I just finished watching a replay of, “The Sixties” a mini series by CNN ,co-produced by actor Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman. The episode, re-aired, was the 3rd in as many pieces and it was a dandy, if you like lone-nut-theories, surrounding the Kennedy Assassination.
As we all know the 1960’s was a coming of age and social awareness here in America and around the world. National as well as International television was emerging, evolving and ever-increasing in viewership. It was a relatively new advent and the free world was intrigued by it. Ready to watch. Learn. Grow. Develop from it.
With this advent America and the world witnessed the death of a President and the ascension of another, all in the same day. On November 22, 1963 in Dallas, TX. U.S.A. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered in cold blood on that fateful day. And the fallout, the aftermath from that day on has been unbelievable.
There can be no doubt that John Kennedy died needlessly and senselessly that day for no good reasons other than his politics, pros, governance, and love of both God and Mammon.
Unfortunately, the chattering class was out in full purview to tell us, the world and those willing to set long enough through their laments that the murder had long been solved, CASE CLOSED, and America as a whole should just move on in there humble estimations.
I watched as famed Attorney Vincent Bugliosi and long-time L.B.J. biographer Robert Caro led the charge of the lone-nut-brigade toward oblivionic history . Oh My God! Naiveté anyone? Anyone? And these are road scholars folks. The best and the brightest minds amongst us. #JesusTakeTheWheel
And as I watched, I couldn’t help but think about the epic quote from Mark Twain, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics…” And in a way that’s what we have here, especially coming from the Bugliosi-Caro wing of this issue.
NOW, to be sure Bugliosi and Caro were not alone. No way! They brought plenty of reinforcements. A veritable cavalcade of stars in the lone-nut-theory-filled crowd controlled car. Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, and CNN/AOL Time Warner Entertainment couldn’t get enough. They gave Bugliosi and Caro every opportunity to speak their peace on this matter. Plug their books on this matter. And get that last public appearance in on the way to the old folks home.
John Kennedy is dead! A once and former setting President of these United States is dead and all the above and titled can think to do is peddle their wares? Their minds eyes? Are you kidding me?
No matter how many times Robert Caro and Vincent Bugliosi tell me otherwise I will not ascribe to their theories. They know not what they speak of. They may think that they do. May have written some books about it. Maybe even done some passive fly by night research and development about it BUT their lone-nut-theories will and are to be damned. Bottom line.
I am doubly disappointed in and disrespected by this attempt by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, and CNN to want too give these tired old farts the time of day.
Everyone who that is anyone with one good eye and half cense can see past the velvet fog of words and famed names that John Kennedy was murdered by more than one man and that the Government of the United States of America cooked the books to do it!
The Government of the United States of America with the duplicity and the duopoly of Lyndon Baines Johnson conspired to have a setting President of these United States of America killed in order to facilitate, propagandize, and profiteer off the War in Vietnam and the civil rights tensions in the South at that time.
So sure, in fact, are the famed and fortuned of the arm-chair law office of Bugliosi, Caro & Co. that a little known, little understood, and little mentioned who-would-be-famous man named Lee Harvey Oswald did the deed that no one else would or could, for that matter, that no thing else even remotely floats past their scholarly minds. It’s not allowed into evidence and is, once more, inadmissible in their court of public opinion at the very least. Out damn spot!
WHY? Answer: It doesn’t profit a man to peddle the wares of conspiracy. What’s more it doesn’t get you into that really great old folks home along the Potomac. God how I love the Potomac River in Winter, it is absolutely beautiful. It is, as the American Indian says, “Where God goes to catch his breath.”
And so it goes….
Nothing else is allowed to enter in past the Lee Oswald murderer theory, despite all evidence that begs to the contrarian, “let me in, let me in please”. No! Such an effort, such a cause celeb is not allowed. Inadmissible as it were. We must, must, must stick to the facts at hand. Lee Oswald did it. He did it alone and he suffered and died alone as any killer would and should. That’s it. That’s all. The End. Case Closed. Moving on.
And so to it goes….
DESPITE and IN SPITE of that I would submit to you the reader of this blog just look at the evidence. Review all the facts. It is a fact that aside from Ground Zero in New York, NY. U.S.A. Delay Plaza in Dallas, TX. U.S.A. is the largest, free-standing crime scene in U.S. History to this day.
Such matters not to the Caro-Bugliosi crowd though. No! Kennedy was killed, Oswald did it and Lyndon Johnson became President because history and the fickle finger of fate deemed it so. That’s it. That’s all. The end. Case Closed.
Respectfully, I just have to say, lies, damned lies and statistics!
On that day the crime scene should have been secured by Dallas Police. The body of President Kennedy immediately secured. And witnesses secured. Was that done though? Was any of that done on that day? Not just no, but hell no! Lyndon Johnson insisted. Insisted now. That John Kennedy’s body be secured and flown back to Washington for burial without any further examination or delay. U.S. Secret Service was made to secure it. Made to take it away from authorities at Parkland Hospital who insisted that they should have the body because a crime had been committed, a major crime at that.
Caro and Bugliosi are fine with that though. The continuity of governance must be preserved. The breaking of the rule of law be damned. Lyndon Johnson had well-earned his right to ascend to the presidency. Sure it would be a mess ,Caro and Bugliosi say, but the continuity of governance must be preserved without fail or exception, especially on that day. Then there’s that whole Camelot thing. It’s the Kennedy’s after all. They’ve been through and have put themselves through enough hell as it is. We have got to keep government going.
And so it went…
Unless and until we push back on this protagonist theory then We The People will never ever know the truth! Lyndon Johnson, The Great Society and Camelot be damned! We The People have every right to know and to be told what went on that day in 1963. It is past time. All the mini series make-us-feel-good-one-last-time moments matter not! Our President, a once setting President of these United States of America, was murdered in cold blood before the eyes, ears, noses, and throats of the masses. A crime was and has been committed.
Yet somehow Lyndon Johnson’s good name and reputation as well as legacy must be preserved. He was, after all, Our Great Society President. Anything else past that moniker is just not allowed a seat at the table of civil discourse BECAUSE its Lyndon Johnson and the Continuity of Governance that ruled and should rule the day was preserved.
Rule of Law be damned just read the Warren Report and keep your mouth shut!
Thank you BUT, no thank you Mr. Bugliosi and Mr. Caro, your lies, damned lies and statistics are being exposed, especially here, for what they really are, poppy cock and bolder dash. The nearest old folks home, gentlemen, is to your left, right near the dust bin of history. Be well…
#RIPJFK #JFK50
–Rhett.
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