Posted on 07/31/2017 9:26:09 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Later this year — unless President Trump intervenes — the American people will get access to the last of thousands of secret government files about a turning point in the nation’s history: the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The National Archives this week released several hundred of the documents, which come from CIA and FBI files, and of course, JFK researchers are scrambling to see whether they contain any new clues about the president’s murder. But many more documents remain under seal, awaiting release by this October, the 25-year deadline set by the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act.
The law gives only one person — the president — the ability to stop the release from happening. He can act only if he certifies in writing that the documents would somehow endanger national security.
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“access to the building “
It was the 1960’s. People didn’t lock up buildings like they do today. Access wasn’t ever an issue.
I saw the Discovery show that traced his flight. It was convincing in proving that Oswald could have been in the building and then walked to the various places before he was arrested. it wasn’t heavy on proof he was the killer, just establishing he had time to get away and show up at the theatre. As a skeptic, i would say that show was well presented.
Yep. I have that show in my library. It shows positively that Oswald easily could have made every move said of his activities that day.
again as a skeptic, I agree that the snipers nest was very close and had a great view into the limo. I have been there,
I read that the trees were all cit back after the CBS show because people claimed the trees were too thick to shoot through especially the first two shots. haven’t heard mush about that. When I was there a few times ago, there was one tree with a few small branches cut back to not block the view of the street. This may give a false impression if the trees were thicker poe the day of.
forgot where I first read it.
Rosell was busy man and big fixer in the mob. The CIA talked to him about hitting Castro. interesting guy worth a movie.
Sorry, all conspiracy theory lovers, it was one pitiful nothing of a nobody who killed JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald. Please read Gerald Posner’s book “Case Closed.” Vincent Bugliosi later wrote a book, “Reclaiming History”, came to the same conclusions Gerald Posner came to.
The JFK assassination is at this point a multi-billion dollar industry. Thousands of cynical conspiracy-theorists have made a lot of money claiming to have “evidence” that LHO didn’t act alone. They will never stop because they are making lots of money perpetuating the conspiracy myths.
I’ve been to Daley Plaza in Dallas. It’s like a three ring circus complete with sideshows, and carney barkers hawking their latest “evidence.” books, tours, pamphlets, etc.
Sorry, sometimes the course of history IS changed by some random worm like LHO. It doesn’t seem right or just, but somethimes things happen that way.
BTT
John Hinckley did not hate President Reagan. Oswald did hate our form of government of which our President is the head-of-state. Not Rocket science there, is it?
LBJ and dallas politicos ordered the hit
Blame it on the aliens.
“I heard the same story, but Earhart was flying the plane not playing cards.
Then it must be true!
The ‘Oswald acted alone’ folks do not want to even hear about the broken up Chicago and Tampa attempts, (The similar in style to Dallas’s assassination, in early and mid Nov. 1963 as you know), it upsets their little ‘lone nut’ narrative to much!!!!! Some deny the first to attempts were in the works at all, or some of these ‘experts’ aren’t even aware of them!
Nor was the shooting scenario in Dallas a piece of cake. Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a great US sniper in Vietnam and later the senior instructor at the Marines Corps Sniper Instruction School at Quantico, flatly said that Oswald could not have done what the Warren Commission said he did.
As Hathcock explained, when they reconstructed the assassination at Quantico: the angle, moving target, time limit etc., “I don’t know how many times we tried it, but we couldn’t duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did."
In fairness, key researchers now seem to conclude that the Warren Commission got the time frame wrong and that Oswald's first shot was early and was deflected by tree branches or a traffic signal support arm. If that is so, then Oswald would have been easily able to fire off two more shots. Yet, if the alternative scenario is accurate, Oswald's skills as a sniper are called into question by the basic mistake that his first and most deliberate shot was into an obstruction.
Moreover, the problem remains that the Warren Commission account has Oswald firing a rifle that was not properly aligned and sighted in. That would not be accepted by a trained and capable sniper, and if it was, his accuracy would be compromised.
Thankfully the damned "KENNEDY FAIRY TALE" doesn't still hold any sway and Gen Xers and Millennials not only don't know the story ( though sadly, neither do most know ANY history at all ), they don't venerate the Kennedy name either.
Got a verified reference to Carlos saying that? I couldn’t find one. I don’t use crap repeated on the Internet.
“There are other explanations for Oswald’s actions after the shooting but I don’t want to go into them here. It involves his work with the intelligence organizations including the time in the USSR.
“Your point about leaving actually proves he was NOT the killer. The actual killer would have stayed at work not drawing attention to himself by leaving. Oswald may have been many things but he was NOT stupid.
Doesn’t it seem odd to you that IMMEDIATELY he was identified as the killer? Took about an hour.
In addition to all that, you still have to account for his killing by a mobster.”
Oh please, Oswald WAS stupid. So were Squeaky F and that other bitch, Sarah someone.
Of course he’s going to be ID as the killer. Who else was there, took off during workday, went home, killed a cop and acted suspiciously along Jefferson before ducking into a movie matinee? Was ID’d by the store clerk and drew a gun shouting “This is it!” when confronted by cops? Come on.
NO one else acted like he did. Why did the other TSBD employees stick around? You’ve got history right before you, you’re on the job, you’re not going to leave. That LHO would try to conceal himself by staying is ridiculous. Human nature is to panic, GTHO, which is what he did. If you believe it was natural for LHO to leave and conduct himself like that afterwards, then . . . well . .
There’s no other “explanation” It was the conduct of a guilty man, who panicked and ran because of fear of discovery. Only the wildest conspiracy nut would try to rationalize otherwise.
I’ll believe Ruby acted out of hate for Oswald before I’ll ever buy that DPD et al was in on a conspiracy to have him silenced to cover up CIA, Mob, Cuban, RUSSIAN, LBJ, Evil Southern White Guys, whatever involvement.
You’re grasping for straws. NO “conspiracy” theory amongst the many has legs. NONE point to one over the others. 50 plus years later, there’s ZILCH . . .no guilt ridden “conspirators” FBI CIA Directors, Mobsters, Presidents, bureaucrats, DPD personnel, “Journ-O-Lists” have come forward with ANY credible string of evidence that contradicts the Acted Alone conclusion. Instead, investigators have used modern forensics to concur with the WC. The Fairy Tale you and others try to spin to rebut with this or that, is just noise in an attention-getting attempt to rewrite history
That was Homestead AFB in Florida.
The ones I’ve seen reach similar conclusions. Nothing else points to any other result, at least that with credibility and substance.
That would have made it quite easy for Oswald to bring an assembled rifle in — or for someone else to get in or be let in the shooter.
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