The man who solved the Kennedy assassination

[Classical_Liberal]

The man who solved the Kennedy assassination
It wasn't Earl Warren -- or Oliver Stone. His name is G. Robert Blakey.

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By David Talbot



Nov. 22, 2003 | After a week of media overkill triggered by the 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, the American public is left as bewildered as ever by the "crime of the 20th century." ABC News took the part of the establishment media this time (a role played on past JFK anniversaries by CBS and the New York Times), reassuring us in a two-hour Thursday special report hosted by Peter Jennings that the Warren Commission got it right in 1964: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, case closed. But a poll released by the network itself in time for its special underscored just how unconvincing the public finds this official version: four decades after the president's murder, 68 percent of Americans stubbornly refuse to believe that Oswald was a lone assassin, and the same number think there was "an official cover-up" to hide the truth about the assassination from the public.

This deep cloud of suspicion has enabled conspiracy theories to flourish, and the wildest one this season is being advanced by none other than White House spokesman Scott McClellan's father, Barr, who worked in the late '60s for a Texas law firm that represented Lyndon Johnson. In a new book, "Blood, Money & Power," McClellan charges that LBJ conspired with his old boss, power attorney Edward Clark, and Texas oil interests to replace Kennedy through the barrel of a gun.

McClellan's allegation fits the flamboyant pattern set by the master of fevered conspiracy dreams, Oliver Stone, who is back this anniversary with a new director's cut of "JFK," his 1991 indictment of the CIA, the military-industrial complex and, yes, LBJ. Only a Hollywood moviemaker as gloriously and arrogantly wrong-headed about history as Stone could have seized upon the corrupt and supremely weird New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison -- who brought, and spectacularly lost, the only legal case related to the assassination before a jury -- as a great American hero......

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/22/conspiracy/index.html

[papau]

1. he concludes that the CIA lies - always - to the highest authority --

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oswald/interviews/blakey.html

[teryang]

2. This is the fall back position

The Mob did it. Don't they wish it were true? As if the mob wasn't working hand in glove with the CIA at the time.

Anything to undo the incredibly damaging evidence McClellan has assembled as to Johnson's involvement and motives. The Men Who Killed Kennedy volume (which aired this past weekend) on this "theory" was devastating to the credibility of the American government. Anytime work such as this castes an unremovable stigma upon the central government, the dutiful apologia and conventional wisdom is trotted out to counteract the truth. It is the propaganda campaign that never ends.

If the mob did it, why the incredible efforts made to conceal the forensic evidence? Did the mob control the Bethesda Naval Medical Center? Did they control the national archives? Did the mob forcibly remove the body from the jurisdiction of the Dallas coroners office? Did the mob demand that the entire investigative file be surrendered to the FBI? Did the mob call the Dallas Police Chief and tell them you've got your man or was it Lyndon Johnson?

Rather than review the incredibly damaging evidence, circumstantial and direct, against Johnson, Hoover, and Dulles, the old evidence and story line about the mob is rehashed, evidence that was not convincing decades ago when it was first publicized.