In sixty days Americans will
commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy. As Claudius would say,
it is an opportunity for all the poisons to hatch out – perhaps the last chance
where timing and public interest will be focused enough to ring the last bit of
truth out of an historic tragedy. All I
see so far is fluff about LBJ, what he was doing 24 hours after the assassination
and Thurston Clarke and his new book, JFK’s
Last Hundred Days: Kennedy’s space program, Vietnam, and Test Ban Treaty
rehashes. If I see one more piece on
Camelot, I think I’ll get sick. Eighty
million Baby Boomers deserve more. Tell
it like it is (was)!
Many Americans can’t believe the
evil nature of man and his capacity to perpetrate evil on a grand
scale. Many deny the Holocaust and many
can’t believe government officials would conspire to kill a president, much
less have an institutional mega-complex like the American Media purposely
distort, leave out, or manipulate the facts.
Surely authors like David S. Lifton, Best
Evidence, and William Manchester will be shown a little respect as well as
director Oliver Stone who produced the most critical of all assassination films,
JFK.
If the Media is serious about
covering the facts just one more time, I’d ask them to at least demand that all
evidence about the assassination be released and forget national security;
that‘s always the cover-up excuse. I’d
ask the Media to discuss the motives of probable conspirators including Lyndon
Johnson. Seven Days in May was not enough.
Television coverage should have Richard Trask’s photo of Robert MacNeil
(That Day in Dallas) among a crowd
that rush up to the spot where the front shooter took aim. Show the bullet nick on the curb originating
from that spot. Above all, show the
complete Zapruder film head shot without alteration. Head snap back proves a front shooter.
You’d expect the most significant
event in living memory, a coup d’état, would warrant at least the same
amount of coverage as the March of Washington anniversary. Perhaps, the Media doesn’t want to be
reminded of their checkered past in covering up for the real
culprits in exchange for the appropriation of the vote tabulation process. It’s probable that any objective and critical
look at the Kennedy assassination during its 50th anniversary is
doomed like the passing of Voyager out of the solar system; out of sight and
out of mind. Perhaps I’m wrong because
it’s not in the Media’s interest to implicate itself with the truth.
