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The Truth Behind JFK's Assassination
Newsweek ^ | November 20, 2014 | Max Holland

Posted on 11/22/2014 5:32:47 PM PST by DJ Taylor

On November 29, 1963, President Lyndon Johnson directed the Warren Commission to “evaluate all the facts” in the brutal November 22 murder of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, on a downtown Dallas street in broad daylight. Reduced to its bare essentials, the investigation sought answers to three fundamental questions: Who, why and how?

“Why” was entirely contingent on “who,” and that depended on “how.” Thus, the linchpin of the Warren Report—and every subsequent investigation—has always been precisely how Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza. That is the finding from which all the important answers flow; mishandle that question and the credibility of the entire report is undermined. The Warren Commission’s bungling of “how” is a primary reason why there have been so many residual doubts and conspiracy theories over the past 50 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apologist; jamestague; jfk; jfkassassination; johnfkennedy; mafia; maxholland; newsweak; rfk; robertfkennedy
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To: DJ Taylor
The Sixth Floor by Christine Lavin
61 posted on 11/22/2014 7:48:00 PM PST by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
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To: DJ Taylor
Am I Awake by The Might Be Giants A very cool faux-history music video that chills me.
62 posted on 11/22/2014 7:51:34 PM PST by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
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To: MUDDOG
Of course all the shots came from the School Book Depository. The stack of evidence pointing to Oswald reaches to the moon. The reason people doubt the Warren Commission is because:

1. Commies here and abroad used people like Mark Lane to undermine this country.

2. People like to believe in conspiracies.

63 posted on 11/22/2014 8:03:58 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie
Another reason for the conspiracy theories is that left-wingers didn't want to admit that one of their own, a Commie Castro sympathiser, pulled the trigger.

From day one, the NY Times' Scotty Reston (in an opinion piece on the front page) was spinning it as due to the climate of hatred fostered by right-wingers (just as we saw 40 years later with Gabby Giffords).

64 posted on 11/22/2014 8:10:18 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: DJ Taylor

What I am sure of is that there was more to this than we’ve ever been told.


65 posted on 11/22/2014 8:13:48 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: DJ Taylor

I just saw a show on cable TV called something like the Smoking Gun. Their conclusion was that Kennedy was hit initially by something that the first bullet hit and ricocheted into Kennedy, and that the motorcade suddenly sped up, and that a Secret Service agent in the limo behind Kennedy, while reaching for his weapon, lost his balance and that his weapon discharged and hit Kennedy in the head, killing him. Take it for what it’s worth.


66 posted on 11/22/2014 8:18:06 PM PST by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I never trust the Feds, period. Warren commission is no exception.
Take your US Federal government and shove it where the sun never shines.


67 posted on 11/22/2014 8:18:21 PM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. President zero gave us patient zero.)
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To: grumpygresh

All fine and good but the Dallas PD did all the initial investigation that led to Oswald’s arrest. I’ll trust all the witnesses and physical evidence over lies and obfuscation.


68 posted on 11/22/2014 8:22:03 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: CapnJack
Answer this question and you will know who did it.

Dorothy L Sayers disagrees with you

“You have no idea,” said Peter, irrelevantly, “how refreshing it is to talk to somebody who has a grasp of method. The police are excellent fellows, but the only principle of detection they have really grasped is that wretched phrase, ‘Cui bono’? They will hare off after motive, which is a matter for psychologists. Juries are just the same. If they can see a motive they tend to convict, however often the judge may tell them that there’s no need to prove motive, and that motive by itself will never make a case. You’ve got to show how the thing was done, and then, if you like, bring in motive to back up your proof. If a thing could only have been done one way, and if only one person could have done it that way, then you’ve got your criminal, motive or no motive. There’s How, When, Where, Why, and Who—and when you’ve got How, you’ve got Who. Thus spake Zarathustra.”
Look for motive? Only The Shadow knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
69 posted on 11/22/2014 8:24:18 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Television: Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover)
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70 posted on 11/22/2014 8:25:37 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Peter Libra
He walks and finally enters a a shoe store and is not really interested in purchasing. He glances out of the window at police cars zooming by. He does not say a word

AIR, he attracted attention because everybody was looking at the police cars, except one man really interested in shoes.

