newbee
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:23 am
Although I have been studying the JKF assassination for over 30 years now, I consider myself a newbee to this forum, for I have not checked every entry. So, hopefully you'll excuse me for for asking or remarking the obvious or adressing topics already extensively covered. My remarks, in random order:
1. Great documentary on SBS6, Wim! It is by far the most extensive digest on the assassination I have ever seen - it puts a lot of things in a good perspective.
2. More than an interesting 'whodunit', I consider the assassination, its preparation and the long aftermath as a lesson; a lesson to be very cautious as to what governments, officials and autorities want you to believe. I mean, is there any difference between the Warren Report and the reasons for invading Iraq? Donald Sutherland put it very eloquently in Stone's JFK: "Who benefitted?"
3. I am apalled by all the naivety of the American people and officials involved. Take Gerald Ford, for instance, in the interview in which he denies Ruby having had ties with the mob. Ford says he is convinced such ties never existed, for when he and Earl Warren themselved asked Ruby about such ties, "Ruby specifically said NO". That - according to Ford - is proof no such ties existed. The facial expression of Gerald Ford during the interview plus the content of his naive remark sums it all up: no-one believes the Warren findings, and the members of the Warren Commission themselves don't either. The Ford interview does, however, add a dash of black humor to a sad event.
3. Whatever happened to the 'death bed testimony' (some 6 years ago) of a former Dallas PD cop, who (according to his son), has had part in the preparations of the assassination? Never heard from it since.
4. Why did the SBS6 documentary not address the fact that the motorcade route was altered in the last instance, so it would pass directly past the TSBD and the grassy knoll? It would have been far more logical to continue straight on Main, instead of coming to an almost complete stop on the corner of Houston and Elm.
5. idem for the fact that the presidential security detail must have thought that by following the presidential limo, looking up to rooftops could possibly protect the pres? Especially interesting is the question why the bubble top was removed. Dallas was a known hostile city to JFK. I do not recall Clint Hill ever expressing himself on these remarkable facts.
6. Whatever happened to the missing frame in the Zapruder film? Who took it out? Any clues as to what might have been visible in that frame?
All for now, Mark.
1. Great documentary on SBS6, Wim! It is by far the most extensive digest on the assassination I have ever seen - it puts a lot of things in a good perspective.
2. More than an interesting 'whodunit', I consider the assassination, its preparation and the long aftermath as a lesson; a lesson to be very cautious as to what governments, officials and autorities want you to believe. I mean, is there any difference between the Warren Report and the reasons for invading Iraq? Donald Sutherland put it very eloquently in Stone's JFK: "Who benefitted?"
3. I am apalled by all the naivety of the American people and officials involved. Take Gerald Ford, for instance, in the interview in which he denies Ruby having had ties with the mob. Ford says he is convinced such ties never existed, for when he and Earl Warren themselved asked Ruby about such ties, "Ruby specifically said NO". That - according to Ford - is proof no such ties existed. The facial expression of Gerald Ford during the interview plus the content of his naive remark sums it all up: no-one believes the Warren findings, and the members of the Warren Commission themselves don't either. The Ford interview does, however, add a dash of black humor to a sad event.
3. Whatever happened to the 'death bed testimony' (some 6 years ago) of a former Dallas PD cop, who (according to his son), has had part in the preparations of the assassination? Never heard from it since.
4. Why did the SBS6 documentary not address the fact that the motorcade route was altered in the last instance, so it would pass directly past the TSBD and the grassy knoll? It would have been far more logical to continue straight on Main, instead of coming to an almost complete stop on the corner of Houston and Elm.
5. idem for the fact that the presidential security detail must have thought that by following the presidential limo, looking up to rooftops could possibly protect the pres? Especially interesting is the question why the bubble top was removed. Dallas was a known hostile city to JFK. I do not recall Clint Hill ever expressing himself on these remarkable facts.
6. Whatever happened to the missing frame in the Zapruder film? Who took it out? Any clues as to what might have been visible in that frame?
All for now, Mark.