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<div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7679" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7681" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7683" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">unrealistic.” JFK</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7685" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7687" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7689" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I am scarcely alone in my assessment that there was a CIA backed </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7691" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">conspiracy to assassinate John Fitzgerald Kennedy. About the lone gunman </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7693" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">theory, Richard Russell, senator and former Warren Commissioner had </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7695" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said: “We have not been told the truth about Oswald.”</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7697" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7699" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hale Boggs, majority leader and Warren Commissioner stated: “FBI </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7701" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Director J. Edgar Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission, on Oswald, </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7703" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the guns, you name it…”</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7705" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7707" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Even going so far as to doubt the sacred premise of three shots, John </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7709" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sherman Cooper, senator and Warren Commissioner stated: “On what basis </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7711" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is it claimed that two shots caused all wounds? It seemed to me that </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7713" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Governor Connally’s testimony negates such a conclusion.” (Recall that </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7715" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Governor John Connally was sitting in front of Kennedy and was also </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7717" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">struck by a bullet.)</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7719" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7721" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What is more, published just one month after Kennedy’s murder, former </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7723" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">President Truman all but signaled out the CIA in a remarkable editorial </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7725" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">published in the Washington Post. “I never had any thought that when I </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7727" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7729" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">operations…there is something about the way the CIA has been functioning </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7731" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that it is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7733" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we need to correct it.” Obviously Truman’s warning has never been </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7735" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">heeded.</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7737" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7739" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Nearly 54 years after JFK's assassination, on October 27th 2017, the US </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7741" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">government released over 2,800 records in an effort to comply with a </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7743" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1992 law mandating the documents' release. About 300 files were kept </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7745" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">classified out of concern for US national security, law enforcement and </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7747" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">foreign relations. How can this be? After so many years of secrecy, </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7749" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cover up, false flags, propaganda, cold blooded murder for hire, and </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7751" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">unlimited spending of tax payer’s money, hundreds of files will remain </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7753" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">locked away, redacted beyond comprehension, and, in some cases, simply </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7755" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">destroyed. What does the current U.S. intelligence apparatus want to </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7757" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hide about an event that took place more than five decades ago?</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7759" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7761" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As necessary as this question is, frankly speaking, the American public </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7763" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">does not need these “new” files to know what happened on that fateful </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7765" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">November day. Anyone who really wants to know the truth can watch the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7767" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Zapruder film, research the findings of the House Select Committee on </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7769" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Assassinations, watch interviews of eyewitnesses in Dealey Plaza on </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7771" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">YouTube, read Jim Marrs’ book Crossfire, and critically examine the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7773" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wealth of physical evidence that has come to light over the past half </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7775" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">century. The released documents are actually immaterial in light of what </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7777" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">has already been disclosed.</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7779" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7781" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The important question is-and always has been-why does the assassination </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7783" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">matter? What was Kennedy really killed for? This is not about the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7785" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">devious motives of paid assassins. This is about the personal </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7787" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">consequence of changing systems. Systems of power and oppression killed </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7789" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">JFK. CIA agents-like White House administrations- come and go, but the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7791" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">idea that JFK needed to die in order to protect national security is </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7793" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">what ultimately eliminated the 35th president of the United States. A </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7795" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">system such as the CIA merely carries out a plot. But it takes a </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7797" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">regularly interacting group of beliefs to form a unified notion that a </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7799" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">plot must be contrived in the first place. In America, it is a death </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7801" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sentence for someone when they try to do everything differently: to go </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7803" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to the moon, to go to the Soviet Union with open arms, to go to the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7805" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">places we fear most, and to go beyond our fear to become masters of our </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7807" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">own destiny. In the words of JFK: “The problems of the world cannot </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7809" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7811" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7813" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were.”</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7815" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7817" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The systems of power in 1963 could not tolerate such thinking. Based on </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7819" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">President Trump’s failure to disclose all of the files promised to the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7821" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">American people, the systems of today are also afraid to go past the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7823" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">fear and dream of things that never were.</div>
