Sunday, September 27, 2009

Dedicated to the Lemmings of This Country

Following a ten-month "investigation", the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, otherwise known as the Warren Commission, released its 888-page final report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the public. This absolute abomination of a government report amazingly concluded that "the commission has found no evidence of conspiracy, subversion or disloyalty to the U.S. government by any federal, state or local official" in executing the assassination and, if this wasn't enough, that "[Lee Harvey Oswald] acted alone" in the murder of the President of the United States.

Led by Earl Warren, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, this disgrace of an investigating body shockingly determined that the bullets which killed President Kennedy and wounded Texas Gov. John Connally were fired by Oswald (and only Oswald) "from the sixth floor window at the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository". Oswald's life, including his three-year emigration to the Soviet Union and his supposed "renouncement" of his U.S. citizenship, was described in detail but the Warren Commission made absolutely no attempt to analyze his so-called "motives" for the assassination. And despite a great deal of evidence to the contrary, the Warren Commission also concluded that Jack Ruby, the nightclub owner who somehow murdered Oswald in the Dallas Police Headquarters on live television, had no previous contact with Oswald before that convenient day.

Despite the "official findings" of the Warren Commission, many intelligent individuals fortunately expressed their disbelief in the report. As a result, the House Select Committee on Assassinations determined in 1979 that President Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy", with a "high probability" of "two gunmen". At the same time, neither the Warren Commission nor the House Select Committee on Assassinations did nearly enough to disclose the real truth to the American people.

Now while there are countless things wrong with the crazy nut and lone gunmen theory used by the U.S. government to frame Oswald, one quick look at the members of the Warren Commission tells you everything. Those individuals are as follows:

1. Warren (Republican): After ascending to the presidency following the assassination, the highly suspect Lyndon Johnson named Chief Justice Warren as the commission's Chairman.
2. Sen. John Cooper (R-KY)
3. Allen Dulles (Republican): Following the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and various unsuccessful assassination attempts against Cuban President Fidel Castro, President Kennedy's mistrust of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) grew. As a result, Dulles, the Director of the CIA at the time, and his staff were forced to resign.
4. Rep. Gerald Ford (R-MI): The eventual thirty-eighth President of the United States believed in the lone gunman theory and had strong ties to the FBI and its Director, J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover personally directed the FBI investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, who had considered firing Hoover on multiple occasions.
5. John McCloy: Initially sceptical of the lone gunman theory, McCloy curiously changed his opinion after accompanying Dulles on a trip to Dallas in 1964.
6. Arlen Specter: Serving in the United States Senate since 1981, Specter was recommended by Ford as an assistant counsel for the Warren Commission. Specter introduced the absurd "single bullet theory" to explain how the non-fatal wounds to President Kennedy and Connally were caused by the same bullet. (According to this ridiculous theory, the bullet passed through President Kennedy’s neck and Connally’s chest and wrist and then embedded itself in the Governor’s thigh. By doing so, this bullet would have traversed fifteen layers of clothing, seven layers of skin and approximately fifteen inches of tissue; struck a necktie knot; removed four inches of rib and shattered a radius bone, before being found in nearly pristine condition on a stretcher at Parkland Memorial Hospital, to which President Kennedy and Connally transported following the fateful events on November 22, 1963.)

The other two members of the Warren Commission, Rep. Hale Boggs (D-LA) and Sen. Richard Russell (D-GA), repeatedly voiced their concerns with the report released to the public. At least a small semblance of logic and sanity existed with some individuals closely associated with the assassination.

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