{"id":201,"date":"2023-10-08T21:49:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T21:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:57:27","slug":"jfk-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesynchromystic.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/jfk-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"JFK Assassination:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 Quick Reasons to Believe There Really WAS a Conspiracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JFK&#039;s Assassination: 10 Quick Reasons to Believe in a Conspiracy\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f1Nc_CjwalA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Read along as you watch the video!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to press reports, the majority of Americans believe that thirty-fifth United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered as part of <em>some sort<\/em> of conspiracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, there\u2019s always that <em>one<\/em> holdout: a colleague, friend, or other acquaintance who insists that accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this video, in commemoration of the 59<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of JFK\u2019s untimely death, I\u2019ll sketch ten (10) reasons to believe that there is more to the tale than one, Communist-sympathizing \u201clone nut.\u201d The aim, here, is certainly not to break new ground or to favor one particular hypothesis over another. Rather, the points to be surveyed are merely intended as candidate \u201copening moves,\u201d as it were. They may be used in circumstances \u2013 such as over holiday dinners \u2013 where partisans of the \u201cofficial story\u201d ask for justification for the skeptic\u2019s position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first point <em>could<\/em> well be that it\u2019s rational in this case to be in the majority. And although there are important, burden-of-proof-style considerations that probably ought to be raised, let\u2019s begin with the following instead.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10. Oswald was never tried \u2013 let alone convicted.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legend has it that there is a <em>presumption of innocence<\/em> in the legal system of United States of America. At a minimum, this is supposed to mean that a person is considered to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, this is to play out via a \u201cspeedy &#8230;public trial\u201d in front of \u201can impartial jury\u201d in the relevant jurisdiction. The accused is to have the opportunity to address the evidence and testimony against him, with the help of a competent lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, as now-deceased attorney Mark Lane vociferously pointed out, Lee Harvey Oswald received no such trial, was never afforded a robust legal defense, and \u2013 since he was essentially summarily executed while under the \u201cprotection\u201d of the Dallas Police Department \u2013 never had the opportunity to confront or answer any of his accusers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While these facts, by themselves, may not suffice to show that JFK was assassinated as part of a conspiracy, they persuade me that Oswald\u2019s guilt was never established according to this country\u2019s historical canons of judicial fairness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9. The Warren Report didn\u2019t satisfy everyone.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What about \u201cThe President\u2019s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Better known as the Warren Commission, this was the body empowered to \u201cinvestigate\u201d the assassination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As JFK\u2019s immediate successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson would \u2013 in an impartial and sane world \u2013 surely have rated more than a passing glance as an accomplice or suspect himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indeed, he would later be implicated by career CIA man, E. Howard Hunt in what has become known as Hunt\u2019s deathbed confession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even setting aside the fact that Kennedy\u2019s death catapulted Johnson into the highest office in the land, the new President\u2019s \u201ccommission\u201d initially resisted <em>any<\/em> attempt to allow Oswald, posthumously, to receive a fair hearing.<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That including an actual <em>defense<\/em> for the recently deceased defendant was (at best) an <em>afterthought<\/em> must surely cast doubt on the pretense that the Warren Commission approximated anything like a \u201cfair trial.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, the commission was populated by at least one of JFK\u2019s presumed enemies \u2013 namely, Allen Dulles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recall that Kennedy had fired Dulles from the \u00fcber-secretive Central Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When one reflects on this fact, one can easily sympathize with then-influential columnist and television personality Dorothy Kilgallen who publicly ridiculed the Warren Commission\u2019s Report as \u201claughable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dorothy decided to bring her considerable investigative talents to bear on the matter. Unfortunately, on November 8, 1965, she turned up dead \u2013 in highly suspicious circumstances \u2013 before her potentially history-altering conclusions could see the light of day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or again, consider JFK\u2019s brother, Robert F. \u201cBobby\u201d Kennedy. According to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., RFK believed that the supposedly exhaustive report was a \u201cshoddy piece of craftsmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, RFK was short dead in June of 1968, when was \u2013 potentially \u2013 close to being nominated