Ken MacLeod Quotes

Most Americans do not believe the official explanation of the Warren Commission that Oswald acted alone. However, Kerry was the first of very few high government officials who would express this opinion in public. The fact that Oswald himself was then assassinated in the Dallas Police Station denied any information from him. Then were many foul ups of the investigations that most analysts of the assassination believe were foul ups or cover-ups of other wrong doing. Examples were: Parts of Kennedy’s brain was missing and the autopsy notes were burned by the naval physician who did the autopsy before anyone could see them; the FBI and CIA both lied to the Warren Commission, President Johnson, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy; Both the FBI and the CIA had files on Oswald; the CIA had tried to assassinate Fidel Castro before including paying the Mafia to do it (The efforts were bungled and Castro found out about most; Oswald had w few weeks earlier tried to assassinate the right wing John Birch Society fanatic, General Edwin Walker and the CIA and FBI missed that.); Shortly before the assassination Walker and his fanatics printed and distributed a “Wanted for Treason” poster accusing President Kennedy of selling out America. (See {635732}.)

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910

3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. The main reason for the secrecy was that the FBI had made some serious blunders in tracking Oswald before the assassination, and failed to apprehend him when he was involved in another attempted assassination, and no one thought this negated the single assassin theory so J. Edgar Hoover was able to keep the Bureau’s incompetence secret. However, the CIA, even with the secrecy lied to the Commission to cover up their blunder in having hired Mafia organized crime figures to assassinate Fidel Castro. The attempts failed but Castro threatened to retaliate, and this possibility was never discussed by the Warren Commission as they did not have the information much less the public. Because of the secrecy, many people have been suspicious of the lone assassin conclusion that the commission had reached as they assumed venality rather than incompetence.

See {642341} for the CIA role in obstructing the Warren Commission investigation. The FBI also withheld evidence about their contacts with Oswald. The investigators for the Commission only came from the two agencies that had much to hide and who lied to the commission.

There was no way of reopening the investigation into the assassination without the public finding out that the CIA and FBI both had deliberately misled the Warren Commission and the House Investigating Committee in the original investigation. Nixon and other politicians who likely knew of the scandal did not want the confidence of the public eroded in this important agencies, and that was probably his motivation for the turn down rather than trying to cover up facets about the assassination itself.

Trump had a penchant for making statements and attacks and offering policies that were racist, sexist, boorish, and often unconstitutional. Leaders of this own Republican party urged him to act more presidential, stop the lies and exaggerations, and advocate for traditional Republican positions and programs, but most Republicans supported him. Just before the second presidential debate, video tape was found where r. Trump uttered vile, sexist language and admitting to committing acts of sexual assault and predation on women. Then in the debate, he claimed that it was just “locker room talk” which angered many even further in that he was not an adolescent at the time but was a 59 year old man. Republicans denounced hime in droves with many leaders and office holders of the party withdrawing their support of him as a presidential candidate. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House and the Senior Republican in the country, then announced that he would no longer support or campaign for Trump, but would only campaign for other Republicans. This was Trump’s campaign speech on that subject. Note the total insensitivity and paranoid belief in a conspiracy theory.