Kennedy Special to Air on ABC

SeaMax News ^ | 11/6/2003 | Joseph Crane

[Hugenot]

The fortieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination is sure to dredge up a substantial amount of controversy surrounding the Kennedy assassination.

There have been numerous investigations, reports and studies concerning how and why JFK was killed. Some people believe that there was more than one gunman; others believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted independently. A select few even believe that the entire act was a conspiracy.

ABC has deeply investigated this event and insists that they have uncovered the absolute truth. The people at ABC have constructed a computer-generated re-enactment of the assassination.

In order to create such an accurate reconstruction, ABC used maps, blueprints, over 500 photographs, films and autopsy reports. This enables the viewer to see different angles of the shooting, including the angle of Lee Harvey Oswald from the sixth floor of the former Texas school book depository.

ABC also claims that they have confirmed that Jack Ruby acted alone, through interviews and other documents. Apparently Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald out of his fanatical love for Kennedy.

ABC is airing a 2 hour special on November 20, narrated by Peter Jennings, regarding the murder of JFK.

Today public opinion surveys show that more than half of Americans believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. This is a far cry from the opinions displayed by people in the sixties and seventies.

Gary Mack, curator of the sixth floor museum at Dealy Plaza in Dallas said, “The history of the subject is pretty clear, no matter what… people are going to believe what they want.”

[smith288]

Actually that statement is among the most socialist statements ever made by an American President. The government is supposed to put us first, not vice versa.

"Ask not what your country can do for you (services, handouts, welfare), ask what you can do for your country (support military, defend freedom)"

Real socialistic. </sarcasm>. Reading the context of that inagural address, he is speaking of the effort to bring peace and freedom. Being a light for the world to look up to and try to emulate. I sense ZERO socialism in his statement.

[Let's Roll]

You mean the tax cut "lie" that we have an audio tape of JFK himself explaining why he wants the tax cut? So that families can plan for their future, start businesses, send their children to college etc. That "lie"?

[King David]

In 1977-1978, the national collegiate debate topic was: The Investigation into the Assasination of JFK Should Be Reopened. You had to debate either the "yes" or "no" position. I chose the NO side of the debate, but then spent the next 8 weeks doing detailed research into the case. By the time all the debating was over, I was convinced that the Warren Report was not the final say in this event.

The one glaring proof that a cover-up occured was from all the sworn statements of the surgeons, nurses and hospital aides who tried to save the life of the President. Each person described the hole in the back of Mr. Kennedy's skull was about the size of a grapefruit. There was massive bone and brain tissue loss.

But when we look at the alleged autopsy report today, we see a photo of a head--supposedly that of the President--with a full head of hair, an almost undetectible "hole" and no loss of bone.

The hospital personel have never waivered from their insistance that this photo is not one of the man that they treated that fateful day. I'm looking forward to reading the soon to be realeased book "Triangle of Death". I believe THIS--not ABC--will present a far more accurate portrayal of 40 years of research... not propaganda.

[sergeantdave]

ABC drew a cartoon proving Oswald cranked off three shots with a piece-of-junk rifle in seven seconds - and he hit his moving target twice. How special. I think I'll draw a cartoon showing positive proof that ABC is run by Martians.

[RayChuang88]

GB,

I think Oswald acted alone, especially if you've read the book Case Closed by Gerard Posner (perhaps THE best analysis of the JFK assassination I've ever read). Careful analysis using extremely sophisticated computer modelling by Failure Analysis Associates showed that Oswald easily could have fired off all three shots pretty quickly, and given that Dealey Plaza is a relatively small area it was not hard for that gun to hit the targets.

The only conspiracy theory I'll subscribe to is who encouraged Oswald to assasssinate JFK? Was it anti-Castro forces? The Chicago Mafia family? Lyndon Baines Johnson?

[metesky]

Check your premises. Socialism is socialism whether it takes a national character (Nazis) or an international character (commies).

[scarab9]

I don't know if this has been discussed before - but has anyone seen that re-worked video where you can see the limo driver turn around and shoot Kennedy?? It was some bootlegged vhs film I saw about 10 years ago.

