggestions that Oswald may not have been the "lone nut" as the Warren Commission claimed.
Document:Nicholas Katzenbach on the importance of reassuring the US public about Oswald	"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..."
JFK/Assassination/Premature death	Dozens of people were killed in a vain effort to suppress the truth about the JFK Assassination. Where convenient, deaths have been made to look accidental or illness related. Sometimes people were "suicided", making it hard to know exactly how many were murdered.
Lee Harvey Oswald/Assassination	The JFK assassination plan was that Oswald, the "lone nut" patsy, would be shot, but he was captured alive. This presented a problem, so Jack Ruby was tasked with eliminating him.
Warren Commission	A "Presidential Commission of unimpeachable personnel" (in the words of Nicholas Katzenbach) convened to "head off public speculation [about the JFK assassination] or congressional hearings of the wrong sort."

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Mort Sahl	“Garrison was the man and he's quite correct. These people, they don't say anything, they just sit there. They don't challenge any of the reports or any of the conclusions [about the JFK assassination]. They left me out there. For me to go on the air and say that the CIA is the #1 dope dealer and adventurers within the CIA will bank the money from the [drug] imports from South East Asia and not to get a letter to challenge it or ask for documentation. Not to hear from anyone. And to know that that went out over 211 television stations to an audience of between 9 and 14 million. The silence is deafening. How can that be? How can you get no reaction? Where are we? What the hell is this, 1984?”	Mort Sahl	1970
Merriman Smith	“Reporters struggled to find pay phones or other phones so they could get out the story. A few, like UPI reporter Merriman Smith — an unparalleled hustler — had amazing access to the scene. Smith got right next to the blood-spattered presidential limousine outside Parkland Hospital even before Kennedy was taken to the emergency room, and later witnessed Lyndon Johnson's historic swearing-in aboard Air Force One.”	Merriman Smith

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
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.

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