Robert Smith critiques the latest coverage in WhoWhatWhy.
…Why Can’t the Media Get the Story of the JFK Documents Right? Read More »
In the Age of Viral Video, it is hard to believe but it is true: Abraham Zapruder’s home movie of JFK’s assassination on November 22, 1963 was not shown to the American people for twelve years after it was first taken.
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When was the Zapruder film first shown to the American people?Read More »
In The American Media, narrated by Barbour and produced by Myra Bronstein, Garrison’s story is told once again, this time with an emphasis on the tragic double-cross of an NBC producer who deceptively, and without Barbour’s input, doctored Barbour’s interview with Garrison so that Garrison states a foolish belief that there were 30 shooters in Dealey Plaza.
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John Barbour on ‘The 2nd Assassination of President John F. Kennedy’Read More »
The headline, alas, says it all: Did CIA Director Allen Dulles Order the Hit on JFK? asks The Daily Beast.
In DB’s clickbait gambit we can see the reductio ad absurdum of a certain conspiratorial mindset, the paranoid style of the American media as it is hard-boiled into a punchy headline.
The problem with this question is that it is based on the pervasive but erroneous assumption that the only way to understand the story of how an American president (JFK) lost power and his life (on November 22) is to talk about conspiracies as depicted in Hollywood movies and crime fiction.
Next up: Did President Nixon supply masking tape to the Watergate burglars?
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Allen Dulles and the conspiratorial mindset of the American media Read More »
Attorney Jim Lesar, activist Jerry Policoff and I will speak about the secrecy surrounding JFK assassination records at the Left Forum in New York City on Sunday, June 1, at 10 a.m.
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A faithful reader asks an interesting question about the 1971 burglary of the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, which made the news recently when the perpetrators came forward for the first time.
The crime had been unsolved for 43 years.
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Nobody talked: the FBI burglary of 1971 and the JFK caseRead More »
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