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JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
30. The release of all files
Wed Nov 20, 2013, 06:35 PM
Nov 2013

about Ioannides and Oswald, and those from Angleton, might do so. There is no reason left to be keeping any secrets about this case any more -- no reason, that is, if "Oswald acting alone murdered the president."

In fact, the millions of pages released through the ARRB have already changed things. Whatever was left of the official story is already demolished, and eventually the historical record, the one by people who don't feel an emotional stake in defending the myths of 1963 America, will reflect that.

Accountability? History still matters, even if the perps can't be brought to justice any more. The question is how much longer we will tolerate this aggressive empire that does no good for Americans, this constant rule by crisis and exception, this permanent war industry that eats the national surplus product, this deep state and its countless parapolitical tentacles, this intel-security complex that generates the very problems it purports to address? The truth about the November 1963 coup d'etat can be an important impulse toward ending all that, though there's no pretending it's a magic pill.

Would lend credence to all other conspiracy theories and bog down internet. Hoyt Nov 2013 #1
It would prove to me sharp_stick Nov 2013 #2
It would have to be a great deal more than a deathbed confession. SheilaT Nov 2013 #3
+1 treestar Nov 2013 #24
It would have to be independant verification. HooptieWagon Nov 2013 #33
I think it would make little difference defacto7 Nov 2013 #4
There never will be one because there wasn't anybody else responsible. duffyduff Nov 2013 #5
I should have stipulated that I'm on the same page as you Orrex Nov 2013 #7
^^^THIS^^^ Aristus Nov 2013 #8
I have often suspected that Kennedy wrote Shakespeare's plays Orrex Nov 2013 #10
You have it all wrong. thucythucy Nov 2013 #39
More than 200 people came forward and confess to Charles Lindbergh's baby kidnapping Pretzel_Warrior Nov 2013 #6
No get the red out Nov 2013 #9
If they could also provide the gun, or something similar. nt. NCTraveler Nov 2013 #11
Then what? Orrex Nov 2013 #13
If it was confirmed, and not some crank, it would have a huge impact quinnox Nov 2013 #12
We ask those questions all the time. randome Nov 2013 #15
So much would depend on the situation. NCTraveler Nov 2013 #14
I just LOVE these "hypotheticals" parlor games Pretzel_Warrior Nov 2013 #16
I figured that I'd get in on it after reading weeks of JFK CT stuff in GD Orrex Nov 2013 #21
The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives Ichingcarpenter Nov 2013 #17
RFK's own children revealed RFK considered the Warren Commission ''shoddy workmanship.'' Octafish Nov 2013 #18
Two things, I think: first, the internet would implode under the weight petronius Nov 2013 #19
WHY ISN'T THE GOVERNMENT TELLING US ABOUT THIS CONFESSION???11!! MineralMan Nov 2013 #20
At your age do you think Ichingcarpenter Nov 2013 #22
For me, it would mean nothing with evidence to back it up. arcane1 Nov 2013 #23
There is no statute of limitations on murder. WilliamPitt Nov 2013 #25
But you don't try dead people for murder. JimDandy Nov 2013 #35
Good point. WilliamPitt Nov 2013 #36
Sure. How and why did they plan this? rug Nov 2013 #26
It would change everything since the entire premise is on a lone wolf, loser shooter. Rex Nov 2013 #27
That'd depend on who the second gunman was, I suppose Posteritatis Nov 2013 #28
Not really. However, a memoir from one of Oswald's employers Warpy Nov 2013 #29
The release of all files JackRiddler Nov 2013 #30
Inmate James Files has confessed. Eddie Haskell Nov 2013 #31
"A leading TV executive as witness" HooptieWagon Nov 2013 #37
Well we've got our answer, don't we. Eddie Haskell Nov 2013 #41
Well I'm not on my deathbed so . . . wait - i mean it wouldn't change anything el_bryanto Nov 2013 #32
why, is george hw bush on his deathbed? NightWatcher Nov 2013 #34
The shooters were probably killed straightaway. They were hired guns, I believe. Zen Democrat Nov 2013 #38
Remember how Obama's long form birth certificate was supposed to be tblue37 Nov 2013 #40
Excellent point! Orrex Nov 2013 #42
There is no credible evidence that necessitates considering a second gunman. Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #43
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