Interesting new details on one of America’s defining moments, from CNN:
After mostly avoiding the spotlight for decades, many of the former U.S. Secret Service agents who were assigned to protect President John F. Kennedy are now offering their accounts of the day he was assassinated, 47 years ago Monday.
After the first shot hit the president, former agent Clint Hill says, “I saw him grab at his throat and lean to his left. So I jumped and ran.”…
What follows are some of the most shocking modern conspiracy theories that turned out to be true, after thorough investigation.
At the New World Order Report, Jonathan Elinoff provides a much more extensive presentation of how I introduce 9/11 in my lectures and essays. (He barely mentions 9/11 as it turns out — but he doesn’t really need to because of all the other Truth he presents that paves the way!)
My own approach to 9/11 has been not only about the reality of the dark side of human nature, but all about context — amply demonstrating that 9/11 is just one more monstrous manipulation of world events — and that OF COURSE “our leaders” would do it, because just look at how many times they’ve done it before!
But of course that means newbies coping with the SHOCK that almost all of the U.S. and World History we’ve been taught is JUST ONE BIG FAIRY-TALE.… Read the rest
The Black Fridays Episode 25 — Mack White
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The Black Fridays are please to welcome Mack White from Psi-Op Radio to our show! Tonight we continue the conversation about the JFK Assassination. We are going to play the actual audio of the assassination as well as talk with Mack about where he was that day and what a recent guest on Psi-Op had to say about his role in the conspiracy.
Mack has been a guest we have wanted to talk to for a long time. He is a noted comic artist and illustrator in his professional life as well as a talk show host. He has a lot to say and we were happy to listen!
Check out Mack White’s website here and check out Psi-Op Radio too!… Read the rest
The Black Fridays Bonus Episode 3 — “I Met Lee Harvey Oswald”
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“Peggy” joins us to talk about her meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. A chance meeting shortly before he changed history . We find this interesting that he was looking for work, as well as, he was listing his aunt’s telephone number on job applications even though she hadn’t seen him in weeks.
This is a bonus show which will lay some ground work for Episode 25. As will be obvious, “Peggy” was very nervous and so decided to read her story rather than re-telling it from memory.
America.gov, the public relations arm of the State Department, has created a “Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation” webpage. They attempt to debunk “popular conspiracy theories” surrounding the JFK assassination, depleted uranium, the North American Union, the 9/11 attacks, and many more topics.
Disinformation’s Raymond Wiley started this conversation over on Disinfo’s Facebook Wall and a great question for disinfo.com readers to address (if you haven’t already).
I’m partial to Oliver Stone’s filmmaking … and I can’t wait for his Wall Street sequel later this year.
Here’s a bit of JFK that is about the power of questioning established truth, regardless of how entrenched that “truth” might be.
I’ll let the film speak for itself and do share your favorite films or film moments:
OK folks, this is not an April Fool’s Joke. I have observed that disinfo.com readers (especially those who leave comments) enjoy the intersection of conspiracy and pop culture, however, it looks like Erykah Badu is taking it to a whole new level.
What would Crossfire author and JFK conspiracy expert Jim Marrs say? (Answer: He’s fine with it.)
(Below is a news report, not the actual video itself.)
From The Independent:
A month before marrying Jacqueline Bouvier, the future President was writing amorous notes to another woman.
If there was ever any doubt that John F Kennedy, the slain American President, was a hopeless romantic, if not an out-and-out rake with a foggy grasp of the commitments of marriage
, a newly revealed collection of love letters written in his own hand to a straw-haired Swedish siren will surely put it to rest.True, the then young senator from Massachusetts first met the woman in question, Gunilla von Post, before his marriage to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier – but only one month before. It was the summer of 1953 and the pair – he 36 and she just 21 – were both on holiday on the French Riviera. They danced all night and parted with a moonlit kiss.
Most about-to-be-married men might consider such a night as a last fling of bachelorhood with no prospects for continuation, particularly if they are in public life with aspirations one day to lead their country.
From the very start of our home video business, we’ve worked with director Robert Greenwald, who has become a sort of Defender of the Faith for progressive politics. It speaks volumes that when Robert takes up a cause, it lands on the front page of the New York Times (story below). I have to say I’m also delighted that Robert has highlighted the problem with much of the History Channel’s programming – it’s not history, it’s entertainment with a focus on ratings at the expense of veracity:
A new mini-series about John F. Kennedy’s presidency that is being prepared by the History channel does not yet have a cast or a premiere date. Not a frame of footage has been shot. It does, however, have prominent critics who want it brought to a halt.
The critics, including Theodore C. Sorensen, a former Kennedy adviser, say they have read the scripts for the project and that those contain errors of fact and emphasis. But like a similar controversy over a 2003 television film about Ronald Reagan, the dispute over the embryonic Kennedy series seems to say as much about the enduring place of the Kennedys as a battleground in the culture wars as it does about history itself.
The mini-series, called “The Kennedys,” is the brainchild of Joel Surnow, a creator of the Fox action show “24” and an outspoken political conservative…
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The New York Times‘s Michiko Kakutani, so often the purveyor of eviscerating book reviews, for once truly loves something: an all-out mockery of a myriad of conspiracy theories, from 9/11 to Princess Diana, by David Aaronovich, Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History:
The principle of Occam’s razor suggests that the simplest hypothesis is usually the correct one — or as the character Gil Grissom in “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” succinctly puts it, if you hear hoofbeats, “think horses, not zebras.”In his lively new book, “Voodoo Histories,” the journalist David Aaronovitch uses Occam’s razor to eviscerate the many conspiracy theories that have percolated through politics and popular culture over the last century, from those that assert that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were actually a United States government plot to those that claim that Diana, Princess of Wales, was murdered at the direction of the royal family or British intelligence.
