Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Why People Think The Government Killed JFK" video.

  1. You know something, I have done a lot of research on this topic. I've read everything from Rush to Judgment to Case Closed, the entire Warren Report, loads of declassified documents, and I've gone back to the archives and listened to live accounts from that day, radio and TV coverage from a variety of sources, newspaper coverage and the like. I've visited Dealey Plaza a few times, etc. etc. I went into it a conspiracy guy and I came out convinced it was a three time loser with a $13.00 mail order rifle and a $6,00 scope. Roughly $20.00 to kill a president, a little more than $200.00 in today's inflated market. Were facts hidden, you betcha. Who did the hiding? Primarily LBJ, Hoover, and Bobby Kennedy. LBJ hid information because he was afraid of igniting WWIII. RFK was trying to keep all the shenanigan's he and his brother were pulling using covert ops, especially in Cuba a secret. He admitted a couple years later that they were more energetic than wise in a lot of areas, especially Cuba, and that they paid a terrible price for it. That's a paraphrase but he said that. Hoover didn't want the extent of the FBI's involvement with Oswald revealed and he certainly didn't want people thinking they dropped any balls. It was all CYA. The creator makes the claim that the CIA was out running all kinds of assassination plots without any authorization, like a rogue elephant. Thank Frank Church and the Camelot myth makers like Schlesinger for that nonsense. Richard Helm told the HSCA members that if that's how they thought the CIA operated they really didn't understand the way things work. Frank Church had presidential ambitions of his own and he admitted that him and his hack committee were not there to besmirch the reputation of past presidents. That's code for I'm afraid of the Kennedy's. When Helm was pressed about whether or not JFK knew about assassination plots he simply said, the CIA acts at the discretion of the president. Ike actually started the CIA down its activist path. But while facts are stubborn things they don't sell books or movie tickets. Believe what you want, but if you think I'm the one being duped, I would love to ply poker with you sometime.
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