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ASSASINATION_DON
November 13, 2013
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This last Thursday night, on KPFA, some
guy I will refer to as "P.E." was This takes me back to the old
substituting for Barb Goldman, and this days of WBAI in the early 70s.
being the 50th anniversary of the And recently, Amy Goodman put
assasination of JFK he took the Oliver Stone through his paces...
opportunity to display his encylopedic
knowledge of the subject.
He tells a coherent tale-- which is
more than you can say for many in There's supposedly a cache of
this business-- without claiming that documents ready to go unclassified in
there's "proof" that it's true, or 2017 or so... it could turn out it
that any real proof is even possible. was inexpertly sanitized, and there's
something about to come to light.
He does take it as proven that
the Warren Commission tale of
Oswald the lone assassin up on The Warren Commision report is frequently
the book repository was false. called the "magic bullet theory": a
single shot from a funny angle did a
He takes it as a wildly implausible amount of damage.
given that the hit
was done by a P.E. is of the opinion that
confluence of That "Cuban" the medical photos released
CIA/mafia/ex-Cuban business sounded were complete fakes-- and
forces, intending to pretty funny to me points out that many of the
make it look like when I was a kid-- medical staff later disowned
Castro had done it, you need to remember them, claiming they showed
so that the US would that the Cuban equipment they didn't even use.
respond with an revolution had only
invasion of Cuba. just gone down, and P.E.'s reconstruction is
there was a multiple bullets striking
The way Oswald was displaced force of nearly simultaneously,
arrested and then anti-Castro Cubans the first of them clearly
killed before trial who had run to the coming from in front.
is then a screw-up US. The theory goes
he was supposed to that these guys also
be gunned down in had heavy mob
some circumstance connections-- Cuba P.E. makes the point that he's
that made him seem had a rep as a mafia just talking about "a bunch of
like a pro-Castro playground up 'till guys". The claim is not "The
conspirator. (And then, something like CIA did it!" but maybe that
you might imagine Las Vegas East. And some guys associated with the
this was a planned these anti-Castro CIA did it.
screw-up, a reason guys were also
they can give the natural allies of
shooters for not the CIA in the Great
delivering on a war Game against the Consider the "Flying to
with Cuba.) Soviets. Havana" bit in "Guys and
Dolls".
The picture P.E. CUBA
paints of the Dealy OUT_OF_THE_DUMPSTER
Plaza scene is a
cluster of pro But there's also a theory--
assassins, waiting popular with the Right-- that
for the car to reach the shooters were *pro-Castro*. I've also heard
a pre-arranged "kill A Thom Hartmann (author some half-hearted
box", operating in "Legacy of Secrecy") argues attempts from the
pairs, a shooter and that this idea is what the Right to pin it
a "brass catcher". Warren Commission felt they directly on the
had to hide (irrespective of Soviets, but I
Then-- continuing the whether it was trues). It think they're just
P.E. tale-- when the might really provoke a Cuban going through the
local cops show up invasion, which could lead to motions.
running around trying a nuclear exchange with
to figure out what Russia. You point right,
happened, they tend to we point left.
find guys with
impressive looking
credentials (e.g. up
on the infamous
"grassy knoll")
telling them P.E. stresses out a lot about some
everything is under issues I don't understand, e.g. there
control, and their were some guys in the Book Repo, and
assistance isn't they went somewhere from there, but
needed. no one seems to have seen them leave.
Is that really such a problem?
There's a pattern
after that of people
being told to shut up
for national security TOO_MANY_ACTORS
reasons if they want
to say something that But with something this big, wouldn't
goes off script. someone have talked? They have, and
they do, but no one really pays
attention to them. You need to want
to hear a leak before a leak can do
any damage. Otherwise, the usual
reasons to shrug off the story come
out; they're crazy, they're stupid,
they're fame whores, and so on... and
of course, any of those might be
correct.
A point to remember with P.E.:
he also has a certain fascination
with some of the crazier ideas
around-- could there have been more
than one Oswald, the real guy and
a look-a-like who was seen being
taken out the back way? Somewhere
or other he's heard about a "Harvey
Lee Oswald", perhaps a relative of
the other one, who looked just like
him...
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