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About the lone gunman </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7693">theory, Richard Russell, senator and former Warren Commissioner had </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7695">said: “We have not been told the truth about Oswald.”</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7697"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7699">Hale Boggs, majority leader and Warren Commissioner stated: “FBI </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7701">Director J. Edgar Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission, on Oswald, </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7703">on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the guns, you name it…”</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7705"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7707">Even going so far as to doubt the sacred premise of three shots, John </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7709">Sherman Cooper, senator and Warren Commissioner stated: “On what basis </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7711">is it claimed that two shots caused all wounds? It seemed to me that </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7713">Governor Connally’s testimony negates such a conclusion.” (Recall that </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7715">Governor John Connally was sitting in front of Kennedy and was also </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7717">struck by a bullet.)</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7719"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7721">What is more, published just one month after Kennedy’s murder, former </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7723">President Truman all but signaled out the CIA in a remarkable editorial </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7725">published in the Washington Post. “I never had any thought that when I </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7727">set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7729">operations…there is something about the way the CIA has been functioning </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7731">that it is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7733">we need to correct it.” Obviously Truman’s warning has never been </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7735">heeded.</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7737"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7739">Nearly 54 years after JFK's assassination, on October 27th 2017, the US </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7741">government released over 2,800 records in an effort to comply with a </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7743">1992 law mandating the documents' release. About 300 files were kept </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7745">classified out of concern for US national security, law enforcement and </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7747">foreign relations. How can this be? After so many years of secrecy, </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7749">cover up, false flags, propaganda, cold blooded murder for hire, and </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7751">unlimited spending of tax payer’s money, hundreds of files will remain </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7753">locked away, redacted beyond comprehension, and, in some cases, simply </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7755">destroyed. What does the current U.S. intelligence apparatus want to </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7757">hide about an event that took place more than five decades ago?</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7759"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7761">As necessary as this question is, frankly speaking, the American public </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7763">does not need these “new” files to know what happened on that fateful </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7765">November day. Anyone who really wants to know the truth can watch the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7767">Zapruder film, research the findings of the House Select Committee on </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7769">Assassinations, watch interviews of eyewitnesses in Dealey Plaza on </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7771">YouTube, read Jim Marrs’ book Crossfire, and critically examine the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7773">wealth of physical evidence that has come to light over the past half </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7775">century. The released documents are actually immaterial in light of what </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7777">has already been disclosed.</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7779"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7781">The important question is-and always has been-why does the assassination </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7783">matter? What was Kennedy really killed for? This is not about the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7785">devious motives of paid assassins. This is about the personal </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7787">consequence of changing systems. Systems of power and oppression killed </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7789">JFK. CIA agents-like White House administrations- come and go, but the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7791">idea that JFK needed to die in order to protect national security is </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7793">what ultimately eliminated the 35th president of the United States. A </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7795">system such as the CIA merely carries out a plot. But it takes a </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7797">regularly interacting group of beliefs to form a unified notion that a </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7799">plot must be contrived in the first place. In America, it is a death </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7801">sentence for someone when they try to do everything differently: to go </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7803">to the moon, to go to the Soviet Union with open arms, to go to the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7805">places we fear most, and to go beyond our fear to become masters of our </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7807">own destiny. In the words of JFK: “The problems of the world cannot </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7809">possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7811">the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7813">were.”</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7815"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7817">The systems of power in 1963 could not tolerate such thinking. Based on </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7819">President Trump’s failure to disclose all of the files promised to the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7821">American people, the systems of today are also afraid to go past the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7823">fear and dream of things that never were.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7679" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7681" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7683" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">unrealistic.” JFK</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7685" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7687" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7689" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I am scarcely alone in my assessment that there was a CIA backed </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7691" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">conspiracy to assassinate John Fitzgerald Kennedy. About the lone gunman </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7693" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">theory, Richard Russell, senator and former Warren Commissioner had </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7695" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said: “We have not been told the truth about Oswald.”</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7697" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7699" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hale Boggs, majority leader and Warren Commissioner stated: “FBI </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7701" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Director J. Edgar Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission, on Oswald, </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7703" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the guns, you name it…”</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7705" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7707" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Even going so far as to doubt the sacred premise of three shots, John </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7709" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sherman Cooper, senator and Warren Commissioner stated: “On what basis </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7711" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is it claimed that two shots caused all wounds? It seemed to me that </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7713" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Governor Connally’s testimony negates such a conclusion.” (Recall that </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7715" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Governor John Connally was sitting in front of Kennedy and was also </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7717" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">struck by a bullet.)</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7719" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7721" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What is more, published just one month after Kennedy’s murder, former </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7723" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">President Truman all but signaled out the CIA in a remarkable editorial </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7725" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">published in the Washington Post. “I never had any thought that when I </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7727" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7729" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">operations…there is something about the way the CIA has been functioning </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7731" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that it is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7733" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we need to correct it.” Obviously Truman’s warning has never been </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7735" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">heeded.