Posted on 09/11/2004 2:59:14 PM PDT by Ozone34
Dan Rather got his first big break on November 22, 1963, when JFK was shot in Dallas. Rather, a Texan, was right in place to receive his boondoggle: all he had to do was lie. Apparently, that was no problem for Rather, who soon after declared on national television that he had seen the Zapruder Film, and it indeed had shown Kennedy's head snap forward. This is the same story presented in Life Magazine, which showed frames of the Zapruder film in the order that appeared to have JFK's head moving in that direction. Time-Life then bought the film and tried to keep it out of the view of the public. When it was finally released over a decade later, it was revealed that Kennedy's head snapped BACKWARDS. Whoops. This would be strange, since, considering that Lee Harvey Oswald was behind Kennedy at the time of the assassination, it would defy the laws of physics for Kennedy's head to go the direction it did if Oswald was the "lone-nut" gunman. If there is a "smoking gun" on media collaboration in covering up the JFK story, this is it, and Rather is point and center in it. Either he saw the film and lied about what he viewed, or he didn't see it and lied when he said he did, but in either case, Dan Rather has proven himself utterly untrustworthy in the biggest of stories. Instead of being punished for his dishonesty, he has unsurprisingly been rewarded, along the way dismissing as ridiculous any legitimate investigation of the JFK hit, smearing Oliver Stone's JFK along the way as "inaccurate". Has Mr. Rather heard about people living in glass houses?
Dan Rather was stripped of his Texas citizenship many years ago. The rest of us DO NOT CLAIM him as one of us.
Amen Texan's disowned his dumb a** decades ago.
As far as Texan's are concerned he belongs to Castro now.
Wlll Bob Woodward run Rathergate to ground? Sorry for the silly question.
Oh, Geez! Not this sh*t again.
A little history concerning JFK's assassination.
I dont think dan was dust... more like horse 'leavings'
Don't tell me you are a Warren Commission Kool-Aid drinker?
Well none of the rest of us are about to claim him either. Now what?
Just view Ollie Stone's JFK again. He trots out every cokamammie theory; proves none. Personally I think Oswald was the lone gunman. Gunmen tend to be lone. But I don't want to debate it.
Some of this was timing. Most of these people are mid to early baby boomers. They are stuck in the 60s-70s period of hate America first. As they finally die off things will probably shift back to match more the temperment of the country which is much more moderate to conservative.
As far as Texan's are concerned he belongs to Castro now.
Does this mean that you "Lone Star State" boy's wouldn't mind telling one of your own, CA, State Senator Jack Scott, born Sweewater, Texas, to leave Californians guns alone? I didn't think so.
I accidentally ran across this.
>>Where to begin? Well, for openers, Burkett filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the military records of the famously liberal Dan Rather, anchor of the CBS Evening News. Recalling how Rather spent much of the 1990 campaign beating up on Dan Quayle for beating the Vietnam draft as a member of the National Guard, Burkett gleefully discovered that Rather himself hid out from the Korean War as a member of the Reserves. When he graduated from college in 1954, after the war was safely over, Rather joined the Marines and was discharged as medically unfit after four months. Of course, this doesn't stop Rather from proudly identifying himself as an ex-Marine! Dan Ford<<
This is a book review for "Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of its Heroes and its History"
(B.G. Burkett & Glenna Whitley)
I think this needs a wider dissemination, don't you?
DK
So do I and I have no doubts about it.
This statement is a load of crap, coming from someone who does not even understand Newton's third law.
I certainly do! If Rather is another "Four Month Wonder", like Kerry, this fact needs more exposure.
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