Trump to allow release of secret JFK assassination files

[my_2cents]

1. The body never should have left Dallas and the autopsy should have been done in Dallas. That is the law, period.

Legally speaking, this is accurate. However, it alone does not indicate a conspiracy. Emotions were running high after the President was assassinated and the Kennedy people (along with Johnson people) wanted to get back to Washington. Johnson wasn't going to leave without Jackie and Jackie wasn't going to leave without the body of her husband. There were also security concerns that someone would make an attempt on Johnson's life.

The autopsy should have been done in Dallas, however, there were other issues occurring at the time that must be considered. In this instance, it appears that emotion and fear outweighed the law.

 

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I see Biff backtracked again. Imagine that. WTH is the issue with releasing 50 year old records about the death of a POTUS?

I'm not surprised at all that Trump held back some of the files. These files have been trickling out for years now (started before Trump), but there is still an element within the intelligence community that does not want to share the most sensitive files. Trump is no different than any other previous President when it comes to this issue and anyone who thought otherwise was delusional.

We do know much more about this than we did back in 1964. And we do know a lot about the secret operations of the CIA during the 50s and 60s (thanks to the Church Committee and the House Committee on Assassinations). There are still some holes to fill and it will be interesting to see if those holes are ever allowed to be filled.

 

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Flashback:

That is a nice quote. However, Kennedy never did this.

Kennedy continued to rely heavily on the CIA throughout his time in office. He approved numerous CIA covert operations, especially concerning Castro. There was one planned for December 1, 1963, a planned coup against Castro.

The CIA itself did not participate in a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. That doesn't mean there were not rogue CIA assets that might have played a role in a conspiracy or that the CIA did not later participate in a cover-up to shield classified programs from being exposed to the public (i.e. the CIA and Mafia working together to take out Castro). However, the CIA itself and it's top leaders (in 1963) were not at odds with Kennedy. They were on the same page for the most part.

 

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He wrote an excellent book on JFK and LBJ, and is highly respected amongst JFK assassination researchers.

Stone was wrong about LBJ. LBJ had nothing to do with Kennedy's assassination. LBJ "might" have allowed an intelligence cover-up to protect what he deemed to be national security, but that's it. Most of the "evidence" cited to link LBJ to the assassination is questionable at best and often based upon false material.

I believe there are three plausible possibilities:

(1) Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

(2) Oswald acted as part of a conspiracy with rogue intelligence assets.

(3) Members of the Mafia (Carlos Marcelo, Santo Trafficante, and Sam Giancana) conspired to assassination Kennedy (with or without the help of rogue intelligence assets) and there was a government cover-up to shield knowledge of how the intelligence community was working with the Mafia to get rid of Castro and to protect Kennedy's public reputation.

 

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Stone was wrong about LBJ. LBJ had nothing to do with Kennedy's assassination. LBJ "might" have allowed an intelligence cover-up to protect what he deemed to be national security, but that's it. Most of the "evidence" cited to link LBJ to the assassination is questionable at best and often based upon untrue assumptions.

I believe there are three plausible possibilities:

(1) Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

(2) Oswald acted as part of a conspiracy with rogue intelligence assets.

(3) Members of the Mafia (Carlos Marcelo, Santo Trafficante, and Sam Giancana) conspired to assassination Kennedy (with or without the help of rogue intelligence assets) and there was a government cover-up to shield knowledge of how the intelligence community was working with the Mafia to get rid of Castro and to protect Kennedy's public reputation.

I stood in "the" window at the book depository and consider it a stretch that LHO could pull that shooting off. Not impossible, but shooting like that at a weird angle with that old gun is some really skilled shooting.

 

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I stood in "the" window at the book depository and consider it a stretch that LHO could pull that shooting off. Not impossible, but shooting like that at a weird angle with that old gun is some really skilled shooting.

I would agree with this for the most part. It is important to remember though that if it was Oswald alone with three shots (a real possibility), one of those shots completely missed and it can be argued another missed the primary target, if Oswald was aiming for Kennedy's head. Therefore, only one of the three shots hit Kennedy where Oswald was most likely aiming.