</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7737" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7739" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Nearly 54 years after JFK's assassination, on October 27th 2017, the US </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7741" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">government released over 2,800 records in an effort to comply with a </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7743" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1992 law mandating the documents' release. About 300 files were kept </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7745" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">classified out of concern for US national security, law enforcement and </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7747" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">foreign relations. How can this be? After so many years of secrecy, </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7749" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cover up, false flags, propaganda, cold blooded murder for hire, and </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7751" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">unlimited spending of tax payer’s money, hundreds of files will remain </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7753" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">locked away, redacted beyond comprehension, and, in some cases, simply </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7755" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">destroyed. What does the current U.S. intelligence apparatus want to </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7757" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hide about an event that took place more than five decades ago?</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7759" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7761" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As necessary as this question is, frankly speaking, the American public </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7763" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">does not need these “new” files to know what happened on that fateful </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7765" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">November day. Anyone who really wants to know the truth can watch the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7767" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Zapruder film, research the findings of the House Select Committee on </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7769" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Assassinations, watch interviews of eyewitnesses in Dealey Plaza on </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7771" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">YouTube, read Jim Marrs’ book Crossfire, and critically examine the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7773" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wealth of physical evidence that has come to light over the past half </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7775" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">century. The released documents are actually immaterial in light of what </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7777" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">has already been disclosed.</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7779" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7781" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The important question is-and always has been-why does the assassination </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7783" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">matter? What was Kennedy really killed for? This is not about the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7785" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">devious motives of paid assassins. This is about the personal </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7787" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">consequence of changing systems. Systems of power and oppression killed </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7789" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">JFK. CIA agents-like White House administrations- come and go, but the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7791" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">idea that JFK needed to die in order to protect national security is </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7793" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">what ultimately eliminated the 35th president of the United States. A </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7795" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">system such as the CIA merely carries out a plot. But it takes a </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7797" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">regularly interacting group of beliefs to form a unified notion that a </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7799" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">plot must be contrived in the first place. In America, it is a death </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7801" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sentence for someone when they try to do everything differently: to go </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7803" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to the moon, to go to the Soviet Union with open arms, to go to the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7805" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">places we fear most, and to go beyond our fear to become masters of our </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7807" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">own destiny. In the words of JFK: “The problems of the world cannot </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7809" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7811" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7813" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were.”</div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7815" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7817" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The systems of power in 1963 could not tolerate such thinking. Based on </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7819" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">President Trump’s failure to disclose all of the files promised to the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7821" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">American people, the systems of today are also afraid to go past the </div><div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7823" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">fear and dream of things that never were.</div>
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<div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7679">“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7681">contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7683">unrealistic.” JFK</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7685"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7687"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7689">I am scarcely alone in my assessment that there was a CIA backed </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7691">conspiracy to assassinate John Fitzgerald Kennedy. About the lone gunman </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7693">theory, Richard Russell, senator and former Warren Commissioner had </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7695">said: “We have not been told the truth about Oswald.”</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7697"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7699">Hale Boggs, majority leader and Warren Commissioner stated: “FBI </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7701">Director J. Edgar Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission, on Oswald, </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7703">on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the guns, you name it…”</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7705"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7707">Even going so far as to doubt the sacred premise of three shots, John </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7709">Sherman Cooper, senator and Warren Commissioner stated: “On what basis </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7711">is it claimed that two shots caused all wounds? It seemed to me that </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7713">Governor Connally’s testimony negates such a conclusion.” (Recall that </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7715">Governor John Connally was sitting in front of Kennedy and was also </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7717">struck by a bullet.)</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7719"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7721">What is more, published just one month after Kennedy’s murder, former </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7723">President Truman all but signaled out the CIA in a remarkable editorial </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7725">published in the Washington Post. “I never had any thought that when I </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7727">set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7729">operations…there is something about the way the CIA has been functioning </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7731">that it is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7733">we need to correct it.” Obviously Truman’s warning has never been </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7735">heeded.</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7737"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7739">Nearly 54 years after JFK's assassination, on October 27th 2017, the US </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7741">government released over 2,800 records in an effort to comply with a </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7743">1992 law mandating the documents' release. About 300 files were kept </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7745">classified out of concern for US national security, law enforcement and </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7747">foreign relations. How can this be? After so many years of secrecy, </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7749">cover up, false flags, propaganda, cold blooded murder for hire, and </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7751">unlimited spending of tax payer’s money, hundreds of files will remain </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7753">locked away, redacted beyond comprehension, and, in some cases, simply </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7755">destroyed. What does the current U.S. intelligence apparatus want to </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7757">hide about an event that took place more than five decades ago?