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You are most welcome, JonLeibowitz! I very much appreciate that you understand and care.
You understand how important something that happened more than half a century ago is upon our political, social, environmental, and economic reality today. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy changed the trajectory of the country. We went from a nation that could do anything -- from peace on earth to going to the moon. Imagine what we could have done if we were still led by men and women of vision? Now we are told we can't afford to do anything, let alone try raising taxes on the wealthy in the wealthiest times in history.
Mr. Lane worked to expose the government's lies regarding the assassination of the President, even if it included defending the accused assassin in public. It's pretty clear that the nation has not been a working democracy in a long time. We now are manipulated and misled by oligarchs and plutocrats and their toadies on tee vee and in Washington while getting misused and abused by the banksters and warmongers. These people have zero interest in peace, let alone the well-being of 99-percent of the planet.
Mr. Lane stood up to power. He said the Warren Commission case -- based on FBI investigations led by J. Edgar Hoover and information passing through gatekeepers that included the former (and still-head in his mind) head of the CIA, Allen Dulles -- did not make sense. He said they ignored eyewitnesses, evidence and logic to build a case, a theory, that Oswald was the lone assassin.
Mr. Lane discovered the actual reasons for ignoring the facts supporting conspiracy -- from the evidence in Dealey Plaza, such as shots from behind the picket fence, where most eyewitnesses are recorded as saying some fire came; to the plots broken up in Chicago and Miami (and possibly Tampa and other places) where the conspirators had tried to assassinate President Kennedy -- and the resulting cover-up.
President Johnson apparently realized that plotters, including officials in intelligence community, had intentionally created a false trail leading to Oswald and from Oswald to Cuba and from there to the Soviet Union and the KGB. LBJ had to twist Chief Justice Warren's arm to get him to cross over to forbidden territory from his branch of government by stating if he didn't, 150 million Americans might die in a nuclear war with the Soviets.
So, they came up with a commission that buried the truth and avoided war. It's only been recently that we've been able to put together a somewhat more complete picture, wherein those who benefited the most from the assassination -- the Military-Industrial Complex and secret government that manages it and us, the ultra rich cronies of Allen Dulles and Prescott Bush.
I'm proud to write I learned a lot of it on DU and am so thankful you and so many DUers care. Thank you for your kind words, JonLeibowitz! Very much appreciate that you care about Mr. Lane and what he dedicated much of his life.
So why do you have to insult his memory and smear his good name?
If you disagree, show why.
Here's some of why he is correct regarding the CIA playing a role in the death of the president:
In his best-selling, Plausible Denial in which he pinpoints the CI A's role in the JFK assassination conspiracy, veteran JFK assassination investigator Mark Lane commented on the CIA's move against the president:
"If the CIA operatives, officers, and former officers believed that the defense of their Agency and their nation required the elimination of President Kennedy because he was about to dismantle their organization, one could comprehend, while neither accepting nor condoning their viewpoint, that their concept of self-defense required them to use deadly force. Most relevant, therefore, is not what Kennedy was or was not about to do vis-a-vis the CIA, but what the leaders of the Agency believed he might do.
"John F. Kennedy made it clear that he planned to destroy the CIA. The New York Times reported on April 25, 1966, under a subheadline, "Kennedy's Bitterness,' that 'as the enormity of the Bay of Pigs disaster came home to him, [Kennedy] said to one of the highest officials of his Administration that he wanted 'to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.'
"He clearly was not suggesting a modest legislative proposal or executive order to modify or reform the organization. The total destruction of the Agency was his apparent objective."
SOURCE: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Assassinations_page/Chapters_Nine-Sixteen_FJ.html
PS: You can disagree, I really don't mind as I learn from those who show me where I'm wrong. Just don't expect me to to take your word on it, Logical. Post your evidence for why you say Lane was wrong.
The commissioners all have passed. Some staff are still with us.
What one said last year re the Warren Commission findings:
Crumbling consensus: Warren Commission staffer recants, says there was a JFK conspiracy
by Jefferson Morley
EXCERPT...
From Politico, a Warren Commission staffer recants
In 1964 Slawson exemplified the lawyers chosen to investigate JFK’s murder. The product of the finest universities and law school, they were the ones who could put to bed the “rumors” and the “speculation” about the crime of Dallas. They were superior to what Richard Hofstadter called “the paranoid style in American politics.” They were smart, honest, and they knew how Washington worked. And they trusted the very best men of the CIA.
Now they know better. Howard Willens, a colleague of Slawson’s on the Commission, told JFK Facts last year, “I was naive, to say the least, about the CIA.” CIA deputy director Richard Helms and counterintelligence chief James Angleton were “untruthful” with investigators, he admitted.
Slawson told Shenon it had never occurred to him that the CIA “tried to sabotage us.”
CONTINUED w/links to sources, etc....
http://jfkfacts.org/the-consensus-is-crumbling-warren-commission-staffer-recants-says-there-was-a-jfk-conspiracy/
The CIA lied. The CIA director who literally and figuratively ran the Warren Commission, Allen Dulles, hid evidence from the panel, including how the CIA contracted with the Mafia for murder in 1960, under his watch.
Trumbo's lesson: The Right will do anything to get its way.
Shred the Constitution and destroy good people with impunity. Make wars for profit. Kill a President who stands in their way. I remember seeing the film at the local theater when it came out. The scene where the conspirators' leaders are gathered around a conference table included a chart or presentation board that showed:
Robert F. Kennedy: 1969-1977
Edward M. Kennedy: 1977-1985
For the powerful people who didn't like the FDR and the New Deal -- cough the enemies of Maj. General Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC -- that would be the prime motivation for stopping the New Frontier before it could reach the next station.
In JFK's time, the CIA and Pentagon wanted him to order an all-out sneak attack on the USSR to end global communism once and for all.
The best time? "The fall of 1963." That's what the minutes of the meeting say, recorded by LBJ's military liaison one Col. Howard Burris, USAF.
President Kennedy died in the fall of 1963. And all the "evidence" presented by the CIA pointed to communist Cuba and the USSR. What a coincidence.
Just like that time Oswald went to Mexico City.
http://www.history-matters.com/frameup.htm
Like a broken history, the record.
The Memory Hole
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-dict.html
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