as the Democratic candidate for the office of the presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story goes that Bobby\u2019s assassination led the U.S. Secret Service to offer to safeguard high-level political candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of good that does, seeing that JFK ostensibly enjoyed the same \u201cprotections\u201d when he became the fourth president to be murdered in office \u2013 by official count, anyway \u2013 and the first to be assassinated since the Secret Service began shielding the commander in chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8. Even Warren Commission members didn\u2019t believe it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As if it weren\u2019t bad enough to have prominent members of the public rejecting the Warren Commission\u2019s authoritative-sounding pronouncements, the word is some of its own members may not have believed it, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For instance, according to various documents belonging to the late Richard B. Russell, a former Democratic senator from Georgia, Russell \u201cwas troubled by the Warren Commission\u2019s conclusion that a single bullet killed President John F. Kennedy and wounded former Texas Gov. John Connally, even though he signed the commission\u2019s report&#8230;\u201d.<a href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supposedly, however, Russell had been one of three commission members who at first refused to lend their names to the final report.<a href=\"#_ftn3\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The others were Senator John Cooper and Congressman Hale Boggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Hale Boggs would waffle and make contradictory claims \u2013 before his own mysterious disappearance (and presumed death) in an airplane crash in late 1972\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 at one time he disclosed his \u201cstrong doubts\u201d about magic-bullet theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7. The Commission\u2019s self-doubt engenders skepticism.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When nearly half of commission members had grave misgivings about signing their own \u201cfindings,\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026it\u2019s not surprising that upwards of half of the American public can\u2019t bring themselves to believe it either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prominent people who have, in one capacity or other, expressed some measure of disbelief, include numerous celebrities \u2013 from Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones to Oliver Stone and Bruce Willis \u2013 have made no bones about their incredulity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the political sphere, the quirky, left-leaning \u201cindependent\u201d former professional wrestler and ex-governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura is a professed doubter of the System-approved account,&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;as are occasional presidential hopefuls John Forbes Kerry and Gary Warren Hartpence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latter, better known as \u201cGary Hart,\u201d went so far as point out the (obvious) failure of mainstream \u201cAmerican journalism\u201d to do any real \u201cfollow up\u201d on the myriad indicators of widespread treachery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, this dereliction of press responsibility is so grievous and, on its face, so inexplicable that it deserves its own treatment \u2013 which I hope to provide. For now, suffice it to say that, at least since World War II, the relationship between the media and the intelligence services has been a little, well&#8230; murky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6. The media seems long ago to have sacrificed any semblance of objectivity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s try to make this point more vividly. Case in point, consider a then-youthful CBS news correspondent Dan Rather speaking about his viewing of the film of the assassination captured by Ukrainian-born American clothier Abraham Zapruder.<a href=\"#_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> Rather misrepresents the result of the second shot to hit Kennedy<a href=\"#_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> \u2013 which he calls \u201cthe third total shot\u201d \u2013 falsely claiming that it caused the president\u2019s \u201chead &#8230;to move violently forward\u201d.<a href=\"#_ftn6\">[6]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[play]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, Kennedy\u2019s head was savagely blown <em>back and to the left<\/em>, in the memorable phraseology of director Oliver Stone\u2019s film, <em>JFK<\/em>.<a href=\"#_ftn7\">[7]<\/a> [play]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019ll note that, in 1963, the Zapruder Film was purchased by <em>Time-Life<\/em> and essentially put on ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s an interesting story \u2013 and it involves a now seldom mentioned former O.S.S. operative, army psychological-warfare mastermind, and Eisenhower speechwriter named Charles Douglas \u201cC. D.\u201d Jackson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that will have to wait. For the time being, I\u2019ll simply note that, except for the publication of odd still frames \u2013 several of which were reproduced <em>out of their proper sequence<\/em> \u2013 Dan Rather\u2019s claims could not readily be exposed as fabrications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, when Zapruder\u2019s footage is easily discovered by anyone with a web browser, widely available references such as <em>Wikipedia<\/em> casually admit that there were \u201cinaccuracies in his [Dan Rather\u2019s] description\u201d of the content of the film.