71 posted on 11/22/2014 8:28:50 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Television: Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover)
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To: bobby.223

In Decemeber 1960 month before took office Jfk was almost
assassinated by deranged former mailman who was anti Catholic

He would try to ram his car into Kennedy’s when he went to church in Palm Beach Fl. He would then blow up both cars with dynamite

Hesistated at last second when saw Jackie and children in car

Was arresred several weeks later when stalking Kennedy....


72 posted on 11/22/2014 8:33:57 PM PST by njslim
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To: njslim

They didn’t have much security around in Palm Beach, for example, Bobby would go to church alone, and you could get pretty close to JFK when he played golf at the Breakers.


73 posted on 11/22/2014 8:41:24 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: njslim

I think that a lot of people forget how anti-Catholic this country was at the time. (still is...somewhat. But not nearly as bad as in the 60’s)


74 posted on 11/22/2014 8:44:11 PM PST by berdie
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To: DJ Taylor

More Newsweak lies. The Warren Commission was supposed to cover up Oswald’s connection to Castro because Johnson didn’t want Americans clamoring for war with Cuba.

Kennedy should have stuck with the plan at the Bay of Pigs, instead if trying to assassinate Castro.


75 posted on 11/22/2014 8:45:42 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: DJ Taylor

That article was just tortuous to read. If Marines are trained to shoot at the earliest shot possible, Oswald would have shot down into the limo as it approached the Depository......before it turned onto Elm St. He would have had a full city block with a slow moving target to take several shots if he needed to....”he” didn’t.

The Zapruder film and physics prove that Oswald did not kill the President. The fatal shot shows JFK’s head being thrown violently to the left-rear of the limo. Blood and brain tissue from the shot sprayed the left-rear of the trunk of the limo and the windshield and face of the motorcycle cop riding at the left-rear of the car. Jackie retrieved a piece of the President’s skull in her frantic climb onto the trunk and handed it to people at Parkland. THAT is not consistent with a shot from above and behind. It IS consistent with a shot from the right-front of the limo, ie.....The Grassy Knoll.

Additionally, a piece of JFK’s skull,was found in the grass in an exact trajectory from the Knoll.

Film doesn’t lie. Physics doesn’t lie.

People with agendas DO lie....


76 posted on 11/22/2014 8:50:40 PM PST by ALASKA (Disgusted.....)
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Jack Ruby the Saturday before he shot Oswald that Sunday morning went with a friend and took a picture of a billboard in the Dallas area that read: “Impeach Earl Warren”

http://rosamondpress.com/2013/11/15/jack-ruby-impeach-earl-warren/

Means nothing but is interesting. Photo at link.


77 posted on 11/22/2014 8:51:19 PM PST by BeadCounter
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To: ALASKA

Well, I don’t necessarily agree with your other statements but that exact thought about why Oswald didn’t shoot the Prez. head-on I thought of immediately as well. Newsweek dropped the ball on that for sure.


78 posted on 11/22/2014 8:53:59 PM PST by BeadCounter
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To: DJ Taylor

Two things that have always bothered me and the government’s version of what happened is:
1. Why would Oswald use that worthless POS Carcano when he was trained with the Garand.

2. Oswald was arrested 75 minutes after Kennedy’s shooting. In those 75 minutes, he got out of the Book Depository, went home, set out on foot a movie theater, shot Officer Tibbetts, get in an argument in the shoe store and was picked out for the police by the shoe store manager in a dark theater. All in 75 minutes! Right!


79 posted on 11/22/2014 8:57:55 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: BeadCounter

“Well, I don’t necessarily agree with your other statements......”

And you don’t have to, but if you watch the film and read the testimony, it’s all there.........


80 posted on 11/22/2014 9:11:58 PM PST by ALASKA (Disgusted.....)
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