</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7759"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7761">As necessary as this question is, frankly speaking, the American public </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7763">does not need these “new” files to know what happened on that fateful </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7765">November day. Anyone who really wants to know the truth can watch the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7767">Zapruder film, research the findings of the House Select Committee on </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7769">Assassinations, watch interviews of eyewitnesses in Dealey Plaza on </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7771">YouTube, read Jim Marrs’ book Crossfire, and critically examine the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7773">wealth of physical evidence that has come to light over the past half </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7775">century. The released documents are actually immaterial in light of what </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7777">has already been disclosed.</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7779"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7781">The important question is-and always has been-why does the assassination </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7783">matter? What was Kennedy really killed for? This is not about the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7785">devious motives of paid assassins. This is about the personal </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7787">consequence of changing systems. Systems of power and oppression killed </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7789">JFK. CIA agents-like White House administrations- come and go, but the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7791">idea that JFK needed to die in order to protect national security is </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7793">what ultimately eliminated the 35th president of the United States. A </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7795">system such as the CIA merely carries out a plot. But it takes a </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7797">regularly interacting group of beliefs to form a unified notion that a </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7799">plot must be contrived in the first place. In America, it is a death </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7801">sentence for someone when they try to do everything differently: to go </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7803">to the moon, to go to the Soviet Union with open arms, to go to the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7805">places we fear most, and to go beyond our fear to become masters of our </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7807">own destiny. In the words of JFK: “The problems of the world cannot </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7809">possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7811">the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7813">were.”</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7815"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7817">The systems of power in 1963 could not tolerate such thinking. Based on </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7819">President Trump’s failure to disclose all of the files promised to the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7821">American people, the systems of today are also afraid to go past the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7823">fear and dream of things that never were.</div>
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<div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7679">“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7681">contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7683">unrealistic.” JFK</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7685"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7687"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7689">I am scarcely alone in my assessment that there was a CIA backed </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7691">conspiracy to assassinate John Fitzgerald Kennedy. About the lone gunman </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7693">theory, Richard Russell, senator and former Warren Commissioner had </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7695">said: “We have not been told the truth about Oswald.”</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7697"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7699">Hale Boggs, majority leader and Warren Commissioner stated: “FBI </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7701">Director J. Edgar Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission, on Oswald, </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7703">on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the guns, you name it…”</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7705"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7707">Even going so far as to doubt the sacred premise of three shots, John </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7709">Sherman Cooper, senator and Warren Commissioner stated: “On what basis </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7711">is it claimed that two shots caused all wounds? It seemed to me that </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7713">Governor Connally’s testimony negates such a conclusion.” (Recall that </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7715">Governor John Connally was sitting in front of Kennedy and was also </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7717">struck by a bullet.)</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7719"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7721">What is more, published just one month after Kennedy’s murder, former </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7723">President Truman all but signaled out the CIA in a remarkable editorial </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7725">published in the Washington Post. “I never had any thought that when I </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7727">set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7729">operations…there is something about the way the CIA has been functioning </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7731">that it is casting a shadow over our historic position, and I feel that </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7733">we need to correct it.” Obviously Truman’s warning has never been </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7735">heeded.</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7737"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7739">Nearly 54 years after JFK's assassination, on October 27th 2017, the US </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7741">government released over 2,800 records in an effort to comply with a </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7743">1992 law mandating the documents' release. About 300 files were kept </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7745">classified out of concern for US national security, law enforcement and </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7747">foreign relations. How can this be? After so many years of secrecy, </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7749">cover up, false flags, propaganda, cold blooded murder for hire, and </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7751">unlimited spending of tax payer’s money, hundreds of files will remain </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7753">locked away, redacted beyond comprehension, and, in some cases, simply </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7755">destroyed. What does the current U.S. intelligence apparatus want to </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7757">hide about an event that took place more than five decades ago?</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7759"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7761">As necessary as this question is, frankly speaking, the American public </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7763">does not need these “new” files to know what happened on that fateful </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7765">November day. Anyone who really wants to know the truth can watch the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7767">Zapruder film, research the findings of the House Select Committee on </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7769">Assassinations, watch interviews of eyewitnesses in Dealey Plaza on </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7771">YouTube, read Jim Marrs’ book Crossfire, and critically examine the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7773">wealth of physical evidence that has come to light over the past half </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7775">century. The released documents are actually immaterial in light of what </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7777">has already been disclosed.</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7779"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7781">The important question is-and always has been-why does the assassination </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7783">matter? What was Kennedy really killed for? This is not about the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7785">devious motives of paid assassins. This is about the personal </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7787">consequence of changing systems. Systems of power and oppression killed </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7789">JFK. CIA agents-like White House administrations- come and go, but the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7791">idea that JFK needed to die in order to protect national security is </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7793">what ultimately eliminated the 35th president of the United States. A </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7795">system such as the CIA merely carries out a plot. But it takes a </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7797">regularly interacting group of beliefs to form a unified notion that a </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7799">plot must be contrived in the first place. In America, it is a death </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7801">sentence for someone when they try to do everything differently: to go </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7803">to the moon, to go to the Soviet Union with open arms, to go to the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7805">places we fear most, and to go beyond our fear to become masters of our </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7807">own destiny. In the words of JFK: “The problems of the world cannot </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7809">possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7811">the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7813">were.”</div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7815"> </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7817">The systems of power in 1963 could not tolerate such thinking. Based on </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7819">President Trump’s failure to disclose all of the files promised to the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7821">American people, the systems of today are also afraid to go past the </div> <div dir="ltr" id="m_-6720604701845251839yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509412699607_7823">fear and dream of things that never were.</div>
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