<a href=\"#_ftn8\">[8]<\/a> <em>That\u2019s<\/em> an understatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5. Despite the disinformation, scattered admissions are intriguing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather was far from unique. And the relentless Oswald-alone agitprop continues to be pushed by soulless apparatchiks like Peter Jennings well into the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. But, occasional interesting tidbits can be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, consider comments made by Lyndon Johnson to Walter Cronkite in 1969. LBJ stated that he couldn\u2019t rule out the assassination involving \u201cinternational connexions.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn9\">[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some reason, Cronkite \u2013 billed as \u201cthe most trusted man in America\u201d \u2013 was inexplicably standing by a news wire machine at around noon (Dallas time) when the JFK-assassination dispatch came thru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. Newsman admits the obvious: \u2018there <em>had<\/em> to be a conspiracy.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we hope to excavate in a future video, even a partial accounting of the worrying interrelationships between major newspapers and television networks on the one hand, and the Central Intelligence Agency on the other, shows that among the worst offenders were some of the biggest names in the business: for example, CBS and the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, perhaps it isn\u2019t all that surprising that this <em>particular<\/em> comment owes to a man who was a fixture of public broadcasting instead.<a href=\"#_ftn10\">[10]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with Diane Rehm, Jim Lehrer remarked:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI went at my reporting or the idea that there had to be a conspiracy. The only issue was, what kind of conspiracy?\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn11\">[11]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would say that this is extraordinary. But, on the contrary, it seems to me that nothing could be more ordinary. Perhaps we should take it as an attestation of the adage (apparently falsely attributed to George Orwell) that \u201cIn a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn12\">[12]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Even a pathological liar occasionally lets the truth slip.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former President Richard M. Nixon isn\u2019t exactly remembered for his honestly. The only president ever forced to resign his office, he \u2013 or someone in his administration \u2013 ran an espionage and sabotage campaign against his political enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This culminated in the Watergate debacle, in which a group of burglars \u2013 including several central intelligence agents such as E. Howard Hunt \u2013 were arrested trying to bug the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCoincidentally\u201d (quote, unquote), Hunt was also likely front and center in the JFK assassination \u2013 at least according to his own alleged deathbed confession, as told to his son Saint John Hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even some possible (and famous) photographic evidence exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has long been suspected that E. Howard Hunt was one of the three so-called \u201chobos\u201d or \u201ctramps\u201d present at ground zero on November 22, 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his secret audio tapes, Nixon made repeated references to his fear that the Watergate investigations would uncover the \u201cwhole Bay of Pigs thing.\u201d To hear Nixon\u2019s former White House chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, tell it, this was a code phrase for Kennedy\u2019s assassination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At one point, Nixon appeals for cover-up help to then-Director of Central Intelligence, Richard Helms. In his usual halted, rambling style, Nixon is heard to bring up: \u201cThe \u2018who shot John?\u2019 angle,\u201d asking: \u201cIs Eisenhower to blame? Is Kennedy to blame? Is Johnson to blame? Is Nixon to blame? Etc., etc. It may become, not by me, a very vigorous issue. But if it does, I need to know what is necessary to protect \u2013 frankly \u2013 the intelligence-gathering and the dirty-tricks department. And I will protect it. I have done more than my fair share of lying to protect you. And I believe it\u2019s totally right to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, here is the sitting U.S. President \u2013 Tricky Dick, himself \u2013 asking the head of the CIA for information on \u201cwho shot John\u201d Kennedy. And of course, quite interestingly, Helms did not say: of course, it was Lee Harvey Oswald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. Some of the files are still sealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which brings up another curiosity: After 59 years, some of the JFK-associated records are <em>still<\/em> off limits. This naturally brings a few questions to mind, such as: what are they still hiding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this point, establishment pundits typically scoff \u2013 as if the only reason to fret about secret archival information is the chimerical quest for a \u201csmoking-gun\u201d document. But such thoughts are wrongheaded \u2013 in two equal and opposite directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For one thing, the fact that some records remain hidden \u2013 even at this historical distance \u2013 displays the bad faith of certain government archivists. It\u2019s already beyond question that there has been a cover up. That the same players still resist \u2013 or outright refuse \u2013 oversight is, frankly, insulting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This leads to a second, and perhaps more important, point \u2013 one which moves in a diametrically different direction. Namely, it\u2019s reasonable to think that the sealed files are an emblem of a pathological lack of volition on the part of the American people. We don\u2019t need to wait for some smoking gun. The evidence already available is more than sufficient to show that President John F. Kennedy was murdered by conspirators \u2013 some of whom (or some of whose heirs) are yet in power. The problem isn\u2019t sealed files; the problem is collective paralysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. The government\u2019s own most recent investigation concluded conspiracy!