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In reply to the discussion: JFK Conference: Dan Hardway Detailed how CIA Obstructed HSCA Investigation [View all]Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)Why people are obstructionists to information about the murder of President Kennedy baffles me. Over Thanksgiving Dinner in Dallas in 1963, I was a 15-year old listener, and not one member of my extended family at that table believed that the murder was anything other than a conspiracy. AND, the FBI or CIA were the main suspects, from the get-go because Oswald had defected to the Soviet Union, returned, and no one seemed to have heard of him before. It was questionable when the police and FBI claimed to have solved the murder to the exclusion of any others, but then when Oswald was gunned down in the police station .... who could think it was anything but conspiracy? Most of the statements made by the police, district attorney, and Ruby's lawyers turned out to be flimsy attempts to explain something with nothing.
The Tuesday after the assassination, it was business as usual. Case closed. LONG before the Warren Commission had any "report."