Reflections on JFK Assassination and newly released files
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“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate,
contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and
unrealistic.” JFK
I am scarcely alone in my assessment that there was a CIA backed
conspiracy to assassinate John Fitzgerald Kennedy. About the lone gunman
theory, Richard Russell, senator and former Warren Commissioner had
said: “We have not been told the truth about Oswald.”
Hale Boggs, majority leader and Warren Commissioner stated: “FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission, on Oswald,
on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the guns, you name it…”
Even going so far as to doubt the sacred premise of three shots, John
Sherman Cooper, senator and Warren Commissioner stated: “On what basis
is it claimed that two shots caused all wounds? It seemed to me that
Governor Connally’s testimony negates such a conclusion.” (Recall that
Governor John Connally was sitting in front of Kennedy and was also
struck by a bullet.)
What is more, published just one month after Kennedy’s murder, former
President Truman all but signaled out the CIA in a remarkable editorial
published in the Washington Post. “I never had any thought that when I
set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger
operations…there is something about the way the CIA has been functioning
that it is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that
we need to correct it.” Obviously Truman’s warning has never been
heeded.
Nearly 54 years after JFK's assassination, on October 27th 2017, the US
government released over 2,800 records in an effort to comply with a
1992 law mandating the documents' release. About 300 files were kept
classified out of concern for US national security, law enforcement and
foreign relations. How can this be? After so many years of secrecy,
cover up, false flags, propaganda, cold blooded murder for hire, and
unlimited spending of tax payer’s money, hundreds of files will remain
locked away, redacted beyond comprehension, and, in some cases, simply
destroyed. What does the current U.S. intelligence apparatus want to
hide about an event that took place more than five decades ago?
As necessary as this question is, frankly speaking, the American public
does not need these “new” files to know what happened on that fateful
November day. Anyone who really wants to know the truth can watch the
Zapruder film, research the findings of the House Select Committee on
Assassinations, watch interviews of eyewitnesses in Dealey Plaza on
YouTube, read Jim Marrs’ book Crossfire, and critically examine the
wealth of physical evidence that has come to light over the past half
century. The released documents are actually immaterial in light of what
has already been disclosed.
The important question is-and always has been-why does the assassination
matter? What was Kennedy really killed for? This is not about the
devious motives of paid assassins. This is about the personal
consequence of changing systems. Systems of power and oppression killed
JFK. CIA agents-like White House administrations- come and go, but the
idea that JFK needed to die in order to protect national security is
what ultimately eliminated the 35th president of the United States. A
system such as the CIA merely carries out a plot. But it takes a
regularly interacting group of beliefs to form a unified notion that a
plot must be contrived in the first place. In America, it is a death
sentence for someone when they try to do everything differently: to go
to the moon, to go to the Soviet Union with open arms, to go to the
places we fear most, and to go beyond our fear to become masters of our
own destiny. In the words of JFK: “The problems of the world cannot
possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by
the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never
were.”
The systems of power in 1963 could not tolerate such thinking. Based on
President Trump’s failure to disclose all of the files promised to the
American people, the systems of today are also afraid to go past the
fear and dream of things that never were.