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a final attestation to the fact that overwhelming evidence for conspiracy is widely available, we need look no further than the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Established in 1976, it looked into the JFK murder, among other things. It\u2019s conclusions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One was this: \u201cThe committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A second was that there is a \u201chigh probability\u201d of a second gunman. \u2013 meaning\u2026 whatever conspiracy you favor, Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A second was that there was a \u201chigh probability\u201d of a second gunmen \u2013 meaning, of course, that (regardless of what conspiracy you favor) Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Copyright 2023. All applicable rights reserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It only reluctantly appointed Walter E. Craig, then head of the American Bar Association, to the task when called out on the \u201coversight\u201d by the previously named Mark Lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cSenator Russell&#8217;s Papers Show He Disagreed With Warren Report,\u201d <em>Rome News-Tribune<\/em>, Oct. 17, 1993, p. 7A; online at &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=bhMwAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=3085%2C4917493\">https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=bhMwAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=3085%2C4917493<\/a>&gt;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Charles J. Sanders and Mark S. Zaid, \u201cDisclosure Law at Last May Help to Clarify the Facts of the Kennedy Assassination,\u201d South Texas Law Review, vol. 34, p. 412; reproduced in Hearing Before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, <em>The Effectiveness of Public Law 102-526, The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records<\/em>, U.S. House of Representatives, 103<sup>rd<\/sup> Congress, 1<sup>st<\/sup> Session, Nov. 17, 1993, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994, p. 141; archived online at &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=j6Z_LOsTRi8C&amp;pg=PA141\">https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=j6Z_LOsTRi8C&amp;pg=PA141<\/a>&gt;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cDan Rather&#8217;s account from November 25, 1963,\u201d HelmerReenberg (channel), YouTube, posted Jan. 28, 2010, &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kiSoxFHyjGY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kiSoxFHyjGY<\/a>&gt;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a> Between 2:01 and 2:17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ibid<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref7\">[7]<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; See \u201cJFK Zapruder Footage: Slowed Down &amp; Enhanced,\u201d Wayne Robson (channel), YouTube, posted Sept. 28, 2011, &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mwy6Q9_cUwc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mwy6Q9_cUwc<\/a>&gt;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref8\">[8]<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zapruder_film\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zapruder_film<\/a>&gt;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref9\">[9]<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cLyndon Johnson interview with Walter Cronkite, September 1969,\u201d Michael Courtenay (channel), YouTube, posted Nov 23, 2013, &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h5psrZmT0tY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h5psrZmT0tY<\/a>&gt;. The interview excerpt, though recorded in September 1969, was originally part of a CBS <em>Nightly News<\/em> broadcast dated April 24, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref10\">[10]<\/a>&nbsp; Tho, PBS had its share of odd characters. For instance, former White House Press Secretary \u2013 and ex-Council on Foreign Relations member \u2013 Bill Moyers deserves a careful look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref11\">[11]<\/a>&nbsp; Jim Lehrer, interviewed by Diane Rehm, \u201cJim Lehrer: &#8216;Top Down: A Novel Of The Kennedy Assassination&#8217;,\u201d Diane Rehm Show, Oct. 7 2013, &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/dianerehm.org\/shows\/2013-10-07\/jim-lehrer-top-down-novel-kennedy-assassination\">https:\/\/dianerehm.org\/shows\/2013-10-07\/jim-lehrer-top-down-novel-kennedy-assassination<\/a>&gt;. Continuing, he said: \u201cSo I checked out every one of them, as did everybody else. And it was all said and done, I came away with a conclusion after several years, after a few years that there may have been a conspiracy,\u201d <em>ibid<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref12\">[12]<\/a>&nbsp; Cf. Brad Sylvester, \u201cFACT CHECK: Did George Orwell Say, \u2018Telling The Truth Is A Revolutionary Act\u2019? We take a look,\u201d <em>National Interest<\/em>, Jul. 29, 2019, &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/buzz\/fact-check-did-george-orwell-say-\u2018telling-truth-revolutionary-act\u2019-69896\">https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/buzz\/fact-check-did-george-orwell-say-%E2%80%98telling-truth-revolutionary-act%E2%80%99-69896<\/a>&gt;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Quick Reasons to Believe There Really WAS a Conspiracy According to press reports, the majority of Americans believe that thirty-fifth United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered as part of some sort of conspiracy. 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