[TheCause]

Personally I like the Sienfeld version of the JFK assassination.

[metesky]

I disagree, but I don't want to make enemies over it.
:O)

Of course, I'm an old Cape Codder and thus a Kennedy detractor from way back.

[chuckwalla]

That's funny. My reaction was exactly the opposite. The grassy knoll is in exact line with the head shot.
Dealy plaza is very small but I can not get over how perfectly aligned the movement of his head is in that shot to the path a bullet would travel from the grassy area.
There is no way that shot came from the window.

[tjg]

During his run for President, in answer to a question posed by a reporter, JFK stated, 'I'm not a liberal, I'm a realist'.

JFK couldn't to be elected today, either as a D or an R; he was way too conservative.

I highly recommend the book, "An Unfinished Life', to anyone interested in this subject. A good book about an extrordinary human being.

[smith288]

I disagree, but I don't want to make enemies over it. :O)

Truce! ;)

[FranceForBushInAustin]

We saw a show on cable in Paris last week. People are starting to talk in Texas, people close to the case and old enough to clear their conscience.

The show traces the existence of a shadow figure in LBJ entourage, clearly a hitman. That guy most likely killed a prominent judge in Texas in 61, and his finger print was identify on the weapon next to Oswald. The other disturbing fact is the mortician who did reconstruct in a hurry JFK face. On the video, you can see clearly his face blown from the front, not from the back. His face had to be reconstructed to support the thesis of a single shooter from the Library. Right after finishing his job, his daughter recalls on camera how he took immedialtely his family to San Angelo to a motel. She recalled that once her dad saw on TV that Oswald was killed, they drove back, it was safe....

The thesis is that LBJ would have eliminated JFK for several reasons. First for power to become president, two for payback to years of financing by oil interest ( JFK was planning to cut $300M tax incentive to oil cartel) , and three because Bobby Kennedy was investigating LBJ for the Texas judge murder.

I guess it is just another theory with no conspiracy this time. What was the most fascinating was the LBJ business associate, a prominent Texas businessman, talking openly how he stayed alive all these years by taping conversations.

[ken5050]

Good points...considering that about 50% of the showa on TV these days all deal in some way with forensic sciencs and crime investigations....folks youngng than 40 find it hard to believe that thwey just happened to "find" a bullet lying on the gurney that was used to transport the president...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Oliver Stone is an idiot and anyone who pays money to see one of his films isn't too bright. However, I sincerely believe that it was a liberal plot to remove JFK (much more of a Zell Miller than a Dasshole) from office and replace him with that socialist bastard Johnson.

[Blood of Tyrants]

P.S. Do you deny that the history books are liberal?

[Sloth]

However, I sincerely believe that it was a liberal plot to remove JFK (much more of a Zell Miller than a Dasshole) from office and replace him with that socialist bastard Johnson.

Well, OK, but that still doesn't require any shooters besides Oswald. He was a leftist (Communist) and obviously his intent WAS to remove Kennedy, obviously leaving Johnson to take office.

And yes, I agree history textbooks are liberal.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I just have a hard time believing that a crappy surplus bolt action Carcano rifle was accurate enough to hit a moving target TWICE in less than 3 seconds and that a bullet retaining 99% of it's original weight and practically unmarred passed through Kennedy's neck, that senator's arm, lodged in his leg, and then FELL OUT of the wound and was "found" by an agent just lying there.

Also supposedly Oswald shot the president, hid the rifle, ran down the stairs, got a cup of coffee, and was standing there when the agents ran past looking surprised less than a minute after the shooting.

There is just too much "coincidence" to be coincidence.

[upcountryhorseman]

If you study the ballistics, It is absolutely impossible
for Oswald to have fired the killing rounds. I believe
the "shot from a manhole" theory.

[BubbaBasher]

I have also stood on the grassy knoll behind the fence where the shadow figure in one of the photos was. It is a perfectly level straight shot. The car is moving directly into the line of fire before the road dips to go under the bridge. It would be hard for anyone to miss from that position. The repository location is actually quite far away. I'm a pretty good shot and would find it extremely difficult to hit a moving target from that location and angle.