How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
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How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
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#2Hypothetically, if a group of people was willing to go to all the trouble of breaking laws to assassinate a President, what's forcing them to be honorable in producing and releasing information implicating themselves?
It seems any excitement is contingent on believing not just in the conspiracy, but also in extreme incompetence, no?
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#3Usually I'm opposed to "read these documents the way we tell you to" articles a la CNN but this was a case of judging a book by its cover on my part, with little mention of Trump. Kudos Politico.
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#4Hypothetically, if a group of people was willing to go to all the trouble of breaking laws to assassinate a President, what's forcing them to be honorable in producing and releasing information implicating themselves? It seems any excitement is contingent on believing not just in the conspiracy, but also in extreme incompetence, no?
> It seems any excitement is contingent on believing no just in the conspiracy, but also in extreme incompetence, no?
This kind of belief is more common than you might expect. There's arguably a whole genre of "faceless enemy" in various worldviews that is blatantly corrupt/incompetent/inferior while also being overwhelmingly disciplined and powerful.
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#5I saw a documentary which analyzed footage found around 2000 iirc (discovered old footage) of the murder. The conclusion was that due to the wound exit, the shooter could never have been Oswald. It convinced me.
Who does the American public currently believe to be the shooter? Is there consensus for some theory?
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#6Hypothetically, if a group of people was willing to go to all the trouble of breaking laws to assassinate a President, what's forcing them to be honorable in producing and releasing information implicating themselves? It seems any excitement is contingent on believing not just in the conspiracy, but also in extreme incompetence, no?
They might all be dead by now.
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#7I saw a documentary which analyzed footage found around 2000 iirc (discovered old footage) of the murder. The conclusion was that due to the wound exit, the shooter could never have been Oswald. It convinced me. Who does the American public currently believe to be the shooter? Is there consensus for some theory?
> Who does the American public currently believe to be the shooter?
What does this have to do with anything? Reality isn't a democracy.
It's absolutely possible the shot came from Oswald. Tastelessness aside, try playing JFK Reloaded (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_Reloaded). Claiming the ballistics don't make sense is as debunked as claiming jet fuel can't melt steel beams.
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#8Hypothetically, if a group of people was willing to go to all the trouble of breaking laws to assassinate a President, what's forcing them to be honorable in producing and releasing information implicating themselves? It seems any excitement is contingent on believing not just in the conspiracy, but also in extreme incompetence, no?
> Hypothetically, if a group of people was willing to go to all the trouble of breaking laws to assassinate a President, what's forcing them to be honorable in producing and releasing information implicating themselves?
This "hypothetically" begs the question and assumes that some three-letter acronym plotted to kill JFK.
> but also in extreme incompetence, no?
You contradict yourself. If the supposed plotters were so incompetent, how could they have pulled this off and kept the supposed cover-up alive for so long?
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#9One of the best Radiolab episodes I've heard was Mau Mau[1], which chronicled the uncovering of thousands of documents pertaining to the British Empire in Kenya. The extent to which history must be rewritten is stunning, only to be surpassed by the brutality of the English.
Not that releasing the JFK assassination files would rewrite an extensive period of history, but the precedent remains: the grim truth of history often lies forever buried in the archives of state.
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#10I saw a documentary which analyzed footage found around 2000 iirc (discovered old footage) of the murder. The conclusion was that due to the wound exit, the shooter could never have been Oswald. It convinced me. Who does the American public currently believe to be the shooter? Is there consensus for some theory?
You probably would be interested in the results of United States House Select Committee on Assassinations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_C...