Saturday, September 27, 2014

Slow Saturday Special: Questioning the Warren Commission

The Globe seems surprised by that.

"50 years later, doubts still raised on Warren Report" by Cat Zakrzewski | Globe Correspondent   September 27, 2014

BETHESDA, Md. — Fifty years after the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman killed President John F. Kennedy, a conference examining the assassination convened here, dominated by skeptics who mulled over conspiracy theories and cast doubt on official reports.

One panelist, John Newman, who gave a presentation on CIA pseudonyms used by agents connected with the Kennedys, said the Warren Report “was not just wrong. The longer we have to study the case, the wronger its conclusions become.”

Theories about the case have sprouted from the moment that Kennedy was killed, and countless forums have been held since then. This gathering, five decades after the Warren Commission published its report on Sept. 24, 1964, drew more than 200 people.

It was sponsored by a private group, the Assassination Archives and Research Center, which says on its website that it is the world’s largest private archive “dedicated to acquiring, preserving, and disseminating information on political assassinations.”

One of the speakers, Antonio Veciana, an 86-year-old involved in the anti-Castro movement, said through a translator that he had seen a CIA officer in Dallas with Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy’s assassination. Attendees had so many questions for Veciana that his talk went almost an hour over the allotted time.

One attendee, Mike Chesser of Arkansas, who was 8 years old at the time of the assassination, said he wanted to learn more about what he believes is “our true history.”

“I always felt there were a lot of unanswered questions,” Chesser said.

And I know one place you will not be finding answers.

The conference began Friday with panels on secrecy and democratic accountability and featured testimony from witnesses who said they encountered Oswald in the months before the assassination.

On Saturday, the conference will focus on the subsequent “coverup’’ of the assassination, and a dramatization of the Warren Commission will be presented Sunday.

What is with the "quotations?"

The official investigation was overseen by then-Chief Justice Earl Warren. But in the half century since Warren Commission, public opinion polls consistently show that a majority of Americans do not believe its primary finding: that Oswald, a disgruntled former Marine, acted alone in murdering the 35th president.

A 2013 Gallup poll found 60 percent of Americans think others were involved, although that percentage was down from its peak in 1976, when 81 percent said they believed there was a conspiracy.

Yeah, right, people are starting to buy the received myths from officialdom after all the lies we are told on a daily basis, never mind the last ten years. You keep on believing in that magic bullet that will get us all to buy the bullsh**.

Theories about who the culprits might have been include leading organized crime figures, Cubans who were seeking to overthrow communist dictator Fidel Castro, Castro himself, and elements within the CIA, or some amalgam of these groups.

Those are what are known as limited hangouts and they take the focus off the likely culprits considering the source.

The attendees filled the ballroom of the Bethesda Hyatt Regency Hotel as a row of cameras filmed the scene for an upcoming DVD. Books written by the conference’s speakers, with titles such as “Oswald: Russian Episode,”' were sold in the lobby. 

The Russians had as much to do with it as Saddam did 9/11.

Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post reporter who has researched the assassination, said he believed the Internet would usher in a new era of Kennedy assassination research.

Already has. You guys are as late like the Secret Service that day.

“Now anybody, anywhere can get access to the original record of the assassination, or most of it,” Morley said. “That has never been true over the past 50 years and it’s only started to be true recently. It’s only going to become more true as time passes.”

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The one thing that has always stuck with me even after the ludicrousness of the magic bullet in near pristine condition is the FACT that the SCOPE on the RIFLE that Oswald allegedly used was DEFECTIVE! 

Oswald would have been shooting in the dark like a blind man no matter what he say through that lens. That one incontrovertible fact is the essence of the case against the Commission and its findings.  Thus it casts doubt on all their other conclusions, just like ma$$ media distortions and lies have destroyed theirs.