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In reply to the discussion: One last JFK poll just to prove or disprove a theory I have. [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)25. ...we'll never know the truth now.....
Had there been a free and fair trial of Oswald the chances are many other facts would have become known. As it is a select few determined which facts would be known. What happened is that the leaders set upon a course to let only some facts become known.
There are still secrets they hold. They kept the Zapruder film secret for years and years. A congressional committee found that the WC did not delve into areas that the committee did, giving evidence that the WC was incomplete.
No wonder people don't have faith in what the WC issued. It is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth, that we may have had had Oswald been tried freely and fairly.
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Remember, we were alive -- even as kids -- to see the subsequent assassinations
villager
Nov 2013
#1
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence but three times is enemy action Mr Bond -Auric Goldfinger
Fumesucker
Nov 2013
#6
I suspect that a majority of people who aren't old enough to remember...
Spider Jerusalem
Nov 2013
#4
I was pre-school but I still remember hearing about Kennedy's assassination
Art_from_Ark
Nov 2013
#64
No. The public has viewed it through a lens of conspiracy for precisely 50 years and one day. nt
DisgustipatedinCA
Nov 2013
#51
Whether Stone made the film or not, the public discourse has not been presented but authentically
ancianita
Nov 2013
#99
I was only 7 years old when Ruby murdered Oswald live on tv. I saw it, and that is why . . .
Major Hogwash
Nov 2013
#12
My parents argued all the time about politics, mostly because my dad wanted to
duffyduff
Nov 2013
#36
DU is very representative, and some people feel better when they invent their facts. nt
Ace Acme
Nov 2013
#22
Which I might agree with except for all the weirdness in Oswald's background
Blue_In_AK
Nov 2013
#41
Jack Ruby was tied to the mob. The thinking is that he was hired to kill Oswald.
Awknid
Nov 2013
#86
As someone who was born almost 20 years after JFK's tragic and untimely death
RFKHumphreyObama
Nov 2013
#45
I'm logged in, but can't vote. (why?) I think Oswald was a patsy..... n/t
AnotherDreamWeaver
Nov 2013
#49
63 and older... (I don't know why I can't vote, and I can't recommend either.)
AnotherDreamWeaver
Nov 2013
#54
Because it is personal. I was a small boy, that was the day I learned this fact: Dads can die.
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2013
#70
Great post! Yes, for those of us who were old enough to be aware of the JFK assassination
scarletwoman
Nov 2013
#71
The subsequent assassinations proved only that the right wing is the violent wing,
Benton D Struckcheon
Nov 2013
#55
It is what it is. There have been dozens (hundreds?) of posts by DUers over the past week explaining
scarletwoman
Nov 2013
#79
There is scientifically sound evidence that has been confirmed and reconfirmed many times
BootinUp
Nov 2013
#76
I became convinced of a conspiracy in '68, when they killed ML King & R Kennedy,
CrispyQ
Nov 2013
#73
I don't have a "theory". And the ballistics studies shown on this blog....
northoftheborder
Nov 2013
#80