CNN Tonight: The Assassination of JFK

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94. Nothing weird at all. Ellsberg gained classified status. The others in the digital era did, too.

None of these 'uncoverers' have in any way shed any relevant light on how difficult it was to mount an independent investigation or independent legal fight in those days for sunlight on all the convenient or unconvenient evidence that existed at the crime scene, lab scenes and later investigations. There was no bulldog reporting during a time of brooding. There were no citizen watchdog groups in those days to challenge the power of blue ribbon committees, or to press for police, FBI, or military reports over the time the Warren Commission took center stage. What's weird is how much eyewitness testimony was not called for, or was left out of the WCR.

Government didn't have to be that competent. Just more than the general public. 'Mopping up' wasn't hard for leaders who knew a trusting public would obey when law enforcement cordoned off evidence access. They didn't have to know about the many witnesses that weren't brought forward more leads. The only leads our leaders wanted were facts to build a narrative that would stand as history, damn the rest.

I didn't turn into some CT right winger. I've been politically active, sometimes an activist, all my life. I and countless others had an inkling then -- some called it crazy conspiracy thinking, paranoia, but I've always called it vigilance -- we who lived then came to realize that the Warren Commission Report was the inexplicable beginning of the end of government of, by and for the people. The shock of the "official story" was silent. People brooded and got angry. We felt as if we were no longer participants. The message was, "you going to believe us or your lyin' eyes'.