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AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY!

John F. Kennedy's Assasination

 

In 1976, Congress voted to have another look at the Kennedy assassination.  This specially formed body was named the House Assassination Committee.  This committee rendered an opinion based on the pages of documents and tesitomony from the Warren Commission.  The new House Assasinations Committee really did not have any new to change the original conclusion of the Warren Commission until a seasoned acsustics expert shed new light on how many bullets wire fired at JFK in Dealy Plaza.  This shocking evidence revealed that not three shots were fired at Kennedy, but four.  This new evidence proved without doubt, that there was a conspiracy and more than one person was shooting at JFK.

In the words of an undisclosed House Assassinations Committee member, “beyond a reasonable doubt” that a refined acoustical test of a long ignored tape recording that exisited of a Dallas police radio transmitter that was left on during the assassination.  Another committee member said, “The Warren Commission blew it”, of the finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone killing John F. Kennedy.  The committee had evidence that was beyond a reasonable doubt, that there was a fourth shot fired at President Kennedy from the grassy knoll in fron of the presidential limousine.  A very close associate of Edward Kennedy, Rep. Christopher Dodd of Conneticut, and a House Assassinations Committee member confirmed this information.

After this committee published some statements about the assassination there were some opinions about who killed JFK and the motive.  The Mafia was allocated several  major suspects.  The military intelligence organization had some areas of concern in their  connections to Oswald.  The anti-Castro Cuban activists also were suspect into the assassination.  There were just too many unanswered questions and incongruities in all these areas.  Author Anthony Summers in his book, Conspiracy reported that a staff investigator on the House Committee said, “the Military intelligence angle was not covered adequately; the Department of Defense withheld documents; the Defense Department destroyed a file on Oswald.”
Summers points out that a number of clues suggested that Oswald was, before the assassination, the tool of some part of American intelligence.  Everyone on the committee felt that the case was not properly and exhaustively investigated.

 

Los Angeles Times, George Lardner Dec. 1978

Conspiracy, Anthony Summers, 1980

Jim Garrison

Jim Garrison - on JFK
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In late 1966, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison quietly opened an investigation into certain New Orleans-based aspects of the Kennedy assassination. Local reporters caught the scent, and in early 1967 the investigation went public, causing a huge media frenzy and national attention. Garrison arrested local businessman Clay Shaw on charges of conspiring to murder President Kennedy.

During the lengthy period before trial, the scope of Garrison’s inquiry broadened, as did the ferocity of the attacks on Garrison appeared in the press and behind the scenes in the federal government. Finally, in early 1969 the case against Shaw went to trial. Shaw was acquitted.

Oliver Stone’s 1991 film JFK is, with some license, based on the Garrison investigation. 

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