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Conspiracy Theory Wednesday

Posted in Conspiracy Theory Wednesday, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 3, 2010| Leave a Comment »

For some reason, I have become enamored with the idea that I should have some blog days that are designated to a topic.  And I am a bit hooked on Conspiracy Theory Wednesday because as I said I think it is a throwback to my Colin McEnroe radio listening days in Hartford, CT.

Since Dark Legacy stirred my deeply buried but not lost feelings about the Kennedy assassination, I came across, well actually Peter did, but this is my blog so… we have a deck of trading cards of all things, that expose and expound upon the conspiracy behind President Kennedy’s death.  I was really intrigued by the concept – can you imagine a company produced a deck of cards called Coup D’Etat?  You can’t? Believe me it exists and Conspiracy Theory Wednesday seems to be the perfect time to delve into this fascinating and complex conspiracy theory.  Think of it as jumping the gun (no pun intended) on the 50th Anniversary of the Assassination when surely there will be a new wave of books dealing with this 20th century haunting mystery.  The following is from the first card in the deck;

The Assassination

Politics brought John F. Kennedy to Texas in 1963.  The 35th president won the conservative state in the 1960 election largely for his tough stand on Cuba, his promised defense build-up, and his Texan running mate.   But Kennedy’s 1,026 days in office were characterized by increasingly liberal policies.  The failed 1961 Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the 1963  Test Ban Treaty with the Soviets and the administration’s support of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement added to Kennedy’s growing unpopularity in right-wing circles.  In the nine months before the President’s visit to Dallas, the Secret Service had received more than 400 threats on his life.  On November 18 one of these caused the cancellation of a planned motorcade through Miami.  In Texas, a state dependent on the oil and defense industries, recent moves to repeal the sacrosanct 27.5% oil depletion allowance and plans to begin withdrawal of U.S. military “advisors” from Vietnam were viewed with particular alarm, nowhere more visibly than in Dallas, a hotbed of right wing fringe activity.  In October 1963, UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson had been shoved, spat on, and hit with a picket sign there.  When Kennedy read the Dallas morning news on Friday morning, November 22nd, he was greeted by a full page ad in bold, black type suggesting that he was a Communist and a traitor.  A few hours later, as he rode through downtown Dallas accompanied by Texas Governor, John Connally and Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the motorcade route was lined with posters picturing Kennedy with the words, “Wanted for Treason”.  The stage was set for assassination.

If you’re interested (and it only gets better) check back next Wednesday for the next segment.

Kennedy Assassination, trading cards, John F Kennedy, Dallas, Governor John Connally, Vice President Lyndon Johnson,
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Dark Legacy or Conspiracy Theory Wednesday

Posted in BY THE WAY, tagged , , , on May 25, 2010| Leave a Comment »

It could be shades of Colin McEnroe who used to espouse a conspiracy theory every Wednesday on his radio talk show in Hartford CT, many years ago.  Still the information did come to us through a radio show, this time WBAI, a listener supported Public Radio station.

Will we ever REALLY know the truth about the Kennedy Assassination?  There isn’t a Baby Boomer alive that can’t tell you to the minute what they were doing and where they were when the news that our president, John F. Kennedy had been shot.  One man on a mission? Not likely!  The alleged assassin assassinated by a outraged and patriotic strip club owner??? WE KNOW this is just not the whole truth BUT no one has ever been able to prove otherwise.

They HAD to stop the bleeding, the nation was reeling, shocked beyond belief which meant we were apt to believe anything – at least for awhile.  So we were told that a very special holy ordained group of wise men would look into this event and explain once and for all what really happened – Voila! The Warren Commission.

This from Wikipedia: The ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963–1964, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) of 1976–1979, and other government investigations concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was murdered by Jack Ruby before he could stand trial. This conclusion was initially met with support among the American public, however polls conducted from 1966 to 2004 concluded approximately 80% of the American public have held beliefs contrary to these findings.[1][2] The assassination is still the subject of widespread debate and has spawned numerous conspiracy theories and alternative scenarios. In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) found both the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously flawed. The HSCA also concluded that there were at least four shots fired, that there was a “high probability” that two gunmen fired at the President, and that it was probable that a conspiracy existed.[3] Later studies, including one by the National Academy of Sciences,[4] have called into question the accuracy of the evidence used by the HSCA to support its finding of four shots.

Then a plethora of books followed:

  • Josiah Thompson — Six Seconds in Dallas
  • Priscilla McMillan — Marina and Lee
  • Jean Davison — Oswald’s Game
  • David Lifton — Best Evidence

Crossfire
Jim Marrs. The virtue of this volume is its comprehensiveness. Marrs seems never to have met a crackpot witness he didn’t believe nor run across a conspiracy factoid he didn’t accept. You’ll get the full case for “conspiracy” here, the good, the bad, and the downright wacky.

Case Closed
Gerald Posner. A comprehensive “lone assassin” synthesis, and massive debunking of conspiracy factoids. Its real strength is a compelling portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald the man.

The Killing of a President
Robert Groden. The text is a mish-mash of conspiracy factoids, but the pictures are a treasure in this large-format volume.

High Treason
Harrison Livingstone and Robert Groden. A good introduction to the conspiracy view of the medical evidence, and much more besides. Rife with inaccuracies and wacky assertions, but fascinating too.

False Witness
Patricia Lambert. The definitive debunking of the Garrison investigation, based on the full documentary record (much of it recently released) and extensive witness interviews. Shows the real Jim Garrison.

Pictures of the Pain
Richard Trask. Nominally only deals with the photographers who photographed the assassination and aftermath, and their photos. In reality a detailed, accurate, and compelling account of what happened “on the ground” in Dallas and especially in Dealey Plaza that day.

And then in 1991 when those of us who were teenagers when JFK was killed and were now in their mid-forties  and were presumably more intelligent, more endowed with logical reasoning – Oliver Stone releases  JFK. A movie part fact, part speculation and part opinion (Garrison’s and Stone’s) – AND we loved it!  Someone finally came along and confirmed our long buried but not forgotten suspicions.  NOT that the books or at least some of them didn’t  also put forward the conspiracy theory,  BUT this was in cinematographic panavision!

Fast Forward to 2008 and George Bush and the murder of John F. Kennedy The Dark Legacy,  directed by John Hankey. What new revelations await us?  I am sooooo intrigued by the title with its implication that George Bush was, may have, might have been involved. I understand there might be some Skull & Crossbones involvement too!!!

Check back in the future for an unbiased review!!!!

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The Dark Legacy



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